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Directory Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Founded 1904, College of Charleston

Incorporated 1907, Laws of South Carolina

FOUNDERS SIMON FOGAR1Y

ANDREW ALEXANDER

151 Moultri• Strt•t Charleston, S.C.

Chapter Eternal February 8, 1922

LA WRENCH HARRY MIXSON

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217 East Bay Stre•t Charl•ston, S.C.

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL President

Secretary

Treasurer

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ALBERT W. MEISEL

140 Liberty Street New York, New York Hist orian

83 S. Lansdowne Avenue Lansdowne, Pennsylvania

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224 St. Johns Place Brooklyn, New York

3488 Courville Avenue Detroit, Michigan

WALTER R . ]ONES

HOWARD

WILLIAM J. BERRY

WILSON ROBINSON

LEAKE,

Chancellor A. HOUSER St. Matthews, South Carolina

THE CENTRAL OFFICE 5010 Evelyn Byrd Road P. 0. Box 501 Richmond, Virginia Exewtive Secretary JOHN

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H. McCANN,

Assistant Secretary

DISTRICT ARCHONS 1-Frank J. McMullen, 68 76th Street, Brooklyn, New York 2-Charles H . Wilson, Crewe, Virginia 3-Reginald L. Price, 133 Brevard Court, Charlotte, North Carolina 4-]. Neville Holcombe, P. 0 . Box 730, Spartanburg, South Carolina 5-Francis]. Dwyer, 604 Candler Building, Atlanta, Georgia 6-George S. Coulter, 405 Dyal-Upchurch Building, Jacksonville, Florida 7-J. Theodore Jackson, P. 0. Box 673, Dothan. Alabama a-Unassigned 9-Harold 0. Merle, 10 15th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 10- George B. Helm rich, 26590 Dundee Road, Royal Oak, Michigan 11-W. Robert Amick, 333 Vine Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 14- Russell B. Johnson, 311-llth Street, Ames, Iowa 15- Clancy A. Latham, 181 7 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-Boyd W. Rea, 2530 Etna Street, Berkeley, California

STANDING COMMITTEES Scholarship Dr. Wi ll E. Edington, Chairman . DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana Dr. J. E. Winter, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Finance Ralph W . Noreen, Chairman, 1 Wall Street, New York City (Term expires, 12-31-41) 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, c/o Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio Roy J. Heffner, 186 Mill' Street, Morristown, New Jersey Architecture James Fogarty, Chairman, 8 Court House Square, Charleston, South Carolina Edward J. Squire, 68 E. 19th, Brooklyn, N.Y. Clyde C. Pearson, c/o WPA, Miami, Fla. John 0. Blair, Hotel Eddystone, Detroit, Michigan

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FEBRUARY, 1936

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Contents Adventure! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

By Albert W. Meisel A Fraternity Audit of Experience.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

By Dr. Henry M. Wriston Visiting That Castle in Spain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

By Carl F. Ostergren Under the Student's Lamp............................

By Dr. Will E. Edington Convention Charges d' Affairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Introducing Seattle's Convention Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . .

By Douglas Willix Purdue Chapter Stages Excellent Conclave. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

By E. R. Blaschke Alumni Chapters Present Varied Activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Pi Kappa Phi Pictorial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Calling the Roll. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The Cover ERNEST MILLER, Penn State, sent in the picture of the cover with the comment that Penn State was not lacking in beauty and yet had not been featured as had other colleges. We bow to his college loyalty, fraternity interest and his supported claim of attractive vistas on the State campus.

Volume XXII We start a new book with this issue and expect it to record many interesting events and tangible progress before it is concluded. No radical changes in policies or layout are contemplated. We hope to continue "The Morning's Mail" by receiving support of contributions as well as favorable comments thereon. The new, for the Star a11d Lamp, method of handling the display of cuts, combining them for the most part in a pictorial section, is an experimental novelty. Do you like it?

We are adding the names of Douglas Willix, Washington, and Dr. Will E. Edington, Illinois, to the masthead as contributing editors. Willix stated in writing that he would be glad to become a permanent fixture of the staff if he could find enough money to buy a new typewriter. We note that he is now head of the Seattle office of The TIYall Street Journal.

With this position and undoubted increasing circulation of the financial paper because of bullish action of the financial mart, a new machine should not be long in forthcoming. We tie a string around the top of the burlap.

Dr. Edginton certainly rates the position. For ten years, now, there have been few issues appearing without his contribution along scholastic and educational lines. Each has been timely, interesting, informative and valuable. The chapters place him in an apologetic position as a result of their scholarship last year. We hope those responsible will be thoroughly ashamed of themselves and do the work required to indicate they possess average intelligence; or, presuming possession of this quality, that they show some sort of acceptable realization of why they are in college and stop the waste of their valuable time and money.

We hope to complete the program of having contributing editors in key points of the country for news coverage and several more in any spot for general contribution of articles of thought-provoking, suggestive, critical, informative, and inspirational nature.

We expect to record an unusually successful convention, the removing of the last bandages from the wounds of the depression, an improved scholarship rating, progress along all lines, and of especially outstanding (Co11tim1ed 011 page 14)

Adventure!

BROTHERS, will you join in a great adventure?

An adventure is a hazardous and exciting experience. To risk-to dare-requires imagination, and what a thrill the adventurer has as his dream comes true.

If Sir Francis Drake had not sailed up the Pacific coast hunting for an eastward passage, perhaps there would have been no City of Seattle, and by the same token, no Supreme Chapter meeting in that city. It was his courage and spirit of adventure that lead the great navigator into the waters adjacent to Seattle and opened up that then new country to the Old World.

Much the same fortitude and spirit animated the early American pioneers, who by horseback and wagon train pushed their way across the continent and finally settled the great Northwest. They and people like them founded the City of Seattle.

Thus, brothers, I ask you to participate in a great Pi Kapp adventure-a trip to the Pacific coast. For most of us, it will be a new experience, and offers in addition some valuable lawful booty. The more difficult the journey is for us to accomplish, the greater the thrill and pleasure we will derive from it. No matter whether we walk, hitch hike, ride horseback, or go by the wagon train from Chicago with the delegates, it will give us a thrill.

When the Old World met the New World on the coast originally, both were benefited.

So today Pi Kapps from all sections, meeting at Seattle, are bound to profit by this experience. We will enjoy real hospitality, good entertainment, and participate in building a better PI KAPPA PHI. To you Pi Kapps already on the coast, yours is the pleasant privilege of welcoming your brothers at the first Supreme Chapter meeting held in the West since 1921. You will have the greater pleasure of extending hospitality.

After it is all over, all Pi Kapps will have acquired as lawful booty several new and priceless possessions. You who give and we who take will both be richer. We shall all have delightful and thrilling memories, new friends, and a wider knowledge of our country. These can never be taken from us.

Therefore, I summon you to skedaddle (which being interpreted by the immortal Webster, means flee in haste, run away, scamper) to Seattle.

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By Dr. Henry M. Wriston President Lawrence ·College President Association of American Colleges This space-budgeting business is a pain to and a strain on our mental processes. We debated with oursel'Jies whether to brief this address of Dr. Wriston, so that we might speak of other events and actions of a very notable meeting of the Interfraternity Conference, and also have room for other material of particular Pi Kappa Phi nature, or to run it in its full length of seven pages-which you will perceive readily is about one-fourth of otlr magazine.

We decided it was all or none. It is a rare gem of disclosure and mggestion, garbed with kindly humor. It stirred the Conference profoundly because it was from a college president who was interested enough to make the study and impartial in making and imparting his observations.

From it came the resolution of the Conference to make a thorough and detailed "atldit!'

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COME as a kind of ambassador to interpret I suggest that all problems of real magnitude, You to yourselves and to each other and to the and the fraternity problem is a problem of magnico1leges. It is like the Bishop of Birmingham, who tude, are not solved in five minutes. They have to ~~ o~e occasion was making a speech to a group be solved through the years bit by bit, and the less d ra!lroad men in England. He said, "You have biting the better, but they are solved that way. .one a wonderful thing. You have gotten four natton r.

Wh a tttes to understand each other: an Englishman Significance of Audit k 0 loves his Bible and his beer; the Scotchman who heeps the Sabbath and anything else he can lay his So I come before you this morning with no cure h~nds _on; the Welshman who prays on Sunday and on for all these troubles, but I want to suggest a device a d netghbors the rest of the week; r-~~~~~~~~~~~ to you, a device which is old yet \V~ the Irishman who doesn't know new. h lat he wants, but will never be Mr. Henry James, a trustee of appy until he gets it." the Carnegie Corporation, recently lo Now, they had lived together a coined a phrase which I am going d'~g While, and yet had had great to take over. He said we ought to have "an audit of experience." It 0 ~h cuity in understanding each a er, and you and the colleges have lived together is a kind of self-survey which is extraordinarily 1 cul~n~ while, and yet you seem to have some diffi- frank. understanding each other.

I suggest that the fraternities and colleges might t' hrs is an old problem. In 1879 in the first ediunite in drawing up a kind of balance sheet of the ~on of Baird's Manual of College Fraternities, there whole fraternity experience, and it might reveal the 'l'~s an article entitled, "The College Fraternities, Have extent and the content of your capital. It would show ·· ey A. Right to Live?" The answer was a feeble whether that capital was unimpaired and whether i Yes." This year Ernest Martin Hopkins said that dur- you had reserves and surpluses and profits that have anf. fifty years the fraternity has failed "to remain been tucked away through the years to take care of r 'CUlated with college life." the lean period. Or it might show whether deficits and thAn~ another New England president who remarked depreciation have eaten up your capital and that you eat hts college had nothing to learn from the experi- are now bankrupt. And it should be just as impartial, t~ce of others was quoted in the press as saying that as realistic, as cold-blooded, and as effective in ap· te~·nt.ational connection has no benefit for the fra- plying any techniques that are applicable as would 1 tes upon the campus. be an audit of fiscal matters.

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Pi Kappa Phi Delegates The delegate and alternate Jist of the fraternity to the National Interfraternity Conference was composed of President Albert W. Meisel, Secretary William ].

Berry, Archon Carl F. Ostergren of the New York alumni, and District Archon Frank J. McMullen of District One. Attractive opportunities for association and discussion of fraternity problems were presented by the recesses of the Conference. Resident Adviser ]. L. Zwingle of Psi chapter was present for several sessions of the Conference.

Pi Kappa Phi was ably represented on the program of the Conference in the person of Secretary William ]. Berry, who delivered a scholarly and thoughtful paper as the final part of a symposium which had as an objective the ascertainment of means and policies for putting into effective action the criteria which the fraternities have placed before themselves. Berry's address pertained to the alumni side of the question.

This will appear in a future issue in full.

The first thing I think that ought to be spoken of in such an audit would be the housing situation. In so far as the colleges are paying any attention to housing of the students they come about fifty years later, and that is a long start which the fraternities have, and, knowing what I do about college finance, the colleges are not going to catch up with the fraternities over a considerable period of years.

The colleges, of course, are waking up to the fact which the fraternities knew, not consciously but unconsciously, that education is not merely a matter of a classroom and of the curriculum, but the colleges long resisted any audit of experience in that particular matter. In recent years, however, they have changed and have been undergoing surveys not only from within but from without.

All of these studies, whether made by the colleges themselves or by great agencies like the North Central Association or by a great foundation, make clear what we have known, but what we have not been able to prove before, that the educative process is not merely an intellectual process.

If it were merely an intellectual process, it would be infinitely simpler. It is not merely a product of academic procedure. Education is the growth of the individual, his response to every item in his total environment, not only within the institution but outside the institution as well. And the emotional needs of our students are revealed by the tragic tenseness of this modern age, and these esthetic needs are revealed by the tragic insufficiency of taste in American life.

Now, emotional responsibility and esthetic awareness are caught and not taught Those are the things which more than anything else the student gets from his environment. He may get intellectual stimulus from his environment, but that is not likely. He is

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likely to catch that from some professor in the class· room, someone who in the presentation of his ~ub· ject has the power of stimulation, whereas he is like· ly to get from the professor in his own home a more urbane outlook on life. But the student so far ~s his emotional development is concerned, so far as htS esthetic development is concerned, is likely to get much more out of his way of life, how he lives frorn day to day, and the environment in which he moves, than out of mere instruction in the classroom.

And the fraternity house by and large has sup· plied that deficiency and must continue to supplY it in the future, so far as I can see.

Chapter House vs. Dormitory Take, for example, architecture. I shudder when I see the neo-Greek and then the near-Tudor and the awful Gothic and the dose-English of some of ~t fraternity houses, not to mention the pseudo-colon!~ · But after I am all through shuddering at fraternttY house architecture, I gasp at the architecture that the colleges have inflicted upon their dormitories. .

And take the name itself. What does dormttodlry mean? It is obviously a borrow from the Mid e Ages, the cell of a monk. And you go into the typical dormitory-and I have inspected many in. the course of my travels-and it consists of a door tnt~ the hallway. That seems to be common to all 0 them. Just inside the door are two miserabl~ !itt!~ closets or one with a curtain across forming a ktnd 0 entry; then two long, blank walls, impossible to decorate, terminating in a window much too large, with a radiator under it. And that is the typical mas~ production, modern replica of a place where a mo~ was supposed to sleep, but not to pray or do his rea · ing and his study. Monks had different places for that. Is it any wonder that the modern student. fie~~ from the abomination if perchance he has an mte lectual drive?

Typical fraternity houses, on the other hand, ar~ not so arranged. They have rooms for the most part such as moderns live in, such as moderns in contaC with society and not monks in their cells. t11e Dormitory furniture is one of the wonders of t age. In nine cases out of ten it is uniform, exc~P where it is impossible to replace the original hideost~ with anything as bad. It was bought by shrewd b.u~t ness managers by weight and they got the most wetg d for their money, designed to take burns and scars and initialing and all what; in other words, it is designe1t to resist wear. It is the most extraordinary assault t11' I know upon taste or appreciation of anything e1se, except college efficiency.

