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The Cover On the cover of this issue is a scene familiar to everyone-a road gang on a railroad. Entitled Track Crew, it is an etching by Hubert Morley, it was awarded the Chicago Society of Etchers Prize. It is reproduced through the courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

/As the Editor Sees it ....

This marks the last issue of the college year. A survey of its !history would probably show no previous year which has been so proserous for the American college ÂŁrater~ ity. In Acacia the year has seen the installation of two new chapters, the 'mprovement of most of the chapters in quality and quantity, and the development of the National Headquarters organization. But let's not get smug about our improvement; if we start to rest on our laurels, inevitably we shall start to slip.

Since assuming the editor's padded cell a few months ago we've had a number of kicks about various features of the magazine-but most of the gripes have reached us indirectly.

Since the TRIAD belongs to the whole fraternity, it's up to you to tell the editor what you want, how you think we can improve the material and readability, which parts ought to have been filed in the waste-basket. We know already that the deadline is too far before the publication date so you can skip that-something will be done about that-but let's hear from you journalists.

There is one thing that every man in the fraternity should do this summer: find out which local boys are coming to colleges where we have chapters (the high schools have the information), find out if they are prospective rushees, then fill in the blank on the last page of this issue.

We hope to see a lot of you wearers of the 3-4-5 at the various regional conferences this summer. If you aren't there, well, so long 'till next fall. And have a great time this summer. ~946-47

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Wyoming Joins the Ranks of Acacia

Ernest H. Hahne

When Greek Meets Greek

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National President's Page

Charles F. Kettering

Get Out of That Rut! .

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American Youth Hostels

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Amplifications and Ad-Lib

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Acacians the World Over

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Doings in the Chapters

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Chapter Eternal

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Rushing Recommendation Blank

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From the Mailbag . . . .

Dear Brothers: In this article I should also like to answer the News Letter of the Northwestern Chapter. The suggestion that Acacia Chapters should get together informally by mail and freely exchange ideas is excellent and they are to be commended for bringing up the idea. I have always noticed the lack of this in the past. We need to know more about how each chapter is run and also many pertinent facts about the university at which it is located.

But why is it necessary to start a new publication to do this? We already have the TRIAD, and there certainly is plenty of room for every chapter to write all their ideas in it. If Brother Ross finds the editions getting too large, perhaps we can get him to publish them more often. There is certainly plenty of room for expansion so far, though. How do the rest of you fellows feel about this? Let's get some dis( Continued on page 116)

Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Fulton, Missouri. The TRIAD is the official publication of the Acacia 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, payable in advance to the National Headquarters.

Notices of change of address, 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 Roa d, Chicago, Illinois.

William D. Ross, Editor, 7530 Sheridan Road, Chicago 26, Illinois ASSOCIATE EDITORS Herschel L. Washington, 820 Commerce Building, Kansas City, Missouri ; John C. Edwin, 1220 Central Street, Evanston, lllinois; Cecil H . Haas, 1850 National Bank Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich.; Luther G. Andrews, Stuart Building, Lincoln, Nebr.

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Wyomi~g Joins The Ranks of Acacia N Sunday, April 20, 1947, the local chapter of Alpha K appa Iota F raternity ceased to exist as such and the n ewest member of the Acacia family was bor n. This was the goal of seven years on the part of our ¡membership whose continued effor t has been that of "going Acacia."

Members of the Colorado Chapter were in charge of the installation cerem onies which began on Saturday aftern oon at the Masonic Temple in downtown Lar amie.

The Acacia banquet, which was held on Sunday after noon, was attended by members of the installing chapter, visiting chapters, local and nationally prominent Acacia alumni and Masons, as well as our own newly installed chapter . We wer e honored by the presence of frater nity brothers from Iowa State College and Kansas State College. Both groups traveled a great distance of approximately seven hundred miles to be present at our installation.

W. 0. Edmondson, pr esiding as master of ceremonies at the banquet, int roduced Roy Clark, Executive Secretary of Acac:a, who named the men chosen by the Wyoming Chapter as their initial officers: Bob Kelley, Venerable Dean; Bob Burton, Senior Dean; Dale Fuehrer, Junior Dean; Kenneth Beaver, secretary; George Freytag, treasurer; and Bill Henry, historian. Other member s of the chapter a re : Thane Baldwin, Howard Campbell, Roy Conover, Charles Cr eager, Roy Dean, Lar ry Dunlap, Winford

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Hungate, John Jacobs, Paul Kotschwar, John Lambert, John Mokler, Wallace Moon, Wayne Moore, and Jim Pikl. Faculty members include: Howard P. Davis, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and faculty advisor ; W. 0. Edmondson, State Extension Forester and Horticulturist; Raymond Morgan, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Drawing; and Hugh MacKinnon, Assistant Professor of Music. Alumni members include: Bill Phinney, Alumni advisor, Jack Lewis, George Abbott, Victor Jacquot, Louis Kistler, Fred Morgan, Frank Hepner, and Philo Hammond.

Toastmaster Edmondson introduced a number of distinguished guests who presented informal discussions concerning the problems which a new F r ater nity must solve in order to firmly establish its rightful place on a univer sity campus. Three fundamental ideas were advanced: First, a fraternity must be financially sound. Secondly, it must maintain an enviable scholastic standing. Thirdly, the organization must successfully maintain a home in order that the members may secure the maximum benefits derived from a frater nal brotherhood. The importance of these fundamental principles was emphasiz'ed and elaborated upon by Roy Clark, R. E. McWhinnie, J. A. Thompson, and Robert Lewis.

The banquet group was delightfully entertained by Wallace Moon who sang "Hills of Gruzzia" and "Sailor Men," accompanied by Miss Ruth Sandercock of the School of Music of the

University of Wyo~g. Miss Sandercock also presented her arrangement of "Cat and Mouse" which was enjoyed very much by everyone. Several Acacia fraternity songs were sung with spirit by the visiting Acacia delegations.

The dinner was served by the Snowy Range Chapter of Eastern Star in the banquet room of the Masonic Temple.

Roy Clark, Executive Secretary of Acacia, presented Bob Kelley the chapter's new Venerable Dean, with its charter, naming twenty students and twelve faculty and alumni members.

This was the second charter to be presented in 1947, the first being that of Southern California.

Fortunately, due to the earnest support of the alumni members of the Wyoming Chapter of Acacia, plans were formulated for the purchase of a large house adjoining the university campus. This house will be ready for occupancy by the fall quarter of school, 1947. Tentative plans have been laid to provide living quarters for approximately thirty men of the fraternity.

The chapter unanimously selected brother Bill Phinney as a financial advisor for the whole undertaking. Preceding the banquet Roy Clark presided at a meeting during which a sufficient amount was pledged to assure the purchase of a house.

Numerous telegrams of congratulation were read by Dr. Fred C. Freytag during the banquet. These were appreciated ver y much by the members of our chapter.

( L eft) C ~arter M embe: s of _the W yoming ChaT?ter of Acacia (Left to Right, Top Row) William S . Phinney, Wayne Moore , I. Jam es Ptkl, Ja ck Lewu;, Wm for d Hungate, W tlliam Hen r y, John Jacobs , Robert Bu rton, George Freytag, Larry Dunlap, Roy Dean, Howard Campbell, Pau l Kotsc hwar . Bottom r ow: Car lisle Lam bert, Wallace Con ov er, Charles Creager, Dale Fuehrer, Rober t K elley, Wallace Moon, K enneth B eav er, John Mokler . (~ig~t) Visiting Acacians at th e Installation of Wyoming Represented in the picture are m em bers of the Colorado Chapter, "..V htch mstalled t he new chapter, Kan sas State Chapter, an d Iowa State Chapter.

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Chapter History Through the ages, there always has been that mysterious, indescribable something about the spacious plains and colorful, lofty altitudes which has inspired man to a better appreciation of the real values of life Perhaps it was with this intangible motivation that three Alumni members of Acacia came together in the Laramie valley fringed by the Med.icine Bow mountains under the expansive, blue canopy of Wyoming sky. It was there on a warm, sunny aftemoon in April, 1940, that the forces of destiny occasioned the eventful meeting of Fred C. Freytag, Lewis W. Webber, and Carl S. Gilbert who formed a new triangle of brotherhood on the University of Wyoming campus.

In the weeks following, a number of capable men united themselves in the bonds of mutual interest to form this new fraternity . The founding members

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Freytag, Lewis W. Webber, Carl S. Gilbert, F r ed B. Morgan, Lamens Anderson, Warren W. Gonder, Carl M. Gonder, Carl Brookey, Jack Gottlieb, Frederick L. Hilgert, Hugh C. W. Huntley, Walter H. Saunders, and Stanley Abramson. It was the hope of these men to ultimately affiliate themselves with the Acacia F raternity . In the early days of organization, J . A. Thompson and C. A. Neeper also contributed generously of their time and efforts.

The fraternity was built on a sturdy foundation as the steps taken and suggested by those founding members were deliberate and well-planned. Accomplishments of those men included the writing and adopting of an Initiation Ritual and Constitution, recognition by the University of Wyoming, and membership to the Inter-fraternity Council.

The fraternity's first home was es-

tablished at 456 North 8th Street in Laramie. This home was maintained until the end of the spring quarter 1941. Due to the need for larger quarters, a second home was established at 412 South 11th Street. This home was maintained until June, 1942. The fraternity then gave up its house because it felt the loss of its members to the armed forces, and the male enrollment at the University dropped tremendously so that future pledging was practically out of the question. The fraternity became inactive during the war years; but, with the cessation of hostilities, more and more veterans returned to college, and the fraternity was reorganized around a nucleus of former members.

The goal of becoming an Acacia Chapter was the goal of every member of Alpha K appa Iota, and the realization of that goal on April 20, 1947, was the crowning achievement in the history of the organization.

Scenes at the Wyoming Installation (Upper left) (Left to Right) Carl S . Gilbert, University of Wyoming; J. Arthur Thompson, Denver, Colorado; Dr. Robert Lewis, Denver, Colorado; Roy Clark, Executive Secretary; Dr. Fred C. Freytag, University of Wyoming . ( Lower Left) A. L. Keeney, Dean of Men at Wyoming; Robert Kelley, Wyoming V!!nerable Dean; Roy Clark; W. 0 . Edmondson, University of Wyoming. (Upper Right) Dr. Robert Lewis and Glen Bullen, Venerable Dean of the Colorado Chapter. (Lower R ight) W. J . (Bill) Peycke, Past V. D. of the Kansas State Chapter; Fran k Griffith, Iowa State Chapter; Robert Kelley; Glen Bullen.

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When Greek Meets Greek

By ERNEST H. HAHNE HERE is a tradition, dating back to the time of people who should have known, that the Indian word "Miami" m eant mother . Nowadays people usually forge t that the name is aboriginal at all; and cultured Easterners give it a rich, garlicky Italian twang, as they drawl it at you in melodious tones, "Mee-aw-mee." However the old tradition lingers in its sava~e beauty and takes a real significance in the eyes of those muchabused but naively self-sufficient college organizations, the Greek-letter fraternities. For out of the loins of little old Miami, in the years "befo' de wah," arose in turn three of the largest, most prosperous, and most widely-extended of these secret brotherhoods.

Far be it form this sketch to attempt discussion of the impulses or ideals which operate to produce these unions of choice spirits, these gatherings of the elect, or whatever else they choose to call themselves. The closed circle of intimates is as old as time ; and contemporary with it arose a tendency to inward "peeve" and consuming jealousy among those just outside the circle. If twenty picked men are gathered from a possible hundred, the pathetic part is not played by the hundredth man, but by Number 21. When Og and Glug, among the pre-Adamite cavedwellers, happened upon a valley where sweet red berries grew, invited Wap to share their secret, and gathered daily in their close retreat to munch and snooze and barter co~fidences ; when they decked themselves with the shiny fruit, leered in the faces of Tub and Blub-who weren't askedand called themselves a string of gutturals meaning in their lingo "Order of the Sacred Grotto where the Red Berry Grows": there appeared, in germ, the Greek letter fraternity minus the Greek.

In the college community there is particula r n eed for these limited brotherhoods. A fellow can't intimately fellowship a whole school, and there have to be the chosen few whose h earts thump in unison with his. To these alone he goes with the hopeless problem in algebra or the perfectly bully note from the gir l with the br own eyes; these only ar e permitted to loan him m oney when dad's allowance is all

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Editcn-'s No te: T his aTtic !e is t h e summaTy of an ad dTess by DT. Hahne during the o bsero~nce '?f GTeek Wee~ at the UniveTsity of C mpn~tL. DT. H ahne t.s presid ent of Miami UmveTstty at OxfOTd, O hio .

spent, or to share the luscious box of ''eats" that mother always sends on birthdays. A heartless world may scoff, or bone-headed reporters write scathing sarcasm of the "rah-rah boys from the Eata Bitea Pie crowd." But somehow ther e's nowhere else in college life where real youth-red-blooded, sizzling, affectionate youth-gets expression so adequately as in the comradeship of fr aternity halls.

To be sure their secrets and occult mysteries savor of a colossal farce. A Greek motto that not one undergraduate in twenty would r ecognize if he met it in broad daylight out on College A venue; a set of digital contor tions suggesting life-long agonies with rheumatic joints and called a grip ; a ritual pieced together out of empty but resounding phrases and calculated to make candidates forget the miseries of the hot sands outside. Beyond these, only the secrecy that belongs to ever y firm or corporation-the privilege of attending to its own business. They tell us too that these Greeks waste precious time, and squander papa's shekels, and cultivate snobbishness, and acquire false ideas of life ; some of which are dire charges if they should be true.

They tell us, truthfully enough, that many a perfectly good fellow never "makes a fr at;" and yet he learns his lessons like a little man and goes out into the great old world, perhaps even to become vice-president or invent a new breakfast-food. None of these propositions does it behoove us to argue, but a few fundamental truths of life keep staring at us till we're crosseyed. Most men revel in a secret, even a trivial secret, almost as much as a woman does. The harshest criticisms of fraternity life come from those who know next to nothing about it. We have quit heaping criticism on the church every time a class-leader makes tracks for Canada. The fellow who didn't make a frat, even though it was composed of his inferiors, was usually in the recipient condition of our old friend Barkis. Finally, the clan spirit never has been crowded out and shows no signs of disappearing. Now let us turn to our mutton.

The Greek fraternity made its appearance at Oxford when Miami was ten years old. In the fall of 1835 Samuel Eels came into Ohio from Hamilton College and settled in Cincinnati to practice law. At Hamilton he had been a member of Alpha Delta Phi, insti-

ERNEST H. HAHNE Northwestern '21 tuted ther e three years before. As he fell in with various Miami graduates and students about the city, it occurred to Eels that here was a fine chance to do a little missionary work and extend the field of his new fraternity. The process was delightfully simple. Selecting W. S . Groesbeck, C. L. Tilford and J. B. Temple as the most promising material, he called himself into executive session, voted these men into the organization without a single blackball, and, having found them willing to assume the trust, promptly initiated them at his office in Cincinnati. Then he notified the Hamilton chapter that they had a nice new brother out here in the Ohio Valley, and he already bore a marked resemblance to the family.

There wasn's much red tape about those times.

The first activities of the baby chapter were entirely in the dark. It was getting its eyes open, so to speak. Nine members were enrolled before even the existence of the thing was revealed.

Then the president of the university, who had a pious horror of all secr et societies, was asked one day to read an announcement of one of their meetings.

Laboriously he spelled it out, "the Alpha and Delta and Phi Society," and his hostile suspicions were aroused from that moment. This feeling apparently was one of the few things passed on to Doctor Junkin, for in the last year of his brief administration the latter issued a written protest to the trustees against the existence of the

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Brother Acacians: As we separate for the summer recess, let us each be watchful for likely pledges in the communities where we spend our vacations.

When we meet a chap who is going to college, let us inquire where he expects to attend, get dates for him with the Acacia Chapter at that school, and send his name to the Chapter. Both prospective pledges and our Chapters will appreciate the courtesy extended.

* * * * Resumption of Regional Conferences again is planned. They afford opportunity for most of the members of each Chapter in a conference to get together to discuss common problems and become better acquainted for their mutual pleasure and profit. These week-end meetings will not interfere with class attendance.

Training school topics will be prepared and presented under direction of the traveling secretaries.

* * * * Our traveling secretaries spend most of their time m the field with the Chapters, active and reactivating, and petitioning groups-affording them direct and personal contacts with the Central Office and with other Chapters. Their mission is to ¡give the Chapters the benefit of their experiences, to point out deficiencies and to aid in correcting them on the spot. They are advisors, rather than policemen.

A recent letter from the Chapter Advisor of one of our strongest Chapters suggested tha¡t the traveling secretary's recent visit to his Chapter was a waste of time, that his Chapter knew its deficiencies and was doing the best it could to correct them. He was reminded that heads of the soundest and largest banks welcome the bank examiners because they get new ideas and suggestions for improvement of their banks from the objective and comparative analysis of their institutions made by outsiders familiar with the condition of banks generally.

Too often in the past we have assumed that because a Chapter was strong, it would always remain so-only to be called in after the crash to pick up the pieces.

With traveling secretaries on the job, we hope to be able to anticipate difficulty for a Chapter and to eliminate the weak spots or offset them before the Chapter is carri-ed down by them.

The traveling secretaries are employed for your benefit. When one calls on your Chapter, use his visit to straighten out all your own problems. He knows first hand how those problems are being solved elsewhere in Acacia and the fraternity world. Make the most use of that experience.

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N ational President

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Get Out of That Rut!

By CHARLES F. KETTERING Vice-President and Director, General Motors Corporation Printed by Permission of the Rotarian HAT I'm look ing for just n ow is some finely educated person who will write a treatise on Th e Theory of Rutology. In it I want him to tell all that is known about rutswhen to stay in them , when to get out, and, if getting out, how to do so without wrecking everything.

The reason I am searching for such a study is that I think ruts-mental ones, of course--are our chief problem as we push further into this postwar world. Not that they are a new problem-far from it!

We had been running along for years in some deep worn old grooves when war hit us at an intersection and jolted us out. Then we quickly went to work and made some more--par ticularly in our postwar thinking. A good bit of our planning was unidirectional. It could work only one way ; it made no allowances for unknown factors ; it couldn't turn where it might have to ; it was in a rut. Which always reminded me of the two young chemists who latched onto a great idea. Selling a banker on it-they must have been good!-they got a loan, built a laboratory in the country, and went to work.

One Winter morning a farmer stopped and asked if he could come in and get warm. After watching the two men for some time, he asked what they were making.

"We are chemists," they replied "and we are working on the most won-' derful thing in the world. We are developing a universal solvent."

"Eh ?" said the fa r mer.

"Well," they explained, "we are making a liquid that will dissolve anything you put into it. It is going to be of tremendous value to the chemical industry. Everybody has been looking for it. It's amazing! " "Yup," said the farme r, getting up to leave, "but what are you going to keep the dang stuff in?"

