• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ' ;I • • • ... • ' • • • • • • ' I • I I • 1 • • I • • ~ ~ • • ~ • • • • • • _A-utumn • 195 COVER The Merrick Building at University of Miami in Florida, newest of the modern classroom facilities in this rapidly-developing educational cen­ ter. The building is the product of Architect Robert M. Little, an alumnus of Beta Delta Chapter at Miami. Photo by F. B. Fleming THE LAUREL of Phi Kappa Tau RICHARD ]. YOUNG, Editor VoLUME XXXIX A ucusT, 195 0 NUMBER l THE PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY CENTRAL OFFICE OXFORD, OHIO The exoteric publication of CONTENTS The Phi Kappa Tau Fratern• ity. Published prior to 1917 as "Sidelights." Scheduled to W elcon1e to UCLA and Idaho State. 3 appear quarterly in the months of February, May, Beta Rho Chapter- UCLA. 3 August and November, un• der direction and authority Beta Sigma Chapter- Idaho State. 8 of the National Council. Epsilon Celebrates Thirty-Fifth Anniversary .... 11 North Central Conference at Purdue .......... 13 Little H ouse Receives National Recognition . .... 14 A cceptance for ma il ing at special Ernest H . V olwiler H eads ACS ... ...... ...... 15 rates of postage provided for in Sec• tion 11 03 , Act of October 3, 19 17. Published four times a year during T ravels by the Field Secretaries . .. ... ........ 17 the months of February, M ay, Aug· ust and November, by The Lawhead Chapter Eternal ... ................. ... .. 21 Press , Inc., 17 \Vest Was hington Street, Ath<ns, Ohio, official print· ers for The Phi Kappa Tau Fratcrn· From the Chapters ..... ..... .. .. ......... 24 it y. Entered as second clasi matt er at the Post Office at Athens, Ohio. Phi Tau Pictorial ............. .... .. ... 29 Additional entry at the Post Office at Oxford, Ohio. Life subscription sso.oo. Directory ....... ......................... 57 T HE LA U R E L OF PHI KA PP A TAU Members and pledges of rece ntl y insta lle d Beta Rho chapter at UCLA. Campus Buildings at UCLA 9-1-The Library; 9-2 Th e C hemistry Building ; 9-3 The Education Build­ ing; 9-4-Th e Men 's Gym and Swimming Po ol ; 9-5-Josioh Royce Hall ; 9-b Beta Rho Chapter House Page two THE LAUREL VoLUME XXXIX AUGUST, 1950 N uMBER 1 Welcome to U.C.L.A. and Idaho State Fraternity Places Fourth Chapter in California, Second in State of Idaho; Seventy on Roster ranting of charters to colonies at Uni­ ter in Ohio. Phi Kappa T au has more chap­ G versity of California at Los Angeles ters in the State of Ohio than any other and Idaho State College brings to seventy college fraternity. the Phi T au roster of chapters and colonies. Other colonies to be formally received in Actually there are 66 active chapters, four the not-far-distant future are at Wilming­ operating colonies, and five inactive chap­ ton College (Pennsylvania) , Louisiana ters. State University, and San Jose State Col­ As soon as colonies meet requirements lege in California. Groups organized and of membership, scholarship, and fin ance, operating under Phi T au sponsorship, but charters will be granted to bring them into not yet recognized as colonies, are at H o­ full-fledged membership in the Fraternity. bart College (New York) , and University It is expected that four charters will be of Arizona. presented during the 1950-51 chool year, Equally important news with respect to and plans are under way to reactivate the Fraternity's development is the infor­ four of the present five dormant chapters. mation that plans are under way for res­ Friday, November 17 , is the date set for toration of four dormant chapters. These the chartering of Beta T au chapter at are Iota at Coe, Omega at Wisconsin, Al­ Bowling Green State University, in Ohio. pha Iota at Pennsylvani a and Alpha Xi It is anticipated that there will be a record at W est Virginia. Contact the Central turnout for thi celebration which will Office if assistance can be given toward mark the establishment of the tenth chap- restorations at these four fine schools. Beta Rho Chapter-U.C.L.A. By GEORGE OHANIAN, U.C.L.A. n Friday, May 12 , 1950, the Uni­ to the Dean of Students William Davidson ; O versity of California at Los Angeles Campus Fraternity Advisor John Johnson ; acquired its thirty-seventh fraternity on Past Presidents of the I.F.C. of Southern campus by the formal installation of the California Louis Fetterly and Ralph H aney ; Beta Rho chapter of Phi Kappa Tau. and presidents from the various fraternities The installation banquet was held at the on campus. M ona Lisa Restaurant in exclusive Beverly Smooth