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Volume XXV

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• RICHARD L. YOUNG Editor JOHN H. McCANN Assistant Editor

JANUARY,

1939

Number 1

Contents Founders' Day Message from the National President

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From Bees to Beauties ........ .. .. ....... . .. ..... .

By William Fendrich

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Alumni Demand a Program

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Anniversary Corps Fund Proposed as Chapter Aid

By William J. Berry, C. B. Helmrich

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South Carolina Pi Kapps Plan Conclave on Founders' Day

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Omegalite Adjudged Best Publication

By John H. McCann

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literary World Mourns Passing of Thomas Wolfe

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Delta Brother Actor in Test . ......... ........ .. . . .. .

By Milton Williams, Jr.

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Undergraduate Voices ................... . . .... .... .

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Seeing lots with the C's ............ . ............... .

By Lawrence L. Boyd

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Under the Student's lamp . .. .... ....... .. ....... . .. .

By Dr. Will E. Edington

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Pi Kapp Editor Gets Award ......................... .

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Philip Morris Makes Award ......................... .

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

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Contributing Editors

LAWRENCE J. BOLVIG DOUGLAS WILLIX DR. WILL E. EDINGTON JOE DUNCAN

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loyalty, devotion and unselfish service to the advancement of the Fraternity. nJ.We pay, however, but lip-service to our Founders, ~ ess we, as Pi Kapps, try to make real in our lives the ~ eals which inspired them, the ideals which are set 0 7h in our ritual. Founders' Day is an occasion for 5 1 ~ 路examination and self-appraisal on the part of ~~apters and individuals. Let us thoughtfully re-read ~ oath which we took at the chapter altar at the sfo emn moment of our initiation and determine, each or h"tmself, to what extent we have failed to keep our promise. If we thus become aware of our short-

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comings and .firmly resolve to amend them, if we are .filled anew with zeal for Pi Kappa Phi and its advancement, Founders' Day will be not only a commemoration of the past but an inspiration for the future.

At this time let me take this opportunity of wishing each of you a very Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.

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Photographers' song from the play "Of Thee I Sing'

WINSTON "Bucs" LINK, Pi Kappa Phi brother via Alpha Xi chapter and one year • a Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn alumnus, ts an adept cameraman possessed of a gift of

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harangue, good legs, systematic methods, and a willingness to hazard his neck in the pursuit of an assignment. Last summer he escorted f.wo Florida beau· ties, bound for the annual "Miss America" contest in Atlantic City, through the heart of the Broadway sector and photographed them right on Times Square.

It was midnight and the girls wore bathing suits. A publicity stunt. Hundreds of newspapers reproduced the picture and the word "Florida" was brought to the attention of millions. The City of Miami shared in the publicity because one of the super· lassies was "Miss Miamh" Carl Byoir and Associates, In· corporated, a New York city publicity firm occupying four lofty floors in the Chase Tower on 40th street just off Fifth Avenue, employs Bugs to illustrate its press releases and shoot straight photographic newspaper copy. Miami has the company under contract to herald its name and virtues in the news columns of the public press. Nations, states, cities, public-service corporations, manufacturers, hotels,

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S~metimes it is the task of a public rela~10ns concern to cast aspersions on affatrs unfavorable to its clients. The Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company e.ntrusted Carl Byoir, at a substantial consideration, to enlighten the mass mind on matters concerning the prevalence of hidden taxes in c~mmodity prices, through the medium of publicity releases in the nation's gazettes. One of the stories concocted to expose concealed tax levies required Link to picture a lady model, clothed in a barrel frisking among the dunes of Long Island's Jones beach.

Although the mannequin Wore a bathing suit under her hoops and staves, the ~esulting print was stimulatt~gly risque. Eight hundred newspapers ~tcked it up. Its caption proved that even tf the average girl wears no clothes, she still m.ust pay tribute to the treasury. On her coiffure, lips~tck, finger and toe nail polish, and similar beauty atds, the unclothed female pays hidden taxes.

Ivy Lee, the eminent publicity adviser who made the ~erican people love the Rockefellers, once called ~~~hetty "the entire gamut of expression of an inlVtdual or institution-everything that is used to express an idea, including the policy or the idea its~l.f." But newspaper publishers call it "free adver路 veractty. 路 Yet the han d of the pu b I'hstng . ," an d wtth . tctty man may be found in nearly one-third of a JOurnal's news. ~hen Sigmund Freud announced his "sex is the Prtme mover" theory, public relations men were already aware of its potentialities. Newspaper editors,

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Miss America as photographed by Bugs Link. This picture was taken a~ a "plug" for Miami. Get it? A Picture of Miss America showing Miss Florida is supposed to lead people to believe that Miami is in Flori~'! and everybody is happy.

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the harried humans who seem to understand the psychology of the mobility, have always considered a picture with a pretty girl in the foreground most popular with their readers. Action and genre photographs are less appealing.

God made girls pretty to attract attention. When the A & P commissioned Carl Byoir to promulgate the sale of surplus apples, Link was assigned to photograph a girl, wearing an abbreviated costume, riding down Wall street on a load of apples destined for the neighborhood chain member. Nearly a thousand newspapers ran a cut of the picture. It attracted the attention of millions.

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p,~£/icilt;t j}iclttte~ His first picture (C), made witT• a borrowed Brownie. A photographer for a publicity corporation muJI know ho111 to make posed pictures oppear as spot news ushots, (A, G, I, Q, RJ. The photographer is euen tially an ar-

tist. Study the appeal and composition of these publicity pictures (B, K, and N). He escorted two Florida beauties through th e h eart of the Broadway sector and photographed th em right on Times Square (F). "Miss Florida" in another pose (D). Link scouted around New York's Chinatown making pictures to create American -!1m-

path)' toward CIJina (E). Vera ;{.or· ina of ul Married An Angel" poses

with a CIJinese child for further Chinese sympathy ( L). Winners of Carl Byoir sponsored pulchriwde regattas are in~ited to New York and Link takes them in tow at~d photograJ>hs them all o~er towtJ ( 1 and M). Link aided it~ the publication of a tech-

n_ical pope~ concer.nin'l· the precipitallon of mJcroscopJc tesegang TJngs.

This is one of the first pictures ever

made of the formations (0). Louisiana's Go~ernor readin~r the head-lines ( P). Link pictured Louisiana's feminine beauties in many poses. This is a scene in New Orleans ( S). Lily Pons' automobile license plate (T).

Monkeys acting as guitJca pigs for infantile paralysis research wCTe th e first to pose for the now professional photo grapher (H).

Alum.ni Dem.and a Program.

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ITH THE slogan "we want a program" Pi Kappa Phi alumni from hither to yon have been approaching the central office, the national council, the Supreme chapter. Some have asked what they can do to aid in expansion activities; others desire to devise housing projects and see every chapter in its own home; still others place the emphasis on building the fraternity in a financial way. One Conclave, th11t of northwest District 19, asks for "a program of continuous adult education."

It is on this last idea that we focus our immediate attention. We do not believe that our alumni want us to plan a program of education in matters of general interest so much as to devise a plan whereby every Pi Kapp throughout the world will know, if he so desires, what Pi Kappa Phi's policies are on the major lines of endeavor and how he can best fit into the fulfillment of these policies. In this and a series of articles to follow we hope to lay the groundwork for the basis of just such knowledge.

At the outset it is important for each of us to realize just who our alumni are, what they do and what they like, how old they are and where they can be found.

Alumni of any organization such as ours are scattered all over the world but are mainly to be found in the small towns and large cities of this country of ours.

Most Pi Kapp alumni are young men. I doubt if but few of those who have come up through our chapters as undergrads can be said to be past the prime of their lives. A great majority of them are just in their prime or not yet to it.

With this as a background, and our minds on the changing economic conditions of our modern world, we can realize that unless alumni activity is directed toward a very worthy goal we cannot hope to attain the real alumni activity we all desire. As a fraternity we are strong in our undergraduate life, not as strong as we shall be in the field of alumni endeavor. A lad graduates. First he must find himself a job in the type of work for which he has prepared himself. He then gets married, has a family. He belongs to local civic clubs that mean much to the contacts he makes in his every day life. He has not lost his desire to back a constructive fraternity program. He still likes to get back to that fountain of youth, his undergraduate chapter. Let's work together and see if Pi Kappa Phi can be the first leading fraternity to devise a program that will bring every alumnus, at one time or other, into active contact with the work of the fraternity after graduation.

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In brief, we might say that every college fraternity in existence today probably has the same basic aims as every other. That these are stated differently in the various constitutions is of little consequence. There are probably four of these major purposes or aimsthe same as the four we can read in our own constitution. Namely, we seek to promote fellowship among our members, to build for better scholarship (and we do not feel that scholarship is a mere matter of grades), we seek to promote the best interests of the colleges and universities where our chapters are located, and finally, we seek to develop our members for better lives as citizens of this, our world of today.

If any fraternity is to conscientiously strive to fulfill these professed aims and ideals its members, active and alumni must at all times be well acquainted with the problems it is facing on each and every campus and as a national unit. These problems are definitely affected by changing conditions in the everyday world.

For instance, we know that a good corn crop in Iowa insures a good year for our Iowa State chapter. Likewise a poor cotton crop in the Mississippi Delta tountry will have its effect on the boys at Ole Miss.

We realize that we are attempting to continue expansion in the face of a tendency toward decreased college enrollments. We are seeing the continuance of a shift from the traditional liberal arts college to the technical college. How do all of these things affect us?

What are we doing about them?

No program that can be devised for the edification of alumni on fraternity work can be without the limitations placed upon it by a limited staff of national officials. These limitations, however, · can be reduced in proportion to the cooperation and interest of every alumnus. As members of the national council, the central office staff and men from the ranks of the district archons make their visitations in the future, an attempt will be made to spend a great deal more time with alumni. Not all of this time is to be spent contacting alumni in attendance at alumni chapter meetings. A good majority of our membership lives outside of the alumni chapter sphere of influence (therein lies a problem you might be turning over in your mind). We intend to see that as many individual Pi Kapps as possible get to talk with us. We do not feel that we are traveling oracles. On the contrary it is our very definite conviction that from you .alumni in city or hamlet we can learn the answers to our most perplexing problems, carry these answers on to (C011tinued

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pleasant day in early June. Through the open windows of the chapter house a soft breeze blows, heavy with the odor of roses. Exams are over and Commencement only a day or two away. All ove~ the house are unmistakable signs that the boys are gettmg ready to leave for home. Into the archon 's room where that worthy is vainly endeavoring to cram two trunk-loads of miscellaneous possessions into one tr_unk, comes the chapter secretary, an open Jetter in hts hand.

"Hey, Bill, just look at this from the Dean, will you. " .T IS A

::what's biting old 'Dizzy' now?"

Says we've got to pay up all our debts before s~?ol starts in September or we can't open the house. " The hell he does. How much do we owe?"

"Search me. Plenty, I reckon . 'Buzz' is treasurer, he ought to know. Hey, 'Buzz,' how much does the chapter owe?" . "Don't know, Jack, offhand. You and Bill come tnt~ my room and I'll figure it out."

Well, there you are. That's just about all.

Blue Slate Coal Company . ...... . ...... $225.00 Water's Dairy Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75.30 ~h~inkem's Laundry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 .85 trtnger's Meat Market . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . 30.68 Y ells & Howell 's Music Store . . . . . . . . . .

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the balance on the new showers) , total, five undred and thirty-eight dollars and ninety-eight cents-better call it five hundred and fifty dollars in c~s~ We've forgotten some little bill. That doesn't in~ u e the eighty-six dollars and thirty cents we owe entral Office, either, but the Dean won't know about th at."

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"Well, we have seventy-five dollars and thirty-two cents in the bank now, and summer dues ought to bring in about one hundred and eighty dollars- that is if everyone pays up on time. 'Bugs' and 'Stinky' owe about one hundred and twenty-five dollars between them- I think we can get it if we put the screws on. I guess we can nick the Alumni Chapter for something, but one hundred dollars would be about their limit. That's every last red cent of income I can think of and it leaves us sixty or seventy dollars in the hole."

"I tell you what, 'Buzz,' let's ask Central Office for a loan of seventy-five dollars to help us out. Jack, you're secretary, you write Mac and ask him."

And so the appeal goes forward to Central Office.

In the fall, in another chapter house, on another campus, there is the pleasant confusion normally incident to tl1e return of the brothers from the summer vacation. In the rooms trunks stand half unpacked while the owners rush out to greet with fraternal enthusiasm the latest arrival. The archon, a worried look on his face and an open Jetter in his hand comes up to the treasurer.

"Phil, when does our rent for this house begin?"

"Oh, I don't know, September first, I suppose."

"That's what I thought, but here's a Jetter from the Comptroller's office. It says: 'I desire to call your attention to the fact that the lease of the premises now occupied by the chapter runs concurrently with ilie University's fiscal year (whatever the hell that means). You are now in arrears for the months of July and August and ilie current monili's rent is due. Unless all payments due by October first next have been met on or before that date, the University will be compelled to cancel the lease and to require the chapter to vacate the premises.'

What are we going to do about it?" ( Continued on page 21)

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South Carolina

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Conclave on ~uulet~' :::J)a'!

Founders to Be Honor Guests at Big Gathering of Undergraduates and Alumni in Columbia, on December 10 OUTH CAROLINA Pi Kappa Phis of District 4 are putting the final touches on their pl.ans for entertaining "the largest South Carolina gathering of Pi Kapps in the past ten years." The occasion is to be a conclave of men from Alpha, Beta, Delta, Zeta, Sigma, the active and alumni chapters of Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Mainly of course the attendance will be drawn from the home state of Pi Kappa Phi, and attendance is insured as excellent with the five active chapters of the state planning 100 percent attendance and alumni from all over keyed to a high enthusiasm over the program planned for them.

Leading the work preparatory to such a gathering of the clan is District Archon Ben W. Covington, Jr., Beta, of Florence, S.C. Taking up his active duties in the ranks of District Archons last school year Brother Covington, who is also president of the Florence Alumni chapter, has personally traveled throughout the state to set up his basic committees.

