UCLA Petition for Chapter - 1929

CHI ALPHA FRATERNITY 87 41 Founders Road Indianapolis , Indiana 46268 - 1389

317-872-8000 www.lambdachi .org

a lifetime of true brotherhoo

DELTA NU OF KAPPA SIGMA U:N"IVERSITY oF CALIFOR~IA AT

Los

A~cELES

\\re are glad to give our unqualified recommendation to Pi Theta Phi for membership in Lambda Chi Alpha.

DELTA NU OF KAPPA SIGMA

By DARRELL T. NEIGHBORS, G. J/.

m:o m:be ~ranb J)tgb leta anb ~ll €bapters of tbt

DELTA UPSILON

JLambba Qtbi ~lpba

Los AxcF.LES February 25, 1929.

Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, Gentlemen: The Pi Theta Phi fraternity established at the Uni·versity of Californi.:t at Los Angeles is worthy of recommendation to any good national fraternity.

The high ideals of its members and the record the fraternity has ma::le it "orthy of beroming a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha. \\'e 2re glad to recommend this group for a chapter of your fraternity.

Very respectfully yours, U::->rr\TRSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT

jf r a tern itp

GEORGE CLEAVER, Prrsidcnt, Della Upsilon.

Los Angeles, California.

March I, 1929.

To Lambda Chi Alpha: It has been brought to our attention that the Pi 1i1eta Phi Fraternity has been petitioning the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraernity. Vv'e wish to recommend this group most highly as they are active in campus affairs, are men of good character, and \Vould make good members of Lambda Chi Alpha.

LAMDBA OF BETA PHI ALPHA AcnREY BFI,LE GAR:r-.'ER

President.

DELTA DELTA DELTA THETA PI

CHAPTER

U:-.1\'tRSTTY OF CALil'OR~IA AT

Los Los Angeles, Calif.

March, 3, 1929

A~cELFS

To Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity: I take a great deal of pleastne in recommending the Pi Theta Phi. local fraternity on this campus, for your serious consideration. This group has distinguished itself on our campus as an exceedingly worth\Vhile and loyal organization. The members of Pi Theta Phi are represented in many fields of activity and moreover, maintain a high scholastic standing.

Because I believe this group has made for itself a very fine reputation on our campus, because I believe this group \viii be a decided asset to any national organization, I sincerely hope you will look with f ayor upon their petition. ~1ost sincerely,

MARY A. HARDY, President of Thrta Pi Chapter of Delta Delta Dt!ta.

THIS PETITION SHOULD BE R E --~~0~~ r fJY THE CO~:l\/2N '..J" ATE 'E U l BY I

HI

T ., T

SS~JVIBLY"

GENERAL

March, 20, 1929.

Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

Gentlemen: It is with pleJ.sure that I ff'commend the local Pi Theta Phi to your national organiz:1tion.

This group has distinguished itself on our campus both in scholarship and activity. Frank Crosby, president of the Senior Class, is a member of the fraternity.

The men in the group petitioninl? are of the finest type, and I sincerely hope you will favor granting them a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha.

Very sincerely,

ADELENE B. GREENE Presidrnt, Alpha Iota of Kappa Delta.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES Los Ac;rcELEs, CALIFORNIA,

1929

SIG:C.IA ZETA CHAPTER

ZETA PSI FRATERNITY 718

NoRTH NEw HAMPSHIRE A.!'\GELEs, CALIF. OLYMPIA 2663

Los

To \Vhom It 1\.;fay Concern: I am very glad to recommend the petition of the Pi Theta Phi Fraternity for your serious consideration The men in this group have proven their \Vorth on the campus 路of the University of California at Lm Angeles and would, I am sure, become a Yery valuable asset to your organization. \Tcry sincerely,

ROBERT E. RASMCS President.

RER/>Yb

GAMMA XI CHAPTER KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FRATERNITY To Lambda Chi Alpha: Gamma XI of Kappa Kappa Gamma >vi shes to recommend Pi Theta Phi to Lambda Chi 'Alpha as one of the outstanding local groups on the campus.

AUDRIE L. BROWJ\' Prnidrnt.

LOS ANGELES-FIRST NATIONAL TRUST MELROSE

&

&

SAYINGS BANK

HELIOTROPF BRAJ\'CH

4323 1vielrose Avenue

Los Angeles March 11, 1929.

Lambda Chi Alpha: This is to state that the Pi Theta Phi Fraternitv carried a -.;ery satisfactory account with this Bank for the past nvo years. From our observation,.

Fraternity is being handled in a very careful and businesslike manner and we take pleasure in recommending them to your organization.

Yours very truly, F. L. WACHOLZ, Manager.

ALPHA PHI FRATERNITY BETA DELTA CHAPTER

Los

ANGELES,

CALIFORNIA

March 1, 1929.

To Lambda Chi Alpha: Beta Delta Chapter Lambda Chi Alpha. They

Alpha Phi wishes to recommend Pi Theta Phi for national recognition from shown continued progress and would be an asset to your national.

ELOISS GILSTUAP Pre.rident.

UniYersity of California at Los Angeles.

To Lambda Chi Alpha: It has heen called to our attention that the local group of Pi Theta Phi is petitioning the national fraternity of Lambda Chi Alpha. It is our pleasure to say that members of Pi Theta Phi are prominent in campus activities, and to our knowledge are an exemplary grou路p of earnest, worth while young men.

VVe belieYe that they would bear the name of a national fraternity with honor.

ALPHA DELTA PI By

MARG ..\RET

SoPER

President (Alpha Chi Chapter)

University of California Los Angels, California.

MILLSPAUGH HALL

March 6, 1929.

Lambda Chi Alpha: V{e haye just learned that Pi Theta Phi is petitioning Lambda Chi Alpha. \Ve should like to tell you that this fraternity has been prominent on the campus and is composed of men of such calibre, that \Ve feel sure that you would be proud to extend them a charter in Lambda Chi Alpha.

Very sincerely.

ALPHA PSI OF ALPHA CHI OMEGA MARGARET ALTHOUSE

Corresponding Srcretary

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES 'vV. \V. CAMPBELL President of the University

ERNEST C. MooRE

Dire dar

March 6, 1929 Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Gen tlernen:

uto

I am writing you in the interests of the Pi Theta Phi Fraternity 路which is a local in the University of California at Los Angeles, and which is petitioning for a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

I have knmvn several members of the Phi Theta Phi Fraternity the past fe\v years and I have had the opportunity to work with some of them in connection \vith student self-government on our campus.

I have also had the opportunity to watch the general development of the organization and I feel that I am qualified to express an opinion regarding their general characters. I believe that the quality of the fraternity is largely determined by its leaders and Pi Theta Phi has had a number of very strong upper classmen since I have known them.

I am glad to testify that the Pi Theta Phi Fraternity is in good standing in every respect and that it has at all times co-operated vvith the administration. I believe that they are worthy of your careful consideration.

Sincerely yours,

EARL ]. MILLER Dean of 111 en

EJM:O

Cl\IVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES DEAN OF THE CoLLEGE OF LETTERS A::>rD SciE~CE

March 23,

1929.

To Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity: I am pleased to commend to you Pi Theta Phi Fraternity, which is petitioning for a charter in your national organization. The members of this group have entered practically every student activity with a spirit of service to the University and to the fraternity. Several of the illen are leaders in their various fields. This the fraternity scholarship ;werage is not particularly high; but experience on our campus shows that a group may make a poor showing one year, it may later rank near the head of the list, and vice versa.

At the present time the University of California at Los Angeles is approaching the most significant period in its development. I feel strongly that national organizations ;vhich establish themselves on the ne;v campus simultaneously with the transfer of the University are laying the foundation for a successful future.

I am sure th.1t Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity vmuld be worthily represented on our campus by Pi

Theta Phi.

~be

QE)fficers anb ,:fflembers of JLambba ((bi ~lpba

P

r THETA I'HI, a local fraternity of the University of California at Los Angeles, and situated at Los Angeles, realizing the worth and benefits derived from a membership in a national organization, both from the standpoint of improving its present and future members, and being better able to compete with the other national organizations here, has fostered a strong desire to become a Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

In accordance with these views, recognizing the strength of Lambda Chi Alpha, and admiring the ideals and progressive spirit of your Brotherhood, we, the undersigned, members in good standing of Pi Theta Phi, and also of the University of California at Los Angeles, do hereby formally and respectfully petition the members of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity that upon successful completion of the necessary requirements, Pi Theta Phi be granted a charter in regular form, establishing it as a Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

Sincerely,

C. H. RIEBER

Signed:

Dean of the College of Lrtter and Science

LLOYD K. HouGH WJYr.

ASSOCI ATED STUDENTS UNIVERSITY oF C...\.LIFOR~IA AT Los ANGELES 855 NoRTH VERl\WNT AvENUE Los AsGELES, CALIFoR~IA Fraternity:

Lambda Chi Alpha Gentlemen: It gives me a great deal of pleasure to recommend the Pi Theta Phi Fraternity to -your national group. As an organization they are outstanding in every phase of campus life and would be 路a real asset to a national fraternity. I ctm proud to have tbem as one of our campus organizations and give them my hearty ctpprov~d and best wishes.

Very sincerely,

JAMES M. STEWART Chai;路man of thr We-lfare Board

U. C. L. _1.

INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL UxrvERSITY OF CAUFORKIA AT Los ANGELES 855 l\ToRTH VER}.fONT AvE:i\TUE Los A~cELF:s, CALIFORNIA To VVhom It May Concern: The Pi Theta Phi Fraternitv is worthy of recommendation to any good national fraternity. It has been a progressive organization o~ the campus since its founding.

The interest and co-operation shown by this organization in the Inter-Fraternity Council, and in all phases of University life is ;vorthy of note.

