SPRINC 1958 LISTENING AND ASKING

By The Reverend Charles D. Spatts, National Chaplain

The Gospel of Luke reports that, on one occasion, Jesus sa t "in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them, and asking them questions." This seems to me to be an excellent description of the responsibility of a student in any age, especially an age which is hell -bent on emphasizing the import­ ance of technological training. A student who really wants to get an education will have to listen to all the voices which can be heard on a college or university campus. You will want to listen to voices in the class room, especially those of competent in­ structors, no matter what discipline they represent. One of the most rele­ vant voices I listened to as an undergraduate was in an elective course in archaeology. When you lea rn of an instructor who has a reputation of really being an authority in his field, elect to listen to him no matter how unrelated his field may be to your major. An indispensable part of an education consists of listening to competent scholars. Some of your most important listening will occur, not in scheduled courses, but in extra-curricular lectureships on and off the campus. One of my most exciting listening experiences of the current semester took place in a Unitarian Church, where the famous theologian, Paul Tillich, lectured on "The Idea of God as Revealed by Modern Knowledge." Many of our students at Franklin and Marshall found listening recently to William H . White, Jr., author of The Organization Man, to be an exciting experi­ ence. Education is a two-way relationship. It is not enough to listen to an instructor or to an author. The good student always asks questions. To do this one need not be a classroom nuisance. As you listen to a lecture you can raise many pertinent questions in your mind wirhout uttering a single syllable. Develop the habit of raising questions with the author as you read a book. Do the same thing when you are working in the laboratory or during field trips. Ask of each academic experience-what is this really all about? What does it contribute to the objectives of this particular course? What contribution does it make to my total life pholosophy? How does it help me to apprehend ultimate reality?

Listening and asking questions can be a very excttmg experience, the kind of experience you will want to continue long after graduation. THE LAUREL of Phi Kappa Tau

JACK L. ANSON, Editor

VOLUME XLVI M ARCH , 1958 NuMBER 3

THE PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY

CENTRAL OFFICE

OXFORD, OHIO

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COVER Nlichigan State University's 44-bell caril ­ The exo teric publication of lon tower. It tands on the site of the first building erected on the campus. The Phi Kappa Tau Fra• ternity. Published prior to 1917 as "Sidelights." Sched­ CONTENTS uled to appear quarterly un· der direction and authority California Convention Plans ...... 3 of the National Council. Convention Facts ...... 5 A ycock Becomes Chancellor ...... 7 Scholarship Report ...... The Scholarship Story for 1956-57 ...... 9 Acceptance for mailing at special rates of postage pro· The N ational Council M eeting ...... 11 videJ for in Section 1103, William C. Troutman, First Ritualist ...... L Act of October 3, 1917. Pub­ Delmar E. Wilson, Briga di er General ...... 1- lished quarterly by The Law­ head Press, Inc., 900 East Ben Pinnell Is Fi eld Secretary ...... 16 State Street, Athens Ohio, Southern Illinois Celebrate Silver Jubilee . . . . 1 official printers for The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity. En· W atson H eads Federation of 7500 ...... _0 tered as second class matter Lloyd Larrick A ssi ts Colony ...... - at the Post Office at Athens, Polio Victim at Cornell ...... 3 Ohio. Additional entry at the Post Office at Oxford, Ohio. Financing College Expenses ...... _4 Chapter Eternal ...... 26 Contributors to the D evelopment Fund ...... _7 Directory THE LAUREL OF PHI K A PP A TAU

A view of Pasadena with mountains in the distance

The City Hall in Pasadena

Po lwo THE LAUREL

California Convention Plans Near Completion

T entative Program* Approved for* M eeting at Huntin* gton-Sheraton In Pasadena from June 18 to 21 , 1958 * Final arrangements for th*e 195 8 convention to be held in Pa adena, California, at the. Huntington-Sheraton H otel, June 18 to June 21, are rapidly being completed, accordmg to Eugene P . Fay, Southern California, chairman of the coordinating com­ mittee for the thirty- fourth convention of Phi Kappa T au. The tentative program, as approved by the National Counci l at its February meeting, will include ample time for fellowship, business and sight- eeing. It will all start on W ednesday afternoon, June 18 with registration. The fi rst gathering will be a reception on the Pool T errace and will be followed by dinner- a H awaiian Luau­ and entertai nment. Later in the evening of the first day, a model initiation ceremony will be conduct­ The busses will return to the hotel in ed. A tradition that traces its foundation time for dinner which will be followed by to the 1920 convention, the model initia­ the Achievement Contest. Phi Kappa T au' tion will see the induction of an outstand­ Achievement Contest is a tradi tional con­ ing pledge into the inner circle of Phi Kap­ vention activity. Each of the ten domains pa T au. in the fraternity will elect, either before the convention or at the fir t meeting, the Thursday morning, June 19, the first chapter within the domain which ha had general convention session will open with the greatest ac hievements during the pa t ignificant remarks of welcome, reports of period. A repere entative from the e ten national officers, appointment of commit­ chapters will have five minute during the tees and presentation of subjects for con­ A chievement Conte t to present hi chap­ vention consideration. ter's achievements. The winner is elected T he Founders' Luncheon will be at noon by the undergraduate delegate . on Thursday, during which H onored Foun­ ders W illiam H. Shideler and T aylor A. Friday morning will be devoted to the Borradai le will address the delegate and business of the convention and a luncheon guests. is planned for Friday noon. T hat after­ noon will be given over to an undercr radu­ Immediately after lunch busses will leave ate workshop in chapter activitie . the hotel for a visit to Disneyland, Califor­ nia's fabulous M agic Kingdom where you The convention highlight will come Fri­ will be transported out of the world of to­ day evening with the convention banqu t. day into a realm where time seems to stand Always the out tandi ng feature of national still, where memories of the past and meetings, the banquet will be followed by dream of the future combine to ensure a entertainment and a program of in piring day in''your life that will never be forgot- pea ker . Although final arrancrem nts ha ten. not been complete I, it i anti ipated that Page three T HE LA U REL OF PHI K A P PA T A U entertainment will be provided by nation­ Chairman Ray M arback Brad Jane and all y know figures and the principal speaker Richard Allen; Entertainment Committee : will be a Phi T au of more than usual di - Chairman Art Ru h, am Yocum, Wilbur tinction. Miller and Art Fre ton· Luncheon , nd The final session of the convention will Banquet Committee: Chairman David Bry­ be Saturday morning with the Farewell ant, Bundy Colwell and E. P. Fay; Publi­ Luncheon at noon. T he afternoon ha been city and Program Committee: Chairman set a ide for the undergraduate work hop. Georae Jordan, H enry Rohr and a repre- Phi Kappa T au conventions are family entative of the Chamber of Commerce· affair and have always been occa ions of Fraternal Activitie Committee: Chairman extreme pleasure for Phi T au wive and Franci Flynn, Gerry Hibbs and the pre i­ children. Program for wive and children dent of Pi chapter at Southern California; will include a number of activitie de igned Ladies Committee: Chairman Glenn W. to make the most of the California visit Yerdon, N orman Lyon and the president while allowing free time fo r relaxation and of Beta P i chapter at Long Bea h State. individual de ire . Chairman Fay, who i a California u­ perior Court judge, ha announced the ap­ pointment of nine convention committee Roulac in Young President ' Club to make local arrangement . The e com­ Phil W . Roulac, ou.thern California, mittees will expand their member hip as the founder and president of the Roulac Com­ convention draws nearer. pany, aeneral contractors ha been elected Committees and their member· arc: Co­ to the National Youna Pre idents' rga n­ ordinating Committee : Chairman Eugene i;:ation. P. Fay, H enry Rohr and Art Fre ton ; Guest After building many homes in the Pasa · Committee : Chairman Ray Brennan, G. dena- San M arino area, the company enter­ Revelle H arrison and Allen Miller ; H o - ed the field of commercial construction. pitality and Tran portation Committee: One of the latest and bigge t projects: a Chairman Ed Samuel on, Steve Fabeck and two-million dollar San Fernando V all ey Gerry H ibb ; Registration Committee: shopping center.

Pasadena's famed Rose Bowl , home of the Tournament of Roses Page fo ur THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU l;onvention Faets WHEN-Registration, the afternoon of Wednesday, June 18, 1958. Farewell Luncheon, noon Saturday, June 21, 19'58. WHERE-The Huntington-Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena, California. WHAT WILL IT COST-Convention rates at the hotel are $14.00 per day American plan which provides not only room but meals. There will be a small registration fee. HOW ABOUT THE BANQUET-If you can not attend the complete convention, you certainly ·can secure tickets for the banquet, which will be Friday evening, June 20. HOW DO I GET TO PASADENA-Located just 15 miles from Los Angeles, Pasa­ dena is easily reached by car, bus, train or plane. Why not drive and bring a whole car load of brothers or your family? WHO CAN COME-All members of Phi Kappa Tau and their families. The program has been arranged to meet the needs of the ladies and the children.

The following form is for pre-regist~tion for the Thirty-Fourth Convention of Phi Kappa Tau.

Secretary Richard J. Young The Central Office The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity Oxford, Ohio I'll be in Pasadena, California, for the Convention. Here is the information you will need.

(Name) (Chapter) (Class)

(Address)

The first meal I will eat at the Convention will be ------,---- on _ _ _

I plan to leave following ______(which meal) on

I will arrive by------­ ( Auto, Bus, Train, Plane)

The following persons will be with me (List the names of all members of your family who are coming and their ages. If fraternity members accompany you, list their home addresses and chapters)

Page five TH E LAUREL O F PHI K A PPA TAU Let's Look at Southern California

H ave you been po tponing that long de­ Ro e Bowl, Newport H arbor and Balboa sired vacation to California? Been waiting with their yachting facilitie and the for the children to grow up enough to en­ popular resorts at Palm Springs, Apple joy the pa norama of America a you drive V alley and Lake Arrowhead. There arc across the country? Griffith Park with it Observatory and Thinking about attending the Phi Kappa Greek Thea ter, Di·ncyland, the H ollywood Tau convention in Pasadena California, Bowl, and a long coa tline dotted with pic­ June 18 to 21, 1958? ture que cove and beache for un-bathing H ere's what await you in outhern C, li ­ and wimmincr. At Palo V erde i M arine­ fo rnia? land of the Paci fi c: the world's larcre t More places to go, more attraction than Oceanarium. any other single area of the United State outhern California i rich in history - that's Southern California. The physical and numerou m1 10n exist today th <~ t charm" of the region are breath-taking. were con tructed by eicr hteenth century From the majestic mountain eparating the Spani"h explorer . fertile valleys and the de ert , to the hund­ reds of miles of coa tline along the blue The appeal of outhern California Pacific, S o uth ~:. rn California ha been en­ pread acros the nation and today it i dowed wit·h an over-abundance of phy ica l the fa te t growing <~ r ea in the United charms. State . With its mile and mil e of free­ At the center is Los Angele , the city ways, it climate, , nd it" natural beauty of the angels, with its amazing motion pic­ combine l with it man-made facilitie , ture industry, Farmers Market, mart shop Southern Californ ia i a land f adv nturc and colorful Olvera Street. In the urround­ and vacation. ing areas are Long Beach and its busy All this-and much more- i Southern harbor, Pasadena's Huntincr ton Library and California.