Now, in this respect, the fraternities have a lo~~ way to go, but the colleges have a long way to go I catch up with where the fraternities already are· .0 1 certainly will not defend the fraternity furniture

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Now, the fraternities in their living rooms could ~ot do worse than most of the colleges. As a matter of ;ct, they have done on a whole a great deal better. ~ nd when people parade the new dormitories at Har'IVard or Yale before me, I say, "Yes, but look at the thay the student has Jived in Harvard and Yale for e last fifty years." th l'here are few American colleges which have given Ce same consideration to housing that Oxford and ambridge have given, lo, these many centuries.

1-Iow many college and university dormitories sup1 fhY the students or encourage the students to supply l'bernselves with books, with any kind of a dormitory ~h tary, with current magazines, with newspapers, with Onograph records of any merit? Now the answer is ~ '~ery, very small number indeed. While the fraternity ouses have much to answer for in not pursuing this irogram with infinitely greater vigor and much greater :~ess, but, again, they lead the colleges by a very 1 e margin, bad as their own achievement may apPear t? be in the light of their own criticism.

Ill Eattng occupies a large share of life and is one of our in~st u~iquitous and, in ordinary circumstances, most ~r:stmg activities. The emphasis is altogether in8 Ctent upon what one of my best wise-cracking processors remarked, "There is not enough emphasis upon 0 ~1y comestibles instead of incredible edibles."

1 ow on economy and dietary grounds the colae~ dormitory wins, hands down-much less pork n much less of the things that students ought 11 hot eat in too great amounts. But the fraternity /~~e wins by a wide margin upon the relative 1 1 , " ltzatiou of the eating that is undertaken. It is itastly more homelike, and, while neither is what It\ ought to be, the fraternity eating house is a a ~e civilized place and a more interesting place n the meals are more interesting. It may not be

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Other Important Resolutions of the Conference In addition to the unanimous decision to have an "audit of experience" made, following the inspiration address of Dr. Wriston, the Conference passed other resolutions which should have important bearing upon fraternity history of the coming years.

Hell Week was attacked in a set of three resolutions. The movement is underway to eradicate definitely this sore spot of the fraternity system. One resolution called for the cooperation of the college and local interfraternity conference in the campaign.

Fraternity secretaries were asked to carry on an educational campaign among their active chapters and obtain adoption of laws prohibiting Hell Week practices. Referred to the executive committee of the Conference was another resolution which asked for the compilation of fraternity· laws and pronouncements against the practices.

Other resolutions recommended the extension as rapidly as possible of chapter resident adviserships, the continued consideration of the application of the Fraternity Criteria, and a re-study of existing rushing rules and regulations.

because of the food but because of the conversation about the food.

Fraternity and College Finance Fraternity finance is certainly one of the wonders of the world. It it weren't for the financing of our public utilities and our colleges, I could use a few superlatives, but in the light of the fact that there are many colleges in the country which, if they should close themselves and use the income of their present endowments for ten years, would still be in debt, I cannot keep any superlatives for fraternity financing.

And I ought to say too that the colleges stimulated fraternity mortgage row. They were proud of mortgage row in the roaring twenties. I have no patience with those college administrators who say, "We cannot control the fraternities." We can control them.

It is one of the easiest things in the world. Generally speaking, we control them. when we don't intend to control them, and we don't control them when we do intend to control them. That is what the trouble is.

The college president who won'det the students eat in the house and won't let enough of them sleep in it to pay the rent and then complains that they don't fulfill any profound functions has been controlling them without knowing he has been controlling them and then when he wants to control them they don't respond.

And so mortgage row is a product not only alone of the enthusiastic alumnus, not alone of the undergraduate with the illusions of grandeur, not alone with the national office which wants to 5

publish an adequate number of pictures. It is the product of the colleges themselves. They can't now act as if they had just discovered it and when they themselves are in trouble walk away and shrug their shoulders.

There are many institutions in this country with a million dollars of endowment for every hundred students who are today showing great deficits. If they can't manage their own budgets better than that then I don't think that they have much to say to the fraternity on that particular score.

The last item in this housing problem is the question of discipline, of internal morale, of respect for property, of regard for the feelings of those with whom one is associated in his daily life, and I think there is no question that in nine out of ten cases the fraternity is much better in these respects than the college dormitory.

The colleges built dormitories that house far too many students in one building, and they have gotten them in unmanageable numbers and in difficult sitUations and now they can't manage them. Now, bad as the fraternity management is- and there are many times it is infuriatingly bad- it isn't as bad as the college.

The atmosphere of study is just as good and probably better in the average fraternity house than in the dormitory. And there is much more of self-control, much more of experience in developing themselves among those who live in the fraternity house.

I suggest therefore that an audit of experience in the matter of housing would show many shortcomings and many mistakes on both sides; it would open the way to needed changes and reforms on both sides. But taking the country at large and the fraternities at large, a substantial balance would be found in favor of the fraternities, for certainly they were the first to give us college homes of comfort and convenience, and they ought not readily to yield up that tradition or that heritage.

Scholarship The second item in this audit that I am going to suggest is an audit of scholarship. And here you may well begin to quake and to tremble for as one distingttished educator has said the fraternities fail to show the zeal which they should for contributing to the intelectual life of the college. And that is a very serious indictment.

But what can be said on the other side? The exhaustive North Central Association study reveals a tremendous variation among colleges, an astounding variation among colleges. And there is shortly to be published a study which will reveal as the result of the Pennsylvania Study that in one college at least, a college with a good reputation, many students went 6

backward instead of forward intellectually. If the col· lege had graduated the student on the basis of achievement it would have graduated only twenty-nine per cent from the senior class arrd twenty-six per cent from the junior class, but twenty-three per cent each from the sophomore and the freshman classes would have graduated on the basis of demonstrated achievement.

In other words, if the colleges of the country were to select the Chicago Plan and give a degree on the basis of a comprehensive examination without refer· ence to the period of residence, it is literally true that in some of those colleges almost as many would gra~u· ate from the freshman classes as from the senior classes. ·n Now, as a matter of fact, I am not arguing 1 favor of that plan. I don't believe in it. But I arll pointing out another striking fact which you ca~ find in your own fraternity statistics and that IS that there are national fraternities which have made a serious effort to improve the scholarship of their chapters and they have been able to make significant advances in some institutions, but that there are institutions wherein it is impossible .to make any serious advance in fraternity scholarsh•~· The intellectual atmosphere of those campuses IS so detrimental to intellectual drive that even e"· ternal stimulation and external pressure are unable to achieve anything.

Now, that is something that the colleges must face and it is something which the fraternities must face.

It is perfectly clear on tl1e basis of that one statement that many colleges have not made the use of the fra· ternities in this matter that they might have madeTo put it down in few words, the fraternities acce~t no one whom the college does not admit, and if c~ · leges will admit people who have no intellectual tn· terest and very little intellectual capacity, then thea cannot look to the fraternity to perform a miracle an substitute what is not to be found in the original. .

The balance sheet is likely to show that the fraternt· ties have been vastly derelict in this matter and that neither party has been adequately sensitive to the new conceptions of scholarship. You have been paying far too much attention to grades. But, again, it was the colleges who invented the magic of the unit and th~ credit and the one hundred and twenty hours an the one hundred and twenty points and then a de· · · s tO gree. And we can scarcely expect the fratermtte take the lead in overthrowing that mechanism.

1 But let me suggest to you that now many co · leges are seeking to substitute a more dynamic co~· ception of scholarship. Let the fraternities not ~ laggard when the colleges point the way to wa 11 therein. Scholarship is shortly to cease being matter of hours and points and a registrar's stllf tistics; it is a matter of intellectual awareness, 0

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By Carl F. Ostergren, Psi There is little abottt the castles of Spain in this short travelogue by the archon of the New York alumni chapter bttt there is enough of scenes, donkeys, senoritas, costs and customs to make it refreshingly interesting and give you inveigling thoughts of a week-end visit-perhapsperhaps.

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HESE brief notes on a trip to Spain may be of encouragement to some one who, like myself, has long wanted to visit that country of history and ~ont~ast and who has been discouraged / ltmited time and funds. As to time, bd say anything over three weeks, crossing Y the fast Italian liners to and from Gibraltar in 5¥2 days. Finances-well, that's harder, of course, but Spain is no tnore expensive than other European countries; and the tourist class, just as ~n the northern Atlantic lines, is perectly comfortable and even attractive for Your wife as well as yourself. Incidentally, You'll always meet interesting and a bit ~nusual people if you travel tourist-this '~e it was a Zionist returning from a ~tsit to Odessa, a Canadian monk on sick teave from his post in wildest Soudan, a /a~el lecturer from Connecticut, an tahan-American finishing a curiosity trip around the world.

1{ A word as to weather: Late April and ay are said to be lovely, and October, \Vhen we were there, is always ideal. Clear, su~ny days, a trifle cool in the shade, no ;t'n, and blankets at nights. Remember ~at Madrid is at the same latitude as ~:V York, and that most of Spain is at a tgh altitude. t' A day in Gibraltar was interesting, partcular!y with the English naval str~ngth now there-battleships, ~CUtsers, destroyers and auxiliaries ~~ th~ harbor; and Main Street full satlors on shore leave, singing ~d Watd1ing the performance in \V e cafes, but with the efficient atch of the British Navy always of Pi Kappa Phi

over them. From the verandah of our room at the Rock Hotel we saw the Hood, mightiest battleship in the world, and the Rmoum, almost as powerful.

Quite a sight, with the bay of Algeciras beyond and the mountains of Spain and Morocco in the distance.

Gibraltar is also the place where you buy perfume cheaper than in Paris and Scotch cheaper than in Edinburgh!

Our first Spanish town was Ronda- large for Andalusia but still characteristically a village, set on top of a, plateau with a great gorge gashing it, sheer cliffs dropping away from your hotel gardens, and three ranges of mountains for a back drop. It's seen many civilizations as witnessed by its three bridges, the Roman, the Moorish. and the "new," built around 1760. Walking through the narrow streets at night. lined with pretty white or tinted houses, we had our .first intimation of Spanish evenings, with most of the population parading up and down the main streets until midnight and after, and even the small children playing their games as though it were broad daylight. Dinner is at 9 or after. In Madrid we attended a matinee at 6:30; the regular show is at 10:30. Afternoon bridge invitations are for 6. Another thing, the ladies are left to their own devices in the evening. Spain at night is one great stag party. The more adventurous ladies may do their own walking, in groups, or visit the movies, but to be proper they stay home.

In Ronda we had gorgeous moonlight, which put just the right finish to the quiet square where the cathedral-part Moorish mosque, part Rennaissance-looks down on cedars and palms, convents and fine homes, one of which is now the town jail, and a passing group of senoritas Spanish Scenes of Interest Three 'l'iews which pro'l'ed entrancing to Ostergren are shown here. That abo'l'e is a s:limpse of the Giralda from the Cor4rt of Orans:es. Below it are two ci'l'ili.:atiotJs of brids:es, the Roman and Moorish, oYer the Ronda Gors:e. The Alhambra as seeu from tire Seat of tire Moors is sf10wn in the bottom 'l'iew.

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who sang of Spain and the Moors, and of love.

Speaking of senoritas, some idiot told us there weren't any good looking ones. I'd like to have pointed out to him some of those lovely blond Sevillanas, with their clear complexions, trim erect figures, and the black mantillas. In fact, I'd have followed them with him. Then there are the donkeys, to get from the sublime to the- no, I won't agree to the ridiculous. They're entirely admirable, those omnipresent Spanish donkeys, pretty, patient, intelligent, economical to keep and prodigious in carrying capacity. I know because I rode one all afternoon in the warm sunshine, up and down steep treacherous rocks, under groves of cork, olives, and acorn oaks.

When my wife and I returned to town and rode up the principal street we felt like modern conquistadors, what with the kids rushing madly from the side streets and the women folk passing the interesting tidings back and forth from the second and third stories.

Maybe the interest was more from a sense of humor than anything else, but we didn't mind since then as at other times we found the Spaniards friendly, selfrespecting and willing to respect others.

Granada was good but a trifle disappointing after all one has heard and read about the glories of the Alhambra. A little of that intricate, wonderfully skillful Moorish decoration goes a long way but a lot of it is likely to be monotonous. The setting is grand and those gardens above it are unlike anything else.

The picture shows a bit of them, with the Alhambra hill beyond and Granada in the plain below. The snow-capped Sierra Nevadas lie in the opposite direction.

Madrid is a fine modern city with more construction going on than in all of New York right now.

Broad boulevards, sidewalk cafes galore, and the Prado, one of the very greatest galleries with gorgeous works of Velasquez, Titian, and Goya. Also some good restaurants, rather a rarity in Spain since everyone goes home for meals as a matter of custom. Excellent roast sucking pig; and how about some octopus in its own ink? The Spanish table wine is unknown over here, but it's practically as good as the French and much better than the Italian. And if you want a real shoe-shine, from a self-respecting craftsman, get one in a Spanish cafe or on the street. Four cents will cover it.

Toledo, the old capital of Spain and still the ecclesiastic;tl center, with its dazzling treasures in the cathedral, its curious synagogues, built by Moors, its house and collection of El Greco, its theatrical setting, its incredibly narrow twisting streets where you steer by the sun, as we did, or hire a guide, is absorbingand, to be truthful, it smells. Then we passed on to Cordoba, where the caliphs once rivalled those of mecca, with its tremendous mosque second only to St. Peter's in extent, and with a bad Gothic cathedral

built right into the middle of the mosque. Its clean old streets, where the patios are visible through ever'/ doorway and every bend shows a pretty little park or an interesting old tower.

Seville can't very well be dismissed in a few words unless we pick out a few spots: First and forem~st, the Cathedral and its famous bell tower, the Moonsh Giralda. Though many press valid claim~, I'm tempte_d to say that for me Seville is ·greatest among Gotht~ cathedrals. Its aisles are like the naves of most, an its nave, well, Gautier said Notre Dame of Paris could walk erect in it. Yet it is graceful, and lit by ~rilliant glass. The palace and gardens of the sulta?s and kings, full of history, rival the Alhambra 10 everything save natural setting, and are better pre· served. The ruins of Italica, where three boys grew up to be among the very foremost of Roman emperors.

And that dancing, both with and without the casta£ nets-you have to go slumming for it, at least out 0 tourist season, and that adds to the fun, although the resident who takes you may be embarrassed by your American custom of taking your wife along. .