I feel confident that I express the sentiment of the Inter-Fraternity Council that ;.ve are of the opinion that the high ideals and record of this group make it worthy of becoming a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha.

Very respectfully,

JOSEPH A. LONG Presidrnt of the lnter-Fratetnity Council.

Delta Upsilon.

H.

c. BAILEY

w. VAN DANIKER

FRANK

E.

CROSBY

A. LEE BERRY KENNETH D. Bc;RKE HERBERT A. \VILLIAMS RoBERT A. iVIATSON ]AMES F. You:'<G DoN LENZ

S. T. MAsoN E.]. ZrELBAUER En. BENNETT lluGH \VILKINS

A. \V.

RuTT

GARY G.LYOIES 'MARVIN PILCHER HowARD REED \VALDO NlrNETTE DouGLAS BARNES ADDISON HEHR STANLEY :MARTIN EDWARD \VALTHER JOliN

L.

WILSON

TI-l拢 L\MBDA CHI ALPHA FRATER:\ITY UxiVFRSITY

OF

Cot.ORADO

Garnma-lV!u Zeta Boulder, Colorado February ll, 1929.

President, Pi Theta Phi, 709 N. Alexandria St., Los Angeles, Calif.

Dear Sir: It will no doubt interest you to know that Gamma-Mu Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha has voted favorably on your recommendation to the Central Office. We find from the recommendation of Marion Dice, a brother who visited your house this past summer that your organization is one that \Vill make a good chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha. \Ve can well thank Mr. Dice.

Yours truly,

SILDON F. CRAMER. High Gamma

LAMBDA CHI ALPHA FRATERKITY Tau Zeta

1607

MAPLE AvENUE VI'TASHI:'\GTOI\

Pt:LL)..lA?<.

To the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, Brothers: \\re as members of Tau Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha \Vish to be entered on the records of the central office as sponsoring the local fraternity, Pi Theta Phi, located at the CniYersity of California at Los Angeles.

Yours in Z. A. X.

ROBERT H. MORRISON High Jlpha

AJ.l'HA

PI

ZETA

LAMBDA CHI ALPHA 203 7 South Vine St., Denver, Colorado December 29, 1928.

To the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity: At the request of Pi Theta Phi Fraternity, and upon the recommendation of brother Reuben C. Youngquist, Alpha Pi Zeta deems it agreat pleasure to be allowed to assist in sponsoring this most worthy local society in its petition for a charter in Lambda Chi Alpha.

'Vith the best interests of the fraternity at heart we feel that Pi Theta Phi Fraternity is indeed worthy of favorable consideration by the officers and Zetas of Lambda Chi Alpha.

Yours in Z.A.X., Alpha Pi Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha.

MARJOS G. Bow~1AN, High Alpha.

University of Denver

LAMBDA CHI ALPHA FRATERNITY 1755 Le Rov Avenue BERKELEY,

CALIFORSIA

February II, 1929.

To the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity: It affords Mu Zeta great pleasure,- upon the recommendation of Alumni Association of Southern California and Brother R. C. Youngquist and the request of Pi Theta Phi Fraternity, to recommend this fraternity as a petitioner for a charter in Lambda Chi Alpha.

VVith the best interests of Lambda Chi Alpha in view, we feel that a fraternity '..vith such a high standard as Pi ThP.ta Phi warrants due consideration as a possible Zeta of our Fraternity.

Yours in Z. A. X., Mu Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha. ]oH?"o.' D. ALTSHULER, High Alpha.

A SS 0 C I A T E D S T U D E N T S UNIVERSITY

oF

Los

CALIFORNIA AT Los ANGELES ANGELES, CALIFORKIA

Offia of President

Feb, 4th, 1929 Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

Gentlemen: I have been asked to \Yrite to you concerning Pi Theta Phi Fraternity at the University of California at Los Angeles, which I understand is petitioning for a chapter of your fraternity.

I can say th::Jt I know the personel nf this group personally anrl. their chapter embraces in its membership men of excellent caliber, who are leaders on our campus. This fraternity has men in every activity on the campus, in all' lines of athletics, student government activities, debating, etc. This fraternity has also furnished this year's President of the Senior Class, Mr. Frank Crosby, and a number of othe路r leaders on our campus.

As President of the Associated Students at this University and a member of Beta Theta Pi I urge vour serious consideration of this petitioning group and will say that the high standards which your fraternitv require would be fulfilled in such a group as Pi Theta Phi. This fraternity is without a doubt the leadi'ng local on our campus, rating however with the nationals socially and in student activities.

I again want to give the highest. recomme1~dation to.. this ?Toup and urge the most serious consideration of this group for a chapter of Lambda Cht Alpha Fratermty.

Sincerely yours,

KENNETH PIPER President, Associated Studrnts, of California at Los Angrln.

Univers1~ty

laecommenbations :J!}i~torp

of tbe Wniber%itp

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION LAl\rBDA

Cm:

ALPHA

FRATER~dTY

To Members of Lambda Chi Alplw: . Th~ Southern. Cal!fornia Alumni Association became acquainted with Pi Theta Phi Fraternity of the Umverstty of Cahforn!a at Los Angeles soon after its organization. Since that time we have watched and to a great extent guided its progress. At the present time \Ve believe it well qualified to carry on the precepts and traditions of Lambda Chi Alpha.

At its last regular meeting the Association composed of nearly one hundred members from thirtvfour different Zetas, composed the undersigned, by a unanimous vote, to ;vrite this letter requesting that the petition of Pi Theta Phi be given favorable consideration.

Yours in Z A X,

0. E. HOPKINS. MU137 President, Southern Cali/ornÂŁa Alumni Ass'n.

Il\TERFRA TERNITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF

SOUTHER!\' CALIFORNIA Organized 1920 Los A:-.cELES,

CALIFORNIA

March 12, 1929.

To the Grand High Zeta and Members of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

The local society Pi Theta Phi at the University of California at Los Angeles has been sponsored by several of the Western Chapters of the fraternity. It has recerved the approval of everv Travelmg Secretary as \Vell as the endorsement of the Southern California Alumni Association of Lambda Chi Alpha. ':fhe ~ociety ha.s fulfilled eYery r~quirement of a petitioning society, maintaining a high scholarship standmg, mauguratmg a sound financial structure, and developing a splendid internal organization.

The University of California at Los Angeles is one of the outstanding institutions in the vvest and a wonderful :field for expansion. It has been already recognized by a score of the national fraternities.

I can heartily recommend this group and trust that the General Assembly will consider favorablv the petition of Pi- Thet3 Phi for a charter in the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

-

Your in Z A X, LEROY W. BROOKS Alpha-Psi Univ. of Washi11gton

1917

THE LAMBDA CHI ALPHA FRATERNITY OFFICE OF ADMI::"fiSTRATIO:f PEOPLES BANK BLDG.

419 INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

To the Brothers of Lambda Chi Alpha: The local fraternity, Pi Theta Phi, at the Univer.sity of California Los Angeles has asked me to write a letter which it might incorporate in its formal petition. Since I without reservation, recommended this local group to the nearby Zetas. I am glad of this opportunity to recommend it to the fraternity as a whole.

Pi Theta Phi has wholeheartedly enterd into the spirit of petitioning for a charter in Lambda Chi Alpha and has eagerly looked forward to the day when it wouid be allowed to present its formal petition.

The group does not stand as high scholastically as it might, but the attitude is one which will undoubtedlv raise the present rating. Financially the local group has a sound foundation and has a growing hous-e building fund. The internal organization as a whole is well managed by a cabinet of efficient and conscientious officers.

The Los Angeles Alumni Association which has sponsored Pi Theta Phi has aided the group in many of the details of organization. Brother LeRoy W. Brooks h.1s been especially active in making suggestions for improvement and has acted in an advisory capacity.

The University of California at Los Angeles is unquestionably one of the most progressive institutions of higher learning on the Pacific Coast and is a wonderful field for fraternity expansion as is evidenced by the number of charters recently granted by other national fraternities.

The new \Vestwood campus is an outstanding mark of progress in the comparatively young life of the Vniversity.

I cannot help but feel that a chapter at U. C. L. A. would materially strengthen our fraternity and form an import3nt link in the widespread chain of Zetas in the far West.

Yours in Z. A. X., REUBEN C. YOUNGQUIST 1 raveling Secretary

T

of the University of California would not be complete without a brief resume of the main events leading up to 1919, when the Los Angeles State Normal School became a College.

HE HISTORY

Forty-six years ago there were in California four c1t1es each larger than Los Angeles-San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Sacramento-the population of Los Angeles then being about eleven thousand. It was in the spring session of 1881 that the State Legislature provided for the establishment of the Los Angeles State Normal School. At that time there was but one normal school in California. This had been established in San Francisco in 1862, but had been afterwards removed to San .Jose. In the year 1880 the San .Jose Normal School building was destroyed by fire. This accident appeared to the people of Southern California to offer an opportunity for their urging a claim to some of the State institutions, and an effort was made to have the Normal School built in Los Angeles. Through this southern influence the second State Normal School was founded in the second pueblo of California-"Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles"-as the first normal school had been established in the first pueblo, "San Jose de Guadalupe."

The cornerstone of the new buildings at Los Angeles was laid Saturday, December 7th, 1881, and the formal opening occurred on September 9th, 1882.

From the time of its establishment, the school had a steady growth and it was soon seen that a new site would be needed to accommodate the increasing number of students. In 1914, after the State Legislature had appropriated $100,000 and authorized the Board of Trustees to sell the old buildings and grounds for $500,000, the Normal School was located at its new quarters on North Vermont Avenue, the present site of the University of California at Los Angeles.

In 1917, Dr. Earnest C. Moore was called from Harvard and installed as president of the school. He started to work at once to create in Los Angeles a great Teacher's College under the auspices of the Regents of the Univrsity of California at Berkeley. It was, upon investigation, thought best to recommend not only the Teacher's College in Los Angeles, but also the establishment of the first two years of the University work.

