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The Cover This cover carries a picture by Georges Schreiber entitled Low Tide. It is from an exhibition of paintings of contemporary American artists held recently at the Associated American Artists Galleries at 846 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago and is reproduced through their courtesy.

Twenty-fourth National Conclave and Training School to Be Held August 28-31 at Northwestern University Walter W. Kolbe, National P resident, has announced that the second Officers' Training School and twentyfourth Conclave of Acacia will be held at Northwestern University this summer from August 28 to 31. As you all know, this is the first meeting to take place since 1941, as the war made it impossible to convene in 1943 and 1945. The first Officers' Training School, which was conducted at Purdue in 1941 in connection with the Conclave, was so successful that it was voted unanimously to continue the school at the next biennial meeting.

There is a great need for these sessions since most of the men who are serving, or will serve, as chapter officers have had little or no experience, or the benefit of working with upper classmen in fraternity affairs.

As at the first school, the Council believes that each chapter should have at least five of its members in attendance-the two regular Conclave delegates (chapter adviser and venerable dean), and three additional delegates (officers elect). The national fraternity will pay the board and room of the three extra attendants at the school and Conclave. The traveling expenses as well as the hotel and meal charges will be paid for the two regular delegates.

John C. (Jack) Erwin has been appointed general chairman of the Conclave and a full attendance is anticipated. Make your plans now to attend Acacia's first postwar conclave on the shores of Lake Michigan at Northwestern. Along with the Conclave an interesting program is being planned as well as a social schedule.

Where Are They Now? As a result of the return of fraternity men from war to the campus, and

the increased pledging brought on by the current educational boom, fraternity chapters are being reactivated much sooner than was expected by most observers. Note the trend as reflected in the chapter newsletters in this issue of the TRIAD. Many are the stories of one chapter member returning, opening the house, and single-handedly going out and pledging from a dozen to three dozen men. Where are they now who predicted that fraternities were on their last legs!

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~ TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Price of Rights?

An Editorial

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Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Reputation or Character

William H . Davis

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The Readjustment Shoe

Charles R. Dalton

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Ralph W. Hammett

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Jack Erwin

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One World for Religion Too

The Army and Art

Amplifications and Ad Lib

Honor Roll of Acacia

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Acacians the World Over

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Doings in the Chapters

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Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Fulton. Missouri. The TRIAD is the official publication of the Acacia Fraternity, a general college fraternity, originally founded by and restricted to Masons, founded at the University of Michigan, May 12, 1904.

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

Subscription rates are $1.00 per year, $1.75 for two years, $2.50 for three years, and $15.00 for life, payable in advance to the National Headquarters.

Notices of change of address, including form 3578, subscription orders, and correspondence of a business nature should be sent to the Acacia Fraternity, 1201-5 Bluff Street. Fulton, Missouri, or to 7001 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois.

John C. Et¡win, Editor, 7001 North Clark Street, Chicago 26, illinois ASSOCIATE EDITORS Herschel L. Washington, 1322 Commerce Building, Kansas City, Mo.; Cecil H. Haas, 2920 Carew Tower, Cincinnati 2, Ohio ; Luther G . Andrews, Stuart Building, Lincoln, Nebr.

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The Price of Rights?

An Editorial NE of the ways to reconcile institutions and ideals is to get ideals out of the clouds of fantasy and closer to the realities of human nature and realizable goals. Of course this is not easy in a time when workers on the assembly line of mass production communication select words of glamour, ecstasy and glitter with as little thought as a mechanic on an assembly line of things, gives a twist to a nut.

There has been much emphasis of the right to form or join voluntary associations as a dynamic right in a democracy. This right in a democracy is the bulwark against monopoly in education, religion or any phase of our country's total culture. When monopoly overtakes any field of human activity, then freedoms begin to perish, creativeness languishes and phobias and hysteria are easily created. So, in our country all of us have a responsibility to prevent monopolies of thought and opinion. However, in the course of the exercise of this right to be identified with a group we must also, in the light of the total American culture look at the responsibilities that are inseparable from a right.

Before we take a look at our own cultural background let us note what anthropology makes clear, namely: that in primitive societies and in complex modern societies we find friendship and work or special interest groups and that they provide certain satisfactions and entail obligations to the total society and its culture, and that when groups or associations become tyrannical then they menace the total welfare.

If you observe your home town you see these truths. Also you see groups or individual members of them usually chosen to aid in community projects.

Also as a rule the persons so chosen are persons who are successful in their own line of work. Knowing the facts of anthropology, and the facts you have observed in your home town, now look at the campus. It too is a community but with a rapid turnover.

Also it is or should be a working community-at least learning should be in the category of work experience. Unfortunately we have given children pretty much the idea that going to school is more or less for play and pleasure. If a child when going to school, echoed its father's "I'm going to work," public attitudes toward educa-

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tion would be more intelligent. Since learning is work, Greek letter societies are interested in the quality of workmanship of their members. As a matter of fact, the Greek letter women usually do better than the average for the whole student group.

In addition to this work phase on a college campus, just like the work phase of your home town, there are also community enterprises on the campus, just as there are in your home town. For the whole campus there are various "drives," homecomings,

the year book, the big intercollegiate contests for which special plans are made to back the team, the governing student association, etc. Toward these all-campus enterprises the Greek letter groups have responsibilities, and as a rule they meet those responsibilities, just as various organizations in your home town back projects of the town. And when the Greek letter men and women close the door of their chapter houses or chapter rooms, they are then a group of friends of their own choosing, just as there are groups in your home town.

Of course some will say that Greek letter men and women are prominent in campus projects because of "politics," a word which many persons pronounce with disdain. But if politics on a campus called in the aid of professors of political science, psychology and sociology, we might on a campus raise politics to the science of management

by the qualifications competing parties emphasized in choosing candidates and the manner of presenting the candidates and their platforms to their fellow students. That would be practical experience which in time might contribute to better standards in choosing public officials. As a matter of fact, many college students are far more mature in their estimate of persons than the cynics realize.

In addition to the all-campus projects there are many special interest enterprises with which students are identified according to their personal tastes or aptitudes. These groups are important because they help the individual to have the sense of worthwhileness that goes with personal choices, and thereby compensate for followership which is of prime importance in all-campus projects.

Just as in your home town you observe that people as a whole are not rowdies, not exhibitionists, so on a campus standards of good manners and good taste in personal conduct are also necessary. Greek letter men and women have a responsibility for helping to maintain this concept of our total society.

In connection with the public responsibility of Greek letter men and women we should remember that all their national organizations carry on projects that symbolize responsibility toward the total culture of the country.

William James said many years ago in his textbook on psychology that by the time we leave college we are pretty much whatever it is we are going to be. Consequently, college is not merely a prolongation of adolescence and escape from responsibility. College students have more capacity for maturity than is generally realized and they could lend a hand in reinterpreting the campus in terms of work, citizenship and personal development and its satisfactions. When we understand these responsibilities, life is not scatteration, but the conscious use of our energy and intelligence.

The blindness of educated persons in our country to the inevitable results of the patterns of Hitler, Japan and Mussolini long before war actually came, brings up sharply the responsibility of educated persons to know and understand social structure and the kind of social structure that avoids monopoly of opinion and belief and tyranny. In this connection it is desirable to note the Statement of Essential Human Rights, prepared by a group of eminent men throughout the world as a kind of prelude to the United Nations meeting in April, 1945, and the emphasis in the United Nations

The Triad, Spring, 1946 Charter on freedom of the individual.

Because our country has accepted its place in world affairs, we have especial responsibility about using our social structure to better understand and enhance the freedoms upon which all human progress depends. We will enhance them by using them in civilized ways. We can learn that speaking in a cultivated way, does not minimize firmness.

The group structure of our total society is slowly coming to be understood and we must have convictions about both our freedoms and our responsibilities in terms of action. and restraints. But no nation can enjoy a deep sense of self-respect or rejoice in its social structure if it complacently accepts tyrannical groups, slums, poverty, ignorance, disease and crime. All wholesome groups in our country promote high standards as against such aspects of society.

Our country, though a world power, is, like all countries, an aggregate oÂŁ many groups, organizations and associations. All of them, including Greek letter societies, have now especial responsibility about our country's total culture. For it is this total culture that will be persuasive in the world's struggle toward peace. The test is of our capacity to enjoy wise and essential personal freedoms and meet our responsibilities to the total culture.

Franco-American Relations and the U.S. Soldier The impact of confident, aggressive, healthy American soldiers on a weary France suffering from a collective inferiority complex has caused the worst deterioration of Franco-American relations in all history, Thomas R. Palfrey, professor of Romance languages at Northwestern University and former chief of civil affairs in France, told the Association of Modern Language Teachers recently.

"Most of the three million American soldiers returning from Europe regard France as disorganized, corrupt and unfriendly and prefer Gemany, while many Frenchmen regard Americans as overbearing and guilty of drunkenness, lack of respect for women, black market activities, and waste of food and equipment," Prof. Palfrey said.

American soldiers could not be given any effective orientation prior to D-Day lest the Ger mans learn invasion plans, Palfrey pointed out. Frenchmen, on the other hand, had been fed anti-American propaganda by a corrupt and venal press under the Nazis.

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Normandy and Chan or base sections United Nations Conference and was in charge of civil affairs for A five-day United Nations Confer France and later Belgium and Holland during 1945. ence, originated by veterans and oth er "We must correct the distorted im- students interested in w orld affairs, pression of France b r ought back by and patterned after the r eal U .N., was our troops and give more vigorous sup- held in April at Northwestern Univerport to plans to aid French reconstruc- sity. Each soror ity, frate r nity and stution," Prof. Palfrey told the language den t r esidence represented a country, 'teach~s. "~t's quit kidding ourwith two delegates in the General Asselves that we are great friends of sembly, which totaled 144. Students France because we hang French rail- formed a prepar atory commission, seway posters in our classr ooms, teach curity council, atomic commission and children to sing French songs and pay various committees. Senator Claude dues to the local French club." He Pepper, D., Fla., and two State Departadvocated approval of the French loan, ment experts on U.N. addressed the transfer to France of sur plus war ma- conference. terials, dissemination of information about America by governmental as Fraternity Criticism Unjust well as commercial agencies.

"The greatest single cause fo r fricCharges of "extr avagance, dissipation during the war was the GI's ab- tion, snobbishness and loafing" against sence of hatred for the enemy," the college fraternities and their members Northwestern professor said. "The lax in general are "practically baseless," treatment of P.O.W.'s and the ease of F r ederick L . Hovde, pr esident of Purtheir life cause anger and bitterness due University, asserted in a speech among a people whose long-standing ' here recently. hatred had been deepened by the occu"We need not give too much attenpation atrocities and the horrors of tion to those who damn fraternities for Dachau and Buchenwald." the unwise conduct of a few individMany crimes were committed by uals who may be members, or for the Americans against the French, Palfr ey complete failure of a single chapter, for admitted, "but the French did not real- I believe, by and large, that all colize that everyone wearing olive drab leges and universities which have fr awas not an American nor that the inci- ternities have benefited from :their dence of crime among our troops was presence and service. far lower than among a like number of "Most of the cr iticism leveled against civilians either in France or America." fraternities comes from irresponsible American soldiers, he said, did not and uninformed critics who are usually understand the frustration and disillu- people outside the system whose mosionment suffered by the French since tive to criticism emanates from jealthe last war, the false hopes of eco- ousy. nomic aid she had built up, the suspi"Fr aternities are performing miracions created by allied failure to recog- cles in the housing of retur n ed veternize De Gaulle, dealings with Giraud ans. Fraternity house rules are cerand Darlan, the exclusion of France tainly better, and study c¡o nditions from Yalta, and allied reluctance to good, compared to most other types of admit France to a share in the occupa- college housing." (The Indianapolis tion.

Star, March 3.)

Prof. Palfrey, who served as a second lieutenant with the 36th and 38th "There is much talk about a better divisions in the A.E.F. during the last war, is a graduate of Indiana Univer- pr ess or better public relations for our sity and a doctor of the Universite de fraternity system. Public relations is Paris. He is author of numer ous books a 'two-way' street; it is private relaand has been on the faculty of North- tions tur ned inside out. The be~t defense against a bad press is an unassailwestern University since 1930. able position in our University. No pr opaganda can, in the long run, cover To Brotherhood up weakness in our system. FraterniThrough the distance between us I ties must make themselves so useful stretch my hand to the University that they will resist In the good old-fashioned way, any effort to abolish them. Nothing is To greet you, brother of mine finer for our University than a fr a On this happy Founders' Day. ternity that lives up to its ideals; nothMay world-wide amity and peace ing is worse than a group that has forLive in the hearts of men, gotten its purposes, and stoops to habFrom zone to zone and sea to sea its that result in low ideals, low schol'Til next we meet again. arship, and poor management." (Dean -NEWTON VAN WHY Nowotny, in the Dean's Monthly, UniCaduceus of Kappa Sigma versity of Texas.)

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One World for Religion Too

By HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Condensed from an address before the Protestant Council of the City of New York and reprinted by permission of the Reader's Digest.

HE dominant fact of our era is that this is one world whose interdependence forces us to live together if we are going to live at all.

This is one world fo r the nations of men, one world for the races of men, one world for public health-no barriers can now shut epidemics out, and we are preparing to build, not in the South Sea Islands but in New York City, one of the greatest centers in the world for the treatment of tropical diseases.

In one realm after another we confront this oneness of the world. Let us face the fact that this is one world for religion too!

Religion ought to have been the great unifying force among men-one divine power, one moral law, one family of mankind. Instead, religion has been one of the most bitterly divisive forces in history. One thinks with sympathy of that Irishman, saddened by the long feud between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in his little island, who exclaimed, "Would to God we were all atheists, so that we could live together like Christians! " The solution is no sentimental minimizing of the differences between the great religions as though they all taught much the same thing. They don't teach the same thing. The differences are profound. Buddhism and Christianity have a wide area in the ethical realm where they are almost identical, but in the philosophy behind the ethic they are sharply at odds. Nevertheless, any one of us who has had the privilege of friendship with finespirited Buddhists, Mohammedans, Hindus, knows that a rEal kinship is there too, that makes possible cooperation for certain common ends. And what is thus r evealed in individual relationships can be enlarged, if we w ill, into a united effort for moral and spiritual causes on which mankind's welfare depends.

To come closer home, w e must stress togetherness rather than separateness in this country between Catholics, Jews and Protestants. When war comes these three work together without compr omise of conscience. Why not in peace? We shall lose one of the most cr itical spiritual and mor al battles in our nation's history unless we get together for certain common ends.

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Take education, for example. There is, I think, no possibility of overstating the danger involved in what is happening in this country now-millions of our youth growing up in our public schools and state universities almost totally illiterate with refer ence to the best spiritual heritage of our Western World. Separation of church and state is basic in this nation, but-interpreted to mean no religious teaching in our schools-it has reached a consequence that would make the nation's founders turn over in their graves.

It isn't simply that positive r eligious teaching is shut out. What often happens is that irreligious teaching is permitted. To know what materialistic science teaches-that is education. To learn all about F r eud, not simply as a genius in psychiatr y but as an atheist who thought all religion an illusionthat is education. But to acquaint our youth with the great prophets of the Old Testament, or with the personality and principles of Christ-that is re-. ligion, and must often be bootlegged in if it gets in at all.

We cannot go on that way. Some day a book must be prepared by Catholics, Jews and Protestants, presenting to American youth in the schools the spir itual heritage of our Western World, not as propaganda but as basic knowledge, if they are to understand even where our democracy came from and what it means.

But how can Catholics, Jews and Protestants get together if Protestants

cannot get together with themselves?

See what has happened! From the beginning it has been pretty much taken for granted that a church was founded on uniformity of opinion about creed, ritual and organization.

In Protestantism, however, this basic idea about a church was joined by another idea equally basic: the liberty of individuals, and of groups of individuals, to interpret the word of God in the light of their own consciences.

When these two ideas came together the consequence was inevitable. Every time a group of individuals gets a new slant in doctrine it splits off and forms another church. In the United States this process has been mainly responsible for shattering Protestantism into more than 250 sects whose differences are not relevant to any important problem in the world. Our whole policy must be reversed. We have gone on splitting long enough. We must stress our unities, not our differences.

I am not forgetting the historic necessities that lay behind our great denominations, or the incalculable service that they have rendered the cause of Christ, but this is a new era and our present divided estate has become intolerable. It outrages intelligence and alienates thousands of our most thoughtful people. One day Lloyd George, driving through North Wales with a friend, said to him, "The church I belong to is torn with a fierce dispute.