Three Additional Names Bring Phi T aus in "Who's Who" to 111 Prices Are Going Up Three additional members now bring Co t of operating a fraternity are Phi Kappa T au's respesentation in "Who's goi ng up! Who in America" to 111 members. The Beginning Jul y 1, the fraternity ha December issue of The Laurel listed 108 had to pay five cents for each notice of members of tihe fraternity who are included undelivered copie of The Laurel. in the biographical dictionary of notable men and women for position and achieve­ You won't be getting your magazine, ment. Those members that our re ea rch Phi Kappa T au will pay five cents for processes missed initially are: the postal notification, and then further Guy T. Avery, Illinois, busines execu­ time and money will be spent trying to tive and pre ident of h eme Steel Company find where you are living. in Chicago. You can save that bother and ex pen e Joseph W . Fichter, Miami, educa tor and imply by buying a two-cent po t card, government official. M ember of faculty at listing your new address and mailing the Miami University ; lecturer for the N ation­ ca rd to The Central Office The Phi al Grange; formerly consultant, price ana­ Kappa T au Fraternity, Oxford, Ohio. Or IT t OPS, W a hington, D . C . the postoffice will furni h hange of Otto Scott Steele, Mo·unt Union, clergy­ addre card to make ea ier the notifi­ man, mini ter of W oburn M ethodi t ca tion. Church, W oburn, M a sachusett . Author : The Place of the H oly Spirit in the B oo ~ Act promptly, pi a e! of A cts. Pag six THE L A URE L OF PHI KAPPA TAU

Aycock Becomes Chancellor at North Carolina

When the University of North Carolina H e erved on the Student Council a ec­ began looking for a new chanceHor last retary, vice president, and pre ident. He year, it soon found the man it wanted was a member of the Board of Student right in Chapel Hill. On February 26, Publications, Kappa Phi Kappa, Blue Key, 1957, in the stately Capital Building in Golden Chain, Scabbard and Blade, the Raleigh, William Brantley Aycock, N orth Interfraternity Council, and the N orth Ca,rolina State, '36, was named by the Carolina Federation of Students. Board of Trustees of the univer ity as it A graduate in education at N orth Caro­ new chancellor. lina State College, A ycock went on to take Formal installation of A ycock was held degrees in history and political science and on la t October 12, on the 164th birthday in law. H e become a profe or of law in of the University of N orth Carolina. The the University of North Carolina Law impressive ceremonies were held in Kenan School, where he served a acting Dean Stadium on the university campus, with of the Law School before his selection a Governor Luther H . H odges and other chancellor. H e served with di tinction dur­ state dignitaries in attendance. ing World W ar II, winning the Bronze The new chancellor has a long record of Star, the Silver Star, and the Legion of achievements that began when he wa a Merit. During the critical negotiation be­ student at North Carolina State College. tween India and Pakhistan, he achieved An outstanding member of Chi chapter, further distinction a per anal as i tant to he was much in evidence on the campus. former Univer ity President Frank P. Gra­ His activities there would run into pages. ham.

These four photographs were taken at the inauguration of University of North Carolina Chancel­ lor William B. Aycock. Upper left, Aycock addresses the assemblage; upper right, Aycock is sworn into office by President William B. Friday in the presence of Governor Luther H . Hodges; lower left, th e chancellor and Mrs. Aycock in the receiving line; lower right, Aycock receives the congratulations of one of many well-wishers.

Page seven TH E L A UREL OF PH I KAPPA TAU SCHOLARSHIP REPORT SCHOOL 1956-;? 1956·57 1955· 56 19 54 · 55 195J·H 19S2·53 Campus Rank Deviation Deviat io n Deviation Deviation Deviation Transylvania ...... 2- 4 + 20.37 +20.25 +21.29 +30.66 +13.80

Louisville •••• • •• • • 0 ••••• 0 0 2-10 + 17.93 +13.07 +15.74 +12.67 + 7.91 Kentucky ...... 1-19 + 17.12 + 2.87 +14.77 + 0.00 + 3.28 Colgate ...... 1-14 +14.84 +16.21 +12.66 + 9.49 + 5.17 North Carolina State •• • 0 •• •• 8-17 +10.77 + 4.97 + 11.50 +16.22 +21.95 Miami (Ohio) • 0 0 • •• 0. 0 0 • • 0 5- 18 + 9.77 + 11.56 + 6.59 + 9.67 + 1.13 Georgia Tech •••• • •• • 0 . 0 0 . 0 2- 26 + 8.76 - 3.28 -13.92 + 0.80 + 1.45 Akron 0 •• 0 • • • 0 . 0 •• 0 •• •• 00 . 5- 7 + 8.13 + 6.38 +10.92 +10.58 - 0.55 Westminster •• 0 • • • • ••• •••• • 1- 4 + 8.12 + 8.37 + 11.88 +1 3.88 +11.24 Kent State • • • 0 0 • • • • • • • 0. 0 . 1-13 + 8.05 + 10.85 +13.8 1 + 1.87 - 7.85 U.C.L.A. 0 . 0 •• • • 0 • • 0 •• 0 . 0 0 3-31 + 7.19 - 8.20 -15.15 + 4.36 + 7.01 Ohio 0 •• • 0 . 0 ••• 0 0 •• •• • 0 • •• 7- 17 + 6.16 + 9.54 - 4.72 -10.11 - . 3.89 Indiana • 0 . 0 • • • •• •• • • ••• • • • 7-28 + 6.16 - 13 .90 - 8.99 - 8.39 -19.38 Kansas State •• •• 0 • • • •• ••• • 9-23 + 5.70 9.65 -12.17 - 28.62 - 26.40 Bowling Green ...... 3-13 + 5.62 + 2.49 + 6.76 + 11.89 + 13 .53 Idaho State ...... 2- 3 + 5. 52 3.55 - 3.58 - 0.00 Ohio W esleyan 0 • • • • 0 • • • 0 •• 4-14 + 5.51 + 8.99 - 11.01 -11.49 - 6.94 Coe 0 0 • • • • • 0 ••• • •• 0 0 0 •• • • • 4- 5 + 4.46 0.12 0.34 + 5.17 + 17.86 Muhlenberg ...... 4- 4 + 4.43 1.83 + 5.49 +12.64 + 2.37 Iowa State ...... 9-30 + 3.97 + 9.02 - 6.00 - 7.58 - 6.96 Texas Western • • • 0 ••• • • 0 . 0 4- 5 + 3.33 8.97 - 4.95 - 3.11 - 1.06 Centre • •• • • • • • 0 . 0 • • • • 0 • • 0 4-6 + 2.8 3 4.57 +14.51 -4.54 + ~ . 29 Auburn • • •• 0 • • •• • • • • • ••• • 7- 20 + 2.66 + 3.61 - 0.78 - 3.10 -10.52 Bethany 0 •• • •• 0 0 0 • • 0 . 0 0 ". 0 4-5 + 2.48 -14.70 -19.11 -16.52 -11.58 Washington State ...... 12-25 + 1.78 - 1.23 - 0.93 - 7.42 - 11.12 William '& Mary ...... 7-10 .22 - 3.39 + 4.45 + 1.80 + 7.84 Miami (Florida) ...... 7- 25 .69 -11.17 -13.03 -14.31 - 25 .36 Baldwin· Wallace ...... 3- 5 .94 + 2.00 - 1.79 - 6.09 +1U5 Case 0 0 0 0 ••• • • • • • • •• 0 0 • •• 7- 11 1.26 - 13 .2 1 -18.97 -10.34 -17.01 Colorado State ...... 11-15 1.74 * - 1.99 + 2.96 - 4.12 Michigan ...... 20-38 1.99 -11.49 - 2.70 - 2.74 - 3.36 Lawrence • 0 • • •• 0 •• •• • 0 •• • • 4-5 2.40 + 3.57 -11.29 - 12.05 - 19.35 Delaware ...... 7- 9 2.55 1.80 + 1.25 - 3.87 + 3.40 New Mexico A'& M ...... 6- 7 3.53 + 8.49 + 6.08 +16.62 + 5.88 Rensselaer ...... 15-26 3.99 2.65 +11.36 + 15 .30 + 9.54 Georgia ...... 11-20 4.00 3.51 - 4.41 -11.54 - 23 .52 Purdue ...... 30-37 4.09 9.76 - 11.41 6.69 - 3.11 Washington ...... 19-37 4.63 - 12.10 0.91 6.23 - 1.07 Florida ...... 17- 25 4.93 2.73 + 3.74 0.85 - 10.20 Mississippi State ...... 11-11 5.33 + 0.00 + 0.00 1.83 + 9.62 Hobart ...... 5- 8 6.42 4.68 - 5.36 + 6.97 + 0.54 Ohio State ...... 31-40 6.85 2.31 - 5.14 4.13 + 2.74 Mount Union 0 . 0 • • • 0 0 0 . 0 0 5- 5 7.19 0.60 - 14.69 - 15.48 + 0.26 Colorado ...... 21-24 7.82 + 2.47 +10.60 + 10.45 + 6.03 Oregon State ...... 22-30 8.11 8.33 6.25 4.73 8.45 Michigan State ...... 12- 24 8.32 2.30 6.56 - 4.83 + 5.48 Penn State ...... 38-44 8.54 6.02 - 6. 19 + 0.06 3.48 Cornell ...... 43-50 8.55 8.25 + 0.09 + 3.20 6.07 Maryland ...... 22-24 8.67 6.60 - 3.84 -12.85 6.17 Florida State ...... 12-15 9.48 4.60 -12.34 8.98 + 2.73 Illinois ...... 35-51 - 10.26 4.03 - 6.12 - 8.67 -10.97 Oklahoma State ...... 16-20 -10.42 -14.15 - 9.47 + 2.13 +14.52 . Texas ...... 29-29 -10.82 + 2.99 - 8.78 - 7.21 - 3.00 Kansas ...... 22-25 - 10.98 -11.45 -20.00 - 17.18 - 13.94 Middlebury ...... 9- 9 - 11.19 - 10.87 - 8.56 - 7.91 - 4.03 Mississippi Southern ...... 6- 6 -11.55 - 3.99 - 6.88 - 8.22 Long Beach ...... 4-5 - 16.31 -17.47 * Southern California ...... 28-28 -17.00 - 14.23 - 11.16 -19.24 -16.21 Franklin '& Marshall ...... 10-10 - 25.63 - 10.63 7.96 - 5.18 + 6.15 Southern Illinois ...... * * -10.18 + 4.02 (* Indicates no report was received ) Idaho (Fraternity grades not reported) Nebraska Wesleyan (All·Men's average not reported) California (Grades not comparable) Page eight THE LAUREL OF PHI K A PPA TAU The Scholarship Story for 1956--57

By BEN E. DAVID, Scholanhip Commissi onP.r

Scholastic honors in Phi Kappa T au for the 1956-57 school year go to three chapters in Kentucky. In the schol a tic front for the fourth consecutive year is Theta chapter at Transylvania College. Beta Beta chap­ ter at Louisville was second in scholarship, with Kappa chapter at Kentucky running a very close third. Beta Lambda chapter at India na Uni­ versity marked the grea test improvement of any chapter of Phi Kappa T au during 1956-57 . The chapter came from 58th place with a devi ati on of 13 .90 per cent below the all -men's average to thirteenth place and a deviation of 6.16 percent above the average-an improvement of 20.06 per cent. Theta at Transylvania and Beta Lambda at Indiana will take posses ion for the coming year of the two national fra­ ternity trophies for scholastic achievement. A glance at the accompanying statistical chart will reveal the status of any chapter for the past year, as well as the pas t several years. It will also show that the grade records set by many of the chapters were fa r from atisfactory. Each of the chapters