This recommendation was accepted by the Board of Regents and proper legislation was completed in 1919. The Normal School was then succeeded by the new institution known as the Southern Branch of the University of California. With the Teacher's College and a two-year course in Liberal Arts many new students were attracted to the school and it was only a short time until the registration totaled nearly 4,000 students with the capacity of the buildings set at 2,500. This rapidity of increase in enrollment has been a marked feature throughout the life of the institution and when the Board

ADDISO"i I-IEHR, Freshman Age 19. Huntington Park High School.

Team. 1.

Frosh Track

STANLE:Y IVIARTI:\T, Freshman Age 19. Huntington Park High School.

DOUGLAS BAR:!\ES, Sophomore Age 19. Franklin Iligh School, Los Angeles.

Bruin Staff. 2; Men's Glee Club.

Daily

ED\VARD \VALTrlER, Sophomore Age 18. San Fernando High School; Frosh Football.

J; Orchestra. 1, 2; Varsity Tr<Jck. 2; Ptah Kepcrah. 2.

ROYCE HALL, AUDITORIUM AND CLASSROOM BUILDING.

f"'l

of Regents in 1923 established a full four-year course in the College of Letters and Science it was evident that the addition of the third and fourth year work would result in a greater increase in registrants in the already overcrowded school.

JOHN F. McGINNIS, Sophomore Age 20. Lincoln High School, Los Angeles. Frosh Swimming Team. 1; University Band. 1, 2; Engineer's Club. 1.

With this problem before them a committee appointed by the Board of Regents submitted the following program as a possible solution of this situation: 1. The appointment by the President of a committee of men of prominence in the Southern California affairs to secure the gift of an adequate new site for the Southern Branch.

2. After such a site has been secured, the presentation of a bill to the 1925 legislature, providing the sum of $1,500,000 for the construction of buildings on said site to be used by the departments of the Southern Branch other than the Teacher's College.

As soon as the committee was appointed and its purpose made public, offers of sites began to come in. They came from Santa Barba.ra on the north and San Diego on the south. In all, seventeen sites were submitted and put under consideration of the committee. After much deliberation it was finally decided to recommend the Westwood area to the Board of Regents. It was then up to the regents to look into all of the sites submitted and select one that would fill all necessary requirements. After a complete survey and careful investigations it was decided to locate the new university at Westwood, a suburb of Los Angeles.

HUGH WILKINS, Sophomore Age 21.

Monrovia High School.

JAMES YOUNG, Sophomore Age 20.' Hollywood High School. Rally Committee.

2; Frosh Rally Reserves. 1; Men's Glee Club. 1, 2.

m:bt Jlthl

Wnibtr~itp

With the opening of the fall semester in September, 1929, the new university at Westwood will open its doors to students. YVith 380 acres valued at $2,500,000, being utilized in its construction, the new university will be one of the largest and most beautiful educational plants in the country.

When entirely completed, the new home at Westwood will represent a $30,000,000 project.

\VALDO W. MINETTE, Freshman Age 21. Pasadena High School.

Team Manager. 1.

Frosh Swimming

Situated in the heart of Westwood hills, twelve miles from Los Angeles and three miles from Hollywood, the new campus presents a beautiful setting. From almost any position on the campus a view may be had of the Pacific, and a fifteen-minute walk will take one into the green canyons of Beverly Hills. The cool invigorating ocean breeze gives to the location a perfect climate.

Because of the suitability to the rolling knolls of Westwood, the Lombard architectural style of the early Christian period has been chosen for the buildings. In an attempt to have the campus architecturally perfect, the Northern Italian atmosphere will be prevalent at all times. Tapestry brick

f7f;l

and ornamental terra cotta are the materials used, for they most nearly represent the original building stuffs. Even the entrance bridge and brick pathways will be in keeping with the atmosphere of Northern Italy.

The next problem was the raising of $1,319,000, in order that the 3 SOacre site might be presented gratuitously to the State of California. Plans were formulated by the committee to the effect that Los Angeles was to raise $700,000, towards the fund, Santa Monica, $120,000; Beverly Hills, $100,000, and Venice, $50,000. Students of the University participated in all four campaigns, distributing windshield stickers, posters, literature, and holding a gigantic rally on the eve of the Los Angeles election. The result of the four elections was overwhelming in favor of the bonds, for the people realized the great value of the new university to the Southland.

The appropriation of funds to finance the building was the next step to be considered, and activity was centered, therefore, on the Proposition 10 Campaign, which would grant $3,000,000 to the University of California at Los Angeles for structural purposes. A labor day drive was held on October 8th, 1926, to clean up the new grounds and to open Proposition 10 campaign formally. Throughout the month of October and until November 2nd, the chief topic of campus interest was on the bond drive, and every student aided in advertising the issue, upon which the future of Westwood rested. The result was that the bonds passed by an easy two to one majority and the visionary Westwood of our dreams became the practical Westwood of today. \Vork on the first unit of the new university is now practically completed. The $110,000 entrance bridge, the library and Royce Hall, valued at $1,900,000 are well under construction. Of these two buildings, the latter of which will be the auditorium and class room building, will face each other across the main quadrangle, and will form the center of campus activities. The other two buildings which are well along in completion are the Physics and Chemistry buildings, valued at $638,875. Included in the former will be the biology department. There will be forty-two buildings upon the completion of the new campus.

MARVYN PILCHER, Sophomore Age 21. San Fernando High School. Track. 2; University Dramatics Soceity. 1, 2; Cosmopolitan Club. 2.

HOWARD LYMAN REED, Sophomore Age 20. Manual Arts. High School. Frosh Football; Bruin Staff. 1.

A. WHITE RUTT, Sophomore Age 19. Huntington Park High School. Ptah Khepera. 1, 2; Choral Club. 1; School Orchestra. 1, 2.

To the students and the alumni of the university who have treasured our present campus with its shadowed arcades, its flower-bordered pathways, and its groves of eucalyptus trees, the main quadrangle at Westwood will be an artistic source of delight. Two hundred and twenty feet wide, and a quarter of a mile long, the main quad-to-be presents infinite possibilities for landscaping achievements. Pathways of paving brick, flower beds of varied hues, level green lawns, and low shrubbery are expected to make the area a charming center of campus life.

Somewhat to the south and west of the academic center, but on the same level, is the prospective site of the proposed Students' Union Building.

Tentative plans for this $300,000 edifice, which is to be ready for occupation in September, include adequate headquarters for student activities, recreation and club rooms, and eating places. The location is very near that of the athletic area, where a track, baseball diamond, practice fields, drill field and a stadium will occupy one hundred acres of grounds.

Ample space has been set aside at \Vestwood for dormitories and faculty residences, and eighty-five acres of beautiful residential sites are

HERBERT W. VAN DANIKER, Sophomore Age 23. Franklin High School. Wrestling. 2; Cosmopolitan Club. 2; A.E.S. Engineers Club. 2; Iota Delta Alpha (Mechanic Arts Honorary Fraternity).

being reserved for the faculty alone. Rows of lots, forming fraternity and sorority rows, are being purchased by the fraternities and sororities of the university.

EDWIN BURNELL BENNETT, Junior Age 21. Lindsay High School. Orchestra. 1; University Band. 1, 2; Agora. 2; Theta Tau Theta (Honorary Geo'ogy Fraternity); German Club. 1.

KEN~ETH

D. BURKE, Sophomore

Age 20. Pomona High School.

1; Frosh Football o'VIanager. 1.

Daily Bruin StalL

A. LEE BERRY, Sophomore Age 21. Porterville Union High School. Frosh Rally Reserve. 1; Daily Bruin Staff. 1; Theta Tau Theta, Honorary Geological Fraternity. 2.

The future possibilities of the new university at \Vestwood are practically unlimited. Leading educators are agreed that the university will become one of the leading educational centers west of the Mississippi. In anticipation of a wonderful future, we are eagerly awaiting the opening of the new campus.

Due to the geographical and physical features of the State of California and the apportionment of the population, it is vitally necessary that there be a state university in the southern part of the state. This need has been realized for quite some time and when the State Legislature saw fit to establish in Southern California a State University, its future was immediately assured. When the University was created it was out of necessity and had a definite place to fill. This has been proven by the fact that within a period of eight years it has grown from a State Teachers' College to one of the four largest universities on the Pacific Coast.

The University of California at Los Angeles owes in a large measure, the success of its rise to this position to an unusually favorable set of conditions that attended its growth. The location and environment of the university is the finest that could be desired by any educational institution.

It is located in Los Angeles, a city of over 1,350,000 inhabitants. This city has enjoyed a phenomenal and substantial growth as evidenced by building permits, bank clearings and population increase. The population of Los Angeles is increasing at a very rapid rate, having practically trebled itself in the last ten years, and it seems that the growth of this university is concomitant with this increase.

Throughout Southern California there seems to be an especiallv enthusiastic spirit in all educational lines and due to this fact Los Angeles is fast becoming one of the outstanding centers of educational progress of the world. There are in Southern California 225 public senior high schools, eight colleges, ten junior colleges, and two major universities. This fact explains the attention devoted to education.

All phases of Fine Arts and Science are finding in Southern California an ideal workshop and an impetus and stimulus that is conducive to outstanding development. Within a radius of a few miles of the University of California at Los Angeles can be found several examples of educational development along these lines that are of particular interest to the university.

GARY LYNES, Sophomore Age 18.

Fremont High School. Cosmopolitan Club.

1; Frosh Football. 1.

In Pasadna, a few miles distant, is the California Institute of Technology, an institution that has done much in the world of science, especially in the realm of Physics. Through the splendid contribution of Dr. R. A. Millikan and his associates, world recognition has come to Cal-Tech.