With December 10 falling on a Saturday, the committee saw early the possibilities of having a grand round-up in South Carolina's capital city on that date.

They were aided no end by undergraduates Milton Williams of Delta and M. C. Crouch of Zeta who had approached National President Berry almost before he could take a breath after receiving the gavel from outgoing President Meisel in Jacksonville, and had secured from him a promise to be present at the Founders' Day gathering of these two chapters. So Brother "Bill" Berry heads the list of active national officers who will be in attendance. Other active officers will include National Chancellor Theron A. Houser of St. Matthews, S.C., District Archons Covington and Cannon of Four and Five, possibly Archon Rice of Eight, and Executive Secretary McCann.

Prominently present will be Founders Simon Fogarty and Lawrence Harry Mixson from Charleston, Past National President John D. Carroll of Lexington, S.C., Past National Treasurer W. H. "Billy" Monckton of Columbia, Brother W. P. Jacobs, Beta,

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The ladies will not be forgotten for a very special program has been arranged for them, to be topped with attendance at the banquet and dance at the Ho路 tel Columbia in the evening.

Conclave activities will begin for the undergraduates and those alumni able to be on hand at 10:30 A.M. The program calls for round table discussions of problems common to undergraduate chapters and may lead into some national brain teasers. Leading this discussion will be the executive secretary McCann. In the afternoon alumni will gather at 4:30 o'clock for discussions led by the Founders and the National President, and they will have ample opportunity to voice their ideas on current trends in the fraternity world.

Climaxing the day's program will be the banquet at whid1 Presbyterian College's President Jacobs of Beta chapter will introduce National President Berry to the assembled Pi Kapps and their ladies and the radio audience of station WIS, Columbia. Brother Berry will be on the air for one half hour with a talk on subjects of general fraternity interest.

It is hoped that the meeting will have the honor of the presence of Brothers Reginald L. Price, Past National Warden, and Actives Samuel E. Hemphill, Epsilon, Charles Steenbergen, Beta and Rho, and W. Merritt Pope, Iota. If this is possible awards will be made to these men as designated by the last Supreme Chapter and the Scholarship Committee, a merit citation going to Price and Pi Kappa Phi Scholar awards to the three active brothers mentioned.

Following the banquet will be the final function of the day-long conclave, dancing until the wee small hours to the music of one of the south's best orchestras. It is believed that all Pi Kapps within an easy radius of Columbia will not miss this affair. Those who have not registered with the local committee, are urged to do so today by writing to Brother John M. Coulter, Jr., 917 Main Street, Columbia, S.C. The two and a half dollars he will ask will be the best investment you have made in many a moon.

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a .field of publications representtag chapters from coast to coast, the Omegap . lite of Omega was declared winner of the p restdent's Plaque for the second consecutive year. t;st National Historian Walter R. Jones, in making the award, said it was a very pleasant assignment at e close of his official duties on the council.

Competition was keener than usual, with four chapters h · de . . avmg entries very near the top. Heretofore the t ctston has usually narrowed down to but two chapbe_r~ In the competition just closed we .find the Wood?f Alpha Xi, the Alpha Zeta News and the Eponran in that order behind the winning Omega enU!RANKING

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one year's possession. He is hoping that he may have the same privilege next year, but then for permanent possession .

You may rightly ask what it is about the Omegalite that has placed it .first this year and last and in second place in 1936. The best explanation we can give is that this chapter organ is designed to be read by the alumni. They have a very definite share in the Omegalite for they have their own alumni editor who remains in office as undergraduate editors change. Each issue is a triumph in make-up and appearance, carries more news of alumni doings than of active chapter affairs, makes good use of photographs, tells its story in a newsy fashion while the subjects discussed are still news. Through this medium alumni are kept abreast of changing addresses of fellow alumni, learn of the advancement of their brothers, get the high lights of an always successful active chapter program.

Most important of all, alumni of Omega know when (Con#n11ed on page 23)

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Literary World Mourns Passing of Thomas Wolfe HE LITERARY world mourned the passing of Thomas Wolfe, Kappa, University of North Carolina, author of Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River, who died at Baltimore September 15 of an "acute cerebral infection." Two operations were performed at Johns Hopkins after his arrival in Baltimore from Seattle where he had been stricken with pneumonia in July.

Already a movement has been started to make Brother Wolfe's home in Asheville a museum where his effects, furniture and books will be placed. John S. Terry, of 50 Orange Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., a classmate of Brother Wolfe at the University of North Carolina, has initiated the plan and has received contributions for establishment of the museum. Any one wishing to have a part in this movement may send donations to Mr. Terry at the above address.

Hundreds of columns of newspaper space in the nation's press were devoted to the untimely passing of this brilliant writer. Editorials hailed his genius and expressed sorrow that his "vibrant, full-toned voice had been so suddenly stilled." The following account of Brother Wolfe's death is from the New York Times:

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The gargantuan figure of Thomas Wolfe, his hair mussed and his huge shoulders thrust forward, stalked through American literature at the end of the 1920's, leaving the critics wondering what he and his books were all about.

How many hundreds of thousands of words he wrote in his lifetime probably never will be known. His few books - they were not more than five-contained more than many a lesser writer has indited in a longer lifetime. The prose of Thomas Wolfe that has been cut from his published manuscript would fill more volumes than he published.

No modern writer has written so vastly out of his own imaginative experience as Thomas Wolfe. His .first-and in many minds his greatest- book, Look Homeward, Angel, was the sprawling, fecund and often sensitive account of people and things he had known and experienced. So was its extension, that strange and amazinglv vital account of his later life, Of Time and the River, both of which were made into novels only after they had been carefully edited

by Maxwell Perkins, head of the house of Scribner.

Thomas Wolfe was born at Asheville on October 3, 1900.

His first book was derided by citizens of Asheville upon its publication in 1929, and they made it clear that Tom Wolfe would not be welcome back in his home to:wn. He never returned there to live, but expressed a deep affection for the North Carolina countryside, which comes vividly and sometimes movingly to life in Look Homeward, Angel.

Mr. Wo lfe was educated in his home town. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina when he was 20 years old and then went to Harvard for three years.

Both colleges come to life in his book.

At Harvard Mr. Wolfe was a member of Professor George Pierce Baker's Forty-seven Workshop classes in playwriting and his early writing was almost entirely for the theatre.

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During his Summer vacations he went abroad and con路 tinued writing plays. But in 1926, while in England, he began his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, which was published in 1929 and turned his efforts from the stage.

Having grown up with rhetoric as familiar to him as a pet cat, Mr. Wolfe fell under the spell of James Joyce's writing. Even to himself his reasons for writing Look Homeward, Angel were obscure. It was as if he had to write his "remembrances of things past" whether he wanted to or not. It attracted immediate attention, its material being drawn from the everyday life of a small Southern city, but wrapped in a mysterious, all-permeating prose into which many critics read the whole meaning and poetry of life.

As he explored his inner domain, his second great book poured forth again in torrents, and out of his Proustian ex路 amination of himself, his past, his friends, his family, came Of Time and the River.

Mr. Wolfe's other books, in which he showed he was beginning to accept of his t>wn accord the discipline imposed upon him by this editor, were considered less signi.ficant.

They were mostly made up of shorter and lesser pieces. Their titles were Web of Earth, Portrait of Bascom Hawk and From Death to Morni_ng.

The period dealt with in Look Homeward, Angel was between 1884 and 1920; Of Time and the River covered the next .five years. Both were linked together and were to have been part of a series in which Mr. Wolfe hoped to tell the history of 150 years of American life.

Mr. Wolfe visited Germany and wrote violently against naziism. In 1936 he began work on his third long novel, "a legend" describing the great cycles of experience in the life of every man. The manuscript of the book was delivered to his publishers shortly before his illness.

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one of Delta's 1935 graduates, recently attracted the attention of the world of science and the nation's press, when he and another physiologist, Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman of .the University of Chicago, conducted a physiological experiment 119 feet below the surface of the earth in one of the hundreds of caverns in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. For thirty-three days, June 4 to J~ly 6, they carried on a sleep-work-play experiment tn this subterranean chamber in an effort to determine the possibility of man's adapting himself to a 28-hour cycle of living rather than the 24-hour cycle under which we ordinarily live. . Brother Richardson, whose home is in SimpsonVt!le, S.C., was graduated from Furman University Wtth a B.S. degree in 1935. Later he served as in~ructor in the science department of the University. ast year he entered the University of Chicago for RUCE RICHARDSON,

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At the conclusion of the experiment, Brother Richardson said that he had been able to adapt himself completely to the schedule of nine hours sleep, ten hours work, and nine hours recreation. Dr. Kleitman, who is forty, said that he had not been as successful in adapting himself.

"I still had the urge to sleep, eat and work at normal times on the 24-hour basis," Dr. Kleitman said.

Plans are now being formulated for another experiment to be made on a 21-hour basis. Their department has been conducting such experiments since 1922 in an effort to determine the "how and why" of sleep.

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U/luz'lf1ln l~ apht1ld tht1 lcnttwn iact that ln any 6tatf1'lnlty lt l~ tht1 andt1'lj'ladaatf1~ whtt, 6t1caa~t1 tt-6 thf1l'l day ttt day actlvlty ttn 6t:atf1'lnlty a66al'l~, can 6t1 alway~ cttantf1d ttn 路whf1n lt cttmf1~ ttt pt:ttdaclng Wtt'lthy ldt1a~ and plan~. ensuing paragraphs you will be taken by proxy into the meeting of the Undergraduate Round Table Discussions of the Nineteenth Supreme chapter. These discussions were originally inaugurated to allow time at conventions for the undergrads to talk over their mutual ideas and problems, to provide them with a basic legislative framework for the submission of material to the floor of the convention proper. That the discussions are very profitable has long since been proved. That greater time cannot be given at our national meetings for this type of program is regrettable. But we are privileged this year to bring to every Pi Kappa Phi the essence of the main ideas that crossed the minds of active delegates last summer in Jacksonville.

The discussions were very well planned by Brother Robert S. Hanson, Archon of District Twenty-one.

His success in picking men to open discussion on various topics was outstanding, and the ideas produced and exchanged in the informal atmosphere of the round-table have gone far toward clarifying perplexing points in undergraduate administration.

In presenting the ideas to follow it has been necessary to wield the editorial blue pencil in many cases where discussion had a tendency to go afield. The material to follow is not presented as a complete record of proceedings, but rather is arranged so as to bring before each of you the most interesting and important topics discussed.

As is always the case when undergraduates gather anywhere the topic of rus~ing was in the foreground.

Rushing rules being what they are (too often a football of local interfraternity councils) no two chapters have the same experiences. It is always difficult to control a discussion of this subject, and Brother Hanson, with this in mind, limited it to a comparison of the fall and deferred rushing ideas. From Brother Milton Williams of Delta came a tale of experience with both forms of rushing. Conclusions of Brother Wi lliams: "early rushing sometimes leads to the selection of 'a lemon or two.' However, results under this system have been, as a rule, quite satisfactory . .. .

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man is not all that it should be, since there is too great a temptation to beat the gun in contacting freshmen. In theory, the deferred plan is excellent, in that the freshman has time to become accustomed to his new college surroundings before he is thrown into the pressure of a fraternity rush season. In practice, however, he no sooner becomes settled into college routine than this is rudely interrupted by rushing and his grades suffer. Delta favors early rushing." . . .

Best answer to the problems of Delta came from Bill Rhodes of Mu: "To my mind, and to that of our campus in general, deferred rushing has proved itself successful at Duke. It was adopted eight years ago to raise the quality of freshman scholastic work. This has been accomplished .... Under the Duke system there is absolutely no contact between fraternity men and freshmen until after the .first semester, with the exception of four open houses sponsored and watched over by the Panhellenic Council. ... Outside of these planned functions, which are not rushing affairs for every freshman is given the opportunity of seeing every fraternity, there is a complete isolation between fraternity men and freshmen for this .first semester....

In the enforcement of this isolation lies the success of deferred rushing. Otherwise it is deferred only in name .... I think that this was the probable trouble at Delta (Furman) of which Brother Williams has spoken." ... General conclusions were that deferred rushing can only be successful on campi where there is a very close cooperation and harmony between fra路 ternities, that this situation usually exists only on campi where all chapters are very much on a par with one another and thus can stand the necessary adjustment period when the change is made' from one type of rushing to another.

From a discussion of the ever interesting and im路 portant subject of pledge training came many a help路 ful hint. To summarize, Brother Fred Winter of Omega strongly advised that full use be made of the Pledge Man11al, that paddling be used as a disciplinary measure and be handled exclusively by seniors, that, in a measure the big-brother system be in vogue with (Continr1 ed on page 23)

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the spring of 1933, the President of the. United States, began to formulate plans Whtch would eventually give life to his fondest d ram, plans that would in the course of time effect ~.most every citizen of the country directly or in~rectly, plans that have been least criticized of any ~ the present Administration efforts, plans that grew ~ a reality in the form of the Civilian Conservation orps, better known as the CCC A To. investigate the applications. of some 300,000 ro~e~can youths or admittance into the CCC, to enw ~ em, clothe them, feed them, provide emergency inor. and supervision, to have them "in the woods st:x week" · called for s was a tremendous task whtch Complete .. · b cooperatiOn between several governmental b~reaus, the Army, the Navy, the Department of Lart, and the Department of Agriculture. No one Depa · h tts · personnel and equipment was capabl r ment f _wtt we 0 domg an efficient job, thus the several agencies e~e allotted their specific duties. he Department of Labor was appointed the offiARLY IN

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The War Department was given the huge task of administration, feeding, clothing, housing, welfare, recreation, health, and the supervision of the enrollees twenty-four hours a day with the exception of eight hours five days a week during which time the enrollee is under the supervision of the work agency. Later the administration of the educational program was taken over by the Army, the initial plans still being formulated under the Educational Department of the Department of the Interior.

The Navy Department's function is to furnish the Army with certain Coast Guard officers and Naval Reserve officers who work in a corresponding capacity as Army officers under the direction of the Army.

