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Volume XXXI

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o/ Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity • RICHARD L. YOUNG Editor

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In Grateful Remembrance ................................................................... .

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Medal of Honor Won by Tar Heel Pi Kapp ..

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Pi Kapp General to Tokyo ...................................................... ..

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The Thomas Wolfe I Knew ................. ..

Looking Ahead ..

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Pi Kapps in Our Country's Service..

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And Theirs Shall Be The Glory......

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In Freedom's Cause .........................................................................................! 0 For Meritorious Achievement.. ...... .

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Fraternity Spirit.. ............................................................... .

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Marriages and Engagements ......

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Births

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With Alumni Chapters ....... ..

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Calling The RolL... ..................... .

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THE COVER Lt. R. Geddie Herring, USNR, Epsilon, '42, of Roseboro, North Carolina, pictured after having received the Congressional Medal of Honor from Secretory of the Navy, James V. Forrestol. The complete story of Brother Herring's gallantry is featured on page three of this issue.

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This is the Spirit of the Fraternity! Herein lies the strength of Pi Kappa Phi. It was Dec. 10, 1944 in a Japanese prison camp.

Three Pi Kapps were among the unfortunate Americans tortured and abused by the arrogant little yellow men of the Rising Sun but in spite of their privations and suffering they remembered the day that saw the birth of the Fraternity they loved .

Major Alonzo Langworthy, Alpha Theta at Michigan State, Capt. Robert D. Montgomery, Chi at Stetson University, and Capt. George Cadmus, Alpha Zeta at Oregon State, saved tiny portions of their sc.a nty rice rations and bits of the meager items from the Red Cross packages they were allowed to receive. And on Founder's Day they baked a rice cake, which was pitifully decorated, and ate it together in remembrance of the three men who made possible the fraternal ties of Pi Kappa Phi .

That fraternal gathering. of three Pi Kappa Phi's in a Jap prison camp should forever be a guide for all Pi Kapps in their appreciation of brotherly love, in homage to our honored Founders, and in devotion to the Fraternity of our choice.

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WON BY TAR HEEL PI KAPP • he 1'~e Nation's highest award for

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tJSN eddie Herring, Epsilon, 1942,

tra R:, of Roseboro, N. C. for exl<'ebtdmary gallantry in action on inv · .17, 1945, two days before the a~non of Iwo Jima. l<' Secretary of the Navy James V. rtrrestal presented the Medal of ~ionor to Brother Herring, along ficth ~avy Crosses to eight other ofPa e~s In ceremonies in the Navy DeLi r tnent at Washington on Sept. 5. llreu~enant Herring also accepted the (Ge)s1dential ..Unit Citation for LCI <!roup Eight. · in Ass,gned to the mission of providd g close-in-fire support for the und~t~ater demolition teams in their So~ Ight reconnaissance of Iwo's ru tbeastern landing bases on FebSe~ry 17, 1945, D-minus-two day, Ei en of the 12 gunboats of group ang~~ ~pened fire on the beaches with 1\] etr 20 and 40 millimeter guns. te~ost immediately enemy shore batfou'es. opened up on the craft, hitting \r tn the first 10 minutes. es ~hen 1,000 yards from the beachby ~ere rocket salvos were released enu e gunboats, the enemy, appar"'e Y believing landing operations th:.e ~ctually underway, increased sev'r fire and in four minutes the Iar en craft were hit several times by tnag~ caliber shells, mortar and autothe Weapons fire. In this short time an CI (G) 474 was hit 10 times suf set afire and the LCI (G) 449 th/ered 60 per cent casualties from L~ large caliber shells. ~r leutenant Herring, whose mother, liv 8· Susan Geddie Herring, also tnaes ~t Roseboro, N. C., was cornan n~Ing officer of the LCI (G) 449, Cti~ It was for his action during that ~e Cal time that he received the antda~ of Honor. I!e was a Lieutenacr (Junior grade) at the time of the Ion cited. lie directed the barrage of gunfire

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from his craft until he was struck down by the savage counterfire which blasted the 449's guns and whipped her decks into sheets of flame. Regaining consciousness he was again critically wounded when a Jap mortar crashed the conning station, in·s tantly killing or fatally wounding most of his officers.

The ship was left without navigational control. Lieutenant Herring, however, recovering the second ·Hme, climbed down to the pilot house, still fighting his waning strength, took over the helm and carried on until relief could be obtained. When he could no longer stand he propped himself against empty shell cases and rallied his men to the aid of the wounded. Meanwhile he held his ship's position in the firing line with his 20 millimeter guns and conned his crippled craft to safety.

The five remaining LCI (G)'s in the group were ordered to replace damaged vessels on the firing line and in the next hour the gunboats continued to support the reconnaissance w{th every gun that could be fired, despite the continued heavy enemy fire from the beaches. Several times gunboats retired from the 1000yard line afire, extinguished their fires and returned to action.

Lieutenant Herring, a graduate of Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, in 1942, served on an LCI (L) following his commissioning and training at amphibious training schools. In August 1943 he was assigned to the LCI (G) 449, first serving as engineering officer. )T he citation accompanying the Medal of Honor reads: "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as Commanding Officer of LCI (G) 449, operating as a unit of LCI (G) Group EIGHT, during ijle pre-invasion attack on Iwo Jima on February 17, 1945. Boldly closing the strongly fortified shores under the devastating fire of Japanese coastal defense guns, Lieutenant (then Lieutenant, Junior Grade) Herring directed shattering barrages of 40 millimeter and 20 millimeter gunfire against hostile be,aches until struck down by the enemy's savage counterfire which blasted the 449's heavy guns and whipped her decks into sheets of flame. Regaining consciousness despite profuse bleeding, he was again critically wounded when a Japanese mortar crashed the conning station, instantly killing or fatally wounding most of the officers and leaving the ship wallowing without navigational control. Upon recovering the second time, Lieutenant Herring resolutely climbed down to the pilot house and, fighting against his (Continued on page . 13) 3

PI KAPP GENERAL TO TOKYO A Pi Kappa Phi is the commanding officer of the Twenty-seventh Infantry Division, which marched into Tokyo for the occupation of the Rising Sun capital.

He is Major General George W .

Griner, Jr., a member of Eta Chapter.

General Griner a,ttended Emoryat-Oxford from 1912 through 1915.

He enlisted in the Army when World War I broke out, and received his commission as a second lieutenant. Among the awards he won in that conflict was the Silver Star in recognition of his bravery in action

in the Argonne offensive, where he subsequently served as a company commander.

A graduate of the infantry school, the Command and Staff School, and the Army War College, he organized and commanded the Thirteenth Airborne Division, which he led to the European theater.

In May, 1941, he was a member of the Special Observer Group which was sent to England, where he was assigned as chief of staff, G-4 of the E. T. 0. In this position, he supervised all supply, evacuation and transportation planning for the

reception of U. S. forces in th1 British Isles.

He has also served as assistant division commander of the SeventY' seventh Division.

According to Emory alumni re· • cords, the general was active in a;~ letics during his student days. n~ played on the football, basketball ano baseball teams. He was also .3 debater, a member of the athletl' commission, the Few Literary Socie!l and Pi Kappa Phi. His wife and daughter are no'' residing in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He ha' been in the Pacific for two years.

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* The Twenty-first Supreme Chapter Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama .

Plan Now To Attend

That position of traveling coun selor of the Fraternity is still open and Notional President William J. Berry again issues on appeal for applicants.

This officer will be on important foetor in Pi Kappa Phi's postwar advancement and development. His duties will be visitation to chapters, assisting in their reorganization problems of finances and personnel.

In the lost issue of The Star and Lamp, President Berry outlined the qualifications as follows:

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Obviously the success of this plo~ is dependent almost entirely on the personality of the individual selected Unless the right man is found, thl Fraternity's money will be wasted He should be a graduate who h05 hod experience as a member and, 'I preferably, as on officer of on acttid chapter, young enough to understoll the undergraduate's point of yie~ and mature enough to command ht respect. It would be on odvonto9: if he were on honorably discharge! veteran. Because of the nature.~ the work, he should be unmorrte The job calls for imagination, jud9' ment, initiative and the ability to co· operate.

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I was a schoolmate of Tom and ~ in ath or.e of his closest friend s during the tys. fie days at Chapel Hill. He was a mem tball and When Dr. Greenlaw called his also .3 name to read his piece, the ta II, ber of the class of 1920, I of the class of 1921. But we had many courses ath lelll rhngling fellow stood up, cleared his togeth er, the creative writing course, 1 Societ) roat, fumbled in his pockets, pulled for in sta nce, along with Paul Green out ~ couple of yellow sheets, began and Jonathan Daniels. We were also are n°'i teactmg the scrawled pencilling. closely associated in Proff Koch 's He ha' After awhile the tall youth finished Carolina Playmakers, then in its years.

What was written on the sheets, and formative days. Tom one year was rausing in the middle of a sentence, president of Sigma Upsilon , a nahrust them back into his inside coat tional fraternity of budding authors, ~Ocket, from which he shortly hauled and I was secretary , which meant that :his plo" orth a sheet of white typewriter I had to arrange for the feeds, the ' on thl fhPer. As he started reading again, principal part of each S. U. program, e class snickered. selected while Tom could come into the meetund, the . When he had exhausted the flow- ing room a half hour late and out of tng sentences on the white sheet, he wasted ~tu~k it into a side pocket, fumbled breath from bounding up the stairs and immediately take charge .of whatwho hos bgam, pulled forth a long envelope, ever momentous discussion was un>er o"d, /gan reading from the back. This der way . n active .•me the class guffawed. The next Twenty-five years ago this summer 3tallment of his opus, it anticipated Tom tossed his diploma from the dersto"d hnappiJy, would go forward eloquently University of North Carolina into his of vie~ Upon several folds of toilet paper. trunk and went home to Ashevill e in 1and his The professor laughed too. Had the mountains. He . was nineteen, 1 vanto9 ~me other fellow tried that stunt, six feet three inches tall, a gawky, :charge~~ ddie would probably have given him lovable guy with a nervous, jerky 1ture 0 one withering look that would have way of talking, a quick , intense ended his literary labors for the day, eagerness to be understood and apmarried ~~ least. But not Tom Wolfe. br. preciated, a warm devotion to his n, jud9' 'dwin Greenlaw, one of America's many friends. :y to co· freat teachers of creative writing, Seven years ago this fall Tom f new he was dealing with a rare Wolfe, four inches taller and 75 ;now in that tall, awkward youth. pounds heavier, came home again to r of thll 11 cl he let the guy have his rein.

Asheville, this time to his long home, qualil!· f Tom, of course, was acting, playing and they buried him on a hillside ested '·s" hor the laughs of the class. Ostensibly, near the grave of that other giant had awakened in the middle of of North Carolina letters, 0. Henry. send ht In the 18 years that intervened I OffiG1 he night with a tremendous idea, act. grabbed the only bits of paper a • between these homecomings Thomas himself, bva!Iable in a mad race to get his Wolfe had achieved international ks yo~l f ram child recorded. As a matter of recognition through the fierceness rson fo' fact, he had planned the whole stunt, that forever burned within him , the 1d in s; fr stunt it was, and he knew the soaring brave spirit that translated c ass would love it. itself into millions of words, many of unity 0 tremendous force and unearthly a That incident, I contend, provides ·e to ft \'~ey to the understanding of Thomas beauty, many that might well have VOlfe. been blue-pencilled.

