Cattleman of Year
Col. Koester Retires
Ellis Monroe, Wisconsin '15, has been named South Carolina's "Outstanding Cattleman for 1968." Brother Monroe owns the 810¡aCl'e Gap Creek Farm near Moore, South Carolina, which he bought in 1952 when he moved there from New York, and another 850 acres in Laurens County which he bought last year. Both are devoted to beef cattle operations with only Hereford cattle. Brother Monroe was secretary of Delta Upsilon from 1945 until 1952.
Colonel F. W. Koester, Kansas '18, has retired as general manager of the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, a post he had held since 1955.
Elected Mayor of Eugene Lester E. Anderson, 01'egon '43, was elected mayor of Eugene, Oregon, in the November general election. He had been a member of the city council of this city of 80,000 population, and the council's most recent president. He won over his nearest opponent in a four-man race by a margin of more than two to one. Brother Anderson entered the lumber and plywood business in 1956 and currently is publisher of Random Lengths, a world-wide circulated report on lumber and plywood markets. At Oregon he was chapter president and student body president. FolCol. F. W . KoesteT, Kansas '18
Brother Koester served with the U . S. Cavalry from World War I until his retirement from the Army in 1947. He was a member of the 1932 U. S. Olympic equestrian team, and owned and trained the mare that placed second in the Prix de Nations. He invented and perfected the lip tattoo, now used universally as a protective identification measure at all race tracks.
Water Polo Chairman Jay-Ehret Mahoney, Columbia '39, a member of the board of directors of the United States Olympic committee, was elected during the recent Olympic Games at Mexico City by the Federation Internationale de Natation Amateur, to be chairman of the International Water Polo Board for the next four years.
To Western Michigan F acul ty Lester E. Anderson, O?'egon '43
lowing service as an infantry unit commander in Europe during World War II, he joined the administrative staff of the University of Oregon. His elder son, Erik, is an undergraduate Delta U at MIT. DELTA UPSILON QUARTERLY •
January 1969
John R. Cooley, Symcuse '59, has been appointed assistant professor of English at Western Michigan University. He is presently completing a Ph.D. dissertation dealing with aspects of the N egro in American literature at the University of Massachusetts. Brother Cooley has previously held faculty posts with the State University of New York at Utica and with the University of Maryland-Europe.
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