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THE STAR AND LAMP of

Volume XXI

Pi

February, 1935

Kappa

Phi Number 1

Administrative Directory Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Founded 1904, College of Charleston

Incorporated 1907, Laws of South Carolina

FOUNDERS ANDREW

SIMON FOGARTY

ALilXANDrR KRO!iG

Chapter Eternal Fcbru3ry 8, 1922

!51 Moultrie Street Charleston, S.C.

LAWR ENCB HARRY MrxsoN

217 East Bay Street Charleston, S.C.

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL President

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Secretary

ALBERT W. MEISll!.

J. WILSON ROBINSON

WILLIAM J. BERRY

140 Liberty Street New York, New York

3504 Courville Avenue Detroit, Michigan

224 St. Johns Place Brooklyn, New Y ark

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Chancellor

WALTER R. JONF.S

THERON A. HousER

Oregon State College Corvallis, Oregon

St. Matthews, South Carolina

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LEAKE,

THE CENTRAL OFFICE Suite 319, 636 Church Street Evanston, Illinois EnTOT N. FRANKLIN, Assistalll Sect·etary Exemtit1e See1·etary DISTRICT ARCHONS

District District District District District District District District District District District District District District District District District

!-Frank J. McMullen, 68 76th Street, Brooklyn, New York 2-Unassigned 3-Reginald L. Price, 133 Brevard Court, Charlotte, North Carolina 4-J. Neville Holcombe, P. 0. Box 730, Spartanburg, South Carolina 5-Francis T. Dwyer. 604 Candler Building, Atlanta, Geor~ia 6-James W. Chambliss, 304 East Ross Avenue, Tampa, Florida 7-J. Theodore Jackson, P. 0. Box 673, Dothan, Alabama 8-Greenwood Henson, 24 Terry Apartments, Knoxville, Tennessee 9-Harold 0. Merle, 10 15th Avenue. Columbus, Ohio 10- George B. Helmrich, 2659 Dundee Road , Royal Oak, Michigan 11-W. Robert Amick, 333 Vine Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 14-Russell B. Johnson, 407 Welch Street, Ames, Iowa 15-Clancy A. J.atham, 1817 Valence Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 16-Byrd P. Mauldin, Pontotoc, Mississippi 18-C. Eugene Springer, 305 South Chautauqua, Norman, Oklahoma 19-Horace A. Granger, 818 Third Avenue, Seattle, Washington 20-Boj•d W. Rea, 2530 Etna Street, Berkelej•, California STANDING COMMITTEES

Scholarship

Dr. Will E. Edington, Chairman, DePauw Universit)•, Greencastle, Indiana Dr. Robert L. Petry, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee Dr. J. E. Winter, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Finance

Ralph W. Noreen, Chairman, 1 Wall Street, New York City (Term expires, 12-31-35) Kurt C. Lauter, 1 Wall Street, New York City (Term expires, 12-31-39) Robert E. Allen, 40 East Forty-second Street, New York City (Term expires, 12-31-37) Endowment Fund

John D. Carroll, Chairman, Lexington, South Carolina Raymond Orteig, Jr., Secretary, 61 West Ninth Street, New York City Henry Harper, 209 East Seventh Street, Charlotte, North Carolina Roy J. Heffner, 186 Mills Street, Morristown, New Jersey Legislative

George Grant, Chairman, Troy, Alabama Karl M. Gibbon, Room 2115, 11 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois Carl F. Ostergren, 140 West Street, New York City Architect11re

James Fogarty, Chairman, 8 Court House Square. Charleston, South Carolina Edward J. Squire, 20 Woodruff Avenue, Brooklyn, New York Clyde C. Pearson, Confederate Road, National Military Park, Vicksburg, Mississippi John 0. Blair, Hotel Eddystone, Detroit, Michigan

uo ebunk·mg u IN A column which is open to public expression, an editor of a popular ~eek!y recently published a letter rom one of his readers which asked i? no uncertain terms for the publication to start a series of articles "debu?king" the college fraternity. The editor in his reply, classic but unrecalled in verbatim answered briefly to the effect that he refused to start any "debunking" because of the fear that he himself might ·be debunked.

Volume XXI

February, 1935

Number 1

The

Star and Lamp of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity HOWARD D. LEAKE, Editor

T!in past decade has seen a great deal of delving into dark closets for skelet~ns and the washing of other people's ~irty linen in the most exposed places Y. self-appointed launderers. The vo.ices of scandal-mongers have been rarse.d against the background of our chenshed national customs and traditions, against some shadowy spots in the personal history of men we have revered for the good they have done.

To ~hat end? That a gossip-loving POrt!on of the population might roll the JUrcy morsels around their tongue and whisper confidentially for a mob~nt; that the exposer might have a Bref spot of the light of publicity. owever, we who keep our feet on the ground and walk and talk softly merely think our disgust of these seek~rs after clay feet, sometimes express rt, knowing fully that these casters of stones are not without their own sins, and continue our regard for things regardful with the full realization that things human must have their weaknesses. are indirectly complimented by the prominence given to their potentialities of, and actual, w~aknesses. They are thus classified Wi~h the outstanding men and institutiOns. We admit there are bases of criticism, but we hold that their gener~J good outweighs the instances of ev!l, mainly isolated. It is the same of thrs society of which we are each a Part. There are a thousand angles about it which should be corrected, about which we complain daily, but ve.ry few of us wish to destroy it or Wish to leave it.

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Confidence and Faith in Fraternities

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By Dr. Will E. Edington, Y Discoveries in the Field of Alumni Endeavor

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FRATERNITIES

Ltrr the debunkers howl. We will be glad to call their bellowings of bluff.

Thank God, we can still cherish golden sentiments.

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Officials' Page Fundamental Verities

. . t archons AS I read the reports from the executive secretary an d the d tstrlc . bed that come to me from time to time through the Central Office, I am dtstur ity to note that in some of our chapters loyalty and devotion to the fr.ater~ad seem to be at a low ebb. Brothers are content, apparently, to permtt a till 5 situation to continue or to grow worse without making any real effort, less any sacrifices to improve conditions. .0 To talk of loyalty, sacrifice and honour, may, in this day and generaf.ov~ seem a bit old-fashioned, but however things may change I do not ~e.r a路 that the fundamental verities can be out-moded or that without them ctvt tz tion and its institutions can long endure.

0 We have all of tis entered into the bond of Pi Kappa Phi of our 0 free will. We have voluntarily taken upon ourselves a solemn and 1~ e long obligation. Any reasonable regard for our personal honour deman 5 a conscientious effort to live up to that pledge. Its strict observance by every . . brother, active or alumnus, would go far toward the solution of some of our W~lt,am f. Berry most vexing problems, financial and otherwise. .

Nat1onal Secretary I . d . . . f tl e jot路 . . . somettmes won er wh~ther, armd the stram and exotement o 1 t ttatton, the neophyte does not fat! properly to grasp the exact tmport of the words he is called upon to rep.ea after the archon. Would it not be well occasionally to rehearse the oath and renew the vow in chapter m~ettn~ 1 so that we might ever have clearly in mind the precise nature of our obligations to Pi Kappa Phi? Mtght not be a good plan for the district archon at his semi-annual visitation to read the oath to the assembled chapter and then ask them:

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"Do you here in the pl'esence of the Almighty Archon of the Universe and of yofl1' bl'others of this chapter of Pi Kappa Phi, solemnly renew the vow freely taken at your initiation, ratifying and confirming the same, so help yo11 God?''

We are indebted to the fraternity for fellowship and inspiration, for experiences that will become the prec~u~ memories of our later years. It is our duty to preserve the institution that has given them to us in order a those who follow us may enjoy a life no less rich.

WILLIAM J. BERRY

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"Seek Ye first the Fraternal Spirit and Other Things Will Be Added Unto You

(An extract from President Meisel's speech before the naJiotzal cont'en;iofl of Phi Mtl D elta, held in New York City in December. He 111as I e g11est speaker at the banq11et.)

SOMEONE has said: "The future is the whole world limited by ourselves." If you are willing to accept this statement ~s true, I will lay out a program for you for the future. ni During the next ten years, every undergraduate chapter should be organized with some adequate form of active aiU:,:ch cooperation, either as a corporation with directors, or some similar arrangement. Chapter budgets should be balanc~d rne year, and if possible arranged to yield a surplus. Such surplus should be accumulated to such a point so that the mcoge路 will be at the disposal of the chapter to be used for emergency, or to be used for improving the chapter's housing arran ment. By removing financial problems, undergraduate fraternity spirit will also be improved. . . m 00 Each chapter should be equipped with a resident tutor, preferably a postgraduate student, the chapter provtdtng r !DJI and board and the university giving him free tuition. This plan would help to forestall the college small quadr~~gle ~HI and the erection of new dormitories, and give each chapter an educational atmosphere. Incidentally, such condtttons ests, make membership more worth while and more attractive to the neophyte. . .

The alumni of each chapter should be organized in connection with these enterprises as a further outlet to thet.r tnte~ance and there should be an alumnus delegate from each chapter at your national conventions, thus recognizing the tmpor definite of your alumni in chapter affairs. Thus will be afforded more opportunity for the development of alumni spirit.

Each alumni chapter in the large cities must strive for a better organization and a wider sphere of usefulness. A . cutn路 program must be put into effect intended to reach all the alumni in town , having in mind the characteristics and ctr 2s) stances of the average alumnus already referred to.

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( ONFIDENCE in the American college fraternity i and faith in its development as a valuable force n the educational world were expressed and reexfressed at the 26th annual session of the National n~erfraternity Conference. That assurance came from ~~ ege presidents, from college and university deans u men, from fraternity leaders, and from undergrads:te ~elegates representing nearly fifty educational in'1\r~Uhon~, even including one from Yale University f 0 d~n.ted, and gave proof to back up his denial, that r~ernttJes would cease to function at Yale University.

'IV ven more reassuring, however, than the heartening thOrds of numerous speakers, was a notable report of b e Committee on Cooperation with Colleges, which . rought before the conference statements from admin~trators of sixty-four educational institutions through£Ut the United States, indicating a sympathy with the LeRoy E. IGmball, l: N, Chairman of National t~aternt.~ criteria announced last spring and outlining lrllerfraternity Conference of the institutions in cooperating with fratere poltc•es ·· / 1hes and in helping to make them more valuable authorized by the 25th conference the following statea )Uncts. Included in the statement of policy was fre- ment of policy in regard to fraternity financial obliga1 quently a tribute to the fine attitude of fraternities tions: That the National Interfraternity Conference recog5 ( ;.nd the work tl1ey are doing. Some of the most posit statements of cooperation and of confidence came nize 11 rom administrators who have in the past been re1. That a man to be a valuable member of a college far~e.d in some quarters as being unfriendly to fra- fraternity, or of a college, or of any other community group, ern•tJes. must meet his financial obligations.

2. That upon each chapter rests the primary responsibility Of equal, if not of greater importance in developing ~~nfidence in college fraternities was the definite ac- of requiring each of its members to meet such obligations.

3. That upon each college rests a responsibility to require ton taken by practically unanimous votes in adopting each of its students to meet such obligations. ;solutions and P?licies of outstanding importance.

4. That in case a member of a chapter fails to meet his he conference voted to endorse the fraternity criteria financial obligations to the chapter when due, then his chap· ~nd st~ndards, previously proclaimed by the Executive ter is morally obligated to report the delinquency to the 0 fllmtttee and the Educational Advisory Council, the proper college officer and request that college privileges, inaward of diploma or granting of credits, be suspended; ~ndorsement carrying with it the provision that each cluding to use all proper means to enforce payment of the memt raternity represented pledge itself to work militantly ber's obligation; and in case of failure to collect to suspend O'Ward the achievement of these standards. the member from the chapter and to recommend his ex-

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pulsion from the fraternity, and to report this action to the proper college officer.

5. That cooperation between the fraternities and the college is essential to effective enforcement of these responsibilities.

6. That the time is opportune for the working out and maintainin·g of the procedure by a joint committee of officers of colleges and officers of the National Interfraternity Conference.

Committee for Study The conference authorized the Executive Committee to create a commission of seven, three fraternity men, three outstanding college administrators, and one neu3

Albert W. Meisel Subject of Conference Resolution

Albert W. Meisel Retiring Vice-CIIairman

_The following excerpt was taken from the mmutes of recent National Interfraternity Conference and was a part of the report of the committee on nominations: However, the committee feels that it is not doing its duty until it has presented this resolution RESOLVED, That the Conference expresses its appreciation for the energetic and devoted service of Mr. Albert Meisel as a member of the Executive Committee, as Secretary, and as Vice-Chairman during the past four years· and be it further ' RESOLVED, That the Conference notes with regret that Mr. Meisel feels that the official du~ies a~ pre~ident of his own fraternity require h1s Withdrawal from further official participation in its work. (Applause. )

':Vhat he has in physical and mental energy, avatlable for fraternal purposes, National President ~eisel has deter~ined to devote to Pi Kappa Ph1. Because of hts experience and most acceptable official record in the Conference he well might have been considered the logical candidate for the chairmanship; but to him it was: Pi Kappa Phi comes first.

The fraternity bows in tribute to its leader.

tral, ~o make a study of fraternity problems and m~e defimte recommendations in the light of such stu Y• pledging itself to cooperate with such a study to make it a success. If the effort to have the work of the coJll· mission financed by one of the educational founda· . ·es tions fails, an appeal is to be made to the fraternt~l themselves for voluntary contributions, not e:xceediOg fifty dollars per fraternity.

The Executive Committee was instructed to give co~· sideration to the publication in pamphlet form o~ a dt· gest presenting the values of fraternity membershiP· .

Semi-annual inspection by experts of all fraterntty. sorority, dormitories, and large rooming houses as a protection against fire, gas, and sanitary hazards wa! called for in a resolution passed by the conference. 'fh Executive Committee was commissioned to make per· sistent and thorough-going efforts to bring about such inspection by college and university authorities.