Jerez de la Frontera is where the sherry com:f from, and I wish you as pleasant a time as I had 1 you visit the bodega of Pedro Domecq and san~~le the brandies and wines. Being proud of my abdt~ to retire in good order, I ordered sherry at the ho:e for lunch to vary the monotony. Then on to Cadtz, white against the blue sea, to ancient Tarifa, th~ southernmost point on the European mainland, an I too soon back to Algecira~ and the ship. And haven't said much about the castles in Spain, but they're there just the same.

Roanoke Alumni Hold Attractive Affair Approaching brilliance and thoroughly enjoyable was t~e annual Founders' Day dinner and dance of the Roanoke Alumni chapter, held in the Green Room of Hotel Roano e on December 7 and attended by 68 Pi Kapps and their wive~ and dates. The success of the social event is to be attribute to a hard-working committee under the direction of sen 5 Chapman and Curtis Dobbins. Many out of town Pi KaPh were present, and the chapters at Roanoke College and Was · ington and Lee University were well represented. . ,11 W. C. Chapman handled the program in a professton• manner as toastmaster. Talks were enlivened by interlu~~1 of solos in the excellent voice of Randolph Salmons of d and a tapping performance well done by a visiting Ia Y· Among the many heard from were Mrs. Jones, housemother of Xi, Archon Huse of Xi, Archon Brown of Rho, past DtS· trict Archons Curtis Dobbins and Gene Dunaway, and Execu· tive Secretary Howard D. Leake. e The dance got underway immediately following the cJoS f of the delicious dinner and was enjoyed until the hou~ 0 05 twelve rolled around. The committee deserved felicitat1° for a perfect evening of association and did not fail to receive them from one and all. e Anticipation will be had for the next annual dance of chapter. In the meantime, it is planned to have an outtn8 together in the latter part of spring.

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Smce the maximum number of awards made in any one year is nine it is obvious that the honor of being ~Pi Kappa Phi Scholar is a real distinction. During ~ e past nine years the total number of Scholars has heen sixty-one, and a great majority of these brothers ave not only won distinction as scholars but also ~ all-round leaders in extra-curricular activities, so t at With the passing of time one is safe in predicting th_at a high percentage of the Pi Kappa Phi Scholars \VII! be leaders in national civic, political, industrial, educational, literary, and church affairs. Every Pi Kappa Phi who believes he has a fine scholarship record should avail himself of the opportunity of being a candidate for the honor that will place him among the Pi Kappa Phi Scholars.

Pi Kappa Phi Scholarship for 1934-1935 It is with genuine regret that the Chairman of the Sch~larship Committee must report the drop in scholarship registered by our fraternity last year. The apPended table will make clear the scholarship standings ~f. 31 of our chapters upon which the national scholarhip ratings are based. Only ten of these chapters had Plus ratings last year, that is, their chapter averages \Vere above the all-men's averages at their respective inSti~tions. Also ten chapters improved their scholarship rating last year as compared with the previous Year. However, these improvements were of little help ~s compared with the drops of 35 points registered

by B~w~rd, 25 points by Oklahoma, and 24 points Y Michigan State. Also ratings of -29 by Emory,

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By Dr. Will E. Edington, Chairman Scholarship Committee -28 by Howard, -27 by Oklahoma, -16 by Davidson and North Carolina State, - 15 by Georgia and West Virginia, and -14 by South Carolina, make it difficult for the chapters doing more effective work to hold up our scholarship standards. It appears that there is considerable work in the way of advice and cooperative effort that might be done by the chapter advisers and local alumni to improve conditions within a number of our chapters.

However, there are grounds for expectation of a better scholarship average for the present year. The chapters at Mississippi, Ohio State, Purdue, Sewanee and Washington continue their good work. Duke and Oregon State have very noticeably improved. Also Iowa State, Penn State, South Carolina and West Virginia show gains although they were all still below the all-men's averages. The Armour chapter ranked first and had the fine rating of + 29.

Explanations and alibis are of little value, for facts are what count, but it would seem advisable for the various chapters which are in the scholarship doldrums to restrict their extra-curricular activities a little and bear down a little harder on their books. Also a closer check on pledges would certainly help to eliminatethose individuals who ultimately become liabilities: rather than assets to the chapter, before they are admitted to active membership. Every member and every chapter should strive during this year to raise our fraternity average back to where it had been during the live years preceding last year-above the national allmen's average.

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Introducing: Seattle's Convention Committee Comes Out of the Huddle to Announce Organization for the 1936 Supreme Chapter, August 19-22

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nounced until the next issue of The Star and Lamp but the frame-work is complete. The defintt~ working organization is "set," duties have been asstgned and accepted, and the wheels are clicking lllerrily. .

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~orporation, crossroads literary club or the Pi Kapp t~,Prem~ Chapter, really make or break the venture,

th~s arttcle is being devoted largely to telling someth'~g ~b.out who these chaps are ... how they make etr ltvmg ... and a word or two about their background.

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h ~irst and foremost, of course, comes the general c atrman, Horace A. Granger, slim, dark and pos~Ssed with restless energy. Associated with James D. t tadley and Company, Seattle's leading office furni"ure house, 'Horsy' is an excellent example of an able ~~ung American business man-courteous, alert and 'tth many civic interests. d Bt~nquet Committee: Bjarne Moe, the chairman, a~per architect, calmly and casually juggles involved :attos of stress-and-strain with the same objectiveness an~ efficiency that he lays down a full house ... or ob-tailed flush, for that matter. "Barney" will ~robably blue-print the banquet lay-out, and the proh~arn should click that smoothly, too. Working with t~m: Bob Bancroft, recent graduate; Percy Shepheard, e bustling underwriter of the John Hancock combany with an uncontrollable fondness for berets; Fred 0 1~Puis, lubrication engineer; John Nelson, Gilmore n representative; Pat Sd1licting, ex-basketball star, g?W with Seattle's Horluck Brewing Company, and ~v~n to displaying (but not distributing) fat cigars; h etnz P. Huebner, accountant with the huge Weyerinaeuser Lumber Company in nearby Everett, Wash111?ton, and Peter Terzick, the bulky, horny-fisted exto'ner. from the British Columbia mountains who used d' Wrtte readable poetry as skillfully as he handled a tatnond drill.

111 l?..egistration and Hottsing: Thomas Jermin, chair~an, is路 meteorologist in the Seattle office of the ~i eather Bureau and, besides being a scientist, is a an~e collector, an enthusiastic motion-picture "taker" Ch the twice-elected head of the Seattle Alumni co apter. Aiding him are Ralph Snider, now of Vanto uver, Washington, accountant with the Washingn Cooperative Egg and Poultry Association and an

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Another Slogan Offering If we cock an ear to the p assing of most of these collegiate cars, says J. R. Sage, Alpha Omicron, Iowa State College's registrar and the chapter's adviser, some of which will no doubt be pressed into hard service in the cross country trek, and since there are still left the clicks of railends and crossings, to say nothing of the jerks of starting and stopping of trains and of the sharper curves, it would be in keeping if we take the slogan

RATTLE TO SEATTLE We add this to the "Let's Skedaddle to Seattle" offering of Melvin Goldman of Xi, Roanoke.

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ardent Pi Kapp leader; Bob Snider, Ralph's "Kid" brother, a recent graduate of the University and a former star crewman; Vic Scheffer, teaching fellow on the zoology staff of the University of Washington, who mixes erudition with mountain-climbing; Talbot Hartley, ex-trackster, who recently came south from a long sojourn on the staff of an Alaska salmon cannery; Ted Weld, staff engineer for the Washington Surveying and Rating Bureau, and insurance inspection service; Ed Turner, architect, whose gentlemanly exterior totally belies the ferocity with which he used to battle in college boxing matches, and Ed Phipps, on the staff of the Washington Motor Coad1 company.

Dance and Entertainment: Charles F. Clay, who narrowly escaped a career as a trap-drummer to ascend, or descend, as you prefer, to the role of a hardheaded advertising manager for a leading Northwest women's magazine; Ned McElroy, graduate student at the University of Washington and candidate for a Ph.D. degree; Bill Goodmiller, on the staff of a new local investment firm, and Mel Kleinfelter, public accountant.

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Pt1blicity: Chairman, Douglas Willix, Northwest Finance: Hugh Schlicting, the chairman is a conscientious bond salesman-and there are such, my representative for the Pacific Coast Edition of The brothers! With the Seattle house of William P. Harper TVaJJ Street J011rnal ,- Ralf Decker, another key mem· and Son, Hugh is building up a substantial reputa- ber of Seattle's crew of Pi Kappa Phi architects, and tion-and that's not necessarily a reference to the Frank Giles, of the Zellerbach Paper company.

Emergency Committee: The chairman is Dr. J. Schlicting waist-line, by which certain godless brothers aver they can tell the trend of the market. Working Finlay "Red" Ramsay, the giant distance runner of with him are Evans Hanna, the basketball playing fairly recent college days, who is rapidly acquiring accountant in the Seattle headquarters of the Wash(Continued 011 page 14)

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OLLOWING satisfactory arrangements made from Ishkooda to Seattle and return is d1eaper than with the representatives of the Chicago and North- the roundtrip fare to Chicago plus the roundtrip fare western and Great Northern Railways, the attrac- from that city to Seattle. You have choice of the regu· tive Chicago station of the C.&N.W. will be the pre- lar routes to the Coast without variation in charge· A plethora of returning routes are open to ~our train gathering spot of the Pi Kapps who make the journey to the sun together by rail. The Northwestern selection. That you may start early with your figur1n.!l• will carry the cars to Minneapolis and there they will you might get a map and pencil and look over these be attached to the crack continental train of the Great preliminary suggestions: From Seattle to Vancouve~ Northern. From Minneapolis to Seattle it will be a and eastwards over the Can ad ian . Pacific, by way. 0 straight puff and chug, so any that desire to make Banff with its Lake Louise and leading Canadian stop-overs en route to the Coast should plan to get cities. The Union Pacific through Portland to Utah, away ahead of the group. The special cars will leave thence to Chicago through the grain states; or clJC Sunday evening of August 16 and arrive the morning Southern Pacific to Los Angeles, or San Francis:o, of the 19th, the time of the start of the registration. and from these places via Ogden and Salt Lake CitY If yott go before or with the group, it is requested to Chicago. Or you can come back the way you w_ent that you instmct the ticket agent to route yo11 over and make what stop-overs and side-trips your des1rCS the above roads in going and to obtain a receipt for the direct. As to the scenic spots on each route, we. are p11rchase of the ticket. The Western lines have agreed leaving the details for later listing and descriptlo.fl· to allot 10 per cent of gross intermediate and first- We are working with the officials of the roads t~ dlSl class ticket sales to the publicity fund of The Star and play fuUy tl1e attractions of all the routes-natJOll~ Lamp, to pay for the cost of displaying the attractions parks, government construction, unusual cities, historl· of the trip. Those who intend to make the entire cal spots, or plain and unadulterated beauty of natutC· Three types of fares are available from Chicago: the trip by rail are advised to purchase complete roundtrips from their starting point, for some goodly sav- first-class fare of $86.00, the tourist of 68.80, and the ings are possible in fares. In other words a roundtrip coach of $57.35, all round-trip figures.

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Purdue Chapter Stages Excellent Conclave

By E. R. Blaschke, Upsilon ADEQUATELY planned, admirably executed and well attended was the conclave held at Purdue on December 7 and 8, with Omega as the host ~nd. under the direction of District Archon Robert tltck. Saturday noon saw the representation comPete, and the roundtable discussions were started Prornptly at 2:30 in the Union Building of the uni~ersity. From the Ohio State chapter came District rchon Harold Merle and Chapter Adviser Eugene 13 aker, bringing with them six members of the undergraduate chapter. Five undergraduates of Alpha Phi ~n~ alumnus Richard Blaschke drove down from thtcago. Upsilon was represented by four undergradu~ es and Resident Chapter Adviser William Hoheisel.

Sr~sent also were Chairman Will E. Edington of the c olarship Committee, past National Editor Wade 13 ~It, alumnus George Spencer, and a goodly number ~local faculty members, including Professor G. W. l> unro, Dr. C. L. Porter, Professor Robert Phillips, rdofessor R. W. Lindley and Professor C. T. Hazar .

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Glenny told of chapter activities, Professor Phillips delineated on the Dads' Organization, and Peter Beck outlined pledge training as tl1e other features of the discussions.

The next gatl1ering was at a banquet that evening at the chapter house, a banquet which was thoroughly enjoyed by all present. Music was furnished by Prof.

Lindley and three Purdue coeds. At this point the writer should make due comment upon Brother Porter, Jr.'s, talented ability as an accompanist. The speaker of the evening was Leon Todd, national president of Alpha Gamma Rho, who spoke on "Men and Fraternities." After the dinner the boys seemed to pair off, some bowling, others to the Union Dance, some to a Scabbard and Blade initiation and the rest, well they just seemed to disappear.

Sunday morning Omega reduced its pledge class from 21 to 14. These seven new members was just another reason for the banquet at noon that day. The main reason, however, was the commemoration of Founders' Day. Bill Glenny, as toastmaster, introduced Prof. and Mrs. Lindley, who entertained the group with some special music. Bill tl1en next introduced Herb Meyer, who gave a little talk about alumni relations with the chapter and told about their award to the outstanding senior. The committee was composed of three juniors and two sophomores and their choice was none other than Bill Glenny, chapter archon. Wade Bolt traced the history of Pi Kappa Phi from its founding up to the present day bringing to light particularly the chapters represented at this conference.

Brotl1er Glenny then introduced Dean M. L. Fisher, Dean of Men at Purdue University. The dean traced the history of the fraternity system at Purdue calling attention to the fact that from 1896 to 1935 the number of fraternities on the campus increased from five to thirty-seven and that the past few years of economic depression saw the Joss of only one chapter on the campus. He went on to say that the university was highly in favor of the fraternity system because it tended to raise the scholarship, to help the university in housing and boarding its students, to help 13

the administration in maintaining personal contact and enable them to maintain a higher standard of morals on the campus. He said that they naturally favored the national. fraternity and were always interested in seeing their locals being absorbed by nationals because it would make for a more stable organization. He said that Pi Kappa Phi enjoyed an enviable position on the campus and felt certain that they would always be classed amongst the leaders.

