SHIELD & - -- ~-~:- . _ ~ DIAMOND ~~L of PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY 77 NUMBER 2 DECEMBER , 1966 PI KAPPA PURSUI T OF ( -- ----- ---•.- --- ~ - -= ~ - ·· ~ P. D. Christian, Jr. and Herbert Miller have each devoted 25 J years of service as Chairman and Treasurer respectively of the 1\J Pi Kappa Alpha National Chapter House Commission-a half- ~ century of leadership in fraternity housing. PROJECT CENTENNIAL Club by contributing or pledging A $250,000 . 100 or mo re in behalf of " Project Centennial." This contribution, as are all contributions to "Project CHALLENGE Centennial," are credited to the mem­ ber's over-all Memorial Foundation giving record. Members of the Medal­ FOR PROGRESS li on Century Club will receive a Centennial Medallion as evidence of their upport. A suitable and perma­ JOI THE MEDALLION CEN­ nent recognition will be made in the TURY CLUB TODAY! MAKE Memorial Headquarters Building to YOUR CHECK FOR MEMBER­ all Medallion Century Club Members. SHIP IN THE MEDALLION Several undergraduate chapters CENTURY CL B PAYABLE have already pledged to become TO THE PI KAPPA ALPHA Centennial Chapters by co ntributing MEMORIAL FOUNDATION­ 5.00 per year for each member and " PROJECf CENTENN IAL." pledge for the remaining two years. The e chapters will be recognized and honored at our Centennial Conven­ Leo A. H oegh accepts the challenge of orbit. Brother Hoegh and Brother tion for their participation in "Proj­ Project Centennial by becoming its A d­ Stewa rt have teamed up for an ect Centennial." vance & pecial Gifts Chairman. Brother Hoegh is no stranger to Pi Kappa Alphas Adva nce Gift trip to the West Coast. all over the conn try. He is the fo rmer At­ They held a series of meetings in torney General and fo rmer Governor of the metropolitan areas of greatest Iowa, the ational Director of Civil and De/en e Mobilization (1957-61), a member Pi Kappa Alpha concentration such of the ational Security Council and the a eattl-e, Portland, San Diego, San cabinet of Ei enhower ; also, a distin­ Francisco, and Los Angeles. At these guished speaker, author, and lecturer. Brother Hoegh has served Pi Kappa Alpha meetings they presented the plans for jor many )>ears. He was the SMC of "Project Centennial," one of the most Gamma u, was District President fo r Pi exciting development projects in the Kappa Alpha from 1932-40, was National Alumni ecretary (1940-41), and Distin­ hi story of the Fraternity. Plans are oui hed Achievement award winner (1955) . being made for future trips of this He is presently serving as a trustee on the type throughout the nation. hield & Diamond Endowment Fund. Through the help of our District Presidents, a Chapter Chairman has ever before has Pi Kappa Alpha been appointed for each chapter in undertaken a more challengi ng task Pi Kappa Alpha. These Chapter in order to develop the future expan­ Chairmen are alumni brothers who ion of it programs of cholar hip, are well-known to initiates of their Leadershi p, and Citizen hip. chapters, and are con idered among Thi project with the areful plan­ the most out tanding alumni of their ning con ultation, and participation chapter . W)utl A . Stewart , Ill, accepts the position of uch Pi Kappa Alpha talwarts, a Chapter Goal have been et for of Project Centennial Co- Ordinator. Corky, Everett M. Dirk en, Honorary Chair­ each in divid ual chapter on the basi as he is called, is a graduate of Memphis man ; Ralph F. Yeager General of pa t contributions recorded to the tate University and Ohio State Univer­ sity. He is a m e mb~r of ODK and served Chairman ; Leo A. Hoegh, Advance M moria) Foun dation, the number a vice-president of the MSU S tudent and pe ial Gift Chairma n ; and of member on the alumnus roll , and Government A sociation. He was fMC and Edi on B. II n, pecial Advi or. th e number of un dergraduate and pledge trainer fo r Delta Zeta Chapter. Dur­ ing 1964-65 Corky was R esident Counselor wi ll likel xceed all ex pectation that pledg pr ently in th e hapter. for Alpha Rho Chapter. He was a member th leader hip of Pi Kappa Alpha t the pre ent time there are 76 of the Graduate Council at Ohio State ha for thi project. mem ber of Pi Kappa lpha who University where he was awarded his M.A. degree in community organization in May ' Project Centen nial" i well in have joined th Medalli on Century of this year. COVER PICTURE HONORS The cover picture of this issue of SHIELD& The Shield & Diamond magazine pays tribute to two of Pi Kappa DIAMOND Alpha's outstanding leaders: Chapter House Commission Chairman, P. D. Christian, Jr. (B-K, Emory), and OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY Chapter House Commission Treas­ urer, Herbert Miller (A-cf?, Iowa DECEMBER, 1966 VOLUME 77 NUMBER 2 State). In 1940, P. D. Christian, owner CONTENTS of Christian Construction Company, Atlanta, Georgia, journeyed to the national convention in Chicago to pet1t10n for a chapter house loan FEATURES for his local house corporation at National President Freeman Reports to the Fraternity . 