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panionship with  the  fair  sex  in  the  above 
photo  which  was  snapped  during  the  chapter'e 
annual  Hudson  River  boat  ride.  It  illustrates 
one  of  the  many  stimulating  sidelights  of 
the    educational    process. 

Meanwhile  the  increasingly  beneficial  side 
of  Fraternity  Row  is  emphasized  in  Bill 
Moredock's  article  on  the  Florida  chapter's 
fine  experiment  with  Help  Week.  And  the 
article  which  follows  immediately  describes 
the  work  in  the  service  of  humanity  on  a 
world-wide  level  of  Basil  O'Connor,  president 
of  the  National  Foundation  of  Infantile 
Paralysis.  His  March  of  Dimes  is  still  under 
way.  Also  still  under  way,  as  it  is  pertinent 
to  mention,  is  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon's  march 
of  Camp  dollars.  See  the  back  cover  and  send 
your   dollar. 

Other  articles  in  this  issue  include  a  report 
of  the  National  Interfraternity  Conference  of 
last  November,  pictures  and  stories  of  Home- 
coming   celebrations,    and    other    events. 

A  good  part  of  the  undergraduate  section 
is  devoted  to  a  review  of  last  fall's  football 
season,  though  there  are  reports  on  manpower 
and  intramural  and  social  activities,  and  other 
events. 

This  issue  is  also  represented  with  a  full- 
fledged  Sig  Epic  Achievement  section,  which 
we   hope   can    be   kept   up. 

That  old  Expansion  Express  has  begun  to 
work  up  a  new  boilerful  or  two  of  steam, 
and  the  birth  of  at  least  three  or  four  new 
chapters  will  be  described  in  the  next  issue 
(see  page  137).  — J.R. 


■*     •     • 

JOHN   ROBSON,   Editor 

609  E.  74th  Terracz,  Kansas  Citt,  Mo. 

Business  Manager 
WILLIAM  W.  HINDMAN,  JR. 

Myrtle  Smith,  Circulation 

Assistants  in  Central  Office : 

HARRIET     JAMES,     HELEN     BANE, 

RUTH  ROGERS, 

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sigtna  phi  epsilan 

JOURNAL 


JANUARY  1952 

Vol.   49      •       No.   3 

contents 

Voice  of  the  Fraternity 130 

Florida  Helps  the  Help  Week  Idea  To  Grow 

BILL  MOREDOCK 132 

He  Heads  the  March  of  Dimes   134 

38,000th  Sig  Ep— James  W.  Graf 135 

Affable  Angeleno  Takes  a  Seat   136 

The  N.I.C.  Stages  Its  43rd  Revival 138 

A  Collegian  Views  the  N.I.C.  harold  s.  myers  140 

A  New  Course  in  Brotherhood,  robert  b.  melvin  143 

Happy,  Happy  Homecomings  Like  These 144 

Parties  Plus 146 

Other  Parties  with  an  Angle 148 

Fraternity  Row 150 

Sig  Epic  Achievement 151 

Good  of  the  Order 158 

Grand  President's  Message — Luis  Roberts 158 

With  the  Alumni   161 

Vital  Data  (married;  born;  died)    170 

On  the  Campus   172 

That's  About  Everything    207 

Directory  of  Officers 208 

DEADLINES:    25TH    OF    THE    FOLLOWING    MONTHS — 
JULY,      SEPTEMBER,      NOVEMBER,     JANUARY,     MARCH 

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Readers  are  invited  to  contribute  letters  to 
this  section  to  help  make  it  and  keep  it  a  sound 
reflection  of  creative  Sig  Ep  opinion.  It  can  also 
serve  as  a  hopper  for  interesting  oddments  of 
Sig  Ep  information  and  story  which  readers  feel 
it  worth  while  to  share  with  others. 


