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· ------·------,·------~ Wqr 1£aurrl of Jqi 1Kappa UJau The exoteric publicatio11 of tile Phi Kappa Tau. Fraternity. Pttblished prior to 1911 as "Sidelights." S chednled to appear qu.arlerly in the months of November, February, April, and hme, uuder directio11 and authority of the Gra11d Chapter. Stlbsrription price, $2.00 per )•ear.
EDITOR G RA \: SO '\ L. KtRK...... 5806 Baltimore . \,.e., Philadelphia, Pa. ASSOCIATE C. H. KM.CHNER ...... 4213 Chester Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. COPY EDITOR J \ ~ K \-\ . ,lARl:.O ...... Kcnt Country Club, Grand Rapids, ).fich. COMPTROLLER DR. Vv. H. SHlOELER ...... Oxford, Ohio BUSINESS MANAGER RALPH K. BowERS ...... 301-02 Medical Arts Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Alpha ~ u Chapter Installed ...... 281 \\'est Raden Bound ...... 286 The Inte r fraternity Club of Chicago ...... 289 l:::xpan ion ...... 292 Alpha Beta Grad Tells of Costa Rica ...... 294 Tau ?\1 an Holds Track Records ...... 296 On Location With the Secretary...... 299 Phi Tau Photos ...... 306 Among the Greeks...... 307 The Chapters ...... 318 Director: 333
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Vol. XVI J UNE, 1928 No. 4
Alpha Nu Chapter Installed at Iowa State ITHIN a very few hours of to a smoker, at which not only Weach other Grand President members of Alpha Kappa Delta and Taylor, Grand Councilor Brandon, visiting Phi Taus, but other frater Grand Secretary Bowers, and nity men on the campus were in Brothers Schroeder and Merrick, vited. On Friday evening the de of Upsilon; Vincent and Sebern, of gree team was the guest of the Iota; Workman, of Upsilon; Me chapter at their annual campus Neil, of Eta; and Huffman, of play, which is every year a part of Alpha Eta, arrived at Ames, Iowa, their Veishea celebration. Saturday on May 15, to help with the installa morning a tour of the campus was tion of Alpha Kappa Delta as Alpha made. Iowa State has as pretty a Nu Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau. campus as any university or college We found a group of men with that I have ever visited. The rolling high ideals and grim determination. ground naturally adapts itself to For eight years this group of men the landscaping. Saturday after has labored against almost unsur noon the formal installation took mountable obstacles and built a place. Forty-five men were installed strong fraternity. Every member as charter members of Alpha Nu of the degree team was pleased and Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau. Satur proud to serve in that capacity for day night was the scene of the such a g-roup of men. On Thursday installation banquet at the down morning, May 17, the chapter was town hotel. pledged to Phi Kappa Tau. Indi One of the particularly pleasing vidual initiations began and con events during the installation was tinued until they were concluded. the honors received by Brother Thursday evening was given over Lineweaver. Grand President Tay- -281- THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU
IOWA STATE'S NEW MEMORIAL UNION
THE DEGREE TEAM AT IOWA STATE THE LAUREL OF PHI K~PPA TAU 283 lor adjourned the installation work on Friday when the entire team, to gether with a great many of the chapter brothers, went over to a meeting of Cardinal Key. This is the senior and junior honor society on the campus. Six men are tapped among the seniors and six among the juniors. The last man tapped among the juniors is to be president for the succeeding year, and the next to the last man tapped is to be vice-president. Brother Lineweaver was lapped as vice-p1·esident. The entire degree team, as well as the Fraternity, congratulates Brother Lineweaver upon this honor, which is justly due. With a man of this calibre leading our new chapter, we DR. F. E. BROWN predict for them untold success. Faculty Advisor
cuflpha Nu Installation By Gerald A. Lineweaver N l\lay 19, exactly eight years Installation may to certain ex O to a day after Alpha Kappa tent be a dream come true to Della was founded as a local fra alumni, but to those of us who are ternity, it became the Alpha Nu yet in our undergraduate days it is Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau. only a milestone. We look forward to being able to build a stronger During these eight years men of chapter, make stronger bonds of Alpha Kappa Delta have been fellowship and do greater service. working· toward the realization of The men of Phi Kappa Tau who an ideal-that of being affiliated were here for installation were of wilh a national fraternity, and a the type whom we are proud to fraternity of which we would be call brothers. Not only were we proud. Being gTanted a charte1· of pleased with the men, but the cere Phi Kappa Tau marks the attain monies and ritual we1·e very im ment of that ambition. pressive and a real inspiration. 284 THE LAUREL OF P HI KAPPA TAU
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Phi J(appa Tau-A So11n et Phi Kappa Tau, thou follower of the Star Which binds us in thy close Fraternity, Hoard not the richness of thy past, but be Alert to ever fling thy message far Unto the utmost corners of the earth. Keep thou thy days with deeds of merit :filled, Let not thy tongue in noble speech be stilled, In worthy purpose let there be no dearth. Thus and thus only may thy lasting name By interlacing tendrils fast entwined Be in the hearts of stalwart sons enshrined, This way only is thy path to Fame. A pleasant road, this highway, carved by Fate So up and on to thine exalted state! -Carl E. Turner, Nu. West Baden Bound ES, we are going back to West rates of the hotel are given else Y Baden! Every Phi Tau is where in this issue. The rates this adopting the following slogan for year will come within the limit of the summer, "I am taking my vaca the pocketbook of all. tion August 23 to 25." The program outlined for this Get busy now! Tell the boss year will satisfy each and every what a good fellow he is! Tell him one. The entertainment committee that everybody else can take vaca is hard at work and promises some tions before you, and that you want thing that will delight the most yours to include the days just men fastidious. tioned. Tell him the finest group of For those who expect to come by boys in America are meeting those rail, we are printing a schedule of days at West Baden and that you rates from the cities where the want to be with them. It'll go chapters are located, and several across big with the boss and you'll other cities. Also, we are printing have your scheduled tl·eat. Bring a schedule showing the connections along your golf clubs, your favor- from the various main railroad ite horseshoe, your favorite billiard thoroughfares to West Baden. Due cue, your favorite baseball bat and to a change of schedule, those com glove; if you have a favorite saddle, ing from the East may arrive in or, for that matter, a favorite horse Indianapolis on the sleeper in time and saddle, bring them along, be- to catch a daylight train, aniving cause the bridle paths are wonder- in West Baden at noon. It is ad ful. vised, however, that delegates who Il does not matter what kind of are due at convention on Thursday weathe1· we have dished out for us should make an attempt to arrive at that time, the West Baden Hotel there the evening before, because will overcome insufficiencies from the noon train will be too late for a climatic standpoint. If it is hot the first session. They will be outside, it will be cool inside. If it marked up in the record as being is raining outside, it will be .pleas- absent from that session in the ant and dry inside. The sumptuous report which will be sent to the atrium of the hotel, pictured here- various chapters. with, is beyond description. Jt For those who expect to motor gives a setting for the convention to West Baden, we have prepared which makes West Baden, perhaps, a road map. The State of Indiana the most outstanding point in is very aggressive from the stand .-\merica fo r Phi Taus to meet. The point of good roads. At all times -286- THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA ',l'AU 287 you will find certain sections of the you are preparing to start from country in which new roads are be your home, get in touch with R. K. ing built and old roads rebuilt and Bowers at the Central Office and he repaired. This map is prepared by will be glad to supply you with up the State Highway Department and to-date information through his shows, as nearly as it can be esti local automobile club, as well as throug-h the State Hig·hway De mated from the present date (the partment. middle of June), just what roads And don't forget the wives and will be open for through traffic. sweethearts! Special entertainment This map does not show any of the is being prepared for them. There county or secondary roads. The will not be a dull moment during ones marked are all primary state their stay there. Several informal roads. parties are being planned and each From Louisville, Ky., to West evening there is always dancing in Baden there is now a fine conc1·ete the atrium. Each year the number road. From Indianapolis to West of ladies in attendance grows. Baden the road is concrete more Those who have attended before than half of the way, with only always return. about fifteen or twenty miles of ex Plan your vacation for August cellent gravel road. If you are in 23, 24, and 25, and be with all Phi doubt about the road at the time Taus at West Baden, Indiana.
THE ATRIUM The Charm of West Baden Hotel 288 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU The Interfraternity Club of Chicago By Jack W. Jareo, n HE Interfraternity Club of Interfraternity Club of Chicago are T Chicago, one of the most re included the following Phi Taus : cent outstanding developments in Gilbert K. Hardacre, Illinois, '23; interfraternity relations, is now a H. ·Lee Sterry, Syracuse, '24; and reality, after many years of plan Milton H. Wright, Nebraska Wes ning by the leaders of the foremost leyan, '00. national fraternities in this coun Phi Kappa Tau by this enroll try. ment is given a rating of twenty The club rooms, located on the two out of the twenty-three places mezzanine floor of the Congress held by the forty f 1~aternities, hotel, overlooking Michigan Boule which in itself is not a large figure. vard and the entire lake front of Yet as the popularity of the club downtown Chicago, from the Mu grows among residents of Chicago nicipal Pier to Soldiers' Field, oc who are members of Phi Kappa cupy a .considerable portion of the Tau, the membership is most cer former famous presidential suite. tain to increase. On March 1, Beta The club has today a membership Theta Pi and Sigma N u were the of nearly 700, more than half of groups with the largest enl'ollment the resident membe1·ship quota of in the club, with thirty-five mem 1,200 men set for the goal. Only bers each. men who are members of the forty The members of Phi Kappa Tau national fraternities which have should welcome readily this splen for fourteen years supported the did opportunity to join what is Interfraternity Chicago Associa termed Chicago's most exclusive tion are eligible for membership to club, exclusive because only college the club. Of these forty fratern bred men who are membe1·s of the ities, Phi Kappa Tau is represented forty oldest national fraternities with five members of the Interfra can become members. It is neces ternity Club. sary for the applicant to pass rigid For Phi Kappa Tau, Vktor M. eligibility rules, and also pass the Henry, 910 S. Michigan avenue, is club's own membership committee. the Fraternity's member of the "The result is," comments a I'e Board of Fraternity Representa cently issued booklet of the club, tives. Henry graduated from the "a membership of a most excep University of Illinois in 1920. tional character. For the promo Among the other members of the tion of alumni actjvity the Inter- - 289- 290 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 291 fraternity Club fills a long felt need. for all members whose residence or Only two fraternities have indivd place of business is within fifty ual club quarters, so that the club miles of Chicago. For non-resident solves the problem of weekly members the initiation fee is $25 luncheons and dinners for alumni and annual dues are $10. groups." "No other club," declares the As a practical plan which is al bulletin, "offers so much for the ready a sound success, the scheme money because of the economy of of organization is interesting. The operation and the excellent ar financing of the Interfraternity rangements made with the hotel Club was unique owing to arrange management." ments with the Congress hotel that The club rooms at present con were exceptionally advantageous. sist of a spacious lounge, a library, In fact, because the Congress hotel commodious dining rooms, a card in March, 1927, presented such a room, and a ladies' room. The club favorable p1·oposal which met every has an option on the entire Con requirement, were the final steps gress street side of the hotel, and for the establishment of the club a substantial portion of the Michi made possible. gan avenue frontage of the mezza The hotel is under contract to nine floor for occupancy as further deliver as much of the mezzanine expansion seems justified. floor as is required at a specific The Interfraternity Club has for price per square foot, completely its present president Dr. Frank furnished with full hotel service. Wieland, a widely known member As a result fees and dues are ex of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. ceedingly Teasonable. Dr. Wieland is a prominent Chicago The initiation fee at present is physician and is well known in na $50, and the dues are $35 per year tional fraternity circles. E xpansion HE question of expansion is one The percentage is the number of chap ters in the state in relation to the num T which all college fraternities ber of schools of this size. The size was constantly struggle with. It is, arrived at by taking as a basis about the indeed, interesting to note the in smallest school in which we already have terest taken by both the graduates a chapter. This chapter is Delta at Cen and undergraduates of Phi Kappa ter College, with an enrollment of 257 students. Tau in this question. Grand Secre It will be seen that Ohio, with its six tary Bowers recently received a chapters, is ninth in the list, showing communication from one of the that it is not over-crowded. And Pennsyl brothers of Alpha Iota Chapter, vania, with the fourteenth place, is way giving some statistics which he down the list. The lower part of the list is in the order of the number of schools had compiled, showing expansion in the state. Thus Massachusetts, with in the various states on a percent thirteen schools, comes before Texas with age basis. We are herewith quot twelve. But if both states have the same ing the letter and the statistics for number of schools, then the one that has the readers of THE LAUREL. They the most students comes first. Thus are, indeed, intet·esting: Georgia, with six schools and 7,081 stu dents, comes before Maryland, with six Dear Brother Bowers : schools and 6,176 students. I am sending you some figures that I Thus we can see that expansion should thought might be of interest to you in start in the states that do not have any relation to national expansion. These chapters in the order they are on this figures may speak for themselves better list. While, if we are to expand in the than I can speak for them, so I will only states that already have chapters, it give a word of explanation. should not be in the first half of the list All figures were taken £or colleges of but rather in the lower half. over 250 students and from figures com The list of colleges is in the order of piled from the 1927 Educational Direc number of colleges and then in the order tory of the U. S. Bureau of Education, of the number of students in these col Department of Interio1·. All colleges are leges. either all men or co-educational, so that The numbers listed under college stud thet·e would be a chance for a chapter ents is the total number of students in in each school. It is impossible for me the colleges taken in this list. to eliminate those that do not allow f ra I believe this explains all the figures, ternities, so I have taken them all, as but if you want any more explanation I suming it would strike an average over the whole country. will be glad to give it to you if I can. I will now try to explain these figures These figut·es may be used in any way so that they are a little clearer. The only that you see fit to use them. Any con fair way to judge expansion by states is clusion you may draw from a study of on a percentage basis, so that row of them may be used with them. figures should prove of the greatest in Fraternally yours, terest. JOHN L. HANSELL, - 292- THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 293
P ercentage of chapters in schools of over 250 male student::; .
