Acacia Triad - Spring 1947 - Vol. 41, No. 3

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The Cover This issue's cover picture, entitled

D empsey and Firpo, is a famous one by the well-known American artist, George Wesley Bellows. It is a gift of George F. Porter to the Art Institute of Chicago, and is reproduced through the courtesy of the Art Institute.

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THE TRIAD OF ACACIA FRATERNITY VOLUME XLI

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TABLE OF CONTENTS National Council Meeting

National Council Meeting

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Newest Chapter Installed at Southem Califomia

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The 38th National Interfratemity Conference

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National President's Page

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At a dinner meeting at the Union

I League Club of Chicago on Saturday t evening, January 25, the new national

officers of the fratemity were installed by the retiring National President, Walter W. Kolbe. Those inducted into office were: Lloyd H. Ruppenthal, National President; Ray C. Thomas, National Counselor, and Marion H. Huber, National Treasurer. Cecil H. Brite continues in his capacity of National Secretary, and Herschel Washingto.n as National Editor.

In accepting office, President Ruppenthal reaffirmed his faith in the future of Acacia. "Never in its past," he said, "has Acacia been in as good a position for future growth and development." Much of the credit for the fine physical and financial condition of the fratemity is due to the efforts of the retiring national officers, he stated. In closing he declared that he would expend every effort to improve and perpetuate the Acacia Fratemity.

The other officers, as each was installed, declared their intentions to perform their duties well, and each paid tribute to his predecessor.

At the business meeting which followed the installation ceremony the ¡ officers effected the transfer of duties and discussed means of expanding and coordinating the fraternity. Perhaps the most important decision was that to appoint Roy C. Clark, former National Treasurer, to the office of Executive Secretary, which has been unfilled for some time. The Council feels fortunate in obtaining Brother Clark's services for this office since probably no other member of the fraternity has had as close connection with and interest in Acacia. In his new position Roy will coordinate and direct the activities and operations of the national office and of the traveling secretaries.

Better Relations Between Business, Education and Young G. Edward Pendray

People .

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Amplifications and Ad-Lib

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Acacians the World Over

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Chapter Etemal

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Letters .

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Pictures for an Acacia Album

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Doings in the Chapters

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Honor Roll of Acacia

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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 7530 Sheridan Road, Chicago, Illinois.

William D. Ross, Editor, 7530 Sheridan Road, Chicago 26, illinois ASSOCIATE EDITORS Herschel L . Washington, 820 Commerce Building, Kansa s City, Missouri; John C. Edwin, 1220 Central Street, Evanston, lllinois; Cecil H. Haas, 1850 National Bank Bldg. , Detroit 26, Mich.; Luther G. Andrews, Stuart Building, Lincoln, Nebr.

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Newest Chapter Installed at Southern California Saturday, March 8, 1947, has become a red-letter day in the annals of the Acacia Fraternity, for it marks the date of the installation of our newest chapter-that at the University of Souther n California.

The initiating ceremonies and the installation banquet on Saturday evening were held at the University Club, a men's club in downtown Los Angeles. The banquet followed a day of ceremonies administered by two initiating teams from the California chapter. The men fr om Berkeley had jour neyed down the previous afternoon and were put up overnight, for lack of an Acacia house, on the Southern California campus, at the homes of several alumni. The installation banquet was attended by about one hundred prominent Acacia alumni, Masons, and Shriners from the Los Angeles area.

Walter Kolbe, Past National President of Acacia, presented Bill James, the chapter's new Venerable Dean, with its charter naming twenty-two students and two faculty members as chapter founders. This was the first new charter to be presented since 1935 when the Washington State chapter was installed.

At the banquet, Franklin Adams, vice-president of the Southern California alumni who presided in the absence of their president, Walter Mann, called on Professor Robert Craig, Nebraska, the new chapter's advisor, to act as master of ceremonies.

After reading numerous congratulatory telegrams from well-wishing Acacians in various parts of the country, Brother Craig introduced Bruce Dwelley, Venerable Dean of the California chapter.

Dwelley named and installed the men selected by the Southern California chapter as their initial officers: Bill James, Venerable Dean; Stan Scott, Senior Dean; Bob Smith, Junior Dean; Harvey Amos, secretary; and Wayne Augspurger, treasurer. The two faculty member s are Dr. Thomas C. Clements, director of the department of geology, and Dr. Robert E. Vivian, dean of the College of Engineering.

Bestowal of the charter by Walter Kolbe was followed by the presentation of an inscribed gavel from the Califor nia chapter. Jim Broadston presented a chapter Bible with the good wishes of the Cincinnati chapter.

Fred Anderson, California, and Ray Oster, Franklin, alumni who have been especially generous of their time and energy to the SC boys, were introduced and honored by acclamation.

Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Chancellor of the University of Southern California, spoke enthusiastically in welcoming the new chapter to the USC Campus. He mentioned that he had been initiated into Acacia prior to the ruling prohibiting dual membership in college social fraternities.

Walter Kolbe, in closing, thanked the contributors who have aided in the establishment of the chapter at the University of Southern California.

Summarizing the ideals of the Acacia Fraternity, he charted the path which he felt the chapter must follow if it is to continue to enjoy prosperity and success.

Chapter History Seven Trojan men, returned from the service and bent on the quest for knowledge, realizing a need for that education gained in the association with colleagues of high calibre and

purpose, looked forward to the day when Acacia would be installed at the SC campus.

Starting with two pencils and a pledge book, the group was in business by the first meeting. Immediately elections were held, and happily there were enough offices to go around.

From the beginning a sound financial policy took shape as the members were assessed $2 every month. Aware of the potentialities of good planning, the builders began the sketching of an informative organization chart.

National Headquarters of Acacia, alert to the possibility of aligning another chapter at a major university on the west coast, encouraged the lads from south of the Tehachapi. The University of California Acacians learned of the movement down south and invited a couple of the SC hopefuls to their annual banquet at Berkeley in 1946. Appreciating the offer of a chapter with a credit account large enough to swing a banquet every year, the struggling southlanders saw two of their number embark for the bay area and Berkeley. The stay was a royal treat, as well as being enlightening, for when the two Gullivers returned, they told a credible story of the splendor of the north. The local group pledged success and reaffirmed the need for super-organization. Sketch¡ ing continued on the chart.

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The Southern California Chapter Holding the chapter's charter are Bruce Dwelley, Crolifornia Venerable Dean (left), and Venerable Dean Bill James of the Southern California chapter (right). Flanking them on the left and right are, respectively, Rufus B . von K1einSmid, chancellor of the University of Southern California, and Walter W. Kolbe, Past National President of Acacia.

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nus, Fred Anderson, California '42, saw fit to enter our midst. Though he is suspected of sabotage and vandalism on the SC campus, Fred has been infinitely helpful to the members. He proved instrumental in adapting a constitution to our needs. His aid has been invaluable in our relations with the alumni association and National.

All progreSs hasn't been smooth, however. As if parliamentary procedure weren't distraction enough, invariably to each meeting our members were bringing in strangers. By adopting a few procedures we managed to absorb some of these difficulties, and at the same time provided our officers with a few men to lead. This legislative farsightedness proved to be a keystone in our development.

As our number grew, so grew our contacts with Acacia alumni residing in the area. To our bewilderment we learned that prior to the war there had been an active group of Acacia alumni in Southern California. At a getacquainted banquet in June, we met a great number of these gentlemen whose interest in our cause has been felt with deep-hearted appreciation.

Mindful of our troubles the Alumni Association is attempting at the present time to solve our housing problem.

The alumni incorporated our student group, planned our chapter installation, and advised us on matters relative to our organization-effort had been doubled on the chart.

The chancellor of the University of Southern California, Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, put us in touch with members of his lodge, James A. Garfield Masonic Lodge, and these men too have been helpful in urging our cause and offering their support.

Last summer our Venerable Dean and Secretary attended the National Conclave in Chicago where they were entertained splendidly. The trip was beneficial in offering an opportunity for the boys to learn some new slants (Continued on page 86)

Southern California Installation Banquet (Top) Bill James, SC Venerable Dean, receiving the chwpter charter from Walter W. Kolbe. Seated at the left are Robert F. Craig, the Faculty advisor, and Franklin Adams, vice-president of the Southern California Alumni Association.

(Miiddle) Jim Campbell, Junior Dean of the California chapter (right), presening James with an inscribed gavel. Bruce Dwelley, Venerable Dean of the California chapter, is the man with the grin at the left.

(Bottom) Jim Broadston, Cincinnati alumnus, presenting James with a Bible for the chapter. L eft to right seated are Walter Kolbe and Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid.

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The 38th National Interfraternity Conference ARKED by record attendance of educators, a serious attitude toward the problems affecting fraternities at the present time, and resolutions dealing with such, the 38th annual session of the National Interfraternity Conference was held at the Hotel Commodore, New York City, November 29-30. Eighty-four presidents and deans of men of educational institutions joined 126 delegates, 29 alternates, and 15 visitors to make up a total of 308 as against 261 men who attended the sessions last year. Each of the 59 member fraternities of the conference was represented both days.

(It was at this meeting that Acacia's Dave Embury was elected to the office of National Interfraternity Conference Chairman for the next year.-Editor.)

In distinct contrast to the problems which faced the conference in the past five years were those considered this year, brought on by the tremendous increase of students on fraternity campuses throughout the country.

Realizing that in this unprecedented prosperity there is a menace to the welfare of college fraternities, the National Interfraternity Conference passed unanimously two highly significant resolutions as follows: "Resolved: That, {1) this conference recognizes the need of extending the opportunity for fraternity membership to those who desire such affiliation. (2) It believes that this purpose can best be accomplished by the chartering of additional chapters of member fraternities. Without barring the creation of new national organizations, the conference recognizes the value of experience and also the benefits to be derived through affiliation with strong national organizations; it therefore believes that the best results will be attained through the expansion of existing fraternities.

(3) It suggests that the Executive Committee of the conference through a special committee direct a program for the carrying out of this policy."

"Resolved: That, recognizing that there is great danger of destroying the character of the fraternity chapter as we know it today by increasing its size to numbers greater than fifty, and, appreciating the unusual and necessary temporary increase in the size of the fraternity chapter in the postwar period, this conference recommends that its national fraternity members discow¡age the continuance beyond the present emergency of such oversized chapters in an effort to maintain the fundamental character and purpose of the fraternity chapter as an

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opportunity for the development of the principles of brotherhood within its membership."

In addition to these was a third resolution dealing with the right of fraternities to select their own members. This follows: The American college fraternities and sororities have developed over a period of one hundred and seventy years. Throughout all that time they have exercised their established right

CRITERIA We consider the fraternity re ~ sponsible for a positive contribu~ tion to the primary functions of the colleges and universities, and therefore under an obliga tion to encourage the most complete personal development of its members. intellectual. physical. and social. Therefore we declare: That the objectives and activities of the fraternity should be in entire accord with the aims and purposes of the institutions at which it has its chapters.

That the primary loyalty and responsibility of a student in his relations with his institution are to the instit ution, and that the association of any group of students as a chapter of a fraternity involves the definite responsibility of the group for the conduct of the individual. That the fraternity should promote conduct consistent with good morals and good taste. That the fraternity should create an atmosphere which will stimulate substantial intellectual progress and superior intellectual achievement. That the fraternity should maintain sanitary, safe, and wholesome physical conditions in the chapter house. That the fraternity should inculcate principles of sound business practice both in chapter finances and in the business relations of its members.

Adopttd by tht Nat io nal lnttrfratt rnity Conftrtnce

to govern themselves and to select their own members. Their proud war records evidence once again the soundness of these democratic rights.

"Originally guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States in prohibiting any abridgment of the right of assembly which embraces the right to form voluntary associations, they have been re-enunciated in the Charter of the United Nations as fundamental freedoms to which every human being is entitled.

Therefore, the Interfraternity Research and Advisory Council reaffirms the policy of the American college fra -

ternities and sororities in exercising these rights, irrespective of the views of any non-members, as essential human rights."

Again the conference felt the necessity of insisting upon its ban on hazing and hell week practices in the following resoluton: "Resolved: With the earnest conviction that the national fraternity system offers a valuable contribution to the campuses of America, the conference again affirms its belief that hazing and all forms of hell week practices are not properly a part of the national fraternity system, materially detract from its prestige and merit, and afford a reasonable b~sis of increasing anti-fraternity sentiment in this country, and it asserts that a more vigorous effort should be made by the fraternity members and particularly by the officers to eliminate completely such practices in the current year."

Other resolutions call upon member fraternities to initiate programs of organized chapter house discussions in their respective chapters in an experimental way; affirmed the policy of the National Interfraternity Conference in respecting the integrity of chapters and individual memberships of fraternities belonging to the Association of Education Fraternities; expressed to the presidents, deans, and other educational officers present at the conference appreciation of their attendance, hearty cooperation, and leadership in promoting fraternity on their respective campuses; paid tribute to Chairman Maurice Jacobs and others who made the conference a success.

The initial session of the conference heard Chairman Maurice Jacobs, Phi Epsilon Pi, give an impressive review of the activities of the Executive Committee and conference officials.

He opened his address with the following statement: . "The problem is no longer one of survival, but of properly integrating this large student body into our present fraternities."

Later in his address he commented: "After Mrs. Glenn Frank had spoken at the University of Minnesota, a check was made to determine whether her presence had in any way affected the fraternity situation on that campus, and we were pleased to find that in no way had she disturbed fraternity loyalties. The Frank furor has passed in the night, like (Continued on page 71)

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Brother Acacians: Your new National President enters that office mindful of the splendid progress of the Fraternity under the. able leadership of retiring National President, Walter W. Kolbe, who has given un~paringly of his time and effort in building a strong fraternity and in keeping it strong.

In contrast with the end of the first World War, Acacia enters this postwar period in sounder financial condition than at the beginning of the war. This increase in net worth is due largely to Brother Kolbe's untiring labor. Good investments have been made and the Fraternity's funds conserved .

In the belief that a strong fraternity requires a central office organization, for the first time in our history Brother Kolbe's administration established a central office. That it has functioned admirably is shown by the fact that, of our active chapters, twenty-one are in operation on their respective campuses; others will soon be reopening. Contacts with petitioning groups have been maintained during the emergency so that a lusty group of new chapters is in prospect.

At the meeting of the National Council on January 25, the petition of the Acacia Club at the University of Southern California was approved; news of its installation appears in this issue. Welcome, U. S. C., to the brotherhood of Acacia!

A momentous step was taken by the National Council in appointing Brother Roy C. Clark, former National Treasurer, as Executive Secretary. Perhaps no contemporary has had more extensive experience to qualify him for this office. His labors with and concern for Acacia's problems and program have continued since he left the National Treasurer's office; he assumes his new office with complete knowledge of the entire picture within Acacia and of the fraternity world.

I predict that Brother Clark's tenure of office will be marked by an improvement in our entire fraternity, both nationally and locally.

LLOYD

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RUPPENTHAL

National President

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Better Relations Between Business, Education and Young People

By G. EDWARD PENDRAY From a talk at the A merican Trad e A ssocia tion Executives Institute

PROFESSIONAL field is Public Relations-and public relations in general may aptly be defined as the art of making more people want to do business with you.

That is a very broad definition, and in this case "doing business" does not refer merely to promoting the sale of products. Making more people want to do business with you involves buying from you, of course : but it also includes wanting to work for you, being willing to invest money with you; being pleased to supply you with raw material, goods and services; being glad to have your plants and offices in the community, and so on.

Business has learned in the last few years that there is a good deal more involved in this problem of doing business than selling. We have learned how to do that well, so well we can't supply the demand. If we had also spent some time trying to sell the businesses themselves, we would perhaps have been better off today.

Dr. Claude Robinson, who is head of the Opinion Research Corporation at Princeton, says that what business has to do is sell its "social forms." Social forms are all of the things that business and industry have developed in order to carry on the job of making and selling goods.

For example, the idea of a corporation itself is a social form, and employment methods and pension plans and bookkeeping and sales methods and advertising, and yes, I suppose even trade associations, are social forms. We haven't thought very much about ourselves in relation to social forms, and yet they are just as necessary to business and to the processes of business as ar e the development and the making of goods, and the sale cif goods.

Those social forms are the things that people usually misunderstand about b usiness. The source of a great deal of th e a nti-business thinking we see today r esults from such misunderstanding of our social for ms. It comes partly because we don't understand them ourselves, and have not b een able to talk th em up and sell themy

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maybe because some of them need revision.

We have been slow to give thought to our social forms. If the customers don't like our products, we change them, we keep th em up to date. But we go on year after year doing the same old thing as far as the social forms are concerned, without giving thought to whether they need to be

modernized. We resent frightfully any implications made against them.

It is generally said among public relations men that there are seven vital publics that are of importance to all business and to all industry. They are: 1, customers ; 2, employees; 3, stockholders; 4, suppliers, 5, plant-city groups, 6, educational and professional people, and 7, government. This morning I would like to call special attention to the group referred to as educational and professional people, which group also includes young people.

A few figures might be of some help in getting a better picture of how large a field this young people's field is. We might define a young person as anyone under twenty years of age. It happens there are at the moment approximately 139,000,000 Americans in this country, rather mor e than most of us thought. Forty-five million of them, or about a third, are under twenty.

We are getting constant new growth in our population, too; about 3,000,000 babies are being b orn each year. Since 1940, in spite of the war, the population of this country has grown by 7,000,000 people.

We might think of those 45,000,000 young people as the raw material of an industry; the educational industry.

Let's take a look at the "educational industry."

Incidentally, if anybody in the room is over forty (possibly there are some here over forty) , you are probably thinking about the educational world in quite wrong terms. Since you were in high school more than three times as many people are going to high school. Since you were in college, th e college population of the cou ntry has increased about four times. Along with th ose growths h ave come many other changes in the way of doing things, educationally.

Now how big is the educational industry? In 1940, which was the last year we had any good, reliable, peacetime figures, the automobile industry, including trucks and bus;>es an d so on, operated to the extent of about $4,000,000,000, in terms of volumes of output. The edu cational industry, if we assume the value of the product to be equal to the amount of money spent on it, was 3.2 billions, or next to the automobile industry in size- and the automobile industry was t h e biggest in the country.

