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Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity • HOWARD D. LEAKE Editor

JANUARY, 1937

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Contents Supreme Chapter Citations Delivered on Founders' Day ... .

Pi Kappa Phi Scholars for 1936 .. ................... .

By Dr. Will E. Edington Alumni of Lansing Organize ....................... .

By J. E. Jepson Fight Shock with Shock Says Dr. Kouwenhoven ........ .

Harry P. Hammond Heads Engineering Society ... . ..... .

Inspiration Point .................................. .

By President Meisel Official Papers Reveal New Appointments ............. .

Automobile Tragedies Take Three Pi Kapps .......... . .

Who's Who Lists Rubert J. Longstreet ............... .

National Heckle Hour .. .. .... . ...... . .. .... . . . . ... .

By Weldon Melick Pi Kappa Phi Pictorial ............................. .

Calling the Roll .................................. .

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Contributing Editors LAWRENCE J. BOLVIG DOUGLAS WILLIX DR. WILL E. EDINGTON

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Please Mention Our Name WHILE we will not go as far as the Broadway producer, who is alleged to have made the remark, "I do not care what you say about me, just so you mention my name," we would like the idea behind the remark to be present with each member of the fraternity at such times when he comes in for personal publicity. Whether it be a matter of getting married, making a speech, obtaining a promotion, receiving an honor or the numerous other occasions when a personal background is of interest in the reporting, please include your membership in the fraternity in the list.

A great deal of the prestige and influence of a fraternity is dependent upon its alumni membership, who they are and what they are doing, and this is the simplest method and best channel for identifying yourself with the fraternity and the fraternity with you. The general public reads the name of the fraternity in its best relation; the older alumnus finds delight in your success and pride in the association, however nebulus the personal contact may be between you; the younger member can find not only pride but also inspiration and stimulation in what you have done; and the lad with the college future reads and notes and becomes more openminded to a bid to membership from the fraternity. And carrying the theme further and within the portals of the fraternity, let us know about your honors and accomplishments for the telling in this magazine.

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<?RMING a highpoint in various fraternity gatherVirgil R. Fleming, Illinois togs throughout the country, on or about the A beloved figure in the background of Upsilon chapter is Founders' Day, December 10, was the formal Virgil R. Fleming, professor of engineering at the University presentation of the certificate of meritorious fraternity of Illinois. He is known as "Flem" to all the men of the chapse 路 . rvtce to the men cited by the last Supreme Chapter ter. Although fraternity history records him as a past national and district archon, it has been as adviser to the ~ Seattle. Seventeen men were so recognized, bringing warden chapter and in work in its behalf that he looms in an outstande total number of men on the honor list of the fra- ing way in the fraternity. Cheerful, faithful, constant has ~~rni~ t~ 35. Eleven chapters were represented in the been his active interest in the affairs of the chapter, to the 1 f 1trtbutton, Eta leading the way with a total of three, extent of heavy personal sacrifice of time and money.

0 The 11 District conclave at Upsilon Chapter, December I owed by Iota, Nu, Omicron and Upsilon with two.

12-13, was the occasion during which "Flem" received the ; geographical distribution they reached from New slight token of gratitude of the fraternity. ork to California and from Florida to Michigan . . A ~ariety of types of service to the fraternity were George M. Grant, Alabama ~tgnaltzed in these citations, from many years in _arness in the National Council to the quiet and conGeorge Grant was scheduled to receive his recognition on ~tstent work in behalf of a particular chapter, which the occasion of the anniversary meeting at Auburn and from the hands of District Archon J. Theodore Jackson. This came ~ do?e in the background without general notice. to him in return for affectionately and effectively applied ormtng a numerous contingent among the recipients effort as national secretary of the fraternity in the post-war ~ere the men who have been labelled "pioneers" of period which demanded so much of the officials, and which r ~fraternity, whose evangelism has led to the estab- was so well done as to assure the immediate growth of the fraternity. Several chapters got off to a good start under IS ment of a chapter or chapters.

Joseph W. Cannon, Jr., Emory A.t!Before a gathering in Atlanta under the auspices of the f anta Alumni Association and including representatives 0 / ' ; the four chapters of the state, Joe Cannon received his t~rtt ~at~. The time also approximated his introduction to ni~ dtstnct as. its archon, a new responsibility in the fraterJo accepted by him recently. The youngest of the group, ob~ recognized for his zeal applied and accomplishment lie atned while acting as assistant secretary of the fraternity. en Was. bound by no hours of work, gave of his time and to e~gy In a constructive way which was out of proportion se 1~ modest stipend which he received. For four years he rv~ , staunchly and progressively.

Ca J e s home is Cordele, Ga., where he has an agency for the he:\ Machinery company and in addition goes in rather Vt Y for farming, cotton and pecans.

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J. Lawton Ellis, Georgia Tech WhLawton Ellis' very recent removal to Berkeley, Calif., ve ~re l~e is engineer with the U . S. Navy yard, preof \~d h~s b.eing present in the Atlanta gathering for receipt ele ~ cttat10n. Prior to this change he was professor of ~~teal engineering at Georgia Tech. ch though recent years have seen him in the position of ex?t~r adviser of the Tech chapter, the period of his service fill e~ s to the early history of the fraternity, when he capably Whe ~h~ position of national treasurer of the fraternity, etng treasurer was a trying position. He served from 19 Pr' to. 1922, carrying through the war period when as a latate 1? the army he was assigned to the radio research didorat~nes of the government. Prior to his treasurership, he tim We I as business manager of the Star and Lamp. Several ferees he represented the fraternity in the Interfraternity Connee.

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An attorney of Troy, Ala., successful professionally, recognized in political circles of the state, and pursuing a baseball hobby and interest is George. He is chairman of the county Democratic Executive committee, member of the state Democratic Executive committee and a lieutenant colonel of the governor's staff. He has served as president of the Dixie Amateur Baseball league and this year heads the Alabama-Florida league.

Ivan W. Hedge, Nebraska Of the unsung type of service was that of Ivan W. Hedge, the rather thankless and yet onerous duties of treasurer and director of a house financing and maintenance corporation.

It requires much and consistently applied time and therefore continued and faithful interest. This unselfish work was thus recognized, even though circumstances beyond control brought it to a somewhat fruitless end.

The Lincoln alumni gathered on the evening of the lOth to make presentation, under the direction of W. M. Elmen of that city. Members of the chapter attended from various points throughout the state. Ivan is an accountant with the State of Nebraska.

V. Hain Huey, Alabama Since his initiation into the fraternity, Hain Huey has never ceased an active interest in his organization. Organizer of the Birmingham Alumni chapter, there have been rare times over many years in which he has not served it in official capacity. His efforts were mainly responsible for the formation of plans and for the financing of the Omicron chapter house. He has served as district archon, as chapter adviser and headed the general committee of the Birmingham convention, one of the most successful of the fraternity na-

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tiona! meetings. Asked how he was able to give so much time, he replied, "The fraternity has given me friendship which I value highly, and my interest in the organization corresponds to that value."

The Birmingham Alumni chapter met for the presentation to its veteran member his inadequate recognition. Hain is secretary of the Shultz-Hodo Realty company of Birmingham, one of the leaders in that field in the city.

Harold 0. Merle, Cornell The New York Life Insurance company has often given Harold Merle membership in its intra-company clubs of distinction as a producer. The same unflagging, persistent work which has made him successful in a difficult profession, Harold brought to his work as district archon. He thought and planned for his chapters, he gave equipment and decorations, spent money, entered into actual rushing, resided in a house to help tide it over a low period-an unusual record of unselfish and active loyalty to the fraternity.

The alumni of Ithaca, where he is at present located, combined with his undergraduate chapter at Cornell to make the presentation and do him honor.

George A. Odgers, Nebraska Chapter charter member, the one who handled the nationalization details and correspondence; contributor to the Star and Lamp and interfraternity journals; pioneer in the Northwest (Washington and Oregon chapters); active member of alumni chapters; national chaplain; and now doing fruitful work as councillor-at-large--for almost a quarter of a century has Dr. George served the fraternity. His fraternity history is of the rarest.

The Portland Alumni chapter gathered with undergraduate Alpha Zeta at Corvallis to pay tribute to him and his record. George is dean of the Oregon Institute of Technology, Portland.

Manuel G. Quevedo, Georgia Tech By mail to Cuba, which is somewhat distant from the nearest alumni chapter, went the citation to Manuel Quevedo, pioneer of the fraternity. Initiate of Iota, he transferred to the University of North Carolina and started Kappa. That project underway, he looked for a new field and found it in Trinity (now Duke) and Mu chapter came into being. Later, he looked into Virginia but found the situation unattractive at the time. He served as national warden.

"Chick" is a prominent engineer of his country and will leave behind him permanent monuments in the shape of national highways and railroads which he has assisted in planning and building. Union de Reyes is his home.

J. Chester Reeves, Charleston The period of the fraternity history in which J. Chester Reeves served as national treasurer is entitled by the author: "Establishing Administrative Efficiency," in itself commendation for the work he did. For two terms, 1925-29, with a short time out for illness, he labored effectively for efficiency and strength in the financial channels of the fraternity, and got both; setting up many good standards which have lived through and beyond his personal contact with the position.

He assisted in the formation of the Atlanta Alumni Association and became its first archon and representative to a convention, indicated as the first time that an alumni chapter had a duly accredited representative.

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J. Wilson Robinson, Emory The gathering in East Lansing, Mich., location of Alph Theta, for Founders' Day assumed state-wide proportions, in eluding the undergraduate chapter, Detroit Alumni chapte and the newly formed Lansing association; and the big ite~ of the program was the citing of J. Wilson Robinson . .Bt retired in August from the position of national treasurer afte five years of excellent service. His fraternity career has beet one of outstanding activity and continuity, beginning witt the founding and chartering of Eta, and carrying through th formation of the Detroit Alumni chapter, six years as distri archon, general chairmanship of a national convention and no tiona! treasurership for five years. He is the donor of schol arship cups to his district.

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Jesse Schwarck's work has been that which seeks th< quiet background and which brings especial benefit to a pa1 ticular chapter, in this instance Gamma. For many years hi maintained his helpful attitude towards the chapter in rnn1 ters financial, as they pertained to the chapter itself in it everyday functioning and as they concerned the financing ~ the chapter house. Brilliant along those lines-he has ~ enviable record in the Federal Land bank system-he at n time withheld his ability and knowledge from chapter affaili Quietly and encouragingly he has assisted the chapter o~l some very rough places.

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Advanced work in textile led to contact with James leC & Sons, one of the largest manufacturers of woolen an worsted yarns in America, of which he is credit manager; als of its subsidiary, the Charles P. Cochrane company.

He was honored by a combined meeting of the Philadef phia Alumni d1apter and Alpha Upsilon on December 4.

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He would be classed in service as being primarily pioneer of the fraternity, although he has years of perforf1l ance as district archon and adviser to his credit. He tran 1 ferred from Emory to Washington and Lee, gathered abo~ him several men and successfully petitioned for a charte1 which was granted to Rho chapter. Going to the Universir of Mississippi later as instructor, he encouraged a group men to form and petition the fraternity, following the r (Continued on page 30)

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NE of the interesting books of the year, to college men at least, is Was College liVorth .

While? by John R. Tunis, Harvard 1911. In hts book Mr. Tunis makes a study of his class of 1911, composed of 541 members as to their achievements duri?g tl1e past twenty-fiv~ years. He makes similar studtes of the same classes at Princeton, Yale and the University of Nebraska.

In his study of his Harvard class he picked at random the names of 100 members in four different groups-athletes, Phi Beta Kappas, club men, and average men who were little known about college. His findings are very interesting. Financially, the Phi Beta I<ap~as lead all the other groups by a considerable margm, in spite of the fact that the athletes came lar?ely from wealthy families. Also he found that the Pbt. Beta I<appa group had contributed most to the natton's welfare and had really achieved the most.

Ten years ago Pi Kappa Phi began its scholarship Wor~ by setting up awards for scholarship achievement by tts active members. The brothers whose scholarship records won for them the honors of their fraternity were to be known as Pi Kappa Phi Scholars. The r~quirements for this honor were set high, in fact htgher than those for Phi Beta Kappa in many colleges, and to safeguard the honor, the maximum number of Scholars for any one year was set at nine.

