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The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity Founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, March 17, 1906 Founders Taylor A. Borradaile, Lewis Apartments, Apt. 4. 2214 S. Kanawha St. , Beckley, W. Va., 25801 ; Dwight I. Douglass; William H. Shideler; Clinton D. Boyd. National Officers NATIONAL PRESIDENT - Ray A. Clarke, 2201 Riverside Dr., Valdosta, Georgia 31601 . NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT - Edward A. Marye, Jr., 50 Actor. Director. Producer. Paul New student laundry. At the outbreak of Broadway, Mt. Sterling, Ky ., 40353. man has done it all before worldwide World War II , Newman left Kenyon to EDUCATIONAL DIRECTOR - Robert 0 . Elder, 916 Shell enlist in the U. S. Navy. " I volunteered brook Ct., Apt. # 1, Raleigh, N.C. 27609. audiences far too vast to number. HOUSING AND FINANCI AL ADVISER - F. L. McKinley, He IS a superstar, and he has to be a pilot in the Navy Air Corps and Suite 3700, 60 East 42nd St. , New York, N. Y. 10017. earned that title through scores of ac was assigned to the V-12 program at NATIONAL CHAPLAIN- Rev. Frederick J. Johnson, 620 W. complishments, through performances Yale. Then they discovered I was 19th St. , Pueblo, Colo. 81003. color-blind and threw me out of it. " NATIONAL PRESIDENT-EMERITUS - Roland Maxwell, in films now known as modern-day 628 Mutual Savings Bldg ., Pa sadena, Calif. 91101 . "classics," through his own sensitive It was in connection with a subse The National Council motion picture direction and quent Navy program that Paul went to F. L. McKinley, Suite 3700, 60 East 42nd St. , New York, N.Y. production. Ohio University. During his brief ten 10017. Robert W. Hampton , Better Business Bureau of Greater In an exclusive interview with ure in the training program there, he Milwaukee, 174 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, Wise. Charles Hamblett of Woman, an En joined Phi Kappa Tau and was 53203. glish weekly magazine, Newman re initiated into Beta chapter on April 11 , Thomas C. Cunningham, Manager, Corporate Headquarters cently reviewed his past. "You know, 1943. One of his fraternity brothers - Personnel, Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut 06904. compared with the intelligent kids of Harry Millhoff of Cleveland Heights - Robert D. Leatherman , 627 C St. , Washington, D.C. 20002 today, my generation was just plain remembers him best as an enter Jim K. Heilmeier, 2649 Hawthorne Rd ., Cuyahoga Falls, dumb. To tell you the truth, I wasn't tainer, one who would come into the Ohio 44221. much good at anything when I was a 50 East State Street house often, sit Thomas L. Stennis II, 45 55th St. , Gulfport, Miss. 39501 . Thomas E. Hendricks, 5723 Memphis St. , New Orleans, kid . My brother and I, we both went in down at the grand piano an<tJlever La. 70124. for every single sport you could think play the same song twice. James P. Triona, 814 N. Main St. , New Lexi ngton, Ohio of. And I was terrible at all of them. When the war ended, Paul returned 43764. Really - notoriously ungifted." from the Pacific and again went to The Executive Offices 15 North Campus Avenue, Oxford, Ohio 45056. Newman has made up for that Kenyon College. " I enrolled to study Telephone 513-523-4193 "inability" and today as a superstar is banking and economics but hated it. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - William D. Jenk1ns. worth more than $5 million. Born on Money as a basis for a full-time career DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING -John F. Mankopf. CHAPTER CONSULTANT -Jeffrey L. Rivard January 26, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, has never interested me. After a few The Phi Kappa Tau Foundation he was raised in the "very provincial, months, I managed to switch to CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD - Ewing T. Boles. 720 Atlas very upper middle-class" section of literature and drama. I just had no Bldg., 8 East Long St. , Columbus, Ohio 43215. Shaker Heights. In this pre-television PRESIDENT- Raymond A. Bichimer, 50 W. Broad, Colum feeling for banking." bus, Ohio 43215. era, Paul read alot of books. "I did a He drifted by chance into acting. " I VtCE PRESIDENT - Paul A. Elfers, P. 0 . Box 237, Marshall great deal of reading, went through really wanted to play football , but this town, Ia. 50158. the usual children's classics. I would ambition ended in sheer disaster." VICE PRESIDENT - F. A. Fletemeyer, P. 0 . Box 316, Spring Lake , Mich. 49456. read anything I could lay my hands on Newman was involved in a tavern TREASURER - Harold N. Wilson, 2567 Farleigh Rd., Co . until I got interested in girls - brawl and