One section says that baptism is in the name of the Father, the other that it is into the name of the Father. I belong to one of these parties. I feel most strongly about it. I would die for it, in fact-but I forget which it is."

From the fact that a man is a Presbyterian, a Methodist, a Baptist, a Lutheran, or an Episcopalian, can we tell what he believes? Do not a Baptist and a Methodist often agree far better than either one of them does with many of his own brethren? A Baptist church and a Presbyterian church set side by side often stand for the same thing, preach the same gospel, in all their major emphases indistinguishable from each other. But two Baptist churches, or two Episcopal churches, set side by side, are sometimes so different that they will hardly have anything to do with each other.

The old denominational system is obsolete, and our divisional lines have

The Triad, Spring, 1946 no more relevance to the real problems of Christianity and of the world than the boundaries of ancient Indian tribes have to the UNO. Well, a new era has dawned, and I have faith that Protestantism will yet measure up to it. From our returning chaplains we shall get a lot of help.

In the South Sea Islands some of them have thanked God that Christianity got there first. One of our boys wrote to his mother: "Because of missions I was feasted and not feasted upo~ when I fell from the sky into this village." The Christianity which accomplished that, however, was not some sectarian peculiarity, but the fundamental and eternal verities of the faith common to all of us.

I am not expecting miracles. I am not pleading, even, for immediate organizational union between denominations save as that rises naturally from the spirit of the people. We must start with the spirit of unity, from which alone union can ever come. The day has come for togetherness, not separateness, in local congregations and in large-scale cooperative work. That is the starting point.

Reputation or Character The circumstances amid which you live determine your reputation ; what you believe determines your character.

Reputation is what you are known to be; character is what you are.

Reputation is a manufactured thing, rolled and plated and hammered and brazed and bolted; character is a growth.

Reputation comes over one from without; character grows up from within.

Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.

Your reputation may be learned in an hour ; your character may not come to light for a year.

If you want to get a position, you need a reputation; if you want to keep it, you need character.

Reputation makes you rich or makes you poor; character makes you happy or makes you miserable.

-WILLIAM HERSEY DAVIS

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The Readjustment Shoe ByCHARLESR.DALTON Reprinted from The Saturday Review of Literature TORIES in current magazines tell me that Gis aren't buying education. Across my desk come publications, stressing the need for careful handling of servicemen back from the wars. One might easily wonder whether it were advisable to interview one of these men without the assistance of a psychiatrist at the elbow to lend counsel and direction. From other sources have come grave forebodings of the raid to be made upon the United States Treasury by veterans who hope to use the GI Bill for a long loaf in sequestered college halls (though sequestered college halls now exist principally in the imagination) .

This may all be true. Certainly the authors have not failed to accompany their assertions and predictions with logic, facts, and impressive, if not convincing, statistics. I cannot refute them in kind. I can cite nothing but impressions gained from hundreds of interviews and the experience of one college of a university just approaching the flood-tide of veteran education.

Actually, I have been so besieged, bewitched, and bewildered by the thousands of letters that come pouring into the office that there has been no opportunity to engage in mathematical computations or veteran research. So, if you read further, I warn you that my own conclusions result, not from analysis and research, but from inescapable convictions of a somewhat addled brain.

Maybe the Gis are not buying education, but, if not, they are amusing themselves in a futile correspondence that promises to outdo the chain letter racket of the thirties. From all over the world come long letters of inquiry, transcripts of records, requests for information about appropriate U.S .A.F.!. courses, and just plain letters seeking educational advice, all looking toward eventual college admission. Some of these men are now discharged from the service; others look forward to months and possibly years in armies of occupation. Some have had a year or two of college; many have not yet completed their secondary school programs. These letters come from good students, poor students, and some that are hopelessly unprepared, both in achievement and aptitude. They come from Majors, Commanders, Privates, and Seamenbut they come.

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The College of Arts and Science of the University of Rochester has limited its peacetime entering classes in the College for Men to approximately 200. It is, therefore, to be classed among the smaller colleges of the country. Yet letters from servicemen are now r.oming in at the rate of 500 to 600 a month (Now 100 a day.-Editor) and we are interviewing 200 to 250 in a similar period. Ther e is no indication that we have yet approached the peak.

It is true that many of these men who now for the first time see an opportunity for higher education will be found, after careful testing and examination, to be unprepared and unsuited for a college program. The loss will be heavy. The amazing thing is the determination which these men exhibit and the lengths to which they are willing to go to make a college education possible. A very large proportion of them never seriously considered college before they entered the armed forces, or, if they did, promptly dismissed it from their minds because the financial barrier was too great to hurdle. Association with others in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps has given them a per spective on the advantages which a college education can offer them. The men say and write these things directly.

One may well question how many will eventually enter any college or university. One may even more seriously question how many will complete the programs they are now contemplating. Not even the Gallup Poll, however, could convince me that the veterans have no interest in taking advantage of their educational opportunities. A few days ago I received a telephone call from a director of admissions of a neighboring institution. He apparently wanted to talk with someone else who was also floundering about in a sea of applications and cor respondence. If so, he turned in the right direction. Upon comparing notes I soon discover ed that I was not the only one who was experiencing the frustration of being unable adequately to cope with the thousands of wellthought-out and carefully prepared questions which these men are asking.

Recently I was present at a meeting attended by the deans of many of the prominent Eastern colleges. Their reports also confirm my own impres-

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sions. They too are wondering how we are going to accommodate the students who are planning to enter college within the next 12 to 24 months.

We may all be wrong-very wrongbut if the Gis are not buying educatio~, they are certainly engaged ~ ~e most colossal educational shoppmg m the history of this country.

But what about the men themselves?

Are they really different? Are the;v difficult to handle? Not in my experience. Of course, a few, relatively, do show evidence of battle fatigue, a~~ others seem obviously unsuited to rmhtary life even in peacetime. They are the unusual cases, and even they present much less of a problem than you might imagine. The others, and I do not exclude those suffering from severe physical disabilities, are relatively easy to handle. They are mature, frank, and used to facing ~acts squarely. Their experien:e has given them a light on the meamng of an education and a sense of purpose. They are more vocational-minded, somewhat more realistic, and less interested in fraternities, campus life, and the football team. And why not? They have no time to waste, and they know it.

A large percentage of them are ma_rried at 22 23 and 24-perhaps one m three. M~y of them have children.

Class rivalry, freshman hats, and student life seem just as unimportant to them as they are important to the 17year-old. To a large extent the social aspects of a college experience, so important to the youngster directly out of high school, have been achieved by these men on other fields.

Nor does the admission officer in talking with a veteran need to hold the cards close to his shirt. The college I represent and many others that I know about are making a careful, conscientious effort to determine the probable college success of veterans, using a somewhat different yardstick than that employed for the normal entering freshman. Many studies, as well as our own experience, lead us to the conclusion that the four-year high school record of the average entering student is still the best single criterion of his probable achievement in college. Interviews, examinations, aptitude tests, and many other criteria are helpful and important, but they are supplementary in character. These men, however, are not average entering students.

Years have elapsed in most instances since they completed their high school work. At the time they were in their secondary school program, in all too many cases they were forced to look upon their high school diploma as the end of the road of their formal educa-

tion a certificate which gave them an opp~rtunity to look fo~ a j~b. The future was obscure and mcentlves unreal. Their courses, achievem~nt, and high school interests were a direct reflection of these facts. .

Since that time they have gamed both physical and mental maturity; they have thought and thought deeply.

They have planned for the future when such plans were the only things _that gave life meaning. They have gamed a sense of purpose and a desire to make up for lost time. Even more important, they have gained a chance never before open to them. These, t~en ar~ not the same men whose academic achievement in high school is recorded in letters or figures on their high scho~l transcripts. To fail to understand this would not be only a sad commentary. on admission procedures in the colleges, but a source of justifiable exasperation to the men themselves.

Recognizing these factors, my. o~n college and many others ar~ givm~ veterans reasonably exhaustive aptitude and placement tests, as well as other tests of interest and adjustment.

If it appears that they have the mental equipment, as well as sufficient background upon which to build, the college is eager to give them a chance. If the tests confirm the worst in their high school records, we are convi~ced that it is not only unwise but possibly even criminal to encourage them to make the try. All too frequently, the case is borderline, with all the evidence in. When, in such cases, it seems wise to lay all the cards on the table and tell the veteran that his chance of success in this type of endeavor is so poor that the college does not feel justified in accepting him, or that the chances are only 50-50, even with his best efforts, he can take it and does-not with resentment, not with a defeatist attitude, but with his chin up, and, more often than not, with a word of appreciation for telling him before he wastes more years struggling up a blind alley. It is my experience that the veteran wants an assurance of reasonable consideration. He wants, as all of us do, some understandings of his goals and his past missteps, if any.

Once assured of this, he invites straight talk and likes to see the cards face up.

College is only one of the many educational opportunities offered under the GI Bill. To direct men away from a college program to other types of schools or training is not to deprive

them of the privileges which that legislation offers, but rather to encourage them to undertake a program which gives promise of a fair measure of success and a more rewarding and satisfying experience. Admission officers, in acting upon applications of veterans are sailing between Scylla and Ch~rybdis. Sometimes the channel appears extremely narrow. To steer too far to the right may deprive some well qualified veterans of the chance they have long sought. To steer too much to the left may easily result in placing the veteran in a position where he will not only meet frustration in a college program but also lose his ~ene­ fits under the GI Bill through failure to make satisfactory progress. These facts a GI quickly understands. When it becomes necessary to tell him that his best interest does not seem to lie in attempting a college program, that idea does not need to be conveyed to him obliquely or by implication.

Finally, I am most encouraged _by the use which the veterans are makmg of their educational privileges. We have taken chances on their admission in many borderline cases-with their knowledge. Even with all the background data assembled, much must be left to the judgment of the committee or individual responsible for the final decision. The best instruments so far devised for predicting college success are far from completely trustworthy.

They aid in forming a judgment, but do not make that judgment automatic.

Under such limitations, any director of admissions must play some hunches and supplement his evidence with opinion and sometimes even guesswork, unless he is content merely to play it safe-a dangerous policy at best. So far our experience with veterans is limited-too limited to be of statistical significance, as a statistician would say. But, if we were to draw any conclusion from the records which these men have so far made, it would be that, as a group, their accomplishment has exceeded our expectations.

In general, the chances we have taken appear well justified. These veterans have gone back to their books with a will and persistence. They have not only worked, but achieved.

If our past is any indication of our future experience-and it may not be -my hat's off to them. It may well be that we-not the veterans-will have to revise long established procedures and convictions and make our own adjustment in the face of new evidence. Our problem is not alone the problem of helping the veteran adjust to civilian life, but of adjusting civilian (and academic) life to the realism and maturity of the veteran.

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The Army and Art

By RALPH W. HAMMETT, HarYard '22 HE ave~age civilian has very little conception of Army organization, how it functions and how very efficient it is. Given a job to do, it has methods and means that have been planned months, yes, even years, in advance. The Army cannot afford to fail in any of the tasks that are assigned to it. Naturally there are examples of bungling, there are slow-ups and delays which are not always easily explained. The Army is made up of human beings and as such is dependent upon men and human endeavor. Yet due to organization, years of staff planning, discipline, and know-how, the Army usually comes through.

Essentially the Army is planned to wage wars, and it was not until the last few years that the American public became aware that a myriad of other tasks had a,lso to be assigned to it. The war was well along before it was realized that military government was an important military function, though the Army itself had realized this for a long time. Germany and Japan had trained for military government for more than a decade prior to the present war. We also had indulged in military government of one kind or another following our several wars; but, chiefly because we do not wage war for territorial aggrandizement, the Army was not entrusted with the full job of civil affairs-in occupied countries known as military government-until well into 1944. We had had AMG before that time, but this had been partially under the tutelage of the British and more of a stepchild than an actual part of the Army. A clear-cut policy was awaited from Washington.

However, the Army had not lost time in planning. Civil Affairs Train ing Schools under the Provost Marshal in Washington had been turning out trained specialists for almost two years when G-5 Section, in charge of civil affairs, was set up as a separate and distinct staff section of the Army.

At that time several thousand officers and men were already overseas. Civil affairs has functioned smoothly since that time.

The job which G-5 has done in France and Belgium is tremendous, to say nothing of its accomplishments in Italy and Germany and other occupied and liberated countries. It supplied food to Paris, by truck and airplane, in the early days of liberation; was responsible for the handling and return of thousands of displaced liberated per-

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sons-Poles, French, Russians, and Belgians; carried out the speedy rehabilitation of water supplies, sanitary facilities, communication lines, postal services, agriculture, factories, financial institutions, and education. Yet the press has been quick to criticize when a flaw appeared or some detail was slow in accomplishment. The tremendous job has been taken for granted.

Early in 1943 a commission was set up in Washington, with a similar one in Britain, for the preservation of arts, monuments, and libraries. It was known that the Germans had undertaken a like responsibility early in the war, and though perverted as it may have been for their own ends, this store of incalculable wealth had at least been saved from undue war damage. The Allied armies in Italy and northern Europe were soon charged with the same responsibility. General Eisenhower, in the Italian Theater and, before invasion, in the European Theater, put out letters on policy, followed by directives to all branches of the Allied military forces. The European Theater letter read as follows: Shortly we ;will be fighting our way across the Continent of Europe in battles In m any areas of France, as in other Euro ¡ pean countries and in the Far East too, many historical monuments a nd art treasures were damaged or destroyed . Every possible precaution, however. was taken to preserve them. and in this work Ralph W. Hammett, as Captain in the American Army in the European Theater of Operations, had charge of the preservation is so far as possible of historical monuments in northern France. In civil life he is Professor of Architecture in the University of Michigan, to which position he returned a few months ago. He w as born in Mankato, Minnesota, in 1896, and after graduating from the University of Minnesota in architecture in 1919, he studied at Harvard, receiving his master's degree in architecture in 1923. For three years, 1924-26, he was Nelson Robinson, Jr., Traveling Fellow in Europe and the Orient. He came to Michigan in 1931 after four years as Associate Professor of Architecture, Armour Institute of Technology, in Chicago, where he was also connected with the architectural firm of Eric E .

Hall and Company, and was in charge of design for the Cook County Criminal Court Building and the Chicago Indoor Stadium. He is the author of a book, The Romanesque of Western Europe (1927), and was editor of the Western Architect in 1929.

designed to preserve our civilization. Inevitably in the path of our advance will be found historical monuments and cultural centers which symbolize to the world all that we are fighting to preserve.

It is the responsibility of every commander to protect and respect these symbols whenever possible.

In some circumstances the success of the military operation may be prejudiced in our reluctance to destroy these revered objects. Then, as at Cassino, where the enemy relied on our emotional attachments to shield his defense, the lives of our men are paramount. So, where military necessity dictates, commanders may order the required action even though it involves destruction of some honored site.

But there are many circumstances in which damage and destruction are not necessary and cannot be justified. In such cases, through the exercise of restraint and discipline, commanders will preserve centers and objects of historical and cultural significance. Civil Affairs Staffs (G-5) at higher echelons will advise commanders of the locations of historical monuments both in advance of the front lines and in occupied areas.

This letter, coming as it did from the Supreme Commander, set the policy and placed the operational responsibility directly upon the shoulders of Headquarters, ETOUSA (European Theater of Operations, United States Army). Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF) set the policy for all American, French, and British armies. ETOUSA was the operating headquarters for all United States forces. It was over the Combat Zone and the Communications Zone.

Army Group Headquarters operated the armies, while Communications Zone Headquarters operated the great supply area behind the armies. This embraced practically all of France, southern Belgium, and Luxembourg.

It omitted only a portion of southwestern France and a strip along the northern coast which was controlled by the British.

The staff of Communications Zone also acted as Headquarters, ETOUSA, until the reorganization of the theater after V-E Day. The paramount problem of Headquarters, Communications Zone, was supply to the armies in the combat areas. G -4 Section was in charge of that responsibility. G -5 Section, under Brigadier General C. P. Stearns, had the responsibility of supervising the civilian population ; seeing to it that local and national government functioned and that the civilian population did not interfere with the military operation.