For ten years, in spite of the economic depression: our fraternity has held to this high ideal and the Pt I<appa Phi Sd1olars for 1936 constitute the tenth annual group of Scholars. As time goes on and the future historian of Pi Kappa Phi makes his findings and recounts the glories of our fraternity, it should ?ot be surprising for him to find in this ever growmg group of Scholars many men who are leaders nationally in their respective chosen fields. The motto of the Scholarship Committee is :Eo~ia Nt'~~~ Knowledge (or Wisdom) Conquers. This motto appears in th': Greek on the beautiful pendants which Pi Kappa Pht awards to its scholars and also on the Scholarship Certificates which are given both to the scholars and to their respective chapters.

On Founders' Day, December 10, Pi Kappa Phi sent forth the following scholars. Their achievements in extra-curricular activities frequently are as outstanding as their excellence in scholarship.

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William Hershel Bagnal, Delta Brother Bagnal was one of the five highest ranking seniors in his class at Furman University. He was one of the campus leaders and held membership in the Quaternion club, composed of college leaders. He was also a member of Hand and Torch. Brother Bagnal served Delta chapter as historian and archon. He graduated last May and received his A.B. degree magna mm lattde.

Edgar Byron Hilley, Eta Brother Hilley was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Emory University. He was ·president of the International Relations club and served as a delegate to the Southeastern Conference of International Relations clubs. He was secretary of the Political Science club, and a member of the council of the Baptist Student Union. He played first violin in the Emory symphony orchestra. Brother Hilley received his degree last June and is now located at 666 Grady Place S.W., Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Edington Is Honored The fraternity is accustomed to Dr. Will E. Edington in the character of chooser of recipients of scholarship awards but now there is a reversal of the procedure and information arrives to the effect that the old and learned Indiana Academy of science has chosen him as its president for the coming year.

The recognition came to Dr. Edington at the annual meeting of the Academy held in Danville, Ill., on November 5-7, which some 500 scientists attended.

The Indiana Academy is one of the oldest and largest of the state academies of the country, founded in 1885 and having a membership of approximately 1000.

Among its past presidents have been such men as David Starr Jordan, John M. Coulter, John C. Branner, T. C. Mendenhall, 0 . P. Hay, J. C. Arthur, W. A. Noyes, C. H. Eigenmann and Harvey W. Wiley, ~II men of national reputation and some well known mternationally.

As head of the department of mathematics of Depauw University, Dr. Edingt?n is classified a~d h~s actively identified himself w1th the mathematics division of the Academy. The paper submitted by him during the last sessions of the society was 'The Significance of the Literary Digest Poll for 1936."

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Burt Cleveland Horne, Jr., Xi Brother Horne is now a senior at Roanoke College, and he has done such outstanding work as to earn a first distinction average for his first three years at Roanoke. He is a member of the Honor Council, vicepresident of Xi Theta Chi, honorary language fraternity, and a member of both the Ciceronian Literary society and the Chemistry club. Brother Horne was a mathematics assistant during his sophomore and junior years and is now continuing that service. He is also at present historian of Xi chapter.

Thomas A. Johnston, Ill, Omicron Brother Johnston, as a freshman, was elected to Phi Eta Sigma, freshman scholarship fraternity, and he was on the University of Alabama honor roll during the years 1933 to 1935. At present he is beneficiary of the D.A.R. scholarship, and a reader in the department of speech. He is a member of the varsity debating team, president of the Excelsior Literary society, and a member of the Philomatic Literary society. He has served on the staff of the Crimson and White, student newspaper. At present he is in the Y.M.C.A. cabinet.

In his freshman year he was a member of Rho Alpha Tau, freshman interfraternity organization. He has served Omicron chapter as historian and secretary, and was its delegate to the Seattle convention. Brother Johnston is now a junior in the School of Law at Alabama and is an active member of Omicron chapter.

Hubert E. Mate, Alpha Eta Brother Mate is a senior at Howard College and expects to graduate next June. On account of his excellence in scholarship he was junior marshall and is now a member of Trident, senior men's club, and Beta Pi Theta, honorary French fraternity. As a freshman he played football. He is a member of Delta Kappa, debating fraternity, and he is serving his fourth year as a member of the Glee club. He has served as vice-president of the student body, business manager of Entt·e Nom, year book, and sports editor of the Crimson, school newspaper. He holds membership in the French and Spanish clubs, and in the Birmingham Sabres, cavalry organization. Brother Mate has served as secretary and pledge supervisor of Alpha Eta chapter.

Robert Calvin McLees, Beta Brother McLees completed his course at Presbyterian College in three years and received his A.B. degree magna cum la11de last June. He was a member of Sigma Upsilon, national honorary literary fraternity.

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Local alumni of the Lansing area have organized effort' to establish an alumni chapter which may be of benefit 1' the local active chapter and also to bind the alumni clos~ together. Claude Pope has been elected president, Ron~l· Heath, treasurer, and J. Edson Jepson, secretary.

Two meetings were held in September, at which time 1 was decided to hold regular meetings with the active chapte the first Monday of each month. The October meeting w1· held Sunday morning of Homecoming week-end with · breakfast at the New Union Memorial building. Twenty·n'' alumni were present, representing chapters from Brook!)''

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The November meeting was held as planned with th• chapter. The December meeting was held December 10, o~ Founders' Day, to celebrate the 32nd anniversary of Pi KapJ" Phi Fraternity. At this meeting the local chapter in co operation with the alumni were hosts to the Detroit alumn and several local guests, including the dean of men of Michi· gan State College and the president of the local Studen1 Council. A citation was delivered to Brother Robinson, pn51 national treasurer by the new National Treasurer Brothel Helmrich.

Fight Shock with Shock Says Dr. Kouwenhovetl Dr. W. B. Kouwenhoven, Brooklyn Poly, dean of tht Johns Hopkins Engineering school, has devised a method ol reviving people suffering from shock by inducing another shock, the second of electricity. Before the assembly of th' American Institute of Engineers last summer he explained his method.

While primarily developed to treat those victims of lo« voltage, the treatment has been successfully applied to a stab· bing victim and is expected ultimately to be used in reviving those who are victims of traffic accidents.

High voltage shock paralyzes the lungs, according to Brother Kouwenhoven, and in such cases artificial respiration of persistent nature is effective; but low voltage affects th 1 heart and in the past has almost invariably resulted fatallY· It is in the latter case that an electric shock has proven of worth in reviving the victim.

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Brother Hammond has served the Society in many active and important capacities. At present he represents the S.P.E.E. on the Engineers' Council for Professional Develop· ment. In that capacity he is a member of the Committee on Engineering of the Council, which has just completed the heavy task of examining and accrediting the engineering col· (Contin11ed on page 10)

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ELIEVE it or not, one of the greatest thrills I received last summer was from an old weather. beaten board. It was this way. The Yellowstone nver, in the national park of the same name, runs through a deep canyon. Far above the river and eight tho?sand feet above the sea, is a jutting rock from ~htch a magnificent and awe-inspiring view may be b a_d. Inspiration Point, this is called. There, on the hnnk of the precipice, a rough platform and bench ave been built for the tourist, and on its seat long ~g? some unknown brother had carved II K 4>. All all to this Pi Kapp!

Inspiration Point was an inspiration to me. I was on my way back from the Supreme Chapter meeting :md had reached it after a long walk and climb. In my •magination, I could see the coasts of the continent and the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, and far to south the Caribbean and the silver ribbon of the anama Canal. In retrospect, I recalled my trip from 11ew York to Seattle by water and some of the things 1 had seen. th The journey from New York to Seattle of almost ree thousand miles presented innumerable attractive ~nd almost irresistible possibilities. One of them, lead~~g through the Canal, was so intriguing that I chose at longer route to the Supreme Chapter meeting.

0b'nce committed to this course the coasts of Columta, Costa Rica, San Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico ~rged me to have a glimpse of South American and entral American life.

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Seated on the old wooden bench I again saw Barranquilla in Colombia. This city of 150,000, about the size of Nashville, Tennessee, is on the banks of the mighty Magdalena River, which runs inland for a thousand miles with a width at its mouth of about ten miles. Paradoxically, it has no real access to the sea, because of sand bars in the river.

The owners of the little fifteen-mile railroad that runs to Barranquilla from Puerto Colombia on the Caribbean are indeed fortunate, for the bulk of the nation's commerce in or out must pay toll to its stockholders. Naturally, they see no reason to remove the sand bars. It is just another South American arrangement.

Cartagena, the sixteenth century walled city of Colombia, also came to mind. It still retains much of the flavor of the slave traders and buccaneer raids. Nevertheless it graciously blends the new with the old.

Modern docks receive the steamers, and yet unclad black boys in hollow log canoes abound. These young divers perform remarkable aquatic feats in retrieving such silver coins as are thrown overboard. Up in the city, mounted on the ancient . city gate, there is a modern radio loud speaker for announcements and entertainment. Strange contrasts.

A native guide, while describing one of the ancient fortifications, told a yarn of interest to all Americans.

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On our journey to the capital I noticed many beauti· Another place I saw clearly from Inspiration Point, ful trees-the ceiba being the most noteworthy. Its was Fort Davison, guardian of the Gatun Locks. A spreading and luxurious foliage is a welcome protec· loyal Pi Kapp, Major Cheney Moore, U.S.A., sta- tion from the tropical sun. In Palin such a tree was Di tioned there, made things very pleasant for me and large enough to provide shade for the entire market mine. It's a thrill to meet a brother, where and when place. you do not expect him, and Mrs. Moore and the The Guatemalan Indians are the probable descend· Major left no stone unturned in showing us the many ants of the ancient Mayas, whose civilization flourished interesting points. The wonders and beauties of the 15,000 B.C. The country is very proud of this, and all Canal Zone are too well known to repeat.

Mayan relics are carefully preserved. One is told that My thoughts next turned to the Pacific side of the the Mayan calendar was far more accurate than ours, Ke panorama. There lies Costa Rica in its tropical jungle, one day being added every 400 years, instead of every Co with its one novelty-the coin of this realm is punctu- four. No wonder this people is now extinct, without tri< ated. Thus you have colons and semi-colons with the benefit of Leap Years. Each village has its peculiar cor whicl1 to buy. native costume, and those who know can tell from the Next door to Costa Rica, is little San Salvador. That wearer's clothes just where he comes from. town on the deep bay indenting its coast is La Libertad.

Guatemala City, the capital, is a modern city in every It is conqected with the capital, the city of San respect, with wide-paved streets, boulevards and parks, Salvador, by an automobile road. By car it can be and is favorably situated on a mountain plateau. It is reached in about two hours, including stops at two the seat also of a three hundred year old university, market towns. Houses in these towns, and in the city, which so far has no fraternities. There are also numer· ser have open windows covered with bars, excepting the ous foreign colonies here, the largest being the Ger· ye, palace of the president. He, in spite of the tempera- man. ex] ture, prefers bullet-proof steel shutters. It is strange, Among her products, Guatemala is chiefly proud of do too, because nearby is a fort to protect him. The best her coffee, and every tourist is given a half pound to tic hotel looms above the low houses of the City-El take away if he so desires. There is also a free distri· di1 Nuevo Mundo it is called. A blackboard in the main bution of rum cocktails at a certain distiller's-name an thc lobby records the names of the guests in chalk. furnished on request.

Another place I clearly recall is Mazatlan, the is Would the proprietor also post the amount due if the Pacific port of Mexico. The light house at the entrance the guests did not pay? I wonder.

In my mind's eye I wandered farther up the to its harbor is the highest in the world, and consists of!

Pacific Coast to Guatemala. There the coastal jJlains of a tiny building on top of high rock. Other rocks rise kn abound in banana plantations and sugar, and the perpendicularly out of the sea and form the homes of m; mountain slopes with coffee. An American railroad flocks of sea birds and pelicans. The latter, it must be sc) runs from the port of San Jose up to Guatemala City, admitted, caught more fish than I did.

I will pass over my pleasant recollections of Seattle. afl the capital, and every crossing in true Yankee fashion is marked "Alto, Mire y Oriege," the Spanish counter- What happened there has been described by many gr pens. sp part of "Stop, Look and Listen."

Returning to New York I stopped at Portland, de The national bird is the Quetzal, a little green parrot, and the unit of coinage has the same name. This Oregon. Bob Peacock is authority for the story that he country boasts of three or four volcanos. One of them the original New England settlers tossed a coin to fo -Acatenanango-obligingly smoked as I passed. decide whether to call it Boston or Portland. Its inti· teJ mc With a day at my disposal I went by train to Palin, mate friends now term it the City of Roses.