Directly above Pasadena on .Mount Wilson, about twenty miles from the University of California at Los Angeles, is the Mount Wilson Government Observatory, one of the best equipped observatories of today, which is open to students on certain nights each week. A more recent establishment in the field of science is the California Botanic Gardens which are situated a short distance from the new University of California at Los Angeles

ROBERT A MATSON, Junior Age 21, Taft High School. Inter-fraternity Council.

3; University Band. 2, 3; Taft Junior College. 1; VicePresident Student Body. 1; Annual Staff. 1; Tennis.

1; Basketball. 1. Charter Member Psi Chapter, Kappa Kappa Psi, National Band Fraternity.

S. THEODORE MASON, Junior Age 23. Football Manager. 1, 2; Swimming Team.

2, 3; Water Polo. 2, 3; Junior Class. Football Team.

3; Mathematics Club. 2, 3; Engineer's Club. 2, 3; Ptah Khepera. 3; Ball and Chain-Manager's Honorary Society.

HERBERT A. WILLIAMS, Junior Age 22, San Diego High School. French Club. 1, 2; Tennis Manager. 2; Foreign Trade Club. 3.

EDWARD

J

ZIELBAT..:ER, Junior

Age 20. Jefferson High School.

3.

THE LIBRARY

Cosmopolitan Club.

FRANK CROSBY, Senior Age 23, Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles.

President Senior Class. 4; Chairman of Senior Board of Control. 4; University Affairs Committee-Secretary. 4; Finance Board of University. 4; Westwood Committee. 4; Chairman of Student Body Card Sales Campaign. 4; President of Inter-Fraternity Council.

3; Treasurer of Inter-Fraternity Council. 2; Thanic Shield-Senior Men's Honorary Fraternity. 4; Agora Debating Society. 2, 3, 4; Daily Bruin Staff. 2, 3; Chairman of Amendment 10 Campaign. 2.

LLOYD K. HOUGH, Senior Age 20, Colton Union High School. University Welfare Board. 4; Forensic Board. 4; Senior Board of Control. 4; Agora Debating Society. 3, 4; Commencement Announcement Committee-Chairman. 4; Student Body Card Sales Committee. 4; Senior Vigilante Committee. 4; Chaffey Junior College. 1, 2; President of Sophomore Class. 2; Vice-President of Fres.hman Class. 1; Tennis. 1, 2; Varsity Debate. 1, 2.

WILLIAN! C. BAILEY, Junior Age 22, Taft Union High School. Football. 3; Track.

3; Taft Junior College. 1, 2; President of Student Body. 2; Football. 2.

DONALD LENZ, Junior Age 21, Hollywood High School. Swimming Team.

1, 2, 3; Rally Committee. 3; Stage Crew. 1, 2; University Band. 1, 2; R.O.T.C. Rifle Team. 1; Varsity Rifle Team. 3; President of Cosmopolitan Club. 3; Frosh Rally Reserve. 1; Circle C Society. Charter _\/ember Psi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, National Band Fraternity.

campus s;tt: at Westwood. This project represents the most elaborate of its kind ever developed and provides a wonderful natural laboratory right at the very door of the university students. The famous Huntington Library which comprises one of the world's most treasured art and literary collections is easily accessible from the campus. Students find a visit to this library a rare education in itself. In the realm of music nothing more could be desired than can be found at the Hollywood Bowl where each summer the famous "Symphonies Under the Stars" are conducted under the direction of the world's renowned conductors. This offers to students a splendid opportunity to study music at its best. The City of Hollywood, which is really the home of the University of California at Los Angeles, besides being noted for its .Motion Picture Industry is fast becoming the most brilliant Art center of the west. On every hand can be found developments of the greatest educational value which go far in attracting students to this locality to attend the university.

The University of California at Los Angeles today, on a basis of regular full time registration, ranks fourteenth in size among all the universities of the United States, having a total enrollment of 5,859 regular full time students.

The university at present is composed of two colleges each demanding fifteen Carnegie units for entrance. Both the college of Letters and Science and the Teachers' College require four years of work for the Bachelor Degree. In the College of Letters and Science there are registered 3,832 .students. This is the fifth largest College of Letters and Science in the United States, a position which has been attained in a period of six years.

In addition to the regular liberal arts and teachers' college work, courses in pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-law, and the first two years of most other professional courses are given. Each year the University is broadening its curriculum so that within a very few years its instruction will be complete. This is one of the big features of the Westwood expansion program; in order that the university may expand to include schools covering practically every field of human enterprise such as agriculture, commerce, dentistry, engineering, law pharmacy, religion, etc.

Jli UCbtta ~bi ~lumni Jltmbtrs HENRY R. BENEFIEL, San Fernando, Calif.

Letters and Science, '32. Re-entering, September, 1929. Freshman Football.

Shell Oil Co. of California.

EDWARD]. BERRY, Venice, Calif.

Letters and Science, Economics, '30.

Mitchell and Herb Engraving Co., L. A. ''JosEPH E. BoNADIMAN, Los Ange'es, Calif.

Pre-Engineering, '30. Varsity Baseball.

Enrolled in School of Eng:neering, University of Southern California.

BEin V. BRASHER, \~T alnut Park, Calif.

Pre-Engineering, '30.

Enrolled in School of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology. *WILLIA:VI ]. BuRKE, Ojai, Calif.

Letters and Science. '27. A. B. Degree.

Varsity Hockey. . l'vianagcr, Ojai Realty Co. ~T. DANNY CARuso, St. Louis Nio. Letters and Science, Pre-:Niedicine, '27. i\. B. Degree.

Second Year, Scho:Jl of Med:cine, St. Louis L"niversity.

J. l\11. GREGORY CoNWAY. Los Ange:es, Calif.

THE STADIUM

Letters and Science, '29. Reporter, Daily Bruin.

Cadet, Dollar S. S. Lines. ·•'FRANK \V. DA!\IELSON, Los Angeles, Calif.

Letters and Science, Economics, '28. A. B. Degree. University Affairs Committee, Rally Committee, Sophomore Service Society ( 2), Student Body Card Sales. Committee ( 2, 3, 4), Baseball.

Staff Accountant, Lybrand, Ross Bros. and Montgomery, Certified Public Accountants, Los Angeles, Office. *AnAM E. DIEHL, Los Ange:es, Calif.

Letters and Science, Economics, '27. A. B. Degree. Varsity Hockey. .Manager, Men's Quad.

Enrolled in School of Aviation, for Masters Degree, University of Southern California. ''ANTONIO DuENEs, Torreon, Coah., Niexico.

Letters and Science, Economics, '28. A. B. Degree. Varsity Crosscountry, Varsity Track Squad, Scimitar and Key (Honorary Junior Men).

Ass't Nianagcr, Bank of Torreon, l'v1exico.

EnMVND G. FLANNINGAN, Redding, Calif.

Letters and Science, Economics, '28. Staff, Daily Bruin.

Special Agent, Union Oil Co. of California, Redding, Calif.

JoHN FoRAN, Los Angeles, Calif.

Letters and Science, Economics, '30. Varsity Hockey, Freshman Swimming.

School of Jurisprudence, Loyo'a University, Los Angeles, Calif.

NIATTHEW R .GRANDON, Norco, Calif.

Letters and Science, Poli. Science. '30.

Varsity Swimming.

Lake Norconian Club, Norco, Calif.

RAYMOND W. JoNES, Wilmington, Calif.

Letters and Science, Economics, '30. Vars.ity Wrestling. Re-entering Sept., 1929.

Pacific Electric Railway, Traffic Dept.

DoNALD C. KNAPP Los Angeels, Calif.

Letters and Science, Economics, '32. Reentering September, 1929.

Packard Motor Co. of Hollywood, J\i[aintcnance Dept. *BraN E. LA SmER, Los Angeles, Calif.

Letters and Science, Poli. Science, '26 Pharmacist.

VEK!\ON OLsoN, Los Angeles., Calif.

Letters and Science, Poli. Science, 29.

School of Law, Southwestern University_ RAYMOND H. PETTEY, vVhittier, Calif.

Letters and Science, Pre-Engineering, '28.

Standard Gas Co. of California.

ARTHUR SEUBERT, Los Angeles, Calif.

Letters and Science, Econo:nics. '30.

Freshman Swimming.

Ass't Teller, Bank of America of Calif.

EucENE N. STEWART, Los Ange 1es, Calif.

Letters and Science, Pre-l\lledicine, '28.

Enrolled in School of Dentistry, University of Southern California. *RoGER A. VARGAS, St. Louis, l\!Io. Letters and Science, '27. Pre-Niedicine.

A. B. Degree. Spanish, Varsity Tennis Team (2, 3, 4), Captain (4), Varsity Basketball, Athletic Board, Inter-Fraternity Council, Blue C Society, Scimitar and Key (Honorary Junior JVIen), Sigma Delta Pi (Honorary Spanish).

Second Y car School of Medicine, Washington l:niversity, St. Louis. '*JonN \V. \VALSH, Portland, Oregon.

Letters and Science, Poli. Science, '29.

Enrolled at Gonzaga University, Spokane,. vVashington. *HARRY A. \VARDENBERG, Chicago, Ill. Letters and Science, Poli. Science, '29.

Enrolled at :\orthwestern University,.

Evanston, Ill. OTTO S. WITTMAN, Santa Monica, Calif.

Letters and Science, Pre-Engineering, '31.

Freshman Football. Re-entering· September, 1929.

Pacific Coast Paper Co., Los Angeles, CaL ·•• Charter Members.

jf ratcrnitirs anb ~ororitits

O

fact relative to the University is the unusually active interest that national organizations have shown in this campus. lVIore national organizations of note have established chapters here within six years than usually are granted to one university in twenty years. Already there are seventeen national fraternities, thirty-three national sororities, and seventeen national honorary and professional organizations. If the national interest and scholastic progress that has been manifested here, augmented by the brilliant future that is assured by the move to the new campus at \Vestwood in 1929, is any criterion, it is safe to say that no other university can possible offer a national fraternity a richer or more fertile field for extension than does the University of California at Los Ang路eles.

