Acacia Triad - Fall 1948 - Vol. 43, No. 1

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Brother Acacians: For many years at the Conclave there has been a resistance by the active delegates to any mention of an increase in the per capita dues. At the recent Conclave the Budget Committee and the National Council estimated that Acacia could continue its present program, despite mounting costs, without an increase during the next biennium. When a resolution to continue the present rate was proposed the active delegates themselves suggested that the dues might be increased! Their reasons were that the services rendered the chapters by the Central Office and staff were worth all that they had cost, and that more services would be insured, by such an increase, even in the face of higher costs.

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As a result, the Conclave voted overwhelmingly to continue the present rate of dues, and further authorized the National Council to increase the per capita dues by a maximum of fifty cents a month when and if deemed necessary. Some of the "old-timers" present nearly fell off their chairs in amazement! Any remaining doubt of the value to Acacia of the Central Office and staff vanished with that action.

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Ever since the 1922 Conclave we have heard those who were present tell yarns about the hot weather at Lawrence. But that record fell with the "shirtsleeve" Conclave at Chicago this year.

The National Council would prefer to convene the Conclaves in resort areas near the geographical center of Acacia's population. Advancing transportation and other costs have precluded such action since the war. Shifting of our population as a result of expansion makes it appear that our next Conclave again can be held in the Rocky Mountain area. Past Conclaves at resort and vacation places have had large attendance by Acacians and their families who planned their vacations so as to be present.

Such a gathering of Acacia's families is one long to be remembered. Let us plan now to attend the 1950 Conclave.

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Speaking of Conclaves, it is not too early to begin thinking of the Golden Anniversary Conclave in 1954. If you have any suggestions on how, when, and where to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Acacia's founding, send them to the National Council members or to the National Headquarters.

LLOYD

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National President.

As We See It . . .

Our hat is off to Colonel Ralph Wilson, S igma Chi, who, as chair man of the National Interfr aternity Confer ence Committee on Scholarship, is sparing no effort to present an accur ate report on the fr aternity schola~­ ship picture. Every week he sends a report to the member fr aternities, pr esenting data showing how the chapters rank at the various colleges and universities, and how they compar e with the All-Men's Aver age at each school.

The results, we must say, a r e disappointing ; in most colleges the AllFraternity Average is below the AllMen's Aver age. And most of the nati onal college fraternities find that the majority of their chapters are below the All-Men's Average. Acacia is no exception; to date seven chapters have been reported; four of these have a n average below the All-Men's Aver age in their schools. These seven chapters, their ranking among the fraternities on their campuses, and their percentages above or below the All-Men's Average at their schools, are listed below for the year 1947-48: Indiana Illinois Washington George Wash.

Okla. A & M Ohio State Kansas

3rd 12th 5th 12th 16th 31st 16th

of of of of of of of

23 47 36 14 17 39 21

Per cent 4.99 above 4.90 above 4.22 above 1.01 below 8.71 below 9.08 below 13.91 below

What a chapter does with its scholarship is up to itself; the Conclave or Council cannot legislate high scholastic records. But it is evident enough that high scholarship and chapter strength and position go hand in hand. Strong chapters are those whose members are not on the verge of probation or expulsion; whose men thereby have time for their fraternity, for athletics, for activities, and for social life.

Colonel Wilson suggests, as a remedy, delayed pledging. We cannot subscribe to this because we believe the fir st semester in college is when a man needs a fraternity the most. But there are other means of raising that chapter average. The first was recommended by a Conclave committee : make the average requir ed for initiation higher than the minimum set by the University or by the Interfraternity Council. The second is to require that a man "make his grades" within one year or be dropped from the pledge list-he probably won't be in school long anyway. These two requir ements alone w ill do much to improve the chapter standing.

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THE TRIAD OF ACACIA FRATERNITY .

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Souther n Califor nia Chapter House .

National President's Page

Cover Inside F r ont Cover

The 25th Conclave

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Acacia's Progr ess-1946-48-Roy Clark

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The Citizen as Public Servant-David Lilienthal

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Edgar Kelly Appointed Traveling Secretary

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Out West-With George Croyle .

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Jim Howard Appointed Director of Publicity

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Acacians the World Over

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New Initiates .

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Men of Acacia-Dr. Harvey J. Howard

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Covering the Cover

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Doings in the Chapters

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Directory

Back Cover

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 quax:terly. 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 Cr edits : Conclave p ict ures by Duane Routh , Robert Finke, a nd t he Evanston Photographic Service . Clippings and news items w er e submitted by Cecil H aas, Lut her Andrews , a nd Ha r vey Amos. Cover by J ames Settles.

The 25th Conclave Record Turnout Sweltered Through 3 .. Day Meeting.

Nelson Elected Secretary~ Lunsford National Editor The Conclave National officers, delegates, colonizers, advisers, and members of Acacia swarmed into Chicago on August 26 for the biggest and warmest Conclave in the history of the fraternity. Headquarters for the activities was the Chicago campus of Northwestern University; sessions of the Conclave and Officers Training School were held in Thorne Hall with Abbott Hall providing the accommodations for anyone who found time to sleep-which was not often. For, in addition to the allclay meetings, there were committee meetings, tours of Chicago's night-life, swimming parties, bull-sessions, and a banquet thrown in for good measure.

Despite these and the oppressive heat wave that arrived with the delegates. the old Acacia spirit kept the meeting rolling so that much was accomplished .

Wednesday evening found a long line at the registration desk as the men arrived by train, plane, and auto from all over the country. The entire fourth and fifth floors of Abbott were packed with Acacians; the overflow was accommodated on the higher floors.

The first session of the Conclave was opened on Thursday morning by National President Ruppenthal. The session was devoted to the usual opening business, the appointment of commit-

tees, and the reports of the national officers. (These reports are included in this issue.)

Following the opening session, the Conclave recessed until Friday afternoon in favor of the Officers Training School which was conducted by the Traveling Secretaries George Croyle, Charles Jarrett, and Edgar Kelley.

During the school many phases of chapter operation were discussed, questions were answered, and suggestions offered.

Following the Training School sessions the Conclave was resumed on Friday afternoon and was concluded on Saturday. Chief debate in these sessions dealt with certain proposed changes in the Constitution and Ritual of the fraternity; all of these were defeated. The Conclave did vote to exempt from payment of certain national dues men who are married. In voting to accept the report of the Budget Committee the Conclave voted to allow the National Council, at its discretion, to increase the national dues to $2.50 per month, from the present $2.00.

Acting upon the recommendation of the nominating committee the delegates unanimously elected Bancroft Nelson of California to the office of National Secretary which has been held by Cecil H. Brite of Oklahoma.

To serve as National Editor the Conclave elected John Lunsford of Colorado to replace Hershel L. Washington who had served in that office since 1928 and who edited THE TRIAD for most of that time.

(Articles about our two new officers will appear in the Winter issue of THE TRIAD .-Editor.)

The Conclave voted to instruct the National Council to make a study of the possibility of zoning the nation geographically so as to provide several zones from which the National Council might be selected.

As the last business, the President presented to the Indiana Chapter the trophy awarded to the most outstanding chapter in the fraternity. On behalf of that chapter Dick Lloyd accepted the Behrens Cup.

Conclave Photographs Copies of any of the Conclave photographs appearing on pages 2, 3, and 4 may be obtained from the National Headquarters by sending check or money order. The price is one dollar for an 8" x 10" photograph.

Official Conclave Photograph Practically everyone in attendance at the 25th Conclave st0 od in the blazing heat fo1¡ the official photograph. In the approxi11Ul!te center of the first row, standing, can be seen President Ruppenthrol and to the right of him are Dave Embury, Cecil Brite, Ray Thomas, Paul Brown, and Roy Clark. Mrs. May is the sole lady present; to the left in back of her is Marion Huber.

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Conclave Banquet Highlighting the three-day Conclave was the banquet held on Friday evening at the Furniture Club on the 18th floor of the Furniture Mart. Over two hundred actives, alumni, officers, and guests were on hand and, despite the ever-present heat, had a rousing evening.

Following the sumptuous dinner the brothers were led in a few Acacia songs by AI Lohse, Indiana, and by George Kirch, Cincinnati active who also was coaxed into singing two solos in his talented bass voice. The National President introduced the guests at the speaker's table (shown in the photographs) and then introduced Dr. John Moseley, S.A.E., and President of the University of Nevada. Dr. Moseley, one of the most outstanding men in the fraternity world, recounted how he almost became a member of Acacia, since he was a member of the local that later joined Acacia at the University of Oklahoma.

Main speaker of the evening was Acacia's own Dave Embury, past Chairman of the National Interfraternity Council. Mr. Embury pointed out some of the mistakes made by fraternity men, both as actives and alumni, and warned that these mistakes must be corrected and avoided if fraternities are to continue to expand and progress. He further urged all fraternity men to get together with other fraternities and to develop a spirit of cooperation rather than competition.

On behalf of the entire Fraternity the National President presented an Acacia Sweetheart Pin to Mrs. Edith May who has served so capably as office manager at the Headquarters.

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Conclave Banquet Scenes (Left) Dr. John Moseley, SAE, P1¡esident of the University of Nevada and Outstan ding Fraternity Man. (Center) Prexy Ruppenthal " Hangs" a sweetheaTt pin on MTs. Edith May, H eadquaTters Office ManageT. (Right) Dave Embu1¡y, main speaker.

Report of the Active Delegates' Committee on the Good of the Fraternity The Good of the F raternity Committee of Active Delegates has no recommendations for changes in the existing Laws of Acacia. However, several topics were discussed by the Committee and on a few we encourage all active chapters to review and act: 1. We believe the present expansion program of Acacia should be vigorously continued.

2. We believe the size of all active chapters should, wherever feasible, be increased to a minimum of 50 men, but without sacrifice of quality for the sake of quantity.

3. We believe it necessary to establish trustee funds for the sole purpose of building the new house. In connection with this we wish to encourage more vigorous national counseling with the active chapter and alumni corporation.

4. We recommend that all chapters adopt a system whereby building notes are paid off entirely while the student is an active in school.

5. For strong chapters scholarship is vitally important. We believe that chapters adopt a scholastic standing for initiation of .2 above university requirements and a limit of one year for a chance to meet this requirement before depledging.

6. We encourage the establishment of individual chapter incentive awards for scholarship.

7. In regard to rushing: we recom-

mend closer correlation between active chapters and alumni in obtaining the names of prospective rushees in their own districts who plan to attend school where there is an Acacia chapter. We believe the National Office can best serve as a clearing house for this material.

8. For cementing closer bonds between chapters of Acacia we encourage regional get-togethers on a wholechapter basis.

9. We believe it essential to foster alumni interest in the active chapter in all possible ways. Closer, but careful, correlation of business and pleasure on numerous occasions is one of the most effective ways.

10. We encourage frequent publication of active and alumni news letters. Interchange of these publications between all chapters is essential.

11. We recommend that the National Council take the necessary steps to produce better songs for Acacia, with the employment of professional talent, if necessary.

JAMES CAMPBELL MARION DAZEY RoBERT BROWN LARRY GIRTON WILLIAM WILSON EARL BEAVER RoBERT REED RICHARD EIFLER CHARLES YALE,

Chairman

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(Left) Two sections of the speakers' table 111t the Conclave Banquet. Efjicient Executive Secretary Clark managed to get himself into both pictures!

(Opposite Page) 1. Cecil Haas tells how things are don e at Michigan. 2.

George Croyle is calmed by Bill Knapp after a hectic session. 3. Chuck Pennington, Denver's V. D. looks a bit skeptical. 4. Bob Bartlett, Syracuse, tries on the 10-gallon hat of one of the Texas gang . 5. Jack Lunsford, newlyelected National Editor. 6. A quick bulLsession during one of the five -minute breaks. 7. Two Conclave veter111ns, Roy Cla1·k and Dave Embury. 8. Cecil Brite tells Croyle all about the overhead situation at Oklahoma. 9. President Rup· penthal mops his face while discussing legislwtion with Paul Brown, Jurisprudence Chainnan. 10. Pre-banquet coolers in the, er, " lounge" of the Furniture Mart. 11. Jack Plattner and Mrs. May clowning for our camera-man. 12.

Representatives f1·om Rensselaer in an Abbott Hall bull-session.

Report of the Advisers' Committee on the Good of the Fraternity The Advisers' Committee on the Good of the Fraternity offers the following recommendations: 1. That each chapter lend full support to the new Public Relations office and extend all possible assistance to spread the name of Acacia.

2. That the Council and full-time personnel be given all necessary facilities and aid toward increasing the number of Acacia chapters to fifty at the earliest possible moment.

3. That the National Council be instructed to investigate the possibility of securing N.I.C. approval of a program to make copies of THE TRIAD available to the chapters for distribution to high school libraries in their sectors.

4. That the National Council be instructed to study the possibility of initiating a scholarship fund through alumni subscription and endowment the moneys of the fund to be utilized for the assistance of new Acacia chapters, the scholarships to be provided from the interest on the moneys loaned and to be awarded to the chapters in proportion to the contributions of their alumni.

5. That the National Council be instructed to investigate the means of securing additional funds with which to extend the facilities and the duration of future Conclaves.

6. That the National Council be authorized to explore to the fullest measure the possibility of securing profes-

sionally-prepared and directed training films for use by the traveling secretaries, Acacia Chapters, and through lease agreements, other college fraternities.

BERN AHD ANDERSON DELMER GooDE LOREN WHIPPS w. w. COTNER RoBERT McDoNALD BANCROFT NELSON, Chairman

(Below) Left to Right: Paul Brown, Chairman of the Jurisp1·udence Committee; Mm-ion Huber, National Treasurer; Roy Clark, Executive Secretary; L. H. Ruppenthal, National President; David Embury, Past Chairman of the National Interfraternity Conference; Ray Thomas, National Coun selor, William Ross, TRIAD Editor; and Cecil Brite, National Secretary.

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Acacia's Progress- 1946-48 A Report by the Executi-ve Secretary, Roy Clark, to the Delegates of the 25th National Concla-ve EVER in my knowledge of Acacia's history, which goes back more than twenty-seven years, has it been as strong and virile as it is right now. This strength stretches all the way from the total membership of the chapters, their individual financial conditions, the financial condition of the National Fraternity to the general morale, spirit, and enthusiasm of the members.

Although statistics often are uninteresting, a few which I would like to present to you serve to highlight the progress made in the last biennium: When the Conclave met two years ago there was a total of nineteen active chapters. Today we have twentyseven. During this period two new chapters have been chartered: Southern California and Wyoming. Five old chapters have been reactivated: Oklahoma A & M, Texas, Oregon State College, Kansas, and Denver.

Looking at the active chapter membership the improvement is even more impressive. In the year 1945-46 when the Fraternity was just beginning to become active following the war, there was a total of 133 actives paying dues.

These were from the seven chapters then in active operation. The following year the total of actives had increased to 564, and in the year just past there was a further gain to 754.

In the spring of this last year the total number of actives amounted to 851.

The average active chapter in 194647 was composed of 25 men; in 1947-48 the figure was 28; and in the spring of this year, 31 %.

During the school year of 1946-47 the total number of men initiated wa~ 293; in the year just past 445 men were - initiated, an average of 28 per chapter.

This figure is, of course, increased by sizeable numbers in the new and reactivated groups.

The largest four chapters in the Fraternity in point of membership are Indiana, Northwestern, Illinois, and Colorado, in that order with 66 60 56, and 45 men in the ~pring of ' th~ year. Membership in the remaining chapters indicates healthy conditions generally, although there are a few cases in which the chapters should consider increasing their pledge classes for their general welfare and in anticipation of losses through the draft. In fact, all chapters should carefully inventory their membership sit-

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uations in preparation for the future when there may be unexpected losses.

With the large increases in membership and initiations there has been, of course, a commensurate increase in income. With increasing costs, evidences of which surround us daily, it is fortunate that there was an increase in membership.

While there has been a book gain in net income for the biennium, this will be largely offset by the increased costs of the Conclave over the provision set aside for it. The Budget Committee set up a total of $4,000 for Conclave expenses. Because of increased costs of every item entering into it, from transportation on down the line, it is estimated the total will exceed $7,000.

This increase, together with provision for colonization next year, will leave us in the black, although not by a large amount.

Going a bit further with finances, I am sure you will be pleased to learn that the net worth of the Fraternity has increased from a total of $53,000 in 1946 to $72,000 in 1948. This increase was largely brought about by reason of the sizeable initiations of members which produced substantial additions to THE TRIAD Endowment Fund; the total balance in this fund now stands at $38,000, not including an appreciation in the market value of its investments amounting to about $3,600. For this increase, andfor the investment policy we are greatly indebted to P ast National President Walter W. Kolbe, who has been responsible, through his wise counsel, for this appreciation. T HE TRIAD Fund, as you know, is a fund that has been set up, the income from which is to provide every one of you actives and alumni who are life subscribers with THE TRIAD for the rest of your lives; that is a fund which we cannot use for expansion or for the general operation of the Fraternity in any way at all. That must be kept inviolate so that the pledge that we made when everybody was initiatedthat he would receive THE TRIAD for life-may be carried through , Now, something about the future.

Two years ago the 24th Conclave, by its actions, endorsed the program under which your Central Office has been operating. This included the employment on a part-time basis of an executive secretary, and continued the arrangement of two traveling secre-

taries and the office manager. We feel that this has paid dividends and will continue to do so. Much of the work on new chapters and reactivation of the old ones could not have been done without the implements which your predecessors made possible. During this time the chapters have been visited by George Croyle and Charles Jarrett a number of times, although not as often as we would have liked nor as often as will be the case in the future. In fact, George spent a number of months in Texas, and Charlie an even larger amount of time at Kansas doing the job that might well have been done by colonies if we had had them there.

A year ago your National Council approved a plan for employing "colonists" in the persons of active members who might be willing to transfer their studies from the scenes of their home chapters to some school which offered possibilities for colonization.

