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Brother Acacians: The Spring Term is a vital period in every Chapter. It marks the end of the current administration and the election and installation of a new one to carry on in the next year.

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It should be a time for appraisal-to look back and analyze the deficiencies of the

past year, and to plan now to eliminate them in the coming year. We build and gr ow by r ecognizing our past mistakes and laying our plans so as to obviate them in the future.

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Now is the time to canvass your membership to estimate the number in each class who will return next year. A well balanced Chapter to begin rush week will help to insure a strong Chapter for the whole year. If you find your Chapter will be short of returning men, now is the time to pledge underclassmen to fill the void.

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Acacia will hold its biennial Conclave this summer. A training school for Chapter officers will occupy a large part of the agenda. Ample accommodations for visitors from each Chapter, in addition to accredited delegates, will be provided. Make your summer plans to include a visit to Conclave. The friends you make and the inspiration y ou'll get fr om seeing your Fraternity in action will stay with you all y our life.

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I shall look forward to seeing you at Conclave.

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As We See It: While the editor's life has, at times, some rather strained moments, we do get a "large charge" from the opportunity to chronicle the various activities of the Fraternity. No small reason for this is the assistance provided by the crew of chapter correspondents who provide the flood of mail across the desk on the deadline date. Often the TRIAD correspondent gets the idea that his job in the chapter is sort of a "consolation prize" which the chapter bestows after an evening of lengthy elections of the Deans. We, however, want the world to know that these men have, for the most part, done a fine job.

Particularly, we want to mention a few of the boys who have done a bang-up job: Jon Sucher of Colorado, Elmer Strunk of Penn State, Bill Hart of Kansas State, Rog Witherell at Syracuse, Bill Bunyan at Cornell, Bill Brown of Northwestern, Bob Waterfield in Cincinnati, Bill Tonkin down at Illinois, and Win Hungate out in Wyoming. There are others whom we have probably overlooked but the ones mentioned here have hit every issue on time, have sent photographs, feature stories, alumni news, and copy that was in good shape-and hit the deadlines. Thanks to all of you; keep up the good work.

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And while we're discussing TRIAD material, don't forget that many of the items that are sent to us should also be sent to home-town papers and to the press in your college vicinity. A chapter publicity program will pay big dividends in providing rushing material and will go far to give your chapter an A-1 rating on the campus.

We intend to discuss a publicity program at the Conclave; meanwhile get your imagination and typewriter to work; wangle the papers and campus magazines into using your pies. And let us know what you've done so the other chapters can work the same successful angles.

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We've rather had the impression that there's nothing colder than a Kansas winter. The warm reception and hospitality of the Kansas State chapter during a week-end in January has shot our theories full of holes. Real organization and interest were required to hold an initiation which included the governor of the state, entertain the National Council, and throw a banquet for over a hundred alumni and guests, all in one day.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Indiana Chapter House .

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National President's Page

Inside Cover

As We See It

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Kansas' Governor Carlson Initiated

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The Founding of Acacia

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"Acacia's Finest"

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Alumni Interest and Interested Alumni

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"Discrimination" in Fraternity Membership

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Around the Circuit

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Conclave Returns to Chicago

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Acacians the World Over

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Alumni Associations

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New Initiates .

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Doings in the Chapters

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Directory

Back Cover

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, lllinois.

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

Artist: Torn Gregory

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Kansas' Governor Carlson Initiated Ceremony at Manhattan Attended by National Council OINING the Hon. Sam Ford, Kansas '05, Governor of Montana, in Acacia's list of Chief Executive is the Hon. Frank Carlson of Kansas, who was initiated into the Fraternity on January 24 by the Kansas State Chapter. Witnesses to the ceremony were members of the National Council, other National Fraternity officials, and numer ous alumni of the chapter who assembled at the chapter house for the event.

Also initiated at the same meetin; were Prof. W. H. Honstead, Head of the Chemical Engineering Department; Dr. A. C. Andrews, Professor of Chemistry, and N. R. Byers, instructor in Shop Practice, all of Kansas State College. Undergraduates initiated included Everett J. Waudby, Jr., Dean Akins, Jim Mussett, and Ernest Holmes. In all respects it could be called an outstanding class of initiates -well up to the Acacia standards!

Following the ceremonies at the chapter house the assembly adjourned to the Hotel Wareham where a banquet was held in honor of the occasion. Special guests at this event were Milton Eisenhower, President of Kansas State College, Dr. W. T. Willard, the number 1 member of the chapter, Governor Carlson, Mother Lyles, and the National Council members. Speakers included National President L. H. Ruppenthal, and P rof. Howard Hill, Head of the Speech Department of K.S.C. The suggestion and planning of the initiation of Governor Carlson was the

1929, when he was elected Cloud county representative to the Legislature, where he served during two regular sessions and one special session.

In 1934 he entered the Congressional race from the Sixth district, defeating Mrs. Kathryn O'Laughlin McCarthy.

He was re-elected to Congress for five successive terms, each time with a substantial increase in majority. He was elected Governor on the 5th day of November, 1946. He is a member of the various Masonic bodies, the Baptist church and the American Legion.

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FRANK CARLSON work of Joe Nathan of Wichita, who was a senior in the chapter at the time and who has since been graduated with degrees in chemical engineering and in arts and sciences.

About the Governor: Frank Carlson was born at Concordia, Kansas, January 23, 1893, and went to a farm a few miles west of Concordia when he was two weeks old.

Here he spent his early boyhood. He received his education in the Cloud county schools and attended Kansas State College.

His legislative experience began in

Coincident with the ceremonies described above, the National Council arranged its semi-annual meeting at the Wareham Hotel in Manhattan on January 24 and 25. Present were National President Ruppenthal, National Counselor Thomas, National Secretary Brite, National Treasurer Huber, National Editor Washington, Roy Clark, Executive Secretary, Charles Jarrett, Traveling Secretary, and William Ross, Editor of the TRIAD. Chief discussions of the Council centered about the reactivation of former chapters and the colonizing of new chapters. Plans were made for the biennial Conclave to be held in Chicago in August.

K-State's Big Week-End Acacia's national officers, faculty members, and alumni gather to greet the governor after the ceremonies and at the banquet.

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The Founding of Acacia

By William 1. Marshall Introduction Last October we spent a delightful couple of hours with Dr. Marshall who was in Chicago to attend a medical convention. One of the really "grand old men" of the Fraternity, he amazed us with the clarity with which he recalled the events of fifty years. ago; we had no other course than to ask him to throw modesty aside and record what he remembered-and what part he played. We join with Dr. Marshall in hoping that other Founders send thei1¡ comments and recollections of The Editor this epic period.

Pre-Acacia History February, 1894 to the Fall, 1903 N ORDER to find the earliest roots of Acacia's history, it will be necessary to go back to early February, 1894, when P. A. Shanor, E. W .

Moore, W . S. Rundell, and W. C .

Michaels, all of the Michigan Law Class of 1895, called a meeting of the Masons of the University to discuss the question of organizing a Masonic Club. This club was not to be a secret body but merely a social organization whereby the student and faculty Masons might become better acquainted and form closer fraternal ties.

Two calls were made but only a few men responded. At a meeting held February 24, 1894, fourteen were present. P . A. Shanor was elected temporary president and W. C. Michaels temporary secretary; these were to draft a constitution to be presented at the next meeting. On March 1, 1894, the first constitution was adopted and the following officers elected: P. A. Shanor, President; B . C. Morse, VicePresident; and F. W. Blake, SecretaryTreasurer. Due to the growth of the group the first constitution was found to be inadequate and a new constitution was adopted on _February 1, 1895.

The old records show that on April 12, 1895, the membership had reached fifty-five.

This club was incorporated on June 5, 1895. In November of that year the University of Michigan Masonic Club adopted a pin. During the summer and fall of 1895 the club bought furniture to outfit a Club and Reading room on the third floor of a building, called Nichols Hall, located on the west side of State Street near the junction with North University Avenue. This venture did not prove to be a success, al-

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WILLIAM J. MARSHALL though the project was continued until the spring of 1900.

In June of 1900, through the efforts of three members, Frank K. Leighton, John R. Wilson, and myself (William J. Marshall), a house located at 313 North Thayer Street was leased for a home for the members and a meeting place for the club itself. I lived at that house from 1900 to 1901. At one of the meetings here I suggested that the club be reorganized as a fraternity; I know of several other colleges where there were Masonic Clubs. At that time I conceived the idea of organizing an inter-college fraternity, but nothing was actively done toward that end. The club worked successfully for two years but in the third year the project failed completely and the club passed out of existence.

The Transition or Process of Founding of Acacia Fall, 1903 to May 12, 1904 I personally lived in the club house the first year but left the university in 1901 to become principal of my hometown school. I was away for two years and returned in the fall of 1903. Since I had been an officer in the old club and had had much to do with the activities in securing quarters, I was much interested as to what had happened during my absence. For several weeks I could learn nothing until one day, when I was reading in the University General Library, an old

friend and member of the old club saw me and gave me a cordial welcome back to Ann Arbor and to the University. This was Charles A. Sink, now many years head of the University School of Music. The conversation soon drifted to the Masonic Club.

Brother Sink informed me that he had no idea what had become of the books and records of the club, but that Clarence G. Hill, a law student, would know something of the status of the University Masonic Club; he agreed to arrange a meeting for the two of us with Mr. Hill.

At this first meting in the University Library in the fall of 1903 Brother Sink and I discussed many things concerning the club. We agreed that there could and should be a Masonic organization on the university campus.

We believed that an organization of this kind would not only be a good thing for the members themselves but would also have a healthy and beneficial influence on the university itself.

We agreed that, since the club plan had failed, the fraternity plan would, without question, serve better to promote ideals and accomplish the aims more effectively and successfully.

Our next meeting was in Clarence G. Hill's room, with Brother Hill, Brother Sink, and m yself present.

Brother Hill informed us that he, Walter S . Wheeler, and Benjamin D eRoy had been elected to membership that spring (1903) and that Mr. DeRoy had the books and records of the club.

No new officers had been elected.

George W. Crawford, the last president of the club, then living in Peoria, Illinois, was still president. According to the old by-laws meetings were called by order of the president. I knew George very well and so wrote to him to ask him to call a meeting of the University of Michigan Masonic Club on January 16, 1904, and this he did.

In the meantime we had been holding meetings nearly every week and had been recruiting our prospective membership list so that on January 16 of 1904 several Masons were elected to active membership, new officers were elected, and committees were appointed. Unfortunately, all of the minutes of the many meetings held up to that time were order ed destroyed instead of adopting them as part of our record.

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''Acacia's Finest'' Chapters Name Outstanding Men Part I This spring we asked each chapter to name the man, preferably a senior, who had done the most for Acacia on his campu s during the past year. We are presenting the results in two groups, the first of which appears here.

The brief sketches of these talented young leaders were w ritten by their chapter con¡espondents.-The Editor.

William Gibson Cornell One of the six men who returned to Cornell in the fall of '46, to get the Acacia house back on its feet again, was Bill Gibson, class of '48. "Gibby" is the only one of the six who has been here the two full years since the Chapter was reactivated. After three years of inactivity there was a lot to be done, both in putting the house in shape physically and in getting enough men to put the house back in running order. Whatever there was to do, Gibby was in the thick of it.

As Senior Dean most of the two years, Bill has performed an excellent job of getting our share, or perhaps more than our share, of good pledges from under the noses of the other fraternities. He spent a great deal of time last summer contacting alumni for recommendations of incoming freshmen.

Last summer, too, while attending summer school, Gibby also found time

to do a large part of repainting the house. This is just typical of his always being here to help when something needs to be done.

Gibby entered Cornell as a freshman in Mechanical Engineering in September 1941, and he was initiated into Acacia in January 1943. After completing four terms he enlisted in the Navy Air Force where he ended up as an instrument instructor at the Navy Air Base in Atlanta, Ga. This June he will receive his B.M.E., and, after that he hopes to go into public utilities work (Alumni please notice). We wish him luck.

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to membership in Phi Eta Sigma, the freshman scholastic honorary.

Ken is not only outstanding in scholastic achievement, but he is also one of the best-liked members in the fraternity. He is one of the best ping pong players in the house, and he has represented us in intramurals several semesters. During his first two semesters here, he worked on the sports staff of the campus daily newspaper.

Upon conclusion of his undergraduate work, Ken plans to do graduate work at the University of Minnesota.

His plans for the future also include his marriage this summer to Miss Fay Diers, his fiancee.

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Kenneth L. Lindsay

H. R. Denney

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Iowa State

The Illinois Chapter's "Outstanding Senior" is Kenneth L. Lindsay of Springfield, Illinois. He entered the house as a freshman at the beginning of the summer session in 1943. Ken is majoring in chemistry and plans to graduate at the end of this summer.

He has consistently had one of the highest averages in the house. His

As the man who has done the most to further the name of Acacia at Iowa State College in recent years, H. R.

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work for three of the semesters has been straight "A ," and his average for the past four and one-half semesters is only slightly below that mark. His outstanding scholarship was rewarded in his freshman year by his selection

(Bob) Denney is our choice. Bob will graduate from Iowa State this June with a Bachelor of Science degree in Horticulture. He entered Iowa State in 1940 but left in 1942 for the service.

In 1946 he returned to school and will have completed four years of college this spring. During the two years that most of us have been able to observe his accomplishments, he has been very active in many phases of college activity. Bob is our former Venerable Dean; he served in this capacity dur-

The Triad, Spring, 1948 ing the 1947 school year. As a member of Interfraternity Council, he was elected Secretary of that organization.

In his sophomore year he was a member of Agricultural Council. Last year he was on the Veishea Advisory Council. One of his past assignments this year was to serve as chairman for Interfraternity Religious Emphasis Week Convocation. Before he graduates this spring, Bob will have another job to add to his long string of credits, that of being chairman of the Veishea Concert Program Committee.

He has also been a member of the Horticulture Club for the four years he has been in school. We feel that Bob will continue to be just as much of a credit to Acacia after he leaves school as he has while he has been here.

Charles Hall Kansas State Shanghai, China, the intriguing city, has furnished Kansas State Chapter of Acacia with one of the most helpful and interested workers of Acacia Fraternity. It's Charlie Hall, better known as "Pappy" Hall around the chapter house, who has been here for seven years and is the oldest man in seniority in the house.

Charlie is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence K. Hall. Dr. Hall at the time of Charlie's birth was director of boys'

61 husbandry in 1941, and pledged Acacia.

He was initiated in November 1942.

High in scholastic standing in his freshman year, Charlie was twice recognized by Phi Kappa Phi, freshman scholastic honor society. The YMCA, realizing the value of his YMCA background, appointed him to the freshman committee for YMCA. Along came the war and Charlie entered the Army Air Corps in 1943, getting his discharge in early December of 1945.

Continuing his education, Charlie reentered Kansas State in February 1946 enrolling in an unusual course as a senior in agriculture and a sophomore in veterinary medicine. He found , oddly enough, that he was the only Acacian in school. To remedy this, he sent letters to actives and alumni asking for rushee recommendations. The Kansas State chapter was reactivated in September of 1946 with Charlie filling the Senior Dean's chair.

The reactivation complete, Charlie turned once again to campus activities, becoming chairman of the American Veterans Committee; co-chairman of

initiation of Governor Carlson so ably, was so active in intramural sports and managed to come out of it all with a scholastic average of 2.46. All your reporter has to say is that Kansas State Chapter of Acacia is proud to have had such a capable leader.

FRANK MACCREARY

John Dablow Minnesota Voted outstanding Acacian of the Minnesota chapter, John Dablow has led a varied and activity-filled life since Pntering school in the fall of 1942.

It has included naval reserve training on campus, during which time he held various offices-such as platoon commander, and Skipper of Anchor and Chain, an honorary naval fraternity.

RICHARD BOGAN

JOHN DABLOW

CHARLES HALL work of the North China YMCA. When Charlie was seven, the family moved back to Pennsylvania and thence to Massachusetts where Charlie entered school. He was graduated in 1940 from Mount Hermon, Mass. , High School with honors. Interested in agriculture, Charlie entered Kansas State, enrolled as a major in animal

the World Forum of YMCA ; member of Block and Bridle, animal husbandry club; and the junior AVMA. During the spring Charlie attended the Wyoming installation and in the summer, the Norman Conclave.

Charlie began the new fall semester as Venerable Dean. As well as being active in the afore-mentioned organizations, he assumed co-chairmanship of the YMCA Bible study group. He is this spring winding up his last agriculture course with four hours in animal husbandry. Everyone wonders, with the heavy load he is carrying in school, how Charlie conducted the

In January, 1943, he was initiated into the chapter, but his active status was inter rupted two years later when he went on active naval duty for 15 months in the Pacific theater.

After his return to campus, John served as Senior Dean and Venerable Dean, became a member at large of the Interfraternity Council executive committee, and served as publicity di rector for the IFC. Last fall he attended the undergraduate Interfraternity Council conference in New York City, and upon return here was named advisor to ¡ academic fraternities in the office of the Dean of Students.

He holds two degrees, a B .S. and B.A., and is now a sophomore in law school.

Other activities on campus include membership on the student board of publications, the University Legisla-

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Richard Bogan Northwestern Dick Bogan, president of the Northwestern chapter, is an outstanding senior leader, both in the chapter and in campus activities. He is a mechanical engineer in Tech and will graduate this June. Bogan did such an outstanding job as president his junior year, he was elected to serve a second term as Venerable Dean this year.

He has maintained an A-minus average throughout his four years and is a member of three honorary fraternities-Tau Beta Pi, engineering honorary, Pi Tau Sigma, mechanical engineering honorary, and Pi Mu Epsilon, mathematics honorary. Northwestern's Venerable Dean has also been active in the stage crew of the university variety show, WAA-MU, and in intramural football and baseball competition.

Robert Troxell Penn State

became inactive due to the war. After serving with the U . S. Navy, Bob jumped into greater activity upon his return to college. He was Venerable Dean in 1946-47. Shortly after terminating this outstanding duty for the h ouse Bob was elected All-College , ' Vice-President, headed Penn States committee to the meeting of the National Student Association in Wisconsin this past summer and was elected Vice-President of Pennsylvania. Bob has been a leader in the local campus politics as well, serving on numerous committees here at the college. He was recently initiated into the Lions Paw (local senior men's honorary).

For entertainment he plays each weekend in one of the campus dance bands, but somehow is able to free himself now and then to visit his cherished girl friend in Philadelphia.

contract bridge tournament. He also has worked on the Purdue Engineer.