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76 One of these responsibilities was the preservation of monuments, fine arts, and archives. The author was placed in charge of this work under General Stearns. It was an endeavor that loomed large in France as it involved one of the greatest single assets of the country. The tourist business of France in the twenties and thirties was one of the greatest outside sources of income that the country had. Its wealth in art objects and historical monuments can hardly be estimated in dollars. No people love its art apd historical monuments more than do the F r ench, and no nation takes better care of its treasures. Many French families invest in art objects the way Americans invest in stocks and bonds. It was important, therefore, to recognize these facts and aid in the preservation of their arts and historical buildings. It was necessary as part of our public relations also to safeguard our government from exorbitant claims that could be charged against our military forces .

So during the combat phase of the war, that is from D Day to V -E Day, each army had' a specialist officer in charge of the preservation of historical monuments, fine arts, and ar chives.

These officers, in so far as they were able, saw to it that no undue damage took place. Lists and maps were supplied to all armies down as far as divisions. Artilleries were briefed as to the importance of their targets, and after the armies moved in, important sites were immediately put "off limits." The air forces were also supplied with maps and lists, and it is to the great credit of the air forces and our artilleries that most of the important monuments wer e spared. Many are the examples of towns almost destroyed, with only historical monuments saved or at least only partially damaged. The preservation of such outstanding monuments as the cathedrals of Coutances, Rouen, Tours, and Orleans can be credited to the careful work of our air combat forces. The respect that GI Joe paid to the historical shrines of Europe surpassed most expectations. Biweekly reports of these Ar my specialist officers wer e sent up to SHAEF via Army Group and ETOUSA headquarters.

As the Combat Zone moved forward the Advance Section of the Communications Zone closed in to their rear and took over a temporary area. This section also had a monuments specialist officer who further checked the damage to historical buildings, fine arts, and librar ies. Contacts were made with owners and F rench government officials in charge of the various monuments. Instr uctions were given as to the joint responsibility of th e military

and the French. Ostensibly the native authority continued its control, though our military had the right to take over and use any building, no matter how important, if military necessity demanded. ¡ The commanding general of any military zone had supreme powers within that area and was advised by the monuments specialist officer if controversial questions arose. As the Communications Zone enlarged, it was divided into base sections. These sections embraced three or more French departments (prefectures) and not only had charge of supply bases in those areas but supervised local and prefecture government. By V-E Day, France had seen itself divided into ten such areas by the United States military, starting out with strict and rigorous control in most instances but relaxing that control to the French authorities as soon as it was ascertained that they were capably reorganized.

As the armies took over in combat, civil affairs teams were left in each important department capital and commercial center. These teams, as they remained, then progressively passed from the command of the Army to the commanding general of the advance section and then to the base section commander. As the situation permitted, areas were consolidated, teams were gradually pulled out and sent forward, and France regained control.

In the field of beaux-arts and monuments historiques, France is very well organized and at no time during German occupation did she lose control.

Soon after Munich she started moving her valuable collections to various depositories, where everything was packed, listed, and kept under constant guard. These depositories were scattered all over western and southern France and were for the most part large out-of-the-way chateaux. Their contents included the ' best from national and municipal collections, the finest stained glass from churches and cathedrals, valuable archives, and a few of the finest private collections.

During occupation the Germans were aware of most of these depositories and regularly inspected many of them. With a few exceptions they were not interested in disturbing collections owned by the government as they controlled the government and figur ed that after the war they could do as they wished with these prizes.

For that reason the works of the Louvre fared very well. M. Jacques Jaujard, Directeur des Musees Nationaux, kept much information secret, and it is due to him that loan exhibitions of some of the great master pieces were not sent to Berlin for

display. During the occupation the Germans made several overtures to have exhibitions set up, even to having some of the works brought out of hiding, but M. Jaujard very effectively put them off with one excuse or another so that very little was disturbed.

On the other hand private collections that were not hidden away did not fare so well. The Germans confiscated Jewish properties from the very start. Chateaux and fine residences were plundered ruthlessly, and millions of dollars worth of furnishings, paintings, sculpture, books, and silverware were exported into Germany. A clearing house was set up in the J eu de Paume in Paris, where inventories were kept a,nd the finest art works were displayed for sale. Goering visited this changing display no less than thirteen times during occupation in order to buy masterpieces for himself and Hitler. Art dealers attended auctions here once a week, and art works were bargained for and sold to German collaborateurs or to underworld fences that trafficked them to all parts of the world via Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal.

Looting of chauteaux and fine residences in France and Belgium became one of the big businesses of German occupation. Jewish-owned residences were not the only ones that were looted. A steady caravan of trucks and freight cars loaded with fine furnishings, art goods, pianos, and electric refrigerators passed over the German border every day. The return of this stolen property is not one of our problems, though we are giving every assistance to the French in aiding its return and seeing to it that no further sales take place.

The chief problem of G-5 Section, Communications Zone, was recording of war damage, giving general protection, and supervising billeting of troops. There was great temptation during the cold spell of last winter for troop commanders, particularly of service forces, to take over chateaux for billeting purposes. In general there was no great objection to these uses.

The ofllcer in charge was responsible for the action of his men, and it was the task of billeting officers, with the guidance of monuments specialist officers, to warn these units of priceless values.

Few officers were willing to take the responsibility for valuable works of art, though many instances arose where our soldiers were not aware of the value of their surroundings. They often installed themselves and consulted afterwards. There was one instance where a field kitchen was set up on the ground floor of a pavilion that housed

The Triad, Spring, 1946 on the second floor one of the most valuable private libraries of France.

The fact that this collection was hidden there was not generally known, it was one of the many secrets of occupation.

In another part of the chateau a locked chapel housed valuable furnishings, tapestries, and art objects.

Our unit had installed a gasoline storage dump adjacent. Needless to say, it did not take long for this unit to move when advised of the risks it was taking. Many of the most ~evered chateaux were placed out- of - bounds though in some instances owners and caretakers objected to having their buildings plastered with signs as it drew attention to their value. Most often their contents were kept secret.

It was safer that way.

As stated earlier in this article, all headquarters were supplied with lists of most of the historical buildings of Europe, a veritable Baedeker compiled by Harvard University and edited

by SHAEF. All monuments officers worked with these lists, checked all objects in路 their territories, and reported, through their commanding officers, to Communications Zone Headquarters their findings and action taken. Disciplinary action, if necessary, could be instituted in the name of the Commanding General and police power was exerted through the Provost Marshal. However, it is of great credit to the specialist officers that very few extreme cases had to be taken care of.

The French were very co-operative, and there are many instances where details of occupancy were worked out between the owner and the American unit involved. Many cases are on record where French owners invited American units to occupy their chateaux. But that did not make Headquarters, Communications Zone, any the less aware of its responsibilities.

There are a few cases where American units were invited in and then abused their privileges. There were several instances of thievery; abuse of fine architecture and furnishings ; misuse of fine lawns, gardens, and orchards; prodigal dissipation of coal and wood supplies; use of fire in rooms that had inadequate or no provision for heating. Seven fires were reported in chateaux during the cold spell of last December and January, five of them caused almost total loss. The point is that under international law, any damage done by our troops after combat was chargeable to our Army.

Our claim department was interested in keeping these bills to a minimum.

All monuments specialist officers were equipped with candid cameras and given the status of official photographers. Their reports were supple-

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mented with photographic records, one copy of which was filed at Headquarters, Communications Zone ETOUSA and the other sent on to SHAEF. Gen~ erally these records showed damage caused by combat or by the Germans p rior to our occupancy. They may be of great value in case of future contra . versy. The writer set up a card cata 路 log at G -5 Section, Communications Zone, listing each monument, art collection, chateau, and library by department, town, and city. As reports came in they were dated and indexed as to file number so they could easily be found.

By this means eighteen separate lists of monuments and fine arts sent forward by SHAEF were brought together in one geographical and alphabetical card catalog. Whenever information was asked for on any monument whatsoever, Headquarters knew immediately if it had received a report on that monument, the date that report was made and received, and, by referring to the file as indexed, what the specialist officer had said about it.

This card catalog and file will eventually be among the archives of the War Department in Washington as part of the history of the war. Though partially compiled in Normandy under field conditions and, therefore, not models of catalog procedure, they nevertheless fulfilled a great mission and will undoubtedly be the source of much future information on war d amage to European monuments.

The following is a general summary of the work done by the various specialist officers in the Communications Zone from the time that zone became operative until March 1, 1945, when most activity in this field had b een turned back to the French and B elgian authorities: Over fifteen hundred sites were visited and reported upon.

Three hundred and twenty chateaux and historical residences were placed "off limits," and approximately twice that number given protection.

All churches were given protection, and thirty-seven were placed "off limits" when they were badly damaged.

One hundred and thirty-seven museums and libraries were given protection; most of them were placed "off limits" until the local authorities could take over.

One hundred and eighteen depositories of works of art were placed "off limits."

The following officers were most active in the Communications Zone as monument and fine art specialists. All were chosen for their special qualifications and in civilian life held various positions in the fields of architecture, museum work, or education: Lieutenant James J. Rorimer was with Advance Section until the liberation of

Paris. He was then transferred to the base section that had charge of Paris and the three departments of that vicinity. In civilian life he is Curator of Medieval Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Captain Walter Huchthausen (killed in action as Monuments Specialist Officer with the Ninth United States Army on April 2, 1945) in November was assigned to the base section that had charge of the Loire Valley and areas north to the Department of Calvados. In civilian life he was Professor of Architecture at the University of Minnesota.

Lieutenant Roger Clarke was at Oise Section, which centered in Rheims and controlled most of the territory east of Paris. Lieutenant Clarke was from California and has a splendid background of fine arts training.

Major Stratton Hammon, architect of Louisville, Kentucky, was at Advance Section from September first until November, when he was confined to the Ninety-ninth United States Army Hospital due to eye trouble. His place was taken by Lieutenant Daniel Kern, of New York City, who in civilian life is connected with the Museum of Modern Art. Other officers included Captain Young, who covered the Rhone Valley ; Lieutenant D. L. Price at Channel Base Section; and Captain Williams in east-central France.

In some areas one report was made and the territory turned over to the French authorities. In others, such as port areas, the Paris vicinity, and eastward where the great supply routes compelled our military to keep numerous service units, problems of protecting monuments and fine arts were numerous and continuing. G -5 Section, Communications Zone, was kept busy supervising the work in the zone, formulating directives covering the various situations as they applied to the over-all changing picture, and coordinating its work with that of Army Group Headquarters.

Most complaints from French authorities and owners whose property seemed to be in need of special attention were channeled through Communications Zone Headquarters. Much of the work路 in the late winter and spring was trouble shooting. Field supervisory trips took up much time, 路 since it was often impossible to write or telephone instructions.

It was ail very interesting, and though many were the headaches, there were also contingencies that kept life from being dull. It was a monuments specialist officer who was the first to enter the Luxembourg Palace of Paris and found the Senate wing loaded with mines and booby traps.

Another situation was the discovery that one of our units was occupying a residence that contained a most valuable collection of early twentieth-cen(Concluded on page 92)

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Amplifications and Ad Lib Once Over Lightly We have it from our earnest contemporary, the Saturday Review of Literature, that people keep asking for some weird things in bookstores when they try to recall book titles.

One damsel requested What Her Son Did to Me when she wanted The Sun is My Undoing. A customer for Walter Winchell's Under Cover asked for Between the Sheets. A seeker after Ogden Nash's I'm a Stranger Here My self demanded I Wasn't There Either.

The Saturday Review reports further that the librarian at Ft. Lewis, Wash., had a recent request for a book by "that French author, Risque."

Wham from Amsterdam If you don't want to be a square, you'd better beat the rocks to the nearest newsstand and fetch yourself the Hepcat's Jive Talk Dictionary. It's sharp, Jackson, solid!

"Are you jive wise?" T .W.O. Charles Company, Derby, Conn., publishers of this intriguing item, wants to know.

To find out, you turn to the inside back cover where there are "ten typical questions," such as: "Can you distinguish between RED EYE and RED INK?" We peeked and now we can. Red eye is catsup and red ink is Italian wine.

And "have you a GANG BUSTER with a TWO-WAY STRETCH in your home?" After making a quick search of our premises, we looked it up and got hep to the fact that this is a "mother-in-law" in jive talk.

The Hepcat's Dictionary has 1500 jive words and phrases and is neatly decorated with full-page photos of such jivey worthies as Frank Sinatra and Count Basie and a back cover montage of solid senders like Benny Goodman.

All for a quarter of a frogskin.

Section One on Jive Wor ds takes you all the way from abercrombie (n.) , a know-it-all, to zowie (inter.), an exclamation of approval.

All are intriguing enough, but what really sends us is Section Two with Jive Phrases, ranging from Able Grable, a well-built girl, to zoot suit and including: BIG DRIP, Niagara Falls.

BRACE 0 ' HOOKERS, arms.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, m en's room.

CIDTTERING CHOPPER, loose tooth.

ICE PALACE, smart jewelry store.

MOOLA MOMMA, wealthy widow.

RACKET JACKET, zoot suit.

SNIFFLE STOPPER, handkerchief.

SOFT TOP, bar stool.

SPIN A WREN, dancing with a woman.

UNRAVEL THE GRAVEL, dish out gossip.

WHAT'S YOUR LINE, FRANKENSTINE? What's your business?

Section Three tops all that ; it has us practically blowing our wig, which is to say uncontrollably excited, jively speaking.

This is on "Jeographical Jive" and runs from a Keen from Aberdeen, who is a sharp trader to Frails from Wales, who are foreigners (female).

Typical jeographical jive, according to the Hepcat's Dictionary: ZANY from ALLEGHENY, pixilated person.

WHAM from AMSTERDAM, swell fellow .

SANTA from ATLANTA, easy mark.

HERRING from BERING, poor fish.

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Browns, 684,700 Williamses and 658,300 Joneses in the United States.

Which reminds us of Ogden Nash's request that somebody write a poem about rabbits without mentioning their habits.

Leg Queen Among the many contests relating to the pulchritude of American beauties was the one conducted by the Hosiery Designers of America in a nation-wide contest to elect a Hollywood actress "leg queen" of the year largely because of the proportions of her extremities. The hosiery designers must have really yielded +o certain charms as the newspapers received a photograph showing the queen posing in a bathing suit without stockings.

Charming Fable A speaker was proposing a vote of thanks to the rather corpulent president of a club. "There is a charming fable that when a baby is born, its guardian angel implants a kiss. If the kiss be on the brow, the child will be intellectual; but on the eyes, very beautiful, if on the fingers, very artistic, and so on. Now I cannot say where the angel kissed our president, but I do know that he makes an excellent chairman."

Onomatopoetic MOOLA from HONOLULU, Hawaiian currency.

BRAIN from MAINE, wise guy.

BUCKET from NANTUCKET, heavy drinker.

BIG FORK from NEW YORK, heavy eater.

MENACE from VENICE, knifewielder.

About all this, T.W.O. Charles Company has to say that the old cry of "The King is dead, long live the King" is replaced today by a strange shout: "Webster is dead, long live .the Hepster."

We doubt it, though, the way we've seen some of these hepsters knock themselves out spinning a wren.

Of All Names . ...

Census figures show 1,304,300 Smiths, 1,024,200 J ohnsons, 730,500

An irate citizen living close to a railroad yard wrote the railroad company the following complaint: "Gentlemen: Why is it that your switch engine has to ding and dong and fizz and spit and bang and hiss and pant and grate and grind and pug and bump and chug and hoot and toot and whistle and wheeze and jar and jerk and howl and snarl and puff and groan and thump and boom and smash and jolt and screech and snort and slam and throb and roar and rattle and yell and smoke and smell and shriek like hell all night long?"

Age of Consent "I can't marry you," said the justice of the peace.

"If this girl is only seventeen, you will have to get her father's consent."

"Consent!" yelled the groom-to-be.

"Say, who do you think this old guy with the rifle is-Daniel Boone?"

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Incidental Intelligence

Little John to Chew

Deafness Preferred

There is no connection, of course, but the fellow who wrote the memorable and ever-popular Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, is still a bachelor and in his fifties.

If you'd like a phonograph record with "Whiskey Head Buddies" on one side and "Afraid to Trust Them" on the other . .. or a Salap Root, shaped like a hand, complete with red curio carrying bag at 3 for $1, F . W. Boercher of Port Washington, Wis., is your man.

He sells records-mostly blues and hot jive-by mail to colored folks in the deep South, and also has a few "popular curios you will cherish" as a sideline.

His mail-order folder is pretty potent. He has two albums of waxings by Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong that will, he says, excite every nerve in your body.