The various other departments and agencies: the Department of Agriculture, Forestry Department, Department of Soil Gonservation, Department of Interior, National Park Service, Department of Grazing, Department of Biological Survey, were assigned to supervise the work of the enrollees, providing the equipment, personnel, and projects.

The War Department having the bulk of the duties to perform was confronted with a shortage of officer personnel. This shortage was eliminated by (Continued on page 25)

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Chairman of Scholarship Committee Moreover every chapter should have a certain definite scholarship goal and this goal should be to have a scholarship average at all times above the all-men's average of the college and above the general fraternity average when that average is higher than the all-men's average. To attain this goal will occasionally require some sacrifices. Frequently and quite correctly a chapter with low scholarship standing offers the excuse that the extremely low grades of one or two brothers have ruined the chapter average. However, this is not a valid excuse for more than one semester or term, for such brothers should be warned and if their records show no distinct improvement they should be dropped from the active chapter roll. It is the business of the chapter advisers to see that such brothers are warned and to insist on their being dropped if they do not measure up to the standards set by the chapter, for such active members are fre· quently a menace to the chapter and particularly to the pledges who shape their courses according to the records made by the active brothers. The faculty mem· hers and the active alumni should at all times give their practical ·and moral support to any attempt of the chapter to improve its scholarship standards.

Chapter Scholarship Problems The records of the scholarship committee, and in With the opening of the new school year every particular of the Pi Kappa Phi scholars, show over· chapter is faced with the problem of replacements whelmingly the close correlation between high scholar· upon which depends frequently the financial success ship and success in extracurricular activities, particu· of the chapter as well as its possibilities for future lady those activities requiring active and alert minds. campus leadership and influence. To insure success The business world recognizes the importance of scholfrom one year to the next requires the closest co- arship. Donald S. Bridgman, of the American Tele· operation of the active chapter with its chapter ad- phone and Telegraph Company, in a paper entitled viser, faculty members, and its interested and active "Success in College and Business," states: "Scholar· alumni. The recognition of the fact that the principal ship appears to be the most significant single indeJC business of a college is to educate should dominate all of success." A report of the Eastman Kodak CompanY other factors, and in choosing replacements the chapter states that since their "organization requires men should insist that its pledges maintain a scholarship trained in chemistry, physics, engineering, business rating better than the college average, for in no other administration, etc., we expect men who have chosen way can it be safe in assuming that its pledges can these lines to be well grounded in the principles. The and will stay in college. Records of universities and best index of this is an excellent scholastic standing colleges show that seldom more than forty to fifty per during college." Many more similar statements of cent of an entering freshman class remain to graduate. business men and heads of great organizations could The very fact that many schools and fraternities in- be given. The chairman of the scholarship committee sist that initiation be withheld until the pledge has has written much giving in cold statistics the value of proved that his scholarship ability is sufficient to assure high scholarship in securing and holding jobs dur· him the chance of remaining in college is evidence ing the depression and of the increased earning power. of the recognition of this fact.

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Pi Kappa Phi Scholars for 1938 OR THE twelfth successive year the chairman of the scholarship committee has enjoyed the privilege of announcing the annual list of Pi Kappa Phi scholars. This year they are eight in number and bring the total number of Pi Kappa Phis so honored to eighty-seven. Following are the scholars for 1938: Samuel M. Hemphill, Epsilon; Raymond Dunlap Hill, Omicron; John C. Jubin, Jr., Alpha Tau; Harry Frank Perlet, Alpha Phi; William Merritt Pope, Iota; Roy Wade Purchase, Alpha Tau; Charles Steenbergen, Beta and Rho; William Jacob Worthington, Jr., Omicron.

In the past the majority of the scholars have also been leaders in campus extracurricular activities and doubtless the present group will show the same outstanding leadership and ability. Their photographs and records of honors and extracurricular activities will appear in the next number of the STAR AND LAMP. They will receive their scholarship certificates and be awarded their scholarship pendants on Founders' Day, December 10, 1938.

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HOSE OF us present at the Nineteenth Supreme Chapter in Jacksonville last August will recall how, as we rounded every corner, went in and ~ut of our hotel rooms, took a bite of steak at the banquet, we were accosted on all sides by enterprising r?thers bent on winning the announced ten dollar prtze for the best set of photographs of the national convention in session.

The October issue of the STAR AND LAMP carried :~~e. o~ the.results obtained by these carne(a demons th tt 1S Wtth pleasure that your editor announces ng of the prize to Brother Barry Cecil 0 /A~wardi. pha Stgma chapter. th Barry is a camera hobbyist, delights in recording i eh ~nusual as well as the staid. Were you to visit n IS horne or in his room at the Alpha Sigma chap-

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rich and Business Managed by Brother · Robert Schroeder, was, on November 1 awarded first place in the National Scholastic Press Association's convention. The yearbook was, technically, one of the greatest headaches in history; including the building of the Panama canal, says the editor. Above Fend rich is shown posing for Brother Harry W ohlers, photographic editor of the book. ter house in Knoxville you would see many products of his lens. You could probably not get away without seeing at least two of his many albums, and after seeing these you would ask for more. This fellow Barry Cecil has been doing photographing now for some time, in studying agricultural engineering at the University of Tennessee where he is in his senior year and is secretary of Alpha Sigma, but Ba10ty will tell you not to be surprised if he winds up after graduation on a job that requires him to carry his camera wherever he goes .

Brother Jordan Dies ROTHER Reaves Kendall Jordan, Pi, of Albany, Ga., died October 14 at a hospital in Atlanta, where he had undergone treatment for injuries received in an automobile accident July 6. Besides his widow, Brother Jordan is survived by a daughter, who was five weeks old at his death. He was 29 years of age.

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the score. His principal nicknames are Bugs, Oggie, Winnie, Horse-collar, and A.K. Bugs, his favorite, is, perhaps, the most appropriate. In some minor respects he is an echo of the successful playwright, Bugs MacArthur, who, in Chicago, presented Peggy Hopkins Joyce with a package which proved to contain the helmet of the policeman on the corner. Bugs Link, after four years as president of his class at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, awarded each of his graduating liegemen a mounted eight ball.

On nights when there are no publiCity stunts to cover, he enjoys posing as a pie eating hick at a table near the front window of the Times Square Automat. Removing his coat and vest, rolling up his shirt sleeves, and digging a fork into a hunk of Horn and Hardait apple pie, he glances furtively at the gaping crowd which has yet to fail him.

A whimsical urge to photograph one of William "Billy" Minsky's forgotten but not gone public undressers procured Bugs his position as Carl Byoir's chief photographer. Somebody on the staff of the Polytechnic Reporter ("A continuous hrstory of undergraduate activity") suggested that a feature story bearing on the student's interest in burlesque be published. Link, who was functioning as the paper's pho· tographic editor, thought the idea was fine and offered to illustrate the proposed article with a picture of a reporter interviewing a strip tease.

Without the sanction or blessing of an editorial assignment, he requested Pi Kappa Phi Brother Allen "Mouthpiece" Hegarty to act as contact man and a brother, who will be known only as O'Sullivan, to play the role of interviewing reporter. The team argued with several Brooklyn burlesque czars until one, the. manager of the Kings county Minsky flesh fair, was finally convinced that the Reporter did not intend to do dirt by Gypsy Rose Lee's ex-profession.

Going backstage, the Pi Kappa Phi-Polytechnic Reporter safari observed a stripper undoing her things under cyanic illvmination. When her act was completed, the Minsky exfoliator agreed to pose for a "couple of pix" as soon as she "got something on."

She veiled her body in a sheer georgette drape, a veritable mosquito netting.

O'Sullivan unexpectedly became a problem child.

Sitting next to the stripper, pad in hand, his visage, which had already become a hot vermilion, gave way to an intensely silly grin. The intrepid photographer was patient and when the male model calmed down to a mere sizzle, he made two perfect pictures; they were censored.

At the 1937 Reporter banquet, an occasion for the dissemination of disreputable narrative, Bugs recounted his experiences backstage in a burlesque. He distributed copies of the revealing pornographs to the 18

dinner guests, among whom was a Carl Byoir executive associate, George T. Hammond. Several days after the banquet Hammond telephoned Bugs and offered him a job on the virile strength of the bur· lesque photographs.

When Bugs was hired by Carl Byoir to illustrate its newspaper releases, the publicity corporation in· sisted that he be in possession of a complete press photographers outfit including a darkroom. Although his photographic gear at the time consisted of only a clumsy, post card size Voightlander plate camera, he assured his employers that the necessary equipment was at his disposal.

To test his photographic knowledge, Bugs was told to classify several hundred pictures as "good" or "bad," and to make a sketch of how the "bad" pic· tures should have been made. "So what" was his categorization of prints which were photographically good but lacked an interest center. The company liked his initiative and sketches.

Monkeys acting as guinea pigs for infantile paralysis research were the first to pose for the now professional photographer. Ray Baker, the publicity man who put over the Qtteen Mary in America, accompanied Bugs on his first assignment. To impress Baker, Link had borrowed a Speed Graphic press camera from the Polytechnic Reporter. Only a dummy, it had not been used since its focal plane shutter gave way in 1928.

"Now, Winston, why don't you use your Graphic?"

Baker complained as Bugs set up his Voightlander.

"Because I'll get better results with this camera!"

Winston insisted, seriously.

The company thought the monkey pictures were excellent. Bugs was encouraged. He promptly invested four hundred dollars in a new Speed Graphic camera with coupled range finder, a flashlight synchronizer, an exposure meter, and sundry expensive photographic paraphernalia.

He was in the firm's employ only a few months when he started agitation for a new darkroom. He had been doing his developing and printing in the cellar of his Brooklyn home, and all of his photo finishing equipment had been borrowed from the .Polytechnic Re poner. Carl Byoir quickly agreed to appropriate money and a 38th floor room for the new photographic laboratory.

Painted buff instead of the conventional, depressing black, Bugs' darkroom is the distilled essence of good planning and neatness. The light walls, his own idea, are being widely copied by rival photographers. A light workroom, he thinks, stimulates better work· rnanship. · Harry Wohlers, an undergraduate Alpha :X:i brother, often acts as Bugs' assistant.

In the summer of 1937 Carl Byoir flew its neW staff cameraman to New Orleans to work on the State of Louisiana account. Bugs filmed the state's natural beauties, hobnobbed with the governor and covered The Star ~nd LamP

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At the United States Department of Agriculture's New. Orleans experimental station he made a series of ptctures concerning bee insemination. Life liked the photographs and printed several. Paramount Pic~ures was making location scenes for The Buccaneer m Louisiana's bayou country while Link was in the state. For several days he worked with the Paramount crew as a still photographer.

One of Carl Byoir's biggest con'tracts was with the Republic of China. Bugs used to scout around New York'~ Chinatown making pictures "to propagate American sympathy toward China." Most of New York's Chinese automatically become daguerrephobes :hen addressed in English. He had to study Chinese efore he could get anywhere with the account.

T.he Aluminum Corporation of America, a Carl Byoir account, sells license plate blanks to the State of Connecticut. Therein was a publicity story. Bugs wa 路 .. s assigned to call on Lily Pons and photograph her LP 13" aluminum auto license. Beauty contests are stock publicity stunts. Winners of Carl Byoir sponsored pulchritude regattas are invited to New York

where Bugs takes them in tow and photographs them all over town.

How does a photographer learn his trade? Link taught himself. The subject of his first picture, made with a borrowed Brownie, was the Erie Limited's locomotive. Later he learned about ground glass focusing and exposure scales. Adapting his father's roll film camera to plates, the embryo photographer quickly learned how to produce technically perfect pictures.

In his grammar school days the kids of the neighborhood flocked to Link for leadership. When he was five a tart neighbor dubbed him "Bugs" before the block gang. The nickname stuck. Later, when he entered Polytechnic, the students there knew nothing of the "Bugs" business and gave him new nicknames.

Once a student asked him what the "0" stood for in his name. The rapid-fire answer was, "Opium, I'm a dope." He readily admits that his first name is Ogle, however.

A year after Bugs learned to skate, he played on the Manual Training High School's hockey squad.

About the time he completed high school, he built a telephoto apparatus to photograph a predicted eclipse.

His pictures were published in many New York newspapers and the Museum of Natural History awarded him first place in its Science Fair Contest.

Already Bugs had begun to earn money through photography. With a new Voightlander camera he made photographic essays of weddings and babies. In his cellar darkroom he turned out hundreds of picture Christmas cards and did developing and printing for the corner drug dispensary, a firm going under the title of Goldberg and Yalen. Professional film processing companies take sixty percent of a (druggist's) photo finishing bill. Link offered to do a portion of Goldberg and Yalan's work for only fifty percent. His bid was accepted.

Roll film is difficult to handle. Bugs accidently ruined one of the first films he developed under the new production contract. He replaced the damaged negative with a blank and noted on the film envelope that the "camera is out of order. Bring camera to us

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for checking." The customer did and was charged a dollar.

Stevens and Polytechnic both granted Bugs scholarships. Entering Polytechnic as a Civil Engineering student, he was elected class president, a position which he held during his entire college career. He pledged to the campus Pi Kappa Phi and signed up with the wrestling team.

As president of the freshman class he was the target of many pranks. Stripped to his underwear one day, he was paraded through Brooklyn's Borough Hall district by the sophomores. The Polytechnic Reporter's adviser saw him and said, "Here's one man who hasn't anything to hide from his public." A few weeks later Bugs evened the score by kidnapping the sophomore president three days before the Soph Hop and holding him, half a week, 75 miles from New York City. The sophomore prom was nearly ruined.

Brother Charles Adolph was picture editor of the Polytechnic Reporter when Link joined the newspaper's staff. Adolph's interest in photography had been aroused, Bugs insists, when "he sold a nude of himself at eight months to Bernarr Macfadden's Body BeautiftJl." Link soon became picture editor of the Reporter. Adolph was promoted to Art Editor.

0. Winston Link is the man who put A.K. on a dignified basis at Polytechnic. He organized an A.K. society and insolently placed several faculty members on the managing board. But the teachers liked the idea. It poked fun at apple polishing and made the serious aspects of the game appear ridiculous.