The next biggest industry was steel, with 2.7 billions. The educational industry therefore ranks right behind automobiles, and is half a billion dollars ahead of the next industry. It is no small operation.

Here are some other facts about the educational plant and payroll. There are 225,000 schools and colleges in the country, nearly a quarter million.

There are more than a million teachers, actually 1,100,000.

The investment in plants and structures of educational institutions in this country is $14,000,000,000. That is some industry! If the sales department of any of your constituent companies were to neglect an industry of that ( Continued on page 74)

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Amplifications and Ad Lib Ten Good Things There are ten good things for which one has never been sorry-for doing good to all. For speaking evil of no one.

For hearing before judging. For thinking before speaking. For holding an angry tongue. For being kind to the distressed. For asking pardon of all wrongs. For being patient toward everybody. For stopping the ear to the talebearer. For disbelieving the most of the evil reports.

Measure of a Man Not long ago we came across a little article in a trade journal in which the author pointed out that "one measure of a man is the amount it takes to get his goat." A little reflection will recall to us the times when we allowed the minor irritations of life to color our whole attitude and opinion: perhaps the vagaries of the weather, or a biting remark made by an associate, or even an intentional attempt by another to be exasperating will cause us to be unnecessarily disturbed-which is often what the other guy wants.

After reading the article mentioned we have started to test ourselves to see how much it takes to get our goatand we're finding the little things don't upset us as they once did. No cost, either.

The Gay Philosopher The artist, named Major, who painted that well-known picture of the man with the merry twinkle in his eyes named the painting, "The Gay Philosopher." The painting is of a tramp wearing a red coat, a high wing collar, a slouch hat, and a smile about a mile wide. The painting has been very popular with business executives, who have found that it causes them to automatically relax and stop

taking themselves so seriously. It helps them to laugh at themselves and anyone who can do that is a sane and happy individual.

The Chinese have said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Here is a painting that lives up to that ancient proverb. "The Gay Philosopher" is a happy warrior. You can't get him down. He wades into difficulties with a gay and happy spirit that will not be denied. His face is lighted up with a glow of good will and friendliness that melts all resistance. He makes you feel that it's fun to be alive. He seems to be in tune with all that's good in the universe. He's a calm, contented, happy guy getting a kick out of the adventure of living. He radiates a victorious mental attitude.

Here's a whole philosophy of life created with a paint brush!

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INDIFFERENT TYPE: Drives nail for lack of something better to do. Attacks his job with studied carelessness.

Doesn't give a hoot if nail goes in crooked-it does. Drops hammer on kid's head. Stalks off to do something more interesting.

State Department Grants

On December 10, 1946, the Department of State announced the availability of funds for graduate students wishing to undertake academic studies or research in the other American republics. A limited number of travel and maintenance grants will be awarded and the funds may be used to supplement grants from educational institutions or other sources. Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree, be engaged in advanced study, and have a working knowledge of the language in which study is contemplated. The Thumb Fun grants will vary in amounts and will Extensive research has shown that be awarded on the basis of the stuthe best way to explain the fine art of dents' individual needs. ·Application driving a nail is to describe the various blanks may be obtained from the types of nail drivers-and here they American Republics Section, Division of International Educational Relations, are: NERVOUS TYPE: He holds the U. S. Office of Education, Federal Sehammer much as he would a live curity Agency, Washington 25, D. C. serpent of which he has a deadly fear, no doubt. The hammer is such a problem to him that he can't hold the nail in his hand-he carries it in his mouth, clamped between his teeth-and usually swallows it.

ABSENT-MINDED TYPE: Grasps the hammer firmly with steady confidence. Brings his hand back smoothly, takes a long, easy swing, and then hits his thumb. He forgot the nail.

THE SHOW-OFF: Holds nail by Alumni Associations placing one finger on the head, swings National Headquarters is seeking back the hammer and lets go with a mighty wallop. Just before the ham- up-to-date information on the activimer reaches the nail, he pulls his finger ties of local Acacia alumni groups and gently away, hits the nail solidly-both organizations. Secretaries are urged to the nail and hammer, also part of the send in n·ames of association officers, smarty's arm, go through the wall into meeting places, and regular meeting the next room-leaving an unsightly dates, if such are available. Address all such information to: hole.

EFFICIENT TYPE: Can't stand to ACACIA FRATERNITY HEADdo just one thing at a time. Must be QUARTERS very busy. Stands on stepladder, 7530 Sheridan Road drives nails, hangs picture, talks with wife, listens to radio, all in one operaChicago 26, Illinois tion. Usually found sprawled on the Information on all local alumni orfloor tangled up in ladder, wearing ganizations will be published in an picture around his neck, with an unearly issue of the TRIAD. driven nail somewhere nearby.

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the World OYer Sequel to the Dream of a Lifetime With impressive ceremonies and in the presence of noted jurists and distinguished attorneys, the Congress Hall Law Society of America was founded on January 24, 1947, in historic Congress Hall, 6th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. The membership of the new organization is limited to students of the University of Pennsylvania who attended classes in Congress Hall from 1896 to 1902. Of the more than 800 students who studied there, 252 are still living. George E. Nitzsche, Franklin '06, was elected one of the honorary presidents, and Joseph R. Wilson, Franklin '06, represents the class of 1902.

Readers of the TRIAD will recall the article "Preserving a National Shrine" which appeared in the OctoberDecember, 1943, issue and described the efforts of Brother Nitzsche to have the Independence Hall Group of Buildings taken over by the Federal Government as a "United States Independence Hall National Park." The dream for which he toiled so unremittingly for so many years is now becoming a reality. This group of buildings, formerly Philadelphia City property, is now under the joint care of the United States Department of the Interior and the City. Ultimately, when several city blocks in front of Independence Hall and several to the east of the Grou~ are acquired, it is to become the "United States Independence Hall National Park." Congratulations Brother Nitzsche. ' Benjamin F . Bowers, Kansas '08, of Ottawa, Kansas, is a Senator in the Kansas State Legislature.

Dr. Henry W. Meyerding, Minnesota '07, professor of orthopedic surgery, Mayo Foundation graduate school of medicine at the University of Minnesota, has recently returned from a lecture tow¡ in Ew¡ope. During this time he received many honors, the most outstanding of which was his being elected president of the Congress of the International Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology which is to be held at Amsterdam in 1948.

This honor came while Dr. Meyerding was attending a meeting of the Society at Brussels. He presented papers before the group and also at a meeting of the Societe Francaise d'Orthopedie in Paris. While attending the latter meeting, he was elected from active to honorary membership, and was also elected to honorary membership in the Academe de Chirugie Francaise.

Dr. Meyerding gave lectures at the University of Leyden, Amsterdam and Edinburgh, and when at Budel, Holland, he assisted at the dedication of the monument to Antonius Matthysen, discoverer of plaster of Paris bandage.

The doctor graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1909.

Frederick W. Luebke, Michigan '36, a Lieutenant Commander in the regular Navy since July, 1945, reported to the Commander of Carrier Division 14 in Norfolk, Virginia, last November.

Wendell Berge, Nebraska '24, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Anti-Trust Division, resigned on February 15, effective May 1, 1947. He first joined the department in 1930, and has been in charge of the Anti-Trust Division since August 28, 1943. Brother Berge will become a partner in a Washington and New York law firm.

Tom Clark, Attorney General, received this resignation with deep regret.

Receives High Service Awards Herman C. Hangen, Kansas '19, of merchandise department of J. C. Penney Company central office in Lawrence, Kansas, received from Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson two medals-the Medal of Freedom and the Exceptional Civilian Service Medal. The Medal of Freedom was awarded for "meritorious achievement" in organizing the Army's medical supply lines in England preparatory to the invasion of Europe. The Exceptional Civilian Service Medal, the War Department's highest civilian citation . was g1ven for similar work in the'

China-Burma-India theater.

Brother Hangen originally went to Washington in 1942 as an expert to the Army Surgeon General on stock control of medical supplies, and in J anuary, 1944, was sent to Cheltenham, England, where he organized medical supply in the Asiatic theater and "flew the hump" between Chabau India and Kunming, China. In a l~tter t~ him, Secretary Patterson said, "Your system for rapid, continuous adjustment of purchasing to variations in depot stocks marked a significant improvement in medical supply, and had an important influence in the similar regulation of purchasing by other Technical Services."

Paul E. Tombaugh, Indiana '24, is at present living at 2829 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. After his graduation from Indiana University in 1926 he married Vesta Goodwin, a graduate of Chicago University, and began his law practice in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he also served as adjutant general for three years under Governor Harry G. Leslie. In the late '30's he was summoned to Washington to serve on the General Staff, Corps of U. S. Army, in the War Plans Division. During the war he was overseas until 1945, when he was assigned to the legislative and liaison section of the War Department with offices in the Pentagon Building.

Both he and Mrs. Tombaugh hope that some day they will return to Indianapolis and again establish a permanent home there.

Harry L. Gause, Indiana '22, 1300 Fletcher Trust Building, Indianapolis, Indiana, was recently elected vice president of the Board of School Commissioners of that city.

Robert L. Burns, Kansas '38, a former Venerable Dean of the Kansas Chapter, and a captain in the air corps during the war, is now connected with American Overseas Airlines in New York City. He lives at 4226 217th Street, Bayside, Long Island, N. Y. W. Lawrence Welch, Indiana '40, who is an accountant with Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery, has been transferred from their Chicago office to their Cincinnati office in the Carew Tower.

John D. Steinle, Kansas '18, is a probate judge living in Russell, Kansas.

His son, Thomas, is still in the service Jack is a student in school, and Donald Ray, aged 7, is on his way.

Rex W. Christie, Kansas '33, is engaged . in farming near Ottawa, Kansas.

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Case Opposes Strikes In a recent article by Representative Francis H. Case, Northwestern '21, Republican Congressman from South Dakota, he explains the new labor relations bill which he has introduced in the present Congress. He says in part: "We cannot afford strikes.

"Workers cannot afford them. Last year, they cost 113,000,000 man-days of labor. That probably means close to $1,000,000,000 in wages, for some of the strikes were in the better-paid industries.

"Industry cannot afford them. Over 1,500,000 cars and trucks were lost by the strikes in the automotive field in 1946.

"The public cannot afford them.

The housing shortage was definitely worsened by lost materials. Strikes in essential fields like coal mining gravely threatened the public health and safety.

"Ways must be found to achieve industrial justice without industrial warfare. We may not eliminate all strikes but we can provide machinery to improve the relationship between labor and management."

Noble Gesture On behalf of the 500,000 Nobles of North America, Imperial Potentate George H. Rowe, Stcmford '12 (right), presents a $10,000 check to the Masonic Service Association, through its Executive Secretary, Carl H. Claudy, of Washington. The contribution was made recently (Feb. 19) at the Association's annual meeting at the Hotel Statler in Washington, D. C. More than 200 delegates representing all 48 states were present. The Shrine's $10,000 will go towards the Association's fund for aiding hospitalized veterans throughout the United States. Last year more than 500,000 veterans were visited.

Pound to Retire It was recently announced by Harvard University that Roscoe Pound, Nebraska '05, Dean of its famed law school for twenty years, will retire from the faculty on June 30 with the title of professor emeritus. Previously Dean Pound had taught in the law schools of the University of Nebraska, Northwestem University, and the University of Chicago.

John Pakan, Northwestern '42, was married to Dorothy Ottino of Oak Park, Illinois, on Saturday, February 1, 1947. Our very best wishes to you, John and Dorothy.

69 Ross E. Hall, Kansas '11 , has served as a member and secretary of the Selective Service Board at Long Beach Califomia, for the past three and one~ half years. He spends his off-work hours at 150 Roswell Avenue.

Kansan, a Capper daily newspaper published in Kansas City, Kansas. He is a cousin of Chester W. Haas, Kansas State '28, Merrill W. Haas, Michigan '32, and Cecil H. Haas, Kansas '22.

Dr. Frederick E. Lee, Kansas '10, is professor of economics, teaching banking and finance in the University of Illinois in Urbana. For several year s he has been a financial feature writer for Commercial and Financial Chronicle of New York, Barron's of New York, Banking of New York, Economist of Chicago, and other such publications. Three sons were in the service during the war-one a Major in Hawaii, one in military intelligence in Washington, and the youngest with Patton's Third Army in Europe.

Arthur E. Rodenber ger, Indiana '39, is a salesman for the Gibson Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is active in the Acacia Alumni Association there. His wife, the former Virginia Hitch, is an Alpha Chi Omega from Indiana.

Raymond D. Tripp, Kansas '34, is a member of a company recently started in Harlingen, Texas, to sell Texas fruit throughout the mid-west states. They also included the sale of surplus war property along with the fruit solicitation. The company is Mel-Ray, Box 1870, Harlingen.

George E. Kahler, Columbia '23, has retumed from Korea and is again associated with the New York Telephone Company in Bronxville, New York.

Arthur Reve Smith, Michigan '12, a former Vener able Dean of the Michigan Chapter, lives at 4 Gar den Lane, San Francisco 25, Califomia.

F r ank Donald Gordon, Kansas '22, is in the home construction business.

He, his wife, and their four children, ages 15, 16, 17, and 18, live at 1554 Hillcrest, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

Richard Cross, Ohio, was graduated from the College of Commerce at the end of the fall quarter. He entered Ohio State in the fall of 1938 but his scholastic career, like so many others, was interruped by the war. He re-. turned to school immediately following his discharge in 1945 and has finally completed his education.

Paul W. Hammack, George Washington '23, was injured early in January in an automobile accident in which his car was demolished in collision with a stolen car. He sustained chock and severe bruises but had no bones broken. Brother Hammack, a charter member of the George Washington Chapter, is financial adviser to the chapter and one of the five trustees of the Acacia Corporation. His address is 305 North Lincoln Street, Arlington, Virginia.

Marvin M. Cox, Kansas '36, and Harold D. Arend, Kansas '16, are both members of the House of Representatives for the State of Kansas. Brother Cox is from Kingman and Brother Arend from Beloit. ¡ George Edward Hatton, Kansas '31, and Wallace E. Lumb, Kansas '29, are both geologists with the Phillips Petroleum Company in Amarillo, Texas.

"Ed" lives at 1504 Lipscomb Street, and "Wally" at 701 Buchanan Street.

Kenneth L. Morris, Kansas '35, recently became west coast representative of Capper Publications, of which U. S . Senator Arthur Capper, Kansas State '18, is the head. His office is at 1207 Russ Building, San Francisco, Califomia. After his discharge from the Navy Kenneth was with the

RICHARD CROSS William J. Ellenberger, George Washington '30, since his return from military service overseas, has been reelected a trustee of the Acacia Corporation and is serving as president of the Board. This Corporation holds the real property of the George Washington Chapter. They have purchased a new fraternity house and have had it completely renovated for the chapter.

The following have recently become parents: Dr. Carl W. Goebel, Indiana '40, Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana ; Francis G. Henderson, Indiana '36, and Eugene F. Yoder, Indiana '35, both of Elwood, Indiana.

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trade and our economic development in the future."

He argued that importance of European developments was being overemphasized in the news, and urged a greater effort to find the reasons behind happenings in the Far East. The alumni group was much im-

Milton Hay Amos, Kansas '24, of Humboldt, Kansas, passed away on February 15, 1947, at a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was being treated for a heart condition. He was a brother of Frederick C. Amos, Kansas '27, whose release from a Japanese prison camp was desrcibed in the June, 1945, issue of the TRIAD. Milton was born in Humboldt on December 3, 1902. He graduated from the local high school and then entered Kansas University where he also graduated. For a while he was associated with an accounting firm in Chicago, after which he returned to Humboldt to become assistant to his father who was secretary and general manager of the Humboldt Brick & Tile Co. Upon the death of his father, Brother Amos became secretary-treasurer and general manager of the company, which office he had held ever since.

He was prominent in the business J. B. POWELL and civic life of his community. Be·sides serving as an official of the Brick & Tile Company, he was one of the pressed by this luncheon talk and one trustees of his father's large estate. remarked, "It was a shame that ConHe had served several terms on the gress could not have heard that final city council. He was a member of the message."

Board of Sessions of the Presbyterian While the China Weekly Review Church and was also active in the never had an extremely large circuSunday School. He had served as sec- lation its influence was enormous. retary of the Chamber of Commerce Diplomats and foreign correspondents and was a member of the Rotary Club. made it their prescribed reading, and Surviving are his wife, Jean Todd its views and news were later echoed Amos; one daughter, Virginia; two in countless headlines throughout the sons, John and James; two sisters, and world. Japan's designs on China bethree brothers. came one of his favorite targets, and it was for this reason that Tokyo put John Benjamin Powell, Missouri '09, Brother Powell at the top of its list of former editor of the China Weekly Re- public enemies, although they never view, died of a heart attack in Wash- succeeded in intimidating this fiery ington, D. C., on February 28. He had Missourian. His son, J. W. Powell, is just completed a luncheon address be- now editing his father's old publication fore an alumni group of the University in Shanghai.

He is survived by Mrs. Powell; a of Missouri. Readers of the TRIAD will recall the articles about him in the daughter, Mrs. M. Stewart Hensley, October, 1942, and May, 1943, issues, wife of a United Press correspondent; and the account of the tragic loss of a son, J. W. Powell; a brother, and two his feet through Japanese neglect dur- sisters. We feel that a truly great ing his imprisonment after Pearl Har- American has passed from our sight. bor. He had never regained his former good health since his return to the Willard W. Ellis, Cornell '13, librarUnited States in August, 1942, al- ian of the State College of Agriculture though he was getting about with some at Cornell University since 1916, and difficulty on his artificial feet.

Ithaca's first 33d degree Mason, passed Brother Powell remained a crusader away on December 22, 1946, at the age to the very last moment of his career. of 67. He had been in ill health for In his last talk he pleaded, as he had so'me time. He was a high-ranking Maoften before, for a greater awareness son in state circles and had been emin the United States of the importance ployed at Cornell University's liof the Orient to this country. braries since 1902.