Delaware ...... 100.00 Iowa ...... 7.69 Connecticut ·-············ 0 Kentucky ········------···· 37.50 Kansas ...... 7.69 Maine ························ 0 Wisconsin ·················· 33.33 Indiana ·····-······------6.25 Utah ------·············· 0 Florida ······················ 33.33 Illinois ··················--- - 4.75 North Dakota...... 0 Alabama ----····-- ...... 25.00 Massachusetts ...... 0 Rhode Island ...... 0 West Virginia...... 25.00 Texas ·················------0 Mississippi ...... 0 Michigan ·············· .... 20.00 Tennessee ...... 0 Vermont ...... 0 Colorado -··················· 20.00 Missouri ...... 0 Arkansas ...... 0 Ohio ······-····-···--·-----····· 19.35 Minnesota ·------0 New Hampshire...... 0 'ebraska ...... 16.66 South Carolina...... 0 Arizona ...... 0 Oregon ··--·················· 16.66 Oklahoma ...... ········ 0 Montana ...... 0 Washington ------·· ······ 16.66 Louisiana ········-········- 0 Idaho ····------...... 0 California ...... 15.38 Georgia ...... 0 New Mexico ...... 0 Pennsylvania ············ 13.33 Maryland ...... 0 Wyoming ...... 0
'ew York...... 10.71 South Dakota ...... 0 Ne,·ada 4000ooOo OooOoOoooo00 0 . 0 Virginia ··········---······· 9.09 New Jersey ·········----- 0 ~orth Carolina ...... 8.33 Dist. of Col. ····--······ 0
Number of colleges with over 250 students in each state.
Ohio ...... 31 South Ca t·olina ...... 8 Maine ...... 4 Pennsylvania ...... 30 Washington ...... 6 Utah ...... 3 New York ...... 28 Wisconsin ...... 6 North Dakota ...... 3 lllinois ...... 21 Xebraska ...... 6 Florida ...... 3 :\la~sachusetts ...... 13 Oklahoma ...... 6 Rhode Island ...... 3 California ...... 13 Oregon ...... 6 Mississippi ...... 3 Iowa ...... 13 Louisiana ...... 6 Vermont ...... 3 Kansas ...... 13 Geo1·gia ...... 6 At·kansas ...... 3 Texas ...... 12 Maryland ...... 6 New Hampsire ...... 2 i\' orth Carolina ...... 12 South Dakota ...... 6 Arizona ...... 2 Virginia ...... 11 Colot·ado ...... 5 Montana ...... 2 Tennessee ...... 11 ~ ew J ersey ...... 5 Idaho ...... 2 Michigan ...... 10 Dist. of Col...... 4 New Mexico ...... 2 Missouri ...... 8 Connecticut ...... 4 Wyoming ...... 1 Minnesota ...... 8 Alabama ...... 4 Delaware ...... ! Kentucky ...... 8 West Virginia ...... 4
(Continued on Page 332) ~lph a ~e ta Grad T ells of Costa Rica
HARLES B. LOCKWOOD, a tains, but our bananas only grow in the sweltering lowlands where white men oTaduate member of Alpha C b cannot do manual work, and the fever Beta Chapter, has 1·ecently written from putrid water shakes your system the following letter to the members if you are not careful. Out in the wild cane of the resident chapter. Lockwood and jungle along the lower river courses, where the land is almost a swamp and is connected with the Costa Rica the mud is the predominant feature of division of the United Fruit Com the landscape, there the daily rains pour pany, located at Siquirres, Costa down with the gentleness of a fire hose Rica. His impressions of the Cen and the snakes wriggle uncomfortably tral American republic, given in underfoot. The new man comes in from the United this letter, are indeed inte1·esting. States full of hope and ambition. The Dear Phi Taus: company receives him with open arms I've begun to realize that a good long from the boat and dumps him on the first time has elapsed since I last saw the old train running out from the port to the crowd, and our Alma 1\Iater up there on farms. Riding along on Costa Rica's one the Heights. I feel somehow it's the duty and only single track, narrow gauge rail of any of us who get far enough away way, he views from his perch the passing to Ree a nd do things new, to send at least landscape. On close inspection this one good yarn back to the Fraternity. "train" is seen to consist of a peculiar And in this frame of mind I begin, but conglomeration of freight cars, crates do not assume my contribution to be just usually called passenger coaches, at least a fairy fable because I call it a yarn; it's one caboose trailing behind, and a ref rig as true as my conscience can make it. erator car, all headed by a diminutive I never realized until I arrived how steam donkey engine. At the start his little the rest of humanity, especially eag-er glance catches sight of a banana American:;, were aware of this small plantation, with acres and acres of huge, group of republics called Central Amer broad, waving leaves. Then he spies ica. Back home at sailing time, my des another five miles of bananas, followed tination was variously designated as by at least fi fteen miles of bananas. And Nicaragua, Panama and Porto Rico-the so forth ad infinitum, until a jerky halt last for no other reason than that is suggests his destination. He gets off and sounded something like Costa Rica. In the train passes on around the bend be fact, on a nice little party a few nights hind the banana leaves. before I left, a jolly old gentleman in Most p1·obably his bags and property sisted upon loading me with advice for surround his feet in a magic circle; a my trip to "Honduras." Nevertheless, Panama hat covers his head and a nice La Republica de Costa Rica is a mighty light suit appears below; whHe oxfords interesting and important little piece of on his feet complete the outfit. The ap territory. pearance of a young darky dispels the It is a strange life, after all, in this problem and he advances in tow with all low, tropical banana country along the properties to a nearby mule car. By this Atlantic coast. Costa Rica has hills of time the dail y shower has decided to course, some beautiful volcanic moun- withhold no longer. Sitting wretchedly -294- THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 295 upon the suitcase with upturned collar, We farmers found ourselves fright he receives the blessings of Heaven in fully h::olated from all human contacts the form of a two-inch per-hour down and amusements except those we could pour. The car lut·ches crazily along the provide for ourseh·es. l.Jsually this tram rails behind a microscopic mule that means the comraderie of the whisky bot is skipping the ties like a grasshopper tle and ineffectual attempts to vamp the in a stubble fieltl. native nymphery. Quite useless, how ever-that iii, what might be called Smash, jerkety, bump; four or five "vamping," since they are too obliging, tremendous heaves, a jumble of said bags and fearfully direct. But two fellows and baggage, and complete collapse of alone on a 2,000-acre plantation, sur everything solid as the car bounces along rounded by only a few hundred peons, the ties for six or ~even metres and set should be forgiven many things. tles gently into the mud. One glimpse The long, sharp knife or "machete" is at his apparel reveals the tragedy. What the universal instrument both for agri the rain began the mud has finished in culture and offense. One man can chop thorough style. He arrives at the over down more grass and bush will1 one of seer's house the sodden remnant of a these than would be ch·eamed possible at man, with mud in each pocket an,! the home with a clumsy scythe. Likewise Panama drooling over his ears. the most deadly results can be obtained And het'e ends all illusions of the great with one in a rum-brawl or a pay-day city, of civilization, of nice manners and quarrel. It is worn fairly constantly clean clothes, and we settle down to the throug-hout Central America, and the solid business of banama farming, and sig-ht of one of these, leather- s heath~d . the life of a "tropical tramp" of Costa dangling from the hip by a piece of rope, Rica. My gruff and unsympathetic re is strikingly picturesque and reminiscent ception from the overseer, and future of old-world history and chivalry. boss, being over with, I sank down to the I think pay day, with the opportunities waiting supper of beans, rice, and fried of ready cash at hand and raw rum in plantains, and later a change from soggy the head, is the most dan~rous event of clothes. tl1e season. This is really a peaceful Next morning I lost mighty little time country except when people are drunk on in looking over my domain and soon "warro." Today I saw a fellow carted leamed that I would be assigned to the up in a stretcher from the farms and new woodland. This invoh·ed a stretch loaded into a train for Limon hospital. of wild, really beautiful virgin forest, His greasy shirt and unchanged rags perl1aps six hundred acres in all. were black with caked blood. He lay These lands lie low toward the sea, there on the grountl when the stretcher broken up by frequent, swampy rivers, was lowered, all huddled up and ghastly and seem never to be quite above the looking in the face. He was very weak water level. reed less to say, I saw acres and ,·omited a little from 11ausea. His of mud and waded miles of flooded terri ,:l10ulder had been chopped with a ma tory in the rainy season, e,·en swam chete and his che~>t stabbed open. Quite creeks and small rivers at times when casually the crowd collected and looked any other crossing became impossible. It him over. Not a bad case at all, the at wouldn't have.becn so bad if I on ly could tendant confided to me. In this way I have kept those crawly snakes and liz could babble on and on about the coun ards out of my mind, and that constant try forever. To stop anywhere at a logi threat of alligators. But like all things, cal ending in these descriptions is futile that work ended in time and gave me my -so I'll sign the "finis" right here. chance on actual farm work. C. B. L. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tau Man Holds Track Records DoNald Cooper, Mid1igau Track Star, Qua!t'fied for Olympic Tryouts
By Jack W. Jareo
LOSING his 1928 conference C season by winning first place in the 120-yard high hurdles and second place in the 220-yard low hurdles on May 26 at the confer ence meet at Evanston, Donald l\Iurray Cooper, a member of Tau Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau, exhibit ed his supremacy and skill as one of the outstanding track athletes in national as well as conference track circles. Donald Cooper, as a member of the University of Michigan track team, has for the past two years shown himself not only as a high point scorer for 1\Iichigan in the hurdle events, but as one of the leading hurdlers in all the events in which he has participated as a meet Cooper is qualified for the member of the Wolverine track final tryouts in the Olympic Games, squad. He has broken several rec the tryouts to be held some time in ords in both indoor and outdoor June. track meets. Starting with the season of 1926- At present he holds all the hur 1927, Don Cooper's track record is dle records for the Yost Field only one proof of his exceptional House at the University of Michi ability on the cinder track in the gan, as well as the 220-yard low high and low hurdle events. In the hurdle record in the Ohio Relays Illinois Relays of that year, he held this April, and records in Har placed second in the low hurdles vard, Illinois, and Cornell dual and fourth in the hig·h hurdle meets with l\Iichigan. By his vic event. In the conference indoor tories in the outdoor conference meet, Cooper placed second to -296- THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 297
Charles ~IcGinnis, the Wisconsin he was prevented from being a track star, who tied the existing contestant by a dislocated shoulder, record in the 60-~·ard high hurdle which ended his track work for the event. season with the exception of win \Vhcn ?11ichigan met Cornell in a ning the A. A. U. championship of dual meet, it was Don Cooper who :Michigan in the low hurdles. took first place in the hig·h hurdles His ·work during the season of for the Wolverines, setting a new 1927-1928 was even more outstand Yost Field House record, and also ing and spectacular than during gave points to :i\Iichigan by win the previous year. Starting out in ning first place in the low hurdles, a special invitational meet given by tying the record previously set by the Illinois Athletic Club, Cooper Hubbard for the field house track. placed second in the 60-yard high In the Ohio Relays for 1927, hurdle event. Kinsey tied the Cooper showed his strength as a world's record in this event with a hurdler by winning first place in time of 7 5/ 10 seconds, with Chick both the high and low hurdles. In Werner coming in behind Cooper a dual meet with Iowa, Cooper for third place. placed first in the low hurdles, de Because of a sprained ankle, feating Cuhel, who is ranked as one Cooper was prevented from enter of the leading conference track ing the indoor conference meet, men, and a dangerous opponent in but in the dual meet with Harvard, either the high or low hurdles. he set a record of 7 4/ 10 seconds Cooper's skill was again shown in the 65-yard low hurdles, which in the lllinois and Ohio dual meets replaced the mark previously set of 1927, when he took first in the by Hubbard for the field house. Be low hurdles in the first meet, with sides establishing the new record a new Illinois dual meet rec01·d of at the Ohio Relays in the 220-yard 24 and 4110 seconds. In the second low hurdles, Don Cooper also placed meet he again won both first place first in the high hurdles at the dual in the high and low hurdles. meet with Minnesota, and first in On a rain-nooded track at the the low hurdles at the Ohio dual University of Wisconsin in l\Iay, meet. In the Illinois dual meet, 1927, Cooper placed third in the Cooper scored a first in the 120- 220-yard low hurdles in the con ~ · ard high hurdles, with a time of ference outdoor meet. Iowa took 11 8 10 seconds, that broke the rec first place with its star, Cuhel, in ord for that event in the dual meet this event. with Illinois and for the Yost Field After this brilliant track record House track. By winning- the 220- for the 1927 season, Don Cooper ~·ard low hurdles v.•ith a record time planned to participate in the Na of 23 and 5/ 10 seconds, Cooper also tional Collegiate meet following the established a new record for the conference season. Unfortunately dual meet in that event. 298 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU
It is no small wonder that the delightful months were spent in this tour, M ichigan Da ily, the student pub the itinerary of which took the three travelers through the French Alps, the lication of the University of Michi val1ey of the Loire and the Chateau gan, speaks pf Donald Cooper as country, England, Scotland, Ireland, the greatest Michigan hurdler of Wales, Ft·ance, Belgium, Holland, Ger all time. .-\.nd as a member of Phi many, Switzerland, and Italy, with a t·e Kappa Tau, his work on the cinder turn by way of the Riviera to southern track is an accomplishment that all France and a final run to the north of France, where Draw's parents sailed the members of the Fraternity can for home. justly be proud of in many ways. Drew then traveled to Madrid, where It is indeed the hope of the Fra he ::;pent the next half year in studying ternity that Donald Cooper will be Spanish. At the end of this time Drew a representative of Phi Kappa Tau returned to his homa for a visit, and then at the Olympic Games to be held went to Washington to caHy on his studie::; for the examinations for the this .vear at Amsterdam. foreign service. These he passed with a high rating, standing fourth in the written examinations out of 250 candi 'Drew Gets Cf3razt"! Post dates. Gerald A. Drew, a g-raduate of Before receiving his appointment he the University of California in again went to Europe and took another 1924, after passing- with a hig-h bicycle tour, this time with a friend who had studied with him in Grenoble. Their rating his examinations for the travels took them through northern Ger foreign service, has been appointed many, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and as vice consul at Para, northern Finland. Drew took advantage of his Brazil, where he expects to remain stay in Germany to acquire a working for one and one-half years. Drew, knowledge of German. previous to his appointment in At the conclus ion of this tour he re Brazil, toured many countries in turned to Washington, upon receiving his definite appointment to tha foteign Europe as well as attending the set-vice, and entered the foreign service University of Grenoble. school, which is conducted by the State Immediatel)' after gradualion from the Department for the instruction of new University of California in 1924, Drew, appointees in the details of consular and joined in England by Kenneth Bell, made diplomatic usage. The completion of this a bicycle tour of the Briti:.;h Isles and course was followed by his assignment as later of a considerable patt of northern vice-con::;ul at Para, northern Brazil, France. where he expects to remain for about one and one-half years. Drew then entered the University of Grenoble, where he spent the college ~·ear For part of each year he will be in in an intensive study of French. charge of the consulate at Manaos, 900 At the conclusion of his course, he was miles up the Amazon river. Para, situ joined by his father, who graduated from ated at the mouth of the Amazon, is the the University of California in 1893, and second port of importance in Brazil, and his mother at Grenoble, where a car was is the shipping center for the g1·eat quan purchased for the purpose of maki!'lg an tities of Brazil nuts and rubber which automobile tour of Western Europe. Four are produced in that region. LOCATION "WITII. TU& S&C~kT~Y ---
ARLY in May some adjust quite a Michigan booster. Hyde is E ments in the work of the the chapter advisor, and the most Michigan chapters called for the outstanding man among the Mich attention of the Grand Secretary. igan alumni in the work for th~ Accordingly, I made my first stop chapter. With these men men at Detroit to see our jewelers, the tioned at the helm, we can expect Burr, Patterson & Auld Co., and great things from Tau next year. Edwards, Haldeman & Co. These From Tau Chapter I took a bus jewelers promised to take infinite to East Lansing to visit Alpha pains with the Phi Kappa Tau Alpha. This chapter is progressing badges during the coming year, and very nicely. Brother Herbert Place see if they can't be made even still is their president, and Brother Wil better and finer. liam Eaton is treasurer. Under the I found a fine group of men at leadership of these men I predict Tau Chapter. They had some won that Alpha Alpha will make a high derful men as officers. Brother showing. They are now preparing Hockstad is president, and Brother to recondition their house. They Nette is treasurer. Brother Bald expect to spend some $10,000 on win, retiring treasurer, was a hard this work. working man. His business sense is While in East Lansing, I took the helping to put Tau Chapter in good occasion to run into Lansing and financial condition. I could not pass see :Miss Hazel Eckert, the secre over Tau Chapter without mention tary-editor of the Alpha Chi Omega nig· Brother LaVerne F. Hyde. Fraternity, of which Mrs. Bowers Brother Hyde was originally a is a member. member of Rho Chapter, but was From Alpha Alpha I went back transferred to Tau during his un to Indianapolis to catch up in my dergraduate days and has become work, so that I could leave the next - 299- 300 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU week for Wisconsin. Omega Chap were spent in Ames at the installa ter during the past few years has tion of the chapter, but that is a been having some difficulty, but part of another story. with the lineup they now have From Ames I went to Lincoln, these things should all be eradicat Neb., to visit Upsilon Chapter, and ed. During the past year Brother for conference with the Grand Grayson L. Kirk, the grand editor, Pt·esident. I arrived in Lincoln has been in Madison, and undoubt about one in the morning. I had edly his influence has been a big not notified them of the time that help. Norman Reitan and Harold I would arrive, so I took a car to Schearer are always the mainstays the house and found only half of of Omega Chapter. They were one bed vacant. I crawled in beside present and working hard to put Brother Albert Johnson, and Phi Kappa Tau on top. Omega learned before the night was over Chapter has a new chapter advisor why Dr. Harry had spoken in a in Brother Bernard Domogalla. previous address concerning the Domogalla is a hard-working man sway-back fraternity beds. Brother and a prince of a chap. He has Merrick is president of Upsilon made tremendous strides in helping Chapter, and a mighty fine man. I Omega Chapter. I wish that I could watched him preside over a meet take the time and space to tell you ing, and can understand now why about all of the men of this chap Upsilon is such a strong chapter. ter, especially the officers, but I After visiting· Upsilon Chapter I cannot. I will not, however, pass went into conference with Dr. Tay on without mentioning Brother lor, and spent the next day and Herbert Klingman and Brother night with him. The graciousness Jack Jareo. These men are live, and hospitality of DT. Taylor's wide awake, and mean quite a bit family is such that no one who has in the working of Om~ga . During enjoyed it can ever forget. the coming year much will be heard The next day I finished my con of Klingman as president of the ference with Dr. Taylor and called chapter. Jack Jareo has been as on my old friend Dwight F. Bedell, sistant editor with Kirk, and is past secretary-tt·easurer of the doing quite a fine piece of work. Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity. Mr. I retumed ft·om Wisconsin to my Bedell is now secretary of the home, to leave the following week Junior Chamber of Commerce of for Ames, Iowa. I was met at the Lincoln, and is assistant secretary station by three of the brothers, of the Chamber of Commerce. who quickly took me <>ut to the This ended the wanderings of the chapter house. I was given a hearty Grand Secretary for the year welcome and met Brother Gerald 1927-28. I wish that I could have Lineweaver, president of the new visited more chapters during the chapter. Six very pleasant days year, but my· calendar only shows THE LAUREL OF PHI KI\PPA TAU 301 365 days per annum. I anticipate previous election, and Glantz had plans during the coming year that nearly two to his nearest competi will take me to those chapters tor's one. which I did not visit in the year Althoug·h Glantz has participated just past. The information that I a great deal in campus politics, he have in my possession now is going has always found time to maintain to enable me to make one of the nearly a B average and to give finest repo1·ts of the chapters and wholehearted support to his frater chapter progress that it has ever nity. He was elected chapter presi been my privilege to render to a dent at the last election and is convention. conducting the chapter organiza tion in as fme a manner as any man Gla71tZ E/e,·ted Hearl ever elected to the position. of Illinoi.r UJiioJI Not satisfied with being general Gamma of Ph£ Eta Iwtalled chairman of the most successful With a chapter role of thirty-six mem Homecoming ever held on the 111i bers, sixteen of whom have been initiated nois campus, Brother N. A. Glantz as charter members, Gamma Chapter of Phi Eta, the mothers' organization of attained the zenith of student posi Phi Kappa Tau, has recently been in tions by being elected by popular stalled at Kappa Chapter of the Fra vote the president of the Illinois ternity. Mr. A. B. Thompkins, the chap Union. ter president of Gamma, would like to Entering· politics as a freshman, hear from any former membars of Kappa Chapter of P hi Kappa Tau at Kentucky Glantz worked on various commit State l.Iniversity, Lexington, Ky., who tees and boards, earning the posi would be interested in having their tion of chairman of Homecoming mothers or guardians become members last fall. The latter position is de of the newly organized Gamma Chapter termined from the merit system, of Phi Eta. which allows only those with un limited energy and initiative to THE HAPPIEST YEARS OF HIS LJFE hold student jobs. The board of "Father, did you enjoy yourself when you were a fref;hman at college?" trustees of the university an "Did I? Why. thol'e were the happiest nounced after Homecoming last years of my life!"-Thc Mctgazin<' of fall that jt was the largest financial Sigma Chi. success of any Homecoming held, the number of alumni to return TOt:C HDOW~ Bobby: "Do you play football, l;ncle ?" breaking all records excPpt the Aged l'ncle: ";-Jo, lad." dedication of the ).Iemorial Sta Bobby: ·'Well, what did Daddy mean dium. when he said that we could get a big At the last Union election there automobile when you kick off ?"-The were more votes cast than at any .l!agazine of irrnw Chi. 302 THE L AUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU Chapter, in spite of all the jokes Please Pass the r:Brai11s and puns concerning· its use, and "Please pass the brains! '' the fraternity is glad that they are Brains as a usual thing- are not fo rtunate to have a biological to be asked for in this abrupt fash chemist in their brother and ion, yet such an exclamation was faculty advisor, Dr. Domogalla. not uncommon at the table of Omeg-a Chapter during- the week of .final examinations of the past Sc!udule of Rates at lf/eJt semester at the Unive1·sity of Wis BatleJl Spri11gJ Hotel consin. The hotel is strictly American plan. But the "brains" served at the The meals are the best that can be Omeg-a table were far different 8ecured anywhere. Three f ull meals are from what one would expect. served every day. When such a dish was demanded, I nside rooms are lhose facing the the brother or pledge was handed Atrium and have a balcony overlooking that unique and spacious section of the a small fla sk from the chemical hotel. The inside and outside rooms are laboratory containing- a liquid not equally nice. unlike water in appearance, a liquid Triple room without bath-$6.00 per known as acid phosphate. This JH:n·son. chemical, not unlike the phosphate Inside double room with toilet but no served in drug- store soda fountains, bath-$7.00 per per on. was the prescription of Dr. Bemard Inside double room wilh bath connect Domog·alla, the faculty advisor of ing- to another room-$8.00 per person. Omega Chapter. The purpose of Outside double rooms without bath Dr. Domogalla's prescription was $8.00 per pen~on ($15 for two persons). to make the brothers and pledges Outside ~ i ngle rooms with bath-$9.00. think clearer, have better acting· Outside double rooms with bath-$10 minds, so that they could hit the for one person (818 for two persons). final exams harder than ever. At the suggestion of Dr. Domo Prog ram for Co7l ·Ve71tio1l g·alla, nearly the en tire chapter ex perimented upon the use of acid Tf/-eek phosphate as an aid in creating energy to withstand the demands Pzjt/1 A mtua! Domain Clzief of final exams, and some of the Conclm.'e brothers returned to curse and i\Ionday, Aug-ust 20- others to bless the remedy, but that was all according to how the acid 9:00 A. l\I. 1st Session phosphate reacted to them. 1:30 P. lVI. 2nd Session It cannot be denied that the use Tuesday, August 21- of the chemical did do a great deal 9:00 A.M. 3rd Session of good for the men of OmeO'a 0 1 :30 P. lVI. 4th Session THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 303
lvleetings of Grand Council Interfrater"i(v Body Gets Tuesday, August 21- Clzarter in till' /fre.rt 1 :30 P. l\1. 1st l\Ieeting The :\1ational Interfraternity Wednesday, August 22- Conference has recently granted a 9 :00 A. l\1. 2nd l\Ieeting charter to the San Francisco Inter 1:30 P. :M. 3rd ~I eeting fraternity Committee, which has been given jurisdiction over the northern half of California and 18th r:./!JLJI ual Co11 ·ven tiou over Nevada. This committee is Thursday, August 23- composed of a president, vice-presi 9:00 A. lVI. 1st Session dent, secretary and treasurer, and 1:30 P.M. 2nd Session six members-at-large, all of whom Friday, August 24- mal{e up the administrative board. 9:00 A.M. 3rd Session The president of the San Fran 1:30 P. M. 4th Session cisco Interfraternity Committee is Saturday, August 25- Frank H. Buck, 0 j_ X, and the vice 9:00 A. l\I. 5th Session president is Walter Chowen, j. Y. 1 :30 P. l\1. 6th Session The remaining officers and mem bers of the committee are all active Railroad Sdudules From Gate fraternity men, among whom is ways to lf/est Baden Donald A. Pearce, of Nu Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau. From Indianapolis Lv. Indianapolis .. 8 :30 A. JL 11:50 A. :\1. Briefly, the objects of the com Ar. West Baden .. ll :53 A. 1\T. 5 :58 P. l\1. mittee as quoted from the charter Route: Penn. R. R. to Gosport or Lime- granted in April, 1927, are to pro dale and C. I. & L. R. R. to West Baden. tect and promote the interest of From Chicago college fratemities, to promote co Lv. Chicago ...... 9 :00 A. l\1. 9 :00 P. lVI. operation and good fellowship Ar. West Baden .. 6 :58 P. M. 6:50A.M. among all fraternity men and par Route: C. I. & L. R. R. ticularly among chapters on the From St. Louis local campus, and between faculty Lv. St. Louis ...... l2:00 Noon and fraternity. Ar. West Baden . 5 :58 P. M. Route: B. & 0. to Mitchell and C. T. & L. The annual banquet, held at the R. R. to West Baden. Mark Hopkins Hotel, was attended From Louisville by 175 fraternity men. Colonel Lv. Louis,·ille ...... 8 :20 A. :\L 3:05 P. :\I. Ed,Yards, the oldest living alumnus Ar. West Baden 10:15 A. :\l. 5:5 P. :\I. of the University of California, Route : C. I. & L. R. R. Except Sunday. gave the Greek letter men an ex From Cincinnati ample to be long remembered in Lv. Cincinnati ... !>:10 A. :\I. his praise of what his fraternity Ar. West Baden 12:37 P. ~I. Route: B. & 0. to :\lilchell and C. I. & L. affiliations has meant and still R. R. to West Baden. means to him. 304 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU West Badm Fares time of leaving·, in order to be cer Below is a schedule of the rail tain that he has the tariffs govern road fa1·es from the various chap ing the rated quoted. In case he ters and several other towns in the does not, get in touch with the Cen United States to West Baden, In tral Office at once. Tickets at these diana. It is suggested that you rates can be secured if the pur confer with your local ticket agent chnser will take the necessary time at least two weeks in advance of and go after the matter in advance.