Not too much success came as theresult because of the difficulties of locating men desirous of transferring, together with the difficulties of getting transfers into colleges already over(Continued on page 11)

(Opposite Page) 1. Delegation from one of the new chapters : Kansas' Wilson, Galyon, Paynter, Vernon, and K1¡oesing . 2. Part of the big delegation from the Iowa State Chwpter. 3. Scene at one of the banquet tables. 4. Louis Baethe and his rip-snorting gang from Texas. 5. National Of]ice1¡s Huber, Ruppenthal, Thomas, and Brite holding an open-air Council meeting. 6. Duane Routh, Venerable Dean at Oklaho?na A . & M . keeps his camera busy recording the Condave for posterity. 7. Lake (Syracuse), Anwyl (RPI), Bartlett Syracuse, and Vosburgh (Syracuse), between the Training School sessions.

B. Smyer and Nemier never saw skyscrapers like these on those Texas plains! 9. The KansllJS State delegation which almost arrived on stretchers. 10.

Ye Editor. 11. Another shirt-sleeved delegation enjoys (?) the heat wave.

12. The A. & M . delegation surround Advisor Bivert.

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Tlte Citizen as Public Servant

By Da'Vid E. Lilienthal, Chairman United States Atomic Energy Commission (As the Commencement speaker at the University of Virginia last June, Mr. L ilienthal presented this most signific ant add1¡ess, of interest to Acacia actives and alumni alike. Mr. L ilienthal has kindly allowed it to be printed in THE TRIAD.-Editm')

VERY individual has a philosophy.

Sometimes it is explicit and articulate; more often it is not, but it is there nonetheless.

Similarly every generation has a philosophy, a theme, a major premise.

When my generation sat where you graduates of '48 sit today, we, as a generation, had a rather definite philosophy. This guiding general principle of those of us who in the Twenties were at about the age and time of life you are today, can be summed up in this phrase: "Take care of Number One." The idea was a simple one; it was almost universally accepted; it seemed eminently sensible. If everyone devoted himself to his own success, to his own advancement, if everyone took care of Number One, and concentrated on that-why obviously the sum total of the successes of all the Number Ones would be prosperity and happiness all around, an end to poverty, in brief a golden era.

Taking care of Number One, the philosophy of my generation, was not however confined to individuals, and the careers of individuals. It applied to groups. If farmers looked out for their own interests, if organized labor and industrial management did the same for their respective interests, if physicians and lawyers and bankers and bond salesmen and ship-builders and merchants-each looked out for Number One then all the Number Ones would be looked out for.

The same philosophy dominated international relations of the Twenties.

Since we felt this was a good philosophy for individuals and for groups, naturally it was a sound idea among nations, too. If the United States concentrated on advancing the welfare of the United States, and if Germany did the same, and Britain the same and France and Russia and all th~ other nations, then by the philosophy of "Look out for Number One," by each nation paying strict attention to its own business, the sum total would be prosperity and peace for all.

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The idea seemed sound; it was what we then liked to call "just plain common sense." We had made the simple discovery that not only was poverty unnecessary but so was war. To make sure of it, all the Number Ones who were each going to look out for himself, got together and signed an eloquent piece of paper agreeing that there would be no more wars.

For a time the idea worked wonderfully well. A great many of us, just out of college and professional school or just beginning in business looked out for Number One, and found it surprisingly profitable . It was, by and large, a time of easy earning and free spending. We did not know then, as we do now, that in a time of rising prices, of inflating values, you really have to be very dumb indeed to fail to make money. So, in our naivete, we attributed this easy success to our own great talents for money-making, and to the fine education in self-advancement we had received, and for which we had been awarded diplomas from the universities of the land.

Nations found the idea worked well, too. We protected our own industries by high tariffs, and other nations took measures they deemed appropriate to take care of their prosperity. Taxes were low, and the budget was balanced. What need was there for expensive armies and navies, since we had a piece of paper that said, officially, that war had been outlawed?

With every interest watching out for its own pickings, the President could take ,a long nap every afternoon, and Congress a rest several months out of every term.

But to say that Taking Care of Number One did not work is a masterpiece of understatement. J udged by the implacable and merciless test of results -a prostrating depression followed by a terrible war-it was soon made clear that the philosophy of my generation was somehow, tragically in error.

Each man took care of himself, but the sum total of all this self-reliance was that the devil not only took the hindmost but the foremost and those in between. Each nation tended to its own affairs, but the net result was not the end of war, but the greatest war of all time.

The art of self-government, the whole process of Government that had seemed so irrelevant, so inconsequen-

tial to us who thought we had found the golden way, became suddenly the center of our greatest concern. A business depression of great severity brought us all to the brink of collapse.

Many of our leading citizens, who had theretofore never given a thought to G overnment except as a minor irritation, gave up their business to devote themselves entirely to Government, in order to pull us out of this havoc. Later they put their own interests aside to work in Government, in order to help win a war, a war their own sons were fighting.

Some of our generation, thinking it over later, felt that it might have been better if they had concerned themselves with Government sooner, before the day came when they saw so many people's life-savings go down the drain. They wondered if it wouldn't have been smarter to have come to Washington, or to have concerned themselves more with the kind of men chosen to go to Washington, before a war was on, while there was still time perhaps to do something to prevent war, than to have put off their interest in Government until that day when they walked down that long, long station corridor to see their sons off to military training camp, to wish them bon voyage on their journey to possible mutilation and death in some far-off jungle or beach.

Yes, we, your fathers and your grandfathers have done some sober thinking since the good old days of the Twenties when we worshipped at the altar of Personal Success.

There is sound precedent-a great deal of it, and very impressive it is too-for a commencement speaker to commend to the young graduates, that they follow in the philosophy of the speaker's own generation. I must depart from that precedent today. I can't honestly recommend "Take care of Number One" as a philosophy for your generation.

Why was it wrong? Well, the explanations are vario.u s. There are some who would say the philosophy was doomed to fail because it contravenes the moral law, since it embodies the glorification of self; that its failure was foretold by the teachings of the Old and the New Testaments. But there is no n eed for such speculations, not this afternoon at least. I certainly can(Continued on page 14)

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Out W estW ith George Croyle HE Twenty-Fifth Biennial Conclave held in Chicago the latter part of August gave evidence of the awakening of a new spirit in Acacia.

Most chapters were in attendance with a full quota of five men and many exceeded this number. It was gratifying to note the interest of all chapters and to see the vast progress made in the two year period since the 1946 Conclave.

The Conclave, conducted during Chicago's most severe heat wave of the summer, was in many respects most successful; in other respects it left much to be desired. The Officers Training School was not complete; it tended to stress overall problems rather than those specific problems that are peculiar to certain chapters.

Discussion from the floor was curtailed because of limited time and consequently many important problems were left without attention.

Many delegates voiced the opinion that the off-year regional conferences were of more value and gave greater benefit to the individual chapters than the T raining School. With this evidence weighing heavily in favor of a continuation of the regional conferences it is the opinion of the writer that more stress must be laid on the regionals and less on the Conclave Training School in the future .

In 1949 we will again schedule regional conferences. It will be the duty of all chapters to make known their ideas and wishes as regards the time and place for the regional in their particular area. Thought also must be given to the discussion topics and the handling of same. The regionals held in 1947 were very successful, those scheduled for 1949 should be better yet.

On September first Acacia lost one of its staunchest workers when Charlie J arrett resigned his post as traveling secretary to take a position with the Bowman Dairy Company of Chicago. Charlie, with his great knowledge and interest of all things Acacia, will be missed but certainly not forgotten for he pioneered the expansion of the Fraternity in the post-war era and his record of achievement will be an inspiration to those that follow him in Acacia.

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Edgar Kelly A ppointed T raveling Secretary To succeed Charles Jarrett in the position of Traveling Secretary for the Fraternity, the National Council has appointed Edgar R. Kelly, a recent graduate of the University of Illinois.

Ed, who had been dubbed "Eveready," was on the job at the Conclave, and is now covering those chapters in the eastern half of the country. His unbeatable combination of a winning smile, a glib tongue, and a lot of sound ideas indicate that he will be a natural for the job.

He supplies us with the following facts about his early history: Born in Lebanon, Illinois, in 1923, he lived an uneventful life until the fall of 1942 when he headed for the State University, pledged Acacia, and was initiated in May of '43. Joining the Marines in June of that year, his service record shows that he went to Notre Dame for three semesters and thence to Quantico where he was commissioned. He then headed for the Pacific where he served on Guam and Peleliu, and, after returning intact, again found himself at Illinois in the fall of '46. His Marine record was seized upon for the chapter made him pledge trainer until he graduated with a management major and put in a year in law school.

Ed has a few weaknesses, not the least being his fanatical loyalty to the St. Looie Cardinals. He is a Hot Jazz fan, smokes Luckies, lives at the fabulous "Club 506" in the summer, and extols the merits of Lebanon at the least opportunity. So far no mere woman has tied him down.

NEW CHAPTERS AT CONCL AVE: In 1946 only 19 Acacia Chapters were present at the Twenty-Fourth Biennial and first post-war Conclave. This year eight new chapters made their appearance either for the first time or after several years of inactivity. Denver (1931), Kansas (1941), Oklahoma

A & M (1941), Oregon State (1931), Texas (1933), Southern California (new,) Washington (1941), and Wyoming (new) were in attendance for the first time since the war.

COLONIZATION: New colonization is being carried on this fall with an expectancy of three new chapters in the west by spring. UCLA under the guidance of Frank Reinsch, California, '47, and Bob Weber, California '41, is making rapid progress; the in(Ccm.tinued em page 13)

Jim Howard A ppointed Director of Publicity At its meeting prior to the opening of the Conclave, the National Council appointed Jim Howard, Indiana, '42, to the newly created position of Director of P ublicity. In this capacity Jim will handle the distribution of publicity releases from the National Headquarters and will, in addition, provide assistance to the individual chapters in an effort to expand and improve their public relations programs.

J im comes to his new position well qualified, both by his academic training and by his participation in the Fraternity. While at Indiana he, " ... was given the job of Junior Steward, fired the cook, and a few weeks later was elected Venerable D ean." After graduating in 1947, with a major in literature, he joined the staff of Scott, Foresman and Company, largest educational publishers in the country. Jim served during the war as chief gunner on a B-29 which flew nineteen missions in the Pacific Theatre; prior to going overseas he was in the A.S.T.P. program at several midwestern colleges.

JAMES HOWARD

Director of Publicity

The Triad, Fall, 1948 10 Northwestern University School of Commerce. He is editor and co-author of a text on financial institutions that is being prepared by members of the finance department of Northwestern.

Medical Association Official

the World

Dr. Emmett B. Carmichael, Colorado, '17, professor and Head of the Department of Biochemistry of the Medical College of the University of Alabama, was acting as Secretary Manager of the Southern Medical Association. He took over that office on the first of July and continued on until after the annual meeting on October 25-28 in Miami, Florida.

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Douglas Rideout's Book Published

Edgerton Receives Honorary Degree from the University of Nebraska

Douglas Malcolm Rideout, George Washington, is the author of a book of poetry entitled Comrades of the Mist, published by the Dierkes P ress on September 3'. The poems deal with recollections of his childhood and with the recent war, during which Brother Rideout fought, and was disabled, on Guadalcanal.

Acacians

Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, Nebraska, '24, professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of engineering by the University of Nebraska at its commencement exercises in June.

Brother Edgerton's research studies have been concerned with synchronous machines and stroboscopes. He has developed equipment for observing and recording high-speed motion which is used by the motion picture industry all over the world. He was awarded the "best paper of the year" prize of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1937. In 1946 he received the Medal of Freedom for his work in Europe for the American Air Forces in taking night photographs of enemy troops.

Last spring Dr. Edgerton did research work on Eniwetok Atoll Island in the Pacific; it will be remembered that this was the scene of the atomic bomb experiments.

Boehmler Named Official of Investment Bankers Association Erwin W. Boehmler, Northwestern, '22, has been named public education director of the Investment Bankers Association of America. He is a past president of the Investment Analysts Club of Chicago and is a member of the Illinois Bar. For the past eighteen years he has been engaged in either full-time or part-time college teaching in the Chicago area and is continuing as a professorial lecturer in finance at the

Robert Bear Stoltz Dies Robert Bear Stoltz, Ohio State, '11, passed away Saturday, October 2, 1948, at White Cross Hospital in Columbus ; he was 58 years of age. The head of the Dairy Technology Department at Ohio State, he had a worldwide reputation as an authority in his line and had traveled extensively all over the world. He had attained Masonry's coveted 33rd degree.

In an issue of Life Magazine last spring appeared a photograph of Dr. Alexander Wetmore, Kansas, '09, who is Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Wetmore was photographed while participating in the bird census; he was shown climbing into the loft above his office while hunting for owls.

The article noted that he has participated in every bird census since the first one when he was a boy in 1900.

An article on Dr. Wetmore appeared in the Fall, 1947, issue of THE TRIAD. Kirtley F. Mather, Harvard, '27, president of the National Council of the YMCA, spoke at the 22nd meeting of the Council in the Hotel Statler in Detroit, Michigan. Brother Mather spoke in opposition to the MundtNixon Bill which was under consideration at that. time.

Ralph ~arner Hammett, Harvard, '22, edited 'a series of fifty-two homeplanning columns in the Detroit Free-

Press. Hammett, who is connected with the School of Architecture at the University of Michigan, was chosen from among twenty-five experts by the column publishers as the man best qualified to give regular readers accurate, helpful information about what every family should consider when building, buying, or modernizing a home.

Carl L. Jolliffe, Kansas, '17, is a supervisor with Consolidated A ircraft Corporation in La Mesa, California; his address is P. 0. Box No. 18.

With his fingers in "black gold," Raymond D . Tripp, Kansas, '34, manages and is half owner of the Richardson Oil Co., Ashland, Kentucky.

Along with a Virginia bride of last June, Walter N. Munster, Kansas, '34, settled in The Plains, Virginia, to manage the production control office of the Rubber Reserve Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Lafayette Bldg., Washington, D . C. Shiller Shore, Kansas, '28, uses his knack at the printing business as supervisor of the Field Printing Plant at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

C. T. Hough, Kansas, '18, Lawrence district manager for the Kansas Electric Power Co. , was elected president of the local Chamber of Commerce last April.

Walter J. Shannon, Kansas, '25, a track and football man in his day, has recently moved from Royal Oak, Michigan to Lawrence where he represents the DoAll Company.

Ray C. Coutts, Michigan '21, was elected Vice-President of the American Train Dispatchers Association in October, so is on the road a good share of the time in midwestern and southwestern territory. He can be reached at the Association offices, Rock Island Lines, Box 363, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Ellsworth C. Dent, Kansas '24, is the general sales manager of Coronet Instructional Films in Chicago. He has done considerable lecturing before schools and has written articles for professional publications. He and Mrs. Dent have recently moved to 1628 Highland Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois.

Fred S. Montgomery, Kansas '24, was general chairman of the 1947 Kansas Homecoming Celebration.

Fred is director of the Kansas University Bureau of Visual Education and a professor in the Education school.

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Acacia's Progress (Continued from page 6)

crowded. As a result Croyle and Jarrett found it necessary to do a job that it was originally not intended that they should do. It is our plan next year that colonization efforts be handled by students. You may be sure that your National Officers and Central Office staff are constantly on the alert for opportunities for growth, and would appreciate suggestions and advice from actives and alumni alike in this department.

Your N ational Council has as its immediate objective a conservative increase in number of chapters to a total of 35 and this, we feel, can be accomplished given your permission and support. The newest addition to our staff, Ed Kelly, suggests that our objective should be fifty active chapters by 1954-the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Acacia. Such a goal IS possible.

This report would not be complete without an expression of very deep appreciation to many alumni around the country who have done a magnificent job in the last biennium in stimulating the formation and reactivation of chapters. I sort of hesitate to mention names because I know that I am going to leave some out, but to mention a few, some of whom are in attendance here today, the Fraternity owes a great debt of gratitude to men such as Ray Oster of Southern California , Louis Bathe at Texas, Vernon Mahon at Kansas, Howard Davis and Ray Morgan at Wyoming, Jack Lunsfm¡d and Carl Parker at Denver, Chris Gabriel at Oregon State. Special thanks are due also to the Colorado Chapter for its fine work at the installations of Wyoming and Denver; to Oklahoma and Oklahoma A & M for similar work at Texas; to California for installing Southern California ; to Washington for a fine job at Oregon State; and to Kansas State for the installation of the Kansas Chapter.

We wish also to express the greatest appreciation for the unceasing interest of the National Council members. For the first time in history every member of the Council was, in his student days, an active, living in the chapter house. Therefore, they all have the keenest appreciation of the many problems confronting a chapter in its dayby-day operations. The Fraternity can be grateful for a Council which has been continually on the job in a progressive, sympathetic manner, with an openmindedness that is refreshing.

The Fraternity is also fortunate in having had the services of two fine traveling secretaries, Charles Jarrett and George Croyle. They have exhib-

New Initiates Cincinnati George Prochko, Cleveland, Ohio William B. Fox, Coshocton, Ohio

Colorado Fred D. Harder, Twin Falls, Idaho John L. Roemer, Boulder, Colo.

Denver George H. Breckenridge, Jr., Denver, Colo.

Gerald R. Vossenkenper, Denver, Colo.

Kenneth E . Walden, Kansas City, Kas. John R. Ellison, Abilene, Ka~.

Herbert S . Taylor James E. Stauffer Raymond M. Bailey

Oklahoma P reston L. Moore Paul C. Smith, J r.

Ralph G. Moore Dee G. Andros Warren L. Green, Henryetta, Okla.

Ray E. J enkins, Seminole, Okla.

Robert E. Bland Art Gallaher, J r.

Thomas B. Maclin Jack M. Campbell, Warren, Okla.

Bill J. Gallaher John L. Graves, Jr.

Illinois

Southern California

William H. Schroeder, Libertyville, Ill. Jay A. Misicka, Maywood, Ill. Donald R. Hyer, Quincy, Ill. Bruce G. Radcliffe, Oak Park, Ill. Wilfred M. Green, Des Moines, Iowa Robert J. Fellows, Urbana, Ill.

James B . Dizney, El Centro, Calif.

John G . Locke, San Gabriel, Calif.

Robert H . Davis, Azusa, Calif.

William E . Horn, Los Angeles, Calif.

Albert E . Bell, Gardena, Calif.

Stanley T. Boggess, Riverside, Calif.

Robert C. Madsen, San Francisco, Calif.

NewtonS. Metfessel, Los Angeles, Calif.

Michigan Lenhard A. Forsberg, Jr. Donald G. Lubeck Harvey A. Miller Richard G. Osborne William C. Zabrosky

Washington

Charles R. Dorn, Appleton, Wis. George G. Gilbert, III, Chicago, Ill.