I vividly recall the beautiful Columbia River valley WI halfway to the capital, and then by Chrysler car over the mountain roads to Antigua, the ancient capital. and the tremendous Federal project at Bonneville Dam. th The man who drove dangerously around unprotected I took some good dam pictures there. Bob and the curves, claimed he had driven a taxi in New York Portland boys entertained at the University Club at 1~ dinner, and later at the Multnomah Club . at lunch. · cl1 City.

Among the ruins of the city of the Conquistadores, Wherever I went after that, I met Pi Kapps. At • tic was a little inn run by a German couple. Built around Canyon Hotel in The Yellowstone there were George of a patio, with many flowers and a fountain, it furnished Reese (Alpha Delta) and Brothers Lange and Steffan ga tasty food to the traveller.' During the meal an Indian (Alpha Xi) ; at N:iagara Falls, Brother Burr Ritter La bu family entertained with a native dance. It was as dig- (Alpha Xi). nified as the polka of the island of Bali. For dessert I Well, the sun is setting and my vision fades. Ac· co was confronted with a bowl of tropical fruits, and at companied by my thoughts I wandered back to the Wi the risk of sudden death I sampled each one. I can Canyon Hotel. oj The Star and LamP 8

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otec· was D istrict Archon Changes-Chapter Adviser of Tau Named-District Archon Award 1rket

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end· shed FOLLOWING closely on the Council meeting at d aU ~eattle, which placed Joseph W. Cannon, Emory, that !( tn the position of district archon of Five and )UrS, C enne.th L. White, California, in charge of Twenty, very t ?unCI! appointments of district archons to other dis!lOUt nets followed in dose order, and the list is almost .Ilia! co~~let~ at this writing. The new district archons are: 1 the ~stnct 2-Alfred D. Hurt, Salem, Va. D~strict 4-W. Harold Arnold, Greenville, S.C. very g~str!ct 8-Devereux D. Rice, Johnson City, Tenn. trks, D~str~ct 10-L. N. Field, East Lansing, Mich.

It is tstnct 16-Lunsford Casey, Laurel, Miss. ·sity, Cannon needs no introduction to the fraternity. He ner· served the fraternity as assistant secretary for four :Jer· years, and comes to his position with that valuable ~xperience behind him. Kenneth L. White has already d of fone splendid work with Gamma in California, pard to J~la~ly in the fields of rushing encouragement and stri· trectton and in alumni programs. White is an active me :~d energetic lawyer of San Francisco, graduate of . e Law School of the University of California. He ilie ~~married and lives in Berkeley, in close proximity to tnCe ~ ~hapter. He served the chapter well in several sists ~ Ctal capacities as an undergraduate and became rise nown in the campus activities of golf and baseball s of management. He was initiated by Gamma in 1929. t be chAlfred D. Hurt is head coach of Jefferson high sf ool of Roanoke, Va., a natural position for him ttl e. a ter a rather unusual athletic record in his underlany graduate years, which included three letters in as many ~Ports. He captained the football team and was presi.nd, hent of tl1e Athletic Association. In his career as coach fhat e has had one state football championship team and r to ftour basketball teams. He is married and has a daughnti· er, born last August, which makes it a unanimous m~nth for the entire family. His residence is Salem, Iley ~ ere he has just ensconced his family in an attrac~en.

Ive new home. the Devereux Rice comes from Iota Chapter, class of at 1 2 ~ 1, where he served as secretary and archon of the ch. f apter, and later as president of the alumni associaAt· l~n of the chapter. On the campus he was president 0 ~ge t~e Emerson Chemical society and formed the orfan fanization which later became a chapter of Alpha Chi :tee b ~bda. He has carried his chemical degree into USiness and is now president of the Southern Mica ~C· ~.:rany and treasurer of the English Mica company, .be 1 offices in Johnson City, Tenn.

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Out of his marriage with Miss Dorothy Bailey in 1921 have come two children, Martha, 12, and Charles, 10. He is a member of Scabbard and Blade, member and past president of ilie Rotary dub and member of the Franklin dub of Johnson City.

From several years of very helpful influential service as chapter adviser to Alpha Theta, his own chapter, Lawrence N. Field steps to his present wider field of fraternity administration. Of incalculable value was his direction of restoration plans following the fire which destroyed the chapter house. He is professor of machine design at Michigan State College and enjoys memberships in the professional and honorary organizations of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, Phi Lambda Tau, A.S.M.E. and S.P.E.E. His college administrative assignment has been the Athletic Council, of which he has been a member since 1928. Hobby is goLf. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan of the class of 1912 and a charter member of Alpha Theta.

Lunsford Casey is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Mississippi and is practicing in Laurel, Miss. Just recently received was his announcement of marriage. He served his chapter as archon for three terms. In law he made distinction and became its senior speaker at his graduation, was elected to ilie senior honorary. The presidency of Phi Alpha Delta came to him, and he served as associate editor and book review editor of the Mississippi Law Jot~rnal.

He is a member of tl1e Mississippi Bar association and the Jones County Bar association.

William McGehee, Sewanee, member of the faculty of North Carolina State College, has been appointed to the position of chapter adviser to Tau chapter. He has his M.A. in ·psychology from Peabody and continues his graduate work in that college. It is his subject for instruction in N. C. State. He says he has acquired a wife {1934) and a wire-haired terrier {1936). Behind him are several years of teaching and coaching in the high schools of Tennessee.

District Archon Award Continued By unanimous vote the National Council agreed to continue the district archon award instituted the last biennium, of paying traveling expenses to the Jacksonville convention of tl1at archon deemed to have the most distinguished service record in the coming two years .

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N DIFFERENT parts of the country and under varying circumstances the death of the road took the lives of three members of the fraternity.

Frederic M. Dyer, Sewanee Near New Orleans, where he was attending medical school at Tulane, on November 1, Frederic Dyer was burned so badly in a crash that he succumbed a short time later to his burns in a hospital. The car in which he was riding smashed into a truck and then burst into flames. Two other occupants of the car were killed instantly.

"Bud" was initiated into Alpha Pi in the spring of 1930 and served the chapter in several official capacities, including that of archon. He was a varsity football man for three years and also ·played varsity basketball and was a member of the track team.

CalYin Faucette, DaYidson Unwarranted speed of a friend plus defective tires led to the death of Calvin Faucette, Epsilon, resident of Chattanooga, and at the time of his death, connected with the Faucette-Huston company of that city.

The swerving car came in contact with a telephone pole on the rear side on which Calvin was sitting. He died of internal injuries. The shock of the impact on his wife, who was sitting with him, was broken by his own body, and although injured, she recovered.

The accident occurred on August 29.

William Latus, W. & L. William Latus, sophomore member of Rho chapter, was killed on October 16, when the car in which he was riding ran off the road, overturned and pinned him beneath. Thomas Cottingham, another member of the chapter, who was riding with him was injured.

They were en route to Lynchburg from Lexington.

Latus was from Merrick, Long Island, the son of William Latus, senior, banker of New York City. He was initiated into the fraternity on February 9, 1936.

The fraternity sincerely regrets the loss of these men and extends its sympathy to the bereaved parents and relatives.

New Edition of Who's Who Lists Rubert J. Longstreet, Chi HE D aytona Beach News-Jottrnal brings the information that Rubert James Longstreet, Stetson, is among the 13 residents of that city to be listed in the latest edition of Who's lJ::'ho in America. The De Land Sun mentioned him as the toastmaster of the recent Homecoming banquet of the university.

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The compendium of personal history which ti famous biography carried included the following: educator, supervising principal of peninsula schools, studi1 at Stetson, Cambridge, England, University of Pa., nuk was with A.E.F., as first lieutenant, trustee Bethune-Cool man College, Fellow of A.A.A.S., associate member Americ~ Ornithologists union, life member National Education as> ciation, member National Council on Education, Nation Society Study Education, Florida Audubon Society, Flori Education Association, Society Colonial Wars, S.A.R., f Kappa Phi, Phi Alpha Delta, Kappa Delta Pi; Author Bird Study in Florida, Florida Birds (with H. L. Stoddard) Stories of Florida. Editor of Florida Naturalist, contributiP. editor to educational and scientific publications.

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It was decided to assign specific tasks in fraterni~ work to alumni groups, and the first to be nominate• were the alumni groups of Lehigh Valley and IthaCJ Others may expect assignments in time.

The desire was expressed to continue to hold officer schools, but in order to make these effective as wei as bring forth other beneficial results, the recommend9 tion was made that undergraduate chapters shoul1 elect officers but once a year, at the half-year mark.

The Balfour company was favored in letting of th' contract for the engraving of the membership certili cate. Some improvement was made in the arrangemeo without radical change in the general lay-out of tbt shingle.

Odgers Report Praised

Following his appointment as councillor-at-large· George A . Odgers made a very complete and exhaus· tive survey of the institutions of the far West in tht matter of future expansion. This was praised for i~ excellence and George was extended the grateful thanks of the council. Out of the survey has corn1 many good prospects for future chapter placement.

Brother Odgers was given the further task of coo· tinued contact, which he has accepted with promptness and pleasure.

Permission for posthumous initiation of Pledge Fletcher Eure was granted to Mu chapter, and Nll· tiona! Historian Walter Jones was requested to studY and make recommendations for a ceremony which maY be available for such future requests of like nature which may appear.

The National Council will again act as the stand· ing committee on legislation of the fraternity.

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In addition to his teaching, he finds time to practice professionally. This work has included consultation with the American Bridge company, Board of Water Supply of Ne« York, Miami (Ohio) Conservation District; and the surveY of institutions of higher education in Georgia and Missouri·

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ROM Town Hall in New York has been broadcast this year a weekly discussion of national prob:k. . lems in which selected authorities share an "open >f th' ~~~rophone" with a motley audience of average ertih ctttzens. America's Town Meeting of the Air is an un- ISSUe. ~men ~~hearsed and uncensored program, modeled along the The auditors at Town Hall broadcasts are incisive ,f th( tnes of the town meeting of early days and reviving hecklers. After opposing views have been aired, they o~r native tradition of a free and unfettered exchange are allowed ~alf an hour to attack the speakers. An 0 opposing views. It is giving a radio public weaned ultrasensitive microphone picks up the questions from 0 ~ soothing syrup its first taste of raw meat. How well any part of the auditorium, which is always packed. large \ e public likes the taste may be seen not only from Questions are sharp, and speakers had better know the ~a us th' t 1e relish with which it devours each broadcast but answers, lest boos reverberate over the nation, by a/o from such tokens as the award recently made courtesy of the National Broadcasting Company. What :>r it! ltefui ~ ter a.poll conducted by the Women's National Radio speaker will be heckled next, or what he will have to cornl Tommtttee, representing 20,000,000 women: the answer, no one knows until the question has p'assed t. ro f own Meeting was voted the most popular educa- through a million loudspeakers from Alaska to Florida.

There is no escape then. The speaker is on the spot. con· t~onal program of the year, receiving 75 per cent of e ballots cast His quick-witted answer may draw spontaneous aptness fA year ago George V. Denny, Jr., associate director plause and a deluge of fan maiL If he hedges, the edge ~· the League for Political Education, foresaw a na- silk-hat Town Hall members, callow high-school Na· Tonal discussion group using the radio as its medium. youths, uncombed communists and eager schoolmarms .tudr . he League for Political Education had been conduct- are as quick to express themselves as a Harlem theater mar ~ng forums in New York for 41 years, having been audience on amateur night.

To guard against awkward silences, a few questions ounded by six leaders in the women's suffrage moveLture me~t who held the quaint view that the right to vote are always planted in the auditorium. But it is almost ~~rrted with it educational obligations. Mr. Denny felt never necessary to use stooges. In fact, the people are at the League's purposes would be furthered if only sometimes so seething with queries that they refuse to ~ome of the intelligent debates that for years had been leave their seats when the program goes off the air, f eard by Town Hall audiences could be made available and the speakers are kept busy matching wits with Nr ~he whole country. Accordingly he approached the them for another half hour.

