OF DELTA TAU DELTA FRATERNITY Volume LXVII Number 3^ One Momentf Please THE RAINBOW We invite your attention to a new feature, introduced in this num ber, "From the Frattrnity-CoUege World," by Alvan E. Ducrr. out- OF DELTA TAU DELTA stantlin;; Iraiernity leader. In this column, it is our purpose to ac quaint ihe alumni to some extent with what is going on in other fra N't>. 3 Vo). LX\'I1 MAY. ]9U ternities and in institutions Other than their own. This will enable them to judge fraternity problems in the whole, and to appraise condi CONTENTS tions in their own chapters and on their own campuses in the light of a broader experience. We are sure Delta Tau Delta a more Brandt and Munnecke .-Vppointcd to Univt'rsii\ of Chicago that for attitude will result than Staff � . � 57 progressive coiiid be possible from the narrower Citation Presented at Founders Dinner , . , Da} 01 and more jiersonal conceniration on our own immediate The War Aids Coniributed by Minnesota Engineers . problems. years after the war will bring with Navy Cross Awarded 58 them marked changes in educa tional programs and in student life. Dr. Watson Heads Vanderbilt Cliiiii Frank R. Ferlaino gg It is the part of wisdom to anticipate Correspondent Tucker ^Vriies frnm An/io, Cassino Fronts inevitable clianges, rather than to be forced into action�or out of it George Tucker 59 �by them. fittsbui-oh's Bogart Had Navy Career Aboard Siiangri-La .Another newcomer to The Rain Pfc. Charles R. Freeble, jr. (io bow is "Traternally Yours" which a direct-from-the-service Fioni the Fraternity-College World Alvan E. Diierr 6s gives you man view of the war. the Fraternity, Around the Fireplace 64 and 'most anything else vou can think of, "Ihese letters which come From the Editor's , , , , Mailbag 65 into the Central Office daily from alumni�not all of them service Honor Roll of Delta Tau Delta . 68 men, although the major portion Delts in the Service 69 are at this lime^�have been so in teresting 10 us that we felt it only Fraternally Yours 73 fair to pass some along to you. The Deit Alumni Chapters .... 77 The Editor wishes to acknowl edge the excellent co-operation he Fund Loyalty Life Memberships 83 lias received from tlie War and The Delt Initiates 84 Navy Department offices ot public relations. They have been most The Chapter Eternal 87 helpful in making available mate rial respecting Delts. Wc are in Directory 88 debted to ihe.se offices also for many of the photographs of military per sonnel appearing in this issue. Speaking of indebtedness, the Entered as second-class matter al the post office at Fulton, Mo, Acceptance Fraternity has a long-standing debt tor mailing at special rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, to its silent the mothers, 1925, embodied in paragrapli 4, scciion .112 F,I.. and R., atithoti^cd February partners, and the 15, 192(1. sisters, wives, country over who have done service in A QUARTERLY -M \C-^ziNE dcvoted to Fraternity and college ititeresls. The official yeoman conceivable with organ o� AT_i Fraterniiy. Subscription rate, S3.00 per year. every situaiion, out fanfare. It seems to us that PrjBLisHEn at 1201-5 Bltiff Street, Fnlton, Mo., and is5ticd lotit times during the nf each volume in more shtiuld be heard from this year, the four numbers appearing November, February, May, and August, respectively. staunch group who are very vitally a ot Deha All chapter letifk.s, alumni notes, aluniui ihaptei leilers, death notices, news pan Tau Delta's life. stories, pictures, and manuscripts tor publication should he sent to the Ccn- For more about the job they are tial Office of ATi 333 N. Pennsylvania St., Ind. Fraternity, Indianapolis 4, performing in this war period, read Edited by the Central Office, iTi Fraternity. "Our Silent farmers,'* Page 64, Brandt and Munnecke Appointed to University of Chicago Staff' Edi[cir"s Note We ate indebted to Charles r , .Axelson, Chicago, 07 a iriember of the Boarc of Trustees of ihe Universiiv of Chicago, for he maierial Iiom which this artide is In iirten. before his appointment to the Princeton University Press in 1938. \Vhile at Oklahoma, one of his se lections, llij/j' Kon-Tah: The Osage atid the M'hite Mart's Road, bv John Joseph Mathews, was desig nated Book-of-the-Month, It is the first and onlv university press book so chosen. Under his direction, the Univeisitv of Oklahoma Press achieved distinction for publication of regional material of the South west, ^f^, Brandt served as the seventh JosErn .