Acacia Triad - Spring 1952 - Vol. 46, No 3

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VOLUME FORTY-SIX • NUMBER THREE • SPRING • 1952

The 27th Conclave of the

ACACIA FRATERNITY Will Be Held

August 31 to September 3, 1952 at

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Chicago, Illinois

* Complete Details Will Be Sent to the Chapters and Will Appear in the Summer Triad

Plan Now to Attend

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uAngels From Hell Week" Early on a sunny Saturday morning, February 9, 1952, fourteen sleepy men crawled out of bed to do battle with pickaxe and shovel. Nine weary hours later they had proven that Acacia lives up to its motto of Human Service. They were the pledges of the Kansas Chapter who were starting that old fraternity custom of hell week only the second "1" had been changed to "p" and the entire operation took a single day.

Taking inspiration from an article in Reader's Digest the active chapter had decided to do something constructive in place of the usual pre-initia-. tion foolery. Venerable Dean John Hoffman obtained a list of homes in North Lawrence that had been stricken by last summer's flood and that were still in need of help. With the aid of the Salvation Army it was finally decided to work at the Mayhugh residence on North Second.

About eighteen inches of mud was removed from the front lawn and it was leveled off and packed, ready to be laid with sod later this spring. The men flew into the job with great zeal and worked hard all day long, stopping only to partake of box lunches brought to them by considerate actives. Many blisters and sore muscles were acquired but the men all agreed that the family's joy eased all their aches and pains and I believe they thoroughly enjoyed it. As Mrs. Mayhugh told a reported of the LAWRENCE JoURNAL WoRLD, "Those boys are really angels from hell week." It is agreed that similar projects will be carried on in future years.

Alumni at Evansville Organize Association On March 20th a number of Acacians living in and around Evansville, Indiana, met for the purpose of organizing an Acacia alumni association. A constitution was presented and approved whereupon the following officers were elected: president, Charles Jarrett, Indiana; vice-president, N . 0 .

Long, Evansville; secretary, Edwin Seibert, Evansville; and treasurer, Randall Williams, Evansville. A committee was appointed to plan a Founders Day banquet in May; Jewitt Davidson, Missouri, was named chairman. Future meetings will be planned by a program committee headed by James A. Kendall, Evansville.

All Acacians living around Evansville are urged to contact Charlie Jarrett at the offices of Boden, Cassidy, and Scheitlin, phone 5-2603.

THE TRIAD OF ACACIA FRATERNITY

VOLUME XLVI

NUMBER 3

SPRING

1952

CONTENTS Purdue Chapter House

Cover

These Are Our Best!

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Frater~ty

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Public Relations

Acacians the World Over

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Freedom Foundation Award to Magenheimer

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"Wearers of the Jeweled Triangle"

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Marriages -

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Births - Servicemen

Among Acacia's Chapters

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Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Fulton, Missouri.

The TRIAD is the official publication of the Acacia Fraternity, a general college fraternity, originally founded by and restricted to Masons, founded at the University of Michigan, May 12, 1904.

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

Subscription rates are $2.00 per year, $3.50 for two years, $5.00 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 1569 Sherman Avenue, Evanston, Ill.

William D. Ross, Editor, 231 Latrobe Avenue Northfield, Illinois Nancy W. Ross, Assistant Editor

These Are Our Best!

The Acacia Chapters have chosen these fine young men as their most outstanding seniors_, and it"'s not hard to understand why ACH spring, as a sort of tribute to all college seniors who are about to graduate, the editors of the TRIAD call upon the chapters of Acacia to chose from each one senior who has during his college career done the most to bring credit to himself and to Acacia on his campus. This year the response has been more enthusiastic than ever and the contributors have come up with some amazing superlatives to describe the qualifications of the men who have been tapped for this honor.

So far there has been no attempt to name any one man as the best among all Acacia seniors, although this might be an opportunity for a future competition. We know one thing, however, and that is that we wouldn't want to be the Solomon who had to do the selecting. So many of these men have been so outstanding that comparison would be by no means easy.

Of course, different men have made their contributions in different ways.

Some have served as chapter officers, others in student government, others in publications, and not the least are those who have labored to establish new Acacia chapters. But without exception they are men who are interested in Acacia, its principles and ideals, and who are full of energy and like to get things done.

Our hats are off to you, Outstanding Acacians! You have done a good job and we are counting on your continued interest and enthusiasm when you join the ranks of our 14,000 alumni.

Man by man, here's how they look:

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Venerable Dean. During this period he furthered the chapter's reputation immensely. Between being Vice-President of Fraternity Affairs, an active member of Eta Kappa Nu (electrical engineering honorary) , Venerable Dean, keeping up his high scholastic standing, and his jaunts across town to see his girl, he was a very busy man.

Charlie spent two years in the Navy prior to coming to Purdue during which he studied airborne electronics maintenance, and had considerable overseas duty. His present home is Atlanta, Georgia, but this will be altered soon. He will have married Billie Marie Ballenger of Tulsa, Oklahoma, by .the time this issue goes to press.

Robert Goodman Penn State The Penn State Chapter of Acacia has chosen Robert H. Goodman as its outstanding senior of 1952. Bob, who comes from Reading, is a Master Mason and was previously very active in Demolay.

In the spring of 1950, after spending a year at Kutztown State Teachers

College, Bob became a member of the Penn State Chapter and during his stay here served as house manager and Senior D ean.

Bob has been very active on campus. He is a Squadron Commander in the Air R.O.T.C. and received the Distinguished Military Student Award.

As Executive Officer of the Arnold Air Society, Bob was delegated to attend the society's national convention at Miami, Florida, last year.

Bob's other talents have served us well, too. He has a fine singing voice and plays the piano very well. He sang in the Penn State Glee Club for two years and directs the chapter ¡choir. Socially, he is as talented. Always a hit at a party, Bob is engaged to be married to Miss Betty Oswald.

On the sports side of the picture, Bob has been active in all intramural sports. He is a Pennsylvania Interscholastics Athletics Association basketball and baseball official.

Kenneth Blancett Oklahoma Kenneth S. Blancett, Outstanding Senior of the Oklahoma Chapter of

Charles Parrish Purdue The Purdue Chapter of Acacia is extremely proud of Charlie "Brigham" Parrish, our unanimous choice for Outstanding Senior. Charlie's jovial personality and boundless enthusiasm for any undertaking mark him as a man of truly outstanding character.

Since entering Acacia, he has climbed steadily upward, both in service to the house and campus activities. He was first chosen as Pledge President and then Inter-Fraternity Council Representative. He was then elected

PARRISH HELGESON

GOODMAN HOELCK

BLANCETT BEUMER

DAY KVASNICKA

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Ken has served this past year as secretary for the chapter and has done an excellent job. Besides being an officer, he has participated in almost every intramural sport and has always donated his time and services to the chapter whenever asked. He has maintained an overall scholastic average of a B in his academic work at the university.

Ken is a member of the OU Engineers Club; P. E. Club, in which he has served as treasurer; St. Pat's Council, student governing body of the engineering school; Pi Epsilon Tau, ¡National Honorary Petroleum Engineering Fraternity; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Institute of Mining and Metallurgic Engineers, Petroleum branch.

He has received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. He was elected outstanding Senior Engineer in ROTC ; he is a member of the Society of American Military Engineers; Scabbard and Blade, National Honorary Military Fraternity, for which he is the national representative.

Dave Day Indiana Dave Day is the Outstanding Senior of the Indiana Chapter for 1952.

Reaching college, Dave wasted no time in climbing the ladder to distinguished recognition. In his freshman year, he received the Y.M.C.A. Service Award, and was elected to the Y.M.C.A. Council. During this year he was elected to the Y.M.C.A. Cabinet, and later became the T reasurer of the Y.M.C.A. He was elected rush chairman and vice-president of the fraternity. He later joined both Skull and Crescent and Falcon, sophomorejunior honoraries, and was elected to be a director of the sophomore class.

During his junior year, Dave became the vice-president of both the junior class and the Y.M.C.A. He was also a member of the Y.M.C.A. Executive Council. He was elected to represent Acacia in the Sphinx Club, campus honorary, and became a member of the Arnold Air Society. He also was a Student Senator.

During his senior year, Dave was the delegate of the Arnold Air Society at Miami Beach, Florida, and was elected a member of Blue Key, exclusive honorary on the Indiana campus. While engaging in this vast multitude of activities, Dave managed to maintain a scholastic rating of B -plus in Business Management.

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Russ Helgeson Washington State On June 1, the Washington State Chapter of Acacia will pass another milestone in its fifteen-year existence with the graduation of Russ Helgeson, voted this year's outstanding senior.

Dubbed "Grandfather of Acacia" by the pledges and younger members, Russ, at least in one sense, justifies the title. He has been an active Acacian for almost five years since pledging in September 1947. He was initiated February 14, 1948.

During his college career, Russ has always exemplified the well-balanced college man. He has been a valuable asset to Acacia intramural teams, a house officer, a good student, a leader in campus politics, a member and Chairman of the Publications Board and always a welcome participant i~ any "bull session" or social function.

Russ got into things early in his college career. As a freshman, he was a member of the Class Council and an Intercollegiate Knight. H is second year, he became a member of the college Publications Board and eventually took on the jobs of Chinook (The WSC Year Book) mounting editor and later managing editor. Around the house, he held several minor jobs and then was elected house manager.

He was appointed to the Inter-Fraternity Coordinating Council and became its treasurer. This year, he was the Greek Party Candidate for senior class president. Russ is a pharmacy major. Accordingly, he is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association.

Arthur Hoelck Illinois The Illinois Chapter of Acacia's outstanding senior for 1952 is Arthur Hoelck. He pledged Acacia at Northwestern in September, 1940 and was initiated on March 2, 1941.

Art entered the Army Air Force in October, 1942, and served in the meteorology division. While stationed in Brazil, he pioneered the program of teaching members of the Brazilian Air Force the techniques of meteorological observation and recording. H e was discharged in February, 1946.

He worked in a Chicago architect's office until J anuary, 1948, entered the University of Illinois in February, 1948, and became an associate member of the Illinois Chapter in March , 1948.

Art is studying for a B.S . in A rchitecture and has a 4.0 grade average.

He is also a member of the student American Institute of Architects and chairman of the senior design terminal proj ect.

Art has done much for Acacia here at Illinois. He designed the new landscaping and the alteration of the guest room. He wrote the active judicial council procedure and instigated the procedure for summer rushing. He promoted the refurnishing of the annex and the alteration of the kitchen.

He served as Junior Dean in 1950 and h!J.s been in charge of decorations for five house formals. He has also designed three Spring Carnival boothstwo of which won trophies.

Franklin Beumer Evansville

0 . Franklin Beumer, Evansville's choice for outstanding Acacian, has a multitude of deeds to his credit in fulfilling the motto of "Human Service."

Since the Evansville Chapter is one of the newer chapters many problems of organization needed to be solved during the summer months of 1951 while the fraternity functions are literally dormant. As senior officer present he called all the special summer meetings as the p roblems arose.

Publicity and the general furtherance of the fraternity can be credited to Brother Beumer through his contacts on the campus publications. He worked both his junior and senior years as editorial page editor of the CTescent, the campus newspaper and was chosen to membership in Pi Delta Epsilon, a national honorary jour nalistic fraternity. Also in the field of journalism, his major subject, Brother Beumer was editor of the Line, the college yearbook.

Besides these many activities on campus, he works a full 40-hour week on the third shift at International Harvester, is married and still finds time to play with Toni L ynn, his three-year-old daughter.

William Kvasnicka Kansas State William K vasnicka, K -State's outstanding senior, will be a freshman next year. Yes, that's what it says.

Kvasnicka will receive his degree in agriculture this spring and is going to enroll in Veterinary Medicine and will be classified a freshman next fall.

After graduating from high school Kvasnicka enrolled at Colorado A. & M. in forestry where he completed his freshman year. Then he transferred to Kansas State to the curriculum of agriculture.

William pledged Acacia in the spring semester of '49. During his pledgeship he was as active a pledge as we had seen in a long time. He was initiated into the active chapter Octo-

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Kvasnicka has been very active m campus activities. He was Ag Ed Club president, a member of Alpha Ze.ta, national agriculture honorary, VIce president of the senior .class, on _both the senior and junior livestock Judging teams, and received senior Phi Kappa Phi recognition.

James Opdyke Wisconsin Wisconsin Acacia's selection for outstanding senior this year merits the rating in many fields. Tall, dark, slim Jim Opdyke, besides being a family man in the usual sense, is one of the founding fathers of the present reactivated Acacia Chapter at Wisconsin.

Jim's record is impressive. From the comparatively feeble colony days in the spring of 1949, he has seen the chapter grow to what it now is. In the process he held the office of secretary of the colony, and was the first Venerable Dean of the reactivated chapter. He now acts as housemanager and holder of the purse strings as far as improvement of the physical plant is concerned.

As if Acacia were not keeping him busy enough, Jim also helped instigate the Goodnight award, a men's scholarship; and also Men's Night, an affair honoring outstanding men on the campus. Besides this, he held a chairmanship in the Campus Carnival, an all-university charity show.

Other extra-curricular goings-on he lumps succinctly under the heading of "various and sundry campus political activities," a pursuit which he is still carrying on with considerable force at this writing.

of his time and energies to this timeconsuming position. Whatever the sport, Ralph's remarkable athletic ability consistently brought the black and gold out on top .

With cumulative scholastic grades well above a B plus, Ralph belongs to various honoraries such as Beta Alpha Psi, Accounting honorary, Beta Gamma Sigma, Business Administration honorary and Alpha Kappa Psi, professional business fraternity .

Along with these tangible accomplishments, Ralph has done much to promote and further the harmonic feeling of brotherhood and friendship within the fraternity. He is exceedingly well-liked and admired by every Washington Acacian.

tive boards of the Associated Men's Students and the Organizations Control Board, and as a member of all four of his class councils.

Bill is doing all right on the social front also. His red hair and likable personality have captured the heart of pretty Jane Trieber, an Alpha Xi Delta. Last February they announced their pinning, which had been kept a secret for two months by Bill's wearing one of his brother's pins.

Upon graduation, Bill will go to work for the publicity department of MGM Studios. We will all miss him, and will always be grateful for all of the help which he has given us.

Ralph Thornton

William Lynn

Texas

Washington

UCLA

With a sense of gratitude and admiration the Washington Chapter has selected Ralph E. Thornton as this year's oustanding senior Acacian._ Before joining us Ralph attended Puyallup high school at which time he was selected as a member of the all-state basketball team. After serving his country in the army, R alph came to the University of Washington to further his education as an accounting major.

The outstanding quality and quantity of Ralph's work for the house is easily exemplified. He served as treasurer during his sophomore and junior year and unselfishly extended much

The UCLA Chapter proudly introduces William M. Lynn as our outstanding senior of the year. Bill was born and received his early education in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

In December of 1950 Bill was elected Venerable Dean of our chapter, and held that position for a year. As Vener~ble Dean he was again a tireless worker. Practically single-handed, he planned the regional conclave which was held here last September.

On top of that he was elected president of our local IFC in the spring of 1951. In addition to his work for the house, he found time for many campus activities. Bill served on the execu-

The Texas Chapter's outstanding senior this year is Joe M. Jackson of Houston, Texas. Joe received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a_ major in history in January of 1949. At this time "Judge" worked as a committee clerk on the State House of Representatives Judiciary Committee until June, 1949 when he entered the University of Texas Law School, where he is now a senior.

Joe became an active member of Texas Acacia on April 30, 1950. Since this time he has been¡ a valuable asset to the fraternity. Joe has served as Senior Dean , secretary, chairman of the constitution committee, and parliamentarian. He has also been a member of the varsity carnival committee,

THORNTON McCOLLOCH

OPDYKE EBY

LYNN WAGGETT

JACKSON WETZEL

Joe Jackson

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After graduation "Judge" hopes to gain experience in the Attorney General's Office or a District Attorney's office. He then hopes to go into private law practice.

Edwin Eby Miami Red hair is usually a sign of a hot temper and a short patience. Not so with Ed Eby, Miami Chapter's outstanding senior. He was song leader of the chapter for two years, and president of two of Miami's three musical organizations (MENC and Phi Mu Alpha. He didn't have much chance at Delta Omicron, women's honorary). Composer of a fraternity song accepted for the long due Acacia songbook, outstanding member from both Acacia and Phi Mu Alpha in 1951, holder of an accumulative 3.4 average, member of the famed men's leadership honor society, Omicron Delta Kappa, Ed still found time to work part-time, pin and engage a girl (Maxine Doughman), and be an outstanding friend of every man in the Miami Chapter.

William McColloch Southern California At the University of Southern California Chapter of Acacia the man most qualified to fulfill the requirements is Charles William McColloch.

He was admitted to the University in September 1948 as a music major with the hopes of graduating in '52 which he will do. Shortly after entering he joined Phi Mu Alpha, National Music Fraternity, and then as a junior pledged Acacia in 1950. From the day Bill was pinned, he immediately began to show his interest, desire, and willingness to promote and further the ideals of Acacia until they had reached their infinite degree of desirability. He proved to be one of the best "rushers" the house has had, and it wasn't long until he found himself Junior Dean of the Chapter. He did such a fine job that semester it was decided to re-elect him for the coming term. After having successfully completed two terms of office as social chairman, his talents were next utilized as treasurer of the chapter to handle our financial obligations.

Not ¡ only is Bill popular in the house, but equally so on campus. This is evident from the fact that he was elected President of The School of Music in 1951. In answering as many requests as possible for his musical

53 talents, Bill has donated much of his time to playing the electric ~rgan in Bovard Auditorium for the many school functions , arranging our numbers for the annual IFC "Songfest," or perhaps just helping one of his friends with his school work.

So with this impressive background to judge from, plus many unmentioned instances, we here at USC feel confident that a wise and deserving selection has been made in the form of Charles W. McColloch.

Bob Waggett Iowa Iowa Acacia elected sincere and hard-working Bob Waggett its outstanding senior by practically a unanimous vote. Bob was the first man pledged by the Iowa Colony in its first formal rush week. He set a high standard in pledges, and was soon elected secretary of the colony. He performed the duties of this job so well that the colony later elected him Junior Dean.

Just before our activation in June, 1951, Bob was elected Senior Dean, and was thus the first Senior Dean of the re-activated Iowa Chapter. In this capacity, he was instrumental in establishing the basic principles for the handling of the chapter's pledges.

When Venerable Dean Don Gissel retired in favor of matrimony, Bob moved in to take his place; in March , he was elected Venerable Dean for the next year. He is truly the chapter's most valuable man, and, in addition to his various executive functions, has been responsible for bringing several fine new men into the chapter.

In addition to what he has done for Iowa Acacia, Bob has been active in other ways on the campus. He served on the Freshman Rifle Team, worked on Freshman Orientation, has been a member of Tailfeathers Pep Club, and has served on the Inter-fraternity Council. He is, likewise, in Advanced Air ROTC. Bob is majoring in Personnel Psychology, and plans to work as a personnel manager after he serves his hitch as a second lieutenant in the air force.

Eugene Wetzel Missouri Eugene G. Wetzel, Jr., has been chosen as Missouri Chapter's outstanding senior of 1951-52.

Originally initiated at the University of Kansas on May 2, 1948, Gene transferred to Missouri in the fall of 1949.

At that time, Acacia was not active

on the campus. Gene met some boys around school and got them interested in an Acacia Club, w hich met once a week. After a good nucleus of men was gathered, he contacted National Headquarters for information about colonizing. The colony eventually evolved into the Missouri Chapter.

Gene was elected the first Venerable Dean of the colony , and since activation, he has been alumni chaircan, interfraternity council representative, and secretary of the building corporation.

Gene helped obtain our present house, and, while a delegate to the National Conclave, secured a loan for furniture.

He personally bought a great deal of furniture at local auctions, and was responsible for obtaining an icebox, chairs, rugs and stove.

Gene has been very active in our rushing program, being responsible for the majority of ideas for smokers and parties.

He served in the Navy in World War II, and married Miss Marion Holmes on June 28, 1951.

Gene is a sociology-pre-law major, and a member of the Sociology and Inter-American Clubs.

Richard Boynton Rensselaer The Outstanding Senior of the Rensselaer Chapter this year is Richard Parker Boynton, 22 years old , of Hackensack, New Jersey.

Entering R.P.I. as a freshman in September, 1948, Dick has majored in electrical engineering with a power option. During the past four years his campus activities have included positions on the business staff of "The Engineer," R. P. I. technical magazine; L. C. R. , electrical engineering social and honorary society; and the student chapters of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of R adio Engineers .

Dick was an active member of Phi Mu Delta, the group that was instrumental in forming our chapter, and became a charter member of the chapter when the charter was issued in April, 1948. When we moved into our house there was much to be done ; and Dick's enthusiasm and hard work instilled spirit in others and. the necessary tasks were accomplished in a short time. Since that time he has been the leader in the physical development of the property. He also has served in the offices of sentinel and secretary, and his sound thinking has been of great value in solving tlre chapter's problems.

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Ron Watts

William Gilbert

Michigan

Wyoming

The Michigan Chapter of Acacia has proudly chosen Ron Watts as its outstanding senior of 1951-1952. Ron has been an outstanding Acacian and a leader in the house and in campus activities since he entered the University of Michigan in September, 1948.

He is in Naval R.O.T.C. on a scholarship, and is a member of Scabbard and Blade, honorary military organization. During his junior year, Ron was elected to Sphinx, junior men's honorary, and while a senior, he was tapped by the Druids, honorary organization for senior men.

At the beginning of this year, Ron acted as chief editor of the C!ll-campus student directory, and got it into publication in record time.

Much of his effort during his college career has been devoted to working on the staff of the Michigan Daily, the student-operated newspaper. This year he holds the office of Associate Editor of the Daily.

