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D elta-Kappa 13, Delta-Pi 18, D elta-Si gma 34, Delta-Up ilon 38, D elta-Chi 35, --IlK .\ -- D elta-Psi 38, D elta-Omega 39, E psilo n- lpha 13, Epsilon-Beta 29, Epsilon The U11ited fat es ews for D ecember Gamma 36, and Ep ilo n-Delta 6. 17, I 954 , quote orne figures from the I n titute of Life Insura nce o n the va lue of education. The In titute say tha t the average co ll ege graduate can expect to Cove,. ea rn about 300,000 during hi li fe spa n ; Richard (Buzz) Wilkinson i a plendid repre e nta tive of merican manhood. the average high chool graduate ca n ex A mode t gentleman and loyal member of lpha Cha pter at the U ni versity of Vir pect to earn a bout 200,000 in his life time; but the per o n with onl an ele ginia, h e is o ne of several plendid a thle tes who participa te actively in fraternity mentary education can anticipate on ly affairs. You will be [a cinated with the fea ture a rticle on page 2 which tell his story. about I 00,000.
1 ((eyes on the )) buzzer
By Booton H erndon
EclitoT's Note: This featuTe aTticle ap fJ em·ect in Spo1·ts lllustmtecl, MaTch 14, 1955, outstanding national sports maga zine, ancl is Teprintecl by fJ eTmission of the author ancl publishe1·.
Buzzy Wilkinson " at h ome" at the University of J'i'rginia.
+ \1\lhile other people watch But news has a way of getting around. There has been good reason for the the hea dlines, profess ional ba ketball The Peoria Cats, champs of the AAU lack of publicity about Wilkinson sco ut keep their eyes, a lot of the time, circuit, have \1\li lkinson at the top of namely his attitude toward his fe llow on the ma ll print in the ports pages, their pro pective list. Gene hue, with players which is somewhat like tha t of and the write-ups in the local papers the ew York Kni ckerbockers now, but a seasoned mo ther c 2 whose it wa . "There was my father," gence of ba ketball at Vi rginia. T he fine place to be alo ne. At thi traditio n he says today with a shudder, " taking quiet, sen ·iti ve little coach poims ou t soaked institution, where studen ts wea r my pulse ri ght out in the middle of the that T ebell had been pati en tly watering coa ts a nd ti e5 to ci a , ba ketba ll was long fl oor. " the plan t fo r yea r . A \•Vi co nsin three consider d a kind of ga uche pastime de In this age of basketball goons, Wil sport star, T ebell wa head coach of loot signed for the pea an ts in the hinterland. kin on i5 peculiarl y ungoon y in appear ball and basketball a t North Carolina Buzzy Wilkin on ha changed a ll th at. ance. H e is o nl y 6 feet 2, and he slouches. Sta te when Virginia offered him a u nique This yea r Virginia played to pa ked Like most great athletes, he practices the incemive plan : he could be a si ta m hou e both a t home and o n the road. d ifficult, no t the easy. H e picks up tricks footba ll coach and head coach of basket Alter ca rrying a quad of thumb-fingered lrom his o pponents. Shue, for insta nce, ball , for le mo ney. Gus j umped at the midgets th rough two seasons o l basket doesn't try to block one-ha nded push chance. ball Wilkinso n has fin a ll y jammed the shots lrom in front, but steals the ball " l knew wha t I was doing, " he ays. game down the blase throa t ol the o o lC the shooter's hand from behind in " I've been in o ne place now 24 years. phisti ca te . \\/hen he ha playe d hi s Ia t stead. Wilkinson worked on it until he How man y coa hes ca n sa y that?" ga me this seaso n, the Un iver ity of Vir got it. He' a n offe nsive star, and tha t Burl y Bu fale wa s typica l of Vir- gini a will reti re hi No. 14 u nilorm per is exactl y wh y he works ·o hard o n de ginia 's athlete during the miserable '30 . manently. lense. His so phomore yea r l\ la le played eight Ma le does n't take much credit lor T he reason Wilkinson makes o man y consecuti ve football games, 60 minutes lluiZ )'· He hasn't bee n a ble to pend the des perati on lucky shot i beca u e he each . as ta il back in the single wing. I-le amo un t of ti me wi th hi m that he'd have practi ces desperation lucky sho ts. \1\lh en weighed 145 pounds. Somewhat mel· li ked , because other playe rs ne ded him he ma kes incredible shots [rom fa ntasti c lowed by hi s experi ence and with a mas more. ln a way he ha done him a d is po itions with his left hand it's beca use ter's degree in educa ti o n, Male wem in to en •ice. On se veral occasion last yea r, he practices incredible ho ts from fan coaching. H e i doing a fin e job o n a particularly aga inst o ld Virgin ia sc hools tasti c positions with his left hand. Be minuscule budget. v\lith just a liule more li ke Vl\ fl , VPI and Washington and Lee, fore one big game two yea rs ago a Vir height, just a little more depth- he didn't l\fale pulled Wilkinson out of the game ginia player asked Buzzy please not to ha ve enough men to scrimmage in No in the seco nd ha If. Po int-hogs com throw him the ball. 'Td just drop it," vember- he would give even the big pla in ed; th y wanted B uzz y to run up a he explained . When you can't throw the budget schools a contes t. fan tasti c average and put Virginia on the ball to yo ur own teammates yo u've got As basketball coach Ia le faced a sit map. to practi ce incredible shots. uati on which was, to say the least, dis " H e's the onl y coach l know wh o'd couraging. An in ident shortl y a fter he deli berately keep the core do wn ,·· one Wilkinson has been playing basketba ll took over ums it up. H e stopped by the riva l coach sa id. "Incl udi ng me. " since he was 5. H e used to lo ll o w hi university gymnasiu m the day a fter a bro ther l\lalcolm, who's four years older, l\ la le li kes a nd respects W ilki n on. boxing match to see workmen d isman T he thought that he may have cost around and so metimes the bi g boys wo uld tling the bleachers. " 1--l ey," he sa id to let him fill in. H e played at Pineville Bu zz y a notch in nationa l ran kin gs per the foreman. " Leave 'em up. I got a turb hi m. "llut i n't there more to 1-1 igh School, then went to Greenbrier basketba ll game tonight." Military School [or three yea rs. \1\lhen coaching than win ning?" he asks in his " Who's coming?" sa id th e forema n. Greenbrier played the Virginia fre hmen, soft sa d vo ice . "Am 1 wrong? r\ m l?" Evan J. (Bus) Male, the Unive rsity o f It was a good questi on. For yea r at Despite Buzzy, Virginia is still way ou t Virginia coach, couldn't keep his eyes off the University of Virgin ia when an ybod y of its class in ba ketball , a nd the new Buzzy. R ecently, a ked how in the world came to a game he impl y looked around found revenue hasn't filtered cl own to he h .:~ d the nerve to ask a player o f such fo r a chair, took it to the edge of the i\ la le. Everett Ca e of 1on h Caroli na potential to come to Virginia, Bus court, at down and wa tched. I t was a Sta te was p re ented with a new Cadi ll ac shrugged and sa id, " Well , when yo u've by grateful alumni, and a n as;, ista nt a n got so little it doesn't pay to go after Oldsmobile. Ia le has no assi stant. H e an yo ne but the best. " drives a Cad illac. l t 's 14 yea rs old, ha 3 5,000 miles on it and wa s given to him In the face of far better bids, Virginia by his mother-in -law. got Wilkinson for the price o f his out of-state tuitio n- 25 7 a emester. T he Virginia materia l dictates the ;, tyle of play Ma le teache . li e can't operate ''Right up to the time I packed my with a se t-play olfen e, becau e I) some bag I still didn't know wh ether 1 was o f the boys on the team simply aren't going to Virginia or Kentucky," Buzzy good enough, a nd 2) Wilkin o n i just too says. "I 'd pent a whole week a t Ken good. tucky, fooling around in the gy m ever y T hu , when Virgin ia li rst gets the ball , d ay, but in that whole week nobody ever the boys go in to a kind of mounta in eer showed me the campus. That's all they moonshiner attack ("R u n like hell , Paw, showed me a t Virginia. l\l y home's just here come the revenooer "). ]( thd t about halfway between Virginia and Ken fail ', the pl aye rs fa ll in to a loose pattern lU cky but Dad kept talking about the and do wha tever eems to be a good idea foll y of going 'out west.' H e made it at the time. l\ Iale attempt to keep the so und like the Indians were waiting fo r n umber of men in on the a ttack cl own me." to two or th ree, on one or the other side Virginia Athleti c Director Gus Tebell of the basket. \ Vil kinso n has more chance gets the credit for that selling job. H e to make those lu cky shots that way. talked to Buzzy and fi gured he'd go where Buzzy in tends to genera te hi own luck his father wanted him to. Then Gu by hard work ri ght on through life. One went to work on the doctor. T ebell, in BrLZz' /utnons No. 14 will be retired o f these da ys riva l a ttorneys wi ll shake fact, ge t credit from l\ fale for the mer- in horror of his outstarrdint; record. their heads a t the lucky way hi cli ents 3 During his career at Virginia, Wilkin o n scored a total of 2,233 point in 78 Alpha Proud ga mes for an average of 2 .6. He became the second player in major college bas ketba ll hi tory to score more than 2,000 Of Buzzer poims in three eason a nd the fir t to average 30 or better for two easons. T his slender, ix-foot two-inch star By Dan Brown from Pinevill e, 'We t Virginia, was named to the third All-American elections. H e + College basketball came to et a Virginia record for a single game a n end lor Buzzy \ Vilkinso n, whom we by dropping in 48 point against H amp consider the out tanding IJK \. o[ the den-Sydney. Tumerous other records are yea r, a lmost [o ur weeks ago, but the a lso held by Buzz, and Cavali er basket grea te t of the Cavali ers hasn't put a ide ball players in the future will probably the round ba ll [or good. He ha at least be shooting at them for a lo ng while. eleven more ga mes to play even if h e 'Whatever may be the Buzzer's plans doe n't turn pro or play semi -pro ball for the future a fter he has finished this, while getting a law educati on. hi fo urth yea r, remains a subject for H e revealed that in addition to the specula tion, b ut whether this future be East-We t game a t Madiso n quare Gar law or more basketball , he certainly has den, he'll receive a t least part of the the be t wishes of al l tho e who know gravy [rom the a nnual tour of the Col and re pect him. /Ju.zz si.u k s auoth er oue. lege All-S tars a nd the H arl em Globe --DK A - - trotters. get their names in the paper . The [a ct H e'll pick up the tour when it comes Maurer Receives is that \ ilkin o n i taking a three-hour to Richmond for two games at the Arena, cou rse in journa li m [or that very pur and then he plans to rejo in the group in Award For pose. H e is the onl y pre-Jaw swdent in Denver, Colorado during the Easter the ci a s. Buzzy got his taste [or Jaw holi days to play eight games on the we t wh en he pro e uted a fell ow wdent be ern part of the nationwide swing. H e Texas House Design fore the honor co urt at Green brier. The has been offered more elates tha n the e, boy wa expell ed and Wi lkinso n felt ter By E d gar Watk ins but o far ha not been a ble to work an y rible. From then on he took the defense . more in ince it would req uire his mi ing + Beta-Mu Chapter added One o[ hi cl iem s had been caught in too much school. ano ther honor to its a!J·ead y impres ive the very act of chea ting o n an examina record on the U ni versity of T exas cam ti o n. Bmzy got h im oH with a light se n There is no one better liked than pu during the spring seme ter when the tence. F-I e was the Clarence Darrow of Buzzy Wilkinson. His unassuming atti cl1 apter hou e was named the outstand Greenbrier. tude and fri endly nature a lo ng with a ing architectura l design of 1954. sincere and likable personality have Though popul ar and per o nable, Wi l Edward faurer, BM, architect [or the shown Buzzy to be much mo re than just kinson is not a Big l\Ian On Campus. a good basketball player. T here i no hou e, presented the plaque to the chap He doesn't live in his fra ternity hou e ter which he had received from the one, in the opi nio n of tho e who know (Pi Kappa Alpha), but ha a room in :1 American Institute of rchitects. It ha him, that is more deserving of wha t bene quiet home a mi le away. H e frequemly fits ma accrue [rom hi superb p lay. been add ed to th e u ophy case. ea t a lone, goes to the movies alone. H e T he first ha l£ of the semester was a Among the mo t recent honors be lo;es weight during the ba ketball ea ocial one [or the Texas Pike . T he stowed upo n Buzz was being named by on. H e' ten e and tight and he simply whirl bega n with a closed house in Feb The A sociatecl Press as the Big Six ca n't pace him elf. l-Ie' got to give it ruary (o ll owecl by two partie given for player o[ the yea r. H e has a lso been a ll. By l\Iarch he is under 160 pound , the chapter by campus ororities- D elta awa rded the S hwarz child T roph y as the with prominent cheek bone and unken Gamma and Alpha Phi. ey . Old Dominion· ou t ta nding coll ege pia - er and was lect cl to the All -Atlantic The fi rst week end in l\Iarch wa the Wilkinso n 1 still undecided about Coa t Conference Tournament team be- celebration of the founding o( Pi Kappa playing profe sional, or AU ba ketball. ause of his perfection. lL is generall y Alpha with the chapter' a nnua l Found l-Ie has cooll worked out th e percent fe lt that hi fa ilure to make fir t, All ers' D ay Banquet. J a ti o nal President ages. ][ he's offered ,000 a ear or American team wa clu e primarily to lack J ohn F. E. Hippe! was the principal more, he'll play. If not, he won't. o f [fe tive and ju tl y de ervecl publicity. speaker a t the dinner. His ubject was his li (e and ex peri ence a a member of But one event could up et tho e old For tho e who I ik e ta ti stic , a gla nee IJKA. calculati on . If irginia a k him to La at The Buzzer's record houlcl be more on and coach the freshmen while he' than nlightening. Buzz , the nati on' T he dinner wa held in the ommo- getting his law degree he probably will numb r two corer, wa s the O ld Domin dore P err Hotel's ma in ballroom. turn cl own any big-money offer. ion's mo L consistent tar from a coring mong the outstanding a lumni a t the "I t doe n't mak a n differe n ce tanclpoint. H e finished the campaign dinner wa Brother Rueben vV a hington whether I'm on the co urt or n t," he a iel with 9 point in 28 contes ts for a n Gray, a founder o[ Beta- 1\Iu Chapter. recent! . "I ju t want irgini a to pia ' average o[ 32. 1. H e hot 308 fi eld goal Two weeks after Founder ' Day, the winning ba ketball!" a nd 282 free thro w , p ia ing hi field chapter gave its annual pring Formal --IIK .\ -- goal percentage a t appro. imately 42. wi th a theme o[ Pink hampagne in Army 2nd Lt. Gera ld R. \ \' lling, .lX Thi i in addition to out tanding d e[en Au tin' hi tori Driskil l H o tel. Two (Omaha), recent! • graduated [rom the · ive pia wh ich was [requeml his a - pl edges, Buddy Dunn a nd Harry Searle, 1\ rm 1·morecl ch ol, Fon Knox, K . ignment. were responsible for the o ut ta nding 1 decorations which consist d o( over ized top hat , cane . a nd tin el champagne Mounce Named Westinghouse glas e . The i\fother · Club provided a huge pink a nd white centerpiece (or the hors d 'ouevre table at the c cktail party Campbell Soup Vice President which had a its fo ca l point a big pink poodle. Vice President Visits His Chapter Over a hundred T exas Pikes and their Donald i\f. i\Iounce, rN Th first initiate a nd prob da te a ttended the party. + + (l owa), ha been named vi ce president abl y the mo>t out tanding alumnu o( -- 111\ .1 -- in charge o( productio n o( the ampbc'I J Gamma-Theta Chapter. Robin . Ker h, oup Company, Camden, New J ersey, vice pr e~ id e nt o f the \Ve tinghouse El ec Adams Manager according to an announceme nt b the tric Corpora ti on. recemly vi ited our Pasadena Board o( Directors. Thi i one of the chapter. BrOLh er Kersh returned to the ca mpus to acldre s the pring meeting of the Chamber of Commerce .-\Jumni As;ociation , and the a nnual En + William Adams, 11 , B>l gineer ' Day Banquet. (Texa ), has re ently been named man During dinner at the Gamma-Theta ager of the Pa adena, Ca li fornia Cham house, Brother I{ er:,h reca I Jed that he ber ·or Commerce. wa> the first pl edge after the chapter . The publicity director o f the a n n was installed, and tha t be ide; being the tonio Chamber o( Commerce since 1952, first initia ted by the newl y inwdled chap Adam ucceed T ed Brodhead . ter he was the first initiated MC. ,\1 o, "Adam come to us with excell ent he :,e rved as C. recommendation from h is present em A an undergraduate, Brother Kersh ploye rs a well as from national Cham was very active in e ·tra-c urricular activi ber of Commerce executive with whom ti . H e was editor o( both the >tudent h e ha worked," Pre ident Abe ]. H ay newspaper and the college annua l. He sa id. " His close a sociation with com wa s a member of several tudent orga n mittee and departmenta l specia li ts in i7ations including T au Beta Pi, honor all phase o( community development ary engin eering schola> ti c fraternity. actn·JtJ e in an Antonio, a city of Ever since hi s graduati on from i\ fi s is- 500.000 people with problems similar to ippi State a ll ege in I 929, he has been tho e existing in Pasa dena, makes him with the "\1\1 stinghou e Corporation. the idea l man for the Pasadena po t," H ay added. Brother Adam has held his publicity Donald M. Morwce post with the an Antonio Chamber of Commerce since I 952. H e wa formerl y top executive and manageri al positions public information o((icer at R andolph in meri can industry today. The as Air Force Ba e nea r San Antonio. Be tounding record of Campbell Soup Com fore his reca ll to active duty in the Ko pany was the subject o( a fe ature articl rean emergency, h e wa a newsp aper ed in Fortune magazine in farch. itor in Victoria and Alice, Texa . Brother i\Iounce, forty-six, was edu A graduate o( the University of T exa ca ted at Urbana, Iowa High School and in business admini tra tion, Adams served at the University o( Iowa where he was with the troop carrier ommand in a charter member o[ Gamma-Nu Chap W orld W ar II with duty in England, ter. H e accepted a position with the France, Trinidad and Brazil. Central Division of Campbell Soup Com H e i 32 yea r old, married , and the pan in 1930. H e has ri en readily Vice l'resitlent K e r s h nntl Gamma father of three daughters. His paternal through variou important po ts includ T h eta's m ost recent initiate Bill Porter. grandparent were pioneers o( the South ing purcha ing agent, plant manager, T exas area and his maternal forebear director-manager, general manager, and Earl D . J ohnson, B:=: (\Vi sean in), for h elped develop the State of Alabama. vice pre ident of Campbell oup Com mer Undersecretary of the .-\ rm , has He has been chairman of the public pany, Ltd. o( Canada. In 194 7 he wa been named senior vice president of relation division o( the Epi co pa l Dio em to the Sa ramento plant a plant General D ynami cs Corporation, bui lder ce e o( "\\ est T exa , editor of the Dio manager and in I 953 was made general of wbmarines and airplanes. H e will ce an magazine and a vestryman of production manager at the general of have harge o ( development and oper hri t Church, San ntonio. H e i also fi ce . lt was from thi post that h e wa s atio n . a d irector of the San Antonio Advertis eleva ted to the vice pre idency. As vice --IIK .I -- ing Club and president o( the Pi Kappa president in charge of production h e Alpha national frat rnity' alumni chap will have a rna jor hare in the responsi The foll owing ten states lead th na ter in an ntonio. bili ty of the 60 million expansion pro tion in Diamond Life Chapter member gram of his company. dams was selected for th post a (ter hip: Oklahoma, 18; T enne see, 17 ; Cali a Chamber of Commerce committee of Brother i\Iounce reside with hi wife, fornia, 16; i\Jissouri, 16; lllino i , 14; Ala past presidents a nd present ofricer had Gerry, at 1010 "\•\ averl y R oad , Gladwyne, screened numerous appli ca nts from all Penn ylva nia. H e is a member of St. bama, 13; Penn ylvania, 13; Georgia, 12; sections of the nation. Christopher' Episcopa I Church. New York, I I : a nd Louisia na , 9. 5 National Officers arul E[Jsilon-Delta Charter Me mbers. Le ft-" Pi Phi Pi" scrapbook holds the attention of (1. to r.) Ross Griffing, E~ , George Newton, Er, Edgar }arwc, AO, Fmtl S koggs, Er, ancl Wilburn Butterey, AO . 1(111i~c)~ WELCOMES 109 CHAPTER M A R C H 1 2 1 9 s s SMC Roberts shows District President Duke (1.) mul ational Rush Director Scott the chapter scholarship plaque. Above, le ft-Cha[Jter Service Secretary Watkin s, EfJ silon-Delt.n S MC Robert.s, and Fi elcl Secretary Love. lmmecliate ly aiJo·ve, Professor Gafford (seated) gives an atte n t.ive ear to ational Secretary LeLaurin. B elow, E psilon-Delta holds reception. + National Secreta!") J a me;, V. LeLaurin, ational Rush Director .J oe C. 'cott, and Di trict President Robert Duke pre ided over the installation o l Epsilon-Delta Chapter of Pi Kappa .