NOVEMBER 1970 the International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi
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D 0 F D E L T A s G M A p Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, Louisiana PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION FRATERNITY FOUNDED 1907 NOVEMBER 1970 The International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi Professional Commerce and Busineu Administration Fraternity Delta Sigma Pi was founded at New York Unive r sity, School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, on November 7, 1907, by Alexander F. Makay, Alfred Moysello, Harold V. Jacobs and H. Alber! Tienken. Delta Sigma Pi is a professional frater nity organized to foster the study of business in universities; to encourage scholarship, social ac tivity and the association of students for their mu tual advancement by research and practice; to pro mote closer affiliation between the commercial world and students of commerce, and to further a higher standard of commercial ethics and culture, and the civic and commercial welfare of the com munity. IN THE PROFESSIONAL SPOTLIGHT SHOWN HERE AT THE laying of the co rnerstone for the new addition to The Central Office arc from left to right: Past Executive Director James D. Thomson, Past Grand President John L. McKewen, Past Grand President and Secretary-Treasurer E meritus H. G. Wright, Grand President \V arren E. Armstrong, Past Grand Presidents M. John Marko, J. Harry Feltham, Robert C. Busse, and Executive Director Charles L. Farrar. November • 1970 Vol. LX, No. 1 0 F D E L T A s G M A p Editor 0 0 0 CHARLES L. FARRAR From the Desk of The Grand President . 2 Editorial Advisory Board Educational Foundation Awards Grants . 3 First of Three New Chapte.rs in Ohio Installed at the University Timothy D. Gover, Chairman of Akron . 5 112 Wabash Avenue Theta Lambda Chapter In tailed at Xavier University . 7 Mattoon, Illinois 61938 Delta Sigma Pi Records Another First at Columbus College . 9 Firman H. Hass Theta Nu Chapter Becomes First in State of Arkansas . 11 15903 Rosemont Road 170th Chapter is Fourth in Wisconsin . 13 Detroit, Michigan 48223 Another Chapter Joins Fraternity Roll in Iowa . 15 Bowling Green State University Receives Theta Pi Chapter Robert L. Howe Charter . 17 3830 Random Lane Eight~ Ch.apter in Pennsylvania Installed at Duquesne . .... Sacramento, California 95825 Uruverstty . 19 Theta Sigma Chapter Installed as Eighth in Florida . 21 Dr. James F. Kane, Dean Theta Tau Chapter Installation Concludes Record Year . 23 School of Business Adm. The School of Business at Ferris State Occupies new Building 27 Univ. of South Carolina With the Alumni The World Over . 29 Leon H. Harding III is Named South Central Regional Direc- W. Harmon Wilson tor . 34 5101 Madison Road Professional Interfraternity Conference Holds Meeting in . .. Cincinnati, Ohio 45227 Williamsburg . 34 If I were 21 Today . 35 Postmaster: Please send labels Form 3579 to Delta Sigma Pi, 330 South Campus Addition to The Central Office is Completed . 37 Avenue, Oxford, Ohio 45056. New College of Business Building Underway at the University of Hawaii . 40 The DELT ASIG of Delta Sigma Pi is Human Values in the Computer Age . 41 published four times annually in the Delta Sigma Pi Directory . .......... .. ... ... ..... Cover III months of November, January, March, and May. Editorial Office-330 South Campus Avenue, Oxford, Ohio 45056. Our Cover Publication Office-Curtis Reed Plaza, Menasha, Wisconsin 54952. Situated along the banks of Bayou DeSiard, Northeast Louisiana University, Monroe, Louisiana, is the featured university on the Subscription price: $5.00 per year. cover of this issue of The DELTASIG. Second class postage paid at Oxford, DELTA SIGMA PI is a charter senior member of the Pro Ohio 45056, and at additional mailing fessional Interfraternity Conference, organized in 1928. The offices. Printed in U.S.A. members of the Conference comprise: ARCHITECTURE, Alpha Rho Chi; CHEMISTRY, Alpha Chi Sigma; COM MERCE, Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi; DENTISTRY, Member of Alpha Omega, Delta Sigma Delta, Psi Omega, Xi Psi Phi; EDUCATION, Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Epsilon Kappa; ENGI NEERING, Theta Tau, Sigma Phi Delta; LAW, Gamma Eta Gamma, Delta Theta Phi, Sigma Delta Kappa, Phi Alpha Delta, Phi Beta Gamma, Phi Delta Phi; MEDICINE, Alpha Kappa Kappa, Theta Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Pi, Phi Chi, Phi Delta Epsi lon, Phi Lambda Kappa, Phi Rho Sigma; MUSIC, Phi Mu College Fraternity Editors Alpha Sinfonia; PHARMACY, Kappa Psi, Rho Pi Phi, Phi Association Delta Chi: VETERINARY MEDICINE, Omega Tau Sigma. 