SCHEDULE OF ROUND TRIP RAILROAD AND PULLMAN FARES TO WEST BADE-r\, DiD. From: Railroad Pullman Total Oxford, Ohio ...... $ 11.19 s 3.00 $ 14.19 Athens, Ohio...... 19.91 7.50 27.41 Columbus, Ohio...... 17.18 8.50 25.68 Danville, Ky...... 11.35 3.00 14.35 Alliance, Ohio...... 26.64. 10.00 36.64 Champaign, IlL...... 23.25 7.50 20.75 Allentown, Pa...... 51.48 16.50 67.98 Lexington, Ky...... 10.80 3.00 13.80 Cedar Rapids, Iowa...... 32.75 10.50 43.25 Lafayette, Ind...... 11 .38 3.00 14.38 Appleton, Wis...... 30.00 9.00 39.00 Berkeley, Calif...... *100. 90 48.00 148.90 Lancaster, Pa...... 48.03 15.00 63.03 State College, Pa...... 41.52 12.76 54.28 Los Angeles, Cali£...... *100.90 48.00 148.90 T1·oy, N. Y...... 56.72 16.50 73.22 Symcuse, N. Y...... 46.68 14.26 60.94 Ann Arbor, Mich...... 23.19 10.50 33.69 Lincoln, Neb...... 46.10 14.26 60.36 Bethany, W. Va ...... :...... 26.90 10.50 :37.40 Raleigh, 1'{. C...... 47.95 19.50 67.45 Boulder, Colo...... 76.56 23.26 99.82 Madison, WilL ...... 26.45 9.00 35.45 Lansing, Mich...... 2:3.82 10.50 34.32 New York, KY...... 57.98 19.50 77.48 Newark, Del...... 49.60 18.00 67.60 Cleveland, Ohio...... 25.20 10.50 35.70 Manhattan, Kans...... 41.05 12.00 53.05 Corvallis, Ore...... tl04.40 50.00 154.40 Gainesville, Fla...... 58.21 21.00 79.21 Williamsburg, \'a...... 50.46 14.26 64.72 Philadelphia, Pa...... 52.15 18.00 70.15 Pullman, W ash ...... :j: 95.65 42.76 138.41 Auburn, Ala...... 37.85 12.00 49.85 Delaware, Ohio...... 18.63 8.50 27.13 Ames, Iowa...... 37.30 10.50 47.80 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 305
Pasadena, Cali L ______• 100.90 48.00 148.!)0 Indianapolis, IncL.______,______7.35 1.50 8.85 LaCrosse, Wis------35.05 10.50 45.55 Oakland, Cali L------_* 100.90 4 .00 14 .90 Scranton, Pa ...... ------____ 50.22 16.50 66.72
*No through a ll year tourist fare. Summer tourist fa1~ to St. Louis, :Mo., $85.60, all year tourist fare to St. Louis to West Baden, $15.30. tNo through all year tourist fare. Summer tourist fare to St. Louis, :Mo., .'89.10. all year tourist fare, St. Louis to West Baden, S15.30. :t:Ko through all year tourist fare. Summer touri~t fare to St. Louis, ::\lo., S 0.35. all year tourist fare, St. Louis to West Baden, 515.30. The above fares are based on "all year tourist tickets" except as indicated in the notes. All year tourist tickets are g·ood for six months from date of sale. Summer tourist tickets al'e good only until October 31. In purchasing your ticket be sure you specify as indicated above. If you cannot secure the above rate get in touch with the Central Office.
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D To CONVENTION i I I PHOTO JULY 1928
WEST BADEN SPRINGS HOTEL, where Phi Kappa Tau will hold its 18th convention August 23, 24 and 25, 1928. Upper left oval is Dr. Harry A. Taylor, Grand President. In right oval is F. R. Ruskaup, Convention Com mittee Chairman. ~ew Domain Cltief.s
(Left) HARLEY W. OH.A~'IDLER. Chief of Domain No. 3
(Above). DONALD A. PEARCE, Ch•ef of Domain No. 10
(l.~ft) PAUL F. OPP Chief of Domain No. 1i
Five members of Alpha Beta Chapter who are members of "Perstare et Praestare," University Heights non-athletic honorary society.
Among the outstanding men graduated this s_PTing from AJpha Zeta is Schooley Ingle. A list of his college activities includes Phi Kappa Phi, Delta Chi, Rho Chi, President and Asso ciate ~itor of the Beaver, Barometer Assistant Forrest Pickett, Sophomore at Alpha Zeta. Night Editor, Pharmacy Association, House wins plenty of honors. So far he has grabbed President, A. ]. Johnson award for outstand· off Sigma Delta Chi, Beaver Staff, Barometer ing Junior Men, Drug Show Manager, Presi· Staff, Captain Memqrial Union, Rook Bon-fire dent of the Bernard Daily Club, Senior New· Captain, Rook Dance, Sophomore Awards Com por~ Trip C o m m i t tee and Intercollegiate mittee and Inter-collegiate Knight: Next year Knagbt. he will start by editing the Oregon State Student Directory. Sherwood D. Stanley, Psi, has recently been elected president of the Boosters Club at the University of Colorado. He is also a student member on the University financial board, and P si house manager for the coming year. Stanley is one of the busiest and most influential men on the campus, yet he finds time to take part in chapter affairs as well as rank ·high in his law studies. He is chairman of a committee to in vestigate the possibility of purchas ing a new chapter house next fall.
OFFICERS A'r OMEGA. Front row: Ed Elvin Kte. junior at Alpha Zeta, . who has ward Bulley, Herbert Klin.~rman, Jack Jareo. heen selected to assistant managersh•p of ~be Second row: j oe Sikes, Stafford Holle and Reaver, college year·book. His. college act•v•· Arthur Rlanchar. Back row: Chapter Advisor ties include Orange Owl, busmess ".'anager, Dr. Bernard Domoe-alln. Gilbert Jentz and Beaver staff, Ad club, Alpha K:'ppa Ps1, !'lam· Franklin Zeran. mer and Coffin, Alpha Delta S•gma, pr~s•den t, freshman social committee, and sophomore •·otillion. Mother's Day in Phi Tau
(Above) On May 1 Lambda e n t e rtained the biggest Mptber's Day group since th• founding of the chap· ter. Two hundred anrl five plates were served at dinner. Capt. F '1#/ffr. 1l r y a n t, Grand R it\lalist was presem and is standing at th•· extreme r ight.
$Rigbtl Iota Ma} Breakfast Group. PHI KAPPA TAU will be highly honored with presence of George Banta, Sr., at convention this year. Mr. Banta is a prominent member of Phi Delta Theta. an active inter fraternity worker, and editor-publisher of Banta's Creek Ex change. Prominent Figures In
PHI LETTER MEN. Left to right: Harsh, basketball and track; M. Rush, football basket- ball and track; Griffith, football; Crumm, basketball; and Kasarda, football. ' '
Burnell McKinley, Beta, has the distinct honor of being chosen to lead both the baseball "Nurmi'' Winburn, member of Alpha Epsilon 1nll football teams of Ohio University for the Chapter, who will captain the track squad at roming year. Kansas State Agricultural College next year. Phi Ta\l Athletics
Miami University teams never play without Phi Taus. Here are this year's letter men. Front row, left to right: Lurish, Crockett. Young, McMichael, George, Ritchie, Wiseman and O pp. Back row, left to right: Kramer, Welsch, Ott, Sielaff, Bass. Bishop and Craig.
Andrew M. Bindjar, Eta, was baseball man· John Vannortwick, Eta, is a brilliant basket· ager for the Muhlenberg College baseball sQuad hall player for Muhlenberg College. •luring the past season. Phi Has Seveu Sets of Brother:. Here are five ol them. Standing Behm twins. Rush brothers, Ph elp~ brothers. Kneel ing: S i g waIt brothers. Stimmel brothers.
Phi Activity Lead ers. Left to right : Kasarda. freshman presiden l; Stevenson, junior vice-president; Griffith, senior treas urer; Green, sopho more p r es i dent; Betts, Interfraternity Council president: E. Behm. Student Board of Governors president.
PHI CHAPTER GROUP. B. D. L ANDIS, LAMBDA. Lan dis has made a very distinguished record in his three years at Purdu< He is a member of Scabbard a!HI Blade, and Purdue Order of Mill tary Merit, honorary military or ganiz.ations; Eta Kappa Nu, de< trical engineering honorary ; Tau Beta Pi, general engineering honor ary. He was the junjor ddegate to the annual conv=tion of Scabbard (Left) John Fen and Blade held at Columbus in tress, manager of the April. Next year be will be presr swimming team, and dent of Lambda Chapter, Captain Joe H ornbarger, man of Scabbard and Blade. and vic< ager of the track president of Eta Kappa N u. He ha> team lor next year at. a distinguished scholarshjp rating William a nd Mary.
George Macier, A A, is prob ably the only man at Michigan Stat.e College who bas .led the gral\d march at two ma)or pa~ t ies. Last year, as class pres! dent, he Jed the J-Hop, and thrs year as cadet colonel of the R. 0. T. C. corps, he was acc!>~ded that honor at the annual nuhtary ball. He is president of the Student Congress, and of Blue Key, national activities frater nity. During his sopho~o re year Macier was class offtcer. ON BASEBALL SQU AD. Ohio Wesleyan baseball sguad .a includes three Alphu Mu Men. Left to right: Morrtsorr , Healy and Dawson. Lambda's New Home
F <\ . TEDFORD V C. MAN.HART1 At Purdue University
FIREPLACE I N THE "GREAT H ALL." 1 Be.low) F OOTBALL STAR AT ETA. EmiJ A. Mesics, Eta. who bas played wdl as center on the M'uhlenberg College football squad.
E. J. Crutchu, Tlieta, buides be.ing a mem ber of the Transylvania Unive.rsity football team for three years and a member of the basketball team for two years is m~aged in a host of activities. e-rutchu is busmtss man· age.r for the 1929 coJiege annual. president of the Pep Club Boy's head of Sigma Upsilon ruttional lituary frate.rnity a member of Lampta honorary junior and senior fratemi~; Stage· crafters Dramatic Club and Glee Club. He was the Junior class representative to faculty and chairman of committee and one of the cen· tral ligures in the M.ay Day program.
JOH N E . KIMBLE, E TA. John Kimble M UHLENBERG TRACK STAR. Louis 0. •s a leading player in football, basketbail and Aruluson, Eta, is one· of the leading track haseball for Muhlenberg College. men at Mublmberg CoiJe~re. ALPHA THETAS ON INDIAN VARSITY. Here an seven of the nine Alpha Thet.1. men on the William and Mary varsity baseball sQuad.
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ALPHA EP· SILON RELAY TEAM. L e ft to right: Jeffries, Smith. Jlfcllrain, Elwell and Gapen. This team won the indoor and outdoor relay evenu for Alpha E p s i I o n Chapter.
ALPHA MU TRACK STAR. PURDUE TEN Norman C. Lambacher. a sopho NIS STAR. E. more at Ohio \Vesleyan. who T. Lent~ bas been , tars in the 100. 220 and 440· one of Purdue's yard events. He ran on Wes· outstanding tennis !cyan's winning mile relay team stars for the three 11 tbe Penn Relays. and took years that he bas second to Elder at the Notre played on the ten· Da"'e J ntercollegiate mc.et when nis team. Lentz 1-:lder tied the world's record in has also hem ac· the 60-yard dash. beating Lam· tive jn inter-class bacher by inches. athletic activities. MAJOR CHARLES THOMAS-STAHLE, executive officer of the Michigan State College R. 0. T. C. corps, has recently been initia,ted into Alpha Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau. After receiving his B. S. degree in civil engineering at Penn State, Major Thomas-Stable immediately entered the army. In 1912 he was assigned to coast defenses, and 1915 was sent to the Philippine Islands, where he spent over two years. During the World War, he was sent to France with the 41st Division, which later became the 1st Depot Division. Returning to this country in 1919, two years later Major Tbomas-Stahle entered Massachu setts Institute of Technology, and there received his master's degree in engineering. He came to Michigan State in the fall of 1927, after attending the general service school at Fort Leaven worth, Kansas.