\1 - pha on March 12, I 955 at North Texa State College, Denton, Texa . Thirty seven students and two faculty member' were welcomed into the bond . The Pi Phi Pi Fra ternity was organitcd in October, 1929 under the sponsor hip of Dr. Fronabager, then head of the Eng lish department, and Dr. S. B. McA IIi ter, who sa w the need of ocial life o n the campus. lt was the first Greek letter lra ternity and h as since earned many lirst;, in various rea lms of ampus activity a nd life. Included among these is the penna nent retirement o f the first scholarship plaque. Among those initiated were th e two spon ors, Dr. \1\l itt Blair, Dean o l the chool of Education and an a lumnus of the Pi Phi Pi Fraternity, and Captain E. G. Smith. Dr. Frank H . Gallord, Dea n ol the Coll ege o f Arts and Sciences, is an alum nus of Gamma-Iota Chapter a t the Uni ver ity of Miss iss ippi. Brother Gafford enthusia ti call y endorsed the petition. It i generall y reported that everything grows bigger a nd fa ter in T exas. Cer Entrance to the Adm.inistrntion Building, North T exas S tate College ta inly, thi is literally true of N orth T exa tate Coll ege. The North Texas ormal College was authorized b y a n act of the o[ business administratio n, school of edu new member on the subject, " \IVhat It Texa legislature in 1889 and Denton was cation, school of home economics, and ;\ lea ns to Be a !ember of Pi Kappa 1- chosen a the site. In 191 4 it became a school of music. Especially outstanding pha." An in tallation ba nquet was held regular four year college offering the is the school of education of which Saturday evening with the main addre s standard bachelor' degree. r\ Ithou gh Brother Blair is Dean, and the school ol by National Secretary LeLaurin. Greet originall y establi shed for the educa tion music. The legislature in May, 1949, ings were brought by Pre idem J. C. Mat changed the name to lorth Texas State thews, other members of the admini tra of teach er , it has broadened its curricula Coll ege a nd gave it a eparate governing ti on, and repre entati\'es of other [rater a nd it now includes the coll ege of arts board in prepara tion for university sta tus. nitie and sororities. The installation a nd sc iences, the graduate school, school The present enrollment is 5,000 students, ceremonies concluded with group attend 2,800 of which are male. Twenty-nine a nce at the Sunday morning se rvices of different bachelor, master, and doctorate the First Presbyteri a n Church. degree are offered. The library contains Charter members of Epsilon-Delta a quarter of a million \'Oiumes. The Chapter are: Charl ey Monroe R oberts, ca mpu covers three hundred acre . Loui Gene LaBarbera, Earl Pierce Hud The national fraternities o n campus in ' on, Gerald Don Blacketer, Kenneth addition to Pi Kappa lpha are: Kappa Lloyd Brown. Loui arroll R eed, R alph lpha Order, Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Nelson Garrison, J ame Richard J ones, Alpha , Delta Sigma Phi, Theta Chi, Gene Lewi Fowler, J erry \1\layne Mont igma lu, igma Phi Ep ilon, a nd Phi gomery, J erry H eard Patrick, J eff De Ka ppa Sigma. ca lve Aston, Jr., J ack Patrick Bryant, The n ati on al sororities are Alpha! H arrell Lo d Steven , J ame Gaither Delta Pi , Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, ummers, F loyd Douglas Wood, W alter Kappa Delta. Alpha Phi . and Zeta Tau Lee bbey, herman yner Bled oe, Jr., Alpha. J ames ndrew Douglass, J ames Ro s Field eCJ-etary tan ley Love had Gri[[ing, Frank Le ter H ereford, Jr., charge o[ the pre-initiation instruction Robert Lee Hilliard, Bobby R ay J ones, and arrangements. He wa a i ted by Robert Gene Kelly, 1\ Iarvin Dudley Chapter ervice ecretary \1\latkin . In Koiner, Larry Britton Simmons, Billy dividual initiation wok pia eon Friday Lynn Bled oe, Carl 1orman Hearne, evening and awrday morning. The Dear! Wayne 1\l c auley, Bobby J oe or chartering insta ll ation ceremonie were man, Jimmie Blaine igler, \1\lalter Zane held aturday a rternoon with J ames v. Vaden, Charles H arold Beard, George North Texas Stole College President L Laurin serving as Acting National Withers ewton, Jr., Edgar Grant mith, }. C. Matthews President. Bro ther Scott addre eel the Bob Frank H a •e , Arthur Witt Blair. 7 ier. KKl': and t.l ary Lo u T eague, K.\ 0. 1\ lary Lou was !Vliss Oregon of 1953. North Texas' Oldest Fraternity T he Dad ' Day T rophy wa awarded Gamma-Pi for ha vi ng the greatest per ten tage of fa thers registering for the Becomes IIKA's Youngest Chapter ll'eck-end events. By Ross Griffing, E.l We also had the top bowling team in our intramural league and were runner + At 3:00p. m. on Saturday mi nistra ti o n, a ncl the pres id ent of the up for the championship of our league afternoon th e J 2th of March, the one other fraternities and sororities on the in basketball. hundred a nd ninth ac ti ve chapter, Epsi ca mpus. r\fter the dinner Brother Le T he week end of r\pril 16, we were lon-Delta, of Pi Kappa lpha was La urin gave a ta lk on the place of the host to Beta-Beta, Delta-Rho, Beta-N u. brought in to the bonds o[ fr aternal fraternity in the live of its sons. and Gamma-X i, for the district conve n brotherhood. T hi event brought to a At the regular Saturday night Stage ti on. T his conventio n pro ved most help clo e over two years of preparati on and Show, the Pi Phi Sweetheart, ii s Pa t ful in exchanging ideas and formulating cooperation between the National O ffi ce Edwards, sa ng the "Dream Girl o[ Pi policies. and the loca l petiti oning group, Pi Phi Pi. Kappa Alpha" a nd was presented a bou -- fiK .\ -- The news of the fin al approva l by the quet of flowers by the pledges. Supreme Council was telegraphed to the The evening was brought to a close Purdue Enjoys loca l o n the 28th of February. the after with a se mi -formal dance at the North noon o[ their Formal Rush Banquet. Texas Country Club for the chapter and German Party Bro ther Sta n Love, Field Secretary, was its guests. Sunday morning the chapter on ha nd to rea d the news to the Pi Phi's, an encl ecl se rvices at the First Pres byte By D o n Ra in their rushees a nd alumni. This [unction ri an Church. + A Germa n beer garden brought 20 new pledge , excell ed in size The yo ungest unit of ITKA has a his was the theme for Beta-Phi 's winter o nl by o ne o th er fraternity on campus. tory o( whi ch it is justly pro ud and a da nce at Purdue. Pikes wore pea;,ant hats with [ea thers, shorts with suspend Brother Love returned to Denton on [uLUre in which we may all take pride. ers, a nd neckerchi efs. Dates wore peas the Monday preceding the install ati on Among the " firsts" alread y to the credit ant skirts and blouses to ca rry out the a nd bega n a seri es of classes o n the pledge of the group is the first formal dance theme. A Germa n style buffet dinner manual and rela ted material. By Thurs given on ca mpus, spo n orship of the first All Coll ege H a ll oween Carnival, and the was followed by cl a nci ng to a German day ni ght all the acti ves had passed their band. Waltzing and rhinela ndering were pledge tes ts with the required 100 per permanent possession of the first scholar in the vogue. Signs with Germa n sayings ce nt and were read y to be initiated. ship trophy. T he new Pikes wi ll not fail us or their own proud pa t. were sca ttered over the wa lls a nd ca ndle During the week a large sign was hung The fratern ity now has over fifty ac burned on tables with checked cloths. across the major ca mpus treet in front tives and p ledges. H arry H agemeier's five-piece, authentic of the :Memori al Student U nion Build --111\A -- German band was brought to Purdue ing reading, " Welcome, Pi Kappa Al from Liederkranz H all in Indianapolis . pha." Simila r small er signs were placed to provide the music. about the ca mpus and in the windows ot After a hard contested ba nle Chuck loca l merchant . The school paper, The VV' alsho n and Carl Link won the honor Campus Chat, ca rried stories and pictures of atte nding the Fifth r\nnual Jmerfra in both the W ednesday and Friday edi ternity All-Star Bowling Tournament at ti ons. The ca mpus was literally buzzing Toledo Univer ity. Chuck won third in with the news, "The Pikes are coming!" singles at the national meet. Frida y afternoon the initiatio n teams An endance at Toledo was made pos of Beta-Zeta (So uthern Methodist), Al sible by winning first place in the Pur pha-Omicron (So uthwes tern), and Beta clue lFC playo ffs. T he season started Omicron (U niv. of Oklahoma) began ar poorly in that the first five out of ix riving and quickly got about their busi ga mes were lost. However. the tea m ness of initia ting a nd insta ll ing the local made a roaring finish by winning the men as the Epsilo n-Delta Chapter of the last 23 out of 24, including the last 15 Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. The teams in a row. The Pikes tied for first place were led by Brother Love and Brother Miss Maureen. Do herty, Dream Girl of and then won the trophy in the playoffs. Gamnw-Pi Chapter, Un.iv. o f Oregon Earl V.' atkins, Chapter Service Secretary. Members of the tea m were: Carl L ink, AI o present were Bob Duke, BM, presi 1\farv W ayman, Neil Adams, Chuck W al dent of District 10, and J ames V. Le shon and Bob H arwood. Laurin, 1ati onal Secretary, representing Oregon Names Indiana's Fifth Annual Statewide the Supreme Council. Founders' Day Celebratio n was held T he final ce remonie completing the Oream Girl March 19 at Lafayette with Beta-Phi and in tall ation were finished by late atur By Gr eg Ripke Epsilon-Beta (Valparaiso) in attendance. day afternoon and the new actives lis + Gamma-Pi Chapter at the The principal speaker for the dinner was tened to talks by Brother Duke and Univer ity of Oregon held its Dream Girl Claude R. Wickard, Secretary of Agricul Bro ther Joe Scott. ati onal Ru h Direc Formal March 5, and highlighted the ture under President Roosevelt and :tn tor. and fini heel with a sound movie by evening with the naming of Miss fau alumnus of Beta- Phi. Brother Wickard the fraternity featuring National Honor reen Doherty, ra, as the 1955 Drea m Girl stre sed the point that imerest in our ary Life Pres ident R obert Adger Sm ythe. of TIKA . Maureen, a freshman in psy government determines the government The ocial acti vities of the week end chology, was runner-up for the 1954 Ro e we have. Also pre ent for the dinner bega n Saturday night with a banquet for Fe rival Queen in Portland. Other ca n were Benton Burns, Ralph T . Simon and the active , their guests, the College ad- didates were Pa t H oy, ll.Z; Mary J o Four- Howard Chestnut-alumni of Beta- Phi. tice which would conne t her house With Pi Kappa Alpha - all the reigning monarch of Europe. The German Empire, which wa to rock ' V e ;~ e rn civili ntion with two great \•Vor lcl \'\l;t r , both to occur during the YeJterJa'! anJ ':lowwrrow mo t recent forty years o( Pi Kappa Al pha history, wa not y t even born. But By A. M. HILLHOUSE, B the lron Chancell or, Bi marck. wa bus il y forging the inew : first the invasion Profe~s01·, Graduate School of Business & Public Administration Cornell University of chleswig-Holstein ; later the . \ u;~r o Prus ian \ 1\lar o( 1866 in which .-\ u tria wa permanently eparatecl from Ger + T here is ga iety in the air. to find his long, peacefu l and well many. o P russ ian es tablished her;elf J tan feel iL. \Ve are here to celebrate deserved rest. as the driving and welding force. annex a glorious binhday, a birthday party for J ames Lo ngstreet (w ho with J ackw n ing ch le wig-Hoi tein, Hanover. L-1 se our beloved Pi Kappa Alpha. and A. P. Hill con tinned the greatest Cassel and the gr a t free city of Fra nk Fourscore a nd even year ago this of Lee' general ) wa in lew Orleans, furt-au-l\fain. month, our brotherhood was born. That but had already begun a course of action The leaders o( tomorrow in .-\merica wa · a long time ago-a long time by al whi ch was to make him the most unpop were mere boys. or ye t unborn. \tVood most any criteri on ; almost the Biblica l ular of all Southern genera ls, and was to row \1\lil son was but it lad of twelve yea r span of fourscore yea r and ten all owed involve him in bitter and unfortunate playing around the Presbyteri an manse for man to walk this earth. contro versies with hi former military in Augusta . Georgia. T he top American associates. It is difficult, difficult indeed, to vis general of World War I , "J ack'' Persh uali ze properl y in the middle of the 20th The coll ege and university world of ing, was a boy of only eight out in mall Century what the world a nd the coll ege the United State in l\farch 1868 wa a town l\ 1is ouri. a nd university ca mpu were like in markedl y mall o ne. There were o nl y The e, briell y. are a f w of the hi tor farch, 1868. But this understa nding is about 20,000 men students on a ll cam ical bench-mark; of the world of 1868 es entia! for a proper appreciati on of our puses in the entire country, and the cam in to which the Pi Kappa Alpha frater great hi tory. pu es were almost exclusively undergrad nity wa born. Our country had, by 1868, come uate. True, Yale College had in 186 1 This was a glorious event, a nd fittingly a bruptly to the end of an ra. Abraham granted the first Ph.D. in America, but it happened o n one of the five grea t Lincoln, tragic victim o f a fru strated by 1871-72 there were on I y 198 resident university Ci!mpuses of tl1 at cl ay. But actor, already had lain beneath the sod graduate students in the entire United hi storic University of Virginia. created n e<1 rl y three years. Andrew Johnson wa taLes. Not until the es tabli shment of by the hands of Thomas J effe rson, faced in the \.Yh ite Hou e. A few weeks later John Hopkins University in 1876 did ach·ersity in 1868. Appomattox ourt in 1868 he wa s narrowl y to esca pe im the co nce pt of graduate work become house was only about 60 miles from peachment by only one vote at the hands firm ly rooted in American university li fe , Charlottesvi ll e, and in time the surrender of a bitterl y parti an Senate. and even then for several decades most at Appomattox ( pril 9. 1865) wa but o ( the gTeat scholar went to German General U lysses S. Grant, the first of yesterday. The tate of Virginia had universities for their graduate training. the grea t modern generals who gra peel been the major battlefield of a tragic war the concept of staf£ work and methods Harvard was the largest institution in between brother ; its hills and valleys of handling mass troop movements, was America in 1868 with a student body of had been ca nnonaded , its earth pock not to enter the White House until about 650. Yale, Michiga n and the Uni marked and battle sca rred. Pla nters and :March of the next year. versity of Virginia were the other insti small farmer · alike had been pauperized. \.Yi lliam T ecumseh Sherman was soon tutions with a student body as large as Men were home again, but with defeat to become a full General and commander 500. Cornell University had not ye t and bitterness in their hea rts. of the United States Army for the next opened its doors, although the first It was in to thi aristo ra ti c but impov fifteen years. buildings were being erected that pring. eri shed . immediate world that Pi Kappa Two of the great Confederate generals No doubt Cornell University and Pi lpha was founded and was cradled. alread y by March 1868 belonged to his Kappa Alpha were es tablished the arn e Jf yo u have not read Pro fessm· Free tory: Thomas" tonewall " Jackson, killed yea r in order to make it easy on the man H an· The H istory of Pi Kappa in 1863, and Ambro e Powell Hill, mor memori es of men of this chapter. A/jJita; if yo u have not ye t thrilled over ta ll y wounded in the last weeks of the J n October 1868, the first Cornell sw the fri endship of the VMI cadets, ce war around Petersburg. dent body arrived , some 400 students (or mented forever by their glorious fi ght As an interpolating sidelight, it should should I say some 400 odd students?). on the battlefi eld of ew Market, May be added that Stonewall J ackson and Lt. Cornell was launched as a bold and illus 15, 1864; if you have not followed three G eneral Daniel Harvey Hill were both trious new experiment; des tined with of our ·Founders in their garrison duty brothers- in-law of the first founder of the University of Chicago, J ohns Hop around Richmo nd, Virginia; and if yo u Beta Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha, and kin University. and Stanford to be the do not know the full story of historic tha t the yo ung widow of Stonewall was great new giants in the world of higher Room o. 3 1 on the We t R ange of the to li ve to take an interes t and part in educa ti on established in th second half beautiful quadrangle at the nive r ity the Fraternity. of the 19th Century. of Virginia- yo u have then a great treat But to continue with the world of The world beyond our Atla ntic shores in tore. an in piring and rewarding ex 1868. General Robert Edward Lee, great in the yea r our Fraternity was born wa perience. ta tician and leader of men, wa an old a mixed one. Queen Vi ctoria, now a I would that some poeti ca l genius but unbroken man, president in 1868 of widow, nearl y halfway in her long reign would put into undying verse this great Washington College (later Washington of 63 yea r , was busy with the growing saga o[ bravery, friend hip and good fel and Lee University), but destined in an cares and joys of famil y life. making mar lowship, wpich corstitutes the ea rly his other two-and-a-half yea rs (October 1870) riage connection for her children, a prac- tory of our bro therhood. M amateur 9 o[ the se rmons would be the lea t eli - turbing. Then o ne Sunday ni ght there came a violent earthquake in that part of the Southeast. T he church service was ju t over, and "A unt" Creasy h ad proceeded down the street only a block. W ith the first tremors, she was down on her knee in the middle of the street: "Prai e the Lord; yo u're speaking to us! Tha t's right, Lord. Shake 'em up, shake 'em up, Lord!" And as the tremors were repea ted, her excitement mounted, a nd with arms up stretched she was heard to cry out: "Hallelujah , praise Your name! Sh ake ·em up again, Lord. T hey got to li ste n to You. Shake 'em up, aga in !" So my text today is: Shake 'em up, Lord; Sha ke 'em up! Stir these yo ung Pi Kappa Alpha brothers here today to read and reread the glori ous history of our noble order, to dedica te a nd rededi ca te themse lves to Guests of Mr. and M rs. Darcey Tatum., Jr. al open house preceding Binning ham Founders' Day Banquet inclucled: (l. lor.) Vice President anti M rs. John its grea t purposes. Shake 'em agai n . son , Secretary and M rs. Le Laurin., Dislricl President Un.tlerwoocl, Alrunn.i Sec Lord; shake 'em up again! retary Macfarlane, an.tl Mrs. Macfarlane ( sealed). Begin, if yo u wi ll, with the history ol yo ur own great Beta-Theta Chapter here pen has made onl y a fe eble beginning The bl ood, swea t and tears of T heron at Cornell. Beta-Theta saw the light ol and it deal only with the Battle of New H. Rice, H oward Bell Arbuckl e, R obert cl av on 'larch 26, 19 17, in time to es tab farket. Adger Smythe, J ohn Shaw Foster, R obert li h for itself a fi ne World W ar I record Randolph J ones, J oseph T. McAll ister, Reverberates in yonder hills of Shenan with 65 men in uniform, three men who Daniel J. Brimm, and others-gave to our doah made the supreme sacrifice, and with Fraternity a strength, a dedica ti on and The roll of kettle drums and ca nnon three decorated for great braver y. roar. a firm fou nda ti on possessed by few other Historicall y yo u have a gold mine to Shrapnel bursts, the muskets ri a h. fraternities. work on; or to use the title of a famous Veterans bear the brunt, To borrow an expression from Sir Cha utauqua lecture, yo u have "Acres of Youth supplies the dash. Winston Churchill, this span of two dec Diamonds" in yo ur very backyard. H ave ades was, in many ways, "our fines t Boyish standard bearer, we not in this chapter some brother wi th hour." It se t Pi Kappa Alpha o n the Julian Edward Wood, a literary bent, a budding historian? hi gh road of des tiny. Car.riecl the colors that day Some inspired pen to put on history's As only a true ITKA could. '"' hen I (now a balding, grey ing eagle) pages the history of this great chapter? T he line they hold, then advance, was a college student- well , it does not lt would be hard work, but glorious T he enem y wavers, loses his chance. seem necessary to fn ention the yea r, but work, work worthy of a fu ture grea t Valley granary, so rely needed supplies hall we say that it was so metime after America n historian. Saved by yo uthful cadets that cl ay, the Civi l w ·a r a nd even after the days A hard-fo ught, mi li tary prize. of the Junior Founders?-there circul ated W ho are the men who have poured Historic town of old New Market, on Ameri ca n college campuse a popular out their time, energy, and life's blood Twice embattled, conce ntrated target, book entitled, "Old l\IIan Dares T alk to to make this chapter grea t? Every col A name inscribed on hi tory' scroll , Coll ege Student ." T oday I may be writ lege-chapter generation has produced Fragment of our honored roll. ing the first chapter of a new book, tireles men who have go ne all out for Pi Ka ppa Alpha. T hey need to be o u g ~1t But the saga was only begun a t the " Middle-Aged l\IIan Dares T alk to Col out, and their name inscribed. A long Battle of ew 1Jarket. De tined for a lege fan," a nd my text on thi s Sabbath great fu ture, our Fraternity wa s to have day, I take from an old legro woman continuum - lea d e r a nd cl e cli carecl a diHicult twenty-yea r 1 eriod. soon after who lived in m y southern town decades brothers. its establishment, a nd at one stage a ver ago. An Elbert Tuttle, a Willi am Farnham itable stnwgle for it ex i tence. But this "Aunt" Crea y was a sa int, a devoutly -and a grea t ho t of o ther . G iants have adver ity, I firml y believe , se rved a Ia r wa lked the e chapter ha ll s in their day. ing, long-term purpose. Our brother religious old ou l who wa ever happie t when in the Lord's hou e. And her fa Their names l know not, but you as a hood, its aim a nd obj ect ives, the chapter would thrill with the fu ll stor y. strength of our bond , were to be orely vorite church wa the if ethocl ist Church tried. But out of thi fiery furnace wa of her white friends. he was alwa ys To return to the nati o nal ce ne. The to come a vigor, a strength, a tempered there on Sunday night , prayer meetings nati onal fratern ity in 19 17 wa almo t a steel,'·that -wa to make Pi Kappa Alpha and revival se rvi ce . pecial seat was half-ce ntury old. But Beta-Theta join ed one of t he reall grea t Greek letter •fra provided fo r her, placed where her en the ra nks in the years which were to wit ternities. thu ias ti c, even if muffled. endorse ments ness the greates t and healthies t expan- 10 oio n 111 our Flaternity-a veritable Ren out a revised ,·er ion. Pi Kappa lpha The great t temptation come in ais ance. has had great growth ince hi hi tory otrength and pro periL , not in aclver was fir t published. nother grea t and :.i t) - Thi we must rem ember. Beta-Theta was the forty-sixth chapter. horrible war has this time turned a lmost ~ixty - three active chapters have been \Ve do not know all that the future the whole world into a battle fi eld . The ;~deled in the thirty-eight years since that hold in tore for our great Fraternity. Battle of 1ew farket has been re-en d ate. ixty-three! Slowly but surely we But we face the future \cith high confi acted again and again by our bra e h<~v e progressed until today we number dence. Of om things, however, ·we ca n brothers. More than 500 Pi Kappa . 