Now, planning is all right- it's necessary, in fact, to give direction to your efforts-and I hope you business and professional men who read this did some during th e war years. But any researcher will tell you that y ou don't follow a plan far before you str ike a snag. If out of 100 ideas we get one or two that work, we are con tent. I've always felt s orry, by th e way, for the kid who fails in grammar school. He flunks

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one exam and is out. A research man, on the other hand, flunks 999 times, but if he succeeds once, he's in!

Our great job, as a matter of fact, is to teach people how to fail intelligently. By now, for instance, you have unrolled those beautiful blueprints you made in 1942 or 1943. Maybe your midwar thinking already strikes you as having been pretty narrowly channelled. Maybe you will fail with these plans, but if you do fail, find out why.

In research, much of our work is simply that of being scientific janitor s. We just clean up some stuff some other fellow started but dropped when it aGquired a bad reputation. However, if you want to see what we owe to the chap who made the start, drop in at your local museum.

The other day someone asked me what I'd talk about if I were speaking to a bunch of young fellows. I answered that one thing I would say would be: "Don't discount the past or overemphasize the future, because so many of the things of the past which we accept as fixed things are not fixed at all. " And I added that I would illustrate with this story: Some years ago someone turned over to us an automobile spring that kept breaking. Mechanically, it was the simplest piece of material you could think of-merely a bar of steel 18 inches long, 2 inches wide, and one-quarter of an inch thick. Could we find or produce a spring like that which wouldn't break?

To six or seven of our best spring makers we sent a description of that piece of steel and asked them how many flexings , or bends, we could get out of the best spring they could produce to those specifications. All of them came back with the estimate that at about 2,000 flexings their spring would be expected to preak. That wasn't good enough, and we asked "I sn' t there anything that can be done' to 'up' that limitation?"

Everybody said, "No." So we said, "Will you make us up some pieces and identify them with secret markings so we can't tell them apart? We will then give them a treatm ent and send them back to you. Then y ou test them." They agreed.

After giving the bars our surface treatment, we sent them back, and in

the hands of their own makers they went through 2 million cycles-2 million up and down bends!-without breaking. That was a slight increase in percentage over the 2,000 cycles the spring makers had promised-a 100,000 per cent increase, in fact, which is considerably better than the interest rate at the bank nowadays.

What was that surface treatment we gave? Merely a shot blast-which is a hail of little steel balls each about onesixteenth of an inch in diameter hurled by air pressure or centrifugal force against whatever you're treating.

Somehow that punishment makes the molecules in the steel clutch each other with a new fervor, resulting in a tremendously greater overall toughness.

The fact is we have not broken any of those pieces of steel even at 5 million bends!

My point is that any respectable spring-steel man in the world would have accepted the 2,000 fiexings as a pretty fixed thing. We found that it was not fixed at all. We found that out not because we were smart, but because we had to and therefore tried things off the beaten path.

I like to tell the story of Duco paint.

We used to finish cars with the same

The Triad, Summer, 1947 varnish you put on pianos. It took 17 days for cheaper cars, 35 days for more expensive ones. One day I called in all the paint experts and said we'd have to shorten the time.

"We can shorten it a couple of days," they finally admitted.

"I am talking about really reducing the time," I said. "Why can't you paint a car in an hour?"

They said, "The paint won't dry." · "Can't you do something to speed it up? " I asked.

"Not a thing in the world."

So I went looking for paints that would dry fast and one day in a jewelry-store window on Fifth Avenue I saw some little pin trays that had a new type of lacquer on them. I bought a 70cent tray for $11.50 and asked the manager where he got it. He sent me to the manufacturer, who steered me to a little bit of a laboratory over in New Jersey. I asked for a quart of that lacquer.

"My goodness," the fellow in this one-man shop answered, "I never made a quart of it before. What do you want to do with it?"

"I want to finish an automobile door with it," I told him.

"You can never do that," he said.

"Why not?" I asked.

"If you put it in one of your spray guns," he answered, "it will dry before it hits the door."

"Can't you slow it down?"

"Nope, that's impossible! " So the thing you call Duco is simply something halfway between the paint they couldn't ·speed up and the paint they couldn't slow down, and since then we have finished quite a few automobiles in an hour's time.

I could go on for 20 pages with examples of how "grooved in" we get. In Detroit there are a couple of automobile companies that happen to make rear-axle gears of about the same size, but one uses nickel-steel alloys and the other uses chrome molybdenum.

Tests show the gears to be equally good. Yet if you crossed up those two companies and gave the nickel-steel processors the chrome molyb9enum and vice versa, you would get no rearaxle gears out of either, because each would come to you with a perfectly conclusive report proving that nobody can make axle gears using that material. · One more story just to hammer a clinching nail into my point. It's about a material known as an extreme pressure lubricant-and how it came to be.

You've been down to the fairs and industrial shows and have seen the oil exhibits and have heard all the talk about "the body of oil." Well, we built a testing machine one time, and when

95 it was done, I told the boys in the lab- other, so that, in five or ten years, oratory that we were going to play a you'll be surprised to note how the game with it. items have changed.

"This fine machine here," I said, "is But don't go fancying ills. Let the now a very dangerous weapon, let's thing that's wr ong cry out for yow· pretend. And it belongs to your worst aid. We have a very definite pr ocedure enemy. With it he can kill you and in our laboratory. We let the problem your family. However, you are going to be the boss. We don't make a piston a prescribe for me the worst possible certain way just, because we want to thing with which he can lubricate it. make it a cer tain way. We set up an That's part of the game." experiment and let the engine say, "I The chemists went into a huddle and don't like the piston that you'v e stuck soon announced, "We've got it: ether ." in me. Try another." That's research, Now, ether is about as thin a thing as fo r my money- because every honest you can get. It was a clever choice. researcher I know admits he's just a We had previously tested the ma- professional amateur. He's doing whatchine using regular oil and had found ever he's doing for the first time. That it would stand about 6,000 pounds per makes him an amateur. He has sense square inch. "How much will it stand enough to know that he's going to have with ether?" I asked. Someone had a lot of trouble, so that makes him pronerve enough to say 300 pounds. So we fessional. started to load the machine up very We like to say we're entering a new gently and, to make a long stor y short, world. Maybe so. Maybe not. We've we ran out of weights at 30,000 pounds. had peace before-325 years of it out I said, "That would have been a swell of the last 2,000, I think. I devoutly thing to give your enemy, wouldn't it?" hope it's peace fr om here on out this When we showed it to the oil fel- time. But aren't w e going to have molows, they said, "The only thing that torcars made of plastics, and television makes us sore is that we didn't do it. in color, and houses in boxes? If we This is our business, not yours." want them, we'll have them because a "You couldn't do it," I answered. successful manufacturer is one who "You wouldn't allow anybody to come satisfies his customers, not himself. into your laboratories and poke at the But the point I'm coming to is that we very foundations of your business. If ought to walk into this new (?) world one of your new boys had asked, 'Why in a spirit of humility. We ought to ·not lubricate with ether?' you would come right out and admit that we don't have fired him." know ver y much about anything.

How do we get into these ruts, anyA bunch of fellows sitting around way? Sometimes we hit upon a process my office once asked me, "What ar e that seems to work well enough and some of the problems that are worryso we go on using it without any fur- ing you?" ther effort to discover the limiting fac"Well," I said, "one is why I can see tors. I don't think the word "laziness" through a pane of glass." is quite elegant enough to describe the "That's simple," one br ight youth condition, so let's call it "indetermi- explained. "It's because the glass is nate action" or something like that. In transparent." any case, research is the only way out, Webster's Dictionary says that someas fa r as I know. Now, there's a word thing transparent is something you that has been so glamorized it has al- can see through. So what my young most lost its meaning. Here's my defini- friend had said was, "You can see tion: "Research is a process of finding through a pane of glass because you out what you are going to do when you can see through a pane of glass." It can't keep on doing what you are do- sounded much better when he said ing now." The fellow who says, "I'll be "transparent." damned if I know"-he needs r esearch.

What makes grass green? I put some You don't have to have a laboratory young men on the job of finding out to do research. You can carry a lab- 17 years ago and told them I hoped oratory around in your pocket. Take they'd all have large families because. the back of that letter you forgot to this would probably prove to be a twomail six months ago and write on it ten or three-generation undertaking. Sure, things about your business that you we know it's the chlorophyll that wish you could fix, and, of course, put makes grass gr eerl-but what does the one that has been worrying you chlorophyll mean ? Simply "a green the most at the top. If you write down leaf." We don't know a bit more about those ten things you don't like about it in Greek than we do in English. Still, your business, or about yourself, or this whole question of green grass is about anybody else-then, if you take terr ibly important. If plants didn't all this seriously enough, you can start know how to catch the sunlight and to fix those things. Fixing one some- preserve it for us for food and clothing (Conti n ued em page 116) where in the list will help you fix an-

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American Youth Hostels HIS summer over a hundred of the United States. The Rolling thousand American youth, " be- Youth Hostels are railroad cars tween four and 94" will hit the equipped with bunks, washrooms, and open roads of America and Europe, as cooking facilities, which can be sidemembers of A YH-American Youth tracked anywhere on the hostel trail Hostels, Inc. Part of a world-wide to serve as a home base for side trips movement started in Germany in 1910, to national parks and historical points. the idea of youth hosteling was brought The aim of all these trips is to permit to America by two school teachers who students and other young people, unopened the fust hostel in this country der capable leaders, to travel inexin 1933 at Northfield, Massachusetts. pensively in a manner that will best And what is "hosteling"? It can enable them to see how the people of mean riding horseback up to the Plain other places live, and to understand of the Seven Glaciers from Lake and appreciate their problems and talLouise in Canada, biking down the ents. highway from Crater Lake in Oregon, To stay at a hostel, here or abroad, or climbing to the summit of Mount Washington on skis. It means any kind one needs only to possess a hostel pass (in this country it costs $1.50 for those of travel "under one's own steam," where the traveler stays at hostels on under twenty-one, $2.50 if twenty-one or over) pay 35c for each overnight, the trail.

What is a hostel? It might be a luxu- and take with him a sheet-sleeping rious ranch in sunny California, or the sack. An A YH pass with a foreign front rooms of someone's home. A hos- sticker (25c) enables one to stay at tel is an inexpensive place to stay, hostels anywhere in the world.

The purpose of A YH, a none-profit where youth-loving houseparents welcome the travelers, show them around, organization is "to give all, especially and help to have a pleasant visit. They young people, a greater knowledge, show them the kitchen facilities where understanding, and love of the world hostelers prepare their own meals, and by providing for them Youth Hostels the dust-pan and broom which hostel- in America and by assisting them in ers use to clean up the hostel after their travels both here and abroad; to enable youth, through hosteling, themselves.

The hostels themselves are scattered not only to enjoy the cultural benefits all over the country-wherever a local of travel, but also to win them to a council has been successful in inter- keen appreciation of the out-of-doors esting the communities to provide that they may thereby develop hapthem. By 1946 there were 206 hostels pier, stronger, cleaner, and more in the United States; before the war there were 5,000 hostels in twenty different countries. Many of the hostels in Europe were bombed during the war, and either destroyed or seriously damaged. That is why American hostelers are so anxious to go to Europe: to help the European hostelers rebuild their hostels. This will not only pave the way for better hosteling in Europe for all; at the same time it is helping American and European boys and girls to better understand each other. The Americans work without pay; in fact it cost them $600 apiece to make the trip. In Europe they formed work groups with English hostelers, and fanned out into Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. Last year the American Youth Hostel organization sent one hundred hostelers to Europe for reconstruction work; this summer it hopes to send five times that number.

A YH also sponsors trips to Mexico, Central America, Canada, and AlasAmerican hoste~ers unload their bikes at ka, as well as local trips in all regions tour of Europe. Part of their time is spent

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wholesome lives; to make possible, through hosteling, wide friendships that will link youth with youth the world over."

HAs You Sow" There's none can say that I have planted love As one would place a seedling young and green: The furrow measured well, the soil above So lightly fum; nor yet have I been seen To set a sapling deep, the tender bole Well braced with shafts yet free to yield unmaimed To shifting winds; and none will me extol For patience spent with bulbs. Oh no, untamed, Impulsive ways of those who freely sow From palms outstretched are mine.

There's no pretext In what I do, but trust in what I know: What does not flourish one year thrives the next And when it's needed most. Ah, you will reap When other men in hunger cannot sleep.

"If Winter Comes ... " Pontiac-on-Vermillion.

Antwerp, Belgium, ready for a summer repairing the war-torn European hostels.

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Amplifications and Ad Lib ttBullis T exanus" May 17 marked the celebration of Founders' Day at the Washington chapter house as the chapter was host to the alumni for the usual bountiful repast. Arthur Luther, an illustrious alum of the class of '17 presided as toastmaster while other contributions to the evening's events were made by Lloyd Erickson, '27, Bernie Anderson, '37, and Willard Zellmer, '47. Although unaware of the fact, Gene Guthrie had been selected by a secret canvass of the house as possessing the most forensic ability on non-serious subjects. In appreciation of his past performances in this art, the house bestowed upon him the honorary title of "Keeper of the Bull" and granted him the privilege of wearing their medal, Bullis Texanus, which is customarily awarded annually to such talented personages. During the dinner Gene was informed of his new title, and presented with the medal, by effervescent Roy Buckley. In addition Roy granted Gene a privilege desired by many but yielded to few-to address the group for as long as he wished. In fact-to show due respect to the listeners for the honors bestowed-he had to speak until everyone had left the room!

All Men Desire By Nature to Know Says President Stringfellow Barr of St. John's College, Annapolis: "This sentence was true when Aristotle wrote it in Greek, over two thousand years ago. But it is also true today. If we could remember how true it is today in plain English, we would be remembering what America is.

"All men desire by nature to know.

Aristotle is not hedging, the way we are doing. He means all-men and women, rich and poor, black and white, young and old. Of course he met men who seemed not to want knowledge: everybody meets them. He also met men who seemed not to want food.

But if a man stops wanting food, there's something the matter with him, physically. If he stops wanting to learn, there's something the matter with him mentally. By nature he has to eat-and he has to learn. If he stops eating, his stomach shrinks, his body gets thin, his face gets pale.

"If he stops learning, his mind shrinks, his thoughts get thin, his talk gets pale-and boring. Aristotle's sen-

tence is the charter for every school and college in the land. It is the license for every teacher. He is telling us why we Americans want education to be for everybody.

"He is telling us why we know in our hearts that grown-ups need it as much as children do-or more.

"He is reminding u s again that people just naturally want to leam. And he knows that people just natur ally need to be reminded. For-also by nature, alas!-all men forget the things they most desire."

Campus Ethics 1. That the primar y loyalty and responsibility of any student in his relations with his university are to the university.

2. That the organized groups should cooperate and participate in the activities of the university and its organizations, as individuals, as a basis for broadening its univer sity associations.

3. That the association of any number of students as an organized group involves the definite responsibility of the group for the conduct of the individual so that his contr acts with other organizations, the university and the public will reflect credit on the university.

4. That the organized group should promote conduct consistent with good morals and good taste, and respect for the property and policies of each other, university and the public.

5. That all adverse or derogatory criticism of any other organized gr oup, its policies, finances and personnel must be eliminated.

6. That the organized group should create an atmosphere which will stimulate the intellectual and character development of its members and should maintain a normal social life, sound

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business p ractices, constructive standards and healthful activities.

7. That the organized group must inculcate a sense of responsibility to self, to college, to country, and to societ y.

8. That, the or ganized gr oup shall wor k a t all times to become an effective and integr ated part of the entire univer sity and the campus community-Code of Ethics adopted by the Inte1·fraternity Council, University of Washington.

Babies on the Campus There are more than 100,000 GI babies on the campuses of American colleges today.

This estimate was made by Miss Emma C. Puschner, national child welfare director of The American Legion on the basis of the tabulation of the reports from the first 62 colleges and universities to reply in the GI campus baby survey she is making.

Director Puschner said the repor ts indicate that about 30 per cent of all GI student at colleges today ar e married and about 30 per cent of them have babies.

Replies of college presidents and deans contain many expressions that the million or more veterans now enrolled in the nation's colleges ar e a self-reliant lot, who if given half a chance, will solve their own difficulties of readjustment in crowded university towns.

The reports show, however, that overtaxing of medical facilities, difficulty of stretching the $90-a-mon th allowance of married students to m eet present prices, shor tage of housing and the difficulty of finding space, equipment, qualified p ersonnel and finances for day nur series, constitute the major campus problems of married students.

The survey disclosed that many college authorities were worried about the possibility of a serious health problem on the nation's campuses during the winter m onths.-Diary of AKPsi. A meticulous scholar n amed B r eeze, Weighed dow n by A .B.s and Litt. D.s, Collapsed from the strain; Alas, it w as plain He w as killing himself by degrees.

-Quoted by John L. Seaton, Io Triumphe (Albion College alumni magazine).

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the World Qyer Joins Detroit Lions Tommy James, Ohio '42, halfback and captain-elect of the Ohio State football team, has signed a 1947 contract with the Detroit Lions. Tommy was a sophomore halfback for the Buckeyes in 1942 when they defeated Michigan in the last game of the season to win the Western Conference title.

He spent the next three years in the Army and returned to Ohio State last fall.

He said that he had decided to turn professional immediately for financial reasons, although he had another year of college eligibility left. He will continue his studies at Ohio State. Previously, he rejected an offer fr om Paul Brown, coach of the Cleveland Browns in the All American Conference. As a high school boy he had played for Brown at Massillon, Ohio.

Jesse Edward Hutchinson, Michigan '33, who served in the Coast Artillery during the war, was elected a member of the Michigan State House of Representatives last Fall, and took office on . January 1. While an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Brother Hutchinson was on the Daily staff and was a member of the Tower Club, Union committees and the Undergraduate Council Committee. He is from Fennville, Michigan.

Stuart W. Chur chill, Michigan ' 40, was married to Donna L ewis at Carlinville, Illinois, in F ebruary, 1946. He is employed by the Frontier Chemical Company at Denver City, T exas, and may be addressed at Box 1148, Seagroves, Texas.

Lewis G. Christman, Michigan '12, first elected to the Michigan State House of Representatives in 1944, was

Harold Milton Lacy, Michigan '14, an active member of the University of Michigan Club of Akron, Ohio, passed away on December 17, 1946, following a heart attack. He was born June 21, 1890, at Warren, Pennsylvania. While at the University of Michigan he served on the Student Council and was a member of Druids. After leaving Ann Arbor he was with B. F. Goodrich Company at Akron.

Jacob Oscar Jones, Kansas '08, is Dean of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Kansas. Being a man of rare human understanding, he is as much interested in his students as in the subjects he teaches, and because of this his level-headed opinion is much sought by groups planning worthwhile activities.

