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The Cover The cover of this issue features an etching by G. Cruickshank, and is entitled

Game of Chess. It is from the William McC. McKee Memorial Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and is reproduced through their courtesy.

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WILLIAM D. ROSS

The Order Changeth Pursuant to the policy adopted at the r ecent Conclave, the purpose of which was to relieve the members of the National Council of as much detail as possible, the Council herewith ¡ announces the appointment of William D. Ross, Northwestern '45, as Editor of the TRIAD. Bill hails from Mount Morris, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern in 1945, majoring in mechanical engimier ing. While an undergraduate, he edited the Syllabus, Northwestern's yearbook ; in his senior year he installed a photographic department for all of the university's student publications. While in the active chapter, Bill served a year as secretary and two years as Venerable Dean. At present he is Secretary of his Chapter Alumni Association. He is employed by Northwestern University on two government contracts, one for the Bureau of Aeronautics, the other for the Army Signal Corps.

In the position of Editor, Bill succeeds John C. (Jack) Erwin who has served so capably since the March, 1943, issue. During Jack's editorship, the TRIAD was chosen the most outstanding fratemity magazine in the country. During the war years much time and effort were required to edit and publish a magazine such as this ; the issues these past four years were in themselves testimony of the energy and ability which Jack devoted to the job.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS The "Where" and "Why" of High Fraternity Achievement

Clyde S . Johnston 34 Acacia Moves Forward

Walter W. Kolbe

The One Unfailing Resource

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Harry Emerson Fosdick 36

Dave Embury

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Middletown vs. World War HI

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Amplifications and Ad Lib

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Acacians the World Over

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Honor Roll of Acacia

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Magill Reports from Japan

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Pictures for an Acacia Album

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Doings in the Chapters

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Wuest Describes German Cities

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What's in a Name?

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Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Fulton, Missouri. The TRIAD is the official publication of the Aca cia Fraternity, a general college fraternity, originally founded by and restricted to Masons, founded at the University of Michigan, May 12, 1904.

The TRIAD is published four times each year as a quarterly. The publisher's offices are located at 1205 Bluff Street (The Ovid Bell Press, Inc .), Fulton, Missouri.

Subscription rates are $1.00 per year, $1.75 for two years, $2.50 for three years, and $15.00 for life, p a yable in advance to the National Headquarters.

Notices of change of a ddress, including form 3578, subscription orders, and correspondence of a business nature should be sent to the Acacia Fraternity, 1201-5 Bluff Street, Fulton, Missouri, or to 7530 Sheridan R oad , Chicago, Illinois.

William D. Ross, Editor, 7530 Sheridan Road, Chicago 26, Dlinois ASSOCIATE EDITORS Herschel L. Washington , 820 Commerce Building, Kansas Cit y , Missouri; John C. Erwin, 1220 Central Street, Evanston, Illinois; Cecil H . Ha as, 2920 Carew Tower, Cincinnat i 2, Ohio; Luther G. Andrews, Stuar t Building, Lincoln, Nebr.

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The ~~where" and ~~why" of High Fraternity Achievement

By CLYDE S. JOHNSON Assistant Dean of Undergraduates, U. C. L.A. HE advertising copy-wr~ter might begin this report w1th these words : "With the men who know fraternities best-the executive secretaries who visit chapters coast-to-coast -it's the fraternity-minded college, ten to one."

We'll try to tell the story in more objective language.

Most observers of higher education would agree that when a fraternity chapter substantially achieves its worthy objectives, such as those stated in the National Interfraternity Conference "Criteria," its contribution is significant and of high value. The fraternity is a "primary" and "face-toface" group, according to the educational sociologist, with a tremendous potential for moulding personality and encow¡aging its affiliates to a more complete personal development, intellectual, moral, physical, emotional, social civic and spiritual. Yet we are aw~re th~t fraternities vary greatly, from time to time, and from campus to campus, in terms of their constructive contribution to such educational ideals. If we could isolate the factors which contribute to high fraternity chapter achievement, the way would be charted toward an elevation of fraternity achievement throughout the continent.

As a preliminary approach to the answer to this and related questions, an inquiry has been directed to the executive secretaries of all of the national fraternities now associated in National Interfraternity Conference.

These men, who personally visit their chapters East, West, North, and South and receive frequent reports concerning them from local alumni advisers, would seem to be exceptionally competent to render fundamental and enlightening answers. As questionnaires go, they proved to be a cooperative group, with 37 of the possible 59 national officers responding. Those responding represent 80.4 per cent of the 2,351 chapters in the United States and Canada and 84.7 per cent of the recorded fraternity memberships (1945) of 1,027,016.

They replied to two simple questions -(1) Will you please name the two or three institutions at which, from your observation and experience, there ordinarily exists the most wholesome "climate" for the development of

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strong fraternity chapters. These should be institutions at which your fraternity and others have been relatively most successful in achieving the worthy purposes declared in "The Fraternity Criteria." (2) Will you, for each of these institutions, try to describe those factors which seem to you to be most important in achieving this favorable environment for a wholesome development of a fraternity system? These might include the admissions policy of the college and the resultant calibre of the student body, the physical setting of the campus, partie-

ular administrative and faculty policies and services which encourage wholesome frat~;rnity life, etc.

Here is an analysis of their opinions: Out of a possible range of 244 different institutions where, collectively, they have opportunities to observe, they named 75 different institutions as possessing "outstanding" climates for wholesome chapter operation. The University of Illinois was named by 14, Pennsylvania State College by 12, Ohio State University by 9. But, such "gross" vote scores hardly seem to be fair. Illinois has chapters ¡of more national fraternities than any other institution, thus possessing a special advantage for attracting a large number of favorable votes. Smaller Lawrence College, at Appleton, Wisconsin, has only five fraternities, and officers of five different nationals regard it as outstanding. Its score may therefore be stated as 100 per cent. Following

this formula-the percentage of respondents regarding the institution as "outstanding" divided by the total number of chapters at that particular institution, times 100, the "ratings" may be stated as follows: 100%-Lawrence College.

38.8%-Northwestern University.

37.5%-Denison University.

33.3 %-Washington College.

30.0%-Pennsylvania State College.

28.0 %-University of Illinois.

27.2 %-Bowdoin College.

26.6%-Michigan State College.

25.9%-University of California at Los Angeles.

25.0 %-DePauw University, Kenyon College and University of the South.

23.0 %-0hio Wesleyan.

22.2%-Davidson College.

21.4 %-Lehigh University.

20.0%-Indiana University, Hamilton College, Dickinson College.

15.0-19.0%-0hio State, University of Alabama, University of Kansas, U. S. C ., Washington State College, Wesleyan University, University of Louisville, Montana State College.

10.0-14.0%-Cornell University, Uni. versity of Michigan, University of Texas, University of Washington, Williams College, University of Tennessee, Hobart College, Missouri School of Mines, University of Rochester, Southern Methodist University, Trinity College, University of Utah, Wabash College, Tufts College, Purdue University.

5.0-9.0%-Syracuse University, University of Florida, University of North Carolina, Oregon State College, University of Wisconsin, Brown University, Colgate University, University of Colorado, Duke University, Emory University, Franklin and Marshall College, University of Idaho, Lafayette College, University of Maine, University of Maryland, Miami University, University of Oklahoma, Rhode Island State College, Rutgers University, Tulane University of Louisiana, Vanderbilt University, Washington and Lee University, Washington University, Ohio University.

1.0-4.0 %-University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota, M. I. T., University of California, Georgia School of Technology, Iowa State (Continued on page 43)

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Acacia Moves Forward

By WALTER W. KOLBE Retiring National President OT a week has passed since Labor Day without my receiving two or more inquiries about the state of the fraternity as a whole, and the condition of individual chapters.

Every one realized that practically all fraternities had been closed, but many alumni living away from their universities had had no report, and also do not know what has happened to our other chapters.

At this time I want to give our alumni a first-hand report on the condition of the fraternity and its chapters since school opened. Twenty-one of our chapters have been reactivated.

Their membership is larger today than ever before-in some cases slightly too large for good chapter operations -but that will be remedied when many of the men who have returned for their last year or two complete their work. These chapters have from twenty-five to one hundred actives and pledges. None of these chapters had any difficulty in reactivating.

An outstanding job of re-establishing a chapter was done at our Oklahoma A. & M. chapter, Stillwater, Oklahoma. This chapter closed early in 1941 and the house was sold. Ora Dawson was the only man who returned to A. & M. this fall. With no fraternity house, alumni badly scattered, and a wife to keep happy, most boys would have been discouraged from attempting any reorganization job. Not Ora Dawson-he wired the National Office for thirty pledge pins and within two weeks he had personally pledged twenty-four men. On November 24 a cavalcade of cars left Stillwater for Norman with alumni, sixteen pledges, and one active. The purpose of the trip was to have the actives at the Oklahoma chapter take the boys over the hot sands.

Missouri, with about four boys back, and lots of enthusiasm from a few alumni, have started their program and expect to have a group of pledges by the first of the year. By the time we go to press no doubt they will be functioning as a fraternity.

Kansas, at Lawrence, has shown some intere~t, and should be functioning very soon. A number of boys are back on campus, and have already laid their plans for rushing.

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little, if any, effort to reorganize. Both are good schools and in years past have had strong chapters of Acacia.

We have many strong and interested alumni from both chapters who would doubtless help if the reactivation was started.

Texas, one of our chapters which closed in the middle thirties looks promising. They have one of our most interested and active alumni groups.

In addition, we have a good fr iend in Dean "Shorty" Nowotny who has

three Acacia in-laws. Unless I am badly mistaken we will have another good chapter of Acacia at Texas.

Those Texans have a way of doing things!

Prospects are good for a limited number of new chapters. Already we have a strong group at Southern California waiting to be installed. These boys, as well as those at Oklahoma State, organized without a house, and no immediate prospects for one, due to the acute housing shortage. Wyoming University at Laramie has started a local group, Kappa Alpha Iota, and will be ready for installation as soon as it can be arranged. Ohio University at Athens has a group already organized as the Trowel Club and will be installed soon. Traveling Secretary Charles Jarrett attended one of their meetings early in Dece:mber and gave

an encouraging r epor t of their membership. This group will be r eady to petition within the next month or two.

Any of our alumni living in these towns or the immediate vicinity may want to help these boys get started.

Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, has been selected as a place where we would like to establish a chapter.

With a good loyal Acacian, Ernest Hahne, Northwestern, as President, we don't anticipate opposition. Arkansas University at Fayetteville has been considered, and we are investigating possibilities there. With a chapter in Texas also, and our two in Oklahoma, Acacia would have good representation in that area. Other schools which are being considered at present are: Michigan State, Iowa, New Hampshire, Montana, and U . C. L. A. In addition to the schools mentioned, we intend to make every effort to reorganize those chapters which were closed in the thirties. We have also had a number of requests for establishing chapters of Acacia from th~ presidents of various small schools and some universities which do not meet our standards.

Our biggest problem today is not rea ctivating or establishing new chapters, but cementing the ties which were broken when chapters closed at the beginning of the war. In many of our chapters there are only a few, and in some cases none, of the boys who were in the chapter when it was operating before the war. During the war there was little, if any, fraternity activity. Today all our chapters are larger, and require closer supervision and more help on the part of the alumni to imbue the present members with the old traditions and ideals of Acacia.

Many of our chapters had very fihe traditions which are not known to the present active rn.embers. These should be restored by the alumni who are the only ones who can tell the actives about them.

The finances are another very important part of the fraternity operations. It has been my observation so far, that many of our chapters estimated too low in setting their monthly charges. Some of them have shown substantial losses for the first few months, and in such cases action must be taken immediately. A chapter can( Continued on page 44)

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The One Unfailing Resource

By HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Printed by permission of The Reader's Digest E worry about the postwar world, about economic conditions, about our work, about our personal relationships, about endless other strains and dangers. But press the matter more intimately home, and what each of us is really worrying about is himself and his own stamina.

We feel a sense of internal inadequacy to meet external strains.

At this point the deepest need in us meets the deepest fact in religion, and if today these two could be brought together the result might change the course of many a life. Some of us are like cisterns-we are good as far as we go, but the sources of our supply are superficial, our reserves are limited, we cannot stand a prolonged drought. But some are like artesian wells, with resources that run deep, not at the mercy of transient circumstance.

We all need this unfailing interior supply. And the deepest fact in religion -the vital inward transforming climax of it all-is God in us, a dependable resource of daily powers.

Ask us whether we believe in God, and practically all of us would say, "Yes." But how little that sometimes means! All too few of us would be able to go on to the affirmation which makes the New Testament a book of triumphant living in a desperate time: that God is a spiritual presence in us, giving us resource, backing, power available for daily need-making us wells and not cisterns.

Let us look at some typical human experiences. There are people, for example, who in easier, simpler times held together and maintained their morale with no great difficulty. They had a secure family; they were propped up by an established social position; like a sheaf of wheat well tied, they held together.

Then something happens! The old securities, the familiar supporting backgrounds break down, and the individual, thrown back upon himself, cannot stand it and goes to pieces. We commonly say that this breakdown of the old security causes our disintegration, but the truth really is that it reveals the disorder already there. We never had been deeply and strongly well organized from within. We had been like a sheaf of wheat, and when the tie broke we fell apart because we

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never had been held vitally together.

Not in many generations have more people than now been thus thrown back upon themselves. The war has done that to multitudes. No wonder the cases of mental disease now outnumber all others put together.

Do not suppose that psychiatry alone can solve this problem. I am strong for psychiatry. Sometimes I think that were I not a minister I would be a psychiatrist, but it takes more than a knowledge of psychiatry to meet this deepest need of man, or else some of the psychiatrists themselves would be in better shape than they are. People aplenty come to the minister who have been under so many psychiatrists already that they know their diagnosis by heart, but for all that they are shaken and disorganized. They have no interior backing, no resource of adequate power, and they do not know where to find it.

They are not wells but cisterns going dry, and this fact renders futile all the good advice that can be given.

It is a dreadful thing, when a man is alone, to feel that he really is alone!

That is the most devastating consequence of irreligion. There in the deeps of his soul, thrown back upon himself, he faces a vast uninhabited solitude. The first thing that a great religion says to a man is, no, you are not alone, for there, from the unseen deeps within, the wells of living water can rise to replenish the spent spitit with adequate resource.

Here is a man, one who always has been adequate for life. Naturally dynamic, strongly volitional, able to tackle life hard, he has been unaware of any vital lack of power. If you want anything, like a leopard leap for itsuch admirable directness of aim and effort has distinguished him.

I never see people like that without knowing that sooner or later they will confront an experience where that whole method will be as inapplicable as hammering on water.

Real sorrow, for example. My friend had a lovely child, a five-year-old daughter, killed by accident in front of his own house, and he carried her shattered body into the home in his own arms. What does one do for one's friend in a time like that? Certainly not talk about "stretch every nerve, and press with vigor on." There is a

great word in the English vocabulary that our preaching too commonly neglects: Endurance. Vigor is needed, yes, but not that alone. We need the inner resources that make endurance possible.

There are many common experiences where something deeper than vigor is needed. Serious failure, for example. Some night in his lifetime everyone comes home to find a new guest there-disappointment. What he had set his heart on has gone. In such a time, when a man cries, like Beethoven with his hearing lost, "0 God, give me strength to conquer myself," how futile is mere appeal to vim and vigor, like a football coach's pep talk to his team between halves. If one is to come through difficult experiences unembittered, unspoiled, still a real person, one needs deep resources.

Think not alone of such experiences as sorrow and failure, but of wanting some of the indispensable spiritual requirements of a satisfying life. Inner peace, for example, some serenity in the soul to come home to at night and go out from in the morning. Who does not need that? But no one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it. Peace is a margin of power around our daily need. Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality. Cisterns are anxious; wells have peace. There, too, man's deepest need meets Christianity's deepest fact.

Others of us have a different problem. We have organized our life; it is set up according to a pattern; it has, with the years, grown more and more habitual and strongly integrated. And now we face the fact that it is wrongly organized, that the pattern is a mistake, that we need to be taken apart and put together again on another principle.

Does anybody altogether escape that experience, that need of being remade, or, as the New Testament puts it, "born again"? Brahms said once about his musical compositions, " On the whole, my pieces are nicer than myself, and need less setting to rights!"

That is a human confession that even the most irreligious of men might (Continued on page 37)

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Dave Embury- New ¡N. I. C. President HE highest office in the fraternity world was given to a member of Acacia when David A. Embury was elected unanimously to be chairman of the National Interfraternity Conference at the annual meeting held in New York City in December. This office came to Brother Embury as a natural consequence of many years of active participation in the work of the Interfraternity Conference, during which time he has held a number of other high offices. A man of action and ability, he has brought, and will continue to bring honor and prestige to himself and to Acacia.

"Dave," as he is called by all who know him, is a typical small-town-boywho-made-good. He was born in Pine Woods, Madison County, New York, which is not, he says, on any map of New York State, but is about four miles from Hamilton, the site of Colgate University. He is a descendent of Philip Embury, the founder of Methodism in the United States, but he claims, " ... no one who knows me would guess that if I didn't tell him."

The proximity of Cornell attracted him, and from there he graduated in 1908 after majoring in sociology, economics, and pedagogy. This training enabled him to teach school and serve as a high school principal for five years after his graduation.

By this time, however, he had decided to take up the study of law with the result that he entered Columbia Law School in 1913, and from there he received his LL.B. in 1916. After a few months as a clerk with another firm he joineq the firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt, and Mosie, with whom he has been connected ever since, first as an associate and, since the summer of 1928, as a partner. Between November 3, 1917, and December, 1918, however, he served in the Air Service, Photographic Branch, entering as a private and emerging as a Second Lieutenant.

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make. It is we ourselves who need setting to rights.

No chasm in this world is so appalling to many a soul as the abyss between the two phrases, "I ought" and "I can." I ought to be changed. I ought to break up the false organization of my life. I ought to be remade on a new basis. Millions of people say that.

But to say, I can-I can be remade-

While attending Columbia, David Embury became Brother Embury to Acacians in the spring of 1914 and, by the time he had graduated, he had served as Senior Dean and Venerable Dean of that chapter and had revised and corrected the chapter constitution and by-laws. His active interest in Acacia did not become lost while he was in the army for, upon his discharge, he immediately undertook to re-activate his chapter which, like most of the others, had become dormant during the war. His inter est and abilities soon came to the attention of the National Council which, in 1926 appointed him chairman of the Jur isprudence Committee to rewrite the entire National Constitution, By-Laws, and Code of Procedure. At the 1927 Conclave he was elected Judge Advocate, an office which he held for nine years until his resignation in 1936.

He first attended an annual session of the National Interfraternity Conference in 1919, and since that time has attended all but one session of the Conference either as a delegate or as a visitor . In 1941 he was elected to a three-year term as a member of the Executive Committee ; in 1944 he became Treasurer, and in 1945 was

elected Vice-Chairman of the Conference. From 1943 he was also placed on the Law Committee, of which he has been chairman for the past three years.

