THE ARCHI OF ALPHA RHO CHI Vol. XXII April 1941 No. 3 DIRECTORY * * * THE GRAND COUNCIL NATIONAL AUDITOR Worthy Grand Architect ------ Dwight Palmer Ely George R. Krebs, 11 W. 42nd St., New York City 802 Buckeye Bldg., Columbus, Ohio Worthy Grand Scribe ------- Robert E. McClain 2912 W. Santa Barbara Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. PAST GRAND COUNCIL OFFICERS Worthy Grand Estimator ------ Clifford H. James Leo M. Bauer Chandler C. Cohagen George M. McConkey 310 E. 14th St., Austin, Tex. Lorentz Schmidt Clair W. Ditchey Harold R. Peterson Grand Lecturer ------ Arthur D. Pickett Truman ]. Strong Harold L. Parr Arthur E. Benson 110 East 42nd St., New York City Verle L. Annis. George E. Hoedinghaus THE ACTIVE CHAPTERS THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS Chapters and Associations Listed in Order of Charter Grants IKTINOS, Samuel Holmes, Pres., 1354 Broadway, Detroit, Mich. ANTHEMIOS CHAPTER HOUSE, 1108 S. First St., Champaign, Ill. J. Russel Radford, Treas., 5061 Hillsboro, Detroit, Mich. ]. Everett Hoerner, W.A.; Warren R. Pesci, W.S.; Howard MNESI~LES, Milton Bergstedt, Pres., 452 Be.acon Ave., St. Paul, R. Ohme, W.E.; T. ]. Strong, Fin. Adv. Mln~. ; Earl Beddow, Secy., 1299 Grand Ave., S1. Paul, Minn.; IKTINOS CHAPTER HOUSE, 608 E. Madison Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich.; AustIn Lange, Treas., 4012 12th Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. John E. Kelly, W.A., 816 Forrest Ave., Ann Arbor, Mich.; ANTHEMIOS, Wm. W. Faris, President, 2112 Lynch Ave., Nameoki, J. Wesley OIds, W.S.; ]an1es Porter, W.E.; Prof. Geo. M. Ill.; George F. Fritzinger, Secretary, 9705 W.' Main St., Belle­ McConkey, Fin. Adv. ville, Ill.; Donald M. Mayne, Treasurer, 512 I(reitzer, Bloom­ DEMETRIOS CHAPTER HOUSE, 1919 Indianola Ave., Columbus, Ohio; ington, Ill. Warren C. Suter, W.A.; James Donaldson, W.S.; Elwood Rensch, W.E.; W. T. Halligan, Fin. Adv. DE}.iiETRIOS, W. T. Halligan, Pres" 646 Rhoads Pl., Columbus, MNESICLES CHAPTER HOUSE, 315 Nineteenth Ave. S. E., Minne­ Ohio; John Stritmatter, Vice-Pres., 248 E. Beaumont Rd., apolis, Minn.; Louis Lundgren, W.A.; Everett Holes, W.S.; Columbus, Ohio; Frank E. Wesley, Jr., Sec.-Treas., 128 Ken­ Anton Dropping, W.E.; Sidney Stolie, Fin. Adv. worth Rd., Columbus, Ohio. ANDRONICUS CHAPTER HOUSE, 710 W. 28th St., Los Angeles, Calif. ; ANDRONICUS, Whiting S. Thompson, Pres., 10354 LaGrange, West Carleton Winslow, W.A.; Sherwood Smith, W.S.; Harry W. Los Angeles; A. J. McCall, Vice-Pres., 5155 S. St. Andrews Harmon, W.E.; George Hoedinghaus,. Fin. Adv. Pl., Los Angeles; Robert E. McClain, Sec.-Treas., 2627 Mon­ mouth Ave., Los Angeles. THE ALUMNI CHAPTERS DETROIT, Karl H. Kuhn, A. A., 2164 Baldwin Ave., Detroit; Leo GRAND COUNCIL DEPUTIES I. Perry, A.S., 2225 David Stott Bldg., Detroit, Mich. Atlalltlc States --------- A. I). Pickett CHICAGO, Edward J. Slygh, A.A., 31 Keystone, River Forest, Ill.; 606 Bowery Bank Bldg., New York City Case M. Rutledge, A.S., 746 Asbury Ave., Evanston, Ill. District of Columbia ------- George L. Lindeberg COLUMBUS, W. T. Halligan, A.A., 646 Rhoads Place, Columbus, Roger Smith Powhatan Hotel, Washington, D.C. Ohio; R. E. Prince, A.S., 7000 Cooper Road, Westerville, Ohio-Pennsylvania -------- Frank Wesley, Jr. Ohio. 128 W. I(en\vorth Ret, Columbus, Ohio INDIANAPOLIS, William I(ing, A.A., 604 E. 13th St., Indianapolis, Illinois-Indiana ---------- Marvin Patterson Ind.; Russell Burkle, A.S., 431 Massachusetts Ave., Indian­ 2063 N. Meridian, Tndianapolis, Ind. apolis, Ind. Michigan-Wisconsin ---------- H.L. Parr Los ANGELES, Lyman W. Bosserman, A.S., 1234 Richard Pl., Glen­ 754 W. Morrell St., Jackson, Mich. dale, Calif. Northwest ----------- W. lVT. Wadsworth NEW YORK, Directory with A. D. Pickett, 606 Bowery Bank Bldg., 2423 Emerson Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. New York City; Livingston H. Elder, A.A., 129 E. 55th St., Southwest ------------ -, -- Carl Stautz New York City; George H. Ferrenz, A.S., Mohigan Park, 1704 Exposition Bldg., Austin, Tex. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Pacific Coast -------- Lyman W. Bosserman TOLEDO, M. DeWitt Grow, A.A., 1025 Nicholas Bldg., Toledo, Ohio. 1234 Richard Pl., Glendale, Calif. April Volume XXII 1941 T E c Number 3 Official Exoteric Publication of Alpha Rho Ch Fraternity MEMBER OF PROFESSIONAL INTERFRATERNITY CONFERENCE Alpha Rho Chi fraternity was f<?unded at th~ Uniyersities of Illinois .and Michigan on 4pril 11, 1914. It is.a social undergraduate f~aternity limiting !ts membership to students of architecture architectural englneenng, landscape architecture, or the alhed arts, enrolled In the departments leading to a bachelor s degree. The name Alpha Rho Chi is de~ived from the first five letters in Architecture. The title of the magazine is derived from the same source. WILLARD E. FRASER. Managing Editor