talking George Jamieson acted Hills. Distinguished guests included: Na­ as toastmaster for the affair. Before intro­ tit!mal President Roland Maxwell; N ational duc ~ng the guest speakers, he gave a brief Councilor Donald Pearce; Reverend Ains­ summary of the history of the U.C.L.A. ley Carlton, California; Field Secretary colony and warmly praised their achieve­ Jack Anson; Beta Rho Chapter Adviser ments. H e went on to express thanks to George Jamieson; Administrative A ssistant the invaluable aid given by former Chapter Page three T H E LA UREL O F PH I APP A T A U Adviser Don Bailey, who is now at Sacra­ housing chairman. It ·was indeed strange mento College. He also expressed gratitude to the group at that time to be an organiza­ to Pi chapter at U .S.C . for their part in tion consistina only of offi cer , \' ith no getting the new colony established. men a yet to govern. It was a unique posi­ The inspiring main address of the eve­ tion and yet wonderful in that it offered a ning was given by National President Rol­ challenge, a challeng which has been uc­ and Maxwell. H e expre ed incere pleasure cessfully met n t only by the e men but at the pre entation f Beta Rho's charter, a! o by those who arne in later. and ac knowledged George Jamie on as out­ Meetings were held everywher and standing among the alumni for the many anywhere, from clas rooms on campu to hours that he devoted to the chapter. H e the member ' hom s. Traditional Monday also gave pl audits to the charter member night dinners were h ld at han non' a themselves, saying that he " knew no group local drive-in re taurant. Outing , beach that had put in more work into a chapter. " parties, and joint affairs with Pi chapter Outstandma wa his brilliant outline of were given. lowly but urcly th colony the organizational set-up of and the pur­ began to grow. Di cu ion, cooperation, poses behind the fraternity' Central Office, mutual under tanding and a will to work presenting the re ume a "a kind of an were the ba ic principles, o nee s ary to audit of Phi Kappa T au as it i today, with any new group, which aut matically as­ the idea in mind of prov iding further in­ serted themselve and became an integral spiration to this gr up o that it ca n con­ pa rt of the col ny. Before our eye we aw tinue its admirable d velopment with una­ the birth and radual developm nt of a bated zeal in the year to come." Pre ident fraternity, a group of men who had one Maxwell concluded his peech by putting goa l and one de ire and who, as a result, great emphasis on "the pirit of the fra­ began to lea rn the meaning of the term, ternities, " tating that " It' the greate t brotherl y love. thing in the world." This flurry of activity continued through The evening's program was climaxed by the fall of 194 and spring of 1949. By the presentation of the charter by Field thi time, we had acquired the following Secretary Jack Anson to President Don men : Don Fogle, Jim McCormi ck, Gabe Calvin. Sirriani, John W alden, Bob W oolsey and Ray M arbach . History of Colony The first offi cial elections determined I believe that the real inspiration for a Charles Rogers a president, Vince Zim­ Phi Tau chapter at U.C.L.A. came from merer as vice-president, Bob Eichel as sec­ National President Roland Maxwell, who retary and Al Hjertstedt as treasurer. himself is a charter member of cross-town Pi chapter at U.S.C. At any rate, early Anson Visits U.C.L.A. in February, 1948, Field Secretary H ap With the departure of H ap Angelo to Angelo arrived at the U .C .L.A. campus to a law school, we had a new field secretary organize a colony. With the aid of AI Rob­ assigned to the W est Coast in the person eson, Colorado, and Jerry Klein, Mt. Union, of Jack Anson. From the very beginning he set about contacting undergraduates who Jack was genial and helpful and on every would be interested in uch a venture. Don one of his visits he praised our efforts and Bailey was also contacted to serve as chap­ aided us where he could. ter adviser. The second chapter election resulted with The embryo of the colony, carefully the following officers: Vince Zimmerer, selected and subsequently initiated at Pi president; Charles Rogers, vice-president; chapter, consisted of the following nine John Walden, secretary; and Al Hjertstedt, men; Rod Mortenson, AI Hjertstedt, treasurer. The admirable efforts of the Vince Zimmerer, Bob Eichel, Jack Slay­ officers mentioned above, together with the baugh, Harry Hanbury, George Ohanian, unfailing cooperation of all the chapter Charles Rogers and Dan Calvin.