Brother Embury's list of inter ests and activities does not end with fraternity affairs. Active in Masonic work, he is a member and Past Master of Washington Lodge No. 21 F. & A.M., a Past District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, a m ember of Jerusalem Chapter .No. 8 R. A. M., and of the Adelphic Council No. 7 R. & S. M. , and a charter member of the American Lodge of Research . He is a member of sever al bar associations, of the City Midday Club, and has served on numerous civic organizations and boards.

Moreover, with all of these interests, Dave has time for his charming wife and two lovely daughters, both of whom attended Pennsylvania State College and were active in their sororities besides obtaining Phi Beta Kappa keys!

For a descentant of a Methodist minister who is a Wall Street barrister, Dave has two unusual hobbies, in both of which he displays a remarkable proficiency. One of these, amateur magic, has earned him the title of the Magic Barrister when he performs at lodge and bar association functions. His other hobby is cooking; he will willingly whip up a little Crepe Suzettes or Lobster Thermidor if given the least encouragement and, when attired in the proper uniform for those special occasions, he has been mistaken for Oscar of the Waldorf by guests at the Embury home in Larchmont.

Certainly, with a man with the background, attainments, and abilities of Dave Embur y, the National Interfraternity Conference will pr osper in the coming year ; we of Acacia are proud of the honor he has gained; we wish him well.

how far a leap that is; and at that point man's deepest need again confronts religion's deepest fact.

For what religion says to men is, you can. "As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God." If in the deep solitude of inner moral struggle, where "I ought" looks afar off and sees "I can" but dimly in the distance, a man really is alone-that is one thing.

But if what is true in the physical world is true also in the spiritual-if with our unaided hands we n ever could make electricity yet we can release it and get light and power; if we can similarly liberate the resources of the indwelling Spirit and release light and power there-then that is another thing. Here is the ver y pith of the difference between religion and irrelig(Continued on page 46)

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Middletown vs. World War III

By KARL DETZER Published in the Christian Science Monitor and Condensed in The Reader's Digest HEN young George Hook and his cousin, Bill Verity, came home from the war to Middletown, Ohio, six months ago, they were troubled by what they found. Newspaper headlines, radio voices, the conversations of their friends, were full of ominous talk about the next war.

Everyone seemed to be taking it for granted.

The United Nations, which was supposed to prevent "World War III," was having a hard enough time just keeping itself afloat. National pride, outworn conceptions of sovereignty, prejudices, mutual fear and mistrust, conflicting social and political ideologies - all these were threatening the hopes and plans of men of good will. And in the quiet streets of Middletown and every other home town in America, George and Bill could see the dark shadows of future atomic bombs.

These two young veterans are the grandsons of the founder of the American Rolling Mill Company, Middletown's largest industry. Good jobs were waiting for them when they got back from the war. Everyone said they had nothing to worry about.

But they did worry. George had fought in a tank with Patton's army, all the way from the Normandy coast to Metz. * He came home with his broken neck in a plaster cast. Bill had done his fighting with the Navy in the South Pacific. They knew, first hand, a great deal about the war just past; they could visualize what horrors any future war would bring. Something had to be done to prevent it.

Bill and George trace the idea for their plan to one night early last spring when George sat talking in Bill's little white house on the edge of the golf course. Just because the Big Three diplomats couldn't get together, they decided was no reason the hundreds of millions of plain people of the wor ld shouldn't try.

"Bill, we have to do something," George said. "You and I." Bill agreed. They would begin at the bottom, with the people more deeply concerned than any others, those who

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would make up the casualty lists in any future war.

Both men belonged to the local Legion post. That seemed as good a place as any to start. The Legion is a power in Middletown; one out of every 11 citizens belongs to it. So at the next meeting the two cousins stood up and told their fellow veterans that it was up to them to . prevent a third war.

They talked earnestly and the Legion listened.

Post Commander Hugh Wright, a sober, intelligent First War veteran, appointed a committee to study the problem of peace or war-to study it, not in London, Paris, or Washington, but in little Middletown. It is a good, hard-working committee, the kind that can be set up in any of a thousand American towns. It is made up of plain people-the municipal judge, three lawyers, an engineer, two industrial marketers, a lumber dealer, a newspaperman. Bill Verity is its chairman; George Hook and a middle-aged First War veteran named Earl Emerson, who lost a son in the Second War, are its chief spark plugs.

On May 15 Emerson stood up before some 400 veterans who had gathered for a special post meeting. He spoke plainly, pointing out the dangers confronting the world and all its Middletowns. He said that we had our choice between the old outworn methods which had failed so often-balance of power, armanent races, military alliances, buffer states-and the new idea of making the United Nations work.

U. N. wasn't accomplishing much right now, he admitted, but somehow it must be made to function . He mentioned the threat of atomic bombsour own, Britain's, Russia's. When he finished, a sobered Legion post urged its committee to work fast.

The committee members reached into their own pockets and bought books, haunted the public library, dug into gover nmental files, read reports.

They met nightly and argued over Emery Reves' plan for world government, Einstein's theory for keeping the peace, the Baruch, Lilienthal, Culbertson, and Sumner Welles proposals.

They disagreed heartily at first, except on one point: something had to be

done, and quickly. They compromised at last on what is called the "quota force plan." This plan recognizes the United Nations, with all its faults, as the best foundation for peace. But it would strengthen the United Nations structure and make it workable by adding three amendments to the charter.

These amendments would give smaller nations a larger voice in the Security Council than they now have, but without tying . the hands of the "Big Three." They would give the Council the power, by majority vote, to suppress aggression and to limit and control all major weapons, everywhere. They would establish a World Court to decide whether Council edicts have been violated. They would arm the Council with an international military police powerful enough to enforce. its decisions.

The details of the program are less important than the fact that a group of ordinary citizens is wading into the job of securing peace, and their zeal is spreading throughout Ohio and the adjoining states. The earnest young veterans' crusade has set the prairies afire.

When Bill Verity's committee took the plan to the Legion post, the post adopted it unanimously and voted to send it to the state Legion convention for endorsement, hoping 'in the end to win the support of the Legion's national organization.

Someone stood up on the floor and said: "That's fine. But it's only a start.

We've got to get a lot of other organizations interested. Let's tell the whole town about it."

The plan was first explained to representatives of other organizations in town-luncheon clubs, labor unions, women's organizations, churches, and lodges. They were urged to spread the word, to discuss it with their neighbors and fellow workers.

The big meeting was set for the night of July 11. At exactly 8 o'clock on that still, hot evening, every church bell in Middletown-Protestant and Catholic -began to ring furiously. The bell of the Episcopal church in swank Euclid Heights and the bell of the Negro Bap(Continued on page 44)

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Amplifications and Ad Lib Daffynitions Adolescent: A person in his early nicoteens.

Guitar Player: A musician who has easy pickings.

Darkroom: Where many a girl with a negative personality is developed.

Fireman: A man who never takes his eyes off the hose.

Newsprint: A kind of paper which is neither news nor print.

Tip: The wages we pay other people's hired help.

Oyster: A fish that's built like a nut.

Custom-Made Our question about how come bosoms change with the trend of fashion was promptly answered by Earl Wilson in his column in the New York Post. It seems that the sweater girl is in vogue today and all girls are fighting flatchestedness. A flourishing business, with its own trade terms, has been created to aid them.

The trade calls the girls with flats "the underendowed" and the girls with blimps "the overabundant."

The trade does not apologize for helping the girls deceive the men, nor does it think the girls need apologize.

What about men who wear doublebreasted suits and padded shoulders?

In one place the men conceal overabundance and in another place underendowment. So it's fifty-fifty, say the tailors of custom-made bosoms.

Free Translation We do not underwrite the authenticity, but do endorse the good humor of these translations from the Latin by co-eds perhaps preoccupied with thoughts of Van Johnson.

De mortius nil nisi bonum-The dead do not make good speakers.

Humanum est errare-To be human is a mistake.

Nota bene-Watch your coat.

Vice versa-Filthy poetry.

Salmagundi Ale Some of the members of the Salmagundi Club in New York have solved the problem of how to concoct a mixture that conforms to their ideas

of the proper qualities that an ale should possess.

The club members, mostly artists and writers, say that New England ale is superior because it is a favorite drink there whereas New Yorkers generally prefer beer.

The sacred ale recipe calls for four bottles of cold beer, four of ale, and a pint of Guinness stout, all of which is poured into a gallon crystal pitcher.

The concoction is served in pewter mugs with glass bottoms, which they say adds to the flavor.

Asked the function of the glass, one member said it was there to keep the contents from running out. Pewter mugs in public places have almost disappeared because customers steal them as fast as they are replaced.

• • • Neon Red

We're going to throw away our ear trumpet because we have heard everything.

Girls without glowing personalitie$ can now buy themselves plenty o{ glow, cheap. The Chicago makers of Floress have seen to that.

Floress is a "fluorescent" lipstic~ that causes you to have "hi-lights b1 day ... at night, a glow like burning embers."

You can get it in five catchy colors including Blue Flame and Neon Red and what's furthermore you can get yourself a trial size for two bits and glow like crazy.

After learning about this, we had a shaking nightmare about a damsel with illuminated eye lashes, lumineus hair tonic and phosphorescent face powder. Things like that scare us.

The Ten Most Expressive Words

Prevent Waste How can we help to prevent waste?

Suggestions: Don't ask, "What's the date?" Own a calendar.

Don't ask, "What's the time?'' Own a clock.

Don't ask, "When does the movie begin?" Look in your newspaper.

Don't ask, "When does the concert start?" Look at your tickets.

Don't ask, "How do you spell receipt?" Look in your dictionary.

Don't ask, "Can you spare a sawbone?" Obviously not.

"Don't ask, "Do you love me?" He's paying the bills, ain't he?

Don't ask, "What's cooking?" Use your smeller.

Don't ask, "Have you a date?" State your proposition.

Don't ask, "Will it be expensive?"

Of course.

Don't ask, "Did you charge it?" How else could she get it?

Those of you who write advertising and sales letters will be interested in the list of the ten most expressive words in the English language which Dr. Wilfred Funk, noted lexicographer and dictionary publisher, picked after many years of research. We reprint them from The American Weekly.

The most bitter is "alone," the most revered is "mother," the most tragic is "death." The word "faith" brings greatest comfort, the saddest is "forgotten," the most beautiful "love," and the most cruel "revenge." The warmest word is "friendship," the coldest, "no," and the most peaceful is "tranquility.»

Calling All Copy Much of the success of the TRJA.o will continue to depend upon the contributions of actives and alumni from every chapter. If your chapter or friends have not been properly covered in past issues it was because no more material was submitted. Why not take a few minutes to let us know what you, your brothers, and your chapter are doing? Newspaper clipp~gs, reports of alumni and chapter activities, articles of interest to fraternity men, and photographs are now being assembled for the next issue. Send all material to the National Headquarters, 7530 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois.

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40 land campaigns, for which he wears battle stars on the E.A.M.E. Ribbon.

He is the son of Roy P . Lechner of Mattoon, Illinois. At the present time Mrs. Lechner is living at 905 Marshall A venue, Mattoon.

Acacians

the World Qyer

Achieves Phi Beta William B. Miller, Northwestern '41, was one of fifteen Northwestern students to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa in October. All of the group achieved scholastic averages of "A" for their first three years in college.

Bill, who is attending Northwestern under the G.I. bill, returned to school last fall after two years of service overseas as a court reporter for the U . S. military government in Berlin, and as a civilian employe of the War Department. He is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, freshman scholastic honorary society for men, and, in his junior year, was awarded the Joshua G. Nolan scholarship.

Donald H. Marshall, Wisconsin '41, is now registered in the graduate scho.o l of Harvard University, and is living at 33 Apley Court, 16 Holyoke Street, Combridge 38, Massachusetts.

Donald is the son of Dr. William J .

Marshall of Missoula, Montana, who is one of the Founders of the Acacia Fraternity.

Lieutenant Roy J. Lechner, Illinois '42, has been selected to attend the liaison course for student fliers at the Army Ground Forces Air Training School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The course which began on September 23 is scheduled to last until January, 1947, during which time students will participate in regular and frequent aerial flights.

Brother Lechner received his commission at Fontainebleau, France, after completing Officer Candidate School in April, 1945. A veteran of ten months in the European Theater of Operations, he participated in the Northern France, Southern France and Rhine-

Ray Stannard Baker, a brother of Dr. Hugh Potter Baker, Syracuse '09, passed away on July 12, 1946. He was a well-known writer of many books, philosophical essays, and magazine articles, many of which dealt with sociological and economic problems in which he was deeply interested. He was known to many for an "adventures" series written under the pen name of "David Grayson," the later volumes of which bear his own name.

However, he was most famous for his writings about Woodrow Wilson, the first of which was written in 1920 concerning President Wilson's doings in Paris. Following this was a threevolume series about Wilson published in 1922, and in 1925 he was appointed official biographer of Wilson. The Pulitzer prize for biography was awarded to Mr. Baker in 1940 for these works.

Dr. Hugh P. Baker, an Acacian, is president of Massachusetts State College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

James Polkinghorn, Kansas '37, received a permanent commiSsion in the Regular Army after serving for five years. He went in as a private and in less than four years was advanced to major in the Medical Corps. He will hold this commission for two years, then will be a Captain. He served in both the European and Pacific theaters, and is now the Executive Officer at Tilton General Hospital, Fort Dix, New Jersey. He and Mrs. Polkinghorn have a three-year-old daughter.

George T. Hansen, Kansas '04, adds to his "achievement record" president of Utah Southern Oil Company, and of Hansen Rubber Products Company with headquarters in Salt Lake City.

He is also Republican national committeeman from Utah and chairman of the Republican finance committee.

George is an avid sportsman with duck hunting as his hobby.

T . Hawley Tapping, Michigan '15, was elected to the presidency for the ensuing year of the Michigan Athletic Managers Club, association of former Varsity sports managers. He has served the club as its Secretary-T reasurer for twenty-three years. Brother Tapping is also General Secretary of the Alumni Association at the University of Michigan and Editor-in-Chief of The Michigan Alumnus.

New Traveling Secretary George Ward Croyle, California '41, a second traveling secretary appointed by the National Council, was born on January 9, 1921, in Modesto, California. He was graduated from the Union High School in Clovis, California, in June, 1938, but did not enter the University of California until August,

George Croyle in a typical journalistic pose-hat, cigarette, and typewriter.

1939. He attended all regular sessions here until May, 1943, took leave of absence until July, 1944, and was graduated with a BA and General Teaching degree in October, 1944. His major at the university was journalism, and his minor was history.

From October, 1944, to June, 1945, he was in the Graduate School at Berkeley, and from October, 1945, to March, 1946, he was enrolled in the Graduate School at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles.

While at the latter school, he was a prime factor in organizing the Acacia Club of USC, which is now flourishing and will soon be ready to make petition for their charter as a chapter of Acacia.

George took part in a number of important activities at the University of California. For two semesters he was president of Phi Phi, men's honor society; member of Sigma Delta Chi, men's National Honorary Journalism Fraternity ; member of the Press Club for three years; and member of the Interfraternity Council for three semesters.

He was very active also in the California Chapter of Acacia. He served as senior dean and pledgemaster for four semesters; venerable dean for two semesters; intramural manager for four semesters; and chapter adviser for three semesters during the time he was in the Graduate School.

He is a member of the Clovis Lodge

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417 (Free and Accepted Masons of California) and was raised to third degree on August 22, 1945.

George joined the Headquarters Staff of Acacia as traveling secretary on August 22, 1946, and since that time has been doing a great deal of hard traveling and good foundational work in helping reactivate several chapters which became inactive during the early months of the war. He is a welcome and valuable addition to our staff in this all-important activity. His home is in Clovis, California, and he can always be reached through that address or through the Headquarters office.

After a long career in the news and public relations field, Gilbert M. Clayton, Kansas '13, has launched into his own firm. He is now vice-president of Bauer, Rieger & Clayton, Inc., Manufacturers Representatives, with offices at 209 South State Street in Chicago.

He resigned last May as e:J_S:ecutive manager of the Illinois Chain Store Council which he organized in 1939.

The new firm will represent manufacturers nationally with respect to chain stores generally and department stores

in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa, and Minnesota.

Brother Clayton worked his way through the University of Kansas as a reporter. After graduation he w orked up in the United Press to be Centr al Division manager at Chicago. Later he was secretary of the Chicago Curb Exchange.

He has one son, Jack, a graduate of Brown University.

Dr. Ernest H. Hahne, Northwestern '21, President of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, was one of four educators who participated in a panel discussion of "General Education in the Public School Program" p r esented recently for the members of the Cincinnati Schoolmasters Club in the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati. He stated that general education can be no better than the teacher himself, and that the great need of general education is a "general increase in the level of education." Brother Hahne said: "I disagree with those who would look to the education of the few as the basis of a sound education. We must have general education for the masses, not alone for the few."

Television Broadcaster

E. Merrill Robison, Kan sas '20, is a member of the prominent architectural firm of Archer, Cooper & Robison, Commerce Trust Building, Kansas City, Missouri.

Marland B. Small, Michigan '20, has resigned his position as Assistant to the Director of the Department of Engineering Research at the University of Michigan, effective January 31, and at the present time is resting after a long period of war activities. Because of accumulated vacation allowance, it was possible for him to leave his duties as of last August 17.

Robert A. Campbell, Michigan '13, one-time Treasurer of the University of Michigan, celebrated his 81st birthday at a private family party last July 2. He resigned fr om the University in 1931 after serving as Treasurer since 1911, and he retired from the position of Mayor of Ann Arbor in 1937. Brother Campbell was honored with the American citizenship citation in 1940 for his outstanding service to the community. He is familiarly known to his host of friends as "Uncle Bob." Among his family present at his birthday celebration were his son William J . Campbell and two children of Lansing, Michigan.

Milton W. Heath, Michigan '23, has been home for some time now from almost four year s of duty, which included twenty months with General Patton in the ETO. He and his family are living at 1835 Beacon Street, Waban, Massachusetts.

Thomas Pier ce Rogers, Harvard '25, has returned from duty with the armed forces and reopened offices for the general p r actice of law at 68 Post Street, San Francisco 4, California.

He lives with his wife and two children at 1868 29th Avenue, San Francisco 20, California.

JosephS. Wilson, Northwestern '32, one of our outstanding sports announcers, has been doing a fine piece of work in telecasting football games and other sports events this fall. The technique of television is very different from that of ordinary sound radio, inasmuch as it is not necessary to describe action which is already visible on the screen. Television therefore demands a change of pace in reporting, and good judgment on the part of the announcer as to just when not to talk.

Brother Wilson acts like a good host with you as a nonexpert guest beside

him might. He points out what to look for, and explains the reasons for action; he gives you statistical infor mation and analysis ; he recalls comparable situations fr om other games, and gives you human interest data. Joe has the gift of inserting humor ous remarks which fit with and add to the action being depicted. Television demands alertness, the ability to make up your mind what to say, and to say it at the right time so that it will coincide with the picture. We cmi gr atulate Joe on the progress he has made in developing and perfecting this new technique.

Roland H. Bolyard, Venerable Dean of the Northwestern Chapter in 1942, is now living in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he is doing personnel work for the Social Secur ity Administration.

He is living at 527 22nd Avenue in Altoona.