Arian M. Anderson, Bellingham, Wash.

Richard W. Ekins, Stratford, Wash.

Jack C. Cowger, Katchikan, Alaska John F. Oster, Centr alia, Wash.

Clifford 0. Bjorgan, Mount Vernon, Wash.

Ohio State

Washington State

Northwestern

Robert E. Davis John F. Reid Paul L. Brown Elmer L. Jacob Wayne L. Pidock Phillip K. Folk Paul A . Feeger Warren H. Lewis

ited the highest degree of intelligence, ingenuity, and har d endeavor at a sacrifice to their own financial interests.

It would be difficult to visualize having two more conscientious and devoted servants to the Fraternity than these boys have been. Charlie, as most of you know, is leaving the work September 1st at his own request, and with much regret on our part. His successor, whom we know to be a worthy one, is Edgar Kelly who will be taking the Eastern Chapters this fall. He will help you settle all your problems; I

John H. Jones, Olympia, Wash.

Adolf R. Anderson, Longview, Wash.

Walter H . Johnson, Milton, Ore. John B. Tisdale, San Diego, Calif.

Wallace D . Green, Spokane, Wash.

Richar d E. Patton, South Bend, Wash.

George A. Gillette, Richland, Wash.

think Ed h as the answer to everything.

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we shall more and more apply in our daily affairs and public policies the moral precepts and ethical standards mankind over thousands of years has learned , with such pain, may not be lightly ignored nor disregarded. I firmly believe that your generation intends to be and will become an active living part of your times.

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Men of Acacia Dr. Harvey

J.

Howard

Michigan '04 NTERNATIONALLY eminent as an ophthalmologist, writer, lecturer, teacher and designer of precision instruments for making examinations of the eye and for selecting flying personnel, Dr. Harvey J. Howard is easily one of St. Louis' most valuable and distinguished citizens.

For Dr. Howard is not merely a great scientist, teacher and physician, he is a man who participates in the civic and cultural life of the city, who concerns himself actively in inter national and national problems that bear on the future of mankind. He has likewise authored a continuously popular book, Ten Weeks with Chinese Bandits, that has gone into eight printings and has been translated into seven languages.

He is, moreover, the father of one of the world's outstanding fighter pilots and air commanders who has achieved phenomenal records in both the Pacific and the European theaters of war-Colonel James Howell Howard.

Dr. Howard received his A.B. degree from the University of Michigan in 1904, and his degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1908.

A Master of A r ts followed from Harvard University in 1917, and the degree of Doctor of Ophthalmology from the University of Colorado in 1918.

While at the University of Michigan, Dr. Howard became associated with the Masonic gr oup who organized the Acacia F r aternity ; he is Number 6 on the Michigan roll.

Determining early in his career to specialize in ophthalmology (diseases of the eye) , he entered that field in January, 1909. He rose rapidly in his profession, achieving high scientific recognition for his wor k both at home and abroad. In 1910 he became head of the Department of Ophthalmology of the University Medical School, Canton Christian College, Canton, China, where he remained for six years. He was next made Fellow of the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation at Harvard University from 1916-1918, and at the University of Vienna in 1923-1924, where he engaged in important scientific research on the eye.

During World War I, Dr. Howard served as a Captain in the Medical Corps, U. S. Army, and was assigned to the Medical Research Laboratory of the Air Service, at Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, New York. It was at this time

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that he devised the important depth perception test for the selection of flying personnel in the Army, the Navy and the Department of Commerce, a test that has continued in official use since 1919 and is now used throughout the world.

In 1919 Dr. Howard returned to China, this time to become Professor of Ophthalmology in the Peking Union Medical College (Rockefeller Foundation School) , Peking. During his tenure there, Dr. Howard acted as Adviser to the Department of Aeronautics of the Chinese Government, and was eye physician to the Boy Emperor, Pu Yi, from 1921 to 1925. He was elected the First Commander of the Peking Post of the American Legion, 1920-1921, and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Peking American School, 1921-1923.

Dr. Howard came to St. Louis in 1927 to become Professor and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Washington Univer sity School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Oscar Johnson Institute of Research in Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology. Since 1933 he has been engaged in private practice, increasingly gaining recognition for his exceptional skill and success in the treatment and correction of diseases of the eye, and in eye surgery. For the past thirteen years, he has been Medical Director for the Missouri Commission for the Blind.

Dr. Howard is active in social, civic, military and medical organizations. In 1926 he was awarded the military decoration of "Tiger" Fifth Class, by the Chinese Government, and from 19211941 he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Medical Reserve Corps. He now holds a certificate of capacity for full colonelcy, M. R. C. , in the U. S. Army.

He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Surgeons, the American Ophthalmological Society, American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the China Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the St. Louis Medical Society, and the Missouri Medical Association.

He is a member of the St. Louis Writer's Guild, of which he was President in 1937, and the Society of St. Louis Authors-President 1942-45. He is also a member of the Missouri Athletic Club, the St. Louis Kiwanis Club -President 1935, the Downtown St. Louis Lions Club, the American Legion and the Amer ican War Dads. He is a member of the Air Board of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. For a number of years he has served as a member of the Board of Directors, Washington University Branch of the Y .M .C.A. ; Chairman, St. Louis Chapter, William Allen White Committee, 1940-41 ; Chairman or Co-Chairman of the St. Louis Chapter of the United China Relief, 1938-42. He was made a Mason in 1904, and in 1920 became a 32nd degree Scottish Rite member of that Order.

Dr. Howard is a gifted, informed and pleasing public speaker, who would be forced to abandon his profession if he responded to all the calls made upon him for lectures, speeches and informal talks. His favorite subject is China, on which he is an authority.

Like most men of high achievement, D r. Howard is self-effacing and brief when the subject of his own career is touched upon. His is the true devotion to science and advancement in the realm of medicine. Of his experience with Chinese bandits, however, he sometimes talks freely and vividly as he describes his ten-week capture and close brush with death back in Manchuria in 1925. While on a hunting expedition with his friend Major Morgan Palmer, his young son Jim and a number of others, Dr. Howard was wounded in the left hand when the small group was ambushed by seventytwo bandits who had descended on a nearby village. Major Palmer and two others were killed; the boy and his companions escaped; Dr. Howard was taken prisoner and held for $100,000 ransom. Weak from lack of food, seriously emaciated, he was freed ten weeks later when Chinese troops surrounded the decimated bandit detachment. Dr. Howard has graphically recounted this eperience in his wellknown book, Ten Weeks with Chinese Bandits, which was published by Dodd, Mead and Company. The critics are agreed that this book is one of the best (Co-ntinued on page 26)

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Covering the Cover: March 8th will mark the second birthday anniversary of the Southern California Acacia Chapter at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. As Acacia grows the Fraternity can look with pride upon one of its newest chapters. The past two years have been ones of achievement and credit to the Fraternity.

Shortly after Walter Kolbe, past National President, presented the new chapter with its charter, the new men combined their efforts with the Acacia Alumni Association. In a short time the chapter had taken a lease on an ivy-cover ed home in the midst of the S. C . fraternity row. On the east the Sigma Chi house neighbors Acacia, while the Kappa Delta sorority completes the picture on the west side.

The house itself has been a topic of conversation up and down " the row" for some time. George Mattes, former house manager, and chapter adviser, Ray Oster, took steps to have the house furnished. completely, practically, beautifully, and still maintain the fraternity atmosphere. This has been accomplished, as will be borne out by all those who have visited the S. C . chapter. With the aid of one of Southern California's largest furniture stores, the men of the chapter have furnished their living room with fur niture of a modern design, executing a color combination of light green plastic easy chairs accompanying three large overstuffed pieces of light brown.

The white ceiling crossed with dark pine rafters is supported b y soft blue walls and enhanced with flowered drapes. The Chapter room is decor ated in green with two-tone gray walls and fireplace with red leather furniture.

Last year when a handful of men moved into the big empty house vacated by a sorority shortly befor e, they found themselves helpless with no funds, equipment, or other necessities.

Upon completion of satisfactory arrangements with National funds w ere forthcoming which enabled the kitchen and dining room to be completely outfitted, as well as the other quarters.

Chapter funds were exhausted in furnishing the sleeping quarters and purchasing paint and br ushes. The latter two items were put into use immediately. The entire house has been repainted and many rooms r epapered, floors sanded and made ready for new maroon car peting, and other such proj ects by the men themselves. Many a Sunday found both the pledge class and the active chapter busy into the night wor king on their abode even to the point of making their own decorative lamps and accessories. The result is something of which each man can be pr oud. He can be doub.l y proud at this writing, because he knows that payment of all indebtedness is far ahead of scheduled payment. This last accomplishment has been furthered by as many men as found it possible paying-off their $100 building fund notes.

This Acacia home has been the scene of several Alumni activities, a r ecent open house for parents and friends ,

many house socials, int er-fraternit y council meetings, univ ersity committ ees and other special int erest gr oups.

It has taken its rightful place as the pr oper starting point for ser vice and achievement, which in tur n br ing cr edit unto its members and its National fraternity .

"We are proud of ou r chapter and our house, and we have t r ied h a rd to exemplify Acacia at its finest at every turn. And w e now know the University is proud of us, as are our brother chapters," so stated Venerable Dean Earle Risdon recently.

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stallation should be fait accompli by Christmas. At Nebraska Don Tipton, Iowa State, '48, is doing a gr and job and is already making plans for the installation in Lincoln. Don has done a particularly outstanding job at Lincoln under somewhat adverse conditions; he presently has the full support of the Omaha and Lincoln Acacia Alumni Associations and his work should progress mor e smoothly from now on in. Ken Walden, Denver, '48, and Pinky Ellison, Denver, 48' are presently enrolled at Arkansas and are hoping to be able to do Acacia some good in the near future. Harry Imus, Iowa State, '47, and Gordon Reeves, Iowa S tate, '46, are enrolled at Iowa University and have plans for reactivating the dormant chapter at Iowa City. Acacia h as other colonization in mind for the coming year but it would be premature to disclose same at this time.

CONDOLENCES: To Harold Craig on his near fatal attempt to prove that Newton was right after all.

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Southern California Real hospitality is offered at the U. S . C. Chapter fireside.

But it is not enough to watch over a man's academic rating only so long as he is a pledge; the Venerable Dean, as scholarship. officer, must see to it that the members apply themselves to their studies and that those who do well are given pmper recognition.

Some of the chapters have scholar ship awards; these should be encouraged by actives and alumni. An annual "honors night" should be planned so that proper recognition is provided. A man who does well scholastically has more time for the Fraternity; give him his due. And let's get Acacia onto the positive side of that ledger!

14 who only three yea:rs ago read the astounding headlines of Hiroshima and (Continued from page 8) Nagasaki, and only a few weeks ago not commend that philosophy to you, the accounts of man-made cosmic rays whatever the reasons. For its results and of multi-billion volt atom-smashalone are sufficient to mark it a fail- ers. One need but refer to atomic ure, not worthy of repetition as a ma- science (to mention but one branch) jor premise for your own individual and how that science has spurred proglives, or as a principle of our national ress in the search for the cause of dislife, or as a principle of international ease, how it is helping to throw light on the ancient mysteries of growth in relations.

No, I cannot commend to your gen- plants and in animals, the way it is eration the philosophy of my own. opening fresh fields in industry in the What I propose in its stead I can com- development of quite new materials and metals. One need but point to the pr ess in this phrase: "Be an active, living part of your probability that in your life-time there will be created new sources of energy times."

Do a good job and attain success in that may shape the future of the unyour chosen field; yes, definitely. Be developed continents of the world. self-reliant, yes. But self-sufficient, self- These and other developments and centered, self-loving-no, not that. Be- opportunities in various sectors of come an active part of your time-this science are almost as fresh and new I propose as the best, though clearly a as the diplomas you carry away with most difficult, alternative to the idea you this day.

What do I mean when I urge you to of each man withdrawing into the shell of self-preoccupation, of concern play an active part in science? I do not, of course, suggest that the memsolely about his own success.

I speak of "your times." What kind bers of your generation must all of times will yours be? And what do adopt science and engineering as a I mean by being an active, living part life's work. What I do urge is that, as an educated citizen, that is to say a of that ti1.1e?

I can best suggest what I have in privileged citizen, you keep informed mind by quoting to you the remarks of the essentials, of the basic facts. For it is chiefly upon the lay citizen, inof two men.

First I quote from Warren Gamaliel formed about science but not its pracHarding, 28th President of the United titioner, that the country must deStates, who, I think it is fair to say, pend in determining the use to which exemplified to a degree the central science is put, to resolving the many philosophy of the generation of the public policy questions that scientific Twenties, a generation that with infi- discoveries constantly force upon us. nite appropriateness made him and Science itself, of course, is neither his associates our corporeal and sym- good for mankind nor is it evil; it is, bolic leaders. in itself, neither beneficent or deThis is what President Harding is structive. How its finding are usedreported to have said : "Government, whether for good or for ill-these are after all, is a simple thing." matters largely for the good judgNext I quote the comment of Dr. Al- ment, in human affairs, of all citizens, bert Einstein, whose brain has com- scientists and non-scientists; but they prehended abstractions and arabesques should be informed citizens. of the intellect quite beyond most of You need not, of course, have the us: "Politics," the great mathemati- detailed knowledge that the profescian said, meaning, I take it, the whole sional scientist must have. But in the art of government, "Politics is more field of atomic sciences, as one exam. difficult than physics." And for phys- ple, you should know the elementary ics I think we may substitute science, principles and the basic concepts, and all science. the progress of their development.

There you have it. The times, of You should have a knowledge of the which I urge you to be an active living methods and principles of scientific inpart, will be chiefly occupied, indeed quiry, and how that method differs "dominated" is not too strong a word, fr om the method of the politician or with these two : physics and politics, administrator or executive, skilled in or more accurately science and gov- the arts of government or of business. ernment.

For all of you who have had a course First, as to the role of science in the in the fundamentals of any of the physdrama of your time. ical sciences-and most of you have The assertion that science (taken -this will not be difficult, particularly together with the technologies based in view of the improvement now takon physical science) is a dominant ing place in scientific journalism for fact with which your generation must lay readers . reckon is surely one that requires litThe quickened pace of scientific distle elaboration, certainly not to you covery and development will touch

The Citizen as Public Servant

The Triad, Fall, 1948 and affect all manner of issues of concern to you, some of them matters of life and death. These will be issues bearing upon the security of the nation, upon the state of mind of your communities (ranging from blind fear and panic to calm and prudent judgment) issues of health, of investment opportunities, of what we need by way of armies, navies and air forces-this list could be extended indefinitely in length and variety.

So whether you are going into business or the law or journalism or farming or any of a number of lines of work, I urge that you become a living part of that vital fact of your times that is covered by the term "science."

I said, a few moments ago, that Government and Science would, in my opinion, be the two towering facts of your generation and I have spoken briefly of science.

Let me state more precisely what I mean when I urge you to be active in Government. Do I mean what we call "good citizenship," that is keeping informed on public questions by reading and listening to the radio and attending forums, by remembering to vote, and never neglecting to put the waste paper neatly at the curb during Clean-Up-Your-Town week? Yes, of course. But that won't be enough, not for what you are going to encounter in the Fifties of this century.

Well, surely I don't mean that every man and woman to whom this country has given the high privilege of a college education, and who has the qualifications, should actually spend a part of his life in some form of public service!

That is exactly what I am proposing.

In the next three decades I urge that every educated person who is qualified to do so, plan definitely to set aside a number of years for the rendering of service in the legislative, or executive branches of his local, state or federal government, and that as nearly as possible this be full-time service .

I am proposing a widespread rotation of the not-too-pleasant duties of the public service. And I do not mean merely part-time or "dollar-a-year" service alone. Nor in my opinion will it meet the situation to put this public service off until you are of retirement age.

I propose that, out of the best and most productive years of your life you should carve out a segment in which you put your private career aside to serve your community and your country, and thereby to serve your children, your neighbors. your fellow men and the cause of fr~edom. ' Today our concept of what consti(Continued on page 27)

C))oings zn the Chapters California Wins Scholarship Cups • Due to graduations and transfers-including those poor souls who were snared by designing females, the active chapter numbering eighteen arrived early and launched a very successful rushing program, throwing pledge buttons on most of the green-faced freshmen coming through the door_ These neophytes are: Richard Clements, Piedmont; John Czarnecki, Berkeley; David Fischer, Upland ; Robert Friday, Burlingame; Richard Hoffelt, Sacramento; Ron Kilgore, Berkeley; Robert McKee, Berkeley; Richard Pland, Oakland; Dan Radmanovich, Sacramento; Thomas Remington, Sacramento; Daniel Rothermal, Burlingame; Robert Skakel, San Francisco; Lindsay Smith, Walnut Creek; Lester Stephen, National City; Edmond Wilkins, Burlingame; Byron Wilson, Crescent City; and last, but hardly forgettable, Richard Walcott, San Rafael -all from California.

The chapter appreciates the efforts of the alumni who participated in the rushing program for we feel we have pledged some good men. We hope to be seeing a few more of our alumni around, including our long lost traveling secretary, George.

The chapter began the political and social side of college life with a bang-and some of the results are: one of our freshmen, Dick Hoffelt, is running for freshman class president, and since we have a deadline on this report, I am unable to report his success. Dick proved his capacity for a political job at a recent beer bust where he smelled a cork and almost became president of the Junior Birdmen's Society. The chapter is represented on the sports page with Walcott and Pland out for freshmen football, Wilkins and McCutchan for fall track, and Wilson for water polo. Our intramural sports teams are coming along nicely with such players as glue-fingered Frye, number-caller DeForest, and Horse Riegel.

But, unfortunately, this is all small stuff when we look at the varsity football team and think what U .C.L .A., U .S.C., and some amateur boys from the Big Nine will have to face. Fortunately for the other chapters on the coast, no skins were staked upon the outcome of the games.

In the near future, we will have a smoker for the alumni, when they will have the pleasure of meeting our new pledges and of seeing the great improvements in the house. We are very proud of our game rooms in the basement upon which the chapter did all the work. Of course, our functions will continue to the end of the year, culminating in the big party in the Rose Bowl.