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And today a legend has developed around the personality of Tom Wolfe.

It was beginning to take shape even before he died in September, 1938.

Now it is threatening to obscure the true picture of this young novelist whose death , in the opinion of many, cut down one of the nation 's most promising fashioners of brave beautiful words.

When 1 am reminded of this false picture- as I contend- of Tom Wolfe, as 1 was some time ago when a young man who had never seen him but had devoured everything he could find that Tom had written, came to see me about him, I am both saddened and greatly annoyed.

This young fellow said he was planning to do a biography of Tom. Someone had told him that 1 was a friend of Tom's school days. " Tell me," he said, "is it true that Wolfe never took a bath, never had his hair cut, and sometimes shut himself up in his room for days and mooned away with the Persian poets? " And, his eyes narrowing, he added quickly, " Is it true, as I have heard, that he was queer-r-r? " He lost a chapter right there.

"Somebody has given you the wrong slant on Tom Wolfe," I told him. "You've been reading some of the tabloid feature writers, no doubt.

Tom was no society fashion plate at school, though he did belong to a social fraternity. But he looked as good as some of the fellows at Chapel Hill who have become bank presi dents and cotton mill magnates and bishops. And as for his haircuts, I don't recall that he ever looked like Daniel Boone, and as to the bathing I don't remember his ever. having showed any alarming lack of water.

And queer? He was queer, all right, if you mean by being queer that he was different, and quicker on the trigger, and a genius at slinging words one after the other until you could hear them singing, or screeching, or purring, or roaring. But if you are intimating that Tom was mixed up in his sexual adjustments,

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I'd like to repeat and emphasize what I told him.

In the days at Chapel Hill, as I said, I knew Tom Wolfe perhaps as intimately as any other of his school mates. And after he left there, in the years at Harvard, abroad, in Brooklyn, he was but a more grownup Tom of the years at Chapel Hill. As far as I could ever learn, Tom never changed.

Chapel Hill bad much to do with shaping Tom Wolfe. Three of his professors particularly were the type suited to his development. Dr. Greenlaw was in a large measure responsible for Tom's writing success. He understood the boy. Dr. Greenlaw gave him discreet supervision. But he Jet Tom have his nose. He never attempted to pour him into a mold.

The i ame was true of old Horace Williams, beloved philosopher professor, and "Proff" Fred Koch, who had so much to do with developing the native theater in America. Tom was the first boy to join Proff's class when he came down from North Dakota in the fall of 1918 to begin the work. He wrote plays and lustily acted the lead in them. That is another approach to understanding Tom. He was an actor. He loved to tread the boards, as he did that morning on Dr. Greenlaw's class, as he did in countless bull sessions, as he did around the old well, down town at Gooch 's eating place, wherever a group knotted with him at its center.

And frequently, and I think especially in his New York days, the actor Tom Wolfe was mistaken by those who did not understand him for the real Tom Wolfe. That helps explain the developmnet of the false legend about him.

Tom never struck me as being a long-faced, sick-at-life, unkempt starving poet who went around moaning of the frustrations of this disappointingly · small and tragic terrestrial ball.

It is true that he was a highly introspective youngster. He lived, as all artists do at times, in a dream world of tremendous propot tions and gorgeous coloring. But he likewise lived with his big feet iFI the dirt of Chapel Hill and upon the pavements of Brooklyn. And he loved it.

If anybody enjoyed companionship and college associations, it was Tom. He belonged to about every6·

thing on the Hill-Pi Kappa Phi social fraternity, Sigma Upsilon writing fraternity, the Amphoterothen, a discussion club, the Satyrs (who were what they sound like), Omega Delta, the dramatic society, the Y.M.C.A. Cabinet, the Student Council, the Athletic Council, the German club, and others. And he was on the boards of all the publications.

I have before me the 1920 Yackety Yack, the University annual. Under the senior picture of Tom, his hair parted in the middle, neatly trimmed, and shining with olive oil dressing like a mahogany table top, is this observation: "Editing the Tar Heel (the University student newspaper), winning Horace's philosophy prize when only a junior, writing plays and then showing the world how they should be acted- they are all alike to this young Shakespeare. Last year he played Lhe leading role in the 'Midnight Frolic' at Gooch's 'Winter Palace,' but this year it's the leading role on the 'Carolina Shipping Board' (the Student Council). But seriously speaking, 'Buck' is a great big fellow.

He can do more between 8: 2 5 and 8:3 0 than the rest of us can do all day, and it is no wonder that he is classed as a genius."

The youthful editor perhaps didn 't realize it, but he was classifying Tom Wolfe. For if there ever lived in America a genius in the field of literature, I am convinced it was Thomas Wolfe. And a genius, per se, isn't a normal individual. But I resent the imputation of some that Tom Wolfe was a great hulking roistering abnormal freak who bad the ability to throw huge quantities of words euphoniously together.

At school Tom was invariably the center of whatever group he was in, whether it was at a meeting of Sigma Upsilon, where the University's best writers met presumably to read and criticize each other's compositions but actually to eat pickles, cheese, olives and little cakes and drink anemic punch, or at a night-long bull session in some dormitory room.

Tom could tell a story perfectly.

He had an unusual way of speaking, too, half a dozen words said quickly, a swallow, with his Adam's apple dancing, up and down like an elevator on the loose, and then another half dozen. The last time I talked with Tom he was talking the same way.

The boys naturally congregated around him. He could sit up into thf small hours discussing with vehem· ence some subject of no value e~c~pt as a topic for wordy philosopbtzing and argument.

Nor did he change in that respect, either. Only a year or so before ToOl died I met a mutual friend I bad not seen for years. Soon the conversation got around to Chapel Hill and the old crowd.

"When have you seen To01 Wolfe? " I asked.

"Well, I was in New York three weeks ago. Didn 't see Tom, but I did see John Terry. (John Terry wa) perhaps Tom's best friend both at Chapel Hill and in the days sinC~· and he is now writing the authen~ 1 c biography of Tom.) I asked h1~1 about Tom. John said he Jived 1 ~ Brooklyn Heights near Tom .an they saw each other very often. . " 'I met Tom on the street '0 front of a restaurant the other daY• John said. 'We talked a few minuteS and then we went inside the restau· rant. We sat there and talked for si~· teen hours.' " 'Sixteen hours! ' I said. 'John, yo 11 mean six hours.' " 'No,' said John. 'Sixteen.' " Tom hadn't changed much.

His letters to me in the days since hapel Hill indicated the same thing· I have one that I especially prize. It is the essence of Tom Wolfe. Succe~ never spoiled the boy. He remain.e the same big shuffling, fumbling, stn· cere, friendly fellow, the Tom w~ 0 loved his friends, yes, and I instst loved life, and Jived it.

Down in the letter he wrote: " It's awfully good of you to take an interest in what I do and I want you to know how sincerely I appre· ciate it and how much it means to me. I have worked like hell these past four or five years and althougl1 r am still in the apprentice stage (be had already become established as one of our major novelists) hope an~ believe I have learned something an will keep on learning. It took rne ~ long time. My idea was all right btl my calculations were a little off. rn other words, I thought I was going to write one book, a mere paragraP~ of 200,000 words or so, and I ende._ up by writing three, each of which Jl about a half million words long. Fttr' thermore, I started out by writing number three first, then number tW 0' THE

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Dates for the Twenty-first Supreme Chapter meeting, the first national gathering of the Fraternity since before the war, have been announced by National President William J. Berry as Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 29, 30, and 31, 1946 at Birmingham, Ala.

No definite plans have yet been made for the postwar convention, pending appointment of a general chairman.

This is expected to be one of the greatest Supreme Chapter meetings in the history of the Fraternity and unprecedented attendance is anticipated . Plan now to be on hand.

NEW YORKERS MEET

DIES IN CRASH

Christmas dinner of the FraternMyles Harrison Fairweather, Alpha ity 's New York Alumni Chapter will Tau, was killed in an airplane crash be held Tuesday, Dec. 18 at the . in Stockbridge, Mass., Sept. 6.

Hotel Lafayette, University Place Flying from Great Barrington, and Ninth St., New York City.

Out-<lf-town brothers and new- Mass., Brother Fairweather's plane comers to New York City, who are developed engine trouble and crashed not on the Alumni Chapter's mailing on the rim of the swimming pool on list are requested to make their reser- the estate of Owen Johnson, wellvations with Brother Raymond Orteig at the Hotel Fafayette or with the secretary of the Alumni Chapter, Brother Arthur Seubert, Room 1908, 220 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y.

BROTHER DIES The death of James Henry Lewis, Chi '26, of Fort Meade, Fla., was recently reported to Central Office.

POU IN ATLANTA Leo H. Pou, Omicron, who was on temporary assignment at Charlotte, N. C., last summer as acting district director of the Bureau of Motor Carriers, Interstate Commerce Commission, has been named district director with headquarters at Atlanta. His office is at 809 Standard Building, Atlanta.

known writer in Stockbridge. A companion, a fellow student at Rensselaer, died with him in the crash.

ed state of man until the cold, grey dawn and the last milk wagon have gone by. So you see we haven't changed much from Chapel Hill days, after all."

Brother Fairweather was an aeronautical engineering student at Rensselaer and would have been graduated in October, this year. He had just received his private pilot's license.

MYLES HARRISON FAIRWEATHER Alpha Tau

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Though the War Is Won MANY PI KAPPS REMAIN IN OUR COUNTRY'S SERVICE .

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Additions and promotions reported since August issue Key: Name; chapter numb er in ( ); branch a- m·m·y ; ac- air corps; n--navy; m·-marines; cg-coast guard; s-indicates man has reserve standing but still a student.

Alpha Paul S. Eskridge, ( 202?::·a. Pfc.

Beta John Phillip Ballard, (175) n .

Robert I. Miller, (225) n .

Promotion James P. Kellett, III, to Cpl.

William W. Dodson, (246) a.

1st Lt. *Robert E . Greenfield, (234) n .

Charles R . Holley, (309) n .

Thomas W . Seay, Jr., (332) a.

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Promotion T. Exum Hinnant to Ens.

Omicron Promotions David L . Crawford to 2nd Lt. James E . Young to 2nd Lt.

Epsilon Promotion George D. Davidson to Capt.

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John F. Barry, (228) a. 1st Lt. George A. Gill, (212) a. Sgt. A~drew Nance, (224) n. Sl / c

Richard A. Bevan to 1st Lt. Frank B . Gary to Capt.

Philip G. O'Connell to Sp . 2/c

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Tau Ause M . Harvey, (174) n.

Owen R. Jones, (170) A/ C

Promotions Frederick R. Harrelson to Ens. William C. Wallin to Lt. Comdr.

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A victim of pneumonia, Nail Bright died at a German prisoner of war camp at Moosberg, Bavaria, on Nov. 13, 1944. .

Entering the Army on Aug. 8, 1943, he. took his basic training at Camp Wheeler, Ga. and went overseas in the spring of 1944, landing in Italy. He served in Italy until the invasion of Southern France, his outfit landing there on July 7, 1944. · He was captured by the Germans on Sept. 1 and sent to Moosberg camp where he died. He is buried in the International Cemetery near Moosberg.

A boy's love for his mother is touchingly revealed in the letter which Donald Elliott wrote to his mother before he was killed in action over the Palau Island Aug. 28, 1944.