We next heard from the archons of the various chapters-DuSell of Alpha Phi, Ruud of Upsilon and Archer of Alpha Nu. Genial Bob Amick then took the floor to close a successful week-end.

Everyone present had a thoroughly enjoyable time and the general comment seemed to be that this con· ference be called the first annual conference of District

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a reputation as one of the city's leading younger surgeons ... and who has a bed-side manner deluxe; and Dr. Walter M. Morgan, of the neighboring city of Kent, who combines an active young medical practice with a taste for civic life, being president of this and chairman of that.

Faculty Advisory Committee: The chairman is Dr. Victorian Sivertz, professor of chemistry at the University of Washington, whose youthful exterior is a deceptiye blind for scholarly attainment; Dr. J. W. Hotson, of the University's botany faculty, a real "godfather" of Alpha Delta during its trying earlier years; Dr. H. H. Gowen, professor of Oriental Studies at the University, author of many volumes, world-traveler, and a reconteur of wide note; Dr. George Allen Odgers, enthusiastic Pi Kapp leader, who recently moved conveniently (for drafting into service on the convention committee! ) to Portland, Oregon, and that tried, veteran Pi Kapp, Dr. J. Friend Day, of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. That's the official convention line-up. Every available Pi Kapp alumnus in the Seattle territory has been picked for duty, and those duties are being cheerfully assumed.

Because of the distance of Seattle from the numerical center of the Fraternity, and the residents on the Atlantic seaboard of the senior fraternity officials, the ordinary problems connected with staging a convention become accentuated. But this unavoidable condition has, as a matter of fact, only served as a goad to Seattle's committee.

Watch for the next issue of The Star and Lamp.

Full coqvention details will be completed by the publication date of the next issue and tl1e membership of the fraternity will know exactly what is in store for them during those days of August 19-22.

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activity among the alumni. If it were required tn be stat:; we would say that the most auspicious circumstances un ~ which the new volume gets underway are those connect e· with the increase in number of alumni chapters and r newed activity in the old groups.

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Four have so far this year been brought to our attentiO~·. another representative of the second generation of the tl e Harry Mixsons; the son of Richard Harris, adviser to ~.

Georgia chapter; the son of District Archon George B. Be .eJ rich; and the son of Professor E. D. McDonald of pre:.: Institute, . ~To all we wish an enjoyable and valuable fraternitY e. perience.

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By John Kieser The installation of the Lehigh Valley Alumni group was ~a?e the main dish of a big week-end of December 7 in bhiladelphia at the Drexel Lodge. Founders' Day was celep~:ted by the gathering of the men from Lehigh Valley, · f tladelphia Alumni Chapter and Alpha Upsilon. The guests ~· honor were National President Albert W. Meisel and Natonal Historian Walter R. Jones. The two acted as installing officers of the new alumni chapter. b The banquet which followed the installation was enlivened ~ many kinds of speeches, including those made by Harry J agener of the Drexel faculty, President Meisel, Historian W~e~, Archon Edward Beddall of Lehigh Valley, Archon f illtam Miller of Alpha Upsilon, and Archon Gilbert Spahr ~ the Philadelphia Alumni Chapter. Others who had a ord to say were Russell Bell of Alpha Upsilon, and offi· ~Irs ~illiam Bishop and Lewis Shemery of the Philly umnt. t bihe ~emainder of the evening was given over to a rounde dtscussion led by President Meisel. The men then re· tred to the dormitory for more or less sleep. Breakfast was jn the self-cook and self-help basis, but nonetheless ens~Yable. It was with a pang of regret that the overnight ag broke up and each went his respective way. th The members of the new alumni chapter feel proud of p e. ~rant of the charter by the national organization. The etltton was the result of two years' planning and work 0 pn the part of the men living in Reading and Tamaqua, pe~~sylvania. Neither group had a sufficient number to rnetihon for a charter, but by combining the two a strong the':lJbership was made possible. The members have pledged e e~r whole-hearted support and the assurance is good that will do his part to make the issuance of the charter J.~c.

5hfiable. th;he .P~~gram of the group is to support in every way e ac~lVlhes of Alpha Mu and Alpha Upsilon, to push o?~ston wherever possible in the state, and to combine ac~ts.1 ~nally with the Philadelphia Alumni chapter in dual fo Vthes, both social and business. The officers who lead •·rr the year are Edward Beddall, archon; John West, treasu er· a d J T' n ohn Kieser, secretary.

Rob hose petitioning were, in addition to the above officers: G . ert C. Kieffer, T. Glenwood Stoudt, Carl and Marvin ~:J 10~· Harlan J. West, Charles H . Schissler, L. S. Reiff, I( Wtn Zacharias, Jr., H. J. Moyer, Albert Kershner, and B=~~eth R. Millen. All are alumni of Penn State except all, Drexel, and Millen, Illinois.

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Knoxvi11e bi;he alumni of Knoxville and vicinity, 24 strong com&ra ed to ask the National Council for a charter, which was rna~~d and presented to them on December 7, an occasion feat tog also the celebration of Founders' Day. The social J~h Utes of the evening were the banquet at the Andrew nson, followed by a formal dance at the Cherokee Country

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club, the undergraduate chapter at Tennessee joining the alumni for both events. National Chancellor Theron A. Houser, assisted by District Archon Greenwood Henson, performed the ceremony of installation. Both were speakers on the program which followed and which included Pro· fessors J. G. Tarboux and Frank B. Ward and Instructor W. H. Read of the university faculty.

The officers of the new alumni chapter are E. L. Dunnavant, archon; W. H. Read, treasurer, and E. M. Bowles, secretary. Members of the alumni group have already been active in the supervision of the chapter, as past and present chapter advisers Tarboux and Ward. Read has been the financial adviser of the alumni board of control and con· ducts the audits of the chapter books. The alumni chapter expects to continue its support of the active chapter in all ways. It will serve as a source of assistance to the district archon of the state.

Chapters represented in the organization are Kappa, by 0. W. Kochtitzky, Jr.; Rho, by Charles Branham; Alpha Iota, by James Russell, former district archon; and Alpha Sigma, by E. L. Dunnavant, W. H. Read, E. M. Bowles, S. W. Steele, D. F. Whitmire, Jr., W. H. McClure, Elmo Rowland, Roger Johnson, L. A. Brockwell, S. G. Kent, J. F. Steffner, J. G. Tarboux, Frank B. Ward, R. E. Bratton, C. C. Cornett, S. S. Vineyard, E. L. Perry, Fred V. Brown, Grant Roy, and Virgil Hampton.

Atlanta "What we wanted was a fraternity that sponsored mutual love, honor and affection and respect one for another."

Brother Lawrence Harry Mixson was speaking. The active and alumni men of Pi Kappa Phi had gathered together at the Druid Hills Country Club to pay tribute to the Founders and had Brother Mixson as the guest of honor.

Each year it is a tradition for the Atlanta Alumni to prepare a banquet for the active chapters in and around the city. The date is that of our Founders' Day and in the past it has been a custom to have the proceedings thrown on the air by one of Atlanta's most prominent radio stations. The broadcast this year was not made as it was decided to turn over our time on the air to the cause of the U.C.G., the community chest drive here in Atlanta. But the banquet in honor of our founders was a real success.

Actives and pledges were on hand from four active chapters. The alumni feel a definite satisfaction as they consider the succes~ of the celebration. For toastmaster they had chosen that promment young exponent of the Georgia Bar Association, Phil Etluidge, who in his own inimitable fashion kept the proceedings at top key all of the way. A word of welcome from the alumni set the ball rolling and was followed by a word from R. A. "Pop" Siegel, archon of Iota, M. M. "Ray" Jett, archon of Lambda, Ray Menkee, archon of Eta, and Tom Ewing, archon of Pi. John H. McCann, Assistant Executive Secretary from Cen· tral Office was present and siezed the opportunity to award a Pi Kappa Phi Scholar key to Brother Jerome Westbrook of Eta. Westbrook became a Pi Kapp while at Emory but is now act ive as an officer in Lambda. He was fol-

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lowed by Paul Etheridge and District Archon Francis Dwyer, who introduced Brother Mixson.

Philip Etheridge was chosen as the archon of the Atlanta Association and Allan Watkins as secretary-treasurer.

Chicago

By C. R. Lowe, Omega The Chicago chapter has several large items on its program for the coming months, which will be under the direction of the new officers elected on January, 10. To the presidency of the chapter stepped E. R. Blaschke, Upsilon. Burton R. Brown, Alpha Tau, was re-elected treasurer; and in the secretary's job was placed C. C. W. Arnold, Upsilon.

March 7 will see the holding of a Monte Carlo party, an event which is apparently becoming a yearly custom of the chapter. On April 11 will occur the annual Easter dance on which the efforts of all nearby undergraduates chapters, as well as the Chicago Alumni, will be concentrated. And the alumni chapter is holding a powerful thought of giving a pre-entraining party for the delegates and visitors who plan to go to the convention on the special cars. More about this idea will be written at a later date. Archon Blaschke has the opinion that it can be made so entertaining that the desire wiiJ be forthcoming to stay in Chicago for the rest of the convention.

Another development in work is the holding of a weekly luncheon each Tuesday. This will permit of additional association of the men in the city, but it is not expected to take the place of the regular monthly meetings held in the recreation parlors of the Stevens Hotel on the second Friday of each month.

Social activities started in the fall with a "hard times" party and dance at the Alpha Phi chapter house, under the direction of the two Johns-Evan and Janak. They handled the arrangements in a way which brought to those present the maximum of enjoyment.

Founders' Day was observed by 28 alumni joining the Armour Chapter for dinnet. After-dinner talks by Frank Wollaston, Alpha Delta, Ronald Watts, Upsilon, John Even, Alpha Phi, and Karl Gibbon, Upsilon, were well done and, in addition, were beautifully garnished by the able toastmastering of Carl Kirk, Upsilon.

Unwearable neckties, unsmokeable cigars and other useless Christmas gifts were disposed of by 25 men who gathered for the 1935 edition of the Christmas party of the chapter, held on December 27 in the Stevens Hotel. George Kuhl, Upsilon, was the biggest Santa Claus of the party, from both physical and directional standpoints.

Fla.rh! It is rumored that our La Salle Street FarmerBroker, Frank Teegarden, couldn't take it-he ran out on Old Man Winter by going to California to visit Lyle Marvin in Long Beach.

Detroit

By Chan Johnson, Chi The regular business meeting of the Detroit Alumni Chapter of January was devoted to the election of officers for the coming year. Kryn Nagelkirk, Alpha Kappa, was elected archon ; Chan Johnson, Chi, was re-elected treasurer; and Kline Sprague, Alpha Theta, was charged with the duties of secretary. Johnson was also retained as the chairman of the entertainment committee of the chapter.

Nagelkirk is assistant credit manager of the Shell Petroleum company of Detroit. In his undergraduate chapter he served in the positions of steward, treasurer, and archon.

He was recently elected treasurer of the Detroit Shell Employees Credit Union.

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Sprague makes his living as an engineer with the Michig~n Bell Telephone company in the plant department. He st1~l maintains his interest in the military by serving as pre~l­ dent of the Birmingham (Mich.) Reserve Officers AssocJa· tion. He lives in Birmingham. He served in Alpha Theta as historian.

Both of these men are active and faithful members of the alumni chapter, and the Detroit group looks forward to a good year under their leadership.

Ramblings 'Round N.Y.

By Lawrence Bolvig, Alpha Xi Christmas dinner of the New York Alumni group, held on December 20 at the Hotel Lafayette in New York, was one which will long be remembered. As usual, Ray Orteig was the perfect host. Close on to 100 men were present and much of the credit for the real success of the dinner should be handed to John Stevens as chairman of his committee of Ralph B. Craine, Kurt C. Lauter, E. Stanley Mayland, Raymond Orteig, Jr., Donald S. Shepherd, and Alfred F. Tyrrill.

These Christmas dinners have many inspiring features£ Among them are two in particular. First, the lighting 0 a new candle, by the president of the alumni from one used the previous year, which symbolizes a perpetual light burn· ing from year to year. The second is the silent toast always given to the founders of the fraternity.

A cup if you have a boy and a spoon if you have ~ girl-Alpha Xi always honors the first born of their alUI!ln~ group in this fashion. This year Brothers Nugent, Ott a~ Theurer each received a cup for their little boys and Boh'1g was presented a spoon for the use of his daughter. The alumni hopes that this will become a feature for not onlY Alpha Xi members but also for prospective fathers of the New York group.

Brother Berry refuses to sit at the head table! This soun~s like a press flash; doesn't it? The truth is that Brother .Bdl stated that for at least this year he wanted to mix with the crowd and not sit with the "Stuffed Shirts." But who wears a stuffed shirt better than our genial national secretary w~~d the occasion demands? Brother Berry when called on 1 give one of the .finest talks of the evening. You may always count on him for words of real wisdom.

A group of Psi alumni, together with a little help fro~ a Gamma man, presented a skit which they called "An ~j cident in the History of Pi Kappa Phi." It is hard to te whether you would call this a farce, an act of reminisce~ce. or what have you. What the noted actors were getun!l across were some facts on how the local at Brooklyn polY; known as Psi Sigma, later to become Alpha Xi chapter, eve,, became associated with Pi Kappa Phi. Carl Ostergren, "Bugs a Ballou, and Ralph Noreen of Gamma represented Cayuft Indians from the country near Ithaca, the city of Cor~: · Walter Measday was some sort of an Indian fairy ~al ;;. who would perform different dances when the occaswn 'th manded. Good old K. C. Lauter was the man in black wl s the high hat who finally attained the approval of the Indian~ admitting the group now known as Alpha Xi. This act "'\ 1 certainly one of the high lights of the Christmas dinner a~d a is hoped will set a precedent for future dinners. It 15 challenge to the alumni of New York from other chapte to prepare similar sketches. a Brother AI Meisel, our National President, talked for nfew minutes with particular emphasis placed on the ~ogs vention in Seattle. Leave it to Brother At to get thlfl re across in his direct and pleasant manner. Already there a11 • groups talking on ways and means of getting to the co

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Above are the officers of Philadelphia Alumni who have led the Quaker City Chapter to new heights of activity: Treasurer Lewis Shemery, Alpha Mu; Archon Gilbert Spahr, Alpha Mu; and Secretary William Bishop, Alpha Upsilon. The only explanation for the pose of Shemery is the fact that he recently got married.