We are still trying to keep up our scholastic record, one of which we are proud

-that of being the highest of all the fraternities on campus. Two trophies from the I.F .C. grace our mantel in recognition of this somewhat unexpected coup.

Oh yes, we made a great steal from the U .C.L .A. colony when we acquired Lloyd Andres, a transfer to Cal. We hope that some t ime in the future they can r eturn the favor.

I finally must come to an end of stating remarks of our achievements and wish the best of success to the other Chapters and especially to the Colonies of Acacia.

THOMAS McCuTCHAN

Cincinnati Sent Twelve to Conclave .• • The co-operative system has long made schooling a year-round proposition at the University of Cincinnati, as a result, our chapter house is never devoid of residents and activities flourish throughout the summer months. The latter part of June found Cincinnati Acacians of section one participating in numerous outdoor events.

A series of stag picnics was followed by a very pleasant swimming party held on June 26. The summer social season closed with a "section change" party early in July.

Wedding bells pealed regularly throughout the summer as Brothers Paul Weidner, William Britton, Russel Ackerman, Charles Hahn, and Frank Sonnenberg took the vows of matrimony.

The middle of J une produced another initiation ceremony and two new men, William Fox and George P rochko, were welcomed into the active membership of the chapter. George, we are sorry to say, will no longer be with us as a result of his transferring to George Washington where he has already resumed his studies.

Twelve men of the Cincinnati Chapter were present at the National Conclave this summer. Everyone was pleased at having the opportunity to meet his fel· low Acacians. It was a definite pleasure to see the names, which have appeared within the pages of THE TRIAD, become real, live personalities.

Our rush season composed of picnics, stag smokers, a hay ride, and swimming parties, was quite successful thanks to the careful planning of Robert Waterfield, rush chairman. Much of our success in obtaining twenty pledges also goes to Roland Wagner, social chairman, who devoted much of his time in making our rush functions interesting and enjoyable.

Our pledge class, composed of thirteen out-of-town men and seven town men, is already hard at work under the careful guidance of Robert Leever, pledge master.

David Hill, a pledge from Whiteland, Indiana, is already working out nightly with the cross-country team. Reports from

his fellow athletes reveal that Dave is ex cellent track mater ial.

Speaking of sports brings to mind the fact that the interfraternity sports season is once again under way. Our firs t football game was called due to a day of severe rain, but Jim Barnes, team manager, is looking forward to what promises to be a fine year of sports in every field .

George Bowman, one of our outstanding first year men, bade farewell to the Cincinnati Chapter last summer and headed for the United States Military Academy, West Point, where he is finding life strict, but agreeable. Rogers Miller, another Cincinnati Acacian, has recently been nominated as a principal candidate to West Point by Congressman Charles H. Elston. Rogers is, at present, a second lieutenant in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and Staff Sergeant in the medical detachment of the Ohio National Guard.

George Kirch has apparently found his "flower of Acacia" for he is pinned to Jo Ann Wagner, Alpha Delta Pi. Our chapter has decided to enter the Interfraternity Sing this year and Bob Rogers, song master, is already hard at work arranging rehearsals.

Alumni News . ..

Lieutenant Colonel William Wuest has returned with his family from Berlin where he was stationed for several years.

He is now at Fort Bliss, Texas.

President Ruppenthal appointed a committee to revise our national constitution and by-laws. Herschel Washington, formerly national editor, Paul Brown, chairman of our jurisprudence committee, and George P atterson, president of the Cincinnati Alumni Corporation, are on this committee.

Jack Lissenden has accepted a position as an accountant in Richmond, Virginia, and has moved his family there.

The Cincinnati Alumni Association held a picnic in Sharon Woods on Saturday, October 16. The men and their families enjoyed a covered dish supper.

Our new pledge class includes Bill Brown, a cousin of Melville Collins of our former Fellowcraft Fraternity. Bill comes from Rome, New York.

Bill and Jack Klahn took a motor .trip to the far west this summer.

Cincinnati Acacians feel proud of George Kirch who, without notice or preparation, sang two beautiful numbers during the banquet at our Conclave in August. The numbers included "Ann Bolyn" and "The Bass Viol." George is a vocal student of Louis John Johnen and is a student in che mical engineering.

Frank Sonnenberg was married to Miss Mary Ann Case at the Presbyterian Church, Harrison, Ohio, on August 23. A number of Acacians attended the wedding and the reception which followed. At the wedding George Kirch sang "The Lord's Prayer" by Malotte. Frank and Mary Ann

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16 are now living at Harrison, Ohio, while Frank is finishing work on a Master's Degree in geology.

George McPeck, who is now employed in Caracas, Venezuela, has visite d friends and relatives in Salvadore, Central America, this last fall. His wife and children accompanied him.

Cincinnati's new Terrace Plaza Hotel is n ot under consideration for our midwinter social functions. The Gourmet Room, which accommodates only fifty -six guests, is particularly attractive, except for its charges. One friend, it is rumored, spent one hundred thir ty dollars in an evening of entertainment of three friends.

There is no floor show in this dining room.

Cincinnati Acacians will be content to just look at this room for the time being.

Marion Huber was chosen a delegate at lar ge from Ohio to the meeting of the National Council of the Congregational Church held at Oberlin, Ohio. After this he took charge of the chemical analytical laboratory in Newark, New Jersey, while his brother was in the hospital.

Cincinnati Alumni Association meetings held each Tuesday noon at the Florentine Ball Room, Hotel Gibson, have been well attended during the summer.

The monthly business meetings are held at the Chapter House.

The Alumni Association intends to sponsor a vocational guidance program for the benefit of the active chapter. The Alums, on the basis of their own practical experiences, will aid our men in preparing for their future careers. This relationship will, no doubt, bind the often neglected "ties of friendship" between the active and alumna! groups.

RICHARD D. MILLER MARION HUBER

Denver Starting Off with a Bang It would seem as though the Denver chapter is starting off with a bang. The best news that I have to report at the moment is the tapping of our first graduates for Phi Beta Kappa. The gentleman in mention is Raymond C. White. Ray, one of the charter members of the reactivated chapter, is also a former officer of the Acacia Club. He functioned in the capacity of treasurer during the period before the club became a chapter.

Ray is an Anthropology major and is now working on his master's degree in the field. He is planning on going east in the near future, so you boys in the eastern chapters keep an open eye.

It is also interesting to note that Ray is a native son, so to speak. He was born in Idaho Springs, Colo., but later moved to Chicago. In that fair city he attended the Chicago public schools, and graduated with honors. NeedlEss to say we are very glad he decided to return to Denver for his college work.

Now to other matters. This being fall quarter we are pretty well wrapped up in fall rushing and other school activities.

Due to lack of adequate housing facilities we are doing our rushing on a person-

alized basis and with remarkable success.

The chapter held a dinner in one of the local restaurants on Monday, October 4, 1948, during which formal pledging was held for six men. This gives a total of 13 active pledges and two on the inactive list.

We are having the same trouble as many other chapters in that we have two actives in the armed forces at the present time, and the possibility tha t one or two others may have to leave. This also accounts for the absence of one of our pledges. This leaves our active member strength at 20 actives and 13 pledges. I hope by the next time I sit down to this little chore I will be able to report a lot of progress in the direction of a larger chapter.

Notes on fall activities . . .

School starte d September 20. Several officers of the Fraternity served in gener al Fraternity booth during registration.

Acacia members at this campus are active in all intramural sports. We have high hopes for our football team. It looks as though it has possibilities. (An · excellent method of getting our name known around the campus.)

Housing situation is still very rough.

Have looked at a dozen or more places and have found nothing adequate. The zoning situa tion around campus makes it doubly hard to find anything suitable.

Professor Burke, a member of the University of Denver faculty, visited one of our summer meetings and made several valuable suggestions on the matter of buying or building a house. He also gave the school stand on fraternity housing.

All in all we hope to have a house by Christmas. This is our fall goal. Hope to hold initiation for four the weekend of October the lOth. This will bring our active strength to 24 actives.

Work has already begun on our float for Homecoming. "Never too early" is our motto.

A last minute note has just been put on my desk. Chuck Pennington has been nominated for President of the Junior class. A very popular boy , let's hope we can swing him in.

BoNFILS

Franklin Plans Stag for Alumni • Franklin Chapter's pledges will be initiated October 19, 1948. They are: Edward B . Armstrong, Leonia, N . J .; Walter Lewis, Scranton, Pa.; James McClure Sheridan Wyoming; and Stevens Nemish, Beccaria: Pa. The house is being speedily readied for the fall rushing period. Final touches are being added to our baths and st).ldy rooms.

Our dining room opened October 4th under our own management. We are members of a cooperative food buying group organized among the fraternities on the Penn campus. This plan will reduce our kitchen expenses considerably.

Plans have been drawn up by our social chairman for a series of dances following football games, to be held Saturday nights.

As usual, we will compete in inter-fraternity touch-football. In addition to our traditional Christmas formal, plans are being formulated for a stag get-together with our alumni group, the Acacia Club of Philadelphia.

Two of our brethren were joined in wedlock this summer: Donald Neff, Wharton School, '49; and Calvin Dyson, College, '49. Congratulations, fellows!

Our delegates are still talking enthusiastically a.bout the 1948 Conclave. In line with the new publicity program, John D. Beierle was appointed Publicity Officer.

Edward B . Armstrong was appointed House Manager, replacing Richard Runkle.

JOHN D . BEIERLE

George Washington Adds New Look to House ••• Preparation for the fall rush program has occupied a lot of the time and required even more of the effort of every active member of Acacia, George · washington, for the past couple of weeks, and although every man has bloodshot eyes, blistered hands and an aching back, the chapter house has been improved more than Super Suds. With two thousand dollars from the Alumni Association, with the direct assistance of the National Traveling Secretary and Alumnus H . B . Teegarden and with the cooperation of almost every Acacia chapter, we have added the n ew look to our house. Our rooms have new furniture; our floors have new rugs and our windows have new drapes. The basement recreation room has even been finished. To top it all off, we have even borrowed a library collection to fill the formerly empty shelves of our library!

Ed K elly, the National Traveling Secretary has been our guest for the past few weeks and those of you who think he has a soft job should see him in action a round our house. He's really been a big help at everything from organization planning to wielding a paint b r ush. If it weren't for his collection of early Phoenician phonograph records, which he insists on playing, we'd be sorry to see him go.

George Prochko has transferred here from Cincinnati and we thank Cincinnati for a very good man. He's the guy who thought up that pennant idea. The women of Washington extend their condolences to the women of your town.

Doug Rideout, of this chapter, has presented an autographed copy of his latest book to this chapter. This book, Comrades of the Mist, is a volume of poetry and includes the work "To My Brothers," which Brother Rideout has dedicated to this fraternity.

On the 18th of September, Gordon Grimwood was married to Becky F oxworth. The wedding was followed by a reception at the chapter house and the couple were sent on their honeymoon in traditional style with a storm of rice and a frequently interrupted evening. .

We particularly want to thank the many chapters for sending us their pen-

The Triad, Fall, 1948 nants which have been hung on the walls of our recreation room. Other chapters apparently are preparing to adopt this idea. We'll send pennants to those who have requested them as soon as they are available.

HARRY c. (PETE) JONES

Illinois Rejuvenates Annex • • As the Illinois Chapter's faithful trooped back from summer vacations, they were greeted at the door by a welcoming hand and a paint brush. The object of intensive work was the old eyesore next to the Chapter house-Acacia's annex. Within a few days, the combined efforts of forty actives and second semester pledges literally transformed the structure into an attractive and livable residence.

Several of the actives, led by Al Hallene, had painted the outside of the house during the summer; hut the rooms had probably never seen a paintbrush since the Boneyard was a mighty torrent. With the rooms painted and the new rugs laid, there followed a period of "sweating out" the new furniture . Rumor had it that the furniture had been delivered to the Oklahoma A. & M. Chapter, but these were dispelled when it finally arrived on September 28. During that period we endured the hardship of storing our clothes in suitcases and studying on various types of makeshift tables.

The rejuvenation of the annex is typical of the progressive spirit within the chapter; we're mighty proud of all that has been accomplished. We cordially invite anyone, especially our alums, to stop around and inspect the "new" annex.

Our formal rushing was exceptionally successful this year, due mostly to the untiring efforts of Lynn Wolaver, our rushing Chairman. Eighteen new pledges have been added and are as follows: James L . Brown, Kankakee ; Jerry Chal· craft, Petersburg; Don De Long, Peoria; Mack Follmer, Forest; John Frazier, St. Louis, Mo. ; Jack Mainey, Mazon; Melvin W. Rapp, Peoria; Rob~rt Robinson, Denver, Colo.; Robert M. Schroeder, Libertyville; Merle Stauffer, Urbana ; Jack Uebler, Streator; Robert Walker, New Lenox; Charles F. Green Jr., Schenectady, N. Y.; Richard E. Houdlett, Kankakee; George Jesek, Rock Island; Don Kilby, Mackinaw; Robert King, Chicago; and Robert Kinne, Peoria. Besides these, Jack Bodeman, Dick Foote, and Jim Farr are pledges returning from last semester.

These boys are really getting into the campus activities swing, thanks to Pledgemaster Ralph " G" Gould.

Hell Week and initiation were held during the week of September 20-26. Those who survived the ordeal and joined the ranks of brother Acacians were Bill Schroeder, Libertyville ; Jay Misicka, Maywood; Don Hyer, Quincy; Bruce Radcliffe, Oak Park; Bill Green, Des Moines, Ia. ; and Boo Fellows, Urbana.

Our social calendar this year is filled with record dances, exchange dinners, formals, smokers, etc. The activities began

17 with a dessert dinner at Kappa Delta. A week later we played host to the Alpha Phi's in another dessert dinner. Two other affairs of a similar nature have been planned with the Alpha Delta Pi's and the Alpha Omicron Pi's.

Our first dance was strictly unique. I'm sure you have heard of coming-out parties, but how about a coming-out party for a dog? Pepper, our Cocker Spaniel, has attained such popularity around campus that we deemed it necessary to properly introduce him to society. This was done at a "Dog Dance" held October 2 with Pepper acting as esteemed guest. As tokens of our affection, Pepper was presented with a newly painted dog house and a king-size fireplug .

Several Acacians who were with the chapter before and during the war have returned to the campus. Ray Stone, who was initiated in 1943, has returned after serving for five years in the Army. Ray is now enrolled in the school of engineering. Lu Taylor, who was initiated in 1945, has returned to his studies in the school of commerce. Lu's brother, Bill, informs us that he will be with us in February for the second semester. Bill is a initiate of '45 and has been attending the U. of I. branch at Navy Pier.

Two brother Acacians, Chuck Yale and Al Hallene, recently announced via two boxes of cigars that they had hung their pins during the summer. Chuck tendered his to Helen Whitson of Urbana, and Al hung his on Sarah Cox of Tennessee.

We are expecting a big turnout for Homecoming, so don't let us down, Alums.

If you can't come then, make it a point to stop in sometime this year; you're always welcome at 501 and 503 East Daniel Street.

CHucK RussELL

Indiana Includes 30 Pledges . .

When we were reading the last issue of THE TRIAD (along about the middle of the summer) the weather was of the warm variety, with the sun beaming down pleasantly and delightfully cool breezes blowing through the trees. Now all we have is a fond memory of that period, because here in Bloomington the weather is unseasonably chilly. Some of the fellows have to start out the day with a coat or jacket, and for this time of the year that's not right. Indian Summer must be just a phrase this year, although we'll continue to hope for it.

As the fellows began to arrive for school-some of them several days early and others just barely in time to enroll in classes-the "Welcome back!" greetings were heard frequently. Four men of those returning were married-Stuart Willson, Andy Kandis, Joe Taylor, and Harold immerman. Two others-Loren D. Irick and George W aldschmidt-had acquired offspring; the offspring were boys.

The other men had only their summer experiences to talk about.

Several fellows took trips to the West coast, some travelled other directions, and

there were some who stayed home and worked. Those in the last group, of course, were the ones who had the finances to go out on dates when they got back to school, while the rest of us could only relive our summer pleasures by ourselves.

Our list of brand new pledges includes eighteen fellows, and we have twelve more pledges who were in school last year. The new men are Raymond Allen, from Crawfordsville, Ind.; Jack Bonge, of Anderson, Ind.; David Day, Bloomington, Ind. ; George Dykhuizen, Haddonfield, N.J.; Robert Elliott, Frankfort, Ind.; John Irick, Frankfort, Ind.; Robert Lamson, Ft. Wayne, Ind. ; Richard Link, Elkhart, Ind.; Thomas Muhn, Garrett, Ind. ; Jack Nonemaker, Dunkirk, Ind.; Vaughn Rice, Bloomington, Ind. ; William Schlimmer, Evansville, Ind. ; Philip Richa r dson, Bloomington, Ind. ; Keith Street, Frankfort, Ind.; Jack Thompson, Wabash, Ind.; Robert Tranbarger, Anderson, Ind. ; Robert Vass, Lyons, Ind.; and Ronald Voglesong, Grantland, Ind. The "old" pledges are Lauren Atz, Kendalville, Ind.; Louis Bloom, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; James Bonge, Anderson, Ind. ; James Ellis, Anderson, Ind.; Richard Guthrie, Indianapolis, Ind.; Gerald Howard, Valparaiso, Ind.; Harold Meyers, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; William Monteith, Elkhart, Ind.; Donald Rhamy , Wabash , Ind. ; Jack Squier, Elwood, Ind. ; Albert Webb, Gas City, Ind. ; and Carl York, Marion, Ind. The pledge dance November 13 is our first major social function. It will have an Indian theme, possibly with some statuary painted to the appropriate color.

Meanwhile we'll be busy socially with exchange dinners, hay rides, and tea dances.

Athletically the intra-mural schedule will occupy the football team for the present, and in a couple of months the intra-mural basketball games will be on.

Right about now we're feeling rather proud of one of our Alums, Jim Howard.

He was elected national publicity director at the August Conclave, and the correspondents of other chapters probably have receive a letter from him already.

Jim is from Valparaiso, Ind., and was graduated from I. U. in 1946 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He's working at Scott, Foresman & Company in Chicago now. We're sending him our sincere congratulations and best wishes for success in his new job.

HOMER DALBEY

Iowa State Overhauls House . . .