On April9 the Acacia Club of Philadelphia held its regular semiannual meeting, at the Franklin Chapter House. This club is made up of alumni of the Franklin Chapter and it is to these men that the active chapter is indebted for the reopening of the house. Dr. George Nitzsche, presid~nt of the club and one of the founders of the chapter, delivered an address to the alumni.

To Head K. U. Alumni Clay C. Carper, Kansas '17, has been chosen by the nominating committee of the Alumni Association of the University of Kansas as its candidate for President for the mail ballot election.

The list of nominees presented by this committee are all veterans of World War II. Brother Carper has been practicing law successfully in Eureka, Kansas, for many years, being one of the betterknown lawyers in Southeast Kansas.

He stands ace high in his profession and as a substantial citizen of his community. He represented his district in the State Legislature in the 1937 regular session, in the 1938 special session, and in the 1939 and 1941 regular sessions. In 1939 he was Speaker pro-tem, and in 1941 he became Speaker of the House. From 1939 to 1942 he was a member of the Legislative Council.

Clay enter ed the U.S. Naval Reserve in December, 1942, as a Lieutenant in the Intelligence Service. He was stationed in the district Intelligence office in Chicago until the following November at which time he was sent to

the zone Intelligence office in Kansas City where he later attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander and was in charge of the office. His release from duty came in November, 1945. He still retains his standing and rank in the Naval Reserve Intelligence Service.

Last January, he was called to To-

CLAY C. CARPER peka to serve as First Assistant Attorney General.

The Carpers have three children: James, now married and living in Palo Alto, California; Robert, a freshman at K . U.; and Jeannie, a senior in Eureka high school. Both boys were in the Naval Service during the war.

Also on the slate of candidates of the nominating committee for membership on the Board of Directors of the Kansas Alumni Association is our own National President, Lloyd H. Ruppenthal, with whose record we are all very familiar. He was elected Vice-President of the Association in the spring of 1942, but left for service in the Army before he completed that one-year term. Brother Ruppenthal is a real leader and would be a valuable member of the board.

Jay J. Seaver, Michigan '09, has organized his own engineering company under the name, Jay J. Seaver, Engineers, at 100 North LaSalle Street, Chicago. His son, James, is associated with him.

Paul W. Kabler, Kansas '29, a Major while in the Army Medical Corps, has now returned to 2419 35th Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Minnesota, with Mrs. Kabler and Mac, their six-yearold son.

Frank M. Kerr, Jr., Michigan '33, is a technical director for the American Oil Supply Company at Newark, New Jersey. He lives at 14 Crest Place, Springfield, New Jersey.

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CJJoings zn the Chapters California The summer issue of the Triad finds us simply recovering-no more, no less.

We at California have been slightly overwhelmed with many and varied events this semester, beginning with our pilgrimage to Los Angeles the week-end of March 8, to install the new chapter of Acacia at the University of Southern California.

The initiation was held at the University Club of Los Angeles, and was followed by a banquet that evening. Among the 26 initiates were Robert E. Vivian, Dean of Engineering at USC, and Thomas Clements, Professor of Geology, who will serve as faculty advisors. Other notables present were Walter Kolbe, former National President of Acacia, Robert F. Craig, head of the Department of Commercial Aviation at USC, and Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Chancellor of USC, all of whom were instrumental in founding the new chapter. A pleasant surprise was the arrival of David L . Sibbet, Michigan '04, who lived at our chaptc.r house a few years ago, and who regaled our more recent members with tales of "the old days." Commendations are here in order for Bruce Dwelley, former Venerable Dean here at Cal, for his fine work in conducting the installation, and to the new members of Acacia and their alumni association, for their splendid cooperation.

Know ye all, then, by these presents, that the California chapter of Acacia is this year 42 years old. This venerable age was celebrated Friday, April 18, at the annual Founder's Day banquet, held in the chapter house, with over 100 active members and cash customers (alumni, if you prefer) present. Reese Clark, Sr., California, held up bravely as master of ceremonies, and Bob Tessier, assistant on Cal's new coaching staff, did a fine job pinch-hitting as speaker for head coach Lynn Waldorf, who was unable to attend as planned. After a sumptuous banquet, some enthusiastic, but short-lived paddle swinging, and much vociferous (and discordant) singing of the ''old songs," the alumni tripped merrily home imbued with joyous college spirit; not a few, I am happy to report, with a different, but every bit as joyful, kind of spirit. Suffice it to say, a remarkable time was had by all.

A rousing cheer for those newly "seeking the light" at California; by name, Don McCormack, Rio Vista; Mel Dykes, Modesto; Bob Hyerle and Reese Clark, Jr., both of Berkeley, and Russ Koch of Oakland, whom we have captur-uh, whom we have been pleased to accept as pledges in the hall of Acacia. Relatives and friends of the pledges will be happy to hear that all are alive and well, with no signs of weakness as yet.

Came February, and with it a most memorable event-our exchange dance

with Olny Hall of nearby Mills College for Women. A modified version of the "exchange," we offered the chapter house for an evening of frolic in return for the company of about 40 girls from the Hall.

The house was decorated in accordance with the theme, "Prison Knights," even to the extent of a "solitary confinement cell," which was craftily built in a dimly lighted section of the dining room. This structure, oddly enough, was the scene of a small disturbance when George "The Beast" Robson's girl came leaping madly from within, bursting through the paper walls-obviously in a state of rare excitement. Impetuous boy, George.

An unhappy note in this journal is the sad fate of our budding composer, Russ Connors. After completing a "rousing Acacia song," he proceeded in a spark of inspiration to write the words and melodies to half a dozen new songs. Unfortunately, he was unable to remember which words went with which tunes, and went insane. We had hoped, at first, for a quick recovery, but, as his derangement increases by the hour, it is feared that we shall have to do away with him.

NEWS ITEM : From rugby supporters at Acacia comes the interesting report that the expletive "Bully!" is fast replacing archaic methods of cheering. "Bully! " rising to new heights at Cal's recent rugby match with the British Columbia Thunderbirds, will soon render the term "rahrah" as obsolete as "twenty-three skidoo! " We are still reminiscing pleasantly over our February Barn Dance, held on the 29th to be exact, at which everyone "had a ball." Added to the informal atmosphere created by huge piles of hay were the inspiring costumes of various membersBill Arsenault, flamboyant as " Zoot-Suit Yokum," of L'il Abner fame ; Bob Force, scowling ferociously and dressed in black as the ancient frontier sheriff; Dean Yeaman, the old-time bartender, complete with drooping mustache; and Mel Dykes, as some sort of fantastic yokel, to name a few.

A vote of thanks at this time to Jim Campbell and Mel Dykes, social chairman and assistant respectively, for their work in making this party a huge success.

Jim is now planning the annual Pledge Formal, to be held in May, and we all anticipate another fine evening.

An expected turn of events was the appointment of Dick Hirschfeld as President of the Junior Birdmen's Club, an interAcacia group composed of men, who, by committing a certain social blunder, have managed to find their way into the bad graces of all and sundry.

"GRISLY APPARITION" DEPARTMENT: Dick Burns, after wearing his hair in an extra-short crew-cut, lo these many years, has finally been persuaded by his fiancee to let it grow out, which it is doing in all directions, and at all angles. A sad, sad, sightThe intra-mural baseball season is well under way at California, with Acacia's

star-studded team right in the midst of it .

Thus far we have won four games, due in a large part to the fin e pitching and receiving of Bob Frye and H arry L arsen respectively, and the potent bat of Bob Grimshaw. By some chance, we have won all four games by the same score, 3 to 2, which has caused the University newspaper, the "Daily Californian," to speak of our victories as being "eked out." Harsh words, thoseOFT-SEEN SIGHTS AROUND ACACIA: "The Beast" on the roof, silhouetted against the sky, peering intently through a long telescope, and obviously in quest of scientific knowledge. At what does he gaze? Is it a meteor? Is it a new planet?

Is it the Phi Omega Pi sorority house?

Ed Aiken, who refuses to take off his dark glasses, being led around the house at nightSeveral men struggling vainly with wrestler Dave Fredrickson, trying to pin him down, and invariably ending up fiat on their backsHarry Riegal, with an armload of modernistic Stan Kenton records, and A. John Forder, reeling under a load of ancient Dixieland discs, glaring at each other and racing for the phonographVenerable Dean Bob Force grinning sadistically as he fines some unsuspecting offender at the dinner table. (My hands tremble at the thought-) Glenn Lewis and Tom Pray leaving the house, beaming in anticipation of listening to StravinskyIn conclusion, a word of consolation to perenially-engaged Dick Burns, and especially to newly-affianced Harry Larsen, Russ Koch, and Ed Prewitt.

And on this sympathetic note-the End. JAMES B. HERNDON.

Cincinnati In the last two issues we have spoken of the pace here at Cincinnati. Well, as the saying goes, "We are just getting started."

We initiated nine men in February which brought the active roll up to 35, and ·we still have 12 pledges. Tihs is due to the recent addition of Walter Ibele, Franklin Patten, Albert Batik, Robert Leever, Dr. George Obrist, and Mr. William P. Greenawalt. These last two were members of the lucal Fellowcraft Fraternity from which the Cincinnati Chapter of Acacia developed. All these pledges are very promising men who are certain to be real assets to the chapter.

Among the actives recently in the limelight is Frank Sonnenberg who was elected secretary-treasurer of the campus Y. M. C. A. Acacia thus maintains its representation in that important organization. Charles Hahn strengthened·this representation by getting himself elected to

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Our athletic program is still so extensive that it uses nearly every man. Before we could recover form basketball and volleyball, there were softball, baseball and a rifle meet upon us. We have already had two Saturday afternoon practice sessions in softball, as well as a practice game against Theta Chi. Some of our crack-shots from the infantry are going to use their experience on the ROTC rifle range for that event. The trouble is that too many of them seem to have been BAR men instead of 745's. Bob Best, the intramural manager for the chapter, now has a team of 8 who will qualify and shoot for record between April 28 and 30. Those soft mats will certainly beat the mud, rocks and rain with which many of us are so familiar.

On February 14 the chapter held its annual Valentine Party. The living room was nicely decorated with all the hearts, arrows, etc., that go with this day. There was dancing, singing, and the best ice cream and cookies you ever tasted. Since then there have been too many all-university social affairs to permit another chapter function. In fact, even the university had trouble findin g time in which to schedule all of them. The Engineers Ball was on March 8, and that same week-end the Mummers Guild was presenting their play. A number of the fellows went to the ball, and we had a block of tickets reserved for the play. The following weekend we had another block for the Varsity Vanities, the school's annual variety show and musicale. The following week was taken up with WSSF activities. On March 18 each fraternity presented a skit featuring their candidate for the "Best-Built Man on Campus" in Wilson Auditorium.

Winners were judged by the skit, their attendance at the show, and their collections for the drive. The skits were fun , a lot of money was collected, and in addition those attending saw the movie "One Thousand and One Nights." This h EOctic week was climaxed by a huge dance sponsored by the Interfraternity Council and featuring nationally-known Ziggy Elman and his orchestra. At this dance the Goddess of the Greeks was crowned by the new City Manager of Cincinnati over a nation-wide radio hook-up.

Spring Vacation came along the week of April 13 to 19 to give us a breathing spell. Some of the fellows were still not wom out though. They came back to the house one day that week and accomplished an incredible amount of work about the house in preparation for the overload of engineers returning from work section April 28. The house was occupied the fol lowing week chiefly by men from Liberal Arts College, but we built a booth for the Sigma Sigma Carnival on April 28 just the same. The scheme for it was an archery range with balloons and other things for targets. The proceeds from the Carnival go for purchasing a score board for the football stadium, so it was time and money well spent.

The month of May promises to be a

busy one, too. We have ordered a block of tickets for the Mummers Play, "Joan of Lorraine," for Saturday, May 3. At 8: 00 t.'he next morning the initiation of pledges Greenawalt and Obrist is scheduled by the active and alumni chapter combined.

This will be an excellent way of working up an appetite for the big Founder's Day banquet that afternoon. Friday, May 9, we finally get a chance to hold another party of our own. Then on May 24 is the crown of our social activities-the Spring Formal. The band and Country Club have been booked for months, the invitations have been printed and are ready to mail, and the social chairman is counting his pennies to make sure he can swing the affair without going bankrupt. It promises to be a truly memorable occasion.

E. Joseph Faust and Mrs. Faust are making Dallas, Texas, their home for the present. He recommends marriage as one of the best institutions in the world and believes everyone should try it. He is a proud papa now.

James Hoefling is practising law with offices in the Third National Bank Building, Dayton, Ohio.

Monroe Horst has been discharged from the Navy and has returned to the treasurer's staff of the Proctor and Gamble Co. Bob Englert has resumed his work as teacher in the Cincinnati Public Schools.

The Cincinnati Chapter mourns the death recently of Mrs. Carl Schreiber, the mother of Bill Schreiber who was killed in action during the campaign against the Germans.

Election of chapter officers resulted as follows : Venerable Dean, Paul Weidner; Senior Dean, Frank Sonnenberg; Junior Dean, William Button; Secretary, Richard Brown ; Treasurer, Robert Waterfield; Ashler Trust Trustee, F. Norman Eichenberger ; Sentinel, D. Hill.

The Ashier Trust Company is now headed by the three trustees-George Patterson, Jr., President; George Bruner, Vice President, and Norman Eichenberger, Secretary and Treasurer. The trustees have made an appreciable reduction in the mortgage and have paid off the entire second mortgage . Those who have house notes not fully paid are requested to write to George and remit a check in full if possible so that the entire mortgage may be lifted very soon. There are enough outstanding unpaid notes to make this possible.

Chapter finances have been most carefully checked and are in good condition under the able supervision of Jack Lissenden. Jack has been very busy recently with his work in connection with the accounting firm with which he is ass~ciated, but he finds time in a busy life for hs Acacia contacts. The balance sheet shows a good record.

Acacians are appreciative of their neighbors who remonstrated successfully against the condemning of our beautiful oak tree by the city administration because it was growing over the sidewalk.

A neighborhood petition signed by all the neighbors was the means of obtaining permission to build a walk around the tree.

The entire chapter had two big preEaster parties at the home of the Chapter Adviser. At one a full-course turkey din-

ner was followed by bridge games and music. The second was a buffet luncheon preceded by a contest of popping com over the huge wood-burning fireplace.

Bob Best took first honors as a corn popper and Frank Baynes second place.

Alumni member Louis John Johnen gave a splendid review of recent radio musical programs and some pointed criticisms of their talented artists.

The Acacia Alumni of the Cincinnati area and the members of the active chapter joined in celebration of Founder's Day on May 4, 1947, with a banquet at 2: 00 p . m. at the Alms Hotel. The Cincinnati Alumni returned in goodly number for the occasion.

President Ferd Hodde presided and acted as toastmaster. The speaker, Dr. Bland Stradley, Vice President of Ohio State University, spoke on "The Fraternity in a Modern University." Some excellent advice and organizational views were presented. Mr. Harry Gibbons who introduced the speaker is a graduate of Ohio State and had the honor of pledging Dr. Stradley. Mr. Gibbons is now trust officer with the Central Trust Company.

Assisting with the preparation for the banquet were the following committees: Dinner and Speakers-George Patterson, David Bowman, Marion Huber, Paul Weidner, Bob Waterfield and Bill Klahm; Nominations-Stanley Bennett, Ed Hodgetts, Bill Klahm and Carl Bertsche; War Memorial- Bill Richards, Chairman ; Auditing-Ralph Alexander, Chairman ; Resolutions-Bill Parry, Chairman ; Initiation-Or. H. C. Van Wye, Jack Lissenden and James Roefling.

More than one hundred guests were seated at the banquet table. This group included guests from the Purdue, Indiana and Ohio State Chapters in addition to some of the National Officers. The active chapter members and pledges were there en masse. Members from most of the present active chapters also attended.

Dr. Harry K. Eversull of the Yale Chapter gave a brief War Memorial with appropriate words in honor of the three Cincinnati members who entered the Chapter Eternal during their service for their country in war.

Mr. David Bowman of the Columbia Chapter spoke briefly regarding the history of our local group.

The speakers table included Professors Ralph Van Wye, Walter Baude, Dr. William Hewitt, Dr. Laurence Chenoweth, Dr. William Crowley, Norwood C. Geis, Dr. Judson McKim, Dr. Harry K . Eversull, David Bowman and Harry Gibbons.

Preceding the banquet an initiation of two former Fellowcraft members was held at the Chapter house. The first was (Jack) William Porter Greenawalt, Commander of the 83rd SeaBee battalion which took an active part in the Cherbourg landing. Jack graduated from the University as a civil engineer at the head of his class with Tau Beta Pi honors and is now established in business in Chicago.

The second man was George Obrist of Portsmouth, Ohio, a noted tonsil surgeon in Ohio. He graduated as high man in his class at the Medical College.

The annual banquet was followed by a business meeting of the Ashler Trust Company at which President George Pat-

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terson presided. The report of the Secretary-Treasurer was read and much progress was shown for the year.

The day was one full of spirit of reunion and happiness. All were agreed that the change made to the first Sunday in May made attendance more complete.

Preparations have begun for the 1948 Founders Day. ROBERT L . WATERFIELD MARION H. HUBER

Colorado The world is too much with us, late and soon, these days. We desire this thing, yet that one beckons us; we go there, yet are returning here; hither is fascinating, yon is essential. So it is with Spring and the life of the intellect.

At present we have 40 active, .7 pledges (32 men in the house), and great general activity in rushing to replace those actives who will graduate this year. Present plans are to keep the house this summer as a rooming house for men, there being a goodly number of the brothers, actives and alums, staying on for summer school.

The Colorado chapter journeyed to the University of Wyoming April19 and 20 to install a new chapter of Acacia there. The new chapter was formerly Alpha Kappa Iota or All Kelley Institute as it was locally known, attesting to the prowess of Mr. Kelley, the new VD. We predict a great future for the Wyoming chapter, un-

bounded generosity, vivid imaginations and a spirit of adventure giving the members sterling characters all. Send the hashers out for more tomato juice, Mac. The initiation, of 20 active members, took place at the Masonic hall. The fates would seem to be particularly unsound of mind in Laramie; in close proximity to the Masonic hall are the American Legion Chowder and Pabst society, a hospital and the local Kempei box. Festivities were pleasantly culminated with a turkey dinner; eye lids were propped up with match sticks and the Colorado chapter returned to Boulder, happy, tired and . . . hurry up with that tomato juice, will you, Mac? The annual University of Colorado CU Days is hard upon us at this writing and the collective imaginations of Acacia are laboring under the strain of devising suitable and spectacular ideas for our float and house decorations. The theme this year is "CU in our dreams." The theme is appropriate judging from the muffled imprecations and agonized screams issuing these nights from those who talk in their sleep in the dormitories. Our grudge fight this year is with the Phi Delts who are, of course, foul fellows and richly deserving of the destruction which will undoubtedly result. We think. Acacia has delivered itself of a master stroke by supporting one Dusty Otte for queen of CU Days.