Another resolution passed calls for the securing from educational institutions at which member fraternities are represented information in regard to the extent they will cooperate with fraternities in placing resid:Ot 10 advisers in chapter houses and to make available ' formation i~ regard ~o the fees, if any, whi0, will b~ charged restdent advtsers for registration, tuttton, an fees.

For the first time in the history of the National In· terfraternity Conference, the National Undergraduat.e Council not only worked under a constitution, but tt pre.sent~d th:ough the chairmen of committees report: of tts dtscusstons and recommendations to the Nattona . . ly Interfraternity Conference, thus being more defimte recognized as an integral part of the conference.

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The 26th session of the National Interfraternt~ 0 Conference fulfilled to an unusual degree the plea Cecil J. Wilkinson, executive secretary of Phi Gamma Delta, expressed in his opening aqdress as chairma~ "to devote itself earnestly and intelligently to the con ference agenda with a determination that out of those deliberations might come conclusions which will re· dound to the advancement of the fraternity cause."

He first reviewed the success of the conference leadership in developing a united front which pre· vented a deletion of Paragraph C of the jewelry code, providing protection against unauthorized manufacture or sale of fraternity insignia, in developing a ciear~r understanding of fraternity purposes among college a. · mini~trators .through the adoption of the six criterHif 0 and m workmg out a plan for a fact-finding survey d the contributions being made to the educational worl by the fraternities.

"For one hundred years fraternities have been the 00 greates.t socializing force in our educational institut! ~; Potenttally they come nearer to furnishing the tde-.u nucleus for the socialization of the undergraduate than

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The fraternity needs reform, revitalization, even as the attitude of the average American toward his c~untry needs it; but a little moral courage on the part 0 college administrators would produce startling improvement. The fraternity has been resting on its oars, ~s has the dlUrch; but it can easily be brought up to fi ate so that it will give the most critical youtil so ne an influence that he would not be without it, no Olatter what the sacrifice in mere money."

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estdent Advisers. First, there is the development of f · chapters as cultural centers actively further. rat erntty and supplementing the fundamental purposes of C~leges generally, and, second, the improvement of s olarship, both in its broad aspects and in the nar;ower connotation as expressed by classroom marks, f rofessor Jordan stated. The committee urged each conerence member to emphasize the resident adviser ~~vement and where possible to consider the possi1 1 _ty of giving financial support to those chapters Whtch otherwise would be unable to put the plan into 0Peration.

A. scholarship loss for both the all-men's average and that of fraternity men in institutions through~ut the country was reported by Alvan E. Duerr, Delta }Jau Delta, chairman of the Scholarship Committee. e reported tilese facts: th The_loss took place generally, with the exception of e Mtddle Atlantic States, where a slight gain was Olade. In tile South, where fraternity averages have alWays been highest, the loss was the greatest; one-half of the institutions had lower fraternity group averages t~an the previous year; this year the South takes second P ace to the Western States. Last year the average of all1 fraternities at a majority of colleges was above the a !-men's average, as were a majority of the averages of na~ional fraternities and of individual chapters; this ~ear, 10 every case, the majority is below. The most sat~~ctory gains have been at Illinois, Columbia, and tsconsin.

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tes can and do help in the general conduct of the educational institution," declared Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox, recently installed president of Union College, and one

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Thompson, dean of men at the University of Nebraska, in regard to his change in attitude toward fraternities was one of the most impressive tributes paid at the National Interfraternity Conference. It follows: "When some seven years ago I came into the position I now occupy in the University of Nebraska from the professorship in d1emistry, I was soundly of the opinion that fraternities were of no avail and were of no account on the Nebraska campus. I persisted in that attitude, accepting them as an evil that was there when I carne. But the thought soon occurred to me that maybe there was something here that could be used to the advantage of the University, and I also thought of that old statement that what a man is not up on he is against.

"I concluded more and more as time went on in those seven years that the University of Nebraska, and perhaps a large number of other institutions over this country, were missing an opportunity in leadership and in education.

"I have come to believe that the function of an educational institution is to serve the social, the cultural, and the educational needs of the student.

"I am strong for the fraternities today. Seven years ago I looked upon them with a good deal of trepidation."

of tile principal speakers at the conference.

"Few administrators could provide with college resources so rid1 a social life that members of the better fraternities now enjoy," Dr. Fox stated. "Most school executives realize that fraternities have high potentialities of excellence if they and tile college work togeilier.

"The wise executive recognizes that fraternities give their members wholesome values they could not get otherwise. The fraternity is a training school in the finest citizenship. As a part of its work it is a training school in manners, in urbanity-the dramatization of good will."

Dr. Fox described enthusiastically the possibilities of traveling fraternity secretaries, declaring such work could be one of the highest callings in American life.

It was in such work that Dr. Fox served the Alpha Chi Rho Fraternity for many years.

Officers Officers elected are: Chairman, Leroy E. Kimball, Sigma Nu; vice chairman, Harold J. Baily, Beta Theta Pi; secretary, J. Harold Johnston, Pi Kappa Alpha; treasurer, Russell C. MacFall, New York, Delta Chi; educational adviser, William L. Sanders, dean of men, Ohio Wesleyan University, Sigma Chi; members of ilie Executive Committee, John Marchmont, Phi Sigma Kappa; William Langford; George Banta, Jr., Menasha, Wis., Phi Delta Theta; Harry S. Gorgas, Phi Kappa Psi; Charles A. Tonsor, Jr., Ridgewood, N.J., (Contin11ed

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Under the Student's Lamp Pi Kappa Phi Holds Positive Rating Call for 1935 Scholars

By Dr. Will E. Edington, Upsilon Chairman of Scholarship Committee

f RATERNI1Y scholarship as a whole over the entire United States experienced a drop in 1933-1934 ~s compared with the scholarship in 1932-1933, and JS ~ack

to about where it was in 1929-1930. Pi Kappa Plu also suffered a slight drop as compared with the preceding year due to the extremely poor records of three of our chapters. Of 32 chapters rated in the Int.erfraternio/ Sch~larship report, 18 have a positive ratmg, that 1s, the1r scholarship standings are above the all-men's averages at their respective institutions.

The Interfraternity Conference report actually rates 32 of our chapters but credits us with 31, and in working out the totals, an error was made so that our total rating was given as -2 points for an average of -0.06, whereas it should be plus 1 point for an average of plus 0.03. Hence for the fifth consecutive year Pi Kap~a Phi has a. t;><>sitivt; rating. Also among the 26 national fraterntt1es havmg 35 or more chapters Pi Kappa Phi ranks eighth.

In order that the district archons, chapter advisers, and the active membership may see the standings of our chapters we present the following table. When a chapter's rating is positive that means the scholarship ?f t~e ~apter was above the all-men's average at that mstttuttOn, when negative the scholarship of the chapter was below the all-men's average. Also the rank of of the chapter among the national fraternities on its campus is given. Thus, for example, our Alabama chapter. has a plus ~ rating and ranked eighth among 28 national fra~erntty chapters at the University of Alabama and thts should make easy the interpretation of the table.

Alabama plus 6, 8/28; Alabama Polytechnic -5, 15/19; Brooklyn Polytechnic plus 1, 1/5; Davidson -10, 8/9; Duke -5, 13/14· Emory -11 13/14;. Florida -5, 15/22; Furma~ plus 11, 2/5; Georgia -7, 7/17; Georgia Tech plus I, 9/23; Howard plus 7, 2/5; Iowa State -I7, 29/30; Mercer -9, 7/8; Michigan State plus I4 2/IO· Mississippi plus 11, 11/16; North Carol~a plu~ 20, 5/26; North Carolina State -I5 I0/13• Ohio State plus 2, 13/42; Oklahoma I7/22; Oregon state -I, 24/29; Penn State -21 24/29· Presbyterian plus 7, I/5; Purdue plus IS, 2/32; Sewanee plus 11, I/9; South Carolina -22, I4/I4; Stetson plus 3, 2/3I; Tennessee plus I5,

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This table should make clear how necessary it is ~hat every chapter maintain at least its present stan~­ mg for the year 1934-1935, if our national average 15 to be where we all wish it to be. Also the chapters having large negative ratings should do some bard, (Continued on page 28)

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Drexel Leader Outstanding in neadY all fields of activities on the campus is H. ~· Coleman of Alpha Ups~­ lon. "Hen," as he ~s known to his f-riends, tS a senior in the electrical engineering school, president of the men's student council, a member of Blue Key, of which he is vice-president, chairman of the Drexel chapter of AJ.E.E., a H. B. Coleman member of Scabbard . . and Blade, a cadet captam m the R.O.T.C. of the school and is retiring htst?rian of the chapter. Besides performing all the duttes of the above activities Brother Coleman finds time to take an active interest in the various social affairs of the chapter and in addition stands relatively high in his studies.

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such discoveries would be. When we are considering alumni, we are almost considering the human race!

But there are some very varied, specific things which can be told. I will group them as much as possible according to similarities.

First, let us look into some interesting statistics concerning the typical alumnus, secured by averaging the records of about 40 different chapters in five middleWestern universities.

Bis average age is only 35Y4 years. In making appeals to alumni, there is always the problem of interes~ing men of a complete range of ages. To strike the rn1ddle ground, one has to picture the average alumnus as in his middle thirties, probably pretty busy, and interested in those activities which appeal to a man of 35. . Approximately 75 per cent of the alumni live in citIes of 30,000 population or more, so the average alumnus is of the urban type.

Eighty per cent of the men who have been out of college for more than five years are married. The average alumnus marries within five years out of college.

Eleven per cent remain bachelors.

Seventy-eight per cent of the married alumni are wed to women who went to college. Of this number about one-fifth have wives who attended where they. went to ~hool, a figure which doesn't truly indicate to you Just what a matrimonial bureau a co-educational college really is. The percentage of men married to women they met in the class room would be much higher if the enrollment of women in most co-educational schools had been more comparable in size to the male ~nrollment. For instance, at the University of Illinois, It is discovered that 56 per cent of the women alumnre are married to men they met through lheir alma mater.

The average fraternity alumnus is, and has been, ~racticing race suicide. There is only one child and Sl)c:-tenths of another as an average in the families of fraternity alumni. Sororities and fraternities get an alrn~st even break in prospective members among these ch1ldren, as to the proportion of sons and daughters.

Approximately 60 per cent of the fraternity alumni completed four years in college to graduate, but this average is rapidly tumbling since the percentage of fraternity men to graduate is decreasing.

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Here is an article on alumni carrying the weight of authority. Stewart Howe has been making a profession for many years of assisting undergraduate chapters of many national fraternities on several campuses to create and continue a healthy and helpful relationship with the older members who have gone before; besides, he is the national alumni secretary of Kappa Sigma. Alumni will no doubt find in these lines a mirror; undergraduates their future fraternity history; and the fraternities, a critic who proposes as well as criticizes. What do you think of this article? The editor will be glad to hear from you. ferent chapters to give me the names of their alumni whom they considered the most helpful and the names of their alumni whom they considered the most successful. I found that about one-third of each of the two lists furnished by each fraternity were made up' of the same men. This bears out another observation: that the most interested alumni are also usually the most successful alumni. There are two reasons for this: one, obviously, is that a man is successful for the same qualities that make him an interested alumnus; the other is that the less successful man realizes it and the realization makes him self-conscious enough that he wants to avoid fraternity contacts. If we want to produce better alumni, we want to try to get men into our undergraduate chapters who have the greatest abilities to succeed. If we want to win more alumni interest, we can arouse it more quickly through the successful alumni.

But to get back to the reason that I collected the lists.

Using them, I did some investigating in old college records. It was found that, with rare exception, they went to college for fqur years and had graduated. Next, without exception, they all had good, or better than average, scholarship while in college. The Phi Beta Kappas among them were few. Most of their scholarship was in the 85 to 95 classes.

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ested alumni. As a general rule, the former chapter presidents, secretaries, and treasurers were the most successful alumni. As for the college activities of these men, I was a bit surprised to find that they apparently had no relationship as to whether a man became either an interested or successful alumnus. Some men had been very active in campus affairs; others, not at all.

You might be interested in the undergraduate records of a few alumni who have made publicly-known names: Harold I. Ickes founded the University of Chicago chapter of Phi Delta Theta, served two years as its first president, was an exceptionally good student, edited the student paper, was manager of the tennis team and a member of the track team.

James Rowland Angell, president of Yale University, was president of the Deke chapter at Michigan, a very good student, and played tennis and baseball.

Frederic March, the movie star, was president of the Alpha Delta Phi cl1apter and the senior class at Wisconsin. He was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, the scholastic honorary society in the College of Commerce, and the senior society, and was varsity football manager as well as the star of most campus theatrical productions. Fame has not distracted his fraternity interest. Although he couldn't attend, he sent a letter to former classmates urging them to the reunion this fall at the Wisconsin Homecoming.

William McAdoo not only held practically every active chapter office and made a college record as an outstanding student and leader, but within .five years out of college became national president of Kappa Sigma.

We might generalize that the most desirable alumni graduate from college, have better than average scholarship, and hold chapter offices, as undergraduates.

Did it ever occur to you to see in what occupations you find your best alumni? To anyone who has done much work with alumni, it isn't necessary to compile statistics to know this. I'd say that lawyers, of all classes of men, are generally the best alumni. If your chapters are producing lots of lawyers, take heart in the future of your alumni! Pretty close after the lawyers come the men in general business capacities. Next, the men in medicine--dentists aren't so good. Clergymen, as a general rule, are the least helpful and least interested alumni. Close to the bottom with the clergy - and remember that I say as a general rule--are the professors and teachers. Administrative faculty members are better.

You'll probably be interested to know that from both statistical delving and observation, again as a general rule, chapter athletes don't become very good alumni, nor (especially those who have left school in the past score of years) do they become very successful alumni.

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as a geseral rule, look even less promising of becom· ing good alumni in the future.