1- I 09 active chapters. Our membership ha. be certain : pha's, or one per ce nt of our Fraternity. increased more than ten times. \1\le have made the supreme acrifice in " 'oriel First, there have alway been in ever ( hapters in thirty-e ight state and the War II. chapter with which I have had contact Di strict of Columbia; only ten tates are (o nl y five , I regret to sa ) some loya L not represented, but they are the most This story need to be written. Much of it li es buried in a hundred chapter vi orou and abl e brothers, dedica ted LO :. par ely settled tate , with two excep making their chapter one o( the greate;t. trong boxe . At one end of the ladder tion ( las achusetts and Minnesota). if no t the greate t, on their ca mpu . /1 Chapler ::DeJicalej 27, 1955 By JOHN PA L BIRDSONG Comma-Psi m e mber Snvery Stu ck ey flew Nntionol Presi dent Hippel from S hreveport to Ruston, Lo. just in time to m eet o close sch edule for the house d ecli'cntion. t The formal dedicatio n of wood, District Pres ident; and J ames V. meeting, variou fraternity tOp ics were the new Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house LeLaurin, N a ti ona l Secretary. d isc ussed by R obert D. L ynn, Executive Secretary; Earl \1\ia tkins, Chapter Service at Loui siana T ech took place on Su nday, A plaque beariug the G reek letters o f Secretary, and Charl es C. Byrd, Field Sec Februar y 27, 1955 at 3: 00 p. m. The the fra ternity was unveiled by Ir. Hip retary. d ed ica ti on of the Gamma-P i ho use cl i pel, who gave the dedicatory addre s. -- n KA -- maxed the District 8 con ve ntion held in T he bened icti on wa s provided by a re Ru ton February 26 and 27 . cording of the so ng, " Bi es T his House." T he city council of Meridia n, i\Iiss is J ohn F. E. Hippe! of Philadelphia, sippi recently dedica ted the town 's new Schools represented in the conven tio n a tio na! President o f the Fraternity, were the University o f labama, uburn, civil defense rescue trail er in memor ol made the principal address. peakers Pa t N ationa l Pre ident H arvey T . ew Birmingham-So uthern, H oward Coll ege, were introduced by T on y \1\i illiams, pre ell , Jr. who was killed in an airpla ne i\ liss iss ippi State, Millsa ps Coll ege, Lou ident o[ the loca l chapter. Others on crash in June, 1953. the program were: R . L. R opp, T ech isiana State U niversity, and Loui ia na Presid ent: R ev. ]. B. H arper, pastor of Tech. Thirty undergraduate d elega te --- n KA -- T rinity Iethodist Church; R obert H ol we re pre ent. Maj. Gen. S. Gardner W all er, A (Vi r laday ] II. trea urer o f the chapter' house A fea tured spea ker Sa turday a fternoon ginia), is Adjuta nt General o f the tate corporati o n; Leslie D yso n, Gamma- P i wa J oe C. Scott, Oklahoma City, N a of Virginia, a post he has held since a p· Alumnu Coun elor; Linwood U nder· ti o nal R ushing DirectOr. During the pointed by Governor Po ll ard in 193 1. Guests entering Gcunmo-Psi Clwpte r 1-louse Pnrticit>nnts in the Gonutw-Psi Clwpter for declicotion cere tnonies. House Declicotion. 1'2 W ashingto n, .C.L.A., and cle lendi ng champion U ni versit • o f Californ ia. dam a nd his crew, Don i\ lall oy, Pirie and his crew, Son n y L inderman, have been invited to r p re n t an Diego La te in the Sir Thoma Lipton Inter na tiona l T ro phy erie against a team from O xford, E ngland. A t present the brothers have tan ed a d rive to rai; funds for their tri p. J\ Ietropo li tan new'> paper sport> editor and ci 1·ic leader, arc helping them in th is d r iv . Brother i\ lal loy is a past Si\ IC o f Delta- Kap pa Chap ter. Brother P iri en ·ed a SC, and Bro ther Linderman a T h .C. Brother :-\dam wa recently awarded the "Out sta nding J\ Jember·· trophy by the chap ter in recogni tio n o[ hi; man • achievemen t . --TTKA -- New House Planned For Beloit By Casey Bana /'resent for the house tletlicotion were (l. to r.) front row, Lo. T ech President R. L. Ropp, Notional Secretary Le Lcmrin, Nntiorwl President 1/itJpel ; rear, Bob + Beta-Iota Cha pter il L Be 1/olllday, Ill, SMC Tony Williams, Executive Secretary Lynn, Alrurums Coun loit, vVi scon in will receive a new fra selor Leslie Dyson , R everencl }. 8. 1/arper. District President Unrlerrvootl, ternity house this fall. After fo ur yean 1/ayn es Harkey, a11tl Dr. Cavitt Cookston. o( negotia tio n by the chapter's acti1 c, and alumni, the administratio n of the Three more men have been pledged : coll ege has granted the fraternity a nell' Trinity Host To Bruce \1\ioodward, Ro bert Allen, and residence. A pprox imately $75,000 1 ill John Parnum. be used to make the ho u e. which wa; On the Trinity ca mpus, there stand previo u ly a priva te home. uitable for District Convention an English Go thic Chape l. ln the No rth the fraternity's occupancy. T he ho use + On D ecember 12 E psilo n Tra nsept o [ the Chapel is loca ted the will accommodate abo ut 35 men. Alpha Cha pter was host to the Distri t I Chapel of Perfect Friend hip. lt was in T he chapter had o ne o f its most uc co1wention. Attending the convention th is chapel o n February 16 that eight cessful rushing ca mpaigns in its history were the foll o wing delegates: Caner pledge were initiated into the bo nds ol by pledging 26 men . During the course C ha e ;mel J o hn D . Pietro, yracuse; bro therhood in nKA. They are : Theo of this school yea r the chapter has in R o bert T aylor and Clayto n Dudley, Cor dore Bro wn, Brya n Bunch, Michael Le creased its roster more than 100 per cen t. nell ; Roy Fergu,on and Do nald Mac vin, D avid R ohlfing, J o hn R oss, C o rdo n At the beginning of the school yea r last Leod , lew H ampshire: R o bert No rrie Sea mier, Lloyd T emple, and Duane Wol eptember, the [nn ernity o nl y included a nd Robert Do wling. R ensse laer; anu cott, .Jr. 23 men. The great su cess during rush Arthur J arvi and Ru se ll J o hnston, --Il K ;\ -- ing ca n be attribut d to the leader hip T rinity. Pre iding over the meeting was o f Pre id ent Blair .J o nes a nd Rushing Di trier Pre idem R o bert Mean . Also Chai rman .J ack Doyle. a u cnding was Ro bert D. L ynn, a tional Sailing Team At Las t J\ fil rch the chapter had the pril'i E xecutive Secretary. The main topics o f lege o f being ho t fo r the a nnual eli trict di;cuss io n were the possibi lity o[ expa n conventio n o[ District Six. The Belo it sio n in the eli trict and member hip re San Diego Excellent cha pter played host to fraternity broth q uircmenu,. The conventio n wa held er [rom ' 'Visco n in , Jllinois, Bradle) . in the conference room o[ the new Trin + T he Sa n Diego ta te Col Purdue, and Va lpara i o unive rs1u es. ity library. lege ;ailing team, composed of fo ur mem Ho nored gue L> incl ud d Execu tive 'ec ,\ fo rmal dinner was h eld in the Com bers o f Delta- Ka ppa Cha pter, captured retary Bob L yn n, F ie ld eCI-etary Stan mo n 's Dining H all o n the night of the tecond place in the Pacific Coast in ter Love. and District President Charle con,·e ntio n . T he ma in pea ker o f the co ll egiate sa iling champio nships held Freema n. c1·cnin wa Dr . .J o hn Candelet, Asst. lils t December at lewpo rt H arbor Yacht The curren t emester'; top social event Profe or of Econ mics. Dr. Candelet C lub. Thus, the tea m qualified to repre wa~ the annual Dream C irl dance whid1 spo ke o n ''Fraternali sm and It True ;ent the Pacific Coast in the Nati ona l wa; held at a downtown hotel. J\ farian i\ lca ning." fo rma l dance fo ll owed the In tercoll egiate Champio nship to be held Playter, .L~~ . who is pinn d tO Presidem dinner with cl ;ne provided for o ur .June 20-25 at M assachusetts Institute of Geoff Fernald, was chosen Dream G irl. guests. T echnology. .\ nother o u tsta nd ing so ia l a fl air wa> the On i\ larch 12, the chap ter held it ~ ec Do n Adams won the class "A" incli Isle of Pi Kappi informal da nce. At th i> o nd annual Dream G irl Ba ll at the H an ,·id ua l title, win ni ng 83 points, wh ile u nique el'en t. the couple danced in thr e ~ fo rd Golf C lu b. It was a fes ti ve occa ,\ia n Pi rie finished third in clas "B." inche ol sa nd , wh ich was placed in the ; io n with the musi of Paul Landerma n T he team earned 155 points and almost liv ing room. The g uest drank pu nch and hi s band. !fi ss Caro l) n Petersen overtook ta n[o rd ni ve rsity. the winner from ho ll owed o ut pin a pple . So uth fro m i\lo unt Ho i oke Coll ege ll'a; ;e wnh 163 points. Amo ng the team whi ch Sea isla nd d coratio ns added to the at lected Dream G irl o[ 1955. the crew defeated were ni ve rsity of mosphere. 13 11·inning football team a t Penn State. A true gentleman, he made on Iy brief men tion of Penn State' recent gridiron vic torie> over Penn ylvania, but possibly th is wa due to the Quaker ' basketball up;,et ol State' NCAA tourne bound tea m two night previou ly. Bro ther Engle eli cussed the va lue and importa nce of ports and a thleti c par ti cipation to a yo ung man's later life. He li kened sports to fr aternity lite, a tea m elfort. and sa id that in both a man gets out only what he puts in. "Participatio n in competi tive sport;, has man va lues to the yo ung man of today," sa id the popular coach . "One such value is in military life-the ability to react under pre ure and react the right way." A gues t at many rmed Force football cl in ics all over the world, Ri p told of the important feeling toward athletics by mi litary leaders and gave examples of former athletes being outstanding lead ers. He also mentioned the formation of an Armed Force O lympic Team for the 1956 Ol ympic ga mes. Philadelphia Alumni Founders' Day Banquet ancl Awarcl W in.ners-(l. to r.) R obert Dietrich , toastmaste r ; Carro ll. S te phen son , Alumni Award W inner ; Penn A second va lue of athletics, sa id :illite Coach Rip Engle, gu est speaker ; R everend E clwarcl Horn; BIT Unclergrad Bro ther Engle, " is that they prepare a IWI.e Awartl winners Bob Slover, Bill Erick son , aml Robert McK ee. ma n to meet the challenge of life, both civili an and mi litary... He went on to show how a ma n develops honesty, lo y alty, character, dependa bi lity, coopera Coach Rip Engle ti on . abi li ty to get along and team play through paruc1pation in compeuuve ;ports and how thee a ttribute pay o ff in hi s after-coll ege days. Speaks at Philadelphia Brother Engle concluded by observing that there are many things gai ned in co l + Philadelphia alumni cele man of the alumni comminee, made the lege that are not all read in tex tbook;. brated Founders' Day at the annual ban presentation. He cited a number of case how both quet Friday evening, March 4th at the Other spea kers included David F. Max fra ternity and athl eti cs have made yo ung Barclay Hotel. Charles A. " Rip" En"'le, well , represe nting h is Jaw partner, IT KA men o utstanaing leaders and citizens in head football coach at Pennsy lva ni a tate National Pres ident J ohnny Hippe!, and their community and business li fe . Coll ege, and a member of Penn State's H ugh Dalz iel, pres ident of District 2. Throughout his talk, R ip illustrated Beta-Alpha Chapter, proved one of the Brother Maxwell , a well known Phila his points with many entertaining ane - mo t o utstanding and entertaining a ft er dotes a nd stori e; of his ea rly a thleti c days. delphia attorney and recently a member dinner peakers ever heard at a Founuers· of the Hoover Commissio n Task Force, Chairman for this yea r's dinner was Day affai r in Philadelphia. brought greetings from the National Craig rmington and toas tmaster wa The dinner attracted a good crowd of President. H e was ca reful not to repeat Bob Dietrich. Office r of the Philadel ITKA 's, both "old grads" and undergrad any of J ohnn y's annual Founders' Day phia Alumni Chapter are · rarold \IV. uate brother . In addition to the ho t jokes but rela ted ome new ones of his Kalb, BA , pre idem ; Craig rmington, chapter, Beta-Pi ol Penns lvani a, repre own. H e read a telegram fro m Brother BIT , vice president: W arren Shattuck, 131\ , se m ati ve of the Delawa re a nd Lehigh Hippe! and no ted hi s exten ive ITKA secretary; and J ack Lin ton, BIT, treasurer. chapter were pre ent. ba nquet circuit tour through II states. --ITK A -- R ecipient of the an nual "Out tanding Individual chapter reports fo und Dela Alumni Award" this yea r wa W . Carroll wa re, Lehigh a nd Penn ylva ni a each re National Officers Busy Stephen o n, BA, a prominent Philadel porting on hou e activities, improve phia ad ve rti ing executive. plaque a nd ment , new brothers and lin ances. Le gift were presented Brother Stephen o n high reported even p ledges; Delaware, At Founders' Day b • the R ev. Edward T. Horn, Be, Cor with Frank erpico, " ITK A's an wer to + Member of the Supreme nell, Ia t year' outsta nding alumnu . George Gobel," a nn o un ced eleven Council and o ther nati onal officer were For the fir t time ince 1939, two un pledge , and Ray H ovi revealed the kept quite busy filling peaking engage dergraduates received the "Out tanding Penn chapter had pledged nine men. ments during March at various Found enior ward" of Beta-Pi Chapter. '\1\ il The three representative were unani ers' Day celebrati o n throughout the liam Erick on and Robert lover were mous in deploring the mall cia e avail nited States. able for ru hing at each of the chool nam d winners of the coveted award o n Lead-o f( ~Jlan wa 1a tional Presi dent the ba i of thei r out tanding co ntribu this year. J ohn F. E. Hippe! of Philadelphia, who tion in er ice a nd devotion to the fra Rip Engle proved him elf as witty and filled engagements in North Carolina, ternity and universi t . Bob McKee, chair- ca pable at pea king as he i at producing Florida. Texas, Lo uisiana, Cal ifornia, 14 K ;~ n ;as and Mis o uri, plus cha pter ,·i; it helby Fo rre L Lodge. Due w a li ne in .\ rka n as, llli no i , and Pennsy h'ania. party and per ·o nal ru hing. 13 men were Vi ce Pre ident J o hnson was in T ennes- p ledged. ;ee. ecretary LeLaurin fil led engage- .\n annual event o n the ca mpus i; the ment in Lo ui iana and i\ lississ ippi. Delta Zeta Fo lli e;, >pom o red b)' Delta Trea:,urer Jim Bro wn spo ke in Ka nsas Ze ta Sorority. T h is year the Pike came and i\ li chi ga n. Alumni ecretary lac up wi th an o ut tand ing in terpretive la rl ane spoke in Alabama. Oklahoma, dance entitled "Voodoo" w ca pwre first and Colorado, in conjunctio n with the p lace in the men ':. divisio n. l'\' atio nal E xchange lub engagemem s. Our new ,\lumnu; Coun;elo r i, J oe Co un el Yerkovich de li vered Fo unders' Riley, pas t Sfi iC o f D elta -Zeta Chapter D ay ta lks in 1\Io nta na and Was hington . a nd now a teacher in the Engli sh D e Other nati o nal o fli ce rs and District D elta-Zeta, Memphis State , Clr.otJter partment at femphis Late. Pre:, icl en ts fill ed numero us engagemem s. Olficers-(l. to r.) , seo!e:l , Johnny , IlK.\ and ,\ lpha Xi Delta Sororit arc Morris, SMC llol Boker, Tom Bloke ; joi ml ) spo nsoring a n . \11 -G reek Dante T he >ta r traveler. other tha n Supreme standing, Jim Lawren ce , Charles Mor at the Student Cent r. T he chool dance Cou ncil member;. wa Na ti o nal Rush cn s, W alter McDaniels, Pete Tlw m [J Director J oe C. Scott. son , and Davit/ Dnnlmr. band will play. -- 111\. .1 -- IIK .I -- Nati,m al Secretary J ames V. LeLaurin Memphis Celebrates ol i\ feridian . i\ Ji is,ip p i was among the Freeman Addresses li r;t ten producers in the nation duri ng Founders' Day a recent five week ca mpaign, according LO an a n11 o uncement by ,\ etna Life Jn St. Louis Alumni By T ed Wayland, Jr·. sura nce Company. There were 1.071 Editor's 1 ote: Ch rnles f .. Freeman, B .\ ~ T he annual F o und ers' agen t; who qualilied by writing 50,000 ( ll'ash ing ton U n iversity), Bloom ingto n, Day Ba nquet a nd Dream Girl Hall were or more of insura nce. Brother LeLau Illinois. is Jne. ident of the !llinois- ll'is held this eme ter at the Continental ri n'; productio n wa a phenomenal co iiSi lt d istn'ct an d is a form er Na tional Ba ll room o( the H o tel Pea body. Dr. 536,340. I fe was given an all expemc Field errela ry . Permission has been J o hn Beard. president o f the i\ Iemphis trip to New York and Hanfo rd, COJlllet gra nted to Jn-int th i;, h ighly effective ex lumnus C hapter, was i\ faster o( Cere ti cut by the compa n y. cerfJl from h is Foun ders' Day ad d 1ess w mo nies a nd Dr. E ll i Finger, pres id en t St . L ouis. of l\fillsa ps Co ll ege. ga ve the main ad --IJK .I -- + Fo ur ;core and ;even yea rs eire . Robert Lundgren, retiring i\ JC of .\ lpha-Omicron Cha pter ( o uthwe tern ago. ; ix yo ung men fo unded the Pi Ka ppa Fo ll owing the banqu L the fea wre of .\lpha Fraternity at the University o l the dance wa s the an no uncement o [ fl fiss U ni ve r; ity. Georgetown , T exas), has n.: cei ved a SI,OOO Carnegie Fell owship in Virginia-conceived in a time when the J anet T homason as Delta- Zeta Dream T ach ing to iJ used at George Peabod) wo u nds ol war were being hea led -and Girl. dedicated to the propositio n of a firmer D elta- Zeta Chapter started the rush Coll ege for T eachers in Na;hvill e, T en 15 divi ion to Camp Po lk, La. A year later <~nd a lter some urgery, two aspirins and 0£/ahoma fo ur months in a general hospital, h e left the army to its own devices and went "// to Wa hington. D. C., to run the Okla Lounfr'l homa n-T irnes b UI·ea u for a couple of year . homa's Future Farmers of America, with + This S t e w a rt character T hat's where the Cou n try Boy column some gradua te work in a nimal husbandry who write a column in the Daily Okla ~ t a n e cl . \1\lhen he came back under the and agricultural education at Oklahoma homan at Okl ~ h o ma City ca ll ed "Coun paper's rotation system, there seemed to A. & M. College thrown in, then 15 years try Boy." i. a red-faced perso n end in <> hi be enough read ers to ju tify keeping up ago tewan joi ned the taff of the Daily first half-century with most of hi own the colu mn, although tewart found on 0/ 16 0£/a. Stale WJe By Roy P. Ste waJ"t , BO Daily Oklahoman Columnist (L. to r. ) seated , Charles Roberts, Bill Bled soe, Jerry l'atrick , Douglas Woatl , ancl George Newton, from North T exas S tate, partici1wte in the Oklahoma City Founders' Day with ( standing) Oklahoma Alumni Association Office.-s Fretl S tites, Roy S tewart, and Joe Scott. + To anyone who has seen attempts to get out alumni and actives chapter a t North T exa tate College, ]. C. Picka rd : BO , Oklahoma City; to a meeting, even a Founders' Day meet Denton. who became member of Epsi physicia n and surgeon, speciali zing in ing. the event sponsored by the Okla lo n-Delta Chapter in farch. eye. ea r, nose, and throat; facu lty, Uni homa Pi Kappa Alpha Alumni As ocia ver ity of Oklahoma l\IIedica l School. Roy P. Stewart, BO , de cribed a plan tion at Oklahoma City this past Found for National JIK A participation in the i\lanuel J. Chacin: BO , Caracas, Vene en· Da is a heart warming example of Lynn Riggs memorial at Claremore, zuela, an exchange student studying pe what can be done. Okla. Brother Lynn, BO, was author of troleum engi neeri ng at the niversity of There were 202 persons present, with the play "Green Grow the Lila ," from Oklahoma; living in the chapter house large delega ti ons lrom the state's three which R odgers and H ammerstein made at Norman; spea ks far better English active chapters-Beta-Omicron, Gamma the great mu ica l p lay, " Oklahoma!" than his contemporarie speak Spani h. Upsil on and Gamma-Chi-with alumni Riggs died last ummer after a successfu l Horton Gris o: BO, Norman; senior lrom respectable distances. ot the least career as a poet and pia wright, having vice presidem , ecurity National Bank, highli ght of the meeting was addition had three plays running on Broadway Norman; past president, Chamber of o l 15 Diamond Life members to the a at one time, yea rs ago, under the Theater Commerce, Norman, and a tive in other ti ona! riKA Alumni group, which makes Guild label. civic affairs. 31 lrom Oklahoma alone. The new Diamond Life members are: H eadliner for the evening was Grant Harry T. Hudso n, Jr.: BO , Oklahoma Macfarlane, alt Lake City, National Walter D. Snell: BO, Oklahoma City; City; attorney. Alumni Secretary, who brought an ad Certified Public Accountant, head of .-\nd the pledges are: own firm; secretary- trea urer, Beta-Omi eire s honoring the men who marched Tom Benedum: Norman, BO, a law cron Chapter Building Corporation, away with the cadets of Virginia Mi li ye r and member of the niversity of 1922-42; pre idem, Oklahoma Society of tary Institute to the Battle of ew Mar Oklahoma Board of R egem s, econd term CPA's; councilman, Ameri can Institute ket, later marched into the ranks of ITKA appointment; vice president of the City of Accountants; ruling elder, Fir t Pre - immortals as founders of the Fraternity National Bank, orman. at the University of Virginia. byterian Church. Oklahoma City: mem ber Young Men 's Dinner Clu b. Okla Dr. Dan Procter: Chickasha, Okla., Tational Rush Chairman J oe C. Scott, homa City Executives Associ ation. Lions BO, president of Oklahoma Coll ege for the Oklahoma City insurance man whose Women; nationall y known lecturer; Club, Sons of American R evolution, Ma pend1ant for sending out a bulletin every prominem in tate, regional and na so nic bodie and hrine; Air Force re 30 minutes was largely responsible for tional school affair ; niver ity of Okla servist; vice president, Kingkade Hotel, the excell ent attendance, was strangely homa alumni affairs; civic worker; a quiet mo t of the evening, except for Oklahoma City: li fe member Alpha Kap ti ona! Boy Scout counci lor; DeMolay wanting to know whether the 15 new pa P i. professional honorary. worker. Diamond Lif members carried insurance Chester C. Beaird: BO, Norman; in Hubert Gibson: BO, Oklahoma City, wi th hi firm. ]. Phil Burns was the urance and rea l e tate firm owner; ec attorney, former a istant county attor o ffi cial persuader or seller of ideas that retary, lorman R ea l Estate Board; mem ney, Oklahoma County. drew the Diamond pledges. ber R otary. l'vf asonic bodies and hrine: H arold E. Lamprid1: rl', Tulsa; sales Stan Love. National Field ecretary former school principa l and superintend man for ati onal Gypsum Compan y, from West Virginia, made it to the meet ent; M.S. at OU: daughter, Barbara, was Tulsa; wa T h.C of Gamma-Upsil on two ing as did five brothers from the new a Kappa Kappa Gamma at 0 . years while in chool. 17 Diamord Life Clwp!er Pledge The Perpetual Brotherhood Boyd Gun n ing, Norrrwn., Okla. of Pi Kappa Alpha By Jack G unde rman, .