Miss Otte, a ravishing blonde, may recover in time for the competition ; she was invited to a celebration dinner not too long ago and was only slightly trampled. Lovely girl. Seven expendables have been en-

Colorado Chapter (Upper Left) Jack Lewis pe1路ched atop the 路homecoming float . (Uppe1路 Right) Ice sculpture in front of the chapter house. (Lower Left) ~o ni~e to come home to! The house at night. (Lower Right) Homecoming decoratwns m f1路ont of the house.

tered in the secret field events. Because of what was obviously incompetent judging, our quivering, but stout-hearted, chorus was eliminated from the song fest; we keep our hand in, though, with four sturdy fellows who will represent us in the all-school show. We expect great things from them. Shove that bull whip over here, will you, Mac? Finally, we have men on the publicity and program committees for CU Days. With the exercise of considerable restraint our representative on the publicity committee refrained from posting literature praising Acacia throughout the campus; figured that the university needs it more than we.

Spring will be magnificently heralded by the annual Spring Formal, preparations for which are currently under way.

As an innovation, the chapter will present favors, sword-pins beneath which the Acacia crest is suspended, rather than the traditional corsage. Disposition of these upon strapless evening gowns may prove fascinating. Our social functions have new life in them these days. It is the custom in this institution of higher learning, furthering the development of character, to have week-end radio dances.

The last such affair began as an ordinary, garden-variety dance. Two days before the dance some bright individual suggested that it be an old clothes drag, another thought of a few decorations and, before we knew it, from utter confusion we got chaos. Now our social functions become we know not what beforehand. The snapping of uninitiated minds is an interesting phenomenon.

Intramurals are being entered into with hearty enthusiasm if not with distinction. Tennis, softball and golf are the best we can do this quarter. The tennis team appears most professional in dress and use of terminology and gives a good account of Acacia on the courts. Shrill screams of foul oaths from the golf course a mile away indicate that the golf team is enjoying another Spring afternoon; there is some hope for the team if the opposition is composed of left-handed men with righthanded clubs. The softball squad is spectacular and highly original if nothing else; there is some hope, however, with continued practice.

Our housemother, Mrs. C. E. Bocock, is recovering from a serious operation. We expect her back with us next Fall. Blood transfusions from an infantryman, a corpsman with the marines and a medic, all house men, did much to see her through. The results of same upon a sedate, dignified little lady should prove interesting. Run out for some cigars, Mac. The city of 'Boulder has organized a mountain search and res cue committee which includes many Acacians. Two emergencies have occurred so far and a call in the night brings forth initially sleepy activity from half the house. Orie lad, in the last search, came into urifortunate contact with some strategically situated cactus plants. Patient doing w eli, thank you. Sits down tomorrow. .

George Croyle, traveling secretary, was with us for a few days after the Wyoming initiation. We hope to see him again soon; get a lot of good from a fresh opinion.

JON SUCHER

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Cornell The Spring Term her e started out with a bang in the form of a three-day house p arty during Junior Week-end. Almost everyone attended, and all had a grand time. There m ay h ave been some doubt in the pledges' minds, however, for initia tion was only two weeks away.

Initiation Week began on Monday, Febr uary 24, and lasted until Saturday. Ten men received their pins on March 1: Rober t Bergren, Staten Island; William Bunyan, Highland Park, N. J .; Roy Clarke, Washington, D. C.; Charles Deakyne, Baltimore, Md.; Arthur Heuser, Ithaca; John La uber, Amsterdam ; James and Richard Showacre, Ithaca; Jack Tilley, Buffalo; and William Wickham, Hector.

Rushing still continued, however, and we have eight more pledges whom we plan to initiate on May 17: Sandford Hatch, Syracuse; Emerson Hibbard, Mitnetto ; Harvey Mertz, Bellrose; Robert Snider, Rochester ; Donald Sweetland, Rochester; and Rex and Robert Whitman, Ithaca.

Time for election of officers came around soon after the term began, and Dick Lawrence is now at the guiding post as V. D. For the other officers: Bill Gibson as S. D ., Carl Otto as J. D ., Charles Deakyne as secretary, Roy Clarke as Senior Steward, and Al Woodford as Junior Steward.

With the reopening of the house last fall, there were a lot of improvements that needed to be made. At first we worked mostly with paint, but this term we started on those things we couldn't do ourselves.

One by one the bathrooms are being fixed up with new floors and new furnishings where needed. A storeroom on the third floor is being converted into a study room, and, during Spring vacation, our dining room was enlarged and redecorated.

All this time we have .not been overlooking social activities. Some sort of activity has been arranged for at least every other week. When the initiation was over on March 1, everyone went to the Club Claret in Ithaca for a sumptuous banquet.

After the meal, cigars were passed around which occasioned a bit of joking, and each of the twenty-three alumni who attended was called on to say a few words. Doc Bradley gave the concluding speech of congratulations to the initiates. After the dinner we had a semi-formal dance at the house, wtih expert decorations furnished by Bill Pendarvis.

On March 15, we had a vic dance after a basketball game. We rounded up our dates and descended en masse on the Armory to watch the Cornell five trounce Harvard.

Two weeks later, Carl Otto, our new social chairman, arranged an old clothes dance. We played charades and sang in addition to dancing, but most memorable were the polka records Carl had gotten.

Things were really spinning for a while.

The nine days of Spring vacation seemed to pass all too quickly and all too soon we were back at our usual tasks again. We soon got together a baseball nine and renewed our traditional game with the Syracuse chapter.

On April 2:1 we journeyed to Skaneateles where we met the boys from Syracuse. It had rained that morning and the fact that the field was wet was the only reason we came out on the wrong end of a 10-4 score.

This upset didn't discourage us, however, and we entered a team in the intramural leagues here. So far, with Bill Pendarvis pitching, we haven't lost a game.

For the rest of the term we have several events planned. A vic-dance on May 3, a house party the week-end of May 10, and an initiation on May 17.

This highlights the activities of the Cornell chapter. In closing, we would like to remind all alumni that we are glad to have you stop in to see us, and if you know any good boys who are coming to Cornell, drop us a line about them.

BILL BUNYAN

Franklin When you open the doors at 3907 Spruce these days you see the brothers fighting Spring Fever and the books.

The latest addition to Franklin employees is "Len" the cook. For the past several months the needs of the house have been supplied by a caterer. On April I4 the kitchen was opened under the direction of the house with improved quality and quantity as the goal. We feel that "Len" is the best cook on the Penn campus and if you are ever in Philadelphia be sure and drop in.

LeRoy Neff after keeping his pitching arm in trim by captaining the bowling team will pitch for the Franklin nine fn the opener on May 1, 1947. The team is under the watchful eye of Clyde Zukswert who holds down first base. The team is entered in the Interfraternity Softball League.

Eighty-five per cent of the membership of the Franklin Chapter was on hand to make the Interfraternity Ball held in March the biggest event on the Penn campus. This took place at the Ben Franklin Hotel in downtown Philadelphia and the party held during the dance in the Acacia Room was the best of the year.

We have observed the pin is irresistible to the fairer sex! If we are to protect our brothers, we of Franklin Chapter may have to change its design! From a survey of the brothers we find several have lost their pins to "The Sweetheart of Acacia."

Johnnie Long's found its way to "Happy," his favorite nurse, while Cal Dyson's was claimed by Louise of the Alpha Xi Delta House. The home-town girls have their eyes on the pins also as Wilson Sechrist can verify. After having lost his pin for several months Brother George Nickel finds the only way of getting it back is to give a wedding ring which he will do on June 14. Doctor Clarence Foose, Franklin '42, will be the best man. Congratulations, George, and good luck, Hope.

The S. S. Acacia was launched Saturday, April 26, at the Spring Formal. At the helm was Miss Elaine Field, the date of Skip Eichner. She was voted queen of the Formal. Doctor Edward Cornish, Franklin '42, and Charles Sietz, Penn State '43, were

our guests. Dinner was served to the brothers, their dates and guests before the dance.

Elections for the year '47-'48 finds Frank Frick, V. D., Alex Scott, S. D., Clyde Zukswert, J . D., Robert Curry, Secretary, Rodney Fahs, Treasurer, and LeRoy Neff, Interfraternity Representative.

Over the horizon we see the summer vacation for most of us and summer school for the rest of us. Once again I close the doors (but never locked) at 3907 Spruce.

JAMES W. HARE

George Washington As we approach final exains at GW, actives and pledges alike are looking forward to initiation, scheduled to begin May 30. Gene Aldridge and Wilson Powell, prexy and vp, respectively, of the pledge class, have free-wheeled this first postwar group into the home stretch and the actives feel we have a fine nucleus around which to rebuild the chapter.

Spring fills the air with wedding bells in June for our Junior Dean, Dick Berryman, who will team up for keeps with Kay Holden, pride of the Sigma Kappas.

And while speaking of bells, Dick Warfield says he doesn't need an alarm clock since his lovely wife, Naomi, presented him with a six-pound, eight-ounce daughter on April15. They promptly named her Janet Lee. Wonder if this could be the reason Dick resigned as secretary? Ralph David was elected to carry on his duties.

The chapter was pleased to be visited April 23-27 by Charles Jarrett, traveling secretary. Charlie arrived in time for the alumni luncheon on Thursday, April 24, at the Madrillon restaurant. This monthly gathering keeps the local members in close touch with the chapter and with each other. Charlie also witnessed the Acacia softball team in action Saturday and Sunday, but perhaps 'nuff said about that. Saturday night, April 26, the house was open for our Spring Formal and we were honored by the presence of several alumni and their wives; Mr. and Mrs. William J . Ellenberger, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Tomlin, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Tompkins, Ted Kellogg and Stanley Petersen.

The pledge class held a dance at the chapter house in honor of the actives on April 12.

Thanks again to the alumni, we have equipped our kitchen with stove and refrigerator since the last writing and are in much better condition to think of setting a table again. At present it is planned to keep the house open throughout the summer. We welcome all who visit Washington to pay a call at 1812 Nineteenth St., N . W .

RoBERT I. CARTER

Illinois The Illinois chapter has added four pledges to its roster since the last issue of the TRIAD. The new additiom; to Jack Webb's labor force are: Richard H. Bishop, Piper City ; Charles A. Compton, Champaign ; Kent Hackleman, Urbana;

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Indiana Chapter (Left) Two_ mad ar_tists-George Waldschmidt and Bob Cottingham. (Center) New initiates: Holman, McPike, Llewellyn, Ferris, Ferguson, _Frtend, Inck, Chenoweth, Conrad, Seaman, Davis, Dexter, Richardson, and Ewer. (Right) Gene Oliver, In diana's house prestdent. and Richard C. Spring, Springfield. Since Dick Bishop is in music school he is being carefully primed to take over the chapter's song leading chores.

Jim Moore has made the "B" team in football, basketball, and baseball. In his remaining three years he should bring many athletic honors to both himself and Acacia. Bob Garrity is also one of the football aspirants who ignore the talentladen Illinois squads in hope of having the coach learn their last names. Al Scharf is now one of the three top hurlers for the lllini baseball team. Marriage works wonders it seems.

Jim Preston rose to the heights of immortality by engineering the first Spring Carnival since before the war. As chairman of the Carnival Jim really deserves a big round of apprause for its successful outcome. He was also initiated into Sachem, Junior honorary fraternity and now rightfully steps into the hallowed halls of Big Wheels on Campus.

The chapter's summer formal, held the April 26 was a great success according to eyewitness accounts. The theme was a hotel roof-top, aided and abetted by Reid Antle's painting and four goldfish in the rock garden. Again, Jack Webb, house manager, deserves the heartfelt thanks of the chapter for his untiring efforts in decorations and arrangements. A date dinner was held the next day in the chapter dining room. Tentative plans for a house picnic are being formulated to close ¡out the semester social functions.

Acacia's part in the Spring Carnival consisted of soliciting ballots for the purpose of determining the queen for the night. Although we were not in the running for a trophy, we can proudly say that we carried off top honors by procuring roses and a '47 Buick convertible for the evening for the purpose of crowning the queen. Generally speaking, we all enjoyed sitting in the local drinking spots while we sold tickets.

George Croyle, Acacia's traveling secretary, visited the chapter for a week.

His suggestions and knowledge of the operations of our other chapters were of great help to us.

Don Kincaid, Tom Moore, Ken Lind-

say, and Dick Fulrath were recently initiated into Phi Eta Sigma, freshman honorary. Jim Moore and Don Kincaid were elected to serve as Skull and Crescent representatives for the next year. This is a sophomore fraternity honorary. Ed Verkler achieved recognition by winning one hundred dollars for his entry in the Chicago Tribune's Better Homes contest.

A Founder's Day dinner was held April 28. We 1)ll made and renewed acquaintances with our many alumni on campus.

A count showed that there are about thirty Acacia alums in Champaign-Urbana. We again extend a hearty invitation to all alumni and visitors from other chapters to stop in and see us at any time.

As a final closing note I wish to report that Bill Tonkin tendered his jeweled pin to the care of Dotty Knaphurst, Theta. So, until next fall, goodby and best of luck.

BILL TONKIN

Indiana Since February the Indiana Chapter has acquired fourteen new initiates and six new pledges. There are sixty-six actives and nine pledges, making a total of seventy-five men on campus, fifty of whom are living in the house. Our rush chairman, Bud Smith, has instituted an efficient rush program and we would like to pledge twenty-five more men by next fall.

We selected new chapter officers just recently: Gene Oliver, Venerable Dean; Bud Smith, Senior Dean; Art Day, Junior Dean; Ben Howard, Senior Steward; and Leon Bidwell, Junior Steward. The office of an alumni secretary was created to promote a closer relationship between the alumni and the active chapter. This office is now held by Bob Skinner.

We are well represented this semester in nearly all major campus activities. Besides the men in radio, theater, choral groups, orchestra, band, and the social honoraries, Bill Thompson is a member of the Union Board; Bill Crane is treasurer of the Y. M. C. A. and editor of the campus directory, the Red Book. Jerry Kersh

and Homer Dalby have an active part in the three major campus publications-the Daily Student, the Folio, and the Arbutus.

Gene Llewellyn, Jack Davis and Don Irick were initiated into the Skull and Crescent, sophomore social honorary. Ross Gregory has started a dance band which we will be seeing more of soon.

The house grade average was raised somewhat from the previous semester.

Jim Ferguson, Bob Ewer and Joe Richardson, freshmen, are eligible for the .Phi Eta Sigma scholastic honorary, and Dave Dexter is eligible for the Business School honorary. The pledge class also won the Phi Eta Sigma trophy by attaining the highest scholastic average of any pledge class on campus. The presentation will be made by the Dean of Students at a dinner to be given at the house.

In the field of sports, several men represent the house on the varsity athletic teams. Ward Williams, veteran center for the hardwood squad, was elected captain of next year's team at the close of the '47 season. Bill Wellman and Jim Cox are members of the baseball team, and Bob Babbs is one of the student managers.

Bill Thompson retains his position on the golf team. The football team is holding spring practice and Paul Conrad is a member of the squad. Our house placed high in the intramural football and baseball games; we are now undefeated in volleyball and are shaping up the track and softball teams for the coming meets. ¡ We have had a busy social calendar so far this semester, and many more social activities are being planned. The chapter has been fortunate in acting as host to two of the country's big name bands.

Elliot Lawrence's band played for the Military Ball, and Jimmy Dorsey gave a concert at the university. Before their performances both bands were entertained at a reception and dinner given at the house. In addition to several tea dances with the sororities, we also held open house one afternoon for the unorganized girls of Sycamore Hall. This was the first gesture of its kind made by any fraternity on this campus and it received favorable comment in the Daily Student which spoke of Acacia's "Spirit of Assimilation."

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104 There have been two other major dinners held at the house during the second semester. The pledge class arranged a hillbilly date dinner which proved to be exceedingly successful. The dining room was turned into a bam, chickens and all, and the mountain boys dragged their hillbilly sweethearts into a dinner of fried hen and hard biscuits which was followed by dancing. A formal dinner was held for the juniors and their Junior Prom dates on April 18. Future plans consist of a hayride and a dance for rush week~nd, and a smoker for the Bloomington Masons.

State Day was held the week-end of April 12 at the Marott Hotel in Indianapolis and we captured the famous Sarcophagus trophy which had been in the hands of the Purdue boys far too long. The Sarcophagus is an award based on attendance, house grade average, and entertainment provided during the banquet. The Illinois chapter sent a delegation to our State Day and both the Indiana and Purdue chapters were well represented.

The following week-end five of our men made a trip to Purdue to witness their initiation ceremony. They were very much impressed by the efficiency of the Purdue chapter.

Our ever-faithful alumni have informed us that we will receive a gift of $2,800.00 to be used in house improvements. The money was raised by $25.00 donations from individual alumni in comm emoration of the chapter's twenty-fifth anniversary. The presentation will be made at the anniversary dinner.

We have received word that a group of alumni held a meeting at Fort Wayne to revive the old Northeastern Indiana Acacia Alumni Association which was originally started in the fall of 1934. Meetings were discontinued during the war because the officers were in the Army. Several Indiana and Purdue boys helped organize the Association and J. Bertrand Ewer was the first President. Thirty members attended this recent meeting and Ray C. Thomas, National Counselor, gave a report on the National Fraternity and the activities of the various chapters. The committee in charge of reviving the regular monthly meetings was made up of Kenneth Stucky, Dr. Russell W. Goebel and Sam Gregory, all of Fort Wayne. The present officers are Sam Gregory, President; Dr. Russell W. Goebel, Vice-President, and Kenn eth Stucky, SecretaryTreasurer. The Association will hold meetings on the second Monday of each month at the Ft. Wayne Chamber of Commerce.

That's all for this time.

ROBERT

w. EWER

Iowa State Socially sp eaking things have really been rough around here the past several weeks. Here we are, having all this wonderful spring weather for picnics and blanket parties and telephone communications with the Iowa State Coeds are practically at a standstill. Of course there are always a few guys in the house like Bill Chain, Bob Martin, and Milt Grobeck w ho h ave their "steadies" dated up for the

Iowa State Chapter (Top) Wayne Severson hard at wo1·k on his Saturday pledge duties.

(Middle) Gordan Johnson taking things easy while pledge Harry Imus does all the w ork.

(Bottom) A few of the men looking 1ihings over before they start to work. rest of the quarter.

A good deal of emphasis has been laid on rushing for this quarter and since our last letter we have pledged the· following men: Dean I. Lee and Darwin Hook Sac City, Iowa; James C. Haselton, Glidden, Iowa ; Richard G. Wilson, Sioux City, Iowa; Wayne E. Severson, Des Moines.

Iowa; and Donald E. Tipton, Valley, Ne: braska.