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All Alpha Mu's: T. G. Stoudt, â&#x20AC;˘JJ; Marvin Hepler, '36; Elmer DeVore, '38. All from Reading, all fl/0 11 scholarships; Stot4dt is past archD![l Hepler is present archon; 11'1 Devore follow again?

N.C. State's hospitality i~ a_s warm and as 1Jiide as t,,e,r smiles. These men are a P10j gressive a'!d active grou_P an are showmg results m 0 11 chapter phases.

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Never failing in good attendance and attractive program is the annual Christmas dinner of the New York alumni. This pictt4res the 1935 edition.

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Among William Miller's, Alpha Upsilon, honors may be listed those of archon of the chapter, treas11rer of Bl11e Key, memberships in the student atltletic and interfraternity collttcils, presidency of j11nior class, and membership itt Bo11rse, btuiness administration honorary. E. C. Haver (right) of Omega has helped to keep the scholastic record of the chapter bright by his excellent work. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon.

Kryn Nagelkirk, Alpha Kappa, was chosett by the Detroit al11mni to head the activities of that gro11p of men during the coming year. He is an executive of the Shell Petrole11m company.

Chicago Elect C.O. Organ

In recognition of his many abilities an~ wholehearted s11pport of matters p, Kappa Phi, the Chicago Al11mni Chapter selected E. R. Blaschke to take the lead d11ring 1936. He is an ettgineer with W estingho11se. !he Spot Shot is a newJ11blication of the national office,

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Second row: Tro11bado11rs Lee and Fowler of Alpha Sigma in action; the fo11r horsemen of the chapter composed of Vineyard, Pledge Havron, Seay, and Pledge Richardson; Pledge Glen Pall1am and Treasurer Jiles McNatt of Eta, men of the chapter who helped it to a good record in intram11ral games, Palham winning medals in cross-country and Jiles doing some good s/10oting with the shoes.

Third row: The home that is center of activities of Alpha Gamma; Xi's place of abode in Salem, Virginia; Al Yerkes of Alpha Mu, chapter officer, social and rushing chairman, good in all.

Po11rth row: Th e house that carries the name of Alpha Rho; (inset) might be Dr. Se11ss on location with Flit in Africa, bt41 it happens to be Archon Barber of Psi after a few months in engineers' camp; portion of Alpha Sigma membership positJg it~formal/y.

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John Bosworth Marion Young 0 . M. Covington Albert Carter, Jr. John W. Wilson Charles W. Shuff, III Harvey W. Bush Fred E. Waters, Jr. W. A. Stuckey W. R. Garrett Howard J. Spiehs Carl Hulbert R. A. Van Order A. H. Barber E. L. Ritter Henry Dismukes Howard Bayley Marvin Henderson Clyde R. Dean Jack Bell W. C. Brookmyer Leo Mores Robert Harper J. A. Seay R. R. Horton W. E. Gill Idris Thomas

Beta Altmmus Personal A. B. Stallworth announces his affiliation with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, as Supervisor for Eastern North Carolina, with headquarters in Greenville, N.C.

Gamma Notes: Gamma began the second semester with every member and pledge returning to school. Rushing is being carried on.

The monthly alumni dinners that were started last semester are being continued and have been very successful.

Gamma is planning a formal dance to be given at the chapter house during the latter part of the school year.

Exchange dinners have been found very helpful in establishing the new men on the campus. An ice skating party was held in Oakland.

In extracurricular activities Gamma has become. prominent.

James Norgard holds the position of senior boxing manager.

Lee Emerson is a member on the sports staff of the Daily Californian. Bill Proll is active in basketball. Carl Corey is again with the golf team.

Alumni Personals Albert Sullenger and Virginia Merle Clark were united in marriage on January 18 at the home of the bride's parents.

Kenneth White recently passed the California bar examination and is employed by the Hartley-Peart law firm, San Francisco.

John Balzarini has accepted a position with the bank of America in San Francisco and plans to make his home tl1ere permanently.

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Henry Buchholz is still with the St. Paul-Mecury Fire Casualty Insurance Company and has received several pro· motions.

Robert G. Tuck is working for the Atlas Furnace Co!Il· pany in San Francisco.

"Tony" Bottari is working for Blyth and Company.

Jim Hamilton is still chapter adv'iser and Gamma cer· tainly appreciates all he has done for us.

Reginald Hearn is studying at Hasting's Law School in San Francisco.

Harold Senger is working for the California Railroad Commission in San Francisco.

Pete Hugo has been transferred from the Associated Oil Co. in Avon to the main office in San Francisco.

Russ Christensen is a coach in one of the Martinet schools.

Dr. Erdman, charter member, is still with the Univer· sity of California.

Major Hardy has resigned his post in the University and has been transferred to the Marine base in San Diego.

Delta Notes: The chapter will have a permanent cup if ~t takes the intramural basketball tournament. Twice before 11 has had possession of the cup. Bagnal and Young were chosen for membership in Hand and Torch. They were the two out of the .five highest ranking seniors. Both are m~· hers of the Quaternion Club, evidence of campus leadershiP· Young was chosen for listing in Who's lJVho Among Sill· dents in American U11iver.rities and Colleges. Pledge John· son played freshman football, but he is that rarity wh 0 plays football and also does exceptionally well in studies.

Epsilon Notes: W. M . Taylor is the manager of the track tea!Il· T. U. Cameron is handling very well his job as the manager of the intramural sports.

Brothers Peters, Wilson and 0 . M. Covington were re· cently initiated into the "Red and Black Masquers," the college dramatic association, while Brother W. D. Covington was instrumental in founding a chapter of Alpha Psi Omega. the national dramatic fraternity, on the campus. ,.

Philip Arrowsmith was initiated into "The Black J(eys.d a secret organization of which brothers Hunter, Willis an Peters are already members.

Alumni Personals Brother Hugh Wilson, '34, married Miss Edith WigginS on January 31. Brother Wilson is in charge of the Wilson Funeral Home at Lake City, Florida.

In the latter part of December of 1935 Brother J3en Alderman, of Alcolu, was married to Miss Mary Jones. J{e will continue his work with The Alderman Lumber Co. W. M. Shaw has been appointed postmaster at Fayette· ville, N .C. Dr. R. D. Croom, Jr., is practicing medicine in Maxton; N.C., where members of his family have practiced for severn generations.

Charlie T. Bowers is now vice-president of the Bo,vers Brotliers company, in Washington, N .C. William H. Best is practicing Jaw at Goldsboro, N.C. d S. T. Henderson, president of the Home Rental 0 1e Management company of Charlotte, N.C., has announced t

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I' r. George Howard, of the University of North Caro_ma, is to deliver a series of lectures on "Child Psychology" 1 ~ Fayetteville, N.C., during the winter, under the direction 0 ~e New Hanover County Council of Parents and Teachers.

Co ugh A. Wilson is working for the Wilson Undertaking mpany in Lake City, Fla. te Jo~eph K. Hall, Jr., of Belmont, N.C., is engaged in the achmg profession. He has a son, born March 22, 1935, named ]. K. Hall, III. f ~~- event of December in Jacksonville was the marriage ~ "'l!Ss Grace Elizabeth White to Benjamin Hampton LindJr. The bride is a graduate of the Florida State College or Women. Mr. Lindsey is a Jacksonville attorney and at ~resent assistant state director of the department of labor anagement of the WPA.

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Harry Eugene Teasley and Miss Nancy Dorothy Masa?lJ br.ChtPl:dged vows on Christmas day. The bride is a member Omega sorority and taught in the Florida schools.

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Almmms Personal i l:lr. Robert W. Wilkins, M .D ., last spring concluded an snternship at the Boston City Hospital, during the summer 'l.~tved as Medical officer on the 11,000 mile cruise of the en~s~achusetts training ship, U.S.S. Nantucket, and at presr' I IS assistant resident physician at the Thorndike Memov~ .Hospital, Boston. Dr. Wilkins is a graduate of the UnitsJty of North Carolina and the Harvard Medical School.

latnhda ve~o~es: On January 21 and 22, initation was held for six 'lb attle pledges. These new brothers are Frank Story,

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Westbrook, our winner of this year's Pi Kapp Scholarship Key, was recently elected president of Delta Sigma Pi. John Wilson was recently initiated into Delta Sigma Pi and elected circulation manager of The Red and Black at a recent meeting of the Elective Board.

Our chapter has won the first three games of basketball played. We are hoping to win the championship.

Lambda chapter was host to the university social contingent, to the neighboring chapters, and to our alumni at a formal dance on February 1. Gibson Hull and Miss Louise Persons headed the lead-out. Woodruff Hall was decorated in an effective gold and white color scheme. The chapter's dates wore corsages of red roses, and the members wore gold and white chest ribbons.

Lambda is looking forward to seeing all the Pi Kapps at the conclave to be held in Gainesville in March.

Mu Notes: "Donald Duck" Wilson and Pledge Lloyd Kraushaar are on the swimming team; Dick Taliaferro, regular end, has turned out for spring football practice; Brothers Cox, Leidy, and Watson begin track work next week; and Brother Landon starts to work again as a first-string pitcher, Brother Daniel as varsity manager, and Brother "Philbert" Small as one of the assistant-managers, when baseball practice starts, February 1.

Brother Newton Edwards, who has been studying in Germany and touring the continent since last June, has returned to Duke and is enrolled for the second semester.

Al11mni Personals Announcements of the Joe Timberlake-Elizabeth Durant wedding, to be held in Mobile, February 18, have been received. About half a dozen of the cl1apter expect to attend the ceremony.

0 . C. Britton's marriage to Elinor Stone, of Charlotte, N.C., is to take place early in March. He is with a Charlotte cotton-by-products company.

Skinner Chalk is selling insurance in Morehead City, N.C. Johnny Ryan is at tl1e University of Michigan Medical School.

Jerry Marion and Bobbie Rigsby are trying to ice skate up there in the Frozen North around Harvard Business School. And Taliaferro Boatwright, ex-'38, keeps sending us letters about the horrors of the life of an Annapolis plebe. "Chubby" Vales, ex-'37, is going to transfer again, he thinks; this time, from L.S.U. to Tulane.

A. H. Borland, our chapter adviser, had his photograph carried by the Durham Srm two days in succession, during January. Once for having been appointed chairman of Durham's Board of Censors, and once for having been an executive in the Durham-Jackson Day celebration.

The new address of Everette R. Teague, M .D., is Reidsville, N.C.

Nu Petersburg, Nebraska January 6, 1936 PI KA.PPS: Congratulations Upsilbn! To me it isn't nearly as important to install a new chapter as to reinstate an inactive chapter. We at Nebraska are hoping to put Nu back in good standing, although the immediate future looks quite dark. We alums outstate surely miss having a meeting place in Lincoln, Jet alone having new men in various activities carrying on the ideals of Pi Kappa Phi. Several of Nu's chapter roll have moved about as well as changed their marital and business status, and although DEAR

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I don't know the details, here are a few personal items: Leslie Hedge is married and lives in Missouri.

Victor Schmidt and Jerry Young are reported the same and live in Omaha.

Judd Brenton is married and lives at 258 Cliffside Drive, Columbus, Ohio.

Herbert Henderson has opened a law office at Clay Center, Neb. Mel Kern of Denver was in Lincoln for the Minnesota vs.

Nebraska game in October.

C. !:... (Sig) Coombs, who is in the Civil Service in the Department of Justice, is moving to Seattle and looks forward to the 1936 convention.

In fact, I for one know that nobody will be disappointed in the convention, for Alpha Delta has a wonderful setting for same and the few brothers I have met from there have been outstanding Pi Kapps.

Nu chapter has a Mothers' Club that is second to none.

In fact, we Nu chapter Pi Kapps should be ashamed of ourselves. They are still holding meetings and keeping up interest in Pi Kappa Phi although we are on the inactive list. They must have taken the saying to heart that, "A man's best friend is · his mother" and applied it to Nu chapter.

Here's to a successful convention and the eventual reestablishment of Nu chapter.

Sincerely and fraternally, RAY HALL, Nil '26

Almnni Personals McKinley F. Clark, who for the past seven years has been connected with the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Air Commerce, is at this time stationed in Dallas, Texas, in the Dallas Utilities Building.

E. M. Partridge, '16, is now with the Permutit Company at 330 West 42nd Street, New York, and is making his home at 157 Sheridan Terrace, Ridgewood, N.J.

Omicron Notes: Omicron celebrated Founders' Day with a banquet and a program dance. Alumni Brothers Brice and Jent were present.

The regular initiation was held on January 26.

We regret that Brother Foster was forced to leave school, but we hope that he will be back with us next year. We are glad that Brother Clarence Brice has returned to school for this semester.

Brother Dillard was recently honored with an appointment to the Cotillion Club which is sponsoring the midterm dances.

Pi AlumntiS Personal Mr. William Joseph Borman, of Palm Beach and Miss Emily Jane Crenshaw were married on August 5, 1935.

They are making their home at Palm Beach.

Rho Notes: With the ending of the first semester, Rho regretfully loses its ex-archon, Bob Brown, who graduates in three and one half years with high scholastic achievement, being recently elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary society of the commerce school.

Most outstanding among the members in extra-curricula activities have been Glenn Shively, socially prominent as president of Fancy Dress Ball, and athletically as co-captain of the wrestling team; and Joe Pette, captain of basketball.

As a wrestler in the 145-lb. class, Glenn has had a highly successful career. He has lost only two meets in four years of wrestling. He won the 145-lb. championship in the Southern

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Conference last year. As co-captain he has led an unde· feated team thus far this year.

Likewise, in basketball, Captain Joe Pette has led an un· defeated team at the time of this writing. Brother Pette has been one of the mainstays of the team during his th:e~ years of varsity playing, making the last-second goal wh 1' netted Washington & I:ee the Southern Conference basket· ball championship in his sophomore year, and playing on the team which went to the finals in the Southern Confer· ence tournament last year, being named an All-Southern forward. t Rho also lost two other members besides Bob Brown ~ the close of the first semester. Barney Coolidge, of Muskee· gan, Mich., transferred to Michigan State, and "Pug" CJibur~ returned to his home in Chino, Calif., where he planne to go to the University of Southern California. We were sorry to lose these two brothers.