"We ought to begin in our schools to Brother Ellis was born at Arkport, teach people about Asia," he said. "It is New York, on August 10, 1879. He going to be the important part of the received his A.B. degree at Cornell world from the standpoint of our in 1901, and his LL.B. in 1903 when he

was admitted to the state bar. From 1902 to 1904 he was assistant in the reading room at the Cornell library, superintendent of stacks and branch libraries from 1904 to 1916, and then assumed the post he held at the time of his death. He was very active in Masonic work and had held many high positions in Masonic organizations throughout the state. For several years he was· chapter adviser of the Cornell Chapter of Acacia.

He is survived by his wife, Alice M. Ellis, 309 Farm Street, Ithaca, N. Y ., a sister, and two brothers.

William Helvestine, George ·Washington '30, was killed in an aeroplane crash in North Carolina early in January. He was en route home from Florida flying as a passenger in a privately-owned plane.

Ross H. Snyder, George Washington '23, a charter member, was murdered by his adopted son in a triple slaying which also took the lives of his wife and adopted daughter. This tragedy took place last December. At the time of his death, Brother Snyder was counsel for the Acacia Corporation. A campaign has been started for a suitable memorial in view of his many years of loyal service t the fraternity.

Bill E. Timothy, Purdue '44, was killed January 25 when the automobile in which he was riding was struck by a train. The crash occurred in Gardner, Illinois.

Brother Timothy was discharged from the Army on December 26, 1946, after serving for five months in Japan with a Criminal Investigation Division. Bill was a sophomore in the Purdue School of Pharmacy when he left for service early in 1945. His home was in Earl Park, Indiana. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Timothy, and one brother Tom.

BILL TIMOTHY

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other attacks on the fraternity system."

There was an echo of the past in his reference to the fact that a chapter of TNE had been reported at a southem university, but that this organization of unsavory memory had been discouraged. He also paid his respects to those who persist in hell week activities in the following statement: "It is most discouraging to find that after all of our years of talking and acting against 'hell week' activities, we have not convinced all fraternity leaders that our attitude is correct.

A menace to the fraternity system persists in the sophomoric concept of fraternities and of their true functions which is still shown by a few individuals. Their minds seem not to have developed beyond the idea of the fraternity as a high school lark and an organized paddling party. Astonishingly enough, a very few of these members are placed by -their own fraternities in situations of influence by appointment to official positions. They are the real enemies of the fraternity as an institution. Fortunately, their childish conceptions are gradually diminishing through constant attack on the part of the better fraternities, abetted by the colleges and the conference, on silly horse-play and 'kidstuff'."

One of the things which fraternity men need to do, according to Dr. Edgar J. Fisher, Alpha Delta Phi, assistant director of the Institute of International Education, is to make sure that the fraternities contribute very definitely and in new ways to the fundamental academic purposes of the colleges and universities. One of these ways, he pointed out, was to help larger numbers of foreign students to come to the college campuses by providing board and room for them, thus enriching the life of the chapter through the cultural and educational contribution that they might be able to make. Another way he suggested was occasionally to entertain foreign students in fraternity houses.

He reported that between forty and fifty thousand students from all over the world wanted to attend educational institutions this year in the United States.

A high tribute was paid to fraternity men by Dr. H. E. Stone, dean of students at the University of California, in discussing "the veteran in college fraternities." He stated that the contribution of fraternity men in the late war has never been ques-

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tioned; in fact, it is recognized as outstanding and that fraternity .men ranked high when leadership qualities were evaluated among young officers.

On November 1, the number of veterans enrolled in American schools and colleges, he said, had increased to 1,292,893 and the number of certificates of eligibility for educational training which had not yet been used to 2,150,000. The Veterans Administration, he reported, estimates that the peak year in college training will be 1949. Then he presented the following challenge: "What about the student veterans of the armed services in our fraternity chapters today? Are they liabilities or assets, problem children or leaders, old virus or new blood? Shall we brace ourselves for trouble, shall we set up a welfare program to serve these men, shall we tenderly lead these veteran boys, or shall we challenge them to lead American college fraternities up to an entirely new level of educational achievement? And by educational achievement we do not mean simply an amassing of a grade point surplus."

In making a survey of the conditions on the campus of the University of California Dean Stone interviewed thirty-five fraternity chapter presidents. In regard to that experience he reports: "I was so favorably impressed by this group of chapter presidents that I told President Sproul we had the most outstanding leadership I had ever seen in our fraternities and predicted a new level of chapter achievement. In one criterion at least they did not disappoint me, for at the end of the semester they had rolled up an alltime record-breaking scholarship average and for the first time in the history of the University of California had definitely surpassed the sororities' grades.

"In my interviews with our fraternity presidents, I learned a great deal about changes taking place in chapter policies and procedures. One nonveteran president told me in all frankness, 'Dean, hell week- is a dead duck at our house. We had a pledge class including a marine captain, an army major, and a navy lieutenant commander. When he started the old rough stuff, they said, "No soap, let's sit down and talk ' it over." We talked it over and hell week was dead.'

"The frankness with which the liquor problem was discussed was also refreshing. Several prominent chapters whose reputation for sustained imbibing had been well established reported new rigid rules against liquor on the premises at any time. Their

reasons were convincing: 'It doesn't mix well with study'; 'one or two of our fellow vets wanted to turn the place into a bar.' I learned that the scholarship chairman of one house was a marine captain from Okinawa.

He was also on the university boxing team. When he invited all underclassmen who had poor grades to take their places at compulsory study table no dissenting voices were heard."

Dean Stone stated that the following conditions were reported by chapter presidents: "Elimination of any hazing that would offend the dignity of our older veteran pledges"; "the veteran's broader view has given purpose to the house activities"; "there is more cooperation, constructive understanding, and accomplishment"; "better conduct at social functions, a real enforcement of study and quiet hours, and a more friendly attitude toward alumni, less corporal punishment than before the war"; "less paddling and hazing, a more adult outlook on house affairs"; "stricter on individuals who insist on breaking rules set up by the chapter"; "we have eliminated hazing entirely and make much less distinction between pledges and initiates than in the past-a sense of responsibility has been substituted for punishment" ; "more rigid regulations concerning quiet hours for study and better cooperation in enforcing same"; "more attention given pledges as individuals rather than group treatment of pre-war days"; "less horse-playmore active participation in intramural sports"; "emphasis on the idea that college after all is a place of learning"; "holding the whole pledge class responsible for the failure of any one of them to do his work and using class fines-this works."

Dean Stone stated that practically all of the chapter presidents reported the elimination of hell week and the hazing of freshmen. He also found that there were few chapter problems or difficulties created by the veterans and those few were minor and easily solved. One chapter president insisted that the veteran finds the problem.S of adjusting to college easier, if anything, than does the .non-veteran freshman.

Dean Stone observed that the group life of the fraternity has done much to help the inqividual veteran make his transition back to the student role.

These chapter presidents, according to the survey, not only see no cause for alarm, but rather have firm faith in the quality of their veteran brothers; credit them for a number of constructive changes; and believe that such problems that do exist can be handled by patience and understanding.

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Dean Stone recommended that chapters do all in their power to keep the married veteran member interested and active and to include his wife in fraternity fellowship, feeling that she can be a real asset to the active chapter if she is encouraged to do so. He cautioned against overlooking freshmen who are just entering from high schools and limiting pledge delegations to veterans. He also issued a verbal storm warning in regard to veterans who will enter college following service in the peacetime army.

These men, he said, may be quite a different group than the present veterans and may bring about more difficult problems.

"My observations," continued Dean Stone, "give me no cause for serious concern. Our fraternity presidents say that by and large there is no conflict between the older and younger age groups; in fact, each seems to be profiting by association with the other. Instead of extreme hazing of the youngsters there seems to be more of the 'big brother' attitude. The youngsters look up to and admire the older men who for the most part are making superior grades, setting examples of industry and temperance, and showing by their conduct that going to college is a real privilege which all should appreciate."

"I view the veteran undergraduate fraternity men today as one of the greatest potentials ever placed in our hands as fraternity leaders," continued Dean Stone, "It is an all time high mark of opportunity which has never been presented before and, which we hope, because it is a result of the war, will never be presented again. This wealth of experience in leadership and unselfish service to one's group should lead us out into an entirely new era of fraternity accomplishment. We have talked much about eliminating hazing, about promptness in the payment of chapter bills, and about improving the scholarship record; here is a group of men who, in most cases, without any prodding by dean or alumnus adviser are insisting on these things and prac~ tieing them. We have talked a great deal about promoting discussion groups; here is a group of men who revel in discussion and who are long experienced in that art on board combat ships, in tanks, and in fox holes.

We have stressed religious concepts and values, and here is a group of men who have a new and positive evaluation of the place of religion in their lives.

It has been my contention for many years that as older fraternity folk we talk entirely too much about the things our chapters should not do.

Here is our opportunity to talk less about these matters, and as deans, national officers, and chapter advisers, talk more with our boys along lines of positive programs of accomplishment, programs of group discussion, aggressive public relations, community service, campus, national, and world citizenship."

In conclusion Dean Stone said: "We have before us the opportunity truly to make the fraternity a vital part of the educational institutions in which it functions and a vital force in state and national influence. If we help crystalize this wealth of maturity, experience, ability, and attitude, we have within our grasp in the present and immediate future, the golden era of American college fraternities; moreover the opportunity is ours to make fraternities a vital force in restoring democratic ideals in America as an essential to American leadership toward world peace."

The fraternities were defended by the committee of public relations against the charge of being undemocratic. It said in part: "This charge is based entirely on the fact that we are selective organizations, but even the most liberal sociologists state that group life is essential to society and that all forms of organized group life must necessarily be selective, if they would be effective. The intimate association of congenial men with a common purpose which is basic to fraternity life is essential to its solidarity and therefore to its capacity for constructive action and influence. Moreover, the right of selection is inherent in a democratic society, and it is illogical to label a democratic right as an undemocratic practice.

"If the fraternities will join hands in changing their rushing techniques radically, your committee believes that much of the charge of undemocracy and snobbery will die a natural death. We recommend a study of the question with a view to concerted modification of our present procedures.

"The great strength of the fraternity is its unique character as a socializing agency, for social competence, which means the ability to work with and to assume some degree of leadership among our fellows, contributes quite as much to successful living as does academic competence. The colleges are recognizing this, as well as the potentiality of fraternities' close cooperation with the colleges. We should be fully aware of the signifi-

cance of the tendency, and shape our policies and procedure to the end that we may play this important role in the educational program to the full extent of our ability, because in so doing we shall not only be serving the colleges better but we shall be contributing infinitely more to the personal development of our members. The more closely we weave our own design into the pattern of the educational program, the greater the good that will accrue to us on the campus, and once established there, it will gradually spread until it blots out the present wave of criticism.

"In identifying our objectives with , those of the college we need to be on the alert for one thing. The more the college recognizes the potentialities of fraternity life the greater responsibility will it assume for its proper functioning. But we must take the initiative in assuring the proper functioning of our own organizations; for that constitutes self government, which is basic to fraternity life. Else the college will have to step in, as it is already threatening to do at several institutions, and we shall then have regimentation, and our fraternities will become the tool of education, not its adjunct."

Dr. Ferdinand G. Dratz, Michigan '13, of 410 Stephens Avenue, Missoula, Montana, died suddenly of a heart attack on February 9, 1947, after being about his home as usual during the day.

He was born March 20, 1889, in Muskegon, Michigan, where he attended high school and normal school.

In 1908 he went to Montana as a member of the Philipsburg high school faculty, teaching mathematics and serving as coach. After three years he returned to Michigan to enter the School of Dentistry at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1916. He has practiced dentistry in Missoula, Montana, ever since, except for ten months spent as a first lieutenant in the dental corps overseas during World War I. Brother Dratz was a past commander of the American Legion; past master of Harmony Lodge No. 49, AF & AM; served as a member of the Missoula school board; was past chairman of the state board of dental examiners and served as a member of the community chest board.

He is survived by his wife, Grace Mark Dratz; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Bradley of Terry, Montana; two sons, John and William; two brothers and a sister.

The ~ndianapolis Alumni group is now meeting for Thursday lunches at the Y.W.C.A. Cafeteria.

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Berlin, Germany February 17, 1947

Dear Brothers: The biggest thing I have to report at this time is the arrival of my family. They left New York on December 3 and arrived on December 12 at Bremerhaven aboard the General Stewart. Even though the ship did considerable rolling, none of them became seasick. They reached Berlin on the evening of December 13 and a band was on hand to greet them with music as the train pulled into the station only 90 minutes late, which is practically on time for ET trains. We rode to our quarters at 60 Am Hirschsprung where our cook and housekeeper had prepared coffee, tea and cake.

Our home is located in a residential section called Dahlem which escaped serious damage from bombing. It was the section which housed many of the Nazi Party leaders and has many fine modern homes.

Our house has twelve rooms. The first floor has a large tiled reception hall, two living rooms, dining room, winter garden (solarium) kitchen and built-in garage.

The second floor has five bedrooms and a tiled bath, and the third has three bedrooms for the servants. We have a cook, a housekeeper, a maid and a firemangardener. The house has hot water heat, using coal or coke as fuel. . Cooking and water heating are done electrically. The house is well-furnished, even including a baby grand piano and an all-wave radio.

From the Quartermaster we were able to get a set-for-eight of Bavarian porcelain, also glasses and cooking utensils.

Eileen and Billy attend the Thomas A .

Roberts School, a school for American children in Berlin, which has an enrollment of 500 or more by now. Eileen is taking voice and piano lessons, and Billy is studying violin. All of us take two or three lessons a week in German from an instructor who comes to our home in the evening.

There is no lack of entertainment in Berlin. We have attended four operasLa Traviata, Rigoletto, Tales of Hoffman, and Hansel and Gretel-and have been to the ballet once. We usually see one or two movies a week. These are several months behind those you see in the States, but since the price of admission is only 15 cents you don't mind that.

Christmas went off in fine style with turkey and all the trimmings. By dint of much searching I was able to get ornaments and tree lights for the Christmas tree. This was placed on a revolving tree base-a sort of miniature music box which played two Christmas carols. No eggnog this year, though, as only children under

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16 get milk-one quart a day-which is shipped in from Denmark.

Berlin is the antique collector's heaven, particularly in porcelain and glass. There are Meissen, Alt Wien, Delft, Dresden, Napoleon, and many other Bavarian, French and Czechoslovakian makes.

Jessie is collecting demi-tasses which are her specialty.

Maybe you would be interested in a few facts about the U . S. occupation of Germany. You will recall that at the Yalta Conference in February, 1945, it was decided that Germany should be split into zones of occupation, and that similar policies would be followed in each zone.

To accomplish this an Allied Control Council was set up which would do the coordinating. The Potsdam Agreement held five months later stated: "During the period of occupation . . . Germany shall be treated as an economic unit... .

Allied Control shall be imposed upon Germany only to the extent necessary . . . to carry out the reparations, demilitarization, denazification and other policies agreed upon ... and to insure the equitable distribution of essential commodities between the several zones ... to produce a balanced economy in Germany." France was invited to occupy a zone, and so the Big Three became the Big Four.

It took a little more than a year of demilitarization, denazification, and deindustrialization before it could be stated: "The power of the Nazis to rise again has been destroyed." Of course, the job is still far from complete. It must continue until every Nazi has been removed from any office with power; until every German weapon is discovered and removed; until the last German war plant has been dismantled.

The German economy must be restored.

Not the capacity to make war, but the ability to feed, clothe and house themselves must be regained if Europe itself is to recover. When Europe recovers its economic balance, it will no longer be necessary for Uncle Sam to help out with food, materials and money. So it is good business for all of us to get Germany back on its feet again.

Lt. Gen. Lucius D . Clay, soon to become Theater Commander and Military Governor for Germany, had trained military and civilian personnel under Military Government to work out the problem of organizing and running the U. S. Zone.

This personnel had taken over as the Army had driven into Germany. The other members of the Big Four did the same thing. The Occupation, consisting of Military Government backed by the

Army, was a going concern.

Today, the supreme governing author it y in Germany is exercised, on instructions from their respective gover n ments, by the Commanders-in-Chief of the armed forces of the Big Four, each exercising authority in his own Zone of Occupation. The Allied Control Council in Berlin governs jointly in matters affecting Germany as a whole.

Military Government, MG, in Berlin, headed by Lt. Gen. Clay, directs the government of the U. S. Zone in Germany.

In the U. S. Zone the mechanics of government are done by the Germans themselves through the Minister Presidents of each German state using German administrative machinery. These German governing bodies in the U. S. Zone are determined through freely-held elections.

The top American level of MG, also at Berlin, is OMGUS-Office of Military Government for Germany. U. S. Spot supervision and observation through the cities and rural communities of the U . S. Zone is done by small MG detachments.

MG is a special branch of the Army formed for the government of occupied countries. Other Army units- the Infantry, Artillery, Quartermaster, etc.-are here to provide security and to support MG. MG is the instrument of the Army for carrying out U. S. political policy in Germany-not just U. S. War Department policy but the policy of the entire Government. The State Department formulates governmental policy in regard to U . S. partcipation in the occupation and government of occupied areas. The War Department executes and administers that policy.

Germany is experiencing its coldest winter in 50 years. It seems as if everywhere the Wuest's go they are followed by unusual weather. When we were in Texas we went through the hottest summer since "Remember the Alamo." In North Carolina we had three hurricanes in one year. I was in California on two occasions-once for four days and once for six-and in all ten days the sun shone a total of two hours, and the dew measured about five inches. (It did too, you Californians.)

I attended a luncheon meeting recently in honor of five of the Nuernberg Trial judges who were here in Berlin. I met General McNarney, the Theater Commander; Lt. General Clay, the Deputy Military Governor; and Ambassador Murphy, the U. S. Political Adviser for Germany. The trials are proceeding on schedule with three of the courts now in session. I just discovered through the pages of the TRIAl> that Judge Sebring, one of the judges, is an Acacian. I will say hello to him fraternally the next time I see him.

Our address is: Lt. Col. William J. Wuest, 0-29026 Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes Branch No.1 APO 742, U. S. Army, c/o P.M. New York, N. Y. Best regards to you all.

Fraternally, BILL.

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ernment because it is more secure, especially a government which is going to run everything.