Lesson  in  Hospitality 

It  has  long  been  the  custom  of  the  alumni  to 
return  each  year  during  the  weekend  of  our 
final  great  football  classic.  As  an  undergraduate, 
I  remember  that  we  were  glad  to  see  the  old 
grads  and  did  our  best  to  make  them  feel  at 
home  and  show  them  a  good  time.  My  class  is 


After  a  period  of  more  or  less  enforced  ab- 
sence, I  have  been  taking  my  wife  back  with 
me  for  the  last  several  years,  and  have  noted 
an  almost  complete  lack  of  interest  in  the 
alumni.  This  year  the  house  was  especially 
unkempt  and  dirty,  and  the  light  switch  in  the 
ladies'  room  was  broken  and  the  bulb  missing. 

As  the  alumni  entered  the  house,  no  one 
greeted  them  and  they  soon  began  to  shift  for 
themselves.  Light  meals  were  served  before  and 
after  the  game,  with  the  alumni  being  seated  by 
themselves.  Beer  was  served  in  the  cellar,  fol- 
lowing the  established  custom.  A  three-piece 
orchestra  was  expected  to  show  up  for  the 
evening's  entertainment  but  it  didn't,  so  finally 
the  alumni  left  the  house  for  the  local  beer  club. 

I  am  not  addicted  to  writing  crank  letters.  I 
prefer  that  you  do  not  check  up  on  my  chapter 
because  I  want  to  see  them  work  out  of  their 
present  lack  of  spirit  without  reflection.  My 
thought  is  that  it  is  probably  a  national  problem, 
that  considerable  thought  should  be  given  to 
an  alumni  program. 

The  Fraternity  has  done  a  lot  for  me,  and  I 
enjoy  your  Journal.  It  is  fine  to  read  about  Ted 
Mack  and  others  who  have  become  famous. 
—Name  and  chapter  withheld  by  request. 

■     If  any  chapter  feels  that  the  shoe  might  fit, 
it  should  know  what  to  do.— Ed. 


Conclave  Memento 

We  have  received  many  fine  words  concern- 
ing tlie  success  of  the  Golden  Anniversary  Con- 
clave. Naturally,  all  this  makes  us  Richmond 
Sig  Eps  mighty  happy  but  we  are  not  over- 
looking the  fact  that  it  was  the  co-operation  of 
all  active  chapters,  alumni  chapters,  and  Grand 
Officers  that  really  made  it  such  a  great  event. 


Handsome   Conclave   remembrance 
may    still    be    obtained    for    $2,50. 


Therefore,  may  we  express  our  appreciation  and 
say  "thanks  a  million"  to  each  of  those  who 
were  there. 

For  those  interested,  a  few  of  the  Conclave 
favors,  the  bronze  medallion  paperweight,  are 
still  available  at  $2.50  each  which  includes 
postage.  Requests  for  these  paperweights  must 
necessarily  be  filled  on  a  first-come,  first-served 
basis  because  of  the  limited  supply.  Please  send 
orders  with  remittance  to  P.O.  Box  133,  Rich- 
mond, Va.  All  orders  will  be  taken  care  of  until 
the  present  supply  is  depleted. 

It  was  great  seeing  so  many  Sig  Eps  at  the 
Conclave  helping  to  celebrated  Fifty  Years  of 
Progress.  May  the  next  fifty  make  us  even  more 
proud  of  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon.— Herbert  H. 
Smith,  Ohio  Gamma,  General  Chairman. 


Dissenting  Opinion 

In  reading  the  latest  issue  of  thq  Journal,  the 
Golden  Anniversary  issue,  one  thought  impresses 
me.  Much  more  time  was  spent  looking  back- 
wards and  applauding  than  looking  forward  and 
thinking.  The  most  refreshing  paragraph  in  the 
whole  issue  (congratulations  for  printing  it)  was 
the  opinion  stated  by  Carleton  S.  Pritchard  of 
Boston,  page  96.  His  closing  sentence:  ".  .  .  this 
general  attitude  of  our  Fraternity  toward  dis- 
crimination will  harm  both  our  national  and  our 
ethical  development,"  shows  a  foresighted  think- 
ing and  courage  that  is  evidently  lacking  else- 
where in  our  Fraternity, 

No  doubt  some  of  those  in  attendance  thought 
discrimination    important    enough    to    discuss. 