NE SIGNIFICANT

At the present time there are on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles twenty-seven recognized fraternities. Of these, ten are local organizations petitioning or being colonized by national fraternities.

All women's fraternities who are members of the national Pan-Hellenic Association have chapters on the campus. In addition there are numerous other nationals and locals.

The fraternities on the campus are rer-ardcd in a very favorable light by the administration. The Director of the University in particular has been very sympathetic towards the organizations. All that can possibly be done by the administration for the organizations has been done, and the fraternities have only to present their problems to the Dean of Men for his solution, advice, or counsel. JVIuch of this favorable regard is due to the fact that the groups have at all times co-operated with the faculty and the administration in all lines of college activity.

CHEMISTRY AND GEOLOGY BUILDING

1Local jfr aternities NAME

PETITIONING

FOUNDED

............ 1921 DELTA RHo OMEGA .................... 1921 ···················· .PHI GAMMA DELTA ....

ALPHA DELTA TAu ...................................... SrGMA Nu .. . ............ .. ..1922 Pi Theta Phi..._.

LAMBDA Cur ALPHA ... . .... .. ....... 1925 KAPPA Psr.. .................... 1925 --·-------·········· .... PHI KAPPA Psr KAPPA UP SILO:\' .. ...... SIGMA CHI.... .1925 Psr DELTA .. . . .THETA DELTA CHI ................................. 1925 DELTA Mu SIGMA .... .......... THETA CHI .... . ....... ············· .............. 1926 EPSILON PHI ... ....... 1927 ALPHA GAMMA 0MEG.\ .............. 1927 LAMBDA KAPPA TAL:

J}ational jfr aternitie% NAME ALPHA

ACTIVE MEMBERS

SIGMA PHI .

ALPHA TAu OMEGA ..................... .

BETA THETA Pr DELTA

SIGMA

DELTA

UPSILON

PHr.. ...

DELTA TAu DELTA ..

MPPA SIGMA ...

Pm BETA DELTA ..

PHI DELTA THETA Pm MPPA SIGMA ....

SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON ........... ··············· SIGMA Pr.. ....

TAu DELTA PHI ..

THETA Xr.. .................... .

SrGMA

ALPHA J\!Iu

ZETA Psr.. ...... .

ZETA BETA TAL: ......... .

27 31 3S 35 27 38 36 25 35 32 41 28 25 27 23 27

GRANTED

................ 1926 ............ 1926 ............. 1926 .......... 1927 ...................... . ........ 1928 ............ . .............. 1926 ..... .......... .... ................. 1926 .................... . ....... 1922 ........ .1924 .... 1925 ........ 1929 .................... 1923 . ...... 1928 .................................. 1928 ...... 1926 .................. . ........ 1924 23 ................ 1927

attempt has been made at flare, nor has needless expense been incurred, yet the quality of good-time had, has created a very favorable campus reputation. House dances have always been a little better, smokers a bit more entertaining, and other affairs a trifle more interesting than the average. Pi Theta Phi has lead in an attempt to make inter-fraternity relations more cordial. During the school year 1927-28, while Brother Frank Crosby was president of the Inter-Fraternity Council, he installed a system of Exchange lunches between fraternities. It was very well received and did much to create cordiality between men of the different fraternities.

In the course of the same year, Pi Theta Phi· turned to campus politics with a greater vengeance. In a hotly contested campaign, the man supported by the fraternity for the office of President of the Associated Students was elected. So much prestige was gained thereby that Brother Crosby, a short time later, was elected to the Presidency of the Senior Class of 1929. Other members have since become prominent in student committee work, as well as in their usual activities.

Thus, it is felt that the fraternity has attained a unique position in campus affairs, and it will continue to strive to maintain and better that position. In short, nothing can be left undone which would make Pi Theta Phi more befitting of a chapter in Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

dent of the Southern California Inter-fraternity Council, and Dr. Bennet M. Allen, the fraternity's faculty advisor, it was decided to approach the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity-and it may be here asserted that Pi Theta Phi has since had good reason to fcel mighty proud of that decision.

Immediately, Mr. LeRoy W. Brooks, Alpha-Psi of Lambda Chi Alpha, Secretary of the Southern California Interfraternity Alumni Association, was invited to meet the members of Pi Theta Phi, and his acceptance of that invitation may well mark the turning point in the career of this fraternity.

Soon after school closed in June, word was received from the Central Office that work might be begun toward some day gaining a charter in Lambda Chi Alpha. Since then, Mr. Brooks has been with the group constantly, advising as to ways and means, suggesting changes, and in every possible way aiding in its development. The fraternity is greatly indebted to him for all that he has done-a debt which it cannot begin to repay.

During the Christmas holidays, 1927, the Southern California Alumni Association of Lambda Chi Alpha voted unanimously to back Pi Theta Phi in their effort to secure affiliation with their fraternity, and that support has been unselfishly given. There is seldom a meeting at which at least one member of Lambda Chi is not present, freely offering his services, and advice, which are as freely received. This constant contact and association has made it possible for Pi Theta Phi to develop its administration along the same lines followed by Lambda Chi Alpha. An attempt has been made to create an internal organization similar to that existant in chapters of the National, so that Pi Theta Phi could become a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha in everything but name; a goal well-worth attaining.

All expenses and income are budgeted monthly; all bills are paid on the tenth of the following month, and checks must be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by the Chancellor, an Alumnus, thereby insuring outside control. The automatic suspension clause for financial reasons used by Lambda Chi Alpha has been incorporated in the by-laws and strictly adhered to. A bank balance has been amassed to meet petitioning expenses, over and above ordinary expenditures, in order that no strain would be felt when the time came to present the petition. As a result, it is felt that Pi Theta Phi can put forth a document worthy of Lambda Chi Alpha, and a financial statement of equal satisfaction.

When, in the Spring of 1928, the Board of Regents determined, definitely, that the date for location at the new campus at Westwood would be the Fall of 1929, it was decided to begin creating a fund with which to buy property there. Accordingly, a special assessment was included in the budget each month and placed in the hands of Mr. Brooks as trustee. Part of the regular initiation fee also goes into this fund. These moneys have been deposited in a savings account in order that when the time is propitious and the proper location has been secured, property may be bought with cash. Last June the fratrenity took over a legitimate theatre in Hollywood, in order to raise additional money for the house-fund. The brothers, through a little hard work, managed a profit of $137.00, and gained a fund of expeience which will aid in netting an even greater amount on the next attempt, planned for the near future.

Pi Theta Phi has, throughout its existence, been many-sided in its ventures and its membership has been well-rounded. In social affairs, no

Women's jl}ational jfraternittts at W. ~.JL. ~L ALPHA GA"'IMA DELTA

ZETA TAu ALPHA

ALPHA DELTA THETA

THETA UPSILON

.~LPHA DELTA Pr

TnETA Pur ALPHA

ALPHA EPSILON Pur

KAPPA ALPHA THETA

ALPHA Xr DELTA

KAPPA DELTA

ALPHA OMICRON Pr

KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA

ALPHA SrG"'IA DELTA

LAMBDA OMEGA

ALPnAPnr

Pr BETA Pur

ALPHA Cur OMEGA

Pr SrcMA GAMMA SrcMA DELTA TAu

BETA SIGMA OMICRON

SrcMA KAPPA

BETA Pur ALPHA

Pur DELTA

GAMMA Pur BETA DELTA GAMMA

Pur l\!Iu

DELTA DELTA DELTA

Pur 0MEcAPr

DELTA ZETA

Prn SrcMA SrcMA Cur OMEGA

EPsiLON Pr ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA KAPPA

(local)

'O!be

~i

tltbtta

~bi

,ffratrrnitp

I ;-.;路

THE FALL of 1925, there was born at the University of California. at Los Angeles, a new era of development. The semester had opened With an enrollment of over 5000. Talk of a new and larger campus was prevalent. Recognition had already been given to the caliber of the University Faculty and to the excellent scholastic standing they had inspired.

Now, U. C. L.A. was becoming one to be reckoned with in inter-collegiate competition. Those athletically inclined, were pointing toward a berth in the Pacific Coast Conference; yet, to carry on the work ahead, there were but sixteen men's social fraternities. Student government officers were swamped and pleaded for more such organizations to help bear the burden.

In response to that plea, ten men, already proven Californians, banded together and applied to the Student Welfare Board for permission to petition for a fraternity charter. Recommendation was immedately given, and on .1'\ovember 7, 1925, Pi Theta Phi became a reality. Temporary chapter quarters were obtained on a street adjoining the campus, new men were pledged, and active work was begun to further the interests of California.

As has been inferred, the Charter members of this group were prominent in campus activity. One was Captain of the 1925 Tennis Team, perhaps the best the school had thus far developed; another was the motivating force behind the organization of an ice-hockey team, and one of its outstanding players; another held the position of manager of the Men's Quad; another a leader in campus politics; still, another was a sub-chairman on the Rally Committee. Led by such men, the group soon became recognized as an exemplification of that intangible thing called "spirit."

It was the policy of the founders to create a fraternity which would be represented in as many diverse activities as possible, thereby to serve California better. In persuance of that policy, no stress was placed on any particular branch of activity, so that by the end of its first school year of existance, the fraternity had developed into a well-knit body of spirited men-athletes, politicians, and just plain workers.