Enlisting in W"le Army on Jan. 22, 1942, be took his basic training at Fort Des Moines and after further training at March Field, Calif., and Hamilton Field, Calif., he sailed for the Pacific on May 17 , 1944.

While in combat in that area he received the news of the serious illness of his mother, who was not expected to live. He wrote her the following letter but he was shot down on Aug. 28, 1944. His mother died the following Oct. 14.

Robert E. Champ, Jr. Robert E. Champ, Jr., Alpha Delta, has been missing in action over the Tokyo area since the night of July 12-13, 1945. He was radar officer of a B-29 that failed to return that night. He was pledged by Alpha Delta in the fall of 1941 and was initiated the following spring.

Lt. Charles W. DeFoor, Jr. After flying 85 combat missions in Italy, Lt. Charles W. DeFoor, Jr., Chi, was killed when his plane crashed into the Gulf of Gaeta in a gense fog. While awaiting transportation home, Lt. DeFoor who had flown his required missions went on a special mission and on the return to his base encountered trouble and crashed into the sea.

He enlisted in the Army in May, 1942 and after training in this country went overseas in August.

1943. He was killed on March 31, 1944.

He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Barbara Whitehurst. of Fort Myers, Fla., and a son, born in February, 1944.

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His letter reads as follows: Dearest Mother: They tell me you are pretty sick, and expect to be summoned by the Supreme Ruler some day in the not too distant future . Many have met his summons in the past. Perhaps, He has taken pity on those He has selected, and has taken them to a better world than we mortals are capable of maintaining. At any rate He knows best. Though his judgment may seem unfair at the time, deep down we know that it is right.

Why He chose a time when we are thousands of miles apart, only He knows. He must think it best that way. When thus summoned, we must go. By medical science we have sometimes been able to postpone some "dates." Eventually though, there comes that inevitable time when no postponement is possible.

In going back over our years of mortal life together, it has been swell being your son. I only hope that I've been as good a son as you have a Mother.

From the time of my birth on, you were concerned with teaching me right from wrong. You did a mighty fine job of it, too. The judgment you instilled always enabled · me to tell right from wrong.

Time after time I have become

discouraged with this thing or tha~r Every time this happened you ga; me the encouragement I needed ft;l carry on. I'd have made an aW ~ mess of things if you hadn 't bee there in those times of need. th Mother, our time together on earcJ! has been wonderful. As you wat. from up above, I'll be doing ever)1 thing possible so that you'll be ab to point down with pride and sa) "That's my Son." As the glowing twilight fades.\ darkness, remember that your J~ has been well done. He doesn't a anymore of anyone than that. , Dad and I will carry on the ?e~ we can, but missing you all the tu!l .

Eventually, we too will be call~d ~ Him. Then the three of us will , together again to live in anothf· world- A world of eternal happines.·r Until such time, I remain your eve loving son, Donald.

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The tragic accident occurred ; Lt. Kurtz was bringing his plane ~ a landing after a test flight whei l another ship came out of a cl 00 ~[ bank and collided with it. A wing~ Lt. Kurtz' ship was torn off, t plane spun and exploded.

Lt. Kurtz enlisted in the Air cor~ in April 1942 and in June of t 1 year he was graduated from Stet~ University with a B. S. degree. sl1 . ugust, 1942 he reported to :Na ~ ville and after training courses , various camps in this country he \V sent overseas in January, 1944.

Robbins Patton Robbins Patton, Iota ' 28 , died;, August, 1943 while on active dll .i 1 as an officer in CAC, USA, California.

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action near Sorbolo, Italy, April 25, 1945. He was leading a platoon on a reconnaissance mission for the purpose of posting tanks at a road and river crossing when he was caught in a cross fire and was killed.

He was with the 14th Armored Infantry Battalion, and was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

Unn, N. C. was killed in a plane gash on Florida Island near Uadalcanal July 25, 1944. h As a student at Duke University, e Was in the first CAA class to ~tnplete training in North Carolina. before his death, Capt. Prince had /en flying from San Francisco to thUstraJia for more than a year in e Air Transport Command. . l'he notice of Capt. Prince's death the August issue of THE STAR AND fl ~MP erroneously listed him as t1ce.

Lt. Summerton applied for his commission on Sept. 2, 1941 as soon as he had reached 21 years of age.

He was at Carlisle Barracks at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After the United States forces entered the war he asked to be assigned to the Armored Forces and was in General Patton 's 2nd Armored Division until he was seriously injured in .training. He spent some time in Lawson General Hospital in Georgia and after his recovery was sent to Fort Knox and from there went overseas in November, 1944.

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Besides his parents, Lt. Summerton is survived by two sisters, Lt. Genevieve Summerton of the Army Nurse Corps in England and Miss Margaret Summerton, a student at Bucknell University.

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Lt. Oliver G. Summerton Wr Lt. Oliver G. Summerton, Alpha · u, of Tidicute, Pa., was killed in

Johnson W. Sutton Johnson W. Sutton, Pi, a technical observer for the Coca-Cola Co ., attached to the Army, was killed in a plane crash in the Middle East Feb. 23, 1945. He was buried with full military honors.

He is survived by his wife, his

son, born Jan. 16, 1943, and his mother, all of Atlanta.

Ens. Ernest Duke Williams Ens. Ernest Duke Williams, Alpha Iota, was shot down over Nauru Island in the Pacific on Dec. 8, 1943.

Accepting appointment as a Naval Aviation Cadet, he reported to the Naval Air Station at JacksonviiJe on April 30, 1942 and was commissioned an ensign on Nov. 17, 1942. In January 1943 be was assigned to a bombing squadron, which went aboard the USS Bunker Hill in May of that year. He sailed for the Pacific in September 1943 and saw intense action at Rabaul, Tarawa, and Truk. He was a pilot of a bomber, which was shot down Dec. 8, 1943. His squadron was known as the Helldiver and Robert Olds' book, "Helldiver Squadron" gives a complete story of Ensign Williams' fatal crash.

Brother Finds Ring When Lt. Comdr. Paul H. Crosier, Xi, lost his Roanoke College class ring one really hot morning last May, he never expected to see it again. But the ring turned up. A coxswain on an LSM notified the College that he had found it.

Now he has it. On that particular morning he didn 't take much time to look around. You see, the ring was lost on the beach during the initial invasion of Okinawa, and the beach was pretty hot on that particular morning.

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Alpha Zeta Brothers Two Alpha Zeta Brothers, Lt. Col. Stanley R. Kelly, and Major Marion N. Sigovich, have each been awarded the Bronze Star.

Sgt. Edgar T. Barnett Sgt. Edgar T. Barrtett, Alpha Mu, .of. the 2nd Armored ("Hell on Wheels") Division, 67th Armored Regiment, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for " heroic achievement in connection with military operations against the enemy on 13 April 1945 , in Germany:." On this date he was located on the eastern side of the Elbe River with the forward elements of the task force. His duty was to tend and operate the radios.

Although artillery fire from the enemy was intense, he remained at his post for six hours so that the task force commander could be assured of excellent radio communications with his subordinate commanders. At that time he was a Private First Class.

Brother Barnett will be .remembered for his "smile of victory" as pictured on the front cover of THE STAR AND LAMP, February, 1944.

Capt. John E. Groce The Bronze Star medal has been awarded to Captain John E. Groce, Delta, by Lieutenant General George C. Kenney. The award was made for meritorious achievement in connection with military operations against the enemy in the Southwest Pacific area. General Kenney, in a letter to the Captain's father, had the following to say about the award: "Performing his duties as a 12

group dental surgeon, he demonstrated exceptional ability in increasing the effectiveness of dentistry under field conditions. Conducting exhaustive research in his spare time, and lecturing in the field on proper oral hygiene, he made remarkable advances in preventive dentistry.

The initiative and devotion to duty exhibited by him are worthy of commendation."

Captain Groce was unit dental officer of the " Red Raiders" crack heavy bomber outfit of the Fifth Air Force in New Guinea. A few weeks before he was to return to the States last fall , he developed Typhus fever.

Hi s condition now is much improved.

Col. Harold Norman Holt Col. Harold Norman Holt, Alpha Upsilon, 28-year-old P-47 Group Commander received many medals, including the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 23 Oak Leaf clusters, Bronze Star, and battle stars for four invasions but his most prized possession is a piece of varnished paper.

This paper, bearing the signatures of the 200 officers of his Group, was presented to him the day the Group Unit received the Presidential Citation for repelling a ccmnter offensive by 60 German tanks. It read: " We the undersigned officers of your command, wish, on the occasion of the receipt of this, the highest honor which a unit in our forces may receive, to pay our respect to you, our commander, and to express our feeling that without your steadfast and very able leadership, we should never have been able to achieve th e enviable position to which you led us."

Holt became a 2nd lieutenant in the reserve upon graduation , having

belonged to the R. 0. T. C. a~; student. Several months after bavinr been called to active duty, n; resigned his commission to beco111 1 an air cadet. By January of Holt again became a 2nd lieutenan and therafter rose to his present ran1

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Guadalcanal in the Solomons. f0~ 1 merly a manager of The Boater'. shoe store in Sulphur, Okla., Jarlle; is a graduate of the UniversitY 01 Oklahoma, where he was a mernb1 of Alpha Gamma Chapter. i The Oklahoman saw 165 days~~ combat on Luzon with the 25 Division and took part in the dri~~ across the Central Plains and t ~ capture of Balete Pass in norther Luzon.

Col. Clay Olbon Col. Clay Olbon, Alpha Alpha, \I'P', is one of Atlanta's most be-medal~ warriors, is back home after a ~rl , liant record as commanding office路 of the Fifty-third Armored Infantrl Battalion in Normandy. He Sll'' action also in France, Belgium, LL1) 1 embourg, Germany and CzecboSO' vakia.

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1 edal~ tJsComdr. Robert D. Powers, Jr., Rho a bd ne ~R., formerly a practicing attorofficer Wi~In Portsmouth, has been honored nfanttl Re a letter of commendation by [e Sll'' Ju ar Admr. Thomas L. Gatch, 1 J.,tlf fo dge Advocate General of the Navy :~hosiO' c]~· exceptional services in reviewing Co llns and preparing reports for oix d· Plon~ress in connection with the expresJ. Po Stons at the Naval Magazine at :ornb3 siort Chicago, Calif. These exploe star. ,9~s, which occurred on July 17, 1cJudf!'

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The citation reads as follows: "You are hereby commended for your performance of ·duty during the period from 25 June 1945 to 17 August 1945 while serving as officer in charge of reviewing the reports of claims resulting from the explosions which occurred at the Naval Ammunition Deport, Port Chicago, Calif, and in preparing reports of such claims for submission to Congress by the Secretary of the Navy pursuant to Public Law 423, 78th Congress, 2nd Session. In the execution of your duties and in the preparation of such reports you demonstrated a high degree of skill, ability and diligence in reviewing and preparing summary reports for Congress on more than 10,000 claims. Your performance of this duty was of exceptional character. Well done. " Commander Powers was called to active duty in June, 1941, and is now Chief International Law and Foreign Claims Officer in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Court of Inquiry which investigated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and served for two years as legal officer at the Naval Operating Base at Trinidad , B. W. I.

Raymond L. Schenk Distinguishing himself in successful and meritorious aerial patrols in the Southwest Pacific, Raymond L. Schenk, Alpha Delta, aviation radio technician, first class, USNR, of Tieton, Washington, has been award~ ed the Air Medal in ceremonies at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Camp Kearney, San Diego, Calif.