Yet here is a paradox. It is true that a winning football team not only helps college alumni spirit very much but also helps fraternity alumni spirit.

Members helped while they are in school generally do not develop into grateful and interested alumni.

Pretty consistently the men who were excused f:om paying part of the house bill, or who were gtven generous credit in their payments become the op· posite from grateful and do not show average interest . in their fraternity as alumni.

You may think it an inconsistency, but alumni fi· nancial campaigns do build alumni interest. If ~e financial requests are not too frequent, and if their purpose is always convincingly worthwhile, whatever you may think to the contrary, this is very true. Chapters which have regular alumni dues actually have good alumni spirit. I think it is wise for a chapter, if it d~es not have alumni dues, to stage some small .finanetal solicitation for a worthy purpose every few years. Prob· ably occasional .financial requests help create mo~e alumni spirit because a man's interest follows hts pocketbook. He values more those things which co~t him something. A very likely, more subtle reason IS that when a man contributes he feels ties of attach· ment. (Pardon the pun!)

There are some warnings to be made about .finan· cial campaigns, aside from the rule that they should be only occasional and should always be for a justifiable purpose. First, it is better to seek contributions of small amounts frequently than to ask for large amounts.

Second, solicitations for contributions should never under any circumstances be made while an alumnus is visiting the chapter house. Passing the hat on occa· sions when alumni are visiting is bad psychology. If money has to be raised to offset the costs of a banquet fed to the alumnus, it is much better to sell him a ticket at a stipulated price. Selling a ticket connotes value received. Passing the hat seems either a charitab!e hand-out or a hold-up. Third, whatever I have sat~ about the wisdom of asking for occasional alumni contributions is cancelled as far as seeking money to save a mortgage is concerned. That doesn't improve alumni spirit. It is easier to get contributions to build a new house than to get contributions to save an old one, and the alumnus will give more generously in we former case and like. it. Psychologically, building a new house is positive; trying to save one is very negative. .

All of which leads one to the point that in all alumni contacts, it is a prime necessity to be an optimist ra~er than a pessimist. A winning chapter, like a winntng football team, gets twice as much alumni support. If the chapter is down-at-the-heel, it can actually get more alumni support by presenting only the brighter side of the picture to the alumni.

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The nature of the trophy is yet undecided but s~ould take the form either of a cup or a plaque. This WJ~ be a circulating award until won three times by a smgle chapter, upon which it will become a permanent possession of that chapter. It will be engraved each time, and probably the presentation will come during the spring months of each year.

The proposed bases of the award are: 1. The proportion of the alumni news in each issue. Fifty Per cent is the minimum amount in this respect.

2. Frequency of issue. At least four issues should be prePared and mailed during the year . .3. Number mailed in relation to full membership list. l'h~s. will show the completeness and accuracy of the chapter lllathng list. b 4. Attractiveness of the publication. Considered here will e the layout, legibility, and English used.

The judges will probably be National Historian

Jenes and the executive secretary. Central Office has in Preparation a special bulletin on the chapter paper for the guidance of the chapter members who become res~onsible for this phase of activity of the chapter. It WJU be immediately available for reference and study.

Miscellaneous Albert W. Meisel, national president, has issued a call for a National Council meeting for the tentative dates of the 29 and 30 of March, in Richmond, Va. Anyone desiring to place matters before the council at that time should direct them to Central Office well before those dates.

President Meisel has appointed Raymond Orteig, Jr., Alpha Xi Chapter, as his successor in the position of secretary of the national Endowment Fund Committee.

The new edition of the Constitution and Supreme ~aws of the fraternity is now available. This printing mtroduces to the code the changes which were effected by the recent New York Supreme Chapter meeting.

It was edited by Supreme Chancellor Theron A. Houser.

Introductions Greenwood Henson has charge of the Eighth District, which comprises the states of Tennessee and Kentucky. He came to the attention of the fraternity through his active interest in the affairs of Alpha Sigma Chapter. Following the installation of the chapter he became a frequent visitor at the house and later identified himself with its affairs by becoming a member of the board of alumni control. He was also one of the sponsors of the alumni movement for an

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ormer secretary, J. W. Cannon, Jr., the appointment of_Elliott N. Franklin, Omega '34, was made shortly P~•or to the first of the new year. He has entered into h•s duties with an admirable spirit of active interest and concentration, and in time will become a valued servant of the fraternity. liis fraternity background is an excellent one, that ~f Omega Chapter, Purdue University, which several tunes has won the national efficiency contest and has ;!ways been.a most acceptable chapter in all phases of raternity endeavor. He served the chapter as book~eeper and archon, and in other minor official capacities. He represented his chapter in the President's Council of the campus and the Interfraternity Council.

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association in the city of Knoxville, location of the University of Tennessee.

He is a graduate of Georgia Tech of the class of '31 majoring in commerce. His work in this connection brought membership in Alpha Kappa Psi. To Procter and Gamble he took his ability and is now their representative in the states of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia in the gathering of raw materi als such as cottonseed oil and cooking fats. He is married, and lives at 24 Terry Apartments, Knoxville.

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Some 85 couples, alumni and friends, gathered on February 9 for the first annual bridge-dance of the Detroit Alumni Chap· ter. Under the direc· tion of Chan Johnson, Chi who also assisted the' orchestra in mak· ing the evening mor_e attractive by his rendt: tion of Pi Kappa Pht songs, the evening re· suited in the most en· joyable returns eve~ obtained from a Joca program.

At the January Orson D. Byrd, Detroit Archon meeting Orson D. Byrd, Alpha Theta, was elected archon. He is a research chemist with the Parke, · ue Davis company. He stated that the chapter would cont:Jn the talks by members of their own work, under the genera 1 title of "The Romance of My Business." Chan Johnson was elected treasurer of the chapter. Karl Jepson, Alpha Theta, was chosen as secretary.

The chapter has been in close touch with Alpha Thet~ since the house burned, and several members have given m~C time and thought to the plans for rebuilding and relinanctng of the residence.

Kendall Jordon Heads Atlanta Alumni At the luncheon meeting of the alumni association held ~ the Lawyers' Oub, January 21, Kendall Jordon, Pi, was ele~t president. Philip Etheridge, Alpha Alpha, was named d vice president; C. E. Brockington, second vice president, an Clay Olbon, Alpha Alpha, secretary and treasurer.

The meeting plans of the chapter for the futu~e ar~ luncheon meetings every Tuesday at 12 : 30 at the Ktmbal, House and monthly business meetings at the Atlanta Lawyers Club.

Carl Ostergren Is N.Y. Archon

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Following his appointment as district archon of the First District, Frank J. McMullen tendered his resignation as arc~on of the New York Alumni Chapter. In their December meet~ng this group elected Carl Ostergren, Psi, to replace ht~j Brother Ostergren is a vice-president of the New York ~ Telephone company and a staunch supporter of the fratern!IY· He has been consistently helpful in the affairs of Psi Chaptet His work as chairman of the registration committee and wor on the publicity committee assisted greatly in making the New York convention the success it proved to be; also, he was active in discussion on the floor of the convention. J-Ie has served as chairman of the expansion committee of the New York Alumni Chapter, and in numerous other ca· pacities .

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Briefly Speaking Jots of Personal and General Information From Hither and Yon Mayor at Twenty-five If he is not the youngest, W. A. Knox, Lambda, is among the youngest city executives of the State of Georgia. At the a~e of 25 he has assumed the reins of government of the Ctty of Thomson, Georgia. The people of Thomson are almost Unanimous in their anticipation of a progressive and active administration under Knox.

W. A. (Shorty) Knox is the eldest of four sons of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Knox of Thomson. All four have become members of Pi Kappa Phi, three coming in via Lambda, University of Georgia, and the other through Epsilon of Davidson College. P. S. Knox, Jr., was the member of the quartet 'IVho went out of the state for his education, and it is with him that W. A. is associated in the Knox Brothers Builders Supply company of Thomson. W. L. M. and Robert Knox are now in the University of Georgia.

W. A. Knox was a prominent member of the Lambda Chapter at the time he was on the campus, serving in many official capacities, including that of archon, and representing the chapter in the national convention at Detroit. He was a captain of the R.O.T.C., member of the Gridiron Club, Panhellenic Council, and other social organizations.

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Charles Scribner's Sons are in possession of the manu~cript of Tom Wolfe's, Kappa, second offering to the readtog public of the country. It is scheduled to appear in the coming months, although no definite date is indicated because of its unusual length, approximately 450,000 words.

It will be given the title Of Time and the River and will carry the subtitle of A Legend of Man's Hrmger in His Youth.

According to the publishers, the new work should rival the Popularity which his Look Homeward, Angel attained.

A collection of long stories and another novel are in Preparation.

Leo Pou Given Boost That Leo Pou, Omicron and past national secretary, stands :"ell with the powers that be of the state Democratic circles 15 evidenced by his recommendation to the appointment of first assistant United States district attorney of the southern Alabama district. Leo has practiced law in Mobile for the Past seven years, and in that time has made an excellent record. He served for two years as judge of the recorder's court of Mobile. At present he is associated with Leo M. Brown in the practice of law in that city, and in addition finds time to do some political chores as chairman of the Democratic eJCecutive committee of the county. The recommendation of Senators Black and Bankhead of Alabama is tantamount to appointment.

Luke Sewell to Chicago l Winter trading in baseball circles affected Pi Kapp baller, buke Sewell, the younger of the Sewell brothers, both mem. ers of Omicron Chapter. He leaves the environs of Washtngton, D .C., for the windy stretches of Chicago and will be ~een in the pale hose of the Chicago White Sox, American eague, !his capable backstop is one of the trades made by the Chtcago team in a final effort to bolster the fortunes of the

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almost perennial cellar artists. First division or quit, seems to be the motto of Comiskey. Luke will be a stalwart backstop for the White Sox, and if they obtain performers like him in the other positions we can look to see the Chicago Americans make an acceptable comeback.

Peat and Repeat Pi Kapps who hold membership in the Junior Chamber

of Commerce of Charlotte apparently are active and capable men. The first meeting of the body for the year 1935 saw the induction of Marion D avis, Xi, as president. He succeeded Walter Hoyle, Gamma and Kappa, in the position.

Frank Simms, Pi, was a forerunner of these men in the position a year or so ago.

D avis is manager of the Charlotte store of Sears, Roebuck, and Company. Hoyle is a practicing attorney of the city.

Cobb and Kettles Hold State Jobs It seems that Alpha Alpha has the politicians this year

when it comes to landing state positions under Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia. Henry Cobb and Gordon Kettles have good state jobs and doing well according to newspaper reports.

After fifteen months' respite, which he spent with the West Publishing Company of St. Paul, Henry H. Cobb has returned to Macon to resume his work as assistant to the code commissioner of the State of Georgia in the revision of the code of the state. The new code is now nearing completion.

Cobb is a graduate of the Law School of Mercer University.

Gordon Kettles, appointed assistant supervisor of State purchases in January, 1933, is a business man and practical farmer, who by training and experience is ably fitted to discharge the duties of this important office. He is Georgian born and was reared in Whitfield county. After attending Riverside Military Academy, Emory University, and Mercer University, Kettles organized The Dalton News, one of Georgia's leading weekly newspapers. He made a marked success in the printing field until he resigned in 1933 to accept the appointment as assistant supervisor of purchases.

Legislator Herman Methfessel, Alpha Xi, was one of the successful candidates for a seat in legislature of the State of New York. He represents Richmond County and lives on Staten Island. His vocation is the Fourth Estate, specifically the New York Evening W or/d.

Campaign to Modernize Chapter Houses A campaign to modernize chapter houses and other properties of Greek-letter college fraternities and sororities in the United States through modernization loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration was begun recently with the extension of a loan of $1,700 to the Tau Beta Chapter of the Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity. The chapter house is located at College Park, Md. Actual work on the building was begun within 24 hours after the application was made, according to Julian B. Venet-

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sky, vice consul of the national fraternity and disbursing officer of the local chapter.

It is estimated that Greek-letter fraternities in this country own around $100,000,000 worth of property, consisting chiefly of chapter houses, and that the volume of modernization work needed or advisable for these structures at the present time amounts to several million dollars. A concerted effort is being made, according to housin~ officials, to point out to the various fraternities the advisability of taking advantage of the modernization loans to make the improvements.

Attractive Program Central Office has received from Alpha Zeta Chapter a copy of the program published on the occasion of their Founders' Day celebration and lOth anniversary, which were coincidental. The main portion of the booklet was given over to a review of the history of the chapter from the inception of the local to date, attractively written by W. D. Lovegren and Chapter Adviser T. J. Starker. The editing was done by Marvin Wilbur.

One Year, $1,050,000 of Business The Insular Life Assurance company of the Philippines sent Earl Carroll, Alpha Eta, to Hawaii to open up an agency.

It was the first time the company has ever looked to other territories for business than the Islands, and they were persuaded to the step by Carroll.

Recently the anniversary of the establishment of the office was noted by The News Tribune, the largest Filipino newspaper of Hawaii, and included in the edition was the report of the success of the company made by Carroll over the radio.

There are now 28 agents in the territory, and 1,283 applications for insurance have been received for a total of $1,050,000.00 An editorial of the newspaper takes occasion to place the entire credit on the work of Carroll.

New Baird's Manual A new edition of Baird's Man11al, the fraternity bible, is promised in the near future by its publishers, the George Banta Publishing Company. It will again be under the able editorship of Dr. Francis W. Shepardson, Beta Theta Pi. This edition is the first to appear since 1930 and should reveal much concerning the effect of the past few years on the chapter rolls of the fraternities. Place your order through Central Office.

Fraternity Map An attractive map, in colors and adorned by interesting information and the arms of the various organizations, designed to show graphically salient points of the college fraternity history of the country, is the offering of the Leland F. Leland Publishers, editors and printers of The Fraternity Month.

These sell for one dollar and may be ordered through Central Office.