\::: '52 (Reprinted from the Alj>ha -Xi Mu1111n y) ~ There's no doubt about it. The e a lumni arc a grea t h elp to Though we have been grea t! impressed Alpha-Xi a nd to the nationa l fraterniq by a multitude o f peop le, idea , action s, in ma ny diverse wa y . For example, a a nd everything cl e, there is one major large number o[ them are active mem item o[ importa nce whi ch has never bers o[ Southland H a ll , the incorporated ceased to amaze us. \1\ie are re ferring to alumni organizatio n which owns and the great loyalty and friendship whi ch upcrvises the administrati on and main the o lder a lumni of Pi Kappa r\lpha. tenance of the lpha-Xi chapter house. es peciall y those of Alpha-Xi, , have to evera l others h ave and are now se rving Diam orrcl Li f e wards each other a nd toward the Fra as na tiona l officers a nd advi ors of Pi Chapter Pletlge tcrnit . Kappa Alpha. grea t number have sup Forrest iHecw s, Okla. City, Okla. \Vhen we we re rushees and pledges ported the local chapter a nd n ati on al we were rea ll y surprised to eli cover busy [raternity with generous financial con and prominent men ta king time o ff from tributions. And, as every pledge and a - their ma ny obli ga tion to talk to a nd tive knows, man y alumni contribute wo n as i t a " bunch o f college kids." Of derful moral support by attending active course. we knew these men to be o ld chapter social events a nd alwa s making a lu m ni, but omehow we could never themselves available whenever their ad quite decide wh y they were stil l inter vice and assistance is needed . ested in the Fraternity ten, twenty, or ][ a n outsider a ks the o lder a lumn i forty yea r a fter they had graduated from Diamo rr d Life what they ex pect to get in return for all Chapter Pletlge coll ege. of these contributions, the answer comes flarold E. .- \ [tcr our initiati o n, we felt privi leged Lamprich . quick ly and to the point. T hey reall y to be able to work with those o lder Tulsa, Okla. don 't expect an ything more in return [o r alumni o n conventions, Founders' Days, Lheir help. Actuall y, they are just trying .\lumni Picnics, Southland Ha ll meet to repay Alp ha-X i a nd P i Ka ppa Alpha ings, and ma ny other activities. \•Ve be Dhwwnrl Life for the man y wo nderful benefits they re Chapter Pledge ca me better acqua inted through the years ce ived from the Fraternity. Mo t of them, Tont Berr e:lurn, a nd, as time passed , we began to reali ze however, will privately admit that the Norm!ln , Okla. wh y a lumni were do ing so much [or the continue to receive something additional. Fraternity. During their yea r in the That is the persona l sa tisfacti o n of know ac tive chapter a nd a fter they graduated, ing that they are helping to ca rry on the the a lumni o f today reali zed tha t Alpha idea l a nd objectives of Pi Kappa Alpha Xi offered tra ining and experi ence that in the best possible manner. To them. could not be easil y obtained elsewhere. this is more tha n enough o f a reward. T hey were grea tl y impressed with the Pi Kappa Alpha idea ls of fri endship, help -- H I\ A -- fulne , and loyalty to God, to the ni Diamon d Life versity, to the community, a nd to the Ch apter Pledge Dan l'roctor, ideals et fo rth b • the founders. San Jose Celebrates Chickasha. Okla. ln their dail as ociations with the ir .\l pha- Xi brothers, our a lumni were, a ac tive, tra ined a nd encouraged toward Founders' Day R oy P. Stewart: Bo, Oklahoma City, a oe nsc o f individua l res pon ib ility and By Al Tisch w lu mn iH on the Daily Oklahoman; [or initiative o tha t they wo uld be prepared mer \•Va hington corre pondent member to gra p the reins of life a nd ride it + D elta-Pi Chapter il t an ' National Pre s Clu b and White H ouse through toil successful cl osing. The ver Jo ·e State recently celebra ted it fifth Corrc;pond e nt ~ . s ociati o n; active civic file t thil t so ma n y of them have been ann iversa ry at a Founders· Day banqu ~> t worker in agri culwra l and military a[ highl y ucccs ful in the ir pro[e sion, in attended b y near! a hundred active and lai r ; member Genera l l c Lil in t\ lemo their communit , and in their priva te alumni. i\fa n y fo nd reco ll ection o[ the ri a l Commi ion; Board o f R evi ew for li v is, in itse ll. an in piring testimonia l pa t were ited by the alumni, but the juvenil Reader . Oklahoma Cit •; na to the wi sdom o[ Pi Ka ppa A lpha' tra in active too had much to boa t about. ti onal magatine writer. ing, idea ls, and environment. The greatest ource of pride for the Bo d Gunning: BO, Norman. execu- The alumni will reacli l admit that chapter wa th [act tha t among the 14 ti ,·e C< retary. niver>it · o f Oklahoma the man y facet o[ fra ternit • member fra ternitie a t ta te, Pi Kappa Alpha too k ,\lumni ,-\ ~oc i ~ ti o n . ship were among the mo t importa nt G ne ' mall : r-r, Tul a. o-oocl in[luence o[ their li ve . The ap top honors in cholarship during the fa ll Forre ·t i\ fcan : BO, Oklahoma Cit •; pre ia te having had these good inOu quarter with a grade po int average o f a le:. man. General Outdoor ,\ dvcni ing ences when they were student a nd want 1. 47. Co., Oklahoma Cit •. to help make fraternity life ava il able to 1 n the fie ld of sports. the chapter spon (Continued on page 27) the coll ege men o f tocl a · and t m 1-row. sored the out tanding boxer a nd copped 1 • a third place in the traditional novi ce 10 11 a. TIKA ha,·e more than doubled boxing tournament in which fra ternitie th eir member hip ince Ia t eptember d 10o e a nd spon or novice boxers from through a continuom program of infor th various weight cl asses. mal rush . . \nother fir t wa; rea litecl when the Ii Shirley R obert capwred the chapter· decorated 1928 Seagrave fire hearts of the Pi Kap and was named engine wa awarded [irst pl ace in a local Dream Girl of 1955 at their bigge t o parade. Les fortunate, however, the cial event o f the yeilr-the annual Dream cha pter wa edged out b y tro ng compe Girl Dance, held on February 26. tition to place third in the homecoming At the beautiful Sa nta Rita fi e til room parade competitio n. thirty TIKAs and their lovely el ate> en eemingly plagued b a short streak joyed an evening of dancing to the mu il of third , the chapter again came in in of imone Riba i and her orchestra. The the number three ; pot for their o ffering hi ()' hlight of the evening wa hirley·, in the ,\!!-G reek Show in which the so crowning. At thi time, i\fr. R oll in D . roriti e; and fra ternities o n ca mpu are Burr, Tuc on, Ari zo na, was given an judged lor their prese ntati on of a short, award for being the " Most Outsta nding origina l ; ki t. Alumnu for 1954-55," a nd i\ lr. Fred On the individual side the chapter' Vi kers, Me ili a Park, N ew i\fex ico. a charter member. was give n an award as f;tll pl edge class included four past Mas Miss lu cr Lee W tles, AOIT, "Outstanding Alumnus." ter Councillor o f the Order of De Iolay, Drell rn Girl of Deltfi-Thelll ClwtJier. transfer student who ha l served as stu Charl es Cagle received the "Outi> til nd· cia ted \•Vomcn tudent of .-\ rkansas dent body president a nd student body ing Pledge" tro phy, and Sanford um Sta te. Sh e i ~ pinned to Brother J ack ,·ice president of junior coll ege, a nd the mers, with a 1.1 25 emester grade aver Hucbon. halfback who milcl e the histori ca l win age, received the scho larship awa rd. ning touchdown for State at the San D curati ons for the Dream Girl Ba ll , The chapter has at present 15 pledges. which foll owed a " Drea mla nd" theme . .J ose-Stanford University f otball game. Four other pledges (rom the first se mes we re designed by Brothers Kn ox \1\/ebb, Paul Thomsen, a sophomore busine ter were initiated on February 25 . They Gary Vowel;, Rex Barker and Paul Frets. administration major, was recently elect were Charles Cagle, Clinton Cohorn. Attention was centered on a huge o ng ed "J oe Coll ege" at State. J ames i\fuell er, and Sanford Summer . book opened to "The Drea m Girl of Pi The alumni were quite p leased in The Pi Kaps pulled a first place for I appa Alpha.'' hearing of the chapter's progre s and costumes at the university' annual adie The ca ndidate were introduced by acrivities and after the usua l round of Hawkins Day race. J oe Perdzock, SMC, a nd i\ li Wiles was storie and recollections the banquet con Gamma-Delta has had a very full socia l prese nted her Drea m Girl pin b y J . cluded with toast to a prosperous future. calendar this yea r. including its Christ Vance curlock of J ones boro, alumnus mas Dance, Dream Girl Dance, Barbary of Alpha-Zeta Chapter at the niversiry Coast Dance, Spring Dance, the Pi I appa o f Arkansas. Alfalfa Ride, and a number of picni cs Pi Kappa A lpha won the ..\11 -Greek and rush parties. Basketbil ll Tournament after fini hing The chapter' H omecoming Bil nquet. 'econd in the intramura l competition. November 6, was a ttended by a number The Pikes, led by Capta in J. C. i\ lc linn. of alumni, including four charter mem beat Sigma Pi in the fina l o f the tourney. bers: i\fartin Baldwin. Tuc on. Ari7ona ; In schola;ti c averages, IIKA aga in Edward Horrell. G lobe. Arizonil; Loui s ra nked tops amo ng the school' seven Porter H orrell , Globe, Arizona: and Fred fraternities il nd sororitie . The chapter Vi ckers. · -f esillil Park, New Mexico. as a group had an average o( 1.78 out -- Il K .\ -- of 3.0. The fril ternity las t yea r won the Greek Scho lar;hip Trophy. Dream Girl Ball The fraternity' pl edge were ho nored i\ larch 28 at the Pl edge Banquet, il n At Arkansas State e,· nt held regul arly each se mester. Delta-Thetil Chapter is ca pably guided By George Bar·kcr this semester b J oe Perdzock, junior + Highlighting the oc ia I from Forre t City. Other officers include season for Delta-Theta Chapter thi .J ack Hudso n. l I : Paden eeley. Th.C, Miss S hirley Roberts, spring was the Eighth Annual D reilm and Gene Foreman, SC. Gnmmn-Deltll Dre(lnt Girl. Girl Ball. Miss Ina Lee Wiles of J ones me\ placed econcl in the A ll -Greek boro was announced ilS the chapter's So ng Fest in February. The chapter also Drea m Girl fo r 1955-56. participated in the Greek Play House in Arizona Has Busy AI o honored il l the dance were the i\farch. other three Dream Girl ca ndidate - Bar Six members of the fraternity won let bara vVhite of J one boro. Dorethea i\ lc ters in varsity sports: Richard i\ lcNece, Social Calendar Daniel of i\farked Tree, and uetta R ay J aki e King a nd Gerald happle winning + Rushing a nd ocial activi of Senath,)\lfo. basketball monograms and Dick Hilburn, ti es have been the by-words of Gamma Miss )Niles, a junior, is president of David v, ilbank and H oward Cisse ll let Delt a Chapter at the niver ity of Ari- Alpha Omicron Pi sorority il ncl the r\sso- tering in football. 19 of the Charl o tte lumnus Chapter were cipal spea ker'' had sa id on tho e occa elected: sions. I reca ll ed several brilliant talk; Pres ident, C. R. Sublett, mr (T exas). tha t I had heard, but so mehow the theme Vice President, Sa m \ V. Craver, Jr., T o[ tho e wh ich I remembered simply dicl (North Ca rolina). not ex press what 1 felt within me a the ccretar y-Trea urer, Rufus K. Alii on, re ult o[ the command of the wheel to B (Davidso n) &: A (Virginia). ay so me thing worthwhile. A committee con i ting of Arthur H . 1 continued to look out the window J ones, J ohn F. E. Hippe! an ::! Thomas a t God's handiwork and fin all y, out o[ G. Lane, J r., se lected Mi ss Barbara Flesh my reverie of several hours, it dawned man of Bluefield, VIles t Virginia, a stu on me tha t it was not the wheel of the den t at the University o[ North Carolina, train that had spoken to me, but rather a Dream Girl and presen ted her with a it was the voices of Frederick Southgate Yery lovely evening bag. Taylor, Julian Edward Wood, L ittleton Immediately preced in g the dinner \ Va li er Tazewell , Ro bertso n H oward, dance, a reception wa held for Pres ident J ames Benjamin Scl a ter, and William 1-lippel at the Charlotte C ity Club. Alexander, the founders of Pi Kappa - - ilK .\ -- Alpha. These men who fo unded Pi Ka ppa Alpha at the U niversity of Vir gmta o n l arch I, 1868, were deeply in Challenging terested in the "brotherhood of ma n." Three of th e e men had, during the Message Civil War, been cadets at the Virginia Chorlotte, North Corolirrll Alumruts Cllopler Presiclent-Elect C. R. Sublett Military Institute, and a such pa.rtici k eefJS ll wotcltful eye on Notiorrcd At Seattle pated in the Battle of 1ew Market. One Presicle nt 1-lifJpel ( seoted , le ft) onrl By John j. Ke nne tt, Esqu:•·e, B B of them had carried the Battali o n Colors Donolcl 1-1 . D enton lll Foun ders' Doy throughout that battle. History credit celebrotion. + \1\le come ton ight to pay homage to the fou nder of our Frater these cadets with having turned the tide nity. It was 33 yea rs ago this spring that of that battle. It is genera lly beli eved Charlotte, N. C. I first entered the acred portals of Pi that the vici situdes of battle crea ted a nd Ka ppa Alpha-a kid from an Eastern stimulated such strong bonds of brother Washi ngton farm, a green a a ny that ! y love between these men that they Host To ever dared to enter the ha ll s of higher were unwi lling tha t such a relationship lea rning. houlcl perish and, in order to perpetu Your chairman ca lled me with a re a te it, joined with the other three fo und Founders' Day quest that 1 be yo ur principal speaker ers a few yea rs later a t the nive rsity of Virginia and there fo unded Pi Kappa T he C h a rl otte, N. C., just a day or so before Mrs. Kennett and + Alpha. Alumnus Chapter held its Founder ' Day l departed [or Southern Cali fo rnia where dinner-dance a t the Se lwy n Hotel o n l have been bu il y engaged for the past "Love Thy eighbor as Thyself" is Friday, February 18, 1955. T here were two weeks. one of the Ten Commandments and, ex approximately one h undred in attend Last night, a our train left R edding, cept for those pertaining to the Deity, ance including wive and sweethea rts. California, I tucked m y wife into bed is to m y mind, the most important. As and went across the aisle to my room I continued in my reverie, I reca lled that The banquet hall of the Selwy n H otel ette, turned o[f the light , and stared out each of us of Pi Kappa Alpha beli eves was arranged in cabaret style a nd deco into the night and pondered concerning in God. Meditating thus, m y message [or rating the wa ll were large ca ri ca ture what I should say to yo u ton ight. tonight was spelled out. 1y message is depicting humorous incidents conce rn A I sa t in the clark, relaxed and look brief and simple. It is "Be a Good ing the life of an undergraduate. ing out in to the night a t the blue ca nopy Brother. " nhur H. J ones, vice pres ident of the that was the sky made bri ght by a mil It wi ll pay you dividends in a peace American T ru t Compan y, pre ided as lion diamond-like star ; as I saw the bril of mind that yo u ca nnot attain any other toastmaster. li ance of the "Little Dipper" upside down way. Apply this motto to yo ur everyd dy Donald l-1 . Dento n, BA (Penn State), in the sky; as I saw the ma ntle of now li[e,-to yo ur bu iness life as well a to pres ident of the local alumnus chapter, that covered the iskiyo u Mountain yo ur social life. It will make yo u beloved we lcomed the entire group and accepted through which we were pa sing and of man and unafraid. If yo u wi ll de~l report from chapter at David on, Duke whi ch hid all the ugly sca r of the centu with all men as you would be dealt with. Univer ity. 1onh Carolina tate Col rie; a I beheld these things, I graduall y yo u ca n wa lk with yo ur head high and lege, Presbyteria n Coll ege, ·w ake Fore t, became aware tha t the wheels of the train without fear. I know because I have pui ni ver ity of orth Carolina and the were clicking out a message tO me and thi motto to the te t. It was m y duty to ni ver ity of outh arolina. th is wa the message: "Say omething se nd everal hundred men to priso n while Thomas G. Lane, Jr., prominent Char worthwhile; say something worthwhile; Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecuting At lotte attorney and member o[ Beta Chap say so mething worthwhi le; say omething torney. In the discharge of that di ta te ter at Davidso n oll ege, introduced Na worthwhi le." fu l duty, I alway tried to learn what ti onal Pre id nt J ohn F. E. Hippe!. But how hould I make good thi om had brought the e men before the bar of Brother Hippe! gave a ve ry trong mes mand? vVho was l to ay omething justi ce. I pent many hours talking 1e sage on what a fraternity ca n do fo r worthwhi le? What co uld I ay that would these men about their yo uth in an at oung men. Howard B. rbuckl e, J r., appeal alike to the 65- ear-old alumnus tempt to find out what, if anything, they B, on o[ H oward B. rbuckle, a "Junior and to the 19-yea r-o ld pledge? Thi l knew about "brotherl y love." I con- Founder" of the Fraternit , pre em ed pondered. I thought back over the 32 iousl made an attempt to treat each the report of the nominating committee Founders' D a Banquets that I had at a nd every o ne of the e men fa irl y a nd for the yea r 1955. T he fo ll owing officers tended. I tried to recall what the "prin- a I woul d a n erring brother. Becau e 20 of the manner in which I had dea lt with the greatest improvem Ill in their scho tive Secretary Robert L nn , i\ lemphi , each of them, J have ince wa lked among lastic average. Upsi lon, Al abama Po ly Tennessee; L ynwood nden voocl , Di - them unafraid o( a n y act of revenge on technic I nstitute, received the trophy thi trict Pre id em , and William H . H owton, their part. ·Ia n of them end me greet year. banquet cha irman. ings every Chri ~ tm a . Mr. Macfarl ane is cunently 1a ti onal The out-of-town guest were enter lt is my belie f that many of the alumni President of the N atio nal Exchange ta in ed a t a luncheon at e tavia ountry here to night would tell yo u of a clo e Club, past President of the U tab en ate, Club after which an afternoon meeting friendshi p that exists between them and and a fo rmer member of the Coun il o[ on a State-wide Rushing Program was me. 1 trea ure the e fri endships more a State Government of the United tate•. held with J oe cott pre iding. Precedi ng I grow older. Thi is another example The prese nt officers of the loca l alumni the banquet and dance an Open H ouse of trying to be "a good brother." chapter are Darcey T. Tatum, Jr., Pres wa held at the home o f l\Ir. a nd l\ Ir . The founders of Pi Kappa Alpha in ident; J oe Watkins, Jr., Vi ce President; Darcey T. Tatum, Jr., 35 16 A hley Road. tended that we shou ld help one another Joe Crump, Treasurer; Charles Binion, -not just in co ll ege but throughout li fe. Jr., Secretary, a nd \1\lill iam Howton, So A " pat o n the back.'' a '· telephone me - cial hairman. sage," a " brief note" to a desponden t brother, may amoum to a " lifeline" and The banquet was h lei in the Terrace mean more than a ny amount of money. Room of the Tutwiler Hotel and among Thi I also know from experience. the 300 a ttending were Mr. and Mrs. Grant Macfarlane of alt Lake City, To yo u yo unger men, I uggest, "Give of yourself to yo ur brother . and think Utah; Na ti onal Vi ce President and Mrs. not of yo ur reward... If you do this, l n lee Johnson, Atlanta, Georgia; 1a urely you wi ll rea p a reward. tiona l Secretary and irs. J ame LeLau rin, Meridian, Miss iss ippi; Mr. and Mrs. And, to all of yo u. I ay tha t if you Darcey T . Tatum, J r. ; fr. and Mrs. R oy practice brother!) love, you will be at Hickman; ifr. and Mrs. A. H . Knight; Past National President Roy D. Hick peace with the world even though the man presents the District 8 awarcl f or National Rush Director Joe Sco tt, Okla world be not at peace. m o.~ t improved sch olarship record to homa City, Oklahoma; lational Execu- SMC Hamp R oyston , Upsilon ChaJrler. Thank you . - - nK A - - Birmingham Holds Statewide Founders' Day By D a r ce ~- Tatum + The P i Kappa Alpha As- ociation of Birmingham, Alabama, in conjunction with the undergraduate chapters, Upsilon (A u burn), Gamma Alpha (A labama), Delta (Birmingham Southern), and Alpha-Pi (Howard Col lege), celebrated it annual Founder ' Day with a Din ner-Dance at the Tut wil er Hotel on the fifth of March, 1955. National Alumni Secretary Cram Mac farlane was the pea ker for the occasion. A Na tional Award for outstanding alum ni relation named in honor of Andrew Knight and Roy H ickman of Binning ham, Ala., pa t Ta tional Presidents of Pi Kappa lpha, wa presem ecl by the Birmingham Alumni Association. This cup is to be awarded at each N ational Convention to the Pi Kappa Alpha un dergraduate chapter adjudged a having conducted the most effective chapter alu mni relations program in the nation. This cup wa acquired through the ef forts of the emire Alumni Association. but particular tha nks houlcl be extended to Darcey T . Tatum, Jr., Lynwood n derwood, and Joe V\latkins. T he Birmingham alum ni presented for ITKA Pro/essiorwl oldiers- JV est Point Callers (1. to r.) seated , E . J. Parker, the fi rst time a trophy to the undergrad rA, R. A . McCreight, AH, J. C. S h hey, BA; standing, T. A . Sands, ~. H. R . uate chapter in the tate that had shown Kramp, B:M . 21 from the desk of ::lJireclor Dea r Brothers. answered, " H e a in 't heavy. he's m Fo unders· D ay i'vi eeting Sigma Chapter During the mo nths brother. .. Our everyday wo rk no t so (Va nderbilt) and lumni M eeting " ·ith o f F e bru a r y a nd heavy that we ca nno t take ti me to help Dr. Carl Kirchmaier, 1 ashville Alumnus Milrch. I a ttended 13 o ur brother. Chapter President: i\Iarch 12, D en ton , Founders' D ay Pro Your 111 th e bo nds. T exas, Insta ll atio n of Ep il o n-D elta gnms il nd Alumni C hapter (No rth T exas Sta te); M arch I :J. i\ [eetings. Our Rush Lubbock, T exas, Alumni Meeting with ing Program was dis Bro ther Hiram J o rdan , Alumnus Cou n ~ u eel a t each meet se lor. and Fo under · Day Program wi th ing a nd o rganizatio ns National R ush ing Directm Epsil o n-Gamma Chapter (T exas T ech): fo r ca rrying o ut o ur i\farch 18, Lexington . Kentucky, Fo und rush p rooTa m were Several States Hold ers' D ay Meeting with Kappa C hilpter Joe C. Scott set up. (Transy lvil nia), Omega Cha pter (Ken T he entilusias m a nd coopera ti o n o( tucky), and Alpha- Lambda C hapter the alumni associatio n and acti ve chap Rush Plan Meetings (G eorgetown) and a n lumni Meeting ter was deepl y gratifying. l am a lso in The fo ll o wing are rush planning meet with J ohn U . Field, .-\lumnu Co unselor. debted to o ur a ti o nal Office sta fL Na ings which have been held in severa l Omega Cha pter (Kentucky); Ma rch 19. tio nal Officers. an d Distri t Presi dents states with alumni and members o f the C incinna ti , Ohio, ta tewide Founder;· lo r their in va luable assistance. T hey are active chapters: Dil y Program with Brother Bill N ester. all dedica ted perso ns. February 6. Atlanta. G eorgia, Alumni President. District lo. 5; April I , Kan .