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Zane Grey wear;; the pin of Sigma Xu, five each, and thirteen had four each. as does A1·chibald Henderson, who has The bouse having the ten ranked twenty been the intimate friend of Bernard fourth in fraternity scholarship last Shaw for twenty years and is his bio semester.-The Thcmis of Zeta Tau grapher. Alpha. Anna Virginia Mitchell, Sigma Kappa, "There are still some who sit apart, was only a freshman at the University who do not see, who cannot understand. of Louisville when she published a book To them our industrial life is the apothe of poems entitled, "The Garden of sis of selfishness. They cannot 1·ealize that Dreams." the rattle of the reaper, the buzz of the ~Jargery Stinson, the youngest person saw, the clang of the anvil, the roar of e,·er granted an airplane pilot's license, traffic are all part of a mighty sym i!< a member of Phi Delta Delta sorority. phony, not only of material, but of spirit -The A?Totu of Pi Beta Phi. ual progress. Out of them the nation is supporting its religious institutions, en dowing its colleges, providing its chari ~lHS. COOLIDGE PRESENTS GOWN ties, furnishing adornments of architec TO NATIONAL MUSEUM ture, rearing its monuments, organizing ..\ small golden arrow, the symbol of its orchestras, and encouraging its paint Pi Beta Phi, rests on the gown which ing."-President Coolidge.-The Theta Grace Goodhue Coolidge has added to News of Theta Kappa Nu. the collection of d1·esses worn by the wives of the presidents while in the If it hadn't been for a certain black White House. These gowns form a per ball cast many years ago, Theta Chi manent exhibit in the National Museum would have probably included as another in Washington and are admired daily by pilgrimage in the Washington Conven hundreds of sightseers from all over the tion program a visit to the National United States and foreign countries. Cathedral, where, among other distin Three large opals are raised from the guished dead, is buried Admiral George shaft of the arrow and three small stones Dewey. The minutes of Alpha Chapter are set in the point. The marble figure reveal how near Theta Chi came to in of Mrs. Coolidge, on which the gown is viting Cadet George Dewey into member displayed, stands in a case with those of ship.-The Rattle of Theta Chi. ~Irs. Wilson and Mrs. Harding. Close by are the figures of every first lady of the land since Martha Washington. Styles Co-operative buying is practiced by range from the swaying hoop skirt, fifty-one fraternities and sororities on through the muttonleg sleeve, to the the Oregon Agricultural College campus. modern gown of a more slender line. This organization consists of a member The An·ow of Pi Beta Phi. ship of 1,400 students. The Co-operative Managers' association, the only organiza tion of its kind on the Pacific coast, han According to Alumni Netcs (Il1inois), dles the buying and selling of supplies there were recently 148 automobiles in a and the members receive refunds on all more or less dilapidated condition at the profits made through discounts and quan Illinois fraternity houses. One chapter tity purchases. It did a business of near had ten, four had nine each, two had ly $175,000 for the college year 1925-26. eight each, six had six each, eleven had -Sigma Kappa Triangle. THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 309
"DAD" "But of course any chapter that could He may wear a last year's straw hat, point to him with pride, now, would have his finger-nails may need manicuring; a wonderful talking point in the annual his vest may hang a little loose, and his competition for freshmen. pants may bag at the knees ; his face "So this year, and for some years to may show signs of a second day's growth, come, you can be pretty sure that every but don't you call him "the old man." chapter at Wisconsin, and at most other He's you r father. universities, too, will be scrutinizing For years he has been rushing around every freshman with a microscope to to get things together. Never onc-e has make sure that no future Lindbergh is he failed to do the right thing by you. being overlooked. And that on the whole He thinks you are the greatest boy on may do more harm than good. earth, bar none, even though you plaster "Every chapter is going to take in two your hair back, wear smart clothes, or three solitary eccentrics on suspicion smoke cigarettes, and fail to bring home that they be geniuses. Whether they are a cent. He is the man who won the love or not, they are going to fit badly into and life pat·tnership of the greatest the group. woman on earth, your mother. "The fraternity system does much good He is "some" man, anti 11ot "the old to the ordinary man. But it is hard to man." If you win a~ good a wife as he build a system" elastic enough to fit the ordinary man and the extraordinary man did1 you will have to go some, boy.-The Hexugon of Alpha Chi Sigma. as well." CORNELL COSTS The Magazine of Sigma Chi terms this A study made from reports filed by excerpt, from Collie1·'s Weekly, the "Edi 3,118 men and women at Cornell Univer torial of the Month:" sity showed an average cost for each "It looks as if it would be a hard win student per year of $1,410. The average ter for a lot of students; and if it is for 1,924 fraternity men was $1,420, or approximately that of the average stu harder than u~ual, put the blame on dent. More than 90 per cent of the fra Colonel Charles Lindbergh. When Lind bergh was a student at the University of ternity men filed reports, so that this Wisconsin thirty-odd fraternities had a amount is considered representative. As chance to invite him in; but none saw the average expense of the non-fraternity anything worth going after in this silent man was $1,398.62, one ft'equent argu freshman. ment against fratemity membership, at least so far as Cornell is concerned, "The fratemity is an excellent thing seems to have little to support it.-Belu (when properly managed, as most of Theta Pi. them now are) for the average or just abov~ -average student. They grind off DO YOU AGREE? his rough edges, 1·educe l1i s swelling head, "Nine co-eds out of every ten seek edu and in general, lick him into shape. cation not as trajning for a career, but "But licking the Lindbet·ghs into shape, think college only an aid in securing a grinding them till they will fit the mold husband," Pt·ofessor D. E. Phillips, of the of the average student, would be a dis psychology department of Denver Uni aster. Lindbergh might not have joined versity, says. His warning to young men a fraternity if he had been asked; he is: "There is not one co-ed in ten who has seems to be solitary, sufficient unto him not designs to lead you to the altar. Col self. A fraternity could have done him lege is the g-reatest matrimonial bureau no good, and he could have done it no on earth. Young men beware."-TI!e good. AngeloB of Kappa Delta. 310 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU
WHAT C A~ SURPASS ALL THIS? 5,000 or 6,000 members of t11ese interna By Edwin Carpenter tional friendship-building organizations. Not a large number, but in the nature of How often at dusk, dear friend, when things including a large proportion of thou art absent, influential citizens, many of them with Sitting alone, I wonder of what thou ' the opportunity and flair for public life. do est, -The f(cLJJJ)a Alpha Jow·nal. And dream, and wait of thee. All the sweet noons and moons we have spent together; The sixty-fifth fraternity was admitted All the glad interchange of laughter and to membership in the Interfraternity love, Conference recently when the executive And thoughts, so g rave or fanciful; committee passed favorably on the appli What can compare with these, or what cation of Delta Alpha Pi. This fraternity su1·pass them? was founded at Ohio Wesleyan in 1919, All the unbroken faith and steadfast with the hope of forming an organization reliance- whose members should help one another And not a mistrustful hour between us, to maintain a New Testament standard or moment of anger, of thought and conduct. The organization What can surpass all this, or what com has now six chapters. pare? -Thr Angrlo~; of Kappa Delta. Sigma Alpha Epsilon is in the peculiar position of having two chapters in the OFF 0~ THE WRONG FOOT same institution as a result of the recent Were college boys to select as com absorption of St. Stephens College by panions within the chapter house only Columbia University. The former insti those boys whom they really want as pals tution, located at Annandale-on-Hudson, and brothers, they would seldom go is ninety miles from Momingside wrong. Young men can choose their Heights, and is expected to continue as a friends and from down in their hearts separata division, with an enrollment can pick them even better than older limited to 250 men, and under the influ w;s- 11-wishers could do the job for them. ence of the Episcopal chu1·ch. The Sigma Rut in the ea~erness of rushing season, Alpha Epsilon Chapter was founded at where interfraternity rivalry, false St. Stephens in 1895, and is kept com values, and a desire to impress get in pany only by several local societies, two their effect, the boys often lose sight of of which are oldar. Eulexion was fo unded the very purposes they want to accom in 1860 and Kappa Gamma Chi in l 868. plish. In the mad rush they fotget that -The Pw·]Jle, G1·een and Gold of Lambda they set out to pick pals and wander far Chj Alpha. from the path to gathet· advertisements. -Titr C"duccu~; of Kappa Sigma. The Univet·sity of Miami, Fla., has no chapters of national f raternities, but the local Phi Alpha is interested in obtaining Friendly relations between Canada and a chatter for Sigma Alpha Epsilon. the United States at·e likely to be con finned by a factor of which the public rarely h~a rs , but which i!"i nevertheless of We have recently been credibly in real p ractical significance. It is the in formed that one of the country's ablest vasion of Canadian universities by the doctors say that sixty per cent of the American Greek letter fraternities. children born of smoking motherR die Including graduates and undergradu within two years .of bit·th-Tize Ancho1·a ates, there are today in Canada some of Delta Gamma. THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 311
STRIKE AGAIN by custom. These include Delaware, Many of you have watched the experi Florida, North Dakota, Vermont, Indiana, ment in the laboratory when the aquaTi Nevada, Kansas, West Virginia, Okla um has been divided by a glass partition homa, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Idaho. and a bass put in one side while minnows All other states do not specifically in are placed in the other. You have watched clude fraternities among exempt institu the bass strike every time a minnow tions. Every state except Utah, however, approached the partition. Then after does exempt educational institutions from several days of f1·u itless banging himself taxation. In Utah private educational against the glass the bass gives up and institutions pay property taxes.-The no longer strikes. When the partition is Caduceus of Kappa Sigma. removed the minnows and the bass live together in peace. No one knows what goes through the WORK mind of the bass if, indeed, it has any, I know, my friend, the task seems hard but there must be some consciousness and long, which tells it that the minnows are only I, too, have felt the pangs of slow illusions or that there is always some despair, thing between him and them. He has But where there is no sacrifice and given up all hopes of ever getting his care minnow and peacefully lives on food '!'here ca1mot be rewanl nor victor's song. dropped to him and floating· dead on the surface of the water. You are but one among a countless There is a moral in this experiment throng take another strike at the glass parti Breathing alike this same oppressive tion; perhaps it isn't there any more. air Because we bump up against obstacles And cursjng changeless fate, quite un once, twke, or three times we should not aware give up. Strike again-it may be gone. That destinies are moulded by the strong. -The Thetct N ews of Theta Kappa Nu. So persevere, for labor is designed TAX EXEMPTION ON FRATERNITY To bring you happiness instead of rue. The sweetest satisfaction you will find HOUSES Comes, not in doing what you LIKE In presenting the printed report of the to do, law committee of the Interfraternity But LIKING what you HAVE to do! The Conference, Chairman Harold Riegelman mind estimated that the real property owned Is slave or master. Friend, it rests by college fraternities in the United with you! States may be conservatively estimated at more than $50,000,000. He said figm-es -The M<~ga.zine of Sigma Chi. from six fraternities at Ithaca, N. Y., showed an annual average tax burden of 'rhe first chapter of a Greek frate1·nity $55.75 for each active member of a fra ternity, whereas tl1e largest annual tui to appear on the European continent was tion there was but $250 a year. Of the established last November at the Uni taxes paid, $21 is devoted to maintenance versity of Paris by Kappa Beta Pi, legal of city schools. sorority. This organization also has a Twelve states exempt college fraternity chapter in Osgoode Hall School of Law property f1·om taxation, eitl1er by ex in Toronto, Canada.-Sickle and Sheet/ pressed statute, judicial construction, or of Alpha Gamma Rho. ~Census of N. P. C. Sororities By Olga Achtenhagzn, Editor of "The Angelos" of Kappa Delta
ITH the installation of 28 AXP. 49 50 1 44 W chapters by the 20 N. P. C. AZ 48 49 1 26 sororities during· the last year A All 47 48 1 77 AZ.l 42 45 3 35 (Ma1·ch, 1927-February, 1928), Al' 41 42 1 54 the total number of chapters in all ~ l( 38 39 1 54 g1·oups is now 939. Ar .l 37 38 1 24 AOIT 32 34 2 Four sororities, r B, A , 6. 6. 6., 30 r
Brother Ralph W. Hidy, Alpha had no previous criminal record. There is not a single instance in which a pris of Phi Kappa Tau, was married oner pardoned or whose sentence was J une 12, 1928, in the Congrega commuted for murder in the first degree, tionalist Church, Worcester, Mass., returned to Sing Sing for a second mur to Miss Muriel Wagenhauser, of der. British Columbia. It is argued that because of the pardon ing power, the murdere1· is often t·e Brother Hidy received his A. B. leased. Yet, in New York State at Sing degree from Miami University in Sing, in thirty-eight years, of 409 men 1926, while lVIrs. Hidy obtained her and women committed for execution, only A. B. at the University of British three pardons and six special commuta Columbia, at Vancouver, in 1927. tions were granted. Both received master degrees in The people can be thankful that there remains the pardoning· power as a means history and international relations of substituting life imprisonment for the at Clark University, Worcester, death penalty. It is only in this way that Mass., in J une, 1928. Hidy will be the greatest mistake in the wo1·ld-the an instructor in the history depart taking of human life wrongly-can be ment at Norwich University, corrected. Warden Lawes points to the example Northfield, Vt., for the school year of one man who received a commutation 1928-29. to life imprisonment only a few minutes before he was to be strapped in the Capital Pu77ishmt>llt chair. He was later proved to be posi Warden Lawes of Sing Sing, with an tively innocent. experience based upon the observation "Tf juries and judges can err in one of over 500 murderers and the elech·o proven case," declares the warden, "is it cution of 109 men, declares that life im not possible that there may have been prisonment is a greater punishment and other enot·s which cannot be corrected is more dreaded than death in the electric because the unfortunate man is dead?" chair. During the period from 1899 to 1927, "A number of men that I have known," Warden Lawes points out that "the ju he !>ays, "have sincerely pleaded that the ries and judges erred in 11 per cent of customary appeal for a commutation to the original commitments for murder in life imprisonment should not be made. In the first degree; and 54 per cent-more the infliction of the death penalty there is than half-of these persons were acquit perhaps a fraction of a second of pain ted on re-trial as not guilty." and all is over; in life impt:isonment there So he t·aises this all-impo1-tant ques- at·e long dreary days of pain and 1·e tion: morse that extend into months and years "Is not the percentage of 'probable that seem endless." error' entirely too high to warrant a pen Let us consider some of the arguments alty that is irrevocable ?"