^inanciai Jxesources of the Endowment Fund Are Available to Worthy Phi Psi Juniors and Seniors Who Want to Complete Their College Educations If you are in need of financial assistance and want to effect a loan on a three per cent basis from the Endowment Fund ask for application blanks from RALPH D. DANIEL 725 FideUty Bldg. Assistant Secretary 1940 East Sixth St. The Endowment Fund Cleveland 14, Ohio SHIELD VOLUME 76 NOVEMBER, 1955 NUMBER i J. DUNCAN CAMPBELL, Editor C. F. WILLIAMS, Editor Emeriliis FRONT COVER: The famed colonnade at Washington and Lee University Page Try the Shoe . Chum 2 Stimulating Scholarship By Dr. J. Fenton Daugherty Next New Chapter: Connecticut Alpha A Phi Psi on Okinawa ,, Strickland is New Beloit Trustee Final Curtain for Walter Hampden 10 Admiral McKinney Completes Triumvirate 11 The Lineup: New Archons ... 13 Phi Psis, Here, There, Everywhere 14 Newsletters from 59 Chapters ,. 21 Newsletters from 15 Alumni Groups 4 Southern Cal Party at Pauley's Obituaries , ,,, Fraternity Directory Mr. Frank B. Lanning, Providence, R. I., is Art Director of Tlie Shield The Shield was established in 1879. It is published in November, January, March and May, under the authority and direction of the Executive Council of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, now in its 103rd year. Subscription price, $2.00 a year. Single copies, 50c. Life Subscriptions available at $25 for members under 40; $20 for those between 40-50; $15 for those between 50-65; $5 for those above 65 years of age ... J. Duncan Campbell, P. 0.*Box 363, Harrisburg, Pa., (Tel. KIngswood 5-7217) is Editor, to whom all material for The Shield should be sent. Send subscrip­ tions and changes of address to Fraternity's central office, 1940 E. 6th St., Cleveland 14, Ohio. Entered aa second-class mail matter, October 17, 1929, at the post office at Cleveland, Ohio, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of postage provided for in section 1103 Act of October 3, 1917, authorized April 1921. ENERALLY SPEAKING, the Executive Council has no concern with the personal G habits and tastes of members and guests who attend Fraternity functions, including Grand Arch Councils, District Councils, and chapter and alumni gatherings of one kind or another. However, when indulgence in such habits and tastes results in conduct offensive, disgusting, disturbing, and at times threatening to others including non-members, hotel managements and employes and passersby, the officers of the Fraternity do feel a very deep concern. Practically all Phi Psis who attend Fraternity gatherings do not look upon these occasions as mechanisms for throwing off all restraint in the use of intoxicating liquors. Unfortunately, a certain percentage, relatively small, seems to look upon participation in Fraternity and college events as an excuse for drinking and behaving in manner and extent beyond the limits of propriety and decency. Lives of persons have been endangered because of the irresponsible conduct of a few. Hotel property has been damaged, put out of commission, stolen, and destroyed, to the inconvenience and disgust of other members and guests. Mixed drinking parties, attracting men and women, and group drinking by members in hotel rooms and elsewhere, are blamed for most of the trouble reported to the Executive Council. Reference to disciplinary action taken by colleges against a half-dozen of our chapters is made in the annual report of the Secretary {The Shield for May, 1955). The Executive Council exhorts members to refrain entirely from drinking at Frater­ nity functions and gatherings, if past experiences tend to indicate that they have a tendency to over-indulge or an allergy to alcohol. Ninety-nine and 99/lOOths percent of our membership frowns upon those who go to Phi Psi meetings for the purpose of becoming drunk, noisy, abusive, destructive, unpopular, and unappreciated. Conduct unbecoming gentlemen should not be tolerated by the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Manners and Morals Recognizing a general deterioration in the conduct of young people, the National Interfraternity Conference Committee on Fraternity Manners and Morals (made up of presidents, past presidents, and secretaries of eight member fraternities, including the Secretary of Phi Kappa Psi) in mid-May reaffirmed the following resolution, adopted by the NIC in December of 1954: "Resolved, That the National Interfraternity Conference recognizes the need for developing a constructive program for the inculcation of good manners and morals among our fraternities and their members with special emphasis on the problem of drinking