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However,  I  see  on  page  90  that  ".  .  .  so  large 
a  majority  was  opposed  to  it  that  relatively 
little  time  was  devoted  to  this  question  in  dis- 
cussion." 

If  these  are  an  example  of  what  you  refer  to 
as  "the  men  who  are  about  to  inherit  the  world," 
it  seems  that  the  phrase  could  better  be  stated, 
"the  men  whom  the  world  will  be  unlucky 
enough  to  inherit." 

In  1901  the  Fraternity  had  leadership,  ideals, 
and  foresight.  Today,  fifty  years  later,  Sigma  Phi 
Epsilon  is  one  of  the  strongest  nationals.  In 
September,  however,  it  appears  we  had  few 
actual  leaders,  even  fewer  ideals,  and  our  fore- 
sight was  strictly  financial  in  scope. 

Will  this  Fraternity  be  around  to  celebrate 
their  hundredth,  or  even  seventy-fifth,  anniver- 
sary?—Thomas  N.  CuMMiNGs,  Michigan  Alpha, 
'49,  4430  Paradise  Ave.,  Tacoma,  Wash. 

■  We'll  bet  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  will  easily  ride 
out  all  the  tides  and  endure.  "If  one  shall 
read  the  future  of  the  race,"  says  Emerson, 
"hinted  in  the  organic  effort  of  nature  to  mount 
and  meliorate,  and  the  corresponding  impulse  to 
the  Better  in  the  human  being,  we  shall  dare 
affirm  that  there  is  nothing  he  will  not  overcome 
and  convert,  until  at  last  culture  shall  absorb  the 
chaos  and  gehenna."—EB. 

Brother  Guide 

Last  June,  my  husband,  Jerry  RafiFensperger, 
Indiana  Alpha,  '25,  and  I  his  wife  (nee  Helen 
Gould,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta)  left  our  home  at 
Henry,  111.  to  drive  to  Wyoming  to  fulfill  Jerry's 
long-cherished  ambition  to  enjoy  an  antelope 
hunt.  We  had  written  to  the  Cliff  Miller  Guide 
Service  in  Casper,  Wyo.,  and  the  hunt  was 
scheduled  for  September  11,  1951,  to  climax  a 
Western  sightseeing  and  fishing  trip. 

Our  first  pleasant  surprise  was  to  discover  that 
Clifford  A.  Miller  was  a  brother  Sig  Ep— Colo- 
rado Beta,  '11. 

The  two  men  began  their  hunt  about  70 
miles  from  Casper  near  the  Rattlesnake  Moun- 
tains, the  heart  of  the  world's  best  antelope 
hunting.  After  seeing  many  antelope  through 
binoculars,  and  stalking  several,  Jerry  drew  a 
bead  on  a  buck  with  a  fine  head.  Using  his  270 
Winchester  with  a  4x  scope,  he  downed  him 
with  a  neck  shot  at  325  yards. 

After  the  hunt  the  Raffenspergers  were  royally 
entertained  by  CHff  and  Mrs.  Miller  at  dinner, 
and  at  the  American  Legion  Club  of  which 
Cliff,  a  World  War  I  veteran,  is  past  com- 
mander. We  learned  that  Brother  Miller  had 
served  two  terms  in  the  Wyoming  House  of 
Representatives,  and  one  term  as  State  Senator. 
He  had  served  on  the  State  Fish  and  Game 
Commission  for  four  years,  and  was  currently 
president  of  the  State  Federation  of  Sportsman's 
Clubs  and  vice-president  of  the  Izaak  Walton 
League. 


We  also  learned  that  Brother  Miller  is  widely 
known  throughout  Wyoming  as  a  leader  in 
game  management  and  conservation  activities. 