Some business men get very much steamed up about these things and (Continued from pa.ge 66) wonder whether revolution is afoot. size, you would think it wasn't much Others take another attitude: "Shucks, of a business organization. Actually when I was 17 I was a radical, too, the school field has been neglected but now I am not." The fact is, there nnt only by the sales departments but is a good deal of anti-business feeling also the public relations departments. in the schools that goes beyond the What have we lost by this neglect? ordinary schoolboy attitude of rebelFor the most part only some intangi- lion such as many of us experienced bles. But we have begun to learn in in our own school days. As you know, this country that intangibles are fairly it is rather strong among some kinds of teachers, too. Our general feeling important.

As VanWyck says in his book, The is, and you hear this often in busiOpinions of Oliver Allston: ness meetings, that the schools are "Within every society, be it ever so radical and the teachers pink, and democratic, there is a relatively small they teach young folks what they group of intellectuals which gives that shouldn't; and something should be society its tone and character. What done about it.

Now, while there may be some radione thousand professors and writers and bishops think, write, and preach is cals among them, most teachers are handed on by three hundred thousand like the rest of us: just good people, teachers, journalists and ministers to a trying to do their jobs well. By and hundred thirty million Americans, and large what they say about business forms the consciousness of the entire which is inimical to business is simply nation." due to lack of understanding of busiThere is other evidence along this ness. same line that shows the importance To some extent business has treated of such intangibles. Crane Brinton in teachers and professional people neghis book, The Anatomy of Revolution, lectfully. Schools these days are going recently traced the course of events through a tremendous revolution, just of all the revolutions in the last three as are most other forms of organized or four hundred years, and discovered activity in this country. in every instance that ten or fifteen Students are wanting to find out years before a revolution-of course, more about the real world in which including the American Revolution- they must live. Teachers find a great there was a "revolt of the intellec- demand for practical instruction. Yet tuals." Whenever the intellectuals, the there is nowhere they can go to find teachers, writers, and the students, be- out what makes the world tick, pargin seriously to turn away from the ticularly in science, industry and busithings people have been thinking and ness, except to business itself. And believing, a revolution of some sort is there, they often feel themselves probably in order. barred out. In the last two or three What do we find today? What do years I have had occasion to visit about school people thing of business and 125 engineering colleges. The comindustry? You know there have been monest plea on the part of professors a number in that field. One of the most of engineering education is this: "For interesting is the one made for the Na- heaven's sake, how can we get jobs, tional Electrical Manufacturers Asso- part time or otherwise, in the plants ciation a couple of years ago, by the of your company, to find out how these Psychological Corporation. This sur- things work? We have to train stuvey and the others all add up to one dents in the modern techniques, yet general result. In the schools there is we often have to teach out of texta growing sentiment against business books that are ten or fifteen years and industry. old."

The further down you go in the eduThis problem seems to exist in alcational levels the more pronounced most every branch of education. Stuthe feeling becomes. The majority of dents want to know what is going on high school students, for example, ap- CW'rently. The teachers can find out pear to have some rather strong feel- only with great difficulty. That is why ings about it.

I feel it is of such great importance They rather think that business and for trade association executives to give industry as privately organized has some thought to the matter. We have outlived its usefulness. They think a public relations job to do here, not government could run industry better a selling job. We can't sell our goods and cheaper. When they are asked to these teachers and the students. We where they would rather work, they shouldn't try. But we can certainly say they would rather work for gov- help them to find out about business

Better Relations Between Business, Education, and Young People

and industry and engineering and science. Let us give them the material they need for teaching, and so help ourselves by building back the friendship which ought to exist on the closest terms between ourselves and the folk who teach the next generation of our customers. There ought to be the closest relationship between teachers and the people who in our own businesses know the most about the things they want to teach.

Fortunately the way toward a solution of the difficulty has already been pointed out by several companies and associations that have tackled this job, and tackled it very well.

I think you know something about the American Automobile Association safety work in schools. This work was started about twenty-five years ago.

Last week the AAA people told me they now have about 300,000 children in schools taking part in their club work. They estimate that about 13,000,000 children are affected. They are giving courses to teachers. They have trained more than 5,000 teachers in safety work in normal schools.

Other associations, such as the American Bankers' Association, have arranged local panels, made up of local bankers and high school children.

They have brought teachers, students and bankers together at meetings and carried on debates about banking and economics, and what makes them go.

Admittedly this doesn't sell anybody on the idea of coming down to the bank and making a deposit, but it does give the bankers a chance, in the

proper atmosphere, to tell the students and teachers what the banking and economic system is all about.

My own experience in such educational work has been principally that of helping large companies make an approach to schools. As you may know, I helped develop the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search and some of the Wstinghouse 4-H Club and School Service activities.

Westinghouse is one of several large

The Triad, Spring, 1947 companies which have recently made important contributions to work of this kind. For example, Bausch & Lomb, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the Coca Cola Company, the Pepsi Cola Company and the DuPont people all have excellent and active educational programs.

I have here a few samples of what some of the companies do. Here is a school booklet that the Standard Oil Company has produced, with the title "Petroleum and the World." It tells in language suitable for use in the schoolroom, how oil is produced, processed, and how it gets to you.

In response to requests from teachers, 2,000,000 copies have so far been distributed to the schools. The Standard Oil people are now getting out a large edition of 2,000,000 more for distribution this coming year.

Here is another Standard Oil booklet for schools: this one is about toluene, a basic ingredient of TNT, which Standard produced in large quantities during the war. Toluene is a little hard to explain even to a chemist, unless he is a petroleum chemist.

For school use, however, the Standard Oil people hit upon the capital idea of putting the story up in comic book form, and already 1,500,000 copies have been called for in the schools. After you have read it, you, too, may think you know something about toluene!

The Westinghouse Company's program is probably the most extensive and elaborate of the school programs so far developed.

When we began shaping it up, we were thinking about the recruitment of better young men to enter science and engineering as a career. After a survey, we found we had to start not in the colleges but in the high schools.

For our study showed that of the 25,000 high schools in this country fewer than 1,000 have full time science teachers. About half of the high schools in this country give what are called "science courses" but outside of those larger schools which have full time science teachers, the science is taught by people who also teach history, English, and sometimes coach the basketball team on the side, sometimes keeping just one jump ahead of the students by reading in the textbooks.

Many of the textbooks they were using were written before the last war, long before anybody knew anything about nuclear physics, modern medical developments or electronics.

More than half of the high school students in this country today are receiving little or no scientific education.

They are not learning even the basic ideas of science and technology; yet we look toward them to support and

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carry on our scientific and technological progress in the future.

In many cases, in many colleges, scientific education consequently has to start out with the very beginnings of science. Often a high school student is graduated with nothing in the way of scientific preparation but one year of elementary algebra. In our program we had to start out on the assumption that if we were going to try to interest high schools in more science teaching, we would have to give them some practical helps in the way of supplemental texts and teaching aids.

In the beginning we developed a series of booklets, the "Little Science Series." Thy were little booklets of 16 or 32 pages, and there are now 12 of them. One is called, "The World Within the Atom." Another is "Amber and Amperes. They tell about the weather, soil chemistry, and almost the whole field of science, and are as up to date as atom smashing, penicillin and rockets. These are made available to teachers to be given to students, and are graded according to classes.

Up to 1943, four millions of copies of these booklets were requested by junior high schools and high schools.

Since we started this program more than ten millions of copies of these booklets have been used.

We found so much demand for such science teaching helps that many varieties of them were worked out.

Here is a booklet describing motion pictures which were made especially for students in high schools; such films as "What Is Electricity?"

We worked out charts showing the biggest and littlest things in the universe. We developed science programs on records which can be made available to schools, and played on phonographs in the classroom.

Here is a catalog of Westinghouse items for school use. Some of them are

free , some have to be paid for. We discovered that the schools are anxious to get the material and where necessary will gladly pay the cost of it.

Along with these teaching aids, we have developed a rather elaborate program of college scholarships. The •¡ most famous of these scholarship programs is the annual Science Talent Search, of which you have no doubt heard. Every year the Science Clubs of America, and the Westinghouse Educational Foundation, comb the high schools of the country looking for the seniors, both boys and girls, who have the most talent for science.

About 15,000 to 20,000 students enter this Search every year. They have four hurdles to pass if they are to be among the top scholarship winners. The first hurdle is an aptitude test. It doesn't attempt to test the knowledge of the students, but how well they grasp the concepts of Science, and how well can they reason with them. The aptitude test gives a profile of the abilities of the students.

The second hurdle is the grades the students made; their scholastic standing. That is a kind of rough cut of what a number of teachers have thought of them.

The third hurdle consists of the recommendations of the teachers, and comprises a study of the fifteen or twenty general categories of leadership, and what each of these students has done to show he has the kind of leadership which modern scientific and technological work demands.

In these tests we are not seeking the garret inventor, but the kind of person who can become head of a laboratory and lead a group along the way of future advancement.

The fourth hurdle is an essay the student must write, on a scientific project he has done, or hopes to do.

Out of that 15,000 to 20,000 students who enter the Search, the total is brought down to 300 by these various hurdles, then finally to 40. The 40 are then brought to Washington, to what we call the Science Talent Institute.

The function of the Science Talent Institute is to give the judges an opportunity to interview the students. Each one is interviewed by three judges, one of whom is a psychiatrist.

During the five days of those examinations and interviews, we carry on an institute, in which a number of scientists from all over the country are invited to take part. When it is all over, schoolarships are awarded to all forty of the students.

The Science Talent Search now is five years old. We have been told that (Continued on page 85)

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Pictures for an Acacia Album OHIO STATE 1. 5. Some of the boys with their wi•e• and/ or dates at the Winter Formal.

8. The entrance to the Ohio Chapter houae at niqht on Valentine's Day. 14. Part of the Ohio qanq at a recent "Sweater Hop."

SYRACUSE 2. Former V. D. Lenny Beil and Lucille cuttlnq their weddinq cake.

3. Lenny and Lucille New York bound lor their honeymoon.

NORTHWESTERN 4. Feature of a recent chapter party was the annual "paddle presentation" by the pledqel to their "lathers." Venerable Dean Boqan (left) and Pledqe Captain Clark exhibit one of the weapons.

6. Thirst-quenchinq lime at the party held at the Sunset Valley Club in Hiqhland Park.

7. Wally Gibbs assumes the anqle-with some misqivinqs.

9. Ed Brockman appears unworried by the threat.

CORNELL 10. Pledqe John "Bucky" Lauber performs.

11. Al Woodford in a characteristic pose.

That's a slide rule he's holdinq.

GEORGE WASHINGTON 12. A view of the chapter's newly-acquired house.

ILLINOIS 13. "Sherlock:· the chapter mascot and watchdoq. views the world philosophically.

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'Doings California After two to three weeks of vacation between semesters the members of the California Chapter are returning for more punishment. With an expected thirty-five or thirty-six inside members the house will be larger than ever before.

The total active list is as follows: Ed Aiken, Dick Burns, Jim Campbell, Russ Connors, Roy Dixon, Bruce Dwelley, Bob Force, Dave Fredrickson, Hugh Friend, Hal Granquist, Bob Grimshaw, Doug Guichard, Lloyd Harris, Dick Hirschfeld, Reed Keyes, Len Fugate, Harry Larsen, Glen Lewis, Carlisle Moore, Bob Peck, Tom Pray, Ed Prewett, George Robson, and Dean Yeaman.

We are expecting to initiate eleven men the weekend of March 1: Bill Arsenault, John Forder, Bob Frye, Jim Herndon, Jack Jensen, Don McCormack, Malcolm McCormack, Tom McCutchan, Ted Martinson, Harry Riegel and Fred Rueger.

Mel Dykes returned and will complete his pledge training the coming semester.

Elections were held at the end of last semester. Robert Force was elected V. D. Martin Yeaman takes over the responsibilities of Senior Dean; and Roy Dixon is now our House Manager. The secretary for the coming semester is Bob Peck. Jim Campbell became Junior Dean, also a unanimous choice. With the backing of such men the coming semester should be one of the best.

The rushing program has gotten well under way. We have room for five additional inside pledges and as many outside pledges. A number of rushees have been invited to our house dance this Saturday in accord with the rushing program. The house will be decorated in support of a nautical theme. We expect nets to be draped over every inch of the walls. The Army calls such a procedure camouflage but the effect is novel and very effective.

With good luck and hard work, rushing will be concluded by Thursday, February 27. It has to be, as initiation starts the 28th.

We are preparing to go to Los Angeles for the weekend of March 8 in order to install the chapter at the University of Southern California. Between semesters our Venerable Dean and Senior Dean visited some of the members at U. S. C. in order to take care of some of the details in regard to the installation. Everything is in order and we all look forward to the very busy weekend of the eighth.

So far this semester two engagements have been announced. Harry E . ("for easy" Larsen intend:.; to marry Virginia Peck some time in June. Dick Burns again announced his engagement to Mardell Richards formerly of Phi Omega P.k Their marriage in June will bring to a close the tradition ¡ of their semesterly announcement of their engagement.

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We are well represented on Campus with men working on the Blue and Gold, Glee Club, Band, boxing and wrestling teams, ASME, ASCE, SAACS, and the Masonic Club.

We will be happy to see any of you alumni over here at the chapter house.

Drop in and say hello at any time.

DEAN YEAMAN

Cincinnati Here at Cincinnati Acacia the center of the stage has been occupied for the past several months by pledge activities and initiation ceremonies, and, now that the pledge class of 1946-47 is past history, everyone seems to be breathing more freely. The Pledge Formal, held at the Kemper Lane Hotel, was well-attended by pledges, actives, and alums, and proved to be the highlight of the Chapter's recent social season. That evening the pledge class literally "stole the show" with a fine piece of satire, entitled "An Active Meeting, As Conceived by the Pledge Class." Particularly effective was the climaxing take-off on Brother Marion Huber's tendency toward the dramatic elaboration of simple facts.

At the moment of this writing, initiations on two successive Sundays have reduced the pledge class from fourteen to five men. The five remaining pledges are Ken Deffren, Mac Craig, John Smollen, Elmer Biesack, and Edward Eisert. Taken into the active chapter on February 9 were George Kirch, Jack Klahm, Frank Mudgett, John Larson, and Richard Brown, while on February 16, Frank Scharold, Bill Williams, Rali Albright, and James Barnes became active members. The addition of these nine men brings the active chapter roll to 35.

On the sports front, both the basketball and the bowling teams continue to carry Acacia's colors into action. The present record of the basketball team stands at two victories, as against two defeats, while the bowling team rides high with three successive and decisive victories in its first three matches. The return of Frank Sonnenberg, erstwhile Marine Corps officer, has considerably bolstered the chances of the cage team.

An unusually large number of campus activities has kept chapter social events at a minimum. However there have been the usual number of house parties, and on Friday, February 14, a Valentine's Day Dance was held at the house in recognition of the new initiates. Most significant of the coming social affairs is the traditional Spring Formal, which is to take place on Saturday, May 17, at Summit Hills Country Club, in Kentucky. Here's hoping that some of you Acacians from other chapters will be in a position to be present that night-you are more than welcome.

Dr. Ernest Hahne, Northwestern '21 , was the guest speaker at the 16th annual Greek Night Banquet, given by the University of Cincinnati Interfraternity Council on February 1. Dr. Hahne is a prominent Acacian, who recently became President of Miami (Oxford, Ohio) University. Greek Night as a traditional practice at the University of Cincinnati was outlined in the Fall issue of the TRIAD, and we continue to recommend it highly as an excellent means of fostering better relations between fraternities on the various campuses.

Chapter notes: Bob Wright's withdrawal to attend Ohio State and Russ Ackerman's temporary withdrawal from US are sources of regret to their brothers here. Our new National Treasurer, Brother Marion Huber, returned from the installation of officers in Chicago just in time to render a short (17 minutes and ten seconds) report at active chapter meeting. Frank Baynes, our acquisition from Purdue, took enough time away from his medical texts recently to place his "jeweled triangle" pn Betty Banfield, Delta Zeta beauty. We all wish you lots of luck, Frank, and we feel sure that your former brothers at Purdue echo those sentiments.

James K. Hoefling was married to Miss Carolyn Englerth on February 15 at the Grace M. E. Church, Dayton, Ohio. A number of Cincinnati Acacians attended to wish them a happy wedded life. Jim is practicing law in Dayton.

Cincinnati Acacia alumni extend their sympathy to Robert Reiman in the death of his brother, Arthur. The home of Arthur Reiman was often the hospitable scene of Acacia parties, and many were the days that the boys were house guests.

He and his good wife were most generous with their invitations.

Jack Van Wye is now research assistant at the Baldwin Piano Company in Cincinnati.

After their initiation, Acacia initiates, the chapter financial adviser, venerable dean and pledge chairman were dinner guests of Chapter Adviser Marion Huber on Sunday evening at the Hotel Alms.

Cincinnati alumni are having a goodly number of men at their noonday luncheons on the first and third Tuesdays of the month at the Florentine Room, Hotel Gibson. Acacians visiting Cincinnati are welcome to attend and enjoy these associations.

The Cincinnati Acacia Alumni Association meets at the chapter house at 7: 30 p . m . the second Tuesday of each month.

At the last meeting Marion Huber gave a report of the wor k done at the National Council meeting in Chicago on January 25.

Dr. Harold C. Van Wye was elected president of the Cincinnati Society of Past Masters of Masonic Lodges. Dr. Van Wye is a careful student and excellent

The Triad, Spring, 1947 78 authority on Masonry. He has recently been Worshipful Master of High Noon Lodge. His many years as Chap ter A?viser of the Cincinnati Chapter of Acacia were filled with the bringing of many rich influences and traditions. The Honorable Clarence Brown, M.C., was guest speaker at the annual installation banquet at the Norwood Masonic Temple.

Lewis Leonard was marrie d at Dayton, Ohio, on March 1. Many Acacians attended the ceremony. Best wishes, Lewis.

The Cincinnati Chapter enjoyed a buffet turkey dinner and an evening at cards at the home of the chap ter adviser on J anuary 15.

P AUL A . W EIDNER MARIO N H . HUBER

Colorado The Colorado Chapter of Acacia held an election of officers last February. The new officers, who were installed at the beginning of the spring quarter, are: Glenn Bullen, Venerable Dean; Robert Bruns, Senior Dean; Kenyon Hook, Junior Dean; William Bradbury, Secretary; Gilbert Walker, Treasurer ; Charles Hutchinson, Jr., parlimentarian; Jon Sucher, TRIAD correspondent; William Wright, pledge trainer; Joseph Pollard, song leader; James Hutchinson, historian, and Walter Page, sentinel.