Schenk operated over enemyheld airfields during five tombat missions o~ patrol over the China Coast a_nd Formosa, and won recognition from Vice Adm. D. E. Barbey1 U. S. N., commander of the Navy!s Seventh Fleet.

Capt. William E. Shrader The Bronze Star has been awarded Capt. William E. Shrader, Omega, who spent two years overseas with the lOl st Airborne Division. He made a number of combat jumps but escaped without injury or wounds.

Medal Of Honor Won By . Tar Heel Pi Kapp (Continued from page 3)

Major Donald F. Rogers Bronze Star was awarded to Major Donald F. Rogers, Alpha Tau, for meritorious service in military operations against the enemy in the period from Feb. 18 to March 3, 1945 in the vicinity of Grossrosseln, Germany, where as executive officer his performance and leadership were characterized as superior, resulting in the smooth functioning of the battalion staff in its tactical operation of performing an infantry mission. The citation further reads, " On March 3, Major Rogers again demonstrated his leadership by occupying an observation post, which although dangerously exposed, provided the best observation of the terrain at hand. From this forward post, Major Rogers coordinated and directed the fire of the supporting mortars and artillery and on numerous occasions adjusteq the fire himself with deadly accuracy and speed."

rapidly waning strength, took over the helm, established communication with the engineroom and carried on valiantly until relief could be obtained. When no longer able to stand he propped himself against empty sbell cases and rallied his men to the aid of the wounded; he maintained position in the firing line with his 20 millimeter guns in action in the face of sustained enemy fire and conned his crippled ship to safety. His unwavering fortitude, aggressive perseverance and indomitable spirit against terrific odds reflect the highest credit upon Lieutenant Herring and uphold the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."

Text of the Presidential Unit Citation for LCI (G) Group Eight, follows: "For extraordinary heroism during action in support of beach reconnaissance by Underwater Demo·lition Teams at enemy Japanese• held Iwo Jima , Volcano Islands, on

February 17, 1945 . Opening heavy strafing fire as they moved in from two thou sand yards off shore, the lightly armored ships of LCI (G) Group Eight advanced steadily under sporadic fire of the enemy until they reached the one thousand yard line to blast the h eavy coastal defenses with barrage rockets. Almost immediately the shattering counterfire from well concealed and strongly fortified Japane!:e positions began to exact a terrific toll. One by one their guns were silenced; fires started and spread in ready ammunition; under the sustained deadly blast of hostile fire, their enginerooms flooded and those of the gallant ships still operable towed their powerl ess companion ships clear of the overpowering fire of the enemy. Suffering desperate casualties, the unit of this valiant group evacuated the wounded,, extinguished their fires and resolutely returned to the firin g line. Only when the beach reconnaissance had been accomplished did LCI (G) Group EIGHT retire after absorbing an hour and a quarter of devasta ting punishment in support of the stouthearted swimmers of the Demolition Team . Manned by fighting and skilled seamen, these gunboats daringly pitted· their firepower against the overwhelming might of Japanese guns zeroed on them from the shores of Iwo Jima and bravely led the way for the invasion two days later.".

BROTHER PERDEW PASSES

BROTHER DIES Carl Rhodes, ~hi, '43 , of Fo!1 Myers, Fla., died on October 15 10 Jacksonville, Fla. He had undergonr an operation. Brother Rhodes W3' manager of the Glades Bus Compa; in Fort Myers, and a member of 1 First Baptist Church. .

He is survived bv his widow, :Mr' Bess Rhodes, one son, Carl RhodeS· Jr., three daughters, Carlene, Cad men, and Virginia Lee Rhodes, an his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Georgr Rhodes, all of Fort Myers, Fla.

John William Perdew, Kappa, died at James Walker Memorial Hospital, Wilmington, N. C., on July 6, 1945 after a brief illness.

Formerly a member of the firm of Perdew-Davis Hardware Co. of Wilmington, he had been temporarily employed by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1923 before he entered the hardware business. He was a clerk for J. W. Murchison & Co., Wilmington in 1917-23. A student at the University of North Carolina in 1913-17 where he was a member of Pi Kappa Phi, he received his A. B. degree in 191 7. Born at Wilmington , September 29, 1894, he was the son of William Edgar and Mary A. (Moore) Perdew. He married Florence Renneker on January 23, 1918. Hi ~ wife of 1707 Chestnut St., Wilmington ; a son; a daughter ; a sister ; and an aunt, survive. '

Robert E. McCray, secretary 01 Xi, died in a hospital at Roanok1 Va., following an automobile accideP1 between Salem, Va. and Roanokf· Aug. 19. He was 20 years old. sur~ viving him are his parents, Mr. ani Mrs. Clarence 0. McCray, 0 Roanoke.

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Dr. S. · Walter Martin, Delta, chapter adviser of Lambda, has recently been named dean of the Coordinate College of the University of Georgia.

Prof. Paul Work, Upsilon, of th: Department of Vegetable ,Crops ~· Cornell University, has just pu e lished his illustrated book, "Vegetab1 1 Production and Marketing."

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The reorganization of a Fraternity should be founded on two basic concepts. First, fraternal spirit arid tradition and, second, a sound financial organization. No Fraternity that is weak financially can long endure but one that is sound can.

However, if a group is steeped in fraternal spirit ~nd tradition it will make for sound finances.

One of the responsibilities of th~; alumni of any chapter is to help and guide the new group as would an older brother guide and protect a younger or weaker one. It seems to me that we of the Alumni will see to the second of the two aforementioned concepts in the due course of our 14

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normal work, but are we ourselves sufficiently cognizant of fraternal spirit and tradition to imbu e the younger men.

What is fratern al spirit and tradition? In my chapter it i:; one thing and in yours another but" basically it is the same. It is the spirit that subconsciously prevails when Pi Kapps are together. It is the tall stories the Alumni astound · the freshmen with.

It is the singing at the dinner table.

It is the pledge meetings. It is house

work. It is members' meetings (b 01~ official. and unofficial). It is all 0 this and more. It therefore becon( the responsibility of us, the Alun~n; to inculcate into the men return~~ to school these little things wht . make up fraternal spirit and tradt· tion .

1 It is to be remembered that all 0 our Chapters are going to be ~~ organized around a few men W1( have not had the full advantage 01 four years in a Fraternity but ratll,c only a year or two at the most. ~~i therefore, owe to these men the righ to know and to feel what we oor: selves experienced and retained froP our affiliation with Pi Kappa Phi. THE STAR AND

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William J. Berry, Alpha Xi

Pfc. John Poppelreiter, Upsilon ':'

Michael M. Bigger, Alpha Mu

Maj. Donald F. Rogers, Alpha Tau ''

Lt. George F. Blalock, Mu ''

Otmer J. Schuster, Alpha -rheto

Lt. Sidney E. Deming, Alpha Theta *

William G. Spicer, Upsilon

Lt. William W. Dodson, Mu ':'

Harry S. Workman, Alpha Rho .

Charles H. Fronk, Alpha Kappa

James E. Young, Jr., Omicron

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Sgt. Louis Caldarelli, Omega, Raton, New Mexico, and Miss Irene Lazar were married in May, 1945 .

John Philip Ballard, USNR, Beta, Tarboro, N. C., and Miss Louise B. Bryan were married in Tarboro, N. C., on August 24.

Robert I. Miller, Beta, Greenville, S. C., and Miss Ardith M. Gaines, Memphis, Tenn., were married on February 17, 1945, in Spartanburg, S. C. 1st Lt. John F. Barry, Zeta, Spartanburg, S. C., and Miss Ann Murph were married on April 13, 1945 .

Capt. James David Cahill, Iota, Albany, Ga., and Miss Doris N. Tindal, Pinewood, S. C., were married in the post chapel at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, on June 23, 1945.

Lt. (jg) Frank Charles Hodge, USNR, Iota, J effe rson City, Tenn., and Miss Jewell Holtsingcr were married in September.

Major William R. Shook, Jr., Iota, Washington, D. C., and Miss Cclo Karlcy, were married in the Army Air Force Base Chapel, Sioux Falls, S. D., on July 5, 1945 .

Capt. William James Benton, Lambda, Cornelia, Ga., and Miss Betsey Barnes, Clayton, N. C., were married September 1, in Clayton, N. C. Lt. John F. Head, Lambda, Albany, Ga., and Miss Jacqueline Murphy, Atlanta, Ga., announced their engagement in September.

Lt. Curtis Edwin Crook, Lambda, Thomson, Ga., and Miss Carroll W. Veitch, Ft. Worth, Texas, were married on September 1, in Fort Worth.

Lt. Walter Hillyer Lundy, Lambda, Sylvester, Ga., and Miss Antionette France Kniskern, Willoughby, Ohio, were married in Sylvester, Ga., July 3, 1945.

Walker Randolph Carter, Jr., Xi, McDowell, W. Va., and Miss Elizabeth N. DeHart, Roanoke, Va., were married in September.

Lt. Alfred Holston, Omicron, Akron, Ala., and Miss Eulalia Reynolds, USNR, Troy, Ala., were married in Alexandria, Va., on September 9.

Dr. James W. Newman, Pi, and Miss Lois Geiger, both of Atlanta, Ga., were married in Austell, Ga., on August 1.

Albert D. Darby, Rho, formerly of Martinsburg, W. Va., and Miss Elizabeth VonGemmingen, Richmond, Va., were

m~rricd in Richmond, Va., on August 18.

They are makin~ their home in Richmond where Brother Darby is connecte with the Richmond News Leader.

Capt. Frank B. Gary, Jr., Sigma, Columbia, S. C., and Miss Patricia Thompson were married on March 17 , 1945 ..

Clarence Edward Wise, Sigma, Columbia, S. C., and MiSS Evelyn Limehouse, Johns Island, S. C., recently announced their engagement. .

Cpl. Lawrence R. Ferguson, Tau, Clinton, S. C., and l\11ss Edith Constance Merritt, Richmond, Va., were married on Sept. 28, 1944.

Ens. Frederick R. Harrelson, USNR , Tau, Elm City, N. C., and Miss Elizabeth Yates Overman, Wilson, . C., were married in September.

A/C Owen Reid Jones, Tau, Wilmin~ton, N. C., and Mi~5 Mary Virginia Daniel , Charlotte, N. C., were married II' September.

Hugh Walter Shaw, Alpha Delta, New York City, and Miss Dorothea Baker were married in Montclair, N. J ., on July 7, 1945.

Harry Wallace McCormick, Alpha Epsilon, and Miss Louise Keistler, both of Great Falls, S. C., were married at the home of the bride on July 30, 1945 .

Capt. Henry Lee Meadows, Jr., Alpha Epsilon, and MisS Barbara H. Keene, Leesburg, Fla., were married in Leesbur: on July 7, 1945.

Pfc. Harold A. Beresford, Alpha Zeta, Toledo, Ore., and Miss Marion W. Eooley were recently married.

Chaplain Marvin Cummings Wilbur, USNR, Alpha Zetl Porlland, Ore., and Miss Marie Lacy, Lynchburg, Va., were married on November 1.

Ens. J ames R. McHugh, Jr ., Alpha Iota, Birmingham, Ala .. and Miss Jennie C. Davis, LaGran~e, Ga., were married on August 25, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Robert Maeser, Alpha Mu, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and MisS Betty Curry were married on August 11..