Jerry  knows  he  was  doubly  fortunate  to  be 
guided  to  the  best  in  antelope  hunting  by  a 
mighty  fine  Sig  Ep  brother  who  is  one  of  the 
best  guides  in  Wyoming.— Helen  Gould  (Mrs. 
Jerry)  Raffensberger,  Henry,  111. 

■     John  G.  Raffensberger,  Illinois  Alpha,  '50,  is 
their  Sig  Ep  son. 


Bravo,  Rutgers! 

In  the  September  Joxxrnal  I  noticed  an  article 
entitled  "How  the  Maine  Chapter  Impressed  the 
Public."  Maine  Alpha  is  to  be  congratulated  for 
their  work.  We  at  Rutgers  have  also  impressed 
the  public.  Last  May  our  pledge  class  substi- 
tuted a  Work  Week  in  place  of  a  Hell  Week. 
Thirteen  pledges  with  the  help  of  a  few  brothers 
spent  two  afternoons  and  a  Saturday  morning 
clearing  trees  for  a  new  municipal  parking  lot, 
tearing  down  an  old  shack  that  was  an  eyesore, 
and  removing  sod  from  the  infield  of  a  com- 
munity baseball  diamond.  Thus  New  Jersey  Beta 
is  following  the  lead  of  Maine  Alpha  to  impress 
the  public.  We  hope  we  may  read  of  many  more 
chapters  doing  likewise.— Thomas  A.  Kitchen, 
Historian,  New  Jersey  Beta,  New  Brunswick, 
N.J. 

■     The  Florida  chapter  has  also  helped  the  Help 
Week  idea  to  grow.  See  page  132. — Ed. 


A  Magazine  IVownen  Believe  fit 

Being  a  mother  of  three  stalwart  Lehigh  Sig 
Eps  (John,  '44,  Richard,  '46,  Herbert,  Jr.,  '51), 
I  enjoy  reading  the  JotniNAL  very  much.— Mrs. 
Herbert  F.  Gretz,  R.F.D.  No.  1,  West  Chester, 
Pa. 


Sportsmen  Miller  (left)   and  Raffensberger. 


131 


Florida  Helps  the  Help  Week 

In  their  college  town  of  Gainesville,  University  of  Florida  Sig  Eps  impress 
the  public  by  painting  traflBc  signal  lightposts  from  Court  House  to  campus. 


THE  Florida  chapter  gave  a  substantial 
boost  to  the  constructive  work  week 
movement  last  October  when  the  pledges 
co-operated  with  the  mayor  of  Gainesville 
to  do  some  civic  refurbishing. 

The  Work  Week  officially  began  on  a 
Thursday  when  15  pledges  began  the  task 
of  painting  a  long  row  of  traffic  lights  on 
University  Avenue.  They  scraped  the  old 
paint  off  on  Thursday,  applied  the  new  on 
Friday. 

To  get  the  Sig  Eps  down  on  record  as 
being  the  first  campus  group  to  hold  a  con- 
structive work  week,  the  chamber  of  com- 
merce arranged  a  fitting  ceremony.  An 
official  presented  chapter  president  Roland 
Hitt  with  a  brush  and  a  scraper.  The  chap- 
ter's "Fighting  Gator  Band"  played  lustily. 
Traffic  was  blocked  by  crowds  of  interested 
spectators.  A  movie  camera  cranked  so  that 
the  proceedings  could  later  be  telecast  on 
station  WMBR,  Jacksonville. 

Other  public  officials  appeared.  President 
J.  Hillis  Miller  of  the  University  of  Florida, 
a  University  of  Richmond  Sig  Ep,  stood  by, 
a  broad  smile  creasing  his  handsome  face. 
He  was  as  happy  as  any  of  the  actives  that 
an  old  practice  which  had  frequently  given 
fraternity  row  a  bad  name  with  the  public 
was  here  being  replaced  by  a  safe  and 
sane  method  for  achieving  a  proud  repu- 
tation. 

