Acacia Triad - Winter 1948 - Vol. 42, No 2

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IF I WERE A PLEDGE AGAIN

By DR. JoHN 0. MosELEY, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, President of the University of Nevada I would: 1. Get acquainted as quickly as possible with those in my chapter who command

genuine admiration and respect.

2. Look up friends and acquaintances of home town and preparatory school and go out of my way to speak to them on street and campus. Some snobs are born; many snobs are self made; most snobs get that way by traveling the path of least resistance.

3. Discard high school habits, paraphernalia, and thought processes not valid for college life. Even a fish evolves in freer waters.

4. At my own volition read and study the history of my fraternity. History is made by those who know history.

5. Do and overdo every chapter task assigned to me. Fraternity row is dotted with ruins caused by two many gold bricks.

6. Show hospitality to all guests. Many a man has achieved remembrance-often to his later advantage-by dancing a few minutes with a chaperone.

7. Attend every chapter meeting. Here unfolds the drama of fraternity; and not one act or scene can you afford to miss.

8. Learn to meet and know my professors on a man to nif1n basis. Since the Garden of Eden apple polishing is in bad repute.

9. Withhold premature judgments on my fellow pledges; but search for every grain of gold in their characters and personalities. Gilt soon shows itself up; gold exists only for those who find it.

10. Write to my parents at least once a week. Loyalty begins at home.

11. Discharge promptly and cheerfully all financial, social, and other obligations incumbent on me as a member of the fraternity. One turn of the top decides if you are a "put" or a "take" and what a difference it makes in fraternity success or failure.

12. Go to church regularly. A fraternity ideal can flower int0 worship or wither by the wayside.

The Triad's New Art Editor This issue of the TRIAD includes a new addition to the masthead: Tom Gregory, Art Editor. Tom has already made his debut in the magazine with a cartoon which he submitted for use with the Old-Timer's article in the Fall issue. The editor was so impressed with the illustration that he has bestowed a title upon young Mr. Gregory and followed it up with a demand for all of his spare time. More of his efforts appear in these pages and we can assure our readers that his works will continue for some time.

"Greg" hails from Dearborn, Michigan; following eighteen months service in the Navy, where he was a radio code operator, he entered the University of Cincinnati last fall and was promptly pledged to the Cincinnati chapter. He's enrolled in the College of Applied Arts which, according to his class-mates, is a "snap" for him, since it is almost inevitable that an "A" will result from every drawing which he hands in.

From the Mailbag State of Montana Office of The Governor Helena

THE TRIAD OF ACACIA FRATERNITY

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Cover

Penn State Chapter House If I Were a Pledge Again

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Dr. John Moseley

Inside Cover

Texas Chapter Reactivated

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Alumni Interest and How to Keep It

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The 1947 National Interfraternity Conference

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The Chapter Social Program

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Out West-With Croyle

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Alumni Associations

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New Initiates .

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Acacians the World Over

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College Fraternities Are Again Enjoying an Era of Expansion and Rising Prestige

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Doings in the Chapters

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October 27, 1947 Dear Editor: Your recent circular letter did not reach me in time to get you some information regarding myself for your Fall issue.

A fellow always hates to talk about himself, but you asked for it and here it goes.

I graduated from the University of Kansas in 1906 and came immediately to Montana, where I engaged in the practice of law.

I was Assistant United States Attorney from 1908 to 1914 and elected Attorney General of the State in the fall of 1916, serving four years. Completing my term as Attorney General, I practiced law in Helena and Great Falls and was elected to the Supreme Court of the State in the fall of 1928, serving four years. Following that service, I practiced law in Helena until the fall of 1940, when I was elected Governor for a term of four years and re-elected in 1944. My term of office expires January 1, 1949.

I was married in 1910 to Mary Leslie Shobe. We have four daughters, all of whom are married, and in addition, we have five perfectly fine grandchildren.

Trusting the above information will give you some idea of what I have been doing, I am, Fraternally yours, SAM C. FoRD, Governor

Back Cover

Directory

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 Road, 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. Erwin, 1220 Central Street, Evanston, Illinois; Cecil H. Haas, 1850 National Bank Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich.; Luther G. Andrews. Stuart Building, Lincoln, Nebr.

Art Editor, Tom Gregory

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Texas Chapter Reactivated December 14, 1947, the Big Day for Group at Austin, Inacti-ve Since 1933

By James Edmondson, Texas, '47 ~~~ T'S great to be back!" That's

how we fellows down Texas way feel about having the Texas chapter of Acacia reactivated. Sunday, December 14, was the day. Twenty-nine men from the Oklahoma University and Oklahoma A. & M. chapters came to Austin to initiate twentyone new members into Acacia and to reinstall the chapter which had been inactive since 1933.

The chapter was reinstalled with the following actives: Kerry Merritt, James Edmondson, Ira Gallaway, Ross Nichols, Luther Hartman, James Pigman, Jr., Bill Clark, Roland Forgy, Harry Mitchell, Cleddie Edwards, Ike Louderback, III, George Smyer, Conrad Kroll, Earl Conley, Jr., Lee Hay, Stuart Nemir, Jr., Ray Kirkpatrick, Wallace Engle, Ray Cain, Casper Smith, and Will Chapman.

Newly elected officers are: Ira Gallaway, Venerable Dean ; Bill Clark, Senior Dean; Jimmie Pigman, Junior Dean; Ross Nichols, Secretary; Kerry

Merritt, Treasurer; James Edmondson, TRIAD Correspondent; Wallace Engle, Rush Captain; and Ike Louderback, Corresponding Secretary.

Much of the credit for getting the Texas chapter reorganized should go to Louis Baethe, who was elected our faculty advisor, and to George Croyle who, as you know, is national traveling secretary. Both of these men worked hard and diligently to get the chapter started again.

Several of the Texas Acacia Alumni were present at the initiation and reinstallation banquet. Many of the alumni who could not be present sent letters congratulating us on reorganizing the chapter and saying that they would like very much to be present but could not do so because of previous engagements and pressing business. The alumni present were: Oliver Bruck, Harry L. Kent (Kansas State) , Lloyd W. Taylor, G. C. Ramsay, A. D. Potter, A. H. Merchant, Hubert B. Jones, Charlie Brooks, Levy Tanner,

Don Hartman (on the right) Venerable Dean of the Oklahoma Chapter extending congratulations and best wishes to Ira Gallaway (on the left) Venerable Dean of the new Texas Chapter.

Tom Rousse , Frank Hallaway, and A. R. McTee. These men gave us a great deal of encouragement in our , Texas Chapter efforts to establish the Texas Chapter Back Row -Left to Right: Kerry Merritt, Will Chapman, Wallace Engle, Cleddie Edof Acacia again. w ards, Ray Kirkpatrick, Ike Louderback III, Ray Cain. Second Row-Left to Right: On Friday night before the initiation, Lee Hay, James Pigman, Jr., Ross Nichols, Ira Gallaway, Roland Forgy, Earl Conley Jr. Harry Mitchell. Front Row- Left to R ight: James Edmondson, Conrad Kroll, CasHomer Thornberry was elected our fi per Smith, William Clark, George Smyer, Luther Hartman. nancial advisor, but he was out of town during the initiation and reinstallation banquet and could not attend either of the ceremonies.

The Oklahoma University and Oklahoma A. & M. lads arrived on a chartered bus Friday night and were taken around to the different fraternities to spend the night. The next morning they were collected into a group and taken down to the Stephen F. Austin Hotel and the initiation ceremonies got under way. They deserve a "well done" for the excellent way that the ceremonies were conducted.

The Oklahoma Acacians who made the trip were: Don Hartman, Bob Kelley, Houston Beacham, Scott Smith, Howard Hurst, Bill Hathaway, Jimmy Jefferson, Lester Brown, Jim Saddorius, Owen Bennett, Don Kahler, Keith Bennett, Bob Malcolm, Ed Heard, Bill Goodwin, Jimmie Grigsby, Ronald Wesener, and Cecil Brite, National Secretary.

From Oklahoma A. & M. came: Kenneth Havenstrite, Roger Harndon, (Ccmtinued on page 36)

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Alumni Interest and How to Keep It This is the second of a series of articles by an alumnus who has been extremely close to at least one active chapter for many years, but who prefers to remain anonymous

By An Old-Timer N the first of this series I told of my impressions concerning the ways in which an active chapter could obtain-and retain-alumni interest. In this article I propose to discuss some of the ways to lose it-in brief, to point out certain things which undergraduates should avoid.

For a third of a century in the Fraternity, I have been more active than most alumni not actually in touch with an active chapter via faculty connections or similar channels. In fact, it is upon a chapter in a university which I never attended that I have been keeping close watch as an old-timer. This consists of recommending men to the rushing committee, serving as committeeman in various capacities, and helping the boys garner pledges by working on the parents of those who were not easily landed. So I suspect I understand the attitude of the average undergraduate as well as could be expected of an alumnus old enough to be a grandfather.

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The alumnus who gets into a chapter house frequently , and who is regular enough in his attendance to be known by some of the boys who live in the house, is not likely to complain about the welcome he gets on each visit-the boys know him and treat him as a friend . But how about the man who drops in after the lapse of a period of years?

Well, the longer he has been away, and the older he is, the less likely he is to be put at ease, and to feel at home, after the first round of handshaking.

To start with, too many undergraduates do not understand just what an alumnus is.

S ome think he is a visitor from another world, like a man from Mars, talking a differ ent language and having nothing in common with the rising generation. The boys just do not know what he is interested in, and they are at a loss to know what to talk about.

Then there are some actives who consider every alumnus as a potential

Texas Alumni at Installation Back Row- Left to Right: Louis Baethe, Oliver Bruck, Lloyd Taylor, Harry L. K ent (Kansas State), G. C. Ramsay. Front Row: A . D. Potter, A. H. Herchant, Hubert B .

Jones, Levy Tanner, Tom Rousse. Not shown, Frank Hallaway, A. R. McTee.

financial angel, just the guy to paper the billiard r oom or do over the parlor or assume the cost of fixing the plumbing or landscaping the lawn. The boys in this class become obvious sycophants who laugh at every joke made by the returning alumnus, all too eager to make a good impr ession-and generally making a bad one. Remember, boy, these old guys were actives once, and they know more answers than you can imagine. You don't fool them a bit.

It is a fortunate chapter whose officers include a few who can handle the returning alumni tactfully and intelligently. To do that chore requires a bit of preparation. The active should b e sufficiently familiar with the roster of alumni to know who was in school with whom. It breaks the ice and bridges the gap somewhat if the fact is established that alumnus and undergrad have a common acquaintance. It cheers the old-timer to hear the youngster say: " 0 , you were in Bill Jones's class, weren't you? And wasn't Tom Brown in college with you?"

Another thing which the active should know, if he is to welcome the returning old gr ad the way he would like to be met, is what part of the country the visitor lives in and what his line of work may be. Engineer s do not like to be mistaken for doctors, and professors do not care to be called "Judge. " A New Englander knows, when asked about things in Califor nia, that the questioner is faking and doesn 't really know where he lives-a sin of omission in the eyes of most alumni.

Remember, even if a graduate has little direct connection with his chapter, he likes to feel that in the chapter house his name is still recorded, with class and address listed.

Another thing which irks the alumni visitor comes to light if there is an undergraduate pr esent who thinks all men old enough to be out of college like off-color jokes or stories about the tr aveling salesman and the fa rmer's daughter . Suffice it to say that those w ho like chapter -house conver sation to follow the lines of Pullman smoking rooms are few and fa r between-the distinguishing badge of the college man should be the ability to converse on a higher level, for he is supposed to (Continued on page 50 )

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The 1947 National Interfraternity

Confere~ce

DaYe Embury presides oYer meeting of 500 fraternity leaders at annual New York gathering

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ITH record attendance, stimulating discussions, and lively conflicts over matters of importance in the fraternity picture the 39th annual session of the National Interfraternity Conference was held at the Hotel Commodore, New York City, November 28 and 29. In conjunction with this were held the first postwar session of the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council and meetings of the College Fraternity Secretaries' Association, College Fraternity Editors Association, and the newly organized Fraternity Scholarship Officers' Association.

The record-breaking attendance total, 561, included delegates and alternates representing 58 of the 59 member fraternities, 103 presidents and deans from fraternity campuses, 164 undergraduates representing 79 interfraternity councils from all parts of the country, and visitors.

The first official action taken at the opening session of the National Interfraternity Conference was fittingly the adoption of a resolution recognizing the important services to the fraternity cause of Dr. Alvan Emile Duerr, Kenyon-Williams, '93, a former national president of Delta Tau Delta, and twice chairman of the National Interfraternity Conference, whose death took place on November 18, 1947.

The memorial resolution reviewed the activities of Dr. Duerr since his first attendance of the National Interfraternity Conference in 1923, including his chairmanship of the Scholarship Committee and the preparation for more than 20 years of the charts which showed consistently the superiority of scholarship of fraternity men throughout the country; the co-authorship of the Fraternity Criteria, Principles of Democracy, the Decalog of Fraternity Policy, and the recent pamphlet on pledge training ; membership on numerous committees; service as a liaison officer between the conference and the colleges and universities, resulting in his being made the fir st and only honorar y life member of the National Association of Deans and Advisers of Men; the editorship of the 1940 Baird's

(Appreciation is ex ten ded to George S tarr Lasher, Theta Chi, for these ob servation s. Mr . Lasher has for man y y ears prepar ed the n ew s re~e ase on the N . I. C. meeting.)

(Bro ther Embury' s report as Chairm an of the Con ference will be reprinted in a subsequ ent issu e.-Editor.)

Manual of College Fraternities; pioneer work as an incorporator of the National Interfr aternity Foundation, of which he was the first president; the conducting of a column in Banta's Greek Exchange and the writing of numerous articles dealing with fraternity and interfraternity methods. In 1940 Dr. Duerr was awarded the National Interfraternity Conference gold medal "for distinguished service to youth thr ough the American college fraternity."

Insisting that it is the democratic right of any group of men to form a college fraternity with any membership restriction that they may see fit to impose, David A. Embury, Acacia, in his address as chairman of the National Interfraternity Conference met the cr iticism that fraternities practice racial and religious discrimination. He charged that any attempt on the part of a college administration to dictate to fraternities in regard to membership restrictions would be r egimentation, a thing contrary to education in a democracy.

Membership restriction was the most discussed topic in meetings of the National Interfraternity Conference and the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council. As a result, the Executive Committee of the conference was instructed to form a special committee "to study the problems of membership restrictions and to give encouragement to the formation of new

local fraternity groups to meet the variety of local campus needs by the college administrators. " The undergraduate council referred the following resolution to the conference, and it was passed unanimously: "Whereas, the undergraduate interfraternity council is an appropriate and useful factor in any system of student self government and should be encouraged and developed as such, it is the opinion of the National Interfraternity Conference that college and university administrations should confer with and seek the cooperation of their local interfraternity councils in the formulation and enforcement of college regulations relating to drinking, hazing, Hell Week, and associated problems of fraternity conduct on college campuses."

Other resolutions passed called upon fraternities and fraternity chapters to participate actively and intelligently in democratic pr ocedures to combat activities designed to subvert and overthrow prevailing principles of democracy by violence and to aid undergraduates to understand the nature of American democracy ; to promote alumni interfraternity councils; to be hospitable to foreign exchange students; to develop chapter house discussions; and to support the newly organized Fraternity Scholarship Officers Association in its program to improve scholarship among fraternity members.

Hailed as one of the most constructive booklets dealing with fraternity ( C<mtinu ed <m page 52)

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The Chapter Social Program

By CLARK HUDSON Oklahoma Chapter S we are all aware, a primary function of any fraternity is it's social life. A college organization is more along this order than any other club or organization which can be named.

Now when I say that social life is important, I do not mean that it is the all-out function that a fraternity must put over, but I do mean that it has its place, and without it, you can never have much of a fraternal order. This fact is dictated by the age group with which college life deals .

Therefore: It is the social chairman's job, or his equivalent in the chapter, to see that all goes well along his line of endeavor. To do the thing up right, he must first: Be sure that he gets the complete cooperation of the chapter.

If only one man is left out of the function at hand, then that function is not complete. Most men are not natural leaders, but the chairman must be such a man. The ways in which he is able to enlist the aid of the men in the chapter depend largely upon their respective talents. Every person is endowed with a certain amount of natural ability, and the astute social chairman will find out what that ability is, and then utilize it to the best interests of the chapter.

Secondly: We are all quite aware of the fact that no one fraternity has a surplus of "Social Dogs." But then, we also know that a given group has also a number of "Closet Children."

The separation of the sheep from the goats is also the job of this one officer, and let me say here and now, when he can separate them accurately, he is more a diplomat than Cordell Hull ever was.

One of the ways in which he can see to it that all the pledges and members have a good time is to have a working agreement with the various women's organizations on his campus. This pact can be of immense value because then he can call up the sororities and ask them to pair off the "Closet Children," and the "Social Dogs" will take care of themselves.

The above items are a help to social chairmen, but there is still a hitch in the program. This is the problem of finances. Thus a tie-in with the housemanager or treasurer is a must. Before the party or get-together is planned, or rather before the plan goes into execution, he should have a con-

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ference with the tr easur er, making certain that everything along this line is in or der. At the Oklahoma Chapter of Acacia, we have an all inclusive house-bill. We pay one flat sum, and this assures all the parties and dances being paid for prior to taking place.

We feel that this is the best method of handling this, because too often the chapter finds itself in debt due to an excess of unpaid-for social events. For

example, the aver age dance here should not cost in excess of $100 for the music, $50 for the decorations, and perhaps $50 (optional) for refreshments. Thus making a total of about $200 for a formal dance. There are at least two of these per year, or one every semester. We also have a theme party or dance, taking for example our own "Oriental." Time for this dance is set at the convenience of the chapter, and as it is a costume affair, plans are laid early each year by pledges and members for their costumes.

A number of other functions which have had considerable success here have been buffet dinners after th e home football games. The cost of these functions is determined largely by the amount of food consumed and this is regulated in turn by the number of people present. These are also valuable gatherings because it gives the alumni of the chapter a chance to be our guests. After all, they are the men behind the chapter and without their support, a fraternity is doomed to failure from its conception. In'("ite them all to each and every function, no matter how big or how small. It will pay big dividends in the end.

Gener al house parties may be given at no cost to the fraternity pocketbook by merely inviting the members and pledges to bring their dates to the house on weekend nights for a party.

Roll back the rugs and fill up the coke machine. This one takes care of itself if the crowd is congenial. (If the crowd isn't congenial, any party is drug on the market anyhow.)

Manners and knowing how to act are the essence of success in a social gathering. Training school is the drastic way to achieve manners in the pledges; simple advice and criticism by the members is a more direct and satisfactory method. I'm sure we all have seen members who act worse than the pledges. This is a deplorable condition, and when detected, that member should be hauled on the carpet in chapter meeting and told about his misdeed. He has no excuse. It is up to each member to do his share in the pledge training program; the social chairman should see to it that when his pledges go out, they are dressed in accordance with the customs of. the (Continued on page 51)

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Out West-With Croyle m which George, the Tra-veling Secretary, posts us on some recent de-velopments CACIA has reason to be proud of the new group at Texas University ; I am usually not inclined to praise any group for outstanding achievement unless it be exceptional. In the case of Texas I am forced to depart from standard procedure and say that they have the finest group of men it has yet been my pleasure to work with in Acacia.