-The Octctgon a gain ~ t the abolition of the death pen ian of Sigma Alpha Mu. alty. The a. sumption is made that the mur derer is such a dangerous person that Now J;VI1o '.r Collegiate :;ociety must be protected from him. Fig Who is more likely to win something ures prove, according to Warden Lawes, worth while in life's race, the "college that 90 per cent of the men and women g1·ind," or the dapper young collegian committed for mmder in the first degree '1.\'hO goes in for SOCial life and "contact!;" THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 315 and makes his studies a secondar y aim ? Englt'sh Leisure Fo1· a long time the students of our high er schools have J1ad taught to them-not The leisurely manner of English edu cation impressed a young American wom by the p1·ofessor s, but by flashy young an, "somewhat jangled by six hysterical men who were leaders among the under years of American college existence," ac graduates, and by some of the old g1·ad co1·diug to the Vassar Miscellc~ny News. uates who had been among the "good A letter published in that paper shows time boys" and later had gone out and how forcibly this quality strikes the vis struck it 1·ich-that college study doesn't iting Yankee. The letter avers that she pay. Make friends, mix in the college was, after a few days, taken into the .life, get all the experience you can-that sanctum of one of the p1·ofesso1·s of a is the key which will open the door. Don't great university and given a little fath spend too much of your time with your erly advice. The scene of the interview books. was a masculine setting, with pipes, to P rof. Hugh Allison Smith, of the Uni bacco ashes (shag tobacco), a small coal fire, three or four comfortable chairs, and versity of Wisconsin, decided that it was a great jumble of books. time to check up. So he looked into the records of all graduates of the university "What you need to do, "said the pro for forty-five years. Here is what he fessor," is to learn how to take it easy, found: Of each :fifteen honor graduates, and get a rest from the barbarous habits fourteen have obtained success in a of ten hours a day activities and lectures. marked degree, while but one in forty Get up about 9:30, eat a big breakfast, six of tl1e remainder of the graduates and go to hear some music in the after below the honor men-has been as suc noon; two or three times a week we shall meet here about 5 o'clock, have some tea, cessful. Read this conclusion: smoke, and discuss some matter in Eng "If a student belongs to the higl1est lish history that has a bearing on the tenth of his class, in general to tl1e group course. After you get to know some marked excellent, his chances of achiev thing about London and feel a bit at ing a career in life distinguished by the home, you can start in your work at the approval of his fellowmen are forty times British Museum with some of the tutors, as great as they are, on the average, if who will show you how to use the mu he belongs to the lower nine-tentl1s; and seums and tell you something about the furtl1er, the probabilities of his name be source materials of English histo1-y. Af ing found in the lists like "Who's Who" ter a while, you can begi11 to think about will be fifty times as great." your thesis. Then you can live in the That may put an awful crimp in the eighteenth century, read letters, and 1·ead advocates of the glad hand, the coon-skin the books and communications of people coat, and the big megaphone, but it is a of that era until yo u begin to know them. mighty good thing for young men and After that, about the middle of the year, women standing on the threshhold of life you can begin to write yom; thesis." Af to know.-The Milwaukee Jou~-nal via ter that, "tea was had."-Alpha Go IIWta The T1'ident of Delta Delta Delta. Delta Qua?·te?·ly. 316 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU position at Harvard University, and a second in the field of industrial mue ~bsent Beta Theta Pi, died at man, of her rivalry until death his home in New York City, on with the courtesan, Agnes von Monday, April 23, 1928. Flavon, of her defiance of church· Mr. Brown was for years asso and people. ciated with the late William Ray The heroine of the book, "The mond Baird in his work in publish Ugly Duchess," is so ugly that she ing "Baird's Manual.'' After Mr. is called an abomination, and the Baird's death, Mr. Brown edited ruin that follows in the wake of one or two issues. In the last issue her ugly face is the theme of the he was associated with Mr. Fran book. Every vile thing that could cis Shepardson and George Banta. be put to the door of any one was laid to hers. She started out an Frank D. Holmes, Rho, will be intelligent but very ugly girl and married to Miss Natalie A. Parpart ended a hated wreck. June 15, 1928. But the book is more than thte story of Margarete, whom "God Edgar Baxter, Pi, was married had deprived of feminine charm so to Miss Gladys Mathews April 25, that she might sink all the women 1928. in the ruler." It is a panorama of the fourteenth century. Nothing Marshal Lee Amstutz arrived at is omitted in a vast portrayal. The the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry plague, feudal hatreds, easy loves, Amstutz on the 4th day of May. and the juggling of the fates of Brother Amstutz is a member of whole peoples on mere whims of Pi Chapter. their lords are but small scenes in this spectacle. The popes at Avig E. A. Sandler, Zeta, is executive non, the bitter sb·uggle of the secretary of the Kansas City Real Hapsburgs and the Holy Roman Estate Board. Emperors, belong· also to this novel and lend it charm. James R. Hoffman, Psi, has been Feuchtwanger has spared noth appointed district deputy of Phi ing to show all sides of medieval Alpha Delta Law Fraternity. Seven Graduate At Pi Interfraternity Alumni Association pre sented our chapter with a large silver By David Bryant scholarship cup. This is the first time Los Angeles, Calif.-Wilh final exam that this award has been presented. In inations in p1·ogress, the activities of Pi the future this cup will be handecl on to Chapter are drawing to a close. Gradua the national fraternity with the highest tion brings with it the loss of some of scholastic standing on the campus for the the older mainstays of the Fraternity, year preceding. and it is with congratulations and min Another honor which comes indirectly gled 1-egret that we see these men leave to the Fraternity, both locally and na us. The men who will be members of the tionally, is the appointment of Don graduate council next year include Mel Bailey, '27, to the post of professor of drim Burrill, Howard Edgerton, Edgar English in the University of Cairo, La Fetra, Berwyn Riske, Albert Webb, Egypt. Bailey's stay will extend over a William Worthington, and Sam Yocum. three year period, with his summers Many of the undergraduate brothers spent in traveling in Europe. of Pi have been 1·ecently honored with membership to various honorary organ izations. Elwood Harman is the newly Eta Leads At Muhlenberg elected president of H ~A, honorary llO By George Miller liiical science group. Dave Bt·yant was Allentown, Pa.-Eta has completed one honot,ed with membership in Skull and of the most successful years in her his Dagge1·, all-university honorary, for his to1·y. She has been well represented on work done in connection with the pub all of the varsity teams. She leads the lishing of the university yearbook, the fraternities on the campus in scholarship. L928 El Rodeo. Da'"e was elected presi Everyone of the campus organizations dent of A K '1', commerce professional, has many Phi Taus on its roll. In intra and B r ~. commerce honorary, as well as mu1·al sports, although she finished Skull and Dagger. Two of the g raduates, fourth, she nevertheless gave some of the Worthington and Burrill, presided over stiffest competition in the race. .\ K 'I' and .l ~ P during the past term. The annual spring formal of the ln recognition for the work that Pi Muhlenberg Chapter was held on May 18 Chapter has been doing in scholastics in at the Lehigh Country Club. With a large the university, the Southern California number of alumni present it proved to -318- THE L AUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 319
be one of the most delightful events of and his E. l\1. at Penn State in 1926, and the year. The senior fa1·ewell was held is teaching- in the School of Mines. Prof. on June 1 at Fogelsville, in honor of the Wahl is a graduate of Penn State, antl departing seniors. is in the department of botany. Prof. Most of those graduating this year Swift received his B. S. at the Massa have made definite plans for next year. chusetts Ag1·icult ural College in 1920, Farren, Harris, Mesics, and Repp have and his M. S. at P enn State in 1925, and secured positions teaching in high is engaged in chemistry research. schools. Richmond and Bmdjar are going to the Mt. Airy Theological Seminaty. Zeta Opens House Richmond will specialize in boys' work. Champaign, IlL-With one of the big · Ted Gardne1· will study law at the Uni g·est and best dances in chapter l1istory, versity of Pennsylvania. Zeta informall y opened its fine new home on May 5. Althoug·h we have always de Omicron Installs Phi Eta sired and welcomed large crowds at our By William A. Connell dances, we especially soug·ht a large rep- State College, Pa.-A chapter of Phi 1-esentation from other houses at this Eta was installed at the chapter house dance, in order that everyone was certain on Mother's Day, and eighteen mothers to be aware of our good fortune in pos were initiated. A program was given sessing such an impressive home. As the in the fraternity house in honor of interioT decoTation of the house was com the visiting mothers and dads, and ad plet-ely finished, no improvements could dresses of welcome were given by Presi be made upon the two downstaiTs Tooms dent Smith and Graduate Pl'esident Yohe. and lobby for a dance, and decorations The officers elected for the coming year weTe not necessary. Althougl1 all of the were Mrs. Aber, p1·esident; Mrs. Mauch, room available was not utilized, it was vice-president; Mrs. Engle, sec1-etary; estimated that over 125 couples attended and Mrs. Miller, pledge mm1ager. the dance. Many complimentary remarks The annual sp1·ing banquet, held in co11cerning the house were passed out honor of the departing seniors, was held during a11d after tl1e dance, and as we this year at the Cenb-e Rills Countr y have been impressed, so were the guests. Club. Talks were given by P1·esident The outstanding feature of the l1ouse Smith, and Professors Markle and Tan was acclaimed by all to be the two-story ner. Warner, Dickson, Gettig, Crocker, lobby, with the grand staircase and low Hollobaugh, Livermore, Yingst, and Bar hang·ing chandelier. tholomew are our graduating seniors. Brothers Canney and Doolittle recent!:; Th3 resident council took the occasion won the doubles handball championship of tl1e senior banquet to show its g rati of the university. Each of them received tude and appreciation to Professors Mar a very handsome cup to further adom Ide and Tanner for their interest and our mantel, that now contains thirty-four work in behalf of the chapter. The coun cups won in intramural competition. cil presented a jeweled pin with chapter Brother Willey was recently initiated ::;ymbol to Prof. Markle. Prof. Tanner into Pi Tau Pi Sigma, honorary frater was presented with a gold Fraternity nity for the signal corps bxanch of the ring. R. 0. T. C. On the night of May 21, four new men A hearty welcome is extended to cur w-3re initiated into membership. In addi new brothers, who include : D. E. Tenill, tion to J. S. Spice1·, the chapter initiated E. Roos, G. A. Swanson, C. C. Swanson, Professors P. B . Bucky, H. A. Wahl, and R. A. Ca1-ey, 1\II. J. Johnson, M. Easly, R. W. Swift. Prof. Bucky 1·eceived hi!; W. B. Unfried, W. E. Willey, and W. B. B. S. at the University of Illinois in 1921, Kendall. 320 THE L AU REL OF PHI KAPPA TAU THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 321
Chi Wins B_ridge Tournament ity sponsored by the graduate council, By S. Melton Wright Leith Allen has been rewarded with the presidency of that body. Al Maffiy has Raleigh, N. C.- The annual bridge turned over to him a smooth functioning tournament sponso1·ed by the local chap and well oiled organization, and upon this ter of .\X A was won by Warlick and solid foundation we expect Leith to build ::'\Telson. Not a single game was lost dur a structure which will be a credit to him ing the tournament. and a source of pride to us. He will be Three brothers are leaving Chi by the ably supported by Jack Hall as vice way of graduation on June 5. The broth president, and Walter Kavanagh as sec ers include Warlick, Ansel Cox, and Nel- retary. . son. Warlick is the retiring president of In July, Winston Racherby, one of the the Cotillion Club, and is also a leading man in the Textile School, where he is a recent graduates, is off to the Old World to represent the Real Silk Hosiery Com member of P hi P si, honorary textile fra ternity. Nelson, besides being an honor pany in Belgium, Germany, and Switzer land. man in his classes, is also the captain in the R. 0. T. C. unit here. After g radua Alpha Epsilon Wins tion he is leaving for a tour of Europe. Ralph Grigg, James Gaskins, Richard Scholarship Cup Godfroy, S. Melton Wright, P. F. Burn By Cas l\1cSmithlin ham, and C. A. Boggs were initiated. Manhattan, Kans.-Aipha Epsilon won We are pleased to announce the pledging the Pan-Hellenic scholarship cup by of W. A. Pardue, Jr., of Trenton, S. C. ranking first among the twenty-four fra ternities at Kansas State. This makes the Nu Grad Notes second time that Alpha Epsilon has won NU-Another Nu Chapter man who the cup in the last two years. It ig a has been extended signal honor recently challenge trophy, and if the cup is won is Milton H. Esberg, of the class of 1924. once more it will be the permanent prop Esberg, who is assistant credit manager erty of the chapter. The freshman cup of the American Trust Company, which has also been won twice, and if it is won in itself speaks well of his accomplish again, it also will be our permanent cup. ments since leaving college, has been Brother "Nurmi" Winburn has been elected president of the Junior Chamber recently elected captain of the Kansas of Commerce of San Francisco. This body State track squad for next year. Winburn is composed of 900 young men, represent is a two letter man in track, and has also ing every branch of industry of San lettered in cross cou11try. Francisco. It is the la 1·gest junior cham Our one-mile relay team won first in ber of commerce in the West, and the the interf raternity mile relay which was second largest. organization of its kind run in the Missouri Valley Interscholastic in the United States. The Junior Cham Relay Carnival. The team consists of ber of Commerce inaugurated the West Ellwell, J efferies, Gapen, and Mcllvain. ern Air Show recently held in San Fran Our half-mile relay team also placed first cisco, and will continue to conduct this among fraternities in the indoor track show as an annual event. Esberg's work meet this year. The team consisted of on the air show committee undoubtedly Ellwell, Smith, Gapen, and Mcilvain. led them to place him in the responsible The Alpha Epsilon quartet, consisting position as their president for the com of Munsinger, Barackman, McCroskey, ing year. with Ghormley at the piano, have been For his splendid work as secretary, as broadcasting regularly every third Satur weJI as his untiring efforts in every activ- day night during the past year over Sta- 322 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU tion KSAC, under the auspices of the The graduating seniors of Psi were Alpha Beta Literary Society. entertained and honored at a dim1er on Winburn, Nelson, and Hammond are May 28, when George Nelson, Buffalo, N. going to attend advanced R. 0. T. C. Y., was chosen as th~ most 1·epresenta camp at Fort Leavenworth this summer, tive senior of the F1·aternity. Nelson has and from there Winburn will go to West been president of Psi for two years, Baden for the national convention. president of the intedraternity council, Brainard has been elected associate and has served on many important com editor of the Kansas State Enginea, and mittees during his active membership. also has the hono r of being elected vice Others who are graduating from P si president of Senior Men Pan-Hellenic for Chapter include William Arthur, Ft·ed next year. Bartlett, Mebane Braggins, Robert Ly don, Byron McHale, Everett Thompson, Psi Leads In Elections and Maxwell Watts. By Goldner Lipsey Boulder, Colo.-Spring elections at the Epsilon Man to Give University of Colorado have given Psi Chapter a lead start in the campus activ Salutorian Address ities for next year. The election of Sher By Maurice W. Kelly wood Stanley as president of the Boosters Alliance, Ohio-William Lafferty l1as Club, leading activity o1·ganization, places been named as the best male student in Psi Chapter in a significant position the graduating class, and as a result has among the f raternities. been chosen to give the salutorian ad John Anderson was chosen captain of dress at commencement. This is a dis the tennis team at the close of the season tinct honor for Laffe1ty, and the Frater in May, and he will lead a team which nity is mighty proud of him. Wilbur includes Carl Bennewitz. Dimit, senior president, will give the Goldner Lipsey was accorded the presi mantle oration. dency of the WaRhburn Pharmaceutical The Epsilon concert orchestl·a, under Society, the organization of pharmacy the di rection of Max McLaughlin, has students at Colorado. been much in demand here at Mount Contributions of P si to the honorny Union this spring. With the revival of societies during the last quarter include Stunt Nite, the orchestra had their first John Anderson, pledged :Z T, engineering, chance to really show how good they and ~ E, honorary civil. Ward Darley, were, and when the program was con Psi's