2 Emory University. He not only secured the loan commitment but he Senator Sparkman Addresses Leadership School . 5 made such a favorable impression Outstanding Undergraduate Addresses Opening Session of Convention. 8 that he was elected chairman of the newly established Chapter House Dickson Elected National President ................. ....... ... 10 Commission. Macfarlane Challenges Members to Serve Pi Kappa Alpha and America .. 13 Herbert Miller organized the house Mississippi State's Beloved Housemother loins "Chapter Eternal" . 18 corporation of his local fraternity at Iowa State and has served as its treasurer ·ever since. He is a charter member of Alpha Phi Chapter DEPARTMENTS (1913) and therefore has been a Pi Kappa Alpha house corporation Centennial Medallion Members .. ... .. .. .. ...... ............... 27 officer for 53 years. He has regularly Diamond Life Members ...... ........ ......... .. .... ........ 27 attended national conventions for five decades. Brother Miller retired Guardian Members . ...... .......... .... .... .. ..... ... .. .. 27 several years ago as an officer of Brotherhood Through the Y ears . 46 Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Com­ pany. He resides in Des Moines, Permanently Pinned .. ... .. .. ..... .. ... .. .. .. .. .. 48 Iowa. Precious Packages .. .. ......... ........... .... ...... .. 49 In 1960, past national president, Grant Macfarlane (A-T, Utah), an Chapter Eternal . 50 attorney, was named secretary of In The Bonds . 53 the Chapter House Commission. He succeeded C. Ward Kie£ (B-B, Uni­ versity of Washington), Seattle, Washington, who had served for fif. NEWSLETTERS teen years. Alabama 43 • Auburn 34 • Carnegie Tech 34 • Cincinnati 44 • Davidson 42 • Delta State 37 • Denver 41 • East Central O klahoma 42 • Eastern Illinois 41 • Eastern New Mexico 43 • Emory 39 • Iowa Under the vision and administra­ Stale 35 • Kansas Stale 37 • Lamar Slate 38 • Maryland 45 • Miami (Ohio) 40 • Millsaps 39 • tion of these men, Pi Kappa Alpha Mississippi State 40 • Missouri 42 • Murray State 36 • New Mexico 38 • Ohio 43 • Oklahoma 35 • chapter housing has had an out­ Old Dominion 44 • Parsons 34 • Presbyterian 45 • Purdue 35 • Southern Methodist 42 • Southern Mississippi 39 • Southwestern (Oklahoma) 36 • Southwestern University 38 • Southwest Missouri 36 • standing development. When the Stephen F. Austin 41 • Utah Stale 36. commission was established in 1940, the net worth of the national chapter house loan fund was approximately $98,000. Today it exceeds $1,250,000. Chapter housing needs and chapter The Fraternity was founded at the University of Direct all correspondence and changes of address Virginia. March I, 1868, by Julian Edward Wood, to: The Shield and Diamond Magazine. 577 Uni· house construction costs mount con­ Littleton Waller Tazewell. James Benjamin Sclater, versify , Memphis. Tennessee 38112. tinually. Our fraternity is fo1tunate Jr .. Frederick Southgate Taylor, Robertson How­ ard , and W illiam Alexander. ROBERT D. LYNN , Editor to have these nationally recognized The magazine is published each March. June, professional men freely give of their September, and December. Copy deadlines are: The Shield and Diamond is published by The January 15. April 15, June 15, and October 15. Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, 577 University Blvd ., time, talent and experience to meet It is mailed without char<;le to all members of Memphis, Tennessee 38112. Second Class Postage the fraternity. Please promptly report changes of paid at Memphis, Tenn . and additional mailing our housing demands. address-include both old and new a ddresses. offices. DECEMBER 1966 1 National President Charles L. Free· man presents a gift of appreciation to t. Louis Convention Co-Chairman, Fred P. Conrath. Our founders in 1868 sought inti­ mate and rewarding friend hip. For the first twenty-one years of life our Fraternity, as we read from Lloyd PI KAPPA ALPHA Byrne's history, written back in 1905, it appeared that Pi Kappa Alpha was LEADERSHIP IS PRESIDENT' more likely to die than it was to live. Brother Robert Adger Smythe tated it well when he said that there FREEMAN'S MESSAGE mu t have been a purpose in this great fraternity, a changing purpose, but a ba ic purpose, or it would have peri hed in the early 1890's. But just at the period of time when there was great concern about its future there· aro e, through Iota chapter at Hampden-Sydney College, men like Theron Hall Rice, and Howard Bell Arbuckle. Tho e men were giant of old. It wa in 1909 that a brother at this Convention, Brother 1ohn Field (K, Tran ylvania) wa in trumental, along with other , in removing the geographic limitation, so Pi Kappa lpha co uld spread acros the Ohio River, into Cincinnati, and into Columbia, Mi ouri, to the niver ity of Mi ouri, and on and on.