PI THETA PHI HOUSE

In the beginning, it was believed that all effort should be directed toward developing the fraternity into a well-organized local, before striving for National affiliation. However, in spite of a determination to grow and succeed, coupled with an abundance of hard work, it became apparent that the fraternity could not reach any great heights of achievement without the advice and counsel of a National organization. Rushing was becoming more and more difficult for the local without a National Fraternity in view. :Many new Houses made their appearance and the members of Pi Theta Phi found themselves not well-enough equipped with a knowledge of fraternity affairs to successfully cope with the situation. A much wider experience was necessary. Soon after the Spring semester opened in 1927, a determined effort was put forth to contact with a National Body. The Dean of J\Ien was consulted, and after taking the matter up with the Presi-

dent of the Southern California Inter-fraternity Council, and Dr. Bennet M. Allen, the fraternity's faculty advisor, it was decided to approach the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity-and it may be here asserted that Pi Theta Phi has since had good reason to fcel mighty proud of that decision.

Immediately, Mr. LeRoy W. Brooks, Alpha-Psi of Lambda Chi Alpha, Secretary of the Southern California Interfraternity Alumni Association, was invited to meet the members of Pi Theta Phi, and his acceptance of that invitation may well mark the turning point in the career of this fraternity.

Soon after school closed in June, word was received from the Central Office that work might be begun toward some day gaining a charter in Lambda Chi Alpha. Since then, Mr. Brooks has been with the group constantly, advising as to ways and means, suggesting changes, and in every possible way aiding in its development. The fraternity is greatly indebted to him for all that he has done-a debt which it cannot begin to repay.

During the Christmas holidays, 1927, the Southern California Alumni Association of Lambda Chi Alpha voted unanimously to back Pi Theta Phi in their effort to secure affiliation with their fraternity, and that support has been unselfishly given. There is seldom a meeting at which at least one member of Lambda Chi is not present, freely offering his services, and advice, which are as freely received. This constant contact and association has made it possible for Pi Theta Phi to develop its administration along the same lines followed by Lambda Chi Alpha. An attempt has been made to create an internal organization similar to that existant in chapters of the National, so that Pi Theta Phi could become a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha in everything but name; a goal well-worth attaining.

All expenses and income are budgeted monthly; all bills are paid on the tenth of the following month, and checks must be signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by the Chancellor, an Alumnus, thereby insuring outside control. The automatic suspension clause for financial reasons used by Lambda Chi Alpha has been incorporated in the by-laws and strictly adhered to. A bank balance has been amassed to meet petitioning expenses, over and above ordinary expenditures, in order that no strain would be felt when the time came to present the petition. As a result, it is felt that Pi Theta Phi can put forth a document worthy of Lambda Chi Alpha, and a financial statement of equal satisfaction.

When, in the Spring of 1928, the Board of Regents determined, definitely, that the date for location at the new campus at Westwood would be the Fall of 1929, it was decided to begin creating a fund with which to buy property there. Accordingly, a special assessment was included in the budget each month and placed in the hands of Mr. Brooks as trustee. Part of the regular initiation fee also goes into this fund. These moneys have been deposited in a savings account in order that when the time is propitious and the proper location has been secured, property may be bought with cash. Last June the fratrenity took over a legitimate theatre in Hollywood, in order to raise additional money for the house-fund. The brothers, through a little hard work, managed a profit of $137.00, and gained a fund of expeience which will aid in netting an even greater amount on the next attempt, planned for the near future.

Pi Theta Phi has, throughout its existence, been many-sided in its ventures and its membership has been well-rounded. In social affairs, no

Women's jl}ational jfraternittts at W. ~.JL. ~L ALPHA GA"'IMA DELTA

ZETA TAu ALPHA

ALPHA DELTA THETA

THETA UPSILON

.~LPHA DELTA Pr

TnETA Pur ALPHA

ALPHA EPSILON Pur

KAPPA ALPHA THETA

ALPHA Xr DELTA

KAPPA DELTA

ALPHA OMICRON Pr

KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA

ALPHA SrG"'IA DELTA

LAMBDA OMEGA

ALPnAPnr

Pr BETA Pur

ALPHA Cur OMEGA

Pr SrcMA GAMMA SrcMA DELTA TAu

BETA SIGMA OMICRON

SrcMA KAPPA

BETA Pur ALPHA

Pur DELTA

GAMMA Pur BETA DELTA GAMMA

Pur l\!Iu

DELTA DELTA DELTA

Pur 0MEcAPr

DELTA ZETA

Prn SrcMA SrcMA Cur OMEGA

EPsiLON Pr ALPHA SIGMA ALPHA KAPPA

(local)

jf ratcrnitirs anb ~ororitits

O

fact relative to the University is the unusually active interest that national organizations have shown in this campus. lVIore national organizations of note have established chapters here within six years than usually are granted to one university in twenty years. Already there are seventeen national fraternities, thirty-three national sororities, and seventeen national honorary and professional organizations. If the national interest and scholastic progress that has been manifested here, augmented by the brilliant future that is assured by the move to the new campus at \Vestwood in 1929, is any criterion, it is safe to say that no other university can possible offer a national fraternity a richer or more fertile field for extension than does the University of California at Los Ang路eles.

NE SIGNIFICANT

At the present time there are on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles twenty-seven recognized fraternities. Of these, ten are local organizations petitioning or being colonized by national fraternities.

All women's fraternities who are members of the national Pan-Hellenic Association have chapters on the campus. In addition there are numerous other nationals and locals.

The fraternities on the campus are rer-ardcd in a very favorable light by the administration. The Director of the University in particular has been very sympathetic towards the organizations. All that can possibly be done by the administration for the organizations has been done, and the fraternities have only to present their problems to the Dean of Men for his solution, advice, or counsel. JVIuch of this favorable regard is due to the fact that the groups have at all times co-operated with the faculty and the administration in all lines of college activity.

CHEMISTRY AND GEOLOGY BUILDING

FRANK CROSBY, Senior Age 23, Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles.

President Senior Class. 4; Chairman of Senior Board of Control. 4; University Affairs Committee-Secretary. 4; Finance Board of University. 4; Westwood Committee. 4; Chairman of Student Body Card Sales Campaign. 4; President of Inter-Fraternity Council.

3; Treasurer of Inter-Fraternity Council. 2; Thanic Shield-Senior Men's Honorary Fraternity. 4; Agora Debating Society. 2, 3, 4; Daily Bruin Staff. 2, 3; Chairman of Amendment 10 Campaign. 2.

LLOYD K. HOUGH, Senior Age 20, Colton Union High School. University Welfare Board. 4; Forensic Board. 4; Senior Board of Control. 4; Agora Debating Society. 3, 4; Commencement Announcement Committee-Chairman. 4; Student Body Card Sales Committee. 4; Senior Vigilante Committee. 4; Chaffey Junior College. 1, 2; President of Sophomore Class. 2; Vice-President of Fres.hman Class. 1; Tennis. 1, 2; Varsity Debate. 1, 2.

WILLIAN! C. BAILEY, Junior Age 22, Taft Union High School. Football. 3; Track.

3; Taft Junior College. 1, 2; President of Student Body. 2; Football. 2.

DONALD LENZ, Junior Age 21, Hollywood High School. Swimming Team.

1, 2, 3; Rally Committee. 3; Stage Crew. 1, 2; University Band. 1, 2; R.O.T.C. Rifle Team. 1; Varsity Rifle Team. 3; President of Cosmopolitan Club. 3; Frosh Rally Reserve. 1; Circle C Society. Charter _\/ember Psi Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, National Band Fraternity.

campus s;tt: at Westwood. This project represents the most elaborate of its kind ever developed and provides a wonderful natural laboratory right at the very door of the university students. The famous Huntington Library which comprises one of the world's most treasured art and literary collections is easily accessible from the campus. Students find a visit to this library a rare education in itself. In the realm of music nothing more could be desired than can be found at the Hollywood Bowl where each summer the famous "Symphonies Under the Stars" are conducted under the direction of the world's renowned conductors. This offers to students a splendid opportunity to study music at its best. The City of Hollywood, which is really the home of the University of California at Los Angeles, besides being noted for its .Motion Picture Industry is fast becoming the most brilliant Art center of the west. On every hand can be found developments of the greatest educational value which go far in attracting students to this locality to attend the university.

The University of California at Los Angeles today, on a basis of regular full time registration, ranks fourteenth in size among all the universities of the United States, having a total enrollment of 5,859 regular full time students.

The university at present is composed of two colleges each demanding fifteen Carnegie units for entrance. Both the college of Letters and Science and the Teachers' College require four years of work for the Bachelor Degree. In the College of Letters and Science there are registered 3,832 .students. This is the fifth largest College of Letters and Science in the United States, a position which has been attained in a period of six years.

In addition to the regular liberal arts and teachers' college work, courses in pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-law, and the first two years of most other professional courses are given. Each year the University is broadening its curriculum so that within a very few years its instruction will be complete. This is one of the big features of the Westwood expansion program; in order that the university may expand to include schools covering practically every field of human enterprise such as agriculture, commerce, dentistry, engineering, law pharmacy, religion, etc.

being reserved for the faculty alone. Rows of lots, forming fraternity and sorority rows, are being purchased by the fraternities and sororities of the university.

EDWIN BURNELL BENNETT, Junior Age 21. Lindsay High School. Orchestra. 1; University Band. 1, 2; Agora. 2; Theta Tau Theta (Honorary Geo'ogy Fraternity); German Club. 1.

KEN~ETH

D. BURKE, Sophomore

Age 20. Pomona High School.

1; Frosh Football o'VIanager. 1.

Daily Bruin StalL

A. LEE BERRY, Sophomore Age 21. Porterville Union High School. Frosh Rally Reserve. 1; Daily Bruin Staff. 1; Theta Tau Theta, Honorary Geological Fraternity. 2.

The future possibilities of the new university at \Vestwood are practically unlimited. Leading educators are agreed that the university will become one of the leading educational centers west of the Mississippi. In anticipation of a wonderful future, we are eagerly awaiting the opening of the new campus.