along with three others lumbus, Oh io 43221 . when I stopped reading altogether!" were put on probation and tossed off SECRETARY AND LEGAL COUNSEL - Raymond A. Bichi After grammer school, he spent a the team. " I was damned if I was mer, 50 W. Broad, Columbus, Ohio 43215. few months at Kenyon College, near going to let anything interfere with my THE LAUREL of Phi Kappa Tau Cleveland, where he established a extracurricular activities. So I went An Educational Journal claim to fame as founder of the first along to read for the lead part of a Volume 63, No. 1 Fall 1974 Publishl!d quarterly (Fall - Winter - Spring - Summer) by the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity at 15 N. Campus Ave ., Oxford, Ohio. Second class postage paid at Oxford, Ohio, and at additional mailing offices. Editorial and Business Offices 15 North Campus Avenue, Oxford, Ohio 45056 Telephone 513-523-4193 Editor Terrance E. Leaman Business Manager William D. Jenkins Member: The College Fratern ity Editors Associ ation Postm as ter· Please send notice of undeliverable copies on Form 3576 to. THE LAUREL of Ph1 Kappa Tau 15 North Campus Avenue Ox ford, Ohio 45056 THE LAUREL 1 lhe xot ric publication of The Phi Kappa T u r atern1ty Published pnor to 1919 s Sidelights A qu r1 rly r11 ga11ne d voted 10 educ tlonal m terl Is con A Phi Tau Superstar e rntng coli u nd lr t rntty 1n1er ts publl h d und 1 dl r~~<,t•m 11d utho111y of the N lion 1 ouncll of The Phi I( 1-'f> I u f lUI trllty Drama Department play and got it. " o'clock I would get a keg of beer for While Newman had turned down about $12, and the guys would come banking as a career, he still had a down and bring th eir laundry and sit sense of business which he displayed around and drink beer with me till the ir at Kenyon. "With time on my hands laundry was done. after being barred from playing foot " No other laundry in town offered ball, I decided to go in for a bit of pri such an attractive service, and I soon vate enterprise," he commented in the became a monoply. With low rental interview. " I found a little bin of a shop and profits after investing in the beer, for rent and converted it into a laun I was taking at least $60 a week for dry. As a special service I offered my myself. In my last year of college, I customers - all college kids - free sold the busin ess to a friend . He beer on the side. opened up - and closed down - in "I figured this would make the laun his first week." dry chores more pleasant all round as well as knock the opposition laundries Despite his prowess as a beer out of business. Every Saturday at ten drinker and the shadow of his football The Laurel of Phi Kappa Tau 1 Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward and as he appeared in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. pick.' I don't know which is the correct attitude - probably the latter." When not on location shooting their next films, the Newmans relax. Paul by racing cars over the Northeastern Amateur Circuit, Joanne by going to the ballet. Besides being an authority on race car driving, Newman might be 1 considered an expert on beer. Wher ever he goes, refrigerators are instal led and filled with bottles of beer and glasses. "Cold beer must be served \\ in cold glasses," commented the superstar. " I'd like to see the Presi \ dent of the United States go out for a J l beer occasionally. Not with aides and I advisers, alone .. and really find out what's going on among the people. " Newman further philosophized. " It's a fantastic time for the young. In some ways they have less imposed on them than my generation did. Yet they have other things imposed on them that are far harsher than anything we had to "disgrace," Paul graduated from Ken a surprise to some, " Newman told face.Things are no longer black or yon with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Hamblett, "but I'm not really anti white, good or bad. There's this ac The rest of the Newman success establishment. I'm absolutely square. celeration of change .. change oc story is more widely known. From I'm anti-idiocy, anti-dishonesty -and curs with such rapidity. That's why Kenyon in 1949 to summer stock, the motion picture industry as a whole people have such a short attention then to Yale's School of Drama and has its roots in dishonesty. That is span." New York City. Then finally on to Hol from the business point of view. From True. Attention spans may be short, lywood and motion pictures too the acting point of view we have but the superstardom Phi Tau Paul numerous to recount here. mixed feelings about the business. Newman has achieved is not soon to Paul and his wife - Joanne Wood "One day you think it's terribly im be forgotten.