Phi Kappa Tau's trophy lor highest scholarship

is in competition with the other fraternities on their campus, and the campu rank column point up the chapter record on the individual campu . T he percentacre of de­ viation from the campu all-men' a erage give each Phi T au chapter the opportunity to compare one chapter with another. W ith few exception the schola ti re­ cord chalked up for Phi Kappa T au for 1956-57 wa unsa ti fa tory, only ~- hap­ ters ranked qual to or above their O\vn Phi Kappa Tau's Scholarship Improvement Trophy college all-men' average. Page n ne THE LA UR EL O F PHI K A PPA TAU

The year seemed to pre ent several ex­ tremes. Four chapter were in first place on DOMAIN T A N DIN G their campus, while seven other were at the very bottom schola tically. T hose chap­ + 9.62 ters which ranked tops among all fraterni­ Domai n 4 ties on their campu were Kentucky, Col­ Domai n +3.17 gate, W estminister and Kent State. - 1.3 Only bright pot was that the highe t Domai n 9 ranking chapter were above the top Domai n 3 - 1.5" 3 groups for the previou year. Thi was, however, off et by some chapter fallina Domai n 6 - 2.42 even lower than the lowest of the pre­ viou year. Domai n - 3.06 It has long been the goal of Phi Kappa D mai n 8 - 3.67 T au to have each chapter equal to or above the all-men' average on it ca mpu . Domai n 7 - 5" .05" T his goal was built on the idea that the men of Phi Kappa T au can be a good Domai n 10 - 8.7 1 schola tically as the average man on his campus. If thi is a reali tic goal, then D o m :~i n 2 - 9. 12 what has happened to a large percentage of our chapter·? T he primary factor that mu t be develop­ ed in each chapter is the WILL to attai n the highe t schola tic average po ible. A fter a glance at the chola tic ranking, woul d you say suc h is the case? T he statistics indicate that our fraternity has fallen fa r hort of it goals and its cholas­ tic standards when only 25" of the reported chapters compa re favorably with the com­ petition on this campus. This WILL to achieve high scholas tic standing cannot be impo ed from the outside; it must grow up wichin the chapter itself. It appea r· very obvious that many chapter· are not realizing their full potential, and are lagging fa r behind in a program of achieve­ ment in scholarship of which they are cap­ ab le. In making a close check on the ·cholastic tati tics, it can be observed that many chapters improved considerably over the previous year, while others which had a creditable rank fell to the near bottom of the list. Dr. David L. Bryant, Southern California, ex­ ecutive dean of Long Beach State College, re­ Something must be done to protect and ceives from President Roland Maxwell the Ke y improve our overall scholastic rating . It Award, Ph i Kappa Tau's award for recognition of alumni service to a chapter other t han t ha t appea rs that many chapter have the of the alumnus. Dr. Bryant was honored for his schola tic road alrea dy I ointed ou t for se rv ice t o Beta Psi chapter a t Long Beach State them from the accompanying stati tics. College on October 2, 1957. Also in atte ndance T here is sti ll ti me for concentration on put­ at the ceremony at Beta Rho chapter was George C . Jordan, Southern California, who ple dged ting your cholar hip at a re pcctable level Bryant in the iall of 1925 and served a s Brya nt's for rhi curr nt ye:~r. pledgemaste r. Pog te n THE L A U REL O F PHI K A PPA TAU National Council Meeting

M eeting in Oxford, Ohio, on February project be in the form of a cholar hip for 2 and 3, 1958, at the Central O ffice the graduate study in Europe to be made avail­ national council of Phi Kappa T au co~ e r e cl able to one person from any college or uni· every p'hase of operation during its two­ versity in the nation wit!h nece ary fund cl ay diliberations. to be raised by the various chapter through Perhaps the most important item on t he benefit or special projects. council agenda was the review of chapter T entative plan ubmitted by the 1958 conditions and chapter housing. For many convention coordi nati ng commi ttee were years the Laurel Endowment Fund ha discussed and approved. T he resident been invested in loans to chapters for con- council convention delegate participation truction or purchase of adequate housing. in the convention pool wa fixed at ai r T o assist chapters in construction or pur· touri t fare plus tax from the chapter to chase planning, Councilor Reid Morgan Los Angele and return. was named chairman of the national council Following a report of the Development Comm ittee on H ousing. H e was directed to Fund for 1957-195 8, it was determ ined obtain from each chapter house corporation that the salary and expense of a field the fut ure plan of rhe chapter wi th regard secretary would be charged to the fund. to housing goa ls, and needs and plans. As The 1956-1957 scholarshi p report was a resul t of this study, it will be possible reviewed and there followed lengthy dis­ for the fraternity to assist the chapters in cussion on !!he schola tic po ition of the meeting their goals and to arrange a chapters of the fratem ity. priority list of pending loa ns to chapters T he present appointive officer of the from the endowment fund. fraternity were reappointed. T hey are: W . In the discussion concerning awards, the H . Shideler, national comptroller ; Richard Phi A ward was established to be awarded ]. Young, national secretary; Jack L. to alumni for extraordinary ervice to their Anson, assistant secretary and editor of own chapter. T he Council agreed to re­ The La.urel; Ben E. David, scholar hip commend to the convention a M an-of-the­ commissioner ; Sam B. T idwell , alumni com· Year A ward. missioner, and Oharle D . Spott , national N ominations for awards which were ap­ chaplain. proved include the Palm A ward to E. N . The national council reviewed the publi­ Littleton, Miami, and Lou Gerding, C olo­ cations of the fraternity and gave authori· rado; the Key Award to Morton W alker, zation to publi 'h, if needed, an esoteric Kentucb ; Carl E. Bohn, Pennsylvania, and publica tion for limited distribution. E. B. N ewsome, M ississippi State; the Phi A ward to Clifford D . Sheard, M iami; George C . Jordan, Southern C alifornia; Ernest N . Nippes, R ensselaer; Lenn C . M atson Adapts Spiritual W ork H olm an, Oregon State; Frant is P . Keiper, Cornell; Robert M . Brandt, C olgate; Paul The publication of A M onth with the H . Dunn, Mississippi State; Edward ]. Master, by W. A rchi e M atson, outhern Kuntz, Indiana, and John H . Porter, C al iforn ia, ha been announced by H ar­ Indiana. It is planned to present the awards per & Brothers. Reverend M at on a char­ at the Pasadena Convention in June, 195 8. ter member of Pi Chapter, i pa tor of the The colony at Chico State College in Broadway Ohurc'h in Glendale, Califor­ California was discussed and tentative nia. A M onth w ith the M a ter i a manual plans for installation as a chapter of the for spiritual growth based on th famous fraternity were approved for M arch, 1958. lgnatian Spiritual Exercises. For ea h cia) In the discussion of public relations, of the month it provides the mo t inten- President M axwell was authorized to ap­ ive and complete di cipline ever de cl ped point a committee to study ~he po sibility for inculcating ab lute ob dien c to God. of a philanthropic project for the chapters 11his i the fir t time it ha been adapted to of the fraternity. It was sugae ted that the modern Prote tant u age. Page ele e THE LAUREL O F PHI K A PPA TAU William C. Troutman, the First Grand Ritualist

Zeta Alumnus Completed Ritual Dramatization Forty Years A go Pioneer in Educational Theater H as T rained M any Stars

"The greatest dramatic thing in my grand rituali t of Phi Kappa Tau. Through whole life was the dramatization of the hi effort came The Ritual of today, which Phrenocon Ritual in 191 7,1918," ay has received only minor gramatical change William C . Troutm an, Illinois, and he ha · ince it ompletion in 191 . devoted his entire life to the theater. Loobncr at The Ritual with an eye of "The forgotten man" in Phi Kappa T au today, one would think it unbelieveablc for many years, Bill Troutman, exactl y that the fir t grand ritualist would have forty year acro, completed the dramatiza­ been o fore ighted, o extremely advanced tion of the fraternity ritual. T hat tory in his work. Beginning with little more is intere tilig to all who have experienced than a few paragraphs, he expanded, added the dramatic effect ot The Ritual, but dif­ dialocrue introduced dramatic effec t - in­ ficult to tell becau e of the very ecrecy deed, a monumental product. that must surround the work. The Ritual of Phi Kappa T au, how­ Back in 1911 Joseph Morris Bachelor, ever, did not bring Bill T routman' interc t a member of Bherenocon at Miami, prepar­ in drama to an end. It even may have in- ed the first ritual for the fraternity. It was pired him to c ntinue. H e was an early imple, direct and certainly brief, contain­ midwest pioneer in fi ghting for a place for ing the foundation principle of the frater­ theater training a part of the curriculum nity. in speech department , separated from the At the 1917 convention, held at Zeta Engli h departments, in college and uni­ chapter at Illinois, T routman, then a vcr ities. graduate student, wa named the fir· t H e taught the fir t speech co ur e at

William C . Trout man, t he fi rst g rand ritualist of th e fra tern ity, wit h a former stude nt, Tom Ew­ e ll , star of " Seve n Ye a r Itch" and the c urre nt Broadway hit "Tunne l of Love." Page twelve THE LAUR E L OF PHI KAPPA TAU

Lake Forest College from 1918 to 1920. f the year for hi tage performance in During 1920 to 1925, Troutman taught "The Seven Year Itch." the first acting and production cour e in Troutman' scrapbook contains a letter the first speech department of the Univer­ from Ewel l, expre ing his gratitude, that sity of Illinois. H e founded and directed ays, in part : the first University Theater at Illinois. "You were 'Mr. Theater' to me year From 1925 to 1934 he was at the Univer­ ago--and you're sti ll 'M r. Theater' to me. si ty of Wisconsin where he was called to What I owe you and what I lea rned from fo und and direct the first University you can never be repaid." Theater at Wisconsin. H e wa with Radio Among the how people who have Stati on WLW in Cincinnati and the studied under Troutman are Don Ameche, Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem in Chicago Eric Brotherson, Rusty Lane, Kendall and N ew York where he worked as a Clark and Norri H oughton. director and actor during 1934 and 1935 . A great number of person of importance Troutman founded the first speech depart­ in t'he collegiate theater were hi tudents: ment and the first University T hea ter at M ary Latimer, chairm an of the speech de­ the newly formed Universi ty of Kansas partment, Madison College; Lowell Lees, City between the years 1935 and 1937. head of the peech department, University H e taught at Kansas State Coll ege as a of H awaii ; Kenneth Carmichael, head of professor of speech from 1937 to 194 5 and the drama department, Universi ty of has been a professor of speech at the Uni­ Southern California; C laude Shaver, direc­ versity of Baltimore for the last thirteen tor of the University of Louisiana T heater; years. John Conway, 'University of W a hington; "For Bill Troutman, A Scrapbook Full Gilbert Williams, hea d of the drama de­ of Stars", is the way a recent magazine partment, University of Miami ; Carl Ca , article described his large number of stu­ director of the U niversity of Oklahoma dents who have achi eved success in the 'f.hea ter; Le ter H ale, University of Fl orida, theater. The star of greatest magnitude is and Fred Buerki, technical director of the probably T om Ewell , named the best actor University of Wisconsin Thea ter.