Through these various capacities and through his direct work for Acacia, Ron has been of great value, particularly in the field of public relations. Last year he edited a rushing handbook which has proved a very valuable aid to our rushing program.

He is now serving the chapter as pledge-master.

The Wyoming Chapter of Acacia has voted William Gilbert, of Laramie, Wyoming, as its outstanding senior for this year.

Brother Gilbert will graduate this June with a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering with honor, and will study for his master's degree at the Chrysler Institute of Engineering m Detroit, Michigan.

Bill pledged Acacia in the Fall of 1948, thereby following in the footsteps of his father, who was a member of the Colorado Chapter. He was initiated the following winter quarter, and was immediately placed on the Rushing Committee. He took over as chairman of that committee during the Spring of 1949, and performed an admirable job while in that office. Following his term of rush chairman, he served as publicity man for the Fraternity, and was elected Senior Dean in the spring of 1951.

In addition to the responsible positions that Bill has held, he has also represented the Wyoming Chapter at Regional and National Conclaves of Acacia, and could always be depended upon to be on hand to help when the House was being refurbished.

Not only has Bill given much time and effort to Acacia, but he has also found time to study, having made the Dean of Men's Honor Roll every quarter, and has been active in University¡ functions.

To illustrate that last statement Bill has served as a member of Phi Epsilon Phi, men's pep organization; Iron Skull, Junior Honorary; A.S.M.E.; Sigma Tau, Engineering Honorary; and the Joint Engineers' Council.

Robert Sherley Franklin The man whom Franklin Chapter has chosen as "Outstanding Senior of 1952" is Robert Sherley of Schenectady, New York. We're very proud of Bob because he is one of those rare individuals who can compile outstanding records in both scholastic and extra-curricular activities.

During his four years at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce Bob has turned in a stellar academic performance. One of many achievements was his election in his junior year to Beta Gamma Sigma, the honorai:y business fraternity; at present he IS treasurer of this society. Beta Alpha .Psi, the honorary accounting fraterr:Ity, and the Wharton Advisory Council also claim him as a member Besides all these honors Bob's nam~ has consistently been on the dean's list.

Franklin Chapter has benefited ~reatly from his services as an officer m the fraternity. In his sophomore year Bob served as steward, and he was treasurer of our chapter from his sophomore to his senior year.

John Ewing Nebraska This year the Nebraska Chapter of Acacia is p1;oud to announce John Ewing as its outstanding senior.

In high school John took part in various activities but while in college he has devoted his time to study as can be recognized by his scholastic record.

He is truly a fraternity man and all out for Acacia. Since his activation in 1950 he has held the offices of Secretary and Senior Dean. Besides fulfilling the duties of these offices to their utmost, John has given much ?f his time and energy towards helpmg the fraternity and any of its members.

John's home is in Nebraska City, :"'here he graduated from high school m 1946. He served in the United

States Navy for two years, after which he entered college. John has made a good record in the University and we are all proud of him. We wish him the best in his teaching career.

Charles Waddell Cincinnati The Cincinnati Chapter proudly presents its choice as outstanding senior Acacian in the personage of Charles E. Waddell.

Charlie came to Cincinnati from Ironton, Ohio, where he graduated cum laude from Ironton High School.

He entered UC to study mechanical engineering on a scholarship from the Dayton Malleable Iron Company ..

During his five years at Cincinnati he has worked with this company on co-op work sections and through this work and his interest in foundry practice and metallurgy he was awarded an additional scholarship from the Foundry Education Foundation.

As a pledge of the Cincinnati Chapter he served as president of his pledge class consisting of thirty pledge brothers. Upon his initiation in February, 1949, he continued his chapter work by serving as Junior Dean and later as Senior Dean.

His senior year has been spent in the capacity as Senior Dean and pledge-master. During his administration as pledge-master, we have seen an improved training program in which he was instrumental in providing Greek Week, with a constructive background of fraternity history and ideals a prime factor in the development.

Jack Mehl D enver In recognition of his leadership and services to the fraternity, the Denver Chapter of Acacia has chosen Jack J. Mehl as our outstanding senior for 1951-1952. .

Mehl, whose enthusiasm and ceaseless energy have contributed materially to the continued high success of the Denver Chapter, capably served as Venerable Dean this year.

In that office he has given generously of his time ¡and effort. Last year, he held the post of Junior Dean.

Jack is a bacteriology major from Pueblo, Colorado, where he attended Pueblo Junior College before transferring to Denver University. He is a veteran of three years in the United States Navy.

His spirit and drive have been put to good use this year in his capacity as cheerleader. Jack's contagious enthusiasm was able to keep the student

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stands cheering even through a rather disappointing athletic season.

In addition to his Acacia and cheerleading activities, he has had time for many other interests. He is a member of Sigma Sigma Alpha, honorary sanitary science association. He has been on the staff of the Kynewisbok, D.U.'s yearbook, for two years, filling the position of Business Manager this year. Also, he is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council and has been Publicity Chairman for D.U.'s UNESCO Council.

Despite his many activities, Jack has maintained an excellent academic record. He was chosen this year for Omicron D elta Kappa, the leading leadership and scholarship honorary at the university.

BOYNTON EWING

WATTS WADDELL

Richard Pland California The California Chapter of Acacia proudly hails Richard H. Pland as its 1952 Outstanding Senior. Dick is majoring in forestry and upon graduation in June plans to go to work in "the woods." He has been very active in both the fraternity and on the campus. He has held offices in the Forestry Club, Ski Club, and Xi Sigma Pi, honorary forestry fraternity. Dick was the recipient of one of the Johnson Awards, for being an outstanding industrial forester.

Dick has excellently served the house in the capacity as both secretary and treasurer. He has been the

mainstay of our intramural football and baseball teams during the past seasons. Despite all of these activities, he has been able to maintain a B average in his university work.

All of us will miss Dick next year, but we know that he will do as well outside the university as he has within it. The California Chapter wishes him continued success and happiness.

Kenneth Johnson Iowa State Kenneth W. J ohnson was named by the Iowa State Chapter as the outstanding senior for 1952.

Ken hails from Denver, Colorado, and will graduate in Agronomy this

SHERLEY MEHL

GILBERT PLANO

June. He entered Iowa State in September, 1949, was pledged the same month, and activated in May. Ken has been an asset to Acacia ever since he entered our brotherhood. He was treasurer for a year and then as rushing chairman brought several new men into the house. He is a member of the Student Chapter of the American Society of Agronomy and for the past year has been serving that organization as president. He has been very active in the Veishea festival held at Iowa State each spring. He has been ticket chairman and this year is serving as Assistant General Chairman. Ken was in charge of our campus varieties skits for the past two years. One of these skits was a prize winner and was given again in Veishea

Vodvil. Whenever entertainment is needed for a house party he will usually take charge and work out a few good acts.

Charles Witham New Hampshire On December 3, 1949, there was initiated into Acacia Fraternity a man who unbeknown to himself would eventually become one of Acacia's outstanding members. As a charter member Charles E. Witham has been instrumental in organizing the chapter foundation, and as the first Venerable Dean of the chapter house has been responsible for the supervision and guidance of our new home.

Before coming to the University of New Hampshire, Charlie attended Hudson High School in Hudson, N . Y. , where he was a member of the National Honor Society. At present he is enrolled in the advanced division of R. 0. T. C. and expects to enter the service upon the completion of the present academic year. After his tour of duty he expects to be employed at the Atlas Cement Company in Hudson.

Charlie's interests are quite diversified, varying from modeling boats, playing bridge and tennis to photography. In his freshman year he was official photographer for the New Hampshire , Durham's weekly newspaper, and was on the staff of the Granite.

In December of 1950, Charlie parted with his pin. Miss Margaret Hoskins of Wellesley College via Hudson, New York, became the proud wearer of the jeweled triangle. In September of 1951 Margar et and Charles were engaged. Future ¡ plans, however, are rather indefinite due to the uncertainty of his military service. No specific wedding date has been officially declared.

G"tenn Wagner Northwestern The election of an outstanding senior gave the Northwestern Chapter its chance to pay tribute to Glenn W. Wagner for the spirit and leadership he has brought into the fraternity.

"Brother Guns," probably more than anyone else, has shown us that Acacia is a name to be proud of.

Throughout his career in the fraternity he has encouraged his brothers to work toward making Acacia an important house on the Northwestern campus.

To illustrate, let's go back to Homecoming, 1951. "Guns" thought it was time that Acacia had another trophy.

He decided that the trophy for badge

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56 sales should be in our living roomand that's where it is today. Glenn organized the house into teams and started a campaign for victory that sent Acacians to all parts of Chicago and Evanston. When we finished our campaign we had learned that anything is possible if the members have enough spirit and the will to win.

Glenn has done things for Acacia on campus. He is a four-year letterman on the varsity rifle team and served as captain in his junior year.

At the present time he is Acacia's representative to senior council.

"Guns" has been active in the house intramural sports program. His services on the football and bowling teams are examples. He has been willing to lend a hand in any house project, whether it was decorating for a house party or participating in entertainment for rushing or social functions.

Sam Willcoxon Kansas The Kansas Chapter's outstanding senior award goes to Sam R. Willcoxon, a twenty-one year old electrical engineering senior from Oberlin, Kansas. The Kansas Engineer, engineering magazine on the campus, picked Sam last fall as one of its "Men of Marvin" who are outstanding leaders in the engineering school.

Sam began his college career in the fall of 1948. He pledged Acacia in the fall of 1949 and the active chapter at the time of his initiation bestowed on him the title of honor initiate in a class of seventeen initiates. He was a Lieutenant in Pershing Rifles, is at present a Cadet Major in Air Force ROTC, and last year he was awarded a Distinguished Military Student Award. He has been on the All-Student Council, on the Campus Affairs Committee, and in the midst of the work of the Statewide Activities.

He was rush chairman of the Interfraternity Council last fall and is at present serving as treasurer of the Interfraternity Council. He is a member of Sigma Tau, engineering honorary, and Eta Eta Kappa, electrical engineering honorary. Probably his greatest honor on the hill came last fall when he became the first member of the reactivated Kansas Chapter of Acacia to be elected to Sachem circle of Omicron Delta Kappa , men's senior honorary service fraternity.

On the Acacia side of the ledger Sam was twice elected Junior Dean to handle the social affairs of the chapter. When a particular committee was set up that had to get a job done Sam was always the chairman who could get the committee together and

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get the job completed. He has been toastmaster at several Acacia alumni dinners. We could not end this honor without making mention of the long, hard, and oft-disappointing hours that Sam put in last year after the house burned , in getting things straightened up and helping us obtain a place to live last year and again for this year.

Bob Hercher Oregon State The Oregon State Chapter of Acacia has proudly chosen Bob Hercher as its outstanding senior of 1952. Since his initiation in January of '50, Bob has held more than his share of house responsibility and his presence has been the driving force of the chapter.

As a pledge, Bob's ability for leadership soon became evident and shortly after his initiation he was elected scholarship chairman. In the spring of '50, Bob was elected Venerable Dean and proceeded to guide us through two successful years at Oregon State as V.D. A Business and Technology major, Bob has always been high on the list of scholarship. During his junior year, he was elected to Kappa Kappa Psi band honorary, and also served as assistant band manager.

Because he has vigorously lived the aims and ideals of Acacia, the members of the Oregon State Chapter of Acacia take pride in selecting Bob Hercher as the outstanding senior of 1952.

WAGNER SITTON

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James Murray Colorado James F. Murray, a graduating senior in chemical engineering, was recently elected the "Outstanding Senior Acacian" of the Colorado Chapter for the year of 1952.

Jim, as he is known to his fraternity brothers, came to the University of Colorado in 1945 from the Canal Zone. After he had completed one semester of school, he was called to the service of the country where he attained the rank of sergeant in less than a year and a half. He received his discharge in 1947 and was back in school again in the fall of that year.

Jim became a pledge in September of 1947 and was initiated to active membership in January 1948.

Jim will graduate this year with two degrees, one in chemical engineering, the other in finance. He has been active in campus organizations, holding offices in such groups as the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Jazz Club, and The Coloradan staff.

Perhaps the single activity for which Jim has become widely known throughout Acacia is his chairmanship of a National Conclave. In 1950 when Colorado was chosen to sponsor the Conclave, he volunteered to become general chairman for this event. Those of us who attended the conclave can appreciate the wonderful job which he did. Jim did not stop with this one activity, however; since that time he has been pledge trainer,

The Triad, Spring, 1952 float and carnival booth chairman, intramural coach, and this year he is leading our songfest group. Jim is behind the scene in almost every activity we undertake. He has been a leader in activities such as rush week, house improvements, and athletics .

We of the Colorado Chapter are proud of Jim, and will certainly miss his untiring efforts to better our fraternity. Congratulations, Jim, on your many accomplishments; we want to wish you the best of luck for the future and hope you will return to see us often.

James Sitton Colorado A & M James Harvey Sitton is, in the estimation of the Acacia Chapter at Colorado A. & M., the "Most Outstanding Senior" of this year. His record is one of outstanding achievement in scholarship, leadership, and friendship . All those who have ever known him have nothing but praise for him.

Jim was elected during the spring quarter of 1951 and served Acacia well as the Colorado A. & M. Chapter's second Venerable Dean. During his term of office he exhibited a remarkable character of leadership which is seldom found.

The fact that Jim is the leading student in the Agricultural School at Colorado A. & M . speaks for his scholarship achievements. He is also an honorary member of Alpha Zeta , Phi Eta Sigma, freshman scholastic honorary, and Phi Kappa Phi, senior honorary.

Other of his elected offices are: Senior Representative to the Student Council of Colorado A. & M., and Adjutant Recorder of the Arnold Air Society. This outstanding record more than qualifies him for the title "Most Outstanding Senior" of Acacia's Colorado A. & M. Chapter for the years 1951-52. ~orman ~organ

Arizona Arizona Chapter of Acacia has chosen as their outstanding graduating senior for 1952, Norman Lee Morgan. Norm, who is 21 years old, originally hails from Flagstaff, Arizona, but graduated from Phoenix Union High School. While in Phoenix, he became a member of the Phoenix Chapter Order of DeMolay, but has since received his majority. Now after four years of academic endeavor, Norm is ready to graduate with a B. S . degree in mechanical engineering. He has accepted a position with General Electric starting in June. He is at present a first lieutenant in the Air R.O.T.C., maintenance division.

57 Norm was one of the founders of the Arizona Chapter of Acacia and has been one of the most progressive men in this chapter. He has held the positions of Junior Dean, Senior Dean, House Manager, and Pledge trainer.

Because of his affable manner, Norm has found it easy to get along with people- especially rushees, and through his efforts we have had wellchosen pledge classes. His personality has helped him many times while representing Acacia in the Inter-Fraternity Pledge council and the InterFraternity Council.

In the basement of the fraternity house Norm has his own transmitting and receiving station, call letters W7KCS. He is a holder of a first-class radio-telephone operator's license.

Norm is engaged to Harriet D eaver of the College of Pacific, and plans to get married sometime in the near future.

Our best wishes are with you Norm - Good Luck!!!!

Dudley Johnson Vermont The Vermont Chapter has chosen Dudley C. Johnson, Jr. , as their outstanding senior for 1952.

Dud who hails from Meriden, Conn., is one of our charter members. He was very active in getting the colony established on campus and he deserves much of the credit for the excellent standing we now have as a chapter.

For the last year and a half Dud has done an outstanding job as our Venerable Dean. Prior to that he served at different times as Senior D ean, Junior D ean, and Inter-fraternity Council representative.

Dud graduated this February with a degree in economics, but any plans to apply his knowledge will have to be postponed as he is currently on Parris Island as a guest of the United States Marines.

We know that Dud will continue to be a credit to Acacia and we all wish him the best of luck in the years ahead .

Duane Russell Ohio The Acacia Chapter of Ohio University selected Cash Duane Russell, a senior majoring in Industrial Engineering, as their oustanding senior of 1952.

Duane, who has always been very active in fraternity affairs served as Venerable Dean dur ing the fall semester . His other fraternity activities include holding the posts of corresponding secretary in the fall of '51,

social chairman, spring of '51, and chapter photographer, 1951 and '52.

He was also a member of the house, rushing, and Greek Week Committees. Cash, as he prefers to be called, was the driving force behind our all important J-Prom Campaign in 1950.

Campus-wise Cash numbered among his activities Inter-Fraternity Council, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Ohio Society of P rofessional Engineers. H e was also Public Information Officer of the Pershing Rifles and Co-Chairman of the Ohio University F ootball Cheering Card Section.

Russell, who makes his home in Newcomerstown, Ohio, has been an Acacian for 2% years.

Lloyd Hayner Cornell Sixteen thousand people visit Cornell's Farm and Home Week each year to learn what is new on the Ag campus. Lloyd Hayner has worked on the week four years, hitting the top this year as general chairman. Lloyd gets to the top of everything he's in without treading on anyone's toes.

No one can dislike him, least of all Evelyn Dunham whom he married last summer. Since then the Hayners have been in steady demand as Acacia chaperones. Lloyd doesn't live in the chapter house, but he keeps in good contact with it.

During his four years in Ag Engineering, Lloyd has been well rewarded for his sunny disposition and his wholehearted participation in activities . He has been elected to Hoh-nunde-kah , the agriculture honorary society, and has served as its secretary.

He has been elected to the Ag-Domecon council, the student council of the Agriculture College. Even in his sophomore year he. was president of the student dairymen's league organization.

School means teaching as well as study to Lloyd. He teaches three sections of "Ag Eng 10," a unique course in mechanics for Home Ec girls. He shows them how to do everything from stopping a faucet leak to changing tires. H e hasn't fooled his wife into doing men's work, though . The other day we found him down under putting a new muffler on the family car.

The 27th Conclave Chicago, Illinois AUG. 31 . SEPT. 3

Fraternity Public Relations Extract from the Fine Panel Discussion Held as Part of the 1951 National Interfraternity Conference UTSTANDING among the program features of the 43rd session of National Interfraternity Conference was the panel discussion on "Fraternity Public Relations," conducted by Clifton W. Phalen, Phi Gamma Delta, chairman of the NIC Committee on Public Relations. Members of the panel were Richard Powell, a Princeton graduate, assistant to the president of N. W. Ayer & Son; John W. Vann, worthy grand chief of Alpha Tau Omega; and Clyde S. Johnson, executive secretary of Phi Kappa Sigma, who replaced J. H. Newman, dean of administration of the University of Alabama, who was not able to be present because of illness in his family.

Asked to give the basic reasons for the existence of college fraternities and to show how they concern public relations, Mr. Johnson stated that the Interfraternity Criteria places fraternity men under obligation to help members grow intellectually, physically, and socially; to be loyal to the colleges; to stand for conduct consistent with good morals and good taste ; to be concerned with scholarship; to be interested in sound business practices, including the payment of bills; and to provide wholesome, safe, and sanitary housing for students.

Mr. Vann emphasized scholarship as one objective and added the training of a man to live with his fellow man and to be a good citizen on his campus, in his community, and in his state, following the real American way of life. He suggested the e~ter­ tainment of foreign students in chapter houses so that they might secure a better understanding of the people in this country.

Then Mr. Phalen turned to Mr. Powell, asking what effect would these points have on fraternity public relations, and the panel give and take was on.

Mr. Powell: Certainly scholarship and good conduct are tremendously important. However, we shouldn't overlook the great importance of participation in community affairs. That not only is excellent training in good citizenship, but it is also extremely newswor thy and produces good public relations.

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Mr. Vann: Alpha Tau Omega certainly is not the only fraternity that is doing things like this. Just the other day I noticed that the Phi Kappa chapter at Emory University is providing crutches for persons who have no money to buy them. In order to get a unified program going the best approach is on the local level, through interfraternity councils and with the support of the deans on the campuses. I think you will find it will also spread within each fraternity. This year we will have from seventy-five to one hundred of our chapters participating in projects of this kind, whereas last year we had around fifty.

Mr. Phalen: Mr. Johnson, how can fraternities best cooperate with the colleges?

Mr. Johnson: The thing to do is to encourage our chapters . to get acquainted with their local college public information services and to work with them.

When Life, Look, Peek, or Pix

come to our chapters and want to take sensational photographs let's each get the chapters to refer those men to the college public relations man. He is right in their own backyard. Don't refer them to a national fraternity office. We can count on these college public relations people on their own campus to deal with these problems effectively and to prevent some of the things that are negative.

Mr. Phalen: Mr. Powell, what sort of a press have fraternities been receiving?

Mr. Powell: As I didn't want to come with guesses as to what sort of a press fraternities have been getting, we actually made some fact surveys on the matter. We checked all the clippings in the libraries of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Evening Bulletin covering fraternity mentions in those newspapers between the years 1940 and 1950.

Those clippings are 60 % unfavorable to fraternities. The unfavorable sto-

"ANGELS FROM HELL WEEK" Kansas Acacians demonstrate Human Service-and expand their pubHc relations program-by helping a family in North Lawrence after last year's disastrous flood.

Further detatls on page 49.

The Triad, Spring, 1952 ries were much longer than the favorable ones, and generally on the front page, whereas the favorable ones were on inside pages. The unfavorable stories were highly dramatic and had undoubtedly a tremendously greater impact on the public than did the favorable stories.

S o the press that fraternities have been receiving for the past ten years has been quite unfavorable. In 1951 you have had the worst press of those ten years as far as fraternity hazings and Hell Week are concerned.

Mr. P halen: What would you say that the ¡ local chapters could do to establish better relations with the press?

Mr. P owell: The first thing would be for the local chapter to set up a public relations or press relations committee. The fraternity press representatives could go to the college publicity bureau and get technical advice as to how to conduct a public relations program, how to get stories into the papers, what are newsworthy stories, and what is the proper channel for getting a story in a local publication. The channel will vary in local cases: the campus correspondent for a newspaper; the college publicity bureau; direct contact with the newspaper, radio station, or television station concerned.