Craig D. Clemons, Northwestern '40, and his wife, Mer cedes, are at home for the time being in Stormlake, Iowa.

Craig is taking post-graduate work in Pre-Med at the college there and is on the coaching staff of the football team. He plans to enter Northwestern Medical School in the fall of '47.

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Chapter Eternal Charles W. Keller II, Missouri '20, of Kansas City, Missouri, died of a heart attack on November 22, 1946, while in a loop restaurant in Chicago.

He was manager of the promotion department of the Chase Bag Company and was in Chicago on business.

He was a veteran of World War I and was graduated from the school of journalism at the University of Mi_ssouri in 1921. He began his career rn journalism as a printer on the Democrat-Leader, Norborne, Missouri, while in high school, and after his graduation from the university he was a reporter on the Free Press, Troy, Missouri.

From 1923 to 1930 he was manager of the Minneapolis branch office of the Packer Redbook, a rating agency service for the wholesale fruit and produce industry. From 1930 to 1938 he was a professor of advertising at the University of Missouri school of journalism, and for five years-1933 to 1938--he was a secretary of the Missouri Press Association. After he left the university post in 1938, he was manager of the Redbook office in Kansas City until he went to the Chase Company in 1942.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Rowena Bidwell Keller, 801 West Seventyfirst Terrace, Kansas City; two sons, Charles W. III and John Bidwell Keller; a grandson, Charles W. Keller IV; his mother, Mrs. C. W. Keller, Sr., Norborne, Missouri, and four brothers.

ice in March of 1943 when a large group of the reserves was called .. He was a Mason as well as an Acac1an, and had been initiated into Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity, shortly before he left school.

Gene was one of the brothers that left school together with the intention of meeting again at the chapter house when hostilities ceased. We suffer a great loss with Gene's death.

Ohio's Housemother Last October Mrs. Alice Craft, Rudolph, Ohio, accepted the position of Housemother for the Ohio Chapter.

She is the mother of Captain Floyd Craft, former Venerable Dean of the

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The sad news has reached us that Thomas D. Evans, California '45, committed suicide on December 10, 1946, in Berkeley, California. His body was found by a patrolman at the edge of Bolivar Drive near the east side of # .·' ....... ·: ·...···, ·~ .

Berkeley's aquatic park. He had died from loss of blood after slashing the arteries of his wrist.

Tom was a junior at the University of California, majoring in political science, was a student leader and manager of the university year book, the Blue and Gold. The letter which he left for his mother indicated great mental turmoil, and his roommate at the chapter house told authorities that Tom had been brooding over his mental and physical health, and had reMRS. ALICE CRAFT cently consulted a San Francisco psychiatrist.

His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Elbert · Ohio Chapter, who was killed in GerJ. Evans, 5425 Encino Avenue, Encino, many during World War II. At her home in Wood County Mrs. California. His father is a wealthy Los Craft is very active in the affairs of Angeles stockbroker. the community. She is an Eastern Star, a member of the Ohio Grange, Lincoln D. Jones, Michigan '22, and the W.B.A., and precinct manager for his family have bought a home at 2556 Capt. Charles D . Renfrow, Kansas Tanoble Drive, Altadena, California. the Republican Party.

She knew very few of the men here State, pledge '41, an Army Air Corps Among the various kinds of trees on pilot, on March 13, 1945, over Ger- their lot are peach, orange, lemon and when she first arrived and had no many, held his A -20 on course to en- fig, and many rose, gardenia and ca- experience as to the duties of a houseable his crew mates to bail out. Then melia bushes. "Line" wrote that he mother, but because of her ease in he apparently left the ship, too, but had talked to Harry Kaiser, Michigan meeting people and her wonderful has been missing ever since that date. '23, who is located in Los Angeles and personality, she soon became a top faFor this action he was posthumously still working for the American Book vorite among the fellows: Her personal interest in each man and her awarded the Distinguished Flying Company. tireless efforts on behalf of the chapter Cross. as a whole have won the respect and Capt. Renfrow graduated from KanGeorge A. Malcolm, one of the admiration of the entire chapter. sas State College in 1941 with the de. It somehow seems pretty wonderful gree of Dr. of Veterinary Medicine. founders of Acacia, now lives at 494 7 His home was in West Plains, Mo. He Marathon Street, Hollywood 27, Cal- to us that although Floyd "Rusty" is survived by his mother, Mrs. Estella ifornia. Following the completion of Craft is no longer with us serving as Renfrow, and a sister, Mrs. Violet thirty-seven years in the American one of our most able leaders, his Colonial Service in the Philippines and mother has stepped in to fill the gap Springer, both of West Plains.

Puerto Rico, including eighteen years of his passing and the name of Craft Lt. Eugene M. Hill, Kansas State as a Justice of the Supreme Court of still rings as firmly as ever in the halls of Acacia.

'42, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. 0. Hill of the Philippines, Judge Malcolm more recently has appeared on· the lecture Westmoreland, Kansas, was killed in · George A. R. Schtfster, Michigan action in Germany, April 7, 1945, while platform in all parts of the country. is a C.P.A. with Price, Waterhouse '20, serving with the Third Army under & Company, Shell Building, St. Louis, General Patton.

Mr. and Mrs. Geor ge A. Heinemann Brother Hill was a journalism stu- have announced the birth of a daugh- Missouri, and is on the faculty of St. dent at Kansas State College at the ter, Michael Ann, on August 5, 1946. Louis University. He and his wife, a time of his enlistment in the Army. He George, Northwestern '38, has recent- Delta Gamma from the University of had been affiliated with the ROTC ly moved his family to 1122 West Missouri, have a daughter, Ann, and a son, Gary. Their horne is at 456 North unit on the campus and went into serv- Latham Street, Phoenix, Arizona.

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The Where and Why of High Fraternity Achievement (Continued from page 34)

College, University of Missouri, University of Nebraska, Louisiana State University.

With reference to the second question, relating to the factors which contribute to the successful functioning of chapters, the respondents revealed closer agreement. Almost without exception, the writers referred primarily, in explaining why they named specific colleges, to the "sympathetic," "cordial," "cooperative," "active," "wellplanned," "underntanding" or "constructive" institutio'nal policy in supervising and guiding group life, seasoned by what may be called a "the student-centered philosophy," or a "student personnel point of view." A large number of those polled declared that the institutions they named as "outstanding" were those where collegiate authorities deliberately made fraternities an integral part of their -educational program, depended upon fraternities for idealism, gave constant recognition to their educational role, demanded from them leadership and high standards of performance, or had instituted guidance or advisory programs sustained by full-time personnel. Outstanding men, with a gift for working with rather thp.n against student groups, have been given responsibilities for administration of living group programs at these institutions, -said many of the officers, whose letters frequently referred to the fraternity guidance work of Dean Fred Turner at Illinois, Dean Ray Warnock at Penn State, Dean Joseph Park at Ohio State, and other figures well known to National Interfraternity Conference sessions. Two of those polled used almost identical words in declaring that the institutions they named were appreciative of the constructive support offered by fraternities and worked with them, in contrast to "the deadly policy of some, merely to tolerate fraternities."

Next in importance to an implement~d institutional policy of fraternity guidance, the survey would suggest "strict scholastic requirements" as important to a good fraternity climate, followed by factors of the "fraternity being important to the college in furnishing housing," a "special institutional interest in small group housing," "the high" or "mature calibre of students selected for admission." Eighteen fraternity officers were of the opinion that fraternities function best in relatively large institutions located in nonurban settings, or at least in communities where the institution is a dom-

43 inant interest. Five made special reference to Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio as states where a "middlewestern temperament" deals generously with collegiate, and fraternal idealism. Sixteen of the officers used the word "democratic" in describing the institutional climate which they found most favorable to good chapter functioning, some indicating that they meant that there were enough chapters to insure membership opportunity to all or very nearly all who desired it, or that the colleges' own provision of dormitories eliminated sharp distinctions between "org" and "independent," or that there was a "representative student body" or "a wide, rich opportunity for students to enter different extracurricular activities." Roughly one-fourth of those polled felt that fraternities were specially valued and successful at institutions which gave special emphasis to transmitting to youth the best of America's unique, democratic culture and inculcating a loyalty to its traditional institutions and a sense of responsible citizenship. One contrasted these to "institutions worshipping the German university ideal of pure intellectualism and research," while another thought of them in contrast to institutions which he thought "were deliberately fostering discontent with and abandonment of institutions supporting and valuing individual liberty and dignity."

A considerable number of the respondents mentioned specific programs and services for fraternities which made substantial contributions to the success of their chapters located there. These included: "A strong" or "cooperative interfraternity council;" "An effective alumni advisory interfraternity council;" or "continuing alumni interest" or "supervision" or "cooperation;" "A system of regular inspections to enforce housing standards;" "A good program of intramural athletics" and "other inter-house competitions;" "Program of faculty dinners;" "Supervision of social affairs" or "a ceiling on rush and social expenditures ;" "Sensible, simple rushing system," or "rush booklets provide opportunity for all entering men to consider values of membership."

"Fraternity dean has been relieved of disciplinary functions, thus gaining confidence of students."

"Absence of crippling, restrictive regulations, precluding development of judgment and initiative by undergraduates."

In possible contrast to this last fac-

tor, two officers flatly declared that "fraternities are likely to thrive under strict requirements" or "rigid supervision."

A few officers thought fraternities prospered best at small institutions, and an equal number favored large institutions - neither group defining terms. Three thought they operated best in "private" or "semi-private" institutions, while two declared in favor "state" institutions.

Finally, a significant number-27described the institutions they named as offering special financial aid to fraternities. Most of these described university cooperation in superv1smg chapterhouse finances and collecting house bills, four referred to cooperative buying arrangements, seven to dwelling units leased from the university, four to liberal terms for loans to encourage building construction and property ownership, and four to arrangements for tax-exemption to equalize the cost of fraternity membership with that of residency in dormitories provided by taxpayers or private donors.

OBSERVATIONS

By its very nature, this survey of opinions of national fraternity officers concerning "the where and the why" of wholesome chapter functioning does not yield mathematically exact conclusions. It does tend to confirm, however, the suspicion that local, institutional policies and guidance services in behalf of fraternities are more important to good achievement than are factors of national prestige and the policies of national officers of a particular organization. It serves further to remind college authorities who are liberal in criticizing fraternity performance at their institutions that the responsibility for good achievement is chiefly theirs, rather than one vaguely to be assigned to undergraduates, the alumni, or the national officers. If they sincerely want to see higher standards of group performance they might well borrow a few ideas from the relatively successful campuses and begin energetically to cultivate "their own back yards."

The list of institutions highly-rated in this survey, .viewed categorically, suggests the further importance of economic factors to successful fraternity life. With moderately helpful and sympathetic guidance from deans and student personnel directors, fraternities seem to thrive in rural settings. In urban institutions, however, where chapters are harassed by high land prices, property taxes, and the social distractions of city life and commuting students, successful fraternity operations have only been achieved at institutions where the university ad-

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44 ministrations have compensated for these difficulties by providing extraordinary services and a degree of indirect financial su bs idy to bolster and preserve the values of chapter life.

These may indeed include a genuine exp erience in student self-government and a rich contribution to t r aining for civic responsibility and community leadership .

The survey suggests its own followup, by careful analysis of the programs and policies of those institutions which have been "rated" most highly.

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World War III (Conti.nued from page 38)

t ist chur ch in South Garfield shouted in unison. And the people turned out, the rich and the poor, the black and the white, 2,000 of them. They filled the streets leading to the Legion Hall.

Earl Emerson was there. He voiced the same warning which had stirred the Legion post. Ely Culbertson, who had been plugging for the quota force plan up and down the land, was there.

Congressman E. J. Gardner flew in from Washington. Governor Frank Lausche drove down from Columbus, "not to talk, just to listen." He became so interested that he did talk for 25 minutes, urging the youngsters who had started it all to carry on. The clubhouse was packed; 200 citizens stood in the yard and listened through open windows, 200 others crowded the basement to hear the meeting through a loudspeaker.

The Episcopal rector served as chairman; a Catholic monsignor sat on the platform; a Negro preacher asked the Lord to bless the efforts of the people gathered there. After the veterans had told their story and outlined their plan, the meeting was thrown open to questions. Everyone seemed to have something to say. The professor of political science from a near-by university, a taxi driver, the dean of gir ls at the local high school, a r abbi, a war veteran just back from Germany. The owner of a big manufactur ing plant, closed at that moment by a strike, stood shoulder to shoulder with the C. I. 0. organizer who had shut his gates and the two pledged to wor k together with the rest of the town to bring peace to the world.

Gus Valen had taken off h is apr on and closed the L iber ty Cafe to come and listen. He finished by making his first public speech.

"We been slapped in the face long enough !" he shouted fr om the floor .

"Now we w ant peace. We got t o work for it and figh t for it, all us Amer icans t ogether."

Verity r ead a r esolution the committee h ad pr epared, ur ging the U. N. to adopt the quota-force plan and supporting Baruch proposal for safeguar ding atomic energy. The meeting r oar ed its appr oval. Then after three long hours on the hottest night of the summer the chairman adjourned the meeting. Still the people did not go home. It took another hour for 960 of them to sign their names to the resolution.

The next day the Kiwanis Club and the Rotary Club and the A. F. of L . and the C. I. 0. picked up the torch.

Then the local Feder ation of Women's Clubs, the Veterans of For eign Wars -23 organizations in all. They sent delegates to their state conventions, still are sending them all over Ohio, working feverishly to secure the adoption by as many people as possible of this scheme to pr event war. The American Legion and the Federation of Labor at their state meetings in August unanimously passed resolutions urging their national conventions to support the plan. The C. I. 0., Rotary and Kiwanis, a dozen others, have made the Middletown project a matter of urgent business at their coming state conventions.

Other Midwest cities hear d about it and community leaders picked up their telephones and began to fire questions at Bill Verity and George Hook. So committee members from Middletown went to Newark, Monroe, Wilmington, Franklin, and many other Ohio towns, or ganizing meetings, finding speakers and debaters.

Then the larger cities began to take notice. In Louisville, Ky. , the committee is made up of representatives of such diverse groups as the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the C. I. 0., the A. F. of L ., the League of Women Voters, the Junior Board of Trade, the Associated Industries of Kentucky and the railroad brotherhoods. They are striving together, forgetting their differences on domestic matters.

Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland, Springfield have joined the Ohio parade ; Butler, Pa., Des Moines, Iowa, and Indianapolis, Ind. , are organizing meetings so that their citizens may make their plain Midwest voices hear d. In Michigan, Kentucky, and Texas mem b ers of the Legion are planning what they call "lVliddletown meetings" in the near future.

Middletown is convinced that once all Amer ican communities hear about it and understand it, this will become a national movement. But the citizens realize t hat even national solidarity is not enough . They want the people of Great Br itain to under stand their plan, and the people of France and

China and of the South and Central American Republics and, above all, the people of Russia. They haven't figured out yet how to accomplish this last but they are working on it.

The church bells are ringing these fall evenings in cities and towns across the Midwest; people are standing up in meeting and talking from their hearts, plain people weary of the bungling of statesmen, plain people who have taken into their own hands the vexing problem of maintaining the peace.

How far they will go is anybody's guess. They have started something.

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not operate for long at a deficit. Some have already taken action to increase their monthly charge. Unfortunately some of the Financial Advisors feel that, because the chapters are larger, their supervision is not necessary. Today, mor e than ever, our chapters need good sound advice from the Financial Advisor. Unless this phase of our operations is watched very carefully, some chapters will run into serious difficulty. I urge the House Manager and Treasurer to counsel weekly, if possible, with the financial advisor.

There seems to be a tendency throughout the country on the part of everyone to let down in his interest, and in the time he gives to outside activities. It is true we all pushed ourselves to the limit during the war, and now we would like a rest. But now, more than ever, our chapters with their large memberships need supervision. Alumni and actives must work closely together if we are to avoid the unfortunate situations which followed in the wake of our last great fraternity boom after World War I. Never before in the history of fraternities have young men knocked at our door seeking membership. Let us not forget that times may change again.

Acacia is stronger today than ever before. Let us keep Acacia strong. Build now for the future.

Donald D. Graham, Michigan '35, is with The Hinde & Dauch Paper Com¡pany, Detroit 27. He writes that both he and his brother, MacKellar K. Graham, Michigan '35, are married now. Donald and his wife have a fiveyear-old son and a two-year-old daughter; "Mac" and his wife have a daughter almost a year old. Donald is doing cost estimating for his company, and his brother is doing designing work for Vickers, Inc., in Detroit.

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California

Nebraska

ROBERT CARL ANDERSON ROBERT PHELPS DAVIDSON PHILIP HENRY FARLEY BERNARD CHARLES JENSEN IRVING WASHINGTON LINDLAHR

KEITH GRAHAM VAN NESTE

Cincinnati

EARL REXFORD BOYD STEVEN RUDOLF KIRCH CARL WILLIAM SCHREIBER Colorado

LYCURGUS WALDEMAR JOHNSON ROY BRADLEY LEWIS

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JAMES ROWE CLELAND ROBERT WILLIAM KITTREDGE ROBERT THOMAS LAECHLE Ohio

WILLIAM JUDSON BOWEN FLOYD FRANKLIN CRAFT RICHARD WILLIAM GOLDNER ALBERT EVERT GROVER ROBERT DENTON HUMBERT KENNETH E. OEFFLER

Cornell

WENDELL CLARK JOHNSON RAYMOND ALBERT LULL CARL AUGUST OSBERG ARTHUR LEE THOMPSON George Washington

MILLARD MacDONALD BENNETT LEONARD DURNELL PETERSON

Oklahoma

BILLY EDWARD CARSON HENRY MARTYN DOUGHTY J, B. LONG GLENN EWING WEESNER Oklahoma State

PARIS EDGAR PERSWELL

Illinois

ROSS BARTON LEMMON, Jr. JAMES GARNEL PEARSON

Penn State

JOHN FRANKLIN ENNIS PHILIP MELVIN SMITH

Indiana

JAMES HENRY BELL WILLIAM CLINTON BLACKLEDGE HOWARD ALLEN LARKIN Kansas State

EUGENE MELVIN HILL JERALD GARMAN PORTER Michigan

WILFORD HARRY BROWN JOHN FREDERICK MUNN Minnesota

GORDON ADOLPH LUNDIN HAROLD ALLAN POHTILLA

Purdue

LANE AMIDON BOOKWALTER CARL LOUIS HANSING HENRY FRED WRIGHT Syracuse

CLINTON RICHARD BARTLETT CLIFFORD VINCENT DEIBLER MYLES WENDELL ESMAY ARTHUR DEANE GUTMAN LESLIE EDGAR HOFFMAN, Jr. GILFORD EDWIN PIERCE Washington State

GEORGE WILLIAM REYMORE

Missouri

CHESTER JULIUS PETERS LAWRENCE K. SMARR

Wisconsin

GORDON ROBERT MYERS

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46 Chosen by a city-wide poll of practicing industrial engineers, H. Barrett Rogers, Minn esota ' 26, was recently presented with the "Key of Merit for Excellence in Industrial Engineering" by the Industrial Engineering College of Chicago. Mr. Rogers is now Professor of Industrial Engineering at the School of Commerce of Northwestern University.