Kappa Omega. Hunlle, Brooks, and J. is a member of the sports staff, and Williams made Tau Kappa Alpha, na Bradley has been appointed circulation tional debating fratemity. Sinclair, manager for the coming year. Hiem, and Kinney are playing on the baseball team. Kinney and his big black Alpha Athletes Receive Letters bat have been one of the inte1·esting Oxford, Ohio-Alpha Chapter has mo1·e things about the team this year. lette1·men on the campus this year than Three of the fellows made theit· letters any fraternity has had in any preceding in track. H untsberger was a consistent year. Sixteen men from Alpha have re broad jumper; Koppel ran the 440 and ceived their ".:\1." 880, while Slutz won places in the 440, Five men received their awards in foot . half mile, mile, and two mile. Slutz, a ball. They were Larick, Ott, Sielaff, and sophomore, was our outstanding track Managers Young and George. man, and ended the season by taking In varsity baseball, Alpha is represent third in the mil e at the Big Six meet held ed by Fritz Kramer, Lefty Welsch, Fred at Wooster. ______Latscha, Dick Bass, and Davy Crockett. Crockett, a sophomore, is also one of the Honor Men At Tau leading batters of the Buckeye Associa Ann Arbor, Mich.-Each year Tau's tion. list of honor men continues to grow. Don In track, Alpha has six representatives. Cooper, Michigan's Yeteran hurdle1·, was These m~n are Bishop, Wiseman, Ritchie. awarded an "~1" blanket with two stars Craig, Larick, and ::\Ianager Mdlicheal. on it, signifying two years of varsity Craig placed second in the discus throw work. As soon as Don finishes this year in the Buckeye meet held at Oxford, May he is going to start training for the 18-19. Bishop, Wiseman, and Ritchie also Olympics. Glen Copeland completed his form the major part of the mile relay second year as an "M" man on the taam. Carl Opp, a senior, received his hockey squad. Tate Stuch, our sprinter, "M" in wrestling. had quite a bit of tough luck this year, Another event of quite some impor and was laid up most of the time. How tance on the Miami campus is the Euro e\·er, in those contests in which he did pean tour which the )fiami Glee Club and compete he :;howed his stuff by taking a the campus Owl orchestra will make this first and a :;;:econd. The most bashful summer. Lloyd Larrick and Everett Cox, fellow in the house, Bob Scoville, took of the Glee Club, and Tom Gerspacher first place in the all-campus ten mile and Dike Franz, of the "Owls," will make swim this winter. All those who fini shed the tour. Dick Young will also make the the contest were awarded recognition, trip as publicity director for Miami Uni and, besides Scoville, H ubbard and E lli vet·sity. cock qualified. Ed Warner is a member In the spring elections several of the of Michigan's swimming team. brothers we1·e elected to responsible posi Our academic honors equal those of tio11s. Dwight Franz was elected presi our sporting honors. Brother Coli has dent of the Student Body; Kent Larick just been elected treasurer of the junior was elected to the Athletic Board of Con engineering class for 1928-1929. The trol; James Smith and Lloyd Larrick re .llichirJ(W TV cekly appointed Kerby to the ceived the positions of assistant business editorial staff of the paper. Les Voy manager of the Student and junio1· rep agers, an honorary forestry fraternity, I·esentative to the student senate, respec elected Allan to an official capacity in its tively. o1·ganization last week. The Michigan Initiation was held at the close of the Dail!J, the all-campus daily publication, second semester for four of Alpha's has honored two Tau members. Warner pledges, which include J erome Dorsten, 324 THE LAUREL OF PHI K APPA TAU
Warren Hammel, Donald Fredricks, and nings Rehwinkel. Brother W. E. Flood, Howard Gallaher. Dorsten, a sophomore, who received a B. S. C. E. in 1926, re is from Chickasaw, Ohio. The other thr~e turned this year and received his M. S. are freshmen and live in Hamilton, Ohio. Fredricks and Hammel, along with Cecil Alpha lVIu Plans Homecoming Moyer, an initiate, were initiated into By Earl A. Heist Phi Eta Sigma, the f reshman honorary Delaware, Ohio-Alpha Mu is making f raternity. plans for a homecoming celebration and initiation on June 10. Several of the Alpha Eta Gives House Party alumni of the local organization, who By Jay F. Merchant were unable to be initiated at our in Gainesville, Fla.-The zenith of Alpha stallation, will be given the t·itual, as Eta's social ventures of the past yeat· well as three pledges. At this time, plans was reached when we gave our Easter will be made for the purchase of a new house pat·ty. Favors in the form of silver house. jewel cases, shaped like a treasure chest Brother McNabb, professor of oratory and mounted with the Phi Tau coat of and chapter advisor, is leaving next year arms, delighted the guests of the chapter. in order to take out his Ph. D. degt-ee at Much of the credit for the outcome of Cornell. Our other faculty member, this event must go to our sponsor, Mrs. George Howard, is also leaving next Arthur Stringfellow, who gav.a a great year. He is clarinet soloist for Conway's deal of her time and spent untiring effort band during the summer. to assure the success of t he party. Hi-School Day was observed last Farnsworth, after serving this year as month for the purpose of looking over assistant, has been elected business man prospective freshmen fo1· next year. The ager of the 1929 Seminole, the Flot·ida various fraternities entertained them, annual. Jennings Rehwinkel, another of and picked out the best men. We have our candidates in the spt·ing student body already pledged seven men for next year, election, was elected by a large majority and expect to pledge ten more. as member of the honor cout·t. P hi Kappa Tau received much favor Several other brothers are wearing able publicity in the intramural athletic newly-acquired emblems of campus activ contests this season, by winning the ity. They include Lewis Blalock and T. speedball championship. H. Williams, Seminole staff; John Wahl, Pledge Blair broke the freshman pole Wallace Whiting, and Milton Foxworth, vault record by doing 11 feet 6 inches in Gaucho (dance society); Russell Mc the freshman tryouts. He broke the Caughan, auditor Glee Club and Band previous record by 1 foot. By this accom key; Warren Connor, Glee Club key, plishment he should have a comfortable lieutenant R. 0. T. C.; Norman Derr, berth on the varsity next year. baseball numeral; Monte Engel, vice M. J. Morrison and D. S. Healy won president Tau Kappa Alpha, Y. M. C. A. their "W" in baseball again this year. council, Alpha Phi Epsilon, varsity de Gene Dawson receiv,ed his first varsity bating key; Jennings Rehwinkel, Phi "W," after playing some fine ball as Kappa Phi, Kappa Delta Pi; and Harold catcher. Wahl, Tau Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi Ep Norm Lambacher, dash man, has been silon, varsity debating team, debating a mainstay on the track team this year. council, Y. M. C. A. council. He is second high point man, and ran on The members of Alpha Eta who re the winning mile relay t,eam at the P enn ceived degrees this year include Richard relays. He will enter the Chicago inter Erwin, Wilbur Jobe, Malcolm Johnson, collegiate meet. H arold Dunn, half miler, William Easton, Clifford Lyle, and J en- is also on the team·. THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 325 Omega Track Men Lead the highest honors to be bestowed upon By Stafford 0. Holle a junior. Ct·utcher has played three years Madison, Wis.-Omega Chapter has on the varsity football eleven, and two more men on the varsity track team at years on the basketball team. He has Wisconsin than any other fraternity on been chosen business manager of the the campus. Thompson, a miler, took college annual fot· 1929, and is also presi third at the confere11ce meet, and has dent of Theta Chapter. won many points in other meets. Diehl Flood is football captain for next sea has been the best bt·oad jumper on the son, and Blue is a member of the team squad. Benson, a dash man, has won besides holding the lightweight boxin~ several places in the 100 and 220-yard title for Kentucky. dashes. Arne, a half-miler, has also been Pledge Thomas Giltner, Louisville, Ky., a consiswnt winner. Thompson, Arne, who was elected first vice-president of and Benson also ran on relay teams, and the Young Peoples Group of Christian all four men have won their "W." Church of the United States, was recent Beers, in his first year out for crew, ly elected president of the Transylvania has shown up excellently. He rowed in Y. M. C. A., quite an honor for a fresh the first crew race of the y-aar, and is man. Willard Hogan is Y. M. treasurer. almost sure of a regular position next In baseball the past season Capt. Dick year. inson had working with him from Theta, Omega's annual spring formal was Flood, catcher; Blue, first base; Matheny, held at the Park Hotel on May 12. The third base; Henry, second base; Wood ballroom was beautifully decorated with ruff, relief pitcher; and Gene May, man ferns and palms, and the party was one ager. John May, '31, was elected as of the most successful of the year. manag·er for the '29 team. On May 19, four pledges were initiated into the chapter. They were: Milton Mu Initiates Eight Diehl, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Alfred Hintz, Appleton, Wis.-Since the last issue of Fond du Lac, Wis.; Edwin Schoenfeld, THE LAUREL, eight men have been for Plymouth, Wis.; and Harry Speich, mally initiated into :Mu Chapter. The Greenwood, Wis. n~w members include Alexander Smith, On May 31, Omega held a Memorial '28, De P ere, Wis.; Thorne Wardman, Day banquet as a send-off for the men '30, Superior, Wis.; Earl Makela, '30, who were graduating, and to welcome the Ishpeming, Mich.; Carl Hoffman, '29, newly-initiated brothers into the chapter. Appleton, Wis.; and Russell Danberg, Miller, S. D.; Malcolm Knutzen, '31, Sey Theta Men On Program mour, Wis.; Henry Stowe, '31, and Robe1t Lexington, Ky.-Transylvania Univer Schwartz, '31, Menasha, Wis. sity held its annual Transylvania Day Carl Engler, Appleton, was honored program on May 3, with Theta Chapter at the annual senior banquet, held at well represented. Hoke Dickinson was the Northern Hotel Tuesday evening, elected as the central male figure and when he received the silver cup awarded was given the usual title of Mr. Pioneer. to the man each year who is considered H oke has played three years on the var as being most valuable to the chapter. sity baseball team, and was captain dur Another award. which was presented ing the past season. This is his last year after the dinner, went to Robet·t as an underg1·aduate, but we expect to Schwartz, Menasha, for maintaining the have him with us next year doing gradu highest scholastic record among the ate work. freshmen members for the current year. Ernest J . Crutcher was cl1osen as first Herbert Ungrodt, Washburn, acted as attendant to Mr. Pioneer. This is one of toastmaster. 326 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU Brother Elbert Smith has recently been hono1·ary pre-legal fraternity. They are honored by election to membership in Paul Donath, "Jack" Worman, John Han the American Guild of Organists. sell, and Howard McCormick. At the The Guild is an organi~alion of na 1·ecent election of officers for the ensuing tio.u\1 and international reputation and year Wonnan was also chosen s~ct·etary influence, which recognizes broad train of the organization. ing along the theot·etical branches of Phi Kappa Tau made a ve1·y good show music and l'kill and dextel'ity in perform ing in the recent interfraternity baseball ing on the organ. tournament, inasmuch as they were ad vanced to the semi-finals during the Alpha Gamma Men Win series of elimination games. Manning and Honors Beck were stationed on the mound for the house team, while McCot·mick played By Howard H. Pyle behind the bat. :-.:ewark, DeL-Although we
Elvin Kale, who is manager of the being rushed so that it may be occupied 0Tange Owl, college comic magazine, and by next fall, and when finished will be president of A~ ~. national professional one of the finest fratemity houses at the advel"tising fraternity, has been appoint college. ed assistant manager of BeaveT, college The following men 1-eceived letters in year book. Kale will attend the national track: Walter Gass, Stanley Johnson, Phi Kappa Tau Convention this summer. Ha1·old Killenger, Marvin Beers, and Among the men pledged and iRitiated William Hannum, the track captain. into honorary fraternities last term are Numeral men were George Miller, Clif Edward Hope and Donald Bailey, Ham fo rd Bosley, and Elmer Killenge r. mer and Coffin, national honorary frater Glen Wiltse was initiated into the nity in humor, which sponsors the 01·ange Nebraska Alpha Chapter of II K 6, na Owl; Elvin Kale, A K >¥, national honor tional forensic fraternity. ary in commerce; Schooley Ingle, John Dr. Harry Taylor, Grand President of Hardie, and Forrest Pickett, ~ .1. X, na Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity, accompanied tional professional journalistic honorary; by Alton Merrick and Non·is Schroeder, Lavelle Hewitt, K K A, national honorary went to Ames, Iowa, where they assisted in art; John Hardie, K <1>, all-college in the installation of Alpha Nu Chapter honorary. of the Fraternity, May 17 and 18. On Phi Taus graduated include Dave Don, May 18 Harold Killinger, William Han John Ha ~die, Schooley Ingle, Wallace num, John Neff, and Ross Bonham drove Ingle, Everett Kuhn, Cecil Castor, and over as representatives of Upsilon to wel Herman Schemer. come the new brothers into the Frater New pledges to Alpha Zeta Chapter nity. this spring include Leo Glasscock, Med Loren Winship, Walter Gass, Fred ford; Edward Brown, Stockton, Calif.; Sommerville, and Charles McCandless are Robert Mispley, Sacramento, Calif.; Rod the graduating members of Upsilon this ney Dunlap and Leland Mayback, Port year. land. Mispley, who is working on the Oregon State Technical Record, made a Pi Graduate News 91 average last term. PI-Dr. Frank C. Touton, director of Walter Kropp, former president of the educational research and service at Christian Endeavor, is in the employ of Southern California, and a member of Pi Robert Dollar, owner of the Dollar council, has had a paper entitled, "Some Steamship Line, of San Francisco. Walter Basic Considerations in Educational is preparing to leave the Bay City soon Guidance," published in the Educational on one of the Dollar liners, on a tour that Research Bu lletin. This is a magazine will take him around the globe. published by the board of education of the city of Los Angeles for the benefit of Upsilon Receives Trophy all educational workers in the city. Don Bailey is leaving for Cairo, Egypt, By Linn W. DeWald on J une 1. He has received an appoint Lincoln, Neb.