He is an infantry veteran of the Southwest Pacific Theater with an enviable record, which includes the bronze star, four battle stars, and the bronze assault arrowhead.

As scholastic chairman of the house, Murph was available any time of the day (and most of the night) to anyone in the house who needed help with his studies. He has been elected recently to the office of Senior Dean, and as such has started the ball rolling on our spring rushing program. In addition to being one of the most popular fellows in the house, Vic has done much for the fraternity, and we all expect him to achieve success in his field after completing his training.

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Victor H. Krummenacher Purdue Man-of-the-year at the Pur due chapter this term is Victor H. K rummenacher, "Murphy" for short, who claims St. Louis, Missouri, as the natural habitat. Vic is a tried and true

As the Penn State Chapter's out standing senior we have Brother B ob Troxell. B ob's activity at the college goes back to his freshman year (194142) when he played trombone in the

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ROBERT TROXELL marching Blue Band, the Symphony Orchestra and the R.O.T.C. band. In addition Bob found time to be active in the Thespians, playing trombone in the accompanying orchestra for a few of the college plays. At the house he filled the house manager job, and later was elected social chairman as which he served until the chapter

member of the Electrical Engineering School, with a distinguished student rating to his credit. Though due to graduate this June, he plans to continue his schooling by pursuing a special course offered to a few outstanding engineers dealing with nuclear physics, which eventually will lead to employment with the Atomic Energy Commission. At present "Murphy" is leading a relatively sedentary existence after losing his pin, followed by a ring, to Sally Haynes.

Last year Vic was on the house bridge team which won the all-campus

Southern California William Dean James, charter member, Southern California Chapter of Acacia, will be graduated in June. By a majority vote he was given the honor of being the chapter's outstanding senior member. With his activities and hard work he has brought many honors to Acacia and himself.

They include: president of the SC Chapter; membership in Skull and Dagger, university-wide men's honorary; Knights, service organization; Blue Key ; Alpha Eta Rho, aviation ; Beta Gamma Sigma, commerce; Phi Delta Phi, law; and active in Interfraternity Council affairs. Last term he was honored at a banquet where he was presented the coveted award for being the most outstanding commerce student of the year; he was elected president of the freshman class

The Triad, Spring, 1948 of the Law School; and was selected by the faculty as the representative of the University of Southern California in competition for the Rhodes Scholarship for this year. In addition to these activities Bill has efficiently served as chairman of the Senior Ball committee and the IFC scholarship board.

Speaking of scholarship James has maintained an accumulative grade point average of 2.45 (B plus).

A married man, his charming wife, "Bobbie" to all the fellows in the house, will soon present him with his second offspring, and the odds are heavy that it will be a sister for Susan, the SC Chapter sweetheart, age 3.

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atomic energy committee and last year was elected a member of the senior men's honorary, the Crimson Circle.

The Crimson Circle is composed of one per cent of the senior men.

After completing his term as Venerable Dean the chapter immediately presented Don with the traditional gold gavel with the Acacia Crest on it. This is a token of our appreciation as a chapter for the many invaluable services rendered by this brother.

Don is doing his practice teaching at Lewis & Clark high school in Spokane, but will be back for the last half of this spring semester to complete requirements for graduation in June.

The Washington State Chapter of Acacia wishes you all the success in

Donald S. Hughes Washington State The Washington State Chapter has justly chosen DonaldS. Hughes as its outstanding graduating senior of 1948.

Don, who comes to us from Sunnyside, Washington, is graduating this

WIN HUNGATE the world, Don, thanks for your devotion, service and loyalty during your career here at W.S.C. RALPH F. SMITH DON HUGHES coming June and intends to teach music in a high school this fall. His musical ability has really helped the house these past four years. He has been one of the house leaders all the way. His offices in the W.S.C. chapter include Venerable Dean, rushing chairman, song chairman and pledge class president! His campus activities have really been numerous-it is my belief that Don almost holds a record for activities. He has served in the Intercollegiate Knights; college rally committee; the pep band; student director of the regular college band; is a member of Phi Mu Alpha, national men's music honorary. In addition to these Don served on the newly formed

Win Hungate Wyoming Win Hungate, outstanding Acacian from the University of Wyoming, is now working on his M.A. in the department of Art. Win hails from the Capitol city of Cheyenne, just a short hop over the hill. He is outstanding socially in the town as well as the campus. He is a member of Theta Alpha Phi, national dramatics honorary, and Epsilon Psi, local art honorary. Win has recently accepted a position with the local radio station, KOWB, as pianist for a weekly show. As well as being cartoon artist for the Branding Iron, University newspaper, he is Correspondent for the TRIAD. Win will receive his M.A. degree this summer.

JOHN E. JACOBS

The Founding Qf Acacia (Continued from page 59 )

The first attempt to create a ritual for the University of Michigan Masonic Club was during the college year 1900-01 when I made the motion that the club take steps toward the creation of a ritual or some form of initiation. The other members did not think this to be necessary and no attempt was made. The next attempt was at a meeting held on April 2, 1904, when I moved that the president appoint a ritual committee. The motion was ¡seconded by Brother Sink and President Wheeler appointed to this committee Brother Sink, Brother Harlan P. Rowe, and myself.

The following week this committee met with Mr. L. C. Goodrich and Judge W. G. Doty in Judge Doty's office in the county courthouse. At the conference ritualism was discussed in a general way but no definite conclusions were reached. I undertook to write Acacia's first ritual during the spring, or April, vacation, 1904; on their return to the University the ritual as written was submitted to the other members of the committee who accepted it in toto. It was presented to, and adopted by, the University of Michigan Masonic Club on May 7, 1904. The organization became incorporated under the name of Aleph Chapter of the Acacia Fraternity on May 12, 1904, the day known as Founders Day. Thus, on May 12, 1904, the University of Michigan Masonic Club legally became the "ACACIA FRATERNITY." Those who signed the Articles of Incorporation were: James Monroe Cooper Benjamin E. DeRoy Edward Everett Gallup Jared Waldo Hawkins Clarence George Hill Harvey James Howard George A. Malcolm Ernest Richard Ringo William J. Marshall Harlan Page Rowe Ralph B. Scatterday Charles Albert Sink Harry B. Washburn Walter Stedman Wheeler

(To Be Continued) H. C. Thuerk, Purdue '19, has been appointed to the New Jersey Stato Bo:ud of Education. He is President of the New Jersey Power & Light Company and resides on Armstrong Road, Morristown.

For the past two years he has been a director and Vice President of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of its Education Committee.

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Alumni Interest and Interested Alumni

By An Old-Timer

(Third in a series of articles by a long-time member of the Fraternity) N THE last-previous edition I dis- talk over bright college daze with him, cussed several phases of the prob- and the boys in the active chapter lem (in some places more of a show him a good time, he is likely to problem than in others) of getting and climb out of the dead wood category retaining alumni interest-that is, in- and get into the middle or even into terest among alumni in their own and the red-hot-rooter group.

When he visits the chapter house the other chapters of the parent organization. Among points stressed were ce rtain things which members of active chapters should do, or not do, whenever graduates returned to visit their chapter houses - ostentatiously catering to a 1 u m n i known to have copious quantities of collateral, for one thing.

In this contribution to the series I shall list some things which alumni should do, or should not do, when they visit their chapters.

Old grads run much the same, regardless of the campus whence they came or the section whither they migrated.

There are three main classes or categories: the eternal sophomores, or extremely alumnus is likely to meet few, if any, devoted, who continue to do through- whom he knows; but he is sure to talk out life all they can to be of service much about things as they were . in to the fraternity and to the alma his day on the campus. Right there he is pretty certain to put it on too thick mater; the dead wood, mere names by a couple of inches, telling the acon the roster, rarely contacted and tives how much easier their lot is than rarely responsive; and, in between his lot was back in the era of comthem, the average run-of-mine alum pulsory chapel every morning, rewho does what he can in a moderate quired trig for even liberal arts, and degree, neither hot nor cold, a luke- hazing which sometimes maimed men warm Laodicean whose .record reads for life.

The actives, while polite, probably like the old maid's epitaph-"no runs, will decide that the old grad is putting no hits, no errors."

It is in the middle class that most on an act for their benefit and is just can be done toward developing better a plain darn liar. And modern youth alumni support, but the dead wood cannot remain passive when it feels can be made useful in some cases. that it is being kidded by what an EngMaybe the old grad never got over a lishman would call "a most inordinate peeve dating from the day he left the spoofer."

Remember, alumnus, boys who have campus, or even before ; if so, learning the real reason for his aloofness can lived in foxholes are not likely to be be undertaken by a more enthusiastic profoundly impressed by your story of classmate, and that could lead to re- having to break the ice at the campus moval of the fancied grievance, if any, pump before you could shave, or how and restoration of the original spirit. pledges used to have the chore of carBut the first thing the chapter rying cordwood two miles and up to should try to do is to get the old boy the third-floor parlor. Even the freshback for a visit. If he returns, and finds man too young to have served in the some of his former buddies there to Second World War do not relish be-

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ing told, however kindly, that they are safeties in comparison to the rugged pioneers who were freshmen before the First World War. Would you have enjoyed hearing, three decades ago, that you had a cinch compared to the sturdy undergraduates who chopped down trees and built dams so alma mater could feed the faculty during the panic of '93?

Here's another tip, alumnus: When you are talking to the active chapter about college affairs of your day, be sure they understand you, or it will lead to some cockeyed conclusions. The boys will think you are goofy, and you will consider them dumb, unless they know what you are talking about. For example, suppose you are telling about a great run made by one of your buddies the year your alma mater won the conference championship by a close game won in the last minute of play-you know, the time Pulse Normal beat Precarious State 6-to-5. Unless you explain that a touchdown counted only five points in those days, the actives will conclude that you have bats in the belfry.

Then, too, most undergraduates of this generation never heard that football fields before 1910 or thereabouts were 110 yards long, not 100; so be sure to explain that before telling how Big Jim Crowe, the halfback for Subb Normal, grabbed a fumble and scooted 110 yards to score.

Most of the current inhabitants of college halls have learned football either from what they saw or what they heard via radio or what they found in the press; the sad truth is that many football games are covered by golf editors who have no golf to cover after September and draw the stadium job without being especially trained for it, and that many radio athletes are young enough to rave about a " booming punt of fifty yards."

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"Discrimination" in Fraternity Membership Excerpts from Brother Embury's Report to the National Interfraternity Conference

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URING the past several years campus after campus has called upon its fraternities and sororities (and, as with every anti-fraternity movement, these attacks are likely to be aimed first and as an entering wedge at the sororities as the weaker of the two groups) asking for the submission of copies of their national constitutions and announcing that any restrictions therein based on race, creed, or color must be removed. These actions have varied all the way from a polite suggestion, allegedly based on the improvement of student relations and campus morale, to a blunt "Do it or get off the campus."

And we are doing little or nothing to help our good friends, the college administrators who are constantly bedevilled by the anti-fraternity agitators but who get nothing but deep silence from us. No matter how good friends of the fraternities they may be, we cannot expect them to fight this battle for us alone forever. After all, why should they?

Now, I submit that it is axiomatic that in a democracy it is the privilege of every man to form a voluntary group or society for any legitimate purpose and that that group is the sole judge of its own membership qualifications and restrictions. If you or I want to form a fraternity whose membership shall be limited exclusively to bowlegged men, it is our nrivilege to do so.

And please bear in mind that that is a democratic privilege; it is a privilege that does not exist under a totalitarian regime where men may form ~o groups not specifically sanctioned by the government. This right, however, does exist in a country where men are free, and it matters not how arbitrary or even ridiculous the membership restrictions may be. Our bow-legged fraternity does not infringe on the rights of the knock-kneed man or the man with straight legs because they, too, are free to form their own groups either with or without restrictions as to the shape of their members' legs.

However, there is nothing arbitrary or capricious or unnatural about fraternity membership restrictions based on race, creed, or color. As I have said many times before, the college fraternity (and the same is true of sororities) is the closest-knit, most intimate group to be found anywhere outside the family group. The members live

Our N .I. C. Chairman in Action Dave Embury (right) presents to Dr. John R . Moseley, President of the Univ ersity of Ne v ada, the Distin guished Service Award of the National Interfraternity Con feren ce.

together, eat together, sleep together, date together, and share each other's joys and each other's sorrows. What, then, could be more natural-in fact, more important-than that, in choosing new members, they should seek men with the same racial, religious, social and cultural backgrounds as their own?

Nor is this based on any hatred or prejudice or any false sense of superiority of one race or religion over another, any more than the membership restrictions of the Pennsylvania Society or the New England Society are based on hatred or prejudice respecting men from other geographical sections. That, or course, is arrant nonsense and is a false implication raised by those subversive elements who, in order to divide and conquer, seek to set race against race, class against class, and brother against brother.

Now, with respect to the false allegation of prejudice and "discrimination," I can give you at least one splendid example of what I mean right here in our own Conference. Among our entire 59 fraternities, I challenge you to find any two between which a more sympathetic understanding and a closer friendship exist than between Acacia and Phi Kappa. The background of Acacia is Masonic; that of Phi Kappa is Catholic. Now it chances that, for reasons which are lost in the mists of antiquity, there are certain organizations, including Freemasonry which communicants of the Roman Catholic chur ch are not permitted t o join. There is, therefore, no compet i-

tion between Acacia and Phi Kappa.

Acacia does n ot seek Catholic m em bers, Phi Kappa does n ot seek Masonic members. The sincer e r espect a nd friendly cooper ation that exist between th ese tw o groups, of course, go much deeper than mer e absence of competition. The m ember s of each group know that the other gr oup is founded on the same deeply r eligious principles and high ideals as their own. Those who are opposing fraternities as "undemocratic" would tell us that Acacia "discriminates" against Cat holics and Phi Kappa "discriminates" against Masons. I cite this one example merely to show how utterly fantastic-as well as pernicious-this customary anti-fraternity argument is.

And, by the way, I wish we would stop shivering at the wor d "discrimination." Who made it a bad word, anyhow? And by what authority? My dictionary defines it as the power to distinguish or differentiate ; the act or faculty of discriminating ; keen discernment; mark of distinction. I would sing the praises of discrimination. I love the discriminating tongue, the discriminating eye, the discriminating ear, and, above all, the discriminating m ind and the discriminating soul. The person for whom I can find no love and no respect is the indiscriminate person. To be indiscriminate is to be common, to be vulgar. I am fed up with Soviet semantics. And, when I hear some action characterized as "undemocratic," I want to know whose definition of democracy. Is it the democracy of the U. S. A . or the "democracy" of the U . S.S. R.?

I, for one, will fight to the last ounce of my strength to defend the rightthe democratic right-of any man or group of men to form a fraternity or other association with any membership restriction or qualification that they, in their absolute discretion, may see fit to impose: -a fraternity of blacks for blacks, of whites for whites, of Jews for Jews, of Gentiles for Gentiles, of Catholics for Catholics, of Protestants for Protestants. Of course, it is also the undisputed pr ivilege of any group to form an organization with none of these restrictions if that be their pleasure. But it is one thing to say that a group may omit such restrictions,that is democr acy. It is quite a different thing to say that a gr oup must omit them,-that is regimentation.

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Around the Circuit with the Tra'lleling Secretaries

Out West-with Croyle FTER having spent the past two months on the Pacific Coast slope and in the Rocky Mountain area I am more than gratified at the general upward trend of all Acacia chapters. It is evident that vigorous chapter leadership has been the biggest single factor in Acacia's progress.

The problem of scholarship is becoming increasingly less pronounced and it is my fond hope that by summer the majority of our chapters will be at or very near the top of the list. Perhaps with a little more effort and coordination those chapters that are still low will be able to make rapid strides in raising their scholarship to a decent level.

I should like to dwell for a moment on two problems that have become so important to Acacia that it would be folly to continue to disregard them.

The first of these concerns only those chapters of Acacia that are located in cities of 25,000 or less and has to do with local membership. In cities the size of Ames, Manhattan, Norman, Stillwater, Laramie and Pullman it is most desirable and necessary to have at least 30 per cent town men at any one time. By stressing the foregoing cities I don't mean to play down the importance of town men in Los Angeles, Berkeley and Seattle but only to point out to the chapters in the smaller cities that their task will be more difficult because of keener competition.

Town men play a very vital role in every chapter of Acacia. They are usually available the year around and by so being, can be quite valuable to the chapter, especially during the important summer rush.

By having town men each chapter can add to its Mother's Club each year and by so doing can strengthen an important and worth-while adjunct of the Fraternity.

In addition, in these times of acute housing, the town man does not compete for room in the fraternity -house and yet, even though he lives at home, he can be a valuable cog in coordinating the efforts of the chapter. This fact alone makes the town man a valuable asset to each of our local chapters.

Now is the time to work out a suitable r ush program for the coming summer. By all means do not fail to stress the phase that has to do with

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The other problem facing Acacia today is its lack of faculty men. There was once a time in our past when we were blessed with outstanding faculty members on every campus where there was an Acacia chapter. Today, through negligence and short-sightedness, some chapters have allowed their faculty membership to fall to a new low.

It is a proven fact that faculty members are more beneficial to the fraternity than any of its other members.

This is true because they have a closer tie with the fraternity and being educators they have a better conception of the true worth of the fraternity.

It has been my observation that Acacia's better chapters are those that have strong faculty support. In light of this let me urge all of the chapters, particularly those with less than ten faculty members, to take some positive action on this matter.

By the time this edition of the TRIAD rolls off the presses Oregon State will have reactivated its chapter. Through the efforts of Chris G abriel, Dave MacFarland and Delmer Goode Acacia's return was a foregone conclusion as early as the first of January. It is a tribute to the Acacia alumni of Oregon State that Acacia is once again flourishing at Corvallis. It is regrettable that the alumni of some of our other inactive chapters find it impossible or undesirable to revive their chapter.

In my travels the past two months I have been privileged to meet numerous characters, some of which I should like to say a word about at this time.

Pullman has two men that are real gems in the rough. Rastus Williams, the man with the water-melon laugh (water Malone) and fur-lined scalptruly a soft spoken citizen. Another quaint lad is the eminent Senator Dave Green-his platform is unique in these times of rare tendencies-namely, down with up.

Seattle has given birth . to two dubious specimens-Foghorn Mast, a hearts specialist that gets the queen with no effort at all, and Big Abbe Burdue, a collector for any and all charitable causes (of course a 25 per cent cut is not at all unreasonable in these times) .