Maurice T. Man field, Alpha Sigma, and Miss Jeanna Callaway Wiggs, both of Memphi~, Tenn ., were m;trried on August 31.

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Maj. and Mrs. Herbert H. Swasey, Epsilon, announce the birth of a daughter, Sandra Lee. She was born October 25, ai Coral Gables, Fla. A daughter, Elizabeth Mansfield, was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Harlan Lloyd, Iota, October 9.

Mackey Riley Saunders was born February 10, last, to Sgt. and Mrs. Chester L. Saunders, Lambda.

A son, Bailey Troy, III, was born to Lt. (jg) and Mrs. Bailey Troy Groome, Mu, August 14, last.

Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. Burnett N. Hull, Mu, arc the proud parents of a second son, William. He was born August 23.

A 6 1/2 lb. boy, Joseph Guy, Jr., ("Chipper"), was born April 16, to Mr. and Mrs. J. Guy Kelley, Omicron. d 1st Lt. and Mrs. Richard A. Bevan, Rho, have announce the arrival of twins, Thomas and Richard, born January 30, last.

Philip Major, son of Pfc. and Mrs. John Nicholas Poppelreiter, Upsilon, was born November 20, 1944.

A daughter, Carlotta V. C., was born September 7, last, to Mr. and Mrs. J . Neal Faircloth, Chi. 2nd Lt. and Mrs. Dennis C. McNamara, Chi, are the proud parents of a son, Dennis, Jr., who arrived on July 25.

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1\lph trey Anne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl 0 . L. Carlson, A a Zeta, was born August 21st. and ~aughter, Christine Lee, arrived in the family of Mr. W rs. Robert G. Harris, Alpha Zeta, June 29. ann /0 and Mrs. George G. Murrah, Jr., Alpha Eta, have tiv oduMnccd the birth of a daughter, Lynne Susan. She are arch 29.

Al~~ne Eleanor, daughter of Mr . and Mrs. Otmer J . Schuster, L a Theta, was born on January 17, last. nou t. and Mrs. Thomas Jackson Potts, Alpha Iota, have anneed the arrival of their daughter, Janet Marie, on July 22.

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Paul Gant Gilliford, son of 1st Lt. and Mrs. William J. Gilliford, Alpha Upsilon, was born January 12, last.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Robert Kiehl , Alpha Upsilon, announce the birth of a son, Robert Edward, on June 27.

A son, Donald K., was born January 29, last to Lt. (jg) and Mrs. John K. Richter, Alpha Upsilon.

On September 14th, a daughter, Martha Lynne, was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Harry Wa):(ner, Alpha Upsilon.

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25 A meeting of the Portland alumni wa s held on September i and the discussion centered around the following : · Reactivation of Alpha Zeta Chapter.

2· The renting of the chapter hou se to Oregon State Col3 lege for use as a girls' dormitory , and · The refinancing of the outstanding bonded indehtedl ness on the chapter house.

St tems I and 2 were discussed concurrently. Professor T. J. Sta~kcr reported that he had signed a contract with the Oregon ora ,e College wherein a minimum of $200 per month rent, lh $7 Per girl month rent, was guaranteed by the college for bye !945-46 school year. The contract can he terminated ret etther party upon two months notice, so the monetary rurns for the next nine months are practically assured.

Pb·tem 1 above relative to the reorganization of Pi Kappa 1 ._, Was di scussed at some length and the consensus of opinion 3 au 5 that it would not be advisable to endeavor to operate as \hchapter house as a living organization until such time coli ere was a sufficient nucleus of active men returning to in lhge who could efficiently organize a fraternity. As stated lim e August 24 SERVICE STARS, it was our desire at that to e to contact and pledge as many men as possible and try the o~n our fraternity on January 1, or at the beginning of tne ~111ter term . It was thought advisable to await deve!optu~·s on the campus and see if there would be any men rellle tng , If so, we would start pledging and make arrangeunt1ts for a meeting place outside, and continue in this manner iili;t such time as there were sufficient number of men afhou ed with Pi Kappa Phi, before we moved into our own Ase a!ld operated it as a Jiving organization. actj t thts point in the meeting the Portland Alumni Chapter ciat~urned and the group reconvened as the Alpha Zeta Asso1 inct ~ 11 of Pi Kappa Phi. The refinancing of our bonded llle~ tedness was discussed at length . The group recomllan dcd that the suggestion offered at the Founders Day Aquet meeting in 1944 be adopted. by ~h a climax to this discussion a subscription Jist was started spot e members present and $2,800 was underwritten on the rhl The following men pledged themselves as follows : ~~~. Adamson, $500; Phil Brinkman, $100; Carl Burtch, $too! Carl Carlson, $200; Howard Conkle, $200; Bob Harris, $too! J. A. Head, $100; Orval Hillison, $100; Jim Monaham, Stark Lloyd Phillips, $100; Marion Sigovich, $200; Bruce . er, $500; T. J. Starker, $500. ask0 ~ers interested in participating in this 5 per cent Joan are Oree to send their checks to T. J . Starker, Route 1, Corvallis, Agon. Let's do this at once. the Achange in the method the active chapter pays rent to clec' lpha Zeta Assn ., was also brought up by "T. J." It was ciat'.ded to act upon this at some future meeting of the Assoton co~~e .next meeting of the Association will be held at Hometng on November 17, 1945 .

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Seattle alumni met in September and formally approved a reorrraniza tion pro):(ram for Alpha Delta as follows: 1. Establishment of a Reorganization Savings Account to be known as "Alpha Delta Trust Account," to be administered by two members as Trustees.

2. Said fund to be accumulated by savings deposits of actives and alumni in the amount of $25 or more per member. The minmium goal to be a total of $2 500 which should be accumulated by December 1, 1945: 3. These funds to be made available to the active chapter on a non-interest bearing Joan basis for the purpose of reopening the chapter on or before the fall term 1946.

4. In the event the above plans are not carried to completion any and all funds deposited in said savings account shall be redistributed pro-rata together with accumulated interest.

5. Upon completion of the $2,500 goal a committee shall be established and will proceed to investigate and formulate the detailed reopening plan . €ALENDAR OF OPERATIONS 1. Sept. 26 to December 1, 1945: period in which $2,500

savings account shall be established .

2. First week in December there shall be a called meeting at which the preliminary committee will report as to progress of savings account. A combined vote of actives and alumni present shall be taken at this time to either accept or reject the idea of reopening. If it is rejected all monies will be returned in conformance with paragraph 4 above. If accepted a committee .. on continued opera, tions will be formed.

3. First week in February, 1946, at a called meeting the committee on continued operations will report, pr~sent­ ing their plan of operations which will cover housing rushing and all related subjects pertinent to reopening the chapter.

4. First week in April, 1946, at a called meeting committees will report and a further vote of acceptance or rejection shall be taken. If accepted, the committee on operations will proceed to make available fund s for spring rushing and the execution of all plans made and said committee shall be held responsible for the' successful completion of all plans approved.

5. Any action to reopen the chapter prior to the April meeting, must be approved by a joint meeting of actives and alumni. This is intended to give flexibility to the above plans in the event it is deemed more propitious to open the chapter prior to the above schedule.

The above program has been given careful consideration and has received the unanimous approval of the Seattle Alumni. The preliminary committee is composed of Howard Bayley, Alex Adair, Lyle Jenks, and DeLoss Seeley, alumni, and J oc Klaa s, Alpha Delta active.

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An Alpha Delta FRATESPHERE (news sheet) is being published on the lOth and 25th of each month until the goal of $2,500 is reached and thereafter on the 25th of each month.

Press deadline is five days before these dates-send in your news and views, alumni.

A reward of one year's ~ub scription to FRATESPHERE is offered for information leading to the present whereabouts (fox-hole-or-dugout) of the following Pi Kapps: Robert Earl Mumford, Jack Jeffery, Ed Ru ssell, Pete Tcrzick, Robert Lee Conner, Craig Marsters, Carl Simpson, Dick Walker, Paul Dull, Doug McFarland, Roy Squires, Don Westbo.

Joe Klaas, who for many months during the war was a prisoner of the Germans, has entered the University of Washington, and at present' the only active on the campus, writes the following letter to Alpha Deltans everywhere: "Brothers: "The war is over. We who have been fighting the war are either home or coming home, many of us are returning to

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Burt Wurtham and Ben Reeves were the only Pi Kapps on the campus at the beginning of the fall term. We were very pessimistic about the future when the three-week rush period for the fraternities (which closed November 2) started, for we were still without quarters. Luck was with us midway of the first week when we stumbled upon some rooms.

We pitched in and were in a position to entertain during the remaining two weeks. When the smoke had cleared away, we were sitting at the top of · the heap, for the first time in two years, with 17 pledges I We owe· much of our success to Chi Omega Sorority who helped us in every way possiblewe could not have . done without their aid. , Credit for our success must also go to three of our pledges, two of whom, R. A. Kittrell, Jr., and W. N. Looper, recently discharged from the services, entered as freshmen at the college this year. The other pledge is· Richard Bradham, an alumnus of the college, holding a B. S. in medicine, who has returned to make his degree a straight · B. S. These three men aided us financially and otherwise.

We have just initiated Richard B~adham and plan to initiate three sophomores shortly. . This· wi11 give the chapter a body of six actives and thirteen pledges. 11t is hard for us to fully realize our good fortune.

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Presbyter~an College

Chapter officers are: Marvin Bettis, archon; Calhoun Gault, secretary-treasurer; Gene Copeland, historian; and Jere Cook, chaplain and warden.

Although Beta now has only four · members, we are looking forward to a successful rushing season. We were pleased to welcome two of our old members back-Jere Cook; after having been away for a quarter, and Gene Copeland, after serving in the U. S. Navy.

Two of our members, Calhoun Gault and Marvin Bettis, are represented on the Presbyterian football team and giving a good account of themselves.

Beta Chapter extends a cordial invitation to all Pi Kapps in the vicinity to drop in and pay us a visit.

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the University, and our dream of a reborn active chapter ... Alpha Delta of Pi Kappa Phi. "We need help.

"Five national fraternities have already reopened chapter houses on the campus. We want to be among the next five.

"This means a lot of work for the returning active brothe~ We do the work cheerfully and confidently. But we nee f your encouragement and assistance. The greater strength 0 , our Fraternity rests with the alumni, and we would borro\1 some of that strength for the critical days ahead.

"Will you stand beside us while we fight this new battle~ If you do, we will win. We're experienced fighters, and n0 11 we want a fraternity house. We mean to have it. t "We are not asking for donations. We are Pi Kapps, ~ 0 beggars. Study our proposed plan for assisting the acuve chapter.

"Join us in our task.

"Thank you.

Fraternally yours, JoE KLAAs, Active Alpha Delta."

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Furmol1

Delta chapter lays claim this year to a very successful rush "Season and ranks first among the fraternities on tb: Furman campus in numbers of men pledged. Starting ?0 with a dance and ending with a mountain party, with bowhng parties, theater parties, smokers, and a stag supper in be· tween, ours was hailed as the most entertaining rush season ever witnessed at this school.

Our thirteen new pledges are: Jack McKinney, Witliar!l Thaxton, Charles Goodnough, Bernard Easterin, Ernedl Chambers, Martin Cheatham, Middie Hughes, Curt War ' Bonnie Fowler, and Effie Evington of Greenville, S. C.; Jod Waters, Florence, S. C.; Lloyd Dillard, Pickens, S. C.; an.