An election of house officers was held March 3. The new officers are: Venerable Dean, Robert Denney ; Senior Dean, John Tschantz ; Junior Dean, Gordon Johnson;

Treasurer, James Petersen; Secretary, Richard Cowles; Senior Steward, John Wahlgren; Junior Steward, William Chain; Rushing Chairman, Frank Griffith; Intramural Manager, Robert Bortle; and Scholarship Chairman, Charles Dingle.

Since the beginning of this schoof year many improvements have been made on the house. The latest of our accomplishments was the painting of the second and third floor bathrooms. Mother Dinsmore made some blue curtains for us so they also help add to the appearance of the bathrooms.

Under the leadership of Bob "Brutal" Bortle our athletic teams show signs of being right up amongst the best of them in the interfraternity softball league this spring. We have had so much talent and interest displayed around the house that we were able to enter two teams in the league. So far both teams have played and won one game each. Team I proved their power by trouncing Delta Sigma Phi 10 to 0 under the capable pitching of Wendell Stewart and p6werhouse hitting of Robert Denney. Team II eeked out a 5 to 4 win over the Tau Kappa Epsilon.

At the present time a good share of the men in the house have been busy carry· ing through with responsible jobs that have been placed on their shoulders for making Acacia well represented at this year's Veishea celebration here on the campus. The theme of this year's Veishea is "Veishea Views Tomorrow." John Wahlgren and John Tschantz are hard at work on the skit for Veishea Vodvil. Jim Petersen is in charge of the float for the Veishea parade. The ·float theme, "To· day's Science-Tomorrow's Practice" fits in very nicely with the college.

If I remember correctly, it was mentioned in our last letter that Bill Chain had hung his pin but no cigars had been passed, and as yet that still remains true.

Bill, I don't know what we're .going to do with you unless you come across pretty soon.

We have one man in the house, namely Bob Denney, who can't make up his mind how deeply involved he wants to get with his girl. Maybe we're wrong, but we all suspect that one of these days he'll be passing out the cigars.

Six of our brothers will be receiving their diplomas this June. They are: Cal· vin Boise, Victor Denis, Edwin Drdla, Don Grobeck, Robert Grobeck, and Floyd Reister. It shouldn't be too long now be· fore we take them on the traditional senior ride which is a customary thing to do around here.

Under the promoting and phmning of Gordon Johnson we have had a full social schedule this spring. The evening of April 5 found fifteen of our actives attending the annual Men's Panhel dance. A formal dinner was held at the house be· fore dancing to the music of Charlie Spivak. A dinner exchange was held with the Chi Omega sorority April 16 and from what I gathered some of the fellows met some pretty nice girls. Gordon already has several picnics scheduled for us this quarter which everyone is looking forward to with anticipation.

March 21 the actives had to throw a party in honor of the pledges as a penalty for losing a pledge-active basketball game.

The Triad, Summer, 1947 The theme of our party was "Truth or Consequences" and after the party was over some of the pledges we~e heard whimpering around the halls that they wished they had lost. About mid-way through the evening just when things were in full swing, Gordon Cook walked in the door with the sweetest little queen you ever laid eyes on. The little woman's name was Carla O'Brien alias Carl O'Beirn. Yes sir, believe it or not he had several of the Sigma Kappas so completely fooled they took him back to their house after the party and pledged him on the spot.

Before closing, all of us here at the Iowa State Chapter would like to extend our heartiest congratulations and best wishes to the newly installed chapters at the University of Southern California and the University of Wyoming.

CHARLES H. DINGLE

105 At the election February 19, Leonard E. Wood was re-elected V. D. Other officers are C. Stanley Williams, Senior Dean; George A. Robinson, Junior Dean ; Kyle L. Moran, Secretary; Calvin F. Duphorne, Treasurer; and William C. Hart, Sergeantat-arms. Stan is also representative to Interfraternity Council.

Pledge election February 19, went as follows: Ralph L . Adams, President; J ames W. Sturdevant, Vice-President; Dean Lovendahl, Secretary-Treasurer; D onald A. Brown and David E. Prickett, representatives to Interfraternity Pledge Council.

During March the influenza kept the

Kansas State The social fraternities at Kansas State have been quite active all year with their rushing programs. During the period from December 11 to March 15, the fraternities pledged 73 men. Nine of those were pledged by Acacia, · eleven being the largest number pledged by any fraternity -which placed us second.

Acacia has been the scene of numerous initiations lately. On Sunday, following initiation proceedings Saturday, March 15, seven new actives were proudly displaying their new pins. They are Willard L. OhLey, Saffordville; Frank E. Peycke, Alta Vista; John N . Wright, Riley; David A . Wylie, Clay Center; Ervin W. Syfert; Wichita; Kermit Kors, Independence; and Glenn Frakes, Corning.

Formal pledging ceremonies March 19 were for Fred Borck, Blue Rapids; Ralph L. Adams, McMinnville, Oregon; Milton A. Clemens, Corning; Edwin D enman, Manhattan; Robert K. Homier, Ellis; Jcie Hanks, Pendennis; Wendell Simonton, Alta Vista; James W. Sturdevant, Altoona ; Donald H. Stamback, Sedgwick; and Clifford H. Ukele, Sharon Springs.

Men pledged since the last report are Keith Sanders, Tribune; Donald H. Stamback, Sedgwick; and William Neal, Hoisington.

The reader may be interested to note that since the beginning of school last fall, when the Chapter was reactivated, our numbers have increased from less than a dozen men to seventeen actives and twenty pledges.

At present the writer is not in a position to give any information other than that on Friday, March 28, twenty-three of our men were initiated into the Order of Yellow Dogs. Numerous faculty members of the college belong to this Order.

Joe Hanks, Ervin Syfert, Bill Hart, Earl Beaver Joe Nathan, Cal. Duphorne; Frank Peycke', Rex Archer, Dave Wylie, Kyle Moran Dave Prickett, Bill Sturdevant, Richard Hammer, Wendell Simonton, Ralph Adams, Glenn Frakes, Fred Borck, Willard Ohley, Bernard Clark, Cliff Ukele, Robert Homier, Dean Lovendahl, and Roger Brazier were those initiated.

damper on social activities. We did, however, have an exchange dinner March 25, with Clovia Sorority. For April the only activity was a date dance here at the Chapter house. In addition, from time to time, hour dances with the sororities are held.

May will be a full month. To begin with, on May 3, we have the Annual Spring Formal. The dinner will be at the Wareham Hotel followed by the dance in the Community Building. Mother's Day will find many of the fellows' mothers here as guests. Founder's Day is May 12. Though postponed two days, we are anticipating a goodly representation of the alumni. The last activity for May will be an outdoor picnic on May 24, for which plans are incomplete at present.

Eight of the fellows-Bill Peycke, Frank Peycke, Joe Nathan, Charles Hall, Earl Beaver, Dave Wylie, Kyle Moran, and Glenn Frakes-attended the installation of University of Wyoming Chapter, Laramie, Wyoming on April 19, and had a most enjoyable time.

• Three men recently left us- Darrell R. Brewer, Jr., of Caney, Donald A . Brown, of Fall River, and Chester H . Roberts, Jr., of Stanley. The first two have taken jobs at home. Chester entered the Navy.

When the fellows return after Summer vacation, two of our actives, C. Stanley Williams of Humboldt, and William J. Peycke of Alta Vista, will have graduated.

Twice since the last issue smoke rings and smooch lines have been formed. Calvin F. Duphorne announced his engagement to Wilma Seeley, Merriam, and C. Stanley Williams announced his engagement to Phyllis Barr, Wichita, who is a Senior here at K -State.

Two enterprising gentlemen, Bill Peycke and Kermit Kors, have attempted to revive the practice of frequent cigar passing due to a sudden slump. They are even raffling off two boxes of candy to the lucky person holding the name of the next p erson to pass cigars, but alas, that was some time ago, and we are still anxiously waiting for some one to break the spell.

The last of February we were favored by having ten of the alumni for dinner one evening. They were Dean J. T. Willard, '83, Drs. H . T. Hill, Iowa State, and L . D. Bushnell, Michigan, profs. R. J. Barnett, '95, and V. D. Foltz, '27, Alumni Secretary, K. L . Ford, '24, N.H. Davis, '16, Ward C. Griffing, and Willis Griffing, all of Manhattan, and H. W. Johnson, of Cleburne.

GEORGE A. ROBINSQN

Michigan

Kansas State Chapter (Top) Not a sen atoT-just Bill Peycke at Lammie on April 19, 1947.

(Cente,-) Seven of the eight fellows who attended the installation at La,-amie.

(Bottom) E,-win Syfe,-t, Geo,-ge Robinson, and Ke1·mit KoTs doing a bit of landscapin g.

The mother chapter has been quite busy since our last report was submitted.

In addition to rushing at the beginning of the spring semester, the initiation of men pledged in the fall was carried out simultaneously. We are indebted to Charlie Jarrett, National Traveling Secretary, who, during his visit at Michigan, was a great help in assisting us with these activities. The following men were pledged: Robert C. Beer, Ferndale ; Richard E. Campbell, Owosso; Howard K. Clark,

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106 Flint; P orter M. Kier, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Malcom H. MacGregor, Detroit; Merrill C. Miller, Detroit; and Anton L . Olson, Flint.

Our new actives as of February 23 are Edmund B . Brownell, Walter E . Conrad, Richard G. D eane, Stuart M. Frey, Lawrence E . Girton, John B. Hazelworth, Robert A . Hughes, Henry L . Jones, Frederick A . Maloom, James A. Reagen, Rollyn L. Storey, D avid H. S tremmel, and William L. Wynn. The old actives maintained they got more of a workout than those undergoing the initiation. However, several of the initiates differ with this claim, contending that things had been made too hot for comfort.

On March 24, new officers were elected, wth terms of office extending to the same date next year. Our new Venerable Dean is Elbert Kennedy ; Don Queller is the new Senior Dean ; Ward Opdyke was reelected Junior Dean; and Rollyn Storey was elected Secretary.

The annual Millionaires' Party was reinstated March 29 after an absence of several years. The plush couples, who were

given $800 each to start them on their road to riches, had ample chance to lose it on games of "skill." Roulette, dice, penny pitching, a wheel of chance, and horse racing were provided for the free and easy spenders. Money flowed like water, but everyone managed to save his shirt. The annual Spring Formal was held April 26 at the chapter house. Quite contrary to the long-standing joke associating a dark chapter house with a fraternity party, the front of our house was floodlighted and a replica of Acacia's pin, made of red and white frosted lights, was hung over the entrance. Due to the large crowd that was anticipated, all of the furniture on the first floor was moved to the dining room, which was employed as a lounge. This necessitated the removal of our huge dining table. Though there were several strained backs, everyone agreed that the effect justified the effort. Music was furnished by Ken Norman's band. A number of Alumni were in attendance and many stated this party was one of the best ever held at Michigan Acacia.

Preparations are now progressing for the Interfraternity Ball which will be held May 2; a fourteen -foot Trojan warrior, in keeping with the theme of the dance, has been constructed to hang over Acacia's booth at the dance.

The celebration of Founder's Day is scheduled to be held May 17. About 50 alumni are expected, among whom is Charles A . Sink, one of the original founders of Acacia.

Several men have been prominent in campus affairs. Jack Kelso was co-chairman of the engineers' annual formal dance, appropriately named the Slide Rule Ball. One of the mainstays of Michigan's track team this year has been Don Queller. Unfortunately Don has contracted a sinus ailment which has prevented his running in any of the spring meets.

However, Coach Dougherty has high hopes for our boy and considers him a good prospect for the Olympics in 1948.

The Scholarship Cup has been awarded to Acacia for the school year of 1945-46.

The house carried a 3.17 average as compared to an overall fraternity average of 2.5.

The house has been deluged by cigars lately. Must be this spring weather. Mary Alice Dunivan of the Chi Omega sorority was "pinned" by Hank Hosmer. Then, on the week-end of the 19th, the boys really went overboard. Herbert Smith became engaged to Mildred Scherdt, of Ann Arbor; Fred Malsom "pinned" Bettyrae Aronica, of Detroit; and Bob Hughes "pinned" Marilyn Seabury, also of Detroit. The only casualty, besides those who took the fatal step, was Lance Jones who smoked one cigar too many and was unable to eat his usual second dinner.

Among some of our chapter visitors have been James Gaddis of the Indiana chapter and Bob Heckert of the Cincinnati chapter. Bob is planning to attend Michigan next year and will stay at the house.

Just in case any of you are traveling on the continent this summer, be sure to look up Russell J. Buster, our house manager, and Archibald McGregor, former TRIAD correspondent, who will be cycling through France and Switzerland.

Here's wishing you a pleasant summer vacation. See you in the Fall issue of TRIAD. D. H . STREMMEL

M innesota

Michigan Chapter (Top) Th~ Homecoming display at the Michigan Chapter house . Brothers Buchanan and Churchtll on the balcony are directing pledges Bob Hughes and " Lans" Jones (Bottom) Michigan boys ready themselves for the m orning hike on Thanksgiv.ing D~y. L. t~ R. John_ Wunch, John Hazelw orth, Dave Stremmel, Larry Girton Bill terson, J tm Kemmtsh, Don Queller. '

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Spring, with its over-abundance of rain at Minnesota, has failed to dampen the spirit of activity at Acacia as members look to a heavy program for the remaining weeks of school before summer sessions.

Topping the list is the return of a Mother's Day program to the chapter's social calendar-a feature that has been missing for five years. A noon luncheon, tour of the campus, afternoon "kaffee klatch," and evening banquet at the University Student Union building will highlight the day's events on Saturday, May 10.

Already reservations are coming in from as far west as Montana, an indication that the celebration is going to be successful.

Then on May 12 comes Founder's Day activities with banquet at a downtown ho-

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Minnesota Chapter (Upper left) The dining room decorated for the formal dinner preceding the annual Interfraternity Ball at Minnesota. Only part of the large number attending are shown.

(Lower left) Talking over fraternity matters in one of lie house rooms are Earl Wangerin, treasurer, Al Olson, Junior Dean, Charlie Jarrett, traveling secretary, and Johnny Dablow, Venerable Dean. (Upper Right) Winter Formal at a St . Paul hoteltaken after the dance when feet were tired from the night's activity. (Lower right) Bus scene showing Acacians aboard a charter~d bus about to leave for the winter carnival at Bayport. tel and opeh house at the fraternity house.

Both of these affairs are quite different from the traditional Iron Cross banquet held the last week in April, which is looked forward to as a period for "letting off steam" around the house. Connie Blomberg, North Dakota, copped the medal this year for telling the best after-dinner story. The gifts exchanged between members created a minor riot and are indescribable (due to censorship) .

An evening Pow Wow at Battle Creek Park and the traditional canoe trip up the St. Croix river will complete the social activities for the quarter.

When Spring came around it found three right triangle pins missing from the house. Dave Hammell's found its way to the sweater of Maril Mann, while Chuck Dickinson's is being worn now

by Jean Senstad. Karl Doeringsfeld transferred his to Helen Harding.

Clark Wold, pledge of 1944, returned to

join Chapter activities this quarter after serving with the Army Air Forces. Newest pledge is Bob Senge, Minneapolis.

Acacia has entered a team in the interfraternity softball spring sports program and it looks now as- though it" may go places.

AL OLSON

Northwestern Spring burst upon the Evanston campus to find the Northwestern chapter opening the social calendar-with an informal party held in the chapter house. The next weekend at N. U." brought the init iation of four neophytes: Herb Grayson, J '50; Hal Schwappach,- Tech '50; Charles Olson, Tech '50; and John Jansen, Comm '50.

Despite the seriousness of the initiation, all participants, including the lowly neophytes, expressed their satisfaction with

the conduct of the initiation.

An informal party was held Friday, May 2, at the Sunset Valley Country Club in Highland Park. The Spring Formal is scheduled for May 23; the May Sing is also being held that evening. Off-weekend social events are being indulged in by the men, since the proximity of the Chicago baseball parks makes it exceedingly difficult to concentrate on astronomy during the week-ends. The annual Founders' Day banquet will be held May 12 at the Chicago Electric Club.

Acacians in N. U . news include Jack Plattner, recently named business manager of the 1948 Syllabus, Northwestern yearbook; Venerable Dean Bogan, who is lending his talents as an electrician to the 1947 Waa-Mu show, "Break the News"; Bill Miller, publicity chairman for the show; and Joe Angner, whose speed in the 440 is consistently adding points to the Wildcat's total.

Brother Howard Coleman is now the father of a new Acacia sweetheart. The new addition to the Coleman domicile has been named Lynn; Mrs. Coleman is hoping the first word she says is "Acacia."

Recent pinnings number one-Brother Bill Friedrichs gave his triangle to Gwen Klaus at the close of the spring quarter.

Chapter elections were held at the meeting of May 5, 1947. Officers elected include: Dick Bogan, Tech '48, Venerable Dean; Don Reddicliffe, J '50, Senior Dean; Ed Spoo, Sp '50, Junior Dean ; Don Ansel, Comm '49, Secretary; Len Lockhart, LA '49, IF Representative; Chuck Robinson, LA '49, IM Manager; Hal Schwappach, Tech '50, and Claude Sowle, LA '50, Rushing Co-chairmen ; Herb Grayson, J '50, Activities Chairman ; Joe Angner, Tech '49,.Sentinel; Bill Brown, J '48, TRIAD Correspondent; Jack Plattner, Comm '49, Keeper of the Rolls.

Inclement weather h as prevented the Acacia squad from showing their strength in IM softball, but the Black and Gold will be seen in a double header on May 10.

Leading the team in batting to date is Brother John Mertz who is connecting for a cool .429 average, taken from Phi Delt and Tiger pitchers. IM track is looming near and the best-ball golf team of Herb Grayson and Dick Hay was eliminated last week by Sigma Chi by a 2-1 count.

Brother Grayson is also manager of the N. U . golf team, currently rated No. 2 in conference competition.

The Northwestern Chapter wishes all chapters a happy vacation come summer and continued success in the fall.

DON REDDICLIFFE

Northwestern Chapter Left to Right: (1) Jack Rogas and Herb Grayson, entries in the intramural golf tournament. (2) Gene Pjlughapt, Jack Plattner, Chuck Robinson, Bob Meynen, George Susat, John Jansen, Joe Angne1¡, Sam Walker, and Bill Friedrichs venture out of the house in search of spring. (3) Demonstrating the three virtues are Chuck Robinson, Don R eddicliffe, and Don Stokes . ( 4) Taking over Grayson's girl are joU?¡ Acacia wolves. (5) Bob Feuerstein and Dick 1-!ay-off joT the South Quads.

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Ohio Well, here we go again-Ohio reports!

So much has been happening since the last issue that I really don't know where to start-so I'll refer to the instructions in the "Correspondents Kit"- ... Ah, yes!