ORIGIN OF THE GREEK LETTER FRATERNITY Condensed from The Fraternity Month HE college fraternity system is as old as the republic it Union. I'hat college may well be called "lVIother of Fraternities." Tserves, for it was in 1776 that the first secret Greekletter so­ Sigma Phi was the first of these fraternities to start a branch ciety came into existence. It was then the custom for the students chapter at Hamilton College. The 1. K. A. Society of Trinity of the college of WillialTI and Mary, the second oldest college College, Hartford, Connecticut, became a chapter of A '<1>, which in America (Harvard being first), to gather in the Apollo room in turn later becan1e the A A <I> fraternity. The second Alpha of Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, to discuss the Delt chapter started at 1!fiami University in 1833, and was fol­ affairs of the day. On the night of December 5, 1776, five close lowed by the organization of B 8 II, the first fraternity to or­ con1panions stayed after the others had left and when they arose ganize in the west, in 1839. to go, <I> B }( had been born. A secret motto, a grip and a ritual Alpha Delta Phi placed a chapter at Yale in 1826, and 'Ir T, an were subsequently adopted. Fraternity, Morality, and Literature outgrowth of the social fraternity at Willian1s College, also were the principles symbolized by stars on the silver ,medal followed with a chapter at y"ale. Chi Psi became Union's fifth adopted as the insignia of membership. organization, starting in 1841, and a few years later A }{ E was The society prospered; three years later expansion began. founded at Yale. Zeta Psi and A T were founded at ew York Chapters were established at Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth. In University, A <I> at Union, and in 1848 <I> r A originated at Jeffer­ the course of time, the honorary nature of its memhership wa's son college. stressed; for this reason, as other fraternities vvere established, As a result of a split in the ~ }( E chapter at Miami, ~ X they did not consider themselves competitors. At the end of the was started in 1855 and together with B 8 II (1839), and <I> A 8 first half century of existence, <I> B }{ became a scholarship honor (1848), all founded at Miami, the Miami Triad was started, soon ociety much as it is today. to spread over the South and West, as the Union Triad had over Prior to the founding of <P B }{ in 1776, there had been an or­ the East. ganization at William and Mary, established in 1750, called the In the period between 1850 up until the Civil War, <I> K ~ was "F. H. C." which is the first "local" of record. In 1812, several founded at the University of Pennsylvania (1850), <I> K 'Ir at orders of KA were established in the Southern States and Jefferson (1852), <I> ~ at Lombard, ~ A II at Dartmouth, and locals with Greek names were established at Union College in ~ AE was founded in 1856, at the University of Alabama. Other 1813, at Yale in 1821, and at Princeton in 1824. None of these fraternities increased their chapters in many colleges. organizations had a continuing existence. During the Civil War the only fraternity organized was 8 Z Chi Phi, established at Princeton on December 24, 1824, and later at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first professional frater­ trengthened by unions with chapters of the same name, at Hobart, nity (since turned social). Many fraternities in the South be­ Hampden-Sydney, and finally with a southern order of Chi Phi, is came inactive during the War, and because of existing feelings therefore the oldest social fraternity in existence today. It was . orthern organizations were not welcome. As a result new closely followed by Kappa Alpha Society (northern) established clubs were started by southerners, especially at military schools: at Union College, Schenectady, New York, in the fall of 1825. It A '1' n and ~ N were founded at the Virginia Military Institute, in turn \vas followed' by the establishment at the same institution in the period from 1865 to 1869. At the same time }( A Order of ~ <I> and A <1>, both in 1827, and these three are called the "Union (1865) was started at Washington and Lee, A r at Cumberland, Triad." In later years, three other fraternities came into existence at and K ~ (1869), and II KA (1868) at the University of Virginia. Pt1blica'~ion Office: 450 Ahnaip St., Menasha, Wis. Managing Editor: Willard E. Fraser, Business manager: Clifford H. James THE AR<:HI of Alpha R~o Chi is pu~lis~ed in November, January, April and June by George Banta Publishing Co., 450 Ahnaip Street, Menasha, Wisconsin.* All ~anusc~lpts and mat~nals for pubhcatlOn should be addr~ssed to Willard E. Frase.r, Managing Editor, Box 565, Midland, Michigan. +:" All matters concerning­ clrcula~lO!l or adv:ertlsements should .b~ .addres~ed to Chfford H. James. 450Ahn.alp. Street, Menasha.