Sigma Notes: Sigma chapter celebrated Founders' Day with. ~ banquet in private dining room of Bihari's restaurant whj\ was attended by all members and pledges along with the ~ lowing alumni: A. W. Caughman, Billy Monckton, B. i Purdy, Hal Askins, Adrian Spears, Ben Adams, Cuthber Prevost, Lewis Yoeman, John D. Carroll and John B. Bam~r.

This gathering had representatives from seven chapters 10 four states.

At this banquet were many after-dinner speeches by ~c: 01 tives and alumni in the interest of forming an active aluJTl chapter in Columbia. Ben Adams and John D. Carroll werd the leading spirits of this movement. Ben Adams was electe chairman and is now actively engaged towards this end. he At this · banquet also an invitation was accepted by 1id chapter from John D. Carroll to a fish supper to be ,he d in Lexington, which will be used as part of the secon semester rush program.

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J Starting in the spring term we find graduate Brothers aonso~ and Goebel delving into campus politics. Three men re ~01ng out for spring football, and we will be represented 0 trn t e varsity track team by W. Seldon. Brother 0. Hampton, Sansfer student from Alpha Phi is editor of the "Campus Rcout" • a humor column in the college daily paper. Ralph taUudb has been elected chairman of decorations for the miliry all.

J Yfsi!on was pleased with the opportunity to be host to ]~ · McCann, assistant secretary, during the early part of 1\1 nuary. Brother McCann left with the chapter a number of h Ort?whiJe suggestions which we certainly appreciate. He tias Inspired us with the plans of the forthcoming convenpon, and Upsilon hopes to have a fair delegation to accomany the representative to Seattle.

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Alumni Personals bOn October 24 a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert ;Bois. The new heir is Dennis Clark DuBois.

Psi he. affiliation of C. R. Mench, former member of Beta 11 •.With the chapter has been announced by Central Office.

1\1 e IS manager of the Childress, Texas, unit of F. W. Woolorth Company.

Chi tb Notes: The chapter was recently honored by a visit from Ce ?ewly appointed district archon, George Coulter. Brother arou ter gave the chapter many helpful suggestions which e already proving their value. 't~e entire student body has recognized Brother Bateson 0 ch hJs selection to the group of Pi Kappa Phi scholars. The itsapter is indeed proud to have Brother Bateson as one of 0 fiicers. '\'qThe chapter has been very active in intramurals this year.

Vee are holding our own so far, and we hope to make a good showing when the final results are posted. ha he pledges have also proven their worth this year and fo ve become very active in their own right. We are looking tb~ard to having several of them take the formal initiation Is spring.

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'l'o he faculty is asked in as our guest and informal speaker. a p~~te Professor R. H. Jordan of the Education Department, p0 1 Gamma Delta and fraternity leader and Professor P. R. ou Pe of the German department, Beta Theta Pi, have been so~ &uests. These nights are becoming important to us and T~ fine knowledge has been acquired at these meetings. l'en e chapter is fortunate in having J. L. Zwingle from rna nessee, a graduate student in English, as a resident house ha n~ger. Through his efforts the management of the house er~e;~Proved and we are glad to have this capable SouthR In our ranks. tric ~centi.y W. K. Mayhew was elected to Delta, the elece!e ~ engineering honorary society, and R. A. Van Order was berc ed to Scarab, honorary agricu lture society. Other memare s ~f the chapter participating in extracurricular activities Pol . · Hopper and George Schemp, band; A. H. Barber, c0rn°' .E~ Harker and Thomas Bennett and "Larry" Barberi, BlnJssJoned officers in the R.O.T.C. rother Bennett is a captain of infantry in the R.O.T.C.

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here, with Pledge Smith as a lieutenant of artillery. Bennett and Van Order, along with Pledge Smith, are members of the officers club. Senesi and Van Order are members of the polo club, and are both playing in a tournament of selected teams here at the university in March. Both are members of the International Polo Association with zero handicaps.

Chapter is winning games consistently in interfraternity leagues at both basketball and bowling, with fair chance for titles in both sports. Already won two bowling trophies from last two starts in competition. Team average around 150 in competition.

Initiation will be held early in March, with a goodly group expected to go through the ritual.

Alumni Personals We were recently visited by Brother Kurt Lauter, as representative of the alumni group in New York City. Brother Frank McMullen, the District Archon, also visited us in November and we are hoping to see him again soon.

Phi Alumnus Personal Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt T. Finley have announced the marriage of their daughter, Dorothy Anne, to John Hardin Crowder. At present they are living with the groom's parents, in Tulsa, Okla.

O mega Notes: Omega begins the second semester with a full house. We also are well represented in various activities on the campus. Don Beggs holds the esteemed position of Union executive and spends most of his time there. Don Black and Bruce McCandless are junior editor and junior business manager, respectively, of the Purdue annual. George Humfeld is the advertising manager of the Pt1rd11e E11gineer.

To strengthen Omega's position in literary circles, Harry Brown is editor of the Pllfdtle Agricult11rist. In the world of sports, Bob Brinson was recently appointed manager of the 1936-37 basketball team. Pledges Beckley and Grove re· ceived their freshman numerals in football. Pledges Magnussen and Lewis are members of the freshman debate squad.

Brother Thomson is on the operating staff of WBAA, Purdue's broadcasting station. Other brothers are out for various campus activities which are too numerous to mention.

Alumni Personals Omega sends heartiest congratulations and best wishes to three of its alumni who were recently married. Walter T. Spencer was married to Ann Troyer, November 28, 1935, and are now making their home in Indianapolis, Ind. The marriage of Frank G. Nicklas to Mary Hession was solemnized January 4.• James M. Wood was married to Pauline Frazier December 24 in tl1is city.

Alpha Alpha Notes: Among the social events planned for the near future are the open houses during the Little Commencement Dances which are to take place March 13 and 14, and also the Pi Kappa Phi pic:-tic to be held in April.

The chapter misses Ajalon Daniel, who left school this quarter to take a position with the Daniel Grocery System.

He was treasurer and house manager last quarter. He also left vacant the office of vice-president of the sophomore class.

Pledge Robinson made the freshman basketball team this season. Alpha Alpha is a strong contender for the interfraternity basketball championship this season. We expect to regain the trophy that we held a year ago.

Wa lter Doyle was honored with the office of vice-president of the law school. Ledford Carter was elected reporter and

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publicity manager of the International Relations Club. Cecil Kennedy, president of the freshman class, entertained the class with a weiner roast. William Harbin had the third highest average in the freshman Jaw class and by reason of this became a member of the honorary legal clinic. He was also elected secretary of the Greek Council.

Among the brothers visiting the chapter in the last month were: Wiley Jordan, the chapter adviser; Charles Jordan, Davis Goddard, John Seltzer, Millard Copeland, Philip Ethridge, Francis Dwyer, and J. H. McCann.

Alpha Gamma Almnnus Personal ]. R. Cornelison is back in the old home county now, and is known as County Judge Cornelison, Beckham County, Sayre, Okla.

Alpha Delta Notes: All the brothers at Alpha Delta are confident that under Archon Mansfield Murphy's guidance the affiairs of the chapter will be taken care of in the best manner. Murphy is a capable man as his unanimous election shows.

Savina, Novak, Franciscovich, Barnes, and Bayley are recent initiates and are full of ideas and ambitions for continued success at Alpha Delta. All the men are well qualified for their offices and you can be sure that you will hear a lot more about them in the future.

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Brothers Bob Snider, Paul Dull, and Dean Parker received their degrees at the end of the fall quarter. Snider and Parker received B.A.'s and Dull majored in Oriental Studies.

Brother Ev Rice is with us once again, after working in Alaska for the past eighteen months. He is resuming his course of mining and metallurgy.

Brother Duke Walthall, who has been in Alaska for the past eighteen months working for the Fairbanks Exploration Company, is at present residing in Seattle. Duke traveled some five thousand miles last month, for, after returning to Seattle from Alaska, he took a trip down through California.

Doug Willix is now the Seattle manager of The Wall Street j ournal. His offices are in the Exchange Building, 1515.

Melvin Klinefelter is the father of a fine baby boy.

Martin Wilson also has an addition to the family. He is Martin Thomas Wilson, born on January 1, 1936.

Marvin Robley Thomason and Miss Katherine Eugenia Parr were married the evening of December 27. Mrs. Thomason graduated from the University of Washington and is a member of Gamma Phi Beta. They will Jive in Yakima.

Alpha Epsilon Representatives from the ten chapters of Districts Five, Six, and Seven are expected to be on hand when the District Conclave opens March 20. The chapters are: Mercer, Howard, Emory, Oglethorpe, Stetson, Auburn, Alabama, Georgia Tech, Georgia and Florida.

An attractive schedule of entertainment has been arra nged for this time. Members will register Friday morning. A golf tournament is listed for the afternoon. A beautiful cup donated by Alpha Epsilon will be given the winning twoman team. The Spanish Room of the unique Hotel Thomas wi II be the setting for a banquet given to the representatives of the chapters, Friday night.

Business sessions will be the order of the day Saturday.

A trip to tropical Silver Springs and a visit to the site of the Florida Cross-state canal will come later in the week-end.

Saturday night a dance will be given for the visitors.

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During the spring holidays it is the custom of the mefll· bers of Alpha Epsi lon to move out of their house and alloW the fair sex to take it over for house party week. At th:S 5 time fun and hilarity will reign for four days as gtr from the entire state and others will brighten the city. d Following a practice that was started last year, the seco."t, annual Mothers' Day observance will be held in May at whtC time memorable services are planned. f Two new cups have been added, thus far, to the trophies. 0 Alpha Epsilon in the form of basketball and foul shootlllg intramurals. The winning basketball team was composed en· tirely of pledges, all of whom were successful in making the freshman team. r Recent initiates into campus dance societies were Brothe Wightman into Pirates and Brother Harrell into L'Apacne: Initiated into Sabres is Brother Turner who is also a cofll . the R.O.T.C. Brothers Harre 11 an d Howe pany commander 10 'eS are captains in the field artillery unit. In campus honor.~~nt are: Bardwell, president of A.I.Ch.E., Howe, pres! E of A.I.I.E. and Tylander, vice-president of the Benton n~ gineering Society. In campus offices at present are: Jea. Bush, business manager of The Alligator, the campus paper.

Pledge Jack Bush, president of the Junior class; and Chef~ and Conway on the Executive Council. In athletics Alt~n Brown is captain of the track team and was alternate captal sue· of football. Howe is a member of the track team. Seay e ceeded Dooley as captain of the baseball team; both men~\ receivers. Wolfert is manager of boxing. The "F" Club . :-s two more Pi Kapps in its fold, Brothers Cox and V/l 1;, earning their "F's" this year, Cox as manager of the footba team and Willis a member of the team.

Alumni Perso11als Recent marriages within the chapter: H. Spurgeon Che[rY: 1 Jr., Cross City, and Miss !dell Carpenter, Delta Delta pe ~: Sam J . Kennard, Jr., Jacksonville, and Miss Mary. Ed ~~e tridge, Chi Omega; John E. Zugschwert, Jr., Gamesvl ; and Miss Lucille Shannon; Pledge Richard Primm, Payton Beach, and Mill Mary Turner, Pi Beta Phi.

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Pedhens at present holds a responsible position with the th eta! Housing Administration in Washington, D.C., where e Couple are making their home.

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James Carson was a member of the dance committee. ha ~arvin Hepler, varsity wrestler in the 165-pound class, ex s een forced to the bench due to an injured knee. He se Peets to recover shortly and should see action before the ason closes. ll'te~d-year graduation caused Alpha Mu to lose two of its ers. Elmer Davies and Gregg Turner received their 0£ degrees on Friday, January 31. We also regret the loss rather Munn who did not return for the second semester.

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ho ~e Reverend William C. Taylor was advanced to priestCho on January 24 and is now priest-in-charge of St. John's Urch, Homestead, Florida.

Alpha Nu Al11mnus Perso11al arrMarcy S. Powell is the author of a recently published tist'~!e e~titled "Count Rumford: Soldier, Statesman, Scienis ' Whtch is very interesting and attractively written. Powell Ph ~w instructor in French at Harvard and working on his Ru · • .Another of his articles, "Problems of Modern Lang11 age Teaching," will appear shortly in The Modem !An-

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A.lpha Omicron can··:e believe that by so banding ourselves together we ticul e .of greater value and service to Pi Kappa Phi, parand ~r Jn supporting the Alpha Omicron chapter at Ames Jn further advancing the fraternity in the mid-western

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"We hope there will be at least 25 active alumni members in the chapter," said Russ Johnson, District Archon and one of the founders of Alpha Omicron chapter. Ames is in a proper geographical location for further expansion in the mid-west, Johnson said.

Signers of the petition are Russell Johnson, Registrar Sage, Prof. Giese, Dr. Lange, Dr. Lauer, Joe Duncan, Attorney J. R. Scott, Dr. Byram, Edwin Dean, Lieut. Andrews, Jim Brown, Dale Swisher, Dr. Brinkman, Harry Mabbitt, Phillip Minges, and Russell Thompson.

The proposed chapter will hold monthly meetings for discussion and business sessions. The chapter proposes to cooperate with Alpha Omicron in combined social events besides having a social program of its own.

The Pi Kapps promise to have a gala time February 29 when they gather for their annual winter quarter dance.

The chapter has decided to hold a type of dance that has never been held on this campus-a Pi Kapp "Truckers' Ball."

The dress will be that typical of truckers and the girls will be picked up in a huge truck.

J. H. McCann recently favored us with a visit from Central. It was our first meeting with Mac, and we all think he is a prince of fellow and very competent. His tips to us are proving to be valuable--one new man has moved into the house since his visit. The new pledge is Everett Robinson from Scotia, New York. At the present time, we have 18 men living in the house and 4 men outside.

The fellows in the house are already making plans for the "Skedaddle to Seattle" trip. It appears now that two car loads will drive to the convention. The official representatives to be sent are Donald Field, archon, and Robert Brown, as alternate.