-\ t thi writing, we have a ppointed M eeting with Jnslee J o hnso n , N ati o nal sas C ity, Missouri, Meeting with Kansas rush cha irmen and se t up organizatio ns Vi ce President; F ebruary 12, A ustin, C ity Alumni As ociatio n and Richard N. in IS ta te . Other states such as Ore Texas, Alumn i Meeting with Robert C. Bill . gon, Ca lifornia, \!Vest Virginia, o nh Duke, President, Di trict o. 10, and Rush Planning meetings are being Caro lin a. a nd New J ersey have requested members o f the active chapter Beta-Mu planned fo r California, Oregon, W ash ilss i tance in organizing their programs. (T exas); Fe bruary 25, D allas, T exas, ington. il nd Mo ntana. Personal vi sit to each o [ thee sta tes will Fo unders' Day Program Beta-Zeta Chap be made as oon as possible and Rush ter (S. M.U.) with Brother J o hn F . E. Chil irmen will be appointed . Hippe!, atio na l President; F ebruary 26, State Rush All o f us are busy, but we ho pe yo u Ruston, Lo uisia na, District No. 8 Co n will find time to assist in these programs ventio n; March 4, Knoxville, T ennessee, if yo u are ca ll ed o n . I reca ll this inci Founders' Day Program Zeta Cha pter Chairmen Named dent in 'fexico C ity. A small boy was (T ennessee) : M arch 5, Birmingham, Ala State Rush C hairmen are being il p cil rrying hi s yo unger brother o n his bama, A lumni Meeting with Bro ther pointed in each state to coordinate and back. H e was asked if tha t wasn 't too Linwood Underwood, Pres ident, District Cil rry o ut the alumni rushing program hea vy a load [or him to ca rry. The boy No. 8: March 9, N ashville. T ennessee, o [ assisting active chapters. As we go to Oklahoma Alumni Rush Program Proves Effective At the statewide Founders" Day Meeting of the Oklahoma T he foll owing letter, with return se lf-addressed pos tal card en Alumni and Ac ti ve Chapter members, State Alumni Rushing cl osed, was mailed to over i 50 alums in Oklahoma: Chairman J oe Oldham reviewed th e 12 point Alumni Rushing Dear TIKA Alumnu : Program for ass isting rh e acti ve chapters. On March 24, Brother Rushing time is here and we have promised our active Oldham announced that three additional pan s of the program chapters that we would help them find better and more have been started. T hey arc: qualified rushees this year. Here is wh at I wi sh you would ' I. The Okl ahoma lumni 'Socia tion is ass isting the acti ve do immediately; please do not put it off: chapters in Okl ahoma by compiling a list of biographica l data on I. Write the name an d address of any boy or boys in pro minent Oklahoma TIKA . T he list, entitled " Who's Who in Pi Kappa Alpha in Oklahoma," will be a part of a brochure to wham you are jJerso nally interested in being rushed be used in the chapter rushing program. T he acti ves fee l that by one of our chapters in Oklahoma or in any other such a brochure wo uld be an aid in building the pres tige of the sla te. th ree acti ve chapters in Oklahoma: Beta -Omicron, niversity of 2. Please indicate the chao/ w hich you think he Okl ahoma, Norman; Ga mma-C hi , Okl ahoma A. & i\f. Co ll ege, might want to al/end. till water; and Ga mm a- psil on, T ul sa ni versit y, Tulsa. 3. JHenlion one m· two characteri tics like "excellent 2. A letter from the Na ti onal Ru hing Director wa s ·ent to student, good leader, good personality, etc." ever) high school prin cipal in Oklahoma asking him to ugges t As soon as we rece ive this card. we will se nd it to the on an encl osed return pos tal card fi ve seni or bO)S who might be Rush Chairman at the Acti ve Chapter at the chool whi ch interes ted in becoming 11K As. Space was prov ided on the ca rd the boy wi shes to attend. for the principal to in dica te one or two qualifi ca ti ons of each A lumni suggestions will receive first co nsideration. ' tu dent. As the names are received, a letter of congrawlations ll'ill you please do this righ t now? and invitation to visit any of the three acti ve chapter ho uses in Yours fraternall y, Okl ahoma is sent to th e boy b) the National Rushing Di rector. PI KAPPA ALPH A FRATERN ITY 3. On i\!arch 24, 1955. th e Oklahoma Alumni As oc iation j sj j oE C. corr Program wa started to obtain additional ru shee recomm endati ons. National Rushing Director 22 pre s. the following brother have al tant chapter. ;o we di;(O\ er hi ;, -o n He.I/JO II jibilities of the dta/Jtel-r\ good read y been nominated a nd ent letter name o n the pledge li t oi a nother fra thapter with an effective rushing pro o f appointment. Additional appoint ternity. gram will o li cit not onl y genera l rec ments will be made as nomi11 a tions are (2) Often chapter ;, ign up ru;h date;, ommendati on; from a lumni but pa pe made by District Pre icl ent : with the Iegacie , but " take them for cial attention to Iegacie;. The hou e .\RlZONA: Gayle A. mith, Box 4442, gra nted " and devote little a ttention to which the chapter no w occupies in mo t Phoenix; ARKAN A : C. A. Harper, them. Thi olten proves to be a m iHake insta nce; has be n bui lt by the weat, Democrat Printing & Litho Company, because the ru hee; are made to feel to il , a nd acri fi ce of a lumni giving a full 11 4 East Second Street, Little R ock: more at home in other fraternitie which measure of devoti o n tO Pi Ka ppa .\lpha. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Fred C. have concentrated on them. Of course, The ach ·e nt of a so n intO th fraterna l teven on, 34 07 Commonwea lth Avenue. we ;,ometime l o~e a boy in spite o f every bond i the highe t reward whi ch an Al exandria, Virginia; JLLI 101 : 1 orri s thing, but the htrge perce ntage of lo s come to him. T he chapter ha an oppor K. Levi s, .Jr., 605 Gas Electric Building, are clu e to a li p-up on the part ol the tunity to get " fir;t chance" at the rela R ockford; KA SA : Richard Bills, 7227 re lative or the chapter. What a tremen tive. . \I though the chapter is no t re J efferso n Street, Kansas City, Missouri ; dou waste o f line Pi Kappa lpha po quired to ex tend the ru;,hee a bid, it ha · I ENTU KY : .John U. Field, 20 1 ecur tential manpower! a n obliga ti o n a nd a n opportunity to ex ity Trust Building, Lexingto n; MARY pose th cha pter to the rushee and the LA D: Wilson R. Caskey, 909 Beech Alumni res/JO II :.ibilities-r\n in tercHed rushee to the cha pter. and in mo;t in wood Drive, Hagerstown ; M l SOUR!: loya l ~ du mnus will not pres ure hi s so n stances a bid will be a mutuall y de;irabl Vi c Gladney, 920 North Taylor, I irk or nephew or bro ther into joining Pi result. 1 Kappa Alpha. He wi ll render the grea t wood ; MO TA A: •Iervin Bendewald, The chapter ; hould ee that there i est ervice to himself , to hi s relative, and Forsy th e; NEBRASKA: Thoma W . no sli p-up in the ru ·h contact and cour to hi fraternity, if over a period of yean. lack. 11 4 N orth 32ncl Avenue, Omaha; te> ies ex tended o that the men will not he enable him to absorb and to under lEW MEXICO: Bill R eadon, Principal, be lo;t beca u e the chapter ·' fumbled the tand what his fnnernity has meant, why Albuquerque High chool, Albuquerque; ball .'' If the chapter. after proper con he has such a loya lty lO it, and why he OKLAHOMA: J oe Oldham, Box 124 1, sidera ti on of a ll the very important fac would be deep ly pleased if his son too Oklahoma City; WESTERN PE NSYL tors invoh·ed. feels it ca nnot ex tend a VANIA: Gustave \1\T. Wilde, 1515 Park cou ld share that fra ternal relati onship bid tO the rushee, it hould write a lett r Building, Pitts burgh: TEN ESSEE: when he entered coll ege. It is a positi ve of ex planati on to the a lumnu . Like approach whereby a desire is crea ted in Tom vVade, Kenton. wi se, if the chapter ru;, hes the man, but the so n to share in his father' joy . Cer Personal contact has been made a nd he declines to accept the bid, a report ta inl y, it is neither a favor to " hide yo ur organ izations set up in: ALAB MA: should be made to the alumnus expl ain hopes" from yo ur son, nor is it appro Linwood Underwood, 124 North 55th ing thil t the chapter did not lose him by priate to pressure him. ~ tr ee t , Birmingham; GEORGIA : Wal default but b eca u ~e of circumstance be la ce . \ 1\f ilkins, 3832 North Thompson It is likewise a responsibility o f the yo nd its control. R oad, Brookhaven; OHIO: Bill 1ester. alumnu to see that the chapter i in \ Vh ;n are we trying to >ay? Pi Kappa 2692 Stratford Avenue, Cincin nati; formed of his relative's presence, to fur TEXAS: R obert C. Duke, P. 0 . Box 63, Alpha i · lo;ing man y pl endid members lli sh it with informati on about him such simply beca m e of oversight, procrastina Au ·tin. as his address, his high school record, hi --IIK A -- ti on, or timidity on the part of alum11i particular interests or ho bbies, hi an or ineffi ciency, negligence, hortsighted We want to know - ticipa ted choo l major, and other infor ness. or even selfi shness o n the part o l mation which will be helpful to the chap some chapters. No one wa nt pres ure Is Your Son ter in handling it rush program. Chap on any chapter or on an y legacy but co ters which are ea rne tly seeking ru h rec operati on o n the part of alumni and ommendations frequently overlook lega chapters will lead to more happy heart; Entering College? cies imply because they were not aware among a lumni and chapters and a By Robert D. Lynn o f their prese nce. greater Pi Kappa Ipha! + Pi Kappa Alpha h as reached uch a maturity of age and size that sons, nephews, and younger broth RUSH RECOMMENDATION er of members are entering universitie in increasing numbers. These legacies fa il to Pi Kappa Alpha National Office. 57i niver ity. ,\f e mphi ~ 12, T enn. are not ob ligations but opportunities. Chapters render a se rious disse rvi ce to Name themse lves when they overlook the e op portunities. lumni, too, lose these op Home cl cl re;s ------portunities b defau lt if the chapt er is not informed of the rela tionship and the enrollment. \•Vi II enter ------n i ver;i t )' Let's look at " rushing relative ." A Please refer this w the appropriate chapter and have it contact thi;, man prominent alumnus recently tated , " \ 1\fe lor rush. Information as to his acti vities are attached. arc losing far too many son and brothers o f members," and suggested the ·e two Signed contributing fa ctors: ( I) Fathers and brother are o ften r\ddres reluctant to take the initiative in turning the names of their kinsmen over to the chapter or in rushing them. Especially is this true of fathers who are yea r away Chapter ------·------_ !rom coll ege and are po sibl y from a di s- ?3 .\l pha- Xi C h~pt er and to the Universit community and to a host of other who Chapler Gternaf knew him il nd loved him. H e wa a rea l " man about campus" and a general good will ambassa do r to students, fa culty and \\' iLLL\J'vl R . JE E R SSELL 1-IOLJ\fr\N WlLLJ , SR. tOwnsfolk . Colonel William R . J e s , nited Ru se ll Holman Willi , Sr., 0 (Ri ch A man o f great energy, per onality and tates property and phys ical o! fi cer for monel), former tate Senator and a widely the Missouri National Guard, died known Virginia lawyer, died August 10, loyalty, he gave Pi Kappa lpha a large J\ farch 6, 1955 in St. l ary's H o pita! in 1954 in R oa noke, Virginia at the age of share of each of these. As Alumnu Counselor, he made a tremendous con J effer on City, Mi so uri. H e was 5 yea rs 75. Brother Will is, a brother-in-law o£ of age. o lonel J e se, an alumnus of United tates enawr A. \•\Ii llis Robert tribution to Alpha-Xi Chapter. r\lpha-N u (Mi ouri), was a veteran of son, 0 (D-Va.), had pra ti ced )?w in Brother Morris il nd hi wife, J oanne. both wars. and held the rank o( briga R oanoke since 1909, a nd at the time of ll'ho was a member of Delta Delta Delta dier ge neral during W orld W ar II. He his death wa associated with o ne of his Sorority a nd Mortar Board at the ni wa buried at Arlington National Ceme three o n , Holman Willi , Jr., I, in the versitv o f Cincinnati , have two yo ung ter ', ArlingtO n, Va. firm of Willis & Will i . ons, Brandy a nd Toddy. Beside his intere t in law, J\ fr. Willis Excerpts from the University of Cin JAMES PHILLIP J\IcGEE was o ne of the organizers of the Moun cinnati newsp aper emphasize the a ffec t~ in Trust Bank in R oanoke for which J ames Phillip J\IcGee, Er (Texas Tech), tion a nd e teem in which he was h eld. t one time he son o f Mr. a nd Mrs. Sam McGee of Fort he Ia ter was a cl i rectOr. l\ I i s Dorothy :\berman writes: \Vorth. Texa , wa fatall y injured J anu was a member of the Se nate in the Vir ary 26, 1955 in a ar-truck coll ision near ginia General Assembly and even in his "The [amiliar hal l in the C Unio n, last yea r ma inta in ed a keen intere t in J acksboro, T exa . where the Alumna! Association Office i; politic . Bro ther McGee had ju t been elected found, was a lways buzzing with 'Lucky'· --111, .1 -- MC of Epsil o n-Gamma Chapter a t th e jokes and pun . tudents could readily time o f his death. H e had previou I speak with him about all problems and served a Th.C. senior, h e would h ave he would always lend a broad houlder received his degree in May. H e received and a big heart toil troubled UCite. the coll ege's Gold f edal award (or the "'Lucky' graduated (rom UC' Coll ege outstanding senior rmy ROTC elec of Law in 1950. H e pr~ c ti ce d in Cincin tronic major. H e wa a li eutena nt in nilti. Devoted to UC, he still found time Scabbard and Blade, honorary militar y to erve a as istant secretary o t the alum orga nization , and a member of the Stu na! associa tion, llKA Alumnu Counselor, dent ouncil. Cincinnatu ad vi or, member o f the army reserve, La la ye tte Mason ic Order and HENRY L. C ROWTHE R Ooola Khan Grotto. H e took an active part in the R epubli an campaign of 1952. Dr. H enry L. Crowther, BA (Penn State) & Z (Tennessee), died February "Freshmen wi ll remember him for hi> 2 1, 1955. H e wa a noted obstetrician enthu iasti c participation in the Cincin o n the staff of Hahnemann Hospital in natus annual summer coke partie for Pennsy lvania. Brother Crowther g r ~ clu students. ated from H ahnemann Medica l Coll ege " J\fost of us have been acqua inted with in 192 . H wa also on the ta ffs o f active a nd busy peop le, but few of us \1\'omen ' H omeopathic H ospita l and have known a man who distino-ui heel Elm T errace H ospital, Lansd;d e, Pa. himself with interest in politics, business, social life, campus, a nd in all associations C RTI FR NC I BE TE with people, a 'Lucky' Morris did. uni Fra nci Be te, B::: (Wisconsin), " H e was a fan and supporter o f a ll of James Phillip McCee, SMC of Epsilon U ' athleti c teams. coach of the rifle charter member of Beta-Xi Chapter. died Gamma (Texas T ech), was fatally in October 1 , 1954 in Portland, Oregon. jured in January. team, he was give n opportunity to real He was the west coa t representative of ize one of his dreams-serving C in the the Aluminum Good J\l anufacturing athletic fi eld. Compan y. Born in Mo inee, ·wisconsin, "Student who come tO the Union may Brother Be te i the third of the twenty Cincinnati Loses forget 'Luck 's' miraculous Ji t of se rvi e eight charter member o f Beta-Xi to join activitie ; but, few of us will ever forget Chapter Eternal. Alumnus Counselor the wann, fri endly mi le and parking A highway accident brought sudden persona lity of our 'Lucky.'" PHILLIP WILLI f , JR. death to Alpha-Xi Alumnus Coun elor In her " R ocks and vVry" olumn, J\Iis Phillip William , Jr., n (W a hingwn Percy "Lucky" J\Iorris Friday night, Elaine Maham expre sed it this way: a nd Lee). a o ia te professo r at the Uni J\ farch 18, in Iichi ga n while traveling "Even to the most flippa nt and care ve rsity of Virginia, died March 16, 1955 with the ni ve rsity o f Cincinnati rifle free of us there's something m y teriou at hi home in harlotte vill e, irg1111a. team to the N a ti o na l Intercoll egiate Sec and awe-inspiring about death. The sud A native of Wood tock and a graduate ti onal Rifle M atches at. nn Arbor's ni denness of the coming and the fin ality of W ashi ngtO n a nd Lee. Brother Wil ver ity o£ Iichigan. Rifle T eam Cap· of this miracl e which leads u o wiftly liams jo ined the U niver ity of irgm1a tain ta n ley Me er, Jr. was also killed from one life to another, to me at lea t, fa u lty Ia t eptember a fter previou I a nd three other team members injured . ha always been a ource of wonder. erving a a n assi ta nt profe or o( Eng The new o f his death brought sadness always when death comes clo e to lish at Duke ni ver ity. tO the tudent and alumni members o f u , thi week ha been o ne when we a II paused for a few minutes a nd wondered just wh ere we were going, how we were getting there, and whether we we re put ting enough energy a nd devotio n in to our journey. or aving all our bes t ef fo rts for the indefinite time in the [uwre. when we will have reached our goa l. "When the new of Luckv Morris' death came back to .C., the ' conver a ti ons about it all started out in the same vein : built around phrase such as 'tragic,' 'young,' 'brilliant future,' a nd o forth. But I noti ced that they a ll soon turned to admira ti o n for the ve ry acti ve a nd full life he had packed into thi rty one yea rs. " \Vhen I read the li t of activities in which Lucky had participated , mostl y in some active a nd responsible ca pacity. it dawned on me that here was a ma n wh o had thrown himse lf with a will into the orga ni za ti ons in wh ich he had a n inter es t. and hadn't spent all of hi time in the prese nt planning, a so man y of us do. to wa it to begin li ving unti l after some specifi c e"ent ha ha ppened in the future. Bes S hields is pictured h ere with Beta SMC Frank Hanshaw duri.ng his ·visit to Davidson College homecom.ing celebration in 1952. He received honors from "E"en to those of us who knew Lucky both th e college and the Fratern ity f or h is musical contribrLtian to each. onl y as an acqua intance hurrying in or Brother Shield , who recentl y retired song, he had decided to wait [or the long out of the Campus 'Y,' stoppirw in the as group representative o f the Aetna Life train trip to New Orlea n to se t hi s idea; Crill for a cup of coffee, or chorusing Insurance Compan y a fter thirty yea rs o f on paper. t the last minut , co ll ege 'Vo-doddee-o-doo' at a fraternity party, service, joined the Chapter Eternal pril au thori ties fa il ed to gra nt him the neces the uintentional lesson which he taught , 1955, while in a priva te hospital in sa ry permission (or absence from school, us in pla nning for the future but remem Atl anta, Georgia. Funeral services were so he was compell ed to work fast and bering to live in the present is surely a conducted in the Deca tur, Georgia, Pres diligently to complete the score. A stand strong one. byteri a n Church. H e is survived by hi s by runner raced with the manuscrip t to " .-\ s this week has pas ed and I've wife, who lives a t 768 Columbia Drive, the tra in and deli ve red it to the Beta hea rd one perso n a tfer a nother say ju t Deca tur, Georgia, a nd a daughter, Mrs. delega te alread y on board. Three clays the thrngs that I 've written abo\'e, a nd Willia m D. Lang of Miami , F lorida. la ter in New Orlea ns, hi s fraterni t tell how they've resol ve e! to put just a "Bes," a nickname derived from his brothers hea rd the winning composition lrttle more effort into the pre ent, I've three initial , wa initiated in the pring for the first time. begun to see how, without ever knowing o f 1917. The Beta chapter news in the In the thirty- fi ve yea rs since its com some o f these people. he has become a 19 18 issue o f The Shield and Diamond positio n, the annua l electi on o l "T he \·ery rea l influence in their li ves. magazine included the foll owing: "Mili Dream Girl of ITKA" is a tradi tio n on " 1 wonder if Lucky isn't ju t a little tary drill has almost ca used David on to scores of ca mpuses throughout the na pro ud today of this unexpected way in look like an Army ca nto nment. It is ti on. Prominent vocali t such as Gene which he ha influenced the kid and the compulsory for the Sophs and Fresh, and Austin, Rudy Vall ee, and Bing Crosby co ll ege to which he ga \'e so much of his electi ve for the two upper cl as es. Four through the years have made record ings time and himse lf.' ' of our brothers are d rilling. They are: of the song. Its nati onal populari ty is second onl y to "The Sweethea rt of Sigma -- n l\ .1 -- 'Buck' Privates McQueen and Shield , Chi ." The March, 1955, edition of T he a nd Lieutenants Brown and Sco tt. Their Shield and Diamon d magazine ca rried motto is 'Berlin or Bust. '" His acti vitie another so ng b y Bro ther Shi elds, "A Fu prior to graduati on in .June, 1920, in tu re TIKA." ::/)ream cl uded two terms as Jl\ JC; membership in the band, quartet and orches tra; H e was a loyal member, who con trib leader of the glee club; and captain in u ted hi time and talents to Pi Kappa Compoder }oind the R eserve Officers Training Corps. Alpha throughout his adult life. Bes was quite an accomplished musi U pon lea rning of the pass ing of Ckapler f:ternaf cian and composer. \ 1\T hile at Davidson Brother Shields, ati onal Pre id ent Hip College. he wrote its present alma mater, pel tared : "Bes was indeed a grand guy. and all of us in Pi Kappa lpha sin: erely + The entire fraternity was " 0 , Davidson." Beta Cha pter thought it saddened b y the dea th of Benjamin E r ought to take adva ntage of his abilities, mourn his pass ing. His contribution to ne t Shields, 56, an alumnus of Beta so it "ordered" him to compose a song our fraternity is immeasurable. H e will Chapter (D avid on Co11 ege) a nd author [or entry in the Convention Song Con live on forever in the hearts of succeed of one of the two most outstanding fra tes t being held during the 1920 ati onal ing ge nerati ons of our members through ternity songs in Ameri a tod ay, "T he Convention in N ew Orlean . . !though his immortal song, 'The Drea m Girl o( Dream Girl o f ITKA." "Bes" had a few ideas abou t the proposed Pi Kappa Alpha.' " 25 lo The terroces of S oi11t Germoin, Poris. ~ Pari s has mea nt so man y of all natio n;, who h;11·e met at the cro - is inexhaustible, ever-c hanging, unhu:· things to ;o man y people thro ugh the roads ca ll ed Paris. ca n and do participate. ri ed , but determined . The new;,paper age;, that it i difficult lO kno w where ,·· endo r just went by with his ing-;ono Yo ur fir t e>. perience in this lively at legend ends a nd his wry begins. The dl\lllt o l the names of the pre s. ,\ blind mosphere wa> 0 11 the ~\ir France plane, tra ,·eler wa nts to acqua int himse lf with man makes hi way amo ng the tables o l where internationa l travelers o l a ll wa lks the metro polis- pra i eel in countless lering yo ur lo nune o n a slip of paper, o f life meet on the way to Paris. The so ngs, described in a ll literary lorms which his trained parakeet drew o ut to lu xurio u Super Constell atio n Ui ght had I ro m ver e to guidebook jargon, and re te ll yo ur fa te. The substitute attracti o n the a me atmo ·ph ere o f relaxation. a nd produced by painters, primer , a nd pho fo r wa tching o ut-o f-state li cense pla te the ;,a me hospitable welcome. beca use Air tographers- the vi siwr eager!)' seeks out at home. i · the gues;ing-ga me o f nation France is trul y France a loft. T he Air the C it y of Li ght o f his mind 's eye in a lities of passe rs-by: the wa lk, the eire s. France hoste;,; o ff ered th e couneous, order lO compare it with the tangible city the conversa tion. the features. Abo ut persona lized se n •ice, which greets yo u o n the Se in e. thi time a wa ndering tro ubado ur lin now nn the sidewalk terrace. There are ma n cities o f Pari s: the i;, hes a po tpourri de;, igned to p lease the Paris of mo numents, the Paris of muse The sidewalk ca lc deli es delinitio n . trave lers o f the wo rld. The women are Inns, the Paris o f the arts, the Pari o l It i;, a ll things to all people. Look aro und absorbed in the deta il s o f the nether ga nightlife, LO name but a few. But yo u. T o o ne side are two men disc uss ing wo rld of style. making sweeping a ppra isa I possibl y the most impo n am a~pec t o f the busine>s. Ju>t beyond are four swdents from p lume to heel. .