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T his Is Jarrett HE idea behind these columns is that we give a "breezy" summary of events and developments as we see them in our respective territories.

However, there are some matters presently weighing so heavily on my mind that I'm going to dispense with my usual gay witticisms and do a little "preaching."

I w.ould like to second Brother Croyle's appeal (see Out West-with Croyle, THE TRIAD, Winter, 1948) for the best possible Chapter representation at the coming National Conclave in August of this year. George naturally picked on some of the Western Chapters since they are under his jurisdiction. However, they are by no means the only offenders. Some of the eastern and mid-western Chapters have been equally as negligent in their interest. The Conclave is, in my opinion, the most important event, either local or national, in the whole fraternity. This is the place where Constitutional Amendments, By-Law changes, rules and regulations are adopted. Also, your National Officers are elected, budgets are adopted, and administrative policies are formulated here.

We want the Chapters to take an active part in the administration of the Fraternity. The only way to accomplish this is for you to see to it that your Chapter is capably represented here. In additioi_l, there is the Officers' Training School. Although it is still in its infancy, we feel that fine results have al~eady developed in Chapter Administration. If the young potential leaders are represented here, they can learn a lot to help them get started off on the right foot as Chapter officers.

During the last year or so, I have seen all of our chapters gain strength in membership, finances , and general position on the campus. But there is one thing which is noticeably lacking, and that is good, old-fashioned " fraternity polish." True, the "rah-rah" days of the "roarin' twenties" are gone for good, and we are proud that fraternities are actually taking a serious position as actual contributors to their members' education. However, it still remains, there is nothing that can replace good manners, neat appearance, and social grace. I feel so strongly

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Conclave Returns to Chicago Council selects August 26-28 for biennial business meeting and training school HE Twenty-Fifth National Conclave of Acacia will assemble in Chicago from the 26th to the 28th of August. The Chicago campus of Northwestern University, located on the shores of Lake Michigan, will again be the meeting place of actives and alumni who will congregate to conduct the semi-annual business of the Fraternity, elect officers for two vacancies on the Council, and discuss the latest methods of chapter operation.

At its J anuary meeting the N ational

Council approved a motion providing traveling expenses for two delegates to the Conclave from each chapter plus the living expenses for three additional delegates per chapter during the three-day session. This will assure well over a hundred official representatives in addition to whom a large number of other members, active and alumni, are expected to attend.

The terms of two members of the National Council, National Secretary Cecil Brite and National Editor

Herschel L. Washington, expire this year; these offices will be filled by Conclave action. Many matters of official policy are expected to be discussed and voted upon at the sessions.

General arrangements for the Conclave, expected to be the best in many years, are being handled by Roy Clark, Executive Secretary, and the Headquarters staff. It is hoped that the complete Conclave schedule will be available in time for inclusion in the Summer issue of the TRIAD.

Alumni Interest and Interested Alumni

of Christian truth-seekers" climbed a hill, said a prayer and erected a foundation in a field of thistles and buckhorn, the grave and dignified catalogue

tive Chapters for their fine cooperation. I am especially grateful for being able to work with such outstanding men as Walter Kolbe, Jack Erwin, Roy Clark, Bill Ross, George Croyle. and the members of the National Council. I shall always cherish the associations and experiences of the past two years as the best part of my life.

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First World War you know a man was not considered much of a punter if his spirals d id not average about seventy.

But to get back to our alumnus returning for a visit at the chapter house.

Unless there are others present who can dispu te h is words, he may get to the subject which every undergraduate hates to hear, "the good old days."

Of course, the irrepressible and diabolical ingenuity of the boy in college is and always will be a refreshing thing to see; but modern campus dwellers are not going to be greatly amused at hearing how John D oe broke up the chapel service by putting a sack of pepper into the pipe organ just before th e offertory anthem blew it throughout the edifice. Maybe it was funny, in 1918, when you and the rest of your class festooned the trees with paper swiped from the storehouse adjoining the washroom, but it may sound somewhat childish to your roommate's son who has done a lot of stunts more original and less crude.

Some alumni who return to the scenes of their u ndergraduate days often get into the habit of dishing out advice, even w h en not asked for it, on any and all topics imaginable. Maybe they do not realize it, but the reaction of the average student to such dissertations will be: "P apa, don't preach to me." D on't you suppose the undergraduates get enough of that with the curriculum?

If you don't realize that they are subjected to all sorts of homilies from registration day until diplomas are dealt out, just look at a college catalogue. After telling how "a little band

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about this, that I should like to repeat Clark Hudson's statement in his excellent article (The Chapter Social Program, THE TRIAD, Winter, 1948).

"J unior joins the Fraternity, and then it becomes our duty as a brotherhood of men, to make a better man out of that boy than he might have been had he never joined our chapter. L et us always remember, that while our immediate duty is to further the best interests of the chapter, that boy, as the product of our endeavor, comes forth, either to condemn or commend our way of college life. If he but gains the social graces alone, then he has furthered our interest in one of the best ways possible. We have contributed to his education." Amen, Brother Hudson!

Last January 24, I was honored to be present at the honorary initiation of Governor Frank Carlson of Kansas into the Kansas State Chapter. This was an impressive ceremony, followed by a fine banquet. The Kansas State Chapter, and especially Joe Nathan, who conceived the idea and pushed it through, are to be congratulated on this fine achievement.

Since my resignation has been turned in to bring my wanderlust to a screeching halt this summer, I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to Acacia for offering me the opportunity for such vast experience, and to the Ac-

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fame to Hammer-Head Mattes, a fearless addict, devoted to ruining pin ball machines with as much effort as possible. His running-mate, No. 6 Risdon, is a great lover of music and fine arts.

Of course in LA there is no art except what you see. The New Look has ruined art for the time being; however Argo Cowart mimics the used car dealers in his efforts at scrutiny.

Laramie takes pride in its "Digger" Conover, a lover of no mean ability.

Anyway, a Buick is sure nice riding.

Boulder has undoubtedly the outstanding liberal of the decade. Booker T. Davis, a fearless lad from Kansas, takes great pride in his philosophy on the brotherhood of man.

Manhattan bids fair to becoming the art center o-f the nation. Franklin Raphael Peycke, long noted for his athletic prowess, has deserted the field to paint the delicate pastels of pink and blue. Not in a decade has America seen such art as falls from the brushes of the demure and softspoken Alta Vistan.

In closing let me thank Major Jon Suchor for his kind offer of hospitality. I accept in the same spirit that it was given.

As Geronimo Wright would say, "This is 30 for now."

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Acacians

the World OYer Art Valpey Appointed Head FootbaU Coach at Harvard Harvard University's traditional football fortunes are now under the direction of an Acacian: Art Valpey, Michigan '36. The 32-year-old for~er Michigan star, who has been servmg as end coach at his alma mater, was appointed to his new post in February and took over on March 1.

"While I naturally regret the severing of pleasant relations at Michig'l"l, I am looking forward to the Harvard job with considerable an:icipati~n," Valpey said shortly after his appomtment was announced. "I looked into the situation thoroughly, and the challenge it presents is one that I am anxious to tackle."

Art came to Michigan as an undergraduate after a brilliant scholastic career at Dayton, Ohio. After graduation he coached high school teams at Ida Manchester, and Midland, Michigar:, before joining the Wolverine staff in 1942.

Broth~r Valpey's family includes his wife, Margaret, eight-year-old Betsy, and four-year-old Bill.

Insurance Corporation, in charge of research on bank earnings and cox:sumer credit activities since 1937. This ¡ t e d by a . threeservice was mterrup year period of active duty With the United States Naval Reserve. From 1931 to 1937 he was on the faculty of the Northwestern University Scho?l of Commerce teaching cour~es m money and banking, corporati?n finance and principles of economics. In 1930-1931 he lectured at the Graduate School of Commerce at Mannheim, Germany, on economic and social conditions in the United States.

He is widely known among bankers and consumer lenders through his addresses before groups in those fields.

He is author of "Comparative Operating Experience of Consumer Instalment Financing Agencies and Commercial Banks, 1929-1941." This book was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1944 as a part of its series of books on consumer credit. He is co-author of "100 Short Problems in Corporation Finance," published by the Ronald_Press Company in 1937, and has contributed articles to The Harvard Business Review, Barron's, and several other publications.

He was graduated with highest distinction from Northwestern University (1929), and was als~ granted_ t_he degrees of Master of Busmess Admmistration (1930) and Doctor of Philosophy (1942) by that institution. In 193031 he spent a year studying in Europe on an American-German fellowship awarded by the Institute of International Education. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma honorary fraternities, and of the American Economic Association, the American Statistical Association, and the University Club of Evanston.

Ernst Dauer Heads New Household Finance Department Household Finance Corporation announces the appointment of Dr. Ernst A. Dauer, Northwestern '28, as Director of a new Department of Consumer Credit Studies. He will be in charge of research and editorial work and liaison with economists and institutions in the general field of consumer credit. He assumed his duties on February 1.

Dr. Dauer has been principal economist on the staff of the Federal Deposit

Dr. Dye Presents Collection of 800 Books to Penn State Library Dr. William S. Dye, Jr. , Penn State '09 former National President of Ac~cia and now professor emeritus of English literature at Penn State, recently presented a collection of 800 books from his library to the department of English literature.

Dr. Dye, who retired as head of the department in 1944, joined the faculty at the College in 1907 as an instructor in English. In 1919 he became professor of English language and literature, and in 1927 was named head of th_e department.

The professor's literary interests are reflected in collections of recent Irish drama and poetry, general poetry, drama of the 17th and 18th centuries, and Elizabethan drama. A special bookplate, designed by Dr. Dye for his collections depicts a frigate with the quotation, "Much have I travel'd in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen," from John Keats' "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer."

Walter Jones Goes to Brazil as Consultant Dr. Walter B. Jones, Carnegie '23, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, was granted a leave of absence for the year 1947-48 to work with the Ministry of Education of Brazil as educational consultant in vocational teacher education and vocational guidance. His headquarters are in Rio de Janeiro where he is working under the auspices of the Institute of InterAmerican affairs.

Well known throughout the United States in the fields which he represents, Dr. Jones has been a member of the faculties of Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Pittsburgh and has taught summer sessions and conducted educational surveys in many states. He has been national president of his vocational teacher education group and active in the National Vocational Guidance Association. He is at present President of the Vocational Guidance Association of Philadelphia and vicinity.

Law Library to Honor William L. Burdick

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The late D r. William L. Burdick, Kansas '04, former dean of the Kansas University Law School, is to be memorialized by a $35,000 addition to the Law School building. Forty Law

The Triad, Spring, 1948 School graduates met on November 22 and voted to raise a fund by contributions to build fire-proof book stacks as an addition to the present law library.

To administer funds received for the memorial a corporation has been formed which is known as the William L. Burdick Memorial Library. Among the incorporators is Justice Walter G. Thiele, Kansas '08. At the original meeting of the corporation more than $1100 was contributed to the fund.

The proposed Burdick Memorial was suggested because such a project would be permanent, it would reflect the life of D r . Burdick, be evident at all times, and be enjoyed by the maximum number of law students. It was also felt that the addition would have great utility in that it would place the valuable, irreplaceable law library out of danger from fire, insure its normal growth, and provide the law students with a fine reading room.

Professor Completes 2 7 Years on Penn State Faculty Dr. William E. Butt, Penn State '28, professor of economics, retired with the rank of professor emeritus on January 4, after more than 27 years on the faculty of Pennsylvania State College.

After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Butt received his doctorate of philosophy at Yale. In addition to his teaching, which was largely in the fields of statistics and insurance, he was active in the American Association of University Professors, serving as chapter president from 1941 to 1943. As a member of the President's Committee in 1931, Dr. Butt helped to plan the system of insurance and pensions adopted by the College.

John G . Schlichter, Carnegie '23, is chief draftsman in the industrial engineering department at Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. The Schlichter's have recently moved into a new home at 1458 Edgemoor Avenue, Akron, Ohio. They have a seven-year-old daughter.

Duncan W. Livingstone, Carnegie '25, was recently made assistant to the manager of the Steel Claims department of the Republic Steel Corporation. Mr. and Mrs. Livingstone reside at 12505 Edgewater Drive, Lakewood 7, Ohio.

John G. Wittmann, Carnegie, '26, has taken a position as Chief Engineer

69 with the McCloskey Company, manufacturers of the "Rigidsteel Building," in the Starr Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. He lives at 39 Highland Avenue, Etna, Pittsburgh 23, Pa. Labor relations are the major worry of Robert L. Burns, Kansas '38, who is executive assistant to the personnel director for Airlines National Terminal Service Company in New York. Bob's residence is: 42-26 217th Street, Bayside, Long Island, New York.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS Chicago The Chicago Alumni Association has continued to receive active interest and support, with from 30-35 alumni attending its dinner meetings on the third Tuesday of each month in the Electric Club of the Civic Opera Building. The group has turned to its own members for the programs and has found much hitherto hidden talent. At the January meeting, Everett Groves, California '20, described the "Publishing of a Modern Newspaper" from his experiences as an executive with the Chicago Daily News. The February meeting was shown a movie produced

by George Lamb, Nebraska, '09, on "Mahogany, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ."

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member of Penn State; James N. Shepard, Bob Deitz Anderson, Don Yates, and of course Wilho Williams, all of Washington State. Howard Clukey helped us a lot to get organized but had to leave Spokane on a job.

Howard is with the Atomic Energy Commission at Hanford, Washington.

William Lloyd Rowles of the Northwestern Chapter, now head of the Music Department of Eastern Washington College and the writer of many Acacia songs, is active in our group.

We draw Acacians from 50 miles around Spokane and hope to keep growing in every respect. We know that there are many new residents in and around Spokane who aren't listed in the directory whom we haven't contacted. Please contact me at 214 Paulsen Bldg., Spokane, Telephone: Main 4114.

The association has participated in several Washington State Chapter activities. We had three men at the 12th anniversary dinner of the Washington State Chapter on December 7, 1947, and sent five representatives down to the last initiation at Pullman.

We intend to get Dr. Marshall, one of the remaining national founders of Acacia who resides at Missoula, over to the Founders Day Banquet at Washington State in May. Our objective is to bolster Acacia in the State of Washington and the Pacific Northwest and specifically to give the Washington State Chapter the first organized alumni group in close proximity to the chapter. We hope to have cooperative get togethers with the Portland and Seattle alumni and to aid in the coordination of the rushing program between Washington and Washington State.

Here's to a greater Acacia!

WILLARD A. ZELLMER

On December 3, 1947, the first meeting of the Spokane Alumni Club of Acacia Fraternity was held at the Rockaway Cafe here in Spokane.

Wilho Williams, Washington State '43 and Illinois '47, and myself, WashingThe marriage of Thomas R. Fisher, ton State '42 and Washington '47, felt Missouri '35, to Virginia Dodson Ulrey that Spokane and the immediate area took place in the chapel of the Chapsurrounding it had been without an man Park Hotel, Los Angeles, Caliorganized Acacia group long enough. fornia, on Sunday, November 20, 1947.

There had never been a sufficient num- . An additional item of interest is that ber of men here before to merit an or- the bride is chief sketch artist for ganization. However, since the Wash- Irene, the designer at Metro Goldwyn ington State Chapter was installed in Mayer studios, and is originally from 1935 at Pullman there has been an Tom's old home town, Kansas City, increasing number of Acacians ac- Missouri, although he met her in the cumulate here in Spokane and the West while he was in the Marine surrounding Inland Empire.

Corps.

The newly elected officers are as Tom has recently passed the Califollows: President, George Elmer fornia bar examination and was adBrown, Harvard; Vice President, Guy mitted to the bar before the Supreme L. Rathbun, charter member of Indi- Court in San Francisco on December ana; Treasurer, George Cowan, J r., 1, 1947. He is now associated with N. E. Nebraska; Secretary, Willard A. Zell- Youngblood, Attorney at Law in Los mer, Washington State. Other men Angeles.

Tom and Virginia are living at 11621 who are very active are: Ralph Herbison, Washington; Dennis Pottratz, South Crenshaw Boulevard, IngleWashington; H. L. Beyer, charter wood, California.

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New Initiates Cincinnati Warren D . Ellis George W. Bowman Thomas E. Gregory George J . Brenner Thomas J. Henderson, Jr. Richard D. Miller RobertS. Rogers Robert N. Faught Donald E. Rice

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Colorado William Alexander, Denver, Colo.

Donald Becker Maurice Brull, Paris, France Edward Burruss, Denver, Colo.

Robert Finke, Scott's Bluff, Nebr.

Richard Hake, Swampscott, Mass.

Kenneth Hansen, Cleveland Heights, Ohio Robert Hinsey, Denver, Colo.

Edgar Hoffman, Denver, Colo.

Loy Holman, Boulder, Colo.

Richard Irwin, Kimberly, Idaho Glenn Lewis Kenneth Raasch, Madison, Mo. James Murray George Nicholls, Honolulu, T. H. Robert Purcell, Los Angeles, Calif.

Roger Recher, Cincinnati, Ohio Robert Smith, Del!ver, Colo.

Gene Tipton, Denver, Colo.

Lucian Voorhees, Twin Falls, Idaho Fordyce McCabe, Boulder, Colo.

Gene Shaw, Boulder, Colo.

Cornell George H . Bassett, Fremont, N. H. Joseph C. Curtis, Derry, N. H. Paul P . Curtis, Derry, N.H. Dale Freelove, Colonial Heights, N. H. Edward V. Gordon, Andover, Mass.

William D . Stalder, Calcium, N. Y. Robert E. Strong, Ithaca, N.Y. Richard H. Teel, Arlington, Mass.

Kansas State Gov. Frank Carlson, Topeka, Kans.

Arthur C. Andrews, Manhattan, Kans.

William H. Honstead, Manhattan, Kans.

Norman R. Byers, Manhattan, Kans.

Howard D. Akins, Abilene, Kans.

Wesley E. Holmes, Jr., Marion, Kans.

James R . Mussett, Jr., Fredonia, Kans.

Everett J . Waudby, Jr.

Minnesota Lloyd 0. Haskins, Duluth, Minn.

James E. Brooks, W. Duluth, Minn.

Ollie R. Eylar, S. Minneapolis, Minn.

Alvar 0 . Elbing, S . Minneapolis, Minn.

North western James D. Warner, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Richard S . Starn, Chinook, Montana

Robert L. Henning, Royal Oak, Mich.

Paul R. Groat, Seymour, Wis. Charles C. Lundstrom, Manistique, Mich.