Every man in the chapter is outstanding; Ira Gallaway, Kerry Merritt, and Jim Edmondson headed up the colonization efforts from the student side and they really did an amazing job.

Texas alumni were also of great help in the reactivation. Lou Baethe, Bill Felsing, Hubert Jones, Harry Kent, Ray McTee, Ed Merriman, A. D. Potter, Tom Rousse, and Homer Thornberry all were instrumental in seeing the boys off to a fine start. The Isaac Walton of Austin, Lou Baethe, was the big operator in the alumni movement.

He was THE boy when something had to be done. Acacia owes a debt of grati¡ tude to Dean Jack Holland for his cooperation and assistance in getting the chapter back on solid footing.

Up in Madison, Wisconsin, the movement is gaining momentum to re-establish our chapter on the University of Wisconsin campus. Pending notification of the Wisconsin Barristers Association I can only say that Marshall Burmeister, late of the Northwestern chapter and now in the Badger Law School, is doing a Hoffman-House jig in his efforts to get the Wisconsin chapter back on the map.

The Wisconsin alumni can assist materially in the reactivation if they will remain cognizant of their obligation to Acacia. Rod Bennett is heading up the alumni association at the present time and under his leadership I expect to see things develop rapidly after the first of the year.

Legal-Eagle Burmeister has several outstanding men assisting him in the reactivation. Charlie Trevalee, John "twist my arm" Jones, and Bill "she's too fat for me" Dittman have been more than helpful in their work for Acacia.

Out of Corvalis, Oregon, comes the very encouraging news that the Oregon State chapter is well on its way to reactivation. The bouquet for this achievement goes to Chris Gabrial, OSC Acacia alumnus, head of the Gabrial Construction Company of Portland.

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In July of last year I wrote Chris a short letter asking him what chance Acacia would have to reactivate at Oregon State. I waited a couple of months hoping to get a reply-none came so I decided to visit Corvalis after the first of the year. Just before Thanksgiving the home office received a four page typewritten letter from Chris stating that he had checked with the administration at OSC and found them amenable to the idea of Acacia's return. In addition Chris stated that he had rounded up a group of Acacia alumni and that they were presently negotiating for their old house. They have a group of men from the Square

and Compass Club that are interested in getting Acacia started again.

The National Conclave comes to order again next summer and now is the time for the active chapters to start to think about same. From now on we will require that the Chapter Advisor and Venerable Dean of each chapter be in attendance unless they have a better than valid excuse for being absent.

In past years some of the western chapters have been less than interested in the National Conclave and consequently have sent whomever was available at the time. This sort of thing will no longer be tolerated and to see that it isn't it will be necessary for each chapter to clear through the National Office, before May 15, the representatives that they will be sending to the Conclave. This measure was not intended to embarrass or confuse any chapter but rather to emphasize the fact that we want qualified men to be present at Conclave time.

Usually about this time of year we see everybody's All-American team. I should like to make a run-down and

pick the outstanding men of Acacia that I have worked with this past year.

I'm making these picks on the basis of achievement and interest in Acacia.

Bernie Anderson, Bill Burdue, and Sid Buckley - Washington; Don Hughes-WSC; Roy Dixon, Jim Campbell, and Ban Nelson-California; Bill James, Wayne Augsburger, and Ray Oster-USC; Bob Weber and Frank Riensch-UCLA; Burt Smith and Gil Walker-Colorado ; Bill Peycke and Charlie Hall-Kansas State; Ray Bivert, Jack Lathers, and Norman Grimsley-Oklahoma A. & M.; Howard Hurst and Donald Hartman-Oklahoma ; Lou Baethe, Kerry Merritt and Ira Gallaway-Texas; Bob Kelley, Bill Phinney, and Howard Davis-Wyoming; Bob Denney and Johnny Tschantz -Iowa State. These are the men that had most to do with their chapters' success this past year. There are others that could have been mentioned but the foregoing are the individuals that worked hardest and accomplished most for Acacia.

I trust that all of you read Bob Curry's article in the last issue of the TRIAD. It came closer to hitting the mark on chapter leadership than anything of recent vintage. What Bob writes about is the true approach to a smooth and well run active chapter.

It is reliably reported that Bro. Bill Peycke was lost in action on January 1 of this year in Manhattan, Kansas.

Hope that Willie makes as good a husband as he is an Acacian. AP has just reported that Kerry Merritt was elected by acclamation to the presidency of the AAA. This is an anonymous Austin organization created solely to console those who have lost two or more week-ends (not necessarily in consecutive order). Trust that Kerry realizes his responsible position and will endeavor to appease certain symptoms peculiar to Lockhart (Conley, you can be Secy.-Treas.) .

In closing let me say that the National organization is still desirous of placing certain Acacians in schools around the country next fall for the express purpose of colonizing new Acacia Chapters. The National Council has allocated a certain amount of money to carry out this program. You in the active chapters that are interested or are planning on transferring to another school next fall please write to Roy C. Clark or myself in care of the Chicago office. Until next issue-a Kool Stool to everyone.

1948 Conclave Plans for the biennial Conclave will be announced in the Spring Issue of the TRIAD. The date has been tentatively set for August 25th, 26th, and 27th.

Plan to attend!

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS

New Initiates California

Chicago The Chicago Alumni Association held its regular monthly meeting on December 16 at the Electric Club with twenty-five present for the dinner meetings. As has been the custom at recent meetings, the program was given by one of the members: Wallace Cross, ILLinois, '07, gave the low-down on the oil and gas situation from his vantage point with the Sinclair Oil and Refining Company. Roy Clark spoke briefly on the latest developments in the National Office and on the Fraternity's expansion program.

Current officers of the Association are Kline Gray, ILlinois, '19, President; "Biff" Bentley, Northwestern, '32, Vice President; E. J. Tompkins, ILLinois, '13, Vice President; Les Bennett, Northwestern, '32, Secretary; and R. V. Hoffman, ILlinois, '28, Treasurer. Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month at the Electric Club, 38th floor of the Civic Opera Building.

Spokane A bouquet of roses to Willard Zellmer and Wilho Williams for their diligent work in organizing the Spokane Alumni Club. This gives the Washington State Chapter a group upon which they can feel free to ask advice. Those present from the Washington State Chapter were Chapter Advisor, Clifford D. Jacobs and Don Hughes, Venerable Dean.

The alumni from the following chapters were present for the initial meeting on December 3, 1947. Willard Zellmer graduate of Washington State and from the School of Law at the University of Washington, Wilho Williams graduate from Washington State and received his Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Howard Hopkins from Washington State, James Shepard from Washington State, Ralph Herbison from University of Washington, Dennis Pottratz from University of Washington, Howard Clukey from University of Washington, Guy L. Rathbun from Indiana, F red Cunningham from Iowa, F. H. Breyer from Penn State, George E. Brown from Harvard, Donald Corbett from Franklin, and George F. Cowan from Nebraska.

Russell Milton Koch Robert Alfred Hyerle Reece Robert Clark Donald Hale Smith Dr. Frank Reinsch Barton K. Cross Joseph F. Hook Lee W. Kelso, Jr.

Cornell Charles Herbert Adsit Selleck J. Carpenter Harold C. Mack

Illinois Roy T. Terp Jay K . Hackleman William J . Ziegler Edwin W. Foutch Jack W. Jackman Charles A. Compton

Iowa State Dean I. Lee Richard G. Wilson John R. Fulkerson Wayne E. Severson

Kansas Kenneth L. Oldham

Michigan Robert C. Beer Richard E. Campbell Howard K. Clark Malcolm H. MacGregor Merrill C. Miller

Minnesota Dale W. Amundson Richard F. Johnson Donald F . Miller Thomas H. Sutherland Clark D. Wold

Ohio James M. Bushman Willard E. Hill Robert R. Reed William C. Prinz Harry N. Long, Jr.

Oklahoma Keith Bennett Johnson Murray, Jr. Scott Smith, Jr. Joe Jefferson George Sopko M. F. Clardy

Oklahoma A. & M.

Traveling Secretary Wanted!

The fraternity needs a young alumnus or graduating senior to serve as a traveling secretary, beginning in July, 1948. If you are interested, write to Roy Clark, National Executive Secretary, 7530 Sheridan Road, Chicago.

Paul W. Bourek Orland D. Fine Logan E. Gorman Kenneth K. Havenstrite

Donald Piersall Emmett M. Petersen

Penn State Ernest Friday William C. Humphries Richard K. Witmer

Purdue Donald P . Alexander Robert D. McMurry Robert J. Eastman Eugene F . Thomson William H . Watson Jack L . Weigle Byron H. Leverenz William C. Tiedge

Syracuse William J . Clark Elwyn M. Williams C. Meade Camenga Robert M. Howes

Texas Kerry G. Merritt James E. Edmondson Ira L. Gallaway John R. Nichols Luther E. Hartman William B. Clark Isaac N. Louderback, III Cleddie F. Edwards Roline A. Forgy James W. Pigman, Jr. Helmuth Conrad Kroll Lee E. Hay Harry L . Mitchell Stuart S. Nemir, Jr. Earl U. Conley, Jr. Casper H . Smith, J r .

Ernest R. Kirkpatrick Ray L . Cain Wallace L . Engle William T. Chapman George H. Smyer

Washington State Frank R. Ames George L. Larse Walter R. Gustafson John N. Hazelwood

Wyoming Warren W. Gonder Thomas A. Page David G. Wilde, Jr. Charles D. Mankin Wayne D. Anderson Theodore M. Hartung Glenn D. Graham Keith K. Raitt Roland W. Hart Jack A. Holaway Doy V. Whitlock Robert L. Robinson Russell W. Sandercock

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36 ed Mayor in 1925 for two years, and returned to office in 1933', serving two two-year terms before resigning in 1937. He had served on the Park Commission from 1938 until 1945, and was active in city and state Masonic circles.

In 1940 he was honored with the American citizenship citation for his outstanding service to the community, during which time hundreds gathered at a banquet to pay tribute.

Acacians

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Friend of Students Lost in Death of Robert Campbell Robert A. "Uncle Bob" Campbell, Michigan '13, former mayor of Ann Arbor, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home November 6. He was eighty-two years old.

"Uncle Bob" took a great interest in students and their activities, and for many years served as faculty adviser to the band and glee club. He came to be regarded as a friendly and sympathetic adviser by thousands of University students, and he devoted many of his years to being Treasurer of Acacia fraternity's alumni association.

During his service as Mayor of Ann Arbor he inaugurated the plans for the Huron River drives, started work on the water softening project and "helped Ann Arbor weather the depression years."

Mr. Campbell was born at Madoc, Ontario, and graduated from Port Huron High School before entering the University of Toronto, where he studied pharmacy for two years and then entered the drug business at Port Huron. In 1893, he went to Lansing as an assistant in the auditor general's office.

He later worked for a bank in that city and then became assistant to the state treasurer, followed by the post of assistant to the state bank examiner.

"Uncle Bob" came to the University in 1911, and during his years as Treasurer, he was "the unofficial fixer of student troubles." He offered his advice to young people in almost any kind of problem. At the time of his retirement, President Ruthven stated that the Board of Regents had accepted his resignation with sincere regret at losing such a valuable public servant.

A former Alderman on Ann Arbor's City Council, Mr. Campbell was elect-

Pasteur Institute Director Dies After Long Service

Owosso Argus-Press, of which his younger brother, George Campbell, Michigan '24, is co-owner. George's son, Richard, was recently initiated into the Michigan chapter.

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Glenn A. Kenderdine, Iowa '09, reports that he is still Chief of the Legal Section in the Office of the Collector of Internal Revenue for Iowa and that he hopes to complete 15 years of service and retire at the age of 70 in July, 1949.

He also mentions that Realff Ottesen, Iowa '09, is a prominent attorney of Davenport, a Past Grand Master of Masons in Iowa, and at present a member of the Masonic Educative Committee of the Grand Lodge of Iowa.

Herbert W. Emerson, Kansas '04, Director of the Pasteur Institute at the University of Michigan for many years The Reverend Robert Gemmer, Inand a faculty member since 1913, died June 21, in Burlington, Ontario, after diana '42, has accepted the call to bea long illness. He was to begin his ter- come the Assistant Minister of the minal leave from the University in First Friends Church in Indianapolis, July, and had been on sick leave dur-· Indiana. This is the second largest Friend's Church in the world and one ing the year before his death.

Dr. Emerson was widely known for of the most prominent churches in Inhis work in rabies control and research dianapolis. Gemmer will be director of in other related fields. He was intense- youth activities including a community ly interested in his work in these fields, recreational program, do pastoral calling, and assist in the general church including toxicological analysis.

A native of Milton, Ontario, Dr. administration.

Emerson remained on Campus after Bob graduated from Indiana Univerreceiving his pharmacy degree to do sity in 1944, and from the Chicago postgraduate work on a Parke-Davis Theological Seminary and the UniverFellowship. In 1903 he went to the sity of Chicago last spring. He was orUniversity of Kansas faculty, but after dained in July, 1947. a number of years there he decided to Frederick M. Ziegler, Kansas '17, is return to the University of Michigan to study medicine. He was named to his employed by the Kern Oil Company, position as Director of the Pasteur In- Ltd. for whom he spent the first half stitute upon joining the faculty, and of last year on a business trip to Triniserved as an Assistant Professor of dad and England. His present address Bacteriology and also as a lecturer is 354 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, 13. in legal medicine since 1922.

William Cogger, Michigan '35, is During the first World War, Dr. now Quality Control Superintendent Emerson was a Captain in the Army of the Menasha Division of the MaraMedical Corps. He was a member of thon Corporation. He and Mrs. Cogger the American Bacteriological Society, have a son, Billy, and have bought a the American Medical Association, and home at Menasha, 791 DePere Street. was a 32nd degree Mason. H1s wife, the former Hermine Pollman, of KanF. C. "Fritz" Amos, Kansas '27, sends sas, died four years ago. maps to old friends showing them how to get to his new home at 4718 McGee It's still Major Allen H . Andersop of Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Fritz the Marine Corps. Allen, Kansas, '37, has joined his prewar employer, the has been in service since 1939 and is firm of Black and Veatch, engineers. staying on as a member of the regular Texas •..

Marine establishment. A flyer, he is (Continued from page 30) now operations officer at the Naval Air Station, Squantum, Mass.

Chuck Denny, Raymond Bivert, and Jack E. Louthers.

Vice-president and general manager Plans are being formulated for a of the Wyandotte County ·Gas Com- reunion with the Oklahoma University pany is Clarence Waring, Kansas '10, Chapter when Texas plays Oklahoma who resides at 1215 N. 22nd Street, in Dallas next October. This should be Kansas City, Kansas. some party.

If present plans materialize, the J . Evans Campbell, Michigan '17, Texas Chapter plans to have a house was elected President of the Univer- by the spring semester. A housing sity of Michigan Press Club at its an- committee is at present working on nual meeting in Ann Arbor, November plans and we have every hope of their 8. He is President and Editor of the success.

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College Fraternities Are Again Enjoying an Era of Expansion and Rising Prestige

By Benjamin Fine HOWING amazing vitality, American college fraternities have recovered from the slump they suffered during the war and are now stronger than ever before. Reports from colleges and universities throughout the country indicate that the Greek-letter groups have entered upon an era of unprecedented expansion and campus prestige.

Leaders of the major college fraternities discussed their problems and outlined their future plans last week at the annual meeting of the National Interfraternity Conference. Held in New York City , the conference brought together undergraduate and alumni leaders as well as deans and other educators who are concerned with the development of a sound fraternity program.

During the war most of the Greekletter organizations were closed and their buildings turned over to the military forces or boarded up for the duration. At that time a serious question arose in the minds of some educators as to the role that fraternities might play in the postwar period. On several campuses the future of these college societies appeared bleak indeed.

Now, however, the picture has changed completely. The American college is in the midst of the greatest enrollment boom in its history. Students have flocked to the campuses as never before. From every indication, the record enrollment will continue even after the present influx of veterans ends. As a result the fraternities, as well as the other college groups, are in an advantageous position so far as student support is concerned.

Delegates attending the National Interfraternity Conference were in a highly optimistic mood. They indicated that the fraternities were financially solvent and were planning to expand as soon as construction materials were available. On some campuses the colleges have underwritten the expansion program and have encouraged the local chapters to increase their housing facilities.

A report presented at the conference showed that during the past year nearly 100 new chapters had been added to the campuses, while another 100 were on the way. Almost all of the existing fraternities have capacity membership.

But it is not only numbers that concern the fraternities. They have be-

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come more mature since the war and are now seeking to play a serious role on the college campus. For the most part the "rah-rah" spirit has been replaced by one that has more depth and meaning.

This new attitude became evident at the week-end discussions held by the conference. A number of important decisions were made which will help the fraternities in their new and more advanced role. Almost unanimously the delegates, representing every major fraternity in every section of the land, approved a report to outlaw "Hell Week." In its place the Greek-letter organizations would substitute "Greek Week." In this way the traditional hazing, rough-house initiations and excessive rowdyism often connected with pledging would be replaced by a sound indoctrination and training of the pledgees in the best fraternity practices.

In similar vein the conference voted to stress the value of chapter house discussions during the coming year. Many chapters have already introduced forums and meetings as part of their educational programs. At other campuses the chapters hold weekly or monthly sessions at which leading authorities are invited to lead the discussions.

In this way, it was brought out, the fraternities can contribute to a better understanding of some of the important problems this nation now faces.

However, frequently local questions are brought to the fore and thrashed out by the students. The give-and-take that develops in these informal sessions is important for the undergraduate as well as the college.

That the fraternities are aware of the need for cooperation with other educational agencies was brought out by the delegates. Many of the fraternities are participating in the growing program of international student exchange. Students from foreign lands are on college compuses everywhere.

The State Department as well as private educational organizations are encouraging them to come to this country.

The fraternity men adopted a report pledging further support to this movement. A number disclosed that they have granted hospitality, including board and room, to foreign students.

Others have extended invitations to

students from abroad to meals or special social functions, such as dances and receptions, or discussion groups held at the chapter houses. Work in this area is expected to continue at an even greater pace during the next several years.

To a considerable extent the more mature attitude found among the fraternities has been caused by the influence of the veterans. In some quarters it had been predicted that ex-service men would not be interested in the social life offered by the fraternities.

This has not proved to be the case. At present, it is estimated, 50 per cent of all fraternity men on the nation's campuses are veterans. In some institutions it is considerably higher than that. Veterans do not seem to be different from other students in their attitude toward fraternities .

Vanderbilt University reports that veterans are taking an active interest in the Greek-letter societies. Officials observe that "it is striking to see the father of a couple of children wearing a pledge button." According to the director of student affairs, the fraternities have become a good influence in improving the scholarship of their members.

A similar report comes from Washington College in Mary land, where President Gilbert W. Mead points out that the strength of the chapters on his campus is greater than before the war.

Dr. Mead indicates that the college has had a "successful experience with the fraternity system," adding that the Greek-letter groups have proved to be of value not merely as social groups but as a functional part of the college itself.

At Amherst, where the issue of continuing fraternities was raised several years ago, the fraternities appear to be working successfully and with full cooperation from the administration.

Only one significant change has taken place-the trustees have decreed that rushing will take place in the sophomore rather than the traditional freshman year.