Society's 133 rd national meeting m San Ernest Volwiler Winner Francisco in April. N amed for Jo eph Priestley, eighteenth century Briti h che­ Top Award in Chemistry mist credited with discovering oxygen, the medal i for "distinguished ervices to Dr. Ernest H . V olwiler, Miami, presi­ chemisty." It i considered the highe t hon­ dent and general manager of Abbott Lab­ or in America n chemistry. oratories, has been named winner of the 19 58 Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society. A past president of the American Chem­ ical Society, V olwiler is a member of the John Geist Heads Department board of di rectors of the Educational En­ John C. Geist, Dela ware, ha been pro­ dowment Fund of Phi Kappa T au. moted to department head at Vitro' H e is one of the nation's leading deve­ Silver Spring Laboratory in Silver prina , lopers of drugs and lists among his achieve­ M aryland. H e will di rect the work of 0 ments such drugs as Butyn and Butesin, engineers and technical personnel doina N embutal, Pentathol, sulfa , vitamins, ystems engineering work on guid d missile antihistamines, antibiotics and an non-calo­ hips under contract with the avy' ric sweetener, Sucaryl. His most recent Bureau of Ordnance. Geist joined itro in field of activity 'has been in radioactive 1947. H e i ~ an electrical nainecrina gra­ drugs used in brain tumor surgery and in duate of the Univer ity of Delaware where treating diseases of the thyroid. he wa pre ident of Alpha Gamma hapt r The Priestley M edal will be presented to in 193 5 and hold a profe ional naineer · ~ Dr. V olwiler at the America n Chemical license in M aryland. Poge thirt en THE LAUREL OF PHI K APPA TAU

Eighteen members of Phi Kappa Tau were in oitendonce at the annual Notional Interfraternity Conference that met in Colorado Springs, Colorado, late in November. Shown here in the usual order ore: First row: Richard J . Young, notional secretory; Roland Maxwell, notional president; Ben E. David, dean of men at the University of Miami and notional scholarship commissioner; Jock L. An­ son, editor of THE LAUREL and assistant secretory; Hollie W. Thompson, Oklahoma State Greek Week chairman. Second row: Brion S. Pennington, Kansas State; Henry R. Adler, administrative vice president of the Bowling Green IFC; Doyle W. Boyd , treasurer of the IFC at Oklahoma State; W . R. Hardin, Jr., president of Beta Kappa at Oklahoma State; Michael Brown, treasurer of the Council of Fraternity Presidents at Ohio State. Top row : Michael T. McGuire, Long Beach State; Charles Sullivan, Texas Western ; Berry J. Hawkins, Jr., Texas Western; James E. Wheeler, Long Beach State; Charlie M. Johnson, Kentucky, president of the Southeastern IFC. Not present for the photograph were Fred Hall, a member of the notional council and Kansas Supreme Court Jus­ tice; Neil E. Lien , president of Mu at Lawrence and the Lawrence IFC ; and James C . Myers, Jr., president of Beta Xi at Georgia.

Gordon C. Vliet Wins Rotary program of community-betterment activi­ ties, high tandards in business and pro­ International Scholarship fes ional life and the advancement of in­ A member of Phi Kappa T au is among ternational understanding, good will and the 130 outstanding coll ege graduates from peace. 31 countries who have received Rotary The Rotary Foundation Fellowship Foundation Fellowships for study abroa d program was inaugurated in 1947 as one of during the 1957-58 academic year from Rotary's contributions in the Field of in­ Rotary International, worldwide erv1cc ternational understanding. In the past 11 . club organization. years, Rotary Fellowships have been award­ Gordon C. Vliet, William and M ary, of ed to 953 young men and women from 61 Alma, Michiga n will study industrial and countries for study in 42 countrie . The public relations at the Univer ity College of all -expense grants average $2,500 and total Southwest, Exeter, England, in preparation more than $2,2 50,000. for a career in those fi elds. Mr. Vliet wa born in 19 32 in Saainaw, Rotary International encompa se 107 Michigan, and i the on of Mrs. tan! y countrie throughout the world. The C . Vliet of Alma and the late Mr. li t . 45'0,000 bu ine and profe ional execu­ He i inale. Followina hi raduati n fr m tives who are members of 9,600 Rotary Alma enior High S h 1 in 19-o, h , t­ Clubs work together to adva nce th Rotary t nd d Alma Coil gc for on y ar. In I '4, Pag e fourteen THE LAUR E L OF PHI KAPPA T AU Delmar E. Wilson

Brigadier* General Commands 36th Air Division at Davis-Monthan * Washington State Alumnus Rated Command Pilot; Has Had Varied Assignments Since Commissioned at Kelly Field, Texas, in 1937

*Bri gadier General Delmar E. Wilson, Washington State, who was appointed to that rank on July 28, 195"7, commands the Brigadier General Delmar E. W ils on 36th Air Division of t'he United States Washington State Air Force at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. General Wilson, who was graduated at to the State for a ignment to the 2 l · t the State College of Washington in 1936, Bomb Command as A -3. H e departed for served as the house manager of Alpha Saipan in October, 1944, and participated Kappa chapter as an undergraduate. H e in some of the initial B-29 trike· against entered the Air Force through the Aviation Japan. Later he was assigned a di rector Cadet Training Program and was com­ of operations for the 313th Bomb W ing, missioned a second lieutenant at Kell y 21st Bomber Command, and was command Field, T exas, after completing his training liaison officer for General Curti E. LeMay in July of 1937. for the Atom Bomb Project in the South Hi first assignment was to the 17th At­ Pacific. tack Group at M arch Field, California, After completing more than three year flying A -17 A's. After leaving the 17th, he overseas, General W'ilson returned to an assumed command of t

Page ,fteen THE L A UR E L O F PHI KAPP A TAU ment W in ct Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, f~ September of 1955 and help this post until January, 1957 . H e has com­ manded the 36th Air Division since Febru­ ary, 1957. General Wilson is rated a command pilot and holds the Silver Star, L egio~ of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, A1r Medal with an Oak Leaf Clu ter, Com­ mendation Ribbon and the French and Belaian Croix de Guerre wi th Palm .

Ben Pinnell Is New Field Secretary for Fraternity

A. Ben Pinnell , Jr., T exas W estern and Texas, began hi dutie as fi el d secretary fo r Phi Kappa T au on February 1, join­ ing Jim Dutch and Roger Bell as the traveling repre' entative of the fraternity. Pinnell , the twentieth fi eld secretary in A. Ben Pin nell, Jr., Texas Western the history of the fraternity, is 23 years of age and a January, 1957, graduate of T exas Added to his wealth of experience in W e tern College. A psychology major, he two chapters of the fraternity and in extra­ wa president of the Interfraternity Coun­ curricular activitie , Ben has been employed cil, bu iness manager of the college humor as clerk for Senator Frank Owen, Texas magazine, head cheerlea der, pre'ident of Western, manager of a service station, the Psychology Club, ection editor of the night cl erk at a motel and a brakeman for college annual and a member of the honor­ the outhern Pacific Railroad. ary journalism fraternity, the national honorary psychology fraternity and Scab­ ba rd and Blade. The winner of first place Transylvania Remodels Chapel in oration in 1956, he was a distinguished military graduate and was elected to M en One of the smallest chapel in the ' Outh, of Mines, for outstanding enior men, and located on Transylvania's ca mpus, i being Sardonyx for junior and senior men. remodeled this quarter by the pledges of Upon graduated he served on active Theta chapter. duty as a commissioned officer for six The eleven by twelve foo t sa nctuary, months. In September, 1957, he began seating twelve persons, was con tructed and graduate study in psychology at the Uni­ furnished in 195 2 by 'J1heta chapter and versity of T exas. Prior to attending T exa dedica ted in honor of Dr. H arvey A. W estern College, he had his freshman year Wright, now emeritus professor of mathe­ at Texas A & M . matics at Transylvania. The altar was de­ While an undergraduate member of dica ted to the memory of Dr. E. W . Del­ Alpha Psi chapter at T exas W es tern, he camp who died in September, 195-, after wa Best Pledge, 1954 ; secretary of the nea rl y ' 0 year of ervice to the co li etc. pledge class, 195 4; social chairman, 195 5; It will be the job of the 1957-' pledctc editor, 19 56, IFC representative, 1955-57 , clas to completely refini h the interior of and a member of the rush committee. At the chapel. Amonct the ta ks to be under­ Beta Alpha at T exa , he erved as parlia­ taken by the ten boy ' ill b painting, rc mentarian and pledge rna ter and was a pairing the ea t and leaning the drapes member of the rush committee . and ru ct.

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Southern Illinois Celebrates Silver Jubilee

Over 100 Alumni Return to Carbondale on December 6 , 1957 To Participate in Weekt'nd of Activitie

M embers of Beta Chi chapter, rounding time wi th some national organization ac­ out their first quarter-century of varied cording to a statement by its fir t president, and exciting activity, in 1957 looked for­ James McGuire, in The Egyptian, the ward eagerly to the observance of their school's weekly newspaper. Little could be twenty-fifth birthday in D ecember. They know that Chi Delta Chi would literally did so with the hope and determination come of age before that goal would b:: that their relationships in Phi Kappa T au reached. would yield them even more in the future During the next eight years, the fra­ than in the past. It was their firm convic­ ternity fl ourished and was the recognized tion that Southern Illinois University's leader of the several Greek organizations oldest and finest fraternity would con­ then on campus. In 1936 Chi Delta Chi ti nue to deserve that description. initiated the "Greek Sing" idea on Sou ­ Southern Illinois University was formed thern's campus. At thi annual affair it wa as a land grant college in 1869. It con ­ the custom to present an awa rd to the tinued for many lean years as Southern "most valuable fraternity man" of the year. Illinois N ormal University, expanding its It wa a Chi Delt, H arold Catt, who won curriculum to include a limited liberal that recognition the first two times it wa art and sciences program. During these bestowed, in 1936 and 1937. Other Chi yea rs, the college served the local area Delts and Phi T aus were to win it later. almo t entirely. After W orld W ar II, with and victory in the ing itsel f from 194 7 to the G.I. bill in effect, the enrollment grew 195"6 was in the bright future. rapidly in coll eges and universities all In 1942 the events which were soon to over the country. As a result of the in­ disrupt fraternity life all over the country creased interest in educa tion, Southern could be forseen. W orld W ar II had Illinois N ormal University became Southern tarted and was beginning to drai n away Illinois University in 194 7 by an act of the the splendid young men who were the life­ Illinois legislature. Since that time, its blood of tJhe fraterni'ty. The ranks of the program has expanded rapidly, and today fraternity were soon reduced and the fe ~ h e university offers B.S., B.A., B.S.Ed., men on campus closed the house and old M .S., M .A., and Ph.D degrees to 7,000 the furniture. During these year , everal students from all over the United States of the member gave u p their live for their and several foreign countries. country and many other paid dearl y for On N ovember 24, 195" 3, the Beta Chi honor and liberty. Fraternity life had chapter of Phi Kappa T au fraternity was strengthened them in their service to their established on the campus of Southern country by having given them maturity, a Illinois University at Carbondale. It was feelincr for esprit de cm·ps, and a harpen­ formed out of a local fraternity, Chi Delta ed sense of value . Chi, whidh had then for twenty-one years With the war over, many of th young been a part of the life of that institution. men came back to Southern anxiou to Chi Delta Chi was founded on December establish the fraternity on an active ba i 6, 1932, at 804 South Normal Avenue again. These everal brother worked hard (now Sou~h University Street) . The group to restore Chi Delta Chi to it po ition of was the first social fraternity on Southern's leader hip, and indeed to trengthen it. campu to continue any significant length Because of tlhei r enthui ia m the n xt fe" of time. Its ideals were man•hood, brother­ years were indeed very pro p rou for th hood, and scholarship; and its announced group. H onor came to it in onn tion objective was to affiliate within a short with the annual H omecoming eel bration Page seve nteen THE LAUREL OF PHI K A PPA TAU