Donald J . Novotny, Berwyn, Ill. Robert E. HanÂŁ, Forest Park, Ill. William H . Posegate, Springfield, Ill. James R. Watkins, Liberty, Ky. John W. Brewer, Jr. , Evanston, Ill. Herbert R. Husen, Evanston, Ill. Jack B . Hubbell, Evanston, Ill. Stuart W. Russell, Elgin, Ill. Benjamin F. Hill, Parkersburg, W.Va. Harold F. Klock, Winnetka, Ill. Ronald G. Scherer, Chicago, Ill. William H. Reed, Albuquerque, N. Mex. Marvin L. Haan, Chicago, Ill. Bernard H. Lundberg, Berwyn, Ill. Billy G. Colburn, Virginia, Ill. Ulys H. Yates, Geneva, Ill.

Oklahoma Thomas P. Stewart, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Donald A. Mehl, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Robert H. Peterson Phillip L. Shepherd, Wewoka, Okla.

James M. Shults Leroy F . Stewart, Okmulgee, Okla.

Howard B. McFarland, Jr. , Oklahoma City, Okla.

John W . Davis

Penn State David B . Hunter, Pine Grove Mills, Pa. Richard S. Lashley, Waynesboro, Pa. David E. Keller, Jr., Hazleton, Pa. Albert H. Keller, Hazleton, Pa. Norman K. Emerick, Shamokin, Pa. Frank M. Rupp, Florence, Ala. Richard C. Cesser, Altoona, Pa.

Purdue David Hoban, Danville, Indiana William Kolb, Cleveland, Ohio Marsh Hunter Smith, West Lafayette, Ind.

Wyoming Alfred F. Crocker, Jr. Seattle, Wash.

Jack H. Linge, Seattle, Wash.

Robert W. Rogerson, Centralia, Wash.

Russell H. Segersten, Richmond Highlands, Wash.

George J. Davidson, Salt Lake City, Utah John D. Scheyer, Puyallup, Wash.

Washington State Donald C. Yates, Spokane, Wash.

Einar H. Hendrickson Kenneth J. Clark, Roosevelt, Wash.

Max B. Petersen, Twin Falls, Idaho Russell D. Helgeson, Cashmere, Wash.

Everett A . Curtis, Kennewick, Wash.

Washington Richard W. Wilson, Santa Ana, Calif.

Richard W. Hughes, Laramie, Wyo. Harvey A. Carson, Jr. , Lander, Wyo. Albert M. Fishburn, Overbrook, Kans.

Melvin D. Johnson, Casper, Wyo.

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<Doings California Wins Homecoming Awards By graduation we have lost ex-V.D. Bob Grimshaw to the cruel "outside" and have been even more grieved by the receipt from the same of the following, whom I am forced at gun point to list as pledges: John Stumbos, Hugh Gordon, Larry Marvin, all Jr.'s, William Head, William Steinmetz, Robert Gwinn, Richard Dillen, Lee Pressler, Ralph Sarmento, and Mark Harris. May God have pity on their souls.

As the final test of loyalty during the informal initiation held February 14, 15, and 16, the pledge class was taken on its proverbial (ride, that is) and given approximately six hours to return some thirty odd miles to the hallowed halls of

California The Chapter's prize-winning decorations.

the chapter. Boyd Long, Tom Eliason, and Dick P eekema found themselves the disturbers of some who had long since departed from these terrestrial spheres (more than likely into the nether world).

Their bed was located in a cemetery some miles from Mt. Diablo, and after finding a road that looked as if it might be traveled they waited. Approximately three hours later, while two of them hid in the bushes, one was able to stop the second vehicle that had passed them. They arrived at 7:30 a.m., just in time to get a half hour's sleep, which was sufficient "rest" for them, before the formal initiation began. Bob Mallory and Laverne Kimball fared better as to sleeping. They arrived at 6: 20, after a trek from the Marin Hills, some thirty miles distant across the bay. This entailed crossing the

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world's two grandest and largest bridges without fare to pay the toll, but their shrewd minds and their undying loyalty brought them back. Congratulations are in order.

California chapter has been in mourning this last month over the loss of two members who were unfortunate enough to be under the ceiling in the living room when it decided to fall. However, we now feel their loss is more than made up by the installation of a new and more attractive ceiling.

On the intramural field our athletic superiority surged to the front on the football field, only to be eliminated in the semifinals because the student referees had trouble with their whistles. Our basketball slate finds us with one won and one lost, with hopes, while we are training our eyes, and selves included, on the spring diamond sport.

Also along the line of sports, last year the pledge team challenged the house to a game of football, which the actives managed to win in an overtime period by the help of their own referees. We suggest it to all the houses, in hopes that they will have as much fun as we had.

The climax of 1947's activities for the house was the semi-annual pledge formal, this time held at the Brazilian Room in Tilden ark. The orchestra played while dinner was served, and dancing then followed.

On February 20, the house held a rushing dance in . the__ chapter house. The theme of Beelzebub's Ball was accompanied by Dick Peekema wandering around in a costume vaguely resembling Satan. Fried prawns and French fries were served, as was coffee and a cake supposedly decorated with a large candy figure of the devil, but which was mistakenly decorated with a small gelatinous substance which in no way resembled Satan, and whose whole devilish effect was rather dissipated by a border of roses. The dance was a success as far as rushing was concerned, as well as providing entertainment for the house.

The climax of a glorious Homecoming, and incidentally, one of the most successful football seasons the Cal team has ever enjoyed, was not the customary beating administered to Stanford (such a word should be finable), but the awarding by the Homecoming committee to the house of a trophy for first prize in house decorations, and the award of third prize for the float in the Homecoming parade.

The chapter has chosen Carl Moore as V.D. for this semester. This industrious personnage spends all hours of the night studying, and all day long sleeping. Does he ever attend classes? Who knows ? We never see him! The other officers are Jim Campbell, Senior Dean, a hard driving individual who will make something of the present pledge class, a mean task for anyone, Reece Clark, Jr., who manages to take care of his social duties betwixt

time spent in playing western "music" on his guitar, and "Pope" (in charge of house jobs) Bob Frye, who can scare anyone to work by merely making a face.

Being gentlemen, we refrain from the vernacular, but only wish to remind the chapter at Washington State that we have sent a delegation which has returned successfully with our Bear, and with numerous trophies in addition. Their prodigious tears have cause an abnormal supply of water ;n that state, we understand. And while speaking of other chapters, we wish to send greetings and congratulations to Oregon State chapter, and a warning, not only to them, because our championship basketball squad will probably meet them in the playoffs, but also to the other chapters to beware!

Alas! Alack! We've had it! The chapter lost Dick Hirschfeld to the ranks of those who foolishly think that two can live as cheaply as one. Also going down by the same route are Bill McCutchan and Ted Martinson.

John Wahlgreen, of Iowa State, has changed status from that of a visitor to an associate member. We're all glad to have him.

LAVERNE KIMBALL, JR.

California At the Pledge Formal: (Top) T he Pl edges. Front: Mallory, Peckema, Marvin, Gordon; Back: ELiason, Stumbos, Long, Kimball.

(Middle) Riegal, Hyerle, Clark, and Gordon with their CaLifornia beauttes. . (Bottom) Kimball and Jensen, with V.D. Grimshaw, and three anonymous sweethearts.

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Cincinnati Pledges Redecorate .

The biggest event in the activities of the Cincinnati Chapter since the last issue has been the initiation of our pledge class, with all the many details which this involves. All during January the pledges were poring diligently over our new pledge manuals which they had helped to mimeograph. With our able pledgemaster, Frank Sonnenberg, "cracking the whip" over them, they somehow felt an almost irresistable desire to learn everything in the book. As Hell Week approached, one could easily feel the tension increasing on the pledges. Some of our notable "hardnoses" started tightening down and handing out demerits even before the week started. In this way, the pledges were completely subjugated by the time Hell Week started.

Hell Week itself got off to an early start because of the very large project which we had chosen for this time. It was necessary to wash down the walls in the hallway on both the first and second floor, and to wash all the walls in the living room and dining room. The woodwork and windows were included in this, too.

After all this was done, we were just ready to start our real project: to paint the ceiling, walls and woodwork in all of this space except the hallways, whose walls were papered the following week. Previously, the big problem in any painting job around the house has been to get some agreement on a satisfactory color combination. This was easily solved when Dick Brown called in his uncle, who was formerly an interior decorator by trade.

He not only chose the colors for us, but also mixed the paints to make sure that was done right, too. The walls are painted dusty rose, while the woodwork and ceilings are light grey. When the work lagged a little on Friday night, it was found necessary to have men working on threehour shifts all through the night. In this manner, we had a very good-looking house by noon the next day. A smaller project started during Hell Week has since been completed. This was the construction of shelves in the storeroom in order to keep our growing stock of groceries in order. Everything is now very neatly arranged, which will greatly facilitate the taking of the inventory each month and also the cook's daily procurements for meals.

The pledges tried to retaliate once or twice during the week, but they naturally ended up the worse for their efforts.

After all the silverware and most of the gas burners had disappeared, the actives gloated over the peach pie they were eating with their borrowed forks while the pledges did the best thy could with a heaping plate of juicy spaghetti, keeping their hands under the table. These two dishes constituted the whole meal for each group ; at the house, that is. All of the actives went up to the corner restaurant earlier and had a good meal without dessert. Soon after this event all the missing articles were returned.

Friday night the pledges each had their individual question session to show them how little they really knew. This greatly improved the grades they made on their national quiz the next afternoon. Saturday night a short fun session was held with a few of our traditional games, after which the chapter hall was cleaned up for the next day's initiation and everyone descended on one of the local hangout for an evening of revelry. After all this, the candidates were in excellent shape for the first section of their initiation, which was under way by eight o'clock the next morning. Those who were finally invited to take their seats among the brethren on February 17 were: George Bowman, George Brenner, Warren Ellis, Robert Faught, Thomas Gregory, Thomas Henderson, Richard Miller, Donald Rice, and Robert Rogers. Congratulations to these new initiates.

We have always been very proud of our location on a large corner lot near the University. However, this winter the pledges found great reason to dislike our site. With 225 feet of frontage, shoveling the snow off the sidewalks is not a mere five-minute job by any means. There was much groaning among the pledges, but we had one of the cleanest sidewalks in the neighborhood.

It seems that Dan Cupid is always busy around here. Just since the last issue Charley Hahn has become engaged to Kay Bingaman from his home town of Dayton, Ohio. Besides this, our Venerable Dean, Paul Weidner recently announced that his marriage to Jean Wolnitzek, Alpha Delta Pi, would take place on June 5, the day after Paul's graduation from UC . Walter Nolte was so overcome by the spirit of St. Valentine's Day that he gave an engagement ring to Gerry Freeman.

Our return after the Christmas vacation found us without a social chairman, because of William Britton's mid-year graduation on December 20. The lucky man who succeeded him was James Barnes, "the pride of Middletown, Ohio."

The basketball team, still doing double duty by playing in the IM league as well as in an industrial league, has lost only two in the former so far. This gives us a good chance to be in the play-offs at the end of the season. The team also ranks well in the industrial league. The bowling team has rolled four sets so far, and won two of them. We seem to have had the misfortune of coming up against the best teams first in this sport, and hence hope for a better record in the future. The softball season is coming up shortly, and already some of the boys have been warming up for it. Two of the pledges show ability as pitchers, and there seems to be plenty of good supporting talent available in the group. Acacia should be able to give some real competition on campus this year with these prospects.

Elmer Mook and his wife Yvonne are now residing in Huntington, West Virginia. Their address is in care of the Island Creek Coal Company, Guaranty Bank Building.

A number of chapter men, including Frank Sonnenberg, George Kirch, Richard Brown , Bob Waterfield, and the

advisor, Marion Huber, visited the Trowel Fraternity at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, on February 15. After a dinner at the hotel with Trowel Fraternity officers, the group returned to the chapter house and discussed fraternity problems at Ohio University until late in the afternoon. The Trowel Fraternity men made a good impression on everyone. They are largely Master Masons, and almost all had seen previous military service. This group is most fortunate in having Dean Taylor of the Engineering College as its advisor. Several faculty men were also present at our afternoon discussion. The group returned to Cincinnati safely even though that same morning Huber had received a speeding citation before leaving Cincinnati. In court, this cost him exactly nine dollars and everyone had a big laugh at his expense. Charles Jarrett returned to Cincinnati with the group to make an overnight visit before going further west.

Alumni News ••• Dr. H. C. Nan Wye acted as host for a number of Cincinnati Acacians at his home an evening in January.

The past president of the Cincinnati Alumni Association, Ferdinand H . Hodde, had all members of the Alumni Association meet at his home at their regular meeting in January. Ferd has a beautiful, newly decorated game room where he entertained in his usual most hospitable manner. The regular business of the evening concerned the arrangements for the Founders Day dinner on May 2, 1948.

President Edward Hodges appointed the usual committees to act in the arrangements. The question of honorary member fer our local chapter was discussed. Several names were suggested, but no action was taken to recommend a specific name to the active chapter. Jack Lissenden was asked to report on this subject at the next meeting. The meeting adjourned much later than usual.

President Esnest Hahne of Miami University has accepted the invitation to be guest speaker for the Founders Day Banquet to be held at 1: 00 p . m. on May 2 at the Hotel Alms. We hope to have more present than last year when the attendance was one hundred. Please reserve the r.ight for this event.

The new national Acacia directory is about to be published. Please let our Cincinnati Chapter know if any of its alumni have recently moved. Also write our national headquarters on this.

Marion Huber, national treasurer, was asked to speak at an "All Greek Week" panel discussion in the campus auditorium when these activities were prominent recently.

On attending the National Council meeting January 24-25 at Manhattan, Kansas, Marion Huber told of the fine reception given him by the members of the Kansas chapter. Three of them braved a blizzard to meet him on the 11:27 p.m. Union Pacific train, which was more than an hour late. This type of hospitality and greeting was more than expected, but surely will ever be remembered. The Kansas boys form a wholesome integrated chapter of

The Triad, Spring, 1948 some of the best boys America has. The only regret was that National Council members were so busy with regular business that little time could be given for just visiting.

J. Ritchie is located in St. Louis now and is owner of a photography and photoaccessories business. He and Mrs. Ritchie are glad to welcome Acacians who visit St. Louis. Ritchie hopes to be able to help organize a St. Louis Alumni Association quite soon.

George Kirch, while still in high school in New York, won a valuable Metropolitan Opera talent scholarship in music. He is now studying voice with Louis John Johnen of Cincinnati.

Acacians mourn the death of Edwin Price's father at Sarasota, Florida. Mr. Price had been a frequent guest of the chapter, and the men had learned to love him for his friendly manner.

Attendance at the regular Tuesday noon luncheon meetings of the Alumni Association in the Hotel Gibson Florentine Room has been unusually good recently. We are quite proud of this fraternal spirit of friendship and loyalty.

Our chapter advisor has recently visited with neighbors of the chapter house, and was pleased to say that they all commended him on having such fine young men in their neighborhood. Acts of kindness were mentioned, namely, quiet evenings for the neighbors, cleaning the snow from the sidewalks, and aid with starting cars in cold weather.

ROBERT WATERFIELD MARION HUBER

Colorado Presents Novel Serenade â&#x20AC;˘ . .

The blinding flash sometimes seen around our neighborhood is alleged by some to be Haley's commet, by others to be Acacians madly rushing to the library, aware that finals are drawing near and that previous preparation is not exactly what it should be. There is a movement afoot to peer into the entrails of sheep in the hope that the ancients had something and that the future might be seen there.

As a last despairing measure, some individuals have been known, upon entering class, to bow three times to the East. All these things, last Winter quarter, put Colorado Acacia third on the fraternity scholarship list.

Appalling thing happened to the brothers the other day. Huge guy with his hair more than somewhat shorn came in, beat everyone on the back in fraternal fashion, beamed from ear to ear, asked where his sack was. Said he was Croyle, then assumed a sterner demeanor and proceeded to help us put our house in order. These periodic visits have the virtue of keeping us on our toes and making us feel that we really are a part of a large organization.

Our big social event since the last issue was the¡ annual Acacia Nut Party-a gay affair, as usual. The house was tastefully decorated with shredded crepe paper and old neckties hung from the ceilings. The

73 costumes, of course, gave everyone free expression of their inner selves--except for one poor lad who, dressed formally from the waist up and in some rather shabby long-johns from there down, was, upon the heated request of his lady, forced to hide his shame with an old burlap bag. No spirit of adventure among the younger generation these days.

Guy named Alexander, taking care of our singing duties, has some quite interesting news to disseminate among the chapters. Seems as though he thought that the usual serenades were no more than adequat~, racked his brains for some ideas to improve same. Came up with quite a tricky set of manipulations. The assembled brothers, crooning low and drooling slightly, at a signal, light up a number of flashlights in the familiar form of our triangle during the singing of our sweetheart song. When the ladies retaliate, and often it is just that, the lads come up with one of the Greek characters of the sorority. That and some sentimental poetry and a solo with growling accompaniment have worked wonders for us.

Too much, perhaps, in view of the fact that we now have three pins at the Alphi Phi house and several other gentlemen spending much time there talking about Life. Any chapter wishing more information on these sorts of things is urged to write. Or how about some ideas of your own?

Then there is the story of the Kandahar Ski club. Seems that a couple of the brothers, who shall be nameless, went down to New Mexico for the Open and Intercollegiate Ski races at La Madera sponsored by the Albuquerque Ski club.

They were there in an unofficial capacity but the sight of so many people dashing about on skis in competition cloyed and so was born the Kandahar Ski club. Our two lads combined with one from the University of New Mexico and a graduate student from CU, registered, and took second in the Open division. The Kandahar club is, according to the story, in Texas just a little north of Dallas. After the big victory, the usual celebration was held and one of the boys, in an expansive moment, invited all within hearing to come up to Kandahar next winter, on the BIG hill, for a meet. A small blond, polite but wondering, asked if there was much snow there north of Dallas. Lad said, "No, but we take awful good care of what tl-.ere is." Somewhere in southern Afghanistan there is a town named Kandahar; fervent hopes arise from the gentlemen concerned that Texas, though it may have many things, has no city known as Kandahar.

We approach being a unit of Big Men on the Campus, having a man on the student governing body in an important position and another the manager of the CU baseball team-Eaton and Le Marr, respectively. Besides that, we entered a candidate in the Associated Women Students vaudeville-alleged, by those who have seen the sight, to have been interesting, if nothing else. Clad in a clinging blue swimming suit, he was supposed to be propelled across the stage by Karloo, the mascot. In theory, the idea was sound but things do come up, you know. First of

all, some unusually hirsute legs added some unexpected character to the illusion; then Karloo kept getting interested in some other assembled canines, saw no reason to interrupt his social activities upon the mere urging of frantic brothers.