Both the University of Texas and the University of Mississippi report that the fraternities have made a remarkable come-back on their campuses. Noting that the Greek chapters are stronger than they were before the war, the University of Texas notes that 85 per cent of the members are veterans. At Mississippi a number of fraternities are planning their own building programs under direction of the university authorities.

Other institutions, such as the University of Michigan, Indiana University, Pennsylvania State College, the University of Denver, Stanford Uni( Cantinued an page 52)

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Watch Out Men

By Stanley Margulies If you're not careful, wedding rings will soon be outselling nylons! The women are preparing their traps, snares and nets and the bait is mighty tempting.

This inside information on the shape of shapes to come wasn't obtained from a ouija board nor is there a drop of the stuff in the house. I found it all in the fern路 inine Mein Kampf-the magazine ads.

Stratagems bold and brassy are being plotted by ladies cute and classy! It's a fact. Any ad worth its weight in black lace underwear shows a gal getting the guy and the ring.

The enemy is wheeling its heaviest guns into line-the reddest of lipsticks, the sheerest of hose and . . . hose, the most glowing makeups, sparkling nails and whitest of hands.

Perfumes and colognes will be so heady, thrilling and aromatic that M-ls will be furnished with each bottle. It's the latest thing in 2-for-1 sales-the newest scent plus a booklet on the art of self-defense.

Items will be built up or flattened outdepending on the gal. Barnacled battle wagons will be converted into dangerous destroyers and even a slick cruiser can have her superstructure trimmed here and there. No matter what's needed, it can be obtained. And once the woman buys it, according to the ads, you poor boy, won't be able to say anything except "I do. " So, to ease slight man's burden, I'll drop you a few hints on the latest trends. Otherwise you'll have as much chance of staying single as you would trying to load a belt of 30s in a mortar.

Most important are the reasons for loving your lady. It is NOT because you think she has a good sense of humor, or because she understands you, or because she has an even disposition. Nor is it the fact that you are both interested in collecting old milkbottle caps or Norman French tapestries.

No, sir! May I be the first 路to tell you that you froth at the mouth beca use of her clean face, her smooth hands or glossy hair? Yep, you do. Says so right in the magazines.

When you and the bit of fluff are out and the proper moment comes along, you naturally put your arm about her and she leans back with her head on your shoulder. Sooner or later you have to say something.

You probably blurt a few whispered words路 along these lines: "Dar ling, I love you deeply and dearly. I can't live without you." Etc., etc., etc.

Stow that kind of gab, mate! It's strictly from way back, Jack! If I am to believe the dialogues I have seen in the ads, you mumble softly, "I dream of your soft hands." Or you gently mutter, "I'm glad you don't have dull, drab hair, but use Flannelmouth's Shampoo to counteract brittle scalp."

These words are the magic chant in the new romantic ritual. When you say them, you make her world complete. She knows

now you are her true dream-boat and it's okay for you to tie up at the dock.

Of course, after you have mouthed the wondrous phrase, the proposal is strictly anti-climatic. But she accepts. Mter all, if you both use Rinkytinks Tar-PitchAsphalt Toothpaste, what can go wrong?

What, indeed?

And so we leave, arms linked and a starry gaze in your eyes, as the sun sets behind the bottle of mouth wash that brought you together.

But the dominant theme is hands, her hands. They are emphasized in every ad.

As far as I can make out (across the street on a clear day) we men are going to spend many a month nibbling and chewing on

the fingers of our fair ones! Apparently kissing on the lips is a passe as the Turkey Trot. The Man of the Hour devours a mouthful of hand for a bit of ecstacy and to show his passion for the fair one.

In Omar Khayyam's words, the courting season will be conducted with a loaf of bread, a jug of wine and a pair of hands.

Anyhow, this osculation of the feminine digital extremities seems to have passed goldfish swallowing as "The" thing. It is even threatening the hitherto undisputed leadership of such twosome pastimes as gin rummy and cribbage.

Just remember, Mac, if you nibble a fin. ger, you're going to be asked to take the whole hand. In marriage!-Future.

Is There A Santa Claus? Colorado Chapter Proves That There Is

By Jon Sucher NY doubts about the real or spiritual existence of old Saint Nick was dispelled from the minds of certain young residents of Boulder, Colorado, when the Colorado Chapter entertained some of the small fry of the town at a party the likes of which they had doubtless never seen.

But let's hear what Jon Sucher, the chapter's faithful scribe has to say about it: "The big news of the quarter is our Christmas party for twenty-one small ones who might not otherwise have had a Christmas. It may well become a tradition with us; left us in v3rying degrees of collapse but with a feeling that our time and money could not have been more successfully spent.

Now, don't let this get around to any of the comrades in the Comintern, but our national defense is without a doubt secure ; one small Mexican lad came in, was engaged in conversation, an路

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nounced that he was the 'champeen' of the third grade, had even coldcocked some guy in the fourth, settled back with satisfaction and eyed the brothers with a critical and hopeful demeanor. " D inner was preceded by a period of conversation and getting acquainted.

Chow was announced and two pledges were trampled in the rush of small but eager and determined feet. It was found necessary to dust off numerous books so that several tiny heads would at least be on a level with the silverware. Dinner was, turkey, dressing, vegetables, milk, hot rolls, salad (mistaken for dessert by a few of the kids) , and lots of dessert. One wee one, just large enough to get his fist around a spoon, amazed the assembly by eating everything in sight with something amounting to grim deter mination, and left the table looking like an inflated (Continued on page 51)

PictoriaL evidence of the deLighted youth at the Christmas party.

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CJ)oings zn the Chapters Cincinnati As the intramural football season ended, Acacia had won 4 and lost 2, which gave us third place in our league. Volleyball is the big game just now, and so far our team has won 3 and lost 2 in that sport. Although the team got off to a slightly slow start, the IM manager is confident that we will be much more successful after the Christmas vacation.

Our basketball players were so impatient for the interfraternity competition to start that they have joined one of the city's industrial leagues, in which they have a perfect record for the first two games.

These games will get them in good condition for the IM season, which starts shortly after the Christmas vacation. We have another rather unique sport here called "mixed" volleyball. Each team is composed of four players from a fraternity and four from a sorority. So far, we and our partners, Kappa Alpha Theta, have won one of our two games. Acacia is also represented in varsity sports, by Harry Fengya, who is on the freshmen football squad, and Tom Gregory, who recently became a member of the pocket billiards team. The only minor sport in progress just now is handball, in which George Kirch and George Prochko are participating. However, sometime after the holidays, ping-pong and pool will start.

The fraternity's social program fell off sharply after rush season, partly because the fellows were ready for a rest from the steady grind of parties which this had imposed upon them, and also because of a large number of sorority open houses and school dances which came at that time. We did, however, find time for an exchange dinner with Alpha Gamma Delta on October 28, followed three days later by our annual Halloween party. This was a gay affair with numerous interesting games and several short periods of music entertainment offered by the pledge class. One of these featured a trio singing that favorite mountain ballad "Old Mountain Dew." When three very obliging actives came in with jugs of cider for each of the singers at the end of their wailing pleas in the chorus of the first verse, they seemed insulted. The next day, Cincinnati played football at Ohio University. Several of the fellows went to the game and afterwards accepted the kind invitation of the Trowel Fraternity there to try their hospitality. Many favorable comments were heard about that group later, and we are looking forward to receiving notice of the date of their installation as a new chapter of Acacia sometime next year. Acacia was well-represented at the Thanksgiving Eve Pep Dance given by the campus YMCA. In fact, we are holding our own at second place in the attendance at such functions just

now. On December 2, there was another exchange dinner, this time with Alpha Omicron Pi. The only really big event this fall has been our Christmas Pledge Formal which was held on December 12 in the Hotel Sinton, one of Cinci~ati ' s finest. There was a mad scramble for dates beforehand, and we had to borrow all the tuxedos the Phi Kappas could furnish, but the music was very good and no one found it hard to enjoy himself. During an intermission, the pledges presented a skit in which they impersonated the actives. Before this was over several actives had their little black books out writing down any large number which came to their mind as the number of demerits for their impersonator. Judging from the reports given at lunch time the next day (very few made it to breakfast), many of the pledges enjoyed themselves a bit too much!

Frank Sonnenberg recently added another key to his collection when he was elected to Sigma Gamma Epsilon, national honorary for students of geology. He was also selected as the delegate from Cincinnati to their national convention in St. Louis this fall. Charles Hahn is busily engaged these days as publicity chairman on the Cabinet of the campus YMCA. When a poster is needed in a hurry, he finds the pledges who are in Applied Arts College, aspecially Robert Rogers, very useful assistants. Robert Leever is also active in the "Y" this year.

He is our membership representative, and in that capacity managed to extract a dollar from most of us soon after school started. He was also recently elected to be our representative on IFC, to replace Frank Sonnenberg, who is unable to attend because of evening classes. John Larson's extra-curricular activities are entirely different field from the rest of the fellows above. Instead of gaining a key, he lost his pin, and the proud wearer is Virginia Habekotte of Kappa Delta. Off campus, John followed in the steps of several other fellows on December 4 when he took the Entered Apprentice degree in Conservancy Lodge No. 661, F. & A . M., at Dayton, Ohio. Richard Brown, Robert Waterfield, and Marion Huber went along to make sure that he got started off right.

Herschel Kopp was wearing a big smile and passing out cigars recently, after nis wife presented him with a daughter. The chapter extends its congratulations to the proud poppa.

Just before the holidays, the chapter bid farewell to its social chairman, William Britton, Jr., as he completed the requirements for a degree in Business Administration. Although he will not participate in graduation ceremonies until June, Bill already has a good job lined up with Sears, Roebuck & Co., starting just after Christmas.

Elmer Mook, who remained alum after returning from the service, also finished

his degree requirements this week, and will soon go to work for a company in Huntington, W. Va. Elmer will receive his degree in Business Administration in June.

The Cincinnati Chapter is really proud of one of its pledges, Tom Gregory by name. Bill Ross liked the sketch he drew for the Old Timer's Article last issue so much that he made him A r t Editor of the TRIAD, and gave him the responsibility of supplying all the sketches he cared to draw. Several appear in this issue.

About our pledges . . .

There could be a -sneer in that phrase, but there isn't. They build beautiful floats for us, entertain us at our parties, and the girls at exchange dinners, and even do a few chores about the house. In other words they have been as good as pledges can be, which naturally isn't very good! All there is to say about them right now is that two new sophomores entered their ranks this week: Robert Boni and Wilbur Hall, both from Canton, Ohio.

Since they are under the co-op system, they will leave before Christmas, and will not return until February 24 when their next school session starts. At that time, they will form the nucleus of our spring pledge class. Another major project of the pledge class has been the mimeographing of the chapter pledge manual for their own use. They cut nearly all the forty stencils, turned them out on the mimeograph machine, and bound them up. They are taking them home to study during vacation, so they can be sure of mastering all the material before Hell Week rolls around on February first.

Alumni News .

Alumni who attended the Christmas Pledge Formal on December 12 were: William Klahm and his brother Jack, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lissenden, Marion Huber, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Kruger of the Penn State Chapter, Leroy Jackson, and Jack Doebrich.

Dr. and Mrs. George Patterson, Sr., attended the National Pediatrics Convention in Dallas, Texas, the first week in December.

The monthly Alumni Association meetings at the chapter house have been well attended. The Active Chapter is proud of the Alumni gift: A beautiful new set of silverwase to serve forty -eight people.

The boys take this occasion to thank the alums for their thoughtfulness.

The Tuesday noon luncheons have been well-attended during the fall and winter.

In fact, it has recently become necessary to reserve a much larger table to seat all those present. The group meets in the Florentine Room of the Hotel Gibson each Tuesday. All Acacians in Cincinnati should visit this group.

Dr. Harold C. Van Wye installed the newly-elected officers of High Noon Lodge, F . & A. M., here in Cincinnati. Dr. Van Wye presented the work letter-perfect.

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40 The ceremony was accompanied by a forty-voice chorus composed of men of the Masonic Lodge. In addition, a complete band of sixty men from that lodge furnished a half-hour concert. Acacians present were proud of the work done.

Gerald Hagaman was on leave from the navy this fall, and visited the Chapter House. He told some good stories of narrow escapes while disarming large mines washed ashore. Jerry has since returned to J apan as a civilian employee of the Naval Demolition Service. He is now dumping explosives out at sea in deep water.

Lt. John Sigler is again making his home in Cincinnati, this time at 3421 Mooney Ave. We are glad to hear of his return from the armed forces .

Clem Zinck is now general manager of the Hope Machine Co. of Philadelphia. He has not yet moved his family from their home in Floral P ark , Long Island, but resides alone at 9400 State Road in Philadelphia.

BOB WATERFIELD MARION HUBER

Colorado For the benefit of six actives in engine school and fifteen pledges who peruse this section of the TRIAD with utter bewilderment written upon their faces, certain words and phrases are footnoted in the fond hope that they will be able to match numbers and thus confuse themselves furth er .

The last couple of weeks in the last quarter of this last year were filled, in the Colorado chapter house, with loud lamentations, sounds of rending garments and tearing hair. Finals. Every quarter at that time a flimsy bit of whimsy' makes the verbal rounds, an idea that is about as revolutionary to students as is the conception of the Paleolithic stone axe: "Let's abolish finals." Finals in themselves are probably not so bad but when one, nervously strolling about town, happens upon a professor's house, sees said brute burning the midnight oil and uttering cackles of fiendish glee as he beats his brains out constructing even more horrible and loathsome examinations, then there is reason to suspect treason. Getting so a file isn't any use any more.

Fall quarter of 1947 saw little in the way of spectacular college pranks on our part, no wild parties but some gay times in moderation. Doggonit. The annual Fall Formal was a sedate affair of agonized brothers ("Someone's sabotaged my stiff shirt.") and demure young ladies ("Where'd she get that flour sack? Oh, what a lovely formal, my dear! "). Finding ourselves as affluent as we ever getfirst of the year-we had an orchestra and some emasculated punch. One young lady, though, did add a touch of color to the festivities. Seems she made her entrance, flashed a smile to the assembled brothers, took a few more steps and then fell down a flight of stairs. Apparently of ' Not. t.o be confused with "negligee."

ran). The Wildcat basketball team, decked the " candy is dandy but likker is quickout in new yellow jerseys, is now ener"' school of thought. Homecoming was gaged in the struggle for the top place in a jolly affair made even more so by a number of the Wyoming chapter who its league. were able to gloat over their decisive vicThe Syracuse chapter challenged us to tory over Colorado on the gridiron. Our a football game to be played the moming house decorations involved a lot of art before the Big Red steamrolled the work some amazing engineering and no Orange eleven. We were a little surprised comp,e nsation in the way of prizes. We did at the challenge, but we decided to let stop traffic, however; that may have been them play a team of pledges. However, due' to the fact that, painted on a backthey misguidedly scouted our team of acground, were several lusty, healthy, buxtives, and hastily called off the game. Oh, om• " oung ladies in what was obviously well, we suppose it's a good idea to quit the last stages of mass hysteria. while you're ahead, and maybe they can Karloo, our Alaskan Huskie mascot, is get up a team in some other sport. now adjusted to the rigors of fraternity One of our new actives, Jack Carpenlife; still a pup but he measures almost ter, got his J -V football letter this year, five feet tall when on his hind legs moistand we expect to see him as a varsity ly fraternizing with anyone foolish enough guard next year. Jim Showacre piloted to smile at him. Any suggestions from the !SO's from the quarterback slot this budding or budded psychologists will be season. Charlie Adsit, also a new member, welcome; seems that Karloo is under the has been out for crew and is now lending impression he's a lap dog, and what with a his talent to the ski team. size that won't comfortably fit in even Bill Bunyan, Sandy Hatch, and Fred our largest chair and a strange odor, alBrehob are faithfully working out with leged to originate in his daily cod liver the wrestling squad, and we hope to place oil dose, there is some opposition from a man on the varsity when the season bethe brothers on this account. More of Kargins. (Bucky Lauber has left his job as loo later. string changer on the yo-yo team to work Dick Bruner, ex-VD and sociology mawith Coach Dick Teel on the tiddely-wink jor, surprised us by turning out to be squad.) something of a designer. Produced a waBob Snider, our social chairman, has ter-cooled exhaust, two brawl-power, rereally been planning some good parties. movable seat cover potential Acacian; A hayride attracted about 25 couples. name of David Scott Bruner, the first Something must have been snafu'ed beThanksgiving baby in Boulder in 1947. cause all four chaperones ended up on The traditional pledge sneak found the one wagon. An exchange dinner with Pi lads successfully away and in Denver Beta Phi gave us a chance to reestablish making wassail, the actives making low, good feelings between our respective growling sounds as they scouted the members. countryside. A couple of the miserable Vic Dances, an old clothes party, and a creatures were caught, put to work washscavenger hunt have occupied other Sating a sink load of dishes at 2: 00 A. M. Laurday evenings. The scavenger hunt ter, the pledges gave their annual pledge proved that an amazing number of artiparty with skits of their own devising for cles could be found if really needed. entertainment. We fondly hope to enter About twenty of the men attended a the boys in the annual grade school play Smoker given by the Ithaca Masons. Movcompetition here in Boulder. ies of the Cornell-Penn game were shown, Finals having administered the quietus and we were quick to spot the excepto any more of the original verboseness tional brilliance of Cornell play and the in us, we leave with the request that yardexceptional luck of the Penn team. bird Croyle drop in some time as well as A tea held for local alumni proved to any wandering brothers or alums, the be such a success, that we asked them all latter of which shall be treated like back to our annual Christmas party. This gentlemen. Croyle will have to take his Christmas party, too, was quite satisfacchances at the table with the Major who tory. We danced, sang carols, and drank is out for his blood.

JoN SucHER a special punch prepared by our new Steward, Bob Carros. Our pledge class obliged us with a skit in which they showed great originality in pretending to Cornell portray the goings on of several of the actives. They also supplied each man's date Much water has run over the dam since with a gift which, while not exactly pracwe were last with you. tical, afforded great amusement.

The Acacia Wildcats finished second in During the week of December 8, we our touchtackle league, as some of our initiated pledges Charles H. Adsit, Sel· new pledges helped out qufte well. We leek J. Carpenter, and Harold C. Mack, came in second in the interfratemity cross "the terrified three." Everything went country races, with pledges Dale Freewell, and rumor has it that "Carp" has allove, and Joe Curtis coming in 7th and ready sent his pin to a young lady in Tex8th, and pledge Bob Hammond finishing as. We are going to initiate another class 17th (Actives Deakyne and Adsit also of ten men during the last week of February. This should be 333,333 times as good 2 Dorothy Parker said this first. as the last one, and, if any of you happen • Pl.-what brings the house manager's to be in the vicinity, we would like to have face to a choleric shade periodically. you drop in and add strength to our squad.

• As in lusty, healthy, buxom.

Brother "H. B." Crowgey left the ranks

The Triad, Winter, 1948 of the unwed during November, but nevertheless we all envy him. Instead of the usual order of elopement, in which male goes after female, in this case Nancy came to Ithaca. They're living just outside of Ithaca, while he finishes school, graduating in February.

Till we meet again-More water over the dam.

BILL BUNYAN BILL WICKHAM

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George Washington !he Harvest Moon Ball in the n ew ly-d ecorated house. A cacians are : Bran M cFall, Wtlbur Van Neste, Gary Arlsorian, Robert Carter, an d A u brey Burgess.