Before  the  fall  term  began,  Florida  Alpha 
officers,  having  decided  to  make  sensible  use 
of  the  chapter's  considerable  pledge  power. 


Florida  Sig  Ep  pledges  remove  paint 
from  traffic  lamp-posts  on  University 
Avenue,  Gainesville,  during  Fraternity 
Row's  first  Help  Week  on  that  campus. 
Next  day  new  paint  was  applied.  Top 
to  bottom:  Virgil  Jernigan,  Fort  Pierce; 
Pete  Bagdanovich,  Pensacola;  and  Everette 
Fischer,   Orlando.   Each   crew   had   3   men. 


Idea  To  Grow 


By   BILL   MOREDOCK 


approached  Gainesville's  city  fathers  about 
giving  assistance  on  a  worthwhile  city 
project. 

The  program  was  set  up  with  the  idea  in 
mind  of  modernizing  pre-initiation  practices 
by  working  on  constructive  projects  for  the 
community.  Also  to  improve  relations  with 
the  community  and  to  instill  in  the  pledges 
the  realization  of  the  necessity  of  working 
together  to  reach  higher  goals  in  the  frater- 
nity and  in  later  life. 

The  Mayor's  office  gave  blessing.  The  city 
manager  suggested  the  project.  The  pledges 
themselves  were  enthusiastic  over  the  pros- 
pect of  being  the  first  class  to  entertain  such 
an  opportunity  in  the  history  of  Sigma  Phi 
Epsilon  in  Florida. 


Our   Cover 

UNIVERSITY  of  Florida  President  J. 
Hillis  Miller,  University  of  Richmond, 
'24,  is  always  right  there  to  help  a  worthy 
cause,  even  though  he  may  get  some  paint 
on  him.  In  the  picture  on  the  cover  he  is 
shown  on  a  ladder  applying  a  new  coat  of 
paint  to  a  lamp-post  on  University  Ave- 
nue in  Gainesville. 

The  City  Manager  (left)  and  Director 
of  Public  Utilities  for  the  city  of  Gaines- 
ville stand  by  to  help.  Florida  Alpha 
pledges  in  the  background  are,  from  left: 
Neils  Lahr,  Bob  Frarie,  and  Embree 
Dowling, 

With  such  wonderful  assistance,  Florida 
Sig  Eps  staged  the  first  "Constructive  Hell 
Week"  by  a  fraternity  at  the  University 
of  Florida.  The  pledges  were  responsible 
for  improving  the  appearance  of  Univer- 
sity Avenue  by  painting  a  long  row  of 
lamp-posts. 

President  Miller,  who  was  formerly 
dean  at  Bucknell  and  Associate  Commis- 
sioner of  Education  of  New  York  State, 
once  even  helped  a  worthy  campus  cause 
by  mowing  the  lawn  at  the  Sigma  Chi 
house. 


Florida  chapter  president  Roland  Hitt  and  Constructive  Hell  Week  Chairman  Bill  More- 
dock  are  given  a  scraper  and  paintbrush  by  Gainesville  Chamber  of  Commerce  secretary. 

133 


Basil  O'Connor,  Dartmouth,  '12,  shown  with  President  Truman,  was  president  of  the 
American  Red  Cross  until  1949  and  heads  National  Foundation  for  Infantile  Paralysis. 


He  Heads  the 
March  of  Dimes 

Basil  O'Connor,  Dartmouth,  '12, 
one  of  nation's  alltime  champions 
of  pubhc  health,  is  the  world's 
bellwether  in  fight  against  poho. 

FEW  men  are  alive  today  who  have  per- 
formed as  eflFectively  in  the  service  of 
humanity  as  Basil  O'Connor,  Dartmouth, 
'12.  He  has  probably  raised  more  publicly 
contributed  money  for  the  benefit  of  man- 
kind than  any  other  individual  in  history. 
As  wartime  leader  of  the  American  Red 
Cross  he  had  the  responsibility  of  raising 
more  than  a  half-billion  dollars  for  that 
organization  of  mercy  during  1945-49.  As 
president  of  the  National  Foundation  of 
Infantile  Paralysis,  which  organization  he 
has  headed  since  its  begirming  in  1938,  and 


still  heads,  he  has  collected  nearly  a  quarter 
of  a  million  dollars.  Much  of  this  was 
achieved  in  March  of  Dimes  campaigns, 
which  the  late  Franklin  D.  Roosevelt  so 
enthusiastically  assisted. 