New York schools have been quick to use the proattonal Broadcasting Company. He pointed out what POor use we make of our political freedom. Republi- gram for enlisting the interest of students in public ~~n~ ~o only to hear Republicans and Socialists to hear affairs. Senior students in 43 high schools and some . Ctaltsts. Why not let everyone hear all the points of vocational schools are required to listen as a home Vtew on a gtven . . ,r assignment. Two representatives from each school atquestion Broadcasting officials liked the notion and agreed (Co11ti11ued 011 page 29) houl'

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Pi Kappa Phi Pictorial Cited for Service (Below) J. Chester ReeYes Charleston

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Lewis E. Shemery Penn State Christian H. Steffan Brooklyn Poly

M. Chandler Stith Stetson

( Abo11e) Virgil R. Fleming Illinois

Manuel G. QueYedo Georgia Tech

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(Abo'Ye) George A. Odgers Nebraska

(Abo'Ye) Joe W. Cannon, Jr. Emory

(Below Left) Elmer N. Turnquist Illinois

(Center) James R. Simms Emory

(Below Center) George M. Grant Alabama

(Below) V. Hain Huey Alabama

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Outstanding Scholarship Records brought the co'l'eted Pi Kappa Phi Scholar Pendant to the abo'l'e men, also to Byron Hille')', Emory, who is not pictured. Left to right, upper row, they are Burt C. Horne, Jr., Roanoke; Robert C. McLees, Presbyteriatlj James A. Richardson, Oglethorpe and S. Carolina; Thomas A. Jolmston, Ill, Alabama. Lower row: Hubert E. Mate, Howard; William H. Bagnal, Furman; Marion M. Young, Furman; Har· mon Woodward, Jr., Da'l'idson.

••• Dr. Will E. Edington (left), Illinois, chairman of the National Scholarship Committee, who has the pri'l'ilege--and labor-of selecting each year the Scholars, had his own scholarly attain· ments recogni~ed by his recent election to the presidency o/ the Indiana Academy of Science.

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• • • Left: The retiring genial leader of the chapter, Charles Vannice. Top right are those who traversed the ceremonial »-ay: Fred Brear, Otto Brottwer, Raymond Cramer and '!J'ilmer Shields. Below we have a demonstration of cigar estruction.

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The men above lead W. & L. chapter to successful year: Chester Shively, Steward; Howard Wilson, Treasilfer; Clark Winter, Archon; Stanley Nastri, Chaplain; Thomas Cottingham, Historian; Dan Arnold, Secretary.

Left: Archon Winter and Past Archon Russell Doane are senior commerce class president and representative in strJdent government, respectively.

Leo H. Pou Alabama Fonner National Secretary of the Fraternity and prominent attorne1 of Mobile, continues progress i~ Kiwanis organization by recetffl election as District Governor o Alabama.

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Alpha has just closed a very successful rushing season.

Six men were pledged, namely, Arthur Whatesides, Clyde West, Charles Lamb, Herbert Braid, Hyman Savage and James Quinn.

The wedding of brother John Miles Jordan and Miss Frances Mae Furman was solemnized at the Grace Episcopal Church, November 15, 1936.

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Gamma closed rushing last fall with twelve new pledges: Richard Witt, Raymond Mellana, Neil Weatherall, Jack Windsor, Raymond Cramer, Robert Olsson, Robert Dawson, Arthur McMurray, Vernon Aimon, Arnold Nutting, Jack DuFosee and Jack Flynn. Several promise to become very prominent in extra-curricular activities. Nutting, who was president of the student body at Marin Junior College previous to his transfer, is doing very well in track. He is a 24 foot broad-jumper. Mellana who was president of the Oakland Technical high school is a strong contender for freshman numerals in baseball. Flynn, another Oakland Tech boy, is showing up very well in freshman basketball. Dawson, a Pasadena Junior College transfer is doing very well with the advertising staff of the college magazine, Pelican. The pledge dance was held at the chapter house on September 26 and proved to be a very successful social event.

An alumni banquet was held at the chapter house on October 16. Football pictures were shown and a talk was made by Frank Wickhorst, line coach of the California varsity and a Pi Kapp from Illinois.

Almmzi Personals Jared Hawkins and Miss Carol Waterbury were united in marriage early in September. The couple are residing in Berkeley. "Ace'' is an employee of the California Packing Co. in San Francisco.

This wedding was shortly followed by that of Harold Senger, who is employed by the State Railway Commission, to Miss Dorothy Brown. They have established their home in Berkeley.

William Pascoe is working for the Kress store in Oakland.

John Balzarini is now employed by the American Trust Co. in San Francisco. He resides in Berkeley and is a frequent visitor.

William Chance is living in Berkeley and works for the Roos Bros. clothing store.

Francis McEnerney is studying at Boalt Hall Law School.

Howard Edmonds has returned this semester in order to get his master's degree in psychology.

James Norgard has obtained a position with the Remington-Rand Typewriter Co. Carl F. Cory is now working for a coffee export company in San Francisco.

Kenneth White who is with the Hartley-Peart law firm, is doing a splendid job as district archon.

Jim Hamilton is still chapter adviser and Gamma certainly appreciates the interest which he has taken.

-BEN STOTTS, historian

Epsilon

Davidsoo

The chapter is pleased to announce the pledging olWilliam Harold Davis, Badin; James Lester Ballard, Jr Davidson; Charlton Bidwell Ivey, Rock Hill, S.C.; Harll Vance Hendrick, Cliffside; Robert Howard Mann, W'aslt ington; John Elvin Rackley, West Jefferson; Julian Le< Lokey, Thomson, Ga.; William Henry Boyce, AnsonviJle Glover Mangus Trent, Roanoke, Va.; David DeWitt :r<inS Lumberton; David Coleman Colvin, Cliffside; Richard Le< Edwards, Conway, S.C. Recent initiates of the chapter are: George Donnell David· son, Wadesboro; James Jerome Hill, Sharon. .

Epsilon is enjoying one of its most successful years JC history. Two brothers and one faculty brother have beeJl initiated into ODK, while brother Harmon Woodward nn> been named a Pi Kappa Phi Scholar and is in line for Ph' Beta Kappa at the next bid ceremony. .

Among the leading offices held on the campus are preS'' dent of the Athletic association, president of the "D" club president of the Red & Black Masquers and Alpha Psi Ome81 (national dramatic fraternity), and business manager of thl Scrips & Pranks. · Large numbers of alumni brothers returned to the chapttl for the Homecoming and Thanksgiving Day football game~ A formal dance, attended by many brothers from neighb~C ing chapters and alumni chapters, was held in Charlotte 1r May. Plans are being formulated to enlarge this into an en· nual social function for all chapters in this district.

-KENNETH LAWSON, historian

Zeta

Wofford

Zeta is breezing along nicely. With two new initiates ll~i four pledges we are looking forward to our greatest year J0 history.

The new initiates are Charley Atwater from Spartanbut! and Dave Guerry from Savannah, Georgia. The pledges Me: Orin Miller, Rutledge, Pa., Ben Sanders, Marietta, Ga., Gler.

Martin, and Jim Anderson, Philadelphia, Pa. Roses this month go to T. K. Fletcher and William Kellet~­ To T. K. for making Blue Key, and to Bill Kellett for )li! fine showing at the guard position on the football team.

A. P. Evans, our archon, is setting a good example bf winning or having bestowed upon him most of the honors of the campus. He belongs to the Blue Key, Scabbard and Blade. is business manager of The Journal and president of th 1 German Club.

Among the student body officers this year we have Bili Kellett, president of the student body, Warren Snoddy, seC· retary of the junior class, and James Woodbury, secretary of the sophomore class.

Alumni Personals Walter Austin Beal and Miss Martha Eugenia Finnegan have announced their engagement.

Charles Esley Gilbreath and Miss Margaret Elizabeth Pres· ton, both of Greenville, were married in Conestee, S.C., on November 25. Gilbreath is now connected with the Piedmont Shirt Company, in the credit department.

-WARREN SNODDY, historian

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Georgia Tech

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Sa Rudolph Cooper Richter and Miss Elizabeth Wiehrs of pl;ao:ah, Ga., were married on October 30. Richter is emSa ye as a chemist for the Union Bag and Paper Co., of vannah.

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Ward and Miss Sara Burgwin Parker were marnecte: C~arlotte, N.C., on November 26. Mr. Ward is conWtth the Duke Power Co., in Charlotte.

James S. Croxton of Montezuma, Ga., and Miss Mildred LU · Ga., announced their engagement the latter Partcas of catro, tio ff November. Croxton is president of the Citizen's Nana Bank of Montezuma.

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Ja!he c~apter announces the pledging of William Baldwin, Ba tes Fttzgerald, William Franck, Burnett Hull, and Lee r on, all of whom are in the sophomore class, and Thomas Jo nes of th · · L e )Untor class. llo ~t ~Pring James Daniels, Richard Taliaferro, and Pledge sen¥ raushaar made ODK. Daniels and Kraushaar were 1 as ?r~ but Dick Taliaferro was back playing his last year pr/~g t-end on the varsity football squad. Dick was elected ReJJ;e~t of the senior class this year and was initiated into is '~Jars, highest campus honorary order. Bruce Wyman 1 is ~- ayJOg ~ullback on the "B" football squad. Bill Rhodes the Ice-p~est?ent of the sophomore class, Charlie Shuff is on of t~ub_Itc~tJOns board, and Howard Timberlake is a member PI e JUntor council. ele tedges ~ugene Desvernine and Harold Collins were ter c e~ President and vice-president respectively, last semesha~ 0 b 9019, honorary scholastic fraternity. This year they Bet e ecome the second and third from Mu to attain Phi ing at Kappa. Jack Satterfield '36 was on the varsity debatfor e~m last year and was president of Tau Kappa Alpha, bia e£~ 1 c fraternity. He was awarded the cup in the Columtive Iterary society's oratorical contest for the third consecuYear.

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is a ~~;s.tn Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Oswaldo Vales, ex-'37, C n10r at L.S.U. this year.

Insuar! Wesselhoft, '36, is working with the Gate City Life "-'ithr~nce Co~pany in Greensboro, N.C. Skinner Chalk is he Provtdential Life Insurance Company in Chicago.

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Stuart Ramsey is with the Standard Oil Company "somewhere in Brazil."

Jerry Marion, '35, has a position with the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem. Bob Rigsby, '35, is up at the Harvard Busi ness School again this year. Bunny Stallings is taking a graduate course in political science at Stanford, and Bill Luly is studying medicine at the University of Schenectady.

Joe Timberlake, '36, is managing the Timberlake Grocery Co. at Thomasville, Ga. 0. C. Britton is with the American Cotton Company in Charlotte, and John Watson is traveling for General Dyestuffs out of Chattanooga, Tenn.

Jim Daniels, '36, is assistant to the purchasi ng agent for Duke Hospital.

-NATHAN Cox, historian

Xi

Roanoke

Recent initiates of the chapter are: Leonard Ford, Aberdeen, Md.; Leonard Strangmeyer, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Lewis Kennett, Roanoke, Va. The pledges of the chapter are: Gene Studebaker, Bluefield, W .Va.; Thomas Godfrey, Thomas Moore, Hampton Lucas, J ames Dillon, Roy Pollard, Cabell Lewis, Burdette Slicer, Jr., Harold Fariss, James Stokes, Robert Brooks, William Highfill, all of Roanoke, Va.; Andrew West, Rutherford, N .J.; Cornelius Smith, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Glenn Steel, Dagsboro, Del.; Cecil Jarrett, Cloverdale, Va.; Charles Foutz, Jr., Vinton, Va. Blue Key, national honor fraternity, pledged Lynn Kennett, Roanoke, Va., and Melvin Goldman, Charleston, W.Va. to membership. This is the highest honor a Roanoke College student can attain.

Kennett is president of the student body, member of Alpha Psi Omega, national dramatic fraternity, Xi Theta Chi, language fraternity, past archon of Xi Chapter, varsity baseball player, and an Honor Student.

Goldman is archon of Xi chapter, and past treasurer; president of Alpha Psi Omega, national dramatic fraternity; president of the Economics club; business manager of the year book, The Ra1/Jet~och; president of the German club, which sponsors all the college dances; member of Y.M.C.A. cabinet, Demostheon Literary society, Chemistry Club, member of football squad.

-B. C. HORNE, JR., historian

Pi

Oglethorpe

Rega ining interest that was lost last year by the graduation of the majority of the actives, Pi started the new school year as the most outstanding fraternity on the campus. With a nucleus of live actives, fourteen of the most prominent men on the campus have been pledged to start the chapter on its climb.

For the first time in several years, the chapter has a house that is in easy reach of all the students living on the campus.

Actives for 1936-37: Archon Thomas E. Ewing: Chemistry laboratory instructor; winner, Coat of Arms; president Blue Key; editor, Yamacraw,o president, Le Conte; Lord's Club, Phi Kappa Delta, Zeta Upsilon, Scorpion Club, biography in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities of 1936-37, Honor Roll.