Due to the geographical and physical features of the State of California and the apportionment of the population, it is vitally necessary that there be a state university in the southern part of the state. This need has been realized for quite some time and when the State Legislature saw fit to establish in Southern California a State University, its future was immediately assured. When the University was created it was out of necessity and had a definite place to fill. This has been proven by the fact that within a period of eight years it has grown from a State Teachers' College to one of the four largest universities on the Pacific Coast.

The University of California at Los Angeles owes in a large measure, the success of its rise to this position to an unusually favorable set of conditions that attended its growth. The location and environment of the university is the finest that could be desired by any educational institution.

It is located in Los Angeles, a city of over 1,350,000 inhabitants. This city has enjoyed a phenomenal and substantial growth as evidenced by building permits, bank clearings and population increase. The population of Los Angeles is increasing at a very rapid rate, having practically trebled itself in the last ten years, and it seems that the growth of this university is concomitant with this increase.

Throughout Southern California there seems to be an especiallv enthusiastic spirit in all educational lines and due to this fact Los Angeles is fast becoming one of the outstanding centers of educational progress of the world. There are in Southern California 225 public senior high schools, eight colleges, ten junior colleges, and two major universities. This fact explains the attention devoted to education.

All phases of Fine Arts and Science are finding in Southern California an ideal workshop and an impetus and stimulus that is conducive to outstanding development. Within a radius of a few miles of the University of California at Los Angeles can be found several examples of educational development along these lines that are of particular interest to the university.

GARY LYNES, Sophomore Age 18.

Fremont High School. Cosmopolitan Club.

1; Frosh Football. 1.

In Pasadna, a few miles distant, is the California Institute of Technology, an institution that has done much in the world of science, especially in the realm of Physics. Through the splendid contribution of Dr. R. A. Millikan and his associates, world recognition has come to Cal-Tech.

Directly above Pasadena on .Mount Wilson, about twenty miles from the University of California at Los Angeles, is the Mount Wilson Government Observatory, one of the best equipped observatories of today, which is open to students on certain nights each week. A more recent establishment in the field of science is the California Botanic Gardens which are situated a short distance from the new University of California at Los Angeles

of Regents in 1923 established a full four-year course in the College of Letters and Science it was evident that the addition of the third and fourth year work would result in a greater increase in registrants in the already overcrowded school.

JOHN F. McGINNIS, Sophomore Age 20. Lincoln High School, Los Angeles. Frosh Swimming Team. 1; University Band. 1, 2; Engineer's Club. 1.

With this problem before them a committee appointed by the Board of Regents submitted the following program as a possible solution of this situation: 1. The appointment by the President of a committee of men of prominence in the Southern California affairs to secure the gift of an adequate new site for the Southern Branch.

2. After such a site has been secured, the presentation of a bill to the 1925 legislature, providing the sum of $1,500,000 for the construction of buildings on said site to be used by the departments of the Southern Branch other than the Teacher's College.

As soon as the committee was appointed and its purpose made public, offers of sites began to come in. They came from Santa Barba.ra on the north and San Diego on the south. In all, seventeen sites were submitted and put under consideration of the committee. After much deliberation it was finally decided to recommend the Westwood area to the Board of Regents. It was then up to the regents to look into all of the sites submitted and select one that would fill all necessary requirements. After a complete survey and careful investigations it was decided to locate the new university at Westwood, a suburb of Los Angeles.

HUGH WILKINS, Sophomore Age 21.

Monrovia High School.

JAMES YOUNG, Sophomore Age 20.' Hollywood High School. Rally Committee.

2; Frosh Rally Reserves. 1; Men's Glee Club. 1, 2.

m:bt Jlthl

Wnibtr~itp

With the opening of the fall semester in September, 1929, the new university at Westwood will open its doors to students. YVith 380 acres valued at $2,500,000, being utilized in its construction, the new university will be one of the largest and most beautiful educational plants in the country.

When entirely completed, the new home at Westwood will represent a $30,000,000 project.

\VALDO W. MINETTE, Freshman Age 21. Pasadena High School.

Team Manager. 1.

Frosh Swimming

Situated in the heart of Westwood hills, twelve miles from Los Angeles and three miles from Hollywood, the new campus presents a beautiful setting. From almost any position on the campus a view may be had of the Pacific, and a fifteen-minute walk will take one into the green canyons of Beverly Hills. The cool invigorating ocean breeze gives to the location a perfect climate.

Because of the suitability to the rolling knolls of Westwood, the Lombard architectural style of the early Christian period has been chosen for the buildings. In an attempt to have the campus architecturally perfect, the Northern Italian atmosphere will be prevalent at all times. Tapestry brick

f7f;l

laecommenbations :J!}i~torp

of tbe Wniber%itp

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION LAl\rBDA

Cm:

ALPHA

FRATER~dTY

To Members of Lambda Chi Alplw: . Th~ Southern. Cal!fornia Alumni Association became acquainted with Pi Theta Phi Fraternity of the Umverstty of Cahforn!a at Los Angeles soon after its organization. Since that time we have watched and to a great extent guided its progress. At the present time \Ve believe it well qualified to carry on the precepts and traditions of Lambda Chi Alpha.

At its last regular meeting the Association composed of nearly one hundred members from thirtvfour different Zetas, composed the undersigned, by a unanimous vote, to ;vrite this letter requesting that the petition of Pi Theta Phi be given favorable consideration.

Yours in Z A X,

0. E. HOPKINS. MU137 President, Southern Cali/ornÂŁa Alumni Ass'n.

Il\TERFRA TERNITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF

SOUTHER!\' CALIFORNIA Organized 1920 Los A:-.cELES,

CALIFORNIA

March 12, 1929.

To the Grand High Zeta and Members of the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

The local society Pi Theta Phi at the University of California at Los Angeles has been sponsored by several of the Western Chapters of the fraternity. It has recerved the approval of everv Travelmg Secretary as \Vell as the endorsement of the Southern California Alumni Association of Lambda Chi Alpha. ':fhe ~ociety ha.s fulfilled eYery r~quirement of a petitioning society, maintaining a high scholarship standmg, mauguratmg a sound financial structure, and developing a splendid internal organization.

The University of California at Los Angeles is one of the outstanding institutions in the vvest and a wonderful :field for expansion. It has been already recognized by a score of the national fraternities.

I can heartily recommend this group and trust that the General Assembly will consider favorablv the petition of Pi- Thet3 Phi for a charter in the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

-

Your in Z A X, LEROY W. BROOKS Alpha-Psi Univ. of Washi11gton

1917

THE LAMBDA CHI ALPHA FRATERNITY OFFICE OF ADMI::"fiSTRATIO:f PEOPLES BANK BLDG.

419 INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

To the Brothers of Lambda Chi Alpha: The local fraternity, Pi Theta Phi, at the Univer.sity of California Los Angeles has asked me to write a letter which it might incorporate in its formal petition. Since I without reservation, recommended this local group to the nearby Zetas. I am glad of this opportunity to recommend it to the fraternity as a whole.

Pi Theta Phi has wholeheartedly enterd into the spirit of petitioning for a charter in Lambda Chi Alpha and has eagerly looked forward to the day when it wouid be allowed to present its formal petition.

The group does not stand as high scholastically as it might, but the attitude is one which will undoubtedlv raise the present rating. Financially the local group has a sound foundation and has a growing hous-e building fund. The internal organization as a whole is well managed by a cabinet of efficient and conscientious officers.

The Los Angeles Alumni Association which has sponsored Pi Theta Phi has aided the group in many of the details of organization. Brother LeRoy W. Brooks h.1s been especially active in making suggestions for improvement and has acted in an advisory capacity.

The University of California at Los Angeles is unquestionably one of the most progressive institutions of higher learning on the Pacific Coast and is a wonderful field for fraternity expansion as is evidenced by the number of charters recently granted by other national fraternities.

The new \Vestwood campus is an outstanding mark of progress in the comparatively young life of the Vniversity.

I cannot help but feel that a chapter at U. C. L. A. would materially strengthen our fraternity and form an import3nt link in the widespread chain of Zetas in the far West.

Yours in Z. A. X., REUBEN C. YOUNGQUIST 1 raveling Secretary

T

of the University of California would not be complete without a brief resume of the main events leading up to 1919, when the Los Angeles State Normal School became a College.

HE HISTORY

Forty-six years ago there were in California four c1t1es each larger than Los Angeles-San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Sacramento-the population of Los Angeles then being about eleven thousand. It was in the spring session of 1881 that the State Legislature provided for the establishment of the Los Angeles State Normal School. At that time there was but one normal school in California. This had been established in San Francisco in 1862, but had been afterwards removed to San .Jose. In the year 1880 the San .Jose Normal School building was destroyed by fire. This accident appeared to the people of Southern California to offer an opportunity for their urging a claim to some of the State institutions, and an effort was made to have the Normal School built in Los Angeles. Through this southern influence the second State Normal School was founded in the second pueblo of California-"Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles"-as the first normal school had been established in the first pueblo, "San Jose de Guadalupe."

The cornerstone of the new buildings at Los Angeles was laid Saturday, December 7th, 1881, and the formal opening occurred on September 9th, 1882.

From the time of its establishment, the school had a steady growth and it was soon seen that a new site would be needed to accommodate the increasing number of students. In 1914, after the State Legislature had appropriated $100,000 and authorized the Board of Trustees to sell the old buildings and grounds for $500,000, the Normal School was located at its new quarters on North Vermont Avenue, the present site of the University of California at Los Angeles.

In 1917, Dr. Earnest C. Moore was called from Harvard and installed as president of the school. He started to work at once to create in Los Angeles a great Teacher's College under the auspices of the Regents of the Univrsity of California at Berkeley. It was, upon investigation, thought best to recommend not only the Teacher's College in Los Angeles, but also the establishment of the first two years of the University work.