Karloo also seemed to have an unusual distaste for the microphone, did what he could to destroy it. Our intramural basketball team had spirit, sore feet and an unfortunately unsuccessful season.

And so ends this story of the strange, haggard, frustrated individuals who comprise the Colorado Acacians. Anyone interested in making a sociological study of same will be welcomed.

JoN SucHER

Cornell Celebrates Junior Week "Wassail! " "It's delicious, I'll have another."

Such comments were heard at our Christmas Party as Roy Halladay and Peggy Brown ladled out glass after glass of the holiday drink prepared by our steward, Bob Carros. 'Twas a festive occasion, and all through the house pledges, alumni, and actives were (having a good time) .

To get more prosaic-the pledges put on an "amusing" skit involving the private lives of certain actives, better left unnamed. They punctuated their dramatic efforts by playing Santa Claus to the assembled maidens with inappropriate gifts. Except when the jibes hit close to home, everyone had a good time.

Two days later vacation came. 'Nuff said.

Too soon after the end of vacation we were beset by - - - . When they were over we all took a deep breath and plunged feverishly into various pursuits.

Some went home (Bergren?) ; to some, home came (Hatch!); the rest remained for House Party. All operated on the principle that home is where the heart is.

Junior Week was planned, as usual, with an appalling number of outdoor events (sleigh rides, tobogganing, tray race, ice skating, etc.) of which, along with the Glee Club Concert, Junior Week Follies, and Junior Prom, one could make a favorable report to one's mother. With all this activity there still remained times when we had to devise our own amusements. For further details contact June Ferguson who did an excellent job of amusing Sandy Hatch. We wish to extend our thanks to Steve and Ellen Hawley and H . B. and Nancy Crowgey who did an effective job of chaperoning. The party was the last social event at Cornell for H . B. and AI Woodford who graduated last term.

During the first week of the new term we entertained the local Masons at a smoker. Cliff Reed gave an enlightening historical outline of the origins of Acacia, particularly the Cornell Chapter. The pledge class was given another chance at producing a skit which was an improvement over the effort presented at the Christmas Party.

Before they knew it, the pledges were in the throes of He- Week. For six days

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they wandered dazedly about the house fully equipped with paddles, cigarettes, matches (chewing gum, for those who don't smoke), and solemn faces. On the seventh day they did not rest.

Following a hearty dinner at which Doc Bradley and Prof. Strong were guests, the pledges surpassed all their previous efforts with an amazing, amusing, and masterful skit. "Pledgies' Pufties, Pledgies' Pufties, made from activated corn. Look for the triangular package."

After a long and tortuous voyage, the pledges emerged from the Masonic Temple bearing proudly aloft their bejeweled pins. The Cornell Chapter's active enrollment had increased by eight: George Bassett, Joseph and Paul Curtis, Dale Freelove, Edward Gordon, William Stadler, Robert Strong, and Richard Tee!.

The occasion was topped off by a banquet at the Ithaca HoteL While the inevitable cigars were being pursued to their bitter ends, Bob Carros toastmastered. Those called upon to speak were Prof. Strong, as father of one of the initiates, Doc Bradley, Prof. Heuser, and Bob Bergren, our V.D .

A respite of a week separated the initiation from the Initiation Formal. Five dozen people danced to the music of Gar Myer's orchestra. One of the distinctive aspects of this affair was the corsages which were black and gold ( yellow roses with black ribbon) adorned with acacia.

Now we have reached Now. See you next issue.

BILL BuNYAN

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Franklin Installs Television . . .

Franklin Chapter has been the scene of extensive repairs and improvements in the past few months. The blocked entrance between two rooms on the third floor was opened, the wall paper from the two rooms removed, and the one room given a finish with celestial-blue paint.

The other room now has a celestial-blue ceiling and light green walls. The inhabitants of the two rooms, Donald Neff, Dick Runkle, and Jim Witte pooled their resources and purchased some new slip covers for the furniture which has greatly added to the appearance of the rooms.

Applying the same technique to one of the front rooms on the second floor, Rodney Fahs and Dick Hartman have painted the ceiling of their room a light blue and have finished the walls with a rose color. Not to be outdone by their enterprising brothers on the third floor, they too have purchased a slip cover for their sofa. They are waiting for their ships to come in before purchasing any more slip covers.

Our Venerable Dean, Bob Curry, and his roommate, Mike Keefe, have refinished the desks in their room with a covering of simulated leather. The desks look mighty good, so if any of you fellows have desks that are somewhat worn, you might try the same thing.

Culminating the worry and work of three months was the arrival last week

Miller, Jr., M. M. Marian, and Edward Cornish. Those initiated were Alden Butler, Joseph Culbertson, Richard Hartman, Richard Runkle, and Jack Ingle.

In the way of a new addition to the house we have Jim McClure who as yet is still a pledge. Lately we have had to keep a sentry posted at the front entrance to keep out those co-eds who have learned that Jim sings better than "Frankie." Jim is a member of three University singing societies, as well as a member of several church choirs.

Another new feature of the house is that we now have a rogue's gallery. We didn't think it proper to mention it when writing about house improvements! A professional caricature painter found his way into the house a few weks ago and found an easy touch in fifteen of the more wealthy members who could spare a buck apiece to have their likenesses put down on paper. It has been suggested that to test the nerve of any potential new members we should require them to spend fifteen minutes alone in a dimly lit room with the forbidding faces of these members staring at them from the walls.

Any of you fearless souls who might venture our way are invited to come and see the"s e pictures for yourselves. There is no admission charge.

Coming to the more personal side of our report we find that three of our members expect to graduate this spring. They are Ed Battin, Henry Kipp, and George Nickel. Ed has recently been accepted for entrance into a theological school this spring. Another member, Gordon Tobias, expects to enter medical school soon.

Remember the recent scare in the stock markets? One of our new members, Alden Butler, worked himself into such a fever over it that he slept several nights with only ten blankets on his bed instead of the usual twenty-two. At first we thought it was a sure sign that spring was here, but the sudden change in the weather within the past few days seems to rule that theory out.

Kenneth (Poopy) Nickel recently had a great scare because he has been unwilling to invest in a pipe of his own.

Chad Shumard bigheartedly offered to let Poopy use one of his pipes any time he chose to do so. Poopy, being an opportunist, contentedly puffed on Chad's pipe for an entire week-end. Monday morning found Chad down at the student health center and it was reported that he had the mumps. The last time we saw Poopy he was still gargling his throat with an assortment of antiseptic lotions, even though it turned out that Chad was not suffering from anything worse than the sniffles.

Finally as a closing gesture, we must say a few words about Leroy Neff. To those of you who may not be familiar with Leroy, he was a navigator in the Air Forces during the war. He wants to Cornell reassure all of you, wherever you may (Top) B ergren, V.D., and Gibscm., S.D . be, and in spite of what you may have (Middle) The brother act: Bob Whitman, Pau! Curtis, Rex Whitman, Joe Curtis, Hal and heard to the contrary, that the Air Corps Bob Mack, D ick and J im Showacre . won the war. For the sake of disbelievers, ( Bottom) Putting em. the feed-bag: frontBill G ibscm., Bill B unyan, Jack Carpenter ; midhe gives a speech about two nights a dle row-Fred Brehob, Bucky Lauber, R01J week explaining his contention.

Halliday ; rear-Emerscm. Habbard, D ick ShowRICHARD G. HARTMAN acre, A! Woodford.

of an RCA television set. The major part of the money for the purchase of the machine came from the proceeds from the sale of magazines for the Curtis Publishing Co. It is hoped that the television set will keep those members who are inclined to worry about the goings-on in the outside world.

Five new members were initiated into the Fraternity February 7. A dinner in honor of the occasion was held immedately before the final initiation ceremony. Brothers Joseph Wilson and George Nitzsche were the principal speakers for the occasion. Brother Wilson gave us a very fine talk on the benefits of high scholarship. Other alumni members who were present were William R. Hockenberry, Wilbert Cornell, John Palmer, George Eichner, Carl P. Frank, Norval S.

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George Washington Banquet for New Initiates . . .

Final exams have just been finished, and we are now well into the winter semester. On the 1st of February the following four new actives were added to our rolls: George Aldridge, Walter Fackler, Wilbur Van Nest, and Douglas Rideout. A very fine banquet was given by the old actives to the new initiates. The dinner was given at the house and was under the direction of Homer, the cook.

The new pledge class will be built around Paul Oscanyon, Micheal, Lome, and Ulrick Rinard. The new semester is so new that a full class has not been filled.

On March 1 elections were held for the new year. The new officers are as follows: Gary Arkoian, V.D.; Bud Fackler, S .D.; Dick Wilkinson, J.D.; Lester Leslie, Secretary-Treasurer; Wilbur Van Nest, House Manager; Bill Powell, Interfraternity Council Representative, and Gene Aldridge, TRIAD Correspondent.

On the 19th of February the first event of the winter social program was a buffet supper followed by a basketball game and dance. We lost the game, but that did not cause us to have a bad time. The whole affair was watched over by our chapter adviser, Stanley Petersen, and his wife. The rest of the social program for the semester calls for the big Interfraternity 'Council Dance to be held on April 23, at the Shoreham Hotel, with Gene Krupa's All Star Band furnishing the music. The big Acacia Spring Formal will take place May 1 at the house, and on May 12 the Founders Day Banquet will be held.

The chapter was visited on the 22nd of February by Brother Baynes, Purdue '22.

The basement has been finished by the local alumni. It has been made into a game room, a coke machine has been added, and several posters give it some real atmosphere.

The first of February was the day that Bryan McFall took the fatal step with Lois Sears. They were married at the Fort Lincoln Chapel.

We welcome all who come to Washington to pay us a visit at 1812 Nineteenth Sereet, N.W. EuGENE T . ALDRIDGE, JR.

Illinois Initiates Nineteen . . .

The annual spring "monsoon" seems to have begun in earnest as the Illinois Chapter begins its struggle to conquer the second semester. Several of the boys have found skipping classes to be the best cold preventive; the rest have diligently attempted to uphold their motto: "Come rain or snow, education must continue."

At least the rains have brought warm weather; the procession to the dorm no longer looks like an arctic expedition.

Despite the attempts of Jupiter Pluvius to dampen our spirits, the chapter h as participated in quite a few activities.

Illinois Ed Mi!le1¡ (standing) tells the latest one to Shelton Downey and Frank Alexander as the boys relax after dinner.

The installation of house officers was held February 22. The new officers are: Chuck Yale, Venerable Dean ; Lynn Wolaver, Senior Dean; Fred Hartman, Junior Dean ; Bill Tonkin, secretary; Les Sheets, treasurer ; Ralph Gould, pledgemaster ; and George Frandsen, house manager.

About this time of year, a sadistic gleam appears in the eyes of each and every active, replacing the perpetual "fatherly look." You're right. "Hell week" began on March 8. The recipients of their fiendish glances were, of course, the pledges.

There were nineteen pledges eligible for initiation: David Beckenholdt, George Brinkerhoff, Clinton Cannon, Richard Cook, Philip Dolbow, Richard Dominetta, Alan Hallene, Fred Ingram, Austin Jones, Kenneth Pearson, Ronald Preston, Charles Russell, Richard Spring, Jack Thornburfi, Klaus Timmerhaus, William Voegeli, Thomas Jackson, James Farr, and Robert Fellows.

One of our outstanding pledges, Dick Cook, was rewarded for his fine work in the Illini Union activities by being selected as a candidate for the Freshman Class presidency. Despite Dick's fine record and able leadership, some of the "diehard" voters failed to recognize his superior ability, and he was defeated by a small margin.

In the field of sports, Acacia is represented by several men. Now that the track season is under way, Bill Buster has proved to be a consistent winner in the dashes and a mainstay on the relay team. Klaus Timmerhaus, who had his track activities hampered this year by the injuries he sustained in an automobile accident is once more working out with the tea~ and hopes to resume competition in the mile in the very near future. Don Bengard has been prominent w~th t.he fencing team, annex~ng several vlCtor~es in the epee class. Jrm Moore and Clmt Cannon will be our representatives in baseball. Clint is working out with the freshman squad, while Jim is doing the same with the varsity.

Spring social functions will be resumed with a feud dance with our traditional rivals, the boys from Alpha Kappa Lambda. These characters have attempted to make us feel more at home in their establishment come March 20 by "acquiring" some of our trophies and placing them in their trophy room. The alums may rest assured that the honor of the Illinois Chapter shall be defended. Even now the

"high command," under the able leadership of H. T. "Ike" Moore, is plotting vengeance.

Several other important social events will occur during this semester. This year's Spring Carnival will find us working in conjunction with the Alpha Delta Pi's. Although there has been some doubt on the part of the informed as to just what is accomplished at the joint committee meetings, we nevertheless are endeavoring to make Acacia's booth at the carnival one of the most attractive and interesting.

The end of the semester saw three of our active members leaving the old homestead at 501 E. Daniel. Wedding bells sounded for Dick Fulrath, who married Miss Marilyn Murray and also for another brother, Dave Andrews, who married Miss Shirley Bennett. A third graduate was Bill Weibmer, who is now working in Milwaukee.

A new active was added to the chapter's complement this semester. Art Hoelck has transferred from Northwestern to the halls of "dear old Illini." It seems that the other chapters are having a difficult time equalling the attractions at Champaign.

Another outstanding addition, and surely not the least intelligent member of our fraternity, is Pepper. Pepper, our new mascot, is a purebred cocker spaniel; you'll probably be hearing a lot more about Pepper in later issues.

I'd like to remind any and all alumni that they are cordially invited to stop in and become acquainted with the new active chapter.

CHARLES RussELL

Indiana Receives $500 Gift . â&#x20AC;˘ .

Another semester is gone, and a new one is nearly completed. This gives us an excellent opportunity to sum up our grades to see how much we have accomplished this year. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, the house grade average has not been calculated ; but we know that the results will not be world-shaking. Several pledges failed to make the required grades for initiation, which was as disappointing to us as to them. Seventeen, however, were eligible for initiation scheduled for March 12: Charles Anderson, Phil Buck, Gerald Eckhart, Richard Edwards, William Greer, Samuel Gregory, Joseph Hamilton, John Held, James. Huffer, Thomas Lemster, Robert McKinnis, James Mahoney, Earl Sheets, Joseph Taylor, Joseph Thomas, Thomas Kohlmeier, Richard Fulwider.

There are seven more recently pledged men who will help make up the second semester pledge class: Robert Rusher, Carl York, William Monteith, William Snider, Gerald Howard, Lauren Atz, and Donald Rhamy.

The Winter Collonade was Saturday, March 21. Med Flory, a popular campus band, furnished the music, and the decorations were dreamed up by Bob Cottingham and Mark Rudolph. The house suggested an outdoor Colonial scene with trees covered with Spanish moss, and a

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76 backdrop of the Acacia house in the distance. Before the dance, most of the fellows took their dates to the Nashville House for dinner. They returned to find the dance floor packed. When the doors were opened to the rest of the campus after 11: 30 p.m., there was hardly room to move. It was crowded-but sometimes it's nicer that way.

State Day was March 7 at the Marott Hotel in Indianapolis where the Indiana, Purdue, and Illinois chapters were represented. A banquet and guest speaker comprised the organized program, but many of the boys took dates and found more diverse entertainment after it was over.

Arrangements had been made for the gals to dine together elsewhere in the Marott.

It has been decided by a committee of alumni and actives that the $500 given by our alums as a Christmas gift to the house will be used to finish paneling the dining room in knotty pine. This improvement will give Acacia one of the most attractive dining rooms on campus. The work will probably be completed during the coming vacation.

New house officers will be elected in March and it will be necessary to send out a newsletter giving the results of the election. Accompanying the change of officers will be a complete turnover due to the graduation of twenty-six seniors this semester. Without doubt, this is one of the largest groups of men to graduate at one time that this house has ever had, and consequently one of the largest pledge classes will come in to take their places.

Plans are under way for the organization of an Indiana Alumni Chapter. Jack Fox, a Bloomington alum, is serving as temporary chairman until a general meeting is held on Founders Day. All Indiana alumni will be contacted concerning the meeting and a more detailed explanation of the program may be found in the March Wreckage.

R. W. EWER

Iowa State Many B.M.O.C.'s . . .

Here at Iowa State we are all looking forward to spring and all its promises of good times. The fact that we are a little more anxious than usual this year is most likely due to the fact that we were spoiled by a few days of beautiful spring weather in the middle of February.

Since our last report, we have added three more good men to our numbers.

These recent pledges are : George Feebler, Fairfield, Iowa; Frederick Strohbehn, Reinbeck, Iowa, and Winton Weber, Donnellson, Iowa.

Some of the men have been working around the house, and the result is quite a few improvements. The major project this quarter has been the re-painting of a number of the study rooms, and the ones that are finished really look nice. There's a lot of truth in the old saying that a little paint will cover multitudes of sin.

Our social calendar has been one of continuous activity from the word "go."

To start the quarter off with a bang, we

held our Nut Party on January 23. Traditionally true to form, everything followed a crazy pattern, and those who came expecting something a little out of the ordinary weren't disappointed. Those who might have come with a little foreboding of a dull time, soon had this illusion removed. Since the party was a costume affair, many novel ideas were displayed in the array of costumes. The prize-winning costumes for the evening were those of Don Biegler and Barb Conley, alias Big Chief Sitting Bull and his squaw.

Gordon Johnson and Nadine Heggen came garbed in suit and dress of newspapers while Milt Grobeck and Anne Barry risked pneumonia to don 1920 style bathing suits. Everyone rolled into his sack when the evening's fun was over with a chuckle in his nightcap and a bud of anxiety for next year's party.

Taking the spotlight in the social events thus far in the year, our annual Sweetheart Party was given on Valentine's Day. It was one of our most successful functions to date, and a grand time was enjoyed by all present. At least one hundred persons were present when the party was in full swing. We were honored by the presence of some of our alums and their wives. Practically one hundred per cent of the actives and pledges were present with their dates, and things were really lively around here that night. Some of the fellows attended a formal dance first and then brought their dates over to the party at the intermission. With the dance floor crowded as it was anyway, things were further complicated when it became an additional responsibility to steer clear of the formal gowns. But, being in a party mood anyway that night, we didn't mind and enjoyed the evening that much more.