We were rather impressed by some of the combinations that resulted from opposite sides of the same record. Like "No Baby Nobody But You" and "Fifteen Years and I'm S till Serving Time." or: "Don't Worry 'Bout That Mule" and "Buzz Me." If it's blues you want, Boercher's got 'em. He has "High Price Blues" and "Up To Date Blues," "Vitamin A Blues," "Fish Market Blues" and even "OPA Blues."

If so much blues gets you down, you can get yourself some "Van Van Oil." This is "so-called Van Van Oil." "Many folks," say Boercher, "like to use it by sprinkling on doorsteps, pocketbooks, etc." He adds hastily, "We make no claims, and offer only as a popular curio."

We were really fascinated by "oddappearing Little John to Chew" which sets you back half a washer. Boercher says many like to chew it, others just carry it in their pocket.

The story is told that Thomas Lamont, a MorgaR partner, became increasingly deaf as his years advanced, although a specialist had assured him that his hearing would improve if he'd stop drinking.

"Didn't you try this?" a friend asked.

"Yes, I did," Mr. Lamont replied. "It was a fact-I did hear a lot better. I could hear almost perfectly, but after a while I came to the conclusion that what I drank was so much better than what I heard that I took up drinking again."

Comment Declined The classical languages are not now as popular as they once were, but many will remember the trouble we had declining verbs in Latin. It's an old one, but worth repeating: Dogo Dogere Barki Bitum Pigo Pigere Squeeli Eatum.

Renewing Heaven The parishioners of an old Belgian church were quite upset by a bill they received from the artists whom they had hired for some repairs.

The artist rendered the bill as one lump sum, and thinking it far too high, the townsfolk asked for an itemized account. They got it!

To correcting Ten Commandments .. $3.12 Putting new tail on Rooster of St. Peter and mending his coat . . . . . . 3.20 Repluming and regilding wing of Guardian Angel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.18 Washing Servant of High Priest and putting carmine on his cheeks . . . . 5.02 Touching up Purgatory and restoring lost souls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.06 Taking spots off son of Tobias . . . . . . 1.30 Rebordering the robes of Herod and adjusting his wig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.00 Putting new stone in David's sling, enlarging head of Goliath and extending Saul's leg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.18 Decorating Noah's ark, putting new head on Shem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.31 Mending shirt of Prodigal Son and cleaning his ear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.39 Renewing Heaven, adjusting the stars, and cleaning up the moon ... . . . .. 7.14 Brightening up flames of Hell, putting new tail on the Devil, cleaning left hoof, and doing several odd jobs for the damned .. .. .. . ... .... 7.17 Total due ... .. .. . .. . . ........... $53.07

Vital Statistics How did you meet your wife?

Statistics show that 20 per cent met through friends, 21 per cent met at a party, 16 per cent at work, 11 per cent at school, 5 per cent on vacation, 4 per cent through neighbors, another 4 per cent by the "pick up" method, 3 per cent at church and 7 per cent through miscellaneous ways.

Eureka!

They told him it couldn't be done.

All the greybeards, the men of experience, shook their heads. The job was impossible.

But he was young, clear-eyed and unafraid. He took on this job that couldn't be done.

Guess what! It couldn't!

LegRoom A grade school boy who must have been advanced-in some ways-beyond his years, was asked during a quiz on the anatomy of the human body, to define the leg. His answer was quite understandable: "Your leg is something that if you haven't got two pretty good ones of, you can't get to first base-and neither can your sister."

Relatively Opposite Mar k Twain, who was an ardent Baconian, once found himself in an argument over the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy.

"I'll wait," said Twain, " until I get to heaven and ask Bacon if he didn't write the plays."

The loyal Shakespearean replied, "I don't think you'll find Bacon in heaven."

"Then you can ask him," was Twain's rejoinder. -Boston Tran~cript.

What's Your Color?

Sorority Spunk When sororities were banned from the Stanford University campus, a resourceful band of loyal A 0 Pis not only moved "bag and baggage" from Stanford to another university, but actually moved all chapter furnishings, household equipment- even their cherished housemother-right down to the University of Southern California where a brand new chapter was born.

Vive la Fraternite!

Some mighty interesting research on colors has been done by the Eagle Printing Ink Company, who have just uncovered the symbolism of jewel hues in Brazil.

There professional men wear rings to symbolize their specialty. Doctors wear an emerald ring, lawyers a ruby and engineers a sapphire. Educators flash the green tourmaline, dentists the topaz and businessmen wear the pink tourmaline.

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Daffynitions A CONFERENCE is a group of men who individually can do nothing, but as a group can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

A STATISTICIAN is a man who draws a mathematically precise line from an unwarranted assumption to a foregone conclusion.

A PROFESSOR is a man whose job it is to tell students how to solve the problems of life which he himself has tried to avoid by becoming a professor.

An OPTIMIST thinks the future is uncertain.

A PESSIMIST is afraid the optimist is right.

An ECONOMIST is a man who can make a simple subject complex, a complex subject simple; in other words, an economist is simply simple.

A CONSULTANT is a man who knows less about your business than you do and gets paid more for telling you how to run it than you could possibly make out of it even if you ran it right instead of the way he told you.

"W-w-w-what?" she stammered, her eyes uncontrollably dewy.

"Yes!" declared the Little Flower.

"I can't court you while you're working for me."

And in hardly any time at all they were married. And it cost the City of New York the price of three clerks, whom he had to hire to replace his very efficient ex-secretary.

New Freshman Yearbook Freshmen at Syracuse University this spring will begin publication of a freshman yearbook. The 60-page book called the Greenhorn, will be complete with a directory of first-year students and will cover freshman activities through stories, articles and photographs. Some 1,500 copies of the book will be printed.

No Doubt of It We are living in a dying and decadent age. Youth is corrupt, lack.ing in respect for elders, and impatient of restraint. Age-old truth is doubted, and the teaching of the fathers is questioned. The signs of the time forecast the destruction of the world at. an early date, and the end of time.-In-

scription on an ancient Egyptian tomb.

Service If I were to select the social force that above all others has advanced these past years ... it is that of service--service to those with whom we come in contact, service to the nation and service to the world. We find this great spiritual force poured out by our people as never before in the history of the world-the ideal of service.

-Herbert Hoover.

Genius Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.-

Lord Essex.

Fiery Proposal We'll not vouch for its veracity, but it's a good yarn none-the-less.

During one of his terms as NYC Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia called in his very efficient secretary and told her bluntly: "You're fired."

January 27, 1946 Dear Brothers: It has been so long since I wrote to you that I had better try to tell you what I was doing during that period. I guess you knew that I went to V-12 at Miami University, Ohio, from November 1, 1943, to November 1, 1944. Then I spent ten weeks at Lido Beach, Long Island, New York, in Supply Corps training for my later work at Harvard. On January 19, 1945, I went to Boston as a midshipman at the Harvard Graduate Business School to train for the Supply Corps of the Navy, and graduated as an ensign on June 26.

On June 30, oh happy day, I was married in Akron, Ohio, to Lee VanDervort's sister. I vias lucky enough to have Don Berens for my best man, and. with his support I managed to get through the ceremony 0. K. On July 9, my wife and I went to Camp Perry, Virginia, and spent eleven days there, after which I was ordered to San Bruno, California, for duty with Cub 18.

My wife again accompanied me, and we spent two wonderful months in California before I was shipped out.

I left the States on September 17 on the President Monroe, a converted luxury liner. We spent thirty days in crossing, going to the Marshalls and then on up to Okinawa. There we hit a typhoon and spent three terrible days in tremendous seas with winds up to 100 miles per hour.

At last on October 17 we arrived at our destination, no other than Sasebo, Japan.

Sasebo is located on the southern tip of Kyushu, which is the southernmost island in the Japanese group.

I was Commissary Officer of Cub 18 and finally got five mess halls established and was feeding 5400 men at one time. It was quite an experience, and I really learned

a lot before we finally got settled down here.

On January 1, Cub 18 broke up and most of the officers are now in the process of being reassigned. I am now awaiting my orders to my next duty station, the Peter H. Burnett, where I will be Assistant Supply Officer. It will be a very good billet and I'll have enough to do to pass the time until I can go home.

As to when I'll get out of the Navy, as near as I can ascertain, I can apply for discharge on March 10, and will be eligible on April 1. You can see by this that I shall be in the States before too long.

As for my plans for school and where I will finish, I haven't made up my mind for sure yet. I have somewhere between 9 and 20 hours to go for my degree and will probably go back to Ohio State. I hope I can make it anyway.

My wife sent me the Ohio Chapter section from the TRIAD in a recent letter. I was certainly glad to have news from all the fellows again. Congratulations to "Doc" Hoeffel from me if you see him or write to him. Am surely glad to hear that some of the fellows are getting home at last, and I can hardly wait to see them again. Here's to meeting all you fellows soon in our fraternity house, and also to a better fraternity, if possible, than we had before.

Fraternally, JACK

Ens. J. A. Bronson, Ohio '43 Col. Chester K. Shore, Kansas '23, has been "Mistered" out of the army, and is now back in Augusta, Kansas.

Douglas C. Jeffrey, Michigan '38, completed his army service with the rank of Major in February, 1946. He is now with duPont at Richmond, Virginia, and is living with his wife and baby son at R.F.D. No. 10, Box 397, Richmond:' Richard F . Treece, Kansas '37, received his discharge last fall as a lieutenant commander after almost five years with Uncle Sam's Navy. After that, he and his wife spent some time with his parents in Lawrence, Kansas.

Lt. Albert E. Eastman, Michigan '42, was near Foggia, Italy, as a navigator on a B-24 for several months. He was part of a group ferrying supplies for the British 8th Army. He has seen service at St. Petersburg, Grand Rapids, Hondo Field, Pueblo and Topeka, and was last reported as stationed in Tokyo.

Lt. Frederick W. Luebke, Michigan '36, enlisted in 1939. He has been stationed on both the Wasp and the Ranger, and was on the Hornet when it went down. At that time he was in the Reserve. Upon returning to the States, he transferred to the regular Navy.

Fritz was¡ married in 1942 to Carol Niles of Benton Harbor, Michigan.

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ROBERT CARL ANDERSON California

ROBERT PHELPS DAVIDSON California

PHILIP HENRY FARLEY California

BERNARD CHARLES JENSEN California

IRVING WASHINGTON LINDLAHR California

EARL REXFORD BOYD Cincinnati

STEVEN RUDOLF KIRCH Cincinnati

CARL WILLIAM SCHREIBER Cincinnati

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~cacia KEITH GRAHAM VAN NESTE Nebraska

JAMES ROWE CLELAND Northwestern

ROBERT WILLIAM KITTREDGE Northwestern

ROBERT THOMAS LAECHLE Northwestern

WILLIAM JUDSON BOWEN Ohio

FLOYD FRANKLIN CRAFT Ohio

ROBERT DENTON HUMBERT Ohio

BILLY EDWARD CARSON Oklahoma

LYCURGUS WALDEMAR JOHNSON

HENRY MARTYN DOUGHTY

Colorado

Oklahoma

ROY BRADLEY LEWIS

J. B. LONG

Colorado

Oklahoma

WENDELL CLARK JOHNSON

GLENN EWING WEESNER

Cornell

Oklahoma

RAYMOND ALBERT LULL

PARIS EDGAR PERSWELL

Cornell

Oklahoma State

CARL AUGUST OSBERG

JOHN FRANKLIN ENNIS

Cornell

Penn State

MILLARD MacDONALD BENNETT

PHILIP MELVIN SMITH

George Washington

Penn State

LEONARD DURNELL PETERSON

LANE AMIDON BOOKWALTER

George Washington

Purdue

ROSS BARTON LEMMON, Jr.

CARL LOUIS HANSING

Illinois

Purdue

JAMES GARNEL PEARSON

HENRY FRED WRIGHT

Illinois

Purdue

WILLIAM CLINTON BLACKLEDGE

CLINTON RICHARD BARTLETT

Indiana

Syracuse

HOWARD ALLEN LARKIN

CLIFFORD VINCENT DEIBLER

Indiana

Syracuse

JERALD GARMAN PORTER

MYLES WENDELL ESMAY

Kansas State

Syracuse

WILFORD HARRY BROWN

ARTHUR DEANE GUTMAN

Michigan

Syracuse

JOHN FREDERICK MUNN

LESLIE EDGAR HOFFMAN, Jr.

Michigan

Syracuse

GORDON ADOLPH LUNDIN

GILFORD EDWIN PIERCE

Minnesota

Syracuse

HAROLD ALLAN PORTILLA

GEORGE WILLIAM REYMORE

Minnesota

Washington State

CHESTER JULIUS PETERS

GORDON ROBERT MYERS

Missouri

Wisconsin

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82 students follow the regular dentistry accelerated program.

Acacians

the World Over Killed in Crash Ensign Robert Carl Anderson, Jr., California '42, was killed on April 17, 1946, when the Corsair fighter he was flying crashed 45 miles northwest of Miami, Florida. He enlisted on January 15, 194·3, while he was attending the University of California, and was commissioned last February 13 at Corpus Christi, Texas. The officials of the Miami Naval Air Station stated that his plane had failed to rejoin formation after recovering from a practice gunnery run. The wreckage was found the following day.

Brother Anderson was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carl Anderson, Sr., of 3174 Birdsall, Oakland, California.

Receives Commendation A certificate of commendation recognizing the faculty's services to the country in the V-12 training program, was given to Russell W. Bunting, Michigan '04, Dean of the Dental School at the University of Michigan. Surgeon General Ross T. Mcintire, who issued the certificate, also sent the Dean a letter of appreciation for his services.

The text of the commendation reads: "The Surgeon General, on behalf of the Medical Department of the Navy, commends you for your splendid cooperation and outstanding contribution to the education of Navy V -12 dental students for appointment in the Dental Corps of the Navy. You have rendered a distinguished service to your country during the period of World War II." During the war, 39 V-12 students were graduated from the School of Dentistry in three classes, and 28 are currently enrolled in the school. All

Dr. William J. Marshall, Michigan '04 one of the National Founders of Ac~cia, has sent us recently a poetic expression which is reprinted here. In his accompanying letter, Dr. Marshall says: "On a certain occasion I was asked to present some flowers to some important persons. I could not find what I wanted at the time, so I wrote something myself. Here it is, if you think it worth preserving" . . .

FLOWERS Flowers are the smiles of nature; They are symbolic of the emotions of the heart.

From morning until evening Heaven showers its golden sunbeams upon the breast of mother earth And quickens into action these tokens of love.

These gifts from heaven teem with beauty and sweetness To make happy the birds and the bees, And thrill the very souls of men.

They recall the innocence of childhood and youth; They bring cheer and good-will to the sick and the weary; They express the love and esteem of devoted friends,Especially when we lie at rest in our long last sleep.

-DR. WILLIAM J. MARSHALL

Indiana State Banquet a Success The Twenty-fifth Annual Indiana State Banquet of the Acacia Fraternity was held on April 13, 1946, at the Marott Hotel, under the auspices of the Indianapolis Acacia Alumni Association. There were about two hundred in attendance to enjoy the very fine banquet and the entertainment which followed . Paul E. Tombaugh, Indiana '24, presided as Toastmaster, and the speaker of the evening was Ray C. Thomas, Indiana '20. Purdue Chapter was this year's winner of the coveted Sarcophagus award.

Northwestern Celebrates· 25th Anniversary The Northwestern chapter celebrated its 25th Anniversary of being on the Evanston campus and Founders' Day on Saturday night, May 11th, at the M & M Club in the Merchandise Mart in Chicago with approximately one-hundred actives and alums in attendance. The chapter was first founded at Northwestern on the Chicago campus in 1910, and was reestablished on the Evanston undergraduate campus on May 12, 1921. "Number One"

member on the chapter rolls-Lewis A. Bain, was present, as well as many other old-timers. This first postwar reunion was enthusiastically attended and a record was set for the number of members coming from a distance.

New Traveling Secretary

CHARLES W . JARRETT Indiana '41 Charles W. Jarrett, Indiana '41, has been appointed to the position of Traveling Secretary for the Fraternity, and arrived at the central office the latter part of April to prepare for his new duties. He will have a very full schedule helping to reactivate closed and inactive chapters, giving aid and advice to those already in operation, and working to bring about a spirit of harmonious cooperation between the fraternity and the school administrations, and a friendly relationship with other fraternities.

"Charlie" was graduated from the Princeton, Indiana, high school in May, 1938, where he was a member of band, orchestra and science clubs. He worked for a couple of years and then entered Indiana University in September, 1940.