The chapter had a full social schedule during the winter. Tea dances, exchange dinners, radio dances and other events made a successful season. The main event of the winter was the annual Nut Party.

On this occasion, the members danced, and enjoyed vaudeville skits performed by chapter talent.

In athletics, Acacia contestants participated creditably. The chapter bowling team won the university intramural championship, and the ski and basketball teams put up a good fight. This sports program was ably directed by the chapter intramural manager, William S. Wright.

Planned for this spring are many social events, including the spring formal.

H. L . GARBARINE

Cornell We opened the house in the fall with seven active members: Donald P . Berens (Ohio State transfer), Massilon, Ohio ; Robert G. Carros, Bristol, Conn.; Robert D. Flickenger, Eggertsville, N. Y.; Wm. B. Gibson, Montreal, Canada; Richard A .

Lawr ence, West Hartford, Conn.; Albert and John Woodford, West Springfield.

Mass. Some of the undergraduate married men were back and they gave us a big hand in getting things started. Among these were: Tom Bacon, Jerry Kennard, Dave Johnson, Dave Sheldon, and Ed Mallard. Truman Fossom , who is an assistant professor w orking for his doctor's, added a high degree of polish to our rushing, while Henry Hood (the Hotel grad, back taking pre-med ) added a lot of

weight to our efforts. Carl Otto (the o~y four-year pledge in the history of Acacia) worked h arder than any of the actives.

The results of r ushing were the usual lack of sleep and fourteen spanking new pledges. These were Robert J . B.ergren, Staten Island; Will E . Bunyan, HI~hland P ark, N. J .; Roy S. Clarke, Washington, D. C.; Charles W. Deakyne, Baltimore, Md.; Roy A . Halladay, Clayton, N. Y. ; Sanford B. Hatch, North Syr acuse, N. Y.; Arthur Heuser, Ithaca ; Emerson Hibbard, Minetto, N. Y.; J ohn G. L auber, Amsterdam, N.Y.; William Pendarvis, J r., Barnsdall, Okla.; Jim and Dick Showacr.e, Ithaca; J ohn L . Tilley, Buffalo; and William Wickham of Hector , N.Y. Carl Otto, Roy Halladay, and Bill Pendarvis were all initiated in the fall since they were all upper classmen with . good m arks.

Initiation for the remaining pledges IS planned for the last week in February, which overlaps into the first of March.

Some of the alumni planning to return for initiation are R. C. Bradley, '26, and Lloyd H . Tilley, '18. Hugh C. Thuerk, Purdue '18, also is planning to attend. We will be very glad to welcome any other alumni that can be present. Just drop a line to 318 Highland Rd. and we will have your name on a bed and napkin for the weekend.

Junior Weekend, house party and all, has just passed from the calendar. All the men came with the exception of Halladay, Tilley and the Showacre's. Our chaperons were 'the Tom Bacons and the Edwin Mallards. When Mrs. Mallard became ill that left us with only one set of chaperons, so we appointed Bill Pendarvis and his girl to act as the second, though unofficial, set of chaperons. Jimmy Dorsey, The Modernaires, House Dance, Glee Club show, ball games, etc., kept us busy for the weekend. Our unofficial chaperons only had three hours sleep in three days, they were so busy checking. Flickinger and Lawrence were floating in the clouds, and Pendarvis said that things were going to break "at 4: 40." Some of the boys had a little trouble with the color of their date's hair (those blondes), mostly recognition troubles. The party ended Sunday at 4 P. M. and the house was snoring an hour or two later.

I'm still sleepy, so the final word is to the alumni. If you know any good boys coming to Mr. Cornell's University drop a line to 318 Highland Road, Ithaca, N. Y., or if at all possible stop in yourself.

BILL GmsoN

G. Eichner, pre-med also from Philadelphia. Lambert's Dad is an alumnus of the Franklin Chapter, class of '26. Michael Keefe from East Aurora, New York, is headi~g for architecture along with Charles Shumard and Donald Wintz.

Charlie hails from Moorestown, New Jersey, and Don from Philadelphia. Two sons of York, Pennsylvania, who are studying accounting are Rodney Fahs and Wilson Sechrist. Also an accounting major is Clyde Zukswert from Florham Park, New Jersey. Rolf Greenwood, ~ur electrical engineer, is also from Philadelphia, along with Kenneth Nickel, our histor y major .

The house is finally looking up to prewar standar ds, for many of the brothers have learned the fine art of interior decorating while working here. Mike Keefe's room is the outstanding example, for he painted the ceiling white, three of the walls yellow and the fourth a bright red. The green floor is offset by the white woodwork. I might add this was the last room in the house to be remodeled.

The Franklin Chapter is very active in the interfraternity bowling league and has won several of the last matches. The team is captained by Don Neff, a former air corps officer.

The graduation of Charles Stein, the V.D., in the February class left a vacancy that was filled by Frank Frick. Frank, a pre-med student, was discharged from the Army after eleven months in the South Pacific. The new treasurer is Robert Morrison who is succeeding Robert Frey.

Brother Morrison is doing graduate work in accounting and has his eye on Law School when he receives his Master's Degree in the late summer.

Wedding bells have sounded for one brother, Ross Kurtz, who was married to Miss Geraldine Hammon over the Christmas holidays. The wedding took place in Pittsburgh, the home of the bride.

Brother George Nickel was one of the ushers for Ross and Jerry.

Prior to the Christmas vacation the chapter had one of the most successful formal dances in its history. The dance was held in honor of the pledges. The house was beautifully decorated in the usual Chrismas manner, and the highlight of the evening was the exchange of gifts. Bob Cornish proved to be the ideal Santa.

Over the horizon we see the Franklin Spring Formal, the Interfraternity Weekend and the Ivy Weekend, but more about these in a later issue.

JIM HANE

Franklin

George Washington

The first week of the spring term is well under way here at Penn and we find the Franklin Chapter the scene of great activity. Over the weekend of February 15 eleven new brothers were initiated. The brothers, representing various schools here at the university, included: G. Calvin Dyson, Jr., pre-med from Philadelphia ; John D. Beirele, a pre-dental student who claims, Westfield, New Jersey, as his home town ; Lambert

Things look considerably brighter at this chapter house-and that's the big news at George Washington at this writing-we're newly installed in a new home.

Thanks to the toil, sweat and tears of many of our loyal alumni-Paul Hammack, W. Lee Hammer, Ira K . Jones, Harold Stepler, Bill Ellenberger and Stanley Petersen, to name a few-a house was purchased last fall and a contract let with another alumnus, Eddy Baker, to

The Triad, Spring, 1947 renovate and redecorate it from top to bottom. The spring semester was inaugurated with a rush program highlighted by our move into the new home, and actives, alumni, pledges and rushees alike agree that Eddy did a wonderful job. It's great to be home again after the war.

The rush season ended with a new pledge class composed of Eugene T. Aldrich, D. C.; Lester Leslie, Illinois; Warren S. Baker, Maryland; Robert Caldwell, Florida; Al King, D. C.; Bryan McFall, D. C.; David Noble, D. C.; James Parker, North Ca1,;0lina; and Wilson Powell, Delaware. The class has been put to work under the supervision of Gordon Grimwood, Senior Dean, adding the finishing touches to the housing program.

The house, at 1812 19th Street, N.W., is a typical Washington row house. It has a parlor, chapter hall, dining room and kitchen on the street floor, three large living rooms on second and three living rooms and a large dormitory on the third floor. The ping pong table occupies the basement, sharing it with an oil furnace, which receives an affectionate pat from each of us who remembers the coal stoking prewar days on N Street. Furnishings for the new home keep us thinking and V.D. Dick Wilkinson deserves much credit for his industry and perseverance in obtaining the equipment to meet our pressing needs.

The opening social function was a stag smoker Friday, January 31, giving the alumni and rushees a chance to look the place over. A card and game party the following Sunday served the same purpos~ for the ladies, and the house was officially opened at a house warming on February 8. Brother Harold B. Teegarden, Columbia '21, a deeply cherished friend and alumnus, came from Philadelphia to be with us, and George E. Sangster, George Washington '33, in the city from Springfield, Illinois, joined us for the occasion. Sunday, February 9, a tea dance with members of Sigma Kappa sorority as our guests ended the spring rushing.

Formal pledging was held in the chapter hall February 16, and a dance was given in the pledges' honor on the 28th.

We've just received notice that Acacia has again won the scholarship cup at GWU, and believe me, we feel pretty good about it.

RoBERT CARTER

Illinois Gloom hung heavy in the air as the Illinois Chapter answered the call to higher education for the spring semester.

Despite the seemingly sadistic efforts of the faculty to "flunk 'em out" the prospect of much social activity diluted with Pabst fills our hearts with joy and anticipation.

An election of house officers was held February 10. The new officers are: Ed Miller, Venerable Dean; Dave Monson, Senior Dean; Reid Antle, Junior Dean; Jim Preston, secretary; Ken Bunchman, treasurer; Ed Kelley, pledgemaster; Dave Andrews, commissary; and Jack Webb, house manager.

February 23 saw the initiation of twelve

79' men in to the active chapter. Those who received their jeweled pins on that day were: Eugene D. Bengard, Peoria; Bruce L. Esmond, Springfield; Philip D . Feldman, Morrison; Frank W. Frandsen, Chicago; Richard M. Fulrath, Champaign; Donald M. Kincaid, Athens; Edwin L. Lemmon, Pleasant Hills; Kenneth L. Lindsay, Springfield; Homer T. Moore, Chicago; James A . Moore, Alton ; Richard D. Sibley, Princeville; and Lynn E. Wolaver, Springfield.

The athletes of the house, under "Knute" Kelley, have kept the name of Acacia fairly high in the sports scene.

The soccer team is the scourge of the league, having won three and lost one to put them in a tie for first place. The basketball team collapsed Phi Kappa's hopes with a 27 to 4 score, and shows promise of being one of the top teams in the league. Our bowlers have dropped two out of the three games played so far. The current ping-pong tournament is too confused to figure out at this date. Pledge Don Bengard has won a place on the Illini fencing team, and has done quite well for a first-year man.

The spring social functions will begin with a revival of our feud dance with the Alpha Kappa Lambda characters up the street. This will be an informal record dance. The spring formal, preceded by a date dinner at the Inman Hotel, will be held April 26.

Gene Alt graduated this February with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and he will remain here while working for a master's degree.

Two more men have joined the ranks of married Acacians. Al Scharf, renowned hurler on the Illini baseball team, was married to Phyl Mockert, Delta Delta Delta, on September 21. Ed Radeke, after beeing hooked and reeled in, was landed on December 21 by Fay Tannon. The couple are now living in Waukegan.

George Slezak of Western Springs returned to the campus this semester after a civilian tour of Switzerland.

The brightest news of the past month was the return of our doughty mascot, Sherlock. A full-blooded bloodhound, he presents a striking picture as he lopes around the campus. Sherlock has a decided preference for Pi Phi's, and has endeared himself to all their hearts by leaving muddy paw prints on their beige rugs and by drooling profusely on their sweaters.

In closing, the Illinois chapter would like to remind all alumni and me!Tibers of other chapters that they are always welcome at 501 East Daniel.

BILL TONKIN

Iowa State Since our last news letter many things have happened around this chapter in which you may be interested.

In addition to the fellows here during the fall quarter the following men have been pledged: Harry A. Imus of Humboldt, Iowa; Charles W. Smith of Atlantic, Iowa; and John R. Fulkerson of Rochester, Minnesota.

The biggest change has taken place in the downstairs. With the redecoration of the living room and its new furniture the appearance of this room has been improved a thousand per cent. This work was done the first day of the quarter by the entire gang. At the same time the housemother's quarters were also redecorated and her furniture refinished in preparation for Mrs. Dinsmore's coming.

With Mrs. Dinsmore's return the house is really hack on its feet. Everyone is extremely glad to have her back with us.

At the present time we are in the middle of the winter interfraternity sports program. Our teams are battling in basketball and table tennis tournaments. We have our eyes not only on the spring sports but also on Veishea next quarter.

The decreasing of the number of night classes for our boys has made possible more extra activities. Jack Pyles is adding his talents to the clarinet section of the Iowa State Concert Band. Acacia's representative to the Interfraternity Pledge Council is Bob Martin, our Pledge President. Dick Cowles is active in the student activities of the Baptist Church.

At meetings of A.S.M.E. Ed Drdla has. been showing up. These activities are in addition to those mentioned in the last letter.

On December 14 all of us forgot about our cramming for finals and let cares vanish for the evening of the Final Fling and our annual Christmas Stag. During the process of handing out the gifts at the Stag certain members of the house,.

Griffith for one, laughed so hard they fell off their chairs. Afterwards Carl O'Beirn, for whom it was Stag No. 1, said, "I'll never forget that; I don't know when I laughed so hard."

With the later hours on Friday night: the chapter decided it might be better to throw our parties and firesides on that night. This way we are avoiding competition with many other activities. So far this plan has worked very well. A Fireside held January 31 and the annual Sweetheart Party on February 14 are good examples. From all reports everyone had a good time.

At the last two affairs we had the pleasure of the presence of Forrest & Beverley路 Pitsenberger from Nevada, Al & Betty Miller from Jefferson, and Floyd & Dolores Reister of Ames. Forrest and Floyd are attending classes here while Al is teaching High School.

Wendell Stewart, who married Marjorie路 Fullmer of South Saint Paul during: Christmas Vacation, is now living in Ames. We enjoy their frequent visits.

Congratulations were in order for Bob. & Betty Grobeck on the birth of a girl in December. The happy parents have路 named her Jodie.

Bob Bortle passed cigars a little while路 back to announce his engagement to June Pitlik of Sioux City. At present Miss Pitlik is attending school in Vermillion ~ South Dakota.

Bill Chain has hung his pin but no cigars have shown up yet. If he does notcome through soon he will be sorry.

Plans are under way for our first SpringFormal since the war to be held May 24.

Although the present officers' terms wilt

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80 soon be over they are getting things, such as the formal, started for the new group.

It is hard to believe that the quarter is more than half over. All of us are beginning to wonder when we will be through with finals and be able to go home for a rest. So until our next letter the best from all of us to all of you.

GoRDON A. CooK

Kansas State

to pay their respects to Mother Lyles: Pete Leenderste, '41, Oatville; Dr. C. A. Jones, class of '26, Los Angeles, Calif.

Maxwell Warm, '33, from Hays, visited us again.

Our V. D., Leonard Wood, was among the first postwar pledges to Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon, national honorary chemistry society, elected during January. Earlier in the semester "Woody'' was initiated into Steel Ring, honorary engineering society.

Just after Christmas vacation Joe I. Cooper, one of our younger pledges, from Stafford, surprised us by enlisting in the Army. Just before his departure, his pledge brothers as well as the actives in the chapter honored him at dinner with a presentation of a small gift.

We have had another siege of cigarsin fact we have been seriously contemplating changing the plaque in front of the house to read "Acacia Smoke House."

On January 12, pledge Frank Peycke nearly passed out when, at dinner, his brother announced the engagement of pledge Willard Ohley to Ralphea Wright, Emporia.

Leonard Wood passed cigars announcing his engagement to Margaret Stafford, Mankato, a former member of the Kansas State Chapter of Kappa Delta.

January 18, pledge Roger L. Brazier and Mary Louise Madden, Clovis, were married at the bride's home in Auburn, Kansas. The wedding was attended by members of the two chapters.

More cigars from Frank Jacobs, pledge, when he announced his engagement to Winona Welch, Waterville.

At the close of the intramural season for the first semester our teams stood in ninth place among the fraternities on the campus. Our bridge teams took sixth place in the campus elimination for the national tournament.

We should like for all you alumni who do not find it possible to drop in and see us to send us a card so that we can keep in touch with you.

JoE B. NATHAN

The following have pledged since our last report: Fred Borck, Blue Rapids; Joe Hanks, Pendennis; Milton A. Clemens, Corning; Ralph L. Adams, McMinnville, Ore.; Robert K. Homier, Ellis; Clifford H. Ukele, Sharon Springs; James W. Sturdevant, Altoona; Wendell Simonton, Alta Vista; Edwin Denman, Manhattan; Glenn Frakes, Corning.

Formal pledging ceremonies were held in mid-December for the following men: Kermit Kors, Independence; Rex Archer, Great Bend; Glenn Frakes, Corning. We will have formal pledging for at least nine more pledges before this issue is delivered.

On December 14, Kyle Moran, Dover; Earl Beaver, DeSoto; and George Robinson, Moundville, Mo., were initiated into the chapter. It was necessary to postpone our initiation for February 15 because of difficulty in getting the grades from the Registrar's Office following the close of the semester.

The following committee: Kyle Moran, Dave Wylie, Bud Kors, and Bill Peycke, have been very active in instigating numerous improvements in the chapter house. The chandeliers and rugs for both halls and stairways were installed on Saturday afternoon work details along with some interior painting. The committee is making arrangements to secure new dining room equipment and table service.

Pledge Don Brown was one of the eighteen candidates competing in the Home Economics School's contest for Favoriate Man on Campus as a climax to its annual Winter Formal.

Michigan Senior Dean Charles Hall was a delegate from this campus to the National Assembly Conference of Student Christian There is little to report from Michigan Organizations, which consisted of com- since the last issue of the TRIAD. With the bined groups of YM and YW groups from end of the winter semester and final United States colleges, December 27 to exams, all other events on our calendar January 23, in Urbana, Ill. While Brother took a back seat. After exams most of the Hall was at the conference he had the fellows went home for a week or more pleasure of vising the Illinois Chapter. and enjoyed a much-needed rest.