As the dust clears after another hectic rush week we find our pledge roster swelled by the addition of seven new men. They are Hugo Bliss, Wauconda, Ill. ; John Chatellier, Verona, N. J.; Richard E. Deemer, Huntington, Ind.; James S. Hogfeldt, Rockford, Ill.; Kenneth Johnson, Denver, Colo. ; Dave Pearson, Cedar Falls, -Ia.; and Robert K. Sayles, Litchfield, Conn. In addition to this we have Carl E. Anderson, Weldon, Ia.; Robert Davis, Lime Springs, Ia.; Kenneth L. Mac-

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18 Rae, Des Moines, Ia.; Maurice D. Roush, Keokuk, Ia.; Lowell B. Johnson, Laurens, Ia.; and Donald R. Kielhorn, Cherokee, Ia., all of whom were pledged spring quarter after the last issue of THE TRIAD. The class has elected officers for the following year and they are George Feebler, President; William Waugh, Vice President and Treasurer ; Lowell Johnson, Secretary, and Fred Strohbehn, Pledge Steward.

May we extend our deepest sympathy to the pledge trainer, Dean Lee. As of last May 23, six more sweaters are now decorated with the jeweled triangle. They belong to Walter Craig Bredbeck, Omaha, Nebr.; Charles D. Bird, Woden, Ia.; John F. Grubb, Cedar Falls, Ia.; Warren J . Oblinger, Pennville, Ind.; William B. Pearcy, Park Ridge, Ill.; and Harold L. Skerritt, Malvern, Ia. Our return to the house this fall has b Een punctuated by our efforts to get it into presentable shape again. The slap, slap of paint brushes was the keynote as we gave the outside two coats of white paint. At times it was difficult to tell the difference between the wall and the painters, so thoroughly had they become camoflaged by the splotches of paint. The improvements did not end with that, as the long-anticipated tile floor was finally laid in the kitchen during the summer. Also in conjunction with the kitchen, a general rearrangement is to be made along with the construction of additional shelves and a new outside entrance.

Senior Steward Tom Brown recently announced the purchase of a new rug for the reception room to replace the one taken up last spring. Tom says that it's really "good stuff" and we hope his conception of it is true. The better portions of the old rug will probably be cut up for use in some of the halls on the second and third floors.

We owe a vote of thanks to Darwin Hook for leveling our drive during the summer. It seems that Darwin works for an earth-moving company during the summer and while driving some machinery through Ames one day, he happened to make a wrong turn and ended up going down our drive. We can't say that we regret his error for we feel that it is a job well done.

Some of the boys have been throwing the football around the last few weeks in anticipation of the intramural season . ahead. Through the virtue of a first round bye we haven't had a chance to display our skill yet. However, our hopes are high despite the loss of one of our b acks, Dean Lee, because of a sprined knee that has to remain in a cast for a few days.

Our team spirit does not end with the football squad for we have also organized a volley ball team. Their games are held a little later in the fall and so they haven't had a chance to practice yet.

Still in connection with intramurals, a "sports triad" was held here among the fraternities. The three events included in this were: golf putting, table tennis, and horseshoe pitching. Part of the putting matches were won but the team was finally forced to forfeit because of the shortage of players on the team. The table tennis teail\, consisting of one doubles and

two singles matches, was also decisively beaten. Warren Oblinger, number one singles, was beaten in a very close match in which all three games ended as deuce games. Our horseshoe pitchers, following the example set by the other teams, were also defeated. This left us with a perfect score of zero for the entire event. It looks like we'll have to win the trophy in football if we're to even all those losses.

With Homecoming just around the corner numerous plans are being made concerning activities for that weekend. Warren Oblinger is chairman of the decorations committee and is planning an elaborate representation of a sausage grinder into which is being thrown some of Colorado's players and out of which is coming Abe Stuber's Buffaloburgers. Warren is putting a lot of work on it and we're hoping to get another trophy for the mantle.

An informal dance is being planned for Friday of Homecoming for the boys unable to get tickets for the Pep barbecue and dance. Music is to be furnished via radio-phonograph featuring all the leading bands of the nation. A buffet dinner is to be served on Saturday after the game and also an informal get-together for Alums and visitors. We're hoping to see a lot of Alums back and guarantee a good time for all.

News of the Nebraska colony has been returned by several of our members who visited there recently. Harold Skerritt, Jim Haselton, Dean Lee, Darwin Hook and John Tschantz went down for the I. S. C. vs. Nebraska game and were entertained by the Acacians there. Their report of the new colony is favorable indeed and congratulations are in order for the marvelous job they are doing there.

Transfer students now staying with us are Don Becker, Atlantic, Ia., formerly of the University of Colorado; and Al Swenson, Muskogee, Okla., who transferred from the University of Oklahoma.

We are glad to have them with us and they expect to become associate members soon.

Among our visitors in the last few weeks has been Alum Bob Martin and his newly acquired spouse, the former Leona Willemssen. It's still hard to believe that "happy go lucky" Bob has taken the final plunge, but we wish them the best of luck.

Also married during the summer was J .

Gordon Johnson, who took the vows with the former Nadine Heggen of Des Moines.

Gordon is now working for the Omaha "Herald" and the J ohnsons returned this fall to get us started off on the right foot.

A large representation was on hand for the wedding of Carl O'Beirn and Delores Lemon, both of Omaha, Nebr. Carl was given a bit of trouble when some of the boys te mporarily kidnapped the bride.

The abductors were captured after about fifteen minutes, however, and Carl once more regained his wife.

Another noted visitor during the last few weeks was Doctor Roy, an Acacian from Missouri, who is now head of the Geology Department here at Iowa State.

Don Grobeck also stopped for a few minutes on his way back to Omaha after a short vacation.

A special election was held recently to replace those officers who resigned or dropped out of school. They were Milt Grobeck, Sentinel and Song Leader, and Don Biegler, Editor. The new officers are Bill Pearcy, Sentinel; Don Becker, Song Leader; and Charles Bird, Editor.

Well, two more boys have gone and done it. Bob Bortle's pin has recently turned up on the person of Darlene Wiesner, a D elta Zeta from Eldora, Ia. Also passing cigars was George Feebler, who is engaged to Rosalie Van Dyke of Fairfield, Ia. We would like to thank Philo F. Hammond of the Wyoming Chapter of Acacia for his gracious gift in ·the form of a book entitled "Physics" of which he is the author. We consider it a valuable addition to our library.

CHARLES BIRD

Kansas New Housemother • • • Pledges: Wayne D. Alban, Garnett, Kas.; Clinton R. Carrier, Kansas City, Kas.; Walter M. Forster, Jr., Cayomason, Marie!, Cuba; Bobby D. Reusser, Moundridge, Kas.; Joseph G. Sheldon, Kansas City, Mo.; Karl W. Smith, Altoona, Kas.; William G. Van Bebber, Troy, Kas.; B. Onon Vandergriff II, Douglas, Kas.; James L. Wiltse, Kansas City, Mo. Pledge officers: President, Van Bebber; Secretary, Alban; Pope, Reusser.

Our next initiation is scheduled for October 16, 1948, at which time we expect to initiate two men-Donald Anderson and Erwin Cooper.

Our chapter was very fortunate in engaging the services of Mrs. Grace Collier as housemother. Mother Collier has been exceedingly helpful during our first days of living as an organized group. We all feel even now that we have known her for quite a long time and are sure that it would be very difficult to carry on without her.

Our chapter house underwent numerous changes from the time we took possession September 2, until rush week which began on September 12. Our house is owned by Mr. Dave Horkmans, our only living charter member and a resident of Lawrence. Mr. Horkmans has been extremely considerate in making rather extensive improvements. Although we were short on time all members put forth a lot of effort and we finished the necessary work the night before rush week began.

Rush week began with a "bang," the first event being the train date in Kansas City on September 12. The alumni of Kansas City and environs sponsored a buffet supper at the beautiful country home of Mr. Fred Gabelman, a Missouri alumnus.

This offered an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with rushee as well as being very enjoyable for all those present. The Kansas chapter felt that the alumni who were responsible for this occasion were certainly worthy of praise in giving us their whole-hearted support in this most important event.

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Kansas Chapter The PLedge CLass: Front: Carrier, ALban, Van Bebber, Reusser, Love; Back : McCLung, Cooper, Vandergriff, Anderson, SheLdon, Forster, Main, Smith, WiLtse.

The social calendar has been well filled with hour dances, open houses and the like. Next week we begin our exchange dinners with the sororities. Ken Tyson, social chairman, is making every effort to see that everyone gets around and becomes well acquainted on the Hill.

Last week-end we were very happy to have as guest Max Engle, a pledge of the Iowa State chapter. Max was down to Lawrence on "business." Some of us plan to return this visit next week-end when the Kansas Jayhawkers engage the Cyclones on their gridiron.

The opposite sex deprived us of two men since last spring, one completely and the other only partially. Tom Armstrong took the fatal step last spring but is still on the campus and active in fraternity affairs. George Kraft is presently planning for the big event but he decided that marriage and school wouldn't be a very good combination so he decided to drop school (what a choice!).

While we did lose one active from our ranks, we regained another-Gerald Raines, who was a member before the war. Gerry has been attending Washburn University at Topeka since his discharge from the service. Soon after the semester began Bob Ford, chapter secretary, decided that his scholastic work and his part-time non-scholastic work wouldn't leave him sufficient time to fulfill his secretarial obligations so he saw fit to resign.

Gerry was chosen as his replacement.

From all indications Gerry promises to be a big asset in this position, and we are very happy to have him back.

With our reactivation well underway, we wish to extend a hearty welcome to all Acacians who may be passing through Lawrence.

GoRDON CHAPPLE

Kansas State Totals 32 Pledges .•• Oh! Shucks, here I am again with the highlights of the summer and fall activi-

ties of the Kansas State Chapter of Acacia. Everyone is striving-with lots of enthusiasm-to make our fraternity one of the most popular fraternities on the hill.

They have a good reason-for it looks like one of the biggest years in the chapter's history.

We are happy to have Mother Lyle back with us again this year. Mother Lyle has had to put up with us for the past 18 years. We are all very grateful to her for the part that she has played in making our fraternity known as one of the most friendly and home-like fraternities on the hill.

Rush week was well organized this year, thanks to our rush captains, Dean Akins and John Stohr, and V. D . Earl Beaver. The chapter pledged six new fellows at the close of rush week. They are Dallas Nelson, Morganville, Kas.; William

Ellermier, Wichita, Kas.; Leon Everhart, Gypsum, Kas. ; Glenn Jones, Hoisington, Kas.; Maynard Selan, Arkansas City, Kas. ; and Richard Loucks, Arkansas City, Kas. Since rush week we have pledged several more fellows: Donald Wempe, Sabetha, Kas. ; Dave Crase, Garden City, Kas.; Dick Farris, Arkansas City, Kas.; Charles Smith, Kinsley, as.; Dwaine Clark, Blue Rapids, as.; and William Thornburrow, Wetmore, Kas. This makes a total of 32 pledges and 30 actives, making a chapter of 62.

The week previous to rush week found all the old members back working hard to make the chapter house a more pleasant place to live this year. The kitchen sink and cabinets were remodeled, and the old work bench was replaced by a new table built by two actives, Milton Clemens and Everett Waudby. The house was painted from the basement to the top floor by everyone. The chapter also purchased nine new lawn chairs to replace the porch swings.

The pledge class elected Paul Curry as their new president this semester. Keith Bailey is Vice President, Allen Honeyman, Secretary-Treasurer, and Clifford Spangler is the representative to Interfraternity Pledge Council.

The pledge class went to Kansas City on a sneak. Everyone reported a swell time. There is something about Kansas City that sure appeals to fellows who are out for a good time. It seems as though the active chapter was ready with a list of duties for their pledges when they came back. You cannot imagine how quiet the dining room was when the pledges could not speak unless spoken to by an active or Mother Lyle.

Our social calendar promises a season with many varied events. To date we have had a two-hour dance with four representatives from each sorority on the hill present. Acacians and dates also pic-

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The Triad, Fall, 1948

20 nicked out at Lake Elbow one Sunday.

The annual Acacia-Phi Kappa Beer Bust was scheduled for October 23. 'Twas up to the "poor" Acacians to furnish the refreshment; those Phi Kappas didn't know what they were getting into. Each participant furnished his own container and anything from goldfish bowls to buckets , gaily pain ted, decorated or smoked was in evidence. We were also invited to the K. U. chapter to help initiate the old tradition of the Phi Kappa -Acacia Beer Bust in Lawrence once more.

Fraternity pins come and go. Brother John Stohr now admires his pin on Shirley Van Gilder, who is a sophomore in Home Economics. Needless to say, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. As a warning to future Acacians, some of the coeds at Kansas State have been returning fraternity pins C.O.D. For further information contact Brothers Dave Wylie or Kyle Moran, who received theirs for $1.380 C.O.D. The present sweetheart of Acacia happens to be Miss Candise Neal, young daughter of proud Brother and Mrs. Bill Neal. Candise was born at 2 a . m., September 29, 1948, in St. Mary's Hospital.

This summer the chapter adviser Loren Whipps and five actives, Earl Beaver, Bill Sturdevant, Wendell Simonton, Glenn Frakes, and Orion Beaver attended the National Conclave at Chicago. They were surprised to meet Charlie "Pappy" Hall, there to greet them at the registration desk.

It seems that our delegates had to ride the train back to Kansas, following a slight smashup on the way to Chicago.

The car in which they were riding was scrapped for junk.

We're all looking forward to seeing a large turnout of the Alums at homecoming, so don't let us down boys, if you can help it.

AL

WESLEY

Michigan Organizes Detroit Alumni The grind has started once again: for a few this may the first time, for others the last, for most simply another school term; but to all in the Mother Chapter the year seems slated to be a successful one for the house.

And none seem to share this view more

Michigan New initiates bmndish thei1¡ paddles symbo~ic of their status as almighty AcaCla actwes.

than the new initiates. They are Lenhard A. Forsberg, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich.; Donald A. 'Lubeck, Milwaukee, Wis.; Harvey A. Miller, Sturgis, Mich.; Richard G. Osborne, Buffalo, N. Y.; and William C. Zabrosky, Detroit, Mich.

The work days during the registration period were put to good use. The dining room and adjoining kitchen were completely remodeled and refurnished. A new dining room table, built in sections which are arranged in the shape of an elongated horseshoe, gives us more than a fifty per cent increase in seating capacity. Besides making serving easier, the table can be made to accommodate a small or large crowd by merely removing or adding sections. Also new drapes and new chairs have been ordered.

The U-shaped dining room table was designed and built by Phil Linscott, while the kitchen carpentry was under the direction of Al Miller.

Larry Girton's greatly regretted resignation as Venerable Dean necessitated an election during the chapter's first fall meeting. Phil Linscott, ~hen Senior Dean, was elected the new Venerable Dean.

Lans Jones was chosen to fill the vacated Senior Dean's position. Malcolm MacGregor takes over the duties of House Manager under a new system whereby Cal Simpson will act as Treasurer. They plan to share the burden of managing the house finances equally, but each will perform different tasks.

During the summer, the Michigan Chapter sent out over one hundred thirty letters to alumni in the Detroit area. The purpose of these letters was to arouse interest in a Detroit Alumni Association.

We of the Mother Chapter are financially well in the black at present and hence are not organizing the association for fiscal reasons. It is to be organized because we sincerely believe that strong alumni interest is essential to a strong chapter.

The response was very encouraging, but as yet the time and place for the first meeting has not been set. Any requests for information or suggestions for organization will be welcomed by Hank Hosmer, 1923 Geddes, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Hey, we almost forgot! A permanent pledge has been added to the roles of the Michigan Chapter. He is White Gold, a year-old English bulldog, with a pedigree as admirable as his disposition. The house seemed to go Irish when it came to choosing the dog's nickname as "Mike" was favored over "Whitey," by a slim margin, in spite of the pooch's obvious English heritage. Brother Don Queller gets the credit for selling the chapter on the dog and for acting as purchasing agent. In fairness to Mike's background, he comes from Terre Haute, Ind. w. L. WYNN

Minnesota After More 1-M Trophies . . .

"It's good to get general opinion of arrived at the house Upon arrival they

back." This was the the chapter as they to start another year. immediately started

Minnesota The gang relaxes for a post-game hashsession, complete with coffee and doughnuts. the enormous task of getting the house into shape for the coming year. Dust flew, paint splashed, and the aroma of turpentine was everywhere. Under the supervision of Clark Wold, house manager, the fellows worked into the wee hours of the morning to finish the job. When the first week was over, the house was in fine shape, with a newly painted kitchen and pool room.

One of the first things done this fall was the election of new officers. The new officers are: Dale Maciver, Venerable Dean; Don Miller, Senior Dean; and Clark Wold, Junior Dean. The chapter wants to thank retiring Venerable Dean Dave Hammel and his staff for their excellent work last year.

The athletic progr am is in full swing under the supervision of Roddy Eylar, our new Athletic Manager. Touch football and bowling are the two sports in the spotlight at the present. The prospects for bowling are good with four out of the five members of last year's Interfraternity League champions back. Our new pledges will provide us with some good material for football and basketball so we should take our share of the various trophies.

Bob Applegren is back with us after a year's absence. Bob went to school at Montana State University last year.

Brock Holmes has given up his role as successful businessman to resume his studies. We lost two actives when Don Swanson and Dale Amundson transferred to the Duluth branch of the university.

However, we are looking forward to having them both back with us next year.

Once again Homecoming has come and gone. This year it was on October 30 when Minnesota met Indiana at Memorial stadium. The slogan was SKINDIANA and the parade in the morning was centered around the Halloween theme.

Thanks to Bob Swedberg, our Homecoming chairman, Acacia's float was one of the better in the parade. As usual there was coffee and doughnuts served immediately following the game at which time a number of Alums visited the house. Of course, the big event of the week-end was the dinner-dance in the evening. It was held at the Hotel Lowry in St. Paul, with "Stoop" Chamberlain and his band providing the music.

The Triad, Fall, 1948 Rush week kept the house bustling with activity. Elliot Dick, our rushing chairman, did a fine job in coordinating the events and should be commended. The actives hate to admit it, but our pledge class looks like the most promising in years. The new pledges are Burt Swanson, Two Harbors, Minn.; John Fotopolous, Hibbing, Minn.; Merlyne Timmerman, Hibbing, Minn.; Jack Wagner, Mora, Minn.; Jim Wardwell, Northwood, Ia. ; Al Koen, Minneapolis, Minn.; Dave Turnblom, South St. Paul; Robert Allan .Johnson, Dave Dinham, Norman Talsoe, Wayne Harmala, Dave Moffitt, all of Duluth, Minn.