Glenn A. Kenderdine, Iowa '09, recently addressed an all-Masonic gathering for Masons and families in the

Municipal Auditorium at Minneapolis.

While there he was a dinner guest of L. S. Mercer, Michigan '09, now an executive of the West Publishing Company of St. Paul. Brother Kenderdine's address is 3'927 University Avenue, Des Moines 11, Iowa.

Wat~hing the two huge football tackles on the University of Missouri team this year-306 and 283 pounds respectively-brought to memory Arlie M. Mucks, Wisconsin '16. It was fascinating to watch Brother Mucks sit abruptly on a vast pile of squirming humanity and see the squirming cease immediately.

Norman R. Hays, Harvard '14, has been for some years Judge in the Fifth Judicial District of Iowa. He has recently been appointed to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court of Iowa, and, at the recent election, was also elected to carry on his term.

The One Unfailing Resource (Continued from page 37)

ion, and here the triumph of the New Testament's message, which says to men, first, you ought, but then, you can, you can be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Thrown back upon ourselves, facing wants t.pat the will alone cannot meet, getting wrongly organized and needing to be remade, and every day confronting the strains and fears of a disordered world-life is a test of personal resources. To be a cistern is not enough; one must be a well. "In Him who strengthens me, I am able for anything."

Magill Reports from Japan Wilbur S. Magill, Kansas State '10, a well-known member of the Western Electric Kearny Works, and now on leave of absence, is acquiring new and strange experiences with General Douglas MacArthur's Civil Corrununications Section in Tokyo, Japan. He has been writing a series of fascinating letters to his friends describing his current assignment.

He writes that his section's duties are three-fold. The CCS conltrols Japan's communications manufacturing industry--cable, wire, telephone equipment, radio and telegraph- in line with the future economy of the country, as outlined by the Supreme Corrunander's directives. Also, there is an operational responsibility of rehabilitating and maintaining Japan's communications systems at a level to meet requirements of the Occupation Forces and the country's minimum economy. Finally, the CCS determines the need for and allocates critical raw materials.

Brother Magill writes: "Practically every conference with Japanese manufacturing directors is through an interpreter, and after a day of this you feel as if you had been put through a wringer. Our biggest difficulty is in getting details done, since we have no clerical help and very little stenographic help.

"On a visit to Korea we flew over Hiroshima and had a good look at the damage done by the atom bomb. There was nothing left standing except chimneys. After seeing this destruction, terrible as it is, I still can't believe it was the atom bomb that ended the war. My reason for this is that practically every place you go in Japan the B-29's have destroyed or badly damaged most of the major manufacturing plants. In fact, you get very tired of seeing only two things-the really beautiful rural country and the destroyed plants and cities.

"Japanese farms average only two and one-half acres each, and every tillable area is farmed. Families are large; in fact, it seems that children are the one crop that never fails.

"It seems as if the e is a pattern to Japanese plant lay-out. Great care must have been exercised to see that, wherever possible, operations are divided and performed in separate buildings. There is absolutely no consideration given to workers' safety, and everything as compared to our standards is extremely dirty.

"A Japanese style dinner starts to be different at the threshold where you take off your shoes. The diningroom table is about ten inches high ;

seats are cushions about two inches thick; and the floor is covered with straw mats. You sit on the cushions cross-legged, like a tailor, if you can.

Eating tools are chopsticks.

"Food consists, first, of two courses of raw fish with sauce to dip it in; then generally soup with a couple of pieces of partially-cooked fish in it, followed by three or four different kinds of cooked fish with sauces. Shrimp are large, nicely cooked, and are my favorite dish. With the fish courses, there is beer and warm wine (sake).

WILBUR S. MAGILL "Next comes another soup and a salad, generally cucumber. Sukiyaki is a beef course of thin-cut steak cooked with celery, onions, etc. A bowl of rice is served, followed by more fish courses. Whiskey appears in glasses a little larger than a thimble.

A cup of green tea is served and tastes good, and the final course usually is fruit-melons, peaches, apricots, cherries, and other fruits not so common in America.

"For each guest there is a geisha girl who fans him, lights his cigarettes, pours his drinks, will debone a fish for him or give him lessons in handling chopsticks. At the end of the dinner the girls sing, dance, or play elongated banjoes called samisens. A victrola appears and the guests are urged to dance with the geishas who are capable dancers."

Brother Magill related many of the discomforts of Japanese life, concentrating on the beds which are little more than hard mats on harder floors.

He was emphatic in stating that he missed New Jersey and the more comfortable surroundings at Kearny.

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Pictures for an Acacia Album KANSAS STATE 1. Kansas State Acacians at the annual In¡ dian party in the chapter house.

November 23.

2. A qroup of Kansas State men with "Mother" Lyles.

3. The Chapter House in Manhattan. Kansas.

4. Kansas State and dates drink cokes and sinq at the annual Indian party.

5. Acacia's homecominq decorations in the process of buildinq before the Kansas StateKansas University qame.

WASHINGTON STATE 6. Acacia's Chapter House in Pullman.

W ashinqton.

1. Actives Gammie. Bennett. and Austin look out for helpless pledqe Hjelm.

8. Doc Bohler's Hat Shop is all ready for Homecominq. The one in the middle isn't part of the display. but our hard worker.

Les Liebel.

9. The first of the month past. House Manaqer Al Huntley qives out with that "mominq after" look.

10. Old member Don Huqhes explains the facts of life to new member Bill Gammie.

SYRACUSE 11. Franks Rupp and Linton sit this one out with their wives; John Mitchell and Vi Latimer look pensively on.

12. Ex-Senior Dean Nick Zauner (center) and Warren Bartholomew (riqht) enjoy refreshments with their dates.

13. Don Vosburqh. Bill Martin. Marty Berqe, and dates dance.

14. El Howland and date dance while Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rupp enjoy the refreshments.

ILLINOIS 15. Pledqe Jim Moore receives the trophy for appearinq in the loudest pair of pajamas at the Skull and Crescent Pajama Race.

MINNESOTA 16. Cavortinq around the dininq-room durinq the first of the tea dances are Fox. Jensen.

Sadler. Smith. and Wanqerin. From the looks of the people it must have been the Gemutlich affair everyone said it was. Brother Fox is dancinq with the future (at that time) Mrs. Fox.

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Pictures for an Acacia Album WASHINGTON 1. A portion of the Alumni banquet held on Oct. 26, 1946. At the head of the table Ia Professor Stephen D. Brown, toastmaster of the evening. At his left is Frank Scott, one of our prominent alums.

2. Another portion of the festive board. At the head of the table is V. D. Willard Zellmer flanked on either side by alums and actives.

3. The oldest and the youngest: Frank Scott and Frank Marlin are on the outsides. Next in from each end are Ben Dotson on the left and Merton Box on the right-the newest pledges. In the center is VD Zellmer exhibit¡ ing his ivories!

4. 5, and 6. Shots of the Washington Chapter House. Four was taken before the big snow (first in four years) and five and six afterward.

7. A shot from one of our informal firesides: Dave Fenton and the girls toasting-and eat¡ ing-marshmallows.

8. At the same time dancing was goinq on upstairs. At the left side of the picture is Oren Bonney and on the right is Chuck Stoverthe house photoqrapher.

9. At the same function-Merton Box showinq the qirls how to play pool.

10. Two of the boys, Gerry West and John Dudley, are "hams." This is Acacia Radio, Incorporated.

11. Dave Fenton qiving out with a little Chopin. In the background are: Zellmer, Dexter, Piper, Guthrie, Scott, and Brown.

12. The exchanqe we had with Delta ZetaSteve Richards is the owner of the biq smile!

NORTHWESTERN 13. Chapter Advisers, past and present: Jack Erwin and Roy Clark! pose on the front porch of the chapter house.

14. A night photo shows part of the house decorations: a huqe hand which, powered by "pledqe labor," moved up and down.

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49

<Doings California There have not been too many dull moments here at the California chapter of Acacia since the last report. We are just recovering from the pledge sneak that the pledges engineered two weeks ago.

They certainly picked an inopportune time to run off with all of the shoes, just when a lot of the actives were planning to go home for the Thanksgiving holidays. Harry Larsen, Dick Burns, and Bob Grimshaw dragged themselves out of bed at five o'clock in the early morning to start the wearying job of locating our shoes and silverware. As was expected, they were neatly split up among all of the local sororities. After about a week and a half we got everything back. The last item was the knives for which we had to put on an entertainment at the Kappa Delt's. But at last everything has more or less settled back to normal now.

To keep alive our friendly pledgeactive rivalry we had our annual football game yesterday at Tilden Park. The weather was just right, slight drizzle and soggy wet turf. Playing on that field was somehow reminiscent of playing on a wet greasy sponge. Sparked by Harry Riegal's pass-catching ability and several bottles of Pabst the pledges eked out a 13-7 victory over the actives. Bob Force scored for the actives on a pass neatly fumbled to him by Moore. The pledges raised quite a howl near the beginning of the game when they discovered that Bob Grimshaw had on a pair of track shoes. But the spirit of good clean fun was observed throughout. Good clean fun, that is.

Our Halloween dance this semester was a barn dance exchange with nearby Mills College. Everyone around here seems to be of the opinion now that Mills College can beat almost anything that the local sororities can offer and we all had a lot of fun at the dance. Jim Campbell acted as m. c. and led the group in songs as we all gathered around the crackling fire in our "barn." One o'clock rolled around in a big hurry that night, and then the rush to get the girls home before lockout.

The formal pledge dance is scheduled for next Saturday night at Zarro's Country Club over in Marin County, and looks like it will be a bang-up affair. At any rate it will liquidate our social fund, if that's any criterion.

We are still holding our own in the intramural fraternity league. There are about seven houses left in the football league and competition is really getting terrific, but with our ace passi,pg back, Bob Frye, we should prove our worth.

So far we are undefeated in the volleyball competition but in the basketball league we somehow managed to drop out of the race due to two losses. We still can't figure out how, except that maybe we weren't too hot.

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Looking back in copies of the TRIAD of about four years ago we found out that big plans had been made to make a game room out of our basement. Well, this semester we have gotten as far as laying down a cement floor, but we seem to be bogging down again. So, we'll have to keep on Dolf Weber again to get it finished. We'll complete it yet. We had some wiring in there for lights, but on notice that the building inspectors were coming we managed to tear the wiring out in time.

Dick Burns and Mardell Richards have finally announced their engagement, which came as a surprise to just about no one.

Frank Skinner, Purdue graduate bugman studying here at Cal for his master's degree in entomology, is down in Mexico at present on a field trip to find some new bugs. Maybe we ought to get him to take all of the ants and flies that seem to have become boarders here.

George Croyle, Acacia traveling secretary, wrote (air-mail special-delivery as per usual) Harry Larsen that he expects to return to his old stamping ground for a visit in the near future . It's too bad that George can't be here for our softball league this next semester. His pitching kept us up on top for about six or seven years while he was here, something the university never found out.

Gathering dust in the basement of Dick Hirschfeld's house was an old beatout looking stuffed pelican. The campus humor magazine Pelican has been missing a mascot since it was stolen a semester ago, so we got the natural idea to donate our bird to them. We couldn't for the life of us see how so many people could be so enthusiastic over such a dumb looking bird, but that's their right.

We are looking forward to going down to the University of Southern California to initiate the new chapter there. We are all glad to see new chapters start, especially out here in the Far West.

Joe Close has gotten the job of manager of the California Greek, a campus publication devoted to the fraternities and sororities on campus. Even so, he still doesn't know when the next issue will come out, but at least we have another one of us posted in a strategic campus position.

It looks as if the house is getting ready to defend itself in a fight. Dave Fredrickson has returned to the Varsity wrestling team and Don McCormack is punching for the boxing team. From what we hear, these boys can really take care of themselves. Dave keeps in training around the house tussling with the .Beast while Ed Prewett has challenged Don to a bout, but now Ed seems to be trying to back out of it.

Our homecoming stunt was nothing short of sensational in our eyes, but the judges must have had on dark glasses or something for we didn't get the prize.

Ours was a card stunt th at actually flipped most of t he time. Jim Campbell was the guiding light in the preparation of the stunt and the whole house went down to Len Fugate's house to make a recording of several cheers and songs to simulate an actual rooting section seated behind the card stunt. It really looked good.

Bill McCutchan, Johnny MacKenzie and Bill Thomas are seen around the house quite a bit. McCutchan was here for the big game and made everyone quite happy by coming in on the sleeping porch at four o'clock full of big game spirit and other spirits and waking everyone up. Yes, sir, never a dull moment with old Bill.

Well, it's only two more weeks until the Christmas holidays. Everyone here is looking forward to them with quite a bit of anticipation. To some it offers the chance of getting away from books for a while and to others it gives the opportunity to catch up on their studies. But anyway it's creeping up on us slowly but surely. If the next issue of the TRIAD were coming out by the deadline of this copy I'd wish everyone a Merry Christmas, but as it is, Happy Birthday to Abe, Lincoln that is.

CARLISLE M. MooRE

Cincinnati The pace of events here at Cincinnati has not slackened since the last edition of the TRIAD; rather, the tempo has increased to a noticeable extent. Three men, John Smallen, James Barnes, and Kenneth Deffren, have been added to the pledge class, bringing the total to 14.

At their first meeting, the pledges chose George Kirch as their president, Frank Mudgett as vice-president, and Dick Brown as secretary. Once organized, the neophytes plunged into chapter and campus activities, and since that time have been doing a commendable piece of work.

Rali Albright, Frank Mudgett, Bill Williams, and John Larson carried the Acacia colors into the debate world, while Jack Klahm was looking smooth in the University's excellent band. A persistent injury to his leg has kept John Smallen from strutting much of his gridiron prowess with the Varsity, but "wait till next year." Frank Scharold and Jim Barnes are still recovering from the mauling they took in the intramurals, and Johnny Larson is trying hard to sell suspicious-looking magazine subscriptions at ten per cent off.

On November 24 three more men were initiated into the active chapter. These were Robert Wright, Rogers Miller, and Norman Eichenberger, all of whom were pledged last summer. The chapter welcomes them and feels certain that they will justify the confidence placed in them.

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50 December 13 will see all the actives, pledges, and alumni gather in the Kemper Lane Hotel for the first big postwar pledge formal. Other recent social events included a highly successful Halloween party, a pre-initiation party, and a tea dance_ The Acacia "Hot Rocks," the football team that is, closed the intramural football season with a 9-0 loss to Pi Kappa Alpha, making the total three victories against four defeats for the year. The final game was one of those bruising affairs in which all concerned incurred wounds enough to lick for the coming year. The team offered no excuse for this stinging defeat, but spectators agree that the Pi Kaps' 215 pound line colored the result just a little. The volleyball and basketball teams, under the guiding hand of Brother Best, are fast shaping up as contende~s in their respective leagues. Bob Best 1s turning out a fine job in his efforts to keep Acacia up in the University sports' world.

Jack Harvey apparently wasn't content with Tau Beta Pi and the "Y" presidenf:.y, so the "Shadow" got himself into Omicron Delta Kappa, highest men's honorary.

The Cincinnati Alumni Chapter held a business meeting at the house on November 25. A goodly number were present with President Ferd Hodde presiding. It was planned to hold a noonday luncheon in the Masonic Temple restaurant on the second Monday of each month. The group voted to celebrate Founders' Day on the first Sunday in May,1947. This is a change from the second Sunday which is Mother's Day. The president appointed a committee to make detailed arrangements for the banquet. It was decided to have most of the social affairs at the Fraternity House.

The Cincinnati Ashier Trust Corporation Board of Trustees has met each week for the past few months in an effort to get the chapter financial program in working order. A letter has been addressed to all those in arrears on house note payments, and the trustees hope that there will be no one who will take offense at this effort in collection. The trustees have a wellbalanced program of finances and hope to get the aid of each alumnus to clear the house of debt in the very near future.

Jack Lissenden, financial adviser of the fraternity, has prepared a system of accounting which includes budgeting of funds, and, with the chapter cooperating, it is hoped the financial program will be kept moving with the usual activity.

A visit from the National Traveling Secretary, Charles Jarrett, was most welcome. Constructive advice was well taken for improvement of the chapter.

Lt. Frank Sonnenberg has been enrolled for the second semester of the year.

He will complete his studies with a major in geology.

The active chapter will begin in Def:.ember with exchange dinner dates with other fraternities.

The Cincinnati Chapter invited the Master Masons of Miami University who are interested in the Acacia Fraternity to

the Pledge Formal held at Kemper Lane Hotel on December 13.

A letter from Lt. Col. William Wuest appears elsewhere in this issue .. He is now in Berlin and hopes to have his family with him by Christmas.

To all you men who are away from the chapter we send our greetings and we -hope to see you soon.

PAU,X. A. WEIDNER MARION H. HUllER

Colorado The Colorado Chapter had an eventful fall season of social activities with many dances, and functions with sorority groups. Highlighting the many events was the "Symphony in Black and Gold," the fall formal given by Acacia. For this occasion, the living room and dining room were cleared of furniture and elaborately decorated with black and gold crepe paper. Lighting arrangements and the Acacia crest completed the effective appearance. Music for the occasion was provided by the orchestra of Gene Eland, a local group. In charge of planning for the function was Gilbert Walker, the social chairman, assisted by Kenyon Hook, Donald Cieber, and Norman Kline.

Another occasion last fall was the annual celebration of Homecoming Day. At this time the chapter house was decorated, and Acacia entered a float in the traditional parade. These decorations carried out the theme of the year, which was the progress of the university since it was first established in 1876. After the football game, open house was held by the chapter for visiting alums and their families, and a buffet supper was given.

Immediately after Christmas, sixteen men were initiated, the largest pledge class for a long time. This brings the active membership to over forty, a remarkable increase over the handful who reactivated the chapter a year ago.

The social committee is now busy planning functions for the remainder of the school year. A traditional spring event is the "Nut Party," an informal affair at which everyone usually has a good time.

As always, the Colorado Chapter is glad to welcome alums, who come to Boulder for a visit, and to renew old acquaintances.

HAROLD L. GARBARINO

Cornell The Cornell chapter has reorganized after three years of inactivity. The list of twelve actives was swelled on December 7 when we initiated Roy Halliday, Clayton, N. Y.; Carl Otto, Manhasset, Long Island; and William Pendarvis, Jr., Barnsdall, Oklahoma.

After some hectic rushing weeks, we came up with what seems to be a good selection. Twelve new men have been pledged this semester: Robert Bergren, Staten Island; William Bunyan, High-

land Park, N. J.; Roy Clarke, Washington, D. C.; Charles Deakyne, Baltimore, Md.; Sandford Hatch, North Syracuse; Arthur Heuser, Ithaca; Emerson Hibbard, Minetto; John Lauber, Amsterdam, N. Y.; James and Richard Showacre, Ithaca; John Tilley, Buffalo; William Wickham, Hector, N.Y. After hitting the books during the week, social activities are a welcome change over the week-end. To date our social affairs have included a Vic Dance, Scavenger Hunt, Formal Pledge Dance, and an exchange dinner with the Pi Beta Phi Sorority. These have been thoroughly enjoyed by all.