and recommends that the Conference participate in the implementation of such a program jointly with the member fraternities on the national level, the local Interfraternity Council level, and the local chapter level and with the college authorities; "Resolved, That the House of Delegates of NIC adopt as basic requirements of sound fraternity operation among and between its members: The observance by their chapters of college regulations or recognized standards of gentlemenly con­ duct in morals and the use of alcoholic beverages, subject to effective penalties imposed by the member fraternities in instances of abuse." Scholarship Report to Executive Council by DR. J. FENTON DAUGHERTY. Pa. Zeta '17 T sKKMs that pleas and a simple mathe­ year it would be 32 credit hours per man. I matical formula are not sufficient within Now 32 X 36 is 1152. the total number of themselves to raise Maternity scholarship credit hours carried by the men in the from a position of mediocrity to one of chapter in one year. If they had a 2.50 respectability. average or index, it means they earned as In the last report of fialernity stand­ a combined effort 1152 x 2.50 or 2880 ings, Phi Kai)yia Psi was 48th of 61 fra­ honor points or quality points, whichever ternities, with the number of its chapters suits your taste. All the men at Oregon above the All Men's .\veras>'e standing at State only earned enough honor points to 27.27%. This means that of 55 chapters get a 2.52 average, so for the men at Ore­ reported, 15 were above the All IMen's gon Beta to get a 2.52 average they must Average on their respective campuses. earn an additional 24 honor points for the year or for a semester, as is proved by this If we could have had just seven more 1152 X 2.52 = 2903.04, and 1152 x 2.50 = chapters above the All Glen's Average on 2880 or a difference of 23.04 which we will their respective campuses, we could have call 24. tied for 30th place. I realize that this means we have to increase our chapters Now if one fourth of the men (9) in the above the All ilen's Average by 50%. The Chapter had made a B instead of a (\ or a next seven chai)ters just below the All C instead of a D, in any three-credit-hour ilen's .Average on their ies])ective cam­ course for eithei- semester, the chapter puses are less than 2 percentage points would have had 27 additional honor points below this average. Now just what does this and been above the All .Men's Avei'age. mean? I will try to show you. New Hamp­ These 27 honor points could not have pos­ shire Alpha is the seventh with a —1.86, sibly made any great change where 2927.3 but I will not play with this one because men were concerned. the administration is changing from a The al)()ve can be arranged any way you maximum 4 to a maximum 5 grade point wish. For example, 3 men I'aised a grade system. I will not play with the chapter in in a three-credit-hour course from a B to sixth place below the All IMen's iVverage an A, 3 men raised grades from a C to a with a —1.79. This is Penn Beta, and B, and 3 men raised grades from D to a C; Allegheny uses 100 as a maximum possible or drop out the first category and have '> grade. So I will pick on the chapter in 5th men i-aisc tlie grade in a three-credit-hour place below the All iMen's .\verage, Oregon course from an F to a D and the score is Beta, with a —1.35. Oregon State has the still the same; they increase the Chapter's 4-point system which is, T believe, the most honor point total by 27 and that does the common. trick. Are we making mountains out of The All Men's .\verage at Oregon State mole hills in this scholarship game ? was 2.52 in the 1953-54 reports. Oregon I would guess that 30 honor points each Beta was 2.50. It was re])<)rted that 2927.3 in addition to what they already have men at Oregon State made the 2.52 All would have put the first seven chapters iMen's Avei'age. It was also reported that below the All Glen's Average in the 1953- the 36 men of Oregon Beta earned an aver­ 54 ratings equal to or above the .All Glen's age of 2.50. This includes both actives and Average, and this would have put Phi pledges, I presume, if there were any Kappa Psi in a tie with two other fraterni­ pledges. ties for 30th place. Let us assume that the average number Perhaps I should ask the question, "Who of credit hours (semester hours) carried by should do something about fraternity each man i)er semester was 16; for the scholarship? Should the fraternity do it?" PAGE 3 NOVEMBER, 1955 By this I mean should the national office have the final report on Iowa for 1954-55, set up regulations governing the chapters but the first semester showed them +3.85.