New pledges! They include Bernie Decker, East Liverpool; William Prinz, Dayton; August Daskovich, Boston; and Bob Reed, Jack Bethel, Bruce Lehner, Ernest Fuleky, and Willard Hill, all of Columbus.

Initiation was held the week-end of April25, and a rousing week-end it was! The successful new initiates are James Huston, Byron Hoffman, Robert Holmes, Lester Shipe, Ted Haxton, and Melvin Stauffer. Incidentally, the chapter house and lawns certainly look better as a result of that week-end-the boys really got a lot of work done. A big landscaping job has been undertaken, and by this summer and fall the corner of 15th and Indianola should be one of the "garden spots" of the campus. Since everyone's thoughts, especially financial thoughts, are on the new house we are supposed to get in a year or so, there haven't been many improvements made on the inside of the housealthough mention might be made of new drapes, card tables, lamp shades, etc.

In the social field we've really reached a peak. Several months ago we started a policy of having Bridge Exchange Parties with different sorority houses every Tuesday and Thursday nights, and this has worked out beautifully. We are "booked up" solidly now for both of these nights the rest of the quarter. It has given us all rather a noble feeling, giving all of these sorority girls such a break. ...

We've had some fine parties of other types the past few weeks, too. One of the most outstanding was our "Song Title" party, in which everyone came dressed as his favorite song title. If you can visualize the results of such titles as "Temptation," "Lady in Red," "Sleepy Time Gal," "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," and "The Things We Did Last Summer" (???), you can get a good idea of this party.

Other of our house parties have been a bit more quiet-sane, that is.

A picnic at the Scioto Riding Club on April 27 was one of our outstanding recent "outdoor" events-in spite of getting rained out, the food, dancing, an' stuff were enough to make up for that small inconvenience.

The major events we are looking forward to the rest of this quarter include a Hayride, several more house parties, a stag smoker, and our traditional Spring Formal, to be held this year at the swank Beechwold Club, on May 31.

Our Mothers Club has been very active, both on their own, and in cooperation with the active chapter. A Benefit Game Party on March 1 grossed over $100 and gave everyone a most enjoyable evening. And just this past week they bought several more popular magazine subscriptions for the chapter.

In looking around for alumni news I noticed that Myron McKelvey, '41, the former National Champion drum-major is returning to Ohio State to teach the 'art of baton twirling.

We had some Acacia visitors in April when several of the boys from the Cincinnati Chapter spent a few days in the house while attending a military convention of some sort here in Columbus.

Everyone around the house is looking forward to Founder's Day, which is coming in two weeks. We're planning a big dinner and general celebration with the Alumni for this traditional event.

Let's look at the Athletic picture for a minute. The Acacia entry into the Columbus YMCA basketball league ended as runner-up, after facing some real opposition all season. The team starred Bob Beattie, who was on the championship Bowling Green University basketball team that made the trip to Madison Square Gardens in 1942. Bob is definitely one of our prize pledges.

The Pledge bowling team was runnerup in the Intramural League.

Our softball team has been victorious in their first five games of this season. Starring Tommy James, of football fame, at 3rd base, an interesting feature is noted in the fact that almost all of the infield hails from Massillon, Ohio, that little town that has been so prominent in the field of sports. The spots of third base, short-stop, second base, pitcher, and catcher are all held down by Massillon boys who have played together for years.

This about sums up all the news and general happenings around the house for this issue, but in closing I'd like to mention something I've noticed just this last month-not only around our own house, but all up and down Fraternity Row. It's the return of what I like to think of as "College Spirit." Somehow, since the war has been over, the campus hasn't seemed the same as it was before-something has been lacking. Everyone has seemed to be in such a hurry-trying to hurry to class, or hurry back to his room to study, or sweating out some sort of a line, that we haven't had any time to really "let our hair down" and have fun. But starting during Hell Week this quarter and getting more noticeable ever since, is the increasing number of fraternity pranks, friendly rivalry between houses, Torchlight parades, serenades, etc. I suppose a lot of folks would call all this the "Tom foolery of these collich boys," but to me it's an indication of an important part of College life, and a healthy sign indeed.

DoN

RADER

Oklahoma The Oklahoma Chapter has had two full months of activity that does not seem to want to stop.

On March 22 we had our annual oriental dance, which will no doubt be long remembered by many of us. It is still referred to quite often on the campus. The week-end following we had our spring party which lasted for two days. There were thirty guests from over the state, most of whom will be high school graduates this spring. The party started about 3: 00 p. m. Saturday afternoon with everybody gathering at the Skirvin Hotel for the purpose of getting acquainted before the banquet and the party. At 5: 30 p. m.

we all went over to the Oklahoma Club for dinner, after which we enjoyed an address by John G . Hervey. Following the banquet we all went down to the chapter house at Norman and entertained the Alpha Phi Sorority with an evening of dancing and games. At 11: 00 p. m . we were all getting hungry again so we had a buffet supper. After taking the girls home, we spent the rest of the night in many lengthy conversations. Breakfast was served at 8: 30 a. m. and the menu consists of bacon and eggs which everyone seemed to enjoy. The entire chapter and all of our rushees attended Church in a body. At noon the party was climaxed with another dinner at the chapter house.

At the present time we are getting ready for Spring Formal, which is to be held at the Officer's Club at the Naval base just south of the campus. The decorations and theme will be that of an open garden and music will be furnished by the Varsity Club, one of the bands on the campus.

On April 19, there was an all school dance on the campus for which Harry James furnished the music. Preceding the dance, all the fellows in the house had their dates over for dinner, after which we adjourned to the dance.

For the past couple of days since we had our last initiation there has been a battle royal between the members and pledges. It has become a custom for the remaining pledges to take the new initiates out for a dumping in the river, but this time all the members stayed together.

Everyone came out laughing at the end.

This year is just about over and we are going to wind up our social calendar until after finals with our spring dance.

This is what has been going on within the walls of Acacia at 0. U .

LESTER BROWN

Oklahoma A. & M. In the last issue of the 'I'RIAD the prediction was made that when spring rolled around Oklahoma A. & M. Chapter would really be going strong. That prediction is new a thing of reality.

With the beginning of the second semester in January, a rush period was declared. When the smoke had clean>rl away, we found that the following twelve men had been pledged: David Brown, Larry Bonner, Paul Bourek, Orland Fine, Logan Gorman, Ralph Graham, Kenneth Havenstrite, Edwin Nail, Emmett Peterson, Donald Piersall, Moe Piersall, and Clyde Wheeler.

Our first annual spring dance was declared a huge success. Due to our late start we were unable to find a place for the dance on the campus, so we held it in the Sky Room of the Tulsa Club in Tulsa.

In spite of the rain which had been falling all day, a large number of alumni and guests were present. Everyone enjoyed it so that this dance in Tulsa will become an annual event. Kenneth Cox, Senior Dean, was in charge of the whole affair, and is to be commended for his fine work.

We were sorry that the group from the Oklahoma Chapter that had planned to come were unable to do so because of

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Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Stanley of Tulsa kindly consented to act as host and hostess. Although Mr. Stanley is an alumnus of the Oklahoma Chapter, he has taken great interest in our chapter, and has been of great help in getting Acacia reactivated at A. & M. We certainly appreciate all he has done for us.

The chaperons were Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Johnson, and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lothers.

Dr. Johnson and Mr. Lothers are both instructors at A. & M. and are members of the Stillwater Alumni Association.

The other alumni present were Raymond Bivert, Ted Hansen, Norman Grimsley, John Grimsley, Ray Robertson, Kay Dawson, and Bruce Reynolds.

The following officers were elected at the start of the second semester: Venerable Dean, Bill Baugh; Senior Dean, Kenneth Cox; Junior Dean, John Howell; Secretary, Roger Harnden; Treasurer, Bill Lothers.

We are quite proud of the scholastic abilities of our pledges. They were rated first over all the other pledge classes on the campus. The actives, however, didn't fare so well. We only came out fourth in the fTaternity ratings.

By the way, our VD, Bill Baugh, is something of a "brain." Not only is he a student instructor in the geology department, but he pulled down a 3.7 grade average the first semester. And, only last week, he became a member of Pi Tau Sigma, honorary mechanical engineering fraternity.

During the meeting last week, the pledges trod upon the sacred toes of the members by rendering all the members' cars useless, stealing the VD's clothes, capturing John Howell, Junior Dean, and making off with said person. It is rumored that they didn't get home until the wee hours. I am sure that such energy can be directed along more useful lines. This matter will be further looked into at the next meeting.

The only events remaining on the calendar for this year are the Founders' Day Banquet and the initiation of the pledges.

The banquet will be held on the twelfth of May, and we are looking forward to meeting a large number of the alumni.

After these two events nothing remains but the cramming necessary for the safe journey through final exams.

Some favorable reports have come to us on how well the alumni have responded with contributions toward our house. The Stillwater and Tulsa Alumni As~ociations have worked very hard toward this goal.

We feel that they truly have our interests at heart. We are all looking forward rather eagerly to the fall term when we will be able to live together in our own house for the first time since the war.

See you next fall.

HARVEY ABRAMS

Penn State Since the beginning of the semester in February our pledge class has been increased with the addition of William C. Humphries, Uniontown, Pa., and Richard K. Witmer, Bellefonte, Pa. Bill is a junior

109 majoring in CommercE;: and Finance while Rich is a sophomore studying Agricultural Engineering.

The second week-end of April marked initiation time for the Penn State Chapter.

We were glad to welcome and are happy to announce the following Acacians: William H. Echelmeyer, Clifton Heights, Pa., J~mes L. Faux, Shamokin, Pa., Harry W. Fillman, Pottstown, Pa., Richard G. Gille_spie, Shamokin, Pa., Charles B. Kenyon, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Charles B. McGill, Greensburg, Pa. Dick Gillespie is the third brother to sign the roll of the Penn State Chapter.

Jack Gillespie '41 was here for the third degree and congratulated his brother first hand. Jack's wife, Jeanne, five -year-old daughter Joanne and Jack himself all looked fine and apparently spent a pleasant day at the house.

In recent chapter elections, George Nelson was elected Venerable Dean; Elmer F. Strunk, Jr., Senior Dean; Oscar H. Lashley, Rushing Chairman ; Dave C. Sims, Junior Dean ; James C. Short, Secretary; Len Weidner, Treasurer; Homer V. Buescher, Senior Steward; and Rolf E. Wald, Junior Steward. The new officers were tested by conducting the more recent initiation.

With the coming of Spring the fever has hit as it always does. Because of the war various groups occupied the house, and little was done to maintain the grounds which we found in unattractive appearance upon our return. Each pledge and brother has had his part in once again making Acacia an appealing spot in the fraternity section. Credit is particularly due to our house manager Homer V. Buescher and Brother Edward Price, both of whom have been instrumental in this cleaning-up campaign.

Acacians brought the Interfraternity Bridge Championship to the house for the second successive year. Brothers K . Douglas Kutz and Charles B. Kenyon took first place in the North-South competition, while Brothers Dave C. Sims and James C. Short took s"!cond in the East-West.

The combined scores of these two teams were sufficient for the victory, but Brothers William F. Whitby, Jr. and John K. McHugh also in the East-West competition turned in a performance that they, and we, can be proud of.

At this writing college politics are in the spotlight. The new State party, which Brother Richard F. Morgan has had a large part in organizing, lists Brother Robert M. Troxell, last year's Venerable Dean, as candidate for All-College Vice President. Needless to say Acacia is squarely behind the State party.

Brother George M. Leedom, senior in Industrial Engineering, after receiving a bid from Tau Beta Pi in March, was formally initiated in April into the engineering honorary.

Brother Homer V. Buescher, senior in Industrial Engineering, was on the honor roll last semester. Brother Buescher of the Franklin Chapter is a transfer student here from the University of Pennsylvania.

May we say in reference to correspondence from the Franklin Chapter stating that we would find him "an asset to your organization," we have found him to be just that in many ways.

Brother Jim Short will become a happy father in the very near future. For him and for the Penn State Chapter, this is a new experience which is arousing much anxiety.

Brother Rolf W ald, fencer on the Penn State team, expects a letter for his ten victories during the past season.

Larry Sheffer, '44, made a recent visit as part of his brief vacation. Larry is with the Grace Lines as a purser on the S. S. Santa Paula.

In closing the Penn State Chapter again welcomes the U. S. C. and the Wyoming Chapters and sends good luck and best wishes.

E. F. STRUNK, JR.

Purdue Since the last news letter, winter has left us and the spring weather is taking over. The thoughts of all the fellows in the house are changing from studying to women, even though the ratio is now about six to one.

We have pledged four new men in the last few months-Gene Thomson, Mount Vernon, Ind.; Jack Weigle, Van Wert, Ohio; Robert Eastman, Burlington, Ind.; and William Watson, Indianapolis, Ind. We have been able to make enough room to move two of these pledges into the house.

On the week-end of April 19-20, we initiated nine of our former pledges. They are Paul Baynes, Salem, Ind.; Donald Pearcy, Park Ridge, Ill.; James A. McCarty, Evansville, Ind.; Eugene Warren, Minneapolis, Minn.; Donald Wiebke, Indianapolis; Edward Reifeis, Indianapolis; Carl Kenninger, Indianapolis; Richard Arnholter, Indianapolis; and Donald Stout, Sheridan, Ind. Six representatives from the Indiana Chapter came up to see the initiation ceremony. Two of the fathers of the new initiates came for the ceremony also. They were Noah Pearcy '21 and Edward R. Warren '21. Charlie Jarrett, that famous traveling secretary, came over for the initiation. As usual, he increased the social life of many of the boys in the house. After we finished the initiation ceremony Sunday, we had a banquet out at Lincoln Lodge to welcome our new initiates.

From April 21 to 28 all of the fraternities on campus participated in Greek Week. The last affair of the Greek Week was a banquet with all of the fraternity men together. The speaker of the evening was our own David A. Embury, president of the National Interfraternity Council.

The actual climax of Greek Week came just after the banquet. Dick Arnholter, a new initiate, parted with his pin during Greek Week. In accordance with an old tradition at the house, the neophyte class tossed Dick in the "Beautiful Wabash."

There have been no radical changes in the house since the last news letter, but in May we are going to have inlaid linoleum put in all of the study rooms, and on the third floor of the hall. It will certainly make a great improvement in the looks of the house.

On the twenty-second of April we had the annual alumni dinner and Building Association meeting. Twenty-four of the

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110 alumns came over to see us. We were very happy to see them, but we would have enjoyed having even more of you alumns.

We had a pledge-active basketball game in March. Almost everyone in the house went to the affair. It turned out very well except the pledges had a decisive victory over the actives.

The state banquet was held in Indianapolis on the second to the last day of our Spring vacation. As a result not too many of the Purdue boys could get down there.

Some of the boys came from as far as Minneapolis to be at the banquet. Even though it took a couple of days off our vacation, we were able to get a good crowd there.

On May 10 we are going to have our Spring Formal out at Lincoln Lodge. It promises to be a big affair.

At Easter, Laurel Meade got married as planned. Some of the fellows went over and gave him a rousing send-off from his bachelorhood. Bob Moss and Tom Stieglitz are both planning to get married this summer. These two are in addition to those that have been mentioned in previous news letters. Our grand total of matrimonial interests now is set at five, and we have six weeks of this semester left yet. • We have eight men graduating this term and at the end of summer school. They keep counting off the time to "G-Day." Those men that will be graduating are Max Buell, Frank Alexander, Van Darrow, Bert North, Warren North, Jake Coyner, Al Graumlich, and Arthur Tuesburg.

Van Darrow is planning on going back to Hawaii after graduating.

Our fine, handsome, talented song leader, Ed Widener, has been pounding the lyrics of quite a few songs into our heads; at last we are getting to be pretty good singers.

With everyone looking forward to the end of the term, we all feel that this has been a very full year.

HAROLD LucE

Southern California Although faced with the plight of having no house, the local lads took time from their drive for housing funds to enjoy an active spring semester.

Off to a moderate start the social program gained momentum, and at this point is fast and furious. Earlier in the semester Acacia joined the Sig Eps and Kappa Alphas in sponsoring an all-U dance at the Santa Monica Ambassador. Adding to the capable, paid entertainment, the pledges performed in a manner rivaling the professionals. Rumor was rife at this writing that Pledge Cowart was being considered for the part of the hen in the sequel to Universal's "The Egg and I." Activity at .the jointly-sponsored dance reached a crescendo about midnight fading away to a faint buzz in the small hours.

April saw the AOPi's as our guests at a ¡small dance given at the smart home of Dr. and Mrs. J . L. Leonard. Dr. Leonard is an Acacian, Yale '11, and director of the department of Economics. The Leonard's were grand hosts, the AOPI's were lovely dates, and we were there too.

Scheduled to come off before the end

of the semester is a swimming party with the Kappa Delts at Laguna Beach. As the arrangements stand now it appears the festivities will develop around the pool at a KD-girl's beach home.

Also in the offing is the pledge dinnerdance for five prospective initiates who are mellowing as time goes by.

By far and away, the project foremost in our minds at the present time is the drive for funds. Stan Scott, local S. D ., is pushing an alumni-sponsored donationdance for the benefit of the Acacia building fund to be held June 13. The tickets for the dance at the Riviera Beach Club, Palos Verdes Estates, entitle the holders to draw for a new 1947 Mercury sedan to be given away.

Luncheon and dessert exchanges with ADPi, Alpha Gam, and Alpha Phi, arranged by Bob Smith our active J . D ., filled in the calendar.

Last year's V. D. at SC, Howard Wagner, incumbent president of the Squires, SC men's service organization, is setting forth the credits of service for absorption by the sophomores of Acacia. Appointments for Squires will be made in May from among the outstanding sophomore men on campus.

Alumni Ray Oster, FrankLin '13, and Reed Zimmerman, Chicago '20, are our new chapter and financial advisers.

Wayne Augspurger, treasurer of the chapter, was married recently causing some discernment and an immediate audit of the chapter accounts by the members.

His hands were clean.

Fraternity scholarship keys were awarded to six Acacians for grades achieved in the fall semester. The chapter placed fifth among the fraternities and sororities on the campus. Scholarship key winners were Bill Diller, Jack Hopkins, Bill James, George Mattes, Bob Smith, and John Swanson.

Intramural softball is in the sports spotlight at this writing. Dropping its first game the Acacia nine swung back on the strong right arm of Jack H opkins winning its last two games.

Bill James, incumbent V. D ., sidelining as chairman of the forthcoming College of Commerce banquet, was attempting to convert frustrated L. A. S . majors to the commerce school, probably with an eye to insuring bigger and better banquets in coming years.

GEORGE MATTES

Syracuse This, the first Spring term since the war that we have occupied the chapter house, finds us with the following pledges: Charles Heath, Chuck Jones, David Klipp, Elwyn "Bud" Williams, and Mike Camenga.