Mr. P halen: Mr. Vann, you have mentioned to me that an important thing is for fraternities to help in emergencies in the community. Have you anything to say on that?

Mr. Vann: Life magazine pictured how all the fraternities on the University of Kansas campus had pitched in and done ' real community service in regard to flood relief. This is another instance where a widely circulated magazine gave good publicity to something they thought was extremely worth while. Later Mr. Phalen resumed by saying: Mr. Vann mentioned Karl D etzer's article in the Reader's Digest on "The Metamorphosis of Hell Week." Responsibility for that I learned from Mr. D etzer can be credited to Indiana University's publicity bureau . The fraternity chapters created the original events, but they were not going out and getting the national publicity, probably because they had no idea how to do it. The college news bureau did the job in that case', but I am not sure that every college has an excellent news bureau and that the fraternities can always rely on the college news bureaus to do all of their jobs for them.

Mr. Phalen: Mr. Johnson, what is the value of open houses on the campus and the value in particular

59 in cementing relations with college administratbrs?

Mr. Johnson: All of us have a tendency to think of public relations chiefly in terms of the press, but there are other media concerned. We need to analyze our job in terms of the various publics that we are interested in reaching. There is the public of parents. When fraternity chapters do a good job of opening their homes to the parents through mothers' clubs and parents' affairs, letting them come in and see fraternity life as it is, I am certain that that will have a very good effect for positive community relations. We should be doing more along that line.

The alu mni relations program can also be mentioned.

Mr. Phalen: Mr. P owell, I have two questions: What can we in the college social fraternity learn from the public relations efforts of some of the large fraternal organizations not in the college world? What kind of public relations program would you recommend for a fraternity?

Now these non-college fraternal organizations have an excellent reputation with the public. The change has come as the result of their discontinuing whatever activity used to bring criticism and starting to engage in huge activities in the public interest, projects that cover almost every field of service from hospitals for crippled children and homes for the aged through education, health, safety, and citizenship. In almost every case the project is directed from the national level. Five of the organizations use full-time paid public relations staffs.

My first recommendation would be that you install some kind of a national program, thus giving direction and continuity to public relations activities and to a solution of your problems. It should be handled on a full-time paid basis because you can't expect volunteers to give the amount of time that would be necessary. The extent of such a program naturally depends on how much money you have available.

A minimum program would involve your hiring one public relations man and a secretary. A more extensive program might involve building up a staff, or assigning the job. to an agency with public relations experience. Even with the minimum program I am sure you could do a great deal starting from the national level.

Your minimum program could provide direction and continuity to the efforts of fraternities and their local chapters to get good public rela-

tions. It could, among other things, publish a bulletin to sell fraternities and local chapters on the need for their program. Such a publication could bring them news of what other fraternities and chapters are doing, tell them of projects that could be undertaken, outline the projects for tpem, and instruct them in detail how to get publicity and how to get full public relations v a 1u e from their projects.

There is one more thing that such a minimum national program could certainly do, and that is handle your contacts with national news media, newspapers, magazines, the wire services, news and feature syndicates, radio and television networks, news reels, and so on. It would seem that is badly needed, and under such a program you could indoctrinate some publications to get in touch with you when they have questions dealing with fraternities.

Mr. Phalen: It is interesting that the remarks of the various panel members really seem to boil down to this, that we should have an integrated public relations program that might divide itself into three parts: First, we have to be sure we do a good job, particularly, among other things, in the field of scholarship" good citizenship, and good moral conduct. Second, it is most important that we improve our techniques insofar as handling press relations is¡ concerned, and I use the word press¡ very broadly. And, third, that we at least ought to give serious consideration to some kind of a national effort.

Although this panel was unrehearsed, it is interesting to me that the third point about making some kind of a national effort to supplement our local efforts got emphasis right at the end of our discussion.

The reason for that particular interest is that I have a report here that was prepared by the Institute Committee of the National Interfraternity Conference of whiro h C. Robert Yeager is chairman. He asked me to summarize it in connection with the panel discussion.

The report starts out by saying, "Fraternities will exist only as long as they serve a useful and constructive purpose." It further says, that "unless some foundation can be actively supported by the members of the Greek letter fraternities in order to improve the standards of public relations, the fraternity system as known today will slowly, but surely disappear."

The report continues: (Continued on page 80)

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Col. Lucas Heads Intelligence Staff for 45th Infantry Division Lieut. Col. J ohn D. Lucas, Oklahoma A & M, is serving in Korea as division intelligence officer for the 45th "Thunderbird" infantry division.

He took the job shortly before the former Oklahoma National Guar d division left Japan for duty in Korea in December, 1951.

Colonel Lucas, whose home is in Ada, Oklahoma, commanded the 108th Infantry regiment's third battalion through training in Japan. He had commanded the regiment's first battalion when the Oklahoma National Guard was called to active duty in September, 1950. After attending the advanced infantry school at Fort Benning Georgia, he rejoined the division in June, 1951.

Brother Lucas has been in and out of the Guard division since 1936 when he first joined it while attending A & M. He was released from the Guard to finish college when the 45th Division went to federal service in 1940. He spent most of World War II with the 91st Infantry Division, in the 362 Infantry Regiment. He fought through North Africa and Italy and was released from active duty in J anuary 1946.

When the 45th Division was reorganized in 1946 as the Oklahoma National Guard, Colonel Lucas was on the spot; h e was commanding officer of Company C of the 180th in Ada .

Later he became the first battalion's traini ng officer, then executive officer, and finally battalion commander.

As a civilian, Colonel Lucas was a field representative for the State Veterans Department of Oklahoma, from which he took time off in 1950 to attend the Command and General Staff school at Ft. Leavenworth, K ansas.

His wife and two children live in Blackwell, Oklahoma , w h ere she teaches high school English while her husband is on active service.

200 Acacians Celebrate

Hoosier State Day One of the finest traditions of the Fraternity was perpetuated and celebrated on March 29th when about 200 active and alumni members of Acacia a embled in the Severin Hotel of lndianapoli to renew the bonds of brotherhood and celebrate " State Day. A majority of the actives from each of the three chapters in the state, Indiana. Purdue, and Evansville were on hand to meet with alumni from man chapter , and with several repre nlative from the headquarters

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the World Over staff who came down from Evanston to see how it was done.

Everyone was a champion in the knife and fork league as the gang downed a solid lunch built around swiss steaks. When this had been polished off, Charlie Millspaugh, president of the Indianapolis -alumni association greeted the brothers and turned the program over to toastmaster Stanley Green . Main speaker was author, editor, and public relations man David W. Bowman, who told the actives how to get along with alumni and then gave the alumni advice on getting along with actives. The Venerable Deans of the three state chapters told of the progress made since the last meeting and each of the chapters presented some college and fraternity songs, for which Indiana Chapter was awarded the trophy for best allaround p erformance. The meeting closed with the traditional ceremony devised for the Day, and led this year

by Leslie E. Howell. ln the evening the more energetic brothers and their ladies re-assembled for a dance at the Starlight Terrace of the Severin.

Chairmen of committees for the Day were Arthur D . Lautzenheimer , Wayne Guthrie, Adolph Emhardt, J r. and H . V erie Wilson. Tom Ayton, the long-time secretary-treasurer of the Indianapolis alumni association did his customary fine job of keeping tabs on the members and keeping the books in balance.

Chicagoland Alumni Association Attendence at the Ch i c agoland Alumni Association meetings has been increasing, reports Ralph H offman, Secretary. At the February meeting Joe Wilson presented a sports program

which included several members of the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team.

The March meeting featured the director of the psychiatric outpatient clinic of Mount Sinai Hospital, a most appropriate speaker for the deadline day for filing income tax returns. A new directory has been prepared and the association is now making plans for Founders Day and for several summer rushing picnics and parties.

Otis Young Publishes Book on History of the Southwest Otis E. Young, a 26-year-old graduate student at Indiana University, and an alumnus of the Indiana Chapter, is the author of a book on Southwestern American history that was published April 1 by the Arthur H . Clark Company.

The book, "The First Military Escort on the Santa Fe Trail 1829" from the journal and reports of Major Bennet Riley and Lieut. Philip St. George Cooke, was written by Young as a thesis for the master's degree in history at Indiana University.

Young did much of the research for his first published work in the Robert E. Ellison collection of western Americana in the Indiana University library.

Young, who acquired his interest in the history of the Southwest from residence in the area and during World War II A rmy service, is a native of Mount Vernon, Ind . His parents now reside in Mount Vernon, Iowa, where his father, Dr. Otis E. Yow1g, Sr., is head of the education department of Cornell College.

With his first book accepted , the young author is at work on a second, "The West of Philip St. Geo rge Cooke," which he will submit for his thesis toward the doctor's degree in history under P rof. 0. 0 . Winther, assistant dean of the I. U . Graduate School and also a published author on history of the old Southwest.

The subject of Young's book was a cavalry general who wrote the drill and tactics book that was followed by the U. S . Cavalry through the Civil War period. Although G en Cooke has become obscured in history, his sonin-law, J. E. B. Stuart, is remembered as one of the most colorful generals of the Confererate Army.

Young's book is one of a series of history volumes written on the Indiana campus in the last several years in which the authors utilized the University's collection of Americana, one of the outstanding in the Middle West.

These include Kenneth P . Williams' "Lincoln Finds a General" and R. Carlyle Buley's "The History of the Old Northwest."

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61 work for the McGaw-Hill Book Company as a sales representative in the Educational Department. In 1935 he joined the International Textbook Company in a similar capacity and for five more years travelled throughout the United States calling on college and university professor s.¡ His rapid rise to the presidency of I. T . Co. and I. C.S. began early in 1940 when he was appointed assistant manager of the College Textbook Department. A year late.r he was manager, and two years later associate director of per sonnel for the entire company. In 1944, he was appointed director of personnel and less than a year afterward was elected vicepresident.

"The World's Largest Educational Institution" Headed by Acacia's Lawrence Tice I n the twenty-five years since he was Venerable D ean of the University of Wisconsin Chapter of Acacia, L awrence W. T ice has had a successful career in education, book publishing and personnel work. Today he is known to millions of Americans as president of the world 's largest edu cational institution-the International C orrespondence Schools of Scranton, Pa. When Life Magazine saluted Brother Tice on his election to the presidency of International Textbook Company and its affiliates, the International C orrespondence Schools, International Correspondence Schools Canadian, Limited, and Haddon Craftsmen, Inc. in 1949, and when he appeared on I.C.S. alumnus Arthur Godfrey 's television program the follow ing year, he was especially pleased to receive letters from many br other Acacians with whom he had lived and worked at Madison.

T ice was born in 1903 in Rush Lake, Wisconsin, and graduated in 1923 from the Oshkosh Normal School. After two years of teaching in the Milwaukee Educational School, he entered the University of Wisconsin in 1925.

He received his Bachelor of Science D egree in Industrial E ducation in 1927 and the Master of Science degr ee in Education in 1929.

D uring his four years at Madison he was a member of the Engineering Faculty of the U niversity and served as part-time instructor in the engineering shops. He also assisted in th e University Extension D ivision and taught high school courses. He is a member of P hi Delta Kappa, honorary educational fraternity .

After Wisconsin, Mr. Tice went to

In 1949, Acacian L awrence Tice became executive vice-president and in October of the same year was elected president; seven months later he was also elected chairman of the board of directors.

H e is a member of the Board of Directors of the Scranton Chamber of Commerce and has served as chairman of the State and National Affairs Committee; a member of the budget committee of the Scranton Community Chest; a member of the B oard of F amily Welfare Service and past pr esident of the T ri-County Personnel Association, an organization of personnel directors in the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre industrial area.

Mr. T ice looks back on his years in the Acacia house at th e U niversity of Wisconsin not only as a pleasant experience, but also as a very important and useful one. He believes "The mutual give and take relationships of fraternity life are an integral par t of a young man's training, as there is no quality more valuable than the ability to wor k with people."

L eslie R. Olson, Minnesota, is one of the eleven district gover nors of Lions International in California and has some 54 clubs under his supervision.

After many years as a practicing chemist and staff member of flour mills in Minnesota , he moved to San Jose, California in 1945. Her e he operated a camera shop until1951 when he retired to devote all of his time to his work with the L i0ns. While in Minneapolis he was an active alumnus of the Minnesota Chapter and served for a number of years on the alumni board of directors.

Announce Retirement of Frank Hill, Oldest Track Coach in Big 10 A great tradition at Northwestern University comes to an end this June when Brother Frank Hill, Northwest e.rn, r etires as track coach after 32 years of ser vice in that capacity. His coaching career has been marked by a long series of champions in every event, but his specialty was hurdlers ; Bill Porter, 1948 Olympic winner, was his pride and joy.

Frank has always been known for his candor and ready wit. He earned his nickname "Hurry Back" at a cross country race held on the wind-swept course along the shores of Lake Michigan on a raw fall afternoon. One of his runners asked the coach just before the race if he had any last minute instructions. From behind his coat collar, turned up against the biting wind, Hill was heard to say: "Just this one thing, young man ... hurry back." This same sense of humor has made him a favorite at the Acacia house where he is annually called upon to tell pr ospective p ledges some humorous sidelights of life at Nor thwestern.

In announcing his impending retirement, athletic director Ted P ayseur said of Brother Frank, "The great number of champions he has produced and the inspiration he has been to athletes in every sport have contributed gr eatly to the spir it and character of Northwestern athletics. Frank Hill has won an enduring place in the hearts of all his many associates at the university ."

FRANK HILL

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Madison's Former Mayor James Law Dies James R. Law, Franklin, chairman of the Wisconsin highway commission and a former mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, died on March 14, 1952, in Milwaukee.

Law was born in Madison in 1885.

He took an architecture course at the University of Pennsylvania from 1907 to 1909, becoming a member of Acacia at that time. He then returned to Madison where he started his own architectural firm in 1914.

The Madison city council elected Law mayor in 1932 to fill an unexpired term, and although he had had little experience in politics before then, he held the office until 1943. At that time he was appointed chairman of the state highway commission.

As highway chief, Law spearheaded the drive to segregate highway funds from the general fund so that they would be used exclusively for highway purposes. He was a champion of big spending for state highways.

He was a former president of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities and a director of the Wisconsin Life Insurance Co. He is survived by his wife, 2 daughters, three grandchildren, three brothers and a sister.

The executive secretary of the Wisconsin Road Builders' Association said: "The citizens of Wisconsin have lost a great servant of the people and a leader in the highway field. Mr. Law's contributions to highways in Wisconsin will long stand as a monument to his far-sighted ability to plan soundly and impartially with absolute integrity for the entire state."

Arthur Capper, Long-Time U. S. Senator From Kansas, Passed Away at 86 Former United States Senator Arthur Capper, a member of the Kansas State Chapter of Acacia, died on December 19, 1951, after a notabl~ career as a public official and publisher of newspapers and farm journals. He had served as gover nor of Kansas from 1915 to 1919 and then spent the n ext thirty years in the United States Senate where he became one of its most influential and respected member s, particularly in agricultural matters.

A printer and newspaperman by pr ofession, Arthur Capper became one of the leading publishers in the ¡midw est, and was known fa r and wide for the Capper publications which were found in nearly every farm home in the great agricultural center

of the nation. He was also publisher of the Topeka (Kansas) Daily Capital which is a highly respected publication.

Brother Capper was born in Garnett, Kansas, on July 14, 1865. He grew to manhood in Garnett, learned the printer's trade, and started as a compositor for the Topeka newspaper.

In eight years he had become publisher of the Capital and began expanding into the field of farm publications, of which Capper's Farmer became the most famous. He maintained his active interest in his many publications until the time of his death.

Russell F. Becker, Illinois, has been appointed Assistant Chief of the Dairy Products, Poultry and Yeast Branch, Headquarters, Quartermaster Market Center System, in Chicago, Illinois. In this capacity he will handle the procurement of dairy products and poultry for the military installations in the mid-western area, and is assistant to the chief in charge of all domestic ;:md export procurement of perishable foods for all military installations.

Prior to his new appointment he was New York Branch Chief of the Dairy and Poultry Section of the Quartermaster Market Center System.

Dr. Cecil L. Eisaman, Indiana, died at his home in Marion, Indiana, after an illness of several years. Dr. Eisaman was a graduate of the Indiana University Medical School and served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy during World War II.

Fraternity Month Features Articles on Financing of Chapter Houses

ARTHUR CAPPER As a senator, Arthur Capper became the spokesman for the farmers of the middle west. He had a great sense of justice and was interested in many organizations of a humanitarian nature. He was one of the founders of the 4-H Club moveme:nt, was on the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America for many years, and was a member of the National Board of the American Red Cross. In the passing of Brother Capper the Fraternity and the nation have lost a great leader:

Our sympathies are extended to Brother George E. Nitzsche, a founder of the Franklin Chapter, whose wife, Elsa, passed away on March 20 in Philadelphia. Mrs. Nitzsche was a noted artist, author, and lecturer and had traveled widely during her entire life. Among her pain.tings were several which hang on the walls of the Franklin ch'a pter house. Particularly during its earlier days, she took an active interest in the Franklin Chapter.

Starting with its April issue which emphasized housing and building, the well-known Fraternity Month magazine is featuring a series of articles by Ray Thomas, formerly National Counselor of Acacia. This series summarizes brother Thomas' extensive study into the field of fraternity house financing and building, made while he was a member of Acacia's National Council. Serving as a basis for the articles is the experience of the alumni of the Indiana Chapter which is housed in a magnificent building along fraternity row in Bloomington.

It is understood that the series of articles, when completed in about two years, will be brought out in a booklet by the publisher, Leland F. Leland.

Such a booklet should be a valuable addition to the fraternity library and should be a real guide to many alumni groups who are contemplating the raising of funds for chapter house building purposes. Brother Thomas' discussion of the relative merits of different methods of fund-raising should enable future generations to avoid many of the pitfalls experienced by previous alumni campaigns.

Ray Thomas is a prominent lawyer in Gary, Indiana, and at the time of the preparation of this article, was a candidate for the Board of Trustees of Indiana University. A member of the Indiana Chapter, he is the father of Joe Thomas, also an Indiana Acacian.

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Freedom Foundation Award Goes to George Magenheimer for Editorial EORGE MAGENHEIMER, Northwestern, on February 22 was awarded the 1951 Freedoms Foundation merit medal and $1000 cash award for the best editorial of the year in support of fundamental American liberty. Brother Magenheimer is associate editor and chief editorial writer for the Peoria Journal in which the prize-winning editorial appeared.

The presentation of the award was made at historic Valley Forge, Pa. , in an impressive Washington's Birthday ceremony. The presentation was made to Mr. Magenheimer by Dr. Robert A . Millikan, famed scientist of the California Institute of Technology.

The following is the text of the winning editorial:

G

The Best In The World Sometimes we get disgusted with the way things are going in the United States.

We don't like the way our taxes are going up, another boost next month that's going to make us pull in our belts and refigure the family budget.

We don't like the way the government is being run by a bunch of men who seem more concerned with getting mink coats for their wives or 12pound hams for their tables than in giving honest, conscientious service to their country. We don't like these almost daily revelations of corruption.

And we don't like the trend toward socialization that is observable in our government, with more ¡and more power going to Washington and less and less being reserved for the individual states.

We know we're not alone in this feeling of disgust, because we hear other people talking about it, too. We even hear some of them say that they'd like to pull• up stakes, give the United States back to the Indians and go away someplace where things would be more to their liking. That's a pretty broad statement to make and we don't believe that any of them really mean it when they talk about going somewhere .else.

The United States has a lot of faults and we're deeply concerned over its future. If things are permited to go on the way they have been, with socialization increasing, corruption running rampant, taxes continuing to go up and inflation eating away everybody's pay, we don't quite know what the result is going to be.

But we don't know of any place

else we'd rather be. We don't know where our friends who say they'd like to go some place else think they would be better off than they are right here at home, as imperfect and irritating as conditions may be.

They still have a right to gripe about their government and the things it does in the United States.

They couldn't do that in Russia, or in Argentina, or in Yugoslavia. They still have a right to select the doctor or dentist they want when they need medical or dental treatment. They couldn't do that in England where there is socialized medicine.

They still have a right to belong to a labor union and to negotiate collectively about working conditions and wages. They couldn't do that in Russia or Czechoslovakia. They still have a right to attend the church they want to go to, or to stay home if they please. They couldn't do that in Russia, without fear that they might have to pay the consequences.

They still have a right to own whatever property they can buy and to do with it what they please, within reason. They couldn't do that in P oland. They still have a right to a fair trial in a court of justice if they do something wrong. They wouldn't have a right to a fair trial in many other countries.

If they are average Americans, they probably own their own home, or are buying it. They probably have an automobile, and a refrigerator, and a radio, and maybe a television set. And a bathtub, with hot running water.

They wouldn't have that if they were an average citizen in most countries.

They have a right to know what is going on in government, reported to them by a press that still has more latitude than that in most countries.

They can get together whenever they want to discuss national issues and if they want to disagree with those in high public office, they don't have to be afraid to voice their opinions. That isn't true in many other countries.

All these things, Americans have and enjoy. Some of these rights aren't as free and untrammeled as they used to be. Some of them are under attack by persons who would change the laws and who would impose some of the restrictions that prevail in other countries. But even so, they still exist in greater degree in the United States than they do in any other country on the face of the world.

The fact that the average American is so much better off than his brother

who lives in some other country, in any other country for that matter makes it difficult to understand why some people want things to b e changed. We owe our freedom and our prosperity to the American system, to the guarantee of rights that is written into our Constitution and to the kind of government that we have had all these years. Some people would change all that. They'd put us under the kind of a government that oppresses the Russian people, that brought Germany to ruination, that has threatened the survival of England.

They've made some progress because Americans have been asleep.

Controls introduced by government ¡ administrators have done much to hamper the free operation of industry. They have taken away much of the freedom of enterprise that has made this nation the greatest on earth.

