THE TRIAD OF ACACIA FRATERNITY VOLUME XL
SUMMER, 1946
NUMBER 4
Conclave and Training School Plans Ready August 28 to 31 According to a d vance information turned in by the chapters, over 100 will be in attendance at the Second Officers' Training School and Twenty-Fourth National Conclave of Acacia to be held on the Chicago campus of Northwestern University this August. Registration will be Tuesday afternoon, Aug ust 27, and the opening session will be at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, immediately following breakfast. The tra ining school sessions will last thro ugh Friday morning, with the Conclave sessions beginning at 1:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, ending early Saturday afternoon. Comfortable dormitory accommodations will be provided on the campus and a commons dining room has been secured for all meals. A committee has been appointed to h elp secure hotel accommodations for wives and other women m embers of families of delegates who will be in attendance. In order to insure adequate accommodations for all, however, the national office requests that they be informed immediately of all who plan to attend. As you k now, national president Walter W. K olbe has announced that the Council has agreed that each chapter should have a t lea st five of its . members in attendance - the Chapter Adviser and the Venerable Dean, plus three additional delegates, preferably officers elect. The traveling expenses including meal and hotel charges will be paid for the two regular delegates, and the national fraternity will also pay the board and room for the three extra delegates attending the school and the Conclave. A social program is also being planned for two evenings, leaving other evenings free for group discussions and individual excursions into Chicagoland. Members are urged to bring bathing
trunks in order to take advantage of Chicago's beaches on the sandy shores of L ake Michigan. Arrangements are being made for those who desire to ta ke conducted tours of the No rthwestern Evanston campus, the North Shore, and Chicago. Following the introduction of Officers and Del egates to the Twenty-Fourth Conclave on Wednesday morning, the training school sessions will begin with talks and a discussion on the history of the coll ege fraternity system as a whole, leading into the history of Acacia. This will be followed by a discussion of the duties of National Officers and a session on m aintaining local chapter traditions and customs. The morning session will be co.n ducted by John C. Erwin and Charles W . Jarrett and participation of the delegates at all sessions will be encouraged . The Wednesday afternoon session will be devoted to a discussion of pledge training and control led by William D. Ross. All chapters are invited to present local manuals and helps at this time. Publications of the National Fraternity and of the chapters will also be discussed and presented . Since the balance of this session will be devoted to a discussion of rushing practices and techniques, each chapter is requested to come prepared to present its individual problems and to introduce proved methods and techniques, along with samples of rushing letters, pamphlets, and other publications and helps. The Thursday morning session will begin with a discussion on the control and expenditu res of chapter financ es, the duties of the financial adviser, the building and balancing of budgets, the alumni corporation, duties of the chap-
ter adviser, and the use of various record forms by the National Office. Clifford D. Jacobs and Mrs. Edith A. May have been asked to help lead in this morning's discussion. This will be fol lowed by a talk on the Chapter Adviser and his duties g iven by Marion H . Huber. The afternoon program will include a disc ussion on maintaining scholarship, the athletic and intra-mural program, and chapter social functions, led by J ames M. Howard and Jack S. Kilby. A discussion on establishing and maintaining house rules and chapter by-laws will be led by Verne Zellmer. The Friday morning session will be devoted to the subject of rituals and initiations and a discussion of university-fraternity policies. Any unfinished business from the training school will be t aken up at this time. In order to facilitate discussion, arrangements will be made for groups of members of various chapters interested in various phases of fraternity life which may apply to them in particular, to meet separately. The opening Conclave session will be at 1 :30 p.m., Friday afternoon, continuing Saturday morning, with the elections of National Officers early Saturday afternoo n. Those who have particular matters to bring before the Conclave Session or who wish to submit the names of candidates for the National Offices should write to Walter W. Kolbe, in advance, addressing all correspondence to 1075 Pelham Road, Winnetka, Illinois. We are anxious to have full participation of all delegates, and many are being a sked to help lead the discussions on various subjects. A full and interesting program is being planned to build a better future for Acacia and its men.