This visit was the subject of his report There is one important event to reto the chapter upon his return. port at the beginning of the spring seOn December 20, the day before leaving mester and that is the revival of Michifor Christmas vacation, the chapter enter- gan's famous "J -Hop," the dance of the tained two orphans from the IOOF year. It was the custom of old to turn the orphanage here at our Christmas Kiddie house over to the visiting girls, but cerParty. Instead of exchanging gifts in the tain repairs were not completed, so with house, the members gave gifts to the the house not in full dress the fellows children to take back to the orphanage decided to stay put. Therefore rooms for with them. The entertainment for the the out-of-town dates had to be found evening consisted of children's games elsewhere. Next year it is hoped that we such as musical chairs and pin-the-beard- can return completely to old customs. on- Santa Claus. This party was planned During the two-day J -Hop we had a dinand supervised by the Acacia Wives Club ner and a record dance at the house. It and numerous prizes were given to every- was a marvelous chance for all to get one. acquainted. Then when we all attended The follow· J l · ~ , ...,..... .....,.., C:: -" 4-, - .... ~. n " ~J-. + ("".,.,..,...,,.

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was just one big happy family. So it can be said that in part the good old days are slowly returning to campus.

As yet we have not held initiation nor had formal rushing, so there is nothing to report on the subject. Unfortunately, right now seems to be a period of stagnation in events. As the semester rolls on there will undoubtedly be more to add, but until then this sorry account must suffice.

Before ending this articles, I wish, on l:.ehalf of all the members of the chapter, to congratulate our present Venerable Dean for his leadership in the past semester, and our hope for his continued success in the coming months. This man who has done so much for us is Thomas K. Buchanan.

J.D. McGREGOR

Minnesota "In the spring a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of .. ." riverside Pow-Wows, a Gay Nineties costume party, the traditional Iron Cross banquet, and the annual canoe trip up the St. Croix river. At least, that's the case at the Minnesota chapter of Acacia as regards coming social events. In a more serious vein, the men are planning a strong rushing program, since eight of the thirteen men pledged fall quarter have now gone active.

Spring also finds a new group of officers planning activities at Minnesota. Reelected were John Dablow, Venerable Dean, and Al Olson, Junior Dean. Newly elected are Clancy Hammett, Senior Dean; Bud Engle, Secretary, and Herb Lund, Treasurer.

Election of officers came just at the close of a week's visit from Charles Jarrett, traveling secretary, who gave the new officers some helpful advice before leaving.

Had Jarrett come several weeks earlier he could have gone on the Acacia Snow Caravan to Bayport, Minnesota, a resort center about 30 miles from campus.

The snow caravan was one of the highlights of January social events, falling on a Sunday afternoon and evening. A bus was chartered for the event and the day's activities included hiking, attempts at ice skating (although the mercury soared far above melting temperature), a buffet supper at White Pine Inn, and dancing.

Ruling over the day's festivities was Ardis Tyndall, the chapter's candidate for queen in the University of Minnesota's annual Snow Week. Ardis placed second in the contest, and brought much publicity to the house. She appeared over weco, the largest radio station in Minneapolis-along with several Acacians.

Following the Snow Caravan, Ardis was honored guest at a date luncheon at the chapter house on a Thursday noon.

At that time she was presented with the fraternity Sweetheart pin and corsage.

The second big social event during winter quarter was the annual formal dinner dance held at the Commodore hotel in St. Paul on Washington's birthday.

Just preceding Washington's birthday, '"" ...,.,'h:-uary 18, a special luncheon was

The Triad, Spring, 1947 given at the house for the newly reactivated Mothers Club.

Three Acacia seniors received distinctive recognition during February when they were named to honorary senior men's societies at Minnesota. Al Dreher and Dale Melver were named members of Iron Wedge, and John Dablow was named to Grey Friars.

Swelling the ranks were three new pledges: Bill Wolston, St. Paul; Warren Wendt, St. Paul, and Don Miller, Boston, Mass.

Initiated were: Bruce Frye, Waukesha, Wis.; Charles Dfc:kenson, Warroad, Minn.; Robert Neubauer, Virginia, Minn.; Dave Hammel, Owatonna, Minn.; Bob Swedberg, Wolf Point, Mont.; Neil Jenkins, Cloquet, Minn.; Orin Haugen, Minneapolis; and Herbert Lund, Albert Lea, Minn.

Preparations for the annual Gay Nineties costume party are already under way, as was evidenced in February when persons entering Al Olson's and Clancy Hammett's room came face to face with numerous statues of Venus, Greek gods, etc. Curiosity ran high, until it was explained that the statues are to be used in house decorations for the big party.

Electric lights disappear, candles are placed in the rooms, potted palms and plants are brought in, along with statues, wall murals, and other decorations from the Gay Nineties period. A horse and carriage bring the costumed guests to the chapter house where uniformed butlers and chambermaids await the partycomers.

Prizes are to¡ be awarded for the best costumes, old-fashioned games will be played and a midnight candlelight supper will be served by the butlers.

Climaxing the year's social events will be the canoe trip in May-an all-day affair starting with brunch at the chapter house, after which cars leave for the embarkation point about 20 miles from campus. At that point canoes are rented and the party makes its way upstream several miles for a picnic supper. A barn dance is being planned to top off the day's activities.

Acacia at Minnesota is also achieving recognition in the interfraternity sports program, with a bowling team that tops its division, and a basketball team heading for the semi-finals.

AL OLSON

Northwestern Starting the winter quarter with the initiation of eleven men, the Northwestem chapter of Acacia got the ball rolling for a very active three months. The new initiates are Robert Brown, Comm. '50; Milton Clarke, Comm. '50; John Collins, La '50; Richard Foss, Comm. '50; Robert Feuerstein, La '49 ; Willard Gortner, Comm. '50; Gene Pflughaupt, La '50; Don Reddicliffe, J '50; Jack Rogas, Tech '50; Claude Sowle, La '50; and Edward Spoo, Sp. '50. An interesting note was added to the ceremonies when initiate Bob Feuerstein broke the chapter and campus records for "pinning," when Bette Mitchell,

81 Delta Zeta, received his hard-won pin seven minutes after his initiation. Three brothers accompanied him to check on time.

The initiation of these men leaves a pledge class totaling eight men, two of whom, Harold Schwappach, La '50, and Herb Grayson, J '50, were pledged this quarter.

Two changes in chapter officers occurred this quarter. Richard Hay, La '47, is now treasurer. Ross Stone, Sp '49, former treasurer, did not return to school this quarter, but is working in Evanston and is in close contact with the chapter.

Walter Gibbs, Comm. '47, resigned his office as Junior Dean and Howard Coleman, Mu. '47, was elected to the office.

The chapter's thanks are extended to Brother Gibbs for his fine work as social chairman. In addition, Brothers Bruce Bain and Don Reddicliffe were elected co-rushing chairmen.

Three brothers are minus their pins this quarter. In addition to the pinning of Bob Feuerstein to Bette Mitchell, Delta Zeta, Brother Bill Miller transferred his pin to Juanita Richards, Alpha Xi Delta, and Brother Sam Walker pinned an offcampus girl. The Alpha Xi's and DZ's were serenaded in honor of the pinnings; Alpha Delta Pi and Alpha Omicron Pi were also serenaded this quarter.

Social events for the quarter have been very capably handled by Brothers Gibbs and Coleman. An "advertisement" party, to which men and their dates came dressed as ads, was held in the quarter with Brother Walter Kolbe and Mrs. Kolbe acting as judges. Joe Angner and his date, Dorothy Mayo, Chi Omega, won first prize for their Fisk Tire Ad. An offcampus party was held February 15, at Techny Fields Country Club, which was a very successful affair. The evening was considerably brightened by the speeches and dancing of the manager, who is now known to the chapter as "Granma"-l'm 75 years old-Harms. The bar was tended

by Brothers Robinson and Rogas who did an admirable job of supplying the group with beer and sundry other beverages. Brothers Foss, Mertz, Sowle and Pledge Jim Warner were all displaying their abilities as rhumba and polka dancers with "Grandma" at 11: 30 in the evening, which she seemed to enjoy imme~ely. Music for the occasion was provided by Brother Coleman's orchestra, which has done a consistently fine job of providing danceable music.

A chapter stag party was held February 21 at Fiegel's. Beer, poker, and group singing highlighted the event, with special mention going to Brothers Mertz and Robinson and Pledge Bud Brenton, who served as chief glass-refiller. The social calendar for the quarter was completed on March 1, with an informal party held at the chapter house.

IM basketball and swimming serve to keep the members busy athletically.

These sports are nearing completion and the chapter is looking ahead to the spring, in readying a team for IM softball competion. Brother Joe Angner is contributing his abilities as a 440 and half-mile track man to the squad of the university.

This has been a busy quarter at N. U.,

and all members are looking for ward t o an even more successful one in the spring term.

DoN R.EDDI CLIFFE

Ohio Greetings again fr om the Ohio Chapter! Things have been happening so fast around here since the last issue that I'm not even going to try to sum everything up in a "running narrative" form of letter-I'll just list the main "doings," events and happenings around the house.

PLEDGES: New pledges within the last month include Robert Holmes, Columbus ; Leroy Burton, Lancaster; James Huston, Newton Falls ; Richard Holz, Canfield; Mack Haines, Marysville ; Joe McCourt, Columbus ; Harry Long, Columbus; Lester Shipe, Marion; and Herb Taylor, Columbus.

INITIATES: Initiation was held the weekend of February 8, and we welcomed into the fold David Williams (Ed-2), of Youngstown, and Dean Davis (Engr-2), of Gallapolis.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES: We've had so many fine dances, partices, social functions, dinners, etc., that it's really hard to sum them up. One of the outstanding house parties was The Bowery Party in January. The house decorations, including signs indicating "33rd St. and ¡Bowery Ave.," red-checkered tablecloths, a terrific entrance display, and clever signs covering the walls ; an atmosphere created by candlelight and soft music; the fine entertainment furnished by The Singing Bartenders, emmcee Dick Scannel, funnyman Jim Bushman and his cast of stooges; the costumes-these defied description, except to say that they were out of this world; and the usual dancing, food and drinks, and all-around air of good fellowship-all these things combined to make this one of the most enjoyable parties your correspondent has ever attended.

In the way of off-campus events, probably the most outstanding event was a Formal Dinner-Dance, held at the swank Wyandotte Country Club. A good meal, surrounded by beautiful girls and fraternity "buddies," and followed by the dreamy atmosphere of a glamorous Country Club dance-what more could any college man ask to store away in his memory-book of Fraternity life?

HONORS: Even amid all this gay social life our boys seem to find enough time to study. At least they emerge with high grades and special honors, as witnessed

by Don Hoeffel being elected to Tau Beta Pi, honorary Engineering fraternity, and Don Haxton going into the honorary music fraternity. And speaking of music, Brother Haxton seems to have everything sewed up around here in that line. He and Perry Hosmer just returned fJ:om a tour of Ohio cities with the OSU Marching Band, and each Wednesday and Saturday night finds both Don and Jim Bushman playing with the most outstanding Columbus orchestra at Dance Gardens, the favorite campus dance spot.

CUPID'S CORNER (or) Love, pinnings, an' stuff: Don Lund decided that Kenny

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82 Bloom isn't the only A cacian who can plant his pin on a Delta Xi so he follo":ed suit, February 14 (Valentine Day) bemg the fateful day. T he lucky girl in the case is lovely Irene Hamilton. Incidentally.' we seem to be specializing in Delta X1s-l counted 14 of 'em at our last party.

In closing I'd like to mention th e "h ardlu ck story" ~f the month. It concerns Bill H uston, who is just discovering ~e rigors of being a daddy . It seems that Bill h as to get up every 3 hours during the night, find and warm a bottle, fe ed the baby, and th en get him (the baby, tha t is) back to sleep-and th ose 3-hour periods come awfully close together, Bill moans. And to top it off, he is teaching flying at States Don Scott Field, and h as to get up and take to the air at 6: 30 each and every morning. Rough life, eh? DoN RADER

Oklahoma Spring is coming to Oklahoma early judging from the nice days we have been having here in Norman of late. To cel~­ brate this change in temperature, Acac1a is planning numerous activities, both in the social line and for the good of the house.

To start the semester off right, the chapter pitched in and all had a very good time at our "Valentine's Party." This past week, in the interests of members and pledges, our ''Intramurals Manager," Jack Steen, has been taking time away from his wife to collect softball and volleyball equipment. From the looks of the turnout for these sports, Acacia will be well represented in the athletic program.

Future social life finds Rex Kenyon, Social Chairman, a busy man. "Social Dogs" Grigsby and Stover trail him at a very short distance. Brother Kenyon has made all arrangements for our two big dances this spring. The Acacia "Oriental," always a favorite at 0 . U ., and the Spring F ormal are ready to be held when the date comes up, Oriental on March 22, and the Formal on May 2. With the various other house activities, house parties, etc., all m ember s and pledges are looking forward to the "Big Days" ahead.

Speaking of pledges, we now have ten new men. This brings the total to twentyseven, in addition to the sixteen that we have already initiated. To put it mildly, the house is full except for that one rafter, of course. The ten new men are: Coy Page, Jr., Hobart; Frank Rogers, Teral ; Arvendal Bonham , Oklahoma City; Bill Goodwin, Texarkana, Texas ; Bob Hester, Oklahoma City; Scott Smith, Clinton; Bill Steele, L on e Wolf; Keith Bennett, Tonkawa, and Marvin Saddoris, Cleveland, Oklahoma.

By lates t count, the brother combines in the hou se are beginning to be ver y ap parent to all. The "Lisles," "Bennetts," "Saddoris Bros." and Pledge Steele, br oth er of Jack Steele, for mer Venerable Dean and a star football player h ere at O.U. in 1943, rou n d out this number. Those of u s without this moral and physical suppor t of a brother in blood, fe el that we must

pledge "twins" in order to complete the r oster.

In the winter issue of the TluAD we announced a w edding. In this issue we find time to "ring those bells again." Miss Betty Potter of Nash, Oklahoma, made a beautiful bride, and Brother Creighton Collier of Nor man was the lucky man.

The wedding w as held in the house under the a uspices of the bride's mother and Mother Caldwell. All those without classes wer e present and were happy to find th at the Acacia house makes such a nice place in which to be married.

Bob Gillespie also took the step, and Acacia will feel the loss of his services within the house. The lucky groom marr ied his girl back home. Since several of the members are planning to be married in the near future, the total is constantly rising. We are sorry to have these men leave the house, but all are still students and will continue to take a very active part in the doings of the chapter.

Rush Chairman Lester Brown will be very short of time these next few weeks.

The alumni over the state will be present at an all-out rush party in the very near future . The prospective pledges may be assured of excellent food and entertainment with House Manager Don Hartman cooperating with all committees on this phase of our newly-installed "long-range" rush program.

Founder's Day dinner will be held during the last few days of April, and over one hundred Acacians over the state will be present. They will date from the founding of the chapter to the present, and several notable honorary members will also be there. Big things are in store for the Oklahoma Chapter, and we who represent Acacia here know that progress is the keynote to our future success.

CLARKE HUDSON

Oklahoma A & M Never were pledges launched on their careers in Acacia with more enthusiasm than were those of Oklahoma A & M last November 24. At the invitation of the Oklahoma Chapter, sixteen pledges were driven to Norman on that date for the initiation ceremonies which were conducted by a combination of Oklahoma alumni and actives.

Early in October, three Oklahoma actives-Odell Stone, V.D., Rex Kenyon, J .D ., and Lester Brown, Corresponding Secretary- together with Cecil Brite, National Secr etary-had made the eightyfive mile trip to Stillwater to conduct the pledging ceremonies on the original eight pledges. These were Kenneth Cox , John Ives, Roger Harnden, Chuck Denny, Duane Ruth, Mert Lancaster, John H owell and John Junker. At that time Odell S tone extended an invitation to the Oklahoma A & M pledges and alumni to go to Norm an for the first initiation.

The Oklah oma alumni who t ook part in the intiation cerem on y were Merrel Siler , Acting V.D., Cecil Brite, Act ing Secretary, and J ohn Hervey, Acting Sentinel. Merrel know s the work letter-perfect

and puts it on as only an Acacian with an attorney's background could.

After the initiation everyone congregated in the spacious living room and Bob Gillespie, O):clahoma active, led the group in Acacia songs. How that Oklahoma chapter can sing! Rex Kenyon and Don H artman then entertained the boys with snappy piano duets until dinner-a veritable banquet-was served. ' The Oklahoma chapter house in itself is an inspir a tion to any pledge, and it has the writer's nomination for a place in the Acacia Song Book along with those of Michigan , Wisconsin, illinois, and Pennsylvania. It is a large brick mansion directly across the street from the campus.

The Chapter Room is in the basement and some Acacia artist has started in one . corner and proceeded around the four walls of the room with a portrayal of the ritual in life-sized characters. The entire hazardous trip, including the rough sea ~oyage, is there to see for those who know how to decipher it.

When school opened at Oklahoma A & M last fall there were only two actives on the campus, Oran Rose and 0. T. (Tom) Dawson. At a meeting of the Oklahoma State Alumni Association last summer Tom had been appointed Acting V D. and he has carried on with tireless energy.

Much of the splendid esprit de corps of the new group is due to Tom. Local alumni who deserve much of the credit for the reactivation of the chapter are Thurston Johnson, Kansas '17; Raymond Bivert, Oklahoma A & M '25; Norman Grimsley, Oklahoma A & M '27; Rollin Thayer, Oklahoma A & M '39, and John Grimsley, Oklahoma A & M '32.

Other alumni over the state who have been a help in their active interest, in sending pledges, and in pledging money toward a new chapter house are: Bob Makovsky, '23; Murl Penny, '23; Curly Ives, '24; Lee Craig, '24; Harold Schnorrenberg, '30; Perry Marley, '31; Marion Treseder, '31 ; Norman Shutler, '38; Ervin K. Williamson, '39, and Floyd Stanley, Oklahoma '28. JAcK LOTHERS, Cornell '25

Purdue The new semester is only a week under way at this time, and everyone is just gett ing settled down. We are all looking forward to getting off to a good start for this spring. Since the last TluAD article, we have pledged three more men. They are Don Alexander, L afayette, Ind.; Bill Hinkley, Kendallville, Ind. ; and Dean McMurry, Lafayette, Ind. These three men now give us a total of fourteen pledges.

