The Diamond of Psi Upsilon Jan 1947
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THE .DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON JANUARY. 1947 VOLUME XXXIII NUMBER TWO Alfred E. Driscoll, Delta Delta "25 The Diamond of Psi Upsilon OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF PSI UPSILON FRATERNITY Volume XXXIII January, 1947 Number 2 AN OPEN FORUM FOR THE FREE DISCUSSION OF FRATERNITY MATTERS IN THIS ISSUE Page Psi U Personality of the Month '. 50 Informal Dinner for Annals Committee 52 An Evening of Psi Upsilon Songs 54 Names in the News 55 Executive Council Meetings 57 The Archives 60 The Psi Upsilon Scene 62 Regional Meetings of Delta Delta Alumni in 1947 65 38th National Interfraternity Conference 65 The Chapters Speak 66 In Memomam 72 The Executive Council and Alumni Association, Officers and Mem bers 80 Roll of Chapters and Alumni Presidents Cover III General Information Cover IV EDITOR Edwabd C. Peattie, Phi '06 ASSOCIATE EDITOR J. R. Jones, Phi '32 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE DIAMOND John C. Esty, Gamma '22, Chairman Herbert J. Flagg, Theta Theta '12 Oliver D. Keep, Delta Delta '25 J. J. E. Hessey, Nu '13 Edwabd T. Richards, Sigma '27 (ex- A. Northey Jones, Beta Beta '17 officio) (ex-offido) Scott Turner, Pfii '02 (ex-officio) Publication Office, 450 Ahnaip St., Menasha, Wis. Executive and Editorial Offices Room 510, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N.Y. Life Subscription, $15; By Subscription, $1.00 per year; Single Copies, 50 cents Published in November, January, March and June by the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Post at Entered as Second Class Matter January 8, 1936, at the Office Menasha, Wisconsin, under the Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Paragraph 4, Section 538, Act of February 28, 1925, authorized January 8, 1936 PS! U PERSONALITy OF THE MONTH Alfred E. Driscoll, Delta Delta '25, Governor of New Jersey By O. D. Keep, Delta Delta "25 ALFRED EASTLACK DRISCOLL, mitted him to defeat for the Republican /\ Delta Delta '25, is, at 43, one of the Gubernatorial nomination last spring for youngest men ever elected Governor of mer Governor Harold Hoffman, a notably New Jersey and�of vastly more importance effective vote-getter, and then to go on to to its citizens�one of the ablest and most a more-than-quarter-million-vote triumph high minded public figures to emerge in over the hand-picked Democratic candi that state in many years. date of Boss Hague, who spent vast sums Ever since his graduation from Williams and employed every unsavory pohtical College in 1925 and from the Harvard trick, of which he is the past grand master, Law School, "J^'^s" (^^ ^^ "^^^ ^^^* knovra. to defeat a man whose elevation to the in his undergraduate days) has been an Governorship inevitably means a sharp active participant in the long struggle to curtailment of his power. free New Jersey from the control of the In his college days Brother DriscoU's Frank Hague political dictatorship, which secret weapons of sti-ict integrity and warm has operated not only through the Demo humanity made him a popular figure on cratic machine but also through the con the campus and at the Delta Delta and nivance of leading Republicans. Demo more recently have won him the confidence cratic Governor Charles Edison and Re and affection of hundreds of thousands of publican Governor Walter E. Edge, during New Jersey voters. the past six years, have trimmed Hague's Brother DriscoU has accomplished one wings but it now remains for Brother Dris of the rarest things in pubhc life by main coll to give the coup de grace to the un taining completely his own independence holy political alliances that have long stood and at the same time handling the "practi in the way of .good government in the cal" politicians so disarmingly that even state. the worst of them have found it difficult Few of his old friends or more recent to dislike him. Time and again as a State political allies doubt that he will accom Senator he was offered a participation in plish just that. the "honest graft" which is the- common As the Newark Star-Ledger states: "At place of state politics and which takes so 43, Driscoll has been a first-rate law stu many agreeable forms. His associates were dent, a successful lawyer and business constantly amazed at his statement that he man, a successful political crusader in never mixed his politics with his law prac Camden County against an intrenched and tice or business interests. corrupt political machine, a constructive One of his closest political friends told State Senator and a remarkably successful this vsTiter he had suggested to Driscoll, administrator as commissioner of the vital when, as Alcohol Beverage