He was initiated into Acacia on June 1, 1941. In the chapter he was pledge trainer for two semesters, Junior Dean for two semesters, a member of the Rushing Committee for six semesters, and chairman of the Scholarship Committee for two semesters.

He was a member of I. U . Band (the Marching Hundred) ; Kappa Kappa Psi (National Honorary Band fraternity) ; and Alpha Kappa Psi (Professional in Commerce and · Business Administnition) . He enlisted in the college enlisted Reserve Corps in October, 1941, and was honorably discharged from inactive service in June, 1943. In April, 1944, he was graduated from I. U. School of Business with a B. S. in Business Administration, and from May 1, 1944, to April 20, 1946, was employed as an accountant at Igle-

The Triad, Spring, 1946 heart Brothers, Inc., Division of General Food Corporation, in Evansville, Indiana.

We are glad to welcome Charlie to active participation in the work of promoting the growth of the fraternity.

In order to help the National Office maintain a more accurate Masonic file, we request that all Acacians who are 33 ° Masons or who know of such, to please send their names and addresses along with this information to the National Office.

Made Association President Orion N . Wing, .Illinois '15, was elected President of the Private Schools Association of the Central States at its recent meeting held at the University Club, Chicago. Dean Wing has been associated with the Central YMCA Schools of Chicago since 1922 and now heads the schools. He

83 her of the Agricultural Council and the Educational Committee of the Association of Commerce, and is on the board of the Adult Education Council.

His first wife, Eloise Wing, died in 1944, and he was married last year to Mrs. Marie Fischer Perkins, Chi Omega at Northwestern, and a w ell-known dramatic director, radio actr ess, and play reader. He has one daughter, Roberta Lucille, a Delta Gamma at Illinois, and a step-daughter, Anne Perkins, a Pi Phi at Indiana. The famil y resides at 6917 Paxton Avenue, Chicago 49.

Edward A. Dickson, a Charter Member of the California Chapter, has served over thirty years as a member of the board of regents at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the youngest member ever to serve on this board, being appointed in 1913 by Governor Hiram Johnson, and reappointed in 1926 by Governor Friend W. Richardson.

Brother Dickson was owner and editor of the Los Angeles Evening Express from 1919 to 1931. In 1937 he was decorated Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy for "distinguished service in the field of journalism and education," and as an editor and publisher "whose editorials on world problems were internationally recognized as furthering friendly relations between nations. " In 1934 he was named Officer de l'Instruction Publique (France) .

His home is at 425 South Windsor Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Dr. Clair S . Linton, Iowa State '23, is now located with one of the Processing Plants of the Cottonseed Delinting Corporation. He can be addressed at Box 442, Kennett, Missouri.

ORION N. WING Illinois '15 was Superintendent of Schools at Rochelle, Illinois, from 1918 to 1922, where he introduced the Rochelle Plan for week-day religious instruction. He organized the Chicago Private School Athletic League in 1931, and offered accredited high school courses at A Century of Progress in Chicago in 1933-34.

Brother Wing served in World War I , and was a captain in the 341st Infantry in reserve from 1918 to 1944. He was disqualified for active duty in 1942.

He is active in the work of the 32nd degree Masons and Shrine, and is also a member of Uakeside, Army and Navy, Chicago Farmers, and the Quadrangle Clubs. He is an active mem-

Takes New Pastorate The Rev. Dr. Harry K. Eversull, Yale '20, Associate Secretary of the Council of Churches of Greater Cincinnati, has recently accepted the pastorate of the Walnut Hills First Presbyterian Church, where he has been filling the pulpit since January 1. He returned to Cincinnati four years ago to accept the post with the Council of Churches after serving as President of Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio, for five years. P r ior to that he had b een pastor of Walnut Hills Congregational Church for •thirteen years, a church which merged with Avondale Presby terian Church several years ago to form First United Church, Avondale.

Brother Eversull is also chaplain of the Masonic Memorial Chapel in the Masonic Temple. He delivered the

Easter message a t the Knigh ts Templar services in the Scottish Rite Auditorium.

Harold Baker, Kan sas '26, and h is wife ar e the proud parents of twin baby girls, a son and anot h er little gir l. Har old is the h ead of t h e R ed Cr oss in Denver, Color ado, wh er e th ey live at 2258 South Clayton.

Montana's Governor Sam C. Ford, Kan sas '05, Governor of Montana, is another Kansas example of "local boy makes good." After b ecoming a m ember of the bar, he left Kansas for Montana, his reason being that he wanted to get as far from Kansas as possible, so that if he failed as a lawyer, it wouldn't reflect on his parents. However , his record shows that he had no cause for alarm . After serving four year s as Attor ney General, he was elected to the Supreme Cour t of Montana in 1928. In 1940 he was elected governor and was reelected in 1944, Montana's first Republican leader in 20 years, and the first G.O.P. leader in the state history to be r eelected to that office.

Sgt. John Fred Stubeck, Kansas '39, r eturned from the European area early in the spring a nd was discharged shortly thereafter. His home is at 2245 New Hampshire Str eet, Lawrence, Kansas.

Lt. Col. Carl T. Baer, Kansas '14, after some time in the Pacific, took over his old job as designing engineer with the city of Dallas, Texas.

Ralph D . Childs, Kansas '27, Red Cross field worker, was scheduled to land in the U . S . some time last spr ing, after traveling the seas between India and the States. His son, Andy, now in high school, had been living with an uncle at 705 Arkansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Major Schiller F . Shore, Kansas '28, liaison officer with the Chinese National Army for mor e than two years, has been assigned as supervisor of the reproduction plant in the supply department of the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill.. During his service with the Chinese army, he participated in three major campaigns. He was awarded the bronze star for m eritorious service, and received a personal commendation medal from the Chinese gover nment. The latest address w e have fo r him and his wife is 711 Arlington, Law ton, Oklahoma.

Fred S. Montgomery, Kansas '24, head of the K . U . bureau of visual education, is secr etary of the Kansas Educators Club.

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84 David Sylvester Armstrong, Kansas '24 sends a "hello" from Pomona, Califo:nia where he is coowner and proprieta~ of the Pomona Valley Furniture Company at 150 East 3rd Street.

Takes Position at Baylor

Ray C. Coutts, Michigan '21, former Director of the Alumni Association, represented the University of Michigan at the inauguration of Dr. Byron S. Hollinshead as President of Coe College, last December. Ray's address is Commonwealth Apartments, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Thomas C. Hayden, IlLinois '23, is the head coach of the College basketball team at McPherson, Kansas, which won the Kansas Conference basketball championship for the 1946 season. In his five years at McPherson College, Brother Hayden has won a place for himself and the . team in the Kansas College Athletic Conference.

Dwight D. Clark, Kansas '22, is now living in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he owns an office supply store. His family consists of his wife and three sons, Dee, John and Mark, the last named having arrived only recently.

Gordon W. Guise, Kansas '34, returned home last fall after a distinguished career in the Army, ending as a Major. He went back to his old position with the Crane Company, and lives with his wife and fifteen-monthold daughter, Barbara Joan, at 2117 Winthrop Drive, Alhambra, California.

Clinton R. Krimminger, Kansas '29, was married recently to Miss Kay Beasley, a well-known ice-show skater.

He is a Kansas City, Missouri, attorney, and the couple will make their home in that city.

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Major Fred Amos, Kansas '27, who survived the hardships of Japanese military prison camps, is now in good physical condition, and is contemplating going into business in the Philippines.

Christian F. Hostrup, Michigan '18, resigned from the U. S. Engineers on the last day of the war, August 14.

The Corps of Engineers presented him with an award for meritorious civilian service. After three weeks' vacation, his first in five years, he went to work for a firm of consulting civil engineers in Los Angeles. His address is 543 Ninth Street, Santa Monica, California .

Herbert P . Wagner, Michigan '40, a graduate of the University of Michigan in 1921, served as Accountant in the University's business office from 1921 to 1931, when he was made Chief Accountant. In addition to this, he was recently named Business Manager of University Hospital. He is also active in Boy Scout work, and in 1938 was awarded the Silver Beaver for distinguished service to scouting and the community. Currently, he is President of the Boy Scout Council in Ann Arbor. His address is 8 Ridgeway, Ann Arbor.

served in World War I, and recalls very vividly that he was a buck private at that time. He is back in his old position as manager of the United States Employment Service in Salina, Kansas, and his address is 154 North 8th Street.

EDGAR G. (Ned) WILL Ohio '42 Edgar G. Will, Ohio '42, has accepted a position on the faculty of Baylor University at Waco, Texas, as an instructor in the Radio Department. Part of his time will be spent in teaching, and the rest working with the 50 watt station (KWBU) of which Baylor is 50 per cent owner. This looks like a step forward for Ned, both in his radio work, and in the opportunity to be in the educational circle which he thoroughly enjoys.

Just after he graduated at Ohio State in 1945, he accepted a position in commercial radio with the Holland Agency in Cincinnati, where he has been for the past year. This has given him valuable experience which will be most helpful to him in his new position. The boys of the Cincinnati Chapter will be sorry to see him leave, as he has been with them during the past year at the house.

We all remember Ned for his faithfulness during the war years. Singlehanded, he maintained contact with a large number of Ohio Acacians and reported on their activities, thus helping to keep their fraternity a vital force in their lives. Many expressions of appreciation have come from the members at Ohio State. We send best wishes to Ned in his new undertaking.

Harold S. 0 . Rick, Kansas '29, returned frorp Europe on January 9, 1946, after having served two years in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, as a major with the allied military government. Six months of this time was spent with the British Army after he landed in England in February, 1944. Brother Rick also

The engagement of George F. Patterson, Jr., Cincinnati '42, to Marylou Stewart, a Kappa Delta attending the University of Cincinnati, has been announced. No date has yet been set for the wedding. George is a student in the Law College, and is the son of Dr. and Mrs. George F. Patterson, Sr., Iowa '15. He is a former Venerable Dean of the Cincinnati chapter, just retired.

Heads New Firm The incorporation of Bauer, Rieger and Clayton, Inc., manufacturer's representatives, was announced recently.

The new firm's offices are in the Republic Building at 209 South State Street, Chicago.

The officers are Aaron S. Bauer, president; Harry W. Rieger, vice-president; and Gilber.t M. Clayt~n, secretary-treasurer, Kansas '15. For the past seven years Clayton has been executive manager of the Illinois Chain Store Council-a public relations organization made up of ¡national and local chain stores with units in Illinois. His businel)s background :is that of newspaper work and public relations. The new firm expects to center its distribution activities in the chain and department store field with particular emphasis on the Middle Western States.

Sidney I. Heilbrun, Kansas '32, was engaged to coach the hoop sport this year at Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont.

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Leo W. Mills, Kansas :22, has relinquished his title of Colonel and is now back at his law practice in Yates Center, Kansas. He went into active service in 1940, and since that time has batted around over a large portion of Europe. He returned home following the accumulation of 135 points, five battle campaign stars (Normandy invasion, France, Belgium and Germany) and several decorations.

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Chapter Eternal James W. Kinsinger, Nebraska '16, died on August 16, 1945, after an illness of several months. This news has only just reached us.

He was for many years a prominent civic leader and attorney in Lincoln, Nebraska, served on many important committees and was a member of the city council. In appreciation of his work with the city council, members passed a resolution in May, 1939, which stated that he "gave unselfishly of his time. His advice to the council was invaluable. and his service to the city was just as invaluable."

Brother Kinsinger was born February 9, 1891, in Burlington, Iowa. He received his B.A. in 1917, and his LL.B. in 1922 from the University of Nebraska. He began practicing law with Lincoln Frost in 1922, by 1924 was a partner in the firm, and five years later he took up an independent practice. He was married to Helen Atwood in 1927.

During World War I, he served with the Fifth U . S. Marine Corps from 1917 to 1919, and in 1923 was named

JAMES W. KINSINGER Nebraska '16 commander of American Legion Post No. 3. He was vice president, director and general counsel of the Midwest Life Insurance Company in Lincoln, and director and counsel of the Lincoln Federal Savings and Loan Association. He was an active member of the First Presbyterian church, and served on official boards for a number of years.

He was a member of Charles A. Fraley post No. 1450, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Association of Life Insurance Counsels, the Chamber of Commerce, A. F. & A.M., Scottish Rite, K. C. C. H., and the University Club.

Surviving are his wife, Helen Atwood Kinsinger, 1911 South 20th

85 Street, Lincoln 2, Nebraska, and a daughter, Mary Elizabeth.

Henry Herman Dean, Iowa ' 09, passed on at his home in Glenwood, Iowa, on January 17, 1946. He received his public school education in Glenwood, graduated from the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa in 1910, and then returned to Glenwood where he spent the greater part of his life as civil engineer in that locality. In addition to private practice, he acted as County Engineer of both Mills and Pottawattamie Counties, Supervising Engineer at Ottumwa, and Inspecting Engineer at Perry.

His Masonic record reveals intensive and extensive activities in the Or der.

He entered Masonry immediately after his 21st birthday, became a Shriner, and occupied many high offices throughout the years.

Brother Dean is survived by his wife, his son, Robert, and daughter Betty.

James Dysart, Stanford '07, died during the summer of 1945. While at Stanford he was a student of the Law School, and for a time he was affiliated with the California Chapter. For many years he had been Judge of the Fourth Judicial District in Nevada, in and for the County of Elko.

This news reached us through Arthur H. Myer, Stanford '12, 25 El Camino Real, Berkeley 5, California.

Richard G. Hepworth, Kansas '11 , of Burlingame, Kansas, passed away suddenly after a heart attack on December 28, 1945. He was a well-known¡lawyer and businessman, and a highlyesteemed citizen.

Brother Hepworth was at one time superintendent of schools at Logan. He practiced law in Osage county, was county attorney, and for eight years was postmaster at Burlingame under President Wilson. He has long been active in Democratic political affairs, and served as a delegate at state and national conventions.

He is survived by his wife and four daughters.

PhM 2/ c Thomas K. Buchanan, Michigan '42, has been stationed at the Navy Hospital in Philadelphia for some time. He expects to return to the campus in the fall after his discharge.

Paul F . Pospisil, Michigan '42, received his M.A. in 1944, and remained in Ann Arbor during part of 1945 while working for the University. He is now sales correspondent for National Gypsum in their Buffalo, New York, offices.

Receives Promotion

ROBERT F . DU'ITLE California '37 Promotion to Lieutenant Colonel of Robert F. Duttle, California '37, has been announced at the Headquarters of Major Gener al Thomas A . Terry, India - Burma Theater Commander.

Robert, who is 27, is one of the youngest field grade officers in the theater.

As chief of the Supply division, Quartermaster section, at the Theater Headquarters, he has served in the IndiaBurma Theater continuously since September, 1943. He entered active duty as a second lieutenant in July, 1942.

Colonel Duttle received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration after he was graduated with a B.S. from the University of California in 1940. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Duttle, 1016 Craigmont Avenue, Berkeley, California.

Ivan C. Crawford, Colorado '15, Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, has r ecently received commendation for pat r iotic service "in a position of trust and responsibility" as a member of the Civilian Advisory Council to the Military Plans and Training Service, Ordnance Department, where he had served since 1942. He had retained his regular duties in the College of Engineering, and at the same time made many trips to ordnance installations throughout the country, advising officials with regard to military training of soldiers in ordnance schools.

The certificate of commendation was signed by Brehon Somervell, Commanding Gener al of the Army Service Forces, Secr etary of War Robert Patterson and Lt. Gen. A. H. Campbell, Chief of Ordnance.'

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'Doings California Things are rolling along pretty well here at the California Chapter now. We have four pledges this semester-Jim Cambell, Los Angeles; Melvin Dykes, Modesto; Jack Vinding, Oakland, and Leonard Fugate, Berkeley. The Army, Navy and Marine Corps are represented here.

Jack was in the Army, Len, in the Navy, and Mel, in the Marine Corps. Jim has been deferred because of his pre-medical studies.

The pledge class has been quite active this semester. They went on their sneak early one morning, but not before they had deposited all the actives' shoes and slippers, along with the fuses and silververware on the door steps of most of the sororities. Luckily, the actives were able to get them back without too much difficulty. The pledges took all their belongings with them and spent the next two nights in the Bridal Suite of one of the local hotels! They also took their pledge master, Tom Evans, on the traditional ride.

But in this case, it was closer to a trip, as they took him to Reno, Nevada, where they left him after seeing that he had no money. His last words to the pledges were: "I will return,"-which he did about four hours after the pledges came in.