\. Bm\DT ot the Universiiv of Ok WILBVkC. .Mf.SN'fCKE president lahoma from 1941 until his appoint a civilian capacitv. He is at the ment as director of the Univeisitv present lime .S]iccial Assistant 10 Delts have been ot appointed Chicago Press this vear. As a Maj. Gen, Joe \. Dalton. director TWOto liigh positions on the staff Rhodes scholar he attencled Lincoln of personnel, Armv Service Forces. of the University of Chicago this College, Oxford. Returning 10 Ok year. They are Joseph A. Brandt. lahoma in 1924 he entered the Oklahoma. '21, who assumed his newspaper field and was citv editor Citation Presented at duties as director ot the University of the Tulsa Tribune, when he left of Chicago Press Januarv 1. and that post to found the University Founders Day Dinner Wilbur C. Munnecke. Danmoiith. of Oklahoma Press, A Citation awarded '27, who will become In the April 15, vice-president announcing appointment 1913, bv the Commiitec of the Dis Jtdv 1. of Mr, Munnecke, Presitlent Rob tinguished Serv ice to Mr. Brandt, who is well known ert M. Hutchiiis staled that Chapter Hugh his Shields, Indiana, '26. Deltdom for his efforts selection bv the Board Comptroller throughout completes and Manager of the Central Office. in Delta Ihc initiated several founding Alpha Chapter reorganization while he was on active dutv with at the of Oklahoma, is 10 the administra University years ago unify the United States .'Vrmy Air Forces in of the editorial and busi tion of the Universitv of charge Chicago. was presented at the Founders Dav ness branthes of the Press as its As vice-president, Mr. Munnecke Banquet of the Columbus, Ohio, director. The Press is the oldest will co-ordinate the business and Alumni Chapier .March 4, 1944, bv and noncommercial administrative of largest publish affairs the Uni Clemens R, Frank. Western Re- in the L'nitcd States, ind ing enterprise versity, tiding supervision of the sene, '19, President of the North its first book in works of the having piibHshed treasurer, the comp ern Division, representing the Com the fall nf In the di troller, and iSqa, assuming the business manager. mittee. of the Press, Mr. Brandt, Since Mr, rectorship June. 1943, Munnecke The text of the Citation is as fol has a former Rhodes scholai'. newspa been adviser on war projects at lows: perman, author, and university the University and will continue in "for president, is returning lo the pro this capacity for the balance ot the more than twenty years a tireless ii'orker Delta Tau � academic for Delta. fession of his first choice pub year. He has been on Nalionally hnn:i,'n jor his services as Comptroller and militarv- leave from Marshall Field lishing, Manager of Ihe Central Office of liif Fra. A in the i<- since recognizee! authority Company September, 1942. temily unii! he left it to enter the Service when he of his Enihusiastie in publishing field, Mr, Brandt found left his position as general Country. its man- agemenl, he has aided in ed the University of Oklahoma operating manager of the' Com maleriatly its det'elopmenl. Sincere, courageous, Press and directed it for ten vears stores to enter v\'ar loyal. pany's work in aatchiul." 57 War Aids Contributed Navy Cross Awarded by (See Cover) Minnesota Capt. Francis X. Mclnerney, Engineers U.S.N., Colorado. '20, has been By Otis P. Brewster, Minnesota, '16 awarded the Navy Cross for service as commander of a destroyer squad ron with the Pacific Fleet. On the of Delts who are mak cover of this issue Capt. Mclnerney SPEAKINGing tmusual contributions to the is receiving the award from current war effort, the work ot the pictured Admiral W. F. He was cited Maxson brothers, and Les Halsey. Ralph as follows; lie (Tuba), deserves the telling. Both are second-generation Delts, "For extraordinary heroism as Com hailing trom ihe University of Min manding Officer of a squadron oj destroy ers in action againsi enemy Japanese forces nesota, Bela Eta. Their father, the in the Siilomon Islands on July 5 and 6, late C. H. Maxson, was a charter '9iJ- /is part of a task force in dose sup member of Beta Gamma at Wis port nf the. landing nf Untied Slates troops consin, at Rice Anchorage on New Georgia Leland, led his Leslie, as he wasknown at Minne Captain Mclnerney skillfully group of destroyers Ihrough restricted submarine came firsi in the class sota, along infested waters and effectively bombarded of After his 1920. sophomore year enemy shore batteries and installations in he transferred to Annapolis, where the face of intense hostile gun and torpedo fire. hours later, the same he was graduated in the class ot Twenty-four task in a fierce in group participated engage 1921, being especially proficient ment with a numerically superior Japanese math and navigation. naval force and .'succeeded in sinking or Ralph came later in the class of severely damaging all of the hostile vessels.