Franklin After a hectic rushing season, we got a swell gang of pledges. An architecture student, Jack Ingle from Germantown, Philadelphia, is a Freshman at the Fine Arts School. Alden Butler, who is from Larchmont, New York, is a Freshman at the Wharton School. Another addition to the ranks of the York, Pa., men, is Dick Hartman, who is also a Freshman at the Wharton School. Hailing from Kansas City, Mo., with a western drawl, is Joe Culbertson, who is another Wharton School man. Kriss Mann, the driver of a fierce chariot, speeds to and fro from the New Jersey shore to his architecture course. Dick Reunkel, our photographic recorder of events at the house, comes from Pottsdam, Pennsylvania.

Even though the dance thrown for our chapter by Kappa Alpha has passed a good two months ago, it is still uppermost in our minds as a milestone in good frater nity relations. Arriving at the house, we were led through a long, narrow corridor to a hexangal room where everyone was enjoying the music, dancing, and darkness immensely. Going down into the "pit" was tricky enough, but many of us suffered broken toes trying to get out of the cellar-hideaway by means of a steep, narrow stairway. The evening was completed when both fraternities gathered in a group and sang their old fraternity songs to each other.

Franklin Bob Curry, Venerable Dean, and Gloria Weber, trying to slice a cake into 49 pieces -more or less.

Several of the fellows from Penn state visited us for the weekend for the Penn State-Temple football game. After the game a dinner dance commenced and then adjourned to "Maxine's," where Dave Simms glowed while a bottle of champagne was presented to him by the management with a chorus of "Happy Birthday." It was a dreary morning, when the Penn State guys left our house for home.

Just recovering our breath from the Penn State shindig, we plunged into a theatre party. Reluctant to leave because of our lovely visitors from Chi Omega, who were temporarily homeless and used our house for a pledge dance, we repaired our burst eye-balls and sped to our dates.

At the Forest Theatre, we found that "Sweethearts" had more Bobby Clark in it than Victor Herbert. "Sweethearts" was placed as much in Acacia audience as on the stage. The evening was full of laughs from the comedy, and the laugh heard loudest and most was Bob Cornish, who raised the actors' morale considerably. After the theatre, we met in the lobby humming ''Sweethearts," dispersed and found our way through various modes of travel to the Chapter house where we had an informal get together.

The biggest event of the winter season was our Christmas Formal held on December thirteenth. After two days of decorating the house with evergreens and a Christmas tree, we were happy to jump into our stiff shirts and tuxedos. At eight o'clock, after calling for our dates, a groaning buffet board greeted us in the dining room. A beautiful cake inscribed with "Welcome Acacia" was cut by Bob Curry, the president. While the waiters were clearing the remnants of the buffet dinner away, smooth music commenced from a slick band, and dancing began.

With a hearty "Ho-Ho!" and earth-shattering steps, "Santa Claus" Cornish descended the staircase with a bag bulging from all sorts of odd gifts, which surprised many of us upon opening them. Through the laughter from the surprise presents, a chord of music was sounded and Henry Kipp's lovely Sally Koel was proclaimed

"Queen" of the Christmas Formal. Another of the highspots that rounded out the evening's fun was a conga line led

by Gloria Weber, Bob Curry's favorite nurse.

With the coming spring term, we find we have to bid farewell to three grand guys who are graduating seniors. The Franklin Chapter wishes Bob Milller, Chapter Secretary; Ross Kurtz; and Bob Frey ; all happiness and success.

DAVID GRIFFITH

George Washington After a round of parties the Acacians got down to the real business of school and their "studies." The house has been in a constant turmoil since school started the first of October.

After a long rush season seven men were pledged. They are George Aldridge, Walter Fackler, Harry Jones, Paul Oscanyon, Wilbur Van Neste, George Rhodes and Douglas Rideout. They were formerly pledged on the 25th of October. They elected officers as follows: President, Walter Fackler, Vice-president, George Aldridge, Secretary, Harry Jones, Treasurer , Paul Oscanyon.

The house has been improved greatly by several important additions. Slip ¡covers were put on all of chairs and couches on the first floor. More desks were gotten to take care of the new pledges. Study lamps were also gotten for all those at the house that did not have them. The most important addition is Homer, our new cook. He was gotten after a great deal of work by house manager Richard Wilkinson and chapter adviser Stanley Petersen.

The serving of meals will make us even more popular on the campus, since we are the only chapter on the GW campus that serves meals. So far the meals have been wonderful and the men at the house have been taking turns doing the serving and the dishes.

The highlight of the fall season was

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42 the Harvest Moon Ball on November 14.

The Ball was held at the house with Joe Dosh, a popular local musician, providing the music. The house was decorated by pledges with the help of some of the house men. Many alumni were present along with representatives of all campus fraternities and sorities. On Saturday, December 20th, a special Christmas party was held for the children of the alumni.

The house was bulging to the rafters with children of all ages. There were a great many alumni present with their wives and the wives of many more who could not come. Santa Claus come down the chimney and had something for each of the children there. The alumni had just as much fun as the children, talking among themselves about old times and, of all things, their kids.

On New Year's Eve we are joining the TKE's at their house for a rousing party.

They have just moved in so it will be sort of a house warming.

A great honor was bestowed on one of our pledges, Douglas Rideout. His poem "The Gympsies" was chosen to appear in the "Annual Anthrology of College Poetry." The Anthrology is published by the National Poetry Association, Los Angeles, California. This book is a compilation of the finest poetry written by college men and women.

Preparations are now being made for the February rush season, but it is a little early for any definite plans to be made.

We want to see all of you who come to the Nation's Capital. We have room for you all. We'll be glad to put the pledges on the floor if too many come at once.

EuGENE T . ALDRIDGE, JR.

Illinois Mid-term grades and Champaign rain and slush struck together to cast an effective gloom over the Illinois campus.

The chapter is full of characters who, after figuring up their averages, are now staying awake through at least three-quarters of their classes. Despite these obstacles to our receiving an education, the chapter has enjoyed quite a few of the activities that are a necessary part of a college education.

One new pledge has been added to our ranks since the last issue. Robert Fellows, of Urbana, is the new recruit. Bob is the son of Professor Fellows of the university engineering staff.

Pledge Dick Cook has been making a name for himself in lllini Union activities.

Dick was recently selected as the freshman representative to the Illini Union Alumni Board. Dick has also m.c.'d several football pep rallies and shows in the Union's Club Commons.

Pledge Austin Jones has a theatrical leaning, and spends a great deal of his spare time amid the Theater Guild's props and greasepaint. Austin has already had a part in the Theater Guild opening production of "All the King's Men." Our athletes now number thr ee. Pledge

Klaus Timmerhaus is showing promise of becoming one of the top distance men on the lllini track team. Besides his track activities, Klaus drives an ambulance evenings, and maintains a strong B average in chemical engineering. Bill Buster finally made it out to track practice. Bill's specialties this year will probably be the dash and quarter-mile r un. Bill goes to school too. Don Bengard has won a starting position on the university fencing team.

Jim Preston and Tom Moore, as chairman and publicity director respectively, brought the gigantic Homecoming festivities to a very successful conclusion.

Homecoming for the house was marked by the return of many alumni to the campus. The names in the guest book were representative of practically every class since '06. We hope that the alumni enjoyed their stay as much as we enjoyed having them. In conjunction with Homecoming, the corporation held its annual meeting followed by a stag dinner. Jack Webb, '47, performed with his usual brilliance as toastmaster for the dinner. His introductions served to acquaint the actives and pledges with our alums-an acquaintance that is vital to the long-lasting success of any fraternity .

An open house was held in early December for all the local alumni and their families. The house plans to hold smokers for the alums at least three or four times in the course of a semester. Because of the great number of Acacians who are faculty members we feel that "It pays to advertise."

Dad's Day was the occasion for the dads to see a football game, and to observe the manner in which their sons spend the old man's money. The football game was rather sad, but the dads learned a great deal about the expense involved in keeping socially prominent on campus.

The Alpha Chi Omega sorority descended en masse on the chapter house for a Sunday tea dance on November 23.

Due to the opening of the duck season and the lure of women back home, about a third of the house was absent. We vowed that next time it would be different. It's quite a strain on the nerves to carry on an intelligent conversation with four or five women at once.

Our winter formal was held in the chapter house on December 6. The theme of the dance was "Showboat," and the music was provided by Andy Imperial's Purdue band. A dinner was held at the Inman Hotel before the dance, and a date dinner was given the next day in the chapter dining room.

The pledge dance in November was made a rousing success through the efforts of the pledges and their¡ skit. The skit was based on the theme of a "horrible death to Pledgemaster Kelly." Ed wore a haunted expression on his face for a week following the dance-and it wasn't because of his blind date.

The chapter also held an exchange dinner with the Phi Kappa fraternity. This marked the renewal of a tradition that was allowed to lapse during the war.

An informal record dance on Decem-

ber 19 marked the last house function of 1947.

And so, in 1948, as in the years before, the illinois Chapter wishes to remind everyone that there is always a hearty handshake, a meal, and a "sack" at 501 East Daniel.

BILL ToNKIN

Indiana Mid-term exams, falling snow, and the loud praise of Yellow Dog ushered in the winter season. The house had finally settled down to pursuing the many facets of fraternity activities.

Intramural sports were being run off with the aid of our able manager, Jim Cox. The smooth working football team had continued to win in its league and probably would have won the league championship had it not been necessary to play one game minus half of the starting line-up. Ward Williams and Pete Driver found time to leave their families and spark-plug the team. The volley ball team, too, lost a heart breaker in the semi-final play-offs. Frank Neff, ace hand-ball man, has been carrying the brunt of that sport for the house. A fine basketball team i5 taking shape for which we all have high hopes.

Looking at the varsity sports, we find Ward Williams, captain and forward of an Indiana hard-wood team that will probably go undefeated. In freshman basketball, Phil Buck, pride of Rossville, is really burning up the nets.

Although somewhat lacking on the political scene, the chapter is making a systematic effort to have men ready to step into key positions when the occasion presents itself. Jack Davis, Gene Llewelyn, Jim Sparks, and Dave Dexter have been

Indiana Jack Ruch, Indiana '43, and his Dad, Les Ruch, Indiana '20, in front of the chapter house on Jake's Commencement Day. Les was the Leader of the campaign to raise funds for the construction of the fine chapter house.

The Triad, W inter, 1948 pledged by Delta Sigma Pi, business honorary. Jim Ferguson now holds offices in the Young Republicans Club and Phi Eta Sigma. Bill Crane and Meritt Homman hold positions on the Y. M. C. A. cabinet which has become a clearing house for campus politics. Cliff (Zeus) Forsythe by a stroke of political genius is vice-president and general rod at large of the Freshman medical class.

We are trying to better the house scholastic standing of seventh among fraternities. Study conditions in the house have gradually been improved and a more serious attitude toward the books is being assumed by most of us. Dave Dexter has attained membership in Beta Gamma Sigma. This is the highest scholastic honor that can be conferred upon a business student.

Socially, things have been coming thick and fast. The usual run of tea dances and exchange dinners were held with much success, the trend being away from the stiffness of exchange dinners and toward the easy-going informality of tea dances.

A dinner was held for professors to which each man was entitled to bring one of his profs. This provided a not too subtle means of polishing the old apple. The Purdue game saw the usual renewing of old acquaintances and the making of new ones. The pledges put on their annual Christmas play before we went home.

Following that, last year's pledge class put on another extravaganza.

Campus activities were many and varied. Early in November Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians gave a fine performance. The formal season was opened gaily

by Sam Donahue and his orchestra. The next weekend the gals asked the guys to Mortar Board's annual Dame's Ball.

The first bowl football game of the season, "The Powder Bowl" (organized women vs. independent women) saw the defeat of the organized in one of the hardest fought battles ever seen in Memorial Stadium.

And a last minute news item from our Indianapolis Campus tells us that H . T. Risley, Jack Denison, and Bill Scholl were initiated into Xi Psi Phi dental fraternity a short time ago. They triped at a dinnerdance which followed, and again at a for mal dance for nurse students of the Methodist Hospital. We can see that their spare time is well utilized.

As a climax to all these events Christmas vacation suddenly rolled around with its farewell wishes for a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. RoBERT W. EwER

Iowa State Iowa State has added six new men to the pledge class since the last publication of the TRIAD. They are Alan S. Brengle, Western Springs, Ill.; William E . Huffman, Des Moines, Iowa; John W. Jackson, Farmington, Iowa; George P . Maze, Carroll, Iowa; William G . Pearcy, Park Ridge, lll.; and Robert F . Petrik, Omaha, Nebraska.

New Initiates are John R. Fulkerson,

43 Rochester, Minn.; Dean I. Lee, Sac City, Iowa; Richard G. Wilson, Sioux City, Iowa; and Wayne E. Severson, Des Moines, Iowa.

Newly elected house officers, who will serve until the next regular election, are : Junior Dean, Charles Dingle; Treasurer, Jack Pyles; and Senior Steward, Tom Brown.

Recent election ot the pledge class has named Carl O'Beirn, President; Darwin Hook, Secretary; and Warren Oblinger, Treasurer.

Now that we have remodeled the basement we will have an extra room for two more men which will make a total of thirty-four living in the house. The appearance of the living room has been improved many-fold by the addition of our re-upholstered furniture which has recently been returned.

We have had much interest shown in intramural sports this fall. Our football team reached the semi-finals in their division, the swimming team was nosed out by the close score of 20-19, and the bowling team is still rolling strong. Several basketball practice sessions are planned and much interest has been shown. By the looks of things now we will have two strong teams to enter in the basketball tournament. A house table tennis tournament was held to determine the person who would represent the house in the intrafraternity tournament which is to be started soon. Warren Oblinger, after traveling a very rough road, emerged as house champ.

Social activities, under the supervision of Charles Dingle, haven't been neglected by the Acacia boys here at Iowa State.

Two big parties have been held during the quarter. The Halloween party was held October 31 and the house was decorated for the occasion in orange and black with corn stalks and bales of straw scattered about. The Final Fling party was held December 13 and the house was trimmed with all the trimmings that go with Christmas including a Christmas tree, holly and mistletoe. After the Final Fling we had our Christmas Stag Party.

Impractical gifts were received by everyone. Several dance exchanges have been enjoyed by all this quarter, plus one dinner exchange with Welch Hall girls. Two big dinners have been held lately . . . the Thanksgiving dinner on November 23 and the Christmas dinner on December 14.

Bow tie and tux have been floating in and out at various times, such as the Military Ball, Women's Panhellenic, Junior Prom and the Home Economics Ball.

Many alumni were present among the visitors to the chapter house of Acacia during Homecoming. They were Dean H . H. Kildee, '08; John Hug, '09; L . S. Sabothe, '29; Karl Wester, '30; G. E. Buehler, '32; Donald Hamen, '42 ; George Gross, '43; Kenneth Oakleaf, '43 ; and Robert Carstens, '43. Other visitors during the quarter included Clair Claxton, '42.

Our V. D., Bob Denney, now holds the position of Secretary on the Inter-Fraternity Council. John Peterson was manager

of the Little Midwest Horticultu re Show.

John Wahlgren kept everyone laughing in the musical comedy, "Girl Crazy" while Milt Grobeck proved his vocal talents singing with the quartet. Gordon Johnson has been keeping himself busy working for the campus newspaper , the Iowa State Daily.

Tom Br own and Gordon Johnson have joined the ranks of "pinless" Acacians and have made it official by passing cigars.

Wendell Stewart will receive his B. S . degree in Animal Husbandry a t the end of the quarter. Word has been received tha t Wilbert Olsen, who is now attending Iowa State Teachers College, has been married.

Final exam week is upon us and everyone is busy cramming. It is hard to believe that the quarter is almost over and that in a few days we'll be on our way home for a two weeks vacation. EDWIN BARNES

Kansas State While all the other K -State Acacians are away visiting Santa Claus, your correspondent is beating his head against the wall trying to get out copy for TRIAD. We've acquired quite a number of new pledges since the last issue. They are Al Wesley, Bob Kysar, Jake Wadby, Les Golden, Howard Wood, Jim Mussett, Al Jett, Jim Hagen, and Charley Towner.

We've had several outstanding parties this Fall. The pledge class seems to be on the ball-for a change. Everyone had a howling good time watching Hank "Preacher" Wilson deliver his sermon.

During the Indian Party everyone entered the house through the Woo-warn. After dancing for a while everyone adjourned to the forest for cider and doughnuts. Our Christmas party was of a more serious n ature with presents under the tree and Santa Claus. Charley Jarrett had 100 per cent attendance at all parties so he must either have liked them or else be a glutton for punishment.

Speaking of Charley, he brought the first man from the new K. U. Chapter to be initiated into our brotherhood.

In trying to get closer to the Masonic Lodge, the K-State Chapter had a smoker for all Masons and sons of Masons who are on the campus this year in an endeavor for us to get to know each other better. Incidentally, it netted us a . few pledges. Maybe some of the other Chapters throughout the country would be interested in trying a similar affair.

After reading the anonymous article written by an alum concerning the various active chapters' sins of omission concerning more news about alumni in the Chapter News, we were conscience stricken and went to visit one of our prominent alumni on the campus in an endeavor to secure more news of interest to alums for this article. However, it seems he knows exactly the same amount of news about the various alums of our Chapter as yours truly-exactly none. Therefore let this be an appeal to any alum who might happen to have read this far to send us any information which he thinks will

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44 be of interest. We guarantee it will make the chapter news in the n ext issue of TRIAD. Everyone is eagerly looking forward to the coming marriage of Bill Peycke, who graduated last summer, on January 1,

Kansas State Part of the crowd assem bled for a for mal dinner dance.

1948. Seems as though there are some old scores to be settled. Bill is to marry Adeline Poole of Alta Vista.

Everyone is busy preparing for the coming initiation of our new honorary member, Governor Frank Carlson of Kansas.

The big event is to take place late in January. The House is to be all dolled up for the initiation. The alumni have promised to buy us some new rugs and shades for the occasion.

News is short for this issue so-that's all folks.

BILL HART

Michigan As the "final" curtain begins to fall, the Michigan chapter reviews, with satisfaction, the successful first act of a play entitled "College Daze."

Our first act began with the initiation on November 15 of five men. Robert C. Beer, Richard E. Campbell, Howard K. Clark, Merrill C. Miller, and Malcom MacGregor were those who underwent a four -day hell-week in addition to the regular initiation ceremony. One of the pledge duties during this period involved cleaning and polishing a memorial bench that was placed on campus to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Acacia. Even though the temperature was below freezing, the bench was dutifully scrubbed, under the supervision of hypercritical actives. After an hour or so, the job neared completion, much to the relief of the near-frozen pledges. However, two perfectionists from the active chapter thought there still was too much copper oxide remaining on the dedication plaque and, not wishing to further inconvenience the pledges, they decided to make use of their vast knowlt>dge of chemistry and dissolve the oxide with a hydrochloric acid bath. Much to the consternation of all present, the acid not only dissolved the copper oxide, but part of the limestone bench as well. It can be safely said that those psuedo chemists have left their mark on the University of Michigan campus. Comments about the matter by

the former pledges are being withheld by a discreet censor.