Jack Mcintosh, Charleston, S. C. Officers of the pledge cia~ are: Jack Mcintosh, president; Jack McKinney, secretarY: and William Thaxton, treasurer. William Thaxton and Jack McKinney are veterans, having served together in the Seventb Army.

Two brothers, James P. Whitlock and Curtis Porter, vet· erans of the Air Corps and Navy respectively, have returned. Curtis has taken over the chapter treasurership and James has the historian's post. We expect a number of other veterans to return for next semester.

A week-end houseparty was enjoyed by the member5• pledges, and their dates on November 10-11. Plans have been started for our annual Rose Ball to be held early in pc· cember. }AMES P. WniTI.OCK, historian.

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Davidson College

Newly elected officers of Epsilon chapter are: Mel Win· stead, archon; Walter P . Walker, treasurer; D . W. Tylcker, secretary; W. H . Lawrence, historian; Newlin P. Schen ·, chaplain; Roland Sinclair, warden; James A. Nisbet, pledge,J master; and Warren Higginbotham, Pan-Hellenic counCI representative.

Epsilon's archon, Mel Winstead, of Lincolnton, N. C., i~~~ member of the senior class. He has been very active in ..,,e fraternity, serving in practically all undergraduate offices, and has been archon of Epsilon since January, 1942, having been reelected twice to that office.

At present Winstead is editor-in-chief of the DAVIDSONIAI'I• the college newspaper. He is a member of Delta Phi Alpb 3 • honorary German fraternity, and of Phi Mu Alpha, honorar)'

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On the evening of October 29, Dr. Martin invited us to his home for our second meeting at which the following officers were elected: Gordon Trulock, archon; Ed O'Quinn, treasurer; Rodney Harris, historian and to the Inter- fratcrnity Council; and Kiser Whately, rush chairman. Delicious refreshments were served by Dr. and Mrs. Martin after the meeting.

We were glad to welcome Brother Rodney Harris and his wife, Carolyn, back to school. Rodney was a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps and received his discharge recently. Kiser Whately comes to us as a transfer from Alpha Iota chapter and is in the medical school. We have a total of five actives and one new pledge, Marcel De Ia Rue of Decatur, Georgia.

Plans are being made to initiate Dr. J. G. Standifer of Blakely, Georgia, an alumnus of Georgia and the father of our beloved brother, William Standifct-, who died last December.

Bill was a very popular member of Lambda and had the true spirit of a Pi Kappa Phi. We all mourn his loss.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the alumni who have contributed to the Lambda Trust Fund.

This money is being used for our reactivation. Others who wish to contribute may send their donations to Dr. S. Walter Martin, at the University of Georgia.

Lambda is moving slowly but surely and our prospects look bright.

GORDON TRULOCK , arch on.

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Our new officers arc: Warren Pope, archon; Charlie Muschcck, treasurer; Fred Kulow, secretary; Johnson Watts, historian; Myrlon Gatling, chaplain; and Ronald Kagarise, warden. Clarence Boger was electer Pan-Hellenic Representative and has already been appointed to the Judicial Commit-

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W. E. Campbell, treasurer; and S. 13. Goodwin, warden. bee gemaster Nisbet announces that pledge meetings have ~~en held regularly every Wednesday night, and that steady 路 Lgress has been made in the pledge manual. and ast month the pledges were hosts to the facu lty brothers ho their wives at an informal reception at the fraternity Inouse. The occasion was thoroughly enjoyed by all and of such are planned for the future. acr he return of severa l of last year's brothers increased our theiVes to twelve. Our future looks very bright. The end of in l~ar brings many veterans back to the campus and included teVj e group will be many Epsilonians who will be anxious to an Ve the chapter to its pre-war status. Many have come ted ~one and we've had our ups and downs-the handful that dum.alned behind deserve credit for keeping the chapter alive ou~ng the dark days. Their work has not been in vain, for of this conflict a bigger and better Epsilon is now arising.

WILLIAM LAWRENCE, historian.

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Georgia

haL~rnbda chapter returned to active status this fall after o[ ";ng been inactive since the end of the spring semester Wal943. We held our first meeting on October 14, with Dr. Pre ler Martin, chairman of our Board of Conservators, ho sent. We discussed the advisability of renting a chapter ca~se or club rooms and decided that club rooms near the sec Pus wou ld be better for our small group, and hope to ure these soon. ()~ PI

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Mu tee of that body. Retiring archon, Bob Herbst, served on a Pan-Hel Committee to revise rushing rules in the closing days of last semester. These revisions promise to return much t he same rush system that prevailed before the war. In this respect functions have already been planned for the next semester.

With the summer semester now past and the new semester at hand, our prime interest will be in summing up how the close of one was successfully accomplished and how the success of this one will be achieved. Tne brothers reveled in the great Duke institution, the cabin party, in the week ends before examinations deprived them of their social life. "Red" Johnson brought out a whiz-bang, one-man edition of MU MUSES, with an inspiring editorial urging us to take account of ourselves, ending a term of editorship which is the envy 19

of past edito rs because of the nat ural and poignant wit ev idenced in the pages of the sheet.

Among our recent accomplishments was the welcoming of a pledge into the brotherhood on the week-end of October 13-14, and a farewell breakfast for those brothers leaving.

The NROTC ball of that Saturday evening was a wonderrul but wearying affair, in the preparation of which Brother "Teenie" Roberts, as president of the Commodore (NROTC) Club, had quite a hand; yet many brothers found time to come afterwards, at the stroke of midnight, to join in the initiation of Robert L. (Bob) Matzen, an ROTC from Grand Island, Nebraska, and a fine fellow, who bad waited for the big moment for some time. Next mornin g these same brothers, including Bob, gathered for a fine breakfast of grits (Yes, suh), eggs, and sausage, marred only by our reluctance to sec and hear some of our finest memb ers make their far ewe ll. We will genu inely miss "Buddy" Blanton, "Red" Johnson, Bob Herbst, "Teenie" Roberts, and Ralph Ryberg.

Herbst and Roberts arc grad uating and being com:nis;icned; Blanton is leaving to accept his commission; and Johnson and Ryberg are being put on inactive duty. Altho ugh nothing can account for our loss in these men, we are happy to welcome back to bolster our ranks, Bob McGreevy, now on inactive duty from Navy Pre-Flight, and Johnson Watts, discharged after his training as a midshipman .

Bill Brinkley has been named adviser for the chapter, in an official communication from the National President. Bill is a graduate student in law, whose complete knowledge of fra ternity problems and relations to the campus will prove invaluable.

At the recent Homecoming a nd Duke-Navy game, we were happy to welcome back Paul Barringer, Dudley Moylan, Bob Keller, B. B. Blackmon, Ed Presson, Tom Boone, Bill Elam, and Dick Mansur. Brinkley threw his customary inimitable "welcome back to Duke" parties, and everyone enjoyed see in r~ these faces again on a campus where they were good Pi Kapps.

Robert (Bob) L. Milone, was recently elected one of two Navy representatives on the Student Government Association of Duke University. He was a football player of the first rank on his home town high school team in Livingston, N. J., and is a star boxer at Duke. Bob is 19 years old and is studying Electrical Engineering in his NROTC co urse.

His election confirms his popularity among the Navy men and his qualifications to represent them.

The chapter looks forward to this semester as a pc riod in which it will make important progress in reconversion to peacetime ways, culminating in our return to a fraternity section as soon as the University permits it. We can then be proud to say that the chapter has maintained its prominent position on the campus throughout the war and reconst ruction .

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Roanoke College

The fall season at Roanoke College started off with a bang.

For the past few years we have been laboring und er a delayed rushing season but the Pan-Hellenic Council drafted a new ret of ru shing rules this semester which permitted modifi ed rushing with delayed extension of bids. We are unable to predict, at this time, what our pledge class will be but are confident that by the end of rushing period it will be boosted considerably. Speaking of pledges, we have four now. We repledged Harry Long, Earl Quinn and Dick Poff, and have added one new pledge, Phil Malouf. Poff and Quinn are veterans of the army a nd getting right into the swing of things.

J ack Ward, a P -5 1 pilot in th e Air Corps for about three yea rs, is back in school a nd has resumed his chapter affiliations with enthusiasm. With drafting still in progress we have lost a few brothers but expect some of them back in the near future.

Last month we had a steak dinner for about thirty rushees, brothers, pledges, and alumni. The steaks, which have been so scarce during war time, were unbelievably large. In ea rly November we had an informal cabin party with back-to-

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nature, rustic gaiety as the key note. The pledges and their dates were greatly impressed and everyone had a good time.

At one of the rece nt dances, Xi provided a minstrel and variety floor show with everything thrown in , including girls as end men!

One of our brothers, George Miller, has become associated with Radio Station WSLS Roanoke as an apprentice an· nouncer and staff writer.

We predict a gay and hectic fraternity year ahead-in real pre-war style!

GEORGE E. MlLT.ER, his/ orian.

Omicron

Alabama

The following officers were elected at the beginning of lhe fall quarter: Fred Hallmark, archon; Harry Mann, treas· urer; Robert Brown, secretary; Ben Howell histori an; Robert Co llins, chap lain ; and Joe Starnes, warden.'

Omi.cron chapte r is doing exceedingly well this year, with 29 actives and 21 pledges. Latest initiates to the chapter are: A.rthur Sizemore, Birmingham, Ala., Hannibal Tumlin, An· msto n, Ala.; Harold Self, Decatur, Ala.; Jack Green, Centre, Ala.; Michael Cassidy, Nefts Ohio; and Richard Flowers, Mobile, Ala. ' Omi.cron. is w<:ll represen ted on the Crimson Tide squad thi' fall w1t h SIX actl':'es and two pledges holding positions on the team. Pledge Jimmy Clements is drum major for AI~· ~ama's. Million Dollar Band and Pledge Wellington Gilll5 IS busmess manager for the organization. Brother )imrlll' Rambokas is one of Barna's cheer leaders.

A;chon Fred. Hallmark, south ern representative to th 1 NatiOna l Collegmte Y. M. C. A. Convention in New Yor~ last summer, has been elected treasurer of the campus "Y' Pledge Leonard Blood ha s been elected president of the School of Commerce.

For mer members who have returned from the armed force: are .Lt. J oe Starnes and Lt. Max Gilmer, giving us a total of f1fteen veterans returned to Omicron thus far.

BEN HOWELL, historian.

Sigma

South Carolina

New officers for the November term arc: Sam Barrett. archon ; Paul Wilder, treasurer; George Brier secretarY; Charlie Sanders, historian ; Ted Metier, chaplain; Thorn~' Fowler, warden; and George DeLay, interfraternity counCJ 1• We had a very successful summer semeste r and held several swell parties at loca! lakes which were attended by old rnem: hers, as well as actives, pledges, and their guests. Our ne11 quarters, two suites of rooms in DeSa ussure College on tbr campus, a rc now being painted and redecorated by thf boys.

Our twenty actives and nine pledges arc composed of Naval ROTC, V-12, and civilian students and four veteran· of World War II. The following new m~n are now wearin~ the Pi Kapp pin: Ted Metier, Thomas Fowler, E. R. Brill, Ra~on Sanchez, William Latt~re, James Meeks, Henry Couch~ Lotus Hough, Thomas Hardisty, W. C. Smith, and Jo:eP Drennan, who returned to Carolina as a veteran in June, has been elected president of the University Players and to the staff of the GAMECOCK, as news ed itor.