Rounding out the rest of our social calendar this quarter have been dance exchanges, dinner exchanges, dessert exchanges, and a fireside . It's apparent that we haven't remained dormant in the social whirl, although it does pose its problems at times. This is particularly evident here at Iowa State now with the four-to -one ratio of men to women. It's a sad situation indeed when you call up for a date three or four weeks in advance and learn that the young lady is all dated up for the rest of the quarter.

Oh well, such is life.

In addition to keeping up socially and scholastically, many of our brothers here at Iowa State are finding time to engage in extracurricular activities. Bob Denney, our former V.D., served as chairman of the Fraternity Convocations during Religion-in-Life Week. John Peterson has been named general chairman of the 1948 Veishea Parade which is the biggest allcollege event of the year at Iowa State.

Also heading committees for the Veishea Parade are: John Tschantz in the engineering division, Charlie Dingle in the fraternity division, and Gordon Johnson in charge of publicity. In the Winter Carnival held recently, Gordon Johnson headed publicity, and Darwin Hook was chairman of the ticket sales.

Everyone is really hitting the books around here this quarter. Mid-term grades came out last week, and they

threw a few scares into some of the fellows in the house because they're studying like mad now. The time seems to be flying by, and the first thing we know, the final exams will be rearing their ugly heads and throwing a monkey-wrench into everything in general.

Our house teams have been pretty busy so far this quarter. At the present time we have teams entered in swimming and ping pong. Warren Oblinger, who won the house championship during a recent tournament, is still in there slamming them across the net. Our basketball team started out like a whirlwind but ran into a little trouble and lost a close one which automatically dropped them from the ¡cournament.

A few weeks ago our bowling team knocked pins in all directions to beat Sigma Phi Epsilon in the finals. This won us a championship and another trophy for the mantle. Members composing the team were Tony Riepma, Don Biegler, Dean Lee, John Tschantz, and Fred Saemisch. The next trophy we're really aimed for is the one for intramural softball this spring.

A lot of planning is under way around here for some of the forthcoming events of net quarter. Quite a few ideas have been given for our Veishea float, and we're hoping for another winner this year.

With Jim Petersen and El Kohlman in charge of this, we think our chances are pretty good. Another of our major concerns at the present time is preparation for our Spring Formal which is to be held on the 7th of April. Charlie Dingle, our social chairman, has a good share of the planning completed already and has already engaged a band for the dance.

If everything measures up to our expectations, this should be the best one yet.

The Interfraternity Council passed a ruling that there will be no more senior rides so some of our plans for the spring quarter fell through. Since Bob Denney was Venerable Dean at the time and because of the fact that he's graduating this spring, he had a difficult time convincing the chapter that this was really the truth.

Finally he had to take another man to the meeting with him as a witness to verify his statements.

At a recent election the following men were elected as our new officers: Richard G. Wilson, Venerable Dean; Dean I. Lee, Senior Dean; Charles H. Dingle,¡ Junior Dean; Gordon L. Reeves, Secretary; Anthony W. Riepma, Treasurer; Thomas J . Brown, Senior Steward; Edwin R. Barnes, Junior Steward; Donald J. Biegler, Editor ; John C. Pyles, Librarian; John R. Fulkerson, Intramural Manager; and Milton K. Grobeck, Sentinel.

The pledge class also held an election of officers and the following men were elected: Darwin Hook, President; John Grubb, Secretary; and Jim Haselton, Treasurer.

Not long ago the actives lost a basketball game to the pledges, and in fulfillment of an agreement made beforehand, they had to serve dinner to the pledges one night. Of course, we tried to give them a special treat, but they were too suspicious of everything in general, so it was pretty hard to fool them. Having a few

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chemists among the actives was to our advantage, however, and we did manage to pull off a few good ones on them. As special entertainment, each active performed a "take-off" on some characteristic of one of the pledges. This turned out to be more amusing for the actives than it was for the pledges. Maybe the next time they'll be the lucky ones and lose the game.

In closing, the Iowa State Chapter would like to extend its best wishes to the newly reactivated chapter at Texas University. We would also like to extend our fraternal greetings to all the other chapter.

DON BIEGLER

K-State Features Initiation â&#x20AC;˘ . .

Your raving-yeah, raving-correspondent is back again with all the latest, dope.

Everyone is plenty snowed under with the usual school work at the moment.

Somehow we still find time to pledge new men however. Those pledged since the last issue of TRIAD are Jay D. Bolen, Sharon Springs; Rex Clemens, Corning ; Keith Duckers, Wetmore; Gilbert Jeffrey, Corning, and Joe Morgan, Alta Vista. The pledges have a new set of officers. They elected Ken Walden as President, Keith Duckers is their new V. President, and Hank "Reverend " Wilson is their Secretary-Treasurer. John Ellison is doing the honors as interfraternity pledge council representative.

Of course the big news around Manhattan this past quarter was the initiation of Governor Frank Carlson as an honorary member of our organization. At the same time, we initiated three faculty members. They were Dr. A. C. Andrews, Prof William Honstead, and Instructor Norman Byers. Last, but not least, four of our pledges went active at the big event. They were Jim Mussett, Everett Wadby, Dean Akins, and Ernest Holmes.

One other extracurricular initiation was held the past few months-The Ancient & Honorable Order of Yellow Dogs. Two fathers became yellow dogs at this time along with the usual students and faculty members. Jim Mussett and Dean Akins were the lads whose fathers joined this organization. V.D. "Tiny" Foltz acted as Chief Cur, and Kenny Ford as Custodian of the Bone. The beautiful ceremony was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone.

The chapter house has been adorned with new rugs on all the downstairs floors, and new window shades. It makes the place look quite nice.

Ken Walden was a candidate for F.M.O.C. (Favorite Man On Campus) . He and Pinky Ellison toured the campus on a whirlwind campaign tour. Unfortunately they were unsuccessful in their venture. Bill Sturdevant was later nominated as King of Hearts but met with a fate similar to that of Ken. However, if anyone should ever need a candidate to run for any office, K-State can offer men with experience.

A rather unusual situation exists on the campus this year. It seems that K-

Kansas State Chuck Hal! welcomes Governor Carlson into the chapter.

State has come through with quite a basketball squad. As a result, getting in to see a game has become one of the major projects of the year. It is necessary to get in line at the door some three or four hours ahead of game time in order to get a seat. We've tried to meet this situation by having early suppers on those nights.

Speaking of basketball, we should like to thank the Colorado Chapter for betting a sheepskin on the outcome of the game out there. It should look very nice on our walls. However, we must confess that we lost one to Oklahoma University Acacians during the football season.

In February we lost two of our men to the Alumni Organization. They took the final step and graduated. Joe Nathan is now working for Phillips Petroleum Company at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and Leonard Wood is a graduate student here at K-State. Incidentally, Woody was elected to the College Who's Who. Guess we'll have to buy him a size larger hat from now on.

Another of those Wood boys (no relation to Leonard) is on the road up. Howard Wood is the Junior Class President.

Frank MacCreary is a busy bee on the

campus also. He's trying to organize a local chapter of DeMolay on the campus.

The chapter has been selected as one of the organizations to be offered the opportunity to put on a skit at the annual Y Orpheum. Their skit was chosen as one of the winners of the competition within the school.

Our new chapter officers for this semester are Bill Sturdevant, V.D.; Glen Frakes, Sr. Dean; Dean Lovendahl, Jr. Dean ; Milton Clemens, Secretary; Kyle Moran, House Manager, and Earl Beaver, Interfraternity Council Representative. They are a fine bunch of officers who know how to get things done.

Social activities still get their share of attention. We had a banquet at the time our honorary members were initiated. In February we partook of a buffet supper, followed by a line party at a local theater and dancing. Les Golden, Charley Hall and Pinky Ellison had a party of their own. They went out to Colorado to spend the week-end with the boys from Boulder.

They report a wonderful time. They were awarded the broken ski pole as skiing experts while there. Haw! We've had several visitors recently.

Among them were the National Council who held their last meeting in Manhattan. Bill "Scoop" Ross gave us a pep talk on TRIAD correspondence. Dusty Davis and Tom Hughes were here from the Colorado Chapter to help with the initiation.

Bob Bland from the Oklahoma Chapter was here to see his school beat K -State at basketball. Charley Jarrett has been around from time to time with helpful household hints.

We had occasion to make quite a few happy contacts with alumni a result of our initiation in January. We certainly were happy to have them with us. Three of them who could not attend wrote us some swell letters. Everett A. Kindig was one of the three. Everett is now living at 917 Azalea Ave., Burlingame, California.

He is still employed in the Sales Department of Hills Bros. Coffee, Inc., with whom he started shortly after his graduation.

F. W. Belt writes that he now has a family and works with the Portland General Electric Co. as an estimator. His residence is in Salem, Oregon.

F. C. "Speedy" Cooley, '23, reports from Ft. Worth, Texas, that he was recently operated on for a partially paralyzed leg and hip obtained while serving as an Army Air Force Colonel in the Pacific.

This was Brother Cooley's second war.

As a result, he says he's not so speedy any more.

That's all there is this time, guys. Be seeing you in the TRIAD. BILL HART

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Michigan Recovers from Winter .

Kansas State Hall and Peycke lament-they're out of office.

The month of March finds Michigan Acacia fully recovered from the effects of "finals" and looking eagerly forward to Spring. In sight are warm, lazy afternoons spent studying in the arboretum, canoeing on the Huron River, Interfraternity baseball and track, our Spring Formal

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78 and many other social events, n ot to mention studying now and then .

The beginning of the Spring semester was welcomed by Michigan's largest and most exclusive social event, the famous J -h op. Acacia began the week -end affair by holding a record dance at the house on F r iday nigh t. On Saturday n ight we started off with a form al dinner at th e house. The party th en adj our ned to the Intramural Buildin g and danced to the music of of Tommy Dorsey and Sonny Dunham. The traditional p ost-dance breakfast was also held at the house.

Everyone had a w onderful time except our cook , Mrs. Johnson, who, after spending all day and most of the night preparing foo d, was heard to remark that she was glad J -hop came only once a year.

An unusually constant supply of snow in this area gave winter sports enthusiasts ample opportunity to try their skill or lack of skill, as the case may be, on the slopes. Skiers, ice skaters and toboggan fans turned out to grapple with King Winter. The net result has been a smashed toboggan, broken ski poles, sore posteriors, bruised extremities, and a more intense longing for Spring and its comparative lack of hazards.

Initiation was delayed this semester by a late repor t on grades by the university, but we now have permission to proceed with our plans on the week-end of March 14. The pledges, who are somewhat fearfully awaiting the ceremony, are : Richard 0 . Arthur, Richard J . Bahls, Leo H. Barbour, Robert J . Hadden, Edward H. Kendall, David D. Olson, Alan T . Schoerger, J ames C. Simpson, Theodore T. Smith, Melbourne G. Stewart, Howard M. Webb, and William A. Wilcox.

One more member h as let down his guard long enough for a Michigan State co-ed to capture his pin. The victor was Bernice Nutson of Owosso, and the vanquished, Ken Smith, also of Owosso. Fred Malsom, a recent alumnus, was engaged to Betty Rae Aronica of Detroit, last month. Three members are scheduled to be married shortly after school is out.

The weddings, all of which will take place within a week, will unite Donna Thatcher and Thomas K . Buchanan, Mildred Scherdt and Herbert Smith, and Jean Schraft and Jack Kelso. Since all three of the ceremonies closely follow finals, niany of the chapter are planning to remain the extra week in Ann Arbor.

And, as marriages end bachelor life, so they end this r eport. D. H. STREMMEL

Minnesota Constructs ÂŤCity Men's Room" . . .

Variety has been the keynote of activities on the social and academic program at Minnesota winter quarter.

Members have found themselves attending everyth ing from fo rmal dinners to snow caravans ::nd par ticipating in everything from semi-finals of interfratern ity sports to alumni smoker s.

The quarter began with a n ew slate of officers in charge, headed by th e new V.D ., Dave Hammel, Owatonna, Minn.,

Michigan B ill Wynn, K en C lark, D ave S trem~e l, an d Rol Storey head for the back-yard skt sl opes.

who is assisted by: Dale Amundson, Duluth, Minn., Senior Dean ; Don Fulton, St. Paul, Junior Dean; Don Miller, Nahant, Mass., secretary, and Dick Johnson, Owatonna, treasurer.

Initiation, early in the quarter, swelled the active membership roll by the addition of Lloyd Haskins, Duluth; Roddy Eylar, Minneapolis; Jim Brooks, Duluth; and Bud Elbing, also Minneapolis.

New pledges were: Don Swanson, Duluth; Chuck Hunt, South St. Paul ; Elliot Dick, Minneapolis ; Jule Kvamme, Scanlon, Minn.

Things rolled into high gear when a traditional beer bust was held with members of the Delta Upsilon fraternity at their chapter house. Any missing trophies, vases or water pitchers as a result of the outing-purely accidental!

Good rushing talk has been created by the beginning of actual construction of a city men's room in the chapter house.

When completed, the room will include sleeping and studying facilities for exclusive use of the city chapter.

The room is to be finished in knotty pine wood, and most of the work is being done by the active chapter and pledges.

It is hoped that all will be in readiness by spring quarter.

Alums had a good chance to see how work was progressing in February when the active chapter played host at a Friday night smoker.

The weatherman (undoubtedly an SAE) managed to dream up the worst blizzard of the year for that evening, but regardless of the elements, there was a fair-sized turnout.

The same bad weather prevented many parents from attending a special Sunday afternoon Open House on February 29.

Planned as a means of introducing the active chapter and showing of the fraternity house to new pledges' parents, the event w as a successful addition to the social program.

Two large social events highlighted the quarter at Minnesota for Acacians: the traditiona l snow caravan to a near-by win-

ter resort town on a Sunday afternoon and evening (complete with chartered bus and plenty of snow) and a formal dinner held at the chapt er house preceding the annual Interfraternity Ball at the Radisson Hotel, Minneapolis.

Acacia tankmen reached the semi-finals of the interfraternity meet before losing out, with Bob and Don Neubauer, Lloyd Haskins, Dave Hammel, Ted Anderson, Dick Johnson, Elliot Dick, Dale Maciver and Phil Whitaker doing the swimming.

The bowling team continues to top the list of fraternities in the winter tournament, with victory only a few games away.

Knocking the pins down are the following Acacia keglers: Earl Wangerin, Ted Anderson, Roddy Eylar, John Biersdorf, Don Fulton, Dick Johnson and Jim Brooks.

Cigar passing was at a minimum this quarter. Phil Whitaker did the honors when announcing the birth of a son and Lloyd Haskins handed them out after his pinning to Pat Johnson, Duluth, Minn., Pi Phi. Alum John Livingston, formed editor of the chapter newsletter, The Sprig, was married on December 27 and held a reception at the chapter house following the ceremony. He and his wife are now living in Chicago, where John has taken a position with the Kraft Cheese corporation, editing its publications.

When an overly-alert Acacian discovered that a gold band on Carl Jensen's third finger, left hand was not a frater nity ring turned backwards-the secret was out and blushing Carl had to announce his pre-holiday marriage to Lorraine Johnson, Minneapolis.

The traditional Iron Cross banquet will wind up social events for winter quarter on March 8, but just in time for finals.

Spring quarter promises to be equally active at Minnesota for Acacians.

AL OLSON

Northwestern Active in Intramurals . . .

Acacia was very prominent in intramural athletics this winter. The frater nity bowling team finished third in its league with 16 wins and five losses, placing behind Sigma Nu and Phi Gamma Delta in a close race.

Chuck Olson captained the squad, which also included Frank Hulka, Marv Haan, Charles Lundstrom, Dick Starn, James Warner, and Paul Groat.

Our basketball team, resplendent in new gold jerseys, wound up in fourth place in a league of eleven by winning seven and dropping three. Included in the season's thrills was a 20-19 triumph over Sigma Chi in the curtain-raiser and a 51-50 overtime loss to Pi Kappa Alpha, second-place finisher, in the finals. Bob Brown, a forward, garnered much free publicity through the "Daily" by running into Patten gym's brick wall while attempting to block an enemy shot. At first it was believed Bob had a fractured skull, but a week in the Evanston hospital con-

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Bill Colburn, Paul Groat, John Jansen, Frank Hulka, Charles Lundstrom, Jack Rogas and Brown were the mainstays of the 15-man basketball squad. Colburn led the scorers with 89 points, followed by Groat with 56 and Jansen with 54.

Our cagers also entered the Illinois AAU district tournament at Wilmette, but were defeated 90-56 by a team of sharpshooting ex-high school stars.

Points gained by Acacia in all IM sports so far this year have put the house in fifteenth place on campus in a field of more than 40 teams. Acacia garnered a lot of points when Marv Haan finished third on campus in the horseshoe tournament and Herb Grayson got into the golf tournament quarter-finals. The house picked up other points for its showing in track swim relays and football.

Th~ spring schedule of IM sports includes golf, tennis, table tennis, track, swimming and a basketball free throw contest. A freshman basketball tournament, sponsored by Tau Delta Phi, is also coming up.

Chuck Robinson, intramural manager, is anxiously looking for the first signs of spring so he can issue the first call for softball practice. Robinson, who is getting in shape by "pitching" in the women's quads, says, "The prospects are great!"

Twenty-one new members of the Northwestern chapter were initiated the weekend of January 30. Four pledges remained over from the fall quarter and three men were pledged during the winter quarter, making a total of seven pledges now in the house. The new pledges are Frank Hulka, Don Geischen and Bob Winkle.

The annual winter formal was held the weekend before initiation at the M and M club in the Merchandise Mart. A dinner at the club preceded the dance. A compact bearing the Acacia crest was presented to each girl at the formal. The chapter unanimously agreed it was the best formal in many years.

The social pace set by the formal continued throughout the quarter. A traditional Techny Fields club "brawl" February 21 featured, as usual, the highly amusing antics of "Ma" Harms, who by this time is almost an honorary member of the chapter. Ma had just returned from a lengthy sojourn in South America, where she picked up a chic wardrobe and all the latest Latin dance steps, which she taught to all who were willing to learnand most were.

A costume "Moonshiner" house party February 27 wound up the quarter's social season. The party was planned and directed by John Brewer, one of the new initiates. Judging from the results, it was quite a party-for two of the brothers hung their pins that night. Both the great events took place in the "romantic" 3500 Club following the party .