"To two parts chaos," a Polytechnic professor once wrote about Bugs, "add three parts coordination.

Cover well with a veneer of the genus 'Joe College' to protect the filling, a delicate substance. He is at once a radical and conservative, cautious and foolhardy; capricious yet scholarly, impertinent in class yet a favorite of instructors, the embodiment of all that the ominous letters A.K. might signify, yet the most independent mind on an urban campus. The eternal favorite of his colleagues, inspirator of all activities and conspirator in all pranks, he remains a happy, rollicking enigma, a Dr. Jekyll with a tender hide."

That is a fairly honest character study.

Polytechnic was a picnic for Bugs. He introduced brook trout into the hydraulic laboratory's flume. He wrote vaudeville skits about the professors. He daily blew the air-horn of his 1930 Ford under the classroom windows to signify his tardy, vehicular arrival.

He even said to one professor, "You look so contented you could give milk."

And nearly everybody liked and admired him.

During his first Polytechnic vacation Link aided in the publication of a technical paper concerning the precipitation of microscopic Liesegang rings. He made micro-photos of t_h e reactions, the first ever made.

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When he graduated with a Civil Engineering degree- and one of his own eight balls, there were few engineering jobs open. He accepted the Carl Byoir position because he saw his Republican classmates going into the WPA, one by one. Bugs likes to tell of a fellow Polytechnic civil who joined the WpA and was almost killed when termites ate through the handle of his shovel.

Carl Byoir gave Link two raises within the period of a year. He helped a friend get married and was the first member of his class to contribute to Polytechnic's living endowment fund.

Six months after Link was initiated into Pi Kappa Phi he became archon of the Alpha Xi chapter. He saved the college's Interfraternity Council "from a fate worse than death," as he puts it. But that is a story which cannot be told. As leader of the fraternity, he organized a "better treatment for pledges" campaign and revived the idea of enforcing house rules. _Soon after Bugs left active fraternity life, Alpha Xt became lax about obeying house regulations. One of the fraternity board members was forced to attend a chapter meeting and asked in his fretful, mournful manner, "Whatthehell' sgoingonaroundhere."

Even Polytechnic felt Bugs' loss. Polytechnic President Harry S. Rogers, at a dinner, said, "It is too bad that we no longer have any clowns at the Paw-ly-technic."

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the next fellow so that he too may express hi s views and aid in the solving of any particular brain teaser that happens to be at hand.

Realizing that we cannot always express to you in the fullest extent what we warit to put ac ross through ~he medium of the STAR AND LAMP, we hope to Inaugurate before long the series of news letters asked for by your alumni affairs committee at the last conv~ntion. We will also try to let you know if an offict~l is to travel into your vicinity. As you are reading t?ts article Pi Kapps in South Carolina, North Caro~tna, Georgia and Tennessee are planning to gather tn Columbia, S.C. for a four-state conclave in celebration of Founders' Day. Elsewhere in this issue you ~ave undoubtedly read that National President Willtam J. "Bill" Berry, Alpha Xi, is to be down from Brooklyn, N .Y. for this gathering, and that Founders Barry Mixson and Si Fogarty will be there as will such well known former national councilmen as John D. Carroll and W. H. "Billy" Monckton. We trust th~t.you read this prior to December 10 and, if within d~tvtng distance of Columbia, get over there for the btg gathering of the clan.

As the new year of 1939 gets under way your executive secretary is scheduled to trek westward to the ~unny slopes along the Pacific. If his plans have not a e~n ~hanged by the time this is printed he will rrtve tn Seattle about January 4. With ten day stops he will follow generally a schedule of Seattle, Portlandg~rvallis, San Francisco-Berkeley, los Angeles-San tego, then make brief halts on the eastward journey ~路 Sa.lt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Lincoln, St. Louis, ~nctnnati. Alumni in and around these points of call Wtll be notified of a definite schedule, will be kept Posted as to any changes. He hopes to see each and every one of the Pi Kappa Phis along this line of travel. Will you give him the opportunity of shaking yo~r hand personally. His job will be immeasurably easter and more productive for that opportunity.

'I' In closing, fellows, we wish to point to two things.

Ghe first: have you read the remarks of Brother theorge Hiller, secretary of Alpha Iota chapter, under e heading of Supreme Chapter Round Tables? Are You one of those lads who, through lack of contact says "I . , Wh was a Pt Kapp when I was in college." Second, f ether you find that the shoe fits or not we ask each ? You to remember the words of our outgoing and tncomi ng nattona .

1 prest'd ents as th ey spok e b efore the S pupreme chapter in Jacksonville this summer. From ast President Albert W. Meisel, "Brotherhood is a ~ay. of living. Fellows, let's all live that way." From attonal President William J. Berry, "We have vital need of enthusiasm founded on knowledge and courag~. An uninformed enthusiasm leads us to the purSUtt of will-o' -the-wisps and leaves us at last grasping

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at the shadow of a dream .... Go back lo your haptees and Lell them that though Lhere may be a new leader, it is the same old banner, the same old mollo, and the same old spirit. lose ranks and wilh heads held high and courage and confidence in our hearts let us press on to the honor and glo ry of Pi Kappa Phi." (In su bsequent articles in these pages or in special bulle. tins the more basic aspects of the work of our national organization wi ll be brought before you by competent officers of proven abi lity. We hope that you will express your views to them personall y or by way of correspondence, so that the sound advice of thousands of Pi Kapps may more greatly influence the decisions of their chosen leaders.)

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"Well, Ken, I suppose the University knows its business. I reckon we were just wrong about the date.

I don't know, though, where we're going to dip up the money for two months' rent we didn't know we had to pay. The finance committee has the budget for the year all worked out. If everything goes O.K. we'll just about break even. This damn thing throws a monkey-wrench into the works-! wonder if we couldn't borrow some money from Central Office."

"Swell idea, Phil. We can give them a note and pay it off so much each month between now and June. I'll write Mac right away and tell him about the jam we're in and ask him for a hundred dollars. " And so another appeal goes forward to Central Office.

Of course the above conversations are purely imaginary, but they are based on incidents which have actually happened. The two appeals referred to came into Central Office within the last six months. Fortunately the second chapter with a splendid spirit of self-reliance and self-sacrifice taxed itself to pay the extra rent and withdrew its request. The two cases, however, are typical of situations with which the national organization is not infrequently called upon to deal.

The national income is derived from undergraduate dues and initiation fees, alumni chapter dues, charter fees, royalties received from the official fraternity jewelers and from advertising. Out of this must be paid the rent for Central Office, the salaries of the Central Office staff, the traveling expenses of the Executive Secretary and his assistant, of the N ational Council and of the district archons. It must cover, too, the cost of supplies, printing, postage, the expenses of the biennial convention and a part of the cost of the STAR AND LAMP. Only the most careful budgeting and constant scrutinizing of expenditures enable the national organization to operate without a deficit.

When chapters fail to pay the national dues of their members or to transmit the fees due from initi ates,

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this budget is thrown out of balance, necessitating adjustment and curtailment.

The only investments the Fraternity has are in the STAR AND LAMP fund, the principal of which must be kept intact in order to secure the contractual obligations of the Fraternity to the life subscribers to the magazine. The income from this fund defrays the greater part of the expense of publication.

When appeals for help come from the chapters, Central Office and the National Council find themselves in an awkward position. No matter how worthy the cause, no matter how much they may sympathize with the chapter in its difficulties, there are no funds available from which to give the desired help. In the past, the most urgent cases have been aided, but only through pinching here and paring there, or perhaps by giving up altogether some item on the national program.

Pi Kappa Phi needs an unrestricted revolving fund to be used in the discretion of the National Council to assist deserving chapters confronted by financial emergencies. Some years ago the Anniversary Corps was started with the purpose of supplying this need.

The plan, however, was launched at an inopportune time and failed to produce the results hoped for.

Meager though the results were, the amount collected has served to aid several chapters and to prove beyond peradventure of a doubt, the usefulness of such a revolving fund.

Last August the Nineteenth Supreme Chapter at its meeting in Jacksonville adopted legislation re-establishing the Anniversary Corps on a revised basis and providing in addition a means for securing a sizeable fund with a minimum of delay. Elsewhere in this issue of the STAR AND LAMP National Treasurer Helmrich gives the details of the Anniversary Corps Plan and Chairman Noreen of the Finance Committee ' explains how the fund may be made speedily available.

I commend their articles to the attention of every brother, active or alumnus.-Wil/iam J. Berry

Operation of the Plan The administration of the fund is placed in the hands of the National Council as Trustees thereof, and the Council is authorized to loan such portions of the fund as, in its opinion, seems desirable, to active chapters at existing interest rates for use by the chapters in promoting development along lines approved by the Council. In order to give an added incentive to chapters to enroll their Alumni as members of the Anniversary Corps, the application of any chapter for a Joan will be given a preferred status when it has enrolled at least 50 per cent of its Alumni in the Anniversary Corps Revolving Trust Fund.

This plan provides that the money for making the

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fund operative shall be derived from contributions from members of the Fraternity made in any one of the following ways: 1. Contributions from members of the Fraternity of twenty-five ($25) dollars paid in five consecutive, equal, annual installments ; or a total initial payment of twenty ($20) dollars may be made in lieu of the five equal, annual installments. A certificate of due recognition will be given each member making these payments which will designate him a member of the Pi Kappa Phi Anniversary Corps.

2. Contributions of fifty ($50) dollars may be made by a member in a lump sum or in five consecutive annual ten ($10) dollar payments.

Any member making such payments will be known as a Patron of the Fraternity and will be presented with a certificate testifying to this fact.

3. Contributions from members who joined the Anniversary Corps prior to the enactment of this measure may be continued upon the original basis, if the donors so choose, or on the new basis provided in this plan on condition that the total of these payments shall be increased

by August 1, 1939.

As a means of providing a more effective and intimate contact with the Alumni in the solicitation of funds, it is recommended that each _active chapter create a new office to be known as the Alumni Secre路 tary. The Alumni Secretary should be an active alumnus of the chapter, well known to the majority of the chapter's Alumni, and it should be his function to cooperate with the Executive Secretary in requesting subscriptions to the Anniversary Corps Fund. The creation of such an office, and its proper functioning, should be a very valuable aid to an active chapter as it cannot help but promote a more intimate and satisfactory contact and relationship with the chapter's Alumni.

The solicitation of funds is to be extended over a three-year period, and to make it most effective, it is planned to make the initial appeal to a selected group of the Alumni members, composed of past Archons, District Archons, Chapter Advisors, and National Officers, of each particular chapter during the first year, then to the other chapter officers in the second year, and finally to the general membership in the third year.

To safeguard this Fund and preserve it for the use for which it is intended, namely, to promote the gen路 eral welfare of the Fraternity by assisting the active chapters, the plan provides that the Fund should be deposited in trust in a savings bank account entirely separate from the operating account of the National Fraternity.-G. R Helmrich

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t? expect the Omegalite. It is a regular arrival four times each school year and they expect it and read it as soon as it arrives. . A printed paper, it usually runs to four pages when ISsue~ in the conventional 8Yz" x 11" letter size. On occaston it will be extended to six pages if the availab~e news warrants. Copy is always readable. The edttors do their proof reading prior to publication rather than after, hence have no excuses to make because typographical errors are the extreme exception. ~redit for this year's excellence goes mainly to the edttors, Brother Herb Meyer for the alumni and ~rothe~s Fred Winter and J. S. Brown for the actives. n the1r characteristic way they give credit to every member of the chapter and in a sense they are cortect 10 · doing so, for the ' paper ' could not be the vital rersonality it is were it not for the splendid cooperaton of every Omega man.

Although not first in the opinion of Past Historian Jones, we would be doing an injustice if we were not ~·speak a word in praise of the llV oodbird of Alpha tht, the Alpha Zeta News and the Epsilonian. All three came within close firing range of the top, all b re~ have many of the characteristics of the winner, [jut 10 each case there was something lacking in the nal appeal that prevented them reaching "the top."

Innovation was the W (}Odbird' s summer supple~ent ~ut out to be used mainly by the actives in rushtng. P1ctorial in the main it was of four pages carried a full page front cover c~mposite cut of chapt~r views and activities, introduced each active on pages two a~d three and matched the introductions with photos ~h the men on page four. Alpha Zeta News ran to e conventional rather than the unusual and its slight · of dtfference · hrna rgtn between third spot 'and top shows A~w s~c~essful the editors were in doing their job. umnt mterest and activity also reflect this success. . Possibly the most outstanding paper submitted dur~ng. the year was the Silver Jubilee issue of the Epsit~?t~n. Done with a gold and white cover background, went on to trace the birth and development 0its/~ lss_ue P~tl?n chapter through the twenty-five years since . ongm. Had subsequent issues come up to this Issue's standard the 1938 award might have journeyed southw N ard rath er than to the Purdue campus. w·u 0 story of chapter journalism would be complete 1 u t lOu~ a word of commendation to all undergradi a ehedttors who so earnestly tried to place their papers ~·the top flight. Better luck next time, fellows. We a t drop the hint that you should find it interesting :: ~rofitable to write the editors of the publications ~honed for their views and experiences.

Wh or Would this be complete if we did not mention c! ~t w~, as alumni and officials, think should be inu ed tn any publication put out by an active chapter.

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In the first place, it must be readable. If mimeographed or printed the job should be well done and not be "sloppy around the edges." We want to read about what you actives are doing, but mainly we are interested in feature material, stories concerning alumni and their work, the school and its new and advanced ideas, its new buildings and courses. Give us our paper as a regular part of our diet. If we fail at first to send in news of interest it may be because we do not expect to see another issue until the editor "is in the mood" to put it out. Make us grow to expect it at certain definite dates; in turn we'll back you to the limit and see to it that we drag ourselves back to the campus at the smallest opportunity.