-\ sa ndwich-man cit)' is the actual pulse o [ the people. the wo rking at a cia;,;, assignment, while in ca rries the announcement of a new pia •. C>se mial human element that formed the fro nt o l yo u arc two wo men abw rbed in Pro menading Pari sian with pets are a pa t and which give life to the pre;en t. fashio n . On the o ther side i a middle who le ociety to them elve fo r tud '· Too o lten , the visitor lends o nl y per aged gentlema 11 correcting a manu cri pt, The ·treet cl ea ner tidily sweeps hi >ec luncto ry au ention LO the Pari sia ns them a lo ngside o ther;, reading newspaper ·, or LOr with the traditio nal, but practica l 'clve . Yo u become so abwrbed in ee u m centra ting sc ri o u ~ l y o n a snack, read twig- broom. A billboard wo rker ha jmL ing things tha t yo u do n 't see the people. ing or leigning to read a book. de li ghting cl othed the nea rb • ki o k with a n imer lloll'ever. nothing sho uld drown o ut the a child with a good y o r o ffering a ugar esting new oa rb. Children pass 11·ith 1 oice of the people o f Pari . cube to a poodle. ,..\ provincial i> crib lo ng bro wned loa ve of bread tuck d un The rcnde?vou with the Pari;, ia ns is a bling best wi he; o n postcards tO rela tive der their arm like a baseba ll bat. Almost dail appoimmem ill the most French of in Bo rdea ux. whil e a gro up o f fo1·eign everyo ne ca rries a boo k o r newspapcr a ll imtitution; - the sidewalk terrace. vi ito rs stud the Baediker hi>to r o f the Pilri; ians mu;t be the mo t vo racio u There i no thing quite like it an yll'here mo nument aero; the treet. But the readers in the world. If neither is vi ible. else in the world. The pia it ell i a part time preoccupatio n of all terrace there i the ever pre ent brief ca ·e, which o ld as o~cie t and paradoxica l) a t o ne ha bitue i the pa;si ng parade-the peo the Frenchma n acquires with lo ng pan!S moment o u are in the a udience, a nd the ple o f Paris and the world- making it o r before. next yo u are o n >tage. The language i;, wa up the avenue o r Lreet under the e(ond o n I to the primed page, come uni,·er a l pantomime. o tha t the people broad green tree;. The ka leido copi vi ew convcrs;JLi o n . The Pari sian thrive o n 26 tonversation, the exchange o[ ideas and Lambretta i\ lotor cooter tOur through opinions. without which he would uri> lta ly. . \u tria, wit7erl a nd , and France. ca tc. The topics are the encyclopedic The i\fotor cooter Tour group will aui vi ti es o[ men everywhere in the lca ' e lcll ewild Jntemational Airport via world: poetry, politics, taxes, food. the .\ ir France Super "C" Con tell a tion on arts-and the weather. l t is the practical June 28. 1955. From June 29 th to .Jul y appli ati o n of the trite phra e: '' He who 3rcl. the group wi ll pend leisure!) da) Jives will see·· and hear and understa nd. in i\[ila n, where the Lambrctta will be E,·er • Frenchman is very much alive. and deli,·ered a t the factory. and a n oppor very much concerned with h is opinion tunity af(orcl ecl to get acq ua inted with on a ll things. It i inconce ivable that a the scooter on the test grounds under P ari;ian not have an opinion o n a sub sta ff guidance. ject, a nd o he is in the consta nt quest o[ information on all things from jan to The tour will permit close contact with ju tice. r\nd thi i one o f th e reaso ns peopl e or a ll walb o l life. from th e pca> he i here with yo u at the terrace ren ant woman and newsboy to the mayor cleLvous. and urbanites. or course, the actual terrace yo u choose The LO ur highligh ts include the French i.> not tOO importa nt. because the hors a nd Ita li an Rivieras, a day on Elba. -4 cl' oeuvre of peop le i o[ the most vari e da y> in Rome, 3 clay.> in Fl orence. 2 da) > ga ted kind. everywhere at the sidewal k in Ven ice. 6 days in Austria, Lieduen terraces o [ Paris. Neverthele s. there is tein . 5 cl ay. in Switzerland a nd fin all y The Arch of Triltmph, Paris. a eli tinctive, basic element, which marks 14 cl ays in France. Of cour e there arc the character of the terraces o[ each q ua r the numerous short stops at points ol ri er. The cafes of the Champ -Elysee imerest along the way. have a certa in elega nce a nd insouciant T he co mplete cost of the Union Tour respect for time. Those of the gra nds i\Iotor Scooter trip including the Lam boulevards and avenue de l'Opera are breu a and return shipment to the U nited icl en ti (iecl by tourists, shopper , and States, hotel accommodati o ns, breakfa>t> thea tre-goers. Saint Germain des Pres a nd dinners throughout the trip is only ha the aura of writers, and artist . $ 1,425. The cost is an additional S l ,2 95 Bo ulevard Saint fiche! has a heavy con for a econcl perso n on the scooter. cen tra ti on of students from the world George Studley of nio n Tours Jnc.. o,·er. ]( yo u should happen on a terrace ~ The L a mbrc tL a l\ [otOr 15 W est 36 th Street, New York, ha al a t Place l\ faubert, or Bucci, at the r ight Scooter has become a n in stitution on the read y received enthusia>tic res ponse tO time, yo u wi ll find a ll the people of the European sce ne, [or ach·enturou yo ung Lhe l\fotOr Scooter Tour to Europe n a supermark et at home. Those terrace on tra velers. This in forma I means o f roam Ai r France. the qua is are the property o f everyone, ing the countryside has gathered more --TII' .I -- but most Parisian ca fes are marked more a nd more interest in America. For this First Lt. Buckl ey L. Drenner, r .1. (Al a by the heterogeneous than by a peci fie reason , U n io n Tours Jnc. in cooperation bama), is with the 10th I nfa ntry Divi character. with ,\ir France. has organ i1ed a 63-cla y ion·s 86th R egiment at Fort Riley, J a n. Once yo u have heard the voice of the people o[ Paris, yo u will never forget the experi ence, the chall enge of co nversa ti on, and the vi sual spectacle. lt is so esse ntially French that it ca nnot be con sidered less a part of the Ci ty of Light than l o t~ · e Dame, or the artistic crea· tions. 1t i at once an urba n portrait uy Toulo use- Lautrec, and a 20 th ce ntury pl ay by Moliere. The words of the an cient chronicler J ea n Annius are still the ,·oice of the Parisians and their visiting The Moru.t m e nt to guests: •· 1o o ne ca n doubt that this Pari V ictor E mman ltel i the mold of the Pari sians ... seen f rout the --nKA -- Forum in R o m e . O KLA. FOU N DERS' DAY (Continued (rom page 18) .J ohn Landes: BO. Bi ll ings, Okla.; on ol Cherokee Strip pioneer. engaged in farming and owner Landes Bi ll ings Pro duce Co.; father o f R obert Landes. now in Beta-Omicron Chapter at University of Oklahoma; two nephews. David and Eldon Landes, now in Gamma-Chi C hap ter, Oklahoma .-\ . · l. Coll ege: uncle o f Ben Cul p. pres ident of Beta -Omicron. 27 memorie:. o l life in Alpha-E psilon hap ter with J ohn A. Park. and others, a nd .A/pfm l:ta Ce/ebrafeJ o f as ociations with members of the old >O uthern chapter wh en I had the pri ,·i lege ol en ·ing a Genera l r\lumni cere 52nJ 'ljear af :J-forida tar) This will acknowl edge receipt re ce ntly of the fine certifi cate of member ship into the Golden Chapter ol Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. lor which 1· thank you very much. 1 sha ll trea ure it as I do many fond m mories of a;,o ciations a a member o l our fra ternity. John J . W ea therl y. Y P. 0 . Box 1376 Fifty year m e mbe r s at Alpha-Eta Founders' Day are : (l. to r.) R oss C. Atla nta I , Ga. S awyer, Key West; Judge B urton Barrs, Jack sonv ille, Fla. ; ancl Dr. ... J am p leased to advise th 28 of a dozen or more of my distingui hed lawyer fri end a nd judges . ... Of course, this certificate wi ll be passed along to my son and grandson both of whom are member of our fraternity, that is, there are three living generations in the Peg ra m fami ly who are member . . .. 0[ course, I am delighted to be informed that I am being granted a compliment ary subscri ption for the rest of my I i fe to Th e Shield and Diamond and wi ll look forward with intere t to the coming o£ that magazine and enjoy it when it gets here. Thomas E. Pegram, AT, I Ripley, Mi s . . . . I received the certificate of my admittance to the Golden Chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, and I thank yo u for sending it to me. I wi ll have it fra.med a nd hung in my oEEice. M. W. Swartz, AI, Pres. Peoples Bk. of Indianola Valparaiso's m embers are (1 . to r.) first row-Grunau, Marble, Hellbusch , Indianola, Mis . Kupke, Durkovic, N ickel ; second row-Krueger, Clausi.ng, Preuss, Kolb, Sen sen.baugh; third row--Miller, Swing, }uergen sen , Kleverww, Krebs, Heck el, ... You may be quite sure that my S toike, and Lehmann. a sociation with Pi Kappa Alpha does bring pleasant memories, and your letter o[ Epsilon-Beta Chapter. The year 1954- and the certifica te will be a daily re Thirty-two Pledges 55 proved to be a fru itful one since " ·e minder of the halcyon days of the pa t. pledged twelve men in the fa ll making Beverley Broun, A the total for the year. thirty- two. Our 1206 Virginia St., East At Valparaiso membership for next yea r, all owing for Charleston I, W.Va. graduates and other unforeseen events, By Edward Drzik The member hip certificate wh ich should be betwee n 50 and 55 members. + In the spring seme ter the yo u ordered sent to me has been re Ep il on - B e t~ Chapter is sponsoring wheel staned rolli ng into a new rushing ceived, and is very handsome. I think sea on at Valparaiso University. A cer \1\fayn e Wiese as a candidate for student counci l president. orman Anderson has so much of it that it is being framed tain period of time is designated for fi led an a pplication for assistant student under glass at present. rushing and each week end one or two counci l treasurer whi ch is an appointive R alph C. Pa tton, H fraternities have a rush party. Wayne po 1t10n. Richard Harm is erving as 86 Blackstone Blvd. Wiese erved a chairman of ru bing, as student council president and has been Providence, R . I. sisted by J ames Matties. These men di appointed chairman of the 1955 home rected the individual as well as group . . . Some days ago, I received a rec coming. ognition of 50 years membership in Pi rushing. One of our chapter's pride and joy i the commissary and it is used to --llKA-- Kappa Alpha. Please be aware of my full advantage during rush. Pro pectives full apprecia tion of this high honor and are invited to dinner, two or three each courtesy. Fifty yea rs is a long time and evening. This gives the boys an oppor there have been many chances to exem tunity to become acquainted with the plify the spirit of brotherl y love as nar To GEORGE W. DENTON , AN (Missouri), men of the fraternity. It has proved to and Mrs. Denron, a son, George H alleu, rated in phi phi kappa alpha, and as we be an ideal method of lea rning to know February I, 1955, Cleveland, Ohio. look back over these years, we wish we the prospectives on a more personal basis. To NICK APPLE, rn (Southern California), could have made b tter use o f these op Several parties were also given includ and Mr. Apple, a son , Steven An thony, portuniti es. ing a Mome Carlo party and smoker. December 27, 1954 , Good Samaritan H o pital, Los Angeles, Calif. D . W. A. Neville, M Dice tables. roulette lvheels, etc., were Newberry, S. C. the attraction at Monte Carlo. Ever yone To CII ARLES J. I-IODZKO , JR., rH ( OUth ern California), and Mr . Chodzko, a son, Yo ur letter of February 23 abou t was give n 2.500 in play money to start i\fark, 1ovember 29 , St. Vincent's Ho pita!, m y Golden Membership Certificate came them on rh eir way. A few lucky souls Los Angeles, Calif. multiplied the 2.500 to two million dol today, and I wish to thank yo u right out To WADE PETERSO , rz (Washington of my heart for thus recalling the fact lars. Another unlucky so ul lost two mil Sta te), and Mrs . Peter on, a son, William lion dollars at one roll of the dice. Our Wade, August 21, 1954, Ladd Air Force that I joined fifty yea rs ago. annual smoker wa attended by approxi Base, A Iaska . R ev. J ames vV. Marshall , mately 85 persons in addition to the ac To GARL TYER, Er (Texas Tech), and Mrs. 317 S. Bonita tives. One of the highlights of the Tyer, a son, Gar!, Jr., December 13, 1955. Panama City, Fla. smoker was the consequence games where To C. W. ALLEY , JR., z (Tennessee), and --IlK A -- the actives played the unfortunate vic Mrs. Alley, a son, Lewis Ingram, March 31 , tims. Ru hees answered ques ti ons wrong 1955, Bristol Memorial Hospital, Bristol, Second Lt. H oward '· Hind ·, Z (Ten Tenn. nessee), recently was graduated from the and chose an active to pay the penalty. To NORWOOD GAYLE, JR ., Z (South Caro Army's Transportati on School at Fort After rushing ou r work was rewarded. lina). and Mrs. Gayle, a daughter, Lisa Al Eusti s, Va. Twenty pledges were added to the ranks lison, March 14, 1955, Columbia, S. C. 29 T enn.; Tint 'ulli,·a n, Z, ~ e w York Cit); Jrom !he paffej o/ J ohn Hoff, Z, D ye r burg; Jo eph .\ . \\ ir;,ich. BO . Oklahoma Cit , Okla.: Dr. a nd i\Jrs. \\1 . B. Hanhcock, re, Clark - mewtoria! fieadljuarferj dale, i\ fiss.; ancy Eiland, Drew, i\ fi; .: i\Iar ' J o Fra nklin. Brandon, i\[i s.; Bob \\ hitfield, re, J ackson, i\liss.; Sam Dam (fuejf Book zler, re, Late College, Ii .; i\ l r. a nd Ir. Charl es R . .Burton, Q, LexingtOn . + Vi sitOr;, to our i\Jemorial Norman C. T a nner, .\1', a lL Lake City, Ky.; J ames Branch, Jr., KA. Hope, ,\ rk. ; lleadq uan er> have come from through Utah; Pappy Lawrence, B~ , tate Col Cary C. Caylor, Z, Cleveland, Tenn.: out the nited LaLCs and i\Iex ico. lt i lege. i\ Ii ;, .: Ro ben H. Artman, BK, AH , .James F. H ellrich, rz, Urbana, Ohio. 1 a privilege to how them through yo ur Lakela nd, Fl a.; Edward L. Cib on, Be n·j amin H. H en on, Raleigh, • C.; beautiful headquan er . " 'e are li Lin g Clarksdale, 1\ li .: B. D . i\Iartin, Oak Henry B. Roney, Jr., N ew York Cit ; here the name'> o( out-o f-town ,·i>itors Ridge, T enn.; Dr. and i\Jr . L. Ro s J acques Sc huler, Jr., n , Erie, P a.; George for the past everal month . Lynn and i\ liss EliLabeth L ynn. Talla F. Krueoer, ..'.;:: , Bloomington, Ind.; Da Dr. Ca lvin F. wbblefi eld, Al, i\lrs. ha;, e, Fla.: i\ lr . Julius Brand and J ack vid \Vii on, Louisville, i\li .; i\ lr. and Calvin Swbblefi eld, Yazoo City, i\Ii s.; Brand. ;\ P, Columbus. Ohio; J anet i\Irs. L ee \ Vilborn, Au tin, T exas; R ay arl Pirkle, r , D ye rsburg. T enn.; David Swartley, Fa irborn, Ohio. Kaeli n, Bn, Baltimore, Jd. ; ,\n ne 1-l arkn e;,;,, Z, Knoxville, T enn.; Phil Ken Everetts \1\1. i\ lcFaclden, U S Balti Wright, Se lmer, T enn.; L ynn Swrge , cl!·ick, Jr .. B;\l, Abilene, T exas; i\ Jr . and more. FPO, N ew York; Edgar \1\latkins, a n Angelo, T exa; Jr. and i\Ir . \V. ,\lr . J. H . Cie eler, Sr., lew Orlean , B}[ , an .-\ nto nio, T exas; !\Jarvin King, Eugene \V ade. Z. Union City, T enn .; La.; Bill J ohnso n, BZ, Dallas, T exa ; J. B}l. Hou ton. T exa; Houghton R eed , a nd _lim Foster, .\Z . .Batesville . . \ rk. D . ,\ berneth y, rA, Birmingham, Ala.; E. Kent Strong, Angelos Georgios, and Paul -- II KA -- D . Hunter, B}I , Che enne, \Vyo.; D. 0 . Hoff from Delta-C hi Chapter, Omaha, Hunter. AX .\ . pokane. \Va h.; t\ lrs. 1\' eb. ; i\lr. H e wa; accompanied by his wife, ~ f ary cl el, a nd their two-year-old daughter, i\ fartha. ''0 The Robert A. Charles C. Byrd S m ythe Memorial Oak is shown as it New Field Secretary is planted by ]. H. Trinner, chairman By S tan Love, t.I & AP of the Memorial Headquarters Build Charles C. Byrd, who hails + ing Committee, (rom Delta-Iota Chapter at Marshall Col April 8 , 1955. lege in Huntington, W est Virginia, was A mixture of soil a ppo inted on February I, 1955 by the from alll09 chap Supreme Council to serve as Field cre tary (or the western area. Charl es, who te rs was used sym d aims Big Stone Gap, Virginia as his bolizing the unity home town, wa initiated by Delta-Iota arul devotion of the in September o f 1952. H e immediately Fraterni.ty. began hi s work for Pi Kappa Alpha b y Others pictured are ;erving as H ou emanager and Steward (l. tor.) Earl Wat during the year 1952-53. After a ver y kins, Curtis Nelson, uccessfu l year, he was elected Th.C in antl R. D. Ly n n . May of 1953. Upon returning to school the fall o f 1953 he ga ve u p this o ffi (c to lour yea r cour;e in only three years. he is going w co ll ege? Have yo u no tified f ew people in an in titution of learning the nati onal o ffice or the chapter directl y are abl e to accompii h this while work giving it informa ti on abou t him which in g their way through school and han· will enabl e the chapter to make the ap· d ling a rn a jor fra ternity office also. propriate contact and to extend to hi m Along with a very bu y schedule, no t o nl y the routine courtesies but >pe Clwrles C. Charles remained ve r y acti ve in the fra cial Pi Kappa lpha fri endship? IE no t, B y rd ternity as well as numerous campus or don't delay, do it today! ganiza ti ons. Outstanding a m o n g hi s Are yo u student members "on the campus activities was the Veterans Club ball " ? H ave yo u been in continuing con of which he wa one o ( the ori gin al tact with yo ur alumni and have yo u so founders a nd organizers. li cited from them recommendati ons of Charles served in several ca pacities in new men entering your college. H ave the constructi on indu try and for three yo u ackn owl edged these recommenda· ti ons? Have yo u gone to extended el again serve as Housemanager a nd rew yea rs in the N avy before he enrolled at fo n to give thes men a warm welcome ard during the year 1953-54. Very few Marshall. H e i sin gle, 30 yea rs of age, and more than usual consideration for of our chapter throughout the nati on and a member o f the Epi copal Church. memben.hip? Have yo u reponed to the opera te a kitchen during the ummer His experi ence in house operati ons and a lumnu making the recommenda ti nn months, but under the leadersh ip of other aspects o l the fraternity make him the re, ult ol yo ur contacts with the Bro ther Byrd, Delta-Iota has operated well qualified to ;erve on the 'ati onal rushee? 1 - l <~ v e yo u made it a point to the kitchen for the last three summer Office taff. -- 111\ .1 -- leil rn if <~ n y ·· legacies" are on campu , with unusual success . and h:1, .c yo u ;howcd the proper consid Former MC Larry Hall started the erati on to them? ba ll rolling toward a new house in 195 1. Rushing- The Nati o nal Office has a pamphlet SMC Watson, Love, and Stone contin 31 ,c.oretl. a; well as ha \'in<> ,,·o n the intra te nd, .\ lount Ho l)oke College in 1\ la»a Virginia Sports mura l ba kctball champio n hip for two chu;cu '> . Sa ll y Bach who a u cml; ;\ lary on;ecutive sea on . Mount Coll ege in New York ta te wa;, Ru;h sea o n thi; ~ea r wa, one o f the a mem ber of the court. i\ Jiss Bach wa'> Record Outstanding most succe ful e\·er. with Alpha Cha p C>co n ed b Brother Bob Do wling. By Dan Brown ter e:-..tending ele\'cn bid , each of which The week end o f i\ larch 26 Pi Ka ppa w;;;, accepted. ,. \lpha was well repre entecl at the a n· ~ During the p~>l ;,c. hool K .l -- nua l Campus Che t Carniva l. At the end year. the m mber ol .\ lpha Chapter ---n of the evening o£ acti vities we found our ha' e taken major role; in nearly e,·ery sc l\'e the pro ud owner of a cup for third acti,·ity at the ni \ cr;it) o l Virginia. Rensselaer Celebrates be;t booth a nd a conso le model hi -lidel Jn port. a li ; ting of the outHancling it)' phonograph for coll ecting the large'>t athl ete would appe~r to h ~\'C been taken 20th Anniversary ;um o f money at the carniva l. It wa'> from the TIK A roster. Promin ent mem By John F ish er indeed a profitable night. ber of last year's Lootba ll ;quad ~ nd + Gamma-Tau celebra ted Going imo the fin al stretch o f Ren. ~; pir a nt for state and na ti o nal honor se lacr· s intra mural program JIKA ; tand, in the coming ea on arc tackle Jim Founders' Day at a ban 1u ct held the E lckcs and Nick Lawler. a promi;,ing afternoon of Sunday. i\l arch 6. lO high fourth out o f twenty-e ight frat rnities in ha llback. J e Hagy, cha pter pre;icle nt, li ght a " ·eek end o f feHi,·iti es. The ban the quest for the gra nd prize, the Barker by hi ; brilliam perlormance on the grid quet erved a double purpo;e as this Trophy. Our basketba ll team wound up iron las t yea r has become one of the marked the twentieth anni ,·e r ar y o f with a \'Cry succes [u l season as they fin mo t popul ar a nd out ta nding members Gamma-Tau o n the ca mpus of R en se l ished second in the schoo l a nd our ha nd o f the squad. J e;;. howe,·er, doe man aer. Present at the occa;io n wa one of ba ll ;quad [ini;hed on top in it league. ·~ h e charter member; of Gamma-Tau, VVith softba ll and track rcmatntng. age to find time for o ther importa nt ac U ncle ta n \ Vi ltsie. who thro ugh the Gamma-T au hope to move closer to the ti,·itie · ·uch as en ·in o a trca:.urer of yea r ha been a guiding li ght to our CO\'Cted number o ne position. the 'rhool of Education. chapter and a credit to his fraternity. .