JULE N. KVAMME

Ohio State ttBeach" Party in House .

The "study season" got off with a bang for Acacia here at Ohio State. After a nice restful summer everyone seemed overly energetic, and to counteract this condition decided to re-decorate the house. We lost most of our energy but nevertheless, the house looks terrific.

Besides painting we spent a great deal of time trying to convince our rushees that Acacia is the best fraternity on the campus. So far we've convinced and pledged the following: Bill Bushman, Bill Drake, Jim McLaughlin, Paul Holderbaum, Massillon, Ohio; Bob J . Thompson, Rudolph, Ohio; and twins Ray and John Norris of Columbus, Ohio.

Our social calendar this quarter included a Beach Party, a joint affair with Phi Kappas and the Phi Mu Deltas, a Homecoming Dance, a "Spooky" Halloween Party and our traditional Winter Formal. (It was a dinner-dance held in the Lincoln-Leveque Tower.)

The Beach Party was our pride and joy. Three tons of sand were put in the recreation room to serve as the beach.

A yellow light with crepe paper rays served as the sun. In front of the house we erected a giant billboard advertising Acacia Beach to the rest of the campus.

Uniform of the day was strictly bathing suits. A good time was had by all.

We have been working all quarter on plans for our Homecoming decoration. We are fully convinced that ours is the best on the campus. However, at the time of submitting this, the contest had not yet been carried out.

WAYNE L . PIDOCK

Oklahoma Pledges Twenty • . .

The old adage that there is nothing certain but death and taxes is incomplete in that it should include the return to school in September. Oklahoma University opened its doors to truth and knowledge and proceeded to administer to the uneducated right on schedule again this year.

The first item on Acacia's fall agenda

21 was of course rush. After the tempo of rush week had subsided we assumed a more leisurely pace, collected our wits, and found that we have a fine group of peons, pledges that is. We are proud to present: Boardman Barby, Beaver, Okla.; Stanley Bailey, Holdenville, Okla.; Kenneth Biggens, Okmulgee, Okla. ; J ack Coates, Miami, Okla.; Robert Cook, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Kenneth Factor, Wewoka, Okla. ; Leslie Hanlin, Oklahoma City, Okla .; Richard Hargis, Oklahoma City, Okla. ; Everett Hays, Blackwell, Okla. ; Robert Hester, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Ted Hester, Blanchard, Okla.; Edward Hinman, Norman, Okla. ; Jerry Matheny, Wewoka, Okla. ; Dean Seaton, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Jack Sallaska, Fairview, Okla.; Gerald Trapnell, Lawton, Okla.; William Warren, Oklahoma City, Okla.; George Williams, Hobart, Okla.; Voyt Williams, Ontario, Calif. ; Wayne White, Vinita, Okla.

Part of the blinding glitter around our house this fall is from twelve brand new jewelled triangles. The following men served long and patiently, if not silently, as pledges and were recently admitted to the privileges of membership: Dee Andros, Oklahoma City, Okla. ; Robert Bland, Piedmont, Kas.; Jack Campbell, Warner, Okla.; Jack Gallaher, Norman, Okla.; Jim Gallaher, Oklahoma City, Okla.; John Greaves, Hartner, Kas. ; Larry Green, Henryetta, Okla.; Ray Jenkins, Seminole, Okla.; Thomas Maclin, Miami, Okla.; Preston Moore, Atwood, Okla.; Ralph Moore, Vinita, Okla.; Paul C. Smith, Seminole, Okla.

Thanks to Brother Harold Cooksey, custodian, our house has somewhat of a new look this fall. All of the halls and stairways were painted to above hand high in an attractive mottled effect. The colors are cream and grey. Mother Caldwell's rooms were also redecorated. Included in the improvements were a new carpet, new drapes, a new table, and new lighting fixtures. Her chairs were reupholstered. The kitchen, too, got its share of paint.

Acacia's social activities for these first three weeks of school have been limited to blind dates with the pledges of the various sororities. A fine way to meet future campus queens. All indications are that the fair sex will continue to reign supreme as the ratio of men to women is still about seven to one. Whoever said it's a man's world was never at Oklahoma University.

We are starting out a new school year with a new Venerable Dean and Senior Dean. Odell Stone replaces Robert Vick in the number one place. LeRoy Stewart takes over pledge training from Dean Smith, who is graduating in January.

HOWARD HURST

Oklahoma A. & M. Features the uBlue Room" . . .

Summer is gone and fall has fell. September 10 found members trouping back to A . & M. campus to get the house ready for rushing. The Old Manor needed a

little redecorating which was done under the able leadership of E. M. Peterson. A paint spray was sent up and the dining room came out looking like the Blue Room at the Waldorf. Another improvement which has been made since the semester began, was the enlarging of our dining room. This project which was completed with Acacia-supplied labor, gave John Howell and Don Piersall an opportunity to exhibit their talents as expert plasterers.

After rush was over and the smoke cleared away, we found we had chosen six young men of sterling character to wear the gold and black of A cacia. These boys. are: T~omas Hayden, Canton, Kas. ; Lows Lenmnger, San Leanch¡o, Calif. ; Don Clark, Kingfisher, Okla.; Wayman Calavan, Kingfisher, Okla. ; Wallace Ly ne, Wynnewood, Okla. Other members of the pledge class are: Lynn Eaton, Carnegie, Okla. ; Dick Eaton, Kingfisher, Okla.; H . C. Maples, Healdton, Okla. ; Bill Spencer, Harrah, Okla.

The fall semester also found us greeting our new house mother, Mrs. Thomas.

We have all become very fond of her.

Some of the boys are eagerly awaiting the completion of a new 500-girl dormitory which is being erected directly across the street from our Acacia House.

It is the general opinion that this dormitory will be a definite asset to the fraternity.

With homecoming only two weeks away, plans are being formulated for a chapter float and house decorations to welcome our Alums. A cordial invitation is extended to the Alums and actives to visit us during homecoming or at any other time you happen to be in Stillwater. A reunion will be held in the chapter house following the game and refreshments will be served.

Two more men joined the ranks of married Acacians during the summer. Our former Junior Dean, Bill Goudeket was married to Ruth Brown. Ivan "Slim" Alexander exchanged vows with Charlotte Stebbens. Both men insisted that they be allowed to move out of the house.

"Slim" was recently elected president of the Masonic Club.

Plans are being made to purchase an intercommunication system to place between the house and annex. Installation will be supervised by member Harry "Heathcliff" McFarland.

The most r ecent recipients of the jeweland-pearl-studded triangle, who were jnitiated at the close of the spring semester, were: Robert Boee:kman, Joe E. Grimsley, Kenneth D. Harris, Blake Hedrick, Beal K. Snodgrass, Vol C. Woods, and John E. Maddox.

The social bandwagon under the leadership of newly elected Junior Dean Harvey Abrams begins to roll next week, the first event of the fall semester will be a hay ride. Events to be scheduled later include-dance hours at the chapter house, reception for Mother Thomas, exch ange dinners, Christmas party, and costume dance.

JOHN E. MADDOX GuY B. HEDRICK

22 Phillips, for our perennial Mrs. Grubb left us at the end of last semester. We are Oregon State well satisfied with our new addition, though, and hope she can stand us.

Our ranks have been swelled with the Enlarges House . • . pledging of six new members. They are An enlarged house accommodating 30 Edward T. Ruch, Allentown, Pa. ; John W. men and a full quota of standing and spe- Wagner, Hazelton, Pa. ; Donald M. Glenn, cial committees promise a good year for Milesburg, Pa.; Ronald H. Smith, Mont Oregon State chapter. After spring and Alto, Pa.; Robert M. Free borough, Youngsfall rushing the pledge list October 1 to- ville, Pa. ; and Thomas Z. Schreffler, taled 19 men. Pledges added since re- Philipsburg, Pa. Back with us again are activation are Douglas H. Blair, Robert Brother Jack Rolin and Pledge Dave R. Castlic, Lawrence N. Christian, W. Dean. Dave, who had to take a couple Wallace Cross, Daryl M. Davis, Walter E. semesters rest because of a rheumatic Hercher, George B. Huber, Howard G. fever attack, is once more in good health Kinzey, Lyle A. Knower, Stephen A. D. and will be a welcome addition to our Meek, William R. A. Penney, R. Ray basketball and swimming teams.

Rickey, Eric F . Robathon, Jack E. Shearer, School activities are in full swing now Robert C. Swartz, and Ross A. Ten Eyck. and Acacia is quite active. We are espeThis summer a large sleeping room w as cially well represented in the music field. added to the chapter house and rooms In State's famed Blue Band are Frank were redivided to accommodate ten more Rupp, Marvin Yeager, and Tom Schrefmen. More remodeling and improving fler; in the Symphony Orchestra are Dave will be done later. The alumni are tak- Keller, Harry Fillman, and Mac Glenn; ing care of the remodeling. and in the Chapel Choir is Dick Evans.

A tabulation of fraternity grades for Rolf Wald is once again on the varsity spring term showed Acacia ~elfth in fencing team. Dick Lashley has won a scholarship among 27 fratermtles here. well-earned place in the Penn State PlayAcacia pledges ranked third among fra - ers, one of the best college dramatic orternity pledges. ganizations going. Dick, at a recent house Spring term activities were confined meeting, was elected Chapter Secretary in chiefly to reactivation. A formal_ re~ep­ place of Dick Witmer who has left school. tion was held in April after reactlvatwn.

Back from the Conclave and full of Representatives of about 50 campus liv- new ideas are Harry Fillman, Dave Keling groups and college and student body ler, and Dave Sims. The former two had leaders attended the reception. A picnic quite an eventful trip. True men-ofwas held at the house May 16 to com- the-world they travelled exclusively by memorate Founder's day. A formal dance thumb and spent one night in a cemetery scheduled to November 13 will highlight at Youngstown, Ohio. They claim thatactivities of fall term. they slept as well as if they had been Graduation found three of our men home in bed and that it took the alarm donning the cap and gown. Bob Swartz clock that they had installed behind a graduated with honors in electrical en- gravestone to awaken them in the morngineering and Merle P. Bailey, '24, re- ing. Undoubtedly that story will grow ceived his electrical engineer degree, a as the years pass by. degree awarded for successful profesBill Echelmeyer, Rob Fellows, and sional practice plus a satisfactory thesis. Dave Hunter spent the sunrmer working Ben Fortner received his bachelor of in a logging camp in Idaho. They are the science degree, but returned to school this proud possessors of a beautiful collection year to do graduate work. of colored slides of the mountain country Chapter personals: Marion Dazey, jun- that would make any eastern cameraior dean, and Delmer Goode, chapter ad- hound turn green with envy. viser, represented Oregon State at the Dick Morgan, our Senior Dean and Conclave in Chicago. Ray Breuser left politician-at-large on the campus (at-large, school in the spring term to work for the merely because he hasn't been caught Fish and Wildlife service in Alaska. He yet) , was a Penn State delegate to the returned to school this fall to complete National Student Association Convention his studies. at Madison, Wis., this summer. He is a Marriages: Webster E. Briggs, Oregon member of Tribunal here at school.

State, and Miss Jane Matthews, June 19.

Brother Robert Troxell, '48, is now perCarl S. Wilcox, Oregon State, and Miss manently established with the Armstrong Lillian Frey, August 7.

Cork Company at Pittsburgh after a pARKER BAILEY three months training period at their Lancaster plant. His present address is 214 Newburn Drive, Pittsburgh 16, Pa. Penn State Brother George Leedom, 47, stopped in to visit us for a day upon his return from a business trip to Chicago. Sunny is presHouse Overflowing . . . ently in the Refrigerator Division of the Mayhem reigns once again at "Ye Olde Philco Corporation.

Barn" on the corner of Locust Lane and Word arrived that Brother and Mrs. Foster Avenue here in State College, Pa. Stan Kruger, '47, are parents of a girl, They haymow is overflowing as 34 broth- Karen Lee. Stan is a Chemical Engineer ers and pledges try to find a place to for the Proctor and Gamble Company in unload their belongings and rest their Cincinnati, Ohio. His address is 7509 vacation-weary bones. Along with the Sierra Park, Cincinnati 27, Ohio, for new members comes a new cook, Mrs. those who wish to send him and Mary

The Triad, Fall, 1948 letters and cards of congratulations or advice. (It's their first, you know.)

Brother James Zeigler, '43, is teaching mathematics at UCLA while studying for his doctor's degree. Brother Elmer Strunk, '48, is teaching at the University of Illinois and beginning work on his master's degree there. El writes about his frequent visits to the Illinois chapter, keeping us well informed on their activities. His address is 601 E. Chalmers St., Champaign, Ill. Brother Jack Gillespie, '46, is at training in the Army mental hospital at Coatesville, Pa. In February he will return to Penn State to begin his work on a doctor's degree in clinical psychology.

Brother Dan Gillespie, '43, dropped in to see the Bucknell game Oct. 2. He is now located with the Dorr Company, 570 Lexington Ave., New York City, N. Y., as a white collar Chemical Engineer.

Brother Chuck McGill, '47, sends us a new address: 221 S. Pine St., Lansing, Mich.

Brother Graham Fetner of Detroit, Mich., his wife and four children visited with us this sunrmer. Brother Fetner gave us some interesting sidelights on the history of our house and chapter in the early thirties.

Brothers Dave and Mark Keeney have returned to Penn State in pursuit of their doctor's degrees. Mark is staying at the house while Dave and his wife are living in an apartment in town.

Former Venerable Dean George Nelson and William Whitby returned to witness the Penn State-Bucknell game on October 2. And we witnessed George's pin on Doris K. Lloyd, Acacia's newest sweetheart, from Houtzdale, Pa. George and Bill are working in Pittsburgh for H. J. Heinz and Blaw-Knox Chemical Company respectively. Their address is 3624 Laird St., Pittsburgh 12, Pa. On Sunday afternoon, October 10, a tea was held at the chapter house in honor of our town alumni; twenty-five brothers and their wives signed our guest book. Our hostess was Mrs. William S. Dye III, wife of Brother Bill Dye who is at present acting chapter adviser. Entertainment included the Rippling Rhythms of Rupp (one of our seven piano players), the resounding notes of Mary Yeager's trumpet, the vocal strains-refrains-of Crooner Dick Evans and the sensation of the year, the Acacia Octet. (Not to be confused nor compared with Michigan's Barber Shop Quartet which we understand is a musical group.) In spite of this array of-call it talent if you will-everyone had an enjoyable afternoon.

Future events of interest to our alumni are the annual Homecoming meeting (which will adjourn to Bellefonte) on October 23 and the Pledge Dance November 12 to be held in connection with Junior Prom. On the 7th of January the alumni will be given a chance to break the deadlock in last year's bridge contest. Since Bill Whitby has graduated to the alumni ranks the actives may not have as good a chance of winning, but then Bob Troxell has graduated, too, so we probably have an even match after all.

DICK GILLESPIE, DAVE SIMS

The Triad, Fall, 1948

Southern California Cruises to Catalina . . .

March, 1949, is not far off and the Southern California chapter will celebrate its second anniversary. That's the time when you always look backwards to see where you have been, take a deep breath, and head for the future. This term has been a lively one.

In September, right at the start of things, eight new men took a journey and have now joined their brethren . They are Bob Davis, John Locke, Newton Metfessel, James Dizney, William Horn, Robert Madsen, Albert Bell, and Stanley Boggess.

Taking their places in a new pledge class are Richard Anderson, Robert Axtell, Richard Baeressen, Nelson Brooks, Grant Canfield, Donald Gibbs, Donald Daniels, Donald Wilson, Morrie Johnson, Bill Stevens, Bill Walbert, Andrew Ulrich, Clyde Warren and Les Gunther.

While playing around with all these names your scribe notes a phenomenon that could only happen in the SC chapter.

The records indicate that the chapter now has six Donalds, five Roberts, four Williams, and two each of Johns, Earls, Richards, Waynes, and Wallaces. Next year every man will be issued a serial number.

It's easier!

Hats-off Department: Venerable Dean Earle Risdon for his bang-up job of presiding over the SC Interfraternity Council this term. (Two year old chapter and we're already running the show from the top!) Pledge Bill Stevens for his excellent lecture on Atomic Implications given in the chapter house recently before a packed audience from all the other houses along The Row. Man-overboard Department: In glimpsing back over this term's fun -fests, the cruise to Catalina Island in early October will be unforgettable. What could have been finer than to take a bunch of swell new pledges and their dates out on a pleasure boat trip? Nothing. So we departed for beautiful Santa Catalinachewing Wrigley's gum all the way. What an occasion! Even Campus magazine sent a photographer along, which has nothing to do with Grant Canfield being publicity director for said publication. Leaving the 65 foot schooner we piled into a dingy for the jaunt into shore. Our six hour trip to cover 22 miles hadn't dampened our spirits at all. No, not at all-until the dingy's third trip into shore. You guessed it. Our spirits were dampened. In fact even wet. Moreover, soaked! The combination of little boat and giant breakers didn't square away. The result was a boat load of Acacians and their gals swimming into shore, not to mention our good friend the photographer, who had been aboard and was now doing a bit of deepsea diving looking for his $350 camera!

Catastrophe was averted however, when Capt. Allan Hancock, president of the Board of Trustees of USC was on deck of his yacht nearby. His motor launch was sent to the rescue. Nothing like hav-

23 ing the top man help you out when you are in a spot. The cheers given Capt.

Hancock as our schooner passed his yacht later in the day echoed our thanks to him. A good time was had by all. A good long time. It took only seven hours to come home. Sail boats require a certain amount of wind we were advised later!

Social activities that stand out in our reminiscing of this last term include the big rushing party at the West Side Tennis Club and the very fine pledge dance at the North Port Beach Club. Also in the realm of social highlights was the wedding of Brother Bob Smith to K appa Delta Alice Lopshire in Escondido not so long ago.

Continued Story Department: This little tale fits nicely into our looking back over the times. More than one year ago we challenged Cal Chapter to a deerskin on a pigskin contest. They accepted. It turned out to be a real skin game. Their team got skinned. We in turn got skinned because we have yet to receive the deerskin. Follow? Hey, Cal- How about it?

