Pka S&D 1946 Apr

p L A N Your Party Season Early I-FAVORS In spite of the scarcity of materials and the skilled labor shortage, Balfour offers many attractive favors in a price range to fit m ost budgets. W e need from two to three weeks for Your copy of manufacture plus transportation time. THE BALFOUR 2 -PROGRAMS BLUE BOOK 1946 Fancy p apers in wide color range are no lo nge r available, ye t Balfour p rograms · sent postpaid on request fea ture basic colors and cl ever ideas and designs, as w ell as leather and celluloid programs. * We need three weeks minimum fo r CONTACT manufacture and an extra w eek when your nearest BALFOUR insert printing instructions follow order. PLAN EARLY. store or representative * OFFICIAL JEWELER TO IIKA L. G. BALFOUR COMPANY FACTORIES ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS • T H PICT RE a t the bot tom of thi page wrap up a lo t tha t is dear to Pi Kappa lpha. It wa made at the A lb uquerque's Fo unders" D a din ner. rm AND A t the left i · Bill Rio rda n , a n ew di - ~HI~tll DIAM~ND trict pre ident. who has ju t re turned OFFICIAL P UBLICATION OF THE PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATE RNITY from service for hi coumry. H e repre Founded at the University of Virginia, March I, 1868, by J ulian Edward ·ents the returned ervicem a n ta king a n Wood, Littleton Wall er Tazewell , James Benjamin Sclater, J r., Frederick acu ve inter t in hi Fra ternity. Southga te Taylor, Robertson Howard, and William Alexander. ext i 'a tional Pre ide m Ro D . J. BLAN FO RD T AYLOR , ED ITOR H ickma n. who co ntinu e~ to g ive o HARRY E. HEATH , JR .. SOC IAT F EDITOR man o f hi bu y ho urs keeping Pi Office of Publication, 114 East Second Street, Little Rock, Ark. Ka ppa A lpha o near p ea e-time activit during the war a nd postwar d ays. Changes of address and subscrip tions should be sent to F. H. H art, Execu Brya n J o hn o n . AT. a n auorne a t Al tive Secretary, 77 1 Spring Street, N. W., Atlanta, Ga. Both old and new addresses should be given. Life subscription $10 for those in itiated before buquerque , who keep a live the tracl. i: Sept. I, 1927. Per year, $2. Alumn i rate, per year, $1. tio n o f the Fra ternity as a n a lumnu , Articles and p hotographs for T HE SHI ELD AN D DIAMOND are cordially invited g iving of hi time a nd advi e to the ac and should be addressed to J . Blanford T aylor, I !53 Monticello Road, ti ve ch a pter. J acksonville 7, Florida. N ext is R o bert Warner Bla ir, SMC of Beta-D e lta . In a avy unifo rm, he re p VOLUME LV, No. 4 APRIL, 1946 resents the younger m embers of the Fra ternity who have served their country a t THE SHIELD AND DIAMON D is published four times a year at 11 4 East Second St., LiLLi e Rock, the sa m e time they were pursuing their Ark., in July, October, J anuary, and April by the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Entered as educa tio n. Many SMC's of the last few second class matter, Oct. 14, 1937, at the Post Office at Little R ock, Ark., under Act of March years have been me n who were in b lu e 3, 1897. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage p rovided for in Section II 03, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, a uthorized June 16, 1918. or kha ki. ext is P a t Pugh , Bll, and a t the right is R ay lcCanna , Bll, a lso a lumni m em ber who a re read y to give a helping CONTENTS ha nd to the active groups so tha t a lumni + IIKA Business c h<~pter s will be stronger. - p hi phi kappa a lpha - V ictory Con ven tio n --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ---------- 2 1 Don't fo rget the a tiona l Con vemio n Founders' D ay ...... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------· 2, 6-l 2 at Mackinac Jsland. lE you have any War Mem oria I F und -------- ----------------------------·---------------·--------------------------- 2 1 suggestion as to what business should be con id ered , se nd it a long to th e N a + IIKA and the War ti onal Office. In the n ext issu e there C h icago H o nors Major W i Iso n ·-·--·-------------- ---------------------------------------------- 2 wi ll be a tentative program as well as a More Make Suprem e Sacrifice ........ ------------------------------------------------------------------- 17 -19 lo t of other informa tion abou t the V ic O ther War News -------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- 13- 16 tory Convention. --fiK A- + IIKA Spotlights PHOTO CR EDIT : Page 13, ignal Corps Photos. Wrights of M iss iss ip pi 3 - - fiKA -- Commiss ioner C h a n d Ie r ------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 A II -D K A Team ------------------------------------------------------------------·---------------------------------- ~9 51ze Cover- Dream G irls ------------------------------ --------------·------------------------------------------------- !i At Gam.nw-Alpha's annual Ilo m e corn.in g fornwl, llom.ecom.ing Jl ic + IIKA Departments t. ory King D on M iller escorts M iu Frnnces H esler o f Mobile, Ala. , Cha p ter 'ews ------------------------· ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22-37 throu g h a large nKA pin. The Cha p_ter E tern a I -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 0 chafJI.er soltl 15,500 in bo nds to Perman en tl y P in n eel . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -± 1 rv in tir e Jl ictory title and King M il Directory ____ ·-------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 7, 48 ler reign ecl 1.l1rortgh o u. l the 1-lome conr ing activities. Parsons And Brown Heard At Chicago Founders' Day Dinner • ALUMNUS ALPHA-THETA held its annual Founders' Day banquet Mar. l at the Electric Club in Chicago with 50 of the brothers in attendance, including a few actives from the North western University chapter and the Uni versity of Illinois chapter. J ohn Griffith, BH, was toastmas ter. Principal speakers were Col. Bruce Par sons, A<l> , and Comdr. Wilson Brown, rP. Parsons related some of his experi ences while se rving as provost marshal in Morocco and Italy. Brown told many interesting things concerning his five years of active duty aboard several dif ferent destroyers. Art Bowes, B<l>, chairman of the Dis tinguished Achievement Award commit tee, announced that Maj. Louis Hugh Wilson, Jr., AI, winner of the Medal of Maj. Louis Wilson, AI, Medal o f f rom Col. K. D. Pulcipher, nation Honor avinner, received th e IIKA al secretary, at th e Washington H onor, would receive the 1946 award. Distinguished Achievement award Founders' Day banquet. Bowes read the article and the cita tion which appeared in October, 1945, issue of THE SHIELD AN D DIAMOND about Major Wilson Honored Again Major Wilson. President Bennett 0. Scott, A:E:, turn By BRYANT LINE ed the dinner into a business meeting Delta-Alpha Chapter for the election of new officers. John / W. Griffith, BH, was elected president; H arold W . Storer, B!l, was elected vice • IT WAS LIK E old times tives who had discussed the construction president, and Winfrey C. Nichols, A;::', when the IIKA's met at the Continental of a large, specially designed building was elected secretary- treasurer. Hotel on Union Plaza in W ashington, for housing approximately four or five D. C., to celebrate the Annual Founders' fraternities. Day with a banquet Mar. 2, 1946. T he plans, which were enthusias tical- schools, the policy should now turn to Military uniforms were in a minority, 1y backed by all fraternities, called for the choosing of men with the necessary but various types of lapel buttons mark erection of this building near the cam basic qualities and to the building of ed those only recently turned civilian. pus sometime within the next two years. these to prominence by an uplifting, Many of the brothers had not een each In view of the fact that the present progressive fraternity program. Brother other for several years, and in one in chapter house of D elta-Alpha has been McCart illustrated his point by outlin stance, two brothers met for the first for sale for some time and is insecure, ing the possibilities of such a program time ince 1913. There were approxi· Brother Stevenson stated that he hoped at the Delta-Alpha chapter. mately 80 IIKA's and gues ts prese nt, and the chapter could obtain one of the Principal speaker of the evening was a self-introduction of members revealed floors in the proposed building. R ep. William Colmer, AI, of Mississ ippi, that 28 different chapters were repre R epresenting the Alumni chapter of chairman of a special committee from sented. Vlashington, Kenneth Streeter intro the H ouse recently se nt to Europe to John J. Sparkman, rA, co ngressman duced the various alumni officers pres study economi c conditions in relation to from Alabama, was MC for the evening. ent and gave a brief report on the func our post-war foreign trade. His speech H e began his program with a co uple of tioning of the chapter. was a report on what h e saw and the IIKA songs immediately after the forks Sam McCart, president of District 4-A, conclusions he reached, chief of which were still; then he introduced the speak gave a comprehensive report on the ac was the fact that this is a very sin all ers.

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