-\ ; the ;choo l yea r comes to a n end we Alpha Cha pter has abo contributed \'\Te, as active bro thers. tried to show our wi sh to report that our new cook, Kitt ou t tanding men lO the wrestling. track, appreciatio n for his ununng work b y Fry. ha clone a wo nderful job in her a nd base ball tea m . as well a pro ,·iding prese nting to Uncle Stan an engra ved first year a t 2256 Burdett Ave., and we wha t might be considered the backbo ne Si\JC's ga vel. hope that her ojourn with us will be a of the Virginia swimming tea m. vVc we re a lso ho nored to ha,·c as our p leasa nt one. Vici ng for LOp honors on the ba;ket guest speaker Powell H. i\fcHancy. past --IlK .\ -- ball >quad with Buzzy \Vilkinw n, " ·ho;,e Ta ti onal Presid nt o l Pi Kappa Alpha. ; kill has placed him among the great o[ The members were ex tremel y ha ppy to the nation, i; sharp-shooting Bo b J\lc meet Brother i\lc Hancy and were deepl y S. C. Team impressecl with his speech. Our on ly re Can y, who a l o er\'eS a; ho u c treasurer. gret was that we could not have provided Hob fini heel th ;ea o n as the be t per Basketball Champions mor favorable wea ther on his first, o f centage shooter on the club and has been what we hope wi ll be man y, trips to + On Ma rch 3 1 the IlK .\ chose n to capta in the squad next season. R en elaer. ba ketball team representing Xi Cha pter Another out ·ta nding first-·tringer i, ix a t the ni\'ersity of outh Carolina won fooHix J err ' Cooper, supported by Tony At R en >>C lacr'; winter week end. atur its twelfth straight game. without a los>. Gcno, ese a nd a new pl edge, Kendall nali a. Gamma-T aus were the proud es corts o[ the queen and one o f her court lO linch the campus intramura l cham \\'hit c. members. The queen w;" 10\·el Caro pio nship among two fraternity leagues Intramura l port find .\ lpha ChapteJ· lyn Brown , wif o f Brother Glenn Brown. and two independent league . nea r the to p o f the li st in total po ints i\ fr . Brown is a na ti,·e o[ Troy a nd at· This high coring quintet bega n the ;cason by winning it first game by the TI1.C B ob M cCarty will captairt Altlha pletlge Jerry CootJer is also a lo psided score o f 60-23. and proceeded V • ' r g : r~ i n 's tenn1 next season . first string Virginia bask etball player. lO win a ll it game b y comfortable mar gin . The season fin a le was with the independent league champ . a nd was won b y a 48-23 score . .- \dding to the gliucr o f the nIL \ tea m wa s the et of garnet colored uniform> trimmed with gold Hripe a nd Jeu ering, a nd the a ble coaching pro\'idcd b • Brother id Badger of Taylor , . C. The members of the team were J oe Frederi ck of H arri; burg, Ill.; Bo b Bar rett of Barbour ville. \ V. Va.; Budd)' l\' icliffer ol Eli1abethto n, T e nn.; Ray Bchlcs of Columbia, S. C. , and J oe Come of Newark, N . J. Abo, Bunk . horc o[ \Vi mwn-Sa I em, N. . ; ]Crank Dc'> ti no of G lou ester, fa .; J err i\ Iel w n of Chc;terl ield, . C., a nd Bill Lee of parta nburg. . C., were o n the qua I. F·unctional House Opened At Oklahoma A. & M. By J i m Tem (> lin + Gamma-Chi C h apter a t Oklahoma A. & i\I. is now comlortably settled in the new 100,000 house. T he building is three tories in height and was designed by Bro ther Eel i\J aurer, ar chitect for the now three-year-o ld Beta i\ Ju Chapter hou e at the Uni,·ersity o[ T exas. The ultra modern house will accom modate fifty- three men and is designed in a very functiona l manner. On the ground fl oor the dining room opens in to the recrea tion room and is divided (rom the living room by a liding wall. The ex terior of the building is a beautiful combinati o n of ledgestone and redwood paneling. The upper fl oors consist of rooms O k lahoma A. & M. occupied this beau " ·hich will accommodate two to three tiful $ 120,000 chap ter h ouse January men and afford a place for the men to 1, 1 955. Ed Maurer, B~ l (Texas) , is >tucl y a nd sleep in the sa me room. There the architect. is no large leeping porch as is found in ma n y fratern ity houses. The interi or ·or the house is completely paneled in Phi lippine mahogan y. All and all the house is now considered the most striking fratern ity house on thi> campus. Interior view sh owing built-in The annual Gamma-Chi ·· hip\\"reck study desks of Gamma-Chi's Ba ll " h igh li ghted the pring social sea n ew chapter hou se. son with its mural depicting a sa tire o n fraternity and sorority life and its bizarre "Shipwreck" costumes. On the ca mpus Brothers Charles H oo class. The mo ney rece iYed by the auc 16 at the \1\lomen "s Club in R aleigh. Yer and]. D. Ca ey have represented the tion went into the rush fund. Each mem i\ lany alumni and TIKAs from surround fra ternity by se rving a co-cha irmen o l ber who was sold had to agree to one in g schools were in attendance. Cheavage Day which is sponsored jointly fu ll day's work to be designated by the Retentl y, Gamma-Phi decided to do by A. &: 1[. College and the Interfrater pledge who bought him. The prices paid something about our alumni set-up. nity Council. Cheavage Day brings 400 for members ranged from S 1.50 to 4.50, \•\l ith the help of various alumni, the high chool se nior men and evera l hun bringin g in a total of S47 for the summer program is developing very well. A com dred senior girls to Oklahoma A. &: M. rush fund. mittee made up of Brothers Bud Kell y ca mpus LO show them wha t the coll ege --IlK .\ -- and Bill Beach has done a lot of work h a LO offer and to ori entate them to the ga thering various types of informati on, Gre k sys tem. Wake Forest Has se nding out circulars. and visiting many Brother; Hoover and Casey were in alumni. charge o l a ll housing arrangements a nd lncl uded in our pledge class is Eddie the scheduling of the boy as to which Fine Pledge Class '"The Barefoot Boy" Ladd of Durham. lratern ity houses they would vi sit. N. C. A a member o( the freshman By j im Adams sq uad, he was an impressive tackle and Bill Car on has been chosen to repre- + Gamma-Phi Chapter. now was highly publicized in this area with elll the School of Veterinar y 1\Iedicine we ll into the spring ;emester. has fou r hi abi lity to kick barefooted. In the as enator to the Student Senate. This teen new pledges. game with the outh Carolina fre hmen. )Ca r he also served as cha irman of the Eddie kicked several that wer well over Jun ior- enior Prom. H e is a lso a mem The chapter kept up with its u ual 70 yard . ber of Blue Key. national honor frater tradition of fi eldi ng a good athleti c team by placing econd in the interfraternity Jn recent election the Pikes again took nity. basketball league. Our biggest thrill was charge and domin ated the Student Pan; Unusual things were happening i\ Iarch a1 impressive win over our arch-rival, slate. \1\/e had more men running (or 28 when the members of Gamma-Chi the Kappa lphas. office than any other fraternity on the Chapter' ere auctioned off to the pl edge T he Dream G irl Ball was held April campus. 33 Diamond Life Chapter Additions 9 The Di amond Life Chap ter continues tO grow. The fo ll owing members have been added ince the Milrch i> ue of The Shield a11d Diamond maga1ine: 242- l ra C. Evan , A.l Atlanta, Ga. 24 3- ~ l il to n Bru e Parw n . A 244-Roger L. immons, A~l William. IU. McNeill Ira C. Erfllr s Paul /aeck Tewberry. S. C. 245-Ri chard Teuleton Bills, Br I ansas City. if o. 246-J erome H. tanek. B:=: ~ li lw a uk ee, \ 1\T i . 247-William M. Me Teill, B~ Pl andome Ma nor. Long !; land, . Y. 248- \Villiam Carroll Nelson. fA Birmingham, Ala. 249- Walter D. Snell , BO Oklahoma City, Okla. 250-Honon Gri so, BO Norman, Okla. W alter D. Snell John S . C nrinlws, Jr. Chester C. Beaird 25 1- 1-l arry Thomas Hudson. Jr., BO Oklahoma City, Okla. 252-Dr. J ohn C. Pickard , BO Oklahoma City, Okla. 253-Che ter C. Bea ird, BO Norman, Okla. 254-Alfredo Bequill ard, Jr., Bll ~ l a n ag u a , ica ragua 255-\1\lalter K. Koch, B'r Denver, Colo. --- II i\ .I -- Bradley Edits Roger immon s Horton Grisso Harriso n, am Absher, Ron Mcfa ll , Ro n ;n the Murphy' in Peoria for the annual Alumni Publication Arbizza ni , Mendy Mearkle, Eel R o ll . Founders' Day Banquet. The m a i n By Hank Schroeder· Bob Parnell , Bruce Kwarta and Guy peaker was Brother Clyde learkle, B.\ , Weber. !rea d y most of these men ha,·e who recently moved here. Faculty Ad + Thi year has been a very been given a position of re ponsibili ty visor R oger 1ebergall gave a brief um bu y one for the Pikes a t Bradley and it in the hapter organization . In addition mation of the yea r's accomplishment . ha been highlighted by the first regular to the new active we were fortuna te to publication of the Delta-Sigma ews. \1\le are n w looking forward to the pledge six new men out of thirty-five The editor of the project is Bruce Harri- festivitie of 1fother ' Day and Pan-Fra that we nt throuo·h ru h econd se mes ter on, a journa li sm major, faithfully as ing in May. Arrangements fo r these plu two men who did not ma ke their si ted b Pl edge Pete Bennett and fC events are progressing well under the gra les. During work week first seme>tCr Rus H offman. The newsletter was made directi on of J ack Crebs and Guy W eber. our pledge Ia did con tructive work up of the usual account of happenings We plan to sing "The Dream Girl of around the hou e and exten ive decorat about a chapter house such as acti vitie Pi l A" for one selection. ing in vario u com munity welfare home . of the pledge Ia , alumni and their ur --nKA -- rent aclclre e . hou e improvements and Former ~ r c J. R . Challinor has been ~f o nroe Sweetl and, rz (Wittenberg), athletic ha ppening plus the all impor elected president of Phi lpha Theta. ts the fir t Democrat from Clackamas tant ocial events. honorar • nati onal hi tory fraternit . to County, Oregon to be elected to the en During the pa t few months we have add to our growing li st of campu office ate of Oregon in over twenty years. welcomed into the brotherhood many held. Brother weetland is the Democratic na ver ca pable new men. The are Bruce On larch 6 the brother all gathered ti onal committeeman from Oregon. Jl Omaha Captures Herb Koch Class Elections By J oe Byt·ne Editor's Note: H erbertl..:o£h . an alum ni e;. a nd in most ca e the LU itiOn of ~ Delta- Ch i ~ t the Uni ve rsity /Ius of A lpha-Xi Cha jJte r at th e Ulliver of Omaha began the yea r with man y d is S275 fo r the 12-week co urse is pa id b ' sity of Cincinnati, has ervcd as a trustee tinction in campus activi ties and offi ces. the company. of The Shield an d D iamo11d E11dowm e 11 l J n the fall ci a s election , the Pikes wo n l\ Ir. Koch, who is acting p rofessor of Fu nd since 1946. B mther Koch is active th ree pre idencies and four vice-presi bu ines admin istra tion, pre ents an au in the alumni affairs in the Cincinnati dencie as well a the two openings for thority on ome phase of management area. Th is a1·ticle appeared in the syndi wdem council. T he Pikes elected were: )S Texlls Tech lntrmnurlll Clwmpio nshiiJ Football Team.. Texlls Tech's locomotlve float tlrew ch eers /ro m the crowds. Future pla ns include a summer ru;h in g program integra ted with the ch 36 ol .J an uar) -9 lor the la>t wcial event awarded a c;t h pri1e LObe applied to\\'ard Alabama Takes of the ;eme;ter belore linal . the pa) ing of hi building fund due . aturday morning. the brothers packed One o l 1he highlight of the pring their gear, put o n the cha in , and started 'Ot i;d 'ea ·on "·iII be the selection o f the Roman Holiday the trip to Jdywi ll d. pon their arrival 1955 Drea m Girl of Gamma- Xi hapter. + Gamma-Alpha' " Roma n they were greeted by i\ IC Don R obin Twen t)•-four ca ndidate> are now com Holiday" wa the hi ghli <> ht of the spring so n. and a flurry of good-o ld alifornia p 1in~. ;ocial ca lendar for the Pikes at the U ni nowba ll s. 1\lo> t of the a fternoon wa -- IlK .\ ' ersity of Alabama. pem kiing and toboggan ing. · a turday night during dinner, George The traditional week end wa s bigger J3urn , fa ll semester i\ IC, received the Birmingham Southern a nd beuer by far than previous "R oman award as the outsta nding graduating Holidays" a nd ome 40 rushees from all se nior. Later that evening the SC gang Plans Chapter Awards o ver Alabama a u ended the event on enjoyed the dance band of R ay Price . \ pri I 15- 17. from Riverside, Cali fornia. After the By Grady mith Three eparate eve nts comprised the dance everyone returned to the tobogga n + Seeki ng to stimulate in iti week end: A " Mome Carlo" stag party sli des, not leaving the moonlit mountain ative a nd drive in the chapter, we ha\ e with li ve ororities presenting skit ; a side until earl y in the morning. begun an award system. Trophic will picnic on a nea rby lake Sa turday afler her another day in the snow on un be awarded, and three plaques wi ll keep noon; a nd the highlight of the whole da y, everyone returned to unny L.A . for a permanent a nd compi uou record o f week end, the R oman H oliday banquet a good night' sleep, ge tting ready for outsta nding achievements. T he brother a nd dance Saturda night. fin a l . who has the highe t to tal intramural --nl\ .1 -- competition point , the bro ther who ha The chapter house was decorated in most improved in sc ho larship over a one true R oman traditio n. Colu mns on the yea r period, and the brother who i voted front porch were lined with multi-colored the bc>t all -round Pike will receive the c.hee eclo th, and urns and founta ins in award;,. 1he front ya rd spouted fire and water T he awards are being spon ored by prays. Two colorfulJ y decorated R oman various alumni of the cha pter, and will chariots picked up their dates in the so be pre;ented at a banqu t on June I. rority houses and dormitorie , a nd a Roman temple was bui lt on the rear Dan Roper, rush chairman, a long with lawn of the hou e. hi s commiuee, i working o n a year round, ;,tate-wide rush program. \ \'e Another big event in Gamma-Alpha's have made some significa nt progre > to ocial ca lendar for the spring semester ward its es tablishment. was the annua l Florida house party. An ever-popul ar spring event. which About 50 members and their dates made the chapter is anticipa ting, is the annu 37 Pete co tt, were in keepino with th e >011. Ba;ketba ll did not prove to be a~ theme. T he included a crepe papet ucces fu l a the Garnet and Gold were Maryland Host tent, po ters, a nd a awdust circus lloor. eliminated in the I.F. playofls. having to The music of the combo provided excel ettle for a fourth place. In minor sports, To District Convention lent entertainment, besides giving the however, Gamma-Sigma h as dominated clowns of th e cha pter a chance to per the ranks, posting undefeated record; By John Zane form. thus far in both ping-pong and vo il e ba ll + Delta-Psi Chapter a t i\ lary ppropriately enough, the bes t-cos with o ne loss in squa h. land wa; host to the District 11 co m•en tume prize, a stuffed tiger, went to Pete tio n o n the week end of April 15- 17. Gamma- igrna has al o ma naged to Scott's date, Diane Ba ler, KA8. The The co nvention was highlighted by the dominate the field in other realm ol couple were dre ed a twin clowns. The Delta -Psi Dream Girl dance. Sophomore university competition. W e made a suc award wa made by the chaperones. ondra Lee wa un ~nimo u cho ice as th e cessful bowing in Greek W eek, ta kino A recent ,·o te in the chapter has pro Drea m Girl. first in the ha t contest and placi ng third ,·icled for a trictl y social fund to be u ed in the ing. The annual cheering con T he soc ial ca lendar has been high· for more parties in the future. Pre ent test, held before the State game at the li ghted by a French Party held a t the pl a ns are for a R oman party in March, fin al Pitt rall y, ca me out with our ve rsa DKA hou e. French atmosphere wa cre which will include a ll the gay charaCLe r ti le chapter copping another fir t place. ;n ed with idewalk ca fe decorati o ns a nd isti c; that were typica l of R ome just be In Stunt Night, in which the various or champagne. It was a very success! ul a f fo re her fall. ga ni zations pre ent a preview of the fair with about 200 gues ts, repre enung --fl KA-- coming Spring Carnival Show, the chap many ca mpus organi za ti on;. ter excell ed once aga in as they took fir ~ t George W a hington Univer ity"s D Ita place, giving a gli mpse of what's to come. Alpha Chapter ex tended an in vita tion to Men like J ohn King, who was recently their a nnual Shipwreck Ball and the en elected pres ident of Interfraternity Coun· tire Delta-Psi Chapter responded to the cil ; J ohn Chidlow, the bu iness manager ga la a ffair. of Spring Fe tival; a nd erge Daniels, Delta- lpha forgot to play the pan of the publicity manager of Fes tival, have the gracious hos t and defea ted Delta-Psi been re ponsible for the fin e showing of Chapter 49-39 in a ti ght ba ketball ga me Gamma-Sigma in variou university ac a t the George vV ashingto n g m. The tivities. In the pa t eme ter Ed Christ Delta· lpha team wa s parked by everal ner se rved a chairman of the Freshman Junior Var it stars. Don Gardner of Orientation Program whil e Gerry i\1 c i\ laryland talli cl 2 point to ga in indi Cauley was the drama critic for the uni· ,·idual scoring honors. Gardner wa on ,·e r ity newspaper. the 1953 II T hird Air Force ;quad in ln the February electi o ns J ohn King Europe. wa elected SMC. Bruce Motter ha ex Delta-P i had a fair intramural eason ce ll ed in the line of appointments as the with everal up et in bo th basketball new hou e manager. H e was primaril y and vo ll eyball. All chances lor the bas responsible for conducting the remodel ketball title were !0 t when Don Gard ing of the ba ement game room and first ner broke hi ankle in the third game. fl oor as well as the in ta ll a ti o n of a new Raymond Bellam y, porting a 3.82 lounge. In ru hing under the guidance scho"la tic average from last seme ter, i Hal Gordon Littleforcl, Ill, All-A m eri of Gerry Fisher and Gerry McCauley as can sou of his All-A m erican dad, h ead co-chairmen, Gamma- igma gave Pledge currently traveling with the varsity golf football coach at East Tennessee State tea m and looking forward to a good ea College. master Dave Barnard a good group to on. work with during the spring se mester of '55. Retiring M Paul Lambrides and new MC Buzz Braun were ta pped into the Rippel Attends Gate and I ey, nati onal honorary ociety. Stetson Wins \!\lith the since re efforts and ass i tance Pittsburgh Formal of the alumni we have had excell ent rush By Gerry l\1.cCauley functi ons and accompli bed man ' Im Homecoming + Gamma- igrna wound up provement around the hou e. th I in. t ;eme ter ol a nother succe; lui By Loren W . Reynolds --llKA-- )ear with the Drea m Girl Formal held + Delta-Up ilo n Chapter lor J anuary 22 at the Edgewood ountr the third straight yea r won fir t place Clu b. t that occasion the chapter was in the homecoming lawn decorati om Missouri Enjoys honored to have o ur 1a ti onal Presiden t conte t. J ohn F. E. Hippe! pre ent •li J oyce everal of our bro thers hold orn e of Costume Party Gille pie a the 1955 edition of the the lea ding position on campus. Charl e'> B y Robert l\1. Norrish Gamma- igrna Dream Girl. ince it wa Fran on i pre idem of ODK, pre icl e11t hi fir t visit to the Pitt burgh charter, of Phi Delta Theta, retiring pre idem of O n aturda , J anuar + J ohnny Hippel's pre ence was enough in JFC. and vice president of Liberal Arts the o ial ew Year tarted o ff right with it elf to in ure one of our mo t succe;; fu l School. J ohn Morgan i ecretary of the a co tume part at lub 920. The theme formal in re em ear . men' o un il and new pre ident of Ph i wa a ci rcu , and the dre ranged an y [n the rea lm f port thu fa r, the Delta Theta. Frank Slaughter is the new where from tho e of popcorn se ll ers to Pikes showed ty pica l form in football a pre idem of IFC, thi being the sec.o ncl the Mis ing Link between man and beast. we copped a e oncl place after lo ing ea r that the Pikes have held this po i Decorati on , de ignecl by able Brother 7-6 in the champion hip game of the sea- Lion. 38 pi dge attend a di[[erent church ever · fir t unday of every month. " hite hirt a nd ti e are worn b all the members very other l\fo nday in ever m nth. Thi is to stimula te a liule more intere t on ca mpu. A project for the pledge ha been fo r each to make a paddle and have all brother and pledge ign their name to it. Thi was met with much enthu siasm and approva l. l\Ii ss J ean Griffith of Lea k ville, 1. C., our Dream Girl of 19" 4-55, wa elected Queen of the intramural ba ketball tour nament this yea r. TIKA ranked third with other fra terni ti es in grade average thi seme ter with a 1. 2 average. --IIK A -- Dayton Alumnus Chapter Chartered By Clifford J, Meyer + On November 19 the Day tO n, Ohio Alumnus Chapter wa pre se nted its official charter by Pat O 'Brien Delta-Gamma's ( Miami, O x f ord, Ohio ) fine pledge class : (l. to r.) first row sub tituting for ati onal Pre idem J ohn Hach eu , W hi.tesel, Harvey, Mon tgom ery, Busching; second row- McCoy, Zim Hippel when poor fl ying wea ther ca n m e rman, Ritchie, Arnolcl, H opkins, Orr; thirtl row- Kelley, H err, McCullough , celed his plane fli ght. Phillips, Brand, and Czaclzeck. A group of alumni ga thered in the home of Bi ll Frees, April, 1954 to eli us W e are currently in third place in in formati on of an alumnus chapter. e tramural standings. \.Ye placed two men High Point Has ri e of orga nizational meeting led to the on the all-s tar touch football team and bu incs meeting June I a t which time one man on the all-star basketball tea m. Successful Rush an application for a chapter charter wa Brother Di k Meredith, out tanding in signed by sixteen alumni from the Day· tramural ath lete, made both of the all- By Dick Hensda le ton area. In mid-summer forty- two broth tar tea m . The Pike have seven men + Bobby H aze Hun ucker of er including ixteen alumni from Alpha on the varsity football squad, two on the Kannapolis, orth Carolina, and R obert Xi Chapter gathered to hear Di trict baseball squad, two on the ba ketball Smith of H igh Point were recently initi President Bi ll 1es ter and former a quad and two on the tenni team. \•Ve ated by Delta-Omega Chapter at High ti ona! Alumni Secretary Earl vV . vV agner. are represented in every sport except Point College. On August 20 the alumni held a joint golf. rush party with Alpha-Xi Chapter for rush party for seco nd se mester wa coll ege freshmen from the Dayton area. Our Founder ' Day Banquet, held held a t High Rock Lake at the ca bin of April 23rd at the Dubstred Country Club Frank McCulloch. Fifty rushees, broth On September I 5 the following offi er in Orlando, Fla., was highlighted by a er , pledges and alumni a ttended the fe - were elected : President, George Bollin very inspiring speech by past National tivities. The week fo llowing we pl edged ger; Executive Vi ce Pres ident, Dick M. President Roy D. H ickman of Birming even new pledge . They are: Eddie Shively; Vi ce Pres ident for [ember hip, ham, Ala. l\Ii Connie Elli from Hol Martin, J ack Luca , Odell Draughn, Thoma Campbell ; R ecording ecretary, lywood, Fla. was crowned queen, and Buddy Sink, Benny Phillip , Brice Hunt, Clifford Meyer; orresponcling Secretary Brother J erry Kern was pre ented with and ammy White. a nd Trea urer, Richard Kl epinger. The fir t project of the new office rs was a the outstanding pledge award. The ban The annual Dream Girl Ba ll was held directory of alumni in the area which is quet wa a ttended by many out tanding at the R obert E. Lee Ho tel in \•Vin stO n· being compiled and will be printed by alumni from Orlando area. alem, r. C. A banquet, peeche , and Bob ye ter. The Pike week end wa held fay 13 toasts started the Ball at 6: 30 p. m., a nd T he member of the chapter at pre and 14. It wa highlighted by a beach the a ffair wa climaxed by entertainm nt ent are: G orge Bollinger, Dick Shive ly, party Friday night at Da tona, a ham a nd dancing to the mu ic of i\Iax " ' e ter band and his orche tra. T homa Campbell , Clifford Ieyer, Rich burger fr y Saturday afternoon at Alex ard Klepinger, C. Carlton Brechler, led The TIK.