Alumni Organization There is something at Tallahassee, Florida, besides Florida State College for Women, although it might be difficult to convince the young man of Florida otherwise. It is the location of the State capitol and is further known, as of recent date, as the location of a new alumni activity. The members in the city are looking to the future and a chartered alumni chapter. Those who are blowing the sparks into flame are Joe Hendrix, Chi; James Stripling, Alpha Iota; J. L. Graham, Eta; Robert Jones, Pi; Davis Godard, Chi; Fred Crowder, Omicron; 0. F. Perkins, Iota; Mode Stone, Alpha Alpha; and Clyde Pierce, Omicron.

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Rival of Bill Maner Our hats used to be doffed high and clear to Bill Man~fj the publicity hound of the Georgia Tech chapter-and stJ are--but we are afraid he will have to share honors with HoW· ard L. Bateson of Chi Chapter, Stetson, who seems to hav~ a daily few inches in the local paper to fill with data concerm~8 the doings of the men of Chi Chapter. Both should write tot ~ press clipping bureau patronized by the fraternity to reques a percentage cut.

Smathers Is National Commander

According to advices from the national headquarters of th~ Military Order of Fidelity, Major R. K. Smathers, ~t~, attorney of Knoxville, Tenn., was elected to the pos1tiO h' national commander of the organization early this fall. T JS is an organization of fraternal and patriotic purposes c~; posed of the army reserve officers of the nation. Brot Smathers is now in Washington engaged in his duties.

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A burlesque show presented by the Pi Kappa Phi FraternJ~ won first prize in the annual stunt night performances, s~d" sored by the Tech Marionette Club, at Georgia Tech, FrJ. ay night and the fraternity was presented with a handsome Jovt8 cup. This is the second successive year Pi Kappa Phi has ta en first place in the stunt competition. e Chet Russell was awarded second prize for a monologu

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Able Archon AI ph a Gamma of Pi Kappa Phi is for· tunate in having a man of such out· standing qualities among its mem~c;rs to direct its activJtJes as is Ervine Swift.

He became archon of Alpha Gamma in November and the chapter has advanc~ remarkably under ~~s direction. He has 10· stalled a new feeling and spirit in the chapter. . .

Brother Swift is a Ervme Sw•ft senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is president of Kappa Chapf ter of Kappa Kappa Psi and is student manager 0 the University Band. He is also manager of ~e R.O.T.C. Band. He recently received commendatJon from Major Harry J. Malony, head of the R.O.~.C. unit for his actions immediately following a senous accident which occurred to the band on a recent trip to Washington, D.C. .

Brother Swift will receive his degree in June w1th his major in philosophy. He plans to follow the ministry and to prepare for it in New York.

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The rarity of these paragraphs of comment is mainly due to the lack of space coupled with a sense of modesty, or Possibly vanity shaken by a sneaking idea they are not read When written. The budget scissors have come along to clip many pages from each issue and to force us to condense and to do some weighing of values. We often think there is something of better value to be placed in the space which t~ese words might occupy, and thus it happens that they are dtscarded and something else appears in type. There is one spot we may call our own: that little column beside the table of contents; but it does not lend itself to a decent spread of the rambling thoughts which strike us frequently.

They are rambling thoughts, for we are a dual personality, an executive secretary and an editor. This situation gives us ~ legitimate claim to the editorial "we'' but leads to difficulty 1 n ascertaining where the secretary ends and the editor begins.

One moment we may be questioning the lack of reports from Iota Chapter and the next wondering if it is going to be Pos.sible to complete the data on the chapter advisers in time ~0 Jntroduce them through the pages of the next issue. Will It be more effective to speak of rushing here or deal with ~he chapter direct with the chapter, or both? This magazine as to go to press on a certain date, yet on my desk are ~urnerous pieces of correspondence which should be answered 1 You no doubt get the idea. We get the mental d~mediately.

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The Future of Alumni Activity . We hope that you all will read the article by Mr. Howe 10 this issue which deals with his discoveries in that much discussed but little explored field of alumni activity and relation~hips. We are sincere in the request for written r~ctions. We would like to start a department in this maga~Ine devoted to communications which express worthwhile thoughts in this direction, or in any other direction which leads to improvement of the organization.

The purely social phase of the college fraternity is a thing of the past. At the same time that it provides this needed activity, it must lend itself more fully to the educational program of the institution of which it is a part. It is widely admitted that the basic reason for the fraternity will always be P~esent on the campus, but whether the Greek-letter fraternity as such will continue to provide the need is the question.

I~ is established, it is going, it has behind it a century of tradihon and family ties; therefore it is the logical tool to use.

We f:el that it will be used. However, before it is fully accepted it must adjust itself to the standards expected of it.

In meeting the standards we need the encouragement, the assistance, the inspiration, the guidance of effective and Unified alumni support and backing. The few men who make Up the personnel of the actual national organization have had to carry heavy responsibilities, widely diversified in char-

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acter, and in physical territory, nationwide. The channels through which to work have been tenuous, are still of web路 like quality. More and more the national organizations have begun to realize that it is a lonely, ineffective, and really unjust situation. More and more they are looking to better alumni cooperation as the solution.

Education of the youth of the land is a serious thing.

Fraternities can offer much of practical nature to supplement the work of the colleges and universities. We men who make up the national organization are serious, and we ask for help in injecting this seriousness into the work of the chapters.

What do you think of the idea of national dues to be used purely for the development of an alumni activity program?

Would you be interested in a district organization of the alumni? Do you think fraternities are worth your time and thought? Do you feel !hat you owe it anything? Have you a personal criticism to make, and in offering it would you be willing to work to the end that no one in the future could make the same statement? Have you time to think?

Have you time to write? If so, let us hear from you.

Anniversary. Corps We have regretted very much the inability this year of sending you a greeting on your initiation anniversary, but we have been a bit short-handed in Central Office and therefore somewhat disorganized. A little more time and we will get into the swing again.

We acknowledge with grateful appreciation the contributions from James Woods, Omega; W. K. Graves, Alpha Tau, and Leo Pou, Omicron.

"Ever since the announcement of the Anniversary Corps, nearly two years ago, I have been intending to do my part, but previously have been unable to do so ...," writes Brother Graves.

"This date (February 8} corresponds with one on my wall, except it is engraved on my 'shingle' and more deeply on my mind. I am glad I can share a little bit in the work of the fraternity by sending the enclosed check on this, my Pi Kapp, anniversary," was the message that came from Brother Pou. One comes from a youngster in the alumni ranks, one whom we are pleased to note has found a .financial footing; the other comes from a veteran of the official ranks, who gave of time and thought and money unstintedly when in harness and yet still wishes to do something to help.

They are representative of the spirit of the Corps and show its potential glories.

A Pattern "Not only does good tradition in character and its fine expression work more p,otently in fraternity houses than elsewhere, but that tradition is, or at least should be, stimulated by the national organization. The traveling-secretaryship can be one of the highest callings in American life. In the course of a dozen years the tone of a national fraternity and the standards of its members can be raised very perceptibly by a traveling secretary of high principle and magnetic personality. If he embodies what the fraternity is supposed to stand for, the fraternity will more nearly stand for it. College men will take the counsel of the secretary with better grace than that of their own teachers, for he has no local axe to grind. Like the circuit riders of the old frontier he usually labors for a pittance, for his reward is not in worldly fortune

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but in the satisfaction of improving men. He should be a practical executive, but if he is a mere bookkeeper or if he strives only to get 'down to the boys' -sometimes leaving them far behind in his labored puerility-he betrays his trust and earns the scorn of those who had hopefully placed in his charge the cultivation of fine character. Happy is the secretary whom the alumnus thanks long afterward for the inspiring word spoken in the chapter hall or on the afternoon walk up the mountain side. Every such secretary can work most effectively if he keeps in close touch with deans and presidents; certainly presidents and deans can mean more to their fraternity students if they keep a close touch with the secretaries. If a fraternity is too small to support a good traveling secretary it should increase until it can. If it has expanded too far over the country to permit the secretary to make two real visitations a year it should shrink until it can. The secretary is an educator and is entitled to respect as such. I recently suggested to the program committee of a conference of deans that next year they invite a traveling secretary to address them."

DIXON RYAN Fox, President, Union College

Speaking of Rituals We have had a request form a chapter in the not-so-far distant past for the marriage ritual of the fraternity. The~e is one that our illustrious Dr. J. Friend Day missed in many productions. Mayhap the old ceremonies are getting to be outmoded. We understand that there is movement on foot in Hollywood to get some composer to produce a new wedding march. The old ones have become stale from much usage. Possibly something similar in the two items.

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Officers: John Remington, archon; Paul Viohl, treasurer; Jesse Barfield, secretary; Moultrie Moore, Jr., historian; Clifton Kinder, chaplain; Julius Burges, warden.

Recent initiates: Jack Frierson, Sumter; Robert Hastings, Charleston; Lowell Remington, Charleston.

Pledges: Cary Durant, Sumter; Alex Moore, Charleston; Robert Scott, Charleston; Louis Parker, McColl ; Herman Biggins, Charleston; John Harvin, Manning; John Bradley, Sumter.

On December tenth Alpha celebrated Founders' Day with a formal banquet at the Fort Sumter Hotel. This was one of the most outstanding events in the chapter's activities for the year 1934. On this occasion Harold Mouzon acted as toastmaster, and he proved to be one of the best that has ever Presided at a fraternal banquet. Among the alumni present for this occasion were two of the living founders of the fraternity, Barry Mixson and Simon Fogarty.

First on the program was Albert Taylor who read a message from National President Meisel. Following this.

Brother Mouzon introduced Brother Mixson who made a most inspiring talk on the principles and ideals of the fra~ernity. The next speaker was Brother Fogarty who gave an JOteresting account of the early history of the fraternity. Both Brother Mixson and Brother Fogarty in their talks gave much credit to our late Brother Andrew Kroeg who they said was the guiding genius behind the early growth of the fraternity.

After Brother Fogarty the toastmaster called on a member ?f the active chapter, Archon Remington, who spoke concernIng the recent activities and standing of the chapter. In conclusion Brother Mouzon presented to Brothers Mixson and ~ogarty certificates of citation for exceptional meritorious servtce in behalf of the fraternity.

Besides this Founders' Day banquet, Alpha's activities since last issue have included a party given by the pledges in honor of the active chapter, and participation in the Panhellenic ball.

Alpha has been particularly fortunate this year in securing a group of able and active pledges, and it is looking forward to the time when all these will be initiated.

With the conclusion of a most successful half term, Alpha is looking forward to an even more successful one next period.

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Brother William Hartz was elected master of the Pythagorean Lodge of Masons.

The engagement announcement of Dr. George W. Croft to Miss Anne Haselden of Charleston has been noted, the Wedding date to be announced later. Brother Croft is a graduate of the Medical College of South Carolina and is now Practicing in Jacksonville, Florida.

BETA

Frank Guess

Officers: Frank Holliday, archon; R. C. Mclees, treasurer; Frank Guess, secretary and historian; Preston Charles, chaplain; Henry D. Dillard, warden.

Recent initiates: W. M. Degner; C. J. Gasque; J. C. Hutchinson; 01 iver C. Luey; Charles Steenbergen; J. W. Steenbergen; W. M. Jones.

Pledges: Louis Anderson; Julius Boggs; Francis Blalock; Joe Commander; E. L. Mcleod;]. N. Mishoe; Joe Seawell.

On February 6, Beta Chapter initiated the seven men listed above. Charles Steenbergen, one of the number, won the scholarship cup offered by the fraternity to the freshman in ~resbyterian College with the highest average, and this year ts a member of the student council. John W. Steenbergen is

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a tr~nsfer from Marshall College, W.Va. Luey and Degner are residents of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, also transfer students, coming from the University of Wisconsin.

This brings the active membership of Beta Chapter to a total of eighteen.

Preston Charles combines the associate editorship of The Bl11e Stockit1g, the college weekly newspaper, with the position of columnist (the keyhole type). Charles is also business editor of The Collegian, the college literary magazine. Robert C. Mclees is art editor of the various campus publications.

Seniors Doyle Boggs and Jimmy Seagle now hold positions of cadet colonel and cadet major, respectively, in the college R.O.T.C. unit.

Pledge Joe Commander is president of the freshman class.

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Isaac McDonald Adair, now a married man, is a partner in the .firm of Hipp & Adair in Clinton.

Cecil Lawter, now a senior at Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., is married and the father of a son. Mrs. Lawter was the former Miss Mary Darlington Black, of Clinton.

Ralph Belk, past archon and Beta Chapter's representative to the last convention, is now manager of Belk's department store, Newberry, S.C.

GAMMA Officers: Reginald Hearn, archon; Raymond Bottari, treasurer; Gilmore O'Neill, secretary; Charles Vannice, historian; William Proll, chaplain; William Pascoe, warden.

Gamma is 22 strong now, and it is a rustling progressive group, well represented in the activities of the campus. William Proll and John Balzarini have completed a hard session with the basketball squad of the university. In the sports of football, boxing, and swimming, men of the chapter hold either junior or sophomore managerships. Henry Buchholz is business manager of The Bl11e and Gold. Gilmore O'Neill is a member of that staff and of the Rally Committee; and in the Little Theatre Reginald Hearn is busy.

We hold our own in scholarship, having a comparative standing of sixteenth out of 54 listings last year. The monthly dinners for the alumni continue to be an anticipated event.

Plans are underway to revive the San Francisco alumni chapter in the near future.

DELTA Officers: Ben Groce, archon; Wade H. Coggins, treasurer; Drayton Hopkins, secretary; George E. Crouch, historian; Robert Herndon, chaplain; David Wakefield, warden.

February 10 saw the initiation of six of the seventeen pledges the chapter garnered for the year. Later on in the year it is hoped that the remainder will become active, giving us one of the strongest groups the chapter has ever had and one of the largest of the campus.