Treasurer William H . Reynolds : president of the student body, varsity football, Lords Club, Zeta Upsilon, vice-president, Ugly Club, "0" Club. Biography in Who's Who in American Colleges and U11iversities.

Secretary Hey! G. Tebo: Instructor in anatomy, in charge Biological Laboratories ; Honor Roll student.

Historian J. H. Elliott : varsity football, Lords Club, Zeta

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Thomas Fallaw: Glee club, Library Assistant.

Pledges of Pi are: Hugo 0. Stevens, professor of fine arts; Maynard Wertz, varsity football, Honor Roll student; Howard Axilberg, frosh football; Arville Axilberg, frosh football; Marvin Chesser, frosh football, orchestra; John Barnett, frosh football; Henry Scudder, orchestra; Eugene Ray; Arthur Thompson, vice-president, frosh class, frosh football; Buck Thomas, varsity football; Steven Schmidt, orchestra; John Malpass, Petrel staff; Bob Murphy, varsity football; E. R. Parker.

-HEYL G. TEBO, secretary

Alumni P·ersonal Woodrow Hardman Brooks of High Point and Miss Ann Busick were married on December 16. They will make their home in High Point, N .C.

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Washington & Lee

Rho Chapter started off a good year with twenty-one old men returning. Eleven new men were pledged. Almost all sections of the country are represented in our pledge group.

Along with these pledges we have two new initiates, George T. Myers and George F. Mcinerney, both sophomores.

The chapter is going strong in campus activities. AI Syzmanski played another successful year on the varsity football team. Chester Shively and George Mcinerney are both out for varsity wrestling and both look very promising. Clark Winter is back once more for another year on the swimming team along with Seth Baker. Russ Doane, Dave Smith and AI Syzmanski are out for varsity basketball; this being Russ Doane's third year at varsity basketball. Many of the pledges are out for their respective sports too. Outstanding among these are Ronald Thompson and Wallace Pickard, who look like first team basketball material. Thompson also played freshman football with James Eckert.

As for campus officers, our chapter is very fortunate in having three leading officers on the campus. Archon Winter is president of the senior commerce class. Past Archon Doane was elected to the Executive Committee, representing the senior class. Chester Shively is president of the junior class and a member of the Dance Control board. Charlie Steinhoff, again has his dance orchestra, the "Southern Collegians," who day by day are becoming one of the outstanding college bands. Besides, Charlie was elected into Pi Alpha Nu, honorary sophomore society and also became a member of the Glee club. George Myers was elected into the White Friars, another of the honorary sophomore societies. Seth Baker and Eddie Sellers, who transferred from Roanoke College this year, were elected into Sigma Delta Chi, an honorary journalism society.

Many alumni were back for homecoming. Those returning included G. Hill, '26; L. W. Milbourne, '22; J. B. Towell, '29; R. D. Powers, Jr., '29; L. Flory, '30; J. L. Wallace, '33; W. G. Weagley, '32; I. G. Shively, '36.

The chapter, as well as the entire campus, was saddened deeply by the loss of Brother Latus, '39, who was killed suddenly in an automobile accident, October 16, outside of Buena Vista, Va. His sudden death has left its mark upon the whole fraternity.

Alumni Personals Wilton M. Garrison, formerly of the staff of the Spartanburg Herald and The Spartanbtlrg Journal, has joined the staff of The Charlotte Obsert,er in Charlotte, N.C. Bomar A. Lowrance of Charlotte, N.C., and Miss Martha Stack of Harlingen, Texas, were married on October 26 at

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-THOMAS B. CoTIJNGHAM, historiatl

Tau

North Carolina State

Tau jumped off to a good start in the new school yeat with the usual fine spirit in all chapter affairs.

During our rushing period which took place September 19, the en~ire group, in addition to 12 rushees, paid a visit to our neighboring d1apter, Mu. The event was very enjoyable and,_ we are sure, impressive to the new boys. We ap· preciate tl1e cooperation of our Duke brothers.

During the summer our house underwent a thorough renovation at the expense of $1,600.00. Additions were neces· sary to the dining room, due to the continual growth of that department.

Since rush week E. V. Helms and J. P. Brawley have be· come members. We are mighty glad to have both of these Charlotte boys and know that they will make fine Pi KapS· Our pledge roll, however, has not been decreased as Dick East a~d Randy Harrelson have been added. They are both splendid boys and we are expecting big things of them.

Our Halloween House dance turned out to be a grand success from every angle. We were pleased that our district archon, Reginald Price, and a number of our Mu brothers from Duke could be on hand.

Recent visitors to Tau include: Brothers Davis of :tv{u: Evans of Zeta; Scott of Alpha Upsilon; Simmons of Iota: Woodward and Covington of Epsilon; and Tau alumni Kuhn, James and Pitts.

After a very successful season of intramural football, we lost the division championship by a first down in a score· less game. Our swimming team and wrestling team plowed fourth and third respectively in their meets.

Brother Helms starred for the varsity football team thiS year again at tackle and pledge East gave the opposition no little trouble at half back for the "frosh" squad.

-JOHN A. FEATHER, historian

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Illinois

Pledges of Upsilon for 1936 are as follows: Charles Bogguss, William Bowers, James Chronis, Jean Foster, Donald Grover, Paul Hupp, Robert Jessup, Theodore Letche, Robert Nagel, Harry Ruyter, Lyle Swynehammer, Robert Taylor, James Wasson.

Upsilon was host to a gay throng of "alums" at the University's annual Homecoming. Nearly ninety alumS visited the gaily decorated house during the course of the day. Illinois dropped the football game with Northwestern, Big Ten chall)pS 13-2, but the alumni enjoyed the game and the banquet at the chapter house afterwards just the same. Sunday morning following, the house initiated alums John Seldon, Milton C. Berg, W. S. Renner, and N. J(.

Madison. We are happy to welcome these new brothers.

On the week-end of November 14-15 the chapter wns host to the dads of the actives and pledges of the chapter· The new dads, in particular, were highly pleased with the fellows and the house, not to mention the banquet held in their honor Saturday night at the chapter house.

Our pledge dance, on October 17, was one of the .finest dances on the campus this fall. The orchestra was perfect and the bright decorations lent a festive air to the entire crowd. Julius Schoeller is our social chairman this year and we are looking forward to a bright social season.

Congratulations are in order to our own Professor Fiero· ing and E. N. Turnquist for the citations they received dur· ing our Founders' Day banquet held in conjunction with the district conclave December 13.

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Herbert W w· low of F · tshart was married to Miss Francine Maris at p ort Dodge, Iowa, on September 19, 1936. Wishart the Co resent employed in the engineering department of gineer. mmonwealth Edison Co., as principal assistant en-

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Year, netti er s rushtng season was very successful this Brown ng us ten new pledges: Lynwood Arnold, Fred land j t;rthur Burrows, Lynwood Cheatham, Fred Cope0 Wi!iia n Seashole, Vincent Shaefer, Lanier Smith, Jack do ou msh, and Charley Wood. These are fine men and will r c apter credit Stetson' H ·. . . . .

Year. Ch'' s omecommg was the best tn tts Justory thts 1 this ye s annual Homecoming dinner, given in the house Ptesen:r• was well attended and enjoyed by all. Among those few wet7ash Congressman-elect J oe Hendricks, who made a noon w c osen remarks. The tea dance late in the afterChi C~ anot~er. high light of the day. dricks . apt~r IS justly proud of its past archon, Joe HenFifth di~~- hts :ece~t :Iection to ~ongress from _the n~~ Will tak ~~t. Hts wmnmg personaltty and progresstve spmt e tm far in the political world.

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Omega

Omega is enjoying one of its most prosperous years. The house is filled to capacity and the chapter boasts of 38 actives and 17 pledges. The following men were initiated on December 6: L. E. Armstrong, ]. G. Broberg, H. E. Burkhardt, J. W. Castine, R. R. Girton, J. D. Longfield, D. F. Muller, R. H. Suabedissen, and T. Woodmansee.

Dr. Will E. Edington, formerly on the faculty of Purdue University and now professor of mathematics at Depauw University, recently was elected president of the Indiana Academy of Science.

Dads' Day was celebrated at Purdue on November 21.

Many hoarse throats were accounted for due to the enthusiasm of the dads and the exciting finish of the game with Indiana, Purdue tieing the score 20-20 in the last few minutes of play. Following the game was a banquet for the fathers and sons. The meal was digested with the aid of some very short speeches and Jimmy Nicholas' entertainment group. The number of dads present was unusually large and, judging by the good time had by all, this number should increase next year.

This year finds Omega well represented on the campus.

Archon Brinson is varsitj• basketball manager, Dick Fitts is a vice-president of the Student Union, and Carl Sadler a junior editor on the Expo11ent, university daily publication. Don Black and Bruce McCandless are members of Catalyst, chemical engineering honorary; and Gimlet club, activity honorary, claims these two and has pledged Brinson and Sadler.

A number of sophomores and freshmen are working hard in various activities with the hope of gaining junior positions, arid Omega looks to these men for its future leaders.

-FRED W. WINTER, historian

Washington

Alpha Delta

The conclusion of the fall rushing season saw Alpha D elta with seven new men in the house. They are Lome Bradley, Jim Byrne, Ronnie Jensen, Lowell Vadman, Alfred Bamford-he comes all the way from Smithers, B.C.Sid Cone, and Charles Sedam. The last three are carryovers from Jast spring.

A Homecoming banquet was held at the Sorrento Hotel after the Southern California-Washington game. The spirit of the gathering somewhat made up for a small attend ance.

Founders' Day was observed with a banquet at the chapter house. Members and alums turned out in great numbers for the celebration. The highlight of the social calendar was on December 5. The chapter house was marvelously transformed into a night club, admittance was by card only, and a royal time was h:~d by everyone.

Martin "Franco" Franciscovitch is junior intramural sports manager, boosting the house down at the pavilion. Willard Vadman, senior, was initiated into Beta Alpha Psi in November. It's an accounting honorary and a real honor.

Alttmni Personals Leo Sulkolsky and Miss Lorraine Saunders were married early in the fall. Brother Paul will follow in his footsteps shortly. Miss Ruth Gwin will be "the lucky girl to marry the former All-American mention. George Ruby went East during the summer and is now very busy at Harvard.

-RAY HALL, historian

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Florida

Alph.a E~silon chapter is well into their 12th year on the Umvemty of Florida campus with an active chapter of 42 and the pledge group numbering 17 men. We welcome to participation in the chapter affairs the men who were initiated at a special initiation for held-over pledges on October 14. These are: Fonia Pennington, Jimmy Oxford, George Burleson, Milas Winn, John Polatty and Harry Fry. On the varsity football squad we find Harold Rowe Kenneth Wi.llis, Jimmy Oxford and Fonia Pennington. All ~ccupy first stnng berths. Rowe and Willis are backs and have gained lots of ground for Florida this year. Oxford occupies the pivot position while Pennington snares passes as an end.

Burton Laney of Chi is with us this year, doing graduate work at the university. Bob Mays of Lambda is working at the Spic and Span luncheonette on the edge of the F.S.C.W. campus at Tallahassee. Girls to the number of 1,735 and Bob hasn't had a date yet, or that is what our 'G' woman up there reports.

Alpha Epsilon entertained in honor of the Georgia and Stetson chapters at a tea dance given at the Hyde Park Country Club after the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville on November 7. Some 150 couples attended the dance.

We are proudly announcing the securing of Mrs. J. W. McDowell as our first regular house mother.

A large Founders' Day banquet was held at the chapter house .with Archon John Cherry acting as toastmaster. Many alumm and several charter members as well as the entire active and pledge chapters were present. About 80 brothers were present.

Alumni Personals The marriage of Clem Hailey, '36, to Miss Muriel Watson of Gainesville and the Kappa Alpha Theta house in Talla~assee, recently occurred. Jesse Dooley, '36, is coaching at Mtlton, Fla. Lewyley Harrell, '36, is now employed

by Walgreen Drug Co. in Orlando. His marriage to Miss Betty Jeanne Gregory of Jacksonville took place in that city on .New Ye~rs Eve. A formal dinner dance was given in the1r honor 10 December by the active brothers who live in Jacksonville.

William Taylor, '35, was married to Miss Gladys Finn of Eustis in that city on October 17. Taylor is operating his. own drug store in Eustis. Dan Allen, '36, is county agncultural agent for Santa Rosa County. His headquarters are in Milton.