Six .of our actives, in th e Carolina Naval unit, graduate~ in October and received co mmissions as Ensigns in tbe Nava Reserve. They a re Robert Noble, Donald Estes, Philip JluS· tosky, William Latture, Ramon Sanchez, and E. R. Britt.

Several of the fellows atte nded a house party between semesters the last of October, and plans for the November se mester include a formal dance. Plans for a rush party have already been mad e.

CHARl.lE SANDERS, historian .

Tau

N. C. State

Tau's five actives are full of life and are ru shing so me pro:· pects, but since they have no hou se, they haven't much . 1n a material w y to offer a prospective member. It is proVI~~ their only major stumbling block . Archon Cham Laughl!~ is to leave at the end of the term but William Wallace W1 THE

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Chi's officers for the fall term are: Gerald Kunes, archon, Who succeeds Orien Farrell· (Brother Farrell took a summer course in drama at the Uni~ersity of Colorado and joined the Pasadena Players, Pasadena, California, this fall.) Joe.l Pi~rce, treasurer; James Duffett, secretary; Douglas Teal, h1stonan; Lacy Catledge, chaplain; and WiJiiam Koon, ~arden. .

The first week of October was one of h1gh tensiOn and the most dramatic since reactivation. In addition to winding up rushing and class elections, a special election to fill a vacancy in the student government body was held.

We passed out seventeen bids to the B. B. 0. C's. (best boys on the campus) and on October 5, sixteen of them were at the house to take their formal pledging. This brought our total to 20 pledges and eight actives and our future prospects seemed Unlimited.

When the smoke had cleared after class elections and all votes were counted, Pi Kapps, actives and pledges, were entrenched in the following offices: William Carlin and George Akin, president and treasurer, respectively, freshman class; • Douglas Teal and Earle Cochran, president and treasurer, respectively, sophomore class; and Fred 0 . (Buddy) Dicken>on, president, junior class. In the hotly contested, special election for vice-president of the student body, the results Were the same-"Buddy" Dickinson is in the driver's seat.

We were disappointed when Brother Dick Cooper didn't return for the fall quarter and when we lost Pledge Tommy Patillo to the Navy,.

William H. Carlin was initialed on October 10, a few days after he received his call from the · Navy. George M. Akin, Jr., J. Earle Cochran, Robert G. Dinwiddie, and Joel E. John Were put through on October 21. Fred Dickenson's initiation Was postponed until October 26, so his old friend, Lt. (jg) Ernie Machen, Chi, stationed at nearby Jacksonville might be present for the ceremony.

The actives entertained the pledges at a dinner on October 19. On November 9, the pledges, wonderful critters at times, !lave a dance for the actives, complete with floor show. Such Pin-ups they would make! Part of the entertainment was their reward for losing a football game to the actives on the afternoon of the dance. We all had a good time and left laughing and singing Pi Kapp songs.

Alpha Epsilon invited us to Homecoming and the FloridaVanderbilt game the week-end of October 13. Eight of us made the trip and our Florida brothers served us good meals and were most hospitable. Everyone agreed it was a great Week-end.

We completed intramural football season with a victory over the Delta Sigma Phis. Winning the championship gave us permanent possession of the football trophy, as it marked the third lime the cup was won by Pi Kappa Phi. We hope we don't sound like we're bragging but we know ~ur fraternity is tops. As one freshman put it. "I heard Pi "'app songs a hundred times before I knew there was another fraternity song ever written." We hope this general feeling of prosperity is prevalent in all our brother chapters.

DouGLAS TEAr,, historian.

Purdue

Omega

At the first meeting of the fall semester the following men Were elected to guide Omega to its predominant position on the Purdue campus; Malcolm Miller, archon; Charles An~~nbrock, treasurer; S. J . Lalvani, secretary; Marvin Russell, Istorian; Howard Hardwick, chaplain; and Jeremiah Holman, Warden.

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Omega ha s weathered hl·r war time crisis and come through in excellent shape. The fall rushing season is still in progress and already we have an outstanding group as the nucleus of our new pledge class. These men are: Charles 'Beretta, Bedford Ind.· Bruce Bolding and Van Heely of Portsmouth , Va.;' John' Jones, Bernard Tew and Leslie Wi!li? of Fort Wayne, Ind., James Knipp, Paul Lawall, and Phtlhp Neff of Indianapolis, Ind., Jack Kumpf, Brazil, Ind., Robert Ladd, Oxford, Ind., Theodore Mazurek, Chicago, Ill.; and Donald Van Vleet, Chattanooga, Tenn. Besides these fine boys, we are rushing six more good prospects who we feel will join us in the near future.

In view of the large enrollment and critical housihg situation at Purdue, we are pledging almost to capacity, saving only enough room in the house to accommodate brothers returning from the services for enrollment next semester.

Recent initiations which strengthened the chapter were those of Wendell Adams and Melvin Skinner. Mel had to leave for the Army Air Forces soon after his initiation. We lost another good man when Brother Swartz left for Radar training in the Navy.

The first peace time H'Omecoming at Omega on the weekend of October 13, was an overwhelming success with more than thirty alumni and some of their families back at the · house.

Back in the chapter, after serving with the armed forces, are: Malcolm Miller, Robert C. Adams, Howard Hardwick, Marvin Russell, Norman ·Beeman , and Murray Williams.

In the field of activities the key men of the past at Omega have retained their top positions in various activities, while Jim Hinga and Bill Daniels have further enhanced the name of Pi Kappa Phi by being elected Vice-Presidents of the Interfraternity President's Council and the Student Union, respectively.

S. J, LALVANI, historian.

Alpha Epsilon

Florida

Alpha Epsilon got off to a slow start this year. Bob Wheeler, the first member to return, was followed by Norman Hasty, a pledge of last year. Within the following two weeks, Jero Montellaro, treasurer of last year, Ted Camp, and Jimmy Golden, a veteran and former member of Chi chapter, returned to bolster our ranks. By the time we got started rush season was past and we were unable to have any planned rushing . Several prospective pledges visit us daily and we are hoping to pledge them before very long.

Many veterans are returning to school and by February we expect to have approximately fifteen actives in the chapter.

Pi Kappa Phi had a very high rating on the campus before the war and these returning veterans should be able to assist us to gain back the prestige we lost in the last few years as a result of 'the war and low enrollment. Our hopes have never been as high as they now are.

During the we~k end of October 12-13 the first peace-lime Homecoming celebration since Pearl Harbor was held on the campus. Approximately 60 of the older members returned and gave hea rty support to our efforts to inspire our members, whose education had been interrupted by the war, to return to the fold as soon as possible. Everyone was well pleased with the HomecQming activities at the chapter house and a good time was enjoyed by all.

As one -result of our Homecoming celebration, we have learned the plans of tqe Jacksonville alumni to give a Rush Party and dance to all · of the high school ?eniors in that city who plan to attend the University of Florida.

In a few weeks, we are having another social week end, "Fall Frolics," and are inviting the chapters of Presbyterian, Georgia, Georgia Tech and Stetson to attend. Many of the Stetson boys attended Homecoming and plan to come bacli: for "Fall Frolics."

We may be smaller in size than several other fraternities on the campus, but Pi Kappa Phi is developing leadership in school activities under the present members, and, with the aid of our returning veterans, we hope to gain higher achievements.

RonERT H. WrrEEL'ER, Historian

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Alpha Theta

Michigan State

Four of our former members have returned, Robert J. Blett, John J. Kaiser, Richard L. Kirkpatrick, and Dalton Ebbeson.

This brings our membership up to five and encourages us because we feel we have a nucleus with which to work. All through the spring and summer we had only one active and although we pledged and initiated one man, Stephen Patoprsty during the period, very soon thereafter he went into radio training in the Navy.

We have plenty of hard work ahead of us as we are planning and talking about the type of house we want to build on the new plot of ground we recently purchased. We need some bright ideas as to how we can raise money to add to our building fund . If you have any good ideas we will be grateful if you will send them to us at P. 0. Box 446, East Lansing, Mich . Who knows, your idea may be the one that will do the trick. Any financial aid from Alpha Theta alumni will also be very acceptable.

We are glad now that we didn't give up, like many fraternities did, when our membership dwindled to one man, and feel .that our uphill struggle to keep our active status has been worth while.

We should like to hear from all of our alumni in the services and elsewhere . When last heard from Henry J, Anderson was still in Austria.

MILTON ALAN MoRSE, Archon

Alpha Iota

Alabama Polytechnic Institute

At the last regular meeting, Warren Williams was elected archon and Grover Whitley was elected vice-archon, secretarytreasurer, and to all the -other jobs combined. Grover is really on the ball, dependable, enthusiastic, and has all those good qualities one likes to see in a fraternity brother.

The same five members showed up this quarter and, when school started, we had four recommendations to work with.

We went to work on them and at the conclusion of rush period, we pledged them .

The four pledges are: Conrad Summerlin, James Pittman, William Harris, and Johnny Reddoch. Two veteran members also returned, Harry Dicus and Lawrence Woolbright. This gives us a total of eleven and we are sure of six more returning in January, boosting our number to seventeen. There are others who will not notify us of their arrival, and will just register and come back and affiliate. This will give us a possible twenty to twenty-five and puts other ideas into our heads.

On October 15, we had a conference with our Chapter Adviser, Dr. Irvine, to talk over the all important subject of getting our house back in January. We decided we were doing well enough to warrant its return and we've made an appointment with the college administrator to talk over the idea.

The college, at our request, has bought our mortgage from the individual who owned it and has reduced our rate of interest from 6% to 4%. Arrangements have been made for us to pay $160 per month for the nine months, with a provision whereby the mortgage can be paid earlier if we so desire. The old way was two semi-annual payments of $800 each. We like the new arrangement better-it gives us our house mortgagefree in ten years and reduces our total payment by $1,960, which is a real help.

We are going to strive to get our pledge pin on more of the Pi Kappa Phi calibre material returned to the campus this fall. We aren't content with four pledges. Our rush parties were definite successes and we are indebted to several Pi Kapps who came to Auburn to aid us while they were home on leaves, furloughs, etc. They were of great help.

WARREN Wrr-LIAMS, Archon

Alpha Mu

Penn State

Alpha Mu, now operating for its fifth semester since receiving its house back, has successfully closed its rushing season by pledging ten men . They are Rob~:rt Conrad, Robert Auman,

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John Antolick, William Tuay, Floyd Hopkins, Harold Norris, Dean Alspach, Larry Gerwig, Raymond Plymyer, and Bud Berry. These together with ten brothers, four of whom were initiated ori November 4, and two former brothers and a pledge, constitute the chapter. Our new initiates are Norman Wynn, Richard Lord, Richard Jung, and John Mumma. The three Pi Kapps who have returned from the services are: Major Tish Martin, Koss Beaver, and Norman Simpson.

John Bobm and Raymond Edwards were recently elected historian and warden, respectively, to fill the vacancies in these offices.

Homecoming at Penn State was celebrated on October 6, and 25, Pi Kapps returned to see State beat Colgate and for a dance that evening. The chapter held an informal dance at the house the previous week end.

On the first of December, the Delta Sigma Phis, who have been living with us since our house reopened, will move back into their own house. We will then resume complete control of our house.