We won the Interfraternity basketball cup last year. We are in the midst of this year's playing to retain it.

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T. G. Corbin

Officers: M. W. Alderman, archon; J. G. Willis, treasurer; D. P. Franklin, secretary; T. G. Corbin, historian; W. E. Parker, chaplain; and V. D. Patterson, warden.

The Mid-winter Dances were held in Charlotte on the week-end of February 15. Paul Sabin and his band furnished the music. Frequent parties have been held at the chapter house and have proven to be most entrtaining.

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Recently the chapter made a contract for the complete refurnishing of the chapter house. Much of the old furniture was made over and refinished, and this with the addition of the new furniture, and rugs, made the house most attractive.

The chapter sponsor was recently chosen for the 1935 issue of the annual. The lovely Miss Dosty Blackmon of Rock Hill, S.C. was honored.

ZETA

A. P. Evans

Officers: M. J. Derrick, archon; C. B. Felder, Jr., treasurer; B. W. White, secretary; C. E. Gilreath, historian; A. F. Burts, chaplain; W. W. Kellett, warden.

A signal honor was won by the chapter when the scholarship cup was awarded to it for its excellent work last year.

Pi Kapps hold a great many positions and honors on the campus. C. D. West, Charles Gilreath, M. J. Derrick, B. W. White are all members of the Stratford players (dramatic club). Zeta has three who are members of the Blue Key; they are M. J. Derrick, C. B. Felder and Charles West. This is considered the highest honor on the campus.

Brother Crider, the scholar, is a member of Delta Phi Alpha, honorary German society. W. W. Kellett is a member of the football team, and we expect big things from him next year. A. P. Evans is feature editor of The Old Gold and Black (bi-weekly).

The most enjoyable social event was the alumni banquet. We had as guest of honor Brother John Hammer, one of the first editors of The Star and Lamp. Brother Hamer gave us the history of the foundation of the fraternity, and no one is in better position to do so than he, for he was closely associ· ated with the early founders. He told of the trials and tribulations that the founders and magazines had.

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Alumni Personals John Frank Meacham and Miss Mary Burts were married on December 29 in Macon, Ga .

Brother Meacham is superintendent of the schools of Ashburn, Ga. December 22 witnessed the marriage of George D. Patterson, Jr. and Miss Elizabeth Wilson in the All Souls' Memorial Church of Washington, D.C. They are at home in The Ambassador, 145 South 5th street, Salt Lake City.

George W. Williams and Miss Florrie Adkins were married in Atlanta, January 11. They are residing in Cordele, Ga., where "Colonel" Williams is a practicing attorney. He is prominently identified with the Cordele Chamber of Commerce and Ki-

Alpha to Alpha Upsilon The top picture shows something of the elabo· rateness and excellent direction of the minstrel show of Alpha Upsilon Chapter, an annual out• standing eYent of Drexel. In the center is dis· played Rho Chapter at ease in front of their attractiye colonial home. At the bottom is seen Alpha gathered for their Founders' Day celebra· tion.

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Officers: Wright Paulk, archon; James McClanahan, treasurer; Dudley Glass, secretary; Richard Verdier, historian; Arthur Perkins, warden; James Simons, chaplain.

The Panhellenic dances held the greatest interest of all the activities at Tech the first of the year. Pi Kappa Phi had its share of limelight during the dances with Wright Paulk as treasurer of the Interfraternity Council. He was tapped into Anak, senior honorary society, at one of the dances and, as president of the senior class, led the grand march of the Senior Hop. Quite a few alumni visited us during the dances, and they all commented on the improvement of Iota since they were here.

There is a bowling tournament between the fraternities of !e~, and the Pi Kapp team is a leading one. Malcom Keiser •s m charge of the team, which consists of Brothers Seigel, Boy, Sweet, McClanahan, and Fuchs. A basketball team is being formed by Don Johnston and Arthur Perkins in order that Pi Kappa Phi may be represented in the interfraternity competition. We also expect to have several games with tl1e boys of Pi Chapter.

We regret to say that Iota lost several members after the first semester, but we are rushing quite a few prospects and expect to more tl1an make up for our losses during the present semester.

LAMBDA Officers: W. L. M. Knox, archon; G. W. Ellard, treasurer; M. M. Jett, secretary; F. G. Little, historian; J. G. Hull, chaplain; L. E. Herrington, warden.

Recent h1itiates: Marion W. Luckey, Harlem; Paul H. Trulock, Climax; H. C. Stovall, Jr., Cornelia; John W. Wilson, Thomson.

MU Recent initiates: Skinner Chalk, Jr., Morehead City; Francis R. Landon, Clinton; Richard M. Taliaferro, Columbia,

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XI Officers: Justin Tobias, archon; Melvin Goldman, treas-

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••lelvin Raikes, chaplain; William House, warden.

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Clarence Brice

Officers: James A. King, archon; Harry L. Carroll. treasUrer; Arthur W. Fleshman, secretary; Clarence Brice, historian; George W. Turner, chaplain; Ernest L. Stroud, warden.

Recent Pledges: Clark Ray, Sulligent; Gordon Camp, Albertville; John Stoddard, Luverne; James Adams, Ashland.

Omicron was very fortunate in having Brallier Howard D. Leake, from the Central Office, as a visitor a short time ago.

Brother William D. Davis was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Only one member was lost through graduation, Brother Warren D. Hemphill, who served ably as our archon last semester.

Plans are being made for our annual dance which is to be held in April.

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Omicron welcomed Brother Matt H. Hooten, who is a transfer from Auburn.

Alumni Personals The engagement has been announced of Brother Robert E. Tidwell to Miss Lolla Baxley.

The announcement of the marriage of Dr. C. W. Kendrick and Miss Iva Carroll has been made. The ceremony occurred on November 4. Kendrick is attending the Southern Dental College of Atlanta.

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Pledge Rudy Macnamara was recently elected alternate captain of the Stormy Petrel football squad for the '35 season. Hoyt Farmer, another pledge, has been doing a mighty fine work on the Petrel basketball squad. Hoyt is also a member of the eleven.

Our archon, Kelly Byars, was unable to return to school after Christmas, much to our regret. Byars hopes to return next fall and possibly in the spring. We have elected Brother Thompson to replace Brother Byars.

At a banquet recently given the varsity football squad, four of our members received sweaters. They are: Brothers Byars and Thompson, Pledges Macnamara and Farmer.

Pi Chapter plans to hold initiation about the middle of February. Plans are also under way for two social events but the details are not definite yet.

Alumnus Personal Claude Herrin and Miss Ruth Shelnutt were married on December 21, in Winder, Ga. Brother Herrin captained the football team in his senior year at Oglethorpe. He is wiili the Bona Allen company with offices in Buford, Ga.

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C. Russell Doane

Officers: George Short, archon; Glenn Shively, treasurer; Clark Winter, secretary; Russell Doane, historian; Robert Brown, chaplain; Joe Pette,warden.

Recent h1itiates: Dan Arnold, Jack Arnold, Harry Carey, Seth Baker, Chester Shively, Vernon Mills, Robert Sollenberger.

Pledges: Curtis Crowe, Arthur Lugrin, Robert Samson, Albert Syzmanski.

The chapter came through the recent examinations with a record well worth mentioning. Not one of the old men or the freshmen were found scholastically incapable of remaining in school, and although the official standings have not yet been announced it is certain that Pi Kappa Phi will rank at, or very near, the top of the list of fraternities on the campus.

Fancy Dress Ball, the biggest social event of the winter season, was a great success, both for W. & L. and for Rho. Brothers McGeory and Wallace both held leading roles in the figure at the costume ball. It is our sincere hope that the nation-wide broadcast enabled many other Pi Kapps and alumni to enjoy the music of Isham Jones and his orchestra as much as we did.

In the athletic line, wrestling, basketball and boxing bring many old men and freshmen to the fore. Wrestling seems to hold the major interest for the freshmen. Dan Arnold, Chester Shively and AI Syzmanski are all in the process of earning their numerals. In a recent match these three accounted for 13 out of a total of 28 points scored by the team. On the varsity mat Glenn Shively, who won his monogram in the 145 pound division last year, is this year's out• standing contender for the Southern Conference crown in this weight. Glenn already has two victories to his credit in as many matches.

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Russ Doane. Joe is leading the team's scoring column with a total of 89 points. Seth Baker is a member of the freshman team and shows prospects of being varsity material of ability. Brother Winter is swimming the 440 in fine style for the varsity tank squad.

Captain George Short is leading the boxers in their hopes for a very successful season. More mention should be made here of George. Besides being captain of the boxing team he is captain of this year's baseball squad. He was one of 16 to be tapped into O.D.K. which is significant in itself of the recognition he receives on the campus. In electing him archon, the chapter bestowed on him the honor it deemed most fitting. His leaving in June will leave a large vacancy in our ranks and it will certainly take a mighty man to assume for the House the position of leadership which "Shortie" has held for the past three years.

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W. Lester Webb

Officers: Hal Askin, archon; Niels Christensen, treasurer; John Bell Timmerman, secretary; W. Lester Webb, historian; Klugh Purdy, warden, and John 1. Bowden, chaplain.

Pledges: Harold Watford, Jack Edens, Furman Finkley, Newman Finkley, and James Barr.

New officers were elected at the meeting held January 21, 1935. Hal Askins, a transfer from Lambda Chapter succeeded Niels Christensen as archon. John 1 . Bowden has been elected president of the Blue Key society and also vice-president of the university student body. Arthur Sams was elected to the Social Cabinet and re-elected Panhellenic representative. Jack Fishburne, last year's archon has recently been made an instructor in the language department; he was a contestant for the Rhodes scholarship which was held in Atlanta last summer. Henry Gooding has been starring on U.S.C.'s basketball team for the past season. Bill Crisp and Cuthbert Prevost were appointed co-managers for the track team. Bill Crisp has also been elected president of the Christian Service club.

Sigma is looking forward to a remarkably strong intramural basketball team, the season which starts the latter part of February. Randolph Murdaugh has represented the chapter in varsity football.

True to the southern atmosphere, Sigma chapter house has that colonial style peculiar to this section of the country, with four columns in front, high ceilings and large rooms. Every Thursday the double doors connecting three spacious rooms of the ground floor are thrown open, furniture laid aside and rugs removed for the weekly house dance.

For the first time, Sigma held its Pounders' Day programme in the chapter house. Tables were extended through double doors covering most of the ground floor. Toastmaster for the evening was "Billy" Evans. Brother Klugh Purdy, Sr., the first initiate into Pi Kappa Phi gave an interesting talk and later in the evening, Brother John D. Carroll was given a citation by T. A. Houser, national chancellor.

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J. A. Feather

Officers: W. 1. Dixon, Jr., archon; C. E. Lynch, treasurer; J. M. Taylor, secretary; J. A. Feather, historian; C. T. Brooks, chaplain; A. J. McGinty, warden.

Recent initiates: John 1. Mclean, Raleigh; Thomas Williams, Raleigh.

Pledges: J.P. Brawley, Fred A. Decker, Charlotte; Bruce Cauthen, Raleigh; Thomas Gatewood, Wadesboro; Frank Hunt, Marion; William Smith, Greenville, S.C.; Teen Palm, Mt. Vernon, N.Y. Socially, Tau Chapter has been quite active since last issue. We attended in a body an interfraternity smoker; gave a smoker for prospective pledges; had to lunch Dr. Jack Hart, well known fraternity man, lecturer and author; and finally, had a house party for the mid-winter dances. An alumni

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banquet and dance is approaching, too-one of those events which account for the good-fellowship which cements u~ to them. The chapter al~o is planning a house dance to be g1ven soon.

Pounders' Day for Tau Chapter was celebrated jointly by the alumni and active chapter by a banquet and dance at the Tar Heel Club. We regretted very much the inability of Dr. A. Pelzer Wagener to attend, as was planned.

We have a first string varsity basketball forward, Brother Bob Harris; the manager of varsity football, our archon, Brother Dixon; two football players, Brother Brooks, and Pledge Palm; the high scorer on the rifle team, Pledge Decker; and three men in Jimmy Poyner's Orchestra, one of the South's finest college dance bands.

UPSILON Alumnus Personal Friends of Donald Mulvihill, Upsilon, were recipients of the announcement of his marriage to Miss Ruth Cope ~ December 22, in Chicago. They are at home at 803 Elmwo street, Evanston, Ill.

CHI Officers: Amory Underhill, archon; Pierre Poole, treasurer; Howard 1. Bateson, secretary.

Recent initiates: William Hunter, Ponce Sandlin, Ja~­ per; Roy Roberts, Bradenton; William Wilson, Miami; C. H. Shoemaker, Daytona Beach; Joseph Peck, Chicago.

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Officers: William K. Mayhew, archon: Harold S. Wright, secretary; Frank Conace, treasurer; Robert B. Secor, historian; Thomas E. Bennett, chaplain; Edward W. Harker, warden. f This chapter is pleased to note the accomplishments 0 one of its alumni, James Donovan, better known to Psi mem· hers as "Jim." While at Cornell, Donovan was prominent not only in house activities but in university sports as well. He obtained his A.B. degree in 1931, and graduated from the law school two years later. During his last year in the Arts Co~­ lege, Donovan played soccer well enough to recei~7 AI American rating and at the same time held the posrbon chapter archon. While studying law, he coached freshman ~as· ketball and acted as assistant soccer coach. After graduating, and passing the New York State bar examinations, Dono_van obtained a position in Canandaigua, his home town. _sr.nce then he has risen rapidly, and today he holds the d1st1nC· tion of being acting city judge. Prom Jaw school graduate to city judge is a long step, and the fact that Donovan m_ade this advance in less than two years, indicates that here IS ~ man who should go far. Because of his fine personality an ready wit, Psi members always look forward to a visit from ··Tim" and he is constantly in demand as speaker and toast· master. .