The two "ex-bachelors are Will Gortner, who pinned Delta Zeta Ruth Milner, ~nd the big boy himself, Venerable De~n Dick Bogan, who pinned Alpha Delta PI Helen Klein. Earlier this quarter Gene Pflughaupt hung the jeweled triangle on Marge Ames, an Alpha Omicron Pi.

We have really been bursting out with the old interfraternity spirit at the last two parties. Several men from Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Delta Theta were our guests at the Techny Fields outing, and Tom Worthington, an Alpha Delta Phi and first-string right halfback on Northwestern's football team, attended the house party.

BILL BROWN

Oklahoma Pledges Have Party . â&#x20AC;˘ .

The house officers for the Oklahoma Chapter of Acacia for the coming year are Robert Vick, Venerable Dean; Dean Smith, Senior Dean; Walter Noakes, Junior Dean; Bill Hathaway, Secretary, and John Heard, Treasurer. If we do as well under their leadership as we did under the former officers, we have much to look forward to .

We are proud to announce that Robert Bland, Ralph Moore and John Graves are new pledges to our chapter.

Anyone coming to our house now might think we have been very busy with spring housecleaning. But the real reason for this state of affairs is that the following brand new members wanted to do their last good deed as pledges so they put the house in tip-top condition. Congratulations to John Davis, Howard McFarland, Donald Mehl, Robert Peterson, Phillip Shepherd, James Shults, LeRoy Stewart and Thomas Stewart.

Once a year the pledges have a party for the members. Somehow it invariably takes place just before grades ar~ published and initiations start. Wonder if they were trying to influence somebody? We certainly have to hand it to the~ for. a party. The motif used was a tropical ISland. And wouldn't you know the weatherman would not cooperate? The house was a jungle of palm trees and

exotic flowers. Fish-nets and multicolored tropical fish completed the decorations. Prizes were given for the best costumes.

Of course Valentines Day couldn't go by without some sort of a get-together.

Our house was adorned with hearts of various sizes with "I love you" written on them in six different languages. We wanted to be certain everyone could read one.

You can't say Mother Caldwell is not looking out for her boys. She solidified our position in every sorority on the campus by having their housemothers over for dinner one night. Either they are experts at flattery or they completely enjoyed themselves.

Our alumni ranks were increased by five members last semester. Lester Brown, Don Hartman, James Samara, Odell Stone and William Valentine were graduated in January. Jim Samara is now in the graduate school at Columbia. Rex Kenyon, '47, is doing fine in Medical School in Oklahoma City. The new research institute under the direction of Dr. Lloyd Swearington opened its doors this semester. Although the building is not completed as yet it is being used for some classes and laboratories. Keep your eyes on Dr. Swearington and the Institute for some advances in the field of Chemical and Physical Research.

Wedding bells rang for three of our men this winter. Jack Grimm and Jackie Crain were married early in December.

Kenneth Lisle and Mildred Jackson fol lowed suit in January and a week later Don Hartman and Margaret Landrum went down the middle aisle.

Jack Liggett looks just a little bit undressed without his jeweled pin, but it certainly looks nice on Rosamond Hanson.

HOWARD HURST

Oklahoma A & M Welcomes Housemother . . .

Northwestern Invaders of the It!inois Chapter displ~y the loot: Sowle, Clark, and Plattner. standtng tn front ; Hahn , Ragas, and H ubble tn back, and B ruce Bain down in front .

Now that the noise of hammers and slapping of paint brushes has subsided, quiet reigns and we can bring you up to date on the A and M front. The ham mers and paint wielding was in preparation for the arrival of our new hostess, Mrs. Myrtle Henry, who has taken over her duties as housemother to the twentyfive men now living in the chapter house.

With the arrival of Mrs. Henry, a cook was hired and delicious meals are served in the chapter house. This is a great improvement over the cold, tiresome trip to the college cafeteria.

Since the last report on pledging the following have signed pledge cards : Eddie Ball, Cleveland, Okla .; Thomas Lee, Shangaloo, La.; Gene Russell, Westville, Okla. ; Ivan Alexander, Duke, Okla.; John Maddox, Rose Bud, Ark.; Blake Hedrick, Pryor, Okla.; Vol Woods, Westville, Okla.; H. C. Maples, Healton, Okla.; Kennet Harris, Camarco, Okla.; Bob Beckman, Kingfisher, Okla. To accommodate the increased number living in the house, new study rooms were provided by partitioning the attic into small private units. All of this construction and re-

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80 decoration h as been done by members and pledges. It is surprising how many car penters, electricians, and painters have been discovered in the process.

We suffered a great loss when Bill Baugh left A & M to attend Colorado School of Mines at Golden ; maybe the boys at Boulder will be hearing from him. Bill served as V.D. during the reactivation of our chapter and he has the best wishes of everyone here.

The officers for the new term are V.D. Duane Routh, S.D. E . M. Peterson, J .D. Bill Goudeket, Secretary Kenneth Havenstrite, Treasurer Bill Lothers, and House Manager Orland Fine.

The outstanding social function to date was the bang-up stag party held in a cabin on the banks of Lake Carl Blackwell about ten miles west of Stillwater (what a brawl). The guest of honor at the function was Tom Dawsom, '47.

Plans are well under way for our Spring Formal to be held in Tulsa, Okla.; we liked where the dance was held last year and hope to have it in the same place: the Tulsa Club. Plans are not quite complete so more about that next time.

Up until recently our intramural activities have only been that of participation; however our latest brag is a pledge, Harry McFarland, who is now in the semi-finals of the wrestling contests.

ROGER L. HARNDEN

Penn State Finds Alumni Interested With the beginning of a new semester our chapter was faced again with filling vacancies left by the following graduated Acacians: Homer V. Buescher, Charles B. Kenyon, and William C. Humphries. Our pledge class now includes Robert C. Smith who lives in Waynesboro and is majoring in Horticulture; Vernon H . Ritter, Hastings, Electrical Engineering; William D. Copenhaver, Beccaria, Education; Marvin A. Yeager, Hazelton, Industrial En;jineering; and Harry W. Reid, Wyoming, Ceramics. All are from Pennsylvania. We take this opportunity to send best wishes and much success to the recent graduates and to welcome our new pledges. And again the house is full with thirty-two brothers, pledges, and guests.

Much credit is due Venerable Dean George Nelson for a well organized initiation ceremony. After a hectic Friday night and a near-disastrous Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning February 22, marked a day of accomplishment for new brothers: David B. Hunter, Pine Grove Mills ; Richard S. Lashley, Waynesboro; David E. Keller, Hazleton; Albert H. Keller, Hazleton; Norman K. Emerick, Shamokin; Frank M. Rupp, Florence (Alabama) ; and Richard C. Gesser, Altoona.

Since the last writing, the appearance of the house has been enhanced with new rugs in the club room. A simple rearrangement of the furniture has also helped to improve the setting. Simple, relatively inexpensive major pledge duties, completed before initiation by our new brothers,

have also helped tremendously. We are thinking of the card table, end table, and piano stool which have been entirely refinished and appear as if new. And the painting of the dining room and bathroom deserve mention here.

The house manager department brings to mind two occurrences. Most important is to mention our new department of one -Norman Emerick. The house wasn't exactly warm during the short time we had no official house manager. Secondly, the new storm windows are responsible for warmer conditions in rooms with the colder exposures.

Acacia's basketball team with one victory (none last year) shows improvement. The addition of new material by way of the pledge class provides stimulus for even greater achievement in the future. With basketball nearly at an end, the house is building its hopes for good volleyball and softball teams.

Brother Rolf Wald, our veteran fencer, is distinguishing himself in the college competition this year. It's nice to see his big "S" around the house.

Brother Dave Hunter, after receiving an invitation from Xi Sigma Delta in December, was formally initiated into this forestry honorary in January. Dave maintains a fine scholastic average here at State.

In connection with Penn State's "Religion-in-Life" Week," we were honored to have as our guest Mr. Roy E. Dickerson, noted authority on Social Hygiene.

Mr. Dickerson, after enjoying dinner with us, attracted and held our interest in an informal hour of discussion. Brothers Dick Gillespie and Bob Troxell served on the college committee which organized Religion-in-Life Week. This program brought to the student body noted speakers in varied fields.

Brother Rich Witmer and Jean Tucker announced their engagement on Christmas Day. Jean's finger reminds us of th2 occasion since it displays one of the most attractive diamonds we have seen in a long time. In one of the most rapid pinnings known to the Penn State chapter, Jean was in proud possession of the sparkling triangle, short hours after the initi· ation.

At our last active meeting, it was decided to hold another alumni tea for brothers and their wives. We are looking forward to this occasion with much enthusiasm especially because of the great success of last year's affair.

Alumni support at the recent initiation was very much appreciated. We were glad to see: Brothers J . Martin Fry, '13, Harry B. Northrup, '14, William F. Hall, '15, Robert D. Fellows, '22, William H. Ricker, '25, William S. Dye, III, '35, Ernest D. Berkaw, '37, John F. Gillespie, '39, and Edward F. Price, '41.

Dr. William E. Butt, one of our brothers initiated in 1928, donated some of his books to Brothers Ozzie Lashley and Len Weidner, while on a recent visit here at the house. Brother Butt, who has served more than 27 years on the faculty at Penn State will soon reside in Longmont, Colorado.

Brothers Dave and Al Keller, recently initiated, now follow their father, Brother

David Edward Keller, '20, in membership in Acacia. Father Keller set standards which his two sons will have to work to achieve. Mason Keller also is a member of the Oddfellows. In his days at Penn State he was initiated into the engineering honorary, Tau Beta Pi. At Acacia he served as Venerable Dean throughout 1919. As expected, achievement has already marked the lives of Dave and Al. Dave led a softball team to a championship in his home town of Hazleton, Pa., last summer. At Penn State, Dave is a member of the Blue Band Symphony Orchestra in which he plays the oboe. Dave has thus far taken his first Masonic degree. Al led the Undergraduate Student Council at the freshman center last year, being president of that organization. We are anticipating his additional success here on the campus.

That's the news from here. Best wishes to the chapters and Acacians everywhere.

Remember if you are in this area we will be happy to see any of you.

ELMER F. STRUNK, JR.

Purdue Elects New Officers • .

Except for the unceasing practical jokes of Gene Warren, which inevitably result in a series of well-intentioned though often wrongly attributed retaliations, life at the Purdue chapter has been unusually placid. Quiet hours have been rigidly enforced with somewhat startling results to one used to the usual furor in the hallways. Now that the epidemic of sprinkling powered sugar on some of the brothers' sheets has subsided, fertile brains are busily contriving bigger and better funnies. An outstanding example is the riveting together of shoes belong· ing to our Venerable Dean, rompin' stompin' E. Buck Ward; not to mention the soggy paper bag full of water which Brother Dick Arnholter found suspended precariously above his head one night while industriously sacking out.

But even though things may have been quiet elsewhere, the same could not be said for the many Acacian homefronts around the campus. Bob "Dilbert" Moss' married bliss was blessed with twins, while other fathers, prospective or actual, included John Steinbaugh, Jack Hopkins, Jim McCarty, Laurel Meade, and Dr. Hunter Smith. Former Venerable Dean Paul Vos finally struggled to the altar, while Dean MacMurry, Bill Campbell, Dave Hoban and "Bus" Williams took the preliminary steps by giving out diamonds. Looks like there'll be no beer for these boys for some time. Acacians joining the "My-pin's-on-my-other-shirt" league were Dick Eifler, Byron Landis, and another former V.D., Max Buell.

Only one pledge, Robert Teufel from Buffalo, N.Y., has been added to the present pledge class, but the chapter plans to launch an intensive rushing program this term. Special initiation ceremonies were held for David Hoban, Danville, Indiana, and William Kolb, Cleveland, Ohio, on the ninth of Februry.

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Southern California

Purdue A gang of toughs at the Chapter's Paris Party.

The most recent victim to succumb to the house face-lifting program was the kitchen, with new furniture for the living room being next on the list. Drain tables for the new sink were painfully fathered by Steward Gene Warren, who also splashed paint around in a few strategic places. As for the new furniture, we probably have more hot leads than any two chapters combined. No furniture.

A special election was held recently to fill the offices vacated by the resignations of Paul Vos (Venerable Dean) , Bill Campbell (Senior Dean), Clyde Whitson (Junior Dean), and Ed Widener (Song Leader) . School work arid wives seemed to be the main factors in the resignations.

New officers were as follows: Grant Ward, V.D.; Vic Krummenacher, Sr.D. ; Gene Thompson, Jr.D .; Claud Mounsey, Pledge Trainer; and Dick Nelson, Song Leader.

The date for the annual Spring Formal has definitely been set. It will be held Saturday, March 29, in the Faculty Lounges of the Memorial Union Building.

A banquet will be held at the chapter house before the dance. Music will be by Andy Imperial and his orchestra, featur ing Dick Nelson, Spivak's biggest worry.

Any alumni who can possibly be on hand are most emphatically encouraged to come. This is the best social event of the term, so don't miss it if you can be here.

The only other highlight in the interim between issues of the TRIAD was the Latin Quarter dance. The chapter room was decorated to represent a small French bar-cafe, complete with costumes, checkered table cloths, candles, and a carvedice punch bowl. All in all, the party was one of the most successful we've ever had -certainly the most unique.

We're looking forward to seeing many of our alumni at the State Day banquet, to be held in Indianapolis, March 6, at the Marott Hotel. The chapter fully expects 100 per cent attendance, so this should prove to be one of the best opportunities we've had for some time for the alums to meet everyone in the house.

D. V . BERCHTOLD

Syracuse

Aids UCLA Group . . .

Redecorates . . .

At this writing the SC chapter has opened wide its portals to admit Leonard Tubach, Donald Blomberg, Earl Mitchell, and Jay Lynn into its halls. Meantime the new chapter house is proving itself too small to accommodate the outstanding bunch of fellows now wearing the pledge button.

Speaking of pledges, all the annals of history are now obsolete if they fail to record the fact that pledge Jack Gomory joined the Merchant Marines last February one week before finals! Coincidence or desperation-we don't know. Other pledge pranks include Jay Lynn's discarding an entire lug-box of dried apricots from the kitchen because "They looked all dried up!"

Myron "Dutch" Doornbos, Trojan footbaUer in '46, is advertising for an assistant.

He is serving as Interfraternity athletic chairman, and has yet to sit down to lunch without someone from one or two of the twenty-four frats calling him for something. And when Dutch is gorging, nothing should interfere.

Earle Risdon, commander-in-chief, boss, wheel, or what have you, is now the new Venerable Dean. His desires for the term include in part the attainment of our long overdue deerskin from Cal. It will be the first one to hang in the new house, and he wants it!

Roget's Thesaurus fails to have an adjective that describes the brainchild of Carey Cowart-Acacia crested doorknockers par excellence would come close. Cast in bronze, they'd make any Acacia chapter house stand out with one on the front door.

The birds in the roost sang loud and "purty" for Brother Bob Smith's gala pinning at the Kappa Delta house recently. That's doing the social chairman's job right to completion! The arrows of Senor Cupid struck at the first house party of the year when the KD's were our guests at a bang-up affair. That was the night we discovered that our up-andcoming pledge class was clever enough to cook up incomparable entertainment with the Kappa Delta pledges. The result-a radio show to end the Fourth Estate, but quick.

The males were in for some good SC hospitality, too. It was our pleasure to join with the UCLA colony and our alumni in entertaining the Master Councilors of the DeMolay chapters from all over Southern California at a Sunday afternoon smoker. Alumnus Prof. Bob Craig stole that show with the announcement of his recent marriage. The alums of course, were following the examples of our own brothers Howard Wagner, Bill Diller, and Bob Fox! (All within two months of each other!) It's the sunshine, you know.

HARVEY R. AMos

Comes time for the third letter of the year from Syracuse.

Our latest point of accomplishment has been the redecoration of all of our first floor rooms, together with two second floor study rooms. Phil Rice and his brother Chuck have completed the "prefab" on the third floor, with the assistance of wiring expert Bill Matthews in that department, and the room is now in use. The completion of all this work came about with the first day of classes this term here on the Hill. We held an open house the end of the first week to show off our "swank" establishment. (All work, I might add, was done by the brothers and pledges.)

Our most recent graduate was Atlee "Swampy" Vail, who took upon himself a sheepskin in January, and is now employed by General Electric. Where? Your guess is as good as ours, since he hasn't written since leaving.

Informal rushing is progressing well, with Rushing Chairman Marty Berge doing a bang-up job at getting prospectives lined up. We rush at dinner one evening a week, and in addition have a smoker planned for the near future.

Following last week's practically snowless Winter Carnival here on Piety Hill (our winter carnival is second oldest to Dartmouth's in the nation) , an all-university Sno-Ball was held, with dancing to the music of Elliot Lawrence and company. Acacia's representatives at the dance all report a good evening.

While on social activities, our calendar for the Spring term includes the Interfraternity Ball, with Claude Thornhill, set for April 17, after which the Acacia Spring Formal will be held May 7 in the East Room of the Hotel Syracuse. With a pledge dance in between these dates, together with several informal get-togethers, we will have a busy term of "sparking."

Initiation is scheduled for the weekend of March 13, and election of officers for March 22. We expect to initiate twelve men this term.

Active on campus this term are V.D. Jack Mitchell, one of the ones responsible for Claud Thornhill's scheduled appearance. Jack is also active in the French Club. Paul Converso is student director of the Men's Glee Club of the university.

Senior John Schojbert recently received a bid to Alpha Kappa Psi, professional commerce honotary, although John failed to grasp the opportunity. "Zeke" Weagraff and yours truly still toot with the university symphonic band, playing one night "barnstorming" stands in Syracuse and nearby communities. Our track man, Phi Rice, has hung up the spikes and is concentrating on this June's graduation plans and, in the near future-"Lambie."

Pinnings, et cetera: Marty Berge took the second step at Christmas time, and "Mitzy" Burns now wears his ring third finger, left hand. Bud Williams is engaged to Ann Smith after a pinning last term.

Phil Rice oinned Louise Wysong at our

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82 Christmas Dan ce. Our newest entran ts, however (fanfare, please!) , are Bill Martin and Bob Augat, who pinned "Betsy" Hicks and Jean Mikles respectively. As you can see, our social wheels are really turning, and I will stick my neck out and predict future activity by Syracuse Acacians in this department.

So again the count has run out on my "journalese," as we come to the end of this lett er to "every Acacian in the nation." Once again, a cordial invitation to all to visit us at any time, toge ther with the subtle reminder that since our dorm is crowded as is, advance notice will be appreciated when possible, after which you will be entertained in the traditional Syracuse style as usual.