Even though the excitement of the Cornell-Yale game had died down for many, the Acacia boys and their dates continued in full swing till midnight at our first postwar party. Besides the dancing, group singing and refreshments provided additional entertainment for all those present.

Two weeks later we continued our whirl of activities with a very exciting Scavenger Hunt. During the evening the members, pledges, and their dates scoured the campus for such items as an 1896 Indian Head penny, President Day's signature, one meatball, a kitten, and a cowbell. By 10: 30 p. m. we had all assembled around a glowing fire in the fireplace, and delicious hot dogs, cocoa, and all the trimmings were welcomed by a hungry lot of people who had just completed a strenuous evening traversing the Ithaca hills. The enjoyable evening was brought to a close by group singing, and, with "Good Night Ladies" as our final song, we hustled the women off to their respective dorms.

The Dartmouth-Cornell game was a minor affair compared to the Formal Pledge Dance held at the Acacia House Saturday evening, November 16. In honor of the newly acquired pledges, this dance was the highlight of the social activities for this fall. With a smooth orchestra, secured through the efforts of Don Berens, our social chairman, the evening was filled with delightful music. The only obstacle to continuing this affair till dawn was the 12:30 curfew for co-eds.

On Tuesday evening, November 26, half of our chapter journeyed over to the Pi Beta Phi House and they sent half of their girls over here to help us enjoy a delicious dinner of steak and mushrooms prepared by our competent cook, "Ma" Sutton. Likewise the Pi Phi's treated our boys to a bountiful meal of baked ham with the appropriate accompaniments and ending with delicious pie a la mode_ Everyone is now convinced that more dinners of this type should be arranged in the future.

With these successful social events behind us, we are now looking forward to an even more enjoyable succession of winter -.nd spring social activities. Our only social event left before vacation will be a Christmas Party on December 14 for the benefit of some of the underpriviledged children of Ithaca. Following the party for the children, it is planned to wind up the evening with a closed dance_ WILLIAM BUNYAN

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Franklin

Illinois

The deadline for the Winter issue of the TluAD finds Franklin Chapter in the middle of rushing. For the first time since the war, Pennsylvania has resumed its rushing during the traditional first two weeks of December. After three smokers in preliminary rushing, the prospects at the commencement of intensive rushing seem rather bright. We'll give you all the statistics in the Spring issue.

Starting with a group of five men who returned from the service last fall, Franklin Chapter has built itself into a group of nineteen actives and two pledges to give the other houses at Penn stiff competition in rushing this fall. Our present actives include Robert Morrison, Henry Kipp, Robert Muller, Charles Stein, Jr., George Nickel, Jr., Gordon Tobias, Edward Battin, Donald Neff, Ross Kurtz, Robert Frey, Robert Cornish, Albert Beck, Jr., Robert Curry, Raymond Aiken, Alexander Scott, John Long, Howard McKinney, Alfred Sergott, and James Hane.

Our latest pledge is Rodney Fahs of York, Pennsylvania, who is majoring in accounting at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. Another pledge, ex-Marine Calvin Dyson, has been in the hospital for some time. While playing basketball he was suddenly stricken with a collapsed lung. At present, he is progressing nicely, and we hope to have him back with us next semester.

After quite a bit of work, we now have our kitchen open with a catering system supplying our needs. We experienced some slight difficulty last week when the caterer forgot to turn off the gas in the kitchen and several members were stricken by the gas attack.

With the close of the football season, everyone is now looking forward to our Christmas formal to be held in the chapter house on December 14 as a prelude to the holiday festivities, and also as a climax to rushing.

Our program of alumni punch hours after the football games proved very successful, for many alumni who had not been back for several years had lots of fun returning, meeting the present members, wandering about the house, and reminiscing about the "good old days."

On November 3, an initiation was held for Howard McKinney, Alfred Sergott, and James Hane. Charley Jarrett happened to be here at the time and lent us his able assistance to help consummate the ceremonies with maximum efficiency.

Our traditional Hobo Hop, which was planned for Navy week-end, was delayed because of a slight mishap in registration, but it took place the following weekend and everyone had a bang-up time. Since this was a costume affair, all sorts of outfits from Chesterfields to flannel underwear could be seen. Far from drowning our sorrows over Penn's defeat by Army that afternoon, everyone made merry at the festivities and proceeded to enjoy himself thoroughly.

BoB MORRISON

Illinois chapter house and annex are now bulging at the seams with the addition of two more pledges. We now have forty-four actives and twenty-four pledges. Some doubt exists as to where they will live but, nevertheless and notwithstanding, they're all here and helping to make Acacia one of the better known houses on campus. The two men pledged were Jim Moore of Alton, Illinois, and Lynn Wolaver of Springfield, Illinois.

The intramural sports record of the chapter is alternately bright and dark.

The softball team achieved some prestige by coming in second in their league. Our football team was eliminated shortly after competition began. This may be attributed, in part, to the number of four o'clock classes among our athletes. The annual active-pledge football game ended in a scoreless tie proving nothing whatsoever, much to the mutual disgust of all.

The water polo boys got off to a fine start by defeating their first opponent. They evidently became waterlogged and have since lost the last two contests. We entered a team in the annual Skull and Crescent Pajama Race which turned in a very creditable 'p erformance, losing out by a matter of tenths of seconds. The defeat was made up for by Jim Moore's pajamas winning the trophy as the loudest pair present. Jack Kilby's mother was accorded a vote of thanks for contributing the radiant award winners.

Our three social events of the semester have been very successful. The winter formal, with extensive "Winter Wonderland" decorations and a fine band, was a fitting climax to our social functions. If that nostalgic atmosphere doesn't produce some pin-hangings or engagements nothing will. The success of these affairs was due, in no small part, to the able management of social chairman Dave Monson and the enthusiastic cooperation of the chapter in decorating the house. The latter's enthusiasm, it might be added, is aroused mainly by the tireless efforts of house manager Jack Webb.

Homecoming was reminiscent, I am told, of the gala prewar affairs. The chapter turned out a massive decoration and, even though the huge Indian didn't break out into a dance and utter a war whoop for the benefit of the judging committee, we all thought it was a very noble achievement. More than sixty alumni were in town for the occasion and, in view of the team's victory, had much cause for some old-time celebration. The following day the corporation held its first meeting in five years, followed by a stag dinner.

The chapter received, on the basis of the Illinois victory over Northwestern, the sheepskin commemorating the past games between the schools. This has been fastened securely to the wall and we hope that it will remain so for many years to come.

Alum Earl Plack of Peoria and Betty deLong of the same city were married

December 1st. We all wish them the best of luck.

Pledge Ed Foutch recent ly announced, via a box of cigars, his engagement to Dorothy Ann Fleischli of Springfield, Illinois.

The house is represented in the athletic circles by Joe Cook and Jim Moore. Joe is grunting and groaning with the wrestling team, and Jim is making progress with the star-studded basketball team.

Joe Cook was recently honored by being pledged to Tau Beta Pi, the honorary engineering fraternity. Joe is the son of M. H. Cook, '17.

The chapter was saddened by the news that Mrs. Bender, our cook for twenty odd years, is leaving us in December.

With all deference and due respect for the ability of her successor, we all think that there never was and never will be a cook as fine as Mrs. Bender.

BILL ToNKIN

Indiana We got off to a late start here at I. U this fall; in fact, the semester didn't start until October 18. We were all running around trying to get things started and there just weren't enough week;-ends.

Now we have things pretty well in hand.

Our rushed rush went off well and we pledged the following men: Bob Babbs, Spencer, Indiana ; Frank Chenoweth, Fort Wayne, Indiana ; Paul Conrad, Frankfort, Indiana; Jack Davis, Warrenton, Virginia; Bob Ewer, Lowell, Indiana; Dave Friend, Frankfort, Indiana ; Don Irick, Frankfort, Indiana ; Gene Llewellyn, Gary, Indiana ; Jim McGowan, Evansville, Indiana; Ray Seaman, Fort Wayne, Indiana; Jim Correll, Bloomington, Indiana ; Jim Ferguson, Bloomington, Indiana; Ross Gregory, Fort Wayne, Indiana ; Dave Farris, Bloomington, Indiana; Joe Richardson, Francesville, Indiana; Bill Wellman, Valparaiso, Indiana. During the week-end of November 9 we initiated Jim Watson, Tom Ellis, Ralph Koehne, and Harold Zimmerman.

We elected new chapter officers the first of the semester. Those elected were: Jim Gaddis, Venerable Dean ; Pete Strayer, Senior Dean ; Frank Neff, Junior Dean; Mark Rudolph, Senior Steward; Herb Kennedy, Junior Steward; Bob McCracken, Pledge Master. Bill McPike, a returned veteran and president of the pledge class, was elected treasurer of the Inter-fraternity Pledge Council.

Art Day, Fred Rick, Pete Strayer, Bud Smith, Leon Bidwell, and Max Springer were pledged to Delta Sigma Pi, honorary business Fraternity. Leon Bidwell and Andy Kandis were initiated into the Falcon Club and Jim Gaddis was taken into the Sphinx Club. Other new rod-pod men are Gene Johnson and Frank Teats who were initiated into Skull and Crescent.

We stc:rted our social activities with two informal record dances in the house.

It was something new here and it turned out to be a good idea. Later on we had

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52 the active date dinner and on November 16 the pledges turned the house into a Chinese pagoda for their dance. The sign in front and the dance programs extended a hearty welcome to "Peiking lnn." We have had exchange dinners with the Alpha Omicron P i's, the Chi Omega's, and the Pi Beta Phi's, and the Alpha Chi's were our guests for a tea dance and a buffet luncheon. The formal season opened December 6 and we started things off with a formal date dinner before the dance. With mid-term exams coming on, the social life will have to take a back s eat until January 17 when we stage the Colonnade, our big winter formal.

Mrs. William Thompson has organized the wives of the married Acacians on campus. Sounds like a good thing to start at other schools.

Jim Cox, just back from the Marines, filled one of the quarterback spots for Bo McMillin this season, and big Ward Williams is first string center on Branch McCracken's first postwar basketball team. Bill Thompson carried the I. U. colors around the golf course this year and Paul Conrad and Jim McGowan made the freshman football squad.

While we're on the subject of sports, let's just mention that the "Old Oaken Bucket" still resides at Indiana-score, Indiana 34, Purdue 20. Also we want to publicly congratulate the two boys from the Purdue chapter on the fine job they did of polishing our cup.

In case anyone saw the "Marching Hundred" this year-Acacians Jim Watson and Bill Crane were in there blowing their horns and theâ&#x20AC;˘boy in front with the tall hat was Max Simons.

Blue Key, national honorary, has been reorganized on campus and Jim Gaddis is the new secretary-treasurer. Bill Thompson is now on the Union Board of Control and Bill Crane is the editor of this year's Red Book. Also George Waldschmidt is a member of the Dauber's Club -an artist no less. Homer Dalbey is working on the W.G.C.D. (World's Greatest College Daily or The Indiana Daily Student) and Jerry Kersh helps to edit the Arbutus and the Folio.

Jim Dorsey and his band gave a concert on campus and spent the afternoon at the house. Also were our guests for dinner.

Charlie Jarrett, national traveling secretary and one of our alums, stopped and gave us the scoop from national headquarters. , Last year was the chapter's Silver Anniversary but the celebration was postponed due to the war. We will have it in May. The alumni are giving the chapter $2,600 for an anniversary present.

Our Chapter is growing. This semester we have 53 men in the house and a total of 91 on campus. Of these, six will be graduated this February. They are: Bob McCracken, Quentin Alcorn, Jim Gaddis, Cal Klinglehoffer, and Bill Thompson, who are all getting a B.S . in Business; also Branson Smith who will receive an A .B. in Music.

That's all for this time.

RoBERT W. SKINNER

Iowa State From the center of Iowa we send greetings to all members and friends of Acacia.

Our end-of-the-quarter rushing program brought the pledging of the following men: Edwin Russell Barnes of Esmond, Illinois, Thomas James Brown of Garden Grove, Iowa, and John Clinton Pyles of Storm Lake, Iowa. We are expecting other men we have contacted to pledge in the near future.

We expect many of these men to move in at the start of Winter quarter to fill vacancies which occurred during the Fall.

Those pledges not living in the house will be around a lot since they will be eating here.

After a due period of probation and indoctrination, William Hamilton Chain of Dedham, Iowa, James Frederick Peterson of Omaha, Nebraska, and Frederick Charles Saemisch of Atlantic, Iowa, were initiated on December 7. These men are expected to do much to benefit the Chapter.

Our living-room will practically get its face lifted in preparation for winter quarter. This consists of a new ceiling, paint job and draperies. Some new furniture may also be purchased.

Beginning with the ¡winter quarter, Mrs. Dinsmore will again be with us as House Mother. Since reopening the house over a year ago we have been trying to secure Mrs. Dinsmore's return, but only recently have conditions made it possible.

Although night classes have interfered somewhat, we have been represented fairly well in campus activities during the past quarter. Tony Riepma is showing up regularly at meetings of the American Veterinary Medicine Association as well as the Social Council. Our Venerable Dean, Frank Griffith, represents us on the Interfraternity Council.

With the help of Bob Denney and John Peterson, our Hort boys, the Little Midwest Hort Show was a big success. When the Iowa State Players put on a production, Gordon Cook is backstage some place supervising the lighting. Don Grobeck helps out the D. I. Club and the Intramural program with his services. In the Messiah Choir this year are two of our best singers among the pledges, Milton Grobeck and Bob Jenkins.

Our Bridge teams are downing opponents left and right in the tournament.

They claim it is just the cards. One of our bowling teams is also succeeding in knocking enough pins to get in class A. With the men-to-coed ratio here at 5 to 1 the dating situation is slightly rough, but some of the boys have been finding ways to cope with the situation. Everyone has been enjoying the Firesides, Dancing and Dinner Exchanges, and other house social events.

During the quarter we have been visited

by Chuck and D. Jean Clark. In the six months since his graduation Chuck has built up a fine Veterinary practice. Mr. and Mrs. Irving W. Martin visited us on Homecoming, while Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dozois stopped on their way to Oklahoma.

Living in Nevada and attending classes in Ames is Forrest Pitsenberger. It seems Nevada was the closest he and his wife could find a place to live.

With finals staring us in the face, we are really working hard to hit the exams.

GoRDON A. CooK

Kansas State The following men have been pledged to Acacia since our last report: Rex D. Archer, Great Bend; Roger L. Brazier, Kansas City, Missouri; Darrell R. Brewer, Coffeeville; Clarence Clem, Leroy; Glenn Frakes, Corning; Kresten Jensen, Coffeeville; Kermit Kors, Independence; and Ervin Syfert, Wichita.

We had formal pledging for twentyone men in mid-October. The men who received their pledge pins at the service were: Roger Brazier, David Prickett, Don Brown Darrell Brewer, Richard Hammer E~rl Beaver, Frank Peycke, Willard Obl~y, Frank Jacobs, Dave Wiley, Joe Cooper, Stanley Williams, Chester Roberts, Kyle Moran, Clarence Clem, George Robinson, Dean Lovendahl, Bernard Clark, Kresten Jenson, Ervin Syfert, and Newt Wright.

Three men were initiated October 26.

They were Calvin Duphorne,. ~~~ey Williams and Bill Hart. The Irubabon took pla~e in the chapter house following one of our many Saturday night parties.

A new officer in the chapter is Calvin Duphorne, secretary, who replaced Keith Hodgson, following Keith's marriage.

Stanley Williams is now representing the Acacians on the Interfraternity Council.

The following men are now holding down the pledge class offices following the initiation: Newt Wright, president; Earl Beaver, vice-president; Darrell Brewer, secretary-treasurer.

Back in October the Acacia House turned into a smokehouse when Don Brown announced his engagement to Martha Jo Lyon, Fall City; Darrell Brewer passed cigars to us and a ring to Bun Woods, Coffeeville; Roger Brazier shared honors with Mary Louise Madden, Clovia, of Auburn. Then to make the smoke still thicker Keith Hodgson married Shirley Mowry of Hutchinson on November 3.

We have had numerous hour dances with individual sororities, and then on December 3 we had another of our allsorority dances, all of which proved quite successful. So far this year our chapter has managed to have a party at the chapter house almost every week-end.

The night of initiation we entertained our dates with a Tacky party. All of the men and their dates came appropriately dressed for the occasion and Newt Wright, in charge of the committee for that party, really out-did himself. The evening started off with dancing and then Newt took over and started a peanut hunt with the group divided into four teams-cows, dogs, cats, and goats-with each team sending up the call of their respective animal whenever a peanut was found.

Amid all of the noise and confusion the cats w6n (a bag of peanuts) with a total of over fifty peanuts. Shortly after that

The Triad, Winter, 1947 game the group retired to the dining room which had all of the furniture removed and logs, saw horses, and stones placed around the autumn-strewn floor around a campfire complete with a coffee pot for pouring "cider"; ample buckets and tubs of popcorn and doughnuts were available while all joined in groupsinging.

This year we were hosts to the Phi Kappa's at our annual stag. We held a smoker in our chapter house augmented by a skit contest between the pledge classes. Our pledges took top honors and are sporting a substitute trophy until the one on order arrives. Dr. V. D. "Tiny" Foltz, Acacia, and Paul Kelly, Phi Kappa, were the judges for the contest. Following the closing hours at the sorority houses the entire group made the rounds in our traditional serenade.

The pledge class took over for two major events this fall. The pledges took care of our homecoming decoration-we played Kansas University-and really did a fine job of building the Wildcat putting the Jayhawk (behind the eight-ball) in the side pocket. The boys also took charge of our annual pledge party.

The week-end before Thanksgiving vacation the pledges took things in hand and donned the war paint for their annual Indian Party. Braves and dates of the Acacia tribe entered through the "woowam" in front of the chapter house. Costumes ran the gauntlet from Indian ceremonial dress to a squaw complete with a papoose on her back. Dancing and games comprised the entertainment, with all of the guests running all over the place trying to secure just one more autograph on their paddles. The house was decorated to represent an Indian village in the woods with a paper moon and campfires. In this setting sitting on logs and an autumnstrewn floor those present entered into group-singing according to the Acacia custom.

Following each football game we had gatherings at the chapter house to welcome the alums who happened to drop by.

During those Saturdays the following men stopped in at 340 N. 16th St. to pay their respects to Mother Lyles: Max Sheehee '43, Kenneth E. Rector, Roy G. Porter, Leroy E. Fry '41, John Poole '41, Warren Whips '40, and Ralph Brown, former pledge. We have heard from several of our alums that haven't had a chance to get back to the old homestead as yet, and we know that there are lots more of you whom we haven't as yet located. Just drop us a card if you can't get here in person.

On the campus political scene this fall our VD, Leonard Wood, came home as the treasurer of the Junior Class. We now have men active in glee club, YMCA, Steel Ring, Block and Bridle, Campus International Security Association, Campus Veterans Association, and many departmental and professional organizations.

We have been active in intramurals so far, even though we didn't win any honors in football, but we have a much better record chalked up in the basketball line-up.

JoE B. NATHAN, JR.