Brother Priest is back with us this term, to take up hrs studies in the Agriculture College. "Judas" spent the sumd mer and most of the last term just roaming all over the goo old U.S.A. Brother Torti, one of our up and coming freshmen, won his numerals in soccer last season. Pledge McDonald is 0•0 the regular squad of the freshman basketball team an~ tS near the top in scoring for the yearlings. Brother Wrrght has recently been elected to Skulls an honorary medical so· ciety.

Alumni Personals d Three of our alumni, Brothers Just, ·Marquart, an f Tompkins are spending the winter in the balmy breezes 0 Florida and Cuba.

Glen Barber, '34, is working in Bridgeport, Conn. in the employment of the American Chain Company.

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Officers: W. L. :&orrington, archon; R. S. Green, treasurer; J. W. Swinney, secretary; R. E. Thomson, historian; A. A. Grunwald, warden; J. T. Strawbridge, chaplain.

Recent initiates: Professor C. T. Hazard of the Purdue mathematics department, E. C. Haver, R. K. Kitchen, B. A. McCandless, H. R. Monfort, C. T. Strawbridge.

Pledges: R. C. Allan, H. G. Bowles, J. D. Engle, F. R. Glenn, F. M. Harden, R. D . Hunt, E. F. Hickman, C. H. Hunley, G E. Merriam, H. E. Montfort, C. S. Pierce, E. L. Ritter, S. B. Swann, C. L. Sadler, R. C. Viets.

Omega has been fortunate in securing pledges who are really worthwhile men. Besides our pledges Jiving in the house, there are already enough who are living outside to replace many of our thirteen graduating seniors.

Omega ranks high in outside activities as well as scholastically. We have seven members of Scabbard and Blade and men in Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Delta Chi, Phi Lambda Upsilon, Eta Kappa Nu, Alpha Zeta, Ceres, Pi Tau Sigma, Chi Epsilon, and Alpha Phi Omega honorary fraternities.

Two of our men are members of the Student Senate and other Omega men are active in football, fencing, and other sports as well as the Purdue Order of Military Merit and the pro?ram staff of Purdue's broadcasting station, WBAA. Omega Is represented in every scholastic honorary on the campus 0 Pen to men, and is represented in most of the other honoraries.

We are looking forward to our Spring formal dance to be held on the night of March 2. The social committee promises a good time.

W. W. Glenny is one of our most promising men at the Present time. He is a junior in the School of Electrical Engineering and began his college career by being cited by Eta Kappa Nu as the outstanding freshman E.E. of his class. He ?as continued in his achievements and is now third ranking JUnior officer in the R.O.T.C. and is a member of the Zouave squad, Eta Kappa Nu, Student Senate, Cadet Officers Luncheon Committee, and Scabbard and Blade. Glenny has been given a Distinguished Student rating each semester that he has been enrolled in the university.

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Omega Chapter sends her heartiest congratulations to M:r. and Mrs. George Fortune on their marriage, January 2.

Our congratulations are also extended to Mr. and Mrs. George Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Reed, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Haase all of whom have had additions to their families lately.

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William Harbin

Officers: Jack Adams, archon; William Perry, treasurer; Prank! in Martin, secretary; William Harbin, historian; Jack Prance, chaplain; George Jackson, warden.

Recent initiates: Ajalon and Pete Daniels, LaGrange; Harry Dismukes, Macon .

Pledges: Speer Bolton, Dan Higgins, Al Hirst, Joel Reeves, Charles Shives.

The fraternity basketball team has lost one in five games On the court. The Pi Kapps were winners of the cup last year and are still in the running this year. The team is composed of Hirst, P. Daniels, Shives, and Jackson as forwards; Prance and Skipworth, centers; Bolton and Cooper, guards; and Bill Harbin, coach.

Three house dances have been held throughout the year and each was an enjoyable occasion. Open house is planned

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for the Little Commencement dances. The invitation is out for all who wish to return for the occasion.

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James Everett Cox and Miss Annie Hill Joiner were married on January 19. The couple are making their home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Brother Cox is associated with Standard Brands, Inc. The engagement of Badie T. Clark and Miss Margaret Smith, Atlanta, has been announced. Dr. Clark completed his work in medicine at the University of Georgia, and is now surgeon in the Atlantic Coast Line hospital of Rocky Mount, N.C.

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Lewis Shawbell

Officers: A. Ervine Swift, archon; Alfred H. Schmidt, treasurer; John T. Sherrill, secretary; Lewis Shawbell, historian.

New Pledges: J. K. Wright and Thomas Ewing, Oklahoma City; Narian Meyer, Norman.

The three new pledges are desirable additions and Alpha Gamma has high hopes for each of them. All three are second semester freshmen. Pledge Ewing is the younger brother of a Pi Kapp, Frank. Pledges Wright and Meyer are the first of their families to accept Pi Kappa Phi as their fraternity.

The latest honors to be bestowed upon Alpha Gamma are the pledging of Harold Gasaway to Phi Delta Phi, honorary legal fraternity, and Pledge Edward Williams to Kappa Kappa Psi, honorary Band fraternity.

Brother Gasaway is a junior lawyer, and grades of a "B" average are necessary to be eligible for the honor. Pledge Williams is an addition to the long list of Pi Kapps who take their music seriously. Pledge Williams is a freshman in the College of Fine Arts.

The cagers of Alpha Gamma fared well during the recently completed season. They turned in a record of five wins against one Joss. The one loss was pinned on us in the first game of the season. From this time on the basketeers did not have more than fifteen points scored against them in any one game.

ALPHA EPSILON Officers: Byron Her! on, archon; Sam Cox, treasurer; Joe O'Connor, secretary; T. Harrell, historian; Glenn Wilson, chaplain; Ernest Moore, warden.

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James Marsh

Officers: AI Head, archon; John Hamilton, treasurer; Jerome Fluke, secretary; James Marsh, historian; Bob Pierce, chaplain; Don Lawton, warden.

Pledges: Thirteen.

A banquet honoring newly initiated pledges was held February 10. Those eligible for membership were Ward Anderson, Clyde Dean, Graden Fisk, Bob Harris, Jack Medlar, Jack Parsons, Art Weiks, Fred Zitzer, and Jim McEwen, who returned to school this term.

The traditional spring formal of the house will be held April 27. In the past this has been one of the most prominent dances on the campus. This year's promises to be no exception.

Marvin Wilbur is president of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional society in journalism, associate editor of the Barometer, editor of volume XXIV of the Student Directory, member of the Publications board, editor of activity section of the Beaver, on the ASOSC constitution revision committee, and publicity chairman for the Junior Prom and Junior Follies.

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Don Tomlinson is president of Alpha Delta Sigma, national honor society in advertising, member of the constitution revision committee and on the student-faculty committee for honoraries. John Hamilton was chosen as an Oregon State representative in the national collegiate who's who.

Archon Head is chairman of the Queen Selection Committee for the Junior Prom, and had charge of the ASCE trip to the Bonneville Dam. Bob Weir was chairman of the floor committee of the Sophomore Cotillion, circulation manager of the Agriculture Journal, chairman of the 4-H club radio broadcasts and selected by Alpha Zeta, national professional society in agriculture, as one of the outstanding freshmen in the school of agriculture.

Floyd McDonald is editor of the Agrimlture Journal, and Ralph Davis is editor of the ASCE record. Jerome Fluke is a member of the decoration committee for the Junior Prom and is out for crew. Jack Parsons is circulation manager of the Barometer. Bob Pierce was recently elected sergeant-atarms of the AICE. Sumner ·Alldredge is foreman of the decoration committee for the Junior Prom and is general chairman of the OregonOregon State victory dance.

Vernon Fridley was pledged to Xi Sigma Pi, national honor society in forestry, and Art Weiks was pledged to Alpha Zeta. Ross Roberts is president of the Oregon State chapters of the ASME and the SAE. James Marsh is shooting on the rifle team and was high man on the team the second week of competition.

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H. K. Martin, Jr.

Officers: Everett Ingram, archon; Jack Bell, treasurer; Claude Smith, secretary; K. K. Martin, Jr., historian; Henry Parker, chaplain; Charles Sharpe, warden.

New pledges: William Dunsmore, Pat Bradford, and M. L. Braswell.

Alpha Eta has its share of the honors on the campus with the following prominent members: president of the student body, Robert Allen; president of men's Panhellenic Council, Copeland Graves; president of the Baptist Student Union for the State of Alabama, Henry Parker; business manager of the Howard Crimson, Claude Smith; business manager of the Entre Notu, Jack Bell; editor and business manager of the Bull Pup, book of information and advice for freshmen, Jack Bell; three student council members, Everett Ingram, Robert Allen, and Henry Parker; president of Y.M.C.A. cabinet, Fay Askew; drum major, Everett Ingram.

During the month of January the chapter was pleased by a visit from Howard Leake.

Recently we held a smoker for tl1e new students. Many students as well as a large number of alumni were at the affair which was quite a success. We are planning to have a formal dance sometime in the early spring.

In a short time the furniture in the sun parlor will be all dressed up in new red leather upholstery. When this is accomplished the beauty of an already beautiful interior will be much enhanced, and the house will increase its reputation as the most beautiful on the campus.

his offices to Room 1233, 53 West Jackson Boulevard, Chi· cago. He is a patent and trade mark attorney.

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Alumnus Personal December 29 witnessed the nuptials of Louie L. Rhudy and Miss Margaret Hassler in Ensley, Ala. Both attended Howard College. Brother Rhudy served as alternate captain of the football term while at the college. He is with the Bureau of Statistics of the government in Birmingham, Ala.

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Officers: Floyd Hurt, archon; Carl Pihl, treasurer; Horace Perry, secretary; Richard Charlton, historian; Charles Adams, chaplain; Douglas Durden, warden; Lafayette Looney, house manager.

Since our last report we have enjoyed a visit by our executive secretary, Howard Leake. The chapter was greatly benefited by this visit and is looking forward to the next one. It was a real pleasure to have met a national offic~r.

Pi Kappa Phi fraternity won the annual Interfraternlty Council football tournament by virtue of a 6-0 win over ~ Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. The Pi Kapps were not scor on in tournament play, having won from the K A's, 12-0; T T o·s, 12-0; and A •r O's, 19-0.

The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity won second place in the tra· ditional O.D.K. Cake Race. They were barely nosed out by the A.T.O.s Pledge Crew, and Pledge Ed Nolan won a cake each in the race. Pledges Fred Grant, Howard Workman, Johnny Heacock, Clarence Pruitt, Billy Roberts, and Brother Douglas Durden were recently pledged to Keys, an honorary society for underclassmen. Gene Heacock is vicepresident and Austin Martin is secretary. . .

The men came back from the holidays with a new spmt and we are planning to keep the chapter on the top. Basket· ball practice has started and we are sure to get by the fir~ round as we drew a bye. Many attended the Junior Prom an reported that the music of Kay Kyser was perfect. Most 0 ~ the men had dates up for the dances and the house was ful of pep at all times. .

Pledges Crew and Nolen have been rating the head!tn<;-: lately as a result of their outstanding playing on the '"ra~ basketball team. We feel that as time passes on we wJl 1 hear more from these promising pledges. Brother Pihl, captain of the track team has reported for track, and we are expecting him to break some of the records he now J!ol_ds.

Brother Martin is also out getting in shape for his spectaltty, the broadjump. Brother Charlton is lost to the track tea01 for awhile as a result of an operation, but he expects to report before the end of the season .

We are looking forward to initiation when we expect to take through most of our pledges. The pledges have shown a great deal of interest and promise.

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Hughes.' chaplain; Berod Wise, warden.

Recent initiate: Thomas L. Harvey, Mathiston.

Archon Miller has been promoted to a full-time i n s t r u c · torship in the Matllematics department of the university. Be holds an M.A. from Mississippi. His duties and studies do not prevent him from taking part in chapter affairs-

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Eelow is a glimpse of Alpha Zeta house in the snow. Four representatives of Alpha Eta: Treasurer Jack Bell, Archon 'l'erett Ingram, Charles Sharpe and Robert Thompson. Right down: Jerome Davis, Alpha Eta, stands beside unus11al help to those who seek. Ernest RusTling and Carl Pihl, Alpha Iota, are pleased with snowfall. Another Pose of Hal Haskins and Harold Watford, this time before the so11them portico of Sigma's home.

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Frost has been president of his class for three successive years, and is a past chapter archon.

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We were pleased with a recent visit by Executive Secretary Howard Leake. Because of the presence of the exams he probably found us more in a studious mood than a receptive one. He was able to accomplish some good work on the books of rhe chapter.

Dr. James Simms and Mrs. Simms entertained him while he was in Oxford. Dr. Jimmy is superintending the State hospital in connection with the university, and in addition to his instructional work in the university has an active practice in connection with the Oxford Hospital.

John H. Shanks was lost to the chapter at the end of the semester by the graduation route.

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Charles Case

Officers: J. F. West, archon; E. W. Jones, treasurer; R. Davidson, secretary; C. H. Case, historian; G. C. Close, chaplain; W. C. Griffin, warden.

Midsemester has come and gone and once more we went through the ordeal of finals. After finals came graduation at which time two of our brothers Ralph Heister and Harry Miller received their diplomas.

It is with regret that we Jose brother Lloyd Bovier who was unable to continue and hopes that he might return.

Ernest Miller, last year's graduate, is back again with us for an extra semester in the study of petroleum. He was a recent Rhodes scholar candidate.

The marriage of Brother Glen Stoudt to Miss Francis Miller occurred November 29, 1934; and Brother Leroy Reiff married Vera Fisher on Febuay 2, 1935.

ALPHA NU Officers: Harrison Wicke!, archon; Richard Fenstermaker, treasurer; Gene Archer, secretary.

The new development in the chapter is the arrival of L. H. Kellogg as graduate adviser. The university has offered three scholarships to graduate students who will undertake praeceptorships in as many chapters on the campus. It is for the purpose of trial and may become a custom. Mr. Kellogg has stepped into many duties in various phases of activity of the chapter vigorously, and the chapter has benefited from and is therefore pleased with the arrangement.