Spring Carnival, and other campus events. world. Clo e contact with charter membas It compiled a fine record in scholar hip, of the chapter wa started. Jim Laughlin excelling among all fraternities for several was elected chairman of the celebration con ecutive terms. A early a 1947 it and Le Sims and Ken Buzbee co-vice­ was approached by a national fraternity chairmen. Information wa gathered from wishing to establish a chapter on Southern's ·crapbook , alumni, and pa t faculty aJ­ campu . At that time there were no nation­ vi or to be used in writing a history of al groups organized there. the chapter. With the beginning of th 19'"7-195 chool year, definite plan were In 195 3, a the result of a long period made for t'he weekend celebration to be of thought and negotiation, Chi Delta Chi held December 7 and 8. Alumni were beca me the Beta Chi Chapter of Phi Kappa contacted regularly about Ia t-minute plans, Tau. H arlon Sea t , pre ident during the accommoda tion were made for them, and c'hool year 195 3-5 4, wa e pecia ll y re pon­ personal invitation were sent out to sp ial ible for this change. W ith thi event a new era in the life of the chapter was guest . begun. N ew goals, a piration , and tradi­ Alumni began arriving in Carbonda le tion were added to the old. Friday, December 6. Friday evening the celebration wa started with a moker at Following 19 53, the Beta Chi chapter the chapter house for alum and thei r prospered as never before. H onor and wive . Saturday, December 7, marked the distinctions which fe ll to it included real beginning of the Jubilee. Alumni triumphs in the Greek Sing in 1954 and arrived all day and were greeted by the 1955; the mot valuable fraternity man brother at the hou e. From 4 to 6 p.m. award, 1954 (Richard Coleman) and 195'5 (Harlon Seats) ; the individual all-campu Saturday a coffee hour served as a joyou reunion for alumni and wives at the chap­ "Service to Southern" award in 1955' (Bob W agner) ; first among group acts in the ter hou e. annual all -university variety how, 1956, A formal banquet was held at 6:30 first in 1957; second in Homecoming hou e Saturday at the university cafeteria. Carl decorations, 1956 and 195'7 ; and econd in Mcintire, of KTVI, St. Louis, of televi ion the Greek Sing, 19 5'6 and 1957. The name fame, and a Chi Delt alumnu , wa , of Phi Kappa T au was quickly rai ed to an master of ceremonies. The several pea ker eminence upon the local ca mpu that Chi included James Watt, president of Beta Delta Chi had known before it. Late in Chi chapter of Phi Kappa T au, 1957-1958, 195 5 the Beta Chi chapter purcha ed a James M cGuire, first president of Chi home at 5'10 W est W alnut. Of imposing Delta Chi, and Dr. David T. Kenney, pre­ size and design and of brick construction, sent faculty advi or. 11he main peaker for with impressive beams and paneling in the the evening was Dr. Charles Skinner, pro­ ground fl oor rooms, it provided Beta Chi fes or of educational psychology at S.I.U.. with by far the best housing of any non­ and a charter member of Beta chapter of dormitory student group on the campus. Phi Kappa T au at the University of Ohio. The Beta Ohi's found themselves, at the Dr. Skinner gave a fine talk on "The start of 1956, with a home adequate to Value of the Alumni Association to the serve them for a number of yea r . Fraternity". With its fine record of va ried and excit­ The pre·ident of Southern Illinois Uni­ ing activity, the chapter looked to its versity, Dr. Delyte W . Morri , was a "Silver Jubilee" celebration in December special gue t at the banquet. A souvenir of 195'7 as a timulating landmark of pa t booklet, contai ning a history of the chap­ a·chievements and a guide to even richer ter and pictures of the hou es occupied and and fuller years in the future. Plans were of the active body at present, a detailed begun in 1955 to make thi anniversa ry a program of t'he weekend' activitie and a ucce ful a po sible. The alumni fil e wa directory of al umni was present d to ach brought up to date and checked regularly per on attendincr th banquet. again t the alumni file of the Univer ity. The banquet wa adjourned at 9:0 p.m. Alumni new I tter and reminders were and th alumni and br th r and their ent out regularly to alumni all over the \1 ive an I dat left f r b autiful Tl,lnt Page eighteen T H E L A U R E L 0 F ,p H I K A P P A T A U

City State Park Lodge, eight mile south Case with Proctor and Gamble of Carbondale. The entire lodge wa rented for the semi-formal dance. Music was fur­ William ]. Case, Jr., Colgate, ha accep· nished by the Archie Griffin Orclhestra. ted a po ition in the advertising depart­ During the dance, Jim Laughlin, chairman ment of Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati. H e of Silver Jubilee presented a plaque to Dr. has been assigned t the group respon ible Kenney, present faculty advisor, for "Un­ for the consumer marketing of a new pro­ usual and Continued Devoted Service to duct, a assistant brand manager. In thi Ohi Delta Chi and Phi Kappa T au". position, he wi ll as i t in planning adver· After t'he dance, an initiation of ten tising and sales promotion campaigns for Chi Delta Chi alumni into Phi Kappa the product and in coordinating market T au was conducted in one of the room of research, product re earch, budgeting and the lodge. packaging activities. Case, an economics major at Colgate Sunday coffee and donuts were served University, wa a member of Phi Beta at 10:00 a.m. at the chapter house, and the Kappa, Pi Delta Epsilon, pre ident of Al· alumni were given a heartfelt farewell. pha Upsilon Chapter and of the Economic Later in the evening an open house was Club, a member of the junior honorary so· conducted for tJhe campus and town. This ciety, Interfraternity Council, photography rounded out the Jubilee ce'lebration to in­ editor of yearbook, and was active in intra· cl ude almost everyone and put a dramatic mural sports. fi nish on the weekend's activities. By Monday, most of the 100 alums and their familie had returned to their home , Baldwin-Wallace Alumni Officer and the fraternity continued, but with new vigor. Monday evening, the annual under­ Roy E. Seitz, Baldwin-Wallace, ha been privileclged children' Christmas party was named national fi rst vice pre ident of the held at the house, with about fifteen child­ Baldwin-W all ace College Alumni A soc ia­ ren attending. tion.

The University Service Award of Pi at South ern California was recently given to Dr. Robert G . Gordon, dean of students at Southern California. The award is given each year to an outstanding fac­ ulty or administration member who, by his work, furthers the fraternity system and the university. Dr. Gordon received the award for planning and guiding the recent " Planning Conference on the Future of Fraternities at the University of Southern California. Shown in the photograph a re James E. Dutch, Phi Kappa Tau field secretary; Dr. Gordon; Richard Barsam, president of Pi chapter; Ro­ land Maxwell, national president of Phi Kappa Tau.

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dustrial W as te A sociation and was W e t Watson Elected to Head Virginia Direc tor on the Federation Boa rd of Control ( 194R-195 0) . H e is vi e­ Federation of 7500 chairman of the Federation' Indu trial W astes Committee. Kenneth S. Wa t s~ n , West Virginia, of W at on represents the American In ti­ Schenectady, N . Y., was elected pre ident tute of Chemica l Engineers a one of three of the 7500-member Federation of Sewage trustee on the American Sanitary Engin ­ and Industrial W as tes A ssociations at a eering Inter-society Board. H e is a mem­ meeting of the Federation' 52-member ber of the N ational anitary Engi neering Board of Control on October 6 195'7 in Resea r h Advi ory Committee for th Boston. ' ' Public H ea lth ervice and of the Advi ory Committee on Air Pollution for th State W atson, con ultant on water manage­ of N ew York. ment and waste control for the General Electric Company, is widely known H e rece ived the Indu trial W a te Award throughout the United States as an author­ from the Federation of Sewage an I In­ ity on water management and control of du trial W a te A so iation for th out- industrial wa te . tanding indu trial wastes paper for 195 5. H e also receive I the Charle A gar M emor­ A native of W e t Virginia, W at on wa ia l Award for 1956 from the N ew York graduated from W e t Virginia Univer ity A oc iation for another inclu trial wa te with B.S.Ch.E and M.S.Ch.E degrees with contribution. sanitary options. H e was pre ident of Al­ pha Xi chapter in 1934. H e served a In May, 1956, he wa de ignated by the chemical engineer and later executive sec­ Secretary of State to erve a engineer ad­ retary-engineer of the W est Virgi nia W a­ viser to the United States delegation t th ter Commission. H e also erved with the W orld H ealth A embly meeting in G n - Ohio River V alley W ater Sanitation Com­ va, Switzerl and. mission for a year as assistant director. H e ha written extensively on water A Lt. Colonel in the Reserve Corps, he management and waste treatment having commanded an engineer combat battalion published more than 30 paper in the e in World War II and later was in M ili ­ fields. tary Government as trade and industry officer for the City of Frankfurt, Germany. Before joining General Electric, he was a member of the commission and chai rman of the T echnical Committee of the Inter­ state Commission on the Potomac River Basin. H e was also a member from W est Virginia of the Ohio River V alley W ater Sa nitation Commission. A professional engineer, he is a member and past chairman of the N ational T ech­ nical T ask Committee on I ndu s tri a 1 Wastes . H e is a member of the America n W ater W orks A ssociation and the Amer­ ican Institute of Chemical Engineers, in which organization he is past chairman of the Pollution Control Engineering Com­ mittee. H e is a member of the America n C h e m i c a 1 Society, the Manufacturing Chemist ' Association W ater Pollution Abatement Committee and the Air Pollu­ ti on Control A s ociation. H onore d Found e r Tayl or A. Borradoile presents roses t o M iss Solly Rigg, Ph i Tau's Sweethea rt of H e is a member of the Executive Com­ 1957 a t Beta Omicro n chapter a t the Universit mitt e of th N w York ewage and In- of Maryland. Page twenty THE LAUREL O F PHI K A PP A TAU

This is a group of the old-timers of Pi at Southern California who attended th e Homecoming buffet supper on November 8, 1957, at the chapter house. Seated in the usual order are Ro land Maxwell, national president, an attorney; Morey F. (Mike) Jones, post president of t he chapter, varsity baseball pitcher, retired teacher; and Edgar M. Baxter, senior sociologist a t the pe nal institu­ tion at Manteca, Cali fornia. He is a past president of the National Cactus and Succulent Society and the man who discovered a new species of cactus and named it Neomammillcria Ph itcuianc. Standing are Henry Rohr, a Los Angeles attorney; C. S. Phipps whose son is a member of Pi; Rich­ ard F. Bird , a Pi founder and Pasadena public defender; and George J . Jordan, form er foreign cor­ respondent and now public relations consultant.

