1900
Shingle Morris Rogers Ebersole October 26, 1895
The shingle is a kind of certificate of membership. A proposal for something like it was made by the Hanover chapter on May 4, 1865, but it never got anywhere. The idea again surfaced more than 30 years later. A form was devised by Morris R. Ebersole, Cincinnati 1898 [right], at the time a chemistry instructor at Cornell. His design specified the coat of arms at the
top; the member’s name across the center; a red seal in the lower left with an impression of the badge, and surrounded by the name of the owner’s chapter. This was recommended to the Convention of 1900, which took no official action, leaving the matter up to each individual chapter.
Convention of 1913. It is a plain white card, six by eight inches, engraved in black with the coat of arms in the upper center; the owner’s full name in Old English across the middle; below this, his date of initiation in smaller, similar characters. In the lower left is the chapter seal in red wax.
— The Faithful Home of the Three Stars, • The standard shingle ThewasPater Loving Cup designed Knox pg. 357 1895
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