Above all, let us feel that our chapter paper is bringing us news. We are not interested in who Joe Doaks is dating now. But we are interested in the fact that John Doe has returned from his exploration trip as a member of the so and so scientific society, or that Jim Jones has been made general sales manager of Squedunk and Co. As .a last word on what we would like-a paper that has been "proofed" before it went to press. It is hard on the imagination to try to transpose sentences the printer has gummed up.

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seniors and juniors responsible for the training and overseeing of pledges, the checking of their grades, etc. . . . Brother Bruce Hunt, Sigma, while agreeing with Brother Winter as to the use of the Manual, came out definitely against paddling of the pledge at any time for any reason. Recommended that each chapter require a pledge to remain in that status for a minimum period of three months prior to his initiation. Brother Bill Seldon of Upsilon, a very successful pledge captain for three years at Illinois, contributed some very excellent ideas to the discussions which followed. Although praising the Pledge Manual, Bill said he felt it should be used for the most part by the pledge captain in preparing himself to present the various topics covered therein, since his experience has shown that pledges seldom study it for themselves. He suggested the possibility that the Manual may make the pledge captain lazy, may make him undertake his job in a perfunctory manner. Seldon also brought out the fact that actives are prone to condone poor scholarship in the first month as the result of the adjustment period. He backed Brother Winter in feeling that the pledge should be pushed to maintain high averages iri his work. . . . When questioned as to what to do with the carry-over pledge Seldon remarked that he has made it the policy to take this man into his confidence, make of that man somewhat of an assistant in the training of freshmen. . . . General conclusion, in a nut shell, favored the 23

various forms of the Big Brother trammg plan.

MAINTAINING ALUMNI INTEREST! Alumni and actives alike, in reading that topic head, realize that here is quite a problem. Brother George Hiller of Alpha Iota (Auburn) made some very lucid remarks as he introduced this topic. We feel that a good portion of his remarks are well worth reproducing here.

"When I was made a pledge of Pi Kappa Phi and my pledge training began, I learned that when one becomes a brother in Pi Kappa Phi he is a brother for life. Well, I thought that was a mighty fine thing.

When I was initiated I was impressed greatly because here I was joining an organization for life. There was in me a burning desire to be loyal and give my best for Pi Kappa Phi. ... Several weeks later, while home for a week-end, I was congratulated by certain alumni on my initiation. I was greatly surprised, however, when one of them remarked, 'Say, I hear you joined the fraternity I used to belong to.' ... Used to belong to. Those words kept ringing in my ears. So that was my first experience with the problem of alumni interest. Of course this is by no means the typical attitude, but that remark brought home to me the fact that something was wrong with that fellow's active chapter to allow him to go out as an alumnus feeling he was no longer a part of Pi Kappa Phi. . . . In the May, 1937 issue of the STAR AND LAMP, President Meisel made a suggestion which, if carried out, would do much toward the maintaining of alumni interest.

Brother Meisel says, 'Our membership is for life, of course, but life has many phases. When the active becomes an alumnus he is entering a new phase.

Would it not be appropriate for the chapter alumni or the nearest alumni chapter, through its representatives, to meet with the active chapter at its last meeting of the college year and welcome the brothers of the active chapter into the new relationship?' ... We undergraduates must not think of our fraternity as just an organization for having dances and other social functions . . . . We must make fraternity life vital enough to engage the full interest of the undergraduate and inspire the support of the alumnus. This is the way to build for lasting alumni interest.'' ... Let us take to heart tl1e fine ideas expressed by Brother Hiller. Let us cull them over and develop from them our own individual plans of attack on this perplexing problem of maintaining alumni interest.

Chapter scholarship as a topic of discussion can too often drift into merely a statement of general plans followed by various chapters in the observing of study hours, etc. It was therefore quite invigorating to hear from Brother Martinson the methods used at Alpha Theta (Michigan State) last year in a study of the chapter's scholarship ills. This survey resulted in the following conclusions: 1. the man is not carrying a course which he likes, but he fears to change. In such a case the advice and counsel of an o1der man may often be of great aid.

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2. the man may have financial worries. Not much can be done in such a case, except under very unusual conditions.

3. the man may have a girl problem. In such a case older brothers should try to develop in this lad a better sense of proportion.

4. the man may have a home problem. If this is such that an active can gracefully step into the picture, it may be well to talk with the parents and straighten out the difficulty. This may be accomplished with visits to this lad's home and by having his dad and mother visit at the chapter house.

Primarily, we have covered here the main topics of undergraduate discussion. Mention was made of the chapter publication but this subject is covered elsewhere in this issue of the STAR AND LAMP. A committee of undergraduates appointed by this discussion group is responsible for the award plan for the Philip Morris Scholarship which you will also find elsewhere in these pages. Most important of miscellaneous subjects covered had to do with the delinquent member.

Most significant in this discussion was a general feel· ing of unwillingness to suspend a member for reason of his delinquent account. That this feeling had a great deal to do with the eventual action of the Su· preme chapter in revising the Laws of the fraternity as regards expulsion for financial delinquency cannot be doubted.

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schedule of hours, the scientists said that they had relied principally on body temperatures. In explain· ing the relationship of body temperature to mao's adaptability to the new schedule, Dr. Kleitman said, "Man's efficiency curve parallels almost exactly the curve of body temperatures. His efficiency is greatest at the highest point of body temperature, about 1:00 to 2:00 P.M., and it is at its lowest about 2:00 to 3:00 A.M. In human performance the efficiency curve fol· lows the 24-hour cycle. The experiment may have an important bearing on man's conditioning himself to his occupation."

In the course of the experiment it was found that Brother Richardson's body temperature changed as he became adapted to the new schedule.

This was the first really successful experiment which the department had conducted. A similar experiment failed because of three variable factors, light, tern· perature, and noise. To escape reaction to these factors, therefore, the study was carried on below the surface of the earth in Mammoth Cave.

In determining man's reaction to these changes a device was attached to the beds of the two scientists to record quietness or restiveness of their sleep. Their meals were brought to them from a hotel.

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ca~ing officers of the Reserve Corp of the Army to acttve duty for a period of six months, as the CCC was set up for that time. Being unable to resist the call of the wild, I had thoughts of spending the summer under canvas far from the din of the city and so the brief case of an advertising solicitor was quickly traded for the highly polished boots and the shining gold bars of a shavetail.

Having received the necessary travel orders, uniforms neatly pressed, brass properly shined I headed for the world's largest artillery post, located at Fort Bragg, N.C. The foremost question in the minds of all officers bot~ regular and reserve being "just what can our dutt~s be in this sapling army?" no answer was forthcomtng at the moment but after the official visit to headquarters and then to the office of the Post Commander, who was at that time that line gentleman and respected soldier, General Manus McKloskey, there Was no doubt in any one's mind (or eye, if you know the General) as to his duties. b There ~ere .at this time (May 1, 1933) some 1,500 oys rangmg tn age from 17 to 25 quartered in 220 c~mpanies awaiting transfer to various camp sites t roughout the state of North Carolina. Needless to sa · thy It was some job even for the regular officer and / two reserve officers to attend to the various details ~ properly equipping a Company, for everything had 0 be provided from candles to tooth picks as no auth · onty to purchase anything was granted the company commander except the perishable subsistence n:cessary. This meant tents, food, axes, rope, stakes, e c., and men had to be loaded and shipped on a moment's notice t· . d !fe though busy was not in the least monotonous h urmg the duration of this conditioning camp, for how could it be in the midst of some 1,500 normal, ealthy boys? Boxing, volleyball, swimming and all . . was encourage d to t ake care sorts . I acttvrty f of phys1ca ~ surplus energy but even so it required the Provost t arshal and all his M.Ps., and all other available aid t~ :und up. some 400 negro enrollees who had taken u d e tall timbers of the reservation the night before thn er a ?arrage of potatoes and stones directed by ~/o~bmed forces of the white Artillery. . ltfe doesn't begin until forty the CCC didn't begm ·r t unt1 the camp site was reached. The mode of ransportation from the conditioning camps to the actual ca . sib] mp s1tes or as near to the camp site as posn. e (the last mile was usually by grape vine) was tne time f . . did c .. s out o ten the ratlroads and they certamly Wa dooperate with the boys, for most of the travel 5 co unng the day, enabling the boys to see this great w~·~ry.

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ability to set up camp for 200 men, without the aid of any enlisted men or any experienced men. If you have ever attempted to raise an umbrella in a telephone bootl1 you have a faint idea of the problem that confronted the officers upon arrival when 25 tents had to be put up, usually in the dark accompanied by a little rain on forty-five degree terrain.

Camp life for the .first six months with the exception of the initial setting up period, ran very smoothly due mainly to the fact that a large number of the early enrollees were college men, who were eager to better themselves, improve their surroundings and increase their earning power. With such men as these it was not difficult to organize a smooth running company from the orderly room to the kitchen. The coming of winter necessitated the construction of more or less permanent barracks, mess hall and kitchens having been provided during the .first period.

Having traded the gold bars of a second lieutenant of infantry for the silver bars of a first lieutenant of infantry I was transferred from the mountains of western North Carolina to the plains of middle Tennessee along Old Man River of the same name. This change involved not only a change of location but also a change from a junior Company to a newly organized Colored Veterans Company. It would be well at this point to state that all veteran companies by virtue of their past military and civilian experience were very easily organized and controlled. This could also be said of the junior companies if some military discipline could have been taught, but this was forbidden in any form and would not be tolerated. This to my mind is one of the few shortcomings of the CCC as both the enrollee and the Army would benefit greatly by its adoption.

Early in March 1934 the need for an educational program was quickly met. Each camp was provided with a full time camp educational adviser whose duties were to instruct those boys who wished to make up grammar grade work, high school work and special work. Today this part of camp life has been expanded until it includes the manual arts, auto mechanics, electrical work, college extension work, photography, plumbing and most all the trades. If a young man with a high school education has prospects only for one year in college he would spend that year to a better advantage in a CCC Camp if he applied himself. (This does not of course apply to the full college course.) If not a stone were turned or a tree cut the present educational program of the CCC would justify the expenditure over the entire period.

Today it is quite an accomplishment for a community to secure a CCC Camp. This in some instances is a far cry from the early days of 1933, when in some communities it was difficult and sometimes impossible to secure credit for perishable vegetables for a period of 30 days even though the proper credentials were

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in hand. The destination of one company was changed en route because of local objection in one community, but when the objection was later withdrawn it was too late to get the camp.

Due to the thickly populated and the thinly populated sections of our country it is necessary to move boys from the more thickly populated areas to those not so thickly populated. This provides a wonderful opportunity for the enrollees to see just what the other side of our country looks like, an education within itself. While conducting a troop train from the east coast to the west coast in the fall of 193 7 a sudden stop made by the train caused all, even the train crew to wonder, an immediate investigation revealed a bet between two very frightened boys as to which cord running through the car was the whistle cord and which was the air brake cord resulted in the surer of the two pulling the cord he thought to be the whistle cord.

The duties of an officer with the CCC are numerous.

He often must act as his own clerk, keep up with the many regulations, act as mess officer, canteen officer, athletic officer, and should be able to perform any duty within his organization for the time will come sooner or later when he will have to replace each member of his outfit as the boys leave daily to accept private employment. At the end of one enrollment period the company strength cbnsisted of only 25 men, of less than two months' service and from these men clerks, cooks, and utility men had to be trained. Many officers find the 24 hour day far too short to accomplish their full duties.

Having served in the CCC for a period of some five years in the grade of second lieutenant to captain, seeing service in eleven states located from the east

coast to the Pacific Northwest I feel that we all should be proud of our Government that has the foresight to provide such an organization to take care of its youth in its time of need.

The boys who have had the opportunity to serve in the CCC have a new conception of their Government, a greater respect for its laws, and a realization that its future depends upon them.

Thus far little mention has been made of the physical work accomplished by the CCC. It would be impossible to make a dollar and cents estimate as to the value of this work as we will be reaping dividends from this work for many years to come just as we will reap benefits yearly from the training provided the enrollees.

Having entered active duty for a period of six months in 1933 but remaining for a period of over .five years I asked to be relieved from active duty to return to private business in Charlotte, N.C., counting those years as well spent.

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In Article I, Section 2, of the Constitution of Pi Kappa Phi, three of the four objects of the fraternity there stated have to do with high scholarship, namely, "to uphold the traditions and ideals of the colleges where its chapters are located, to encourage excellence in scholarship, and to inculcate in its members the highest ideals of Christian manhood and good citizenship." Every true and loyal Pi Kappa Phi will work to achieve these ideals. Let us make 1938-1939 a banner year for Pi Kappa Phi.

Philip Morris Makes Award OMEONE has said that scholarship is a matter of character. It is thus quite fitting that a cigarette with the character of Philip Morris should enter upon the current educational scene with a plan that is destined to help many a worthy student over some of the .financial rough spots of his collegiate career. The Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. Inc., has presented several $250 scholarships to leading national social fraternities to be used by these fraternities as they see .fit. It is a real pleasure to announce that Pi Kappa Phi has been granted one of these scholarships, and a further pleasure to add that the basis for granting this award has been outlined by the undergraduates themselves in a recommendation to the Committee on Resolutions of the Nineteenth Supreme Chapter in its August meeting in Jacksonville.

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The committee submitted the undergraduate resolution to the convention exactly as received. Not only did it receive the necessary votes for passage but an unanimous ballot in favor was recorded. We quote the resolution, in part: "WHEREAS, The Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. Inc., has granted to Pi Kappa Phi fraternity a sum of money ($250.) to be used for any purpose the fraternity may designate . . . , therefore "Be It Resolved, That this sum of money be used as a scholarship fuqd to be known as the Philip Morris Scholarship of Pi Kappa Phi, under the following terms: "1. The award shall be made to a Pi Kappa Phi scholar.

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"4. Applications for the award shall be made direct to the chairman of the scholarship committee who sh~~l have the authority to grant the award.