T wo Perpetual Scholarships N amed Boyer Is Radiology Resident For Dr. Elliott at Ohio University Capt. Carl W . Boyer, Jr., Muhlenberg, Dr. Rush Elliott, Ohio, dean of the Col­ recently was assigned as a re ident physi­ lege of Arts and Sciences at Ohio Univer­ cian in radiology at the W alter Reed Army sity, was recognized by many of his former Medical Center, W as hington, D. C. pre-medic students last June during gradu­ Captain Boyer i- a graduate of Upper ation ceremonies when two perpetual scho­ Darby H igh School and a 1951 graduate larships were presented to Ohio Univer­ of Muhlenberg Coll ege. H e i a 1 9 ~- cr rad­ sity in his name. T he fund totaling $7 ,500 uate of Jefferson Medical College and a was begun in 195 4 and will provide full member of Phi Chi medica l fraternity. tuition for the two recipients. H e has served as instructor and advisor of pre-medic students since joining the Beach Vasey, Presiding Judge faculty at Ohio University in 1930, and even though a dean, he continues to teach Beach V asey, Southern Calif.ornia, is the two courses to these students and to assist pre iding judge of the Loncr Bea h uper­ them in gaining admission to medical ior Court for the year 19 • . Prior to hi school. A pproximately 500 of his former appointment as pre iding judcre, h ha nd­ students have gone on to medical school. led the court's criminal calendar.

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Lloyd Larrick, Hospital Director, Assists Colony

Dr. Lloyd E. Larrick, Miami, i one of a group of advi ors who aid the recently organized P·hi T au colony at the Univ r­ ity of Cincinnati. Dr. Larrick received his A.B. degr e from Miami Univer ity in 19'30 during which time he wa quite a tive on ca mpu , being president of Alpha chapter in his enior year, a member of the Glee lub, editor of the tudent paper, and a member of the Student Council. H e received hi medical degree from the Univer ity of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 193 4 where he wa affiliated with Alpha Kappa Kappa. H e continued a an interm at Chri t Ho pita!. During that yea r he married Marian Belmer, Chi Omega, who graduated from the niver ity of Cincinnati College of Applied Art . H e practiced medicine in Cincinnati until 1942 when he went into the Air Force. During hi four yea r Lloyd E. Larrick, Miami tay in the Air Force he tudied ane the­ iology at the Percy Jone General H ospi­ Ohio Anesthe iologi t , a member of the tal. H e wa a! o tationed at Wright­ Board of Director of the American Paterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio Anesthesiologi t , a mernber of the A ca­ in charge of operating and ane thesiology. demy of Ane thesiologist which is com­ Leaving the en tice in 1946, Dr. Larreck prised of a group of fifty out tanding re·umed practice in Cincinnati specializing ane thesiologi ts, and a member of the in anesthesiology until M arch, 1957. Since Development Council for Miami Univer­ that time he has been Medical Director of sity. Christ H o pita! in Cincinnati. H e and M r . Larrick have two children, In addition to his duties at Christ Julie, a Chi Omega at Miami Univer ity, Ho pital he still remain in contact with and Jon, a enior at W alnut Hill High anesthe iology by being pre ident of the School in Cincinnati.

Maryland' Quartet Contest Fenner Goes to Wilbraham A cademy Big event of the year at Beta Omicron at Rest Fenner, Jr., a charter member of Maryland wa their annual H armony H all, Alpha Upsilon at Colgate University, ha pon ored t encourage and pre erve bar­ resigned his position on the Colgate faculty bershop quartet inging. This event held to become assi tant dean and head of th on D ecember 6, packed 1,5 00 into the Department of Languages at Wilbraham Ritchie Coli eum to e Phi Delta Theta Academy in Wilbraham, M a a hu tt. and Kappa Kappa Gamma win the fir t Dr. Fenn r, wh receiv d hi d t r f place trophy. In addition, the chapter philo ophy d gr at yra u e, tauaht at awarded Mr . Mildred Hugg the Bat­ Wilbraham A ademy from 19' ~ t 1 3 t! A xe (4' in ize) for being th out­ and th n at Up ala C II until j standing hou cmother on ca mpu . th lg, tc t:~ ff in 1 3 .

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During his stay in the ho pita!, Don lost Polio Victim at Cornell 40 pounds. T his was normal because all patients had troubles in adjusting their eating ha:bits. At first, the patient ha to Relies on Determination be coerced into eating, and then, once tarted, the patient has to be guarded Tragedy pointed its finger at Donald aga:inst becoming overweight. Don empha- ]. R amsay on the first day of football ized that the biggest problem for a polio practice in his junior year of high school. patient is to keep trying, because there is The date was September 2, 1953 , and so much to re-learn. H e remembered that Don 's story is one of courage and determi­ "If I ever felt sorry for myself, I could nation, just one of the reasons why the always see someone worse off than I wa , Alpha T au chapter at Cornell is proud to regardle s of my condition !" claim him as a brother. A-fter six months in the hospital, Don Previously, Don was a three- letter man moved to his aunt' home, cl ose to Buffalo, in football, basketball, and baseball. But where he received 30 hours of physio­ polio had now stricken the muscles in his therapy treatments at the Sister Kenny neck, shoulder and stomach regions, in Clinic every week. During this time, he addition to both of his arms. For ten days took several courses at the cli nic from Don was in a critical condition, one of teachers who made the round of tho e in­ those days being spent in an iron lung. stitutions, and while there, was elected to the N ational H igh School H onor Society. After spending a horizontal month, he was back on his feet, but found that he Don firmly stated that, in pite of the was practically helpless, one of his greatest Salk V accine, the March of D imes con­ troubles being tying shoelaces and neckties. tinues to support at least 100,000 di abled poho victums who are still receiving treat­ ment. No better example could be given than the first critical ten days, when it cost $100 each day for his care. H i entire hospital bi ll was paid by the M arch of Dimes. In September, 195 5, he re-entered high school in his home town, Perry, N . Y. Un­ like two years ago, D on now had 50 o disability in his shoulder and 70% di ' ability in his right hand, the re t of hi body having recovered. H e had no choice but to forsake his right-handed habit and become a southpaw. But his pirit wa never marred in these two critical year . In his enior year of high chool, Don managed the football , basketball , and ba e­ ball teams, wrote ports articles fo r hi home town paper and hi chool paper was co-chai rman of the enior cia trip, \ and was elected president of the hool' N ational H onor Society and Science Club. Just to in ure the truth in the tatement l that "you ca n't keep a good man down, ' Don was econcl highest in hi cla hen he graduated the following June. Don i now a ophomor in the hoo! \ of Electrical Engineering at CornelL and Donald J. Ramsey, Cornell till find hi mself :1 bu y a ver.

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Revealing Study on Financing College Education

One often hears about the " Joe College", 4 per cent work fifteen hour a week or with his expensive port car, who ha a les . big time during the brief interim he spend N ea rl y fifteen per cent of the members at college spending hi parent money. You earn the full co t of their education, 24 also hear about the truggling young man per cent earn three-fourths, 30 per cent who works all week and Saturday night to earn half and 31 per cent earn one-fourth pay his coll ege expen e . W 'hat about the or le s of the total co t of the college edu­ "average" fraternity member? ca tion. Eleven per cent receive ROT C or re­ Your editor began a survey Ia t fall erve program checks, ten per cent have de tined to give orne information about the G.I. Bill benefits, eight per cent are on source of income of the undergraduate cholarship and one per cent receive members of Phi Kappa T au. Information grant or attend college a a re ult of loan . wa furnished by 45 chapter . H ere are Parent , relative or friend upply the some of the tatistic . additional fund . It i interesting to ob ervc that 86 per T he average chapter ha five men re­ cent of the member work full time during cei vin cr scholar hip and two men have the summer and that 38 per cent work at grant . T he range from chool to cho I least part time during the chool year. Of i interesting. One chapter is in a chool that 38 per cent working during the school which has no cholar hip or grant program yea r, seven per cent work an averacre of while Rho chapter at Rensselaer Poly­ 40 hour c~ch week, eleven per cent work technic In titute has 77 per cent of its an average of 30 hour a week, 34 per cent member receiving ei ther cholar hip or work an average of 20 hour a wee k while grants.

This is one of 800 homes decorated by Alpha Psi at Texas Western in the old Mexican tradi­ tion this past Christmas. Luminaries, a s they are called, were legended to have lined the way to +_he Christ Chil?. A luminario is a paper sack, ha If full of sand, with a candle in the sand. Th ey a re l1ghted on Chm.tmas Ev e. ~or e than 50,000 sacks were used lor the project wh ich began in ea rly Nove mbe r and Included sell1ng the decorations, folding th e sacks, fill ing and delivering t he m. Po twenty-four THE LAUREL OF PHI K APPA TAU

This is the new home of Beta Alpha chapter at the University of Texas

Ridder Ordained to Priesthood in Oldham County; and he will conclude his mini try there just prior to joining the The Reverend John W. Ridder, Syra­ state staff. H e expects to receive hi bach­ cuse, Minister-i n-Charge of St. Luke's Epis­ elor of divinity degree from The Coll ege copal Church of Geauga County, was or­ of the Bible in June. dained, D . V., to the holy office of priest­ In his new position Mr. Rowell will hood, December 15 , in the Church of St. direct all phases of leadership education fo r Christopher-by-the-River, Gates Mills, the Christian Churches of the state. H i Ohio. Mr. Ridder was graduated from Bex­ res ponsibilities will include direction of ley H all , the Divinity School of Kenyon observation practice schools and leader- College, Gambier, Ohio, in June 1957, hip trai ning schools, institutes for both and w as ordained to the Diaconate on M ay children's and youth work and in- ervice 31, 1957. H e has been Minister-i n-Charge training program for voluntee r church at St. Luke's Church sinr:e July. workers. Ridder, who is 34, married, father of three children, is a graduate of Syrac use University, 1944, was secretary of the East Liverpool, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce for C. W. Kerr Publishes Sermons three years, and previously was a radio broadcaster for seven years in Eas t Liver­ Clarence W . Kerr, Miami, mini ter of pool, Ohio, and Syracuse, Gloversville and t·he Glendale, California, Pre byterian Amsterdam, N ew York. Churoh, is the author of Questions That Must Be Answered, a collection of ermon published in 1956. T he book is compri ed Leadership Education Director of ten sermons based on ten que· tion often asked him. Starting with 28 frequent que , ]. Cy Rowell Transylvania, will be tions, he made his final selection a a re­ come the first director of leadership edu­ sult of a questionnai re ubmitted to hi cation for the department of Christian congregation, which ha a memb r·hip of education of the Kentucky Christian 3,000, to other church cr roups and crroup Churches on April 1. apart from hi church. Rowell, who is a senior at The College Dr. Kerr is also the author of God' of the Bible, is, at present, erving as mini­ Pattern for the H ome, publi hed in 19~' ster of the Brownsboro Christian Church and T hey Live Forever.