In keeping with a Thanksgiving tradition, all members remained in Ann Arbor for a fra ternity "day." Actives included a long hike in the morning, a huge tur~ey dinner a pledge play satirizing the active chapte~, a pledge-active fo6tball game (played in four inches of snow) in which the pledges were soundly trounced, and an informal stag party in the evening.

A new twist has been given to several of our dances in that short skits, under the direction of Dan Gillespie, has been presented at intermissions. We think they have been a "howling" success.

Bob Beer, social chairman, has not only held some swell parties and arranged several exchange dinners, but has also accomplished the next to impossible by defeating the ratio, as evidenced by his large list of available dates.

Our Pledge Formal was held December 6th. A dinner party preceded the dance at the house. Belmont gardenias and doll scottie dogs were presented as favors to all dates.

Several men have been active on campus this year. Dick Campbell is in the advertising department of the Daily. Being a true mercenary, he has even attempted to charge us for printing the news of our parties in this paper. Cal Simpson and Jim Reagan are on the Debate team. Jim is also on the yearbook staff. Phil Linscott and Bob Herchert were members of the Michigan Marching Band this fall. Russ Buster played as guard with the 150 pound team and earned a letter for his endeavors.

John Wunch, Acacia's confirmed bachelor, had a complete reversal of thought last month which resulted in John losing sleep, the chapter getting cigars, and Helen Starr of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority getting John's Pin. To quote John, "These little things will happen."

D. H. STREMMEL

Northwestern

As Christmas vacation began, Northwestern Acacians took a long look back over the fall quarter and pronounced it a great success.

Social events of the quarter stood out in everyone's mind as among the best we have ever had. There were two big outside parties-one at the Lake Shore Athletic Club and one at Techny Fields. The latter party was complete with "Ma" Harms, much liquid refreshment, a big spread of food and an uproarious time in general. Several parties, including a Halloween brawl sponsored by the pledges, were held in the house.

Extra social outings included mass migrations of NU Acacians to the Minnesota and Illinois chapters for two great weekend affairs. Nearly 30 men descended upon their illinois brethren the weekend of November 22 to see NU upset the Orange and Blue on the gridiron. The Northwestern Acacians came back with many words of praise for the hospitality shown by the two chapters-not to mention a trophy, presented by the Illinois boys as the new traveling award between the two chapters, which will bear the score of each year's NU-Illinois football game.

Although Acacia didn't cop a trophy at Homecoming, the chapter had a fine weekend. The spirit around the campus was at a new high for the game. Saturday night the house was crowded with returning alums who made the annual pilgrimage to renew old acquaintances and see the brothers once again.

In the athletic department, we are getting ready for the intramural basketball season, which begins for us January 8 in a game against Sigma Chi. Coach Chuck Robinson, who has been holding periodic cage practices, predicts we should have a winning team and probably one of the best in many years. The Acacia bowling team has also been active and should stand near the top when the season ends.

In its first engagement, the team defeated Phi Kappa Sigma three games to none.

Scholastically the quarter has been a success, too, despite tougher grading and plenty of hard work. Several pledges have averages near the A level and we are optimistic that all of them will be initiated early next quarter. Initiation date has not been set as yet, but it will probably be late in January.

Our winter formal has been set for January 24 at the M and M Club in the Merchandise Mart. A dinner will precede the dance and we are planning favors for the dates. If past parties arranged by Social Chairman Ed Spoo are any indication, the formal should be one of the best ever.

We are expecting a big turnout of alums in this area.

This quarter's activities came to a close with the traditional Christmas party in Michigan the house. As always, it was strictly stag Top: Pledges Dick Campbell, Mac Mcand as always the presents and poetry Gregor, Merrill Miller, and Ken Clark were definitely on the uproarious side. hard at work on the memorial bench.

There have been two changes of officers Bottom: The slaves and the slavedrivers. during the quarter. Milt Clarke was elect-

The Triad, Winter, 1948 ed house manager and treasurer, following the resignation of George Reazin, and Bill Brown was elected rushing co-chairman after Claude Sowle stepped down from that post. The other rushing chairman is Gene Pfiughaupt.

After a two-week rest over the holidays, everybody should be in fine shape for another active and successful quarter in January.

BILL BROWN

45 Northwestern Top: The chapter homecoming floatthe jeep is piloted by pledge John Brewer (left).

Bottom: The pledges' entry in the annual pajama race: Duke Yates, Bill Reed Bill Coburn, Bill Posegate. '

Ohio State Another quarter is at a close here at Ohio State and now that the finals are upon us we are eagerly awaiting the day when we'll say goodbye and take off for our various homes to enjoy the rapidly nearing Christmas Holidays.

The last days of each quarter always mark the last days of those graduating and this time is no exception. Brother Mel Stauffer received his degree in law on Friday, December 19, and as a result his active association with us is at an end.

Brother Stauffer will continue his studies, however, but at Ann Arbor, Mich., and we know a better representative of Ohio couldn't be found to visit that institution.

During the past year Mel has been our rushing chairman and it is gross understatement to say he has done a good job.

Since last heard from we have pledged seven new men. They are Lawrence E. Jacobs, Louisville, Ohio; Gail Warren Burrier of Dayton ; Bryson Swanda, Garrettsville; Loren Morten Harrell III, Batavia; and Paul Leslie Brown, Wayne L . Pidock, and Jack G. Lawrence all of Columbus.

Formal initiation was held on October 25 and the men taking the work were James Bushman of Massillon; William Prinz of Dayton ; and Willard Hill, Harry Long and Bob Reed of Columbus. We are glad to welcome these men into active membership of Acacia.

While announcing new members, we had better include the brand new son of Bro. and Mrs. Ralph Leever and the daughter of Brother and Mrs. Rice.

Our Intramural football team went up to the final game of the season undefeated only to lose a heartbreaker 7-6 to the Sigma Alpha Mu, resulting in a three-way tie for first place. The Sigma Chi boys drew a bye and we played the Sammies again-the jinx was still working and this time the score was 2-0. We got some consolation out of the fact that Sigma Chi later beat tqem and hadn't we been the only ones to defeat Sigma Chi during the regular season?

Next quarter the bowling competition will be keen and already our pledge team has been rash enough to challenge the actives to a match game. We'll bowl 'em over when the time comes. (Need we say your correspondents are actives?)

This past quarter has been a full one as far as social activities go but the outstanding events were the Halloween Party, the Homecoming Game and Party, and the Fall Formal. To take them one by one will take too long but we will say that the Hal-

loween party was a shocking success. All sorts of costumes, from the "Shiek of Arabie" to the "New Year's Baby" in its diapers and bow tie, were present.

Carl Senn, Secretary of the Ohio Acacia Company put in a lot of time and work and came up with football tickets for the homecoming game for all who could make it. After the game we had a banquet at the house followed by a house party featuring movies of various Acacia chapters taken

by Mr. Senn. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Race, Mr. and Mrs. Potts, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Scannell, Mr. and Mrs. Don Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Otstot, Mr. and 1\'Irs. James Duckworth, Mr. and Mrs. Stauffer, Mrs. Dick Wallace and daughter, Dr. Whittaker, Mr. Carl Senn, and Judge Fred Donnelly.

The Fall Formal was held at the Fort Hayes Officers' Club and a good time was had by all. Dr. and Mrs. Whittaker acted as our chaperones with Mrs. Craft.

One event during the past season that wasn't exactly Acacia, but one that was of interest to a lot of us, took place on November 6 when the Student Masonic Club presented University President Howard L. Bevis (recently made 33 ° Mason) with an honorary membership in the club.

VD Dean Davis is in his glory lately, in fact ever since we had our piano completely tuned up and reconditioned. This was made possible through the aid of our Mothers' Club, who, incidentally, are really on the ball. Dean has been playing steadily ever since it came back and he really puts out with music of the superior grade.

Brothers Dave Williams and Jim Mahaffey dropped out of school because of illness last quarter but we are expecting them back with us in January. Another who will be back with us then is Tommy James-our contribution to football, this season with the Detroit Lions.

On Saturday, December 20, Brother Harold Davis exchanged marriage vows with Virginia Ewing of Lakewood, at the

King Avenue Methodist Church here in Columbus. Our best wishes for years of happiness are extended to both.

Marriages, illness, etc. have cost us heavily where it hurts most-among our officers. Secretary Dave Williams was temporarily replaced by Bill Prinz; Les Shipe will take over as Treasurer in January as "Lefty" Davis figures his wife won't let him keep the books!! Other changes made include "Bunny" Huffman and Don Haxton taking over as Steward and Social Chairman respectively.

Prior to his graduation Brother Mel Stauffer parted with his pin. ~iss Marty Culbertson of the Kappa Delta Sorority now wears his "Triangle Known of Old." We serenaded them as a result of this and after it was all over we all agreed that Marty was a "swell" girl in a ''swell" sorority.

Brother Lester Shipe added to our scholastic achievement by being initiated into Phi Eta Sigma, national scholastic honorary. Brother Richard B. Cross is now in Germany and can be reached at the following address: OPO, OMG w / b; APO No. 154; c/ o Postmaster, New York, N.Y. Brother Charles Phillips is leaving us in favor of the services. Chuck is one of those selected volunteers we hear so much about and in January will report to Florida as a Navy flight trainee. Since his home is in Tampa he isn't exactly shedding tears about being sent just a few miles from there.

Some of our alums and their professions are listed for the benefit of any or all who may be interested: In ACCOUNTING are Curt Bumbarner of Columbus and John F. Drake of Cleveland. Attorneys and / or BANKERS J . Cal Reese of Columbus, Charles N. McCune of · Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Harry Gibbons of Cincinnati, Robert E. Redding of Washington, D. C. JUDGES John F. Seidel and Fred Donnalley of Columbus. ENGINEERS E. L. Dryer and J . Fred Thomas of Lancaster and Sharon, Pa., respectively. (Fred Thomas says his honoraries have been Mayor of Sharon and State Senator) , John S. Knight of Chicago, Win Plumb, Bob Otstot and Jack Beals of Columbus and Paul Boldt of Canton. FAMERS: H. D. McClelland of Utica was the only one of the Ags to report. INSURANCE EXECUTIVES Lee R. Reifsnider of Akron and H. W. Scannell of Buffalo, N.Y. THE LECTURE PLATFORM: Brother Orton W. Boyd of Chevy Chase, Md. MUSIC: Herb Knight of Columbus (Masonic Bodies) and L. W. Vari Dervort, director of Pleasant Hill, 0 ., Schools. MUNICIPAL SERVICE, Tom Rees of the city of Akron and Summit County; and George B. Hay, also of Akron. STATE OF OHIO: J . Russell Manahan, tax department, and E. F. Shaefer, Department of Education. PROFESSORS, PEDAGOGUES, AND TEACHERS: Prof. Robt. B. Stoltz, Head of Dairy Tech. Dept., OSU, (Incidentally, Brother Bob is a 33 ° Mason), E. Basil Hawes, Prof. and Dept. Head of Education at Dennison University, Forest Vallance, Head of Graduate School, Miami University, John P .

CoVan, Professor of Engineering, Texas

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46 A. & M.; High School Teachers, Fred Bouis, Cincinnati, Lee VanDervort, Pleasant Hill, Ohio; Herb Knight and Raymond Peck, Columbus Schools; Wilbur Dyer, Principal H. S ., Columbus, C. M. Senn, Supt. Capitol Schools State Welfare Dept.

DOCTORS OF MEDICINE: Brothers D. F. Rowles, San Francisco, Calif.; Dan Whitacre and Ruskin Lawyer both practicing in Columbus; Gerald P . Lawrence and Loren E. Senn both in Chicago. Ralph W. Wenger practicing in Brookville, Ohio.

IRRIGATION: Guy C. Finley, Secretary and General Manager, Yakima, Wash.; CLAY PRODUCTS: George E. Reed, Secretary and General Manager, Urichsville, 0 .; GAS INDUSTRIES: V. Pres. E. C. Wagner ; REMINGTON RAND Manager Quito Equador, Kenneth Ward; SHEET METAL AND, ROOFING: Earl Bright Columbus; SALES AND SALES MANAGEMENT, James Duckworth and W. J. Cutter; TOOL INSPECTION, J. J. Haley, Canton.

Brother Clifford Hite was working on his M. A. this summer, Brother Emil E. Christensen just got out of the Navy and Brother Tod Dison is active in DeMolay in the Pratt Institute area.

In closing I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Bro. Carl Senn for his help and contributions concerning the alumni.

See you next issue.

LEs SHIPE

At this writing we are in the midst of a series of serenades. We were out one night and serenaded every sorority house on the Campus. We were sounding pretty good at the last. Much credit is due Walter Noakes for arranging the music and getting us to practice enough to sound presentable.

The Christmas spirit manifested itself in the hearts of all the men here this year.

They gladly surrendered their Christmas party and gave the money, which it would have cost, to a needy family, that they might truly have a Merry Christmas. All that Oklahoma needs for the proverbial white Christmas is some snow.

The bonds of friendship were immeasurably strengthened between Oklahoma and Texas this month when the Acacia Chapters from 0 . U. and Oklahoma A. & M. reinstalled the Chapter at Texas University. In our estimation, there is a chapter you will want to watch, for it is certainly going to the top in a big hurry. Congratulations and the best of good luck to the newest Chapter of our grand fraternity.

We are going to have a new Venerable Dean after Christmas. Brother Don Hartman dons the cap and gown at mid-term.

A big hand for Don-we have gone far with his able leadership.

HowARD HuRsT

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State

Life around the Acacia House at Oklahoma University has really been going great this fall and winter.

During the football season, with its inevitable and very enjoyable buffet dinners, we had our house and yard decorated for two occasions. Of course we were dressed up inside and out to entertain the best men in the country, our Dads. 0. U. played Kansas that day, a game which all the dads enjoyed. If they didn't enjoy the dinner and program at the house that followed, they certainly were good actors.

The other occasion was the homecoming game with Iowa State. The theme of Acacia float in the two hour parade was a B-29 atomizing the Iowa State team, complete with B-29, bomb burst, miniature football field, and all.

We had a good turn out of old timers, from 1947 on back, at our annual Founders Day Dinner. The dinner this year was held especially to honor Mr. Lew Wentz, an Honorary Member, of Ponca City. A large oil painting of Mr. Wentz and 0. U.'s late president, Dr. Bizzel, was unveiled.

We are very proud of the fine painting which now occupies a prominent place in our living room.

Our intramural football team didn't quite come out on top this fall, but we nearly made it. Those semi-finals finally got us. We came out fourth from a total of fifty-six other teams. A metal key chain was awarded to the two most outstanding players of the house intermural football team. They were Bill Hathaway and Houston Beauchamp.

Work is nearing completion on the final modernization of our house. During the past month much of the work that has been done was of the nature of slinging paint and wax. At last the house is taking on the appearance of a real home. Additional closet space has been added and no longer are we living out of suitcases as was formerly the case. The absence of the luggage has given the living quarters more of a permanent aspect.

Arrangements have been made for a house mother and we hope to have her services by the first of this next semester.

A delegation of Acacians from Oklahoma A. & M. made the trip to Austin, Texas, for the installation of the Texas University Chapter there. Mr. Jack Lothers, Chapter advisor; Mr. Raymond Bivert, Assistant to the Dean of Men and one of our alumni, headed the group made up of Kenneth Havenstrite, Rodger Harnden, and Chuck Denny, all of Stillwater. The group drove to Norman, Oklahoma, where we met the Oklahoma University Chapter and boarded the bus for Austin.

After the initiation, at which we had become more intimately acquainted with the men, the general consensus was expressed that Texas has truly a group of men to be proud of. We here at Oklahoma A. & M. are watching with interest the outcome of their efforts. With the material they have to work with, we are sure that all the world will soon be hearing from the Texas Chapter.

Late in November our pledges decided that life was becoming quite boring and

decided to show us their dust for an evening. Led by the pledge president, Joe Grimsley, the "devils" made their escape while the members were engaged in a formal meeting. The members were detained long enough in closing the meeting for the pledges to make a clean get-away.

Several phone calls substantiated the evidence that they had pulled a "sneak."

Careful check of the various amusement spots around Stillwater failed to comb any of them out. Quite by luck we finally located them at Perry, Oklahoma, about thirty-five miles from Stillwater. They were proper!y chastized and brought back home after a struggle. Several mechanics among the members properly tinkered on the pledges' cars so that they would not arrive at the house before the members. When the pledges finally arrived they were locked out of the house and had to spend the cold winter evening among friends and relatives.

Eddie Ball, one of our outstanding pledges who is majoring in hotel management, was the key man in the arrangement for a Christmas party held December 18. With the help of the members and pledges he supervised the decoration of the house, planned and cooked the supper, and was master of ceremonies at the party.

At the proper time during the evening, Santa Claus made his appearance with his parcel of gifts for the good little boys of Acacia. Surprisingly enough, he had quite a few gifts to bestow upon the members and even a few of the pledges. During the passing out of gifts, Santa had such a hearty good time chuckling that his suit was nearly ripped from stem to stern, much to the delight of all the guests and members present. A piece of rope had to be added to the costume to halt the spreading "gaposis."

Plans are being laid for the election of new officers here in January. By electing at mid-term, the old officers are able to guide the faltering footsteps of the new so that many mistakes are avoided. Another advantage is that we are not without effective leadership during the summer vacation when it is so vital to have active arrangement for pledging at the beginning of the fall semester.

From all of us here at Stillwater, we extend a hearty invitation to all of you, whether this next year or in the years to come, if you are ever in this part of the country stop by and see us. We will be delighted to have you come out to the house and see what we have done.

CHARLE!! G. DENNY

Penn State For another issue of the TRIAD, events of our chapter are as follows: Penn State's football team was responsible for a reunion of the Franklin and Penn State brothers. In November the Franklin chapter invited us to the house in order that we might see the TemplePenn State game in Philadelphia. Ap-

The Triad, Winter, 1948 propriately Franklin called it Penn State Weekend and about 12 brothers and pledges from our chapter took advantage of the opportunity. We did our best to make it truly Penn State Weekend. The Franklin Chapter put forth great efforts and we send sincere thanks to our Philadelphia brothers for good food, enjoyable dancing with fine refreshments, convenient accommodations, and above all for fraternal brotherhood. We're looking forward to Penn-Penn State game next year.

Since the last issue, we have added one more pledge. Just after Thanksgiving vacation, Vernon Ritter from Hastings, Pennsylvania joined us in the house. Vern is studying electrical engineering.

In November initiation brought Ned Friday of Houtsdale, Pa., Bill Humphries of Uniontown, Pa., and Rich Witmer of Bellefonte, Pa., into active membership.

We are happy to announce and glad to receive all three.

At this point there are 32 men in the house, but graduation in January will drop our number to 28. So rushing is an important matter with us as it is with all other chapters. We have added ten new pledges since October and when we add four or five more, nearly half our number will be pledges.

Our house has again obtained new furniture. Recently three new desks arrived. They made our first floor study room one of the most attractive in the house. Our front porch has been repaired and is again in fine shape for the coming spring and summer.

Brother Dave Sims, our social chairman, has been doing a grand job this year.