Initiation was held on March 14-15, with the following brothers initiated: Bob Augat, Bill Bartlett, Martel Berge, Bill Borg, Jack Hagelberger, Roy Klipp, Don Vosburgh, John Weagraff and Roger Witherell.

We held our spring housecleaning on Saturday, April12, with Chief Bos'n Dave Tooker presiding. The intramural program here at Syracuse was brought to a

Syracuse Chapter (Top) Mitzy Burns, Marty Berge, Jeanne Mikels, Bob Augat, Warren Bar. tholomew, Ann tlandenberg, ''Flo" Pysher, Bob Bartlett, "Memoe" Farr, Bill Bartlett.

(Middle) In front are "Rog" Witherell, "Pete" Johnson, Fred Lott, Dolores Rogers; in back: Dave Tooker, Ginny Pierson, Dotty Kocher, Jack Hagelberger.

(Bottom) Seated are Louise Wysong, Jane Stoddard, "PJ" Renz, Marion Munz, and Barbara Braim; their smiling escorts are Phil Rice, "B ud" Williams, Jack Weagrafj, Roy Klipp, and Bill Borg.

sudden halt with the destruction of Archbold Gymnasium by fire in January. At the time our bowling team was engaged in a struggle with the DU's for first place in our league. We are anticipating softball intramurals, but a mid-April snow storm, combined with the difficulties of scheduling, make the possibilities doubtful. Our softball team will get one good workout, h owever, when we journey to Skaneateles April 27 to meet the Cornell chapter for the annual softball game, followed by a dinner. This meeting was an annual tradition with us here in Central New York before the war, and we hope to revive our associations with the men from "far above Cayuga's waters."

Election of officers was held recently, with the newly elected brothers as follows: Venerable Dean, John Mitchell; Senior D ean, Bob Bartlett; Junior Dean, Wilbur Martin; Secretary, Elton Howland; and Treasurer, Dave Tooker.

Our representative on the track team, Phil Rice, will run in the Penn Relays in Philadelphia this spring. Phil is one of th~ mainstays of the team, and our former Junior Dean.

The Triad, Summer, 1947 We held our annual Spring Formal March 29 in the Masonic Temple in downtown Syracuse. This was by far the highlight of our social season. Decorations for the dance followed the Spring theme, and we were all agreed that it was one swell evening. Chaperones included Chapter Adviser and Mrs. Everett Enos; Prof. and Mrs. Ralph Unger ; Prof. and Mrs. Walter Weyant; and Dr. and Mrs. Louis Lindsay.

Soon after returning from Spring vacation the annual Interfraternity Ball and week-end was held. The Ball was held at the Jefferson Street Armory, where eight hundred couples danced to the danceable music of Elliot Lawrence and his band.

The evening's program included the finals of the Interfraternity sing competition, in which Sigma Alpha Epsilon defeated Kappa Sigma for the cup. The next night, Saturday, we held a sport dance and bridge party at the house, and Sunday attended Chapel with our dates. Sentiment with Acacians of Syracuse is for more weekends such is this.

Friday night, April 25, the Women of Acacia gave a buffet supper in the house.

We look forward to events such as this, as they bring us in closer contact with the wives and mothers of Acacians.

Now that most of our social activities are behind us, we are beginning to "hit the books" for finals, which will soon be here. Graduating with the class of '47 will be the former Venerable Dean Fred Lott, former Senior Dean Nick Zauner, and former Treasurer Ray Unger, Jr. Warren Bartholomew, '42, returned this year and will receive his Master's in Industrial Recreation this June. We will be sorry to see these men leave us. They helped immensely to re-activate Syracuse chapter following the war, and will be missed. We all join in wishing them the very best in the years ahead, with the hope that we will keep in contact with them through the alumni organization.

ROGER WITHERELL

Washington To the four corners of the state word had spread. Spring vacation did not stop operation "Pullman." As dawn approached on March 28 the boys began moving out. One carload collected in Seattle, another struck out from Bickleton. From up in the N. E. _part of the state Gene Guthrie was flying in. Bill Baarson was aboard a west bound train from Montana. By various modes of transportation fifteen of our boys were converging on the WSC Acacia House.

As the gang began to pull into Pullman the whisper campaign had already begun to spread among the campus belles, "Acacia is having a 'kiddie' party." Saturday the chapter house was a beehive of organized confusion preparing for the little rascals. Swings and teeter-totters were set up on the front lawn. Crepe paper streamers fluttered from chandeliers.

Since the front doors were locked and rarred the invasion began via a ladder to a second story window. Once inside the "kiddies" found a huge slide, in place of the customary stairway, which ter-

111 minated with a nest of mattresses to ease that posterior shock. Yes! The party was a great success, and we the Washington Chapter wish to heartily thank the Washington State Chapter for that hilarious week-end and the brotherly spirit that they showed us during our stay there.

On a beautiful spring evening in April, Washington Acacians enjoyed one of those social functions that one remembers and tells about for years after he becomes a venerable alumnus of the chapter. Yes, it was the first annual Spring Formal since the war and everyone "put out" to make it a success.

To start the evening off right we dined in a distinctive European atmosphC;re at the Chalet. The fact that everyone was "dressed" seemed to add to the congeniality of the group. As everyone finsihed his dessert, one of our actives noted for his forensic accomplishments-Jim Moran-arose and announced, much to the surprise of all of us, a ceremony which is unique in the annals of fraternity custom to our knowledge. After the appropriate introduction Brother Howard Clukey placed his pin upon the "girl of his dreams," Hazel Davidson. We of the chapter extend our compliments and congratulations to Howey. The ceremony was very effective. Needless to say, ''1886" cigars and candy were passed around followed by appropriate serenading.

At about 8: 00 p. m. we adjourned to the Chinese Room in the Smith Tower in downtown Seattle where in a distinctive oriental atmosphere atop the tallest building west of the Mississippi (42 stories) we all had an unforgettable evening. The Chinese Room, 35 floors up and decorated with teak wood carvings imported from China, is surorunded by an observation balcony which was used frequently

by Acacians with their fancies directed into proper springtime channels. And who wouldn't on a warm spring night with a beautiful moon, the City of Seattle spread like a jeweled carpet at your feet and Puget Sound, Lake Washington, and the snow-capped Cascades and Olympics as a breath-taking backdrop . Along with this, the fact that music was furnished by one of Seattle's finest bands and above all the friendliness of spirit among all present made the function a success and elicited much favorable comment from all guests present. All who helped with the formal deserve a lot of credit but special mention should go to "Mac" McCredy, Social Chairman, who "sweated out" the plans and then executed them successfully.

Among the prominent Acacia Alumni in attendance the following can be named: Al Mardin (who has just returned from Australia); Harry Redpath and David J .

Williams (prominent Seattle attorneys) ; Leonard Arnall (honor guest from Victoria, B . C .. a noted floriculturist specializing in orchids); Earl Lagergren (engineering specialist for the Navy Department at Bremerton) ; Thomas Evans, who wants to have his fame stem only from the f>~ct that he is now a grandfather; Bill Dexter (with the Veterans Administration in ~eattle) : and Bernard Anderson, our C:hanter Advisor. Those who attended the clinner only were: Martin, P almer anrl Mohaffe (also a prominent member of

the Washington Legislature).

The pledges of our chapter have really been giving the actives a bad time. The Spring quarter started off with a "bang" when, on April 9, the pledges took over for "Turn-About Day." They routed the actives out of bed at 5: 30 a. m. with the good old bugle call which the actives claimed was out of tune and very badly performed. A room inspection was held soon after and due to the poor condition of the rooms (claim the pledges) the actives went without dessert at dinner.

It has been a custom in the house to have a certain leather couch reserved for actives. So! Every time an active was caught on the couch that day, he was "requested" to do ten "push-ups," and each succeeding breach of the rule doubled the original number of "push-ups." Poor Sid Buckley was forced to do thirty ups and downs. During the meals the pledges had their friends call up and ask for somebody that was not living in the house.

This just about drove the actives crazy.

In the evening during the free period between study hours the actives were put to work cleaning up the house. This was done under very strict policing by the pledges.

As to the future pledge activities, the pledges are planning to sponsor a ''Spring Sports Informal Dance" on May 24, which should be a great success. Plans for the dance are now "brewing" at a very fast rate.

On May 9 and 10 we expect to hold initiation ceremonies for seven hopeful pledges. Steve Richards, our pledge trainer, has seen to it that they have had a thorough education in all of the phases so essential to producing a fraternity man in keeping with the finest traditions of Acacia. We can't say just whv will be with us in the Active Chapter as the sands are always too hot for a few, but to those who do finish the trip successfully we can say that they may expect great things from Acacia and Acacia may expect great things from them.

Voted the outstanding member of the Washington Chapter of Acacia for the school year 1946-47, Willard Zellmer will have his name inscribed on the chapter Honor Plaque which was started as a tribute to the man who "spark-plugged" the :re-organization of the chapter after the first World War. Willard was elected Venerable Dean at the beginning of the school year because he was the first and only former Acacian present to liv~ in the chapter house when it was re-opened.

He acquainted the new members with the rituals, functions, and aims of the fraternity, guided the selection and training of pledges, and worked closely with the alumni to restore the chapter to its prewar prominence on the campus. Willard came to us from the Washington State College Chapter of Acacia where his activities as secretary, junior dean, and senior dean prepared him to lead the reactivation of the Washington Chanter.

Graduating from DavenPOrt High School and entering Washington State College in 1938. he graduated from W. S. C. in 1942 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in politiral science and a grade noint avera~e of 3.35 out of 4.0. He graduated from the Univer-

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112 sity of Washington Law School in the Winter quarter of this year with a 3.2 grade aver age, a t the same time working as student contributions editor of the "Washington Law Review and State Bar Journ al," a position held only by top men of the law school. At present Willard is studying for his Bar examinations in July, meanwhile staying in the house and giving his valuable time and advice for the good of the members. Willard Zellmer thus deserves special remembrance, beyond having his name on the Honor Plaque, as the outstanding man of those who re-activated the Washington Chapter of Acacia after World War II. The chapter is temporarily losing another of its live-wire members, Chuck "Fish" Stover, who flew up to Kodiak, Alaska, April 27. Chuck was in the Air Corps during the war in the E . T. 0 ., and like many others in the various chapters is older than pre-war members. He is a Master Mason and acted as a stabilizing influence in the house, but at the same time always instigated necessary deviltry when it was time to let off steam. As correspondent and unofficial chapter photographer, Chuck sent in one of the articles and all of the photographs which appeared under the "Washington" headline in THE TRIAD this past year. It was his inspiration and leadership which brought about the very successful Masonic Open House held by the chaoter on January 19.

Chuck works for the Orcas Canning Company (fish) of Seattle and was asked to assume managership of the company store on Kodiak Island. He plans to return to the house and to school next fall to complete his major in psychology.

Comes the time in every correspondent's travels when shadv haopenings are unveiled. Your reporter has just received a letter: "Dear Wash. Reporter, «rt is about time the boys at the Washington Chapter were enlightened as to nature of certain underhanded practices. As an active on the inside, regularly receiving my cut. I was happy. But, I have discovered that a brother has been getting a cut on m y cut and as I detest underhanded business practices, I feel it

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my duty to warn and inform the brethren.

Clean laundry is a very necessary thing and as we seem to be well supplied with laundry outlets the men aren't aware of the evil forces at work. However, this particular laundry agent, until this time a highly respected active, has gone to great length to find a bewildered kindly old Chinaman to call at the house for laundry pick-up. This particular Chinaman is the type of character that provokes sympathy and as a result he is barely able to stagger away under his take of soiled clothing. The agent, our beloved brother Gene Guthrie, is now reaping fat returns at the expense of the Chinaman and the Acacian brothers. I can't reveal the exact returns (as I expect to be the agent soon) but it i~ substantial. Signed Anon."

JESSE BURDUE

Washington State Spring has sprung and the Washington State Chapter is just recovering from a spring vacation over the Easter Holiday.

The Chapter initiated ten Neophytes into the brotherhood after a brief period of enlightenment, commonly called "Courtesy Week," February 23, 1947. The new members are Thomas Boyd, David ChedZO_Y, Calvin Liebel, Elmer Yoder, George HJelm, Herb Lowers, John Stouffer, Edward Schmitten, and Gordon Bradley.

It was one of the largest initiations for quite some time.

Immediately following the initiation lights were low to the music of Don Gra: ham and his orchestra at the Golf Club House for our semi-formal. The theme was "Spotlight Premier." Following the tradition of Hollywood, a movie (silent) of Charlie Chaplin was shown at W. S. C. for the first time. (We doubt if W. S. C. was here when the picture was made. It was, however, a side splitting picture.)

Verne Zellmer presented the gavel to Don Hughes, our new Venerable Dean. during installation of new officers last February. Other offices were filled by Bob Wright, Senior Dean: Chester Bennett, Junior Dean ; Fred Williams, Senior

Washington State Chapter (Left) Bill Gammie an d George Hjelm ou t for a sprin q afternoon of lf (T ) · ~e~p~ytes resting during " Courtesy Week" : Front row: He 1·b Lowers Elr:::er. y0 ~~r John Sonnffer, Gordon Bradley, Dave Chedzoy; back row: Ed Schmitten ,' George Hjelm' o n tou er and Tom Boyd. (Bottom) Washington an d Washington State bo s at the State chapter house eating lunch outdoors just before the Kids Party~

Steward ; Don Faulkner, Junior Steward· Marshall Dalrymple, Secretary; and mer Yoder, TRIAD Correspondent.

Our social life is far from being dull.

Chet Bennett keeps the fun moving by constantly having new and different events. Our next event is a picnic with twelve other Fraternities and Sororities on the campus, May 4. It is quite certain that we'll all have our temporary fill of hot-dogs, potato salad, &nd other "goodies" that are eaten at picnics. The past events have been numerous. The semiformal, which was already described; firesides; and probably the biggest of all, the annual "Kids Party," are the recent "doings."

The "Kids Party," March 29, was a great success. There were Butches, Lord Fauntleroys, Marys, Jills, and of course the mean little boy on the corner, represented at the dance. Freckles, sling shots, and short pants were predominant among the costumes. The casualties from spit wads were surprisingly low, but the boys could not resist pulling the girls' pigtails.

Until the "Kids Party" it was thought that children were more or less bashful but "We thaw Marshall Dalrymple hod hith dirl's hand" when we peeked around the corner.

We really had two parties in one during the "Kids Party." Fifteen boys from the Washington Chapter visited us during their vacation between quarters. Sid Buckley and Willard Zellmer, former members of this Chapter, were among the group. It was swell having the fellows over here, and we sincerely hope that ?nother trip, such as the last, will be made In the near future.

Don "Luke" Faulkner is now back with us from Kansas State working for his Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Bill Gammie has met another opponent who will test his wrestling ability.

Tom Boyd and Sherm Jensen left at the end of last semester, but we expect them back next fall to help fill the campus. We'll be seeing you next semester Tom and Sherm.

We pledged five men this semester.

They are Dick Wilson, Max Peterson, John Hazelwood, Walt Gustafson and George Larse. Glad to have you with us, fellows.

The pledges recently gained control of the house on "Turn About Day." They were eager to keep the members on the ball by waking them at 12: 01 a . m. to lay down the new laws. The pledges, however, felt that the members were not yet fully awake, so the members took a few laos around the block to become more alert (by order of the pledges). They handled the house almost as well as the members.

Cigars!!!! This seems ~o be the cry ~round here lately, signifying that a member has "hung his pin." The most recent of the clan are Don Faulkner, Elmer Yoder, Ed Schmitten. John Stouffer Theo Britt, Pete Dennis. Bob Wright Joh~ Aus· tin. and Cliff Casebolt. We dev~looed quite a few "Nelson Erldys" after finishing the serenade!'. Bob Wood is to be married June 14. The boys wish you all the happiness in the world, Bob.

EI:

ELMER

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YODER, JR.

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When Greek Meets Greek

while, and fascinating, too. Why not organize a Greek fr aternity all our (Continued from page 92) own, to have all the good qualities of Alphas. The Board investigated these those conceited Alphas and none of young terrors, but failed to find anytheir undesirable ones?" Alpha Delta thing incriminating or unorthodox.

Phi's lessons in practical politics were In the meantime Alpha Delta Phi coming home to roost. Even as she had had instituted her school of applied done it unto the Union and the Erodelpolitics; giving special attention to phian, John Knox was preparing then night sessions; and had made the two and there to set up a competing busiliterary societies lie down, roll over ness in his own back yard. and jump through paper hoops till they To the unprejudiced observer there were fast losing all their self-respect. is one feature about Knox's plan, novel Then came the revolt, culminating in a enough in his day, that gets to be painresolution passed in both halls, that fully familiar as time goes on. The no hated follower of this Greek crowd new brotehrhood was to have all the should ever be admitted to member- good qualities of Alpha Delta Phi and ship. One result of this was the crea- none of its bad ones. In the same way, tion of the Miami Literary Society. An- nine years after, Phi Delta Theta was other, less direct, but farther reaching, to have all the virtues of the Alphas was the founding of Beta Theta Pi. and Betas together, and of course none During the spring of '39, when this of their obvious defects. Likewise conflict took place, one of the hardest D. K. E., breaking away from the Phi fighters on the anti-fraternity side was Delts, was to have all the excellence of an aggressive young junior with the the parent chapter, etc., etc. Four years good old Covenanter name, John later, Sigma Chi, sprung from the Knox. He was a natural leader and did Dekes, was again to partake only of much in person to bring about the the good and leave the bad to soothe ousting of the Alphas from the halls. the bereaved survivors. The logic of The things he said concerning them, this process seems complimentary and the masterful and convincing argu- enough to Sigma Chi, but appears to ments with which he disposed of all put the Alphas in a rather unpleasant fraternities everywhere, legend does light. Then, too, one wonders where not record. Rather lucky this for John's that constant remainder of bad keeps reputation for consistency. For even coming from. as he fought, and in the leisure moWhen Knox returned to college he ments when the smoke of battle immediately got hold of his closest cleared away and men had time for friend, Sam Marshall, and poured the girls and books and meditations, John entire plan into his rather willing ears. got to thinking. After all, those pesky Marshall had been interested in the Alphas were a pretty good sort. Arro- recent exposure of the ritualistic work gant and conceited-whew! But nearly of some popular secret order, and was all of them had good minds and kept all agog over grips and pass-words strictly to business, and they certainly ' and hailing-signals of distress. He was did have an organization there that was already muttering secret mottoes ih some pumpkins. Their solidarity and his sleep and scribbling cabalistic team-work were a wonder, and they signs all over his text-books. He enhad the nervy spirit of good losers, tered into the whole scheme with too. After all, where was the harm in much enthusiasm,-so much indeed such a brotherhood? that to the day of his death neither In the midst of these meditations man could say positively which comJohn went home on a vacation trip. At posed the first draft of the constitution. the psychological moment he went About all they knew about Greek browsing about dad's book shelves one fraternities was that there had to be a day and made a find. It was a rare old name-some two or three Greek letters volume, shape and title since forgotten, -which should be the initials of the which retailed a little fact and much Greek words in the secret motto. It hair-raising fiction about the chivalric seems a little back-handed, but they practices of the Middle Ages. Particu- confess to selecting the name first, larly creepy were the accounts of the choosing such letters as sounded well Knights Templar and similar secret together, and then leafing through the orders of the period. The knightly lexicon till they evolved a motto that vows and pledges were repeated, and would fit the letters. The name sestrange and fascinating sketches given lected was Beta Theta Pi. Then came of their secret history and inside work- the badge-in those days another eleings. As Knox read, and thrilled with ment of secrecy. They seem to have delicious horror at the reading, the no- had some knowledge of that worn by their rivals, fc.r the form adopted was tion suddenly struck him all in a heap: "There are plenty more good men in little more than a variation on the old Miami. These secret orders are worth breastplate of righteousness then

113 weighting down the vests of the Al" phas, but carefully hidden underneath their coats. The constitution took the most time. Apparently the two boys worked together on this; for both, you remember, had distinct recollections of making out the first version of it. It was really a simple but dignified document, built on such wholesome ideas as improvement in knowledge and scholarship, mutual support and assistance, and absolute faith and confidence among the brethren.