5. The holder of this scholarship shall be encouraged to, within a period of five years, repay the total sum to the fraternity." . . Many of us have read in Fortrme or Time magaZ1Ines of the rapid rise of Philip Morris cigarettes in t 1e favor of the American smoking public. There are robably many Pi Kappas who have benefited directly ~~m the summe: work _Plan of the Philip ~orris & . · ltd. Inc., as It has a1ded students by havmg them mt~oduce the company's product to the campii of the nttiOn. All of us must know the well-groomed, redc ~l~ figure of "Johnny," the inimitable company good"'1 representative whose voice is heard each week 0 ~ radio programs and whose portrait stands in store Wmdows the country over.

Now, Johnny steps into the education .field with an even longer stride than that of 1934 when the summerb work P1an was Inaugurate . d . In memory he takes ~ ac~ ~lmost ninety years to the commencement of ed Ph 111p Morris cigarette-making career, cigarettes e by hand for the students of Oxford University. .ese "Oxford Blues" grew in fame extended to neighb · . ' "C onng Cambndge to be known as Philip Morris ambridge."

As graduates of Oxford and Cambridge took their pth1aces as 1ea ders m . th e world they earned . w1th . them ' IS favor't · .

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This new company, Philip Morris & Co. ltd. Inc., realized early the splendid influence of the university student on the growth and development of their product, used this influence as "a barometer of good taste." They have become and are today the fastest growing cigarette company in the United States.

In 1934, 150 college students were employed on an experimental basis to promote the taste of Philip Morris on the campii of American colleges and universities. So satisfactory was the work of these special representatives that the following year saw 950 students so employed. Only nominal salaries were paid (in addition to fulfilling the smoking needs of the individual representatives) but these amounts, though small, proved truly helpful in .financing many a college career.

Today, because of the ever increasing interest in Philip Morris on the part of the collegiate America and as a token of the company's appreciation for this interest, the executives of the Philip Morris Company have announced the extension of the company's campus campaign. It is with gratification that Pi Kappa Phi, as a leader among university men, accepts, for an outstanding Pi Kappa Phi scholar, this Philip Morris Scholarship Award.

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At the conclusion of the experiment the scientists said that it will probably be a year or more before the scientific value of the experiment may be ascertained.

"But there are two things that I do know," said Dr. Kleitman, "I found out I could grow a decent beard and I read Anthony Adverse from cover to cover."

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Raymond R. Rice, Xi, was married to the former Miss Virginia Wallner, of Pulaski, Va., on September 21, 1938. They will make their home in Pulaski.

Jesse Leigh, Jr., Rho, of Hamlet, N.C., was married to Miss Delia Oberklein of Cincinnati, Ohio, in Hamlet. N.C., on August 13.

Joseph M. Taylor, Tau, of Greensboro, N.C., and Miss Edna H . Gregson of Siler City, N.C., were married on September 30.

Lyle N. Jenks, Alpha Delta, and Miss Jane A. Warrack of Seattle, Wash., have announced their approaching marriage.

Willard B. Vadman, Alpha Delta, of Olympia, Wash., and Miss Mary A. Burrington have announced their approaching marriage.

George A. DeCottes, III, Alpha Epsi lon, of Hollywood, Fla., and Miss Clara M. Newman of New York City were married in Hollywood in late August.

Ralph H . Ruch, Alpha Pi, of Nashville, Tenn., and Miss Mary A. Crumbliss of Chattanooga were married in the early fall .

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Alpha

College of Charleston

Alpha began a new year by remodeling and redecorating its chapter rooms. The members worked diligently for quite awhile preparing for what promises to be a very successful year.

Rushing began on October S. Our first two parties were entertainments in the chapter rooms, while the third was a moonlight cruise on the yacht, Frances III. We expect to pledge between ten and fifteen men at the end of the period.

We have pledged Russell Long, president of the student body. This makes the second successive year that Alpha has had tl1e honor of listing the president of the student body among its members. Brother Lawrence Powers served in this capacity during the school year 1937-38.

In recent student elections Pledge Walker Bates was selected president of the Sophomore class and Brother Ernest Godshalk, archon, was elected president of the Panhellenic Council. ·Of last year's graduates, several are doing graduate work.

Brothers Alex Moore and Harry Anderson, first and second honor graduates respectively, are studying chemistry at Johns Hopkins. Brother Lawrence Powers is also taking advanced work at Johns Hopkins. Brother John Bradley was awarded a fellowship in mathematics at the University of Virginia, while Brothers Jimmie Quinn and Noel Williams are at the University of South Carolina, the former studying medicine, the latter law.

Officers for the present year are: Ernest L. Godshalk, Archon; E. Gordon McCoy, Treasurer; Frank Ryan, Secretary ; John Harvin, Chaplain.

E. GoRDON McCoY, Acting Historian

Gamma

University of California

Gamma has done well in rushing, nine men having been pledged thus far. Willard Knapp and Robert Cutts of Martinez, Calif., freshmen; Pete van den Bosch, a second year man, also from Martinez; Charles Hardy of San Francisco; Jack Morgan of El Centro, Calif.; Charles Peterson of Coalinga, Calif.; Gordon Snetsinger, Bruce Hellier of Berkeley, and Ray Dunn of Martinez are the new men. Instead of confining our rushing this semester to the first few weeks of school, we continued it throughout the term, having regular rush dinners every Wednesday night.

In September we gave two radio dances at the chapter house and October 1, we gave a Pi Kapp pledge formal at the Berkeley Country Club, our chapter going in with the Pi Kappa Alpha chapter to give the dance. Before the Stanford game on November 18 we gave our annual "Big Game" banquet which was attended by many of our alumni.

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Eugene Roberts and Richard Witt have been advanced in the army unit to first lieutenant and sergeant, respectively.

LEE EDGAR, Historian

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When rushing period at Wofford College closed, Zeta had pledged ten Freshmen. They are: Richard Burnett and Arthur Hammond, Spartanburg, S.C.; Harold DuRant, Sumter, S.C.; E. B. Gregorie, Jr., Charleston, S.C.; Morris Kaille, and Rone Lowe, Asheville, N.C.; John McDonald, Wades· boro, N,C.; LeRoy Overcash and Buford Price, Kannapolis, N.C., and William Vaughn, Irwin, Tenn.

Pledges Burnett, Lowe and McDonald were on the Fresh· man football squad; LeRoy Overcash has been appointed a member of the Bohemian staff, college yearbook; and Pledge Kaille warbles in the Glee Club, while Arthur Hammond is a member of the college band.

Latest Zeta-men to join the active rolls are DeWitt Guilds and W. C. Bradwell. Immediately after his initiation on Sep· tember 30, •Brother Guilds was elected treasurer of the chap· ter, to replace Brother Manning Crouch, who did not re· turn.

It is with deep regret that the chapter learns of the re· cent death of Brother Albert Fawcett Burts, who passed into the chapter eternal on October 23, 1938, as the result of injuries sustained in an automobi le accident. Brother Burts, a native of Spartanburg, finished in the class of '36 and was employed by the C.I.T. Corporation. He had continued hiS affiliation with the active chapter and only recently aided us materially during our rushing campaign. It is with very sa_d hearts that we reconcile ourselves to the passing of thtS good and loyal brother.

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Immediately after returning to school the members of Epsi lon chapter found themselves in the midst of an inten· sive rushing campaign. At the close of rush week the following fifteen were pledged: Sam Woodward, Bluefield, W.Va.; Jimmy Morgan, Albemarle, N.C.; Tad Larkin, Washington, N.C.; Bob Ballard, Davidson, N.C.; Phil Suttle· myre, Hickory, N.C.; Newton Edwards, Lake Wales, Fla.; W. C. Plunkett, Aiken, S.C.; Marion Mobley, Florence, S.C.; Tom Withers, Davidson, N.C.; Mac Morris, Gastonia, N.C.; Charlie Linville, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Bob GarveY• Winston-Salem, N.C.; Vincent Wyche, Weldon, N.C.; Geddy Herring, Roseboro, N .C. and Julian McCall, Flo~· ence, S.C. Much credit is due Brother Julian Lokey for htS work as rush chairman.

Star back on the Wildcat football team this fall was Bitl D avis, triple threat quarterback from Badin, N.C., and 3 pledge of Pi Kappa Phi. Bill did most of the ball carryi~g, passing and kicking for the team, and his work on the gnd· iron has won for him the praise of many sports writers and rival coaches.

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Sam has served as treasurer of the chapter. Last year he was . ergeant-Major of the R.O.T.C. battalion, and this year he IS serving as Captain-Adjutant. Last spring he was elected ranager of the student store, after having served as a clerk bor two years. He is regular third baseman on the varsity ~seball team and is vice-president of the Senior class. His scblolastic average for the last three years has been consistently k a ove T the "A" . mar. hde soctal activities of the chapter have not been negIecte th' w h IS year. Several weeks after school started a party abas eld at the house in honor of the new pledges, with Ji otut 20 young ladies present. Homecoming dances, the B~bbset of the year, were held October 21 and 22. Brother M' Y Gtsh, our Panhellenic Council representative, with C~ss Ann. Rish of Bluefield, W.Va., and Brother Paul se ~per, :Vtth Miss Alice Campbell of Florence, S.C., repreda~:ed PI .Kappa Phi in the figure presented at the formal be th · Prror. to the dances a banquet was held for the Coo ers, thetr dates and visiting alumni, at which Brother cas?Per. presided as toastmaster. Alumni down for the ocMa10t tncluded Brothers Joe Kellam, Bill Mclean, Henson Pes, Ralph Chandler and Harmon Woodward.

PAUL BUMBARGER, JR.,

Iota

Historian

Georgia Tech

to ~~e rouse at Iota, having been completely done over prior of be hall term, is once again housing an enthusiastic group chap;ot ers. Lead by our archon, Reese Hooks, the entire befo er took part in the painting and cleaning of the house new r~ the rush week program. We are very grateful to our aided ?use ~other, Mrs. Mary E. McGahee, of Atlanta, who W In th1s work. campe c~me out fourth among 23 fraternities on the Tech Cha' us 10 rush week festivities, pledging 15 men. Rush to b~man Charles Roach and Co-chairman Bill Schotanus are M cbmmended for their sp1endid work. of A~~ ers of the new pledge club include Rupert Smith of El' a~ta, P. C. Duncan of Macon, Ga., Homer Helmut 12 of w ~ ;t~an, Tenn., John M . King, Jr. , and C. E. Herren Spur] e\ Otnt, Ga., R. M. Pryor, Jr., of Moultrie, Ga., A. D. 0 Bush ~.~~ Dawson, Ga., Floyd Blair of Tifton, Ga., Robert Smith ~ tam G. Daniel , E. D . Griffin, J. F. Kneisel, T. M. A ' a 1 of Atlanta, Ga. are fuo~~ the out~tanding men on the Tech campus this year honorso . e7 Memtt Pope and Chic Wi lliams. Brother Pope's Techn' me ude the position of business manager of The Beta ':fech's weekly newspaper; membership in Tau 1 Phi I< ' nat10~al honorary scholastic engineering fraternity ; ment· bp~ Pht; president's gold "T" for scholastic achievea loc~I mtcron Delta Kappa; Anak, Tech's highest honor of campus nat.u~e for seniors; The Yellow Jacket Club, a leading trica! e SP.lC!t ~rganization; Kappa Eta Kappa, honorary elecfraterni~tneenng fraternity; Pi Delta Epsilon, journalistic ganizat' ' the Bulldog Club and Skull and Key, social or· tons F h leader Th · or. t ree years Brother Pope has been a cheerBroth~ p e enttre chapter is justly proud of the fact that 193 8 Br ope has been chosen a Pi Kappa Phi Scholar for .

1 tams IS Jacket. Trothe h'c W'll' business manager of the Yell ow Jacket' C!ecb ·s monthly magazine; treasurer of the Yellow Ceramic uS •. a member of Pi Delta Epsilon; American I'T s octety. .qomecom· b tng rought a large group of alumn i back to Iota to 1 eighth ce ebrate Tech's semi-centennial and Iota's twenty-

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an open house and a buffet lunch and dinner.

All ten of the seniors lost by graduation last spring have found positions in the business world. These are Brothers Willis Paulk, Dennis D. O 'Brian, James Huff Gordy, Douglas Crocker, Charles Johnson, John B. Boy, Ed Leake, Howard Lovelace, and Dewitt Alexander Stevenson.

Last spring Brother Frank Miller and Pledge Warner "Pop" Morgan were honored by membership in the Bulldog Club, honorary social club for Juniors and Seniors.

As that memorable date in December approaches, we are all looking forward to our annual alumni Founders' Day banquet. For the third consecutive year Iota chapter plans to follow the banquet with a dance at the Atlanta Athletic Club.

We take this opportunity to extend to all chapters an invitation to attend both functions.

THAD COLEMAN, JR.,

Mu

Historian

Duke University

Mu of Pi Kappa Phi is looking forward to a big year at Duke University. This year the university is celebrating its Centennial and the entire school year will be marked with special activities, the principal celebration taking place in the spring of 1939. While speaking of the Centennial it is woriliy of note that the Centennial Edition of The Chanticleer, Duke yearbook, was given "All-American" rating and listed as one of the five "pace-makers," or most outstanding annuals, published in 1938. Brother Tom Jones, was editor of the book.

We initiated five new members this fall, to bring our active membership up to twenty-nine. These were: Burnett Hull, Rome, Ga.; George Blalock, Dunn, N.C.; E. S. Delaney, Charlotte, N.C.; Cecil Lang, Wa lstonburg, N.C., and Tom Latimer, Dunn, N.C. We expect to initiate Jive more out of our present pledge group of ten. Two of our outstanding 1938 pledges received military appointments and are not with us now. Sloan Rankin of Gastonia, N.C., is at Annapolis at the United States Naval Academy, and Myles Gayle of High Point is at West Point. Brother Jim Davis has gone to West Virginia this year and Bruce Wyman has been elected to replace him as rush chairman.

The intramural sports teams have been quite successful.

After each football game we have entertained at open-houses.

October 15 was homecoming here and several alumni returned. With us also at tile time were brothers from Iota.

We entertained our guests at a luncheon before the game and a tea-dance afterwards. The chapter also held openhouse for the returning alumni after the game wiili Pittsburgh.