\ s presented ninety Bible to a nder Spring , and dan in g aturclay R . Fo ter, orwald J. H olme , Paul the girls' dormitory LO be u eel in each night at the DeLa nd armory. Beuttner, Jr., Richard E. Crow, Paul R. room. After the presentatio n of the Bi --TIKA -- Hunt, Robert . l\Iiller, Patrick O 'Brien, Cha plain (Lt. Col.) David E. Kin ler, bl e a pecial eranade took place which J ames A. Peeling, Mon on B. hepard, rz (Wittenberg). is a member of the lOth unsisted of acrecl number . Elmer Van H orn, Theodore H. \Vinans, lnfantry Division a t f ort Riley, Ka n. s a tribute to Chri t all brother and Jr., Robert Cyester, a nd Carl 1 . Lohrey. 39 lpha Chapter-Bill i\fcSween from New port, T ennes ee, a twin brother of Zeta' Da vid Me ween. ln the annual University All- ing, the men a t Tennessee went all out to capture the first-place trophy. Zeta ga ined the All- ing finals and barely mi eel fir t Jack O ster1tellLS (r.) place. receives first place Zeta is now in the process of complet HLLmoro/ogy Award ing the Carnicus skit which rate a o ne at W iscon.sin. o[ the three big campus activitie . grea t cl e Zeta ce lebra ted her eight -fir L a nni versary on l\Iarch 4- with a Founders' Day .Banquet held at the University' new wdent enter. Jn addition to the Wisconsin Wins active brothers, alumni, and pledge , we were ho nored with the pre ence of R ob Humorology Show ert D. L nn, Executive Secretary, and our gues t speaker, Joe C. Scott, ational By Bermu·d R estuccia Rush Director. Plan for Zeta's new + The bigge t vent held on house " ·e re discussed a nd the alumni the University of vVi scom in 's campu , prese nt co ntributed a sizable amount for ll umorology, was won by Beta-Xi Chap this new house. Zeta Chapter would like ter on i\farch 12. Beta-Xi li minated all to take this opportunity to thank the oppo ition a nd climaxed a uccessful alumni for all they have done. \ 1\le are climb to the to p by taking fir t place proud o[ our fin e alumni. honors. Humorology i a musica l show Professor John Wi.rwus, B eto-Xi A lLLm. Zeta Chapter ha more than adequately which is planned, written, a nd put on by IILL S CoLLnselor, shown i11 his plone been repre entecl in ca mpu organiza a ll orga nized houses o n ca mpus. dLtrin g landing experim.enls. tions, activities, a nd po I it i c s. Frank The how, which auractecl 4,000 peo Grace, a junior from Providence, Rhode ple and will be performed later thi year a nd landing of aircraft. His theory i J la nd, ha been nominated for the vice lor P -10 Campus Spotlight - Pi Week At Bowling Green By Bill Cooper + A tradition wa tarted by Delta-Beta Chapter at Bowling Green State University February 27 to March 5, 1943 tha t has become a highl y success ful annual campus-w ide event. This wa the first a nnua l Pi \1\leek, pon orecl by brothers of D elta-Beta. It was started in order "to provide relaxation for the stu dents who will just have completed their midterm examination ," according to the J anuary 20, 194-3 i sue of the Bee Gee New , the chool paper. For each clay o f the week, a special event was pl anned. The first Pi Week began with the cli > Delta-Beta (Bowling Green) SMC Hal Davis fJresen.ts I.I'O fJhies to tribution of ca lling cards in the form o f Phi Delta Theta cuul Sigm.o Ch i winn e rs. cherry pies, and se renading of the sorori ti es. The econd cl ay, a pie-eating con Thoma Pie Company of Toledo. Pies nity clivi ion troph for the pie ea ting te t was held, with repre entatives from were a lso given to each of the fourteen contes t by gu lping down his cherr pie men 's dorms a nd fraternity houses meet fraternities. Publicity was given the in 42 seconds. The trophy to the frater ing to see who could eat a whole pie week's .eve nts in The T oledo Blade, Th e nity with the best skit was won by Phi fastest. On W ednesday, Pi Kap Kapers B-G News, and Delta-Beta' Commoner. Delta Theta. They wooed the judge wa held, with the first Drea m Girl of Tuesday was se t a ide for a smoker for with a n outstanding take-o ff on the tele l1KA being honored. D elta-Beta's first ru bees. We were in the middle of rush vision program, "Thi Is Your Life" Dream G irl was Eva Mari e Saint, who ing a nd even though this took extra work, entitlecl , "This Is Your Pie." Thi is per recently received an Academy Award haps the most popular pan of the a n " Oscar" for her ro le in the movie, " On it filled in very nicely with the Pi W eek pla n . Two moker , one at 7:00 and nual Pi \'\leek a nd draws crowds wh ich the W aterfront." one at 9:30, were held at the chapter completely fi ll the gym. Rushing was scheduled for later in the house. A large group of rushee showed Thursday night was devoted to a for week, fo ll owed by a formal dinner for up. mal dinner at the chapter hou e for all representative £rom each orority. The One of the out tanding events of the pre icl ents of the eleven sororitie . A first annual Pi \1\leek was concluded with week was the Pie Eating Contest, h eld "Yard Party" for brother and date wa an all-campu dance. As the dance con in the \1\To men's Gymnasium under the held in the Pike hou e o n Friday eve cluded, the member of D e lta-B e t a leadership of Brother Tom Sloane and ning. A yard of material wa given each burned a huge Greek letter Pi on the Paul Schol l on W ednesday night. Each date and the girl who turn d in the ca mpu. sorority and fraternity pre entecl a five greatest amount of left-over materia l Delta-Beta's 1955 Pi Week wa it minute kit in which it introduced its a fter making a costume from the one twelfth an nua l and was held during the pie eatin o- candidate. lo peed records sq uare ya rd was presented a pri7e by week of February 28 to March 5. A for we re set by any of the conte tants clu e Party Chairman AI Easterwood. A mal dinner for the eleven fin ali sts in the to the sw itch from six- in ch pies to eight combo was hired and refreshments were 1955 Dream Girl of Delta-Beta contes t in ch cherr y pies. ·erved. began this year's Pi Vlleek. Tea were A trophy was presented to each soror T he Founder ' Day Banquet wa held held on three preceding Sunday a fter ity a nd fraternity with the bes t skit and on aturday night of Pi \•\leek in the noon to elect eleven girls who were in also a trophy to the person in each di vi American Legion Hall. Shi lei and Dia vited to a dinner on the opening of Pi sion who won the pie eating come t. mond Endowment Fund Trustee H erbert Week. The name of the Dream Girl wa lpha Gamma Delta sorority wa the F. J och gave a splendid talk on lonna not announced until later in the week, first in the hi story of Delta-Beta Pi W eek tion o f Pi Kappa Alpha and our duties a t the Dream Girl Dance. to win bo th trophies in the same yea r. to it. Foll owing the vo ting, the fraternity Three Pike profe>sor were judge : Dr. li maxing Pi \ \leek, the Dream Girl held an all-campu erenacle. Calling VV a lter A. Zaugg, Dr. Ru ell Decker, and cards o f cherry Pi (es) were eli tributecl to Da nce wa held as an all -campu func J ohn R . David on. a ll of the women 's re icl ence hall s and tion to pre ent Delta- Beta' 1955 Dream ororit hou es during the serenade. In During the contest Brother kip Pari Girl. T he eleven [inali t were gues t addition, l\Irs. R a lph l\ I Do nald , wife of don clres eel up as Pledge Pin Patt , pa of the chapter. Chosen as our Dream the President of the university. was ere raded through the gym and playfull y Girl of 1955 was Ann H awley, Chi Omega nacl ed and pre entecl with a cherry pie. competed in the women' pi e ea ting co n pledge, from Greenville, Ohio. l\li> H aw test. This little innovati on was thought Through the effort of Brothers Stan ley, who is pinned to Brother AI Easter Richmond and Dick Berk, publicity and up a few years ago by the brothers and wood, wa pre ented the Dream Girl has continued to add hilarity to the big general chairmen, 120 free cherry pies Troph by l\IC Harold Davi and was were donated for u e in the Pi e Eating e\ ent. give n a bouquet of roses by Ia t year's Contest and o ther events by the Eri - Sigma Chi 's co m e tant won the [rater- Dream Girl, l\ Jarilyn awyer. 41 DIRECTORY OF NATIONAL OFFICERS SUPREME COUNCIL National Historian- Dr. Freeman H. H art, (, Box Moines Steel Co. , 1015 Tuttle St., Des Moine• Nation al Presid ent- J ohn F. E. Hippe!, Un, 1418 383, Gainesville, Fla. 8, Iowa, Secretary. Ward Kief, BIJ, c/o Rat..rr Packard Bldg., Philadelphia 2, Pa. National Chaplain- Dr. U. S. Gordon, e, First & Kief, Contractors and Developers, 420 Qeee• Anne Ave., Seattle 9, Wash. National Vice President-Inslee Johnson, 1\M, 308 Presbyterian Church, Gainesville, Fla. Conna lly Bldg., Atla nta, Ga. ational Pledge Training Direc tor-Ralph F. DISTRICT PRESIDENTS National Secretary- James V. LeLaurin, H, Box Yeager, Robe rt A. Cline, Inc., 6114 Gle nway, 1. Robert T. Means, A r, c/ o Petrolite Corpora 446, 1t1eridian, Miss. Cincinnati 11 , Ohio. tion Ltd., Chrys ler Bldg., N ew York 17, N . Y. National Treasurer-Jam es P . Brown, AN, 705 National Educational Advisor-Dr. John Fincher, 2. Hugh M. D alziel, BT, Parkhurst Apts., E-4, Olive St., St. Louis 1, :Mo. .U, Howard College, Birmingham 6, Ala. Main and Barbara Sts., Bethlehem, Pa. National Alumni Secretary- Grant Macfarlane, National Rushing Director-Joe C. Scott, rx, 319 James Ruffin Bailey, '1', 709 Raleigh Bldg., AT, Union Pacific Annex Bldg., Salt Lake City, Fidelity Bldg., Oklahoma City, Okla . R a leigh, N. C. Uta h. National Mu sic Director-George H. Zimmf'rman, 4. Roy E . Martin, Jr., Abl, 1601 Summit Drive, National Counsel- J ohn U. Yerkovich, ra, 1100 ..\ 1', 2259 Emerson Avenue, Dayton 6, Ohio. Columbus, Ga. Jackson Tower, Portland, Ore. 5. W illiam R. Nester, 2692 Stratford Ave., Cin COMMISSIONS c innati 20, Ohio. NATIONAL OFFICE Pi Kappa Alpha Memorial Foundation Trustees 6. Charles L. Freeman, BA, 1508 East Oakland 577 Univers ity Boulevard, Powell B. McHaney, AN, 1501 Locust St.. St. Ave., Bloomington, Ill. Louis, Mo., President; A lbert E . Paxton, BH, Memphis 12, Tennessee 7. Ben E. Gla s~ro w, 6 , 905 Sterick Bldg., Mem Executive Secretary- Robe rt D. Lynn, M. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. , Inc., 520 N. Mich phis, Tenn. igan Ave., Chicago 11, Ill., Vice President; J . Chapter Service Secretary- Earl Watkins, fl. Harold Trinner, e, 5325 Normandy, Memphis, 8. Howard Linwood Underwood, 6 & Bn, 124 Field Secretary- David A. Collins, M. Tenn., Secretary; Jam es V. LeLaurin, H , Box N. 55th St., Birmingham, Ala. Field Secretary-Stanley Love, 6 1 & AP. 446 , Meridian, Miss. ; C. Robert Yeager, 0 , L. 9. George W. Loomis, rB, 516 Topeka Boule G. Balfour Company, Attleboro, Mass. var·d, •ropeka, Kansas. Field Secretary-Charles C. Byrd, 6!. Shield and Diamond Endowment Fund Trustees 10. Robert C. D uke, BM, P. 0. Box 63, A ustin, NATIONAL E DITOR D. C. Powers, Z, 22 William St ., New York 15, Texas. Rober·t D. Lynn, bl, N. Y., Chairman and Treasurer. H erbert F. 11. Frank H. Grubbs, B6, 6106 Bellamah Ave., 577 Univers ity Boulevard, Koch, A:::, 6540 Loiswood Drive, Cincinnati 24, N. E., Albuquerque, N . M. Memphis 12, Tennessee Ohio. Juliua J . Fink, rN, First California Com 12. J. Grant Iverson, AT, 627 Continental Bank pany, 225 Bank of America Bldg., San Die~to, Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. OTHER NATIONAL OFFICERS Calif. 13. Ch a rles J . Donaghy, BA , 7500 W. 80th St. . Honorary Life President- Robert A. Smythe, A. Chapter House Commission- P. D. Ch r istian, Jr., Los Angeles. Calif. 302 Kemper lns ura nce Bldg., 41 Exchange Bl\, 664 Sprinl!' St., N. W., A tlanta, Ga., Chair 14. John B. Weigant, BN, 851 Tyler S t., Corval Place, Alla n ta, Ga. man. Herbert Miller, A CINCINNATI, UNIVERSITY OF - Cincinnati, GEORGETOWN COLLEGE - Georgetown, Ky. Ohio. (Alpha-Xi, 5, 7 :30 p. m. Tues.), Robert (A lpha-L ambda, 7, 9 p. m . Wed.), Hugh D. Directory of Student Chapters N . Wright, 3400 Brookline Ave., Cincinnati 20. J ackson, 455 Main St. AC, Dr. R. D. Judd, Georgetown College, Box 32. Note: Pare ntheses includes chapter name, district COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES-Gol,len . Colo. <.;EO HGIA SCHOOL OF T ECHNOLOGY - At number, and time of meeting. See list of D istrict !Delta-Phi, 11, 7 p. m. Mon.). Glenn H . Camp Presidents. First name is SMC and hi e mailing lanta, Ga. (A lpha-Delta. 4, 6:45 p. m. WeJ. • bell , 1020- 16th St. AC, David D. Woodbridge, Frank P . Ma •· t in, 828 Techwood Dr., N. W. address. The brackets en close the chapter loca 31 Mines P a rk. tion. AC indicates Alumnus Counselor. AC, Cha l'i es Edward Holma n, Sr., 1340 N. Ave., N. E . COLORADO, UNIVERSITY OF- Boulder, Colo. ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTF~ Au- (Beta-Upsi lon, 11, 7:30 p. m . Mon.) , J ohn S. GEORGIA, UNI VERSITY OF -Ath e ns, Ga. burn, Ala. (Ups ilon , 8, 7 p. m. W ed. ) , R obert Brown, 914 Broadway. AC, Richard S . F itz (Alpha-Mu, 4, 7 p. m. Mon.), Richard Edgar D. W ord, Jr., 14 2 N. Ga y St. AC, William gerald, 710 Salem St., Denver 8. Griffin, 198 S. Hull St. AC, J ohn E. Griffin, · H a m, 542 S. College. 703 Southern Mutual Bldg . ALABAJ\1A, UNIVERSITY OF- University, Ala. CORNELL UNIVERSITY- Ithaca, N. Y. (Beta II A. IPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE - H a mpden (Gamma-Alpha, 8, 7 p. m. W ed. ) , W. Wilson Theta, 1, 7:15 p. m . Mon.), Arthur H. Barnes, Sydney, Va. (Iota, 3, 7:15p. m. Mon .), J . Stoke Bo rden, P . 0. Box 1243. AC, Frank Living 17 South Ave. AC, Robert R. Sprole, 630 High ley Fulton. [Fraternity Circle.] AC, P. Tulane ston, 1st Na t!. Bank, Tuscaloosa, A la. land Rd. Atkinson, Hampden-Sydney College. ARIZONA S T ATF. COLLEGE-T e mn~. Ari•. DAVIDSON COLLEGE- Dnidson, N. C. (Beta, HIGH POI T COLLEGE- High Point, N . C. (Delta-Tau, 11, 7 p. m. Mon. ). Richard L. Sta l 3, 7 p. m. Thurs. ) . Joe Billy Pharr, Box 574. (Delta-Omega, 3, 7 p . m . Mon. ) , William lings, 8!9 Normal. A C, Robert F. Noll, Box 44 . AC, Dr. W illiam S. P a tterson. Hipps, Box 71. H i~t h Point College. [Seetion AIUZONA, UNIVERSITY OF- Tucson, Ari z. E, McCulloch Hall]. AC, J erry L . Jarv is, C- (Gamma-Delta, 11, 7 p. m. Mon.), Robert E. DELAWARE, UNIVE RSITY O F-N~wark, D•l. 206 Woodrow, Wins ton-Salem , N . C. Negrette, 1065 North Mountain Ave. A C, (Delta-Eta. 2, 7:30 p. m . W ed.) , Cha rles Wil HOWARD r or.r.EGE - Ri rm in ,:: ham, Ala Rollin Burr, 203 4 E ast Mabel. son, 247 W. Main St. A , William 0. P e nrose, (Alpha-P i, 8, 7 p.m. Mo n. ), Tillman William AR.KANSAS STATE COLLEGE- State Colleg• . School of Erlucation, Univ. of Delaware. P ugh, Jt·. , ll6 So. Oth St., Birmingham 6, Ala. Ark. (Delta-Theta , 7. 7 p. m. Mon.) , Joseph E. DENVER, UNIVERSITY OF- Denver, Colo AU, William Pfaff, 405 Sterrett Ave. P erdzock, Box 3! 3. AC, Dr. W. W . Nedrow. (Gamma-Gamma, 11, 8 p. m. Mon.). Richard ILLINOIS, UNIVERSITY OF- ChampaiJ 43 DffiECTORY OF ALUMNUS- CHAPTERS CHARLE~TON, W. YA. KANSAS CITY, MO. PITTSflUIU;H , PA. C. W. Miller, 1244-A Park Ave. Noon meet Lewis E. Timmons, 416 East Meyer Blvd., Kan William L. Anderson, I-T-E Switchgear Co .. lllgs last Thursday each month, Quarrier Omer. sas City 5. Meeting 2nd Friday, 6:30 p. m. 210 Grant St., Pittaburgh 19. Meeting eaeh CH 1\RLOTTF:, N. C. K ENNETT, MO. Mon., 12 :15 p. m., Sheraton Hotel. . R. Sublett. 406 Liberty Life Bldg., Phone Hal H. McHaney. Meeting 7 p. m ., Cotton Boll PORT LA N D, O RE. FR-50016. Meets quarterly. Hotel, first Tues. of Jan., April, J uly, Oct. Milton Reich, 2044 S. E. Sherman. Multnom al. CHATTANOOGA, TENN. KNOXVILLE, T ENN. Hotel, 2nd Tues. each month, 8 p. m. F.ugene N. Collins, James Building . Luncheon Leon Long, 505 Longview Rd. R ALEI GH , N. C. meeting each W ednesday, 12 :00, Park Hotel. • · ~ul ,;alisbury, Jr., 202 Hillcrest Ra. Lun ch L EXINGTON, KY. eon meeting, 121 Halifax St., Fri., 1 p. m . CHICAGO. ILL Dr. A. J. Steiner, 184 Walnut St. 3rd Monday. RICHMOND, VA. Vernon B. Wilson, 00 N . Clark St. Luncheon 7 p.m. Harold l. Fariey, Hamilton Paper Corp., 7 S . meeting second Wednesday each month, B re LOGAN, UTAH l~th St. : 1-1868- A lpha, University of Virginia 43-1912-Alpha-Tau, University of Utah 85-1929 - (~ am m a-Nu, University of Iowa 2- 1869-Beta, David•on College 44-1912-Alpha-Upsilon, New York Univ. (1932) 86-1929- Gamma-Xi, Was hington State College S-1871-Gamma, College of William and Mary 45-1913-Alpha-Phi, Iowa State College 87-1930-Gamma-Omicron, Ohio University 4- 1871-Delta, Birmingham-Southern College 46-1913-Alpha-Chi, Syracuse Univers ity 88-1931-Gamma-Pi, University of Oregon 11-1 73-Epsilon, Virgin ia P oly. Institute (1880) 47-1913-Aipha-Psi, Rutgers University 89- 1932-Gamma-Rho, Northwestern Univer sity 6- 1874-Zeta, University of Tennessee 48-1913-Alpha-Omega. Kansas State College 90-1934-Gamma-Sig ma, University of P ittsburgh 7- 1878-Eta, Tulane University 49-1913- Beta-Alpha, Pennsylvania State Coli. 91-1935- Gamma-Tau, Rensselaer Poly. Ins titute 8-1878-Theta, Southwestern at Memphi• 50-1914-Beta-Beta, University of W ashi ngton 92-1936-Gamma -Upsilon, University of Tulsa g- 18811-l ota, H ampden-Sydney College 51- 1915-Beta-Gamma, University of Kansas 93-1939-Gamma-Phi, W ake Forest College 10-1887-Kappa, Translyvania College 52-19111-Beta-Delta, University of New Mexico 94- 1939-Gamma-Chi, Oklahoma A. & M. College 11-1889-Lambda, So. Carolina Mil. Acad. (1890) 53-19111-Beta-Epsilon, Western Reserve Univ. 95- 1940-Gamma-Psi, L ouisiana Poly, Institute 12- 1890-Mu, Presbyterian Coli. of Suuth Carolina 54-1916-Beta-Zeta, Southern Methodist Univ. 96-1940-Gamma-Omega, University of Miamt 18- 1891-Nu, Wofford College 55-1917-Beta-Eta, University of Illinois 97-1941-Delta-Alpha, George Washington Univ. 14- 1891-Xi, University of South Carolina 56-1917-Beta-Theta, Cornell University 9 - 1942- Delta-Beta, Bowling Green State Univ. 15-1891-0micron, University of Richmond 57-1917-Beta-Iota, Beloit College 99-1947-Delta-Garnma, Miami University 16-1892-Pi, Washington and Lee University 58-1920-Beta-Kappa, Emory University 100-1947- Delta-Delta. ~' lorida Southern Colle~<• 17-1892- Rho, Cumberland University (1908) 59-1920-Beta-Lambda, Washington Univer sity 101- 1947-Delta-Epsilon, Univers ity of Chattanooga 18-1893- Sigma. Vanderbilt University 60-1920-Beta-Mu, Universit y of Texas 19-1895-Tau, University of North Carolina 61-1920- Beta-Nu, Oregon State College 102-1~47-Delta-Zeca, Mem1>his State College 20- 1895- Upsilon, Alabama Polytechnic Institute 62-1920-Beta-Xi, Universit y of Wisconsin 103-1948-Delta-Eta, Univers ity of Delawnre 21- 1896- Phi, Roanoke College (1909) 63- 1920-Beta-Omicron, Univer sity of Ok lahoma 104- 194 - D elta-Theta, Arkansas State College 22-1 98-Chi, U niver sity of the South (1910) 64- 1920-Beta-Pi, Univer sity o f P ennsylva nia 105-194S-Delta-1 ota. Ma•·s hall College 28-1900- Psi, North Geor gia Agr. Coli. (1933) 65-1921- Beta-Rho, Colorado College (1933) 106-1948--Delta-Kappa, San Diego State College 24-1901- 0mega, University of Kentucky 66-1922-Beta-Sigma, Carnegie Institute of Tech. 107- 1949-Delta-Lambda, Florida State University 211-1901-A lpha-Aipha. Duke University 67-1922-Beta-Tau, Univ. of Michiga n (1936) 108-1949- Delta-Mu, Mississipp i Southern College 26-1902-Alpha-Beta. Centena ry College ( 1951 ) 68-19 22-Beta-Upsilon, Unive r sity of Colorado 10 9-1~50-D elta -Nu, Wayne University 27-1903-A lpha-Gamma . Louisiana State Univ. 69-1922-Beta-Phi, Purdue Univer sity 1 10- 1950- Delta-Xi. India na University (1954) 28-1904-Aipha-Delta, Georgia School of Tech. 70- 1922- Beta-Chi, Univ. of Minnesota (1936) 111-1950-Delta-Omicron, Drake University 29-1904- Alpha-Epsilon, No. Carolina State Coli. 71-1923-Beta-P si. Mercer University ( 1941 ) 112-1950-Delta-Pi, San J ose State College 30-1904- A lpha-Zeta, University o f Ar kansas 72-1924-Beta-Omega, Lombard College (1930) 11 3-1950-Delta-Rho, Linfield College Sl-1904- A lpha-Eta. University of Flor ida 73-1924-Gamma-Alpha, University of Alabama 114----1950-Delta-Sigma, Bradley University 82-1904- Alpha-Theta, West Virginia University 74-1924- Gamma-Beta, Univ. of Nebraska (1941) 115-1951- Delta-Tau, Arizona State College 83-1905-Alpha-Iota, Millsaps College 75-1925-Gamma-Gamma, University of Denver 116-1951- Delta-Upsilon, Stetson University 84-1905- Aipha-Kappa, Missoul'i School of Mineo 76-1925-Gamma-Delta, University of Arizona 117-1951- Delta-Phi, Colorado School of Mines 85-1906- A lpha-Lambda. Georgetown College 77-1925-Gamma-Epsilon, Utah State Agr. Co li. 118--1952-Delta-Chi, University of Omaha 36-190 - Alpha-Mu, University o f Georgia 78-1926-Gamma-Zeta, Wittenberg College 119-1952- Delta-Psi, University of Maryland 37- 1909-Aipha-Nu, Universi ty o f Missour i 79-1926-Gamma-Eta, University of So. California 120-1953-Delta-Omega, High Point College 38-1910-Alpha-Xi. University of Cincinnati 80-1927-Gamma-Theta, Mississippi State College 121-1953-Eps ilon-Alpha. Trinity College 59- 1910-Alpha-Omicron, Southwestern Univ. 81-1927-Gamma-Iota, University of Mississippi 122-1953-Epsilon-Beta, Valparaiso University 40-1911- Alpha-Pi. Howard College 2- 1928-Gamma-Kappa, Montana State College 12a-1953-Epsilon-Ga mma, Texas Technological 41-1912-Aipha-Rho. Ohio State University 3-1929-Gamma-Lambda, Lehigh University College 42- 1912-Alpha-Sigma, University of California 84-1929-Gamma-Mu, Univ. of New Hampshire 124- 1955- Epsilon-Delta, North Texas State College 14 IIKA INITIATES! 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