This year marks Rho Chapter's 30th ann iversary on the Washington and Lee campus. Tentative plans are in the making for an alumni reunion the week end of "Finals" and graduation. The archon has appointed a committee to work otlt the details which will be brought before the chapter shortly. - THOMAS A. HOLLIS, historian
Edwin S. Pickett, '50, past archon and recent graduate. Ed was largely responsible for reactivating Rho after the war. This picture was taken after the house reopened in 1947.
Ed Pickett and Ramon Sanchez graduated between semesters. With them go our hea rtiest congratulations and best wishes.
Group of Rho brothers and dates at Wash ington {;r Lee's famous Fancy Dress in February. L to r, 1st row : Marvin Anderson ond Connie Cole; Jack Schilthuis and Mary Kline; Dot Halenlbeck and J. C. Turk. 2nd row : Art Barrett and Jeanne Dickinson; Bill Ling and Joan Weaver; Betty Wislon and Denny Ringers. 28
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made all A's, and Maynard Turk made the dean's list. Socially thi s year, Rho has been tops I Many of the broth ers attended this year's F'ancy Dress Ball , a most lavish affair. Everyo ne had only words of praise for the smooth style of T ex Beneke. On March 25, we are having an informal party. Most of the dates are coming from Harrisonburg and Roanoke. A good time is expected by a II who attend . Probably the top social event of the year will be the annua l Spring hou se party. Plans are still in the formative stage. However, word is out that it is going to be sensa tional.
Harrill George Hughes, Textiles; Gene W· Textiles; Ray Lane, Textiles; Jack Mf· Quinn, Engineering General; Da~ Me· Culloch, Mechanical Engineering; Jun el 'lE ' . . flatn Conne II, Mech amca ngmeermg' 00 Moore, Industrial Engineering; Ed M" : 0 Forestry; John Morrell, Textile; Larbn Poteat, Mechanical Engineering; JRo 1 9. Fox, Engineering General ; an d Damron, Civil Engineering. 1 Plans are now underway to hold ;;0 "great big" cabin party with our ,. wor• and Kappa brothers. We hope theY. of out because, in the past, joint parties . ,. 1 this type have prov.ed to build frate~ld· spirit and brotherhood among the pa pants. . . . alI sprio' Tau plans to partiCipate m 0 · 1 sports. w·1lh D'JC k •Jlinso term mtramura tbf as manager and Fireball Jon es doJP!( C pitching, we hope to field a very stroo softball team.
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Prior to Fancy Dress at Washington and Lee. Mrs. Ethel Kerr, Rho's housemother finds herself flanked on the left by Ray Sanchez, Rho '50, and former archon Bill Latture on the right.
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New Spring term officers are: Robert Jones, a rchon ; J ames Plemmons, treasurer; Arnold White, secretary; George Fox, hi storian; Paul Whetstone, chaplain ; and P . L. Love, warden. With the coming of Spring, Tau is looking forward to its annual Interfraternity Sing. Every yea r we sponsor a contest between N. C. State fraternities and award the best singing frat a cup. This year, we are giving the other contestants fair warning "we are out to win." The Si ng prom ises to be a real battle. In co njunction with the Sing is the Annual Rose Ball, which is held jointly with Alph a Gamma Rho. The Rose Ball originated here last. year. It went over so big that we are looking forward to it as the "big occasion" of Spring term. Winter quarter ended in fine style with a United Nations Costume party. Almost every country, from China to Scotland, was represented. "Arab" H . H. Moore won first prize as the best dressed foreign male. "Butch" Norrell, clad in a sa rong, took t he prize as the " eye catcher" amon g the gals. Spring means graduation and final parting from brothers by graduation. This year we lose a large crop of fine brothers: Millard Fisher, G en e r a I Engineering;
'I J, On the. evening of Saturda y, Aprl of 1950 Ups1lon turned back the pages American History to the "Roaring Til'~~ ties." That night, the chapter bouse r~,~or under the strains of the "Charleston, . , the first info.rmal dance of the sprl~ semester. Obviously, a costume dance, bO Job . Kapps and their dates resembled "ra . Dillinger, AI Capon, fl appers, and ,,.n . h n s•l rah" college boys complete w1t coo coats and pennants. ~ 1 The house resembled a speakeaSY· 1. d h we1r front door was boarded up , and t e {tel collection of characters entered only a ~ having been recognized from a small pee hole. ·e The annual Spring Carnival is a .~:I event at Illinois. In reaJity, the ca rn 1\, is a mass production put on by GreC 0 and Indees alike with shows, acts, n~i' skits held in the hu ge campus armory . 'f ~~ year the Carnival fell on Saturday , AP
22 . Upsilon was right in th e hea rt of th 10 ~ • , 11 1 W1th the unu sual theme, "Cosmo, 0 fl' show was nothing less than a light ope ' JIIO• centering around a youth named CoS ed H e lived in the planet Saturn and Jong. ~If1 to see the world . Of course, he ha d a . t friend, a proud papa, and a crew of danc~P . pi I~' couples, who danced only as Satur ed can. Cosmo's brief experiences were relal of as he visited the earth ; the horrors the "H" born b, the hustling civilizatio;; and the dreaded "South Campus" here , 1 Illinois. Apparently it wa s a good shO~' because we came out t he win ners of a bl _ shiny trophy for our skit. The shoW ,~n~ written, directed, and produced by ou r 011 Pete De Pasquale. 0
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