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pha Omicron, Smith University, were honored by being chosen on the first team of the All C. I. A. A. football team as end and guard, respectively. FATHER BROWN, a member of Rho Lambda, Buffalo, N. Y., was selected by Livingstone College for an honorary degree. A l l ' R E D H. WILSON, of A l p h a Theta Chapter, University of Iowa, Iowa City, la., a native of St. Louis, Mo., who receives his B. S. degree in chemistry in January, has received an offer of a position from the Aanaconda Mining Company in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Brother Wilson, a proficient athlete received the Hi-Y football shield while in high school, was a member of the Iowa freshman team, a member of the Dolphin Swimming Club of Iowa, and All-University welterweight champion in 1927-28. Brother Wilson is also active in social affairs, having been president of the Student Forum and treasurer and financial manager for the AllUniversity Christmas Ball in 1929, being the first to hold that office. This brother has held many important chapter offices. At present he is A l p h a Theta's social director.
RANDALL L. TYUS is for the second year president of the Student Y. M. C. A. at Fisk University. He is a member of Alpha Chi Chapter. R. HAROLD WADLOW, another of Alpha Chi's active members, is president of the Men's Senate at Fisk University, on which he has the assistance of SIDNEY HARRIS, ALFRED GEENWOOD, RICHARD EWING, GARRICK WILLIAMS. and WILLLIAM SAPP, the latter a pledge. DR. S. S. MORRIS, of Tau Lambda, Nashville, Tenn., while on tour of Europe last summer, had an audience with the Pope at Rome, represented the Allen Christian Endeavor League, of which he is secretary, at the World's Christian Endeavor Loague Convention in Berlin, Germany, and addressed audiences M Berlin through interpreters. J. R. ANDERSON, efficient secretary of Tau Lambda, has opened a first-class Photographic studio in Nashville, Tenn. WALKER QUARLES, a luminary at Gamma Chapter, is president of the Student Government Association of Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va. JOHN R. PICOTT, is president of Kappa Gamma Chi Forensic Society, Continued from Page 9. vice-pres., of the Y. M. C. A., and a wellbe discharged from the hospital in Auknown campus writer at Virginia Union gust, only to suffer a series of setbacks Un versity. from which he never recovered. To CHARLES B. WEST, associate edi- Brother Morrison, from that time on, tor of The Sphinx for Gamma Chapter, it was only a matter of smiling, out of has been elected president of the senior consideration for his mother until the class at Union University. end, which came at 5:06 a. m., November JOHN TILLY, of Phi Lambda, Ra- 20, 1930. Interment was at High view •eigh, N. C, who attended Chicago Uni- cemetery, November 24, 1930. The pallversity last summer, has been granted bearers were James Lewis, Howard Mca scholarship by the North Carolina Kinney, Forrest Parr, William Leftridge, State Board of Education and is now Garrett Fish, and Walter Talbot. The rack at Chicago doing graduate work in last four named are Brothers in Alpha religious education. Brother Tilly is Phi Alpha. dean of the theological department at Brother Morrison was an active memShaw University, on leave-of-absence. ber df the church of the Holy Cross, K. WATERS Tl'RPIN, of Beta Alpha, where, at various times, he sang in the is president of the senior class and of choir, served on the altar, and held the the Student Council at Morgan College. position of superintendent of the Sunday THOMAS "EDDIE" TOLAN, holder school. Socially, Brother Morrison was of the world's official record for the 100 very well known to young and old. He yard dash, 9.5 seconds, is coaching the wis secretary of the Student Prince Club basketball team of Epsiloh Chapter a t when it was at its greatest glory. He we University of Michigan. was active in Pitt Lyceum. In the Sphinx CLYDE F. WASHINGTON, of Upsi- Club, he served as secretary and it was Io n Chapter, University of Kansas, Law- on June 18, 1928, that he was initiated re nce, Kan., A.B., '30, is the first Ne- into Alpha Phi Alpha. As associate ediBrother Morrison 6X0 to lie in the medical school of that tor to the Sphinx lived to make but two write-ups. institution in six years. H. S. WILLIAMS has recently returnOmicron chapter, ever mindful of 1 '""in Germany where he studied at Brother Morrison's regular attendance at the University of Berlin. Brother Will- all meetings and active participation in ' a m s i* a member of Epsilon Lambda, crapter affairs of his dependable coop8 *- Louis, Mo. eration, or his readiness to perform the JOHN WILLIAMS, of Gamma, Union duties of others when they wavered on University, and FRANK BOGLE, of Al- the job, and of his congenial personality
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coupled with the true Alpha spirit, shall each year award an educational prize in memory of Brother Morrison and this prize is to be known as the Harold C. Morrison Memorial Award. Om i c r o n shall never forget the Brother who never forgot Omicron.
F R A T FUN (Continued from Page 11.) she was only a worried look on her Mother's face." Some newswriters have been punning on the football huddle. One columnist said he wondered what was said by the boys when they were huddled. So my guess is as good as anybody's because they had not invented the huddle when I played football at Storer College in 19—?. Well, the Fullback says to the Quarterback "Bo, if I were you, I wouldn't fall so hard for Mame, she's been running with every guy in Cleveland." Quarterback replies, "Oh hell, Cleveland ain't so big.' Unofficial but ubiquitous frats to be found at every college. Eta Peesa Pi Passa Bad Chek Roona Nu Pents Busta Lotta Suds Tryan Bega Meel Beta Gimma More Tampa Nu Broad Kribba Exa Xam Telia Nu Li Drinka Lick El Ranting of a Cub Reporter The big day arrived. It was the Annual Football Classic between LaSalle Extension Course College and The International Correspondence Schools. All the Old Grads and rooters for each school were in a fervor of excitement, the very air was murky with the tenseness of the struggle as both t e a m s fought nip and tuck (the Old Grads frequently tuck a nip out of the college flasks). The game see-sawed as the tide of battle veered first one way and then another.
Postmaster Brown had ordered every man at his post and had called out substitutes to help with the heavy mail. Mail trucks darted here and there— mostly there—in and out of the swollen Thanksgiving traffic. Harold Jones of I. C. S. was caught off side at the Philadelphia post office and was penalized two years at Atlanta Prison. Merle Haggerty attempted a special delivery forward pass which was grounded at Lansing, Michigan. Charles Cooper will dig it up after the game because it felt like it contained money. There were line bucks thru the R e g i s t e r e d Mail department, off tackle plays thru
the Parcel Post, forward passes by the