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Michigan Under a shortened Hell Week of two days both Otto Strobel and Kenneth Smith had a fairly easy time. Since there were only two men going through initiation, it was voted that two days were enough time to show the boys the ropes.

Also school work was rather pressing on the members. So the time suited all and Otto and Kenny did not object.

We have sixteen pledges: James A. Reagan, Wilmette, Illinois; Lawrence E. Girton, Jackson, Michigan ; Walter E .

Conrad, Clairton, Pennsylvania; William L. Wynn, Detroit, Michigan ; Rollin L .

Storey, Ypsilanti, Michigan; David H .

Stremmel, Evanston, Illinois; Robert Herlihy, Kingston, New York; Robert G. Eidson, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Edmund B. Brownell, Flint, Michigan; Frederick A . Malson, Stuart M. Frey and Robert A. Hughes, all of Detroit; Edwin L . Jones, Elizabeth, New Jersey; Vernon R. Campbell, Pontiac, Michigan; Richard G. Deane, Flint, Michigan; and John B. Hazelworth, Jackson, Michigan.

Since the last article was written Michigan chapter has held three major social events. The first was strictly a stag affair on Thanksgiving. It is a custom with ourchapter that all the members stay around the house on the Thanksgiving holiday.

In the morning the whole group hikes here and there around Ann Arbor until there is a good empty feeling in everyone's stomach. Then back to the house we come to a feast of turkey. After dinner the pledges entertain the actives with some sort of a play. The actives did not think the play suited their taste, for soon afterwards they started to look for Jim Reagan, the author. He escaped until the storm of disappointment died down. Next came the football game between the pledges and the actives. Of course the actives won; after the first few minutes they relaxed for they knew the game was in the bag. The score was 12 to 0. That night some of the fellows took in a few beers and so closed a very successful day.

The next social event included the "fair sex" in our Hard Times party. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wagner chaperoned our party and their costumes were the best of all. In fact the Wagners have been a great help to all of us. This event was minor-to to speak-to what came next.

The pledge formal was held on December 7. The credit for a successful evening goes to our social chairman, Hank Hosmer. We had a very excellent dinner at one of the local restaurants and then we all piled into taxis and came back to the house where the orchestra was playing. All too soon the evening was over.

The folks of one of the pledges, John Hazelworth, were kind enough to serve as chaperones along with Mr. and Mrs. Price and Mr. and Mrs. Wagner. Our house mother, Mrs. Sherman, was there and saw that the party progressed satisfactorily.

That about brings Michigan up-to-date.

A. D. McGREGOR

Minnesota The Minnesota chapter has had a very active season as far as rushing goes. We have pledged 13 men so far . They are: Bruce Frye, Waukesha, Wis.; Richard Johnson, Owatonna, Minn.; Al Nordstrum, Wilmar, Minn.; Charles Dickinson, Warroad, Minn.; Robert Neubauer, Virginia, Minn.; David Hammel, Owatonna, Minn.; Robert Swedberg, Wolf Point, Montana; Neil Jenkins, Cloquet, Minn.; Gene Hadler, Ada, Minn.; Orin Haugen, Minneapolis, Minn.; Herb Lund, Albert Lea, Minn.; Warren Wendt, St. Paul, Minn.; and William Wolsten, St. Paul, Minn.

A few years ago the active chapter had a surplus of cash in the treasury, so this money was turned over to the Alumni Association to be used at any time in the future when the active chapter would need it. This fund has come in very handy in purchasing supplies for the kitchen this quarter. During the war the supply of pots, pans, and other utensils was depleted because of shortages in these lines. With the money allotted from this fund we are slowly building up the utensil supply to prewar quality and quantity.

Early this fall some work was done on the roofs of our chapter house and garage. This summer painting and other repair work was done to put the building in tip-top shape for the new school year.

One of the most successful innovations in a social line were the tea dances introduced by social chairman Al Olson. These dances have been held at intervals throughout the quarter on Sunday afternoons. One room in the house has been cleared for dancing to the radio-phonograph, with a buffet supper climaxing the evening. Al and his committee are to be commended on their good judgment.

Another feature on the social calendar was the homecoming dinner-dance. After the homecoming game with Purdue, which Minnesota won, happily, many alumni visited the chapter house. Since this was the fortieth anniversary of the chapter on the Minnesota campus a special effort was made to reach all former members and invite them to the Homecoming celebration. The response of the alumni was most gratifying. The actual dinner-dance was held in the Gold Room of the Radisson Hotel. A late dinner was served and late!;' the room was cleared for dancing.

The next event was the Interfraternity Ball, an annual U. of M. formal affair.

A seven course steak dinner was served at the house before the dance, with those who did not attend filling in as waiters.

Another cook had to be imported from the hinterland to help out with the occasion. The dance was held in the main ballroom of the Radisson Hotel.

During the winter quarter a Winter Sports Carnival will be held at the White Pine Inn, Bayport, Minn. The plan is to charter busses for the occasion which will start in the afternoon and last until eve-

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54 ning. A buffet supper and dancing will be on the slate after an afternoon of skiing, tobogganing, and ice skating. We are also planning our annual Winter formal.

Lloyd Boyd, our VD at the star~ of _the year had to resign to take an outs1de JOb, thus leaving the position open. John Da~­ low was elected VD to serve out his term.

Dale Mciver is Senior Dean and AI Olson is Junior Dean. Both Brock Holmes our treasurer, and Jack Fox our secretary, resigned when they got married. They are being replaced by Earl Wangerin in t~e treasurer's job and Junior Hammett m the secretary's chair.

We are starting a Mother's club--an organization which should give u~ a lot of excellent backing, both matenally and morally. Plans are still in the making, but it should be functioning in good order before long.

With many vets back for their first regular quarter since the war started a~d many new members in the offing the Mmnesota chapter has completed a very successful fall quarter.

For the second time in the history of the chapter a wedding was performed in the house. Our former secretary, Jack Fox married Dolores Saholt on the evening of Thanksgiving Day. Th_e ho~se was decorated to suit the occaswn w1th an altar placed in the hall.

Over 100 guests attended the ceremony and the reception which took place afterward.

LINTON LEHRER

Northwestern With the ice beginning to form on the lake outside and frenzied cramming for finals going on inside our house, Northwestern sends out its regular "progress report." The fall quarter has finally come to an end after numerous activities.

Our last house party was held the weekend before Halloween and the living rom showed the effects of the pledge class' efforts. A liberal scattering of cornstalks, several pumpkins, and a roaring fire in the fireplace set the atmosphere for the evening. Dress was strictly informal and well-suited to the "halftime" entertainment. Bridge games in the living room and dancing in the basement to the music of Brother Howie Coleman's orchestra were the order of the night. The pledge class provided the entertainment while the traditional cider and doughnuts were being served. Pledge Floyd Potts acted as referee for an apple-eating contest which required each couple to devour an apple suspended from the ceiling by a string.

Jack Kroner and his wife and Bob Webster and his Chi 0 proved to be the expert apple-eaters. At the conclusion of this strenuous activity, entertainment was provided by Ross Stone, Pledge Doug Ruh, and the Acacia quartet.

That party was followed by another at the Glenview field house a couple of weeks later. Although Don Ansel and his date spent the evening on the bus looking for the place-or so they claim-the party was a big success. Jack Erwin and

his date, supposedly the chaperones, got there about midnight with the story that Jane's car had been stolen! Howie Coleman again provided the music and the rustic atmosphere of the field house was illuminated by candles on the tables.

Pledge "Red" Sowle and his staff of chefs handled the hamburger department.

Our annual winter formal was held at the fashionable Town and Tennis Club on Chicago's North Side. Thanks are _due to Jack Wilsey and his wife who prov1ded the beautiful corsages worn that evening -at reduced rates!

Although the score left something ~o. be desired Ohio State provided a thrilling game t~ precede our Homecoming gathering. Among the two hundred guests was, of course Lewis A. Bain, Number 1 on our chapt~r roll, and father of Bruce Bain who is keeping the name alive on theN_ U. campus. Homecoming decorations were assembled after the usual trials and tribulations which this year included a rainstorm at the wrong time. Acacia's float in the parade represented a sinking ship in Ohio's colors and the conning tower of NU's submarine, with the slogan "If our subs can sink 'em, what can our regulars do?" (Unfortunately, our regulars didn't.) The house bore a large "Welcome" sign over a huge animated hand which moved up and down in tht! semblance of a handshake.

Unfortunately our Indiana brothers were unable to be with us for the NUIndiana game but Illinois sent a delegation headed by Jack Kilby. After a dinner at the house they accompanied us to the Glenview party. When they left for Champaign, they took with them the skin which has served as a traveling trophy between the two chapters. Illinois also inherited title to Sweet Sioux, the wooden Indian, donated by our chapter last year as a permanent trophy between Northwestern University and the University of Illinois.

Sweet Sioux's tomahawk, which will be the traveling trophy, will be presented at the NU-Illinois basketball game on February 22.

The Christmas party for actives and pledges was held on December 9. "Gifts," accompanied by suitable poetry, were the traditional order of the evening, and some red faces were evidenced by the recipients. Censorship prevents reprinting the poems or describing the gifts.

Three of the pledges have been particularly active recently: Bob Fuerstein is the Intramural basketball manager, Dick Heitholt is on the varsity basketball team, and Red Sowle is practicing with the swimming team. Incidentally, following the formal, "Red" was in such a gay mood that he entertained us in the living room with an oratorical display from the top of the big table while clad only in raincoat, hat, and shoes.

The ice is getting thicker and the cramming more frenzied so with the news that we expect to initiate our pledge class during the week-end of January 31, your correspondent must rush to the mailbox before we become isolated for the winter.

FLASH- It is with the greatest pleasure that we announce the pinning of Bill

Brown to Miss Esther Giammanco of Alpha Delta Pi which took place December 13. Esther is a lovely girl whom Brown met in the club car on the Northwestern Special returning from the game at Ann Arbor.

DxcK LANE

Ohio This issue of the TRIAD finds the Ohio Chapter recovering from its Fall Formal held this past week-end, and preparing for the Christmas season. Just one more week of classes, one week of finals, and then the Acacia house will become deserted as everyone goes home for the holidays.

The formal dance held last Saturday on Pearl Harbor Day, was an affair we will long remember. Soft music, lovely girls-lots of memories to store away in our mental scrapbook of fraternity life.

The dance was preceded by a dinner party at the Wyandotte Country Club, which served to get everyone acquainted and "warmed up" for the evening ahead.

No new pinnings, engagements or weddings since the last issue, but we do have a new daddy in the house. Don Hoeffel was presented with an eight-pound baby girl, Claudia Elizabeth, two weeks ago.

Since we have a full house and no room to spare we haven't been doing much with "rushing" this quarter. Some minor improvements have been made around the house even including planting two new trees. I haven't been able to find much in the way of "house gossip." It must be that everyone is just too busy studying.

A lot of interest has been shown around the house in sports, so let's take a look at the athletic picture. We have been doing all right in the field of intramural sports. Our hard-battling touch football squad defeated Alpha Epsilon Pi with a score of 12-0; Phi Delta Theta, 12-6; Alpha Gamma Rho, 26-0; Sigma Pi, 12-0; and Nu Sigma Nu, 1-0, to win the flight championship. Hopes for the fraternity championship were stolen by the Chi Phi's who vanquished us 7-0 in the semi-finals. Gridders for Acacia were Don Hoeffel, Don Haxton, Lefty Davis, Chuck Stoner, Ray Ahlsten, Otto Jiskra, John Skinner, Marty Cox, Jack Bronson, Jim Mahaffey, Dick Cross and Bob Beerbower. Don Hoeffel sprained an ankle during the game with. the Sigma Pi's and was unable to play the remainder of the schedule. The only other casualty of the football season was pledge· Jim Bushman who suffered a broken finger in a hard-fought pledge-active battle which ended with a score of 32-24, the actives being the victors.

In the field of varsity sports Tommy James of Massillon, Ohio, who has played some fine football this year, brought recognition to Acacia and honor to himself by being chosen captain of the Ohio State squad for 1947.

DoN RADER

Oklahoma Greetings from the Oklahoma Chapter ..

We have just finished putting over our·

The Triad, Winter, 1947 winter formal. The decoration committee did a wonderful job decorating the hall.

It was white with a dark ceiling with clouds made of spun glass floating around.

The band stand was covered with Plaster of Paris snow, which served as an enormous iceberg. Some of the fellows in the house went out a few days beforehand and got some small trees which were sprayed with silver paint and placed around the walls. The scene was set off with two blue spot lights that gave a very good effect of moonlight.

Acacia has been giving some of the other fraternities rather a tough time in touch football. Our last game was with the Kappa Sig's and it was a quite a game. Before it was over it almost turned into tackle. Basketball is just around the corner. There are some very good players in the house that made All-State in their high school days. The few times that they have practiced they have looked very good.

On December 15 Acacia and Alpha Chi Omega will join hands again at the wedding of Pledge Raymond Scoufus and Billie Stone, sister of Odell Stone. After the wedding everyone will journey over to the Acacia house for the reception.

While talking of weddings, it is not going to be too long before John Shea and his Alpha Chi will join hands for good.

Three weeks ago the pledges had their annual walk-out. They left while the members were having their meeting and took their dates to Oklahoma City to enjoy a steak dinner. The following evening the members got together and entertained their dates at dinner while the pledges looked on wishfully.

LESTER BROWN

Oklahoma State The Oklahoma State Chapter is back on the active list after an absence of four years. At the present time there are seventeen members, but the indications of growing larger are very good. Before I go any further, I would like to give credit to the men who were the most responsible for putting this chapter back on its feet.

To Tom Dawson, the only active member on the campus when school started this fall, goes the most credit for his tireless work in rounding up pledges, handling the correspondence, and the many other jobs that were necessary. This chapter certainly appreciates the work he has done.

George Croyle, traveling secretary, deserves some credit. It was his threat of picking up the charter that started the ball rolling.

John Lothers, Cornell '25, and T. L. Johnson, Kansas '21, have certainly been helpful, throwing open their houses for our use, and giving much valuable advice and work.

C. H. McElroy, Dean of Men, cooperated by giving us .permission to be initiated immediately instead of waiting the usual twelve week pledge period.

We were initiated by the Oklahoma Chapter on November 24. Following the

55 initiation was a dinner at which we were guests. We are very grateful for their hospitality and cooperation in getting our chapter started.

The following officers were elected: Venerable Dean, Charles Spillman¡ Senior Dean, Kenneth N. Cox; Junior 'Dean, John R. Howell; Secretary, Tom Dawson; Treasurer, Bill Lothers.

At the present time we do not have a house. However, several alumni are working on this problem now, and we have hopes of building one before very long.

With the present enthusiasm and interest, this chapter should really be going strong by the time spring rolls around.

HARVEY C. ABRAMS

Penn State Winter has really arrived here at Nittany Mountain with the temperature juggling around zero and all the brothers busy begging the House Manager, Bob Dieruff, for some of the heat that he seems to have cornered in his room, but we.'re all taking a few minutes off to wish the other chapters a Very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.

Our pledge class has been increased by the addition of three new pledges, Harry W. Fillman, of Pottstown, Pa., David Frank Dean, of Bellefonte, Pa., and Ernest Friday, of Houtzdale, Pa. This makes a total of seven in the present class.

As this is being written, the basketball season is just starting so we can't say too much about our team, but from the looks of it now it ought to be able to give any opponent something to worry about. Our secretary, Dick Morgan, has been elected President of the International Relations Club here on campus and from all reports we have every right to be proud of him.

Bill Whitby, our soon-to-be-famous architect, received an award for his interpretation of our future Student Union Building. Rolf Wald is official photographer for the college humor magazine and a member of the fencing team.

An Alumni Tea was held on December 8 in honor of our former Chapter Adviser, Dr. RobertS. Kirby. It was well attended by the resident alumni and their wives and a delightful afternoon was had by all precent. A tour of the house was conducted by our Venerable Dean, Robert Troxell, so that all might see the results of the redecorating done on the house last summer. Our winter house party, the Rural Ramble as it is to be called, will be held on December 14. It will include an informal dance, a hay-ride, and our annual Christmas dinner on Saturday night.

We hope to see a lot of the alumni back for the week-end.

We were delighted to have Charlie Jarrett, the National Traveling Secretary, here for a visit the week of October 27.

He gave us a helping hand during our initiation ceremonies and some up-to-date news on fraternity organization. He apparently drops in once or twice a semester to pick up a few bridge pointers.

We hope soon to convert him as a solid advoc-ate of Brother Kutz's unorthodox

bidding. With a system like that he could spread terror throughout the other chapters and completely disrupt the morale of any future contestants.

Homecoming week-end and the Fall House Party brought quite a few of the alumni back for the first time since the war. Among those returning were John F. Scheidy, '21, John E. Young, '39, W. James Van Horne, '39, John K . Class, '41, all accompanied by their wives; George W. Knouse, '42, Morgan Wright, Jr., '37, William S. Faust, '35, John D. Geibel, '38, Robert E. Jones, '39, Leon A. Tarbox, '21, Robert L. Fortenbaugh, '38, F . William Schlegel, Oregon State, '27, and William J. Shields, '32.

Our n _w Chapter Advisor, Phillip F. Hallock, '32, is an architect here in town.

He has stepped into the big hole left by Dr. Kirby in a very commendable manner and we are all glad to have him with us. George Nelson and George Leedom made the trip to Syracuse for the StateSyracuse football game and were royally entertained by the brothers there. We hope that we can return their kindness in the coming years. We're always glad to see any members of the other chapters and will do our best to make their visit enjoyable.

DAVE SIMs

Purdue The Purdue Chapter is still very much the same these days, even though we do have long hair. The Purdue male students are still holding their own against the barbers. We have to get our hair cut once in a while; however, we have a remedy for the situation here at the Acacia House.

There is a student on campus that comes in about once a week and cuts our haid.

The union barbers still want a buck a cut.

Since the last TRIAD article was written we have pledged four more men. They are : Edward Henry Reifies, Indianapolis; Donald Benjaman Wiebke, Indianapolis; Donald J. Stout, Sheridan, Indiana; and William Huber Kolbe, Harrison, Ohio.

The addition of these four men makes a total of eleven pledges. In November we held the formal pledging of these men.

There haven't been too many changes in the house since the big remodeling job this summer. The fire marshal suggested that we place railings along all the steps.

Just a few years ago all the railings were taken down, but now we have had to have them replaced. We are also planning on having a fire alarm installed.

On the Monday before Thanksgiving we had a Turkey Race. Our eleven eager pledges dressed in costumes of the pilgrim days. We had five turkeys that weren't too eager. We set the turkeys loose; expecting them to go flying across campus with the pledges after them. Instead the turkeys ran about ten yards and stopped. The pledges started after the birds and caught them immediately.

We then had a course set up which they had to run; they ended up at the Chapter House. The two pledges that were first back to the house with a turkey were the winners. It was found that a pilgrim

The Triad, Winter, 1947 56 father and an Indian chief collaborated to form the winning combination. They were Paul Bayn es and Jim McCarty. The rest of the pledges followed close behind. The contest was considered a great success and it is the hope of the Purdue Chapter that it will become an annual event. The turkeys were given to the Jessie Leavering Cary Home for Children.