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Chapter Eternal

PHILIP BARNETT BUCKY , Penn State, has ROBERT J. PLEUS, Colorado, d.ied Thanks· been reported as deceased by the post office. giving afternoon in hi boat at Lake Tibet FRANK W . ELUS, Kentucb. ha bee n re· Butler nea r Orlando, Florida. Judge of the ported as deceased by the po t office. econd District Court of Appeals in Florid a, he was a charter member of Psi chapter and had HE R Y A. FRUAUFF, Cornell , Bandhtt, erved as president of the A ociated Student died on October 16, 1957, in Buffalo, ew at th e U ni ve r ity of Colorado in 1924. York. A member of the cl as of 1912, he ea rned the deg ree of bachelor of arch itecture . Although GAYLORD K. ROBERTSON, Iowa State, in poor health fo r everal yea rs, his final illne died uddenl y on January 3, 1958 . An a sistant extended onl y ove r a period of a week. di trict fore ter with the Maryland Department of Forests and Park at Milburn Landing, JOH W . HALL, California, has been report· P cornoke State Fore t, he was instrumental in ed as decea ed. H e was initiated in 192 1 and re· getti ng pine reforestation underway on the sid ed in Oakland, California. I wer eastern hore of Maryland. JOHN S. HOLLENBACH, Fran~lin <:9' HE R Y L. ROLL WAGE, JR., Kentucb. M ars hal!, has bee n reported a deceased by died on Sep tember 25 19 57 a the re ult of a Franklin and Marshall Coll ege. heart attack. STANLEY A . KAMASKY, M oun t Union, NEVIN JAMES SHANKWEILER, Muhlen· has bee n reported as deceased. berg, has been reported as deceased. GRAYSON . KEFAUVER, Fra n ~l in <:9' CHARLES A . SIDWELL, William <:9' Mary, Marshal!, has been reported a decca ed by was killed in automobile accident when hi car Frankl in and Marshall College. plun ged off a ten·foot embankment near Rich· ROBERT A. KRAUSE, R ensselaer, was kill· mond , Virginia. Apparently he went to sleep ed instantly in an automobile accid ent in and lost control of his car while returning to the Falhendorf, Germ any. A graduate with the class campus. An outstanding halfback, he had re• of 1956, he was se rving as a second lieutenant ce ntly signed a profe ssio nal football contract in the United States Army. with the Cleveland Browns. CHARLES EDWI LEWIS, T exas, wa JOHN ROBERT SKIDMORE, M ount Union, fo und dead of ex pos ure on the shore of Lake died on May 22, 1957. H e was presid ent of Charlotte nea r Anahuac, T exas, during the Epsilon chapter during 1949 and 19 50. hunting season this past fall. A charter me mber CHARLES SIDNEY STILES, Colorad o State , of Beta Alpha chapter and a pa t president, has been reported as deceased by the post office. Lew is had swum and walked three mi les before EDWARD D . STRYKER, JR., Cornell, co fl apsin g only a half·mile from wa rmth and Bandhu, died on May 24, 1957. H e was a sales safety wh ile he wa s see king help for two com· executive with the Lamp D iv i ion of the General panions stranded in a duck blind on Lake Electric Company and made his home in Cleve• Charlotte. land, Ohio. AARON ARO L MASTERS, W ashington, SAMUEL P . STUDYBAKER, Miam i, died died on November 21, 1957. H e was a charter on January 10, 1958, as a re ult of an autq· member of Alpha Pi chapter. mobile accident near Columbus, Ohio, while he LESLIE CHARLES McCALLISTER, Ohio, and his wife were returning from a dinner meet· a charter me mber of Beta chapter has been ing of anestheti t . Dr. Studybaker had practiced deceased since 19 51. medicine for even and a half year in Miami • TERRANCE G. McDERMOTT, California, burg, Ohio, and began a two·year resid ency in died of leukemia in June of 19 57. H e was initiat• anesthesiolog y at the U niversity H ospital in ed at u chapter on February 25, 195 6. Columbus last June. DARRAGH H. MacKENZIE, Pennsylvania, WILLIAM H . TAYLOR, Illi11oi , ha been died suddenl y on September 15, 1957. reported a decea ed. ELMER S. NOLL, JR., Fran~li n <:9' Marshall, JOSEPH W . WALTO , JR., M iami has hee n reported as dccea ed. ( Fl orida ) , ha been rep rted a d ca d.

Poge twenty-s ix THE LAUREL O F PHI K APPA TAU Contributors to the 1957--58 Development Fund

AKRON Robert D . Raffield BOWLING GREEN Everl!tt C. Silvia M. E. Richard so n Philip J. Allison, Jr. James G. Annas Walter V . Smith William R. Bond N. James Bick William G. Whelan Paul R. Chapman BALDWIN­ Ronald E. Cashen Daniel J. Chovan WALLACE Ronald A. Clarke John L. Harding Daniel Buckley, Jr. Russell A. Hall CASE Byron H. Larabee Louis H . Fitch Richard E. Meyer Albert A. Albright George Leuca, Jr. Allan Lang Robert L. Schaadt William L. Aldrich Kenneth E. Rankin Edward J. McKeon Gene C. Snyder Paul A . Barrett Richard W. Staiger Alvin W . Brooke BETHANY Pete Delvigs CALIFORNIA W. J. Bannen, Jr. Harry L. Ebert AUBURN Robert F. Cory Charles L. Badley A. J. Eichmuller W. H. Appich, Jr. J. W . Coughenour Howard C. Elli Eugene J. Farkas Robert E. Clark Frank D. Dornbush John Fry W . B. Ferguson H. Ray Evers Harry L. Ice David R. Grant, Jr. Norman H oertz John W. Hager Ernest L. Korb Ardee P . Lott Harol d D. Kessler E. J. Hugensmith William H. McKinney Norman M. Lyon Elmer J. Kuhn Z. T. Jenkins, Jr. Philip T . Pagliaro Paul N. Newman Howard J. Rowe Ralph B. Mayer L. G. Patterson Eugene M . Pierce Gust Z. Stern Harvey W. Parker W . Arthur Rush Arthur H . Rice C. E. Sutherland, Jr. * * * Benefits of the Development Fund

During the past year, alumni voluntary contributions to the Development Fund have made possible additional services to Phi Kappa Tau chapters and to alumni. H ere is a partial li t of those accomplishments:

Four chapters have been given grants to assist them with either ru hing or to meet bill they otherwise could not have paid without undue financial difficulty.

One full tuition and travel scholarship was granted to an undergradua te to assi t in the develop· ment of an existing chapter. This chapter now is strong and has almost 50 men.

A ssistance has been given to alumni in the formation of city or area alumni a ociation •.

The Development Fund has made possible the employment of a third field ecretary. H is salary and expenses will come from the contributions to the D evelopm ent Fund .

Many colleges and univer ities have been investigated for future expan ion.

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CENTRE George W. Schade C. Guthrie Eabcock H ans J. Petermann Stanton F. Bahr Robert Stettler Albert Bassett Cecil W . Powell Robert B. Ball Robe rt M. T enery Egbert R. Beall Burwell V. White, Jr. S. Frank Cox Sam uel B. W asson E. T. H . Bowen, II Rudolph Gilcher Chester S. Deigaard HOBART T. K. Lewis COLORADO Robert P. Dunty, Jr. H oward H . Gowen Roy R. Morris STATE Franklin P. Dean Daniel C. Hauschild F. 0 . Greenlund Hugh L. Nevin Lyndon C. Brown Edwin Kriegsman, Jr. Leroy H . Gross W. M. Wesley Bert W . Ca selman Willian F. H a elmire Dav id N . Widmer J. E. Cambria, Jr. IDAHO STATE Robert J. Dav is Jam es R. H oltsclaw W ill iam C. Lantaff T ed W . Kinney Roy A. Nipko COE H arold H . Short Solon F. O'Neal, Jr. Denver H . Adams William J. Ove rm an ILLINOIS Russell J. Stewa rt Guy T . Avery H arvey M. Coat Louis D. Visintain er Ge rald Smith William C. Davi Thomas F. Stringer Philip A. Anderson Jac k F. Doherty T homa L. T atham William J. Barmore CORNELL Thomas W . Gregory H arold B. W ahl Anton C. Benko Graham E. H arris W . F. Burrow W . Sereno Bodman Phi lo D. Clark Robert F. Preston FLORIDA STATE Thomas W . Bohmaker W alter M. Clist Elmer P. Quintu Ira F. W ilson William S. Budd Karl G. Roth John P. Crosby H oward C. Burleson Ed1pund B. Shaw Richa rd C. Dani els Kenneth L. Dittmer FRANKLIN '& John E. Sidner C. S. Einsiedler Harold Ernst MARSHALL Robert B. Eng le John R. Fischer Lawrence E. Gubb John D. Braught H. E. Fitzgerald COLGATE George M. lrey R. N . Diffenbach Gordon Earl Gray Jack L. Anson E. D. Montillon Lewis S. Evans J. Thomas Hastings Russell R. Billing James A. Moo re Stephan T . H einaman Ralph J. H errcke Robert M . Brandt Charles V. Parsell H . S. H ollin gsworth, Norman Ingerle Stephen A. Carb Ernest V . Price Jr. Lyle F. Kaapke R. G. Ch ~ ndl e r , Jr. Howard C. Wikoff Paul M . Limbert John J. Lacey Edward T . Davis, Jr. Charles E. Lytle, Jr. Elmer S. Mott Raymond I. Dawson DELAWARE David R. Meehan Ross Prio Charles F. Fleming -H. Wallace Cook, Sr. Wayne R. Parmer B. C. Schweitzer Thomas M. Iiams H. Wallace Cook Jr. Thomes S. Rogers N orris 0 . T ayl or Leonard C. Lang Stephen R. Davis Luther L. Sharp Lee A . Terrill Lloyd Saletan John R. Eva ns Frederick K. Stamm Robert F. Williams David C. Thurber George H . H all Elmer F. T oth Richard C. Winkler Donald E. Tobin George M. H arl an Stewart E. Warner Leland E. Yeager Ralph W . Jones Joseph D. Weiss Ll oyd H . Yeage r COLORADO Donald J. Lynch Benjamin M. Witmer Irwin H. Yoder Jon F. Abrahamson Samuel H . Macrum I DIANA John G. Anderson Charl es L. Poehlmann Robert F. Freeman Donald J. Breuner Francis I. Ponsell GEORGIA Jon T . Gardner David E. Clark Peter W . Reiter Robert L. W agner Richard C. Starr Lewis M. Culve r Carl M . Sautter Louis Degen John W . Scott GEORGIA TECH IOWA STATE William E. Grigs Smith C. T oulson, Jr. Louis H . Cook }. D. Alexander Andrew G. Finlay Earl B. Tull T. W . Donaldson F. E. Brown William J. Fisk Alfred D . V ince nt Erma n R. Dotson, Jr. H arold R. Dettman Hugh C. Fowler Euge ne G. W ollaston T homas J. Elrod, Jr. Donald E. Reynold Ri chard F. H ogan Lewi M. W oodward F. E. H ankinson, III Robert G. Riede el W arren S. Ken ni on Geo rge M. John on \.Vayne H. Rise r Edward M. Paullin, Jr. FLORIDA Em ory L. McGinty Ru ell E. Saupc Pred Reisbick Clyde C. Atkin George H . Pardue, Jr. R llin F. arren