This is just another step in an extensive program of the university to tie the activities and welfare of fraternities thoroughly to the university. Another step completed recently was to have the accounts of the chapters in the hands

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of a university auditor. Ohio State has gained nation-wide fame in pioneering in the field of university-fraternity relations.

Wicke! is making an excellent leader in his position of archon. He takes to training soon to gather another baseb~ll letter for his personal archives. One of these days we wtii see him in big-time ball, for that is his ambition.

Under the direction and personal inspiration of AI Phipps, the veteran and effective rushing chairman of the chapter, con· centration on the campaign to increase the manpower of the chapter continues successfully. Each week sees the addition of one or two men of admirable type, to whom the older men can safely and comfortably leave the destinies of the chapter in later years.

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William Fitzsimmons

Officers: Henry S. Gartner, archon; Donald S. Shephe~d, treasurer; Manuel Quintana, secretary; Walter Eisele, htS· tori an; Richard Wellbrock, chaplain; Henry Kopp, warden.

Recent initiate: Henry A. Kopp, Brooklyn.

John B. Frost, ' 35, not only headed the chapter last yea:, but was also president of his class. Jack has held the post· tion of president of his class since the sophomore year and he is considered one of the leading personalities in the school.

He previously studied at the United States Naval AcademY· Once more Alpha Xi has crashed through. Two years ago the Interfraternity Council presented a cup to be awarded to the fraternity winning th'e most handball games. Last yeal we quickly annexed the first leg on the cup, and we repeate this year to make it two straight.

Ainsworth Crooker, '35, is not only a member of t~e varsity basketball team, but he is also handball and tenntS champion of the school. Brother Crooker was undoubtedly a big factor in our success on the handball court.

Most of us believe we have a lot to do when we carry one activity, but not so is Charles J. Adolph, Jr. He is secretary of the junior class, photographic editor of the Re· Po,rter, _and art director of the 1935 Po/ywog. Last semest~r ~e was chairman of the Intercollegiate Newspaper AssociatiOns fall convention in New York, and previous to that he was art editor of the freshman handbook.

ALPHA SIGMA

James A. SeaY

Officers: James M. Bryan, archon; L. C. Haney, treasurer: M. H. Fowler, secretary; James A. Seay, historian; Thomas McKinney, chaplain; G. W. Wynne, warden.

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Top left shows the portion of the duplex occupied by Alpha Beta Cl1apter, 1608 Audubon, New Orleans. Top right is the new home of Alpha Sigma, 834 Temple, Knoxville. Some more lads enjoying the rare snow in Aubum: Horace Perry, Pledge Workman, Ernest Rushing, Dick Charlton, and Pledge Adams. Standing on the porch are the fotlr horsemen of Alpha Sigma: Kennedy, Seay, Patton, and Vineyard. The last is another view of Omega's pride and joy. so useful in helping hold down the center position on the Recent i11itiates: William D. Lee, Glenbrook, Conn.; John varsity football team. He was injured in the Alabama game 11. Mason, Bradenton, Fla. and was laid up for the rest of the season. However, he Alpha Sigma is happy to announce a move into a new is now going strong in spring practice. home. This is a major event in the chapter, for we have been The Pi Kapps have given two dances in their new house.

'IVorking to this end for some time. We have made tremendous The first was a housewarming dance, and the second was in llrogress in spirit since moving. The pledge group presented honor of the Chi Omega, Alpha Omicron Pi, and Zeta Tau the chapter with a ping-pong table which is fast supplanting Alpha sororities. We plan in the near future to give a long the Uke as the center of attraction. dance which will climax the chapter's social season for the . Alpha Sigma is very active in campus life. L. C. Haney, a winter quarter. }Unior, is a Nahheeyayli representative, secretary of the InterWe were recently favored with a visit from National Chanraternity Council, and general manager of the Engineer's ~anquet. He is also an efficient treasurer and house manager. cellor Hauser. We were all delighted in entertaining him and hope that he enjoyed his visit as much as we enjoyed ames M. Bryan, archon and a senior, represents the Agriculhis fellowship. tural College on the All Students Club Council, and was A new pledge, Carter Moore, Winchester, wrts recently ~anager of the Barnwarming, the outstanding annual funcadded to our group. ton of the Ag. College. In addition he belongs to ScarabAlumnus Personal an, Alpha Z~a. and Phi Delta Kappa honorary societies. lioward Darrow, junior in Liberal Arts College, is viceThe marriage of Dr. Samuel H. Jones and Miss Vivian llresident of the university Y.M.C.A. and president of the Lyons took place on January 3 in Cartersville, Ga. Brother l'ennessee Players. Mitchell Simpson, sophomore, is manJones is a graduate of the School of Medicine of the University of Tennessee. In July he starts his interneship in the ~ger of the Men's Glee Club. James Roper, also a sophomore, IS associate editor of the Ora11ge a11d White, student weekly.

Lutheran Hospital of Fort Wayne, Ind. He is a member of Alpha Kappa Kappa and a charter member of Alpha Sigma . We are not lagging in the realm of athletics. There is ~ 1 11 Lee, varsity swimmer, who was for two years Connecticut Chapter. ~terscholastic Champion. We have two frosh numeral men: ALPHA TAU h ennedy in football and Richardson in swimming. We also Officers: H. J. Parcinski, archon; J. W. Hayward, treasave two men out for freshman basketball. They are Davis urer; P. J . Walsh, secretary; G. R. Mezger, historian; H. A. Stansberry. The Pi Kapps feel keenly the loss of "Free Downing, chaplain; R. R. Horton, warden. heeling" Dave McPherson, who graduated last spring. He \Vas recently named as forward on the All-Time Tennessee On January 19, the house held an informal victrola party in an attempt to break the monotony and steady grind of basketball team. We cannot forget Herbie Tade who was

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reviews in preparation for the mid-year examinations.

Brother Robinson and the social committee are to be congratulated on another job well done.

To date, Alpha Tau has been very successful in interfraternity basketball. The percentage of games won is 1.000, and the men are working hard to keep it up there. Our percentage in bowling is .500 with six games won and six games lost, and we are standing third in our league. Brother Thompson, as captain of the swimming team is working hard.

We see a potential manager of swimming in Brother Horton.

The active chapter appreciates the visits we have been receiving from a large number of the alumni and wishes again to extend its invitation. We also wish to thank those men who responded to the questionnaire which was mailed to all the alumni, and request that those who have not done so send theirs in immediately.

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J. F. Rittenhouse

Officers: ]. H. McCann, archon; William Miller, treasurer; D. J. Greer, secretary; J. F. Rittenhouse, historian; W. E. Gill, chaplain; E. H. North, warden.

Brothers have been well occupied during the past few weeks helping their sorority friends with rushing season. Although the season has closed the fellows still seem to continue their practice for better or for worse.

Among the social events of the recent season have been several house dances given to the active chapter by the pledges.

These have proved very helpful in developing fellowship between the pledges and brothers.

On the .first and second of March comes the annual Pi Kapp minstrel show and dance that has become an outstanding event in Drexel's social program. The show this year looks very promising and we are in high hopes of equal artistic and financial success.

Among the facu lty members of Drexel are Brother Galphin of Delta Chapter, and Brothers Riddle and Tomlinson of Alpha Upsilon. The latter two brought distinction to the chapter as Pi Kappa Scholars for 1933 and 1934. Brother Wagner, a recent initiate, is president of the Drexel Alumni Association and a member of the engineering staff. Brother McDonald, head of the English department and Brother Wagonseller, comptroller of the Institute, are old honorary members. Brother Hanson, whom we are proud to call our chapter adviser was recently raised to position of associate professor of chemistry. "Doc" is the .godfather of dramatics at Drexel, directs the minstrel, and in his spare time writes all of the laboratory manuals used in the various chemistry courses.

Alpha Upsilon wants to take this opportunity to thank Alpha Mu for their most cordial hospitality one week-end last January.

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Delta Sigma Phi. Except those otherwise designated, all are from New York City.

Youth Discusses Youth, to a degree unknown in former sessions of the National Interfraternity Conference, dominated the :final program Saturday. First came Peter C. Hitt, a senior at Yale University and a member of Beta Theta Pi, who gave definite assurance that fraternities were still existent at Yale University and would continue to

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exist, adapting themselves to the new order there, com· plementing, rather than rivaling the so-called college plan.

Then followed close-up views of real fraternity situa· tions and problems presented by the members of the National Undergraduate Council, with Robert Keown, Sigma Chi, Duke University senior and chairman-elect of the council, presiding at the invitation of Chairman Wilkinson.

Harold Van Gorder, Pi Kappa Alpha, Northwestern University, chairman of the Finance Committee, either discussed or directed the discussion on the system of collective bargaining at the University of Pittsburgh. which is proving successful in reducing fraternity costs, the collection of student accounts, and the unfairness in withholding F.E.R.A. assistance from fraternity men in some schools. The cooperation of the educational in· stitutions in withholding credits from members who do not pay their bills was favored by the undergraduates.

Rushing and its problems were presented by Rich· ard King, DKE of Amherst, chairman of the Com· mittee on Rushing, who stated that the committee fav· ored scholastic requirements for initiation eligibility, the abandonment of "Hell Week," rigorous initiation and horse play, the regulation of mshing in accorcjance with the type of school concerned, and enforcement of rushing rules through complete cooperation with the c?l· lege, the other fraternities, and the non-fraterntty group.

John Falconer, a Sigma Chi from Purdue, presented the work of the Committee of General Affairs. Be advocated the service of the Interfraternity council as an intermediary between the college administration and the fraternities, the promotion of greater un~er· standing between faculty and students, and cooperatiOn with other campus organizations.

Interfraternity councils, he insisted, should include all fraternities, should carry out a social program to develop friendly relationships, and promote intramural activities. He urged the publication by the National Interfraternity Conference of a pamphlet outlining ~1 e functions, organization, and program of interfraternttY councils.

Other general fraternity problems were discussed briefly by fraternity leaders. Dr. Francis W. Shepa_r~ son was given an ovation for his impressive reCl;' of the accomplishments of the National Interfratern~ty Conference in revolutionizing the attitude of fratern~ty men toward each other, of bringing about an apprectad tion of the common purposes of all fraternities an through solving by conference many common pr~b· !ems. He also answered the question "Is the fraterntty ritual obsolete?" by bringing out the inspiring inBu· ence rituals have upon undergraduates.

George Starr Lasher, national president of Theta Chi Fraternity, discussed three topics, outlining a P;~­ gram for the development of interfraternity sptrtt

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among alumni, analyzing the problem of the competition of professional fraternities, and citing some of the experiments in fraternity life that are being carried on.

Dr. Charles W. Gerstenberg, Delta Chi, past conference chairman, answered the question "Is fraternity membership too costly?" by asserting that the only fraternity that costs too much is one that does not give a full return. One that gives real inspiration to a man, he said, that furnishes the services of accounting and auditing, that trains men to be precise in all their work and insists on one hundred per cent perfection, that fraternity cannot be paid too much.

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While the fraternity is a social organization, and rightly so, and while it is the business of the college to care for the mental training of the student, the social interests and habits of a college man should differ radically from those of a member of an athletic or political dub, and the atmosphere in a fraternity house should consciously promote all the legitimate activities of the institution of which the fraternity is a partCecil J. Wilkinson, Phi Gamma Delta, retiring chairman National Interfraternity Conference.

I am never concerned about what will be done when all the facts are in, but I am concerned about getting the truth and the whole truth, not half the truth . Nor ~m I concerned about the spirit which is abroad breakIng down things that have been traditional. As fraternity men, let's find out who we are, what we are, and Where we are going, so that we can better cooperate With college authorities.- Fred E. Linder, chairman Committee on Cooperation with the Colleges.

Deans of men possibly fail to do things which we s~ould do and pass on our problems to fraternities, believing that governing by authority from above is not a very wholesome thing and that fraternities in solving problems, even with fumbling at times, go through an ed.ucative process of supreme value to them. We have said time and time again that we could not possibly function in our offices were it not for what the fraternities are doing in cooperation with us.-Albert K Beckel, Alpha Tau Omega, dean of men University of Missouri.

The more college authorities can be made to understand the objectives of a fraternity and what a fraternity is for the more nearly the general objectives will be accomplished. If there has been antagonism between the college and the fraternity, it is the fault of the college. I think the college authorities need education along this line.- F. R. Schultz, dean of men Allegheny College.

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idea of interfraternity relationships.-George Starr Lasher, national president Theta Chi. How are you going to introduce a person to your fraternity if you don't have some sort of a ritual? You might get along without it. But I have an idea that ~e ritual is very largely the difference between a boardmg house and a fraternity.-Dr. Francis W . Shepardson, national president Beta Theta Pi. The opportunity opening before 0e frate~~ity ~en of the country to consultation and fnendly cooperation is just beginning. There has been a reason for the existence of the National Interfraternity Conference, and with unfinished problems there still is work to do in common for a great cause of the development of human friendship under the bonds of Greek-letter organizations.-Dr. Francis W. Shepardson, national president of Beta Theta Pi. Some outstanding educators are questioning fraternities not because they have a paternalistic attitude or are unmindful of the contribution which fraternities have made in the past, but because they are not sure that fraternities can contribute today. The challenge is whether or not the fraternity is really or can be an integra! part of the new educational program.- William L. Sanders, Sigma Chi, dean of men Ohio Wesleyan University, educational adviser of the National Interfraternity Conference.

Secretaries Association While frankly recognizing the faults of the college fraternity, Albert K. Heckel, dean of men at the University of Missouri, declared it serves a defensible need as the best agency for organized friendliness in speaking before the Coiiege Fraternity Secretaries Association dinner November 28 at the Hotel Roosevelt, New York City. This was the concluding session of a one-day program.