In October, he arranged with the girls of Locust Lane Lodge to have an informal evening of fun. The gathering took place in the house and made a great impression on our many guests, predominately rushees. The girls also enjoyed the affair and showed the same by inviting us over to the lodge at a later date. December 13 marked the date of our annual Christmas dance. All helped out with the Christmas decorations. The music was furnished by a campus band and all in all the dance was most enjoyable. Blind dates from Washington, D. C., proved worthy to the occasion. Pledge brother Frank Rupp certainly impressed his blind date. A week later she offered to drive him to his home in Florence, Alabama, for the Christmas holidays.

As you all know Southern Methodist University was host to Penn State in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day. And the outcome will have been history when you read this. But anyway Penn State Acacians Buescher, Ozzie Lashley, and yours truly, after greeting the new year in Dallas, Texas, will have rooted the Nittany Lions on.

We wish this could reach you before the holiday season, but since that isn't possible may the Penn State Chapter say-we hope your Christmas has been merry and that your New Year has been and will continue to be very prosperous.

Last but certainly not least, welcome University of Texas. Good luck and best wishes.

ELMER F. STRUNK

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Purdue Last December 6 the Purdue chapter had what was probably the most successful social event seen in some time--the annual pledge dance. The evening started with an excellent banquet at the house where the dates received thir favors of ¡ black billfolds with "Acacia" in gold on one side. The dance itself was held in the faculty lounges of the Union Building to the music of Maury Mahn and his orchestra. All in all, the pledges (many of whom are now actives) deserve a hearty round of applause for their efforts in planning and carrying out the details which served to make the evening one which will not soon be forgotten.

New pledges include the following: David Funk, Osgood, Ind.; Russell Garrard, Oak Park, Ill.; Harold Hanes, Kendallville, Ind; Dorman Rogers, Ladoga, Ind.; James Rogers, Lafayette, Ind.; Bert Shields, Kendallville, Ind.; and John Simmons, Indianapolis, Ind. Of these, Dorman Rogers and Russ Garrard live in the house, and most of the others will move in next term.

There are nine neophytes in the house now who are feeling much more mellow toward life than they were a few days ago before they were initiated on December 14. Seldom has a happier bunch of fel lows been seen, especially Bob Eastman, who strutted around with his pin in plain view at all times, even when in tails.

Pledge life evidently didn't hold the fascination for them that the other side of the story does. The new initiates are as follows: Donald Alexander, Lafayette, Ind.; Robert Eastman, Burlington, Ind.; Byron Leverenz, Lafayette, Ind.; Dean MacMurry, Lafayette, Ind.; Gene Thomson, Mt. Vernon, Ind.; William Tiedge, South Bend, Ind.; William Watson, Indianapolis, Ind.; Jack Weigle, Van Wert, Ohio; and Dr. Hunter Smith, W. Lafayette, Ind. "Smitty," who joined as a faculty member, is on the staff of the Student Health Service.

The most noticeable change in the dining room lately is the lack of the copper taste in the food. Yes, we finally acquired some of the new silverware we so sorely needed-enough for sixty place sittings in fact. And if something goes whizzing around your legs when you're here, pay no attention to it-it's only our new boxer pup, "Pythagoras" chasing his toy tractor.

Whether or not his company is worth the wear and tear on rugs, lineloum, and house slippers is debatable, but everyone in the house has become quite attached to him so that he does pretty much as he plea~es . Down in the basement, if one were to hunt in the nooks and crannies long enough, a ping pong table might possibly be uncovered in one of the more remote corners. It may be beat, and it may be battered, but we're glad to see it back.

Now if "Generous Harry" Luce, the local moneybags, could be talked out of a new table with the necessary accessories, everything would be rosy indeed for the table tennis players in the house!

The Hourgtass, a chapter publication, has been revived, and the first edition sent on its way just before Christmas. By this and many other means, the active chapter is striving to knit our alumni more closely together so that they will have a better idea of just what the Purdue chapter of Acacia is doing. In the same vein, our alumni homecoming celebration was a huge success, with over sixty-three alums returning to watch Purdue roll over Illinois.

Something new has been added to the usual round of Christmas social eventsa caroling party. Organized and led by Ray Biedron, the carolers serenaded several of the alums living nearby, walking from place to place with small candle lanterns fashioned from old coffee jars. They were also much in demand as souvenirs after the party, when we returned to the house for coffee and cookies. The house Christmas party took place December 17 with the usual fifty-cent gifts and feeble poetry attempts on the most part, though some of he boys came sliding through with work worthy of Ogden Nash. Some of the more appropriate gifts included the huge bag of epsom salts received by Doc Smith, Bill Gorman's fireproofing cement, and E. "Buck" Ward's toy pistol.

Four pin serenades were given in a few days, with Clyde Whitson, John Kice, Don Pearcy, and Carl Kenninger being the boys who finally and officially met their Waterloo. A new and very effective twist was given to the affairs by a flaming triangle made from heavy wire with gasoline soaked rags wrapped around it, which was touched off during the sweetheart song. Vic "Murphy" Krummenacher lost the crease in his pants and the curl in his hair in the shower not so long ago for "losing" (quote Vic) his pin at Butler University without coughing up the traditional cigars. Then there was the sad tale of Paul Vos who came through with the weeds with micro seconds to spare after giving up his pin in Indianapolis. We were always under the impression that the Venerable Dean was supposed to be an example of promptness! The last and most serious case is that of Mac Skinner, who is planning on getting married December 21, and all joking aside, best of luck to you Mac. The house is a scene of turmoil these last few days before the beginning of Christmas vacation . Most of the fellows are going home, but many are coming back early for various reasons, unless they just like it here. But time is growing short, so until next time, here's to a bigger and better Purdue chapter next term.

DON BERCHTOLD

Southern California Still plugging away at the difficult task of repainting and refurnishing the house, the Southern California Chapter can now see the light of day for the first time since the semester started. There is a brand new coat of paint from the cellar to the attic

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.. . floors are sanded and revarnished, and the "New Look" at 917 West 28th Street is an actuality.

House Manager George "Simon Legree" Mattes must get the lion's share of the credit for the face-lifting job, and his task wasn't a soft touch either, when we consider the gallons of paint used, and the yards of fresh wallpaper. .

Topping the social program was a. nifty dance held at the Hollywood Kmckerbocker Hotel in the Lido Room, at Thanksgiving time. Social Chairman Bob "P~ek­ a-boo" Smith was Emcee for the evemng, and after convulsing his audience for a lengthy interval, drew back the curtain on nine quaking pledges, who were to furnish the entertainment. Songbird Jack Gomory, former radio artist, won the voting by a slim margin, besides gathering up the most pennies, with the use of a push-broom. But pledge Mitchell was breathing a close second. At least he was breathing.

Inclement weather was the only factor that forced Acacia out of the race for the best Home-coming exhibit on the Southern California Fraternity Row. After sweating out several days of hard work building a huge rooting section with flipping card stunts, depicting the downfall of Notre Dame (ouch) old Mother Nature eased some unprecedented moisture our way, wilting not only the cards and crepe paper, but our spirits as well. In other words, we had it. Oh well, we needed the (shhhh) rain.

But the pay-off is yet to come. Plugging the main theme of the exhibit, which was Derby Year, celebrating the 16-14 victory over Notre Dame in 1931, every man in the chapter wore a big black Derby to classes on the day preceding the homecoming festivities, not heeding the catcalls of "Introvert" and "I'm impressed, now take it off."

Vest buttons have been popping since we found Venerable Dean, Bill James, being considered as a candidate for Rhodes Scholar from Southern California. Bill says he hasn't a chance but those in the know are all. nodding their heads, but keeping their fingers crossed.

Imagine our chagrin at Christmas time to receive a card from the Michigan Chapter, which was the exact duplicate of our own. Oh well, we copied Indiana's last year. See what happens when we all shop in the same place?

Chapter advisor Ray Oster had an interesting expedition just before Christmas, when his plane was grounded at Portland while he was en route to visit the Washington chapter. Flying over Canada to New York, Ray wished for an extra union suit when it got to 10 below zero.

Our boy was so busy in New York on business that he just couldn't squeeze in a visit to his old stamping grounds, the Franklin Chapter. However, Ray managed to chin with National Secretary Roy Clark and honored the Northwestern Chapter with his presence. Ray insists that he still braces himself when he shaves in the morning, after sweating out eleven trains and nine sleepers on the safari.

"Princess," our Great Dane mascot has

gone the way of all flesh, 'cause the poor "little" thing was just too much dog to handle. Princess loved to play (?) but the mailman couldn't quite see it that way, so she had to be sent home. The postal service mentioned that they would deliver through "sleet, fog, rain and slush, but quailed at wild beasts." We should have put a saddle on her ... that would have fooled 'em.

RoBERT M. BAKER

Syracuse The Christmas season finds "The Boys From Syracuse" looking back on a very successful fall term. Noteworthy were our Colgate weekend activities, which included an alumni buffet supper and informal evening. That evening was a memorable one at Syracuse, for at that time we met many ex-actives for the first time.

Also worthy of mention was our fall pledge dance, as well as the Christmas parties held the weekend of December 12-13. Our alumni Christmas party was a huge success, not to mention the active chapter party the following evening.

Newest brothers here at Syracuse, since initiation was held November 1, are Bill Clark, Mike Camenga, Bob Howes, and Elwyn "Bud" Williams. Our rushing activity is progressing well, and we expect to add four more pledges to a class already numbering close to 20 very soon.

Foremost among house improvements this fall was the purchase of a new radiophonograph combination. Current controversy now rages over which room will acquire the old model, but at present Treasurer Dave "Tanker" Tooker holds the reins, and room two takes priority.

Since our last letter, "Mitty," mascot of Acacia, has had some rather hair-raising experiences. He has been lost for 16 days, hit by a car, and had several maladies of one sort or another. However, the canine continues to function admirably as our youngest neophyte.

Our previously touched on plans for a football game with the Cornell chapter the weekend of the Orange-Big Red varsity game did not materialize. We were sorry about this, and especially so after the Orange varsity pushed Cornell all over Cornell crescent for 60 minutes and came home with a moral victory, at the worst. However, plans for the spring football game will get underway soon now, and perhaps we can vindicate ourselves at that time.

Intramural bowling got off to a flying start recently here at Syracuse, with Acacia's representatives coming through to a smashing 9-0 win. Last year we were tied for first place when Archbold gym was destroyed by fire, curtailing bowling for the year. With new alleys in use now, we are looking forward to a good season.

News seems to be scarce here at Syracuse at this time, with all the brothers making plans for a two week Christmas vacation. Finals will be upon us soon, and then another long rest before we launch into spring activity.

ROGER WITHERELL

Washington An air of morbidity, great depression, and deep sadness has prevailed at the University of Washington Chapter for the past several weeks. OUR BULL HAS BEEN STOLEN! The Washington Bull, a large bronze-colored statue of a male bovine, has been an heirloom of great significance at this chapter for several decades. Every Founders Day it is presented to the member having the greatest forensic ability on non-serious subjects. This illustrious person is then given the title of Bullus Texanus and is privileged to wear the badge of his office, an elaborate and appropriate medal of considerable size.

The honorable Gene E. Guthrie, present Bullus Texanus, was flying an airplane and dusting crops in Eastern Washington instead of attending school this fall otherwise the Bull would probably ne;er have escaped us-even then it required the concerted action of several underhanded, fiendish conspirators, whose shrewdness and wit were surpassed only by their luck. Chief of these nefarious individuals was an unsuspected visitor from the Purdue Chapter, Mr. Donald E. Foltz, '46, who would most certainly be a contender for the title Bullus Texanus, if he were judged on the basis of the deceitful product which passed his lips while visiting the Washington Chapter.

To the Washington State Chapter, present holders of the purloined bull, it is only fair to warn you that Gene E. Guthrie, Esquire, is back within the fold, and that his activities are likely to give you considerable auditory torture unless the symbol of his verbal mastery is returned.

To our California brethren we extend our deepest sympathy. Words cannot express the extent of our bereavement over the loss of your bruin. Realizing the impossibility of consoling you, we leave you frustrated.

There has been a great deal of pin passing and consequent cigar passing at the Washington Chapter during the past quarter. Wilton Whisler and Jean Dougherty of Theta Upsilon sorority, David Fenton and Betty Jarvis, and Stephen Richards and Inez Thomasson have announced their engagements. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Robinson became the proud parents of Miss Martee Boyce Robinson on December 11. This cigar smoke is killing us confirmed bachelors.

The Washington Pledge class has entered wholeheartedly into house activities. They have presented the Chapter with a beautiful set of chimes to replace the old doorbell. We hope it is kept ringing loud and long by visiting brothers, friends, and alumni. In addition to the participating in practically all chapter activities, the pledge class has cooperated exceptionally well in a vigorous rushing program. Howard Johnson, pledge trainer, has done a creditable piece of work in eliciting this cooperation from his charges.

Steve Richards has been elected Venerable Dean for the new year. Clarence

The Triad, W inter, 1948 R. McCredy has been elected Senior Dean; Maurice Stoffer, Junior Dean; William B. Burdue, Housemanager; and Clifford Evans, Secretary. Other new officers have not been elected.

Russell H. Segersten, President of the Chapter Pledge Class, has been elected president of the University of Washington Junior Interfraternity Council. Russ is a hard worker, a good student, and one who can live up to the excellent first impression he makes.

Clifford Evans, who majors in chemical engineering, has been elected as a member of Phi Lambda Upsilon, an honorary research society. David B. Fenton and Wilton M. Whisler have been elected to membership in the engineering honorary, Tau Beta Pi. A Washington Chapter Mothers' Club has recently been organized. Mrs. Maurice Stoffer has been elected president. It is

Washington Top: The exchange dinn er w ith D~lta Zeta. Robert Jackson, Washington 35, talking to his wife at the head of the table; the Jacksons were hosts for the evening.

Upper Middle : The homecoming sign; Maurice Stoffer is putting the Indian sign on Gordon Wood, who is about to " vanish."

Lower Middle: Bill Burdue, opening his Christmas package, finds a silvery smelt.

Bottom: Washington Christmas party: Russell Segersten, Jack Cowger, Wilton Whisler, Gary Marth.

49 not known what these fine ladies are doing for fun, but if pleasure comes from doing things for others, these women ar e going to be happy. Already they have hung new drapes in four rooms and have given a great deal of helpful advice on other matters which we males tend to overlook.

Outstanding social functions have been exchanges with Delta Zeta sorority, and with the student nurses of Swedish. A well-attended Open House was held for Masons in Seattle and vicinity. The principal social event of the quar ter was a dance organized and supervised entirely by the pledge Class. The whole affair was very effective from the standpoint of decorations, refreshments, and having fun.

It was a real credit to the Chapter. For spontaneity and informality the Chapter Christmas Party was a welcome break after cramming for examinations. Bill Burdue received a gift of fresh fish. Russ Segersten, Junior Interfraternity Council President, received a baby bottle full of milk. A gay time was enjoyed by all, including our cook, "Mom" Marth and her young son, Gary.

The annual homecoming celebration on October 24 and 25 was an outstanding success. A large number of alumni were entertained by the many spectacular signs and a rally the night preceding the big football game with the Stanford Indians.

The following night an open house was held for the alumni, after which everyone left for two all-University dances held at the Olympic Bowl and the Armory. The Acacia homecoming sign proved to be one of the most popular. Traffic was jammed in front of the house all during its operation. James E. Moran, Jr., did a great deal of work on the sign, which portrayed the Vanishing Stanford Indian in an old fashioned medicine show. Jim not only thought of the motif for the sign, but also directed its construction in such a wellorganized manner that the work was spread out among all the members. Gorden T. Wood, the Indian who vanished, was unique with his flaming red hair, and the two masters of ceremonies, George Schwartz and Maury Stoffer, were hoarse for a week afterward.

Among the many chapter visitors, some of those who are unable to get around this way very often were: Mr. Fred E. Berquist, '24, a Government economist from Washington, D. C.; Mr. E . V. Cain, '30, who lives at Richmond, California; Mr. George A. Jensen, '18, Seattle; Mr. Glen Gwin, '46, Quinault, Washington; and Lt. Harvey E. Minnick, Nebraska '46, now stationed at the Naval Air Station at Sand Point, Washington.

CHARLES STOVER

Washington State We of the Washington State Chapter send our condolences to the California Chapter concerning the loss of their bear ; but they are not alone in this matter.

Through fair and just methods we have also attained possession of the University of Washington's bull. In the last issue of

the TluAD the California Chapter wrongfully accused the Washington Chapter of underhanded methods. The Venerable Dean of the California Chapter was kind enough to lend the two Washington Chapters the box to carry the bear out in.

Both Chapters may rest assured that the bear and bull are in good hands and that they both look very good on our mantlepiece. At the present we are considering sending the bear to the Washington Chapter since the acquiring of this prize was a joint project.

Washington State The California Bear and the Washington B u ll1¡epose on the man tle of the house fireplace .

Since the last issue of the TRIAD we have added two new pledges to our ranks.

Walter "laughing boy" Johnson from Milton-Freewater, Oregon, and Johnny Tisdale from San Diego, California.

The pledges tried their annual pledge sneak but due to some discrepancy most of them were caught. After a big scare we then let them go again and a good time was had by all at the expense of the pledges.

On October 17 we had an exchange dinner with the Sigma Phi Epsilons. After one of "Mom" Barker's hearty meals we were in high spirits and challenged them to a football game, which we lost 12 to 7.

With high expectations of winning the California football game on October 18 we invited the Kappa Delts over to enjoy the broadcasted game. Only to our dismay we found that California has no radio stations; so we spent a very trying afternoon playing bridge and dancing.

After it was all over it was suggested that we have many more of them.

Our social chairman Gordy Bradley has seen to it that our social calendar has been full. We have had after-dinner dances with the Kappa Alpha Thetas, Davis Hall, and Community Hall.

With the proper surroundings our Halloween Stockfng Fireside was held on October 31. Where the pumpkins came from I know not where, but some of the boys with sporting blood decided to return them. They did this very successfully with but a slight scare.

The pledge semiformal was held on December 6. With "Jack Frost" as their theme they had little trouble finding the proper decorations.

Amid holly and mistletoe (more fun) we held our annual Christmas party on December 13. With everybody feeling at home without their shoes on we danced and sang Christmas Carols.

The Triad, Winter, 1948

50 With Max Petersen as coach our intramural basketball team is in the upper half this year. Our intramural bowling team is also in the upper half after a bad start.

Don Hughes is our wonder-?oy on ~e campus again this year; besides _bemg Venerable Dean he is Publicity chairman for a very active Atomic Education Committee on the rally committee, leader of the R. ' 0 . T. C. band, and is drum major for the college band. We will be missing "Hugs" soon because he feels the duty of practice teaching calling him next semester. .

New officers elected to fulfill vacancies this fall were John Hazlewood, historian and Floyd Green, corresponding secretary.

Marshall Dalrymple is taking the final fatal step on December 27. We will all miss Dal but we guess it was either she or us. We'll let you draw your own conclusions as to who had the final word and struck the final blow.

We have just selected our Winter King candidate who is no other than Chester "Chusse" Bennett. With Fred Williams our house manager as publcity chairman we just can't lose.

To all you "dogs" on other campuses, we hope you are functioning as well as the E. 0 . Y. D. is here. We are just planning our function of the year. According to the latest reports they are calling it their Winter Formal.

Don Foltz from the Purdue Chapter dropped in to see us on his vacation. For any of the rest of you who would like to see the beautiful West Coast come out this way and when you are here drop in and see us and we will see if we can find another steak in the ice box.