James Dizney is the proud possessor of a new '49 Ford convertible. Now a man like that should have no complaints, but Jim has. No parking spots.

Not-fit-to-print Department: Big Boss Earle Risdon dancing with Songbird Kay Starr in a local elite joint in his bathrobe and pajamas . . . . Junior Dean Jay Lynn insisting that every man be in proper dress with tie at dinner, arriving on the scene with white T -shirt and plaid bow tie. Bill Horn almost joined the Marines, but then he sobered up and is now waiting to be drafted . . . . Dick Baeressen very politely asking Don Daniels for the Key of C on the piano so he could tune his uke and ended up with the whole darn alphabet!

Welcome visitor around the house of late has been Brother Bill Alexander from Colorado Chapter. Bill is now with NBC in Hollywood here . . . . Bob Davis has been mastering the pledges mentioned and the term is almost over and he hasn't disappeared yet! Bob Madsen, San Francisco's gift to the SC Chapter has taken over the secretarial deluge in fine style.

Somebody has to keep a level head.

So we turn our thought back once again to beautiful Santa Catalina as the sun sinks in the West and we smile and say, "Come on year number 3!"

HARVEY R. AMOS

Syracuse Repairs on a Grand Scale Affairs are beginning to straighten themselves out for the boys on Walnut Place.

1': Registration week at Syracuse was a hectic one for Acacians. House repairs on a grand scale were in order-and the order was filled, but only after one of the longest work-weeks ever put in by a non-union crew.

A new, glossy white adorns our house's exterior ; a new living room rug, chapter room chandelier, kitchen linoleum surface, hall runner, and coat of paint on the inside walls- to these innovations we

point with pride, by means of our bewhiskered and bedraggled paint brushes.

Continuing on this fresh note of life and hope, our meanderings take in classroom activities, which cannot be avoided, except by the most skillful. But even in this departmen t there's life. And where there's life there may be a 3.0 average, especially with such men as Pledge Edwin "Honor-Roll" Prach wandering around the house. We hope to top the campus this term !

Fall rushing was just getting under way at Syracuse when THE TRJAD went to press. Come the snows, h owever, and another issue, and we expect to ha ve glowing r eports on a new pledge class.

An Acacia bowling team led the way into the year's intramural sports competition. Mike Cam enga, Bob Augat, Chuck Lamb, and other ace pinspillers reported.

Bob Bartlett, "Pretty -boy" Camenga, Charles "Tarzan" Rice, Walt Snel, and Maestro P aul Converso have been toying with the idea of going in for this athletic program in a big way and may even go into rigid training (no more than seven dates a week) for the autumn touch football grind.

Bill Bartlett got himself hitched and transferred to Ithaca College during the summer so our President Robert Bartlett is the last of three in the family at the Syracuse Acacia house.

Paul Rowe, the Elmira Elephant, astonished us all by returning to school in an emaciated, skeletonated condition; his weight dropped (Horrors!) to 225 pounds.

But he's back on those nine squares a day again and slowly but surely restoring his health.

Holding forth once again in the S. U. marching band are Rog Witherell and Jack Weagraff. A frosh approached Roger, nattily attired in his band uniform for the opening football game (the Oran ge musicians wear a colorful orange-blue ski suit uniform) and asked in awed tones, "Sir, are you a skiing professor?"

The suave, polished gentleman r ecently elected social chairman to fill the empty shoes of Bill Bartlett is Mr. Roy ("I sell furniture") Klipp.

Jack Weagraff, John L ake, and Don Vosburgh accompanied our V. D., Robert Bartlett, to the National Conclave in August and reported back to the house with a wealth of knowledge to impart.

The Venerable Dean ruefully bade goodbye to one of our new-found friends, George Smyer, of Texas chapter, and to his headpiece, something to which our prexy became very attached. He even posed in it.

Our Conclave reps shared with the assemblage in Chicago a feeling of p r ide in the accomplishments of Cincinnati's talented baritone, George Kirch, not to m en tion our complete enjoyment of his performance at the Conclave banquet.

David Embury and Dr. Moseley entertained and inspired our quartet, as they did the other representatives at the banquet. ¡ ¡1 That's all- until the next time, so long and good luck from the Syracuse Chapter.

JoHN E. LAKE

The Triad, Fall, 1948 24 to plug the gaps left by the scourge of matrimony which hit the Washington Chapter last spring and summer, already the plague has broken out again. Two men entered the "dog-leash" stage by announcing their engagements: Mark Russman to Francis Abbott of Yakima, Washington, and Larry Wells to Donna Fisher of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority. To add to the hilarity of our Zeta Tau Alpha serenade, directed by Jack Cowger, was none other than Jerry "Bagpipe" West. You guessed it! The entire Chapter led by the bagpipe marched down Greek Row and into the Zeta Tau Alpha House. Have you ever heard "Acacia Sweetheart" accompanied by a bagpipe? Meanwhile Russ, assisted by his slide rule, calculated that he will have to pledge 99 men during the school year in order to maintain chapter strength in the face of the present trend.

Seriously, our fall rushing program was a complete success. Chapter strength is fifty-one and the house is full . New pledges are Don Wilson, Burton; Bill Watson, Centralia; Cecil Sharpe, Colfax; George Hall and Bob McClenahan, Edmonds; Lloyd White, Graham; Mark Russman, Potlatch ; Bud Cornish, Rollin Cutts, Gordon Henrickson, Dick Humphrey, Jerry LaJambe, Bill Lampert, Dick Neal and Bill Scott, Seattle; Grant Angle, Shelton; and Bob Maxin, Vancouver, Washington.

The Washington Chapter House moved over about six inches as things started to hum this fall. This movement was not due to faulty foundations for as we know, according to Jim Moran, the house has a foundation of steel girders. Instead, this palpitating and pulsating movement felt from the downstair fireplace to the new chimney was due to the industriousness of thirty-four returning actives. In short, the Chapter Room, seven study rooms, and the sleeping dorms were redecorated. The entire kitchen received the same treatment as a result of our attempt to put its appearance closer to the standard set by "Mom's" cooking. However, we must admit that without the excellent teaspoon measurement in color matching

by Jess Burdue, the feat could never have been accomplished. Newly upholstered davenports and chairs along with new drapes as a present from the Mother's Club now adorn our guest and reading Texas rooms.

"Pinky" Williams, Steward and House As if Mac McCredy didn't have his Manager. hands full with Russ Segersten's sister, he is chairman of the Homecoming Dance which is the biggest dance of the year at Washington Washington. Rumor has it that he has quite a sum of University money at his disposal so we are keeping a sharp lookBoasts (?) Bagpiper .•• out for an elopement. Russ Segersten, Bob Our rushing chairman, Russ Segersten, McClenahan and Larry Wells also have is getting gray hair. In fact, his neurosis positions op University activity commitis about to turn into a psychosis. He was tees. just convalescing from the rushing card After seeing the recent developments blues when it hit him. No, he is not in between Mac and Russ's sister, Bud Roblove, he didn't wreck his car, and his sisinson is now looking around the house ter hasn't married Senior Dean Mac Mc- for a fraternity brother as a match for Credy-yet. If the situation continues de- his sister who is now attending college. veloping at its present rate, Russ will soon This year, a couple of our brothers from be the sole occupant of the Chapter Washington State Chapter secured lodgHouse. After picking up seventeen pledges ing at our house. As a result, an air of

It is now at home on our living room

Texas Has Political Fever . . • The Texas delegation made it back from Chicago without a mishap. Well, there was one mishap. We went the wrong way in Missouri. We weren't lost, but we were having a hell of a time figuring out where we were. We finally found out where we were and got back on the right road to God's Country.

The first major job before school started was to get the chapter house fixed up.

After lots of sweating and hard work the house was ready for rushing. There was one major drawback though-our furniture didn't show up. We are having it made here in Austin, and the work is going mighty slow. With a little ingenuity and bedsprings and mattresses some couches were improvised. Fortunately several of our tables arrived and we had some chairs.

Rush week here at the University consisted of shaking many hands, eating cookies, and drinking cokes. Cookies sure can get old. Luther Hartman's mother was kind enough to bring him a chocolate birthday cake during rush week. It was in the shape of our pin, and it was almost too beautiful to eat-but we did.

The chapter got some good men out of the rushing. Here are their names, if anybody is interested besides the pledges: Lige Nelson, Amarillo; Joe Smyer, Jourdanton; Paul Rothermel, Burton; Jerry Holmes, Tyler; Bob Cook, Tyler; Dave Hiner, Abilene; Jay Barnes, Austin ; and Harold Linville, Austin.

One of the highlights of rush week was the pledge lines put on by the sororities.

The brethren of this chapter had a very enjoyable time meeting the little girls, although some of them weren't so little.

A. W. LeNoir was especially impressed with a little redhead at the Alpha Delta Pi house. Some of the fellows are mad at Ross Nichols, who got them some dates.

Of the dates, some were-and some weren't. Most weren't.

The chapter has entered a team in the Touch Football League of the Intramural Sports. We lost our first game, but the team made a very good showing. The only reason for losing was so that the team can make a great comeback. The boys can hardly wait to get back. Joe Barbour, the coach, is trying to get a practice game with some sorority, but prospects aren't too good for that event.

Our parties haven't gotten in full swing yet, but we had one that was a lulu. It was held at the Lake Travis camp of an Alum, Frank Hollowy. There was food, fun, and-oh, yes-women. Most of the time we sat around and-after that we sang awhile as George Smyer unlimbered his old guitar. Some of the members and their dates braved a light norther and went swimming. One of the direct results of the party was a chapter mascot. Ross Nichols received a small turtle for his birthday from his date. It was named "Mustard" after an accident that happened to Ross involving a jar of mustard.

mantle.

Officers elected to ffil vacancies in the chapter are, Ross Nichols, Junior Dean; A. W. LeNoir, Secretary; Luther Hartman. Pledge Master; Joe Barbour, Intramural Manager. I hate to mention the pledges again, but I guess I'll have to tell you our pledge class officers. They are Paul Rothermel, President; Lige Nelson, Secretary; and Dave Hiner, Treasurer.

Fall elections are here, and everybody has the political fever. Wallace Engle has ffied for Assemblyman from the Business School. Since Ira Gallaway had his picture taken with President Truman, we have had to call him "The Honorable Ira Gallaway." Everybody seems to be congregating in smoke filled rooms and nominating somebody to run for office. I think that I will run for something. Maybe it would be better if I just ran after women.

That sport requires no speeches.

I should say that Ross Nichols and Conrad Kroll were recently elected to membership in the Cowboys and Silver Spurs, respectively, honorary service organizations on the campus. Our own Ira Gallaway is president of the Silver Spurs.

By the way, if there is a rumor circulating to the effect that North Carolina beat Texas in a football game-don't believe it. Those damn Dixiecrats are at work again.

LEE HAY

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Washington Front Row (left to right): George Schwartz, James Livingston, Bob Rogerson, Gene GuthTie, Charles Stove·r , Venemble Dean, Clarence "Mac" McCredy, Senior Dean, Steve Richards, Len Smilie, MaTk Russman. Second Row (left to right): Dick Ekins, BilL Burdue, House Manager, Jack Linge, Jess Burdue, John Stevens, John Oster, Arian Anderson, Ben Dotson, Stan Dickey, Jerry West, J. David Scheyer, TRIAD Correspondent, Alfred Crocker. Third Row (left to right): Maurie Stoffer, Junio1· Dean, Cli ff Evans, Secretary, Marold Mast, Bernie Anderson, Advisor, James Moran, Oren Bonney, Howa1·d Johnson, Gordon Wood, La1·1·y Wells, Jack Cowger, Russel Segersten, Wilton Whisler, Sidney Buckley George Davidson, Bu d Robinson, Me1·ton Box, Dave Fenton. uncertainty and suspicion penetrated the atmosphere. However, our fears were put to rest by our "Keeper of the Bull," Stan Dickey who made public a note recently received from "Tex," the Washington bull. "Tex" is enjoying his pasture and wants to "steer" clear of any infiltrators from the Palouse country.

Speaking of the bull, the delegates to the National have been raving about a live-wire bunch of boys from the longhorn state of Texas. It seems that one George "Burl Ives" Smyer has captured the Northern vote as the singing cowboy of Acacia. According to the stories, the two chapters have a mutual admiration for Chicago art exhibits. Great is the quest for Truth!

The boys from Washington drove over five thousand miles to attend the National Conclave at Chicago with one strong goal in mind. That purpose was to have the 1950 Conclave in Seattle. They met so many fine Acacians with good judgment that the Active Chapter has already assumed the obligation to prepare for it.

Washington is planning for it now so that facilities for recreation and publicity will . be assured for the 1950 Conclave at Seattle. We want Acacia to know this great West and to sell Acacia where more interest is growing daily. We guarantee a real convention. The National Conclave of 1948 has already given its opinion. It's up to the National now.

Marriages: Sidney Buckley to Miss Rae Bisson, June 12, 1948; David Fenton to Miss Betty Jarvis, June 14, 1948; Wilton Whisler to Miss Jean Dougherty, August 27, 1948; Robert Rogerson to Miss Barbara Brown, September 11, 1948; Steve Richards to Inez Thomasson, September 16, 1948.

STANLEY E. DICKEY

Washington State Pledges Beat Actives . . • The Washington State Chapter is now in full swing. We started out September 9, with a four day cleaning session.

Everyone turned out and did a fine job and we now have the house in as good shape as ever. Our work was not in vain, as we were rewarded with eight fine pledges. Our new pledges are: Vernon Armstrong, Duane Stowe, Donald Hinkson, Dean Helling, John Ray, Gerhard Eberhardt, Gustave Wiegardt, and J ack Earnest.

We are fortunate to have our cook, Mom Barker, with us again. Everyone is looking forward to another year of her fine cooking.

Seventeen members and nine pledges returned for the fall semester. Those who did not return include our V. D. Jack Dennis, Floyd Green, who is attending the University of North Dakota, and Ralph Smith, a traitor now enrolled at the University of Washington.

Our seventeen pledges took the members to camp with a six to nothing win in a touch football game the first Saturday after classes started. Then to add insult to injury, they took a successful sneak to Lewiston. They very quietly, but efficiently, tore the house apart while five members rested in the chapter room.

Later that evening the pledges were joined by about half of the members and a good time was had by all.

The pledge class elected Dave Jensen, President; Don Hinkson, Vice President; Dean Helling, Secretary; Vernon Armstrong, Social Chairman; Jack Earnest, Athletic Chairman; and Duane Stowe, Junior IFC Representative. They have scheduled their semi-formal at the Golf Clubhouse on November 12.

After winning third prize with last

year's homecoming sign, we are now aiming for first. For the group in the house offering the best idea, the chapter will reward them with five bucks.

At recent elections Bill Gammie was elected Venerable Dean to fill the vacancy left by Jack Dennis, John Hazelwood is now Secretary, stepping into Floyd Green's post. Max Peterson replaced Bill Gammie as house work chairman, and Russell Helgeson is now TRIAD Correspondent filling Ralph Smith's shoes.

We started off our social season with a sport fireside and then a week later we were guests of the Alpha Phi sorority for an after-dinner dance. Friday night, October 8, will be the night of our sweater and stocking fireside.

Our athletic program started out with Delta Upsilon football team, in which they broke up a scoreless tie late in the game with a pair of aerials that clicked and gave the DU's a 13 to 0 victory. The next day we recovered in time to play the Kappa Sigs, but after an hour's playing they were on the top of a 20 to 7 score. The bowling team started league bowling by defeating last year's champions (SAE) three out of four games.

On Saturday, October 2, the formal in~­ tiation of seven members took place at the Masonic Temple in downtown Pullman. The new Acacians are: John Hampton Jones, Richard Earl P atton, John Byron Tisdale, Wallace Donovan Green, Walter Hughes Johnson, George Arthur Gillette, and Adolf Reinold Anderson.

Sunday morning the entire chapter attended church in a body.

After our delegates had a hot session in the "Windy City," back they came to the ever-lovin' West in nothing short of a spanking new Roadmaster, Dynaflow, shift your gears lady, Buick! Some mention should be made of the delightful floor shows that our boys witnessed while back East.

RUSSELL D. HELGESON

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Wyoming Second in Scholarship . .

Naturally the top news from the Wyoming chapter is this fall's fine pledge class. We consider it the finest group of pledges in the short history of this ~hap ­ ter. Pledges include : Pledge President Merry! "Bugs" Bailey, Skokie, Ill.; William Blacker, Rock Springs, Wyo.; Rob ert Brown, Rawlins, Wyo.; John Butcher, Gillette, Wyo.; Donald Christensen, Laramie, Wyo.; Herbert Gilbert, Laramie, Wyo.; Blair Hallam, Lander, Wyo.; Larry Hawkins, Lander; Wayne Holaway, Grant, Nebr. ; Robert Hughes, Laramie; John Iiams, Lander; Charles Marcott, Laramie; Clifford Marshall, Casper ; Thomas Overy, Rock Springs; Edwin Sunnergren, Cheyenne; Edward Treglown, ~asper; and Robert Vaughn, Hudson, Ohw. We also hope to pledge a few more men this quarter.

The Wyoming chapter is looking for ward to a fine year of expansion and progress. L ast year we placed eighth in the intramural athletic program and second scholastically. With the addition of a number of fine pledge prospects for the various athletic teams and a fine spring quarter grade average, we at the Wyoming chapter hope to annex the scholarship cup and climb a notch or two on the intramural standings.

No free cigars around yet, but Charlie "the man who walks like a beer keg" Mankin came back to school with something missing.

The second annual active-pledge football game is expected within the next week with the losers buying the few refreshments.

The chapter purchased a new stove, enlarged the kitchen facilities, painted the interior of the house, with the outside yet to be renovated.

Five members of this chapter were fortunate enough to be at both Boulder and in Denver for the reactivation of the Denver chapter. Those attending were AI Fishburn, Wally "Digger" Conover, Howard Campbell, John Jacobs, and Dick Hughes. The entire chapter takes this opportunity to welcome Denver back into the fold, and are looking forward to many pleasant associations with Denver in the future.