In January, just before the end of the Wint er t erm, we elected new officers for the spring term. At this time we created two new offices. They are Pledge Trainer and Assistant Treasurer. Max Buell was elected Venerable Dean; Bert North, Senior Dean ; Al Graumlich, Pledge Trainer ; Wilbur Campbell, Junior Dean; Dick Donnell, Secretary; Paul Vos, Treasurer; William Tholke, Assistant Treasurer; and Grant Ward, House Manager.

ri'he Triad, Spring, 1947 The four seniors who graduated last term were Tom Somers, Gene Baynes, ~ames Miller, and Wally Pope. We all miss them quite a bit since the house seems more quiet without them around.

Claude Mounsey couldn't make it back to school this term because when the cast was removed from his broken leg, it adn't healed sufficiently for him to aneuver around the winding pathways of old Purdue. Our little, congenial, baldheaded "Blimp" Thompson has left the halls of higher education to add his bit to industry. This unusal burst of eagerness is due to his coming marriage in June.

Some of the fellows have returned to school this semester after having been out for a while. They are Donald V. Berchtold, Walter Chenoweth, Maurice Boots, and John Kice. Don Berchtold just got out of the Navy after two years of service. Maurice Boots is married and is quite proud of his little two-year-old daughter. The Boots family is living in the new Purdue Trailer Camp.

We recently installed a fire alarm system in the chapter house. The other night we tested it to see if it would work, and to time the fellows on leaving. We all got out in thirty seconds flat. Some· of the boys went down the fire escape and fell into ankle-deep mud. One of the last fellows out was Dick Nelson, and he came running out with all his records under his arm. Dick certainly loves his music.

On Thursday night, February 13, we had our Masonic Smoker. There were nearly 200 students and faculty at the meeting. The beams under the living room floor were put to the supreme test.

Dean Potter gave a talk about receiving his 33rd degree.

In January, the fraternities all got together for the annual Interfraternity Ball.

There are so many fraternity men on campus that only sixty per cent of all the men in each fraternity house could get tickets. We had a formal steak dinner at the house just before the dance. The whole affair really went over big.

Paul Vos, Tom Stieglitz, and Jim Sherwood have given out their pins to girls from off campus. Laurel Meade is planning to get married at Easter, Al Graumlich in June, E'd Reifis in August, and James McCarty will take his vows in September. We all wish them the best of luck.

Well, "Mouldy" Green is finally going to graduate. He can't miss this semester since he is only taking nine hours. He has classes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from eight till eleven. That's all!

We· hope to see all of you alumni at the Spring Banquet this year. The Purdue chapter of Acacia is planning to win the Sarcophagus from the Indiana chapter again this year.

HAROLD WM. LucE

Syracuse With the completion of our first term of operation since the war, we are eagerly putting the experience gained from that term to use during our second semester.

Our approaching initiation of eleven

83 men shows quite an increase over last term's four. The men are Don Vosburgh, M~rtel Berge, Jack W eagraff, Roger W1therell, Roy Klipp, Bob Augat, Don Daly, Kevan Jones, Charles Heath Jack Hagelberger, and Bill Bartlett. Bill, Bartlett's brother Bob is an active. We wish there were more brothers in the Bartlett family .

We took advantage of the spare time between semesters to make several routine improvements in the house. V.D. Fred Lott and his engineer roommate, Bill Matthews, did a splendid job in helping and supervising.

Many of the boys have been busy in outside activities. Phil Rice has been doing the quarter mile with the Relay Team.

When he is really hot, which is fre quently, Phil hits a flat 50 seconds.

With his articles attaining much praise in several campus publications Jack Mitchell still leads the house in iiterary talent and in extending a helping hand on those English compositions.

Jack Weagraff and Rog Witherell still "toot away" with the University Band.

Warren Bartholomew assists in coaching the Gymnastic Team. "Bart'' obtains his Master's this spring in Physical Education. Jack Hagelberger played the part of the foreman of the jury in "Trial by Jury" and the sailor in "Dido and Aeneas." Jack also sings with the Syracuse Singers.

Bill · Martin plays piano with the Debonairs and holds down the treasurer's job in the Italian Club. Another one of our musicians, Treasurer Ray Unger, sings in the Chapel Choir.

With finals coming up the last of Janu · ary, our social life was nil for that month.

Apparently our sacrifice "paid off," since we didn't lose a man scholastically.

The first social event of this term, an Old Clothes Dance, went off very well.

Perhaps this was due to the very able direction of the square dancing by Solvay's High School principal, Walter Weyant, '25. Much was added to the dance by the very homelike atmosphere created by our alumni chaperones, Mr. & Mrs. L. 0 . Clement, '17, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Rupp, '43, Dr. & Mrs. Lindsay, '13, and our chapter adviser, a Cornell Acacian no less, Mr. Everett Enos, and his wife.

Larry Scholtes, '40, brought his brother, Jerry, up to Syracuse in January to start school, and dropped by to pay us a visit.

Old man Cupid has been shooting very straight in Syracuse these days. Former V.D. Lenny Beil graduated in January and on February 2 took the marriage vows with Lucille Sargent, a Phi Mu. John Schojbert and Clara Standner became engaged December 25. Our secretary, Jack Mitchell, pinned Viola Latimer, a Tri-Delt.

Senior Dean Dale Hackett is recovering rapidly from his recent appendectomy.

Senior medical student Don Warn, '45, observed the operation.

Archbold Gym burned down one cold Sunday morn in January; consequently, our athletic program is nil.

Rushing opened with an informal open house on February 16. We anticipate a successful season.

ELTON HoWLAND

Washington From an organization that consisted of only one man last spring, the Washing· ton Chapter has grown into a strong, closely-knit group that is full of a real winning spirit. In brief, we are an active, live-wire, going concern for the first time since before the war.

The Chapter owes much to the alumni association and the few purposeful individuals who formed a nucleus of membership last summer. These men worked hard and long, but never faltered, and now we are rolling under our own power with full steam ahead. It must be gratifying for them to see the work they have done. Much of the credit for reorganizing the Washington Chapter should go to Bill Dexter, Harry Redpath, Ken Stanford, Bernie Anderson, Earl Lagergren, Earl Snippen, Frank Scott, Bob Jackson, and other alumni who have contr:buted their time generously. Active members who deserve special mention are Gene Lewis, Gerald West, Jim Moran, John Dudley, and Willard Zellmer. We know this is an incomplete list of the men who have helped bring life back to Washington. Every man in the Chapter has done a good job, and many alums not men tioned here have done more than a little bit. The entire chapter can look with justifiable pride on the accomplishments which have already been made. We can look forward with confidence to the fu ture.

Sid Buckley, formerly a letterman in boxing at Washington State College, after a colorful combat career in the Army, decided in favor of the University of Washington Law School. He and several other refugees from that institution in Eastern Washington have made vast improvement in their ways-so much that they have been almost accepted as one of us. In fact, Sid Buckley has been elected Venerable Dean of this Chapter. Seriously, he is one of our best assets, and under his leadership we epect to set records that other will aim for.

Other newly elected officers are Steve Richards, Senior Dean ; Clarence McCredy, Junior Dean; Bill Burdue, Treasurer ; Jim Moran, Senior Steward; John Dudley, Junior Steward; Gene Guthrie, Rushing Chairman; and Willard Zellmer, Historian.

Everyone reported back from his Christ· mas vacation three days before school started. During the interim no less than two whole floors and parts of two more floors were painted from top to bottom.

We have big plans for future renovations this summer.

We have a fine crop of pledges in the Washington Chapter: Oren Bonney, Bill Coughran, Loren Hansen, Dick Angvire.

Bill Baarson, George Berry, Howard Johnson, George Swartz, Jim Vale, Vernon Le May, and Maury Stoffer. The high calibre of our pledges is adequate proof that Gene Guthrie, our Rushing Chairman, has been doing an excellent job.

Thirteen new active members have been initiated since our last issues of the

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Mac McCredy, our social chairman, has a busy program of events arranged which include numerous exchanges with sororities, firesides a spring formal dance and dinner, and an informal dance to be sponsored by the pledge class. Mac has a smooth facility for diplomatic dealings with other groups on the campus, and his efforts have given us a full social calendar of one interesting event after another.

On the afternoon of January 19 the Washington Chapter of Acacia was host to Masons of this vicinity at an open house celebration. Acacians and Masons spent a pleasant afternoon getting better acquainted. Publicity received from this event has served to let the outside world know that Acacia is again functioning at the University of Washington. As a result, we have contacted a number of Masons on the campus who are interested in the fraternity. At present we have five actives and two pledges who are Master Masons.

Bill Burdue, House Manager, and Earl Snippen, our Financial Adviser, have been doing a fine job of keeping our Chapter on a sound financial basis. Bill is a thrifty individual, always cutting down the bills and stretching the money.

His most recent achievement was to buy beef in wholesale lots on the hoof. It has been said that he procured a week's supply of fresh milk from these bovines before they were converted to table beef, but the story has not yet been confirmed.

For a week after Jack Picard passed around a box of cigars (1886's) in celebration of the birth of his baby girl the house was fogged like the U. S. Fleet maneuvering in a smoke screen. Jim Moran handed out cigars when he became engaged to Carol Boone, a charming student nurse and member of Delta Zeta.

George Warner passed out cigars to let us know that he had at last convinced Irene Hedges, President of Alpha Omicron Pi, that she should wear his pin. Jim Vale announced that he is the proud father of a bouncing baby boy by supplying more cigars. Bud Robinson contributed further to the smoky atmosphere by flying back from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with his beautiful bride, Billee (Girton). By the end of this dingy week some of us had gained the h abit of smoking expensive cigars-a habit we can't afford to perpetuate-and some others of the younger set were almost on the verge of passing out from the smokes their pals had passed out.

The Seattle Kennel of the Effervescent Order of Yellow Dogs h as again begun to effervesce. Fifteen pups were wagged into the illustrious order by Acting Chief Cur, Harry Redpath ('22) , prominent Seattle attorney, and Sid Buckley, Vice Cur. J ames E. Moran was elected the new Chief Cur. Gerald W. West was elected Vice Cur, and Oren Bonney was woofed into the office of treasurer. The treasurer took over the duties of his of-

fic J by immediately squandering the entire kennel funds for the purpose of howling. Much whistling, bones, scratching, and other signs peculiar to dogs have been noticeable of late, and it is possible that others of the jaundiced canines will be seen around the Acacia House at the University of Washington in the not-toodistant future.

CHARLES D. STOVER

Washington State "Yes, sir!" "No, sir!" "Right, sir!" With these merry words, the Washington State Chapter of Acacia swung into "Courtesy" week. The sound of gay laughter, the forced gruruness of neophytes and pledges, the brittle sound of dry crackers being munched by the offenders, all combine to give our dining hall an air of morbid hilarity. The members are hilarious, the others morbid-and Mrs. Barker's (Mom) wonderful cooking gets cold.

Speaking of Mom's cooking-as we often do--George Croyle, Traveling Secretary, who was here just before Christmas, gave Mom's cooking his highest praise--quote, "Mmmmmm-m-m, good!" unquote.

Some bulls are full of it, others love to smell flowers, while at least one seems to enjoy the company of one Seattle Acacia house (understandable). There is some question amongst Pullman Acacians as to whether said item is enjoying his limited stay with the blue and gold, for why do we find our friend "out visiting" when we pay our respects? Could it be that the mantels "on the other side of the fence" look greener?

Pardon our getting off the subject, but we just read the University of Washington report in the winter issue, and accept their offer of good luck-good luck to you too.

For some reason or other (to get back to this report) a list of our new pledges failed to find its way in the last issue.

Including those we pledged the beginning of this semester we have Fred Flannigan.

Gorden Bradley, Kenneth J . Clark, and outside pledges, John Hazelwood, and Walt Gustafsen. We would like to pledge a few more and there are several we would give anything to include in our group, but we just don't have any more room. We have added beds and study room equipment for several as it is, and there has to be some place to draw the line. The house maximum has been increased from 32 to 35. As soon as we can corral all the furniture, we are thinking of making it 35. We have put two onedeckers in the attic, and might put some doubles in one of the first floor rooms. As it is, too many of the fellows will be members after this next initiation and we won't have enough pledges to do the house work. (Poor us.)

In the middle of all this house-cramming, we decided that now was as good a time as any to hold courtesy week ; heck, what is a little extra excitement¡ life is more interesting that way. No,.; that so many of the prewar members are back, with all the ideas they collected in

the service and elsewhere, we are really making this a successful occasion. Whenever we have a need for some "different" suggestions, all we have to do is call upon Brother Don ("Hugs" ) Hughes, and our problems are solved. It is more fun watching that fiendish look come over his face and see those hands rubbed together, while he dreams up new ones. Good old Hugs! I don't know what we would do without him. Fine lad, fine lad.

Our main conception of what constitutes courtesy week is a serious subject with us and we take careful consideration of each idea presented. We can't see this rough stuff, and having a constructive purpose behind our actions when we have the neophytes do a certain thing, we want it to be something which will make them better fraternity brothers, if initiated. . . . So much for my personal philosophy on life.

Thanks for sending us that enjoyable letter, Wilho Williams. How about some of you other brothers coming through also? Wilho tells us he is located at the University of Illinois Acacia chapter house completing his work for a master of science in civil engineering. His comments on my efforts in past issues were gratefully received but, believe me, don't form any mental impressions based on this one; everyone has his off moments, his bad dpys, and brother, I have had it!

Through the fury and commotion of said week, yours truly and the same's little brother are hot f9r getting this (you name it!) conglomer tion to the TRIAD. If this report appears slightly mixed up, just picture two sleepy people by dawn's early light with bloodshot eyes pounding typewriters like mad. This will be completed, sealed and in the mail before we re-read it and throw it away. Since the aforesaid little brother is one of those fortunate souls undergoing a period of enlightenment, if this material appears slightly radical, shall we say (shall we?), in spots, it is to be epected-leave us bear it!

Another wandering sheep has returned.

As we mentioned in the winter TRIAD, Don ("Luke") Faulkner notified us he was coming back to the house from the University of Kansas. Well, we are pleased to report that he is now installed, bags, baggage and shoulders. If that man ha :1 put as much energy into growing up as he did into growing broad, he would be stoop-shouldered from ducking through doorways. Luke, incidentally, is the final third of the big three. The other twothirds of the combo are Howard ("Hoppie") Hopkins, agriculture engineer graduate, and Richard Hampton, pharmacy major.

0 . K ., so we will explain--quick, Watson, the paint brush!

That mighty aggregation, the Big Three, was formed in the fall of '42 by an unofficial coalition of the three top members-tops in scholastic honors, tops in physique, and tops in physical combat.

This terriffic trio tied trembling tyros in terrible tknots-nuts-whenever their right to the title was challenged. At present bandages are being stock-piled in anticipation of a forthcoming clash be-

The Triad, Spring, 1947 of pretenders. This new batch of Bandtween the old masters and the new crop Aid fiends is led by none other than our irrepressible rabble-rouser, Chet ("Foggy,'' for Fogelquist) Bennett, with whom you have already become acquainted in previous publications of this periodical.

Upon hearing of the return of Luke, our foolhardy friend immediately began agitating for a bru1se (this is going to be murder!), and being a genius at organization, he has recruited a corps of specialists in assorted mayhem. The battle is scheduled to take pJace in the college gym, and is being eagerly awaited.

From murder, mayhem, and mighty muscles, leave us depart to pursue the lighter side of life-fun, frolic, and frivolity.

The Christmas party went off with a big bang. We had Russ Danburg, who played carols while we sang, mistletoe, a wishing candle with mistletoe above -a penny for your thoughts, my dear, -skt lodge (little hell done over), mistletoe, sweaters and socks, mistletoemist-m-m-m-m!

Don ("Hugs" ) Hughes was there with his bottle to furnish, along with Danburg, intermission entertainment. Hugs and two friends from the band played a chorus of "Jingle Bells" on pop bottles filled with water. They blew across the tops of the bottles, making noises similar to pet seals at mating time. After their efforts, towels were furnished.

Nothing looks so desolate as a deserted ballroom, so let us turn quickly to another rare function concocted by Foggy, who happens to be our social chairman. Between semesters we had a breakfast party for those few die-hards who hadn't gone home for the vacation. Breakfast was really a colossal affair, started at 7:30 A. S. (A. S. meaning ah'm sleepy). All those foolish enough to get up were treated to wheat cakes, bacon, eggs, toast and coffee in copious quantities. Everyone had a marvelous time, even the girls. And why were dere girls, daddy? Well, son, someone had to do the cooking. Orchids to all the young ladies; they did a grand .job, and managed to keep looking glamorous while doing it.

Now our chapter is planning a spring semi-formal, to be held on Washington's Birthday. You guessed it, kiddies; the light will still be shining the night of February 22. What an affair that is going to be! The theme is that of a Hollywood premiere. Decorations and programs follow the theme, and a mike-happy M.C. will announce the guests. Dancing will be scheduled from 9 to 12 L.S.-Let's Sit! All of which brings us directly to the pledges, most of whom are now neophytes, for they are the ones generally responsible for decorations. At the last writing the new pledges were named, but nothing was mentioned about the organization. Belatedly realizing the insult to such a fine group of fellows, we now take time out to give you the facts.

The pledge class elected as their officers: Calvin Liebel, President; Herb Lowers, Vice-President; Dave Chedzoy, Secretary; John Sonner, Treasurer (no assets, no deficits, no liabilities!); John Stouffer, Social Chairman.

85 Cal hails from the suburbs of PascoKennewick, Wash.-and is a brother of Lester Liebel, one of the outstanding men in the chapter. Cal is an Agricultural Engineering major, preparatory to putting the old homestead on a paying basis.

Herby is the pledge pride and joy. An all-around¡ good fellow, he is up for Executive Council, Freshman class, and has just been initiated into the exclusive Effervescent Order of Yellow Dogs. Herb crawled in from Cashmere, Wash.-we don't know where it is either-is taking Business Administration on the Hill, and his meals standing up.

Dave Chedzoy is our representative from Wallace. Idaho, where they grow them rough and tough. That's why Dave decided to come to W.S.C. A P re-Dental student, rather quiet, he has hidden talents with the cornet.

John Sonner-that's me, kiddies-flew in from Sunnyside, Washington-you miss it if you go more than 35 per-and is on:! of the local advocates of the flying machine. He is ably aided and abetted by our two other licensed pilots, Hugs and Al. Washington, please note. A Physics major, he has dreams of blowing up the world-relax, he has yet to whip a toy balloon.