The pledge class did a lot of work for the pledge dance on D ecember 7. The dance was held in conjunction with the Theta Tau fraternity at Lincoln Lodge out on River Road. Steak dinners were served and the dance took place afterward in the ballroom of the lodge. The pledges did an especially fine job on the decorations.

On the day that Thanksgiving vacation was to start we had a great deal of excitement in the house. When we got up in the morning we discovered that the house had been rifled. Someone walked in and took money out of all the wallets of the fellows that live on the second floor. The burglar got away with approximately $185.00. The worst thing about it was that two of the neophytes talked to him. They got up at five o'clock to deliver papers and talked to him in the living-room where he passed himself off as an alumnus. Now we are keeping the doors locked.

Of course many of the guys have been coming in through the fire escape lately.

If any of you alumni come in and some one asks you a lot of questions, don't worry about it. We are just being a little more cautious.

We had a big homecoming week-end for the Wisconsin game on November 2, 1946, and many of the alumni stopped in to see us. Saturday evening after the game we had a banquet here at the chapter house at which about 75 of the alumni were present. Their wives all got together and had dinner at the Union while we had the banquet. Everyone had a good time and we met many of our old friends again.

For the Indiana-Purdue game we had a hay-ride to entertain the Indiana Chapter. We rented a Grange Hall out at Klondike so that we could dance after the hayride. We all had a grand time, but we were sorry that more of the Indiana fellows couldn't come up for the game.

Jim Miller, Wally Pope, and George Baynes, three of our distinguished seniors, have devised a woman rating chart.

They have the main points that attract you to the weaker sex down on a percentage scale. In order to check their tabulations each one of them took out the same girl and separately filled out their chart. The percentages came out very close. The system got a big writeup in the Purdue Exponent.

Some of the fellows have tied themselves up with the fairer sex. John Bourroughs has given a ring to Jeannie Lautz.

Steve Booth has given a ring to Betty Mann. No definite dates ha ve been set, but we wish them the best of luck.

Donald Eugene Foltz, '46, one of the "old alums" has been around quite a bit.

He bought an old m odel "T" and he has been running around in it. He is working for the Indiana Corn Grower s Association h ere at the Seed Improvement

Station. He deserves a lot of credit for helping us with some of our projects this semester. He made most of the arrangements for our hay-ride party.

We will be happy to see any of you alumni over here at the chapter house.

Don't be afraid to stop and say hello at any time.

HAROLD LUCE

Syracuse This fall the Syracuse chapter pledged the following men: Bob Augat, Bill Bartlett, Marty Berge, Howard Booth, Donald Daly, Charles Heath, Chuck Jones, Keevan Jones, Roy Klipp, Donald Bosburgh, Jack Weagraff, and Roger Witherel.

Bill Martin, Bill Matthews, John Mitchell and Elton Howland were initiated.

Our intramural team has been active in bowling and football. The fraternity attended the traditional Syracuse-Colgate pep-fest and football game en masse.

The following officers were elected for the spring semester: Venerable Dean Fred Lott; Senior Dean, Dale Hackett; Junior Dean, Phil Rice ; Secretary, John Mitchell; and Treasurer, Ray Unger.

Several informal pledge dances were held. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rupp, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Walt Weyant, and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Enos did a splendid job of chaperoning.

An invitation to a smoker was extended to all Masons and DeMolay on campus for Sunday afternoon, December 8.

The Women of Acacia headed by Mrs. Enos, wife of our chapter advisor, have met once a month at the fraternity house, affording an opportunity for all of us to become better acquainted.

All are happily anticipating our alumni and active Christmas parties. The alumniactive party is scheduled for Dec. 13; and the actives, pledges, and dates party for Dec. 14.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Costes, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Unger, Alton A. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Farney, and Mr. and Mrs. I. Herrmann attended our open house after the Syracuse-Colgate game.

Ex-V. D. Lenny Beil was co-chairman on the band committee for the Senior Ball.

ELTON HOWLAND

Washington "Attention! Washington State" there is a certain bullis texonis running around loose at the Washington Chapter of Acacia and it seems to enjoy full freedom . I understand that something in the nature of a round-up has been planned-well, good luck.

Last December 6 the Delta Zetas and the Acacians at the University of Washington got together for a very nice evening's entertainment. This included a very tasty supply of apple pie at the Delta Zeta's House with, of course, some competitive singing which gave a very friendly atmosphere. The evening finished with da ncing back at the Acacia House with e ver yone enjoying themselves to the lim-

it. Recognition is due to the pledges for their good work in arranging the decorations for the occasion.

The pledges we now have are as fqllows: Ben Dotson, David Fenton, Clarence McCredy, J. Richards, Bud Robinson, Charles Stover Wilton Whistler, Gene Guthrie, Oren Bonney, Jess Burdue, William Burdue, Merton Box, Oliver Heintzelman, Norman Jenson, and Loren Hansen. We hope that by the time this is read their names will be listed as actives.

Sid Buckley recently stepped into the ranks of the actives by treading the hot sands last November 24. Sid had been pledged before at Washington State but because "Uncle" called he was not able to be initiated. But that is all past now and Acacia has another worthy member.

If there are any radio amateurs (Hams, that is) in any of the other Chapters of Acacia keep your ears open for K7GJW/ W7 and W7KIG/7 on 80, 40, and 20 meters. We would like to schedule some QSO's between houses. How does the idea sound, a fraternity with a radio network?

Here are a few facts about the Washington Chapter pledges: Dave Fenton of Seattle is the "Brain" of the house (3.6-no less). He is also a good mountaineer and has a good many interesting stories to tell when you can get him to talk about it.

Wilton Whistler of the great State of Oklahoma (0. U. and A. & M. take note) is the strong and silent type. We still haven't found out the feminine interest he is cultivating in the Ravenna District.

Clarence McCredy, Junior, ("Mac" for short), is our flash from the thriving metropolis of Bickleton (population 10), but it's on the map. All of the sororities know about Mac-?

Charles Stover of Kelso (Chuck), is a great fisherman (fly style) and also is an exceptional photographer. He is the boy who records all of the firesides, etc., on film.

Ben Dotson, the fly -boy from Yakima where they evidently grow 'em cute, is leaving himself open for a few of the "educational features" of the navy by joining the NROTC. Steve Richards of Longview, Washington, spelled Lewistown, Montana, is famous for his impromptu renditions of the song "Montana."

Bud Robinson of Vancouver, Washington, the irrepressible honorary member of Phi Mu here on the campus, is getting married in Minneapolis on Dec. 22, 1946.

Good luck Bud. Gene Guthrie (jg) from Wenatchee, Washington, is the boy who is going to fly this outfit to the Southern California Installation. I hope the weather is nice.

Oren Bonney of Wenatchee, Washington, another smoothie from the apple country, is also a flyer, and it is supposed that he will be our co-pilot.

Jess Burdue from Puyallup, Washington, is one fine artist. All we need is the studio for him to paint in, and, of course, a few models to make the work interesting.

Bill Bmdue, Jess' brother, also of Puyallup is the financial genius of the house

The Triad, Winter, 1947 and has established a successful commissary as well as a cleaning service within the first month after being pledged. You can tell where that boy is going.

Oliver Heintzelman of Kelso is the geography and weather man of the house.

However, even if he does know weather he can't seem to stop our Seattle rain.

Merton Box of Seattle is the guy who has a car when we need it, or borrows his Dad's tools when we need them; in short, he is the indispensable man about the house.

Norman Jensen of Seattle, one of our most ambitious pledges, is also a geography major who hopes to graduate in the very near future.

Loren Hansen of Olympia, our most recent pledge, is an asset in many ways. Besides a winning smile, he has abilities as a singer and piano player. The boys gather round when he tickles the ivories.

We have scheduled an initiation for January 4 and 5 and expect to have a goodly number treading the Hot Sands.

Our homecoming week-end was a big success. We had the dining-room full of Alums on Saturday and had a series of other very successful functions that weekend. Our sign was a wow-thanks to George Warner, John Dudley, MacCredy, Steve Richards, and others. Please note: it was good enough so that around mid· night of Saturday some unknown per· sons proceeded to make off with part of it.

George Croyle, traveling secretary, was here the first part of December. We had a very enjoyable and profitable visit while he was here at the Chapter house.

And now, before signing off, I want to mention the fact that one Jack Picard who will graduate this quarter is, as of very recently, the father of an eightpound baby girl. To you, Jack, and to all of your family, the gang gives their best wishes.

GERALD W. WEsT

Washington State We are a band of jolly good fellows As free as the winds that blow Our house is back on it's feet The old traditions flow The fellows back, our cook is too And everything first-rate We sing we're "in" we're doing fine At W ol' W.S.C. The effects of two years dormancy are all but a thing of the past at the Washington State Chapter; the fears of not being able to bring back the "good old days" have vanished; and our house is once more a true fraternity from the word go. All the old traditions which spelled Acacia, all the ideals, and customs have not been lost with the past but continue to make Acacia what it has meant.

Pearl Harbor has a dual meaning to us; not only was that the day temporary end of the house was seen, but December 7 is also the day our chapter was founded.

When word came over the radio that the Japanese had taken up arms, all the fellows began wondering when they would have to go. All knew, as they sat down

57 to dinner, that this would be the last Founders' Day Dinner for som e time, and all hoped, and prayed, the next one would find them all assembled and once more carrying on as students, and fraternity men.

Lester Liebel, one of those present on that eventful seventh, had the fortune to state that all but one of our men came through, and that m ost of our brothers were back on the campus, and were to enjoy this F ounders' Day Dinner.

The occasion began with the consumption of one of Mom's usual perfect meals, prepared as only she can. When that was over, our Venerable Dean, Verne Zellmer, called upon some of the "old gang" who reminisced over those days of soup fights, basement dormitories, keeping tabs on the Tri-Delts via one pair of spy-glasses, the old Chimney falling down, and the fire sale which followed. Some of those visiting were: George Foster, Wayne Dinge, and Clark Hewitt. The Gage and Gavel Boys Franklin French and Ralph Gelback and of course our faculty advisor C. D. Jacobs, added interest to the affair.

Afterwards, as we all sat in the front room, we began inquiring amongst ourselves where all the others were, whether the fellows were still getting the TRIAD who were married, and what they were doing. The thought came to us that a complete report should be made to an distant brothers. We are all anxious to keep tabs on you, so drop us a line and tell us the latest, for our records have become dated.

It might be in keeping to dedicate this report to you fellows, passing on what we have heard and what is going on within the bunch.

Bob Duncan (grad.) is married, has a baby girl, and works at Boeing's in Seattle. We have heard from Ralph Smith that he is coming back toW. S. C. At the present he is running a wheat ranch with his brother, Clarence, in Cecil, Oregon. Einer Henrikson is in Klamath, John Esvelt is married and is living in Tacoma. We do not have much on Johnny Black, but we hear Boyd Mills (grad.) , is hitting the books for a Master of Science at the University of Illinois. Ben Harris 3013 22nd West, Seattle, has two boys and tells us he is in his fourth year of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. He also informed us that Bill Rice now resides iri Bothell, Washington, and claims one boy and two girls.

Some of you will recall Norman Gar- lick (pledge); his parents just announced ·the birth of his daughter. The last we heard from Fred Croxford places him at 1635 St. Agnes Avenue, Utica 3, New York. He is equipment installation and maintenance engineer for General Electric. Christmas will find Bob Dietz Anderson (14 East Pearson, Chicago 11, Illinois) back home in Davenport, Washington, for the vacation. Bob DeVoe (Box 161, Davis, California) is now an old married man, but that is about all we know about him. Gerhardt Gra ep more than likely has contacted Bill Rice and George Farmer (now principal of Queen Anne High School, Seattle) for he lives near them at Box 295 Redmond, Washington.

More W. S. C. Acacians are now living around the Seattle area. We discovered K enneth Pattie has settled at 12009, 79th South, Seattle 88, Washington, and Carl Rosene is living at 11919 Lakeside Place, N. E. Austin Miller tells us he can be reached at Box 592, Ephrata, Washington.

We were pleased to receive such a grand letter from Fred Campbell ("The Chief" ) , 1938, and any interested in contacting him can reach him at 1117 North Beachwood Drive, Hollywood 38, California.

John Raymer is married and is in the Army Air Corps, Middletown, Pennsylvania. Donald Faulkner is apparently dissatisfied with K ansas University, for he tells us he plans to return to W.S.C. next semester to work for his M.S., and if he is still as good-looking as his twin sister (Alpha Gamma Delta) , we will be glad to have him back.

Dallen Jones (grad.) is married and is a practicing veterinarian in Oregon. All we know about Bruce Beasley is that he is married. Charles Blickenderfer (grad.), has one baby girl under his wing at Tacoma. Chuck probably knows that Frank Dammann also lives in Tacoma.

Glen Lund (grad.) has a boy and lives in Poulsbo, Washington.

Another .traitor in our midst is George Warner, now in the University of Washington.

We hear George Fenton is still in the Canal Zone, a draftsman for the Government.

Proud papa, Wayne Dinge, passed out cigars after our Founders' Day dinner, for it seems he now has a baby girl born in August. It had to be the smallest ones he could buy, for his child weighed something like two pounds at birth. Both mother and child are doing all right now.

He is foreman of the poultry plant, W.S.C. We would certainly like to know where Carroll Dow (married) is; we can't locate him.

It is so difficult to say just how we feel about the loss of George Reymore; when we were informed he had been killed in a ction on Guam, it left us without a word.

A picture of him will be framed and put in the chapter room showing the date and place he died. All his friends and brothers mourn his absence. Wilho Williams and Howard Hopkins, while in the service, took pictures of the grave, and a copy of it will be framed along with his portrait.

That is the extent of the names and addresses. Now to tell you what has been going on around here since the last issue.

What a fine bunch of devils our pledges are! If " us" members didn't have such a smooth-functioning spy system, we would never get any rest. At this moment they don't know we are wise to their coming Saturday night pillow warfare. What they don't know is that we will beat them to the punch by attacking first in full pillow force .

We were expecting them to pull some fiendish deviltry last night, and they didn't disappoint us. Today is their turnabout day, and they didn't waste a moment. At exactly midnight they got us out of bed and made us entertain them until 4 a. m . They had had all the enter-

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58 tainment they wanted by two, but we were only just warming up, so 4 a. m. it was. The last portion of the program was held in bed, where one round of jokes after ano ther kept the party lively.

The traditional pledge sneak (October 19) ended, as they always do, in Lewistown, Idaho, but not until they had left the house in one h opeless mess. The silverware and house fuses hidden, doors left in place minus the hinge pins, the members' cars, all gone, and all the rest, were tended to.

Yet, the boys can be serious ; we all agreed to return to our prewar policy of attending different churches en masse.

Last Sunday the entire house went to the nearby Congregational Church. We plan to attend one each second and fourth Sunday.

If there is anything new going on around the campus, some of us are either instigators or at least involved therein.

Our brother, Floyd Green, has been in two college plays so far this semester and is working in one now. John Veatch has opened a new dance hall, and for the lack of a name calls it "Club." He is the leader of a small orchestra and opens the place to the public each Friday and Saturday evening.

Our boy, Chester Bennett ("Fogelquist" ), is in there with his endless supply of new ideas for dances, dinner, exchanges and the like. He successfully put across something new in the way of exchange dinner-dances, by combining it with the smorgasbord theme. Four greek houses, Kappa Kappa Gamma's, Alpha Kappa Omega's, the Theta Chi's and our group combined and gave four parties, each having some members of each house.

One group went to each house in turn, having one course per place, and filling in with dancing. The four courses consisted of 1) hot cider, 2) clam chowder, 3) sandwiches, potato salad and hot chocolate, and 4) ice cream , cake and cookies.

Between courses, the plan called for meeting in front of the Beta house and giving a few loud yells. The end saw us with tired feet, full stomachs and a few more phone numbers.

Other exchanges are planned, but a report on them will have to wait until the next issue. However, we are looking forward to our Christmas party. The occasion will be a combination of sweaters, cider and popcorn, mistletoe and the school"s famo us piano player, Russ Danburg. He will play Christmas carols, while we sing them. He's a lot of fun and should make it a party long to be remembered.

We had our first pin check last Sunday, and it seems as though only a few still h ave them. Al Huntley, swears his is his own, but we think differently. We wonder where they could all be. They must h ave lost them_ The right honorable V. D ., Verne Zellmer, who called the pin check, had better guard his own pin . News just broke that his "friend" was chosen as sweetheart of Sigma Chi, and that look in her eye isn't caused by any eye trouble.

M. D . DALRYMPLE

Wuest Describes German Cities Dear Brother A cacians: It's about time for a second letter to all of you bringing you up-to-date on what's happening to yours truly in the European Theater. My present assignment is Liaison Officer for the Office of the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Berlin Branch. The present Chief of Counsel is Brigadier General Talford Taylor who succeeded the Hon. Justice Jackson, now back on the U. S. Supreme Court bench.

My liaison duties are with OMGUS, Office of Military Government United States, under whom our office now comes.

We expect a small amount of liaison duties with the British, French, and Russian authorities. In addition to these duties, I am to be in charge of administration of the Berlin Branch. (Any resemblance to what I have been doing during the past six years and what I am doing now is purely coincidental.)

In case you do not know it, Berlin is an enormous city covering an area greater than New York City. It has been very heavily damaged, particularly the central part. The section of the city in which I live is called Zehlendorf, which is in the American Sector and was not badly darnaged. I have a large room 18 by 20 feet with steam heat and bath. My billet is conveniently located as it is only 100 yards from the Arcade and U-bahn (subway.)

In the Arcade is a PX, clothing store, movie theater, commissary, beauty parlor, photographer, gift shop, and jeweler.

Everyone eats at Truman Hall which is the large central mess, just one stop away from my billet on the U -bahn.

I arrived by plane from Nuernberg on October 28, landing at Templehof Airport. Templehof is really a big field. These Krauts did things in a big way.

The Nuernberg trials of the top Nazis are now history, and, as you know, twelve of them are dead. It was a dramatic day in court when, on October 1, starting off with Herman Goering, one by one the Nazis were brought into the dock and Lord Justice Lawrence, president of the International Military Tribunal, read off the sentences. The Palace of Justice was a veritable fortress on Judgment Day. All unauthorized traffic was detoured around the Palace ; constabulary troops in armored cars, at the ready, stood guard; other guards were thick as flies in front of the Palace and inside as well. Public address systems had been set up on the streets so that the German populace could hear the court proceedings and sentences.

There were no disorders among the Germans. Their greatest surprise seemed to be that any of the Nazi leaders would be set free. One Kraut said, "How could anyone be set free in a trial that lasted ten months." It would have been a different story indeed if our leaders had been tried by the Nazis. The trial would have lasted a few days and all would have been hung regardless of innocence or guilt.

Nuernberg is a broken and battered city. It was the shrine city of Germany and the headquarters of the Nazi party.

Its citizens were well-to-do. Soldiers Field, where many of the mass demon-

strations were held, escaped with only minor damage. Here is a gigantic stadium built of marble with a marble podium from which Hitler and other Nazi big-wigs would address the faithful. Understand that 250,000 persons could be accommodated easily inside this stadium.