The following members were elected to membership in the various honoraries: Gamma Sigma Epsilon, national chemistry honorary: Kenny Beaver, Kenneth Madsen, and Phil Woods. Phil was elected president of the organization. Alpha Kappa Psi, commerce: Dale Fuehrer, AI Fishburn, and Bob Vaughn. Glen Graham and Ted Hartung were elected to Sigma Tau, the engineering honorary.

Wally Moon, Dale Fuehrer, AI Fishburn, Charlie Mankin, and faculty member Ray Morgan attended the National Conclave this summer. They stopped oft for a short visit at the fine Iowa State chapter house while on the trip.

Mr. W. 0. Edmondson has been elected faculty adviser for the coming year.

AI Fishburn, assistant house manager,

Wyoming The Chapter House

was elected cheer leader at the all-school assembly held for that purpose. We call him "Rah-Rah." DrcK HuGHES

Northwestern Pledges from Eight States September 9th suddenly found the Northwestern Chapter house swarming with actives armed with mops, paint brushes, brooms, and all the other paraphErnalia necessary to produce a gleaming chapter house for rush week. The efforts brought forth a pledge class of sixteen, representing eight states and fourteen cities, including Stacey Angle, Minneapolis; Otto Carlson, Saginaw, Mich.; Paul Gilfillan, Bloomfield, Ia.; Leroy Hamilton, Milbank, S. D .; Clyde Kimball, Nashua, N. H .; Lloyd Littler, Ada, Ohio; Donald Macintosh, Okauchee, Wis.; Ray Manoni, Pittsburg, Kas.; Cliff Rinehart, Park Ridge, Ill.; Bob Risch, Milwaukee, Wis.; Ken Strom, Evanston; Fred Viren, La Grange, Ill.; Glenn Wagner, Chicago; and Dick Wagner, Park Ridge.

As soon as school opened the call to battle was sounded by Manager Chuck Robinson, and the Acacia athletes donned their uniforms. Acacia will be represented in all intra-mural sports, and has a covetous eye on some of those trophies.

Red Sowle, chapter politico and Campus Wheel, was off to a flying start. Red is advertising manager of the yearbook, chairman of the Student Service Fund Drive, and heads the chapter Homecoming Committee. When he's not busy he serves as Vice-President of the Junior Class. Bob Henning won the chapter's plaudits by getting himself elected Secretary of the Interfraternity Council. Jack Plattner, Will Gortner, Dick Foss, and Ray Manoni are on the aforementioned yearbook's advertising staff; Jack heads

the S.S.F. Drive on the Chicago Campus, Ray and Otto Carlson toot their horns in the marching band, and Bob Brown is on the Homecoming Committee of the University. Acacia influence is being felt on all corners of the campus.

The social program is going at full steam with parties about every other week-end, either at the house or at nearby country clubs. Social Chairman John Brewer has scheduled the first for mal for January. The opening house party found the walls of the house fairly bulging with a total of a hundred and thirty in attendance!

A good indicator of the Acacia spirit was the large number from the chapter who visited the Michigan chapter follow ing the Wildcat's taming. We have also entertained delegations from Minnesota, Purdue, and Illinois and have thoroughly enjoyed the visits of these brothers. The Ohio game marked Homecoming weekend and the usual big gang of our alumni, their wives and families, turned out for this event and were fed at a buffet dinner after the game. Bruce Bain handled the house decorations and Hal Klock directed the construction of the float.

That's all for now-and a Merry Christmas to Acacians everywhere, especially in the newest chapter at U.C.L.A. FRANK HULKA

Harvey

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examples of direct, narrative writing that has appeared in English-speaking countries. In addition Dr. Howard has had published about 100 articles relating to the field of ophthalmology.

Dr. Howard is listed in a dozen or more national and international biographical dictionaries, including International Who's Who, Who's Who in (Continued on page 27)

The Triad, Fall, 1948 America, American Nlen of Science, and Who's Who in American Medicine.

In private life Dr. Howard is a Director of the Cottonseed Delinting Corporation, is politically a Progressive Republican and is a member of St. Michael's and St. George's Episcopal Church. He was married on June 25, 1910, in Philadelphia, to Miss Maude Irene Strobel, who, following her graduation from the Nursing School of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia was for three years the Superintendent of the Bryn Mawr General Hospital of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Three children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Howard: Margaret Strobel Howard, who is married to Hudson Jackson, an architect of New York City; James Howell • Howard, Colonel, U . S. Army, formerly of the Ninth Air Force stationed in Europe, and Martha Williamson Howard, now Mrs. Peter J. Blake, a graduate of Radcliffe College.

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tutes a decent society, our deepest moral convictions, our ideas of selfgovernment, these are all the targets of the fury of extremism, of fanaticism, both abroad and at home. The threat to our institutions is not one that military force can remove or from which it alone can protect us. Nor is it a crisis of a few months' or a few years' duration; we face , I fear, a decade, more probably a generation, of continued tension, a period in which one pressure will follow another, a period in which alarms and excursions alternate with "sweet talk" of peace and of normalcy, of easy solutions that will cost us almost nothing-cost us nothing but the whole of our moral principles and the heart of our liberties.

This period will not only call for steadfastm.ess and faith, but for great skills in self-government, great judgment and open-mindedness in the development of public policies, and creativeness in all the arts of Government.

In these circumstances we must summon all of our talents fo r citizenship, for self-government, for public service as we chart our course through these dark waters.

By whom will the public services be manned? By mediocrity and by hacks?

Or by our very ablest citizens? I say it must be the latter, and it is for that reason I have made this proposal of a citizens' universal public service.

In the Twenties, in the era of Common Sense, Government was something way off yonder, something really quite unimportant. We were well content to permit people we thought not

27 quite respectable or not quite good enough¡ for the competitive struggle, to run Government.

In those days the sort of proposal I have just made would have sounded quite mad. Our own careers were what counted. Why in the world should anyone break into his career to associate with a bunch of politicos in the city council, or the state legislature, or in Congress? We would have asked, in some indignation: What sense does it make for a fine physician to bother with veterans' hospitals, or a distinguished scientist or engineer to bother trying to give special quality to a government research laboratory, or a rising young business executive to bring modern ideas of management into public works? That just wouldn't have made sense.

Well, we were sensible, all right, we of the Twenties. Government wasn't important, we thought, and by the time we found out that we were wrong, it was pretty late, ver y late indeed.

I urge your generation not to drift into the same error. I say to you that there is no one in this country, however talented, however well-trained, however ambitious, who can safely adopt the attitude toward local or federal Government, in all its many ramifications , that we of the Twenties adopted. Upon the ability and integrity and judgment of men and women in Government-whether they be mediocre and mere political hacks and windbags, or whether they be superior, well-trained and independent-upon them too many grave decisions depend these days to per mit anyone to assert that his career is too important to be bothered by the ir relevance of Government service.

And we all remember with pride that in the early formative years of the Republic , full time public service, though at least as distasteful as today, was not thought beneath the talents or the dignity of the ablest and most successful of men. By any measure Mr. Washington and Mr . Jefferson were not the least able citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

The maintenance of p e ace- or atomic warfare? Is that important to you as an individual? To your children?

Business stability-or depression?

Is that important ? I mean important to you?

Sensible taxation and fiscal policies -or the kind that bankrupt us? Important?

World trade-or a contracting economic isolation? Scientific progr ess, outdistancing the world, or the hamstringing of scientific enterprise? Public education on a flourishing basis, or in a state of collapse?

Are these things important to y ou?

To your families?

They ar e indeed. And by and large most of these questions ar e determined, the course laid out, by men in the public service. They had better be the best men and women we have since these are among the most impor~ tant questions we have.

I hope I have made it clear that I'm not urging that everyone pursue public service, in some form, as a life career. Not at all. As a matter of fact I am inclined to think that the idea 'of public service as a life-time career has certain severe limitations, judged by present-day public needs.

What I urge is a fluid kind of citizenservice, in which men and women move from private life into public service for a period of years, and then back to private life. Thus there will be an almost ideal situation, as I see it, in this: On their return to private life, we will have private citizens experienced in first-hand knowledge of public affairs and of the special difficulties that beset the public servant; we will have public servants whose judgment will be enriched by recent experience in the day-to-day problems of private affairs. The careers of the Founder of the University of Virginia, and of its present distinguished President and Chancellor are illustrations of what I have in mind.

Such a plan has a number of advantages to the country. The proposal also has in it an element of common fairness. It seems only right to me that the grim and disagreeable tasks that so often are the lot of the responsible public servant should not be exacted of him for an indefinite period, but should be rotated among all who have an equal stake in these grave issues.

There are these days many gloomy predictions about the future, sometimes profoundly gloomy. It is, indeed, not uncommon to hear responsible and well-informed men foretell mankind's suicide, predict a cataclysm that will bring the end of our civilization in the not distant future.

I do not share this gloom, nor these forebodings of utter catastrophe. Of cour se, no man in his right mind can minimize the hazar ds of the gathering storm, or fail to see that troubled days and years lie ahead. I am sure there is no time to waste. But I have confidence that the philosophy of "Take Care of Number One" has so clearly been demonstrated a tragic failur e that it will not be embraced again in your gener ation; that despite occasional (and quite human) relapses fr om time to time we will not again be led down that r oad. More than that, I believe there is a good chance that (Conti nued em page 11)

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COLORAD0- 955 B roadway, Boulder, Colorado . Venerable DeanWa lter A. Cla rk . Secretary-Robert H . Purcell , Jr . CorrespondentJon Sucher. Chapter Adviser-John A . Lunsford, 1209 Spruce St., Boulder. Financia l Adviser-Dr . Robert C. Lewis, 4200 E . Ninth Ave. , Denver , Colo.

CORNELL-318 Highland Road , Ithaca , N . Y . Venerable Dean-Roy S. Clarke, Jr. Secretary-Robert N . Whitman . Correspondent-George H .

Bassett. Chapter Adviser-Prof. Gusta ve F. Heuser , Forest Home, Ithaca. Financial Adviser-Prof . Walter Cotner , Pine Tree Rd. , Ithaca.

DENVER--2195 S. Downing, Denver 10, Colorado. Venerable DeanWilliam Pennington. Secretary-Carl Nielsen. Correspondent-Fred G .

Bonfils. Chapter Adviser-Carl F . Parker, 2671 Ash St., Denver 7, Colora do . Fina ncia l Adviser-J . Arthur Thompson , 2263 Bella ire Ave., Denver.

FRANKLIN-3907 Spruce St., Philadelphia 4, Pa. Venerable DeanRichard G . Ha rtmann. Secretary-Michael J. Keefe . CorrespondentJohn D . Beierle. Chapter Adviser-William R. Hockenberry , Loga n H all , University of Pennsylvania , Phila delphia. Financial AdviserW. R . Hockenberry.

GEORGE WASIDNGTON-1812 19th St. , N .W., Washington 9, D. C. Venera ble Dean-Garabad Arkoia n. Secretary-George M . Aldridge.

Correspondent-Eugene T. Aldridge , Jr. Chapter Adviser-H. B . Teegarden, 1601 Argonne St., Washington , D. C. Financial Adviser-Paul W. Hammack , 305 N . Lincoln St., Arlington , Va. ILLINOIS- 501 E . Da niel , Champaign, Ill. Venerable Dea n-Cha rles E .

Yale . Secretary-Willia m M. Tonkin . Correspondent-Charles Russell.

Chapter Adviser- J. K. Tuthill , 714 W. Green St., Champa ign . Financia l Adviser-J . K . Tuthill.

INDIANA- 702 E. Third St., Bloomington, Ind . Venera ble Dea n-Gene Llewellyn. Secreta ry-Robert G . Hurbaugh . Correspondent-Homer M. Da lby . Chapter Adviser-Jack W . Fox , 414 E . Kirkwood, Bloomington. Fina ncia l Adviser-Prof . D . Lyle Dieterle, 715 S. Woodlawn , Bloomington.

IOWA STATE-142 Gray Ave ., Ames, Iowa . Venerable Dean-Richard G. Wilson. Secretary-J a mes C. Haselton . Correspondent-Donald J. Biegler. Chapter Adviser-Fra nk H . Mendell , 436 Hayward Ave. , Ames . Financia l Adviser-Kenneth Oakleaf, 2008 Sunset Ave. , Ames .

KANSAS-1147 Tennessee St., Lawrence , Kansas . Venera ble DeanWilliam R. Wilson . Secretary-Gera ld E . R aines. Correspondent-Gordon R . Chapple. Chapter Adviser-Ma x Fessler , 1147 Tennessee St., La wrence. Fina ncia l Adviser-Kelvin Hoover, First National Bank, L awrence.

KANSAS STATE-340 N . 16th St., Manhattan, K a n sas. Venerable Dean - Ea rl S. Beaver . Secr eta ry- J . Orion Bea ver . Corr espondent-Albert Wesley . Chapter Adviser-Loren E . Whipps, 511 N . 17th St., Manhattan .

Financial Adviser-N. D. Harwood, 1300 N. Juliette, Ma nhattan.

MICHIGAN-1923 Geddes Ave ., Ann Arbor, Michiga n. Venera ble Dean - Philip M. Linscott. Secretary-David D . Olson . CorrespondentDavid Stremmel. Cha pter Adviser-Fred Seyfried, 203 Middle Rd ., Ypsilanti, Michigan . Financia l Adviser-Weimar Christman, 1025 Packard , Ann Arbor .

MINNESOTA-1206 Fifth St. , S .E ., Minnea polis 14, Minnesota. Venerable Dea n- Dale Maciver. Secretary-Robert Appelgren . Correspond-

ent-Jule Kvamme. Chapter Adviser-Gordon L . Starr, 3725 Bloom ington Ave ., Minneapolis. Financial Advisor-J. Peter Kva mme, 1920 Colfax Ave. , S ., Minneapolis, Minnesota .

NORTHWESTERN-550 Lincoln St., Evanston , Illinois. Venerable Dean -Leonard V. Lockhart. Secretary-John E. Jansen . CorrespondentFrank J. Hulka. Cha pter Adviser-Roy C. Clark, 7005 N . Clark St., Chicago 26 . Financial Adviser-George J . Jansen, Warrenville, Ill. OHIO STATE-1835 Indianola Ave. , Columbus, Ohio. Venera ble D ean -David Williams . Secretary-James Huston. Correspondent-Wayne Pidock. Cha pter Adviser-Or. D . J . Whitacre, 1550 Melrose Ave ., Columbus . Financial Adviser-C. R. Lawrence, 1458 Inglis Ave. , Columbus .

OKLAHOMA-544 Elm St. , Norman , Oklahoma. Venera ble DeanLeroy F. Stewa rt. Secretary-William E. Hathway . CorrespondentHoward Hurst. Chapter Adviser-Dean David Johnson , University of Okla homa, Norma n . Fina ncial Adviser-Cecil H. Brite , 917 Chautauqua, Norma n , Okla homa.

OKLAHOMA A & M-1215 College Ave ., Stillwa ter , Oklahoma. Venerable Dean-Dua ne C. Routh. Secreta ry-Kenneth K . Havenstrite.

Correspondent-Roger L. Harnden. Cha pter Adviser-John Lathers, 128 Admiral Rd ., Stillwater. Financial Adviser-Raymond B ivert, 234 N .

D uncan St., Stillwater.

OREGON STATE-2332 Monroe St., Corvallis, Oregon. Venerable Dean -Andrew V . Smith. Secretary-Rex W. Beeman. Correspondent-Parker B ailey . Cha pter Adviser-Delmer M. Goode, 225 N . 31st St., Corvallis.

PENN STATE-Locust La ne a nd Foster Ave ., State College, Pa. Venerable Dean-David C . Sims. Sec retary-Richard S. Lashley . Correspondent-Elmer F . Strunk. Cha pter Adviser-Philip F . Hallock, Locust Lane Apts ., State College. Financial Adviser-Prof . Stanley H . Campbell, 602 E . Foster Ave ., State College.

PURDUE-427 Sta te St., West Lafa yette , Ind . Venerable Dean-Richard C. Eifler. Secretary-George E . Hansell. Correspondent-Donald Berch told. Chapter Adviser-W. A . Knapp , 1305 Ravinia Rd. , West Lafayette.

Financial Adviser-J. R. Eaton, 325 L awn St. , West Lafayette.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-917 W. 28th St., Los Angeles 7, Calif.

Venerable Dean-Earle W. Risdon , Jr. Secretary-Robert C. Ma dsen.

Correspondent-Harvey R. Amos. Cha pter Adviser-George Ray Oster, 143 N . Van Ness Ave ., Los Angeles. Financia l Adviser-Robert F .

Craig, 855 S. Serrano, Los Angeles.

SYRACUSE-102 Walnut Pl., Syracuse, N. Y . Venera ble Dean-Rob e rt C. Bartlett. Secretary-Robert M. Howes. Correspondent-John E. Lake. Cha pter Adviser-E . E . Enos, 1111 Euclid Ave ., Syracuse 10.

Fina ncial Adviser-E. E. Enos .

TEXAS-2503 Rio Grande St., Austin, Texas. Venerable Dean-Roline A . Forgy. Secretary-A. W. Le Noir, Jr. Correspondent-Lee Hay. Cha pter Adviser-Louis B aethe . 2307 San Antonio St. , Austin. Financial Adviser-W . Homer Thornberry, 2300 Tower Dr. , Austin .

WASIDNGTON-5004 17th Ave., N .E ., Seattle 5, Washington. Venerable Dean-Gene E . Guthrie. Secretary-Clifford Evans . Correspondent -J. D avid Scheyer. Cha pter Adviser-Bernard E . Anderson, 8037 12th Ave ., N .E., Seattle 5. Financial Adviser-Earl J. Snippen, 6529 Latona Ave. , Seilttle 5.

WASHINGTON STATE-1607 Ruby St., Pullman , Washington. Venera ble Dean-William J . Gammie . Secretary- John N. Hazelwood . Correspondent-Russell Helgeson . Chapter Adviser-Richard J . Hampton , 21 E. So. Fairway, Pullman. Financial Advi ser-C. D . Jacobs, Box 246, College Station, Pullma n .

WYOMING-812 University Ave ., Laramie , Wyoming. Venerable Dean -Dale Fuehrer. Secretary-Jack Holaway. Correspondent-Dean Johnson . Chapter Adviser-W. 0 . Edmondson, University of Wyoming, Laram ie . Financia l Adviser-To be elected.