"The fraternity system is a human institution; it will have its imperfections. But I resent the 'character assassin' who dramatizes bad taste into low morals and isolates incidents into representative conduct. The denunciations of the critic who believes what he wants to believe become tragic when they shape the opinion of a prejudiced or unknowing public.

"The fraternity system as a whole is good, not bad.

It is so good we wish it were better. There is something of fundamental worth in an organized friendliness of college men."

Financial problems arising out of the fact that alumni often lack the moral integrity to pay their honest debts to fraternity chapters, Dean Heckel said, proved that economic responsibility is an essential in shaping the character of the individual and the group, economic honesty being a cardinal virtue.

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stated in advocating the forbidding of pledging in the freshman year of any boy who ranked in the lower third of his high school class.

Other speakers at the dinner were Fred H. Turner, dean of men at the University of Illinois, and F. M. Massey, dean of men at the University of Tennessee.

Officers elected by the association are: Norman Hackett, Theta Delta Chi, president; Richard Duncan, Beta Kappa, vice-president; Harold Jacobsen, Sigma Pi, secretary-treasurer.

Editors Meet National advertising in fraternity and sorority magazines is practically assured as the result of action taken at the College Fraternity Editors' Association luncheon meeting the closing day of the conference, when the program outlined by Alfred H. Aldridge, executive secretary of Theta Chi Fraternity, was given unanimous approval. The total circulation of participating publications will be sold by an advertising agency which has already been successful in handling a similar type of advertising on a group basis.

The editors listened with pleasure to Arthur S. Draper, editor of The Literary Digest, who after expressing his interest in youth, turned to a discussion of American journalism, describing the press of the United States as the freest in the whole world and still the greatest influence in molding public opinion. He characterized the New Deal as a real social revolution.

Later he shared some trade secrets with fellow editors.

Another speaker was William A. Hoy, who in 1882, as assistant to Henry Clay Floger, helped to edit the Star and Crescent of Alpha Delta Phi, which was discontinued a few years later and has not been revived.

Mr. Hoy, now a lawyer in New York City, emphasized the necessity of a publication to strengthen and maintain fraternity loyalty.

Officers for the association chosen for the ensuing year are: president, K. D. Pulcipher, editor The Shield and Diamond of Pi Kappa Alpha; vice president, George Starr Lasher, editor The Rattle of Theta Chi,secretary-treasurer, Linn Lightner, editor The Cross and Crescent of Lambda Chi Alpha; members of the Executive Committee, Lauren Foreman, editor The S.A.E. Record; F. James Barnes, editor of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Jottrnal,- and Charles E. Thomas, editor The Delta of Sigma Nr1.

KEY N 0 T E S (ContinrmJ from page 14) or more to apply any spare time in this way. Yet, those two months are not too many to prepare for the summer and next fall.

It is organization and the functioning of that organization which brings forth success or failure in rushing. Each year we urge the chapters to ponder and fix upon a plan of cam-

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paign. The primary move is to get a capable man to head the rushing activities; a leader and outstanding personality, one who welcomes heartily the opportunity to serve and has the time.

Next is the planning of the campaign, and .finally, the execution. It is time to be thinking of the right man for the rushing chairman. It is time to be thinking of the plans for the summer and fall. It is not too early to make a resolution to answer promptly and courteously all recommendations received from the alumni and to follow this up with a later communication to tell them of the outcome of your invita· tion. Build up good will with the alumni.

Alumni, look to receive from this office and from the chap· ter appeals for recommendations. This is fair warning that you will get them. In the meantime, keep a weather eye open on the youngsters about you for a prospect or two. Keep them in mind to have ready their names to return to us promptly when the request comes to you, so that we may get in touch with them as soon as possible and maintain the contact as long as possible prior to the time they come to the college.

We are going to sow that we may reap.

Scholarship We can be somewhat pleased that Pi Kappa Phi has h~ld her head above the level of the waters of average scholarshtp, at a time when the general fraternity average went bel?w the surface, but we have to be concerned with the weakentng of the position which was ours the past few years.

Dr. Edington reports that just a small proportion of the chapters are responsible for the lowering of the national averdage. If we were members of any of those chapters we woul be inclined to hide our head in total embarrassment and, while in that position of withdrawal from sight and hearing of others, do some tall thinking and resolving. How to get bettel performance out of myself and my buddies, to get it, an then to keep it.

If you care, do something about it. If you do not care, you are one big "welcher," on yourself, on your family, on the university, on society, on the fraternity.

Just about time to quit to don the garbs of E.S. Cheerio.

Discoveries in the Field of Alumni Endeavor (Contin11ed from page 8)

Frantic appeals and lectures on duty have never gotten any fraternity much alumni support and never will. If a fraternity wants better alumni support, it ca? get it by showing more tangible interest in the alu~01 • It has never failed. The keystone of the observat1_o?s of anyone who has done much work with alumnt ts, "Alumni are just about as interested in their college, or fraternity, as the college, or the fraternity, is inter· ested in them." It is human nature. Alumni support isn't turned on or off with a snap of one's fingers. It is built-up and cumulative.

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Frequency of contacts is more of an essential than most fraternities take note. For instance, a chapter alumni publication to be of decent effectiveness should be issued at least four times a year. There are some distant alumni who are reminded of their membership only as often as they hear from the fraternity. An alumnus reminded of his fraternity but once a year, or once every three years, is not a very good alumnus, n? _matter what his potentialities may be. Again, fraternt~tes are usually seeking alumni interest in competition Wtth organizations and things which wisely have frequent contacts. If the fraternity doesn't want to attempt to compete with the other distractions of the average alumnus, there is no point In wasting time seeking alumni interest. Frequency of contacts with alumni is important for the same reason that cigarette advertising confronts you almost everywhere you turn.

The cigarette companies know that it pays to remind you frequently.

Winning alumni support is in good measure a salesmanship job. We have to sell the alumnus on being more interested just as we had to have him sold on our fraternity when he first pledged. . Lastly, we all know there are certain periods in his life when the average alumnus is more interested in ~he; fraternity than in others. The average member ts tntensely interested in the fraternity throughout his college days and for the next couple of years while he still knows men in the active chapter behind him.

Two years out of sd1ool, he generally begins to lose his ~raternity contacts. He doesn't know many of the boys, tf any, in the active chapter any more and he is pretty Well launched into the "cold world" where there are ?ot as many fraternity contacts. He becomes distracted tn marriage, children, and his job, and the distractions make it harder for him to keep up his fraternity contacts. His interest begins to lag. Potentially, he may be tremendously interested, but there are enough distractions and he is sufficiently out of touch that he may not know where and how to show it. Generally, at ?e~t, there are enough things right at hand to do that tt ts very much the easiest thing not to seek out: fraternity contacts on his own initiative. And so it goes.

By the time he is about 40 or 45 years of age, his position in life generally becomes more secure and he h~s less pressure on him. If he has had some contacts ":1th the fraternity since he left school, his interest begtns to spurt again, especially if he takes the initiative to be interested. If he has a growing son, he has more reason to take the initiative. If his interest doesn't spurt at about 40, and it is given no incentive to do so, then it dwindles off into practically nothing. He might as well not be on the fraternity rolls.

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bit in the future if they go about it. If they furnish more contacts with the fraternity to that man after he leaves college, they would make it easier for the alumnus to maintain his interest. They would not only benefit more from each member's continued interest until he is 40 years old and keep his interest from sagging too low, but, when the normal spurt comes in later years, then his interest would go much higher.

Lincoln Colcord, the author, whom you may know best from his Maine Stein Song, put the situation very neatly in a recent letter to his fraternity. He said: "As life goes on, the alumnus finds it increasingly difficult to follow things in the fraternity. That is, he has to make an effort to do it and this should not be tl1e case.

The emphasis on the initiative is in the wrong place.

The initiative should come from the fraternity itself."

To date every fraternity has left the initiative too much up to the alumnus. All have talked about getting more alumni interest, but little is ever done that is constructive. When something is done, there is a temporary spurt of enthusiasm- perhaps some sort of rally of a kind-and then activity dwindles off again, as if one move should serve for some time to come.

Within the past decade all fraternities have been getting better organized and becoming more businesslike. They should do more in the future about building up alumni interest. In the past it has been too mud1 left to the active chapter, as sort of a responsibility.

The main part of the job can not be left to the active d1apter member. To ask an active to get the alumni viewpoint is like asking him to behave like a Chinaman when he has never been to China.

National officers have been bending practically all their efforts on active chapter matters. Conceivably, the active chapter is the training ground for the future alumnus, but if so much effort is put into the training, why shouldn't more be done to capitalize on the developed material. There is also the angle that, if the alumni are better cultivated, it should lead to more improvement of the training ground.

Probably every fraternity represented here has from ten to fifteen times as many alumni members as it has active members. Besides the fact that alumni greatly outnumber the actives, they also have more means, contacts, and influence to offer. Fraternities have grand and tremendous opportunities through their alumni.

Alumni are worth more time and constructive effort than they have been given in the past.

Constructively, besides maintaining better contacts with alumni, some special new benefits should be provided for them. The undergraduates get very tangible benefits, such as a fine place to live, campus contacts, etc. The alumni should have additional benefits other than merely sentimental ones.

Some specific suggestions would be: 1. Designate a national officer of your fraternity with more time, ability and funds to look after alumni just as is done with active chapters.

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2. Create national alumni dues to support such a program, and more important, for the subtle purpose that they remind an alumnus that he is part of an organization, just as he felt when he paid dues as an active. I think that every fraternity which has national alumni dues has found them not only practical but also worthwhile as a means of holding alumni interest.

3. Develop each fraternity chapter into two units: the active chapter and the alumni chapter. Make this set-up so that when a member reaches graduation, he will feel that his active participation continues with his graduation into an alumni organization which will vote and do more than the present-day building corporations.

4. Let each alumni unit of a chapter have a delegate and a vote at conventions just as the active chapters have at the present time. Is it proper that an active chapter delegate alone represent not only the viewpoint of thirty-odd undergraduates in his chapter, but also of 400 of its alumni?

Another thing, give alumni a vote and they will be tied in closer and feel more participation and responsibility.

5. Organize alumni by states and districts as most active chapters are today with regular district officers.

6. Send mailings to alumni on fraternity matters and ask their opinions on questions for decision. This will make them feel they are a part of the organization. Create things for them to do. Alumni groups often disintegrate for Jack of things to do and lack of a purpose.

7. Set up means of job placement.

8. Develop the fraternity magazine to have more alumnireader interest.

9. Create business and professional directories of the membership. Any stimulus to increase a member's social and business contacts is a quick way to his heart.

10. Educate the active chapters to have more interest in their alumni so that members will graduate with the proper attitude to become better alumni themselves. If the undergraduate notes that the chapter doesn't cultivate alumni interest and little interest is shown by the alumni, he graduates with a preconceived decision for his behavior as an alumnus.

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conscientious study so as to bring their standings somewhere near the standard of Pi Kappa Phi.

Pi Kappa Phi Scholars for 1935 The chairman of the scholarship committee will send out scholarship blanks to all chapter secretaries by March 1, for the use of all active brothers who believe their scholarship records are worthy of consideration and who desire to be candidates for that high honor of being designated as a Pi Kappa Phi scholar.

The maximum number of Pi Kappa Phi Scholars for any one year is nine and successful candidates are awarded the Pi Kappa Phi scholarship Trophy or Pendant and a Certificate of Merit. To be a candidate the active member must have at least second term junior standing. The scholarship records must be certified t~ as to correctness by the dean or registrar of the candt· date's institution, and must be accompanied by a good photograph, not a snap shot, which will be suitable for use in The Star and Lamp. .

All scholarship records should be sent to the chatr· man of the scholarship committee before 1935. The awards will be made on Founders' Day next Dece~­ ber, and the successful candidates will receive recognt· tion in the December number of The Star and LamP· The first Pi Kappa Phi scholars were chosen in 1927 and the total number of these outstanding Pi Kapps to date is 52. So far twenty-six of our chapters are represented among these scholars, so that it is evident that the honors have been pretty widely distributed.

Also the majority of these 52 scholars have been lead· ers not only in scholarship but also in extracurricul~r activities, although no account of this was taken tn determining the successful candidates. The chair~an of the scholarship committee hopes that every actt~e brother with an outstanding scholarship record wtll send in promptly the necessary reports so that the awards may continue to go to our finest scholars.

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"Horace A. Granger is affiliated with James D. Hea~ly, Inc., of Seattle and has been with the £rm since graduatmg from the University of Washington. It is amazing to one who has had the pleasure of meeting him in the busin.ess world, realizing the energetic manner in which he applies hun· self to his position, that he can £nd time to devote himself to affairs of the fraternity. The amazement grows to wonder upon contemplating the great amount of work Brother Granger has done during the past several years in aiding Alpha Delta, forming the Seattle Alumni Chapter, and planning the com: ing convention in Seattle. It is fortunate for Pi Kappa Pht that when the vacancy of district archonship occurred ther.e was a man of Granger's caliber willing to accept the responst· bility. Pi Kappa Phi is bound to grow stronger in the North· west. With the close cooperation of the National Histori~n, Walter R. Jones, and Brother Granger, men of imaginatton and the power to do, we are going places."

Officiaf•s Page (Contin11ed from page 2) Among other ite~ns. to be included should be social entertainment and serious service to the fraternity, such as an employ· ment bureau, and stmtlar projects. The alumni chapters are the centers which should hold the interest of the alumnus who is too distant from his own chapter to be easily reached.

Finally, your publications are important. Each chapter should plan to send its chapter letter or bulletin regularly and frequently to all its alu~ni, and see to it that it contains both active and alumni news. The Triangle, if possible, should be iss~e~ more frequently. It ts the best possible means for arousing the national consciousness and keeping alive the fraternal spmt among the brothers. With such a program functioning for ten years you will have a brotherhood whose spirit will be the envy of all the Greek letter world, and all other things will be added unto you.

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