John ("Smokey") Stouffer is from Lynden, Washington, and is the big strawberry King in the house. At present he is working on a deal to combine wheat with strawberries and being a Plant Pathology major, he may do it. However, it will be a neat trick if he does, since the wheat is in Bickleton and the strawberries are in Lynden.

We, who are about to die, salute you.

M . P . DALRYMPLE JOHN ( " NEOPHYTE" ) SONNER

National Hook-up Calling all amateur radio operators who are Acacians and have stations in operation! Let's start a radio net to tie the active chapters of Acacia into a more closely knit group. To start the net, listen for W7GJW on 7003 kilocycles at 7:00 P.M., Pacific Standard Time, Monday through Friday. We have a 200-watt transmitter and a National HRO receiver in operation here at the Washington Chapter.

We would like to get as many fellows in a spot frequency net as possible.

CHARLES D . STOVER,

Washington Chapter.

Dr. and Mrs. J . R. Adams, Northwestern '36, announce the birth of their second son, Thomas, on January 12 in Topeka, Kansas. Johnny will be remembered as a former Venerable Dean of the Northwestern Chapter.

Better Relations Between Business, Education and Young People

organization than the Carnegie Foundation for t he Advancement of Teaching tells us that high school curricula in some instances are being improved to meet the requirements of the Science Talent Search aptitude examination.

I have, perhaps, gone into too much detail about these various plans and programs-but I assure you I have not begun to disclose what has been done-or even to suggest what there is yet to do. I hope you will leave here with the feeling that this business of education and young people is something much worth looking into.

In this field you don't have to have a large and expensive national progr am in order to make a worth-while contribution. All you have to do is go down and make contact with the little red schoolhouse near you. The teacher will welcome you. Try also to get your constituent companies to work in the schools locally wherever they can.

They will find every effort will pay big dividends in better understanding between business and the schools.

It is important, if you undertake this work, that you start in a small way.

These projects must be carefully developed on an experimental basis, to prove whether the idea you have accomplishes the objectives. If it does, you can enlarge it as fast as your budget and your desires make possible. If you just sit down and concoct something, which you think ought to work, but fail to test it with educational guidance, you may be wrong and cause mor e harm than good.

Finally, be careful of advertising and propaganda. Check your commercial instincts at the door when you go into the schools. That is so important it can hardly be overemphasized. What you must do is work with the schools to make it possible for them to do a better job of training young people.

But if you use your school contacts as a means of advertising or propagandizing-getting the teachers to be your propaganda agents-you will probably be thrown out of the schools, and deservedly so.

No advertising and no propaganda ; be educators; help the schools do a better educational job with the material you know best, prepared in a suitable way for their use.

You will find that educators and young people are hungry to get better acquainted with you. I think you will find that educational work is one of the most important things you can possibly undertake.

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it is helping to change the whole outlook of science teachers. No less an

Ellis J. Allison , Kansas '22, is now City Manager of Salina, Kansas.

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and to meet with the affiliated actives, the alumni, and the National officers.

When the fall semester began, Prof.

Robert F. Craig, Nebraska '26, director of the commercial aviation department of the College of Commerce, was able to give us large amounts of his time. Serving as faculty adviser he has by efforts in our behalf been indispensable. He has acted in liaison with the alumni group and was constructive in making our installation possible.

Amid intramural and outside engagements, October saw our official acceptance into the university interfraternity activities, though ours was still a colony. On our calendar also was another alumni banquet which afforded the chance to introduce our newer men.

Twenty-four men were initiated into the SC chapter by California chapter initiating teams. Two of the initiates were honorary faculty members, Dr. Thomas D. Clements, director of the department of geology, and Dr. Robert E. Vivian, dean of the College of Engineering.

This chapter has pledged itself to carry on the purpose for which Acacia was founded-and to finish the organization chart.

Arthur Mastin Millard Chicago '32 an honorary member of 'Acacia and ~ 33d degree Mason, passed away on December 8, 1946, at the age of 75 after a long life filled with servlce to humanity.

He was born in Lincoln, England, on July 22, 1871, but lived most of his life in the United States. After a successful business career he left his position as western representative of Rutland Transit Company to give full time to the cause of fraternity and human betterment, and some thirty-five years ago, having served as its president previously, he became manager of the Masonic Employment Bureau building that organization into an' institution known throughout the United States and recognized as a model for numerous other similar bw¡eaus. He also found time for service in other ways, and, because of his wide acquaintanc_e and standing, was sought as a candidate at one time for the Republican nomination for mayor of Chicago.

Much of his attention was given to the I_Jroblem of juvenile delinquency a~d m efforts to reclaim boys whose misdemeanors had placed them under jurisdiction of Juvenile and Boys Courts. Presiding judges spoke of his

work as most important and notably successful in starting many youths on the right paths. Brother Millard also gave time freely to neighborhood and city-wide movements based upon humane objectives and religious principles, and for many years gave unstintingly of his time to speak at public gatherings.

His Mason:c life was a long and active one and he held many high positions throughout the years. The amount of time and effort he devoted to the Masonic fraternity has seldom been excelled. One of the outstanding accomplishments of his life was the founding of the Order of The Builders which, through scores of chapters in Chicago and elsewhere, has been one of the most constructive organizations for interesting youth and building

ARTHUR M. MILLARD character in lads from fourteen to twenty-one. He remained head of that organization, and hundreds of men now active in the Masonic Order attribute their start to the Builders.

In spite of the many claims upon him, he was devoted to his home and family and was a model husband and father . Surviving him are his wife, Orah Jones Millard, 1404 Jarvis Avenue, Chicago ; two sons, Everett and Arthur, Jr., and a daughter, Eleanor.

How's That, Again?

"Look at th~ nimshi on the tikiteet!"

If you are so commanded, you probably are in New England, and the person thus addressing you is using a rare Yankee expression.

And if you want a translation a good man to ask is a Northwest~m University instructor in English, Falk Johnson, who has done research on regionalisms in the American language.

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Mr. Johnson will tell you that it's the girl on the sofa.

A North Carolinian transplanted to Evanston, the Northwestern teacher became interested in expressions used in this section of the country and carried his study further to cover terms and phrases found in various parts of the nation.

What do you think of when someone mentions a kettle? In the middle west, Johnson has learned, the housewife usually is referring to a sauce or stew pan, but "down south," the word is more likely to refer only to a vessel with a top and a spout, such .as a teakettle.

And then there are overshoes. In Mr. Johnson's native state, they are rubbers, but in the middle west they're galoshes.

In the northern states, gravy is the thickened liquid from meat, but in the south it's any meat juice, whether thickened or clear.

Among the most interesting regionalisms are those synonyms for seesaw. Outside the south, it often is called a "teetertotter"; in New England, a "dandleboard"; and in only one spot in the nation, Block Island off the coast of Rhode Island, the natives calle a seesaw by the descriptive name, "tippity bounce."

An Arizonan will know what a ranikaboo is, but will "have to explain to a visitor from the less rugged east that the word means a "prank."

Another noun with many regional versons is earthworm. "Angledog," for example, originated with settlers in Windsor, Conn., who probably brought it to America from the vicinity of Devonshire, England, where it was virtually unknown even in nearby shires.

Among hill folk in the southern states, "bodacious," a contraction of bold and audacious, is a distinctive word.

A good many of these regional expressions eventually may disappear, Johnson believes, because of the process of standardization which the American language is undergoing, due to mass entertainment, education, reading and traveling.

DOST THOU LOVE LIFE? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.-Benjamin Franklin.

If some burden I have lightened, If some life I have brightened, As I have traveled along the way; If some footpaths I have rightened, Or some hungry soul enlightened, Then I am happy alway.

-Dr. William J. Marshall, Michigan '04.

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Nebraska

ROBERT CARL ANDERSON ROBERT PHELPS DAVIDSON PHILIP HENRY FARLEY BERNARD CHARLES JENSEN ffiVING WASHINGTON LINDLAHR

KEITH GRAHAM VAN NESTE

Cincinnati

EARL REXFORD BOYD STEVEN RUDOLF KIRCH CARL WILLIAM SCHREffiER Colorado

ROY BRADLEY LEWIS Cornell

WENDELL CLARK JOHNSON RAYMOND ALBERT LULL CARL AUGUST OSBERG JOHN AUGUSTUS PEARSON ARTHUR LEE THOMPSON George Washington

MILLARD MacDONALD BENNETT LEONARD DURNELL PETERSON

Northwestern

JAMES ROWE CLELAND ROBERT WILLIAM KITTREDGE ROBERT THOMAS LAECHLE Ohio

WILLIAM JUDSON BOWEN FLOYD FRANKLIN CRAFT RICHARD WILLIAM GOLDNER ALBERT EVERT GROVER ROBERT DENTON HUMBERT KENNETH E. OEFFLER Oklahoma

BILLY EDWARD CARSON HENRY MARTYN DOUGHTY J. B. LONG GLENN EWING WEESNER Oklahoma State

PARIS EDGAR PERSWELL

Illinois

ROSS BARTON LEMMON, Jr. JAMES GARNEL PEARSON

Penn State

JOHN FRANKLIN ENNIS PHILIP MELVIN SMITH

Indiana

JAMES HENRY BELL WILLIAM CLINTON BLACKLEDGE HOWARD ALLEN LARKIN Kansas State

EUGENE MELVIN HILL JERALD GARMAN PORTER Michigan

WILFORD HARRY BROWN JOHN FREDERICK MUNN Minnesota

GORDON ADOLPH LUNDIN HAROLD ALLAN PORTILLA

Purdue

LANE AMIDON BOOKWALTER CARL LOUIS HANSING HENRY FRED WRIGHT Syracuse

CLINTON RICHARD BARTLETT CLIFFORD VINCENT DEIBLER MYLES WENDELL ESMAY ARTHUR DEANE GUTMAN LESLIE EDGAR HOFFMAN, Jr. GILFORD EDWIN PIERCE Washington State

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Missouri

CHESTER JULIUS PETERS LAWRENCE K. SMARR

Wisconsin

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HEADQUARTERS STAFF Executive Secretary-Roy C. Clark TRIAD Editor ........... William D . Ross Office Manager .... . . . Mrs. Edith A. May Traveling Secretaries . . . . . ... . . . . . . George Croyle Charles Jarrett 7530 Sheridan Rd., Chicago 26, Ill.

UNDERGRADUATE CHAPTERS-OFFICERS AND LOCATION OF CHAPTER HOUSES CALIFORNIA-2340 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley 4, California. Venerable Dean-Robert J . Force. Secretary-Robert C. Peck. Corresponden~­ James B Herndon ill. Financial Adviser-R. B . Tippett, 2348 Marm , Berkeley: Chapter Adviser-Adolph Weber , 2340 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley.

CINCINNATI-2617 University Court, Cincinnati 19, Ohio. Venerable Dean- Leroy Jackson. Secretary-C!yde Alday. Corresp?ndent-P<!-ul Weidner. Chapter Adviser-Marion H . Huber, 3360 Morr1son St., Cmcinnati, Ohio. Financial Adviser-George F . Patterson, 1216 E . McMillan St., Cincinnati, Ohio.

COLORAD0-955 Broadway, Boulder, Colo. Venerable Dean-Glenn Bullen. Secretary-William Bradbury. Correspondent Jon _Such!!r· Chapter Adviser-John A . Lunsford, 1119 Maxwell, Boulder. Fmanc1al Adviser- Or. Robert C. Lewis, 4200 E. Ninth Ave., Denver, Colo.

CORNELL--318 Highland Rd., Ithaca, N . Y. Venerable Dean-Richard A . Lawrence . Secretary-Charles W. Deakyne. Correspoondent-William Bunyan. Financial Adviser-Prof. Walter Cotner , Pine Tree Road.

Ithaca. Chapt er Adviser- Prof. Gustave F . Heuser, Forest Home, Ithaca.

FRANKLIN-3907 Spruce St., Philadelphia 4, Pa. Venerable DeanFrank Frick. Secretary Robert Curry. Correspondent-James Hane.

Chapter Adviser- William R . Hockenberry . Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia. Financial Adviser-W. R . Hockenberry.

GEORGE WASmNGTON-1812 19th St., N .W ., Washington 9, D . C. Venerable Dean- Richard Wilkinson. Secretary-Richard M. Warfield.

Correspondent-Robert I . Carter. Chapter Adviser-Stanley W . Petersen, 1819 G . St., N .W., Washington 6, D . C. Financial Adviser-Paul W. Hamma ck, 305 N . Lincoln St. , Arlington, Va. ILLINOIS-SOl E . Daniel St., Champaign, Ill. Venerable Dean- Edward Miller. Secretary-W. J . Preston. Corre spondent-William Tonkin.

Chapter Adviser-J. K. Tuthill, 714 W. Green St., Champaign. Financial Adviser-J . K . Tuthill.

INDIANA- 702 E . Third St., Bloomington. Ind . Venerable DeanJames Gaddis. Secretary-Gene Johnson. Correspondent-Robert Skinner. Chapter Adviser-Prof. Harold F . Lusk, 512 Hawthorne Dr., Bloomington. Financial Adviser-Prof. D . Lyle Dieterle, 715 S. Woodlawn, Bloomington.

IOWA STATE--142 Gray Ave., Ames, Iowa. Venerable Dean-Hugh R. Denney. Secretary- Richard H. Cowles. Correspondent-Charles H .

Dingle. Financial Adviser-Vern L . Hein, 2336 Knapp St., Ames. Chapter Adviser-George Hendrickson, 3300 Woodland, Ames .

KANSAS STATE--340 N . 16th St .. Manhattan, Kans. Venerable DeanLeonard C. Wood. Secr etary-Calvin Duphorne. Correspondent-Joe Nathan. Chapter Adviser-Kenney L . Ford, 1516 Leavenworth, Manhattan. Financial Adviser- N . D. Harwood , 1300 N . Juliette, Manh attan.

MICBIGAN- 1923 Geddes Ave ., Ann Arbor, Mich. Venerable DeanKay Buchanan. Secretary-Otto F . Strobel. Correspondent-Archiba ld D . McGregor. Chapter Adviser-R. C. Eastman . 233 Crest Ave ., Ann Arbor. Financial Adviser-Weima r Christman, 1025 Packard, Ann Arbor.

MINNESOTA-1206 Fifth St., S . E ., Minneapolis 14, Minn. Venerable Dean-John Dablow. Secretary-Duane Engle. Correspondent-At Olson. Chapter Adviser-Burr Buswell, 1206 Fifth St., S.E ., Minneapolis 14. Financial Adviser-Burr Buswell.

NORTHWESTERN-Lincoln at the Lake, Evanston, lll. Venerable Dean-Richard Bogan. Secretary-Robert Beighley. CorrespondentDon Reddicliffe. Chapter Adviser-Roy C. Clark, 1753 Lunt Avenue, Chicago. Financial Adviser-George Jansen , High Knob, Wheaton, Illinois.

OHI0-1835 Indianola Ave., Columbus, Ohio. Venerable Dean-James Mahaffey. Secretary-David W. Williams. Correspondent-Don Rader.

Chapter Adviser-Or. D. J. Whitacre, 1550 Melrose Ave., Columbus.

Financial Adviser-C. R . Lawrence, 1458 Inglis St., Columbus.

OKLAHOMA-Elm at Cruce, Norman, Okla. Venerable Dean-Odell Stone. Secretary-William Valentine. Correspondent-Clarke Hudson.

Chapter Adviser-Dean David Johnson, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Financial Adviser-Cecil H . Brite, 917 Chautauqua, Norman, Okla.

OKLAHOMA A. & M .-Stillwater, Okla. Venerable Dean-Billy G .

Baugh. Secretary-Roger L. Harnden, 515 Lewis St., Stillwater. Correspondent-Harvey C. Abrams. Financial Adviser-John Lothers, 128 Admiral Road , Stillwater. Chapter Adviser-John Lothers.

PENN STATE-Locust Lane and Foster Ave. , State College, Pa. Venerable Dean-Robert M . Troxell. Secretary-Richard F. Morgan.

Correspondent-David Sims. Chapter Adviser-Philip F. Hallock, Locust Lane Apts., State College. Financial Adviser-Prof. Stanley H. Campbell, State College.

PURDUE--427 State St., West Lafayette, Ind. Venerable Dean-Meredith M . Buell. Secretary-Richard Donnell. Correspondent-Harold Luce. Chapter Adviser-W. A . Knapp, 1305 Ravinia Rd .. West Lafayette, Ind . Financial Adviser-J. R. Eaton, 325 Lawn St., West Lafayette.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-Box 344, 3551 University Ave., Los Angeles 7, Calif. Venerable Dean-William James. Secretary-Harvey R. Amos. Correspondent-George Mattes. Chapter Adviser-Thomas R .

Clements, 2171 Vista Del Mar, Hollywood 28. Financial Adviser-Robert F . Craig, University Club, 614 S . Hope St., Los Angeles.

SYRACUSE--102 Walnut Pl., Syracuse, N . Y . Venerable Dean-Fred E. Lott, Jr. Secretary-John W. Mitchell. Correspondent-Elton C. Howland. Chapter Adviser- E. E . Enos, 1111 Euclld Ave., Syracuse 10. Fi· nancial Adviser-E. E . Enos.

WASBINGTON-5004 17th Ave., N . E., Seattle, Wash. Venerable Dean -Sidney R . Buckley. Secretary-Jesse L . Burdue. CorrespondentCharles D . Stover. Chapter Adviser-Bernard E. Anderson, 8037 12th Ave., N .E., Seattle 5. Fmancial Adviser-Earl J. Snippen, 6529 Latona Ave. , Seattle 5.

WASHINGTON STATE--1607 Ruby St., Pullman, Wash. Venerable Dean-Verne Zellmer. Secretary-Frank Doherty. CorrespondentMarshall Dalrymple. Chapter Adviser-Clifford D . Jacobs, 1211 Maple St., Pullman. Financial Adviser-C. D. Jacobs.

WISCONSIN-Madison, Wis. Inactive. Address all communications to J . R . Bennett, Financial Adviser, Sunset Village, Madison, Wis.

A man attains in the measure that he aspires. His longing to be is the gauge of what he can be. To fix the mind is to foreordain the achievement.

- James Allen