Mu 's outstanding man-about-campus is Bill Rhodes of Estill, S.C. He is senior representative of the Student Government Association; chairman of S.G.A. social committee; member of the Freshman Advisory Council; Kappa Kappa Psi, and manager of the varsity baseball team. Bill has recently been appointed representative to the Model Legislature, to be held in Raleigh, N .C. Sam Williams is president of the Junior class. "Herman" Shuff and Less Williams are on the Dean's List. Bob Curry and E. S. Delaney are members of Phi Eta Sigma; and Delaney is a member of Beta Omega Sigma, honorary sophomore fraternity.

One of Mu's alumni, A . H. Borland, was recently elected Judge of Durham County Recorder's Court. "Bus" Borland has been one of our most active alumni members and it is with regret that we have to lose him this year as our chapter adviser.

LESS WILLIAMS,

Xi

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Roanoke CoiJege

Officers of Xi are: archon, Louis Kennett; treasurer, Harold Fariss; secretary, George T. Butcher; historian, Cor-

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ne1ius Smith; chaplain, Mason Miller ; warden, William G 1over, Jr. Cl ~i fini.shed its rushing season with 14 pledges as follows : G Y e Cmnamonde, Staunton Eversole, Paul Farriss, Bill w~fhan, Guy Grimes, Lauren Himes, Gustave Kruttschnitt, R 1 tam Langford, Bayrle Link, Wayne M etcalfe, Ralph Camsey, Carl Sheretz, Horace Wright, Harold Carter. Charles roduch and George Bowman, both upperclassmen were also Pl e ged. p I~dthe recent freshman class election our candidate for rr:est . ent, Gustave Kruttschnitt, was defeated by a small ~gtn after an interesting campaign. h he .chapter is in a new home at 113 High Street. The I ouse ts more home-like and is just off of the campus. n many respects our new quarters are superior to the old 0 nest. and we are all very much pleased with our present lo ca ton. a

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a~d S h.arles Crouch is a varsity player. Brothers Glover Stud b~h are on the college swimming team, while Brothers rna ef a er and Hiner are managing the va rsity and fresh~· ootball squads respectively.

Th 1 ~hapter had several successful parties during the fall. enJ ~ edges gave the brothers their annual party the weekFou;deN?vember 5. Plans are nearly completed for the annual will bers Day. banquet. This year the banquet and dance Roan k held tn the ballroom of the Hotel Roanoke, in B 0 e. Brothers of both Xi and Rho will attend. coll:other Lucian Hiner is business manager of the Rawenoch, mange annual, and Brother Cornelius Smith is business Brot~ger of the Brackety-Ack, the college's weekly paper. of th er Charles Harris, recent initiate, is advertising manager e paper.

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Virgin. Cp Horne ~s now an instructor of mathematics at schola •a. olytechntc Institute. Burt was a Pi Kappa Phi Unive r ~n 1936. Tom Moore is doing graduate work at Duke 19 37 .;~•ty. Harold Perdue, archon of Xi during school year 1 field W ~ now employed at the First National Bank in Blueresides . · a. Melvm Goldman recently became "two" and 1 by the ~h Ch~rleston, W .Va., where he has been employed Ingram is emtcal and. Carbide plant since graduation. Bill e)(pects t employed wtth the Department of Agriculture and Broth 0 return to school next semester.

Y.M.c.~rs Gl.over and Smith are members of the college Miller s· 7abmet. Brothers Henley, Kennett, DeMersman, which' "Pmtt.~ and Harris belong to the German Club, of DeMers ete Kennett is vice-president. Brothers Smith and While s:i~~ ~re members of the Ciceronean Literary Society, dramati £ ts a~so a member of Alpha Psi Omega, honorary fraterni~ r~termty, a?d Xi Theta Chi, honorary language Omega · rather Hmer is also a member of Alpha Psi ' as well as Sigma Delta Pi, classic fraternity.

CoRNELIUS SMITH, JR., Historian

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ship of Archon Georgie Myers, members of Rho wrote a vivid chapter in the history of Pi Kappa Phi at Washington and Lee the first few weeks of this school year. The fuJI-hearted cooperation of every man during rush week proved of considerable aid, bringing us fifteen pledges. Marshall Picard was elected pledge leader immediately. Among the pledges, Ray Searfoss, of Freeport, L.I.; Colin Baxter, of Pelham, N.Y.; Charles Van Dyke, of Tazewell, Va., and Charles Pfeul, of Rochelle Park, N.J., made the Freshman football team at end, tackles, and halfback, respectively.

An injury to Van Dyke forced him to the sidelines for a while, but he returned to see service in all the remaining games. Following in the footsteps of two year letterman George Mcinerney, Pledges Harold Laughlin, of Kenosha, Wis., and Johnny Hamlet, of Hempstead, L.I., have joined the largest Freshman wrestling squad in years. Pledge Thomas Sweeney of Antwerp, Belgium, has been elected president of the university French club, "Club Parnasse," as well as being the lead ing candidate for the French scholarship for next year.

Sweeney has followed pledge Bob Vandervoort, of Hempstead, L.I., on the Freshman cross country team, coached for a while by Brother Harold "Flash" Harvey during the absence of Coach Forest Fletcher. Other Freshman pledges are Dick Bevan, of Oslo, Norway; Bill Jones, of Washington, D .C.; Ken Clendaniels, of Milford, Del., and Joe Shepherd, of Cranford, N .J. Recent campus elections brought new honors to Rho in the election of Archon Myers to the executive committee of Student Body Government and his subsequent appointment to the chairmanship of the " Cold Check" committee. House manager Stan Nastri was elected secretary of the Commerce School; Charles Steenbergen, recently elected Pi Kappa Phi scholar, won the presidency of the Science School; Bert Roby was elected secretary of the Intermediate Law Class ; Harold Harvey, holder of several southern conference track medals, was elected president of the Athletic Council, and Ronnie Thompson was elected secretary of the Monogram Club.

The appointment of AI Szymanski who is now attending Law School here, as an assistant on the coaching staff culminated a long series of honors and praises won by "Szy" throughout his college career in football, basketball, wrestling and track. AI plays a large part in the making of future generals by his coaching of Freshman linemen . He is counted on heavily, too, in finishing out the line-up, as the unlimited weight man on the varsity wrestling team; and on his capabilities lies a large measure of Washington and Lee's chances of regaining the Southern Conference crown lost last year. George Mcinerney, now attending law school with "Szy," is out to recapture his last year's berth in the 14Spound spot on the wrestling team, while great things are hoped for from Ralph Hausrath, Junior pledge, returned from a year at Brown University, who is competing for Mac's position. Bob Summerall has returned to the 121-pound class, expecting to see service along with Mac, Ralph and AI. Sophomore pledges Steve Hanasik and Jack Mangan held down the center spot in the General's powerful forward wall in all-state form. Mangan and Hanasik both played stellar ball on the "little-General's" club last year. Along with Ronnie Thompson they surpassed all expectations of Coach "Tex" Tilson in every •arne.

Bill Kesel, captain of varsity crew and the General's leading boatman, returned to coach the crew men again this year and to lead them in their meets with powerful Manhattan and Rollins College of Florida. Sophomore Walter Harrod, a fellow townsman of Bill's, is counted on to aid the improved oarsmen of W. & L., while Bob Summerall

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will again occupy the coxswain's seat. Press notices last year heaped praises upon the crew despite its loss to Manhattan in New York waters, singling out Bill for his admirable leadership and the fine job he performed unaided in rounding out the crew.

Charles Steinhoff is again on the stand leading his new and greatly improved band, Washington and Lee's highly publicized swingsters the Southern Collegians.

Rho was honored homecoming week-end by the return of the first Pi Kapp initiate of Rho chapter, Brother Lawrence Davis, of Roanoke. Other visitors over the week-end were Mr. and Mrs. Lynwood Flory, Dr. C. H. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. "Lightsy" Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Grier Wallace, Mr. Gordon Wigley, Mr. John Wilson, Mr. "Buster" Dickson, Mr. Tom Sollenberger, and Mr. Ed Sellers. We are always proud and glad to welcome back our alumni and were espe· cially pleased that week end to see Brother Davis. Because of their presence homecoming as far as the chapter was concerned was the tremendous success it could not have been without them.

ROBERT E. SUMMERALL, Historian

Chi

Stetson University

After two weeks of intensive rushing, which was highlighted by a house dance and a stag dinner at Daytona Beach, Chi announces the pledging of the following: Bob Tayler, Charles Stephens, Gadi Lawton, Jack Hutton, Ben Smith, John Kurtz, Ed Hughes, Bob Northridge, Vin Stacy, Brad Caswell, Jimmie Golden, Bill Davis, Wyman Harvard, J.D. Mclarty, Dave Wagner, Gene Lamb, Bob Crowell, Earl Johns.

On October 16, four men, Don Frison, Vincent Schaefer, Tom Cobb and Lynwood Cheetham became brothers in Pi "Kappa Phi. Don Frison is captain of the football team, member of the Letterman's Club, member of Beta Key and was twice selected on the "All Little Four" football team at the guard position. Tom Cobb is chancellor of Sigma Nu Phi legal fraternity, president of the Stetson University Law School Association, captain of Mystic Crew (men's honor fraternity), member of Kappa Kappa Psi, was on the Dean's list and the honor roll and received the highest grades in the first and second year Law School. Vincent Astor Schaefer was the most valuable athlete in 1938, was selected on University of Florida's all-opponent team, is letterman in football and basketball, "All Little Four" end and was freshman football captain. Lynwood Cheetham is a football letterman, member of Letterman's Club, was captain in the freshman game against Florida and was captain of the Robert E. Lee, of Jacksonville, football team.

After completion of very elaborate plans, the interfraternity dance was held on November 4, at the Mayfair Hotel in Sanford.

Chi fared well in this year's class elections. Don Frison was elected Senior class president, Bud Haskins was elected Sophomore class president, and John Cherry was elected Junior class president of the Law School.

Earl Neelands, Chi's historian of last year, was married to his childhood sweetheart, Miss Sadie Rae Gardner of St. Petersburg, Fla., on November 10.

ToM KIRKLAND, Historim1

Omega

Purdue

Omega again crashes through in scholarship. The house ranks fourth among 35 fraternities in scholarship. For the second consecutive year the Munro Scholarship trophy has been won by the Pi Kapps. A third winning of this cup, given by a faculty member of Omega, will bring its permanent possession into the chapter.

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to the house by being chosen a member of the National Coun ci l in the capacity of National Historian.

Dads' Day was the biggest event of the fall. A complett week-end of entertainment and companionship with their sons · was carefully planned for the Dads. Entertainmen· started with one of the best Big Ten football games of tht year-Purdue vs. Indiana. A banquet, individual entertain· ment, a night spent at the house, breakfast and a privatt Dads' meeting were included.

Homecoming, October 22, brought a large number of alumni back to renew old acquaintances. Private and com· bined meetings were held and prizes given to outstandinf members of the alumni.

November 12 was the date of the annual pledge dance. with Dick Cisne swinging it in the chapter house. Complelt rearrangement of the furniture on the first Boor, coupled wit~ rather elaborate decorations, enabled a combined group of pledges, alumni and active members to enjoy a grand evenin~ Twelve neophytes have been chosen by Omega so far; thrl number will be doubled during the mid-winter rushing. of this number four are sophomores. Honorary faculty pledgt is Purdue's freshman football coach, Elmer Burnham, whr will soon become a faculty member.

Basketball season has begun, and Purdue's Big Ten chatll' pions march onto the floor with a brother Pi Kapp as ont of the mainstays. Fred Beretta will be working for anoth~1 championship this season. Don Adams, member of the Ilh· nois high school state champions of last year, is activelf interested in following in Freddy's footsteps.

An underclassman leader is Harvey Ray Hall, sophomore who was elected to the presidency of Skull and Crescent underclassman honorary. Ray also was honored by receivinf the Omega freshman achievement award, given during horllt coming week-end.

Catalyst Society, chemical engineering honorary, has thr~ members of Omega, bringing the total Pi Kapp membershrf to five. Members selected this year are Brothers Armstronl Longfield and Catterall. Old members were Brothers Peter son and Castine.

Two brothers returned to Purdue as faculty members frofl' the class of '36. Bill Glenny is stooging for the Assist~ Dean of Engineering and Deacon Greene is an instructor I mechanical drawing.

Brother Harold E. Montfort, '37, is the first of last yeM'! graduating class to break into matrimony. The Montfot family is living in Wilmington, Ohio.

Steward Charles Hoffman and his committee improved thl living accommodations of the Pi Kapps when they h~' twenty-five new, single, doubled-decked beds, and a coJ!l plete new set of dining room furniture moved in.

ROLUND F. DEHOOG, Historiall

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University of Washingtor

INTRODUCING-Joe "Doakes" Klass, a journalist ",jtt an eye to local color in the nights spots of Seattle. fl' is a third-quarter frosh.

Don Westbo, just plain BO with no reference to the maF' zine ads. Don is a sophomore in the School of Transportati~~ Lyman Hopkins, engineer of the pledge sneaks wh 1' found the pledges at home and the actives out looking fol them. Lyman is a junior pre-med.

Walt Avery, one of the Navy's best-also a member u King Neptune's Court, having crossed the equator with til' boys looking for Amelia Earhart. He is from Seattle.

Chuck Chambers, a little buggy, being a zoology major~ also from Seattle. Chuck just got back from a deep-sea trip 0 the Catalyst, the university's Bureau of Fisheries boat.

Bruce McKenzie, "a furriner," who hails from Brili\ Columbia. Bruce is one of the shining lights of the fro! crew.

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W the pledges after the Oregon Statealu~11.ngton game. Then on October 22, actives, pledges, and • 01 gathered at the New Washington Hotel for the home~o~m.g banquet. Cigars were on Doug Willix, Lyle Jenks, pn Jtm. Byrne. Doug, for a prospective Pi Kapp; Lyle, for a f~~spechve. addition to the Pi Kapp wives; and Jim Byrne, I k not betng able to attend the banquet "because Harold t~ e~ want~ his left-handed right hand man to stay up in th lymptc Park till after Christmas." The surprise event s k~ evening was the appearance of Brother Roy Squires 1:~ tng on the bombing of the U.S.S. Panay in China. up b r~t reports Roy was one of the missing; later he turned a ly wounded to deny the rumor.