Basil  O'Connor,  who  celebrates  his  25th 
year  in  humanitarian  work  this  month,  as 
well  as  his  60th  birthday,  has  never  accepted 
a  salary  from  these  organizations.  He  gains 
his  livelihood  as  head  of  the  law  firm  of 
O'Connor  and  Farber  in  New  York  and  was 
law  partner  of  Roosevelt  from  1925  until 
1933.  He  avoids  politics.  He  is  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  National  Conference  of 
Christians  and  Jews.  He  has  been  honored 
by  a  score  of  governments  for  his  services 
on  behalf  of  human  welfare. 

In  the  perspective  of  college  brotherhood 
it  is  pleasant  to  believe  that  Basil  O'Connor's 
experience  as  president  of  the  Dartmouth 
College  Sig  Ep  chapter  helped  to  persuade 
him  that  humanitarian  work  is  brotherhood 
work. 

His  driving  devotion  to  his  humanitarian 
work  has  always  far  outstripped  his  desire 
to  earn  great  sums  of  money  through  prac- 
tice of  the  lav^'. 


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Those  who  know  him  well  say  that  he 
works  harder  than  any  other  volunteer  or 
professional  worker  associated  with  him.  No 
big-name  figurehead  who  receives  reports 
and  attends  occasional  meetings,  he  enters 
vigorously  into  the  fabric  of  the  organiza- 
tions with  which  he  works  and  he  is  in  firm 
personal  control  at  all  times.  He  is  said  to 
know  more  about  polio,  for  example,  than 
any  other  layman  in  the  nation.  He  familiar- 
izes himself  with  details,  he  asks  questions 
constantly  and  he  insists  on  realistic  answers. 
He  often  takes  the  opposite  view  with  his 
staff  to  find  out,  in  his  lawyer's  way,  how 
well  they  can  set  forth  their  position. 

When  he  was  with  the  Red  Cross  he 
made  man-killing  tours  of  the  country  speak- 
ing on  behalf  of  the  organization,  getting  to 
know  volunteers,  tightening  up  the  organi- 
zation. He  went  directly  into  this  ordeal 
right  after  touring  for  the  March  of  Dimes. 

As  this  is  written,  he  has  been  constantly 
in  the  field  preparing  for  the  National  Foun- 
dation's 1952  March  of  Dimes.  This  year  he 
took  time  off  from  his  campaign  tour  to 
spend  a  week— as  he  does  twice  a  year— with 
the  National  Foundation's  medical  advisory 
committee  on  research  and  professional  edu- 
cation, which  considers  and  recommends 
grants  to  be  made. 

He  is  a  stickler  for  accuracy  in  all  things, 
but  especially  in  those  that  might  result  in  a 
better  chance  for  the  handicapped  child.  He 
surrounds  himself  with  a  tightly  knit  organi- 
zation of  professionals  but  is  death  on  pro- 
fessional "gobbledegook,"  forever  insisting 
that  nothing  is  so  complicated  that  it  cannot 
be  expressed  clearly. 

Above  all,  Mr.  O'Connor  is  a  zealot  for 
the  positive  approach.  He  was  among  the 
first  to  apply  the  theories  of  positive  public 
relations  to  the  voluntary  health  field. 

Basil  O'Connor  started  this  life  as  the  son 
of  a  poor  family.  He  began  earning  money 
at  ten  as  a  newsboy  in  his  native  Taunton, 
Mass.;  later,  he  worked  as  a  soda-jerk  in 
drug  stores  during  vacation,  and  helped  pay 
his  way  through  Dartmouth  by  playing  the 
violin  in  college  orchestras.  After  Dartmouth 
he  studied  law  at  Harvard  University. 