In the guise of extending help to the states and individual communities, the federal government tries to dictate how state and local governments shall operate.

Government regulations have taken away some of the rights of the American press to freely print and gather news. Steps have been taken toward the introduction of the welfare state into American life, with the federal government regulating the lives of individual Americans down to the minutest detail. High taxes and inflation are destroying the incentive that was the dominating force in building American production to a peak undreamed of in any other country.

Conditions have changed and things aren't as they once were. Even so, Americans still are the most fortunate people in the world. Citizens of this country still may be proud of being Americans, but if they want to keep it that way, they are going to have to start to resist the encroachments of socialism. They are going to have to begin to fight. against centralization of the government. They are going to have to battle against the elimination of th e liberties guaranteed to them in the Constitution.

America still is far and away the best place in the world to live. It is ~orth fighting to keep it that way.

The 27th Conclave Chicago, Illinois AUG. 31 -SEPT. 3

((Wearers of the Jeweled Triangle'' Arizona Jeff D. Jones, Tucson, Ariz., No. 24; Lee H . Hickerson, Prescott, Ariz., No. 25; John C. Tverberg, Casa Grande, Ariz., No. 26.

Arkansas Lee W. Kidder, Fayetteville, Ark., No. 25; George Underhill, Jr., Springdale, Ark., No. 26; Robert I. Emmert, Atkins, Ark., No. 27; John M. Cooper, Pickens, Miss., No. 28; Charles W. Cooper, Texarkana, Ark., No. 29; Edwin L. Stuart, Melbourne, Ark., No. 30; Marlin H. Kinman, Fayetteville, Ark., No. 31.

California James E. Nicholson, Visalia, Calif., No. 467; Earl G. Rickers, Salt Lake City, Utah, No. 468; David J. Hammond, Compton, Calif., No. 469; Frederick 0. Foster, Jr., Corte Madera, Calif., No. 470 ; Ted W. Nelson, Sacramento, Calif., No. 471.

Cincinnati Richard A. Birnbaum, Springfield, Ill., No. 230; Howard E. Tefft, Parkersburg, W. Va., No. 231 ; George D. Hubbard, Canton, Ohio, No. 232; Ronald D. Dougherty, Indianapolis, Ind., No. 233; Bruce C. Edmonds, Watertown, N. Y., No. 234; Gale R. Whitacre, Beloit, Ohio, No. 235.

Colorado Richard E. Ahlborn, Boulder, Colo., No. 537 ; William J. Allen, Jr., Grand Junction, Colo., No. 538; Wesley G .

Clark, Denver, Colo., No. 539 ; John S. Copley, Sidney, Nebr., No. 540 ; Ronald A . Hankins, Los Angeles, Calif., No. 541; Robert L . Hartsfield, Denver, Colo., No. 542; Ward L. Hinrichs, Gurley, Nebr., No. 543; Neil E . Humburg, Boulder, Colo., No. 544 ; Ben M. Irvine, Pasadena, Calif., No. 545; John C. Lines, Salida, Colo., No. 546; Richard B. Myers, Jr., Avondale, Colo., No .

547· Michael J . O'Connell, Wheat Ridge, Colo., No. 548; Ralph M. Ross, Longmont, Colo., No. 549; Robert R. Schmoll, Denver, Colo., No. 550; Harry P . Stumpf, Mulvane, Kans. , No. 551 ; Philip M. Swerdfeger, Boulder, Colo., No. 552; Robert L. Treasure, Longmont, Colo., No. 553; Alfred H. Yondran, Liberty, N. Y., No. 554; Kenneth P . Ward, South P asadena, Calif., No. 555; Anthony C. Weinrott, New York, N. Y., No. 556; Mahlon T . Wilson, Mucla, Colo., No. 557; John W. Langley, Denver, Colo., No. 558.

Colorado A & M Ivan L. Lorenz, LaSalle, Colo., No. 37; David G. MeHaffey Pueblo, Colo., No. 38 ; James M. Meister, Loveland, Colo., No. 39; LaVern H . Michal, Flagler, Colo., No. 40; Thomas J . P at-

rick, Ft. Collins, Colo., No . 41; David F. Wait, Ft. Collins, Colo., No. 542; John H. Wallace, Denver, Colo., No. 43.

Cornell David L . Champlin, Binghamton, N. Y., No. 546; Joseph A. DeLario, Franklin Lakes, N. J., No. 547; James L. Freeman, Watkins Glen, N. Y., No. 548; Richard L. Hanks, Ithaca, N . Y., No. 549; Ernest ~· Mathews, Jr., Long Island, N. Y ., No. 550; David N. Schwardt, Ithaca, N. Y., No. 551; John A. Shepardson, Elmira, N.Y., No. 552; William L . Stevens, Westerlo, N. Y., No. 553; Frank F. Tetz, Elmira, N. Y., No. 554; Richard M. Townsend, Hartsdale, N.Y., No. 555; David P. Williams, Plandome, N . Y., No. 556; Lemuel B. Wingard, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa., No. 557.

Denver John D. Lay, Ulysses, Nebr., No. 133; Carl J. Dovel, Winchester, Va., No. 134; Howard W. Spute, Denver, Colo., No. 135; Larry Case, No. 136; John Densen, No. 137; Bob Johnson, No. 138; Victor Lund, No. 139; James Ritchie, No. 140; Clyde Zimmerman, No. 141.

Franklin John 0. Allin, Bethesda, Md., No. 523; Frederick A. Dodge, Jr., Natick, Mass., No. 524; Gerald H. Gilbert, Reading, Pa., No. 525 ; John A. Richards, Jr., Shillington, Pa., No. 526.

George Washington Harry E . Artz, Valley View, Pa., No. 279; Louis J . Tiches, Arlington, Va., No. 280; Robert R. Smith, Westerly, R. 1., No. 281; Paul G. Chenault, Eagle Grove, Ia., No. 282; Conrad L. Russell, Spearman, Texas, No. 283 ; Richard W. Hansen, Washington, D . C., No. 284; Norman Thurau, Fort Salonga, Northport, N. Y., No. 285.

Iowa James P. Morton, No. 365; William W. Waller, No. 367; Larry D. Haubrook, No. 368; Allen N. Thomas, No. 369; Edward R. Ahlquist, No. 370.

Kansas Kenneth E . Beck, Emporia, Kans., No. 597; Hubert Capps, Jr., Coffeyville, Kans., No. 598; Charles L. Tice, Summerfield, Kans., No. 599; William I. Maben, Winfield, Kans., No. 600; Ronald D. Duphorne, Sharon Springs, Kans., No. 601 ; Herbert R. Strunk, Highland, Kans., No. 602; Nelson E. Bachus, Abbyville, Kans., No. 603; Charles H. Dick, Hutchinson, Kans., No. 604; Oscar C. Chowning, Jr., Coffeyville, Kans., No. 605; James B. Glass, Overland Park, Kans., No. 606; Gary G. Hammer, Wichita, Kans., No. 607; Bernard A. Jones, Fort Scott, Kans., No. 608; George A. Daniels, Smith Center, Kans., No. 609; Walter V. Weber, Jr., Concordia, Kans., No. 610.

Kansas State Donald E . Sheets, Topeka, Kans., No. 393; John R. Brethour, Clay Center, Kans., No. 394; Jay M. Humburg, La Crosse, Kans., No. 395; Samuel E. Nickel, La Crosse, Kans., No. 396; Hans U. Hungerbuehler, Switzerland, No. 397; Robert E. Kind, Herington, Kans., No. 398; Herbert B. Funk, White City, Kans., No. 399; Keith L . Panzer, Lincoln, Kans., No. 400; Delbert D. Jepsen, Vesper, Kans., No. 401; Wayne E. Thies, Overland Park, Kans., No. 402; Samuel J . Hundley, Horton, Kans., No. 403; Clifford C. Bizek, La Crosse, Kans., No. 404.

Miami Charles C. Robinson, Baytown, Tex., No. 80; Harold M. Saunders, Cincinnati, Ohio, No. 81; Stanley E. Stephenson, Hamilton, Ohio, No. 82 ; Murray M. Whitaker, Hamilton, Ohio, No. 83.

Illinois

Missouri

Howard G. Pratt, Earlville, Ill., No. 757 ; Robert P . Hodam, Bement, Ill., No. 758; James A. Dreher, Oak Park, Ill., No. 759; James P. Wishon, Alexandria, Ind., No. 760; Bobby G. Story, Newton, Ill., No. 761 ; Walter E. Hayward, Genoa, Ill., No. 762; Philip W. Mahin, LaGrange, Ill., No. 763 ; Richard C. Rayburn, Champaign, Ill., No. 764; Charles E. Rockwood, Urbana, Ill., No. 765 ; John F. Beatty, La Moille, ill., No. 766; John G. Corliss, Chicago, lll., No. 767; Robert M. White, Sullivan, Ill., No. 768; Charles A. Covey, Jacksonville, Ill., No. 769; Andrew Ekblaw, II, Urbana, ill ., No. 770; John W. Wishart, Gary, Ind., No. 771 ; Clinton C. Spivey, Wilmington, Ill., No. 772.

Royce M. Smithson, No. 559 ; David L . Beem, No. 560; Roy F. Talbert, No. 561.

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Nebraska Neal E. Harlan, Hickman, Nebr., No. 520; Donald D . Mattox, Omaha, Nebr., No. 521; John R. Luethje, Waco, Nebr., No. 522 ; Neal E. Pohlman, Stanton, Nebr., No. 523 ; Charles V. Anderson, Blencoe, Ia., No. 524; Otto L. Apfelbeck, Wilber, Nebr., No. 525 .

New Hampshire John H. Meader, Dover, N . H., No. 193; George W. Shattuck, East Kings· ton, N . H., No. 194; Richard G. Kelley, East Kingston, N . H ., No. 195; John H. Jacobsmeyer, Portsmouth, N. H .,

The Triad, Spring, 1952 No. 196; John A. Wilhelm, S. Hadley Falls, Mass., No. 197 ; Robert W. Hayward, Lakeport, N . H., No. 198; George E . Holbrook, Winchester, N. H ., No. 199; Albert L. Marsh, Belmont, Mass., No. 200; Gilman D. Chesley, Rochester, N. H., No. 201; Leslie G. Kimball, Jr., No. Haverhill, N . H ., No. 202; Paul R. Oeser, Portsmouth, N. H., No. 203.

Northwestern Arthur M. Adams, Palos Park, Ill., No . 472; Bruce E. Haselton, Glidden, Ia., No. 473; Thomas L . Ballman, St. Louis Mo., No. 474; Donald D. Mueller, St. Louis, Mo., No. 475; Raymond W .

McNamee, Jr., Charleston, West Va., No. 476; Robert W. Gerstner Chicago Ill., No. 477 ; Donald J . Volle;, Berwyn: Ill., No. 478; Carlton R. Peterson, Chicago, lll., No. 479; Peter M. Husen, Evanston, Ill., No. 480 ; Warren F .

Fuqua, Chicago, Ill., No. 481; Louis H .

Laue, Rockford, Ill., No. 482 ; J ames J .

Stack, Berwyn, Ill., No. 483; P aul W. Willis, Berwyn, Ill., No. 484; Jack H .

Prost, Des Plaines, Ill., No. 485; George S. Pangburn, Jr., Beaver Falls, Pa., No. 486.

Ohio John F. Jewett, Sandusky, Ohio, No. 103; James E. Barkdull, Shelby, Ohio, No. 104; J ohn B. Hannen, Stubenville, Ohio, No. 105; James E. Shannon, Hornell, N. Y., No. 106; Franklin D. Lee, Omar, W.Va., No. 107 ; David C .

Bilsing, Upper Sandusky, Ohio, No. 108; Russell, A . Balser, Lilly, Pa., No. 109; Robert E. Kutscher, Massillon, Ohio, No. 110; Kamal M. Khan, Bagh-dad, Iraq, No. 111; Allan S. Baillie, Stubenville, Ohio, No . 112.

Ohio State Edward G. Spitz, Cleveland, Ohio, No. 585; William H. Schremp, Richmond, Va., No. 586; Larry L. Singer, Nellie, Ohio, No. 587.

Oklahoma Robert G. McCollum, No. 625 ; Joseph E. Hathaway, No. 626 ; B ruce M. Birrell, No. 627 ; Charles S. Liegerot, No. 628; Clarence G . Smith, No. 629 ; Robert Leal, No. 630 ; Ralph V. Enlow, Jr., No. 631 ; Myrle E. Greathouse, No. 632.

Oklahoma A & M Coy D. Dowty, Carnegie, Okla ., No. 312; Charles E. Durrett, El Dorado, Ark., No. 313; Gerald N . Hale, Tulsa, Okla., No. 314; Donald D . Honeyman, Stillwater, Okla., No. 315; Leslie R. Jones, Yale, Okla., No. 316; Ronald D .

Jones, Stillwater, Okla., No. 317 ; Alston K . McBride, Jr., Fort Smith, Ark., No. 318; Earl D. Piersall, Catesby, Okla., No. 319; Arlo Reinhold Schmidt, Stillwater, Okla., No. 320; Don P .

Thomas, Beggs, Okla., No. 321; Charles D. Witcher, Davis, Okla., No. 322; Donald A. Barchus, Scottsbluff, Nebr., No. 323; Eldon R. Bingenheimer, Clinton, Okla., No. 324.

65 Oregon State Leon F. Gordon, Salem, Ore., No. 169; Donald W. Kramer Corvallis Ore., No. 170; Daniel C. H~ddad, Port~ land Ore., No. 171; Donald L. MacKinnon, Jr., Juneau, Alaska, No. 172; Hubert W. Austin, Portland, Ore., No. 173; Wallace W. Dunn, No. Bend, Ore., No. 174; William R. Howe, Lyons, Ore., No. 175.

Penn State Stanley B. Thomas, Salisbury, Pa., No. 434; John E. Hoffman, Roslyn, Pa., No. 435; Thomas H. Irving, Saxonburg, Pa., No. 436; Charles E. Manwiller, Pittsburgh, P a., No. 437; Howard L . Hudson, Erie, Pa., No. 438; John R. Kaufman, New Cumberland, P a., No. 439; William M. Warncke, Chevy Chase, Md., No. 440; Charles W. Rohrbeck, State College, Pa., No. 441 ; Jackson M. K eirn, State College, Pa., No .

442; Peter V. Judd, Williamsport, Pa., No. 443 ; William M. Alden Hazleton Pa., No. 444; William L . Kil~er, Wells: boro, Pa., No. 445 ; Frank G. Kilmer, Wellsboro, P a., No. 446; Thomas D. Mcintyre, McClellan, Calif., No. 447.

Texas Fred Dishongh, Jr., No. 321 ; Clifford R. McTee, No. 322; Frank W. Cross, No. 323; Lee H. Dorfman, No. 324.

UCLA James R. Howard, Los Angeles, Calif., No. 69; Gerald D. Samuelson, Redondo Beach, Calif., No . 70· Richard G. Baker, Long Beach, Calif., No. 71 ; Lee R. Millard, Brush Prairie, Wash., No. 72 ; John S. Mays, Long Beach, Calif., No. 73 ; Howard G. Murley, Taft, Calif., No . 74; J ohn E. Marion, Bakersfield, Calif., No. 75 ; James C. Anderson, Pasadena, Calif., No. 76; John E. Nicholson, San Gabriel, Calif., No. 77 ; James E. Miller, Glendale, Calif., No. 78; J ames R. Retzlaff, Glendale, Calif., No . 79 ; Russell W. Shannon, Riverside, Calif., No. 80.

Vermont Victor H . Peterson, No. 25, (Deceased) ; Henry N. Orner Rh odesia So. Africa, No. 26. ' '

Purdue

Washington

Allan L. Darling, Indianapolis, Ind., No. 660; William R. McCain, Brookston, Ind., No. 661 ; Robert J. Teufel, Narberth, Pa., No. 662 ; Henry A. Birk, Indianapolis, Ind., No. 663 ; James G. Boyden, Gary, Ind., No. 664 ; J ack Carrell, Indianapolis, Ind., No. 665; Robert E. Combs, Princeton, Ind., No. 666; James G. Graham, Danville, Ind., No. 667; George R. Matyus, New Brunswick, N. J ., No. 668; John D. Milhous, Plainfield, Ind., No. 669; Donald H. Rupert, New Kensington, Pa., No. 670; Larry K. Tyler, Remington, Ind., No. 671; Claude C. Reeck, West Lafayette, Ind., No. 672.

Boyd J . McGee, Taco ma, Wash., No. 440; Charles E. Peery, Seattle, Wash., No. 441; James E. Friet, Seattle, Wash ., No. 442 ; John E. Nelson Tacoma Wash., No. 443; Burton Gowing: Dayton, Wash., No. 444; Jack L . Curtis, Pasco, Wash., No. 445 ; Clinton L. Hostetler, Jr., Seattle, Wash. , No. 446 ; Howard L. Stahle, Tacoma, Wash., No. 447; William J . Devery, Seattle, Wash., No . 448; Mark F . Andrews, Jr., Kelso, Wash., No. 449; Dennis G. Melander, Tacoma, Wash., No. 450.

Rensselaer Oliver R. Mitchell , No. 67; Laurence S. Bloom, No. 68 ; Edwin A . Weaver, No. 69; Charles J . Berg, No. 70 ; William F. Stocker, No. 71.

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Washington State William A. Madison, C ashmere, Wash., No. 146; James N. Archer, Sprague, Wash ., No. 147; Robert E. Willard, Whitier, Calif., No. 148; Malcolm L. Edwards, So. Bend, Wash ., No .

149; Marvin L. Wheeler, Clarkston, Wash., No. 150; Victor W. Rantala, Aberdeen, Wash., No. 151.

Southern California Wisconsin P erry L. Botkin, Jr., Sherman Oaks, Calif., No. 112; Everett H . Eddy, Jr., Los Angeles, Calif., No. 113; Robert E. Jones, Los Angeles, Calif., No. 114; James J . Kamp, Jr., Los Angeles, Calif., No. 115; Van Kirke Nelson, Los Angeles, Calif., No. 116; Charles L. Schroeder, Northridge, Calif., No. 117 ; Roy A. Silver, Inglewood, Calif., No. 118; Richard H. Stewart, ;Breckville, Ohio, No. 119.

Syracuse S tuart E. Stevens, No. 341, (Deceased) ; George L. Van Valkenburg, Salisbury Center, N. Y., No. 342.

Jerry H. Schachtschneider, No. 535; Karl F . Heimke, No. 536 ; Donald J. Hoeppner, No. 537 ; Guy G . Messing, No. 538 ; Norvin A. Knutson, No. 539 ; Dean T. Massey, No. 540 ; Donald W. Johnson, No. 541.

Wyoming Don E. Ludwig, Casper, Wyo., No. 103; Carlos G. Rodriguez-Lopez, Venezuela, No. 104; Kenneth R. Brittain, Cody, Wyo., No. 105; William A. Riedl, Laramie, Wyo., No. 106; Gary W. Riedl, Laramie, Wyo., No. 107; Floyd D. Harnage!, Casper, Wyo., No . 108.

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MARRIAGES Robert N. Faught, Cincinnati, to Miss Michael V. Bowdre of Daytori., Ohio, February 9, 1952.

Richard G. Irwin, Colorado, to Miss Joann Mugge of Des Moines, Iowa, December 28, 1951.

James S. Hogfeldt, Iowa S tate, to Miss Velva Ripkey, March 16, 1952.

Allen Honeyman , Kansas S tate, to Miss Carrie Shapland of Dighton, Kansas.

Donald Craig MacGregor, Michigan, to Miss Elizabeth Allen of Montrose, Michigan, F ebruary 2, 1952.

Conrad Johns, Missouri, to Miss Claire McGurty, Stamford, Conn. , on November 4, 1951.

Fred Vest, Missouri, to Miss Anita Martin, Tipton, Missouri, on December 31, 1951.

Norm Carver, New Hampshire , to Miss Helen Stecchi.

Gerald Sawyer , New Hampshire, to Miss Arlene Foley.

Charles Tufts, New Hampshire , to Miss Diane Morris.

John Walter Plattner, Northwestern, to Miss Laura Jean McCreary, Apr il 5, 1952, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Phil Efland, Ohio, to Miss Betty Humphreys of Por tsmo uth , Ohio, March 1, 1951.

Thatcher Hart, Ohio, to Miss Dora Ann Hawk of Hebbardsville, Ohio, December 25, 1951.

Dick Wilcox, Ohio, to Miss Virginia Mae Border of Millfield , Ohio, November 4, 1951.

William Dietz, Jr., Penn S tate, to Miss Carole Bashore, Schuykill Haven, Penn. , September 1, 1951.

George F rycklund, Penn S tate, to Miss Shirley Arner, Clarion, Penn., July 28, 1951.

F rank Rupp, Penn S tate, to Miss Mary K err, Erie, Penn., June 18, 1951.

Charles M. Parrish , J r., Purdue, to Miss Billie Marie Ballenger of Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 8, 1952.

Walt McClintock, Re nsse la er, to Miss Mary Rose Fusco, February 2 1952. ' Everett Henry Eddy, Jr., USC, to Miss Dolores Richter, December 15, 1952, at Riverside, California.

Kenneth Neil Gavel, USC, to Miss Patricia Berckaw, Winter, 1952, at Los Angeles, California.

Roger Kirven Stewart, USC, to Miss Joyce Canavan, F ebruary 15, 1952, in Los Angeles, California .

Charles R. Dishongh , Texas, to Miss Dorothea Bachemin.

John R. Wiley, Texas, to Miss June A. Williams.

Lloyd C. Williams, Texas, to Miss Edith L. Fletcher.

William Bennett, UCLA, to Miss

Marcella Sheff of Santa Monica, Calif., February 14, 1952.

Robert Schlemmer, UCLA , to Miss Joanne Paul of Los Angeles, Calif., December 29, 1951.