-Upsilon C?f Phi Kappa ment there as instructor in English at Tau received the scholarship trophy for the American University, and will remain last semeste1· offered by the Nebraska for three years. He is one of two men Wesleyan University for the fraternity selected f rom the United States to the having tne highest scholastic average. faculty of thls university. The student Upsilon Chapter is erecting a new body is composed of students from the three-story brick house at a cost of United States, England, and France, as $25,000, at 53rd and Huntington, directly well as a number of Egyptian students opposite the campus. The building is of the upper class. The university is THE LAUREL OF PHI Kl\PPA TAU 329 entirely under American supervision, and of '27, wo n t he event last year. Steven has limited enrollment of 320 students. son has acted as business manager of the Bailey receives his M. A. degree this student board of publications, and has year, and has been acting as president been a debater f o1· the varsity squad, be of the graduate school student body. He sides turning1 in a straight "A" scholar has acted in the capacity of president of ship record and preachit1g every Sunday. the campus Y. M. C. A., and is a member Our annual "Parent's Day" was ob of the executive committee of the nation sel·ved on May 5. We were the proud al council of the Y. hosts to about forty parents and f riends. Our president, Basil Smith, is now with In connection with "Parents' Day" a the Consumers' Rock and Gravel Com meeting was held to form a local mothers' pany, in Los Angeles, where he has the club. Officers were elected and plans were position of assistant credit manage1-. made for an installation meeting on June 10. Phi has shown up well in school elec Beta Man to Captain Two tions this spring. Betts has been honored Major Sport Teams with the interfraternity presidency, and E. Behm has been voted in a s president By Howa1·d H . Brokate of the student board of governors. Dur Athens, Ohio- On May 28 Burnell Mc ing the current year we have had fresh Kinley, captain-elect of the 1928 Bobcat men and sophomore presidencies, junior football squad, was chosen to captain the vice-presidency, and the senior treasurer Bobcat baseball squad for the 1929 sea ship. son. This is the first time in many years As a result of work shown in va1·sity that the same player has been chosen to debating during the winter two Phi men captain two major sport teams dming the have been elected into the T K A, forensic same year at Ohio University. This is fraternity, during the spring. Stevenson an honor to both McKinley and to Beta has bee11 a member for two years, while Chapter. Kasarda and E. Behm were newly initiat James E. Householder, '29, and Howard ecl. Debating is one of several activities H. Brokate, '29, were taken in as charte1· being pushed by Phi in an endeavor to members of the local chapter of Alpha broaden i11terest in activiti-es of the Delta Sigma, national advertising fra campus. ternity. On March 29, four of the pledges were Eta Graduate Notes initiated. These include Edward E. AI: By H. P. Cressman geo, '31, Athens, Ohjo; George G. Kriv ETA-Dr. Wright, who surprised all nak, '31, Cleveland, Ohio; Charles F. by taking home with him all the tennis Ogier, '31, Columbus, Ohio; and William championship cups at Bigwin Inn last L. Thomas, '31, Sharpsville, Pa. faJI, at the National Convention, added Don Dowd, '29, has been elected to one more cup to his collection by captur
Another chicken and waffle dinner work in the Dramatics Society. William brought out the alumni g roup for ladies' Horne was elected because of his work in night at Miller's Hotel, New 'l'Tipoli. the Glee Club, and his work on the Violet These affairs have become exceedingly board; Carl Schwendler, for his Glee popular, Jn"ima rily because of th~ fellow- Club and quartet activities. At a recent ' ship that has developed among the meeting of the organization Frank was alumni group and their wives. elected s,ect·etary. The Foundel's' Day banquet was held Frank Goss can boast of two more at the Americus Hotel on March 17. The honors as well. He was taken into Paint program was well handled by Toastmas and Powder, the honorary dramatics so ter Bruce Macintosh. The Rev. Gomer ciety, for his excellent work in the junior Reese offered grace. Chaplain Hany P. show, and was chosen as a l'epresentative Cressman, of the college faculty, brought to the Student Council by the class of the Phi Tau greetings from the graduate 1929. Horne was initiated into the Eu group, and Lou Anderson spoke for the cleian Literary Society for his Violet Nlsident council and brought their greet work. ings. Dr. Bowman spoke on "Brother On May 7, Alpha Beta initiated Ed hood" to an attentive. audience. Domain ward M. Craig, '30, and Alvin C. Barck, Chief M. J. Boyer spoke on "Our Fra a member of the local which is now Alpha ternity's Growth," and illustrated his Mu Chapter at Ohio Wesleyan Univer talk with a map to show the trend and sity. the extent of our growth. Harold Hel frich, who has just fini shed his term of Iota Entertains Seniors sanding Lehigh county malefactors to Cedar Rapids, Iowa-Iota bid farewell jail as assistant district attorney, spoke to her szniors at a spring dance held at about our "Fraternal Hallucinations," the Cedar View Country Club, May 25. and brought us back to realities and com The music was furnished by Clark's mon sense. eight-piece orchestra. A program of ten John Shankweiler, '21, has been pro dances was played, and then the l'est of moted to the head of the department of the evening was giv·en to the presentation biology at Muhlenberg College, in place of a gold saber to McGregor, who was of Prof. Harry Bailey, who has resigned called from R. 0. T. C. to army duty. to continue his work in California. Scott Smith was presented with a cigar ette case and lighter. Brother Smith is Alpha Beta Men Receive leaving his position as professor of physics at Coe to take further work at Honors th~ University of Pittsburgh. Iota will By Carl E. Schwendler feel the loss, not only of Brothet·s Mc New York, N. Y.- During the past Gregor and Smith, but also of her depart month a number of Alpha Beta men ing seniors. have been honol'ed by elections to hon Brothers Bird, Hungate, Metzgar, Vin orary societies. Frank A. Goss, William cent, Nelson, Valder, Burmeister, and H. Horne, a.nd Carl E. Schwendler have Quintus finish college this spring. Iota been elected to Perstare et Praestare, the will miss them. honorary non-athletic society of the "Heights." The qualifications for mem bership in this organization are three Alpha Theta Has Mothers years of superior service in any non Club athletic activity. Frank A. Goss was By Frank Beard awarded the honor of being the xylophone Williamsbut·g, Va .....-The Mothers Club soloist fo r the Glee Club, and for his is steadily growing. Nine mothers wet·e THE L AUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU 331 present at the last meeting, which was mas holiday stag banquet on December held on .Mothers' Day, May 1:3 . Officers 29, and the spring dinner dance on Feb have ah·eady been elected. 'l'he clu b is ruary 24. anticipating going national soon. The Christmas banquet was attended E. P. Simpkjns gained honors for by fifteen men, representing seven dif Alpha Theta Chapter when he was re ferent chapters. It was a real home cently elected to B K, 0 ~ K, and <1> K <1>, coming. Phi boasted the largest attend the national honorary scholastic frater ance, by as large a pet·centage as the nity. He was also elected valedictorian previous year. of the class of 1928. The spring dinner dance was attended Other Alpha Theta men 1·ecently elect by ten chapters. It was held in the 1\Lxon ed to Greek letter socidies are J ohn Cafe, in Pittsburgh, and I might say that Fentress and J. Ernest Neale, who were no one asked for their money back. elected to X B , scientific fraternity, and The next p robable function is a sum Boyd Carter, our new chapter p1·esident, mer picnic or baseball game. who was elected to ~ T, literary f rater nity. Carter has done a great deal of writing fo r the William and Mary liter Howard Ellis is New Deputy ary magazine, and he is a member of the Chief For Corporations Flctl H eLl staff, the weekly newspaper. After fou1· years of service in the de Alpha Theta is coming in for her share partment, Howard C. Ellis, Nu, '22, has of man::tgerial honors for next year. Joe been appointed assistant state commis Hornbarger will manage track, and John sioner of corporations in charge of the Fentress will manage the swimming San Francisco office, effective January 1. team. The Va1·sity Club will be headed The appointment was announced by Cor by an Alpha Theta man next year in the poration Commissioner J. M. Friedlander. person of Welton Bloxsom. He has played Ellis will be in charge of tl1e depart two years on the football team and three ment's local headquarters in the Security vears on the baseball team at William building, 3--13 Sansome street. He has ~nd Mary, and coached a successful been a!'sociated with this office since )'lay, wrestling team the past season. To be 1924, when he entered the state service. elected president of the Varsity Club is He has risen rapidly, having been ap one of the highest honors that can be pointed supervising deputy in 1926 and bestowed upon a William and Mary chief deputy last year. student. In announcing the appointment, Com missioner Friedlancler said it had been Pittsburgh Alumni made solely upon merit and for the pur By 0. P . Mnnn pose of placing the San Francisco office The membership of the Pittsburgh upon a parity with the other offices of the Alumni Association dropped to thirty-six department. during the past winter. Approximately In taking over his duties, Ellis an two-thirds of this number have enjoyed nounced it would be his aim to carry out :;orne portion of the activities. We have the broad and comprehensh·e policies of been fortunate in having the use of a the commissione1· and to 1·un the offic<' large private office for our monthly for the pu1·pose of expediting the hand meetings, without cost to the association. ling of applications and other matters We have had two important events pending before it.- em Fmncisco E,._ during the winter. The annual Ch rist- c~miner . 332 THE LAUREL OF PHI KAPPA TAU (Continued ft·om Page 293) No. Students State Colleges Chapters Pet. Students Per Chapter Alabama ...... 4 1 25 % 6,308 6,308 Arizona ..... ············-······- 2 0 0% 3,043 Arkansas ··················-····· 3 0 0% 896 Califonlia ...... 13 2 15.38% 33,353 16,675 Colorado ························ 5 1 20% 8,606 8,606 Connecticut ...... 4 0 0% 6,618 Delaware ························ 1 1 100% 698 698 Dist. of Col...... 4 0 0% 7,899 Florida ...... 3 1 33.33% 2,912 2,912 Georgia ...... 6 0 0% 7,081 Idaho --············------······ 2 0 0% 2,343 Illinois ...... 21 1 11.75% 36,672 36,672 Indiana ...... 16 1 6.25 % 20,049 20.049 Iowa ...... 13 7.69% 20,864 20.864 Kansas ...... 13 1 7.69% 14,511 14,511 Kentucky ························ 8 3 37.5% 6,120 6,120 Louisiana ...... 6 0 0% 7,710 Maine ·······················------4 0 0% 3,202 l\laryland ························ 6 0 0% 6,176 Massachusetts ...... 13 0 0% 33,955 Michigan ...... 10 2 20 % 17,837 8,918 Minnesota ...... 8 0 0% 13,924 Mississippi ...... 3 0 0% 2,296 Missouri ...... 3 0 0% 14,127 Montana ...... 2 0 0% 2,809 Nebraska ...... 6 1 16.66% 13,064 13,064 Nevada ...... 1 0 0% 928 New Hampshire ...... 2 0 0% 3,766 New Jersey ...... 5 0 0% 5,370 New Mexico ······------···· 2 0 0% 696 New York ...... 28 3 10.71% 103,620 34,540 North Carolina ...... 12 1 8.33% 10,608 10,608 North Dakota ...... 3 0 0% 3,672 Ohio ...... 31 6 19.35% 43,218 7,203 Oklahoma ...... 6 0 0% 11,008 Oregon ...... 6 1 16.66% 7,997 7,997 Pennsylvania ...... 30 4 13.33% 49,710 12,427 Rhode Island ··--·--······-·· 3 0 0% 2,761 South Carolina ··········-· 8 0 0% 4,851 South Dakota ...... 6 0 0% 3,141 Tennessee ...... 11 0 0% 7,799 Texas ...... 12 0 0% 17,296 Utah ············· ················-· 3 0 0% 5,389 Vermont ...... 3 0 0% 2,068 Virginia ...... 11 1 9.09% 8,584 8,584 Washington ...... ------6 1 16.66% 14,640 14,640 West Virginia ...... 4 1 25% 3,214 2,214 Wisconsin ··········--·········· 6 2 33.33% 14,095 7,002 Wyoming ...... 1 0 0% 1,020 DIRECTORY of THE PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY
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Graduate Council: Prl'sidl'nt, R. M. Peterson, PI-University o£ Southern California 393 7th Ave., Room 1005, New York City; Chapter House at 2809 S. Hoover St., Los An· Secretary, Scott W. Smith, 1439 A Ave., geles, Cahf. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Stated t.leetcng at 7:30 p. m., Monday. Resident Council: Prrsicfc,t, John T. Bailey. KAPPA-Kentucky State University Jr.; 51'Crri Graduate Council: Pn·srJ,•ut, .\nrlrew )[on roe, ALPHA EPSILOiii-Kansas State Agricultural C. 1'. & L.. Co.. Ralei~:h. ::'\. C.: Secretary, College Dean E. L. Cloyd. :"'. l. State College, Ral- Chapter House at 1447 Anderson Ave., Man ~~.::'\.~ . hattan, Kans. Chapter -4dvisor, Dean E. L. Cloyd, Rale1gh, Stated Meeting at 7:30 p. m., \Vednesda)'. N.C. Resirlent Council: Preside111, N. T. Dunlap; Sccrctan•, H. F. Smith: Lllltrl'l Corrcspo11de11t, PS1-Unl\·cr-lt)' of Colorado J. R. o;born and Virgil :\lun"nger. Chapter llou'e at lUll l,;mver~lty .·he.. Boulder. Gradu3te Council: Prurdc111, Randall C. Hill. Colo. . . 1128 Laramie St., :\lanhattan. Kan,.; St'Crr· Re ALPHA ~!U-Ohio Wesleyan University. DETROIT, MICH.-Presidet~l William L. Fav ChaP!er House at 64 W. William St., Delaware, inger, sixteenth Boor, Rea( Estate Exchange 0 1110. Bldg. Phone, Main 2500. s~cretary, C. W. R e~ident Coun~il:_ l'rrs!d<·llt, Howard J. Brown; Cowley. s~crctary, \\ •lhant !:\. \\'clday; Laurl'l Corr.· INDIANAPOLIS, IND.-Presidcnt, R. C. Len s('olld~llt, Earl A. lie"'· nox, 2413 N. Delaware St.: Secretary, F. C. Ruskaup, 711 Dorman St. Call R. C. Lennox, ALPHA XU- Iowa State Uni,·er'-11>" Lincoln 6542. Meets last Tuesday evening of Chapter llou'e _at .\me,. Iowa. each month. Re••dcnt Council: Pr.:sidclll, Geral HANDSOME IN ITS CLOTH BINDING of RED AND GOLD It presents a very favorable appearance All the new songs and practically all the old ones are published in this new edition OVER FORTY SONGS THE PRICE IS RIGHT A Songbook That Will Compare More Than Favorably With O thers At $1.00 PREPAID ------CLIP THIS AND MAl L AT ONCE THE PHI KAPPA T;\U FRATERNITY, 301-02 Medical Arts Bldg., Indianapolis, Indiana. Please ship me prepaid one of The New Phi Tau So1~gbooks . Here's my one buck. Hurry the book to me. -338- in our new building ready in October ]. A. MEYERS & CO. , Inc. · · SINCE 1912 · · LARGEST FRATERNITY JEWELRY FACTORY IN THE WESTERN U. S. A. DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF Dance Programs C1·ested Rings Stationery Crested Sih•erware Favors M enues Xovelties Prize Trophies, Etc. Diamoads-TFalche s-Silverware 822 SouTH FLOWER STREET -339------. ''BROCHON'' MANUFACTURING JEWELERS STATIONERY ENGRAVERS Official to Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity Jewelry, Novelties and Favors, Dance Programs, Invitations 235 EAST ONTARIO STREET CHICAGO Its Your Move Next If You Moved Last.' Many brothers change their addresses and fail to notify the Cen tral Office. If you have recently moved or changed your address Tear Out and Send It to 301-02 Medical Arts Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. My Name Is ...... My Chapter Is ...... My Old Address Was ...... My New Address Is...... I also have the following news item for THE LAUREL: ...... ' ' ------!' - 340- THE BRAMWOOO P RESS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "i)· ~ ·<>d· ~ ·<")· ~ · <>i)· ~ ·<>i)· ~ ·6-) · ~ -~~.,.@.,.~ ·G ~.• G I F T S p~ ~G Send For Illustrated Price List Jewelry -:- Novelties -:- Favors An Unsurpassable Selection Has Been Incorporated in This Year's Line All Are Completely Illustrated in Our ·~{ "Book of T reasures" }~· Write For Your Copy Edwards, Haldeman & Company Far-Well Building :: Detroit, Michigan