We are looking forward to an almost normal college season and by spring we expect to be back to our pre-war strength .

JoHN D. BoHM, Historian

Alpha Omicron

Iowa State

Officers: Marshall Olson, archon; William Carey, treasurersteward; Robert Spearing, secretary; Jack Marte, historian i Robert Hicks, rush chairman; and Fabian Soukup, pledge trainer and social chairman.

Greetings, brothers, from ye ole sweat shoppe. Yep, we all done gone Southern in style-in eating. Some of the best eats the house ever had are now being prepared by our negro cook from down Georgia way. Co'n pone, an' molasses, candied pawpaws, and BLACK coffee that would wake the sphinx out of a sound sleep! Our new housemother this quarter is just about tops as far as we're concerned. She and the cook get along well together as she has lived some of her life in the democratic state of Missouri. Ah, well, we're a southern fraternity anyway.

Membership in the house is now six brothers and six neophytes and six GOOD neophytes, too. Three of them, Ralph Munn, Robert Nelson, and Howard Cloe, are veterans of the Army, Navy, and Marines, respectively. Our three civies are Richard Anderson, Paul Proescholdt, and Donald Dooley. We hope for some new pledges soon-at least Bob Hicks, rush chairman, promises some new "operators." We are glad to have Marshall Olson back with us as archon after his recent discharge from the Air Corps. Bill Carey, now in charge of the treasury, reports it is in fairly good condition.

Keith Walker is now editor (managing) of the College paper, THE DAILY STUDENT. The house has purchased a new phonograph-radio combi路 nation and it sounds swell-especially at our exchanges and firesides. As we are short of any kind of a piano player at present, we will welcome back any man who can play anYthing but "My Maryland" and chopsticks. Speaking of chopsticks, remember the time we had on Lake La Germ ]ast Veisha? Well, we've got a pledge paddle big enough to uSC as a rudder next time; also, another to use as an ice crea!ll spoon, hanging as it is by a slender thread from Spearing's door. It's so small that we think some thoughtful pledge must have ripped off a shingle to use, wishfully thinking it might not be so bad. Handy little gadget for scooping during the numerous bull sessions.

Captain Wayne Moore came back recently for a short but nice visit. He's due out of the army soon and expects to take a year of graduate work-we hope. In the past few weekS we've beard from Gene Hawkins, Bob Schultz, Laverne Miller, Chuck Fritz, and "operator" Waite, all of the Army, and GerrY Love of the Navy.

In ending we want to say "hello" to all the brothers in the fraternity and wish them all "good hunting."

RoBERT SPEARING, Secretary

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Tennessee Alpha Phi

Illinois Tech.

Election of officers for next term has taken place with Ramon fOur chief accomplishment of the summer was the painting Olson, Don Helbling and Walter Breisch reelected to the offices th~ house. We showed our optimism by clothing it in 1 of archon, treasurer, and secretary, respectively. James Brophy ~ eamk tng white, despite its location in the heart of Knoxville, succeeds Howie Johnson as historian, Emil Donkers is the new rno e capital of the United States. chaplain, and Al Dimoff, warden.

Another capital near us is Oak Ridge, atomic capital of the The beginning of July found the chapter active in rushing, horld, only eighteen miles away, where Archon Clark McMabut towards the end of the month we found time to have a t an and Former Secretary Spear Vavalides, to mention only beach party at the Point in Jackson Park. August found the Wo of our men, have been helping with atomic research. Anbrothers and pledges gathered at the home of Don Helbling other hard-working man is John Chadnock, first-string guard on the "Vols." for a gala house party. It goes without saying that everyonP enjoyed the dancing and good fellowship. The traditional G.;ve have nineteen active members this fall, including Tom pledge dinner dance was held in September at the Southmoor w1 rnore, who has come back from the Navy. In September Hotel. The pledges deserve a lot of credit for arranging such be .Pledged thirty-two fellows, including engineers, pre-meds, a smooth affair. Their skit was excellent, the music they prouUst~ess administrators, liberal artists, agriculturalists, and edvided was very good, and the room was large enough to afford BC~tonists. Pledge Luke Kesterson is end on the "Vols," and comfortable dancing for the large group who attended. f 0 Jarvis is tackle. Pledge Tom Vaughan, a Navy veteran The week end following the pledge dance found the lowly ;orn Dyersburg, Tennessee, is National vice-president of the neophytes in a slightly different mood. The informal initiation thuture Farmers of America, and is a sure shot for president of caused the change of heart and was held at Roy Churan's home. e freshman class in the coming elections.

After "teasing" them along all evening the lowly neophytes s· New life has been breathed into the ageing timbers of Alpha were sent out into a rainy night on excursions of interest. ArTgrna house. The kitchen beams with pride in its new floor. rangements for the affair and for the trips were planned by ~e b~t~room rejoices in a brilliant new mosaic tile pattern. James Brophy and William Ludwig. They did an excellent job e dtntng room , parlor, and central hall are crowned with but the pledges were not in such complete agreem nt.

1 i~vefly new white ceilings, and the pool table is happy under The next week-end found the chapter at the home of John 5 rcsh, verdant covering. and Bill Pottenger, (both of whom are in the service) carrying out the ritual of the formal initiation. A dinner after the afrn In August we gained four new members: Lon Tyler (Tomfair was held at Marty's. The new initiates are A/ S Don krl Anderson, Jr., a business administration student from Gipple, A/S John Odrlin, A/ S James Woodling, A/S AI Bourn tngsport, Tennessee; Arthur R. Evans, Jr., of Parsons, Tendon, Donald Black, Donald Freeman, and Joe Jallits. keSSee,, a potential doctor; J. Will Taylor, an engineer from Many alumni visited us this summer: Norb and Leo Polivka, s no;cv!lle, Tennessee; and Richard Winston Wallace, who is Bob Prasse, Dick Stark, Henry Hawrylewicz, Bob Spitzig, hll«;Jtahzing in transportation and airport management and 1 Frank Lidd, Fred Olson and John Sachs. Ens. Harry Anderson t: s from New York City. Wallace is also Southeastern' Edidropped in and related some of his interesting experiences f r for "Aviation" magazine, and has reviewed several books or the Knoxville newspapers. aboard a submarine off the coast of Japan.

Two alumni, Lt. Herb Hansen and Ens. Ray Tubergen, have rn Our newly-elected SENESCHAL is Victor Edgmon, gourmet in Guam and have formed the Gamma Epsilon Alpha Mu onind cxtraor.dinary, of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Edgmon not alumni chapter of Pi Kappa Phi. ~hey have started a very n· Y satisfies our inner needs, but supervises the smooth runinteresting news .letter, through whtch Herb Hanson is cona~·g of all the household machinery. In this work he is ably tinuing his drive to raise funds for outfitting a Pi Kapp fraen 1 ~ted by Harry Bartlette Henry, sophomore in agricultural ternity house on the new campus being built here at Illinois lnneering, from Crossville, Tennessee.

Tech. lh We have also made our student's lamp glow brightly. Out of Our baseball team was a hard fighting aggregation but it F rec m.en in the University chosen for the Freshman Honorary didn't compare with the championship team of the term beu;atermty, two were Pi Kappa Phis. A Pi Kappa Phi also won fore. This is accounted for by the loss of four regulars. Len n e !"acuity Scholarship for top standing in the freshman class.

Donarski was manager of the team and was also the man with h.unng the last year, Alpha Sigma of Pi Kappa Phi had the 1 the bat. Jack Capron took over the mound duties which were ~est scholastic standing of any fraternity on the campus. left open when Howie Johnson was forced to watch the game F ecember 7, Pearl Harbor Day, is the date of our formal from the sidelines because of a bad heart and high blood leou~ders Day dance, the first dance to be held by any frapressure. The team lost two games and won three. We're looknrntty at U. T . since the War started. We shall make the ing forward now to the coming interfraternity touchball and ay of Infamy a Day of Jollity, in the spirit of Pi Kappa Phi. basketba II easons.

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EHCO BADGES

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for Satisfaction

Order Your Badge from the Following List Miniature

Pin in Border; 10 Karat_ __ Pluin Border, 14 Karat_ __

$

4.00

Standard $ 4.611 5.50

FULL CROWN SET BORDER Pearls - _$ 12.50 Pearls, 4 Garnet Points __ _ 12.50 Pearls, 4 Ruby or Sapphire Points 14.00 Pearls, 4 Emerald Points _ 15.00 Pearls, 2 Diamond Points __ 27.00 Pearls, ·1 Diamond Points _ ___ 41.50 Pearl and Ruby or Sapphire Alternating 18.00 Pearl and Diamond Alternating 70.25 Diamond Border _ 127.75

$ 16.50 16.50 18.00 20.00 34.60 52.60 19.00 106.00 196.50

GUARD PINS Sin~Je

Crest Plain Whole

Double

Letter

Letter $2.75 ·-$

Pearl

2.25 6.00

$

8.50 10.00

ALUMNI CHARMS Single Faced, 10 Karat Double Fnced, 10 Karat __

4.50 7.00

RECOGNITION BUTTONS Crest Official Monogram, Plain 10 Ka~·at Monogram, Enameled 10 Karat

.76 1.00 1.25 1.60

Pledge Button

.75

A II Prices Subject to 20% Federal Tax

Mention Chapter or College When Ordering

A Pi Kappa Phi Favorite Ring

by Ehco

800

lOK Yellow

Gold, Heavy Si~net - - _ Plus 20% Federal Tax

__ -- .$19.25

Write for Your Free Copy of Our 1946 BOOK OF TREASURES FINE FRATERNITY RINGS COAT OF ARMS JEWELRY AND NOVELTIES

EDWARDS, HALDEMAN AND COMPANY 1249 Griswold Street

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Official Jewelers to Pi Kappa Phi

Detroit 26, Michigan

- - - Pi Kappa Phi Nome ____________________________________________________ _

Edwards, Holdeman & Co. 1249 Griswold Street Detroit 26, Michigan

Street ___________________________________________________ _

Send free copy of the

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BOOK OF TREASURES to

FraternitY-------------------------------------------------

1945

1904

PI KAPPA PHI ALUMNI QUESTIONNAIRE Kindly help us bring our records up-to-date by filling in this questionnaire and returning it to Central Office, 401 E. Franklin St., Richmond, 19, Va. ~arne

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Home Address ------------------------ -- -------- -- ------------ - -----0 (Cn~::?nn!r n~~~':.~ied Occupation ------------------- -- (Ple-; ;;,-;-;,~i;;d;, -tit i;,-0-;:-,.~,-k) - -------- - ----- --- --- - - -- --- - --. es S Add r esS BUSln

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(Check if preferred malling address>

If in the Military or Naval Service _______ ___ ------ ________________ ---- -- ---- -- ----- --

Give date of entering service and present rank ________________________________________ _ Date of marriage ______ ----------------Wife's maiden name _______________________ _ Children N arne and Address of someone who will always know your address - ----- - -------------------------- - ---- - ----- ____ __

Postmaster : Return and forwarding postage are guaranteed by the Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, 401 f).

Franklin St., Richmond, 19, Va. If returned please check reason: D Removed-left no address: I.J Unclaimed: D No such number: D Not found: D Refused: D (Other-explain) ___ ___ ____ / ________ . _____________________ -- ___ If forwarded please send report on P.O. Form 3578-S or f.