Ben Dotson, Washington, to Miss Pat Smith, April 5, 1952.

Howard C. Johnson, Washington, to Miss Dottie Moore, April 18, 1952.

Andy Ander son, Washington State, to Miss Margorie Valley of Shelton, Wash.

Hilton Jones, Washington State, to Miss Glenna Jean McKewen of Eugene, Oregon.

John Jones, Washington State, to Miss Mary Lou Layton of Olympia, Wash.

BIRTHS To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Best, Cincinnati, a son, Alan R. , October 23, 1951.

To Mr. and Mrs. John Gibbons, Cincinnati, a son, Thomas, November 21, 1951.

To Mr. and Mrs. Char les Hahn, Cincinnati, a son, Douglas C., July 29, 1951.

To Mr. and Mrs. John Larson, Cincinnati, a daughter, Linda L. , November 19, 1951.

To Mr. and Mrs. John Irick, Indiana, a son, James, March 1, 1952.

To Mr. and Mrs. David Wylie, Kansas S tate, twins, Douglas Gale and Gary Stephen, February 9, 1952.

To Mr. and Mrs. William L. Wynn, Michigan, a son, Allen James, March 17, 1952.

To Capt. and Mrs. Gene P. Baynes, Purdue, a daughter, Patricia Anne, December 21, 1951.

To Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ulrich USC a son, Andy III. ' ' To Mr. and Mrs. J ohn Johnson, UCLA, a daughter, Paula Ann, January 22, 1952.

To Mr. and Mrs. Lee K elso UCLA a daughter, Janet Lee, Febr~ary 28, 1952. ' To Mr. and Mrs. John Owen UCLA a daughter , Deborah Lynn, Februa~ 1952.

To Mr . and Mr s. Leslie Geer, J r., Vermont, a daughter.

men's, and it came through with a handsome plus 9 per cent. Rensselaer, a campus-first last year, was second out of 26 with plus 13 per cent. Only Oregon State, of the three reported, fell into the red; although it was number 8 among the 3'0 chapters on its campus, it was, nevertheless, 3% per cent below the all-men's.

The record at Denver is all the more notable when it is known that just a couple of years ago this chapter was one of the worst in the whole fraternity. By diligent effort, these men have acquired a respectable scholastic status. L ast year they were third out of eleven with a plus 4.58 per cent and they bid fair to do even better this year. One of th_ese days we expect to find that handsome trophy reposing on the Denver mantel, but of course, they will have to beat out the boys at RPI w ho indicate they will not quit, either.

Acacians in the Armed Forces These Acacians are reported since the last issue of the Triad Illinois Bob Burton, Navy.

Harry Schoch, Navy.

Eugene Segin, Marines.

Bill Weibmer, Navy.

Iowa State Richard Taylor, Army.

Missouri Robert Frey, Air Force.

Jack Hopple, Navy.

Robert Schneider, Army.

Owen P. Weise, Army.

Northwestern Benjamin F. Hill, Marines.

Ralph E. Wyand, Air Force.

Purdue Stan Ford, Army.

George Murray, Army John Nye, Army.

Texas Jack Graham Steel, Marines.

Early Scholarship Returns Show Promise of Success Early returns submitted by our consultant on scholarship, Col. Ralph W. Wilson, indicate that Acacia is at least going to maintain its last year's record of having at least two-thirds of the chapters above the all-men's average. During the first terms at their schools the Denver Chapter was one of the two on its campus (out of fifteen fraternities) above the all-

Vermont Pvt. Dudley Johnson, Jr., Marines.

Pvt. Dick Johnson, Air Force.

Washington Lt. Vernon Irvine Armstrong, Air Force.

Capt. J. Deatherage, Air Force.

Lt. Dean E. Helling, Air Force.

Lt. Donald Hinkson, Air Force.

Lt. Hilton A. Jones, Air Force.

Lt. John H. Jones, Air Force.

Richard J. King, Navy.

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Spring brought a surge of romance with its consequent pinnings and engagements. It also brought out the baseball bats, the rakes and sho-.,els, and the lawn chairs. For the seniors there begins the last term but for many an underclassman there looms the long arm of the draft 'ere three months pass.

Arizona Pledges are: Eugene Walker, John Ramsey, Thomas Humphrey, Richard Vermilyea, Conrad Erickson, R obert Greely, and Earl Meachum. Our two new initiates are Lee Hickerson and John Tverberg, also one new alumnus, Jefferson Jones.

A new era began in our chapter on January 7, 1952, for after many months of hard work we have hired a cook and are serving meals on a regular basis.

We have all worked together on the serving and the dishwashing to enable us to have excellent meals at a minimum of expense. This meal plan has resulted in excellent training with the chapter working together as a whole for a purpose which will last as long as the chapter does. All of the men seem well pleased with the meal system and are all doing their best to improve it in any way possible.

On February 22, 1952, the first annual work-day on the University of Arizona's campus was held. The object of the job was to level the football field at the Arizona School for the Deaf and the Blind. The pledges were on the job at 8:00 a. m. and were finished by 5:00 p. m. All 300 of them were tired, and

their hands were all covered with blisters, but they could look back on a job well done. The result of work-day was such a success that it will be continued on this campus for many years to come.

Socially, we have been active with numerous dances and picnics. Our novelty dance is on the theme of a backwoods ball. Everyone will come dressed as a character from Li'l Abner's Dogpatch a rea. Favors are to be garters with Acacia embroidered on them. Our Hill-Billy band and backwoods flavor are really going to make the effect complete. We have also had numerous birthday parties and informal get-togethers at the townsmen's homes. All of them were well attended and a good time was had by all.

For the first time on the University of Arizona campus, Acacia has made a showing in intramurals. Althou gh it is small we have let the University know that we are in there plugging. We have entered men in handball and volley-ball thus far. To date we have had fair luck and hope to do better as we gain in experience.

This last semester our house placed fourth in the scholastic rating of the fraternities here on campus. This semester we are aiming for the top of the list, and we have a good chance of reaching it as we have a capable pledge class who are all doing their best to

make their grades and to raise the average of Acacia.

An unexpected honor was bestowed upon us this St. Patrick's day when we were host to Judge George A . Malcolm at a banquet given in his honor at the chapter house on March 17, 1952.

Judge Malcolm was one of the Founders of Acacia at the University of Michigan in 1904; also he was Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands and President of the Philippine Bar Association. He has a distinguished record in the field of law and human service, and much space is devoted to him in Who's Who. Among the many distinguished guests were: G . M. Butler, past Dean of the College of Engineering ; Louis Slonaker, Dean of Men ; Rev. H. Garfield Jones, minister of the Methodist Church ; Judge Lee Garrett, Judge of the City of Tucson; Col. Thomas J. Netcher, base commander of Davis Menthan Air Force Base, Tucson; Glenn Guin, lawyer, City of Tucson; Leland D . Case, publisher of the Rotary Inte r national magazine and alumnus from Northwestern ; Rev. Paul D. Sholin, minister of the Presbyterian Church ; Floyd Thomas, representative of the College of Law ; and William G. Hall, President of the Pima County Bar Association.

We felt deeply honored to have such a distinguished man visit our chapter, for it is seldom that a chapter has the honor of meeting and talking to one of the Founders of the national Fraternity.

JOHN C. TUENBERG

California

ARIZONA Pictured at a banquet in honor of FoundeT George A. Malcolm a~e left t_o right: Peter Hussey, Venerable Dean; FoundeT Malcolm, and Ralph Guthne, preStdent of the Arizona Building Corporation.

With the addition of four new pledges, who are in the guiding hands of two second-semester pledges, the California Chapter of Acacia has begun the spring semester in fine fashion. The new pledges are: Jim Gracey, Jack P entfield, Bill Hughes, and Bill Stayten. With our newly installed year -around rushing program, we hope to supplement them with some new pledge brothers.

Just prior to rush week, five men, Earl Rickers, Jim Nickoleson, Dave Hammond, Fred Foster, and Ted Nelson, were initiated into the Brotherhood of the California Chapter.

Another new face around the house is our recently acquired cook. The cry now is, "Food is better than ever." With the aid of the Mothers' Club we converted a room into a powder room, for the girls during parties.

Al Samson is holding down a position

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CINCINNATI The traditional party foLlowing the Cincinnati-Miami game was a huge success as the crowd gathered in the living room of the Cincinnati house indicates. on the first shell in crew and he is hopeful of going to the Olympics. We have quite a representation on the rugby team, a total of four men. There are: Jack Keane, Derek Berridge, Ed Wilkins, and Jim Kidder. Jim is also first strin g end on Cal's football team. Bob Tanem has been recently appointed Activities Coordinator for the student body.

Our recent stag inaugurated the social activities for this semester. M en from six or seven other fraternities on the campus attended. Work is already underway for our annua l Gangster party, which promises to be a big success.

Everyone is looking forward to the beach parties a nd steak fry exchanges our Junior Dean, Jim Kidder, has arranged with Delta Zeta, Sigma Kappa , and Alpha GaJl11lla Delta sororities. Included in the social activities is a dance that is being given by the pledges.

An all-out alumni program has been initiated this year. It is not only for the grads of our chapter but includes the grads of all other chapters living in the Bay area. This progra m is to be highlighted by an Alumni banquet to be h eld on April 18.

We h ave been happy to h ave many visitors a r ound the house recently. Men from D en ver, Washington State, University of Washington, Missouri, Minnesota, Colorado A. & M., and U .C.L.A. Cha pters have put in a n appearance. Also, assistance was given to men from th e College of P acific colony on rushing a nd other activities.

Intramural sports have started off in a big way, with the baseball team in th e thick of the race. W e hope t o m aintain our position among the leaders in overall competition that we held last year.

To the delig ht of everyone in the house, the California Chapter came up

with a 1.7 grade point average last semester (3.0 perfect) . The scholarship standings have not been released but we expect to be on top of the fifty-two fraternities on campus. This ¡ will be a big jump from our position of 22nd which we held last year.

DoNALD

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CAMPBELL

Cincinnati With spring in the air, we here at Cincinnati are already looking forward to the coming year and we feel it will be successful under the direction of the newly elected officers. They are: Venerable Dean, Marion Tooley ; Senior Dean, J ohn Green ; Junior D ean, Chester Thompson ; Secretary, Thomas Kirk; Treasurer, James Lloyd; and House Manager, Howard Dunifon.

We recently pledged three new men: J. Douglas Hedde, Richard Nelson, and Robert Remner. Plans are now being started for a n intensified rushing program this fall.

On March 9, six new actives were added to the chapter roll: Richard Birnbaum, Ronald Dougherty, G. David Hubbard, Howard Tefft, and Gale Whitacre.

Howard Tefft was selected as the outstanding pledge. Following initiation, a banquet at the Mary Lee Restaurant was enjoyed by all.

"Greek Week" activities included redecorating of the bathroom under the watchful supervision of House Manager John Green, and canvassing the neighborhood for the Red Cr oss.

In order to relax the pledges from these and "other" activities during the week , the actives threw a stag party at

The Pub on Saturday night. The party was a great success but the 6: 30 rising time for Initiation Sunday certainly came around fast.

The pledge class presented the active chapter with a TV table for the set recently purchased. After three years of faithful service the old set just faded away. Each Big Brother was presented with a paddle by his Little Brother as a token of appreciation.

Socially, the first event following Christmas vacation was the Inter-Fraternity Pledge Council Dance at the Topper Club in Cincinnati. The Big Brothers and their dates were guests of their Little Brothers for a very enjoyable evening.

On February 16, the pledge class entertained the actives and rushees and their dates at a Valentine Party. After entering through a crepe paper heart the guests were treated to an evening of dancing, singing, TV viewing, and card playing.

In sports this fine weather brings out many of the boys to loosen up for the coming softball season. However, before spring fever takes over completely, intramural manager Hugh Lockhart plans to hold a ping-pong tournament. Intramural bowling has just ended and while our team didn't win the trophy, they had a lot of fun.

With graduation approaching, a word about our Seniors seems to be appropriate. This year we will be losing four men: Walter Ibele (retiring V.D.), Thomas Morse, Robert Rogers, and Charles Waddell (retiring S.D.). We all wish them luck and if their record in the Fraternity is any indication of later achievements, success should be theirs.

GALE

R.

WHITACRE

Colorado .

The pledging of John E . Belt of Cortex and David Stoufer of Collbran, the initiation of twenty-two new members, and the winning of the scholarship cup were a few of the events which highlighted the winter season at Colorado.

Our basketball team, coached by Jack Little, has ended a highly successful season. The team suffered only one defeat-a one-point overtime loss to the team which was second in the all-school tournament. The team's leading scorer was Phil Swerdfeger. Three of our men participated in intramural wrestling. The softball team, managed by Lysle Gust, has begun to practice and hopes to have a good year. An inter-chapter tabletennis tournament is now in full progress.

We were surprised and pleased when we returned from Christmas vacation to learn that our house decorations had won first prize in the first-year division of Boulder's decorations contest. Three large candles were mounted on the porch roof amid pine boughs, and various colored lights illuminated the porch.

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These, along with spotlights trained on the white brick, gave the house a very bright and Christmasy appearance. A great deal of credit goes to Bob Hartsfield who acted as chairman of the decorations, which were a pledge project.

The pledge and initiates gave a very successful "Nut Party" for the actives.

"Come As Your Wildest Dream" was the theme of the party; so, of course, there were many very unusual costumes.

Junior Dean T om Donaldson has planned a fine series of spring functions .

Included on his list are functions with Kappa Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Alpha Omicron Pi. For several weeks an eager group of about forty men has been practicing for the annual "Song Fest" held during "C.U. Days." The leader is Jim Murray, and Bob Bergheim has arranged the music. We hope to repeat our win of two years ago.

Ken Tufts, New Hampshire , stationed in Denver with the air force , has been visiting our chapter and helped with the initiation ceremonies.

George Croyle visited us for several days and made suggestions as t6 the ways in which we can improve our chapter.

In the recent blood donor program on the C.U. campus, Colorado Acacians were among the top organizations in both the percentage and in the quality of blood given.

WESLEY

winter quarter and now is holding down the first base position on the Varsity Baseball team.

The annual "Night On The Nile" dance was a big success. The costumes and house decorations were very authentic.

The dance seemed to receive a shot in the arm from each couple as dull moments were few and far between. The Acacia halls were filled to overflowing as an unbeatable turnout was expected and gotten from all members.

As the quarter ended several things were in the making, the m ost important of these being the election of new officers. They were as follows: Ralph Richey, Venerable Dean ; Keith Kirch hoff, Senior Dean; Lowell Houser, Junior Dean ; Luther Cr ess, Sec.; Robert Bartholic, Treas. ; a nd Elmer Bybee, House Manager.

Remodeling is the order of the day in the house at the present time. The study rooms and halls are receiving a face lifting, and I might add that the h ouse seems to smile back at you now.

Travel between classes will be a little wet and sloppy for about a week now as during spring vacation Ft. Collins received fourteen inches of snow, and it is still coming down .

The Chapter of Acacia at Colorado

Cornell Twelve pledges were initiated, not without leaving their mark upon the house. During initiation week, they touched up their project-a new lounge in wha•; used to be the cellar ; and they painted the house throughout-green in the living room, deep rose in the library , blue in the dining room, buff in the h alls. Since then a new automatic washer has been installed, and the pool table has been refurbished.

Just two days before initiation, Rod Munsey and Lew Mathews brought the winner's trophy back to the house in the first Interfraternity debate tournament. During the four-round tourn ament, they argued both sides of the question, "Should fraternities be compelled to eliminate discrimination?" One week later things were still at a high pitch with the Initiation Formal and houseparty a nd an energetic house election . The new officers are : Bob Baker.

V. D .; Lem Wingard, S. D .; Ken Lawrence, J . D. ; Ira Youngdahl, S. S. ; John Mallery, J. S.; John Gordon, Secretary; Bob Vanderhoek, Treasurer; Charlie

CLARK

Colorado A & M After returning from Christmas Vacation the Acacia Chapter here at Colorado A & M initiated seven new members to start off the Winter Quarter with a bang. The new members to wear the Acacia Triangle are: David Wait, David MeHaffey, Ivan Lorenz , Jim Meister, John Wallace, Tom Patrick, and Vern Michel, the latter being chosen "Most outstanding ple dge."

IM sports took the spotlight in activi· ties as the basketball and bowling teams took on their opponents with confidence.

The basketball team played very good ball through most of their schedule, but the depth of the other teams took its toll of Acacia's hopeful wins. The bowling team was a very strong contender through the entirety of the bowling league . At one time the bowlers built up a five series winning streak that was broken by a defeat of only a few pins.

Acacia's sports representation did not stop at IM. Three active members participated in Varsity sports. Don Osborne was captain of the Colorado A & M rifle squad on which he has won two letters. The bounce of Lou Houser was put to good use as he performed on the gymnastics team. New actives and fresh· man Tom Patrick, from Baltimore, Md., was on the Varsity Swimming team this

COLORADO Col.orado's costume party was hel.d this year with tlte theme "Co~e as your wiLdest dream ." Th e Boulder altitude evidently produces some very wtld dreams, and nightma1·es too .

A & M undertook the task of remodeling, painting, and repairing the ·home of a needy family at Ft. Collins, Colorado this quarter. Everybody pitched in a nd the results were shown by a letter from the Department of Public Wel fare, Ft. Collins thanking us for the work contributed in fine spirit.

Other projects of this kind are being planned for the future.

THOMAS

PATRICK

Geyh, Pledgemaster ; Doug Mcilroy, Editor ; Frank Tetz, Chaplain; and John Hayt, Sentinel. Somewhere in the midst of all this activity, Ken L awrence found time to get pinned to an Alpha Omicron Pi girl. (The way things are going around here, we'll all be attached to AOPi if we don't look out.)

Five men have pledged Acacia this term including: Edward Walter Laine, Lawrence Douglass Phillips, John Mil-

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70 ton Preston, Neil Francis Sharp, Lewis Richard VanOstrand. Phillips, VanOstrand and P r eston round out Acacia's contingent in the Big Red Band. Dave Hower , Manager; Dick Davis, assistant; Larry Phillips, Drum Major ; Don Payne, assistant; Jim Freeman ; Marv Townsend.

The chapter participated vigorously in the annual Interfraternity week, which included house officers' meetings, exchange' dinners (we were host to Alpha Zeta, Triangle, and Alpha Xi Delta), and an address by P r esident Mallott.

The week was climaxed by a one-day project where five hundred fr aternity men completely renovated a community chapel in an underprivileged section of Ithaca. This showing of interfraternity cooperation was one of the most enjoyable and gratifying efforts we have had a part in. We all had a wonderful time.

M. DouGLAs ·MciLROY

rado silver mmmg town. No one found any of the precious metal, but the serenity of the little mountain community was considerably disturbed.

Ex change dinners were held last quarter with three D .U . sororities-Sigma Kappa, Gamma Phi Beta, and Alpha Chi Omega. The chapter's Mothers' Club, w hich has been quite active, sponsored several pot-luck suppers, at which it was suspected some members ate for the first time in weeks, judging from the food they consumed.

Denver Taking over the helm as Venerable Dean of the D~mver Chapter of Acacia is Tom Watton, who was elected last quarter to succeed departing senior Jack Mehl. Watton has been a dynamo of activity this year, and he has proven already that he can cr ack the whip.

Tom has served the fraternity as treasurer and filled the post of rush captain this year. It was due largely to Watton's leadership that the chapter was able to win the coveted Homecoming float award last fall. Our new president is also active in Air R.O.T.C. affairs, being a member of the Arnold Air Society and P ershing Rifles.

Dale Fester was reelected to the post of Senior Dean. Fester holds the university's Outstanding Junior Engineering award and is Vice President of the American Society of Chemical Engineers.

Other newly chosen officers are : Terry Eakin, Rush Captain; Larry Case, Social Chairman ;· Ale x Campbe ll, Secretary ; Bob J ohnson, Treasurer; and Carl Dovel, House Manager.

Appointed officers are: Bill Leave!, Alumni Secretar y; J ack Dillon, IFC Represen tative; Vic Lund, Pledge Trainer; Nor m an Por ter, Sergeant-at-Arms; J ohn Denson , Assistan t Rush Captain ; Dick Thompson, Publicity Chairm an ; Clyde Zimmerman, Historian, and Jim Ritchie, TRIAD Corr esp ondent.

The distinctive social f unction of th e winter quarter was the annual "Nigh t on the Nile" costume dance. H eld at the chapter house, which was appr opriately decorated in th e m assive splendor of Egypt's past, the affa ir proved an ou tstanding s u ccess. Mem bers and guests were ar rayed in costumes that resembled, as much as good taste a nd modern mores allow, those worn by the ancients of th e sultry Nile River B asin.

A "snow picnic" was h eld during the quarter at Georgetown, historic Colo-

DENVER Jack Meh!, unabashed by winning the outstanding senior award, accepts tribute fr om his brother A cacians. L eft to right are: Jack DiHon, Car! Dove!, Meh!, BiH Casey, and Jack Leav el.

Six pledges became active during initiation held last February. They are: Larry Case, John Denson, Bob Johnson, Vic Lund, Jim Ritchie, and Clyde Zimmerman.

Winter quarter also saw the formation of a much needed alumni organization for the Denver Chapter. Officers of the group were chosen at the first meeting.

They are : Bud Genge, President; Don Lutz, Vice President; and Bill Pennington, Secretary-Treasurer.

JAMES D. RITCHIE

Evansville March w inds blew into Evansville a short time ago, and with th em five pledges, including P a ul Bingham, Donald Wallace, Samuel Laubscher , Robert L . Wilson , and Toshi T oguchi. · No doubt the m ost important item of business consider ed by the chapte r at this time was the a nnual ele ction of offic ers. When t he final ballot h ad been cast, we found F r ank Swallow at the Venerable Dean 's post, supported by F red Tism ar, Senior Dean ; Robert Haug, Junior Dean; Dutton MacBride, Secreta.ry, and J ack Bor en w ill handle the mon ey. Frank, a junior, r ecently retur ne d from several months' service in

Korea with the Marine Corps and now accepts another post of leadership. In his spare time he lives with his wife and small daughter near Rockport, Indiana. Congratulations, Frank, and more of the same to our other officers.