-WILLIAM DOWDA, historian

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Oregon State

was applied. Consequently, a violent explosion was the l· suit. No one was injured, however.

A group of the Portland alumni was present at tJl Founders' Day banquet given at the chapter house.

-FRED ZITZER, historian

Alpha Eta Everett Jefferson Ingram and Miss Katie Lou HarnJll' were married in East Lake, Ala., on November 4. Ingfil', is connected with the Birmingham Board of Education. ~ took a leading part in student activities at Howard, was member of the student council, president of Pi Kappa p fraternity and an honor graduate in economics. .

J. Howard Perdue has recently become associated "'' Ernest Matthews, county attorney, in the general practice Jaw in Birmingham.

Lent Brewster and Miss Jean McCalley of Birmingh> were married on November 28.

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It seems to be getting a habit for the son of our distn archon to be listed among our early fall pledges here · Alpha Theta. Last year it was George Helmrich, Jr., or now it is Robert Fields. Fields succeeded Helmrich when t1 latter was elected national treasurer.

Larry Laidlaw, social chairman of Alpha Theta, inlf fraternity council representative and member of the stud~ council was selected as one of five delegates to repres Michigan State College at the National Interfraternity C ference in New York City over Thanksgiving week-end· Kim Jepson was elected to membership in Theta Alf Phi, national dramatics honorary.

A new trophy, symbolic of runners up in the intf fraternity baseball league, has been added to the athle~ awards of Alpha Theta. The team tasted defeat only in 1 final game, after a hard fought battle of 7-6.

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Alpha Theta has added five actives to her roll this fnl They are: Mahlon Hammond and Wm. Baird of Gra~ Ledge; Angus Hurd, Detroit; Richard Thatcher, Ion'1 Joseph Weber of Newberry.

There seems to be many novel innovations in the real of entertainment these days. Brother Max Kerr, radio teeb nician for the college broadcasting station WKAR, feature a musical recording band from his library of up-to-dD hits. Thanks to Brother Kerr, radio parties may be reque!· night specialties.

Alpha Zeta started the college year by pledging seventeen men at the end of freshman week and one more man soon after. With 19 members, 2 old pledges, and 18 new ones, Alpha Zeta has a prosperous year before her.

Five men were initiated October 17, 1936, and with -J. E. JEPSOI'I mid-term grade reports in, it is evident that more will become members during winter term.

Alpha Iota Alabama Pol' A barn dance, featuring corn cob pipes, striped shirts, red bandannas, straw hats, and all manner of farm impleThe pledges of the chapter are: 0. L. Sparks, Ashlant ments, was held at the chapter house November 7.

R. T. Graves, Blountsville; Bill Boynton, Albany; W. d· Brothers Stan Kelley and Marion Sigovich have been ·Noll, Montgomery; F. Y. Conner, Tuskeegee; B.S. Edwat given a bid to Scabbard and Blade.

Sylacauga; T. B. Henley, Montgomery; C. B. Phillips, MoP The annual Homecoming at Oregon State College was gomery;]. A. Jones, Selma; George Coleman, BirminghiJ.lll A. M. Burgin, La Grange; J. C. Yarbrough, Interpris~ on the week-end of the football game with Oregon UniJohn Huff, La Grange; Marvin Avery, La Grange; }II versity on November 21. The rook bonfire on Friday evening was a real "blowout," in-as-much as 28 windows were Hendricks, La Grange; W. T. Walker, Centerville; Aubtf Hunt, Centerville; George Hiller, Jasper. broken in the Armory, 16 in the girls' dormitory, and a few We welcome Allen Daniel who comes to us from Alp~ in the Agricultural building. One hundred gallons of gasoline poured on the accumulation of material was given too Alpha.

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-]. T. DURDEN, historian

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The c ·1 R R d CCI eeds announced the arrival of Janet Marie ee on November 22, 1936.

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Th1ngs g t ff teen go 0 d 0 0 to a good start when we pledged sevenBonds p men. These men included: Jesse Alderman, James Billy .~1 Busby, Joe Dabbs, Ed Davis, Curtiss Ferrell, son M ri n, Fred Hammack, Clarence Heard, Bill JohnSm{th : 7lm ~ill7r, Tony Rosetti, George Shivers, John Tb~ u. us Wtgg1ns and Altus Woods. tober ~cti~es gave a banquet in honor of the pledges on Ocfound · hort speeches were given by Dr. J. R. Simms, advise~~ of Alpha Lambda, and Byron Gathright, chapter

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\V~e:h~ Ward, archon, was awarded a very distinctive honor is the e was selected as a member of the Blue Key. This .1\.Jpha g{eat~t honor that can come to a student at Ole Miss.

Year. Th~~ da ha~ five men struggling in law school thi~ Pledge Sh~ men mclude: Busby, Hill, Rose, Spencer, and carnpus Ivers. Out of the eighteen fraternities on the Alph' Alpha Lambda ranked third in scholastic average.

Brothe/ ~mbd~ has its share of campus honors this year: fratern· ard .1s a member of Blue Key, Moaks, intertee an~ty councll, Dance committee, Homecoming commithis law t~e annual; Brother Busby is the vice-president of gineer· c ass; Brother McCracken is president of his enAider~ng ~lass for the second consecutive year; Pledge a succe a~ ts head boxing coach; Pledge Busby is enjoying man foss bul year as an outstanding halfback on the freshthe O!eo~lJ team; Pledge Rosetti has been a member of ISS baseball team for the past several years.

Alumni Personal!

Thomas Ha . f . . the Univ . rvey ts urthenng h1s study of medicine at Lu erstty of Tennessee. rnarri~~f%d Casey and Miss Muriel Elizabeth Terry were Cha ovember 21 at Laurel, Miss.

1 Alice ~es Herod Wise of West Memphis, Tenn., and Miss Novembmanda Nickle of Hughes, Tenn., were married on J er s. inte~n~· Kellum writes that he is serving his second year's dent · tp at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, as assistant resiln surgery.

-WILLIAM SPENCER,

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Recent · · · Readin . Mlha~es of the chapter are: Earl K. Christman, PunJCsu~' arvm M. Angstadt, Reading; Lewis B. Grube, Last :wney; Frank M. Zahniser, Warren.

'Wharte th.e chapter pledged the following: C. Albert ]. Wes~ y, Pittsburgh; Walter Gesin, Tidioute; William Schneid • Tamaqua; ]. Calvin Dilling, Altoona; Charles 1. Turt' PC!arton; William R. Walker, Warren; Robert • h1ladelphia; Edward P. Sutherland, New York

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City; James B. Robinson, Greensburg; Richard M. Shave, Wilkinsburg, Robert Lesser, Warren, Harold E. Webb, Erie; William E. Lord, Lancaster.

We were happy to have had twice as our guest, this fall, District Archon Robert Hanson, and, once, Assistant Secretary McCann. Dr. Hanson was here for Alumni Day and for the second meeting of tl1e new Dads' club. Brother McCann arrived as rushing season closed.

We have organized a Dads' club to promote a closer bond between the fathers of the brothers and the active chapter itself. The second meeting was held on November 21 with the Penn State-Bucknell game as an added attraction. Refreshments, entertainment, and additional steps toward definite, permanent organization marked the week-end.

Other occasions worthy of note are house party (a swell time), Alumni Day (with moving pictures), Dads' Day ( Jirst meeting of the Dads' club), and a victrola dance with entertainment by the brothers and pledges.

William Deefenderfer, after receiving bids from three honoraries, has accepted the bid from Pi Mu Epsilon, honorary mathematics fraternity. John Brisbane is Jirst assistant boxing manager.

Alumni Pet·sonals The engagement has been announced of William Charles Taylor, rector of the Episcopal mission of Homestead, Fla., to Miss Margaret Jane Searing of Coconut Grove, Fla. During the past summer Taylor has been assistant pastor at St. Stephen's Church in Coconut Grove.

-RALPH LEIGHTIY, historia11

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A recent letter from Robert H. Crossley states he is employed as chemical engineer with the Xylas Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio. In September, 1935, he was married to Miss Jane Wheeler and in September, 1936, R. H. Crossley, Jr., arrived.

Alpha Xi

Brooklyn Poly

The Alpha Xi Christmas dinner again took place at the Hotel Lafayette this year. This annual get-together acquaints the active chapter with the alumni. The dinner committee contained two active brothers, Douglas Keyes and John Peck.

The fourteen pledgees are busily engaged in repair work in the house. Pledge Wellender had a chair at home that he wished to donate to the house, so Brothers Hegarty and Peck volunteered to be the moving men. The chair was successfully moved to the front door, but then the difficulties began. The chair refused to pass through the doorway.

After twenty-seven minutes of body contortions, profanity, coercion, and complicated chair manipulations, one of the brothers (the guilty one won't admit it) suggested that the legs be sawed off. Attacking the project with a renewed vigor of Jiendish glee, the two made short work of the chair legs. After the job was completed, they calmly carried the clJair through the doorway. (Note-The brothers are engineering students.) The amputated chair is now reposing in an obscure corner of the house.

A Thanksgiving eve dance at the fraternity house was a great success. The active chapter was excellently represented, but only two alumni were present. Everybody participated in the amusing games, but the highlight of the evening was the presentation of a delicately-tinted cerise brassiere to Brother Frank Magruder.

-AL HEGARTY, histor;an

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Pledges: George Royer, Benjamin Foot, James Hemstreet, William Hambly, Clarke Pierce, James Hood, Verne Upmeir, Gerald Rickert, Ronald Lepley and Craig Trumbull.

Alpha Omicron ranked thirteenth among fraternities on the Iowa State campus with an average of 2.4 for the spring quarter. The all college average is 2.26. One important reason for the rise has been the fine work of Wayne Jackson. He has been taking scholastic awards ever since his enrollment here but the most recent one was announced at Honors' Day convocation this fall when he was awarded Phi Kappa Phi recognition of a parchment and key for having the highest average in the sophomore class. Wayne last year received the award for having the highest average in the freshman class. His average is near 4. Wayne doesn't spend all his time poring over books for he is a member of the college meats judging team and has been making numerous trips to livestock shows, including a week spent at the International Stock Show at Chicago. Wayne is also on the business staff of the Agrimlturist and steward-treasurer of the chapter.

The annual fall house dance was held at the chapter house on Homecoming day and an unusually large number of alumni were back. The following day, November 1, the alumni had a special meeting with the Ames Alumni chapter.

It was decided at that meeting that an annual Homecoming meeting be in order. A recent activity of the Alumni chapter was the dinner given to the pledges in order to acquaint the alumni members with the neophytes. The dinner was held in the modernistic dining room of the Union. The affair proved very successful.

The Pi Kappas lost two men the fall quarter by the graduation route. Donald Field and Donald Patterson both are being ushered into chemical engineering jobs. We will miss the spirit of these two men for both were house leaders, Fields as archon and Patterson as secretary.

Charles Schumacher announced his engagement when he passed the cigars this fall. The new wearer of the jewel is Miss Winifred Rognlien, Ames, Iowa. Malcolm Anderson also announced his marriage to Miss I. G. Hoy, and alumni also lost their free will when Jim Brown married Miss Ines Harmon and Dale Beck, Miss Louise Manning.

The annual winter dance will be held at Catherine MacKay auditorium, February 6. At present it is undecided as to whether it will be a formal.

Ken Thompson spent a week in Dallas, Tex., attending the annual professional journalism meeting of Sigma Delta Chi convention. The journalists convened there November 12.

Alumni will be interested to know that the Union is now equipped with an organ, the gift of two alumni.

Alumni Personals William Sargeant, '25, returned to the house April 17 and was initiated into the fraternity. Bill was a member of B.D.R. before we went national. His address is assistant chief engineer, Shell Petroleum corporation, Arkansas City, Kan. R. F. Suit has returned to the States from Quebec, Canada, and is now located with the New York Agricultural Experiment station in Geneva, N.Y. -LEO MORES

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Sewanee

Frank Easton Pulley of Tarboro and Miss Louise Joyner of Louisburg were married on November 25 in Louisburg, N.C. Pulley has recently accepted the rectorship of Calvary Episcopal church of Wadesboro. He is editor of the North Carolina Churchman of the diocese of North Carolina.

Preston Brooks Huntley of Bennettsville, S.C., and Miss Julia Margaret Fletcher of McColl, S.C., were married on September 24 in the McColl Methodist Church of McColl.

