quite a delicacy in the Baton Rouge area. Despite all this we kept on rushing and came out with a 48-man pledge class, the largest in the history of Acacia at L.S.U. Shortly after rush week we held our fall initiation. Besides our own group of six outstanding initiates, we had the pleasure of initiating five members of the Mississippi State Chapter. With such an outstanding group of initiates and our 48-man pledge class we certainly had something to talk about. An outstanding feature of our fall initiation was the occurrence of Roll Number 200. For a chapter in its tenth year, we considered this quite an accomplishment. Holding Roll Number 200 is Brother James Brown. Brother Brown is a sophomore in premed. and has so far maintained a perfect 3.00 average. He is also serving as President of Phi Eta Sigm;:t, Freshman Honorary Society. Life here at Acacia, as it is anywhere else, is not composed of only one happy success after another. On October 9 seven members of our brotherhood were in a tragic auto accident in which the life of Brother George Petrie was lost. Brother Petrie's death sent the fraternity into a state of shock. Brother Petrie, who was a member of our fall initiation class, was buried on Monday, October 11 in New Orleans with fifty Acacians attending and several of the Brothers serving as pallbearers. Slowly but steadily the fraternity pulled itself back together and kept on going. Homecoming arrived and Acacia took a proud third place in Homecoming decorations. Then we were visited by Brothers Harvey Logan and L. W. Knapp who brought us news that New Orleans had been selected as the sight of the 1966 Conclave. We feel greatly honored to be hosts to Conclave and we know that we could have no better assistant than the City of New Orleans. Our pledge program with its strong emphasis on scholarship has been very successful this semester. The I.F.C. at L.S.U. has what we consider a unique pledging system . Any pledge not having a 0.8 at mid semester must be dropped from fraternity roll . For this reason we have put much emphasis on scholarship in our pledge program. Apparently we have been successful, for we kept 83 % of our pledges while the average drop due to grades was 40 % . Looking back over the first ten weeks of school, we find that our kitchen has, for the first time in years, operated in line with its budget. This success, we feel, is due to Mom Kelley. Mrs. Lillian Kelley is new
George Petrie: His tragic death mourned by L.S.U. Acacians.
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