Al11mni Penonals Two alumni Pi Kapps have announced a new addition to their family. J. A. Dickinson is the beaming father of a new daughter, Marjorie Elizabeth, born January 22. Kenneth Johnson announces that a son, Phillip Bruce, arrived January 12, to become one of the new junior Pi Kapps. Congratulations, brothers.

Alpha Rho Notes: We had the pleasure of a visit from District Archon Harold Merle in December, and hope his next one will be for a longer period.

Alpha Rho is quite active in intramural sports this season, and has moved up eight places towards the top of the list on the last report from the athletic department. We were in the "last round-up" in the handball play, and lost two out of three games on the final set with Phi Kappa Tau. At the present time we are leading our league in basketball and hope to bring home the cup when the last game of the tournament is played.

We are looking forward to our dance to be held the last day of February. It is our earnest hope that as many alumni of this chapter, and as many brothers from other chapters, who can do so, will attend.

The chapter appreciates very much the Christmas cards received from alumni and friends. Such thoughtfulness means a lot to the fellows at the house and gives rise to many pleasant memories.

Almm111s Personal Announcement has been received of the marriage of Brother Ralph Woodburn to Elizabeth Ann Laughrey of Clarksburg on January 3. Ralph is working for the Pure Oil Company in Clarksburg. They are residing at 423 Duff Avenue.

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Notes: Life for the past month has been rather prosaic at Alpha Tau. Immediately after Christmas vacation we had to pitch into reviews, and for the past week we have been deeply enmeshed in study for mid-term examinations. Our mental exercise did not go for nought, however, as cards were in general very good. The monotony was momentarily broken by a party on Saturday January 18. The chaperones, Professor and Mrs. G . K. Palsgrove, Professor F. M. Sebast, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Andrews and Mrs. Adams of Russell Sage College, had quite an uproarious time playing Monopoly.

Notes: The Pi Kappa Phi conference at Purdue, Decem· her 7-8, was greatly enjoyed by the five men from our chap· ter, and all of whom were made at home by the Pi J(apP hospitality. The talks, which were very lively and construe· tive, gave us many ideas to be carried out by our c~apteri Here's hoping that we may soon be host to the same ktnd 0 a conference. .

On December 10, the chapter in conjunction with the Cht· cago Alumni chapter celebrated Founders' Day by holding a banquet at the house. Carl Kirk knew the art of being a good toastmaster, for he made the alumni produce short talkS savored with jokes, besides adding a few of his own. . d The Christmas dance was a big success. Many alumnt ~n several men from Omega and Upsilon were present.

In the interfraternity swimming meet, Pi Kappa Phi came to the front, for Alpha Phi chapter took five out of a possibble eight first places. This victory was completely cinched . Y adding three seconds to the list. The swimming team whtC~ brought the cup to our house included Ray Dodge, Bo Winblad, Cyril Griffin, Frank Heidenreich, and Tom Speer· Both Dodge and "Windy" are carrying Armour colors on the school swimming team. , On Sunday January 26, the Mothers' Club held a Paren~s Day at the chapter house. There was a big turnout desptte the sub-zero weather. The house rendered a few Pi J(apP songs besides the "Armour Fight" special. Everyone enjofe~ themselves informally, and of course there was a plenttfU supply of appetizing refreshments.

John McCann made a short visit to the house. We e~· joyed having him here, and we hope to see more of him 10 the future.

Alpha Upsilon Not es : Rushing season opened as soon as the winter quarter opened, and the chapter activities consisted of affairs held in honor of the rushees. A Monte Carlo smoker was staged at the house and proved very successful. An equally enjoyable affair was a dance, at which some of the alumni turned out to meet the freshmen. At the close of the season, after twentyeight bids had been issued, twenty men took the pledge to Pi Kappa Phi, the largest number pledged to any house on the campus.

The minstrel show rehearsals are now under way. They are held at the house on Saturday afternoons and these gettogethers are much enjoyed by the fellows and girls participating in the show.

Richard Hutcheson, chapter representative to the Interfraternity Council, has received a bid to Scabbard and Blade, national military fraternity.

Al11mni Personals We are pleased to note the improvement of Mrs. Robert Hanson, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident in November.

The chapter has received an invitation to the wedding of Miss Florence Riggs and Henry B. Coleman.

A representative group of alumni are employed by the James Lees and Sons Company, nationally known manufacturer of rugs; Lewis Shemery of Penn State, Richard and Robert Oberholtzer and Richard Cauffman of Drexel.

Al11mni Personals Mr. and Mrs. John Even are the proud parents of a daughter.

Donald Young has been Jiving at the house for the month of January.

Alumni present at the Christmas dance were Curtis Bristol, Charles Schnackel, and Roy Wittekind!.

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should organize, for example, a little traveling bOOk store, to go around with your secretary, so that wherl he has .finished that .financial audit he could talk for a few moments about the best novels-if he knows them-about the best books of travel, about the best discussions of modern problems of whatever kind, he might prove to be an intellectual stimulant and h~ might bring into the fraternity house that love 0 learning for itself, for its own sake, which has no reference to credit. A boy might read a book about which the professor never heard; think what an achievement that would be!

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~resident Wilkins of Oberlin, in a very scholarly revtew of trends and enrollment, published in School ;nd Society recently, showed that one hundred and hen of the leading liberal arts colleges in the country ave gained only one per cent in attendance between ;921 and 1935. In the .first four years of that fifteen, hey gained fourteen and one-half per cent and in the 1 hast ten years of that they have lost thirteen and onea!£ per cent.

If you had studied the fraternity situation in 1930 ~ou .would have found the liberal arts college the 0 tntnant .figure. That is no longer true.

In that same period from 1921 to 1935, .fifty or lllore great universities, of which thirty-eight were state or municipally supported, gained thirty-seven and one-half per cent, while the colleges of the liberal arts were gaining one per cent. Their maximum growth carne in 1931 when they had gained a little over forty Per cent. Their loss in the last four years is trifling. i\. study of teachers' colleges in the decade from 1 f 921 to 1931 showed a gain of one hundred and per cent, whid1 has gone on, straight on since 931 through 1935. And a study of the junior col1 e~es over the ten years from 1921 to 1931 showed a ~arn in attendance of six hundred per cent and that as gone on steadily since 1931.

Therefore, the structural problem is a new problem, ~n~ you might just as well face it. And colleges are emg reorganized to meet this new situation. f l'h~ ideal among colleges now is differentiation of Unctton, and the great problem of high school counSel and guidance is not who shall go on. Educators are determined to thrust them all on if they can. The ~reat problem is to .find the institution wherein the 0 Y can use his capacities for the most fruitful elcperience. Some persons will have to be taught at ~relatively low level. There is a college organized for at specific purpose in one of the great universities, \\'herein there is no laboratory but only demonstration, ~herein there are moving pictures, wherein there are a I kinds of things in order to stimulate minds that ~~ed stimulation, but that have not any sense or power rnastery. . Now, there are implications in this for the fraterthty audit. The fraternities grew up at a time and under a system where the liberal arts college was suj.terne, and where, save for a few technical schools ttke Massachusetts Tech, the liberal arts college was he heart of every institution in the country. That is 00 longer so, and the fraternity audit had best note it. l'he fraternities had their great growth when the :~andardizing agencies like the North Central and e Middle States and Maryland were trying to make

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It has a definition of a college. It says, "Run your college the way you want it, but in accordance with its proper objectives, and then we will judge the quality of your co!Jege by the measure in which it meets its objectives."

Retreat of Standardization The fraternities grew at a time when American industry was being standardized, when every bolt must have a standard position, and when the production line went on. And some of you acted as though you wanted your chapters to be interchangeable parts of a national fraternity. You had not only a standardized ritual but standardized bookkeeping, standardized rushing and pledging, and then you sent around the traveling expert in standardization to make sure that every chapter met all of the standard requirements of a standard national fraternity.

Now, the fraternities are faced with the fact that the standardized era in fraternity life is gone. Colleges and universities are riding furiously in many directions at once, And therefore you cannot ride all those horses in all those different directions by and standardized procedure. You cannot any longer have uniform chapters. You must have a different chapter size, a different chapter structure, and different chapter procedures if you are to survive in a great urban university with its many day students and at the same time go on in a little New England country college with its residential character.

Phi Delta Theta many years ago used to call its chapters "colleges." Now that historic footnote lingers in my mind and always comes back to me as I reflect upon this problem. It is applicable to your present situation. You should seek a maximum of individuality in the chapters of national fraternities.

They must take their color, as they now do in part, from the local environment and you should seek to make them literally colleges, places of residence, places where men live together, and interchange opinion. And without making any remark which might, by the remotest stretch of the imagination, seem derogatory to the faculty, young men will learn more in civilized, intellectual intercourse and social intercourse with ead1 other than they will ever Jearn in the classroom.

Well, if you make this change, what then is left for the national fraternity? There is plenty left. There is the room for emphasis upon a civilized and civilizing way of life, for emphasis upon certain constructive attitudes and upon dynamic scholarship, for emphasis

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upon sound business procedure, and an ethical attitude toward the fraternity bills. The chapters of a national fraternity also can perform one other service of the greatest importance.

In this differentiation of function, there is great danger that college X will not understand college Y. A national fraternity can do a great deal in interpreting different institutions to each other and in keeping that common element in the American educational structure which is essential if it is not to fly off at tangents as a result of this differentiation of function.

Individual Adaptation The audit, I suspect will show that the problem of adaptation to the college is therefore not a single national problem. Men who have been criticizing the fraternity's failure to adapt itself have never taken that adequately into account. It is a problem which shows in many, many forms, and it requires of the national organization great flexibility in reversing the trend toward standardization.

There is one other item in this audit to which I must allude very briefly.

Modern education is based upon one fundamental discovery, and that discovery is antipathetical to the form of our institutions, but is fundamental to the temper o£ our institutions.

As mass education has become more and more the standard form of American education, the matter of individual differences has become more and more the central problem of American education. In order to get an adequate picture of these individual differences in the midst of mass education, new procedures have been developed.

Counseling has fallen into the hands of technical experts, and there is a tendency now as a result of that to deal with individuals directly, not as a part of a group, and the fraternities have been left at one side. Many a college administrator says, ''I'm tired of trying to deal with the fraternity; the only influence they wield is in the hands of a sophomore and made of oak, and it attacks the wrong end of the freshman."

But I am here this morning to suggest that this audit may reveal that the fraternity exists in this respect for the same purpose as the college, for individual development, and that the fraternity, while it cannot have the tests and measurement data, has an intimate understanding of a student's daily life which no test data can reveal.

There is now being developed a new technique called the anecdotal record, in which every professor in the college is asked to note facts about the student, what he did in the classroom, what he said, with no interpretation thereof whatever, and all of these anecdotes are put into one hopper and sorted out and then by and by some expert goes through and, analyzing the 30

anecdote from each one, tries to form a real picture of the real character of that student. Well, that is a good substitute. But an infinitely better way is to get data from his fraternity brothers who know his up· rising and his downsitting, who know how the boY behaves at table, who know whether he is civilized or uncivilized; they have all of the anecdotal data to iiU a book about that individual boy, and the moment haS come-and I think the audit will show it-when the college and the fraternity should unite what they knoW about the student technically and what they know about the student personally.

In my own institution the dean does not think of ao important interview with an undergraduate who is .3 member of the fraternity without first checking ~t over with the fraternity. And many an interview 15 stimulated not by the dean himself, but by the cha~· ter which has brought its problem to us for a little btt of help in dealing with it.

I come at last to a conclusion.

Security No Ideal This audit ought to do one more thing. The~e is nothing in the world today that so tends to cbs· hearten me as the defensive character of modetll civilization. I am so sick of safety first. We wall! safety, but let's have it last. Let's have some sen~e of adventure. Let's take some chances. Security 15 no ideal for a nation. And I don't like the fact that the fraternities, being under fire and gaining a bad press, as you have gained a bad press at Yale and Dartmouth and elsewhere, have taken a de· fensive line. . f Let's get off the defensive, all of us. This audtt 0 experience would call your attention to and pr~ve many shortcomings, but I have fundamental fatth that the balance sheet would show that you still ha"~ funds and balances, that you still have reserves, an that the depression and deficit have not eaten up your capital. And if it did nothing else than to take th~ fraternities off the defensive and start them forwar on some great, constructive program, it would be we 11 worth while.

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Alumni Chapters (Cot1tin11ed from page 16) Vention f N . Berger, rumor states, IS . plannin rom ew York . B1ll s g to fly to the Seattle Convention. Frank McMullen was ~en in a huddle with several brothers figuring out how b uch gas and oil it would take to get to Seattle. There may a surprisingly good representation if discussion continues 1 ~ &row as it probably will.

S Cart H. Pihl, an Alpha Iota boy from Brooklyn, who went e~~th for his ~ducation (and where coul.d one get a better i catiOn ?) w1ll probably soon be playmg an active part yn alumni affairs in New York. He dropped a line to :.~ts truly expressing a desire to get into things and Carl 1 unquestionably prove a real asset to the New York 8/~up. Would that the other brothers coming to New York Lo ow Carl Pihl 's example and let us know that they are uere. p Brother Bill Nash, Adviser to Alpha Xi chapter, is the hroud fath er of a third son. Congratulations to Bill and to /s wife Janet. Pi Kapp can't help but become stronger t!r t?e years go by with prospective candidates for the franlty entering the fold as the days roll on. i Br~ther Harold Lewis of Nu, one of the finest pianists : th1s locality continues to do things musically. He is a Netnber of the faculty at the Juilliard School of Music in I.e~ Y.ork and is one of the most popular professors. Mrs. aew.1s IS as talented a musician as her husband. Recently tno known as the Florenda trio, of which he is director, 8cave. a series of most enjoyable concerts. At the last conae~ It was observed that several Pi Kapps with their wives n lady friends were in the audience. p The ladies' committee recently went on another theatre A.arty; first having a delicious lunch at that famous Park a v~nue. place, Therese Worthington Grant's. The ladies ~aln Picked out one of New York's startling plays, "Boy eet~ Girl." Some 20-odd ladies were in the party.