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Huntley is manager of the Huntley Electric Supply Co., ~ Bennettsville, where they are making their home.

Alpha Rho

West Virgitti1

The chapter recently initiated John Arbuckle, Arthur Ed erson, George Hodel, Fred Nebera and Denzil Westfall·.

The following were pledged last fall: Alexander Adi!lf Guy Avey, Denver Bragg, Paige Sapp, Carleton Shaif11 Stanley Smith, Hector Martinez, Alec Mellenick, Paul !'/I and Shelton Workman.

Fred Nebera has been outstanding in his capacity as righ end on the varsity football squad this year. Much cretli is due him because he is the lightest man on the liP1 Hodel was scenic designer and Archon Orler was in charg of the lighting effects of "Roadside," the first dramatic pre duction of the Drama school this season. Secretary Lutz , senior intramural manager this year. Pledge Mellenick 1 guard on the freshman football squad.

Chapter adviser, John C. Johnston has been confined t the Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh for the past few week with a heart ailment. We are expecting to have him Wit us again soon.

Preceding the first Panhellenic dance of the season, t~ actives entertained their dates with a formal dinner at t}!< chapter house. Alpha Rho entertained with a smoker 1 commemorate Founders' Day. Members and pledges of t~ chapter and a few invited faculty members were guests.

Almm1i Personals Day Fitzsimmons was recently married to Bertha Marti Von Philp at Wheeling, W.Va. They will make their hotll in that city, where Day is practicing law.

Among the alumni who have visited the chapter this f; are: Brothers Clipfel, Higgs, Smith, Fitzsimmons and Jud! James Arbuckle is chief herdsman at the Pinecrest SaP· tarium in Beckley, W.Va. Alpha Rho's winter formal will be held Saturday ni.G~ February 13, 1937, in the Hotel Morgan ballroom. It 1' hoped the alumni will begin making plans to be with 11 for that affair which promises to even surpass our forr11• party of last year.

Thomas G. Williams is employed by the Internation: Shoe company of St. Louis and at present is stationed 1r Huntington, W.Va.

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University of Tennessel

The recent initiates of the chapter are: Barney A. Tucker Greenville; James Stiltz, Gallatin, Tenn.

The pledges of the chapter are: Walter Nicholls, Finch, Charles Danner, Edward Byrd, Frank Bowman, J..

McKee, Harold Logan, Luke Russell, Kennedy Doane, aP· John Martin.

The chapter started the school year off right by having 1 fine rush season and pledging eleven men. Soon after tbl year began, the chapter moved its home to a new locatio; at 900 South Seventeenth St. The present house is muC more comfortable and conveniently arranged, and has alreadf taken on a homelike atmosphere, thanks to Mrs. Goodlove our housemother.

Alpha Sigma has been quite proud of her members wh' have taken the lead in their respective fields of activitY Brother Tucker has been elected to the Scarabbean seniol honor society, while Brother Reed was initiated into AJpP 1 Zeta, agricultural honorary. Brother Haney remains in charS: of all student dances on the campus. Brother Wynne acte>as general manager of this year's Barnwarmin', which is th< annual celebration sponsored by the College of Agriculture, as a part of the Homecoming program. Pledge McKee rt cently won the "Fox Hunt," which is one of the main intrl'

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Rtchardson is . mg earn. t t e present time Don Alpha s· acting as sports editor for the campus paper. bra ted Fou~~ma, and ~he Knoxville AI umni chapter celea formal b ers Day m grand style on December 12, with Hotel A d anquet and dance in the crystal ballroom of the by alum n . rew Johnson. The banquet program featured talks cess dr~'·. actives, and pledges. The dance was a huge sucrep;esent ~tng much favorable comment from guests who by the ~ . 0 ther Greek organizations. Music was furnished 1 own Broth~~ lts, a l.?cal ..orchestra, b~ing managed by our Was broad W. D. B11J Lee. A penod of the dance music cast over one of the local stations.

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Wa!rav quent visitor around the house has been Harold with a tn, a}um~us of Iota chapter, who is now affiliated Ear] ~rg~ Urntture firm here in Knoxville. in a C.C ~Ingle co~tinue~ his military service as an officer · · Camp 10 Wtlderness, Va. At H omec · several of ommg we were honored and delighted to have Primm R ~~.r alumni with us. They included Brothers Bryan, 0 these ~· . tns, Burnett, Zwingle, and Sneed. We appreciate ISJts Geor F and w· . IS h th ey wou Jd come more o f ten.

Watkin~eS rfdertck Emery .of Chattanooga, and Miss Lillias vember Aca e~ of. Columbta, Tenn., were married in Noservice ·h ~ htstortcal technician with the National Park e IS now with the office in Chattanooga.

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Brother Clements emphasized the value of an engineering education in other lines of endeavor. The last speaker of the evening was Professor E. ]. Kilcawley of the civil engineering department of Rensselaer. Professor Palsgrove officially welcomed Professor A. ]. Fairbanks to our midst.

Professor Fairbanks comes to us from Psi Chapter and to that chapter we give hearty thanks for giving us such an asset.

Alpha Tau has enjoyed a very successful fall season. We pledged fifteen men including: Joseph Hoffman, H. Guyon Brightly, Paul Davis, Charles Kammermeyer, Austin Riley, S. Darrel Titus, William Cummings, Donald Stephens, Richard McCray, John Dempsey, Robert 0. Wagner, Richard Cox, William B. Conover, Percy Cummings, and William Hofmann.

The chapter enjoyed a visit from Assistant Secretary McCann. Incidentally our heartiest congratulations on your recent marriage, Johnny. As usual, Alpha Tau has held several of its popular informal phonograph parties. At Sunday dinners the chapter has been pleased to entertain Professor and Mrs. G. K. Palsgrove, Professor and Mrs. H. 0.

Sharp, Professor and Mrs. F. M. Sebast and Professor and Mrs. A. ]. Fairbanks.

Three men from the chapter were elected to Tau Beta Pi this year. They are Harold ]. Elmendorf, T. K. O'Sullivan, and George W. Price. Harold Elmendorf was also honored by being elected to Sigma Xi at the recent elections.

Al11mni Personals We report wi tl1 pleasure the following marriages: Julian Haigh to Miss Betty Bell.

Earl P. Bingham on June 13, 1936, to Miss Harriet Strykker.

John H. Thompson to Miss Dorothy Yoletchko.

One of our most active alumni has been transferred to Dallas, Tex. He is Robert Porter. We certainly will miss you, Bob, but congratulations on your rise; we look for more yet.

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and report to their classes the fol0 a ~ g day. Some schools follow up the broadcast with on/own meeting" assembly for the entire school. Not Ydo the school children for once take an avid inte rest in h . bee . orne work, but parents have m many cases 1 I~ ~troduced toAmerica'sTownMeeting by Junior. ing 'th owever, the Town Meeting were merely elevatadch e public would shy away. The program has the 1 one lonal merit of being good theater. Denny was caste ~n the stage. He was the only white actor in the 0 l'h • the Pulitzer Prize play, In Abraham's Bosom. erem . . pro ' p os~1'bl y, 1'1es th e secret of a senous rad1o kno~:~. WhiCh is palatable entertainment. Denny Th IS ~road:vay showmanship. with e rad1o aud1ence does its heckling by mail-and flesh a~ much enthusiasm as if it were present in the seld · peakers are frequently criticized, the program om. Out of 30,000 letters-unusually intelligent

ones, by the standards of radio fan mail- about 100 have panned the program. When a particularly interesting letter is received, the writer may get a surprise invitation to come to New York and expound his views.

More than 75 per cent of the letters received by Denny have dimes enclosed for pamphlet reprints of the Meetings, and many writers have enclosed money for no reason at all-out of sheer good will. Upward of 10,000 stenographic reports of all the speeches, questions, answers, and notations of boos, applause and laughter are sold every month through Town Hall, without solicitation, many to paid-in-advance subscribers.

To keep the programs on an unbiased basis, N.B.C. has turned down magnificent offers from would-be sponsors, feeling that the hour would defeat its purpose if it had anything to sell but truth .

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national Relations club. Brother Mclees was very active in journalism, serving as editor of The Almnlite, alumni monthly bulletin, 1936; art and features editor of The Bltte Stocking, student newspaper, 1934-36; art editor of The Collegian, magazine, 1934-36; and art editor of The Pac-Sac, student annual, 1935, 1936.

He was treasurer of Beta chapter for almost two years.

Brother Mclees at present is a graduate student in advertising at Columbia University, and he is also working with a commercial artist in New York. His present address is King's College Club, 501 W. 121st St., New York City.

James A. Richardson, Pi and Sigma Brother Richardson began his college work at Oglethorpe University and then transferred to the University of South Carolina where he graduated magna mm latJde last June with pharmacy as his major field of study. As a student at Oglethorpe he had the highest sd1olastic average of the entire student body for the year 1933-34. He became a member of Coat of Arms, honor society, because he maintained an average of 93 or better for five terms. He was also a member of LeConte, national honor scientific society. He was active in the Dramatic and Glee clubs. He served Pi chapter as secretary and treasurer, and he was also historian and secretary of Sigma chapter. Brother

Richardson is at present an assistant pharmacist ~ Garnett, S.C.

Harman Woodward, Jr.,.Epsilon Brother Woodward is a senior at Davidson Collegt and expects to graduate next June. His scholas~ 1' average for his first three years in college gives bJJll the rank of twelfth among his class of 143 members He was on the track team in his freshman and sophO' more years and he has been captain of his fraterni~ and class basketball teams during the past two years He is a member of Alpha Psi Omega, national honor· ary dramatic fraternity, and of Red and Blad Masquers, local dramatic club, of which h~ is al~ stage manager. He is a member of the Photograph1' club. He was a member of his sophomore class danct committee. Brother Woodward has served Epsil0° chapter as secretary and rushing chairman.

Marion Marshall Young, Delta Brother Young received his B.S. degree magna cti/1 la11de at Furman University last May. He graduated as one of the five highest ranking seniors. As evidence ol his leadership on the Furman campus he held mecJl· bership in Hand and Torch and in the QuaternioO club, and he was chosen for listing in Who's W'h( Among St11dents in American Colleges and Universt· ties. Brother Young served Delta chapter as secreta!}'·

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moval of restrictions on fraternities by the administration.

The fraternity has come in for much of his thought and spare time in his personal career.

Christian H. Steffan, Brooklyn Poly Christian H. Steffan carried the spirit of the fraternity to the Rensselaer campus and there caused it to be established as the Alpha Tau unit of the fraternity, and thus became a pioneer of the fraternity. The chapter is a substantial one which has made a good record in its existence under the name of Pi Kappa Phi. The delivery of "Chris'" citation came on the occasion of the famous annual Christmas dinner of the New York alumni. He is assistant superintendent of a sugar refinery and liable to call at weird and unusual hours, but he remains ready and eager to assist the fraternity at all times.

M. Chandler Stith, Stetson M . Chandler Stith is another pioneer of the fraternity, being personally responsible for the re-establishment of Epsilon chapter at Davidson. He transferred from Stetson to the Davidson campus and there organized the local which was established as Epsilon and which has functioned effectively since.

Chan is pastor of the Brentwood Baptist church of Jacksonville, where he received his citation before the alumni chapter from the hands of District Archon George Coulter.

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He is a member of the alumni chapter. His church activitie! have carried him to the high positions of moderator of the Jacksonville Association of Baptist churches and dean of th 1 Ja~ksonville Bible Institute. He is a graduate of the SouthetP Baptist Theological Seminary.

E. N. Ttlrnqtlist, Illinois The district conclave at Illinois saw the delivery of th1 citation to E. N. Turnquist, and permitted him to return t~ his chapter and alma mater for an enjoyable visit. "TurneY served the fraternity as national secretary for six years, ' length of service in that office which is without parallel. The well planned and nicely managed Chicago convention, which he directed, was the ladder to the national office. His record in the Chicago Alumni chapter is excellent in its official aspeO and in the matter of continuous personal support.

He is with the Jewel Tea company as manager of its 51· Louis branch.