Naturally enough, a few traces of Knox's medieval fairy stories crept in.

Much was made, for instance, of the perfect number nine and its factors, even to the placing of three stars on the badge. Membership in a chapter was to be not less than three nor more than nine. Wearing of the badge was .solemnly prohibited while in college.

Most gruesome of all in its suggestion of occult and unholy practices was the obligation seriously imposed on each initiate in relation to his fellows, that "their friends should be his friends and their enemies his enemies." We are not surprised to learn that some of these rules were modified as time went on.

Once . the constitution was completed, it was easy enough to get material for the goat. There were plenty of good men, and Knox and Marshall chose carefully from these the few congenial spirits they required. Soon Beta Theta Pi was able to extend its skirmish lines quietly throughout the institution, as the Alphas had done at first, and to gather unto itself a fat and comfortable share of college honors and distinctions. Their men were vigorous and alert, entering freely into every student activity. Gradually the harsh rule of the literary halls against the Greeks was undermined, and in 1843 the Alphas came like prodigals back into the fold. Thus the societies had no trouble in presenting a united front on the growing question of faculty supervision.

It's a hard matter, these days, to appreciate the difficulties in the path of "Pater" Knox and his cronies. Keeping the very organization secret seems no vital matter in our eyes, but the strong chance of faculty opposition made it so to them. Then, too, there's such a joy in springing a thing full-fledged before a gaping and wide-eyed populace, instead of having curious and uninvited neighbors watch you stick every feather on. It's hard to keep them guessing, too, when these deepest secrets of your heart must be rehearsed and even your ritual enacted on the same floor with two dozen prying youngster s, especially if there's a broken lock on the door and the win-

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dows won't track. In this case one fellow did learn too much. This was Grimke Swan, a particularly tiresome bore, whom nobody had use for. What was worse, he demanded to be made a member, or he would divulge that precious little he had already learned.

In sheer desperation they hit upon a plan. Swan was given a nice little burlesque initiation and allowed to buy a badge, but was then informed that the society had no written constitution, would take no more members, and did not make a practice of holding meetnigs. He was solemnly admonished as to secrecy, especially about his pin, and was cast cheerfully adrift. Luckily he drifted straight out of college at the end of the term, or he might have made things warm for some of his resourceful brothers.

In the winter of 1847 occurred the largest concerted prank in the history of Miami-the Snow Rebellion. The members of both fraternities, being inclined to get underneath the spotlight in everything and being on none too loving terms with the faculty, were of course ring-leaders in this. But the experience played havoc with their bands of choice but restless spirits. When the snow fell there were eight Alphas and eight Betas in college. Of the former there were two each of seniors, juniors and sophomores, together with one freshman and one prep; of the latter, four seniors, two juniors, a sophomore and a prep. When the ax fell and got through falling, there were two Beta seniors left to graduate, and not an Alpha on the premises. This doesn't mean wholesale expulsion, as will appear later; but chiefly for reasons connected with those eventful nights these men lost interest in the institution. At any rate the Greek fraternities were left in a state of general disability.

At this juncture appeared Phi Delta Theta, conceived and instituted by Morrison and Wilson. In some ways it's an old tale retold. Again there is the intention to discard the despised shortcomings of others; again the choosing of euphonious letters from the Greek alphabet and the finding of a motto that will fit. But there are two marks of distinction. Phi Delta Theta was not organized in the spirit of rivalry, for at that moment there was not enough combined opposition to utter one expiring croak. Neither was it an organization out of tune with the faculty. Rather, the professors were friendly to it from the start, and before long their names began even to decorate its rolls. Indeed with this society a new era of fellowship dawned between instructor and instructed, and for some years it was a rather

extended practice among fraternities to solicit and initiate faculty people, together with such imported orators a~d itinerant lecturers as might add therr bit of tinsel to the general glitter of fame.

These first two Phi Delts planned wisely and well. Between them a constitution and a fraternal bond were drafted, and the fellows they desired set apart. All were expected to fall into the plan but Ardivan Rodgers, the lad who afterward displayed a mind of his own in submitting an Erodelphian appointment to the faculty. Rodgers was known to like the crowd, but to oppose all secret societies. Fortunately Morrison was generally supposed to have the same prejudice. So all the prospective members were called together one night in Wilson's room, where they signed an obligation of secrecy-not in blood-and then listened to their host propose his plan. All agreed to it promptly but Morrison and Rodgers. Then Wilson turned his guns on Morrison, who yielded his lifelong opinions (sly old rogue!) only after a good half-hour of persuasion.

Rodgers listened eagerly and fell into the trap so easily that Wilson almost fainted. "This society," he explained carefully, "is really not secret to me, you see."

Then came the usual experiences of these infant secret-foundries. Meetings were held at each other's rooms, where business was transacted in thrilling stage whispers. In pleasant weather they assembled on the creek bank and put out sleepy pickets. Their existence was not widely known. In fact various of the boys were invited to help revive the other societies that had gone defunct. It is handed down in the archives that they proudly scorned these base and ignoble offers, or words to that effect. Their badges were another variety of breastplate, about the size of a young tea-tray. These, too, were kept under cover until the spring of '52, when they were at last flashed upon the world at a senior party. A Phi of the period, probably a sophomore, wrote modestly to a friend of the effect produced: "The boys developed themselves in grand agony-agony indeed of the Alphas and Betas, as glittering of the golden shields drew tears from their eyes." Sounds like Homer, doesn't it?

These early Phi D elts were great experimenters. Like their esteemed friends the Betas, they were aggressive in passing a good thing along, and soon had lively young chapters established at various strategic points. Then they got hold of some kind of visionary plan, which nobody quite understood, for a fraternal organization among their

own graduates. "The Higher Order of Alumni," they called it. This wheel within a wheel was too much of a good thing, though, and survived only a couple of meetings. There was also the scheme of "bicameral chapters." Some one had started the notion that a chapter should have only a mere handful of active members, and Phi Delta Theta had limited this number to ten.

When she reached her limit there were still some good fellows she hated to let go. A second chapter was created at Miami, with a name and organization all its own. This lingered on for some years, a cumbersome and awkward arrangement, until finally the partition was shattered and the two rooms became one.

It is well that a mere slave of a chronicler approach the next period with lagging step and terror in his heart. For lo, it is a period of division and strife, where brother's hand is raised against brother, and each sayeth unto other, "Bah, go to!" On either side in both tourneys there were good men and true, and every sadeyed contestant felt that he was offering some of the dearest friendships of his life on that same old overcrowded altar of principle. Conservative and liberal were fighting in those little bands of Greeks, just as they have been at it, under one disguise and another, down through the ages. Out of the dust of both encounters gleamed the ruddy 'scrutcheon of the D emon Rum, a proboscis gules above a thirst rampant; and as might be expected, he was always with the liberals. The most peculiar thing about it lies right here.

There was one party taking part in both the lists; but in c,ne it contended as a dashing liberal; in the other as a stern conservative. So much for the consistency of college boys.

The first arena was the premises of Phi D elta Theta. They had seen some three years of prosperous existence, and were taking themselves very seriously. It was a splendid crowd, with the stubby figure of Ben Harrison as a leading spirit, when he could spare the time from Scott's. For some months they had been considering a total-abstinence regulation, but one faction claimed that this was a matter of a man's own conscience. Harrison and his cohort, with some faculty backing, urged the measure upon them. The opposition kept shoving it on into the future. Then on::! day Gid. McNutt came laughing into thei~ midst, and the proposition could be shoved no farther.

You have known men like Gid.: brilliant, magnetic, impulsive, devil-maycare; the kind of man yo¡1 love in spite of you, and your hez.rt aches as you watch him take ::orne fatal plunge with

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The whole chapter wanted Gid. at once, and soon had his promise to join them. But the total abstinence law was never framed that Gid. could keep. He was always falling by the wayside, to rise again in the ashen daybreak and give a tearful pledge of everlasting rectitude. And he meant it too. He joined the college temperance society, was made its prosecuting officer, and bless me if the imp of the perverse didn't tempt him into stumbling on the very nights when the society was meeting.

The chapter told him he must straighten up or never be initiated. He promised sincerely; and two weeks later went through the ceremony happy as a king, but somewhat more than half seas over. Then came the crisis.

One party was for expelling him at once, together with another brother who had assisted rather largely in his excesses. The liberals argued for forgiveness and still one more trial: they had lost count just how many that would make. Finally, in the heat of controversy, they asserted that if these men went they would go too.

Solemnly they approached a ballot, dreading all of them to face the issue.

At last it came. McNutt and his convivial comrade groped their way from the room, and after them came three others of the little group-never again to enter the counsels of the chapter.

Under an elm in the campus the culprits and the bolters met and swore allegiance, while back in the dimlylighted little room, Phi Delta Theta sat silent but triumphant after her baptism of blood.

Before long Gid. had one dramatic opportunity to right himself before the student body, and his friends, the bolters, quickly appropriated a share in the glory. The abolition question was then waxing hotter every day, and the advent of some professional spellbinder was almost a weekly occurrence. An eloquent specimen of the class, the rabid abolitionist James G. Birney, appeared one night before a large audience in the Town Hall, presented his case vigorously, and thenas was his wont-challenged discussion. A prominent student-some folks say he was a Phi Delt-rose to reply.

But when he was well under way, Birney directed a few adroit questions which left the poor fellow floundering and defeated. Somebody called for Gid., and he was on a chair in a moment. Evidently this was not the night for temperance society, and he was at his best. As he always could, he won his hearers' hearts at once. Then for two hours he assailed the attitude of extremists on both sides, pleading

115 earnestly for the preservation of the Union. The lecturer confessed his surprise and asked a day to prepare his rejoinder; but somehow business called him out of town next morning after breakfast. Gid. enjoyed a triumphal entry into chapel, with his loyal cronies tagging gleefully along behind.

Soon after this, Jacob Cooper, a D. K. E. from Yale whose parents lived near Oxford, visited at Miami and became acquainted with this Gideon's band. He proposed to them a chapter of his own fraternity, and ultimately succeeded in establishing it.

Thus the Dekes appeared in the University in 1852, and entered their claim for recognition. Into their ranks came such men as Millikin and Runkle and Whitelaw Reid, and in four short years they were called upon to face a crisis exactly parallel to the one that had created them. Once more conservative faced liberal. Once more one caught a glimpse occasionally of the proboscis gules above a thirst rampant. Once more, indeed, there came a parting of the ways, and the liberals groped their way out into the darkness to found a brotherhood of their own.

As Harrison seemed to dominate the earlier controversy, so Reid stands out as leading spirit in this, with Minor Millikin, then an alumnus, just behind the scenes, ready to enter when needed as the deus ex machina. The immediate occasion of conflict this time was political. Reid was then a long-haired, pale-faced, graceful youth, nervous, industrious and ambitious, and in fraternity life his favorite hobby was compact organization. The lib~rals could not go with him quite all the way. Their motto was " Dum vivimus vivamus," and they couldn't see what difference it made to J . Whitelaw if they chose to read it " Dum bibimus bibamus." Then, too, this caucus business looked all right to them, when there was no opponent that you wished to vote for. But Reid insisted always, in storm or calm, on strict obedience to King Caucus.

The slate was in the making for the winter Exhibition of the Erodelphian Society, 1956. "For chief orator, J. Whitelaw Reid." Nobody could quibble or object on that selection, for Reid's fame was recognized far and wide.

"For poet-?" There was the rub. Nary a Deke had ever courted the Muses so that you would care to notice it; and if the sad truth must be known, few of them could have told a caesura from an anaepest. But Reid would fain have a poet, and for him there was no joy in life until a candidate for bardic honors made the slate complete. Then the liberals, with Runkle and Caldwell at their head, walked calmly into Erb-

delphian Hall and voted for a rank outsider to do their poetizing. From this the conflict started. Charges and countercharges were flung about recklessly, that night after the election, and when the chapter adjourned, somewhere in the morning hours, it seemed hopelessly divided.

Two or three later meetings failed to patch up the rent, although alumni members were constantly insisting on a reconciliation. One night in the heat of the contention a commanding presence strode into the room. With it came an equally commanding voice that said: "Gentlemen, some of the younger of you do not know me. I am Minor Millikin of Hamilton, and I demand, in behalf of the alumni of the chapter, that you abide by the rulings of the society." In a second the doughty Runkle was on his feet. "I," he declared, "am the Sultan of Turkey and the Grand Llama of Beloochistan. I didn't join this society to be anybody's tool.

There's my answer!" He flung his badge jingling on the table, and with his fellow liberals stalked from the room.

Soon this refractory half-dozen raised as their new standard the white cross of Sigma Phi, and stood ready to defend it against all comers. One fellow jeered at their badges the first morning at chapel, or at least Runkle thought he did. Promptly after prayers the future generalissimo mixed things up with him in a masterly manner and fellow Greeks had no little trouble in pulling them apart. Then somebody made away with the ritual and sacred stage-properties of the new Sigs. They looked large black holes of suspicion through Delta Kappa Epsilon, and immediately went to work training a new goat. This time they called themselves Sigma Chi and busily took up the problem of chapter extension. Fortunately this was highly successful, for by some local mismanagement the Alpha chapter became inactive in a short while.

The only other fraternity ever represented in Miami was Delta Upsilon, from the year 1868.

Heigho, for the quarrels and conflicts of college days! It seems a shame, almost, to draw them out from the curtained recesses of memory and expose them to the daylight. The lads who thrust and parried in them were soon to have their differences levelled and their wounds healed in the fiery ordeal of a real conflict. When Runkle's painracked body lay upon the field of Shiloh, with wounds pronounced as mortal, Whitelaw Reid took no thought of school-boy differences, but the busy war-correspondent found time to pay glowing tribute to the gallantry and (Conti nued on next page)

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116 brate Founder's Day the early part of May at a dinner. An effort is being made to revive the Acacia Alumni Association in Western Montana which was very active a number of years ago but ceased to exist dw·ing the war.

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worth of this old college comrade. You who are college men will read between the lines of this extended tale of woes and see the real richness of the life that was there. The rest of you muct remember that chronicles are too often built only out of disturbance and strife.

Chapter III of "Old Miami"-The Yale of the Ear ly West, by Alfred H. Upham.

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cussion of this sort in the next edition if possible.

The exchange of chapter publications is a good idea too. I have promised this chapter, and I promise all of you now, that an edition will be put out in this chapter before the end of summer. So far as I can learn there has not been one since 1932, so it is certainly time that one was started again. We need it to keep alumni and actives on vacation and work section informed about chapter activities during the summer. We need it to inform other chapters in detail about our activities. We need it badly-therefore, we shall have it.

This article is different from any that I have seen in the TRIAD before. I am not sure it is the type of thing which makes good reading in such a magazine-the whole thing is done merely as an experiment. Comments and criticisms are invited either here in this publication or in private letters. Perhaps all the TRIAD Correspondents could improve their material greatly if they exchanged letters between issues-form a sort of exclusive club all our own. That might prove very useful so long as it did not use up so much of our time that there was none left for writing these articles. These are my thoughts and I leave them with you. It will please me greatly if they stimulate some response from you.

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and fuel, we wouldn't be here. Seventeen years isn't very long to work on such a problem.

Man has been flying for 40 years.

The birds and bees and butterflies have been doing it better for hundreds of thousands of years. And the bat! A very old creature, he has this navigation business down fine. Blindfold him and toss him toward two wheels revolving in opposite directions, and he will fly through the wheels without ever hitting a spoke. Let's not conclude just yet that everything has been created by us, and that we are masters of Nature.

The opportunities in this world are as great as we have imagination to see them. But you never get the view from the bottom of a rut.

Dr. William J. Marshall, one of the Founders of Acacia, who lives in Missoula, Montana, writes that a group of Acacians there are planning to cele-

FtOBERT WATERFIELD

Cincinnati Chapter

The initiation held by the Colorado Chapter on January 3, 1947, was memorable because of a most unusual occurrence. Three brothers, Charles A., James D . and Thomas S. Hutchinson all walked the burning sands together.

We believe this is the only time this has happened in the history of Acacia.

Correct us if we are wrong.

These three boys live at 837 Fifteenth Street, Boulder.

Chapter Eternal Karl J . T. Ekblaw, Illinois, '10, died on March 18 at Billings Memorial Hospital in Chicago, following a major operation. An active participant of many activities connected with the University of Illinois, he served at various times as head of its aluinni association and of the University of Illinois Foundation. After receiving his mechanical engineering degree from Yale, he became head of Agricultural Engineering at Kansas State Agricultural College.

Later he held a number of positions in Chicago : on the staff of the Prairie Farmer; as vice president of the Frank B. White Advertising Agency; as a member of the Western Advertising Agency, serving also as executive secretary of the American Zinc Institute.

He was a 32nd degree Mason, and a former president of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. Surviving are his wife, a sister, and four brothers, three of whom were also Acacians at the University of Illinois.

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Berkeley. Chapter Adviser-Adolph Weber. 2340 Ptedmont Ave ..

Berkeley.

CINCINNATI-2617 University Court, Cincinnati 19, Ohio. Venerable Dean-P aul Weidner. Secretary-Richard Brown. Correspondel"l;t-Robert Waterfield . Chapter Adviser-Marion H . Huber .. 3360 Mornson St. , Cincinnati. Ohio. Financial Adviser-Howard J . L1ssenden. 347 Probasco St., Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Chapter Adviser-John A. Lunsford . 1119 Maxwell. Boulder. Fmanc1al Adviser-Or . Robert C. Lewis, 4200 E. Ninth Ave ., Denver , Colo.

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