FLOYD GREEN

Wyoming Here we are again-the starting of a new quarter and Christmas vacation approaching rapidly. Thank goodness! Vacation offers one the opportunity to do lots of catching up in the way of studies. Needless to say not many will take advantage of said opportunity even though resolutions have been made and books will go home. Ain't we glad we're human!

Homecoming was the first big event of the school year for us. It was decided that our float, in line with the memorial fund drive for a new field house and stadium, would be based on the idea that "Wyoming Needs a Change." Everyone worked into the wee hours the night before the parade getting things ready. It was thumbs down to using crepe paper punched through chicken wire on the float. It took us nearly all night to do that to our house decorations which was a big 6 x 9ft. cover of Time magazine. The picture on the cover was drawn to represent the proposed new stadium. The magazine was hung off the ground against the house and floodlighted. Some of the boys had horrible nightmares the next night about chicken wire and crepe paper but other

Wyoming Top : The chapter float in motion.

Lower Left: Bob Winton was the moth~r who couldn't take time out from her kmtting to change sonny.

Lower Right: Wayne Moore was the baby cryin g for a change of you know what!

than that it was a very satisfactory job.

Friday evening the annual Homecoming Sing was held. Some of our fellows were nervous. Not because they couldn't sing-what's lacking in quality is made up in quantity, but because this was to be our first public appearance as a gro..up.

It was our first opportunity to display ourselves as an equally active organization on the campus before the other fraterni ties and sororities. I don't think any of us will forget very soon that night as we stood on the stage and the curtains slowly parted. A hush fell over the auditorium and we began to sing.

At the time of Homecoming eighteen men were living in the house. There are now twenty-four. An addition table had. to be purchased for the dining room.

On December 6, thirteen active pins were pinned to the chests of thirteen very proud men. We had been building toward our first active initiation for quite some time. Despite the evil significance attributed to the number thirteen the initiation went off in fine shape. The house received a thorough cleaning prior to and after this very special occasion.

I ran into our Venerable Dean Bob Kelley at the congratulation banquet held Saturday evening. Bob has a tough beard and therefore needed a shave; dark circles were evident around his eyes and he was losing his voice. I ask him a couple of questions but by then it was like talking to a blank wall. Never did get an answer as he moved on. I didn't see much of Bob for the next few days. Sleeping, no doubt!

The new actives are: Roland Hart, Douglas, Wyo.; Wayne Anderson, Egbert, Wyoming; Charles Mankin, Gillette, Wy-

oming; Keith Raitt, Gillette, Wyoming; Jack Holoway, Grant, Nebraska; Dave Wilde, Rock Springs, Wyoming; Doy Whitlock, Riverton, Wyoming; Glenn Graham, Dresden, Ohio; Ted Hartung, Belvedere, New Jersey; Russell Sandercock, Fort Laramie, Wyoming; Bob Robinson, Arvada, Wyoming; and Tom Page, Willoughby, Ohio.

Thursday evening, December 18, we had our Christmas party. Everyone had drawn for a name. The only stipulation in purchasing the gift was that it should be as impractical as possible.

The house just howled when the gifts were opened. Senior Dean Wally "Digger" Conover got a shovel; Wally "The Voice" Moon received a much needed girdle (That gift was a little too practical) ; others got ties that light up, toy cars, etc.

After the party the fraternity went Christmas caroling to the various sororities.

Our hockey team purchased new sticks last week and have been making a good showing whenever we play. We may not always win but the spirit of teamwork and good fellowship is there.

Well, that's all for now! They jus' ain't no mo'! And though this may be somewhat belated by the time you get this issue, on behalf of Wyoming Acacia-Merry Christmas and the best in the new year for all of you.

WIN HuNGATE

Alumni Interest . . .

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have more fields ~f information than are open to the uneducated man.

Babbittry is another cause of misunderstanding-every alumnus is glad to hear that the chapter is getting along well and that the old Alma Mater is leading the state or section in athletics or class or what-not. But a man who has been away from the campus for a dozen years or more, working hard and making headway through wars and depressions and years of uncertainty as well as through booms, is a realistic person with no boyish delusions about values. He can appraise the contents of a trophy cabinet at a glance, and the number of letter men or prize debaters or class officers is only mildly impressive.

In that trophy case, likely as not, are cups which he helped win when it was harder to do. He may have won more letters in his day than any two of his hosts in the chapter parlor. And perhaps he got his start in the business world managing a school paper, editing a year-book, bossing campus politics and running a prom committee without losing his chance of making Phi Beta Kappa-remember, undergraduate, a lot of big men lived in that house before you did, or you wouldn't be in it now, for there wouldn't have been any such chapter.

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The Triad, Winter, 1948 So, when you tell the old-timer how well things are in the chapter, don't overplay your hand. No matter how sweet a perfume may be, it is not supposed to be put on with a bucket.

The art of courtesy, sometimes called a lost art by pessimists who find too little of it in their orbits, is the first thing to be used when the visiting alumnus is from another institution.

If there is one thing more likely to disgust the guest than any other thing, it is the provincialism which too often passes for school spirit. To razz the other fellow's alma mater is pardonable in small-town high school circles, but it is the sure sign of a hick.

On any campus where students include gentlemen, derisive references to the college over in the adjoining county are considered to indicate that the person making the references is a freshman not many weeks away from between a pair of plough handles, with an outlook narrowed by years of viewing from between the plough handles the easternmost aspect of a westbound mule.

So if you are an undergraduate at Oklachusetts, and an alumnus from the Pennsyfornia chapter visits the house, treat him like a brother and forget that his school's team licked the daylights out of yours, or vice versa, last October. Remember, if you are a member of a national fraternity you should understand that there are good men in some other colleges or it wouldn't have put chapters there.

Otherwise your remarks about his school will be a better measure of your status than of his. College men are supposed to be mentally broad.

But whether the alumnus who visits your house is from the same chapter or another, courtesy demands some attention to his years. If he is in a class not long out of college, he probably will like to talk football and other sports as much as any active in the chapter. If he is in the middle-age bracket, as indicated by his class numerals, he will be more than a little interested to learn that the pledge who just came into the room is the son of his old classmate Ed, or the nephew of his one-time room-mate Steve, or the cousin of a prom queen whom he knew in college. To establish a link with the present is always a thrill for those who are beginning to feel (on their return as a stranger) like they are in the past. If the guest is getting along in years, be sure that somebody helps him off with his coat and shows him the way to the washroom. He's not so spry as he used to be-but he doesn't like to be reminded of it, so help him avoid it. He probably is proud that he doesn't need help, and the first sign of age is a tendency

51 to protest against it, but it can be extended as though it were always a custom for freshmen to help all guests on with their coats, park their cars, escor t them to the stadium, call taxicabs for them and show them around the site of the new gym or science hall. Then he will not feel that your solicitude for him is motivated by belief that he will be too feeble to stand without being propped up against a desk. No man likes to feel that younger folks consider him a senile specimen or a doddering relic from a bygone age . Maybe the college would have folded up if he hadn't been chairman of the alumni endowment committee during the depression. Besides, some day you may be less vigorous than he is now.

That leads to the chief suggestion of things all actives should know-you will be an active four or five years, at the most, and after that an alumnus the rest of your life. Why not treat the alumni as you wish to be treated when you are one of them? Set a good example, and encourage the rest of your chapter to do the same, and it will become a tradition to be preserved as a matter of pride. If you think membership in a fraternity is to end when you get that sheepskin with some black lettering on it, you have still to learn the most important fact about it: your fun and friendships will not end with commencement unless you make them end.

On the campus are formed the ties that endure throughout life, and friendships which become closer as the years pass by. And if you continue to do for your chapter and your Fraternity all you can do for them, your pleasure in membership will grow yearly, even long after you are out of college. There are alumni who have had several decades of happiness from belonging to our Fraternity, just because they didn't consider commencement as a signal to lose interest. Why not get the most out of it?

It can be done easily-at least that has been the experience of THE OLD TIMER.

The Social Program . . . ( Continued from page 33)

campus, and know what is expected of them in the way of common everyday courtesy. This is not to say that Acacia has to keep up with the r est of the fraternities , but that Acacians should be known for their ability to conduct themselves properly under an y and all conditions. I believe that we can say this without restriction.

Thousands of mothers and father s all over the nations send their boys to school every year. Junior joins the Fraternity, and then it becomes our duty as a brotherhood of men, to make a better man out of that boy than he might have been had he never joined our chapter. Let us always remember, that while our immediate duty is to further the best interests of the chapter, that boy, as the product of our endeavor, comes forth, either to condemn or commend our way of college life.

If he but gains the social grace alone, then he has furthered our interest in one of the best ways possible. We have contributed to his education.

Santa Claus . . .

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balloon. One of our pledges, a towhead, happened to be in charge of two sisters, both tow-heads as well. An imaginative girl down the table looked up at her escort, remarked, 'That man must be their father, huh?' The poor guy, as the expression goes, has had it.

The two blonds in question were closemouthed all evening until, halfway through dinner, the older looked at her glass of water with an unhappy leer, asked, 'That isn't beer, is it?' Upon being assured, harrow stricken, that it wasn't, she continued scooping in supper, then said, 'I don't like warm beer, do you?' The gentleman to whom the question was addressed is known as a mere than casual supporter of the proposition that beer surplant water in the taps-but this-Egad! This same little girl, just before dinner was over, tugged at the sleeve of her escort, smiled appealingly into his face, asked in a sweet, childish voice, 'Are we supposed to steal anything tonight?' This question led to consideration of a shake-down at the door as the monsters took their leave.

"Before dessert, information was imparted to the nippers that Santa Claus would appear in a half-hour or so, accompanied by his favorite sled-dog; the general hysteria having somewhat abated, dessert was wheeled in -ice cream. Extreme disbelief, then determination , tightly gripped spoons, the squaring of shoulders and loosening of (Continue d em n ext page)

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Marriages

Santa Claus ... ( Continued from previou s p age )

belts accompanied the second dessert cow¡se, cake. Satiation and the finish of dinner brought tidings that a display of magic would be held and the large stomachs followed by small children trooped into the living room and collapsed on the floor. Most of them are probably still convinced that the funny books are pretty tame stuff compared to the remarkable individual they met at Acacia that night. As a matter of fact, the assembled brothers were no less mystified than were the guests.

"Santa Claus, having been picked up at the edge of town with his favorite sled-dog, arrived with a great tooting of automobile horns and shrill cries of delight and apprehension from the children. In came Santa, propelled by an eager and curious sled-dog (Karloo) , to begin his distribution of presents. Each gift was wrapped in gay papers and each was addressed to one of the open-mouthed citizens shoving each other around for the privilege of standing near Santa. Several of the kids were at this point forgetful of their names, had to be reminded of who they were so they could receive their presents. The girls got doll furniture, the boys some remarkably realistic representations (plastic) of jeeps and hook-and-ladder trucks. There was some trouble at this point of seeing that the toys stayed with their rightful owners. Too many envious and fascinated Acacians. Drooling 'brothers surged around with loud cries of, 'Lemme show you how these work, kid!' Firmness on the part of the VD averted a crisis. Karloo tried hard to get into the spirit of the thing but his friendly advances were repulsed with apprehension on the part of the kids. For a time there was a battle of wills between Karloo and a potential president concerning just which would play with a bright red jeep. Karloo lost.

Not only that, but Karloo is now convinced that Santa is a louse and that the world will come to no good end.

When the stockings of candy, fruit and nuts were passed around, no provision was made for Santa's favorite sleddog- catastrophe. Karloo, a self-reliant individual, decided to take matters into his own hands and gently but firmly attempted to make off with the orange in the bottom of one shocked young girl's stocking. The poor tyke was uncertain as to which, the box of furniture or the filled stocking, she should protect, set up a loud, high complaint. Karloo, hurt but bewildered at this sad lack of the cooperative spirit, was dragged off, eyes reproachful, mouth pouting."

Bishop James C. Baker, Illinois '22, (left) who supervises the BOO Methodist Churches of the California area, tells Coach Lynn Waldorf of the University of California how they did it back in the University of Illinois where he spent 21 years in student work before being elected to the episcopacy.

Bishop Baker, an ardent football fan, is president of the division of educational institutions which ties together the 130 schools, colleges, and universities related to the Methodist Church.

College Fraternities ...

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versity, Colgate University and Rhode Island State College, are unanimous in stressing the interest shown on their campuses in fraternities. These colleges, typical of the others in the .nation, report a record membership, in some instances double the pre-war fraternity body.

Typical of what is happening elsewhere, Columbia University reports that 40 per cent of its student body are members of the sixteen houses on the campus. All chapters have admitted as many students as their houses will hold, several going beyond seventy-five members. An inter-fraternity alumni committee is considering the advisability of a cooperative housing project for all fraternity men.

Nation-wide, the fraternity membership has attained an all-time high, reaching a record-breaking total of 1,080,000 men. Everywhere the Greek chapters have become active, and have assumed an important part in the present post-war growth. The college officials emphasize, however, that the fraternities will be permitted to play a significant role on the campus only so long as they maintain the best traditions of fraternity life and accept responsible leadership among the student body.

It is evident that the fraternities are once again taking an active part on the college campus. They have weathered the emergency caused by the war, and . have returned to collegiate life stronger and more vital than ever before in recent years.-New York Times.

Horatio B. Crowgey, Cornell, and Miss Nancy Rollins, November 8, 1947.

Donald P. Berens, Cornell, and Miss Margaret Schiavone, December 27, 1947, in Poughkeepsie, New York.

John Fred Stubeck, Kansas, and Miss Doris Marie Anderson, in Lawrence, Kansas, August 17, 1947.

William Peycke, Kansas State, and Miss Adeline Poole of Alta Vista, Kansas, January 1, 1948.

Anton Olson, Michigan, and Miss Jean Everett, at the First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, December 20, 1947.

Charles A. Willis, Jr., Northwestern, and Miss Louise Murray, at the Presbyterian Church of Oregon, Missouri, December 27, 1947.

Charles Cederberg, Northwestern, and Miss Lorely Walsh of Winnetka, Illinois, December 27, 1947.

Harold Davis, Ohio State, and Miss Virginia Ewing of Lakewood, Ohio, at the King Avenue Methodist Church in Columbus.

Clark Hudson, Oklahoma, and Miss Joyce Alworth.

Jack Lisle, Oklahoma, and Miss Ann McCurley.

George Ogden, Oklahoma, and Miss Cecile Vista.

John Shea, Oklahoma, and Miss Connie Cline.

1947 N. I. C. (Continued from page 32)

topics, complete in coverage, sound and definite in its suggestions, and stimulating in its presentation, Chapter House Discussions by Clyde Samfred Johnson, assistant dean of undergraduates at UCLA, was the center around which the joint session of Friday afternoon was organized.

The first speaker, Lyman Bryson, counselor of public affairs for the Columbia Broadcasting System, considered the value of exchanging ideas, declaring that mere random, spontaneous, interesting discussion is not necessarily education, even if it is stimulating, but he insisted that the pamphlet by Dean Johnson is extraordinarily important in that it shows that conversation can be much fun and stimulating and educational too.

"A democracy is a government and a social system which is founded upon truth and action," said Mr. Bryson, "because it was the perfectly clear determination and the idea of the people who started this country that it is by comparing ideas, and by confronting one another with impassioned opinions with something like an open mind that the best in everything got said."

"Facts are not important in one

The Triad, Winter, 1948 sense at all," continued Mr. Bryson, sponding with foreign students ; the "except as they are the basis on which publication of the monthly N. S. A. you make up your mind. All the im- news governing both national and inportant things in life are opinions: ternational activities of the association ; what is good? what is bad? what is the sending of articles on American beautiful? what is ugly? what we student life to the International Union want what is worth working for? what of Students for their publication and to is the good will? what is there in the the various students' associations in future?" different parts of the world.

In conclusion Mr. Bryson said: Fraternity chapters can greatly aid "Our country is founded upon the this program, according to Mr. Smith, idea that the most important things in in seeing that the association activities men's lives are the judgments about are brought up and discussed on the the things they think, good or bad, campus, by organizing discussion profitable or not. Truth is the best way groups in chapter houses and dealing to find out what you think and what with topics concerning international the other fellow thinks and what is as well as national fields; by following the best possible thing to arrive at. the example of eight Bowdoin College Talk, like everything else that is worth chapters in each housing a foreign studoing, brings its results in exact meas- dent; by stimulating of interest in camure with the amount of brains and the pus activities and leadership along the energy that you put into it. The talk in lines advocated by the national student their chapter houses is just about the association; by improving student spirmost important things the boys can do. it, student cooperation, and general If you can encourage them to talk well, understanding. you will give them something tc do for The 1947 gold medal "for distinthe future of their country." guished service to youth through the The objectives of the recently organ- American college fraternity" was ized National Student Association in awarded President John 0. Moseley, this country were presented by Robert of the University of Nevada. His conS. Smith, vice-president in charge of tributions included the development the international program. They are, of a Greek Week program as a substiaccording to Mr. Smith: improvement tution for the old Hell Week program, of educational standards and facilities; the conducting of the Sigma Alpha Epstudent government; health condi- silon leadership school for chapter oftions; emphasis of equal rights to col- ficers, and numerous speeches and lege education; the stressing of the magazine articles dealing with fraterrights and responsibilities of the indi- nity topics. vidual to his school, his school comDr. Moseley, a Rhodes scholar, munity, this country, and the world. started his educational career as a "Contrary to similar associations in teacher of classics at the University of other countries, the American group Oklahoma, where he also coached nine has resolved to stay out of politics," as- tennis teams, the majority of which serted Mr. Smith, "confining them- won championships. He later became selves to student problems and condi- president of the Oklahoma Teachers tions affecting student life." "It did College, and from that position went however," he reported, "by a vote of to the University of Tennessee as dean more than 400 to 35 decide to affiliate of students. About three years ago he itself with the somewhat political- was made president of the University minded international union of stu- of Nevada. The presentation was made dents under the reservation that it , at the luncheon Friday afternoon by would refrain from political activity in Chairman Embury, who cited the fact that organization, but would work that Dr. Moseley was the first to rewith it in all fields of common endeav- ceive the award other than past chairor toward peace." men or vice chairmen.

Some of the projects the association The candor and the forthrightness in is carrying on or planning, according dealing with the subject of racial disto Mr. Smith, are the exchange of stu- crimination which marked Chairman dents with different countries; the ar- Embury's address were reflected in the rangement of tours for foreign students consideration of other topics in thesesvisiting this country; the preparation sions of the Undergraduate Council of a booklet of information outlining and the National Interfraternity Conthe opportunities for study in travel in ference, but were especially evident in Europe next summer; the organization the various round table discussions of of joint tours in this country by Ameri- Friday afternoon when undergraducan and foreign students in vacation ates mingled with alumni delegates. periods; the inviting of foreign stu- The interest in these groups made evidents into discussion groups and en- dent the need for larger rooms. couraging them to participate in social From these round tables came some and general campus activities; the of the most important resolutions working out of a program for corre- which provided opportunity for action

53 at the NIC's final session Satw¡day for enoon. Significant was the fact that one of these resolutions passed unanimously will expand the confer ence by the addition of a meeting. Thanksgiving night, the pw¡pose of which will be to get delegates acquainted, and the addition of a business session for Saturday afternoon, thus permitting Friday afternoon to be given over entirely to round table discussions. "We feel that the round tables really help democratize the conference," was the statement of Maurice Jacobs, Phi Epsilon Pi, chairman of the 1946 conference, who presided over the round table dealing with conference activities.