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Pla~L ;ECRBTAnY-WiJliam J. Berry, 224 St. Johns 1ance >siJon NAtroNA, rooklyn, N.Y. Drex~/~~TORIAN-Walter R. Jones, 2826 Huey avenue, N•T til, Pa. "IONAL C S.C. liANCELLOR-Theron A. Houser, St. Matthews, I

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Drstnr~· DrsT!UCT 2-Alf~ed D. Hurt, Salem, Va. N C 3-Regmald L. Price, 135 Brevard court, Charlotte, Drstnr~· 4vil! S W. Harold Arnold, Masonic Temple, GreenO1 e, C STRrcr 5 · · DrstniCT - 1oseph W. Cannon, Jr., Cordele, Ga. Jack 6-~eorge S. Coulter, 405 Dyal-Upchurch building, DrsniCTsonvllle, Fla. DrsT!Ucr ~-]. Theodore Jackson, P.O. Box 34, Dothan, Ala. DrstnrCT -Devereux D. Rice, Johnson City, Tenn.

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Lan . 10-Lawrence N. Field, 519 Forest avenue, East Drstn Stng, Mich. f~~ttll-W. Robert Amick, 333 Vine street, West LaDrsT!U e, Ind. Io'; l4-Russell B. Johnson, 311-llth street, Ames, Drstnrcr .1 Mis 6-Lunsford Casey, c/o Welch & Cooper, Laurel, DrsT!UC:· Norrn18-C. Eugene Springer, 305 Chautauqua avenue, DrsT!U an, Okla.

W~hl9-Horace A. Granger, 818 Third avenue, Seattle, DrsT!UCT 2 cisco ~Kenneth L. White, 111 Sutter street, San FranDistn , altf.

DCT 21-Robert S. Hanson, 445 Gainesboro road, rexel Hill, Pa.

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Incorporated 1907, Laws of South Carolina Finar1ce Ralph W. Noreen, Chairman, 1 Wail street, New York City (Term expires, 12-31-41).

Kurt C. Lauter, 1 Wall street, New York City (Term expires, 12-31-39).

Robert E. Alien, 40 East Forty-second street, New York City (Term expires, 12-31-37).

Endowment Frmd John D. CarroiJ, Chairman, lexington, S.C. Raymond Orteig, Jr., Secretary, 61 West Ninth street, New York City.

Henry Harper, c/o Goodyear Tire & Rubber company, Akron, Ohio.

Roy J. Heffner, 186 Miiis street, Morristown, N.J. Architecture James Fogarty, Chairman, 8 Court House square, Charleston, S.C. Edward ]. Squire, 68 E. 19th, Brooklyn, N.Y .

Clyde C. Pearson, c/o State Department of Education, Montgomery, Ala. John 0. Blair, Hotel Eddystone, Detroit, Mich.

Councillors-at-large PACIFIC Co.t.ST-Dr. George A. Odgers, 861 S.W. 6th avenue, Portland, Ore. MIDDLE WEST-E. Richard Blaschke, 4509 N. Long avenue, Chicago, III. Undergraduate Chapters Alabama (Omicron), University, Ala.; Eugene W. Williams, archon; Thomas Johnston, secretary; Chapter Adviser-Henry H. Mize, 514-34th avenue, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Alabama Polytechnic (Alpha Iota), Auburn, Ala.; R. E. Charlton, Jr., archon; J. G. Eubanks, secretary; Chapter Adviser-De. Paul Irvine, Auburn, Ala. Armour (Alpha Phi) 3337 S. Michigan avenue, Chicago, Ill.; Idris Thomas, archon; John F. Sturgeon, secretary; Chapter Adviser-De. John F. Mangold, Armour I. T., Chicago, Ill. Brooklyn Polytechnic (Alpha Xi) 33 Sidney place, Brooklyn, N.Y.; 0. Winston Link, archon; lewis B. Everett, secretary; Chapter Adviser-WilJiam R. Berger, 715 Linden avenue, Teaneck, N.J. California (Gamma) 2510 LeConte avenue, Berkeley, Calif.; Lee Emerson, archon; Fred Brear, secretary; Chapter Adviser-James F. Hamilton, 1815 Yosemite road, Berkeley, Calif.

Charleston (Alpha) College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C.; W. Moultrie Moore, Jr., archon; A. M. Moore, Jr., secretary; Chapter Adviser-Albert P. Taylor, 6 Halsey street, Charleston, S.C. Cornell (Psi) 115 Ridgewood roa~, Ithaca, N.Y.; W. A. Dunham, archon; Peter R. Torti, secretary; Chapter Adviser-De. Paul Work, 310 Elmwood avenue, Ithaca, N.Y.

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Davidson (Epsilon) Davidson, N.C.; JoeL. Hunter, archon; Samuel M. Hemphill, secretary; Chapter Adviser-Col. John T. Rhett, Davidson, N.C. Drexel (Alpha Upsilon) 3312 Powelton avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.; David Greer, archon; J. Frank Jones, Jr., secretary; Chapter Adviser-Alan S. Tomlinson, Drexel Tech, Philadelphia, Pa. Duke (Mu) Duke Station, Durham, N.C.; Joe Pel!, archon; Charles Shuff, III, secretary; Chapter Adviser-A. H. Borland, Trust building, Durham, N.C. Florida (Alpha Epsilon) Box 2756, University Sta., Gainesville, Fla.; John F. Cherry, archon; William Wightman, secretary.

Furman (Delta) 14 University Ridge, Greenville, S.C.; Gerald W. Scurry, archon; S. L. Watson, Jr., secretary; Chapter Adviser-Dean R. N. Daniel, Furman Univ., Greenville, S.C. Georgia (Lambda) 386 Hill street, Athens, Ga.; Robert Knox, archon; John Wilson, secretary; Chapter Adviser -Richard F. Harris, Southern Mutual building, Athens, Ga. Georgia Tech (Iota) 743 W. Peachtree. Atlanta, Ga.; L. W. Lokey, archon; Joseph Crocker, secretary; Chapter Adviser-James Setze, Jr., Masonic Temple, Atlanta, Ga. Howard (Alpha Eta) Howard College, Birmingham, Ala.; Charles Sharp, archon; Glen Hearn, secretary; Chapter Adviser-V. Hain Huey, Shultz-Hodo Realty Co., Birmingham, Ala. Illinois (Upsilon) 1105 S. First street, Champaign, Ill.; Jack Anderson, archon; Richard H. Becker, secretary.

Iowa State (Alpha Omicron) 407 Welch avenue, Ames, Iowa; Leo Mores, archon; Everett J. Robinson, secretary; Chapter Adviser-James R. Sage, I. S. C., Ames, Iowa.

Mercer (Alpha Alpha) 629 Adams street, Macon, Ga.; Walter Doyle, archon; Ledford Carter, secretary.

Michigan State (Alpha Theta) 803 E. Grand River, East Lansing, Mich.; Kirwan Jennings, archon; Richard Jennings, secretary.

Mississippi (Alpha Lambda) University, Miss.; John Ward, archon; Arthur Busby, Jr., secretary; Chapter Adviser]. B. Gathright, Oxford, Miss.

N. C. State (Tau) 1720 Hillsboro road, Raleigh, N.C.; W. B. Chalk, archon; Thad Yelton, secretary; Chapter Adviser-William McGehee, N.C. State College, Raleigh, N.C. Oglethorpe (Pi) Oglethorpe University, Ga.: Thomas Ewing, archon; Hey! Tebo, secretary; Chapter Adviser -Allan Watkins, C & S Bank building, Atlanta, Ga. Oklahoma (Alpha Gamma) 518 South boulevard, Norman, Okla.; Earl F. Crowder, archon; Collie James, secretary.

Oregon State (Alpha Zeta) Corvallis, Ore.; Hugh Hanna, archon; Jack Parsons, secretary; Chapter AdviserProf. J. T. Starker, Corvallis, Ore. Penn State (Alpha Mu) State College, Pa.; W. C. Brookmeyer, archon; R. N. DeCamp, secretary; Chapter Adviser-Prof. J. S. Doolittle, State College, Pa. Presbyterian (Beta), Clinton, S.C.; W. M. Degner, archon; Joe Commander, secretary.

Purdue (Omega) 330 N. Grant street, West Lafayette, Ind.; Robert F. Brinson, archon; Donald E. Black, secretary; Chapter Adviser-De. C. L. Porter, 924 N. Main, West Lafayette, Ind. Rensselaer (Alpha Tau) 4 Park place, Troy, N.Y.; John S. Haverstick, archon; Harry A. Downing, secretary; Chapter Adviser-Prof. G. K. Palsgrove, 1514 Sage avenue, Troy, N.Y. Roanoke (Xi) 16 Pennsylvania avenue, Salem, Va.; Melvin Goldman, archon; Francis Ewald, secretary; Chapter Adviser-Curtis R. Dobbins, 207 E. Main, Salem; Va.

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South Carolina (Sigma) 610 Pickens street, Columbia, F. Bowers Parker, archon; John Coulter, Chapter Adviser-C. E. Wise, Friendly Bakery, bia, S.C. Stetson (Chi) Stetson University, DeLand, Fla.; F â&#x20AC;˘ -. f! archon; Carl Hulbert, secretary.

Tennessee (Alpha Sigma) 900 S. 17th street, Tenn.; C. E. Rollins, archon; James Seay, Chapter Adviser-De. F. B. Ward, 400 Forest boulevard, Knoxville, Tenn.

Washington (Alpha Delta) 4547 19th avenue, N.E., Wash.; R. E. L. Conner, archon; Henry J. retary; Chapter Adviser-Hugh Schlicting, 1735 avenue, Seattle, Wash.

Washington and Lee (Rho) Washington street, Va.; Clark B. Winter, archon; Dan P. Arnold, Chapter Adviser-De. Earl K. Paxton, Lexington, West Virginia (Alpha Rho) 2109 University gantown, W.Va.; Thomas G. Williams, Lutz, secretary; Chapter Adviser-John C. Oglebay hall, Morgantown, W.Va. Wofford (Zeta) 544 Irwin avenue, Spartanburg, S.C.; Evans, archon; T. K. Fletcher, Jr., se.cretary; Adviser-J. Neville Holcombe, Spartanburg, S.C. Alumni Chapters AMES, IowA-Archon. Russell Johnson, 311-l!th street.

Secretary, Harry Mabbitt, 907 Clark street.

ATLANTA, GBORGIA-Archon, Philip Etheridge, 33 Maddox Secretary, Allan Watkins, 3)11 Piedmont road.

BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA-Archon, Emmett Jackson, 3)29 Cliff Secretary, Cecil A. Carlisle, 321 Poinciana drive.

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA-Archon, Albert P. Taylor, 6 street.

Secretary, Earl B. Halsall, 651 King street.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS-Archon, E. R. Blaschkef 4509 N. Long Secretary, C. C. W. Arnold, 5053 Wave and avenue.

CLEVELAND, OHIO-Archon, S. Cleveland.

Secretary, G. A. Leech, 153) Rydalmount road, Heights.

COLUMBIA, SoUTH CAROLINA-Archon, F. G. Swaf!ield, Barnwell Secretary, E. Frank Bostick, 610 Pickens street.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN-Archon, Kryn Nagelkirk, 4301 road.

Secretary, Kline Sprague, 1288 Cedar drive, Birminghapl, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA-Archon, Parnell M. Pafford, 2142 street.

Secretary, Stephen P. Smith, Jr., 1516 Main street.

KNOXVILLE, TBNNESSEB-Archon, Edward DuntJavant, 2518 view.

Secretary, E. M. Bowles, 28n Linden avenue.

LBHIGH VALLBY-Archon, Glenn Stoudt, 713 Wayne avenue, ing, Pa. Secretary, Edward Beddall, 136 Schuylkill avenue, Tamaqua.

MIAMI, FLORIDA-Archon, J, Abney Co,l',, 862 S.W, 6th.

Secretary, W. C. Price, Jr., 128 S. w. 12th.

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA-Archon, G. R. Doster, 1001 Alabama Secretary, Howard B. Upchurch, 500 Plum street.

Nnw YoRK, Nnw YORK-Archon, Kurt C. Lauter, 1 Secretary, Robert Fuchs, 744 Westminster road, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA..-Archon, Gilbert Spahr, 6900 avenue.

PoRTLAND, OREGON-Archon, Robert Peacock, the Multnomah Secretary, Clarence Ekstrand, Route 1.

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA-Archon, Garland 0. Green, 611 lock street.

Secretary, L. M. Shirley, 121 Park avenue, ROANOKE. VIRGINIA-Archon, Norman Potts, Salem, Va. Secretary, Neil Payne, 602 Elm, S.W. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON-Archon, Thomas Jermin, 711 Federal Weather Bureau.

Secretary, Rene Koelblen, 4547 19th. N.E.

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