This recommendation was accepted by the Board of Regents and proper legislation was completed in 1919. The Normal School was then succeeded by the new institution known as the Southern Branch of the University of California. With the Teacher's College and a two-year course in Liberal Arts many new students were attracted to the school and it was only a short time until the registration totaled nearly 4,000 students with the capacity of the buildings set at 2,500. This rapidity of increase in enrollment has been a marked feature throughout the life of the institution and when the Board

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES 'vV. \V. CAMPBELL President of the University

ERNEST C. MooRE

Dire dar

March 6, 1929 Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Gen tlernen:

uto

I am writing you in the interests of the Pi Theta Phi Fraternity 路which is a local in the University of California at Los Angeles, and which is petitioning for a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

I have knmvn several members of the Phi Theta Phi Fraternity the past fe\v years and I have had the opportunity to work with some of them in connection \vith student self-government on our campus.

I have also had the opportunity to watch the general development of the organization and I feel that I am qualified to express an opinion regarding their general characters. I believe that the quality of the fraternity is largely determined by its leaders and Pi Theta Phi has had a number of very strong upper classmen since I have known them.

I am glad to testify that the Pi Theta Phi Fraternity is in good standing in every respect and that it has at all times co-operated vvith the administration. I believe that they are worthy of your careful consideration.

Sincerely yours,

EARL ]. MILLER Dean of 111 en

EJM:O

Cl\IVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES DEAN OF THE CoLLEGE OF LETTERS A::>rD SciE~CE

March 23,

1929.

To Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity: I am pleased to commend to you Pi Theta Phi Fraternity, which is petitioning for a charter in your national organization. The members of this group have entered practically every student activity with a spirit of service to the University and to the fraternity. Several of the illen are leaders in their various fields. This the fraternity scholarship ;werage is not particularly high; but experience on our campus shows that a group may make a poor showing one year, it may later rank near the head of the list, and vice versa.

At the present time the University of California at Los Angeles is approaching the most significant period in its development. I feel strongly that national organizations ;vhich establish themselves on the ne;v campus simultaneously with the transfer of the University are laying the foundation for a successful future.

I am sure th.1t Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity vmuld be worthily represented on our campus by Pi

Theta Phi.

~be

QE)fficers anb ,:fflembers of JLambba ((bi ~lpba

P

r THETA I'HI, a local fraternity of the University of California at Los Angeles, and situated at Los Angeles, realizing the worth and benefits derived from a membership in a national organization, both from the standpoint of improving its present and future members, and being better able to compete with the other national organizations here, has fostered a strong desire to become a Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

In accordance with these views, recognizing the strength of Lambda Chi Alpha, and admiring the ideals and progressive spirit of your Brotherhood, we, the undersigned, members in good standing of Pi Theta Phi, and also of the University of California at Los Angeles, do hereby formally and respectfully petition the members of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity that upon successful completion of the necessary requirements, Pi Theta Phi be granted a charter in regular form, establishing it as a Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

Sincerely,

C. H. RIEBER

Signed:

Dean of the College of Lrtter and Science

LLOYD K. HouGH WJYr.

ASSOCI ATED STUDENTS UNIVERSITY oF C...\.LIFOR~IA AT Los ANGELES 855 NoRTH VERl\WNT AvENUE Los AsGELES, CALIFoR~IA Fraternity:

Lambda Chi Alpha Gentlemen: It gives me a great deal of pleasure to recommend the Pi Theta Phi Fraternity to -your national group. As an organization they are outstanding in every phase of campus life and would be 路a real asset to a national fraternity. I ctm proud to have tbem as one of our campus organizations and give them my hearty ctpprov~d and best wishes.

Very sincerely,

JAMES M. STEWART Chai;路man of thr We-lfare Board

U. C. L. _1.

INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL UxrvERSITY OF CAUFORKIA AT Los ANGELES 855 l\ToRTH VER}.fONT AvE:i\TUE Los A~cELF:s, CALIFORNIA To VVhom It May Concern: The Pi Theta Phi Fraternitv is worthy of recommendation to any good national fraternity. It has been a progressive organization o~ the campus since its founding.

The interest and co-operation shown by this organization in the Inter-Fraternity Council, and in all phases of University life is ;vorthy of note.

I feel confident that I express the sentiment of the Inter-Fraternity Council that ;.ve are of the opinion that the high ideals and record of this group make it worthy of becoming a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha.

Very respectfully,

JOSEPH A. LONG Presidrnt of the lnter-Fratetnity Council.

Delta Upsilon.

H.

c. BAILEY

w. VAN DANIKER

FRANK

E.

CROSBY

A. LEE BERRY KENNETH D. Bc;RKE HERBERT A. \VILLIAMS RoBERT A. iVIATSON ]AMES F. You:'<G DoN LENZ

S. T. MAsoN E.]. ZrELBAUER En. BENNETT lluGH \VILKINS

A. \V.

RuTT

GARY G.LYOIES 'MARVIN PILCHER HowARD REED \VALDO NlrNETTE DouGLAS BARNES ADDISON HEHR STANLEY :MARTIN EDWARD \VALTHER JOliN

L.

WILSON

DELTA NU OF KAPPA SIGMA U:N"IVERSITY oF CALIFOR~IA AT

Los

A~cELES

\\re are glad to give our unqualified recommendation to Pi Theta Phi for membership in Lambda Chi Alpha.

DELTA NU OF KAPPA SIGMA

By DARRELL T. NEIGHBORS, G. J/.

m:o m:be ~ranb J)tgb leta anb ~ll €bapters of tbt

DELTA UPSILON

JLambba Qtbi ~lpba

Los AxcF.LES February 25, 1929.

Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, Gentlemen: The Pi Theta Phi fraternity established at the Uni·versity of Californi.:t at Los Angeles is worthy of recommendation to any good national fraternity.

The high ideals of its members and the record the fraternity has ma::le it "orthy of beroming a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha. \\'e 2re glad to recommend this group for a chapter of your fraternity.

Very respectfully yours, U::->rr\TRSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT

jf r a tern itp

GEORGE CLEAVER, Prrsidcnt, Della Upsilon.

Los Angeles, California.

March I, 1929.

To Lambda Chi Alpha: It has been brought to our attention that the Pi 1i1eta Phi Fraternity has been petitioning the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraernity. Vv'e wish to recommend this group most highly as they are active in campus affairs, are men of good character, and \Vould make good members of Lambda Chi Alpha.

LAMDBA OF BETA PHI ALPHA AcnREY BFI,LE GAR:r-.'ER

President.

DELTA DELTA DELTA THETA PI

CHAPTER

U:-.1\'tRSTTY OF CALil'OR~IA AT

Los Los Angeles, Calif.

March, 3, 1929

A~cELFS

To Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity: I take a great deal of pleastne in recommending the Pi Theta Phi. local fraternity on this campus, for your serious consideration. This group has distinguished itself on our campus as an exceedingly worth\Vhile and loyal organization. The members of Pi Theta Phi are represented in many fields of activity and moreover, maintain a high scholastic standing.

Because I believe this group has made for itself a very fine reputation on our campus, because I believe this group \viii be a decided asset to any national organization, I sincerely hope you will look with f ayor upon their petition. ~1ost sincerely,

MARY A. HARDY, President of Thrta Pi Chapter of Delta Delta Dt!ta.

THIS PETITION SHOULD BE R E --~~0~~ r fJY THE CO~:l\/2N '..J" ATE 'E U l BY I

HI

T ., T

SS~JVIBLY"

GENERAL

March, 20, 1929.

Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

Gentlemen: It is with pleJ.sure that I ff'commend the local Pi Theta Phi to your national organiz:1tion.

This group has distinguished itself on our campus both in scholarship and activity. Frank Crosby, president of the Senior Class, is a member of the fraternity.

The men in the group petitioninl? are of the finest type, and I sincerely hope you will favor granting them a chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha.

Very sincerely,

ADELENE B. GREENE Presidrnt, Alpha Iota of Kappa Delta.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES Los Ac;rcELEs, CALIFORNIA,

1929

I I

THE LAl.IBDA CHI ..,~LPI-:..~ ?R.~TERNITY O?FICE OF ADliDHSTRATION 419 Peoples B~nk Bldg., Indiana,olis, Ind.

CENTRAL OFFICE RE?ORT ON PI THETA PHI ~~T

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALI FORNL\ AT LOS ANGEL::;s, C.ALIF. (Prepared April 8, 1929.)

Alumni of southern California have been working tov1ard the es ta.bli shr:1en t of a ze to. at the tJni ·versi ty of California at Los Angeles since 1923. This institution should not be confused with the University of Southern California (also '?.t Los Angeles) or the,University of California (at Berkeley) of whLch it is a trg,nch but of which it has become a stalwart rival • .Pi Theta Phi Yt3.s first heg_rd from in May, 1927, and has been visited regul~rly by the tr~veling secretaries all of whom have reported favorably. This local society was authorized to file its formal petition vlhen the Grg_nd High Zeta met in Nevi Yorlc last N0vember.

Sponsors of this group include: Alpha-L~mbda

Zeta, Oregon State College.

Alpha-Pi Zeta, University of Denver.

Tau Zeta,

~ashington

State College.

Alpha-Psi Zeta, University of ITashington.

Gamma-Hu Zeta, University of Colorado.

By authorizing the circulation of this petition, the Grand High Zeta expresses its endorsement of this group, and its confidence in Pi Theta. Phi's ;J"i tness to be granted a charter.

Pi Theta Phi will be voted on at the General Assembly.

The petition of this grou9 now being sent to each voting unit ·should be brought by the delegate to the Assembly.

Respectfully submitted, Bruce H. Mcintosh, Administrative Secretary.