PI Ps1 chapter alumrti heard the little birdies whisper. They f an to have some sort of affair in the near future to raise aunds for a special purpose. All you Pi Kapps in New York re to back up whatever function they decide upon. a !he ladies committee in New York are making plans for h Monte Carlo Night" to be held at the Alpha Xi chapter ouse. This should be a night of lots of fun to which all 800 d brothers with wives or friends should attend. at A. chapter meeting will probably be held in the near future PI some exclusive New York club. This is in line with the w1rs recently approved whereby one alumni meeting a year h \ be held at some outstanding place in New York. This e Ps the commuters get home a little earlier! y Spring Formal! Plans will soon be under way for New b ~rk alumni's dress-up party. On this occasion the boys ~tng out their top hats, white ties and tails. There will be ore about this some time later. h If any of you alumni in the vicinity of New York have ca.d. the patience to read these "Ramblings" and are not rep~IVtng notices as to the functions taking place hereabouts, ease drop a line to Brother Robert Fuchs at 744 Westmins1 er Road, Brooklyn, New York. lin til next time-Hasta Luego!

Philadelphia

By Robert Oberholtzer, Alpha Upsilon u !he gatherings of the Philadelphia Alumni Chapter are a01 que. Consider the most recent; definitely not a meeting h~~ Yet, when it was ended, certainly all necessary business been transacted.

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Our program committee seems to know what to have and where. On February 1, we had what is rapidly becoming an annual custom, our dance at the Plymouth Country Club.

It must be the Shemery, Oberholtzer, Oberholtzer, Kauffman influence that takes the affair to Norristown but no one seems to mind. Bartleson, of course, takes a couple extra hours to locate the place, but anyone from Lansdowne can't be expected to find their way around so far north . Anyway, it's out of Bart's element.

He's already started to talk of a fishing trip this summer -and the ice still coming!

There's an affair on the program for the latter part of February that Bob Oberholtzer calls the "Jamborie." There is a fine distinction to be drawn with reference to that name.

But Bob had trouble thinking of an appropriate name that would describe the affair and at the same time be discrete.

For details get in touch with Bill Bishop, 6326 Baynton Street, Philadelphia.

To all Pi Kapps in Philadelphia and vicinity we extend a cordial invitation to attend any and all of our affairs.

Seattle

By Rene Koelblen, Alpha Zeta The meeting of January 6 saw the election of the 1936 officers: Thomas Jermin, Alpha Theta, re-elected archon; Ed Turner, Alpha Delta, chosen treasurer; and Rene Koelblen, Alpha Zeta, elected secretary to succeed George Ruby.

The meeting welcomed Robert Snider and George Bancroft to membership in the chapter.

There followed the business of the convention which consisted of a review of accomplishments to date' by General Chairman Horace Granger, matters of committee appointments, and the selection of Hugh Schlicting, Alpha Delta, as general treasurer of the convention and chairman of the Financial Committee.

Other matters of business were the proposal to assist the undergraduate chapter in the publication of the chapter paper and the recognition of the excellent work which was being done by the Wives and Mothers Club of the chapter.

The group was well represented at the gathering of the Portland alumni in that city on February 1. The meeting was enjoyable from all standpoints and will lead to the formation of an alumni chapter which the Seattle men expect to find of assistance in the convention work and source of frequent association between the men of the two cities in the future.

February saw the holding of the annual ski party of the chapter. The weather was good on this occasion and the attendance beyond expectations.

Charter Probabilities A petition underway is reported by the alumni residents of Ames, Iowa. District Archon Russell Johnson also expects to see the Lincoln and Omaha chapters again reporting activity.

District Archon George Coulter expects to have a petition for a charter from the alumni of Jacksonville, Florida, ready for filing before many weeks have passed.

On February 1, 27 men of Portland, Oregon, gathered at the Multnomah Club in that city with visitors from the Seattle Alumni Chapter as a preliminary to the project formation of an alumni group.

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NOTE: The address in every case is the official address of the chapter. Following the officers is listed the chapter publication· ALABAMA-Omicron District 7 Pi Kappa Phi House, University, Ala. William Davis, Jr., archon Eugene W. Williams, secretary The Omicronite Henry H. Mize, chapter adviser ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC-Alpha Iota, Dis· trict 7 209 W. Glenn Ave. 1 Auburn, Ala. James A. Tyson, arcnon Clifford Webb, secretary The Alota Dr. Paul Irvine, chapter adviser ARMOUR-Alpha Phi, District 11 3337 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. Cyril L. DuSell, archon William S. Hamlin, secretary Prof. John F. Mangold, chapter adviser BROOKLYN POLYTECHNIC-Alpha·Xi, District I 33 Sidney Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. 0. W. Link, archon Lewis B. Everett, secretary The Woodbird William R. Berger, chapter adviser CALIFORNIA-Gamma, District 20 2510 LeConte Ave., Berkeley, Calif.

William Amon, archon Carlton Corey, secretary The Gammazette James Hamilton, chapter adviser CHARLESTON-Alpha District 4 College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C. L. A. Michel, Jr., archon W . M. Moore, Jr., secretary Albert Taylor, chapter adviser CoRNELL-Psi, District I 115 Ridgewood Road , Ithaca, N.Y. A. H. Barber, archon W. A. Dunham, Jr., secretary The Cornell Psiren Prof. Paul Work, chapter adviser DAVIDSON-Epsilon, District 3 Davidson , North Carolina John G. Willis, archon T. U. Cameron, secretary The Epsilonian Major J. T. Rhett, chapter adviser DREXEL INSTITUTE-Alpha Upsilon District 1 3312 Powelton Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. William H. Miller, archon David S. Greer, secretary Dusak Dr. Robert S. Hanson, chapter adviser DuKn-Mu District 3 Duke Station, Durham, N.C. John Watson, Jr., archon William H. Fulmer, secretary Mu Musings A. H. Borland, chapter adviser EMORY-Eta, District 5 1290 S. Oxford Road, Atlanta, Ga. Raymond Menkee, archon Albert Carter, Jr., secretary The Eta Scroll Dr. B. M. Bowen, chapter adviser FLORIDA-Alpha Epsilon, District 6 Box 2756 University Station, Gainesville, Fla. L. W. Harrell, archon John Cherry, secretary "rhe Gatorzette J. P. Wilson, chapter adviser

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FURMAN-Delta, District 4 14 University Ridge! Greenville, S.C. W. Herschel Bagna , archon Gerald W. Scurry, secretary Dean R. N. Daniel, chapter adviser GEORGIA-Lambda, District 5 386 Hill Street, Athens, Ga. Gibson Hull, archon Elliott Herrington, secretary The Lambdoman R. F. Harris, chapter adviser GEORGIA TECH-Iota, District 5 743 Peachtree, Atlanta, Ga. R. A. Siegel, archon 1oe Crocker, secretary The Iotan HOWARD COLLEGE-Alpha Eta, District 7 Box 117! East Lake, Birmingham, Ala. Jack Be I, archon Hubert Mate, secretary Alpha-Eta Grams V. Hain Huey, chapter adviser ILLINOIS-U(lsilon, District 11 1105 S. First, Champaign, Ill. Berte! Jonson, archon Douglas Rosebrook, secretary Upsilon Ups V. R. Fleming, chapter adviser IOWA STATE-Alpha Omicron, District 14 407 Welch Avenue, Ames, Iowa R. 0 . Brown, archon Charles Schumacher, secretary The Almicron James R. Sage, chapter adviser MERCER-Alpha Alpha, District '.5 629 Adams St., Macon, Ga. William Harbin, archon Ledford Carter, secretary Alphalpha Hey W. M. Jordan, Jr., chapter adviser MICHIGAN STATE-Alpha Theta, District 10 Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, E. Lansing, Mich. ames F. Sterling, archon ohn N. Wortman. secretary he Alpha Theta Stater Prof. L. N. Field, chapter adviser

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0. L. Casey, archon Arthur G. Busby, secretary J. B. Gathright, chapter adviser NORTH CAROLINA STATn-Tau, District 1720 Hillsboro St., Raleigh, N.C. A. J. McGinty, archon T. B. Mason, secretary The Taulegram L. M. Shirley, chapter adviser OGLETHORPE-Pi._ District 5 Pi Kappa !:'hi Fraternity, Oglethorpe University, Ga. Thomas Ew10g, archon Stanley Pirkle, secretary Allan Watkins, chapter adviser OHIO STATE-Alpha Nu, District 9 118-14th Ave., Columbus, Ohio Albert Phipps, archon Ivan Smith, secretary The Alpha Nu's G. E. Baker, chapter adviser OKLAHOMA-Alpha Gamma, District 15 518 Boulevard, Norman, Okla.

Beecher Snipes, archon Orin S. Lambert, secretary The Alpha Gamma Star

OREGON STATE-Alpha Zeta, District 19 Pi Kappa Phi, Corvallis, Ore. Jerome Fluke, archon llurt Frizzell.. secretary The Alpha L.eta News Prof. T. J. Starker, chapter adviser PENN STATE-AIJ?ha Mu, District I Pi Kappa Ph1, State College, Pa. Marvin HeQ.ler, archon W. C. Grifli_n1 secretary The Alpha .Mu News Prof. F. G. Merkle, chapter adviser PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE-Beta, District 4C Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, Clinton, 5· · W. M. Degner, archon J. M. Commander, secretary PuRoun-Omega, District 11 330 N. Grant St., W. Lafayette, Ind. Robert S. Green, archon Donald E. Black, secretary The Omegalite Dr. C. L. Porter, chapter adviser RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC-Alpha Tau, DiS· trict I 4 Park Place, Troy, N.Y. Guy A. Yaple, archon Harry A. Downing, secretary The Alpha Taux Prof. G. K. Palsgrove, chapter adviser ROANOKE-Xi, District 2 Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, Salem, Va. R. L. Kennett, archon W. P. Tice, secretary The Xi Bulletin SoUTH CAROLINA-Si,11ma, District 4 1008 Laurens St. Monroe Spears, archon James Richardson, secretary The Sigma Item C. E. Wise, chapter adviser STETSON-Chi, District 4 East Minnesota Ave., De Land, Fla. Malcolm Day, archon Howard L. Bateson, secretary The Chi Cry

TnN~~~;n'i:;;:C~rh.Av~~gma, District 8 G. W. Wynne, archon C. E. Rollins, secretary Alpha Sigmam Dr. F. R. Ward, chapter adviser WASHINGTON-Alpha Delta~ District 19h 4547 19th Ave. N.E., "eattle, Was · Mansfield Murphy, archon Anthony Savina, secretary The Alpha Deltan Hugh Schlicting, chapter adviser WASHINGTON AND LEn-Rho, District 2 Box 909, Lexington, Va. C. Russell Doane, archon Seth N. Baker, secretary The Rhodian Dr. Earl K. Paxton, chapter adviser WEST VIRGINIA-Alpha Rho, District 9,vP 2109 University Ave., Morganto ' W.Va. Arden Trickett, archon Thomas C. Madden, secretary The Alpha Rhose John C. Johnston, chapter adviser WOFFORD--Zeta,~..

District 4 Pi Kappa !:'hi Fraternity, Spartanburg• S.C. Sam B. Mitchell, archon A. P. Evans, secretary

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Alumn i officers are requested to in form the Executive Secretary promptly of any changes m personnel and addresses, or of agreement as to time and pl ace of meetings.

ATHENS, GFORGIA-Archon, Richard F. Harris, New York Life In· sura nee Comp:my.

Secretary, Gilbert Henry, University of Georgia.

ATtASNTA, GEORGIA-Archon, Philip Etheridge, 33 Maddox Drive. ecretary, Allan Watkins, 35 11 Piedmont Road.

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ALABAMA-Archon, Edward E. Beason, 1509 Comer Bui!d,ng.

Secretary, V. Hain Huey, Smith·ScllUltz·Hodo Realty Company.

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Nnw YORK, Nnw YoRK-Archon, Carl Ostergren, 2 10 E. 73rd Street.

Secretary, Robert Fuchs, 744 Westminster Road, Brooklyn.

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA-Archon, L. H. Harris, Independence Building.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA--Officers not reported.

PHILADELPHIA, PnNNSYLVANIA- Archon, Gi lbert Spahr, 6900 Sherman

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CHICSAGO, I LLINOIS-Archon, E. R. Blaschke, 4509 N. Long Avenue. ecretary, C. C. W. Arnold, 5053 Waveland Avenue.

CtnvnLANO, OHIO-Archon, E. 0. Mattocks, 1020 Hillstone Road, C leveland Hgts.

Secretary, R. W. Stromberg, 3035 Wooster Rd., Rocky River. is·

MIAMI, FLORIDA-Archon, Robert G ilroy, Ingraham Bldg.

Secretary, Edward Lowrt, 625 N.E. 22nd St.

CHARLESTON, SouTH CAROLINA-Archon, Albert P. Taylor, 6 Halsey Street.

Secretary, Earl B. Halsall, 651 King Street.

CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE--Officers not reported.

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liNCOLN, NBDRASKA-0fficers not reported.

Los ANGELES, CAI.II'ORNIA-Archon, C. W. Woods1 1685 Beverly Blvd.

Secretart. Lee Cameron, 355 S. Cedar St., Buroank.

Secretary, William H. Bishop, 6329 Baynton Street.

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA-Archon, Garland 0. Green, 61 1 McCul· lock Street.

Secretary, L. M. Shirley, 121 Park Avenue.

ROANOKE, VIRGINIA-Archon, Ben Chapman, Sa lem, Va. Secretary, Charlie Turner, Y.M.C.A.

CotUMBIA, SoUTH CAROLINA--Officers not reported.

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MICHIGAN-Archon, Kryn Nagelki rk, 4301 Devonshire Road.

Secretary, Kline Sprague, 1288 Cedar Drive, Birmingham, Mich.

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON-Archon, Thomas Jermin, 711 Federal Office, Weather Bureau.

Secretary, Rene Koelblen, 4547 19th, N.E.

I(NOSlCVILLE, TrNNESSEE-Archon, Eduoord Dunnavant, 25 18 P arkview. ecretary, E. M. Bowles, 2825 L1nden Avenue.

SPARTA~~~;.G, SouTH CAROLINA-Archon, Paul C. Thomas, Spartan

lEHIGH VALLEY-Archon, Edward Beddall, 112 Schuylkill, Tamaqua, Pa. Secretary, John F. Kieser, 116 Douglas St., Reading, Pa.

Secretary, J. Cham Freeman, B8Y2 Main Street.

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