And now, until editor Bill Ross again becomes demanding of a post mortum on chapter activities, so long!

RoGER WITHERELL

Texas Looking for a Home â&#x20AC;˘ . .

Organization of the Texas Chapter is running smoothly with emphasis being placed on obtaining new members and finding a home for the chapter. A committee under the direction of Conrad Kroll is investigating all possibilities.

There is a strong possibility that the chapter will have a house by the end of the Spring Semester.

The chapter has four pledges at present: James E. Fender, Austin; George T. Jones, Jr., McAllen; A. W. LeNoir, Beaumont; and Allen C. Williams, New Willard. The pledges are assured of interesting experiences under the guidance of Luther "Robert's Rules of Order" Hartman.

Election of officers was held in February, and the following officers were elected: Venerable Dean, Reline Forgy; Senior Dean, Wallace Engle; Junior Dean, Jimmy Pigman; Senior Steward, Conrad Kroll ; Junior Steward, George Smyer; Secretary, Casper Smith; TluAD Correspondent and Corresponding Secretary, Lee Hay; Intramural Manager, Stuart Nemir; Pledgemaster, Luther Hartman; Interfraternity Council Representative, Ira Gallaway. Mr. Louis Baethe and Mr. Homer Thornberry were re-elected Chap ¡ ter Advisor and Financial Advisor respectively.

We stepped right into intramural activities with a hot basketball team. We didn't win all our games, but we came very close, well almost. Jim Edmondson is representing us in table tennis and is well on the way to becoming University champion. We hope to enter a team in the softball league, and with new pledges coming in we can probably field a strong team. The chapter was also represented in handball by Luther Hartman and Stuart Nemir.

To compensate for not having a house, the chapter is holding weekly dinners.

We have also given a buffet supper and a coffee. The whole chapter is looking for ward to a ranch party to be held at the ranch home of Ross Nichols at Bandera,

Texas. Ther e is a rumor circulating that Ross' father has 200 acres of land to be cleared. What a slick way to get free labor!

The Texas Chapter hopes to be in full swing by the next issue of the TRIAD, and I will have lots of interesting news.

LEE HAY

Washington Expanding Rapidly . . .

TA DA: THE BULL IS HOME! Actually, that exclamation should be set in multi-colored neon, but all of us directly concerned are sufficiently aware of the portent of the occasion so as to render any such treatment unnecessary. While the details of "Tex's" return must necessarily remain secret unto the end of time, suffice it to say that it all came about as the direct result of a recent geological expedition into the primitive wilds of eastern Washington by several members of our rejoicing chapter. Naturally, said journey incurred considerable hardship and risk, but judging from the priceless loot it was well worth any such negligible details. To Mac "Bring 'Em Back Alive" McCredy, Howard "Sahara" Johnson, and John "Wildcat" Oster, the leaders of the expedition, and to their fellow patriots go our fondest congratulations. "Well done, men!"

Acacia at Washington is growing, and the phrase "by leaps and bounds" is no indication of the magnitude of our multiplication. With the advent of winter initiation which welcomed six new and eager members to our ranks, the chapter embarked upon an ambitious informal rushing program. Ably guided by our newly elected Senior Dean, Mac McCredy, the chapter gained the well toned number of seven new pledges. This figure, when added to the few remaining pledges from the fall brigade, brings the total number of the pledge class to a healthy twelve.

The new men include Chick Livingston of Fort Lewis, Wash., John Oster, Len Smilie and Stan Dickey of Centralia, Wash., Mark Hussman from the Olympic Peninsula, John Stevens of Whidby Island, and Larry Wells of Seattle.

During the week-end ending January 11, the lights of Acacia burned late and high, and six men of the fall pledge class came to know the rigors of "hell week's" gracious atmosphere. There was painting to be done and, generally speaking, the house received a pretty thorough going over. Finally, come the dawn of Sunday, six bloodshot pairs of eyes were opened to the glories of becoming active Acacians.

These men had crawled, walked, and sometimes run through the maze of initiation and had now reached the bright door of the fraternity's jeweled triangle with its garland of the sacred flower. And they had names, although perhaps not well remembered. Those names were Alfred Crocker, George Davidson, Jack Linge, Robert Rogerson, Dave Scheyer, and Russel Segersten. Congratulations were gladly given and well received that cold and clear-skied Sunday.

To keep pace with the growing ranks of our chapter, the house itself had taken on a new character. An extensive landscaping project has been undertaken to give the residence that more bold appearance consistant with the increment of members. We are finally going to let the community know we are here. Trees have been uprooted and shrubs discarded, and in the vein of absolute practicality, crushed brick has been substituted for the morbid tufts of underfed grass that once perverted our parking strip. The impressive structure on the northeast corner of 50th and 17th N.E. is now available to the most discerning eye, and our blushing has lost a great deal of the obviousness it once displayed. We of the Washington Chapter sincerely thank Mr. George A . Jensen, '16, for making this improvement possible.

Socially speaking, Washington has not been letting the calendar slip by unnoticed. The annual Sweater and Sox Dance held on the evening of February 14 was a sound success, a condition due largely to the unselfish efforts of Maurie Stoffer, our shining new Junior Dean.

Also under the guiding hands of "King Pin" Stoffer, the recent exchange with the Alpha Omicron Pi was considered by all one gay evening. To the riotous crowd which attended the Junior Interfraternity Council Dance held on the 27th, the Acacia crowd added many a lusty cheer, much to the gleeful delight of Russ Segersten, President of the J.I.F.C. and instigator of the whole affair. It could be said with few reservations that Acacia has been making out like mad with the U . of W. smart set this past month.

Just recentlY. returned to the happy fold is Charles Stover, Venerable Dean.

Chuck's short lived absence was due to a visit to the local university infirmary where he seemingly enjoyed the life of the gay convalescent. Although he is out under observation, we hope that he will continue in the blessed light of good health and remain with us so as to spare us the tyranny of Gene "Commander" Guthrie who was acting V.D. during Mr. Stover's absence.

As if Sid Buckley's pipes weren't enough, Bob Rogerson passed around those infernal cigars the other night. The occasion was the loss of his brand new pin to a luscious little Sigma Kappa down the row named Barbara Brown. Incidentally, Bob and Barbara have been going together since junior college days at Centralia Junior College.

Congratulations to the U.C.L.A. and the Oregon State Chapters on their installations. We wish you outstanding and enduring success for the years to come.

J. DAVID ScHEYER

Washington State Assists Spokane Alumni . . .

The second semester of the new year at Washington State Chapter is starting off with new vigor, brotherhood, and the drive leading toward a successful term.

A happy and shining group pledged for

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Washington State (Top) The p!edges-b!ess 'em.

(Bottom) Welcome to the O!d Man-Dad's Day, 1947.

the new year include: John Byron Tisdale of San Diego, Calif.; Wallace Donovan Green of Spokane, Wash.; Richard Earl Patton of Raymond, Wash.; Hilton Ashton Jones, Jr., of Richland, Wash.; and David Martin Jensen of Spokane, Wash.

On Saturday, February 14, formal initiation of six members took place at the Masonic Temple in downtown Pullman. The new Acacians are: Don Clinton Yates, Einar Herbert Hendrickson, Kenneth Johnson Clark, Max Bircher Petersen, Russell Dale Helgeson, and Everett Ardell Curtis. Under the capable leadership of our new Venerable Dean Robert L. Wright and with the whole-hearted cooperation of our alums and actives the initiation highlighted a successful weekend.

We were very happy to initiate Don Yates, a former WSC pledge who has been in business at Spokane for some time. At this time we proudly announce that Einar Hendrickson became our 100th member at the Washington State Chapter. Einar is a junior majoring in horticulture. He was a pledge in 1943 before entering active services as a navigator with the Army Air Forces. This is his first semester back at school after leading an eventful tour of duty in the Pacific.

During Christmas vacation three of our Southern brothers made an unauthorized requisition of the California bear.

We didn't deplete funds in the little paws of the bear-aw, it was just full of California slugs anyway. "Bullus Texanus" by accident has taken a very S-A-D journey back to the Washington Chapter-hmm.

Our late first semester campus activities were highlighted during Winter Week December 12-20. The Glendusprung or Swedish Carnival climaxed the week.

Our booth sponsored jointly with the Kappa Deltas and I.M.A. at the Men's Gymnasium featured the auctioning of any Kappa Delt with shapely legs.

Chester Bennett, our candidate for "Winter Week," was barely nosed out by Sig Ep "Yum Yum" Peterson.

83 The big social event of the year, our Rue de la Paris Winter Formal portrayed gaiety and laughter on a typical Paris street scene. It was scheduled to be held at the Washing ton Hotel but with the dance floor knee deep in water due to the disastrous Palouse flood we had to hold the function at the Moose ballroom.

Cigars started out a bright semester with Elver Huntley the first to lose his jeweled triangle. Functions for the year mclude firesides, picnics, and more afterdinner dances.

George Croyle, our beloved Western Traveling Secretary, spent the better part of the last week of January with the chapter. One of the boys at the Washington State Chapter still thinks Brother G. Croyle is still a twice married and twice divorced man. The boys enjoyed having George and really benefitted from some of his timely suggestions.

Lester Liebel intends on completing his work this spring on his master's degree in Agriculture Economics. We're very proud of Les in the wonderful work of his master thesis-a very original and comprehensvie project describing the problems concerning the economic and technical aspects of mint production in the Pacific Northwest.

Verne Zellmer is doing graduate work in the Educational field and will be completing his practice teaching at John Rogers City High School at Spokane, Washington, this spring.

Howard Hopkins, one of the grand old pillars of the chapter, is also completing his master's degree in Animal Husbandry this coming June. At present he is home doing some good P alouse farming at St. John. Howard gets back quite regularly to consult with his department :::oncerning his thesis and to drop in with the boys.

Under the guiding hand of Willard Zellmer and Wilho Williams a strong alumni association in Spokane is taking shape.

Willard is practicing law at Spokane and Wilho is working with a private engineering firm. Our chapter has confidence in these two because whenever they put their heads together the alumni association really goes ahead.

The alumni move was given a definite boost by a joint banquet of alums and WSC actives at the Spokane Hotel February 3. Actives attending the banquet were: Bob Wright, Don Hughes, Jack Dennis, Verne Zellmer, Herb Lowers, George Larse, Chester Bennett, Lester Liebel, Fred Williams, Floyd Green, and Edward Schmitten.

Everyone at the banquet was called upon and gave a short talk. Willard Zellmer acted as toastmaster and V.D. Bob Wright introduced W.S.C. actives. The evening was highlighted by an inspirational talk

by George Croyle in which he told of the various activities of Acacia in the West.

Our initiation of February 14 was attended by several of our alums. They were: Willard Zellmer, Wilho Williams and Jim Shephard. Bob Deitz Anderson of Garfield was present. Also attending was Frank Beyer, charter member of the University of Pennsylvania, now of Spokane.

A project started last summer by John Sonner was that of making an addition to our commissary. The project was quite a large undertaking but with th e strong leadership of Fred Williams and Sherman Jensen the job w as completed during Christmas vacation.

One of our members back with us again after dropping out a semester is "Ed" Schmitten and we're very happy to have him.

Frank Ames, a senior in Electrical Engineering, plans to stay out this semester and take medical treatment for a back injury.

Sherman Jensen has completed his two year certificate in Agriculture. We all deeply regret to see "Sherm" leaving us.

He will be taking an active interest in farming at Bickelton, Washington.

Arthur Lancaster has made plans for working with International Harvester Co. at Seattle, Washington.

George Hjelm is going to Alaska this coming March but will be back for the fall school term.

John Sonner plans on working at Richland, Washington, until school starts this fall to get a little practical experience before completing his course. John is a junior majoring in Physics.

Chester Bennett, our real showman, has made ~n extended visit to Chicago, but what h1s future plans are still a mystery. . Just recently Donald Skinner passed cigars, too. He became the proud father of a bouncing baby boy. Don is a graduating senior in Business Administration.

RALPH F . SMITH

Wyoming Marks First Anniversary Time has passed so quickly that it hardly seems possible that we have been in existence for a year.

Our total membership at this writing numbers forty -three with the recent pledging of Dick Cottrell, Laramie; Don Overy, Rock Springs ; Ellis Livingston , Upton ; Charles Middlesworth, Wheatland ; and Cliff Jacobs, Rawlins. Five men received their active pins on February 7.

They were Dick Wilson, Santa Anna, Calif. ; Al Fishburn, Overbrook, Kans.; Dean Johnson, Casper; Dick Hughes, Laramie ; and Harvey Carson, Lander.

We are planning to make several house improvements this coming summer in preparation for a house mother. We hope to get a new coat of paint on the house also.

We have just completed a series of "dessert dances" for the sororities. This idea was something new for the campus and proved very popular with the girls.

Last January 31 we had our first annual "Twin Twirl" costume ball. This affair was held at the Wyoming Union Ballroom. Couples came dressed alike or as associated characters from A to what have you, and it looked like a Salvador Dali painting to see Lil' Abner dancing with Pythia and Daisy Mae with Mnesarchos.

Costume prizes were won by the scarecrows, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Johnson. The

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pr oceeds to dish out the goo. For instance, if it has a course in streetsweeping it will say : " Janitation I, fi rst semester, elements of car-tracks.

Janitation II, second semester, technique of lamp-posts." Then it will toss out the superlatives ad nauseum and pr ove the truth of George Ade's observation about overdoing things : "No matter how sweet a perfume may be, it is not put on with a hose."

So, alumnus, please don't lecture the actives-they have had plenty of that from the address of welcome on through to the baccalaureate sermon in which the pulpit-pounder quotes a text, deals out one paragraph of reWyoming ligion and swoops into the current poCostume prize winners at the "Twin TwirL" litical campaign.

-Mr. an d Mrs . Dean Johnson .

Speaking of campaigns, too many alumni who have been out in business dance proved so successful and popular for years get into the habit of expectthat everyone is looking forward to our ing everybody to be as deeply internext "Twin Twirl." ested (or as well informed) as themOur Valentine's Day dance was held at selves. Well, most college boys are the chapter house, which was appropri- watching the sports page much more ately decorated with hearts and stream- closely than the editorial page-can't ers. The evening was spent informally blame them, considering the fact that in playing cards and dancing. publishers are a lot less likely to disOur first Birthday Ball, which marks tort facts in the sports columns. So our first anniversary, will be this coming even a political science major who April 17. This is our big event of the is writing a thesis on evolution of spring quarter. Sweetheart compacts will the gerrymander, or minority rule be given as favors to the girls. through blocs, probably will not wax Mr. and Mrs. James R. Mitchell, of enthusiastic on hearing you tell how Casper, Wyoming, were dinner guests in Truman ought to handle this problem December. Mr. Mitchell is Grand Master or how Congress should decide that of the Wyoming Masonic Lodges. Our one. Remember, old boy, the student most recent guest was George Croyle, is entitled to an opinion of his own, who spent the week of February 22 at the reached through reasoning of his own, chapter house. He was very helpful in giving us a few suggestive ideas for the ¡ and would not deserve respect if he swallowed everything handed out by betterment of our chapter.

We were deeply honored when the those who assumed superiority beAcacia Wives and Mothers Club gave us a cause of seniority.

Remember, too, the downfall of such silver serving set. It was presented by Mrs. Howard Davis, wife of our advisor. dynasties as the house of Bourbon and Charles Mankin has replaced Wally the house of Stuart was due largely to Connover as Senior Dean in the chapter. ultramontaine pretensions concerning John Jacobs has felt the call of the their own infallibility. theatre and consequently switched from But when the middle-aged graduate agriculture and cows to dramatics and meets a young undergraduate who greasepaint. John, up to the present time, has appeared in two university produc- disagrees with him on anything, he tions : "The Man Who Came to Dinner" usually decides the youth is a dangerous subversive or a parlor pink or a and "Time of Your Life."

Wallace Moon and Jack Holloway, fellow-traveller or some such thing, members of the university band, enjoyed whatever any or all of those labels themselves when it toured eastern Wyo- may mean, if anything. The "if anyming recently. thing" reservation will seem logical in Wayne Anderson, sophomore in Voca- view of the fact that many of the labels tional Agriculture, and Barbara Hyde of of our day mean so many things that Sundance recently announced their enreally they mean nothing very definite. gagement.

In closing we would like to say that the The tendency to berate all who show past year has been filled with much ex- any desire to think things out for perience and pleasant association and we themselves is commonest among those are looking forward to an even more who are impervious to the obvious prosperous one.

Wrn HUNGATE and regard their own impenetrable in-

flexibility as a virtue instead of what it often is, the intolerance of advancing age.

Don't try to make boys of 20 think like men of 50-they'll get around to it soon enough without you smelling Moscow every time some youngster gripes because he has to drill when he would prefer tennis.

To some alarmed critics, every college is a hotbed of radicalism. Since most of these critics never knew what radicalism was, or what caused it, here is a tip which may explain why educated young men sometimes turn to doctrines which they never entertained in campus days: On a June day a promising young man, eager and robust and bright and hopeful of a place in modern America such as college men deserve, gets a diploma from Prexy. With it he gets a ladle of inspiration about the land of opportunity where every man can get to the top if he will work and be honest and vote for the right. He gets a job, perhaps after some disheartening delays. He works like a trooper, hoping that his ardent desire to serve his boss will be noticed and appreciated and ultimately rewarded. Just about the time he is within reach of a promotion, Mr. Big comes from the front office with a young man who, because he is a nephew or because he is willing to marry the buck-toothed daughter of Mr. Big, gets the job for which our hero has worked. If this faithful employe becomes a resentful employe, blame yourself, grateful boss. That is what makes radicals, and the tragedy is that the fact is realized by very few of those who stand to lose most because of radicalism.

So, alumnus, here is how you can help yourself and your fraternity and your country all at the same time: Next time you get back to the chapter house, look over the seniors and size them up, then consult the Dean about the talents and qualifications of each lad who impresses you. If you are about to have in your organization an opening for a bright and clean young man who can become a minor executive in a few years, why not pass the opportunity to one of those brothers in your chapter? They'll be loyal for better reasons than the nephew-or the son-in-law, too, likely as not.

If your business is not one in which there are such openings, why not pass the name of a brother, about to graduate, to some of your friends who have business positions available now and then? You can do a lot of good and help another boy get a start.

Wish somebody had done that little act of kindness, many years ago, for OLD-TIMER.

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