Hitler would get out of his automobile and walk across the field, a distance of about 300 yards, over a red carpet, with hundreds of drums beating out the cadence and amid the thunderous roars of "Sieg heil! " Then he would climb to his marble podium to rant and rave.

Adjoining the main stadium is a smaller football stadium, an enormous swimming pool-the Inter-Allied Swimming Championships were held here recently -and a series of smaller stadiums.

Nearby is Congress Hall, a tremendous circular building never completed because of the German collapse. Here it was that Hitler intended to rule the world.

Each country of major size in th!! world would have a section set aside for it, and in it would be the Nazi leaders who would govern that particular country. There are acres of ready-cut stones numbered for their individual niches in this huge structure. If there are still people in the States who doubt that Hitler planned world conquest, and I mean WORLD conquest, they should be sent over here to see for themselves. These Nazis were no pikers.

Berlin must have been a beautiful city before the bombings. Last Sunday while escorting General Taylor around-he was here to visit OMGUS-we went to the Olympic Stadium. Here it was that the track and field events of the 1936 Olympics were held. This stadium seats 100,000 persons. A championship soccer glame between the British and the Czechs was being played. There were between 55,000 and 60,000 spectators of all nationalities at the game, so you can see that they really take soccer seriously over here.

We rode down the main drag called by various narnes-Herrstrasse, Charlottenburger Chaussee, and finally the worldrenowned Unter den Linden. This street corresponds to Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D. C., Michigan Boulevard in Chicago, Broadway in New York City, Dewey Boulevard in Manila, Market Street in San Francisco, and Main Street in Siwash. Most of it is in the British sector; Unter den Linden is in the Russian sector. This central section of Berlin is a mass of ruins. Here were the opera houses, hotels, embassies, fine stores, the Reichstag, and the Palace buildings-now only rubble. Nearby is the Reichschancellory, Hitler's Berlin home-former home, that is. We saw the balcony from which Hitler would address the admiring throngs of Nazis.

I am still sweating out the port orders for my family and keeping my fingers crossed in hopes that they will get here

by Christmas. My address is Berlin Branch, CCC, APO 742, U. S. Army, c/ o P . M., New York, N. Y. Will be glad to hear from you.

BILL Lt. Col. William J. Wuest, 0-29026 Cincinnati '29.

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Minnesota Chapter

First Row-Dick Johnson, John Smith, Dale Mciver, Clarence Hammett , John Dablow, Al Olson, Earl Wangerin, Neil Jenkins, John Moore. Second Row-Art Davis, Larry Englund, Brock Holmes, Carl Jensen, Al Nordstrum, Jack Fox, Bob Swedberg, Herb Lund. Third Row-Ted Anderson , Orrin Haugen, Al Dreher, Bill Wolston, Paul Miller, Warren Wendt, John Livingston, Kenneth Gluesing, Al Jurgens. Fourth Row-Bob Wilcoxen, Carl Doeringsfeld, John Beirsdorf, Bruce Fry, Don Neubauer, Bud Engle, Bill Dreher, Jim Jensen. Last Row-Bob Fulton, Klein Johnson, Bob Neubauer, Con Blomberg, Chuck Dickinson, Stan Von Drashek, Dave Hammel, Owen Bolstad, John Sandefur .

What's in a Name?

What does your name mean?

Joseph Guerin Fucilla, linguist, etymologist and professor of romance languages at Northwestern University, has just concluded research which identifies thousands of names in the American scene, as well as a few, such as Mussolini and Romeo, outside it.

After more than 30 years of study, using both learned books and less academic sources, such as dog-eared city and telephone directories, Prof. Fucilla offers this observation: America's peculiarly democratic genius for fusing alien customs and divergent heritages into a new national product is demonstrated in the names carried by her citizenry. Names brought from "the old country" either have been preserved intact or anglicized through translation or abbreviation, but they all now are American names.

It was, in fact, the democratic process which brought about the evolution of surnames, Prof. Fucilla said. In his study, prepared in manuscript form, he writes: "Hereditary surnames universally in use today were slow in taking root. Probably the first institution of the surname was among the patricians of Venice in the lOth and 11th centuries. The evolution of the family name required 800 years. Every forward step of individual man toward the democratic way of life left its mark, until now surnames stand as tokens of man's supremacy over his environment."

Names, whatever their nationality in the western world, have common

roots, Prof. Fucilla said. Environment, occupation, physical characteristics, desirable and undesirable personal qualities, religion and folklore all have played important roles in nomenclature, as have manifestations of nature, including animals, insects and plants.

One of the largest categories is that of animal names. Etymologists are rather generally agreed, Prof. Fucilla said, that terms of endearment, such as "little lamb" and "my dove," contributed greatly to the bestowal .of animal names as substitutions for original surnames. Expressions of derision and ridicule, such as "he has a neck like a rooster's" were transferred into surnames in the same fashion, resulting in hereditary family names such as Hahn (German for rooster) and Gallo, the Italian equivalent.

Who does not know many persons with animal names in his immediate circle? There are the English Fowle, Pigeon, Coote, Finch, Goldfinch, Bullfinch, Daw, Crowe, Rooke, Nightingale, Hawke, Heron, Starling and Wren ; the German Schwan (swan), Adler (eagle), Sperling (sparrow), Strauss (ostrich), Fink (finch) , Pfau (peacock) , and Specht (woodpocker); the Italian Polacco and Puccini (chicken) , Tortorello (dove) , Cavallo (horse) , Pucci (donkey) , Bovetti (bovine ) , Orselli (bear), Lupino (wolf) and Cavaretta (goat).

Your friend Mr. Fox has two other counterparts in English nomenclature, Mr. Todd and Mr . Lowrie (Scottish).

The French Leboeuf means bovine, and Cheval, horse, as does the Spanish Caballo. There are, also, the Ger-

man Katz and Loewe (lion) . Insects, too, come in for a share of influence.

According to one explanation, Mussolini owed his surname to the fact that an ancestor had been dubbed a "gnat."

Religious names play a major role in nomenclature in all Christian countries. Children are named for saints and often their surnames are derived from the duties of lay participants in church affairs, such as the Italian Viccari (vicar) . The original Romeos were religious pilgrims, and the forebears of today's Paganos and Paganinis were ir religious men, classified by the Christians as pagans.

Names of occupations were freely handed down. Men who had other cognomens eventually came to be known, as did their descendants, by the work engaged in. Examples of this are the English Taylor, the Spanish Ferrero (smith), the German Mueller (miller) and the Italian Carpentiere (carpenter) and Carnera (butcher) .

Your I tali an -descent neighbor whose mailbox card reads Rizzo may or may not have curly hair, but that is what his name means. And Caruso is generally accepted to mean, among other things, "clipped head." Still another example of anatomical references in nomenclature is the name Capone, "big head," a stubborn person.

Vegetables and flowers contributed their names to persons, probably through occupations. A turnip vender became known as turnip, resulting in the Italian name, Bordoni. Fiorello LaGuardia, a famous example of a floral name, is the "little flower," while his surname means an outpost or a guard.

In the latter instance, it probably originated with a forebear who was a military man.

Provinces and cities as names of persons are easily recognizable. A m an named Lombardo may be reasonably certain that his remote ancestors lived in the Italian province, Lombardy. The German Berliner, Ha mburger and Frankfurter are obvious.

Numbers account for one categor y of names, prominent principally among Italians. Quaranta ( 40) and Quarantotto ( 48) are, believe it or not, listed in American city directories, as is Cinquesoldi (five cents). The English Twelvetrees is a numerical name.

Prof. Fucilla said that the opportunity to study names in the United States is unparalleled, because of the diversity of nationalities repr esented in its various lists of citizens. In 1915, when he first began studying languages, the subject of names fascinated him and he collected them and studied their origins as a hobby, a hobby which has since resulted in a comprehensive work of research.

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GUARDS ... Serve a triple purpose-To identify the wearer with his chapter; to insure against loss of badge; and to complete a beautiful ensemble.

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PLEDGE BUTTONS are as carefully made as a Balfour badge.

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COMPACTS . . . In beautifully soft and colorful leathers.

PAPER PRODUCTS

STATIONERY ... Engraved stationery lends prestige to personal and chapter correspondence.

INVITATIONS ... For formal dances, smokers, birthday or mother's day greetings, and for membership.

DANCE PROGRAMS . . . A treasured memento of your party that enhances your chapter reputation.

CERTIFICATES ... Engraved certificates for membership, special awards, club use -the finest quality obtainable.

PLACE CARDS ... Samples on request.

SCROLLS, MEMORIALS ... Hand illuminated citations-like an old monk's LEATHER manuscript-to honor distinguished servBILLFOLDS . In cowhide, red or ice, to show appreciation, for honor rolls; brown alligator calf, pigskin - many scholarship scrolls. styles.

KEY CASES ... Bright red cowhide, alFAVORS ligator calf, or pigskin; give durable wear.

A variety of beautiful gifts is available for JEWEL BOXES ... Gold tooled in the selection for your party favors-bracelets, old Florentine style. pendants, leather billfolds, photo frames,

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AWARDS MEDALS ... For all athletic events.

PLAQUES . . . For wall decoration or awards. Mounted with bronze castings.

BRONZE MEMORIALS ... Perpetuate the memory of those who served our country. Bronze alone is truly everlasting.

GIFTS RINGS ... Ruby and spinel stones now available in fine gold rings.

BRACELETS ... Clever charm bracelets make interesting conversation pieces.

MEN'S ACCESSORIES . . . Sword tie clips, tie chain sets, belt buckles, vest chains, smoking accessories.

PENDANTS, LOCKETS, LAPEL PINS . . . See the beautiful lockets, and the "Famous Personalities" lapel pins-all shown in the 1947 BLUE BOOK.

1947 BALFOUR BLUE BOOK A gala array of beautiful gifts, party favors, and personal accessories.

Features the Heirloom Ring, the Lincoln Ring, saber tie chains, wedding and baby gifts of silver.

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Editor . .. . . . ... . . William D . Ross Office Mana ger ... . .. . Mrs. Edith A . May Traveling Secretaries .. .. .. .. . . . . .. George Croyle Charles J arrett 7530 Sheridan Rd ., Chicago 26, Ill.

UNDERGRADUATE CHAPTERS-OFFICERS AND LOCATION OF CHAPTER HOUSES CALIFORNIA-2340 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley 4, California. Venera ble Dean-Harry E . Larsen. Secretary-Thomas R. Pray. CorrespondentCarlisle M. Moore. Financial Adviser-R. B . Tippett, 2348 Marin, Berkeley. Chapter Adviser-Adolph Weber, 2340 Piedmont Ave. , Berkeley.

CINCINNATI-2617 University Court, Cincinna ti 19, Ohio . Venerable Dean-Leroy Jackson. Secreta ry-Clyde Alday . Corresp~ndent-P::IUl Weidner. Chapter Adviser-Marion H. Huber, 3360 Mornson St., Cmcinnati, Ohio . Financial Adviser-George F . Patterson, 1216 E. McMillan St., Cincinnati. Ohio.

COLORAD0-955 Broadway, Boulder, Colo . Venerable Dean-Richard J . Bruner, Jr. Secretary-Fred Bonfils. Correspondent-Harold L. Garbarino . Chapter Adviser-John A . Lunsford, 1119 Ma xwell, Boulder.

Financial Adviser-Or . Robert C. Lewis, 4200 E. Ninth Ave ., Denver , Colo.

CORNELL--318 Highland Rd ., Ithaca , N . Y . Venerable Dean-:-John P . Woodford . Secretary-William B. Gibson. Fina ncial AdviserProf. Walter Cotner, Pine Tree Road, Itha ca . Chapter Adviser-Prof.

Gustave F . Heuser, Forest Home, Ithaca.

FRANKLIN-3907 Spruce St., Philadelphia 4, Pa. Venera ble Dean Charles Stein. Secretary-Robert Curry. Correspondent-Robert Mo~ ­ rison . Chapter Adviser-William R. Hockenberry , Logan Hall, Umversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia . Financial Adviser-W . R .

Hockenberry .

GEORGE WASHINGTON-1812 19th St., N . W . Washington. D. C. Venerable Dean-Richard Wilkinson. Secretary-Richard M . Warfield, 6631 Western Ave . N. W. , Washington 15, D. C. Chapter Adviser-Stanley W. Petersen, i819 G St., N . W. , Washington 6, D. C . Financia l Adviser -Paul W. Hammack, 305 N . Lincoln St., Arlington , Va .

ILLINOIS-501 E. Daniel St., Champaign, Ill . Venerable Dean-Ja ck S. Kilby . Secretary-Robert T . Terp. Correspondent-!'!-· R.. Gre~g .

Chapter Adviser-J . K . Tuthill, 714 W. Green St., Champaign. Fmanc1al Adviser-J . K. Tuthill.

INDIANA-702 E . Third St., Bloomington, Ind. Venerable DeanJ ames Gaddis. Secretary-Gene Johnson. Correspondent-Robert Skinner. Chapter Adviser-Prof. Harold F . Lusk .. 512 Hawthorne Dr., Bloomington. Fina ncial Adviser-Prof. D. Lyle Dieterle, 715 S. Woodlawn, Bloomington.

IOWA STATE-142 Gray Ave., Ames, Iowa. Venerable Dean-Frank R. Griffith. Secreta ry-Gordon A. Cook. Correspondent-Gordon Cook.

Financial Adviser-Vern L. Hein, 2336 Knapp St., Ames . Chapter Ad viser-George Hendrickson, 3300 Woodland , Ames .

KANSAS STATE-340 N. 16th St. , Manhattan, Kans. Venerable Dea nLeonard C. Wood . Secretary-Calvin Duphorne. Correspondent-Joe Nathan. Chapter Adviser-Kenney L . Ford, 1516 Leavenw:orth, Manhattan. Financial Adviser-N. D. Harwood, 1300 N . Juliette, Manhattan .

MICHIGAN-1923 Geddes Ave ., Ann Arbor, Mich. Venerable DeanKay Buchanan. Secretary-Herbert E . Smith. Correspondent-Archi bald D. McGregor . Chapter Adviser-R . C . Ea stman, 233 Crest Ave ., Ann Arbor. Financial Adviser-Weimar Christman, 1025 Packard , Ann Arbor .

MINNESOTA-1206 Fifth St., S . E ., Minneapolis 14, Minn . Venerable D~an-John Da blow. Se cretar y-Clarence Hammett. CorrespondentL~ton Lehrer. Ch!lpt er _Adviser-Burr Buswell, 1206 Fifth St., S. E ., Mlnnea pohs 14. Fmanc1a l Adviser- Burr Buswell.

NORTH\YESTERN- Lincoln a t the L a ke, Evanston, Ill . Vener a ble Secretary-Robert Beighley. Correspondent Richard Lan_e . Chap ter _Adviser-John C . Erwin , 1220 Centra l St., E_va nston. Fmanc1al Adviser- John H . Walker, 1953 Spruce Dr., GlenVIew, ll!.

D~an-R1cha rd Bogan.

OHI0-1835 Indianola Ave ., Columbus, Ohio. Venera ble Dean-Ra lph Leever. Secretary-Kenneth F . Bloom. Correspondent- Don R ader .

Chapte~ Adviser-Or . D. J . Wh itacr e , 1550 Melrose Ave ., Columbus.

Fmanc1a l Adviser-C. R. L awrence, 1458 Inglis St., Columbus.

OKLAHOMA- Elm a t Cruce, Norman, Okla. Venera ble Dean- Odell Stone. Secretary-William Va lentine. Correspondent-Lester Brown.

Chapter Adviser- Dean Da vid J ohnson, University of Oklahoma Nor m an . Financial Adviser-Cecil H . Brit e , 917 Chautauqua , Norman,' Okla.

O~LAHOMA A. & M.-St illwater, Okla. Venera ble Dean-Charles R. Spillman . Secretary-Ora T . Daw son, Jr., 602 Hester St ., Stillwater.

Correspondent- Harvey C. Abram s. Fina ncia l Adviser-John Lo th er s 128 Admira l Roa d, Stillwater. '

PENN STATE-Locust L ane a nd Foster Ave ., Sta te College , P a.

Venera ble Dean-Robert M . T roxell. Secretary-Richard F. Morgan.

Correspondent-David Sims. Chapter Adviser-Philip F . Ha llock, Lo cust Lane Apts. , State College . Financia l Adviser-Prof. Stanley H .

Campbell, Sta te College.

PURDUE-427 State St., West Lafa yette , Ind . Vener able Dean-Meredith M. Buell. Secretary-Richard Donnell . Correspondent-Harold Luce. Chap ter Adviser-W . A . Kna pp, 1305 Ra vina Rd. , West Lafayette , Ind . Financial Advi ser - J. R. Ea ton , 325 Lawn St., West Lafa yette .

SYRACUSE-102 Wa lnut Pl., Sy racuse , N . Y. Venera ble Dea n-Fred E. Lott, Jr. Secretary-John W . Mitchell. Correspondent-Alton C . Howla nd. Chapter Adviser-E . E . Enos, 1111 Euclid Ave. , Syracuse 10. Financia l Adviser-E. E . Enos.

WASHINGTON-5004 17th Ave ., N . E. , Seattle, Wash . Venerable Dean - Willard A . Zellmer. Secreta ry- Gera ld W. West. Chapter AdviserBernard E. Anderson , 8037 12th Ave., N . E ., Sea ttle 5. Financia l Adviser-Earl J . Snippen, 6529 L a tona Ave., Seattle 5.

WASHINGTON STATE-1607 Ruby St., Pullma n , Wash. Venera ble Dean-Verne Zellmer. Secreta ry-Frank Doherty . CorrespondentMarshall Dalrymple. Chapter Adviser-Clifford D . Jacobs, 1211 Maple St., Pullman. Financial Adviser- C . D . Jacobs.

WISCONSIN-Ma dison , Wis. Ina ctive. Address all communi ca tions to J . R. Bennett, Financial Adviser, Sunset Villa ge, Ma dison , Wis.

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The National Headquarters can supply these items . . .

Official Badge (including tax) ........................... $13.7 5 Sweetheart Pin (including tax) . ............ . .......... . .. 11.00 Pledge Pin (including tax) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Recognition Pin (including tax) Gold filled with black enamel. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.25 10 kt. gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.75 Crest Guards (including tax) 10 kt. gold with black enamel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.75 10 kt. gold, plain........................ . ... .. . . . . . 2.25 Crested matches. Box of 1000 booklets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.00 (Sent express collect) Crested engraved stationery; chapter or personal. From. . . . . . 1.65 (Samples sent on request) Identification Cards (replacement) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Crest cuts (for chapter printing needs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. 75 PYTHAGORAS Handbook (The Pledge Manual) 1945 Edition .75 LAWS OF ACACIA (1943 Revision).............. . ...... .25 Membership Certificate Shingle (replacement). . ....... . .... 1.00 Membership Records Binder (for chapters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.00 Music, Dance band orchestrations: "Sweetheart of Acacia". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 "Acacia Farewell" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Officers Training School Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00

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