We initiated three men the first of the semester-Joe Close, Harry Seith and Russell Connors. We have a full house this semester with nineteen actives. We still have two "star boarders," but this fall we will be back on a full fraternity basis. At present there is a list of eight or nine fellows who hope to return this fall, so the house will really be full then.

The House Corporation has been making many small repairs to the house during the semester. In the early part of this period some of the fellows pitched in and painted their rooms. All of the rooms downstairs and some upstairs were painted in this way. The House Corporation purchased a new rug for the den, and it just happened to arrive the afternoon of the formal pledge dance.

We are well represented in campus activities and honorary groups this semester. We have men on the Daily Califo rnian newspaper, the Blu e and Gold yearbook and the Glee Club. There are also fellows in the A.S.M.E. and S.A.A.C.S., along with three national honorary fra.ternities-ADS, DPE and Phi Phi. We have been taking part in intramural sports-baseball, basketball and volley ball-with varying degrees of success.

Our social program has also been wellfilled. We had a good pledge formal at the beginning of the semester which was combined with the Interfraternity dance, having dinner at the house first and then going over to the Palace Hotel in San Francisco for dancing.

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The Annual Birthday Banquet was held on April 13 and was a huge success with a splendid turnout of about eighty-five men. Fred Wilbur Anderson, '41, was Master of Ceremonies, and the invocation was given by William H . Hopkins, '05.

Judge Carlos White, '05, gave a very interesting talk on the subject of "Historical Sketches of Acacia" which was greatly enjoyed by all, particularly since Brother White is an able speaker with a tremendous fund of knowledge concerning California Acacia and members. The Oakland Orpheus Quartet gave a very fine and enjoyable performance. This club is an organization of men singers founded fifty years ago, and is considered tops by all critics in this locality. We must not omit the wonderful ham dinner which added greatly to the enjoyment of the group. The following men were unanimously elected as officers of the House Corporation for the coming year: Ed Touraine, President; Fred Hofer, Vice President; Herman Hiller, SecretaryTreasurer; Ken Rogers, Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, and Adolph Weber, Chapter Adviser. Ed Touraine presented plans for the future expansion of the California Chapter House. Those present who remembered to sign the book were: Ed Touraine '29, Bill Hopkins '05, Joseph Barkley '15, W. J . Wolfenden '26, R. W. Kendall '41, Albert Morton '20, George Selwig '32, E. 0 . Heinrich '05, Carlos White '05, Henry C. Miller '20, Bill Keyes '09, Fred Anderson '41, George Croyle '41, Paul Dallas, Ted Rowe, '39, Ken Rogers '12, Al von Seeburg '30, Bill Follett '23, Charlie Garrels '23, Roland Bendel '10, W. E. Austin '10, R. B. Hofer '34, George Martin '22, Bruce Dwelley '41, Fred Hofer '09, Ed Whitehead '27, Hiram Bishop '33, Warren Stivers '20, Arthur Daly '07, Louis Koue '28, Adolph Weber '13, Bob Buchanan '42, Louie Selk, Howard Wagner, and a few others whose names could not be deciphered readily!

Louie Selk and Howard Wagner were from the Acacia Club at the University of Southern California. They are getting a fine start under George Croyle's leadership, and hope to obtain a house this fall.

They will then be in a position to petition for a Charter from the National Fraternity.

The social activities of the semester were ended with a Nautical Dance. The house was well-decorated with fish nets, life preservers, ships lanterns, etc. Refreshments were served in abalone shells.

Two boxes of cigars have made their appearance this semester to announce the engagements of Harry Frazier to Roberta Sievers, and Len Fugate to Shirley Curtin whom he met while stationed in Australia. Wedding bells will be ringing in the summer and fall respectively. Bob Church is eagerly waiting for summer to come as wedding bells will also be ringing for him then.

California Acacians mourn the death

of Steve Kirch of the Cincinnati Chapter, who was killed in an airplane crash while on his way home for a furlough.

Steve was well-known and liked by all the fellows here at the house. He spent many weekends with us while taking his radio training at Treasure Island. He gave the chapter many good ideas while he was here, and will be long-remembered by all the fellows who knew him.

Fellows still in the service have dropped in for visits from time to time during the semester. Lloyd Harris, Hugh Friend, Bob Peck, Cliff Lee and Clark Smith have all been here. Darrell Nelson, Harry Larson and Shelton Downey are stationed near here at present and get over often.

Colonel Woolsey dropped in the other day on his way back from the Philippine Islands where he has been stationed for some time. Emory Thomas was also here a while back. Dick Hirschfeld attended the annual banquet after getting out of the Navy, and he hopes to be back in August.

A couple of fellows from the Purdue Chapter have visited us. Bob Fischer was stationed near here for a while, and Lt. (jg) Ed Cline attended one of the basketball games. He is now stationed up north in Washington.

Carlisle Moore is out of the service and is in Minnesota at present. Leroy Holcomb from Washington State is attending the University here and is living in Richmond with his wife. Cliff Misener, an exV.D. of this house, is now the proud father of a baby girl.

Fred Anderson was married in the Thousand Oaks Baptist Church to Mildred White of this city early in April, 1946. He is working in Santa Monica as a "Stress Design Engmeer" for the Douglas Aircraft Company.

The past year has been very successful, and we are looking forward to brighter years in the future when all the fellows are able to return.

HAROLD GRANQUIST

Cincinnati Cincinnati Chapter is beginning to have a familiar look as old members pour in from the service with wild tales of heroism "above and beyond the call of duty."

April elections passed with a minimum of casualties and with the following results: Leroy Jackson was elected Venerable Dean (he is also Vice President of the Y.M.C.A., and a Master Mason) ; Fred Stork takes over the reins as Senior Dean; Gus Schmidt (our social chairman) is Junior Dean; Clyde Alday assumes the exacting role of Secretary, and Donn Johnson again tackles the job of making the books balance. The "Pride of Guilford," Roland Wagner, is our new House Manager.

The chapter was deeply grieved to learn of the death of Steven Kirch who died in a

The Triad, Spring, 1946 C-47 crash in the Sierra Mountains. The Cincinnati Chapter extends its heart-felt thanks to the California Chapter for their prompt and sympathetic cooperation in connection with this tragedy.

"Doc" Hill, Charlie Fleming, and Bill Britton were initiated on March 31, and Joe Keenan on May 14, raising our active chapter to 24 members. Walter Nolte, Charlie Hahn, Paul Weidner, and Bill Wight have been added to our pledge class. Bob "Professor" Borders has returned from the Navy in time to repair the radio, etc., and help the junior members of ''the corps" with their math.

The Spring Formal of Acacia was considered a great success by all, as our newest graduate, Lew Leonard, went "all out" for the boys. This was the debut of Charlie and Mary Lou Fleming as man and wife, and they were heartily congratulated by the chapter on their recent marriage.

Sunday, May 12, saw the celebration of Founders' Day by the chapter with an all-time high attendance of 54, and the dinner was enjoyed by all. An alumni organization was set up following the dinner, and pictures were taken.

Concerning sports-the boys have not been idle. They won their opening softball game as "Doc" Hill twirled a threehitter. Our "poolroom" kid, Bob Heckert, is progressing through the intramural tournament with a minimum of effort, ably supported by his running mate, Glen Ridgway. Our activi;ties man, George Patterson, added another key to his already overcrowded chain as he was elected to 0 D K, honorary leadership fraternity, becoming the third Acacia:1 from this chapter to receive that honor in recent years. Jack Harvey, a town active and "man about town," was elected to the presidency of the Y.M.C.A., thus placing Cincinnati Acacians in most of the major activities of the campus.

At the Founders' Day dinner, George Patterson and his father, Dr. Patterson, Venerable Deans of their respective chapters just 30 years apart, presented Cincinnati chapter with a plaque containing the Acacia crest, as George retired from office as active V.D . Brother Ned Will, our alum from Ohio State, recently presented the chapter with a Masonic Bible, which was badly needed. Incidentally, Ned has received his Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite degree (32nd) here in Cincinnati recently. His contributions to the chapter, however, have been more than material, and he has truly been a welcome brother to every member here.

Unfortunately, the crowded conditions here at the university prevent further entrance by students. Expansion is looked for, but when? Greetings to all chapter members, wherever you may be. Your chapter is really rolling along. See you next issue!

BoB BEST

Franklin The Franklin Chapter opened its house with an informal dance and house party on April 6. Among the guests were alumni and members of other fraternities on

87 the campus.

The house showed conspicuously the signs of our three years' absence, but with , the combined efforts of the members it is now in livable condition. We have new furniture and rugs, and our first floor, rumpus room and study rooms have been redecorated. We are now concentrating on the grounds and exterior of the house.

On June 23, 1945, while the chapter was still inactive, Gordon Tobias and Edward Ba_ttin were initiated by the alumni. On March 31, 1946, the pledges were initiated, and the following members were elected to office: George Long, Venerable Dean; Charles Stein, Senior Dean ; Gordon Tobias, Junior Dean; Bob Frey, Treasurer ; Edward Battin, Secretary. Ross Kurtz was appointed House Manager.

Among our returned veterans who were former members of the Franklin Chapter are: George Long, Air Corps ; Charles Stein, Infantry; Karl Wendel, II, Air Corps, and a prisoner of war in Germany, and Frank Frick, Army. The members in the house are predominantly veterans. There is the favorite argument as to whether the Air Corps is better than the Infantry!

Jack Weaver, a member from the Purdue Chapter, is on campus in the R.O.T.C. On April 27, we had a pledge dance. It was a lively affair with singing around the punch bowl, and many games being played in the rumpus room. The attendance was considerably increased by guests from other fraternities.

On May 18, "Ivy Ball" weekend, the boys are shedding their formal clothes from the "Ivy Ball" on Friday to old clothes on Saturday in reviving the traditional "Hobo Hop." More news in the next issue.

DAVE GRIFFITH

George Washington This chapter has been functioning in an active status since February of this year, under the handicap of being without a house. The alunmi corporation has been giving us a great deal of cooperation in trying to locate something, but here in Washington it is a difficult problem. At the present time, we are holding our meetings at the homes of various members, and we have our chapter files in the office of Professor Audley Smith. We are hoping to secure a house in time to enter rushing on an equal footing with the other fraternities on campus this coming fall.

Two other fraternities here are in the same boat with us, and there is a possibility that the university will be able to furnish us with houses or rooms until we are able to find something for ourselves.

Howard Carlson, Al Brodell, Bob Grille, Dick Wilkinson and Dick Warfield returned from the service in time to enter school for the spring term. Subsequent arrivals have been Wally Ashby, Dick Berryman, Arnold Flottman and Bud Slinkard. We hope to see them in school for the next semester.

The chapter's social program has necessarily been subdued because of the lack

of a house, but we have had several exchange parties with sororities. The Interfraternity Prom was held at the Wardman Park Hotel on March 19, and was the only formal of the season. The high point of social activity was reached at the Founders Day Banquet which was held at the Empire Restaurant on May 10. It is the first time this day has been observed since 1942. The actives and alunmi were given an opportunity to make and renew acquaintances under the able direction of toastmaster Harold Stepler, who believes in letting every man (and woman) speak for himself. Stan Peterson, recently returned from England, introduced his attractive British bride, Lillian. Another new member of the Acacia family on hand for the banquet was Mrs. Monroe Williamson. The evening was one of informal goodfellowship, reminiscences and singing, and was brought to a close by dancing.

This is all for the time. The finals are close at hand and the boys are all bent over their books intent on keeping Acacia at the top scholastically here at George Washington. In the absence of a house address, send all communications to Mr. Richard M. Warfield, Secretary, 4504 Chase Avenue, Bethesda 14, Maryland. His telephone number is Oliver 0810.

RICHARD WARFIELD

Illinois The Illinois Chapter of Acacia became active again at the beginning of this semester. About thirty actives and pledges came to school two days early to get the house cleaned up and ready for occupancy. After three days of hard work, with the actives also helping, it was cleaned from top to bottom. All of the furniture was back and it looked a lot like old times.

As each man arrived for the semester, he wanted to know who was back. There are quite a few of the old familiar faces around the house now, and by next fall we expect to have everyone back again.

Several of them are married and have their wives and families down here. Roy Adams, Dana Stewart, Dan Swickard, and Floyd Herzog have apartments in town.

Maurice Borkland is living in one of the prefabricated houses with his wife and two children. Roy Ferrette, his wife and daughter are occupying one of the prefabricated houses in the Gallivan tract.

With the return of Jack Kilby, we again have one of the biggest BMOC's in the house. Jack was in the signal corps in India and China. Jim Pitcher, V.D. before he left for the Army, was a captain on the "ice cream front" in Egypt. Joe Cook was shot down in a B -17 and spent some time in a German prison camp. Dave Monson and Ed Miller claim they helped the infantry win the war in France and Germany. Dave Andrews was in a repair unit in Europe, and Roy Ferrette was in the field artillery in Europe. Ralph Gould flew as a navigator on a B-24 in India, and succeeded in joining the Caterpillar Club while there. Reid Antle was in the

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88 Navy, one of two now in the house, and Ray Gregg was in the air corps in the states. Roy Adams flew P-47's over Europe, and Dana Stewart flew. a B-24 .in Italy. Dan Swickard was w1th the ~­ fantry in the Pacific, and Maurice Borklund was in the medical corps.

An election of house officers was held shortly after the start of the semester.

The results were: Jack Kilby, Venerable Dean ; Ed Miller, Senior Dean; Dave Monson, Junior Dean; Dave Andrews, House Manager; Joe Cook, Commissary; Robert Terp, Secretary; Bill Taylor, Treasurer ; Ray Gregg, Correspondent. We initiated two of last semester's pledges, Earl Terp and Don McKown, shortly afterwards.

A few of the fellows were sweating out draft notices when they registered at the beginning of the semester. Bill Buster received his about two weeks ago and is now stationed at Buckley Field, Denver, Colorado, in the Air Corps. Bill was Big 10 dash champ last year, and was a member of the Big 10 indoor champion 880 relay team this year. We also have two former actives living in the house while they are doing graduate work. Dick Ball is working on mathematics, and De Los De Tar on chemistry.

Because of the crowded housing conditions at the start of the semester, there was a very informal rushing period here at Illinois. At the present time we have seventeen pledges. A good part of them are discharged service men, and they are a very good group. There are : Herbert Hoover, infantry; Les Sheets, army service forces ; Jack Williams, P-51 pilot; Gus Burnham, air corps ; Gene Swaggar, navigator; Kenneth "Red" Bunchman, air corps; Dick Dickenson, air corps; Rollie Morken, air corps; Jim Preston, infantry; Dean Preston, signal corps ; Ray Meliza, infantry; Howard Oleson, air corps; Jack Graham, air corps ; Bob Herzog, ground forces; and Bruce Radcliff, navy. George Frandsen, another of the pledges, has been out for spring football practice, and Gus Burnham is a member of the university baseball team. Jack Graham has been acting as song leader and is doing a very good job. Jack is a music major and plays with one of the campus dance bands.

Our first social event of the year was the pledge dance and "pic-neck" held April 26. Everyone seemed to have a good time even though it did turn very cold that evening. The following day the actives challenged the pledges to a softball game.

The pledges won the first game 9 to 5, and the actives won the second 8 to 2.

It looks like we might have a good softball team for the intramurals this spring.

We also have men entered in the tennis and golf competition. On May 25 we are going to have our Spring Formal. The band has already been engaged, and now the plans for the decorations are being considered.

We have had quite a few visitors around the house so far this semester, and we hope to see many more. Billl James dropped by while he was home on furlough and said he hoped to be back in school soon. While home he and Miss Elizabeth Morrow Schmidt were married

on April 27, at La Grange, Illinois. H. 0.

"Kink" Saunders, 1909, stopped by overnight, and Dick Roe, 1938, stopped in for a short visit. Easter weekend, Bert and Warren North came in on their way home and looked up some of their old friends.

They are both at Purdue taking the aeronautical engineering course there. Chuck Taylor, 1938, has been staying here while hunting for a place to live. He is going to teach in the physics department of the university. Ed Verkler and his wife paid us a short visit while they were up h~re looking for an apartment for next fall.

That covers the highlights of the active chapter news for the first half of the spring semester.

RAYMOND GREGG

Indiana We again have our pre-war capacity of forty-eight men in the house, and besides that several of the fellows are living out.