The round table on colonization policy and procedure, in charge of Frank H. Myers, Kappa Alpha Order, decided that a colony was any local group of students at a college or university organized to affiliate with a certain national fraternity and that such groups should serve at least one continuous semester as a probationary period before being inducted into a national fraternity, and that no colonies should be organized at any unaccredited institution by any national fraternity for any purpose.

In a largely attended round table it was reported that subversive activities isting on campuses as far as undergraduates were concerned were pretty well controlled, and the best way of combating such activities was considered to be through the activities of other students acting in a democratic way through their student government and without the interference of faculty or the administration of a school.

Dean Warnock was chairman of the round table.

The liveliest participation among the round tables was found in the group presided over by Clyde S. Johnson, Phi Kappa Sigma, assistant dean of men at UCLA, which had as its topic for discussion membership restrictions.

Dean Johnson pointed out that Phi Beta Kappa in 1778 was denounced as un-American and an importation from France by Thomas Jefferson, and that efforts were made to abolish it. He also stated that when the facts were uncovered, it was found that Thomas Jefferson did not bring Phi Beta Kappa in "as a strange importation."

He asserted that today national college fraternities have faced succeeding waves of criticism, have attempted to get at the facts, and have been able to answer many of the criticisms either because there was no truth in the charges, or because the policy of fraternities has been sound.

Out of the discussion concerning membership restrictions, which Dean Johnson reported as approaching the emotional at times, came a resolution

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that all member fraternities be asked to investigate their constitutions and to eliminate any catagorical exclusions of students from membership. As only eight members of the group favored the resolution, it was overwhelmingly defeated.

A later resolution provided for the appointment of a special committee to make a continuing study of the problem, the nature and source of criticism, such relationships as may exist in the criticism and to give active aid and encouragement to the formation of new groups based on any selected basis, including international and interfaith.

The principal question discussed by the meeting of fraternity presidents was the urgent need of an executive secretary for the National Interfraternity Conference. This meeting was presided over by Chairman Embury, who brought out forcefully the need for the assistance that would be provided by a central office and recommended the increase of dues to make this possible.

As the additional expenditure to cover this cost could not be made by some fraternities because of budgets which had already been determined for the year, it was felt that only an expression of sentiment concerning the program could be secured from the 1947 conference.

Passed by the conference was an amendment which provided that a member fraternity may be expelled by Executive Committee for violation of any provision of the constitution or the by-laws and for any activity or conduct detrimental or prejudical to the general college system or cause. The amendment provides that the Executive Committee after full investigation send a written notice to the offending member fraternity and afford a reasonable opportunity for that fraternity to appear and be heard in defense.

Then it "shall have the power to expel or to impose lesser disciplinary action against such member fraternity as determined by a two-thirds vote of all members of the Executive Committee."

The amendment provided that the member fraternity should have the right to appeal the decision of the Executive Committee to the next annual meeting of the conference, the member fraternity being suspended for membership until this appeal is heard and decided upon by the conference. A majority vote may reverse the decision of the Executive Committee.

Another amendment passed provides that after November 30, 1947, "no member shall at any unaccredited college or university sponsor, assist, or participate in any manner, directly or indirectly, in the establishment, formation, or organization of a colony or

The Triad, Winter, 1948 Since 1936, Mr. Derby pointed out, any group or association of students with intent to be affiliated in any man- only 25 per cent of the membership of the Executive Committee, and that inner with the member." cludes the officers, have ever been acPower was given by still another tive major officers of their fraternities, amendment to the Executive Committee to select the place for the annual and only 51 per cent have been officers meeting, to call special meetings, and at all.

Resolutions of appreciation were to arrange group meetings when they passed commending the Kappa Alpha see fit, recommending their agenda.

It was voted to publish the 1947 Order, Howard P. Locke, Phi Gamma yearbook under the present plan, but Delta, and John S. Sickels, for their to have the Executive Committee contributions to valuable studies for adopt at its December meeting a print- the information of the fraternity ing and publication program for 1948. world; the Law Committee for its comThought-provoking statistics were pilation of "The American College Frapresented by Elles M. Derby, presi- ternity, its background and contribudent of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity tion to the American way of life;" the in proposing changes in the NIC con- committee on fraternity expansion for stitution. He showed that while in 1909 its report: the college officers in atthere were four states in the country tendance for their continued participain which fraternities had granted more tion and cordial cooperation; Chairman than 100 chapters, today there are David Embury for fine leadership and eight states that come in that category, self-sacrificing service; other officers and members of the executive and and also three states with from 75 to other committees for faithful and effi100 chapters; eight or ten with from 50 to 75 chapters, and 36 states that cient service; and George Starr Lasher have more than 25 chapter grants each. for his services in preparing the anThe most notable increases have been nual summary of the news of the conin the state of Washington and Oregon. ference and in publicizing activities of "In the past 24 years," Mr. Derby the NIC, for the past fifteen years. The stated, "service on the Executive Com- last resolution was originally passed mittee has totaled 289 years, and 12 by the College Fraternity Editors Asfraternities have had a majority of that sociation.

Dr. Gilbert M. Meade, Phi Gamma time, 155 years, while 26 other fraternities shared the remainder, but 30 fra - Delta, president of Washington Colternities have never been represented lege, received the gavel as the incoming chairman of the conference in the on the Executive Committee."

"Some of the fraternities," he con- closing moments of the Saturday foretinued, "that have the largest numbers noon session. He introduced his new have had proportionately small repre- associate officers and fellow members sentation on the Executive Committee, of the Executive Committee and then and some of those that are very small made a plea for cooperation on the part in membership have had exceedingly of all so that the work of the conferlarge representation." He also pointed ence could be carried on "as widely out that in a period of four fairly recent and democratically as possible." years men were suddenly selected as As part of his inaugural he said, "I officers of the .conference with no prior am too much of a sentimentalist for service whatever on the Executive this job. I was a pledge to a fraternity Committee and that in the same period forty years ago this month. My frasix men having an average attendance ternity life is as long as the life of the record of 84 per cent of all meetings , National Interfraternity Conference. were dropped from the Executive That means nothing except that out of Committee. those years, though I have never been Mr. Derby reported that in the past a major officer in my fraternity and ten years men were selected as officers probably never will be, I have acquired who had attended 32 out of a possible a feeling for all of fraternity which in70 meetings, while men with an al- sofar as sentiment is possible is equal most perfect attendance record were to my appreciation of the value of my dropped or after continuing as mem- own fraternity. My life is in it. My bers were not elevated to officerships. heart is in it."

When men were elevated or retained Other officers elected by the 1947 on the Executive Committee, according conference are: Vice chairman, Frank to Mr. Derby, they came from those H. Myers, Kappa Alpha Order, Washsame 12 fraternities, but those that ington, D. C.; secretary Dr. Wilbur H. were dropped were not from the 12, Cramblet, Alpha Sigma Phi, president and also 18 out of 24 chairmen came of Bethany College, Bethany, W.Va.; from the same 12 fraternities. Ten men treasurer, William J. Barnes, Theta who were advanced to the chairman- Xi, New York City; educational adship after one to three years of service viser, A. Ray Warnock, Beta Theta Pi, on the Executive Committee were from dean of men at Penn State; Executive the 12 fraternities.

Committee-Harry S. Gorgas, Phi

The Triad, Winter, 1948 Kappa Psi, New York City, to replace Frank H. Myers in the class of '48; class of '50, Henry Q. Mittendorf, 'Phi Delta Theta, professor at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; P. M. Harrington, Jr., Phi Kappa Tau, New York City; Dr. J. Fisher, Alpha Delta Phi, head of the Institute of International Education, New York City.

The newest auxiliary organization, the College Fraternity Scholarship Officers Association, authorized by the Executive Committee selected in its first meeting the following officers: Dr. Charles H. Gray, chairman Theta Delta Chi; Col. Ralph W. Wilson, vice chairman, Sigma Chi; Dean F. E. Alter, secretary-treasurer, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Dr. B. G. Feinberg, Phi Epsilon Pi; Prof. Earl Sneed, Beta Theta Pi; Dr. Ralph E. Wakely, Delta Sigma Phi; and Dr. G . E. Snavely, Phi Gamma Delta, additional members of the executive committee.

The constitution and by-laws will be formulated by this committee the members of which, according to the chairma~ of the organization, "will continue to work each in his own fraternity and all together for the improvement of fraternity scholarship in the way of academic ratings and also in the way of brotherhood."

Thirty-nine members of the College Fraternity Secretaries' Association at a meeting held Friday elected the following officers: chairman, W. W. Elder, Delta Kappa Epsilon; vice chairman, Harold P. Davison, Theta Xi; secretary-treasurer, L. Z. Rosser, Chi Phi; executive committee member for three-year term, Ransom H. Bassett, Kappa Alpha Order. J. Russell Easton, Sigma Chi, and Arthur B. Waring, Delta Phi, continue on the committee as well as Earl F. Schoening, Phi Sigma Kappa, retiring chairman.

The secretaries voted to elect officers hereafter at the regular summer meeting, although the officers-elect will not take over until after the meeting held at the Thanksgiving week-end of the NIC session.

The secretary was instructed to telegraph the good wishes of the association to Secretaries Cecil J. Wilkinson, Phi Gamma Delta; Frederick W. Ladue, Theta Chi; and Norman Hackett, Theta Delta Chi, all absent because of illness.

Two meetings were held by the College Fraternity Editors Association, one a business session on Friday afternoon and the other a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria with James M. Secrest, director of typography for the J. M. Basford Co., as the chief speaker.

It was voted to increase the news releases of the association and to revive the annual summer meeting in the Middle West, thus restoring a profit-

55 able get-together which was abandoned at the beginning of World War II. The association, by resolution, offered its services to the National Interfraternity Conference in whatever capacity such service might be most ef-fectively used.

The officers were re-elected: Frank C. Ferguson, Kappa Sigma, Spokane, Wash., president; Harold P . Davison, Theta Xi, St. Louis, Mo., vice president and Don M. Gable, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Evanston, Ill., secretary-treasurer.

At the dinner which was largely attended, high tribute was paid to the president of the association, Frank C. Ferguson, because of his effective work in editing the Caduceus of Kappa Sigma Fraternity as well as the active role he has played in the College Fraternity Editors Association. He was presented with a plaque and thus joined Linn C. Lightner, Lambda Chi Alpha ; Cecil J. Wilkinson, Phi Gamma Delta; and Chester W. Cleveland, Sigma Chi, as an editor who has served his fraternity publication for 25 years.

Publication of reports of officers and committees in one pamphlet saved a considerable amount of time at the conference and made it possible for the presentation of material valuable for future reference. Secretary Gilbert W. Mead stated in his report that there had been an unusually large number of inquiries concerning the accredited status of colleges, especially in regard to the schools which are changing from teacher training to a more general collegiate type.

So lively was the interest in all of the undergraduate round tables and general discussion periods, the chairman had a difficult time to limit the consideration of various topics to the time allotted. Three university administrators, however, addressed the undergraduates briefly.

Fred Turner, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, dean of students at the University of Illinois, made his audience feel that the undergraduate conference was perhaps the most important event of the weekend in that probably the men present would become the potential leaders of all fraternities in the years ahead.

"There is scar cely a fraternity in the United States," he said, "that isn't greatly concerned about its training of leadership."

Dean Clyde Johnson was introduced as the man chiefly responsible for the pamphlet on chapter house discussions.

"If we are going to keep fraternities not only alive, but useful on our campuses," said DJ:. John 0. Moseley, "we have got to get rid of the use of physical and mental torture in trying to make fraternity men. One way to do that "is

to have the period just preceding the spring initiation dedicated to an indoctrination week in an effort to make that man whom you are going to initiate a little better member of your own fraternity, a better member of the Greek-letter world, a b etter, mor e loyal alumnus of your school, and a better citizen of your country. If you ar e able to do that, you have done something for him, and you have justified t he existence of your fraternity. " Dr. Moseley briefly outlined the week's program which he said should originate on each campus w ithin the local chapters under the sponsor ship of the interfraternity council.

"Beginning with Monday," Dr. Moseley suggested, "each fraternity in its own way undertakes a progr am trying to make each neophyte a better man and a better fraternity man; then on the following Monday night they all participate in an annual get-together with a speaker, who should know something about fraternities and fraternity life. Each fraternity presents its initiates. The real objective is to give each chapter something constructive to do in place of what it has done, to do something for each man; then, in the future, fraternities will have more hero alumni on their membership roles and fewer of the type to whom fraternity is but a name."

"You know the fraternities," said Dr. Moseley, "have done the poorest selling job with the public. Everything the public hears about fraternities is bad. If you can use this Greek Week to let the public hear something good about fraternity life, you will be doing a favor to the fraternity system and your own organization as well."

Lively discussion by delegates followed based upon various suggestions of how to get good publicity to counteract the inevitable bad publicity. To attack the problem of ignorance concerning fraternities, one interfr aternity council publishes a booklet dealing with fraternities on its campus which is sent to each rushee, to high school and public libraries in the state and in adjoining states, to civic clubs, newspapers, churches, organizations like the YMCA, and other colleges and univer sities. One ¡of the councils finances a similar book by charging each pledge two dollars. Another includes its information concerning the various fraternities and the rushing program in a booklet sent by the university to all prospective students.

Other public r elations projects brought before the delegates include : the underwriting by the interfraternity council of campus events such as debating tournaments, football rallies, and all-campus dances ; the providing by fraternity chapters of members

56 strong in scholarship to serve as tutors to any students, fraternity or nonfraternity, who need assistance; the offering of a scholarship to a deserving student, fraternity or non-fraternity ; cooperation in food conservation programs; contributions to the World Student Federation, local loan funds , and student memorials; the arranging of a program which will insure the rushing of all men who desire fraternity affiliation; dances to which non-fraternity students are invited; the promotion of and participation in all campus intramural activities.

That pledge training was important not only for the good of individuals and the chapters, but as a matter of desirable public relations was brought out in the round table devoted to that topic. The big brother program was advocated as well as the writing of letters to parents.

In discussing the matter of control of pledges, it was brought out that in conformity with the attitude of the National Interfraternity Conference paddling should not be indulged in, especially as it is one of those things that bring a great deal of bad publicity, such publicity often undoing the good will that fraternities had previously established. As a substitute for paddling, one of the delegates advocated the merit and demerit system, with automatic dropping of a pledge who does not show the right spirit in meeting his obligations. The bad psychological effect of blackballing a pledge just previous to his initiation was brought out in the discussion.

One delegate insisted that the doing of menial labor around the chapter house as a part of pledge training accomplishes nothing as far as building a man is concerned or making a fraternity man out of him. As a practical substitute he stated that on his campus fraternities were initiating a wide program of social work in which a pledge would be required to make contributions of time and effort. As a result of his presentation, the undergraduate council passed a resolution favoring the incorporation of a program of social work as a portion of pledge training.

That the problems' of excessive drinking among the "-fraternity men varies greatly was brought out by delegates from institutions where there is an absolute prohibition against drinking in contrast to other schools where the serving of liquor is permitted in dormitories, student centers, and fraternity houses. Delegates from those schools which are liberal in their attitude toward drinking reported less difficulty with the problem than the delegates who came from schools where restrictions are numerous. The prob-

The Triad, Winter, 1948 lem which concerned most delegates fraternities as of July 1, 1947, totaled centered around minors who are often 1,110,935. Houses owned by chapters influenced by older members in their totaled 1,926. When the NIC was established 39 years ago, 27 fraternities attitude toward drinking.

The responsibility in regard to con- made up the initial membership.

American students are attending trol of drinking also varies with difinstitutions of learning in about 16 ferent institutions, according to the countries, according to Dr. Edgar J. discussion. In sqme schools the adminFisher, chairman of the Committee on istration takes over the responsibility, International Exchange Students , while in others the enforcement of while students from 34 foreign counregulations is left with interfraternity tries are studying in America. He recouncils or the individual fraternities. ported also an increasing interest Punishment of offenders varies from among fraternity and sorority chapfines assessed against individuals to ters in aiding these students. chapters being put on social probation The ebony silver-bound gavel used for a year. Out of the conflicting ideas ~t the 1947 conference, Chairman Emcame a resolution asking that the ad- bury reported, had been presented to ministration of educational institutions the NIC a year ago by Kappa Alpha secure the advice and assistance of in- Order. terfraternity councils in making reguThe invocation on Saturday mornlations concerning drinking and in en- ing was given by Father Bonaventure forcing them.

Kriley, fraternity adviser at St. FranNumerous suggestions dealing with cis College, Loretto, Penn., which is rushing activities were offered at the interested in having its three local fraround table discussion of this univer- ternities become units of national orsal problem. The topics discussed in- ganizations. cluded: booklets giving rushing inforFor the first time in history the mamation sent out in the summer to stu- jority of the officers of the National dents planning to enter the university ; Interfraternity Conference are not resopen houses for all entering students; idents of New York, four out of the fines, in one case ranging from $100 to five being from other cities. The nine $500, for pocket pledging; the spendother members of the Executive Coming of a week by freshmen in fratermittee, however, live in the New York nity houses; silent periods following area. This unusual change may be due rush periods; the rushing of students to the fact that the nomination comwho have been required to spend their mittee under the chairmanship of Col. freshman year on some associated John M. MacGregor, Alpha Tau Omecampus before entering the major eduga, sought advice from the presidents cational institution; the limiting of of all the national fraternities. rushing to those who have in writing Indicative of the wider interest indicated an interest in fraternity which is being taken in the National membership.

Interfraternity Conference was a seThere was also discussion concernries of resolutions sent by the Westing: organized programs versus open ern Region Interfraternity Conference, rushing; delayed rushing either for a made up of West Coast Undergradufew weeks or an entire semester; the ates. These resolutions asked that a quota system ; mandatory provisions program of expansion be encouraged requiring all entering students to visit in order that the number of fraternity all fraternity houses; penalties for viomen in the country be increased; that lation of rushing rules, including fines member fraternities establish public and the reduction of the pledge quota; limiting rushing to week-end; the relation programs in their individual pledging of students in the summer be- chapters; that the reputation of the fraternity system be enhanced by confore their registration; excessive rushing costs, one delegate reporting that tinued work to increase scholarship, on his campus each chapter spends abolish hazing, eliminate drinking by from $250 to $3'00 and in one case $150 minors, and do away with other was unsuccessfully spent on a single sources of attack; that all discriminatory clauses regarding membership be rushee. removed from fraternity institutions.

CONFERENCE NOTES NIC publications have found a welAs the result of the merger of Alpha come throughout the college world, acKappa Pi with Alpha Sigma Phi and cording to reports at the conference. the admission of Beta Sigma Rho as a Ten thousand copies of the pledge junior member, the National Interfra- training manual, edited by the late ternity Conference is now made up of Dr. Alvan E. Duerr, out of an issue of 59 fraternities, with 2,553 chapters 15,000 have already been circulated. functioning on 202 campuses. Beta Although the pledge manual is copySigma Rho, established in 1912, has righted, permission is given to franine active chapters and a total mem- ternities to quote from it in their own bership of 2,027. Membership of the 59 pledge manuals.

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