Acacia on the Evansville College campus is happy to be a member of the newly organized Inter-fraternity Council. Edwin Seibert, senior, is to be congratulated for his instrumental work in its •formation. The I.F.C., besides promoting harmony among the various fra ternities, seeks to provide adequate legislation and will annually establish a scholarship rating, presenting a . trophy to the fraternity ranking the highest.

No figures, however, are available at this time.

Recognizing the need for new ideas and advice on various chapter matters, several actives accepted an invitation from the Purdue Chapter and visited the boys on March 15. To be sure, everyone thoroughly enjoyed the trip and plans are being made to press into service many of the fine ideas received at that time.

Spring spells lawn improvement and everyone has been busy in this pursuit.

In addition to landscaping our own lawn, we have been also busy in serving our community and the college by planting and transplanting trees on the campus.

A great deal of publicity was received over this matter and the chapter feels more than rewarded for their hard and tiring work.

Our recent redecorating and house improvement program, including the purchase of a new refrigerator, was completed just in time to welcome Charles Jarrett, Indiana, and past Traveling Secretary. Charlie spoke to the group and his advice and counsel will prove to be of immense value. An informal discussion was held which certainly cleared up many matters and conflicting thoughts in the minds of everyone of us.

Charlie lived up to advance reports and provoked many a chuckle, and now living only a few short miles from us, we look forward to seeing him often.

For the first time, the chapter held open house for all the tri-state highschool seniors and the house was filled to overflowing.

The Evansville Chapter has certainly made great strides in the past year, and with the graduation of only nine seniors, w e can join in the Evansville College m otto, "We face the futur e, unafraid! " BoB CARTER

Franklin Approaching the final months of the season, Franklin Chapter has compiled a r ecord which a n y house w ould be proud to own. Franklin won great distinction scholastically by coming out first among the thirty -seven fraternities on campus two successive semesters, spring 1951 and fall 1951 to 1952. Not only were we first during these semes-

The Triad, Spring, 1952 ters, but also we won the Sigma Chi Foundation Trophy for showing the most improvement in scholarship during the same period. We were overjoyed to be so honored, and we look forward to maintaining this great Acacia tradition for many future semesters.

On March 8, 1952, Franklin Chapter initiated four new brothers: John Allin, Fred Dodge, Gerald Gilbert, and Allen Richards. Brother Dodge won an honor for Franklin Chapter as a pledge by winning the Pi Kappa Alpha Best Pledg-e Award this year.

Besides gaining top scholastic awards this ye ar, we have had a banner social season. The first outstanding event was the Christmas formal. We spent hours decorating the house for the dance, but the most memorable achievement was erecting a Christmas tree, fifteen feet high a¡nd twelve feet in diameter, which Brothers Jack Bechtel and Hugh DiPretore chopped down in the pine forests of southeastern Pennsylvania.

In January we had a "Record Dance" for which we all donned costumes representing current popular tunes. We had some pretty clever ideas presented, notably "The Little White Cloud that Cried," "Prisoner of Love," "Undecided," and "Sin." The party was such a success that we plan to have a "Record Dance" next year.

Before vacation rolls around, we are planning a busy social sche dule. On April Fool's Day we are inviting the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority from Temple University for a dessert dance. In May we will have our Spring Formal.

We are also looking forward to the an nual Alumni Banquet in the same month.

After initiation we held our annual elections ; our new officers are: Venerable Dean, John Crawford ; Senior Dean, John Marian ; Junior Dean, Leighton Jones; Secretary, John Allin; Treasure r , Allen Richards ; I.F . Representative , Fred Dodge; and TRIAD Correspondent, Gerald Gilbert.

We were sorry to learn of the passing of Brother John Howard Frick, 1910, and Mrs. George Nitzsche. Mrs. Nitzsche was the wife of Brother George Nitzsche, 1906, who is a charter member of Franklin Chapter, and who has done much t o build up our fraternity. Mrs. Nitzsche also was the artist who painted many of the pictures which adorn our house.

GERALD GILBERT

George Washington George Washington Chapter started the second semester off right this year by initiating five pledges into the active chapter. The new members are Dick Hanson, Norman Thureau, Paul Chenault, Conrad Russell, and Bob Smith.

Five new pledges filled up the gap !eft by the activation. They are Ed Degusie, Jack Bartsch, Don Bridges, and John Donnelly.

71 After the spring election, Roy Sweney turned the gavel over to John Cherry, the new Venerable Dean. Others elected were Robert Moss, Senior Dean; Robert Smith, Junior Dean ; Paul Chenault, Secretary; and Norman Thureau, Treasurer.

During the George Washington University Religion in Life Week program, Acacia was addressed by the Han. James R. Kirkland, Judge of the TJ. S. District Court of the District of Columbia.

Judge Kirkland is an alumnus of the George Washington Chapter.

A fre quent out-of-town visitor at the chapter house is Warner Martin, alumnus from the University of Iowa Chapter, Warner is presently stationed at Fort Lee, Virginia. Another Iowan, Chuck Thodt, is living at the house while stationed in Washington, D. C. The social season has been moving along well. Recently Acacia has had exchanges and coffee hours with Delta Gamma, Pi Bet a Phi, and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Other events included a "Bohemian" party, a "Full Moon" dance and a "1984" party.

The house basement has been undergoing a slight renovation. A store room is being converted into a dance floor to augment the "French Cabaret" style party room. Some finer bits of the painting program include reproductions of the Acacia crest, active and pledge pins, in the basement hall.

The George Washington Chapter is proud of two members, John C. Cherry, Jr. and Robert Moss. They were tapped for membership in the Gate and Key, a men's honorary. The ceremony took place at the Interfraternity Prom. Membership in the Gate and Key is won by outstanding leadership in fraternity activities.

PAuL CHENAULT

Illinois Although the we atherman is continually changing his mind as to the amount of snow or sunshine, spring is officially here. The semester is about half gone and the boys are looking forward to the social activities with expectancy and t e~ finals with apprehension.

Initiation was held on March 8 and fifteen more men are now proud wearers of the jeweled triangle . At the moment, we have five second semester and three new pledges. During initiation, "Hell Week" was turned into "Help Week."

The new initiates worked on a repainting project for a Negro church and also did repairing and repainting on the homes of two poor Negro widows. It w as a sharing project as the church supplied the paint and supplies and the Acacians supplied the labor. Everyone was pleased at the results and it has been suggested that this idea be carried out in the future .

The guest room has been completely redone under the able supervision of Art Hoelck. Walt Hayward has under-

taken the job of fixing up the lawn.

Undoubtedly, Walt will become known as "Keep Off the Grass' Hayward.

On March 5, we had a dessert exchange with Kappa Alpha Theta and a dessert exchange with Kappa Delta.

Both these exchanges were held at the girls' houses and the boys enjoyed a change of scenery.

The annual "Feud Dance" and "Tugof-War" with Alpha Kappa Lambda is to be held soon. The first week-end after Easter vacation will be Spring Carnival time and Acacia's entry will be "Bomb-a-Ship." These activities will be followed by our Spring formal and picnics at the surrounding lakes and parks.

ROLF A . CEDERWALL

Indiana Members of the Indiana Chapter are extremely active in nearly ever y phase of extra-curricular activities. Since the last issue of the TRIAD many men have received various honors and have become members of numerous organizations. Lee Marchant was recently elected to the Union Board, which probably has the most exclusive membership on the campus. Joe Shroyer and Don Gentry were initiated into the Falcon Club.

Gentry was also initiated into Kappa Kappa Psi, musical fraternity. Dave Watson and Dick Fowler, both pledges, were elected to represent the house in Skull And Crescent. Watson and Ken Goodall received the Union Service Award. Bob Moon is chairman of the infirmary committee of the Y.M.C.A. All of these new honors, in addition to the ones which were mentioned in the previous issue, have made Acacia one of the most active houses on a campus of thirty-one fraternities.

Our "athletic depar tment" is even larger. We have six athletic "l's" in the house. Dick Farley and Lou Scott, both outstanding aces of Branch McCracken's "Fighting Hoosiers," have their letters in basketball. Track letters were awarded to George Branam and Roy Whiteman. Jim Bailey and Dick McQueen have their letters in baseball.

DeUayne Anderson is playing freshman football .

Dean Olney and Joe Shroyer fought their way to the final game in handball do~bles before losing to the N"ewman's Club. The two finalists, Acacia and the Newman's Club, were the two pairs left out of the initial forty -nine that started.

Dean Olney, intramural chairman, has begus to organize the baseball team which will go into action soon in the intramural schedule. The ."Little 500" (a bicycle race in duplicate of the Indianapolis 500, which was initiated last year and since then has attained nationwide publicity) will be held May 11.

Bill Gorman, Tom Haynes, Russ Judd, and Jerry Birge will ride for the house.

Our first rush weekend was held March 22-23. We bid nine men-and

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72 pledged nine men. Roger Mitchell, rush chairman, has planned an effective campus rush program. Eight men on campus have already been pledged. Other rush weekends will be held April 14, and May 3. You alumni _who know of potential men planning to go to I.U. next fall-turn in their names! It will be greatly appreciated.

Bob Marshell, alumni chairman, has begun to bring the constitution up to date. His committee is preparing a mailing list, one copy of which is to be sent to every alumnus. We are contacting alumni to support Ray Thomas, 1922, who is running for trustee of the University. Get behind our man! Anyone with a degree from I. U. may vote. You will hear more of this in the newspapers and on the radio.

Gene Boruff, Stateday chairman, led Indiana to win the Stateday¡ award, in competition with the Purdue and Evansville Chapters. We won two of the three points considered: scholarship, attendance, and singing ability.

During the fall semester Acacia was the largest fraternity on the Indiana campus. With 74 men we ranked tenth among thirty-one fraternities in scholarship. The actives with a 1.5 average beat the 1.4 average of the pledges. Two freshmen (with a 2.5 or above on a 3.00 basis) were honored with admission to Phi Eta Sigma, freshman scholastic honorary.

They are Kenneth Goodall and Ronald Reed. Of four men who applied to medical school, Ned Wilson, Rudy Chambers, Bob Deadman (president of the house), and Tom Haynes (secretary of the house), all were accepted. Don Moore, Roger Mitchell, Chet Belcher, and John Peters were elected to new offices left vacant by graduating seniors.

Our tea dances included those with Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu, Chi Omega, and Delta Zeta. The pledges also entertained the pledges of Pi Beta Phi and Tri-Delta with record dances. The juniors of the house had their dates over to the house for a date dinner on January 13. Our Valentine's Day Party was held February 15. We also had a pinwoman's banquet on the same weekend.

We took time out for an open house on the weekend of March 1. On the following weekend, more than a dozen fathers came down for Father's Day. The day in general was a great success. Our annual Winter Colonnade, one of the largest and better known fraternity -sponsored dances on the campus, was held on March 15.

Decorations, including a "cotton" field on the front lawn, and "mint juleps" served by colored waiters, gave unsurpassed success to the dance. On March 21, a banquet before the Military Ball was given at the house. We had a record dance that same weekend in connection with our rush program. On the 29th of March we took "our part in the annual Stateday, this year held in the Hotel Severin of Indianapolis-"It was great."

Many thanks to all of you alumni who helped in the preparations. We hope to see you next year.

JoE M. SHROYER

Iowa March lOth is election day at Iowa Acacia, and this year we elected the following officers: Venerable Dean, Bob Waggett; Senior Dean, AI Thomas; Junior Dean, Dick Coulson; Treasurer, Roger Westerlund; Recording Secretary, Larry Haubrock; Corresponding Secretary, Bob HEppenstall; Rushing Chairman, Park Morton; House Manager, Bill Waller; Senior Steward, Ed Ahlquist; and TRIAD Correspondent, Tom Brown.

In intramural sports, Acacia won four and lost five bowling contests; and in basketball-well, we built a lot of character. On the social front, we have adopted a new technique for our exchanges. Wenever we are to have an exchange with a given sorority, we invite two of the girls over to dinner the night before, and they try to teach us some of their sorority songs. Then the following evening we are able to entertain the girls with their own songs. So far this year we have carried out this program in exchanges with Chi Omega and Gamma Phi Beta, and it has worked very well.

This year in scholarship, Iowa Acacia had a very successful first semester. We came out second in a field of nineteen, being surpassed only by Phi Kappa.

TOM BROWN

It followed the presentation of both houses' skits in Campus Varieties. Our skit was a tale of the old West entitled "Saga of Lopalong Lemon."

The pledges have also had a full social calendar. They took over the house on a Friday night and served dinner to the pledges and their dates. Early in the quarter they pulled their "skip" and spent a weekend with our brothers at the Iowa University Chapter.

On March 6 we held an alumni banquet at the chapter house for alumni living in the surrounding area. Jack Shelley, Missouri, head of news commentatation at radio station WHO, was guest speaker. The main topic of his speech was a description of his experiences while covering the United Nations meetings. The banquet was complete with dinner music, cigarette girls, a skit, and songs by our quartette. Members of the quartette were Don Lyon, John Burnstrom, Ron Hoisington, and George Robinson. We enjoyed this chance to shoot the breeze with our alumni. Some of these alumni present were former Dean of Agriculture H. H. Kildee ('08-'17), John Hug ('09) , Frank Mendell ('25) , W. F. Coover ('00), Darney Wiggins ('27), Thomas Hippaka, Darrel S. Metcalfe, John Culver, Gordon Johnson, Winton Weber, all Iowa State, and C. J. Roy, Missouri.

DoNALD W. MESSER

Kansas Iowa State Pledges are John Veldhuizen, James Baulkema, James Weiss, Ron Hoisington, and Kasumi (AI) Takayama.

Elections were held shortly after our return from Christmas vacation. New officers for the year are James E. Widdell, V. D.; Vincent A . Vottler, Sr. D .; Robert Haack, Jr. D.; Ralph W. Speer, Treas.; John H. Post, Sec.; Robert J. Young, Sr. Steward; Kenneth A. Porter, Jr. Steward; William L. Coleville, Rushing Chairman; Dick M. Weber, Editor; Mervin D. Hague, Intramural Managn; Dick Ludwig, Librarian ; and Robert Livin, Sentinel.

We are tiling one of the hall floors so work sessions are again in progress.

As usual you may hear a great deal of commotion at a time like this, but following a lot of work and good fellowship another improvement will be added to the house.

Our annual sweetheart party was a great success again this year. Each girl wore a single red rose corsage to carry out the Valentine theme. The highlight of the party was a visit from "Cupid" with his bow. His arrow found its mark many times during the evening and the unsuspecting couple had to perform some special type of entertainment. Cupid was played by Dick Taylor's three year old nephew, Steve.

Acacia and Alpha Delta Pi sorority put on a joint fireside at our chapter house.

Greetings from the windy heights of Mt. Oread. It may soon develop that KU is a good substitute for the windy city of Chicago as a seventy mile gale blew down five stories of steel beams which were being nected as part of a new science building here at the University of Kansas. Two hundred tons of that precious metal, steel, must now be obtained to continue building. But such are the winds of March.

The Kansas Chapter added fourteen men to its "wearers of the Jeweled Triangle" on the weekend of February 1517. The formal initiation was held in the Masonic Temple in Lawrence. These new men are Kenneth Beck, Hubert Capps, Jr., Charles L. Tice, William I. Maben, Ronald D. Duphorne, Herbert R. Strunk, Nelson E. Bachus, Charles H. Dick, 0. C. Chowning, Jr., James B. Glass, Gary G. Hammer, Bernard A. Jones, George A. Daniels, Victor Weber. Vic Weber was elected Honor Initiate by the active chapter.

We have two new pledges. They are Dean Mohlstrom and Robert R. Rupp.

Socially speaking we are continuing with our policy of inviting presidents and social chairmen of sororities for dinner because the size of our house prohibits any social functions such as hour dances being held in the chapter house.

Alpha Chi Omegas were the latest visitors and the Alpha Phis are next on the list. This policy has brought us hour dances at the houses of the Sigma Kappas and Pi Beta Phis. Our spring formal

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The Triad, Spring, 1952 will be Friday night, April 4, at the Lawrence Country club.

New officers have just been elected who will hold office till the middle of next fall. They are: Venerable Dean Kenneth Stanley; Senior Dean, Willia~ M. Lindstrom; Junior Dean, Donald C. Tice; Secretary, Kenneth Beck; Senior Steward, 0 . C. Chowning; Junior Steward, Herb S trunk; Sentinel Jim Short· Alumni Correspondent, Vic Weber; TRIAD Correspondent, Ed Taylor· Activities Chairman, George Claunch.'

On the weekend before initiation the initiates-to-be did a good day's labor at a residence in North Lawrence cleaning mud off the front yard that accumulated there during the flood last summer. During initiation we were visited by a member of the Missouri Chapter who brought us a wall skin for last year's football game. Looks very nice.

Ferrel Schell has been elected to membership in Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineering fraternity, and we have candidates for more honoraries which will probably be announced in the near fu. ture. . The active chapter is still rubbing achmg backs and blistered feet as they attempt ~o re~over from the devastating four pomt victory the pledges gained in the annual basketball game. Familiar cries of "Remember the football game we won" seem to come from all the actives. In a more serious athletic contest Pledge Wes Santee won the Glenn Cun~ ningham mile at the Big Seven Indoor Track Meet March 1, 1952, in Kansas City. This seems to be all from the banks of the Kaw. ED TAYLOR

the jeweled pin of Acacia. They are: Jay Humberg, Sam Nickel, John Brethour, Don Sheets, and Hans Hungerbuehler.

In the way of chit-chat, chapter visitors have been Joe Morgan, Dr. Charles Hall, Everett Waudby, Lt. John Stohr, and John Paynter, Oklahoma. William Kvasnicka received Phi Kappa Phi recognition.

JoHN H. STRETCHER

Miami "I bid a club."

We are on a Bridge playing kick. The chapter neglects studies, women, and small candy bars for The Game.

The men did take time out for the initiation of members, Charles Robinson, Harold Saunders, Stanley Stephenson, and Murray Whitaker. They also managed to be around for rush parties where

Tedd Grossman, was chosen for the difficult task of Rush Chairman. And, because nobody else wanted the job, Bruce Ronald was elected Publicity Chairman.

"Two hearts."

Over forty per cent of the chapter is engaged, married, or pirmed.

"I pass."

Miami seems to like traveling to Cincinnati. The chapter and dates traveled to the Queen City for the Ice Follies, and stag, they took in the MU-UC basketball game and managed a visit to the Cincy Chapter to rub in Cincinnati's defeat.

"Three hearts."

Doctor Smith was forced to retire as Chapter Adviser due to growing commitments to the University. We regret the loss of Doctor Smith as an active influence on our fraternity life. But we are very lucky to have alumnus Nolan Crawford acting as our Fraternity Adviser.

Kansas State Greetings from Kansas State. Time has again rolled around to give you a rundown on happenings here. Our rushing efforts have accomplished the pledging of five fine men, J. D. Wilson, Cliff Bezik, Kenney Hebrank, Dean Price, and Jack Conaway.

The old officers left big shoes to fill for the officers of the coming semester. But the new ones, Doyle Peaslee, Venerable Dean; Chuck Smith, Senior Dean; Dennis Showalter, Junior Dean ; and Harold Brodrick, Secretary, are taking fast hold and are doing a highly commendable job.

Showalter has scheduled an hour dance for us every three weeks or so and two parties, a Valentine's Party and our annual Washington's Birthday Breakfast Ball, and a pledge father -son banquet.

Well, the pledges finally did it!! At last they took their sneak. From the reports of all the fun they had the actives wished they could have gone along, too.

But alas, when they returned they were greeted by Chuck Smith who put them to work scrubbing, waxing and polishing about everything in the house. Thereafter Chuck has been known as "Waxey Smith."

Initiation was held March 9th giving five more men the p!'ivilege of wearing

MIAMI Th e house is given back to the Indians-Miami tribe, that is. These are no doubt the purtiest squaws eve1· taken into the t1'ibe. they voted George Mumma, Don Ellis, Robert Berge, James Gast, Bruce George and Tom Marianos.

"I pass."

Fraternity elections are usually dull affairs. Not ours. We had a ball. When the smoke cleared, Gordon Hegenbarth was our new V. D., Mark Witt was elected Senior Dean and introduced an effective change in the initiation ceremony (write for details). Dick Haffner took over as Junior Dean, an d we have had parties. Weird, man! Ray Strohminger repeated as Secretary, as Jon Saunders copped the capacious ledgers and receipt books and the slightly less voluminous green stuff that goes with the Treasurer's position. Forrest "Sonny" Stillion was elected House Manager (he is not quite so sunny at seven o'clock in the morning) . The artist of the fraternity,

Nolan is a member of the University's Comptroller staff.

"I pass."

New furniture in the house ; red leather 'On our newly sanded floors (by actives, by the way); a nice effect, and Mrs. Doan, our wonderful part-time House Mother, adds to the beauty of it.

"Five spades. Well, don't just stand there, pick up my partner."

We are on a Bridge playing kick.

BRUCE RoN ALD

Michigan The Michigan Chapter has a new pledge class of thirteen : Curtis T . Atkisson, William F. Fox, H. Howard Fris-

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74 inger, John R. Galbreath III, . Philip D .

Kearney, John L . McNight, Richard A. Meyer, Jack E. Or-want, David B. Reynolds, Rolf P . Scharenberg, William P .

Snowball, Charles R. Wickman, and David W. Zerbel. Our latest initiates are : Arthur T. Bublitz and Richard P . Nyberg.