He  fits  well  as  a  leading  alumnus  figure  in 
the  brotherhood  of  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon. 


38,OOOTH    SIG    EP 


JAMES  W.  GRAF 
Miami  University   (Ohio) 

JAMES  W.  GRAF,  better  kno^vn  as  "Kim" 
to  his  brothers  at  Ohio  Eta,  was  initiated 
into  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  on  October  28, 
1951,  thus  becoming  the  38,000th  Sig 
Ep. 

Kim  is  a  junior  in  the  school  of  busi- 
ness administration  at  Miami  University. 
He  is  from  Hamilton,  Ohio,  where  he  was 
born  on  September  20,   1931. 

Athletics  are  Kim's  major  interests  as 
he  served  as  pledge  athletic  chairman  and 
has  played  on  virtually  all  the  fraternity's 
athletic  teams.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Newman  Club.  Kim  has  been  able  to 
purchase  several  items  for  the  chapter  at 
large  discounts  because  of  his  useful  con- 
nections in  Hamilton.  His  major  efforts 
now  are  directed  toward  improving  his 
grades  which,  up  until  this  term,  have 
proved  his  weak  point. 

Men  of  the  Miami  University  chapter 
are  proud  of  Brother  James  W.  Graf  and 
are  happy  that  the  38,000th  initiate  of 
the    national    Fraternity    is    one    of   their 


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Ntns    C.iand  Officer  Paul  B.  Slater. 

Affable  An^eleno 
Takes  a  Seat 

Paul  Slater,  U.S.C,  '30,  will  bring 
to  grand  office  councils  a  peer- 
less armamentarium  for  forming 
policies    for   living   brotherhood. 

MEN  who  saw  Paul  B.  Slater  in  action  at 
the  Los  Angeles,  Kansas  City,  Chi- 
cago, or  Richmond  Conclaves  all  recognized 
him  as  a  dynamically  brilliant  thinker  who 
keeps  plugging  a  good  idea  restlessly  until 
it  gets  to  the  action  stage  where  it  will  do 
Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  some  good. 

They  were  happy  to  see  him  seated  as  a 
Grand  Chapter  officer  in  September. 

This  University  of  Southern  California  Sig 
Ep  of  the  class  of  '30  who  became  Junior 
Grand  Marshal  at  the  Richmond  Conclave, 
has  worked  with  the  California  chapters 
since  September,  1943,  when  he  became 
their  district  governor.  He  has  worked 
closely  with  his  own  chapter  ever  since  his 
graduation,  is  chapter  adviser  and  a  member 


of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  house  cor- 
poration. He  has  been  president  of  the  large, 
active  Los  Angeles  Alumni  Chapter  and  for 
five  years  served  as  its  secretary.  Last  year 
he  served  as  president  of  the  Interfraternity 
Alumni  Association  of  Southern  California. 
His  record  in  fraternity  work  is  lengthy  and 
every  syllable  of  it  smacks  of  high-caliber 
leadership. 

Paul  Slater  is  fully  sold  on  the  role  of  fra- 
ternity in  the  development  of  a  better 
America.  The  chief  role  in  Paul's  own  devel- 
opment has  been  Paul  himself  and  he  knows 
the  good  and  the  bad  influences  for  forma- 
tive young  collegians.  He  is  self-made. 

A  man  is  a  part  of  all  the  experiences  he 
has  encountered,  of  all  the  background  the 
varying  currents  of  life  have  rubbed  him 
against;  of  his  parents,  also,  and  other  fore- 
bears. 