5rom ~he :lJejk o/ ~he (}rand PrejiJenl wARREN E. ARMSTRONG Gamma Iota-New Mexico "Once upon a time there was a baby chick named Chicken our goals. Our fraternity has had to be more responsive to Little. As be roamed the forest one day, an acorn fell from a the basic needs of our members. large oak and bit Chicken Little, etc., etc." You know the Why do colleges want Delta Sigma Pi on campus? Because rest of the story of the "earth falling in." Delta Sigma Pi: It's becoming apparent that we have many "Chicken Lit tle's" (or a little chicken) in the fraternity world. Over the 1. Provides training in leadership to be used in college past thirteen months, while traveling as your Grand President, and later years. I have talked with hundreds of chapter officers at length 2. Encourages good scholarship. about the problem of membership. Their degree of rushing, 3. Contributes to the social development of its mem pledging and initiation ran from "great" down to "poor." bers. Now, owning a couple of businesses where we employ 4. Develops obligation to the school and community in dozens of sales personnel gives me a direct line to some of the individual. the greatest "excuse makers" you can imagine. I think I have 5. Supports an atmosphere of good moral development. heard them all, as it deals with sales to other companies, i.e. , 6. Helps the individual develop warm, lifelong friend "It's too close to the holidays"; "They all want to wait until ships which in turn may lead to job opportunities. after tax time"; "They have a new man in purchasing, etc."; 7. Makes one participate in self-government as well as "Everyone is on vacations"; "They're (?) getting ready to the financial responsibilities that go along with it. move in (or out)"; "School's about ready to start (or let out)." I could go on and on, but I'm sure you get the idea. You have a product to sell. Why not share Delta Sigma Pi If industry would accept these excuses completely, as they with others? Each member of our brotherhood should replace are given by mediocre to poor salesmen, our economy would himself in the fraternity at least once a year. Don't ask a be in shambles. prospective rushee to meet you at your rush function, TAKE The strange part of the line of excuses is, each of these sales HIM! men thinks he has an original. Good sales people don't alibi; Most every leader in Government and Industry is an alum they sell! nus of a fraternity. Our fraternity does exceptionally well Let's get back to Chicken Little. We know that many words with leaders in industry. have been written and spoken of the "fall of the college fra Let's stop looking down on the world, telling everyone how ternities." Hogwash! This is only wishful thinking on the part bad things are, that "the (fraternity) world is coming to an of those who would completely change our American way of end." Instead, look to the skies and be thankful we're part of life. this great growing world of opportunity. Let's make this year The need for more fraternities has never been greater. We the greatest year Delta Sigma Pi has ever enjoyed by doing are going through changes in which we have bad to redefine your share and then some. • 3:4 • 71 - s 2 TH E November, 1970, ISSUE of 0 F D E L T A s G M A p Delta Sigma Pi Educational Foundation Awards Second Annual Undergraduate Scholarship and ~irst Graduate Study Grants THERESE L. SULLIVAN, daughter future? Perhaps he or she would be eligi tion in its giving. All gifts to the Founda of Brother and Mrs. Bernard J. Sullivan, ble for one of the scholarships offered by tion are tax deductible. Many Delta igs Chicago, Illinois, has been named recipi the Delta Sigma Pi Educational Founda have assisted with donations of from one ent of the Delta Sigma Pi Educational tion. If so, complete the application form dollar to much larger sums. Foundation's second annual four year in this issue of The DELTASIG. It could scholarship for study at Loyola Univer be worthwhile. The scholarship is worth Raymond M. Cook and William C. sity, Chicago, Illinois. Her father, Ber from $500 to $1 ,500 per year according Martin Receive First Graduate nard, is a member of Gamma Pi Chapter to the family need as determined by the Study Grant at Loyola University. National Scholarship Corporation. The first two graduate study grants to All applications are reviewed by the Possibly you are interested in assisting be awarded by the Delta Sigma Pi Educa National Merit Scholarship Corporation. the Delta Sigma Pi Educational Founda- tional Foundation have been awarded to To win, the candidate must score high on the National Merit Scholarship Test; plan to follow a course of study in business and attend a college or university where there is a chapter of Delta Sigma Pi. Fi nally, the candidate must be a daughter, granddaughter, son or grandson of a member of Delta Sigma Pi in good stand ing. Terry graduated from the Queen of Peace High School in Oak Lawn, Illinois, in the upper one per cent of her class.