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KANSAS Jam e W . Dorton Thomas S. Nichols MISSISSIPPI Clifton L. Smith Don ·w . Millure Kenneth S. Peterson SOUTHERN Robert R. Vetter Anthony Poss Lew is L. Green, Jr. MARYLAND Harold A. Predm ore Donald R. Predmo re KANSAS STATE Robert S. Moore MISSISSIPPI Ralph H . Draut Charles E. Rogers STATE Earl L. Hinden Merl e Sayres Harold E. A ngelo Vern W. Johnson MIAMI Clyde D . Scherz. Joseph D. Bri tow Darrell S. Steele (FLORIDA) Clifford Shea rd Johnny D . Myers Temple F. Winburn Frederick A . Alders John K. Shea rd John C. Segrest Malcolm C. Hart Paul Sherer Thomas J. Kelly William H. Shideler KENT STATE Hugh F. Purvis John R. Shotwell MOUNT UN ION Frank 0 . Hicks W. F. Si ze love James R. Anderson Kenneth E. Somerlot Lyman Brownfield KENTUCKY MIAMI (OHIO) Chester L. Buxton Robert J. Arnold Jean M. Steven on Arthur J. Bradshaw David W. Tate Myron W. Coleman Anton G. Arps Otto V . Elder Ralph K. Ulrich Wilbur J. D im it William . L. Franz Donald E. Baxter Charl es S. Gallah er John S. Beekley Joseph F. Vargo, Jr. Joseph 'J./ . Holton Robert A. Whisner William D . Heaston Robert C. Black Ernest W . Johnson Will iam H. Yen el John W. Heim George E. Booth Paul B. Kiel Richard J. Young Ed ward G. Meiter Robert E. Maloney Taylor A. Borradaile Milton E. ewcomer Glenn B. Britton Robert E. Young Manuel A . Schofman Roman J. Zipfel Clifford D. Shie ld Robert D. Carroll Robert H . Taylor Alvin C. Zurcher Earl J. Schwab Charles Waite, Jr. R. H . Chamberlain Nelso n Snyder Thomas D. Winstead Samuel C. Clark Harry C. W inkier MICHIGAN Ralph B. Wright Perry S. Colburn Harry 0 . Davidson George S. Bradley Howard G. Eley Harry H . Coli, Jr. MUHLE BERG LAFAYETTE Thomas W. Ellison Harry B. Culver Frank R. Boyer Leroy S. Dangler Albert B. Flory Horace C. Duncan George S. Boyer F. K. Engelhart Harry E. Franz. F. L. Fischer Kenneth I. Boyer William R. Fithian James R . Fraz;ier W. Paul Hendershot Frank DeLong, Jr. Eugene C. Preston Elmer Frech Edward T. Hile Albert L. Fo ter Mark B. W eisburger Alfred H. Gansberg Robert J. Hutton John C. Gosz.tonyi Roland M. Gard Frederick Marin Ed gar W . Me eil LAWRENCE Truman Gile, Jr. Donald M. Monroe Geo rge T . Miller Gordon R. Bush Albert G. Graf Roland R . N ette Ru sell W . Moyer William J. Edmunds Douglas F. Graham Jame E. Peterson Otto F. olde George E. Hall W . A . Hammond Robert E. Reynolds John V. Shankweiler Winslow Jones John W. Heisey Robert J. Ridgway Scott W. Skinner H . L. Kl oppmann William A . Hopkins james C. Roberts Harry B. Underwood Thomas 0. Krueger Charles B. Keach C. D . Sherbnrne Armon M . illiam Lambert W . Peterson Grayson L. Kirk Herbert E. Trapp R. P. Rosenheimer Russell E. Ladley Robert F. Wikle EBRA KA W . H . R. Swanstrom G. Kent Larick John L. W otring WE LEYA Paul W . Ungrodt Lloyd B. Larrick Emmett Bauder Earl B. Link MICHIGA STATE Li nn \i . De a1-l LONG BEACH Donald H. MacDowell Thoma L. Dun ton John R. Dunning Eaton 0 . Bemis Charles K. May Charl es F. Featherl y H . Adam D urham Jame E. Dutch Robert M. Maynard Robert L. Longyear W arr€'n Parker Keith W . Lawson W alter J. Miller John W . Mi sail , Jr. Gordon B. Robbin David N . Vazquez. Norman M. Muenz;e r Max mith Don E. N etzley MIDDLEBURY Charles T . treeter LOUISVILLE Richard W. Newburgh Samuel B. Patch H arry A. T aylor R. B. Bossung, III Hugh C. ichols Carey T. mith C. L. T rombla Page twenty·nine THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU

Oscar Wiberg NORTH CAROLINA George J. K.indsvatter R. C. Karnosh Parvin Witte STATE Ira A. McDaniel L. A. Kaufman Floyd E. Wright William B. Aycock Earle W. Phillips, Jr. Charles C. Koterba Conrad D. Bliss William H. Rauch V. A. Lauderman Tyler B. Dunlap John D. Schneider Brian K. Lewis NEW MEXICO Donald E. Hamilton Carl F. Stockdale R. W. MacDonald Edward D. Geiger Norman S. Lynch Issacher A. Warfield Philip H. Moseley W . W . McCoy, Jr. David W. Moore William Weaver Frank R. Musrush Richard P. Willard Howard Webster John S. Nagy NEW MEXICO William W. Wells Donald F. Orth Richard B. Werner Wesley R. Pelling, Jr. A&"'M OHIO Robert L. Perdue R. W. Boebinger, Jr. Robert J. Barrett, Jr. Robert W. Reinicke Joseph C. Hand, Jr. Horace E. Cromer OHIO STATE Robert M. Runyeon James B. Tuttle Harlan J. Dickerson James E. Banta Frederick M. Sage W. S. Gamertsfelder Robert R. Brown Donald Lee Slyh NEW YORK Joseph H. Giesecke Frank W . Brumfield Burleigh B. Smith William H. Angelbeck Fred B. Goddard Dean P. Close Russell E. Steele John D. Good Harold E. Cowser Bernard F. Biemann Maurice E. Stilwell P. F. Good Donald H. Ebright F. X. Buebendorf, Jr. Karl W. Stinson Joseph P. Finnegan Brandon T . Grover Herbert L. Emerson William J. Thornhill John M. King William G. Heck, J~ . Kenneth L. Ervin Robert V. Westlake W. E. Mclaughlin Dean T . Honsber?,er Everett E. Farr W . T. Schwendler C. Paul Hutchison David L. Haskell Edward Simone John M. Jewell Harold L. Hays • ' · OHIO Bernard Tallman Dana S. Jones William H. Hillyer WBSLEYAN Frank E. Wickham Robert E. Joyce, Jr. Justin E. Jordan Alvin C. Barck

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J. Merle Brill J a me Gomez, Jr. Kenneth R. Solomon TRANSYLVA TA Claire A. Connoll y Robert P. H ac kin g Charl es Stotz John M . Franz Earl M . Logan John B. H arbaugh Alfred L. Tay lor L. P . H owser W . A . McManigell William G. Hintz, Jr. Donald H utchison Chester B. Miller Dean E. Kennedy Will iam White, Jr. SOUTHERN William G. Mussun Joseph L. Maguire CALIFORN IA Alcwyn L. Roberts William E. Miller Edga r M. Baxter UCLA Ralph E. Rush Albert R. Okarm a Richard F. Bird John D . W iley Clyde A. Sluhan Walter C. Parso n , Jr. H . Bundy Colwell Lawrence B. Walbolt Frank L. Platt J. Howard Edge rton H oward V . White George W . Ruby W ASHINGT ON H . Lesli e H arding John C. Schmidt Ralph P . Nelson Malcolm H arri Robert Sheffer Winthrop Seelye OKLAHOMA Francis J. H eusel Ray S. W alker STATE Kingdon C. Hicks F. L. McKinley Arthur S. Huey WASHl GTO A . L. Rose PURDUE Sherm an A. Jense n STATE H oward L. Scharf Gordon M . Bartage Roland Maxwell Ken neth Boring Robert J. Stout Raymond R. Calvert G. Allen Miller Roland D . Brady Lorren L. Perdue David M . Eckman Jerry D. Page J. Paul Cerveny Charles R . Fay Robert Rutherford Melvin P . Dolson Robert A. Fitch Ernest W . Eld er OREGON Alvin L. Sanborn Charles G. Garrett Gerald I. Eyrich STATE H oxsie Smith Fred J. Grumme Kenneth V. Fletcher H arold DeVoe Richard G. Sullivan John E. H eilman Carl M . H ansen Fred Dysle Arthur L. Swa nso n Elbert W . Hoover Philip M . Kell y Lenn C. Holman Ralph E. Thomas Howard W . Hubbard John H . Lenox Lawrence 0 . John so n William H . Ka shner Donald E. Lind James R . Libby Lawrence R. Lentz SOUTHERN Charl es F. Lindberg Peter K. Marvin Walter W . Leonard ILLINOIS Robert F. Lonneker Dennis A. Michel Jack B. Edmundson E. A. Lindsey, Jr. William E. Sheely F. T. McDonald Virgil H ollis Delmar E. W il on Robert H . Robertson PENN Joseph D . McDonald James S. Winston Edward N . Adourian Ogden R. Pierce SYRACUSE Armand J. Andre Donald L. Rich WEST VIRGI IA Robert E. Spitzka Wilbur A. Babcock Edward C. Aubitz Robert E. Roach C. W. Bohmer, Jr. Charl es E. Bennett Carl E. Bohn RENSSELAER Richard Curtis Bruce R. Gibbs WILLIAM John M . Bushey George B. Achtmeyer & MARY Samuel S. Childs Robert C. C. Blakely Charl es Jones T homas Bole , Jr. Charles W . Fleming Robert W . Bucklin Robert L. L a tt an~i E. Stanley A . Liszcz Leonard L. Davi , Jr. Perry Frank Russell F. Cabot Charl e B. Fuller, Jr. David H . Harshaw Francis T . Connors George Perrault, Jr. Clayton R. H orton Russell B. Davis George T. Philli p ~ Arthur J. Grime George D . Sporer George D . Grove H arry F. Irwin Edward A. Geier William E. T homann David D . H enritze Edward C. Jaehnig Raym ond A. Gibso n T homa Kefalas Earl A . Lazaz rus Anthony S. H endrick J. D avid L. M etz John Y. Mace Frederick W . H odd e TEXAS W alter F. Milkey Claude K. Scheifley F. R . Kl ebacher Edwin H . Connell Walter G. Kunz, Jr. Leonard F. Crockett PENN STATE Wallace F. Low I co I I Harold M. Benner Harry A . M eyer TEXAS WE TER Glen B. Ben on Charles D . Blauch Eric G. Peterso n William R . Battle H arri Gillespie R. G . Blood, Jr. Stanley L. Pratt William P . Kerr Frank J. Hebda Kenneth L. Cook Frederick A. Ro e James Ka ter Lyle J. Kiell y Vernon W . Ellzey William J. Schwartz A. Ben Pin nell, Jr. Che ter Obma William J. Gibson Charles V Sherwood Marion E. Spitler Bruno A . tein

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