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Last "social" of importance was the fall informal at the house on November 12, a dinner-dance with plenty of food and a Jot of swing.

CURTIS G. ONSTAD, Historian

Alpha Epsilon

Florida

So you want a little information about Alpha Epsilon chapter down here in Florida?

In the first place Alpha Epsilon has a membership this year of 65 men, active and pledge, and one first class housemother.

During rush week the brothers pledged 26 men. Those pledged are: Malcolm Bowden and Ace Dunlap, Jacksonville; Harley Force and Russell Osborne, Daytona Beach; Bob Jenson, James McDonald, Charles Pearce, Ken Throop, Grady Tyler and Bill Papy, Miami; Leon Mock and Herbert Stoer, Leesburg; ]. B. Cobb, Lake City; Munroe Cox, Blountstown; Alex Edwards, Tampa; Bill Edwards, Chattahoochee; Dixie Howell, Montgomery, Ala.; James Kuppers, Vero Beach; Jack Richey, Tallahassee; Don Romeike, New York; Wilfred Varn, Bunnell; Henry Thayer, Deland; "Chuck" Seibold, New Smyrna Beach; Everitt Howe, Willis-

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ton·! Ma unce . Lang berg, Stuart and Ted Taylor, Gainesville.

J 1?1 Wilson transferred as Davidson's contribution to Fl onda.

Ji~h~ee actives and two pledges were on the football team. f mte Oxford, a 200-pounder from Leesburg, was captain ~- fhe Gators. Oxford played his last year of football, but to~ ~eturn next year to take up basketball. Fonia Penning' ts another senior and the only three-letter man on the ~ampus. He played end on the football team, is a forward bn ~e basketball team and is captain and catcher for the st~e all squad. Jack Blalock is also a senior and was first rtng quarterback. ath1h7 t~o pledges have rapidly become shining lights in fir ehc. Ctrcles here at Florida. Dixie Howell, a senior, was ba~f"stnng end; and in addition plays a corking good basem game. Ted Taylor is the other pledge. He was a sophoba~~: flash on the football team last season. He's also a and track star, and somewhere in the melee was fir st sttball · catcher on the freshman baseball team last year, as nng ;e1I_ as freshman football captain.

H enniDgton is president of the Athletic Council this year. r e acnd Oxford have been selected for lJVho' s lJVho in A merian olleges. en~a.tionaJ Secretary Coulter visited here over the last weekand h1? ~ctober. The boys gave an informal tea for him IS Wtfe th~~~ kno~, one of the things I like about this gang is I ey have a housemother this year.

Th ntra~ural_s have been the main chapter activity so far. nu ell Untverstty goes into quite an extensive program anan a Y, and competition is dose. The boys think they have cou excellent opportunity to win the basketball and crossstarntry crowns. They have several high school hoop shooting stat s, and two of the freshmen won all-state honors in the Duel tournament last year. In addition, a recent pledge, Ace run~ ap, won the 1937 Georgia interscholastic cross-country

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tre~dus Wicker of Miami, was recently elected secretaryF ~~er of the senior class. Levi Vause, who won the Don 1 st~te f es award as the best campus correspondent in the Sig 0~ weekly newspapers last year, has been selected by sen~a elta ~hi, honorary journalistic fraternity, to repreVenf the. Flonda chapter at the forthcoming national conT~on tn Wisconsin. and de brothers honored their pledges at a formal banquet aw dance October 14 at the Thomas Hotel. Several men were G~r ed honors at that time, among them being Weaver ing ~es, who was presented the cup for being the outstandinte hm~n of last year. Weaver was president of the junior r raterntty conference during his first year.

GEORGE Rooo, Historian

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Alabama Poly were pledged, of whom five have been ini-

Phi~·1 ~ready. Remaining pledges at the present time are:

Ga _PJ dams, Alexander City, Ala.; Ted Benning, Atlanta, Ga.: Fam~s Deslonde, Mobile, Ala.; Dan Faulk, La Grange, AI~'. ;aster Fortner, Dothan, Ala.; Jack Hargrove, Townley, go~' ames Morgan, Albertville, Ala.; Bert Powell, MontTa!Iedry, Ala.; Morris Trulock, Climax, Ga.; Eugene Ward, e ega AI Th ' a.

Octobe five recent initiates brought into the brotherhood on Fraz· er 19, were: Price Stone, Hurtsboro, Ala.; Arthur ter, Linden, Ala.; Lynton Godwin, Plains, Ga.; Sam

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Kellett, Fountain Inn, S.C.; and Leroy Patterson, Luverne, Ala. With the chapter roll this year numbering thirty-seven actives, which is a new high for Alpha Iota, we are looking forward to one of the most successful years in our history.

Brother Cortina is junior cheerleader. Brother Charles Phillips has been elected to Delta Sigma Pi, honorary business fraternity, of which Brother Rufus Porter is secretary and Brothers Bill Ott and Billy Roberts are members. Brother Bill Boynton is a member of the social committee this year, while Brother George Hiller is secretary of Tau Kappa Alpha, honorary forensic fraternity.

The chapter is enjoying a very good social program under the direction of Brother Charles Phillips, chairman of the social committee. In September a steak fry was given on the estate of Dr. Irvine, our faculty adviser.

In October we had a Halloween party beginning with a buffet supper and followed by a bingo game and dancing.

Another social was a reception in honor of our new housemother, Mrs. Stella Foy Williams.

We are glad to have with us Brothers Jake Fortner and Gorden Huggins, transfers from Iota and Beta respectively.

RUFUS PORTER, Historian

Alpha Mu

Penn State

Despite a complicated new system, Alpha Mu this fall pledged 13 men. They are: Howard Ritter, George Briner and Aaron Wagner, juniors; Leonard Greenaway, Chester Curley, Lester Kutz and Oliver Summerton, sophomores; and Richard Gundrum, Robert Maeser, Elmer Webb, Alpine McLane, Frank Lyte, Richard Baker, freshmen. Our rooms are completely filled, with 39 men living in the house, and four being forced to live in neighboring residences.

The officers for this year are: Elmore J. Newton, archon; William E. Lord, secretary; Richard M. Shave, treasurer; Albert H. Bowers, historian; Leon M. Knetz, warden; and Robert P. Jones, chaplain.

The week-end of October 29 was "fall house party," with Pi Kapps dancing at the Theta Nu Epsilon Fraternity the first night, while the second night brought the T.N.E.'s over to Pi Kappa Phi. Dates occupied the second floor of the house, while everybody else moved into a very crowded tl1ird floor. Pi Kappa Phi is one of four fraternities permitted this privilege by the college, thus saving the brothers the trouble and cost of finding accommodations for their dates.

New dining room chairs, curtains and rugs improve the interior of the house this year, and plans are now being made to add to the surroundings by extensive landscaping of the lawn.

Brother Bill Diefenderfer, class of '38, and Pi Kappa Phi Scholar, now has a position as instructor in the mechanical engineering department.

Chief social date between "house party" and Christmas was our pledge dance, a formal affair held the night before Thanksgiving vacation.

Alpha Mu is glad indeed to list among its members this year, Brother Harry Renner, sophomore transfer from Alpha Upsilon.

ALBERT H. BOWERS, Historian

Alpha Omicron

Iowa State

Officers elected October 30 are: Carl Files, archon; Gerald Rickert, steward-treasurer; Carl Proescholdt, secretary; John Rigg, historian; Richard Wengert, chaplain; Russell Lichten-

Harper, Freedain, Pederson, Brubaker, Filko; second row, Hoff, Fran~, Dar gel, Michetta, Gullett; front, B!ljan; (5) A portion of Epsilon's touch football team awaiting the opening whistle; (6) Brother Dickerhoof of Alpha Phi in a novel car designed by Brother Dodge of the same chapter.

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stein, warden; and Wilson Palmer, rushing chairman.

The new Pi Kapps at Alpha Omicron are Richard Wengert, John Rigg, Wilson Palmer and Earl Schafer.

The Pi Kapp pledges are Richard Hoverter, Joe Houston, Joe Mitchell, Donald Rowe, Ignatius Compagna, Allen McCone, Lewis Castle and Lauren Freyermuth.

Roy Kottman, A.H., '41, of Manly, Iowa, was again honored at the semi-annual Honors Day Convocation for having the highest average among all freshman agricultural students. Roy is a capable social chairman, a member of The Iowa Agrimlturist staff, and a member of the Iowa State debaters.

Wayne C. Jackson, A.H., '38, of Hurly, S.D., was recently married to Miss Dorothy Andrews of Hurly, S.D. Homecoming at Iowa State was a big success with Iowa State's football team defeating Kansas University 21 to 7.

The homecoming dance staged at the Country Club also proved successful, with a record breaking number of alums returning.

RUSSELL LICHTENSTEIN, Historian

Alpha Tau

Rensselaer Poly

Alpha Tau concluded its rushing season with the pledging of 22 men. Those pledged were P. McNally, James Wold, S. Niece, H. Ewing, P. Hanson, T. Anderson, ]. Riesert, T. Dobson, ]. Hicks, R. Kesel, A. Perkins, D. Putman, J. Steuven, F. Cremer, A. Gardiner, D. Street, E. Holmer, R. Thorpe, R. Wainright, T. Cavenaugh, H. Borst, C. Mount.

In the line of social activities the house has been holding a series of informal radio dances. Our latest dance was held following the Union-Rensselaer football game. A large contingent of visiting alumni added to the success of the occasion.

The chapter is very proud indeed that two of its last year's graduates, John Jubin and Roy Purchase, were selected as Pi Kappa Phi Scholars for 1938.

WILLIAM CUMMINGS, Historian

Alpha Phi

Armour Tech

After a successful rush week, we pledged the following men: Vlad Filko, Carl Franz, Herbert Hanson, Richard Harper, George Hoff, Edson Loftus, Andrew Michetta and Norman Pederson. These men have increased the membership of the house to the point where the dorm has a capacity crowd every night and we are now considering enlarging our housing facilities.

At our recent fall initiation we had the pleasure of bringing into the brotherhood the following men: John Brubaker, Albert Bujan, Merle Dargel, Cecil Gullett and Victor Schellschmidt.

We have placed another trophy on the shelf by winning the interfraternity touchball championship. Our team was ably led by Harry Heidenreich.

The social committee has continued its policy of arranging and planning "top" entertainment with several notable rush week events and a very novel Halloween party.

Two of our alumni, Harry Perlet, F.P.E.S., '38, and John Sturgeon, Ch.Eng., '37, recently "middle-aisled it." Prior to Harry's nuptials, we gave a stag party in his honor, at which time it was announced that he had been chosen a Pi Kapp scholar for 1938. This award brings the total of Alpha Phi scholars to Jive during the three years of our existence.

If this is not a record, we will soon make one!

WILLIAM B. BUCKMAN, Historia11

Alpha Upsilon

Drexel Tech

Officers elected for this year are Ed McDonald, archon; Harry Feick, treasurer; ]. Frank Pow!, secretary; Walton

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Troyer, historian; John Tressler, warden; and Bob Culbert. chaplain.

Brother Frank Jones was elected president of the StudeD1 Council.

On October 21 we continued a policy established last yea! by inviting another fraternity on the campus to our chaptel house for a stag party. The main purpose behind this plaD is to promote a better feeling among the fraternities. It wal the chapter's pleasure to have as its guest speaker that evening, Major Paul Steele, assistant professor of military science and tactics at Drexel, who gave us the inside "dope" on the recent European crisis.

Last year Pi Kappa Phi won the Dr. Robert S. Hanson interfraternity scholarship cup with an average of 79.8. Thil marked our third winning of the cup; thus, the chapter gained permanent possession.

The fall formal held at the chapter house on October 29 was well attended and enjoyed by many of our alumn1 brothers.

On November 6 we initiated twelve men: Seniors, Roger Whitworth and William Wylie; Sophomores, Dave Corkrall• Robert Hansem, Charles Hewitt, Harry Horning, Carl Seirn· ers, George Sprowls, Harold Stifter, William Taylor, Jaroel Todd and Gilbert Merritt.

WALTON H. TROYER, JR., Historian

Delta

Furman UniversitY

Delta chapter is in the midst of one of the most successful years that it has experienced.

At the beginning of the school year our chapter wnl composed of eleven actives and four pledges. At the con· elusion of rushing fifteen men were added to the chapter rolls.

The entertainments which we gave during rushing season consisted of a party at the country club, an open house, and a stag banquet at an up-town restaurant. At the banquet there were quite a few of the Greenville alumni present and thef all spoke briefly to the group. Dean Daniel, who is the actin8 president of Furman, addressed those present on the subjeO of the relationship of social life to the school. Brothel Bozard, who is the acting dean of the university, acted as master of ceremonies.

A meeting of the Greenville Pi Kappa Phi alumni was held at the chapter house on the evening of October 5, and plans were made for the formation of an alumni chapter in Greenville. Officers were elected and plans were made for 3 petition to the national office for a charter. A large !Jlld enthusiastic group was present. An alumni banquet was held on the evening of October 19.

On Thursday evening, October 20, a party was given at the home of Brother Milton Williams. The pledges entertained the actives with a party at the home of Pledge Paul Chapm!lll• November 4. On October 29 Delta chapter was host to several brothers from Epsilon who came down to see the Furman Purple Hurricane clash with the Davidson Wild· cats.

Delta chapter is now located at 322 University Ridge.

During the summer, the location of the chapter house was changed from 14 University Ridge. A new recreation roofll is now under construction, and it should be completed sometime within the near future.

Brother Melzar Booker, who for two years attended Georgia Tech, has transferred to Furman and is now taking an active part in the activities of the chapter.

Plans are now going forward for the stale conclave to be held on Founders' Day in Columbia. Brothers Bill Anderson.

Penn Acree, and Melzar Booker have been chosen the offidrU chapter delegates to the conclave.

MILTON WILLIAMS, JR., Historian

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