We were fortunate in securing an annex for this coming fall semester. About seventy men, counting new pledges •too, are expected here this fall. Also, there are several married Acacians who are contributing to the huge trailer camp population here on campus.

Our officers for this semester are Jim Howard, V.D.; Andy Kandis, Senior Dean; Rene Kiefer, Junior Dean; Mark Rudolph, Senior Steward; Don Crooke, Junior Steward; Earl Rogers, Pledgemaster; Leon Gordon, Secretary, and Leon Bidwell, Treasurer.

Our social chairman, Rene Kiefer, is really on the ball. Rene scheduled the social events for the whole semester and then posted them on the bulletin board.

Thus, everyone had to attend them, and as a result they all went over "big." They consisted mainly of exchange dinners and tea dances.

Dennis Harold's orchestra played for our Winter Colonnade, which was also a success. It was formal, of course, and lasted from 9 to 12 o'clock.

Our annual State Day, which is a big get-together with our brother chapter at Purdue and all the alums of both chapters, was held April 13. Ray Thomas was the main speaker of the evening. He was recently discharged from the army with a rank of colonel, and is also an alum of II;J.diana. We were very glad to see so many out-of-state brothers could make our State Day. Along that line, a brother from the Illinois chapter was recently a guest here at the house.

The Freshman-Sophomore fight took place a few weeks ago with several Juniors and Seniors drawn in on the Sophomore side. The Sophomores were retaliating for the time the Freshmen threw a few of them in the pond. The Juniors were helping out mainly because the Freshmen threw one of them in the pond by mistake. The Seniors just felt sorry for the Sophomores since they were outnumbered.

We had thirty-eight boys down for rush week May 10, 11, and 12. We threw a "joe" party Friday night. Saturday, our house and the rushees played the A 0 Pi's in

softball. It was a rough game, but we were victorious. After the game, a few of the girls were dunked in the Jordan. We went on a hay ride to McCormick's Creek state park Saturday night, and about nine o'clock came back to the house to dance and play cards. A big Sunday dinner ended a successful rush week.

Several improvements are going to be made in the near future. A few of our study rooms have already been painted and the rest are going to be. The outside of the house will be painted this summer too. The lawn needs landscaping, and it is possible that this will be done in the fall. Also, we are going to add to and complete our silver set which needs replenishing.

Nine pledges were initiated March 3.

With a house full of actives now, the initiation was very thorough.

Spring really hit hard here at Indiana.

Bill Thompson is getting married to Mary Thompson, A 0 Pi, on June 23. DeVon MacMurray is getting married to Barbara Davis, Pi Phi, on June 15. Bill Schuldt, who had a $75.00 phone bill each month from courting his girl friend in Spokane, Washington, decided it was cheaper to get married. He drove out there, was married, and then they went to his folk's home.

We are expecting him down any day now.

Jack Denison had his pin out for two whole weeks. It isn't as bad as it sounds though, because she, the pinned girl, kept Jack's pin longer than she had any of her others. Don Crooke pinned Marilyn Emmert, A 0 Pi, and Ox Smith pinned Georgiana French, Tri Delt.

It will soon be time for finals, so the rest of the semester will be spent making out cribs and otherwise preparing for them. As far as can be determined, the house will be open for the summer semester, but will not function.

PETE STRAYER

Kansas State The Acacia Alumni Association of the Kansas State Chapter held a meeting at 1210 N. Juliette, Manhattan, on May 4, 1946. The following members of the Kansas State Chapter were present: J . T. Willard, R. J. Barnett, K. L. Ford, L. H. Drayer, C. F . Hall, J. W. Skinner, Les Frey, Willis Griffing, C. W. Hobbs, Irvin Hodgson, George Alexander, as well as 0. M. Rhine of the Kansas Chapter, and Ed Barber and Wayne Smith who were pledges of the fraternity at the time the chapter house was .closed and the boys went into service. At present, the house is rented to the S.A.E. fraternity, but it will be available this coming fall.

One active, Charles Hall, and four pledges, Wayne Smith, Ed Barber, Al Luehring and Scotty Donovan, are now in school, but they are all married and will not be living in the house. Expected back shortly are the following men: Leonard Wood, who will be in summer school; W.J. Peycke, who is now on an all-expense tour of the Pacific with Uncle Sam; Joe Nathan, a live wire full of good ideas, who believes in Acacia and is ready to work; Bruce Buchanan, who is indefinite as to

The Triad, Spring, 1946 his future plans, and Keith Hodgson, a former officer of the chapter and a very good fraternity man. There will probably be others of whom we are not now informed.

The consensus was that the house should be put in good condition, redecorated, and supplied with some necessary new equipment (such as a big, new, electric refrigerator and a stove) . The Board of Directors was empowered to spend the money to renovate the house and reactivate the chapter, and a committee was appointed for this purpose.

It was voted to appoint from the active members, chapter officers to act temporarily until a regular election can be held in the fall. It was also suggested that the pledge program be started immediately and a pledge captain appointed.

We hope that Mother Lysles, our former housemother, will come back to the Fraternity, and the Secretary was instructed to correspond with her.

It was voted that the chapter adviser and four active members, to be selected later, should attend the Officers' Training School and Conclave to be held in Evanston, Illinois, August 28-31, 1946.

The present Board of Directors was reelected-J. T. Willard, President; L . D. Bushnell, Vice President; V. D. Foltz, Secretary-Treasurer ; K. L . Ford, Chapter Adviser; R. J . Barnett, and N. D. Harwood.

V. D. FoLTZ

Michigan As many of you may know, Acacia has again become active at Michigan after over a year's inactivity due to the war emergency. A small nucleus of recently discharged Acacians is working hard to build up an organization that will not only be ready to take over the house next July or September, but a group that will be a credit to Acacia in campus activities.

The group is composed entirely of veterans, and is at present living at the East Quad, the veterans' quarters at Willow Run, and at various rooming houses in Ann Arbor. Although depleted in ranks, the fellows have said that they hope to take over the house in July.

Like most of the 40-odd fraternities on the Michigan campus, Acacia was hardhit by the war emergency. The history of the chapter during the war was one of an uphill struggle, first to maintain the chapter house, and subsequently to remain active. The active chapter occupied the house through October, 1943. On November 1, 1943, the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity leased the Geddes site for one year, subrenting to the few Acacians who wished to remain. One year later, on November 1, 1944, the house was rented to the U. of M. for use as a girls' dormitory.

Although Freshmen women now occupy the house, the recently reorganized active chapter plans to take over the place upon the expiration of the University's lease on July 1, pending a decision to remain on campus by a sufficient number. Correspondence can be addressed to the chapter house after July 1, even though the actives remaining for the summer session

89 may not decide to take over the house for the summer months. An estimate of Acacians expecting to return to the University for the fall semester revealed that by September the chapter house could be occupied by a sufficient number to operate it efficiently.

Recently elected officers of the chapter are: James Churchill, Venerable Dean ; Arch Hall, Senior Dean; Walter Kuyawski, Junior Dean, protem; Herbert Smith, Secretary; Russell Buster, Treasurer.

In addition to those on campus now, we hope to see Kay Buchanan, Fred Bryan, John Wunch, Henry Hosmer, Archibald McGregor, Elbert Kennedy, Albert Eastman, and possibly Howard Spracklin and Bill Pierson living in the house next September.

We were especially glad to hear from Jim Kemmish of the Iowa State Chapter, who is transferring to Michigan for graduate work in the Business Administration School.

On Saturday, May 11, all of the active members and a fine group of the alumni met in the Union for our annual Founders' Day gathering. After a bull session and business meeting, we had dinner and then retired to the P-Bell for a few pitchers of P-Bell brew. Needless to say, the main topic of the evening was ''Do you remember?" Everyone did- for a while!

At the time this news letter was written, plans were under way for Michigan's first general alumni reunion since the beginning of the war. This reunion, fea turing a victory theme, was to be held on the University campus, June 20 through 22, to be highlighted by luncheons on Friday and Saturday. Although Michigan Acacians were unable to announce an open house, plans were tentatively announced to meet in the south lobby of the Michigan Union early Friday afternoon.

The first issue of The Founder, the chapter news letter, to appear since the war, was sent out in May, 1946. The editor for this issue was Walter Kuyawski. The next number will probably be published in the fall. Please send in your suggestions and any up-to-date news you may have.

The latest information available regarding various Michigan Acacians will be found elsewhere in this issue of the TRIAD with the other alumni notes.

Because of so many changed addresses, it has proved to be difficult to contact all those who might possibly be returning to school. If, through this medium, we have reached any of you with whom the active chapter is not in immediate contact, please write now.

JIM CHURCHILL

Dolly Saholt. Lloyd Boyd pinned Ruth Edelson, ADPi, and just recently presented her with a diamond. Brock Holmes pinned Lelle McNeill ; Dwight Chernausek pinned Doris Goodrich; AI Dreher pinned Ann Young. Two of our young alumns, Lt. (jg) Bill Peterson and Duane Norby, recently got married-Bill to Lois Lindow and Duane to Esther Veidt. ' Vital S tatistics: "Duke" Glarner is the proud father of a baby girl. Lt. Don B. Johnson (PRO at Wold Chamberlain Field, Minneapolis) is also a proud father.

Many returning servicemen have stopped to visit at the chapter house recently. Linton Lehrer enrolled in the business school in the winter quarter and lived at the house un til he could find an apartment for him and his wife. "Duke" Glarner also returned to the "U ," and is now in charge of university investments.

Dr. Barner, of Bremerton, Washington, is here taking a special course in medicine at the continuation center. Ernie and Dale Mciver stopped at the house on their way home when they were on leave, and Don Dodge, Peder Kvamme, Bob Shober, Bud Gabrielson and Don Jensen also visited the house this quarter. Tom Mathison, Bob McDonald, Lyle Victor, Bill Sutherland and Bill Thysell are all back in Minneapolis now.

Our energetic Junior Dean, AI Olson, planned several well-attended functions to date. In February we had our annual Winter Formal which was held at the Commodore Hotel in St. Paul. In April we had a Gay Nineties costume party complete with horse and surrey for short excursions to and from the chapter house.

The following week we had our annual Spring Semi-formal at the Commodore Hotel. On May 13 we celebrated Founders' Day at the Gold Room in the Hotel Radisson. Our speaker was Theron Johnson, assistant to the dean of students, who gave a short talk on the possibilities that fraternities have to serve the community.

We entered a float in the Engineers' Day parade, the theme of which was the Atomic Caravan. Our float (Atom and Eve) depicted a tropical isle on which stood a man and woman of the future. On May 25 our annual canoe party is scheduled at Stillwater, to be held rain or shine.

Sports activities, under the direction of Earl Wangerin, received quite a shot in the arm this quarter. We entered three teams in bowling and one in softball. The preliminary bowling tournament has been completed and Acacia won one division.

Play-offs are scheduled for the coming two weeks. In softball we got off to a bad start. We lost our first game, but came back to win the rest of the games to date!

The final play-offs have not yet been Minnesota scheduled.

AI Dreher was elected president of the With the estimated fall quarter enrollment placed at 25,000, our chapter looks All-University Council recently. AI Olforward to a flourishing year in planning son, our Junior Dean, was elected to the our activities. Newly-elected V.D. Lloyd Board of Publications with the greatest number of first-place votes. Karl DoerBoyd has instituted a program of house ingsfeld was selected King Pat to rule and yard renovation to make the chapter over Engineers' Day, May 11. house more pleasing.

We are losing five men this quarterLast quarter, we initiated Bud Engel three because of graduation, and two to and AI Moe. We also pledged a boy from the army. Karl Doeringsfeld is graduatDuluth, Ed Saloum.

Events of ~h~ Pay: Jack Fox pinned ing in mechanical engineering, Dwight

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90 Chernausek in dentistry, and Tom Clareson in composition. Bob Appelgren volunteered for army service in April, and Don Fulton is going into the army this week.

Our fraternity adviser, Burr Buswell, got out of the Veterans' Hospital in April.

He is much better and is again taking an active interest in fraternity affairs.

J . R. WILCOXON D. S. CHERNAUSEK

for parties and meetings. They are Jack Erwin, Walter Kolbe, Leland Case, and Paul Teetor. The chapter also owes a vote of thanks to the families of actives Clarence Lindsay and Truman Walmsley for the use of their homes.

We have finally hit our stride, after our wartime hibernation, and interest is keen over the return of our house, which has been held by the Northwestern Naval Units during the war. We are all looking forward to a fine year of fraternal association.

DicK LANE

Northwestern Ohio We have been kept busy here at Northwestern during this past quarter. Chapter activities were highlighted by our spring formal held on May 3 at the fashionable "Saddle and Cycle Club" in Chicago.

Many alumni were present, in addition to many of our returned veterans, who will be back with us in the fall, when we will again have our fraternity house.

The following week on May 11, four pledges were formally initiated. They are Richard Hay, Goshen, Ind., sophomore in LA¡ William Olson, Chicago, Illinois, fre~hman in LA; Leonard Lockhart, Calumet City, Illinois, freshman in LA; and Richard Lane, freshman in Speech. The candidates were initiated on Saturday morning in time for the Founders' Day Banquet held that evening in Chicago's swank M & M Club in the Merchandise Mart. It was a very enjoyable affair, and the speaker of the evening was Walter Kolbe, National President. We were entertained by alumnus Joseph Wilson, a professional radio announcer in Chicago, and by one of the new initiates, Richard Lane. We were sorry that some of our actives were unable to be there, but they were representing us in the 1946 WAA-MU Show, which is Northwestern's annual musical and variety show.

William Ross Stone participated as a member of the principal cast, and Thomas Danm appeared in the men's unit. We were all pleased by their excellent performances in the show that week.

The chapter elected officers early in the spring quarter. They are as follows : The Venerable Dean Edward Brockman; senior Dean, Dan Blue; Junior Dean, Howard Ringholm; Secretary, Robert Beighley; Treasurer, Ross Stone; Chapter editor, Richard Lane; Sentinel, Leonard Lockhart: Interfraternity Council representative, Hans Ullmann.

Our new secretary, Robert Beighley, brought distinction to the chapter, when he was appointed Editor of the Freshman Daily, a special edition of the Daily Northwestern.

Activities this quarter have been centered around rushing. We now have five more pledges. They are Bud Brenton, Joseph Angner, George Reazin, William Mendrala, and Donald Ansel. In addition to these pledges we are expecting many more from our crop of rushees to be presented to the active chapter at a party to be held on June 2, at the home of Walter Kolbe in Winnetka.

The chapter owes a debt of thanks to several alumni for the use of their homes

This issue of the TRIAD finds the Ohio Chapter in the midst of the spring quarter, which is the quarter where point hours take a turn for the worse, and extra curricular activities dominate a person's time. This term has brought more former Acacians back to Columbus, so that we now have a good-sized active chapter again. Counting the old members who have returned, and the nine men we have initiated the last two quarters, there are nineteen in the active chapter, and we also have twelve pledges.

The house is in good condition since the fi.rst floor rooms have all been painted as well as most of the second floor. The Acacia Company Board agreed to buy the paint, and the men in the house did the painting during the spring vacation.

Dr. Dan Whitacre, our chapter adviser before the war, who has recently been discharged from the army, has again resumed his duties as our adviser. Being a veteran himself, he is familiar with the problems that confront a man just out of the service, and his advice and suggestions have been very helpful. His wife is president of the Wives' and Mothers' Club, which enables them to work together in matters concerning the fraternity. The Club has been very active since we reopened the house, having furnished new draperies for the first-floor rooms, and done many other things that have helped us out a great deal. On May 5 they sponsored a Sunday evening dessert where they served a delicious waffie dessert followed by a good program of entertainment. Mrs. Whitacre and the other members of the Club have worked very hard in accomplishing these things, and we want to take this opportunity to thank them in the name of the chapter for all that they have done.

On May 10 we held our first Founders' Day banquet since 1942 here at the house.

About forty alumni were present, ¡ and everyone enjoyed meeting fraternity brothers once again, and reminiscing about college experiences. Dr. Bland Stradley, vice president of Ohio State University, gave the main address of the evening. Anyone present that evening will tell you what a wonderful speech he made. Judge Donnally of Columbus gave a fitting memorial for those brothers who gave their lives in World War II. On May 4 wedding bells rang for Bill Huston and Mary Basil. Bill and Mary are both from Columbus and have known eac;:h other for quite some time. The wed-

ding ceremony was beautiful, and most of the chapter was represented. The couple went on a short honeymoon after a little trouble in getting away from the reception. Bill was sick in bed with the flu during the week prior to the wedding, and it was doubtful for a while whether he would be able to attend. He finally decided that he might as well go through with it and get it over!