The Michigan Chapter has been keeping a fast pace since Christmas. We have entered teams in all the intramural sports events during this period: wrestling, basketball, water polo, and swimming.

Our most notable achievements were in swimming, where we took fifth place on campus, and in wrestling, where "smasher" King Joneson reached the quarterfinals. Our track team is now working out in anticipation of the spring track meet.

We enjoyed recent visits from traveling secretary Walt Dahl, and from Paul Brentlinger, '50, Michigan Chapter alumnus.

House elections resulted in a second term for Venerable Dean Richard Merrill, and election of Stanley Wynn, Senior Dean; Herbert Neal, Secretary, and William Str ickler, Junior Dean. Ron Watts was voted Outstanding Senior.

Between semesters, Michigan Acacians turned the chapter house over to their dates for the traditional J -Hop weekend, attending the big all-campus formal Friday night, followed by 2 a. m . breakfast in the chapter house. Saturday night was devoted to informal socializing in the chapter house again. When rushing was over, our new pledges joined us in a Leap-year Party. Acacians managed to be invited by their favorites and proceeded to have a whoppin' good time with leap-year inspired games, dancing, and refreshments served by our genial cook, Mrs. Day. A highlight of the evening was a contest to pick the girl most · :vorth~ of. the Acacia pin. The entirely .

IT?p~rtial JUdges decided that every AcaCian s da~e was deserving of the pin and ~he .evemng closed with everyone joinm g m the sweetheart song. For our n ext party, nautically costumed couples will enter a topsy-turvy atmosphere. for the Acacia Shipwreck P arty.

Also in the near future, the Michigan Chap~er, cooperating with A. 0 . Pi, will c~ntnb~te to the biennial Michigan carruval with the popcorn concession housed in a twenty-five foot upright ear of corn which we are now in the process of STANLEY WYNN building.

Missouri New pledges of the Missouri Chapter are: Bob Burlin, Don Br anham, K enneth Dale, and Bob Etes.

Recently initiated were Roy Talbert Royce Smithson, and Louis Beem ' lV!issouri. Acacian s have been ~artici­ patmg actively in campus activities this semester. Wendell Gooch and Edward R~berts are on a queen selection comIruttee for the Military Ball, largest allcampus dance of the year. Roberts was

also publicity chairman. The "Artistry in Rhythm" of Stan Kenton will be featured this year.

Lorin Cross is a recent initiate of Scabbard and Blade, honorary military organization.

Dean Hewitt was appointed assistant circulation manager of Feature, new allcampus literary magazine.

Royce Smithson went to Champaign, Illinois, with the University ROTC rifle team for a match with the University of Illinois.

George Griffith, Warren Wagner, and Dick Peterson went to St. Louis with Burrall Choir March 14 and 15. The choir is composed of 140 girls from Stephens College, and 50 boys from the University.

Intramural competition in basketball and volleyball was completed in March.

Horseshoe pitching is upcoming, and a chapter tournament was held to pick the best "throwers." Louis Beem overcame an 18-5 lead to edge Leo Buckley, 21-19, for the championship. Bob Burlin was third. Softball is just around the corner too, and we hope to repeat last season's success when we finished third in the fraternity league.

On this semester's social calendar are the yearly Speakeasy Dance on March 22 our third annual Orchid Ball formal o~ May 2, with two picnics on the notorious Hinkson River in between.

Rogers Monagan, '30, visited us recently, aiding in a Yellow Dog initiation.

Entering the Order were : Owen Ramsey, Fred Vest, Charles Bobo, Wendell Gooch, Leo Buckley, Roy Talbert, Kenneth Dale, Royce Smithson, D on Branham, and Joe franke .

New officers elected at the beginning of the semester were: Venerable Dean Robert Collins; Senior Dean, Owen Ram: sey; Junior Dean, William D. Elzea; Secretary, Don Goodson; and Treasurer, John Dana DICK PETERSON

Nebraska "Health W eek" has just been completed here at Nebraska. The new initiates just ended a successful week of working constructively around the house.

The new actives are Otto Apfelbeck John Luethje, Neal Harlan, Don Mattox: Neal Pohlman, and Charles Anderson.

The social activity of the chapter has reached its full momentum. The pledges gave their party for the active chapter.

It was a costume affair with every kind o.f apparel imaginable present. The highlight of the social season was the annual Orchid Lei Formal, February 23. Real or chid. leis sent directly from Hawaii gave a very wonderful atmosphere and th eme to the formal.

Acacia turns "RED" at Nebraska on April 3 through April 5. Each spring Nebraska Univer sity holds a mock United Nations meeting. Of course the plum is ~ussia, because of the pubiicity and fun m volved. Acacia is fortunate to be able to r epresent both U .S.S.R. and Byelorussia S.S.R.

The basketball team had about an average season. It finished high enough in its league to be in the playoffs, but they were defeated by the team which later became the champion in the first round of the playoffs. Charles Miner received honorable mention on the All University Team.

Next month we are looking forward to our annual Night on the Nile dance and the Founders Day Banquet.

JIM CoLLINs

New H ampshire Following our Christmas vacation we all came back and really hit the books.

When the grades were announced twenty-five brothers made the Dean's List.

The school standings are not in as yet but we ought to be right up near the top.

On the week-end of Februa ry 8 we initiated seven new brothers into the chapter. This was the first initiation in the house and the brothers all .agreed that it was one of the finest we ever had.

We have seen the last of the painters and carpenters and our chapter life is getting down to normal. We have just begun plans for our open house on the week-end of April 19. Paul Oeser is the chairman of the event and has various committees working under him.

Our social life has been quite active.

Our "Artist's Ball" was quite a success.

The decorations were on the theme of a French Cafe and all the brothers did drawings of all kinds as their exhibition.

Although this was our Winter Carnival we had to import snow for the sculpture.

In typical New England fashion, we had the worst storm the day after the carnival. -The pledges are planning their dance for the near future .

A short time ago we elected new officers. Venerable Dean, Conrad Trulson ; Senior Dean, David Crowell; Junior Dean, Blair Nelson; Secretary, David Buttrick; Treasurer, William Lothrop.

Good luck to the new officers and a hea rty well done to the old officers!

Our intramural basketball team finished third in the league. Most of the teams w ere seniors but the undergrads are coming right along. The call has just gone out for the softball tea m . Last year we had a very good team and reached the semi-finals. We have· most of the team back for this year so we are planning on winning the cup. The golfers had a putting sessio:FJ. in the living room so they are limbered up also. One of the brothers, Howie Brook~ who is captain of the Varsity Rifle Team, has been doing an outstanding job. He has consistly led the team which is representing Northern New England in a sectional match.

BILL CROFT

Northwestern Winter quarter is the shortest quarter at Northwestern, but as usual it was a

The Triad, Spring, 1952 busy one at the Acacia house on the shore of Lake Michigan. Now that exams are over, we can take a breather and look over the events of the chapter.

We have always felt our chapter was a fair sample of college men from every section of the United States. As a result of open rushing we've reached into Europe for two of our new pledges.

Sven Olaf Gulin is from Gottenberg, Sweden, while Carel Sellenraad is a new student from Bloemendaal, Holland. The third member of the winter quarter pledge class is Wayne Ranta, Waukegan,

Ill. Fifteen men left the status of pledges forever and were activated on February 3. The new brothers are: Arthur Adams, Bruce Haselton, Tom Ballman, Don Mueller, Ray McNamee, Bob Gerstner, Don Voller, Paul Willis, Carlton Peterson, Warren Fuqua, Peter Husen, Louis Laue, Jay Stack, Jack Prost, and George Pangburn.

David Williams was elected Venerable Dean succeeding Donn Mills in recent winter quarter elections. Jim Davis replaces A rnold Siemsen as Senior Dean, Bob Baraban was reelected Junior Dean, Lyle Wimmergren remains as Treasurer and House Manager, Don Jones was elected Secretary, Bob Bernhardt fol lows Bob Corcoran as rushing chairman, and Bruce Haselton takes over Bob Bernhardt's position as intramural manager.

Probably one of the happiest persons around the Acacia house this quarter was Mrs. Hillsman following the purchase of a new mixer for the kitchen. It has been the concensus that the food is fine, but Mrs. Hillsman promises even bigger and better things with this new addition to the house commissary. A new trophy case for the living room and the purchase of some new chairs for the T.V. fans are projects now in the planning stage.

Bridge has always been popular around the house and Acacians showed their skill at a recent all-university contest sponsored by the YMCA. Brothers Dick Madison and Spence Dunham walked off with first prize.

The persistent icy weather didn't slow us down in the social department. And much of the credit can go to Junior Dean Bob Baraban who not only planned the parties but was always willing to lend his unique brand of talent to the entertainment. We entertained the Alpha Omicron Pis and the Chi Omegas at tea dances and had exchange dinners with Alpha Xi Delta and Alpha Chi Omega.

Our winter formal at the Pearsons Hotel in Chicago was Arnold Siemsen's night to be proud. Miss Jo Hunter, Alpha Xi Delta who wears Arnie's pin, was crowned Acacia Sweetheart of 1952 by Venerable Dean Donn Mills. Other social events were an Hawaiian party at the house and a German beer party at Yonkers in Chicago.

Spring quarter will be a busy one for Acacians in outside activities. Brother Cliff Kong will be displaying his skill with the golf clubs as a member of the varsity.

75 The 1952 version of the Waa-Mu show "Taxi Please," will feature the talent~ of five Acacians. Donn Mills is assistant musical director and Jack Allen is coproduction manager. Brothers Ward Kennedy, Bob Arnold, and Dave Williams are members of the cast.

Dick Poppe! is a chairman of the university's mock political convention, Bob Corcoran is a co-chairman of May Week, and Duke Hulbert, Acacia's candidate for sophomore Hi-Guy, will be busy campaigning for that honor. Bob Bernhardt was recently elected to Sigma Delta Chi, honorary journalism fraternity.

RoBERT CoRcORAN

Ohio University With the worry and work of getting a new semester started fading away, we find ourselves welcoming 13 new pledges into the fold. They are: Larry Sheridan, Louis Weis, Ronnie Hagquist, P aul Cowein, Dick Randall, Eddie Sommer, Paul Ullmark, Jim Crowle, Stuart Clark, Dick Porter, John Finley, Don Whitehouse, and Jim Noonan.

The active chapter selected their leaders for the coming semester when they elected Walter Smith, Venerable Dean; Louis Ondis, Senior Dean; Robert Cappel, Junior Dean; Nelson Cupp, Corresponding Secretary, and Royal Fritz, Recording Secretary.

The Acacians at Ohio University can well be proud of their scholarship record as they occupied the top spot among the active chapters for the second straight semester. The pledges and actives together finished in second place in the all campus standings. Kenny Barnes, a zoology major from Lancaster, had the high average for the house with straight A 's.

Everyone here is looking forward to Spring Formal time, which is coming up on May 3rd. The title of the dance is "King Solomon's Court," but the theme has not yet been decided. J oby Lannings' Orchestra from Newark, Ohio, will furnish the music for the occasion.

The second annual Acacia Minstrel Show was presented at Rufus Putnam Auditorium before a large crowd of members, dates, and guests. A fine show was presented by Director H. R. Collins and his cast of nine. A record dance was held in the auditorium after the dance and refreshments were served.

The members here are busy planning for their Junior Olympics which will be held at the Ohio University Stadium on May 18. Carl and Nelson Cupp are in charge o'f the meet which is held each year for the youth of Athens County.

The competition will be divided into three groups ; the 10 and 11 year olds, the 12 and 13 year olds, and the remainder in a group with an age limit of 15.

The event will occupy the entire afternoon and a well known person will be contacted to distribute the ribbons to the winners.

The members of 94 North Congress Street have been doing well on campus also. The new Venerable Dean Walt Smith was elected treasurer of the InterFraternity Council. Del DuPont was chosen president of the Agriculture Club and Kammal Khan, treasurer. Khan was also elected president of the International Club, while John Jewett was elected president of the YMCA. Louis Ondis is now a member of the Student Council and John Moorehouse was pledged to Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journalism fraternity.

The black and gold of Acacia waved brightly in the middle of the basketball season, but faded greatly at the close.

The team rallied after dropping its first two games to win three and move right up in the thick of the title race. However, the steam went out of the Acacia attack and they finished with a 4 won and 4 lost record. The pledges dropped their last two games and finished the season with a .500 mark of 3-3.

JoHN HANNEN

Oklahoma The Oklahoma Chapter of Acacia, in connection with Hell Week and initiation, held March 16, tried for the first time a Help Week, which is being adopted by most of the fraternities on the University of Oklahoma campus.

Instead of working entirely around the chapter house, the whole chapter, members and pledges alike, turned out on Saturday and went to a small town where we spent the day working at jobs assigned to us by the city engineer.

Everyone came home stiff and sore, but all considered the day a success since it gave us good publicity which we hope will aid us in rushing.

The men initiated were: Robert McCollum, Bruce Birrell, Charles Liegerot, Glen Smith, Bob Leal, Vernon Enlow, Joe Hathaway and Merle Greathouse.

Greathouse is a graduate of pklahoma University, an all-conference football player and one of the greatest defensive linebackers the ¡ university has ever had.

His interception of a North Carolina pass in the 1948 Sugar Bowl game was the turning point for the "Big Red," as they went ahead to win 14-6.

We got the spring social season well under way in March with our annual Oriental Costume Ball. The " Oriental" is the oldest traditional costume ball on the campus and compares with the "Night on the Nile" Ball, held in many other chapters.

The entrance to the house was fixed as a pagoda through which the men and their dates passed, as they entered a hallway transformed into a blue Shinto archway with a gold ceiling. The downstairs rooms were decorated as a Buddha temple, with a temple and Buddha at one end and a bamboo bandstand at the other. A red and gold dragon and a Chinese umbrella decorated the dining

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76 room, with a miniature pool and waterfall at one end. Gardenias for the dates were fl oating in the pool, one of the tr aditions of the party. An opium den was set up in the basement, with silk drapes and satin floor cushions. Outside the house, a bamboo fence and Oriental lanterns decorated the porch.

A five course Chinese dinner was served to the men and their dates preceding the dance.

Graduating seniors of the Oklahoma Chapter, in June, will be: Boardman Barby, Ray Bob Jones, Ken Blancett, Dave Loveland, Jim Wilkinson, Gene Imel, Richar d Hargis, Bill Warren, Bob Thatch er.

LEONARD A. DALQUEST

Oklahoma A & M New pledges since the last TRIAD are : Bill Mitchell, Harry Gearhart, and Jim McGinnis.

Initiation was held the weekend of March 1 for the following thirteen men : Don Barchus, Richard Bingenheimer, Coy Dowty, Charles Durrett, Norval Hale, Don D. Honeyman, Richard Jones, Ronald Jones, Alston Kelley McBride, Dean Piersall, Arlo Schmidt-faculty member, Don Thomas, and D utrow Witcher.

The week before initiation (pledge week) was quite a hectic one. The pledges looked all over the house for the notice of when pledge-member day was to be. They finally found it at about 4: 30 p. m. on pledge-member day. The notice was taped in the bottom of a wastebasket. They called a meeting to decide what to do to the members, and the members, sensing what had happened, made a rapid exit taking the dinner with them. Then followed a rapid auto chase through town during which several old ladies were seen climbing tre es. The members got away, but they never got together. One group had pie and meat while th e other potatoes, salad, and vegetables. Needless to say, the members h ad plenty to do when they returned.

Things haven 't been too dull since initiation either. It is the custom here at A and M to throw a man into "Theta" Pond (which is part of a lar ge scenic area on the campus) when he gives his pin a way. When a new initiate gives his pin a way, both he and his former pledge fa ther go into th e pond. Since initiation, two new member s have given away their pins. Cupid probably had something to do with it, but rumor has it that the boys merely wanted to see their pledge fa thers tak e an outdoor ba th.

On the sporting scene, the Acacia "A" volleyball team finishe d in a three-way tie for first in its league . Howevet-, after playoffs we had to settle fo r thir d place_ Our B team also finish ed thir d .

Brother Byron Todd will be representing Oklahoma A & .M College in the coming N .C.A .A . wrestling tournament at Fort Collins, Colorado. H e will wrestle a t 147 pounds.

We are losing about eleven men by graduation this year_ These men are: Kenny Harris, Charles Hottle; Keith Jeck, Tom Keys, Glen Knight, Charles Larson, Bob McGeehee, Deryl Miller, Irvin Piersall, Bill Smith, and Byron Todd _ To help replace these boys we have set a goal of twelve new pledges by the end of the term.

We had a visit from traveling secretary George Croyle recently, and he helped us out a lot. We hope to show him a considerable amount of improvement when he visits us again: Some major future events at A & M will be our spring formal, April 19th, Founders Day, and Mothers' Day_ JAcK LaTHERS, JR.

Jim Sease, Ormond Steele, Jim Minton, Jim Lacy and Jim Bovingdon.

EDwARD DAY

Penn State

Now that most of our exams are over we can look around and notice the signs of spring. Along with the changes of spring came changes in status of the pledges. Recently signed up on the team, in an initiation that proved to be more trying on the brothers than the pledges, were: Stanley Thomas, John Hoffman, Thomas Irving, Charles Manwiller, Howard Hudson, John Kaufman, William Warncke, Charles Rohrbeck, Jackson Keirn, P eter Judd, William Alden, William Kilmer, Frank Kilmer and Duane Mcintyre.

Other changes, along with thos e of Oregon State spring, were in the house officers. Jim Class stepped out of the shoes of the rushing chairman to fill those of retirThe Oregon State Chapter of Acacia ing Venerable Dean, George RippeL held election of officers for the coming Henry J ohnson, the Senior Dean, is now year early this February. Ron Bartley ruling the pledge class, which consists is the new ¡ Venerable Dean, and the of one pledge, William L . Brubaker. Junother officers include Ted D ay, Senior ior Dean, Tom Irving, is batting 1.000, Dean ; Phil Kaser, Junior D ean; Leon as far as plans for social functions are Gordon, Secretary; and Hugh Austin, concerned. Following in his own footTreasurer. Roger Lindquist is our new steps as secretary of the previous pledge house manager. According to tradition, class, Jack Hoffman is again keeping the outgoing V. D., Bob Hercher, was tubbed minutes. Dick Erb will see to it that with P hi Kappa graciously providing us with a tub. the coffers are kept filled and that the Initiation ceremonies were held Janu- bills are paid on time. As spring rushing moves into the final stretch, Rusha ry 26th for seven men. Newest Oregon ing Chairman Pete Judd will have plenty Sta te wearers of the jeweled triangle are to do.

Don Kramer, Leon Gordon, Wally D urm, Spring is also in the air ar ound camBill Howe, Hugh Austin, Don MacKinnon and Dan Haddad. pus, and now being aired are plans for "Greek Week," to be held early in ApriL Acacia has been an active participant This program, which will have as its in campus intramural sports this term. theme, "Civic Responsibility," is deJack Pimentel, last year's all-school table tennis champion, duplicated his feat signed to help the fraternities realize their responsibility in the improvement again this year and brought home another trophy. Pledge Don Fenner was of the community . Among the functions right up there, too, in table tennis, but planned are alumni gatherings, the prepwas dropped out in the double-eliminaaration of recreational areas for the sumtion finals. Jack and Don teamed up mer months and sorority-fraternity exchange dinners. in doubles tournament and went into the seminals before they were beaten Even though periodic exams have kept ou t. us all busy, the social functions have Although we have taken no trophies in been more than successful. March 8 the othe r fields of intramural sports, brought the "guys and dolls" to an inAcacia h as been well represented in fo rmal record dance here at the house. bowling, basketball, billiards and hand- Birch beer and pretzels were the order ball. of the evening for this last fling of outgoing Junior Dean , Merlin Miller.

On the social calendar, we had three m ajor events this term. An odd-ball cosLooking ahead we see the Interfratertume dance, "Bootlegger's Ball," was nity-Panhellenic Council Ball coming up held at the cha pter house, February 16. on April 4. Woody Herman and his The theme w as carried out right down "Herdsmen" will grace " Rec" Hall, the to a still in the corner, and (root) beer ¡ theme being "Metropolis." On the fol and pretzels at the bar. lowing evening the Swee theart of AcaAlso noteworthy was an exchange with cia will be chosen at our forma l dance.

Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, and a date As things a re shaping up now, the judges fireside at the ch apter house. A t present, will have a hard time choosing "the" plans are under way for our annual Sweetheart. ' Nigh t on the Nile" dance. This year we Other changes in office that we nt in to are holding it at the Corvallis Country effect recentl y are: Senior S teward, Don Club. It will be a formal dinner dance.

Anderson ; Junior Steward, Gus Hudson; O regon state ended w inter term rush - Interfraterni ty Council Representative, ing with eigh t new pledges. They are Bill Warncke ; Athletic Chairman , "Lefty" Buz Beck, Andy Bersa mian, Don Davis, Mcin tyre ; TRIA D Correspondent, D ick

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Mattoon; Historian, Bill Alden; and "Ships Log" Co-Editors, Charles Manwiller and John Kaufman.

RICHARD M. MATTOON

Purdue New pledges are: Robert Hadley, Bill Roach, Harry Fink, and Steve Mills.

After coming back from a much need· ed Christmas vacation, we settled down to some earnest studying. Our house ranked third among 37 fraternities last semester, rising from ninth, and we had 14 men who made distinguished. I hope we can maintain this position in the future.

This semester also started out as though it might be rather pleasant. At present the Purdue athletes of Acacia are going strong in I.M. sports. We have risen from fifteenth to seventh in the standings, placing heavily in basketball, swimming, and bowling.

Under the able leadership of our songleader, Bill McCain, we sang as a group at the University Presbyterian Church on Sunday, February 24.

That inevitable love bee is still stinging, even here at ol' P.U. where the ratio is now down to a mere 3.85 to 1.