Commissioner, and extremely complex Department of Al he was virtually the czar of the New Jersey coholic Beverage Control." liquor industry, that he should use his It should be added that Brother Driscoll position to build a personal political ma has acquired in his brief career a charming chine which might come ui handy at some wife, the former Antoinette Ware Tatem, future date. Certainly nine men out of ten like himself brought up in the pleasant old would have seen little impropriety in such town of Haddonfield in Camden County, a a policy, but Driscoll was the tenth man twelve year old daughter and two sons, and smilingly rejected the suggestion-to nine and six respectively; the headship of the amazement and admiration of his in a distinguished old Camden law firm; and fluential friend who later materially aided a statewide reputation for intelhgent and in getting him the designation as the candi reasonable pohtical uprightness that per- date of the state organization. THE DIAMOND OF PSI UPSILON 51 In the late Twenties and in the Thirties, reputation as an honorable and reasonable when New under man Jersey groaned state in the process. Noble-minded re as bad as government that of almost any formers are the summer soldiers of politics; state in the Union, Driscoll worked val few endure. They either become cynical and without of iantly thought consequences and sell out in one way or another to be for cause of every good government that elected, or they never learn how to imple came along and, at least in state matters, ment their idealism and so lose to lesser found himself almost invariably on the but shi-ewder men. Brother Driscoll was team. The losing writer knows from inti notable as an undergraduate as a man of mate association how many thousands of high purpose and inflexible integrity who hours the new Governor gave during his at the same time was no prig about it and early days as a young lawyer to one un was able to see the good qualities and successful campaign after another designed even enjoy the society of men of lesser to elect nien pledged to rid New Jersey of worth. It is these qualities which have Hagueism. made Driscoll personally popular as well Unlike most men Driscoll thrived on as widely respected; they are also the political adversity and acquired the experi qualities that will in all probability make ence and the following which has since him an effective Governor, cap.able of served him well. He became a member of bringing about the reforms for which en the Haddonfield Board of Education, being lightened people in New Jersey have long President in 1937, when he was also been clamoring. elected Haddonfield Borough Commission Already there are those who look for er and chosen Director of Revenue and Fi ward to seeing Brother Driscoll in the nance. He reduced his community's debt United States Senate where his keen in by 47% and its local tax rate by 22%. In telligence and capacity for study and 1938 he became State Senator and, two analysis would give an even wider field years later. Senate Majority Leader.. In foi his talents. Meanwhile, the new Gov 1941 he was unanimously elected by the ernor of New Jersey is intent only on the State Legislature, Commissioner of Alco job at hand�and on getting back a few of holic Beverage Control, where his admin the pounds he lost in his recent struggles istration won nation-wide acclaim and with Messers. Hoffman and Hague. praise from such dissimilar groups as the Leaner today by ten pounds than when W.C.T.U. and the Retail Beverage Associ he ran some of the fastest half miles ever ation. seen in Williamstown and starred at winter In this extremely difficult job Driscoll sports, Driscoll is as hard as nails physi demonstrated again his unusual capacity cally and not much older looking than for scrupulous fairness, sweet reasonable twenty years ago. His life has been a full ness, and effective administration, and in one and he has had little time for diver so doing became automatically available sions outside his family life. But for years for the Governorship when a plethora of he used to return to Williamstown with old eager aspirants compelled the party's lead friends to ski on the slopes of Greylock and ers to designate a candidate acceptable to the Dome and it is as like as not that he most of the contending factions. will resume the custom once he has New Politics in New Jersey is no child's play Jersey under control. His many friends of and two more formidable opponents than the Delta Delta, many of whom return to former Governor Hoffman and Frank Williamstown each winter, will be looking Hague would be difficult to find in one for the Governor when the snow flies next hfe time, but the cold fact is that Driscoll year in Western Massachusetts.