Dick Cross is back in school again this quarter after spending three years with the paratroopers. He is married and has a small son, Richard Berner the second.

Dick is living here at the house while his wife is living with some friends in the other end of town. Because of the housing shortage, they have been unable to get an apartment.

Perry Hosmer is also back this quarter, and he too is having trouble in finding a place for himself and his wife. Perry still cuts as many classes as usual! Bob Scott returned from the army with a lot less hair than he had when he left. I don't know whether it was due to the rough army life, or the French women and champaign, but whatever it was he doesn't have the mane he used to have. "Lefty" Davis is also back this quarter, but he is very seldom seen as he spends most of his time in his room studying. When he isn't studying he is out talking to the Alpha Phi's next door.

Tommy James will be back in the football lineup next fall, and judging from his performance in spring practice he will be a big threat against the opposing teams.

A letter from John Burroughs states that he has received his discharge from the army and is planning to go to school at Purdue where his parents have made their home during the war.

On the twenty-fifth of May we held our Spring Formal in the Virginia Hotel here in Columbus. It was our first since we have reopened the house.

KENNETH F. BLOOM

Oklahoma The Oklahoma Chapter is again making wonderful progress for some great work next year. In September, 1945, there were only two Acacians on the Oklahoma campus, namely, Lester B. Brown and Howard Lyle. At the beginning of the second semester we were very fortunate in having two old members return from service -Odell Stone and Al Brown, who were elected Venerable Dean and Senior Dean respectively.

During the war, the university had all fraternity houses, but they are all being released as of May 15, 1946. We are having the interior and exterior of our house redecorated, and will refurnish the house throughout. By the opening of school in September we will have a new home and a fine group of Acacians.

We were successful in securing our twenty pledges, which was the quota for last semester. We really feel that we have a grand bunch. They are: Carroll Freeman, Jack Graham, Creighton Collier, Bob Vick, Jack Steen, Jim Grigsby, Howard Farris, John Hendrick, John

The Triad, Spring, 1946 Shea, Clark Hudson, C. D . Landrum, George Williamson, Dick Peterson, Dick Powell, J. W. Hall, Raymond Scoufus, Julian Medaris, Al Swenson, Gene Templeton and Frank Rowell.

On May 5 the first ten of the abovenamed pledges were initiated. Following the initiation a banquet was held at the Spinning Wheel at which John G. Hervey was toastmaster. The alumni from all over the state participated in the ceremonies. We were also honored by having a special guest at the banquet, Mrs. Lillian Caldwell, who has been selected as our new housemother for next year.

Our social life this semester has been very limited, as has been true with all fraternities on the campus, but next year we shall take on the traditional events.

LESTER B. BROWN

Penn State The Penn State Chapter became active the first of April with the following active members: Donald Hallman, V.D.; Jack Gillespie, S.D.; William Whitby, J .D .; Robert Dierken, Treasurer; George Nelson, Secretary; H. Douglas Kutz; Robert Dieruff. We have two pledges, Richard and Rolf Wald, twins from Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. Most of the old brothers are expected back in the fall. Letters from Len Weidner and Dick Stouffer informed us that they plan to be back then.

We held our first house dance on May 11, and in spite of the weather it was a success.

Dan Gillespie was back to see us after his discharge. He is now doing development work on the A-bomb project at Los Alamos. Others who have visited the house were Wess Howard, Ozzie Lashly, Bob Troxell, Dick Morgan, Elmer Strunk and Ray Stein. Incidentally, Ray is married. Don Hallman and Bob Dierken are to be married this summer.

June 14 is the big weekend here. The Interfraternity Council is having Benny Goodman, and Saturday, June 15, we are having our house party. We hope many of the old brothers who are not here now can make it for that weekend.

G. R. NELSON

Purdue We, here at Purdue, have been busy this spring. With the many boys, who were here before, returning from the service, and the new veterans whose interest is with Acacia, we now have a full house.

This has been our first opportunity to operate on a full scale; consequently, the chapter is now participating in many events with the purpose of strengthening the ties of friendship.

Among the returning veterans are: Vic Krummenacher, Doug Horth, Frank Skinner, Frank Baynes, Dave Burns, Buster Williams, Jim Cochran, Tredwell Harrison, and Ted Shaw. Uncle Sam's bony finger pointed to the house at the beginning of the term, and among those he wanted were Bill Gorman, Byron Landis

91 and George Hansell who donned the olive drab, while Roy Horton is sporting a new suit with bell-bottom trousers. With so many of the older boys bringing automobiles, we are going to have to open a parking lot. There are nine cars at the time of this writing.

The social season has been full and well-rounded out. The formal dinner before the Interfraternity Ball was a huge success and was enjoyed by all. We have honored the Delta Gamma's, Pi Phi's and the Alpha Xi Delta's with trade dances.

The crowning event of the season was the chapter's Spring Formal held at Lincoln Lodge. The house also turned out in full strength for the trip to Indianapolis to attend the Acacia State Banquet. The boys once more won the Sarcophagus, the award coveted by both the Indiana Chapter and our own. This makes the fifteenth time we have returned with it, while the Indiana Chapter has only managed to look at it a mere seven times. This award is given on the basis of attendance, scholarship and chapter participation in the evening's entertainment.

Bill Tholke has proved that in the spring a young man's fancy turns to love by pinning his one and only, Dorothy Ross.

It is strongly rumored that Vic Krummenacher will be putting his pin out very soon.

This semester's end will be the beginning of marital bliss for Jim Cochran and Harold Berry. Bob Blue will be taking the big step the last of August.

The alumni banquets have been very successful, and they are tending to unite the chapter with the alumni.

The following Masons-Harold Berry, Elton Thompson and Tom Stieglitzworked out a Masonic Smoker which was held here at the chapter house. There was an attendance of between 50 and 75 students and faculty members. We are planning to have at least one of these gettogethers every semester. A few of the distinguished guests were Dean A. A .

Potter, who will receive the 33rd degree in September; Dean Willard A. Knapp; Mr. J.P. Wayne, W. M. of West Lafayette Lodge, and many other noted men from the campus. Since that time we have had three of our members raised to the degree of Master Mason- Richard E. Smoker (our V.D.), Bert North, and Bob Wynkoop. Bob Moss and Max Buell. pledges, were also raised. This makes ~ total of three 32nd degree and six Blue Lodge members in the chapter.

The Masonic brothers in the chapter have started a pin club for the newlyinitiated brethren. Any contributions from any interested parties will be greatly appreciated.

The veterans in the house are divided into two groups-the men from the E.T.O. and the Asiatics. There is a friendly feud between these groups at all times. If anyone wants any confirmation of this feud, get in touch with Blimpy Thompson of the E.T.O., for he has been thrown into the shower by the Asiatics often enough to know. To make matters more confusing, we have a pair of twins with us at this time-Bert and Warren North of the Illinois Chapter.

The following pledges were initiated on

February 10, 1946: Dick Donnell, Tom Stieglitz, Rex Michael, Walter Chenoweth, Elton Thompson, Byron Landis, Grant Ward and Harold Luce. Mark Ellis transferred to Ball State, and we hope he will be able to return for the next initiation. The pledging of six veterans has provided us with some good reconversion material. They are: Laurel Meade, Danville, Illinois; Max Buell, Terre Haute, Indiana; Bob Moss and P aul Vos, Indianapolis, Indiana; Elton A. Clodfelter, Crawfordsville, Indiana, and Steve Booth, Birmingham, Michigan. This pledge class took it on themselves to stage a walkout this semester. Seems as though it turned into a co-educational picnic with a large portion of the night spent at Bill Knapp's house.

Frank Skinner, Don Foltz, Richard Smoker, Harold Berry, Bob Blue, Ed Parker, and Herb Hackett will receive their sheep skins in June, 1946. Don Foltz is an outstanding student making straight six's the past three semesters. This would correspond to straight A plus if the letter grades were used. The chapter's index was very high this past semester, with much credit going to these future alumni.

It is with deep regret that we must at this time announce the addition of another gold star to our roll. Henry Wright, Sophomore Agriculture student of Boonville, Indiana, was killed on April 6, 1946. Henry served overseas with the Paratroopers, and was participating in the Army Day celebration. The fellows who knew Henry realize that we have suffered a great loss.

With hopes for more and better news next time, I remain your Purdue correspondent.

ToM STIEGLITz

Syracuse With the summer semester under way here at Syracuse, the Acacia men held their first get-together at the home of "Bones" Enos, our chapter adviser. A delightful time was had by all. As usual, his wife, Florence Enos, was an excellent hostess.

More men returned than we had expected. Our greatest sw-prise was the return of Warren Bartholomew, who is working for his Master's Degree. The Acacia members on campus this summer are: Fred Lott, William Beil, Bud Lyons, Frank Linton, Atlee Vail, Frank Rupp, Dale Hackett and Nicholas Zauner, Unfortunately, Bud Lyons and Frank Linton had to leave their families behind since they were unable to secure accommodations, but they will be here this fall.

Bob Bartlett, just recently discharged from the Navy, is spending a few days here, and he will return for the fall term together with John Schojbert, Phil Rice: Ray Unger and Dave Tooker.

Warren Bartholomew has been appointed chairman of our group, and Nicholas Zauner the acting secretary. Plans are well under way to reactivate the chapter; rushing prospects are excellent, and we believe that the Acacia house will be filled to capacity.

At present our house is occupied, but

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of September, at which time we plan to get it in order for the fall semester when Acacia activities will be in full swing.

On behalf of all the members, I want to express deepest gratitude to Mr. Enos and Mr. Rupp, an honorary member, both of whom have worked faithfully during the past few years to keep the Acacia name alive on campus. We are also grateful to the women's group which, under the leadership of Mrs. Enos, has been most helpful, and will undoubtedly be more so when the house is re-opened.

Here is a little news about our graduates: Don Jameson and his wife are now in Alabama where Don has accepted a position. Dick Costes and his wife, who, by the way, paid us a brief visit today, are living in Penn Yan, New York, where Dick is engaged in the real estate business.

One of our members, Gordon Henderson, is in an Army Hospital in New Mexico, where latest reports state that he is making good progress. We would appreciate it if you would drop him a line in your spare moments, and we know how pleased he would be. His address is: Cpl. Gordon H. Henderson, Ward E27, Bruns General Hospital, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

We are planning to establish a War Memorial for Acacians of the Syracuse Chapter who died for their country. We would like to have some suggestions from the alumni.

NICHOLAS K. ZAUNER

Washington State The Acacia Fraternity on the Washington State College campus is once more a member of bustling activity after over two years of being on the inactive list. The first problem meeting the attention of the activators was the removal of the coeds living in the house temporarily because of a shortage of housing facilities on the campus. This did not prove to be so difficult, and the beginning of the spring semester found the Acacia house again in masculine hands.

Elver Huntley was the one who shouldered the main responsibility in getting the house reorganized, and he took over the task with a will. He was soon joined by four other activities: Johnny Veatch, Art Evett, Bob Anderson, and Verne Zellmer. We had a stroke of good luck in getting back "Mom" Barker, the same cook we had when the chapter was inactivated.

The membership of our chapter was increased by the initiation on May 4 of eight former pledges. The new men include Floyd Green, Dick Kirsten, John Austin, George Rathjen, Frank Doherty, Marshall Dalrymple, Chester Bennett and Robert Wood. The return of severai of the inactive members aided the few actives in carrying out the initiation ceremonies. Among the inactives present were John Esvelt, Don Skinner, Marshall Search, Kenneth Short, Wilho Williams, and Clark Hewitt. This initiation tripled the number of active members living in the chapter house, and the fraternity is

already beginning to function with the smoothness with which it was characterized before it was inactivated in 1943.

We are all looking forward to an outstanding year during the forthcoming 1946-47 term.

There are five more pledges on the chapter rolls. They are Bill Gammie, Bob Settle, Art Lancaster, Tom Carter, and Martin Jensen. In addition to the members and pledges we have two houseguests, Bob Haynes and Alex Sonnichsen, and also several members of the Circle K Fraternity are boarding with us.

The group is composed almost entirely of returned veterans, and they are doing remarkably well in becoming adjusted to college life, both socially and academically. Practically every Friday night some social event is held in the house. It takes the ingenuity of our social chairman, Johnny Veatch, to think up themes for all of the fireside dances. A good example of the type of entertainment we have had is the "School Day Party" which was held a few weeks ago. A genuine yellow school bus was rented and it made the route to all the girls' houses and picked them up true grade school fashion. The theme was carried on with the decorations consisting of blackboards, coloredpaper pictures, etc. We undoubtedly have the best dances that are held at W. S. C. So far we have not entered any of the intra-mural sports, but we have our eyes on the softball championship and are going to try to mark our entrance back into the intra-mural tussles in a blaze of glory. It is plain to see that we have all kinds of athletic talent among us from the caliber of the big-weekly touch football games between the "House" and the "Senate" (nicknames for the first and second floors of the Acacia house) . The backfield combination of "Root" Bennett, "Horse" Gammie, "Boy, Can She Dance" Anderson, and "Einstein" Evett is a sight to behold.

The acting house officers are Elver Huntley, Venerable Dean; Verne Zellmer, Senior Dean; Johnny Veatch, Junior Dean; Bob Anderson, Secretary; and Art Evett, TRIAD Correspondent.

To all the other Acacia chapters, the fellows here at the Washington State Chapter send hearty greetings, and hope that every chapter gets as promising a start out of the wartime fraternal lull as we have.

ART EVETT

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tury paintings of the Impressionistic School, a collection that was valued up into the millions. To escape taxes, the owner, who was also in residence, had never declared this collection and would not allow it to be reported. The question was who was responsible.

Still another instance was the use of a thirty-thousand-dollar portrait set up with a sheet over it as a screen for the showing of movies. And another was the use of the court of one of the

palaces for a USO show and the interior of one of the pavilions for dressing rooms for the actors. Certainly no harm and an excellent setting; but that pavilion was secretly guarded and was known to monuments officers to be a national depository for one of the priceless collections of beautiful furnishings belonging to Louis XIV and Louis XV. What would have happened had a lighted cigarette ignited this valuable pile? There were also instances of French owners trying to claim that their chateau and its belongings were priceless-historical masterpieces with gems of art on the interior. We were not fooled by that either.

Many instances, in fact most of them, called for tact and diplomacy. Our officers did well. There were two instances of highranking officers wishing to take over Fontainebleau, and of a high headquarters' group who wished to hold a dance in the Galerie des Glaces of Versailles. Monuments specialist officers had to be tactful, not only to the French but to Allied army brass hats as well. The job was not only one of keeping the French out of the military hair but one of keeping the military out of the French hair.

Arthur C . Hills, Michigan '39, is a part time graduate student at Michigan, and is teaching music at Dexter High School.

Captain Richard W . Pomeroy, Michigan '34, entered the army in 1942 after a year's internship at Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids. Dick was stationed at various camps in this country, and was battalion surgeon in Hof. Bavaria, while overseas.

Richard W. Hall, Michigan '44, who left to join the service in June, 1945, is now with the Occupation Forces in Tokyo, in charge of an Army Hospital Dispensary there. Upon completion of his tour of duty in March, 1947, he plans to return to the University.

Lt. (j.g.) Wilmer G. Pierson, Michigan '43, home on leave from the Navy, visited Ann Arbor J-Hop weekend.

He hopes to be promoted to the grade of "Mr." soon and to return to school for graduate work in the fall .

Captain John B. Green Michigan '36 was Executive Officer ~f the Profes~ sional Services Division of the Convalescent Hospital at Plattsburg. He was married in the fall of 1942.

Donald F. Aldrich, Michigan '44, is busy at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, and is working on his Master's at the same time. His wedding to Jane Richardson is scheduled for July 27.

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NOR'rH,VESTERN-Lincoln at th e L a k e, Evanston, Ill. Ven · e r a bl e D ean - Ed Brockman. S ec r e t a r y - R o bert B e ighley.

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PURDUE-427 St a t e St., W es t Lafay e tte, Ind. Venerable D ean - Warre n J . North. Se c r e t a ry-Ri c hard Donnell. Chapter Ad viser-W. A . Knapp, 130 5 Ravin3. Rd., W e st Lafayett e, Ind . Fin a n cial Adviser-J. R. Eaton, Purdue Univ., W es t Lafayett e.

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