Greek Week was March 3 through 8, during which we had trade dinners, attended speeches, and terminated with the splendid Greek Week Ball.

House elections were held on March 3.

The old officers were congratulated for the fine job they did during their reign.

They deserved every bit of praise that they received. An impromptu party for the old officers was held after the e'lections. The new officers are: Tom Timothy, Venerable Dean; Peter Baker, Senior Dean; Don Cochren, Secretary; William Record, Treasurer; James Golan, Junior Dean ; Bruce Howland, Pledge Trainer; Charles Hines, House Manager ; Frank Merritt, Steward; Bill McCain and Jack Webster, co-songleaders; Ken Ohlemeyer, Sentinel ; Bob Voegeli, Athletic Manager; Dave Silvernail, Activities Chairman, and Paul Collier, Publicity Chairman.

Charlie Parrish was chosen as the Outstanding Senior for 1952, while Jerry Jordan is our candidate for Gold-Digger's King.

Men who pledged honorary organiza. tions on campus are: Bob Luce, EtP. Kappa Nu; David Ormesher, Sigma Alpha Tau; Jack Carrell, Scrivener; David Silvernail, Scabbard and Blade; Bob Combs, Alpha Phi Omega; George Matyus, Alpha Phi Omeg~; Charles Hines, Ceres and Alpha Zeta; Bruce Howland, and Bob Stohler, Skull and Crescent; Lowell Ewart, POMM; Harry Hanes, Gimlet; and Herb Ulrich, Catalyst.

Socially, we really scored with a terrific party in the chapter house. It was a Gangster Party. The house was beautifully decorated as a night club and gambling, drinking, dancing, and love-making were the principal vices. Naturally,

PURDUE Purdue Acacians and their " molls" take an evening's trip into the underworld at their " Gangster Party." Left to right a1·e: Judy Nichols , Paul Collier, Kelvin Green, Pat Smith, and Virginia Cody. paper money was used and ginger ale was the strongest drink. Jim Golan, our newly elected Junior Dean did a bangup job and a lot is owed to him.

PAUL COLLIER

Rensselaer Welcome to our new pledges of the spring term: Gale Herbert Buzzard, Arthur Balac Corte, John Walter Oliver, Harold Stanford Leindecker, David M. Russell, Edward J . Stofka, and John Wells Thorson.

Newest wearers of the gold triangle are Charles John Berg, Laurence Stephen Bloom, Oliver Roy Mitchell, William F. Stocker, Edwin Allen Weaver. We are glad these men all survived· the ordeals of their pledge training under Ted Bryant and Ed. Burrell.

The Winter Weekend, with its snow sculpturing and other activities, is behind us and the spring social season is progressing rapidly. Elbert Phillips has ordered extra badges in order to keep all his girl friends satisfied and Ted Bryant recently made a successful visit to Vassar.

Music can be heard ringing through the "House on Fifth Avenue" almost every evening. Before dinner, Bob Slayton and his combo, the Syncopates, prepare for future engagements; after din ner, the Glee Club, under the direction of Russ Southwick, earnestly practice for the fraternity songfest at the R.P.I. Music Festival.

We received our first visit from Walt Dahl in January and hope to see him again soon. Of course, he does not have the physique of "Gorgeous George" Croyle.

Our officers for the coming year are

the following: Robert Slayton, Venera ble Dean; Edward Bryant, Senior Dean: Robert Dudash, Junior Dean; Robert Reiner, House Manager ; William Howard, Secretary; and Dexter Clifford, Treasurer.

RALPH A . SODEN

Southern California Pledges are: Lowell V . Andrews, C. Arthur Bailey, James A. Barber, Jr., David Blackmer, C. David Culbertson, Kenneth Davis, Richard Gatley, Stan E .

Green, Robert L. Ihrig, Peter D. McDermott, Jim R. Silknitter, Paul Van Stevens, Ronald H . Suess, William J. Swallow, Edmund S. Wilkinson, Jerry W. Wenzel, Earl Werner, and William A . Underwood, Jr. Returning from the Christmas recess in a typical spirited fa shion, the Southern California Chapter of Acacia began work on the various and sundry jobs for the spring semester. The first task that the chapter was asked to meet was an all "University" blood drive, sponsored by the Red Cross. The whole school got behind the drive and all the organized groups on campus began to push their members to make a liberal donation.

Although it took some of that Christmas spirit out of u s for several days, it was soon reinstated when it was announced that we had placed second among the organizations participating in the drive, including the thirty-three fraternities located here at S .C. The problem of keeping a chapter house in top-notch condition is a neverending process requiring more time than money. With the beginning of our second semester of living in the new house, a series of work days were scheduled to get the necessary labor which would

78 clear the back yard of its garage, trees, April 5. We are looking forward to seeing a big turnout of alumni from all and brick wall so as to replace it with a paved parking lot, volleyball and bas- over the state.

The annual spring formal was a big ketball courts. The first physical change success this year. It was held March 8, came when the foot and a half brick at the Stephen F. Austin Hotel ballwall enclosing the grounds was torn room. Many of the alumni of Texas down by the pledge class in unison. Then Acacia were on hand, both for the cockcame three large elm trees which really tail party and the dance itself. Our taxed the minds of our engineers and social chairman, Charles E. Nemir, detree climbers. They had to be disposed serves a slap on the back for his fine of in a manner which would not destroy the neighbor's house or the maze of work. wires running among its branches. Ropes, At the first sign of spring the pledge weights, pulleys, mechanical devices and class began work on the lawn of the many verbal exclamations got the j~b chapter house. We are expecting a beaudone, but how, this correspondent w1ll tiful yard this summer as a result of never know. Finally the big day came their diligent work. when the garage was to be demolished JAMES F. ROGERS by the entire chapter. Beginning with the roof and working down to the foundation, it disappeared shingle by shingle and board by board. During the following week, the Schroeder Paving and Grading Company came out to the house and leveled the lot for us ¡a t no cost.

Mr. Schroeder's son, Chuck, is a new junior active in the chapter. We hope that by the time this issue of the TRIAD is out, the lot will be fully developed.

During work week, the pledges eagerly pitched into the interior of the house to repaint rooms, sand and wax floors and repair broken furniture.

The Mothers' Club held several fund raising functions for the purpose of securing money to purchase household articles such as drapes and lamps to enhance the masculine appearance of the rooms. The house was previously used

by Phi Mu Sorority and still retains some of its feminine characteristics.

The biggest social event so far this year was a very successful Treasure Hunt, conceived and directed by our Social Chairman, George Hartman, after many weeks of arduous preparation.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA And when the chase was over, who do The boys at Southern California atyou suppose had won? None other than tack the dismantling of their garage with the Venerable Dean, Herbert Macgreeagerness, realizing that every piece of gor, accompanied by Earnest Fraser our the garage torn down brings them that Senior Dean. The "Hunt" began at the much closer to the pa1¡king lot and handchapter house and followed a prescribed ball courts which will replace it. course of twenty or thirty miles from one point in the city to another, ending at the Hula Hut in Hollywood.

In an effort to better chapter relations UCLA here in Southern California, UCLA of Westwood, and USC of Los Angeles, played their first intra-chapter game of Greetings from the monsoon country. football on March 2. The game ended No, this isn't the chapter in Burma, in a 7-7 tie, to the dislike of all present. just flooded Westwood Village reportPerhaps though, it was better this way ing. Even with the rains we were able after all.

HARLEY HARTMAN to come up with one of the largest pledge classes on campus. The new pledges are: Ernie Weber, Herman Jay, Bob Mennell, Ross Hoerr, Steve HorTexas nick, Jim Piela, Al Wilken, Art Volkman, Bill Rothwall, Ken Colson, Ken Coulter, and Byron ' Prophet.

Initiation ceremonies were held March The first weekend after pledging they 21, 22, and 23. Our new brothers are: were asked to leave for a few days, and Lee H . Dorfman, Fred T. Dishongh, War- when they returned the pledges found ren F. Cross, and Clifford Ray McTee. twelve new actives to make life rougher Big plans are being made for our for them. The proud new initiates are: Founders Day Banquet which is held Jim Howard, Jerry Samuelson, Gene in conjunction with Round-Up this year.

Baker, Lee Millard, Stan Mays, Gordon The banquet will be held at the chapter Murley, John Marion, Jim Anderson, house a t 1: 00 o'clock on the afternoon of John Nicholson, Jim Miller, Jim Retz-

The Triad, Spring, 1952 laff, and Wayne Shannon, which by the way is our chapter's largest group of initiates. At the initiation banquet two awards were given. The one for outstanding pledge went to Jerry Samuelson. A second award, started by this pledge class, was given to Ron Garabedian for being the active whom the pledges thought was most helpful in preparing them to become good Acacians. Needless to say the house had a general face lifting during initiation.

Speaking of face lifting, during the first week of spring rushing our house lost its vine covered appearance. It seems that one of the pledges while cleaning the front yard, got clipperhappy and mistakenly cut off the very life line of our vine. There has been a great deal of discussion over whether this is an improvement or not, but one improvement that there is no doubt about is last semester's pledge project.

The last weekend of Christmas vacation the boys donned their painting garb and literally did the pledge room up brown. What was once just another room is now a well decorated meeting place with three walls in cocoa brown, and the other in a harmonizing wall paper.

Thus far our dribblers have been following the examples set for them by the Varsity Basketball team, which is the Pacific Coast Champion, by successfully downing four of our intramural opponents. With two games left let's hope that Captain Skip Mays and his team emerge on top. Some ' of our success can be attributed to the fact that we now have two members of Kelps, campus men's spirit honorary, in our cheering section-Lloyd Lokka, who is treasurer of the group, and newly initiated Ev Mann.

Among recent visitors to the house were: Brothers Spitzler and Whorten, two of the founders of the Illinois Chapter; Brother Paynter, Oklahoma; and Brother Conners, Wyoming, who was present at the initiation banquet. Bob Benson, one of our chapter's founders, has been spending a few days with us before he leaves for Officer's Candidate School at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. The Board of Directors of the House Corporation was also our guests at a recent Monday night dinner. They were here to discuss plans for the purchase of our chapter house.

Perhaps a reason for the large number of visitors we have been having, in addition to our radiant personalities, is the fact that we have a new cook. She is Mrs. Marguerite Vincent who is fast becoming famous as the best cook on the row.

With the election of new officers we are looking forward to a semester of progress for our chapter. They are: Lloyd Lokka, Venerable Dean; Phil Nassief, Senior Dean; Jack Trost, Junior Dean; Chuck Pierson, Secretary; Jim Anderson, Correspondent; Pete Laubach, Treasurer; Jim Retzlaff, House Manager; and Lee Millard, Rush Chairman.

JIM ANDERSON AND JOHN NICHOLSON

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Vermont Since the beginning of the year we have pledged one new man, Duane Valine.

We have greatly improved the chapter house since we moved in last fall by the liberal use of paint, but the house itself is inadequate to our needs and we are looking into the possibilities of securing a larger one in the near future .

Two of the boys made the Dean's list last semester. They were Richard P. Milne with an 85.8 and Lloyd A. Kelley with a 90.7. Their efforts helped to raise us scholastically from 9th to 3rd among the 13 fraternities on campus.

The event we look forward to all year here at Vermont is our annual Kake Walk. This is a four day break in classes when everyone forgets the books and concentrates on having a good time.

The first of the activities is the Kake Walk Ball and the coronation of the King and Queen. This year's ball featured the bands of Charlie Spivak and Art Mooney. Campaigning ¡for the king and queen candidates begins a week before the ball and competition is usu-

79 Secretary; James L. Creighton, Treasurer.

Acacia's skiing faction outdid themselves at a recent interfraternity slalom competition. Ted Mead posted the winning time for the entire event. Our other competitors were Dick Dunn, Ted Engel, and Frank Chapman.

HENRY

ORNER

Washington New pledges since the last TRIAD include: Bill Baird, Lyle Finlay end Virgil Postma. The pledge class enrollment is now at 12 men.

The winter quarter opened with eleven initiates taking their places among the active chapter. The men include: Mark F . Andrews, Jack L . Curtis, William Devery, James E. Friet, Burt R. Gowing, Lloyd Hostetler Jr., J ack McGee, Dennis Melander, John Nelson, Charles Perry and Howard L. Stahle. ¡ Greatest among chapter improvements during the quarter was the remodeling of the second floor bathroom. New tile

VERMONT What must certainly be the oldest Acacia chapter house is occupied by the Vermont Chapter, for it was built around 1800. The 12 room mansion provides a home for 17 men but is considered only a temporary residence until larger quarters can be found.

chapter members went all out for the winter quarter's first costume fireside the Occupation dance. With Gene Nel: son in charge, the party proved a tremendous success.

Also proving a rousing success was the pledge's "shipwreck shufile." With a beach atmosphere and an overall nautical approach prevailing, the chapter house was literally turned into a sailors' paradise. The dance committee, Jim Siegel, Lyle Finley and Jim Spence deserve a round of applause for a job well done.

Among the' exchanges held during winter quarter were get-togethers with Alpha Omicron Pi, Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Delta Pi. With spring ahead of us Washington again looks forward to a great social schedule with the annual spring formal dinner dance on April 19 as its highlight. It will be held at the Sandpoint Country club.

Turning to the field of sports, the black and gold finished the intra-mural basketball schedule with a sound league championship. Del LaFace, a sophomore this year, was chosen as an intramural all star for the season. Rollin Swanson, Tom Gibbs and Jack Curtis were also nominated for an all star post.

Leave the latch string out and what happens-yep-you guessed it-none other than George Croyle dropped, slipped or otherwise maneuvered into the house on the 14th of January for a week's hibernation. All kidding aside, we are mighty glad to have George back in the west after two years of eastern duty.

We were happy to recently welcome Corporal Virgil Lang back to the chapter house after eight months at Yale university with the Air Force, Virg has been learning the Chinese language in preparation for interpreting work abroad.

GRANT .'\NGLE

Washington State

ally keen. The identity of the royal couple remains a secret until the actual coronation.

The second and third nights are taken up with the presentation of fraternity skits and the famed "walkin' fo' de kake." Acacia's walkers this year were Gerald Beebe and Peter Spalding; they did a magnificent job though they did not win us a "kake."

Another great part of Kake Walk is the ingenious snow sculptures which appear all over campus. Our artistic effort was duly rewarded when we won second place in the fraternity division.

Our new slate of officers for the coming term is as follows : Richard P. Milne, Venerable Dean; C. Peter Spalding, Senior D ean; David A. Kendall,

flooring and siding has been added to the enlarged room producing an overall modernistic appearance.

Received into campus scholastic honorories during winter quarter were Darrel Davis and Charles Jardine. Darrel was selected for Rho Chi, pharmacy honorary and Chuck was received into Beta Gamma Sigma, business administration honorary.

In an effort to raise funds for house improvements the Mothers' club held very successful potluck dinner on February 16th. Before the evening was over 119 alumni, parents and guests were served and a sizable profit cleared.

Thanks, morns.

Though they didn't give much indication of their future life's work, the

Washington .State Acacians returning from Christmas vacation were greeted by a record snowfall which kept everybody jumping trying to keep the sidewalks clean. Helpful demonstrations were given the pledges by VD Dobby Wiegardt and senior Gig Eberhardt, both experienced snow shovelers.

With the heavy snow came a burst of activity. On January 19th, the ann u al USO Go was held at the local armory.

This is an all college invitation dance put on by the chapter. Outstanding costumes were worn by Bob Speer who came dressed as a World War I Cavalry officer and George Livie who wore his old Boy Scout uniform adorned with Merit Badges. The 250 Acacians and guests who attended all had a good time.

Shortly after the, turn of the semester the following six ex-pledges had the pleasure (?) of going through "Courtesy Week" and were initiated F ebruary

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80 23: Bill Madison, Jime Archer, Bob Willard, Malcolm Edwards, Marv Wheeler, and Bill Rantala.

In campus activities, members and pledges of the Washington State Chapter were also making their mark. Merle Templeton, Frosh pledge from Vancouver broke two pool varsity swimming records-the 200 yard breast stroke and 200 yard medley. He also led the WSC Swim Team to second place in the PCC Northern Division swim meet taking one first place in the 200 yard breast stroke and two second places-one in the 100 yard breast stroke, the other in the 200 yard medley. Needless to say these performances by a frosh have set the conference buzzing. Many of those who should know expect Merle to represent the US in the 1956 Olympics. Bob Willard was half of a Washington State Debate Team which captured first place in the College of Puget Sound annual Tyro Speech Tournament. Bob and his partner also placed third in a recent Debate Tournament at the University of Idaho.

On February 25, new officers were elected for the coming year. They were: V.D.-Dobby Wiegardt, S.D.-Malcolm Edwards, J.D.-Mel Babcock, Secretary -Winston Saimons. Earlier this year, James Falk was elected house manager.

In elections on the campus level, Jim Connolly was nominated overwhelmingly in the Greek Party Primaries as the Greek Student Body Presidential Candidate. Jim is well known on all parts of the campus and stands the best chance of any Greek candidate in recent years of winning the final election in April.

The date for the annual Spring Formal has been set for April 26 and plans are being laid at this time to make it a success.

Members of this spring's pledge class are Del Fisk, AI Young, Jim Connolly, John Carlson, Lee Williams, Bill Hagemeyer, and Merle Templeton.

Wisconsin New pledges are: Allan Frank, Donald E. Fry, Florian H. Jabas, Gordon C. Johnson, Richard W . Massey, Gordon L .

McComb, Russell M. Pollock.

Seven new wearers of the jeweled pin were added in an activation held the last week in February : Karl F. Heimke D_onald Hoeppner, Donald Johnson, Nor: vm ~utson, Dean T. Massey, Guy G. Messmg, Jerry Schachtschneider.

The nam~s of Acacians have, as usual, been croppmg up frequently in campus news. Housemanager Jim Opdyke had a sudden flare-up of his old tendency toward "politics-itis," and made himself one of the chief organizers of the new Greek Caucus party on campus. Opponents take note.

While ACACIA made no booth contribution to the Campus Camival, alluniversity benefit show, they did offer Brother Dave Lund as a candidate for the formerly-mysterious personage known as "UMOC" (translation: Ugliest Man on Campus). From the final voting it appeared that there were others uglier than Dave.

S~cial highlight this semester so far has been the pledge formal, held in the Edgewater hotel March 22. The preparations for this event, incidentally, featured a piano-moving exercise in which ten Acacians proved beyond a doubt their physical prowess. Junior Dean Dale Reistad has on the books an Old Style party, and he plans to finish up the social season with a fabulous event known as "Nile on the Nile."

The ACACIA chorus is polishing its high notes to a gleam in anticipation of the Tournament of Song coming up in the middle of May. In the line of service, the chapter furnished free basketball tickets for members of "Happy" Blink's Scout troop for incapacitated boys.

Plans for the future include the yearly building of the eighty-foot pier as soon as the water of Lake Mendota is warm enough to work in. A parents' weekend is also in the making and it promises to work out well, as it did last year.

JAMES

B.

LARKIN

Wyoming New pledges are: Edward Middlesworth, Donald Strong, Richard Proper and Gerald Panwitz.

On January 27, formal initiation was held in the chapter house for Kenneth Brittain, Floyd Harnagle, Donald Ludwig, Carlos Rodriques, Gary Riehl, and Mr. W. A. Riedl as our new faculty member.

One of the more important things that happened to us last quarter was the marriage of our house mother.

Mother Neal married Mr. J. P. White on February 23. We will miss her badly and she will be diffi.c ult to replace.

Social life started on Tuesday, February 19, with a dinner dance with the Delta Delta Delta Sorority. Corsages were given as favors. On February 29 we held our annual Night on the Nile Dance. The House was decorated as the inside of a pyramid, with stones drawn on paper hung on the walls. The members really showed their originality in the costumes worn. Besides these two events we had many parties at the house.

Our able tiler, Art Rue, and his assistants tiled the basement bedrooms and the front hall. In the front hall a replica of the Fraternity flag was inlaid.

Tad Henthorne, our athletic chairman announced that we came out fourth i~ intramural basketball. He is now in the process of preparing for track, volleyball, and softball.

Five men were elected to honoraries on the campus: John Watts, Phi Epsilon Kappa; Robert Burnett and Art Rue, Sigma Tau; Nick Panopoulos, Scabbard and Blade; and Wayne Holaway, Psi Chi. The following _men are graduating in June: Robert Hughes, Larry Hawkins, William Gilbert, Wayne Holaway, Jack Cooper, J ohn Watts, and Carlos Rodriques. D onald Christensen and James Hunter graduated in March. We are sorry they are leaving, but we know they will do well wherever they go.

DICK KAMP

Fraternity Public Relations (Continued from page 59) "After much study it is our recommendation that there are ways all of us can help preserve the rich experience of fraternity living as we have known it.

"No. 1, to support an intensified effort on public relations through the National Interfraternity Foundation and to raise necessary money to improve fraternity scholarship, conduct, attitudes, and public acceptance.

"No. 2, each of us take an active interest in making ours a better freternity, physically, morally, intellectually, and socially."

Then this report really gets down to brass tacks. It suggests all Greek letter publications give space about three times a year to promote the intent and recommendations of this report. This space might, for example, promote the idea of a National Interfraternity Week that would inaugurate and put a lot of steam behind various projects which would be helpful to the community and to the nation in general. This space might also be used to solicit funds for a public relations effort perhaps, as a start, a dollar from each fraternity member, undergraduate and alumnus.

The report concludes with the following recommendations: 1. That the National Interfraternity Conference, the National Panhellenic Conference, the Professional Panhellenic Association, and the Professional Interfraternity Conference, be asked to actively support this program on a trial basis for three years.

2. That if favorable action is taken by a majority of conferences they appoint a delegate to the next IRAC meeting to be held in 1952 and that steps be taken at that time to formulate plans to inaugurate this program.

3. That the first National Interfraternity Week be celebrated some time in the spring of 1953.