This  Sig  Ep  whom  all  Sig  Eps  should  be 
proud  to  know  as  an  officer  of  the  Grand 
Chapter  was  born  in  Los  Angeles  in  1906 
in  the  middle  of  what  is  today  Skid  Row. 
His  dad  died  when  he  was  seven,  and  Paul 
learned  to  work  in  his  boyhood,  doing  odd 
chores,  and  joining  the  Boy  Scouts  and 
idolizing  one  particular  Scoutmaster  who 
taught  him  many  things.  During  his  years 
in  high  school  he  worked  during  his  spare 
time  in  the  library— the  morgue— of  the 
Illustrated  Daily  News  and  the  Los  Angeles 
Examiner,  an  experience  which  gave  him  the 
ambition  to  become  a  journalist. 

He  had  learned  good  study  habits,  which 
made  him  a  better  than  average  student, 
and  these  he  carried  with  him  to  the  campus 
at  U.S.C,  where  he  made  a  fine  scholastic 
record.  Working  six  to  eight  hours  nearly 
every  night  at  a  title  company,  he  still 
raised  the  chapter's  grade  average  and  par- 
ticipated in  a  host  of  campus  activities.  His 
versatile  interests  and  talents  are  represented 
in  the  following  offices  he  held  and  distinc- 
tions achieved:  Alpha  Kappa  Psi  commerce 
fraternity.  Beta  Alpha  Psi  accounting,  Alpha 
Eta  Rho  aviation,  president  of  the  sopho- 
more class,  president  of  the  student  body  of 
the  college  of  commerce.  Still  interested  in 
journalism,  and  possessing  a  marked  flair  for 
it,  he  became  a  feature  writer  for  the  Daily 
Trojan,  business  manager  of  the  Wampus 
humor  magazine. 


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Came  graduation  and  Paul  decided  to  test 
his  prowess  in  accountancy  by  going  to  work 
for  Western  Air  Lines  in  that  department. 
After  a  year,  he  left  to  take  a  job  with  the 
Keystone  Publishing  Company,  not  in  ac- 
counting, but  as  editor  of  a  trade  magazine. 
A  year  of  that  and  he  decided  to  switch  to 
the  Western  Lithograph  Company  as  a 
sales  representative.  More  money.  He  re- 
mained here  for  nearly  ten  years  when  he 
in  1941  joined  Shaw  and  Company,  dis- 
tributors of  aircraft  bolts  and  tools,  as  gen- 
eral manager.  In  1946  he  resigned  so  that 
he  could  organize  his  own  company,  the 
Paul  B.  Slater  Company,  distributors  of  pre- 
cision metal-cutting  tools  and  inspection 
equipment.  This  is  not  a  manufacturing  firm 
as  stated  in  error  in  the  November  Journal. 

So  much  for  the  serious  career  record.  It 
is  an  important  phase  of  the  reader's  intro- 
duction to  Brother  Slater. 

A  man  has  to  be  pretty  good  to  climb  up 
the  rungs  of  the  ladder  so  well,  but  what 
does  the  man  look  like? 

You  first  observe  Paul  Slater's  genial  smile 
—an  unusually  sincere  smile— and  his 
friendly,  deep  voice.  He  has  wavy  black  hair 
and  hazel  eyes,  is  usually  pretty  well  tanned, 
thanks  to  sunny  California.  His  height  is 
five-eight,  his  weight  160.  As  a  personality 
type  he  is  doubtless  the  aflFable  extrovert  but 
he  is  also  a  fairly  profound  analyst  of  intan- 
gibles. Though  he  is  a  successful  business 
man  today,  he  does  not  by  any  means 
leave  ideals  out  of  the  picture  as  so  many 
of  them  seem  inclined  to. 

He  readily  tells  his  young  Cal  Beta 
brothers  that  each  man  must  determine  his 
own  career.  "Study  for  something  in  col- 
lege," he  urges.  "Not  just  a  cultural  course. 
Learn  some  practical  things  that  you  can 
offer  to  an  employer.  Listen  to  experience. 
Talk  to  business  and  professional  men,  not 
just  professors.  Things  are  being  done  out- 
side of  colleges  and  textbooks  that  profs 
never  hear  about." 

These  tips  are  extracted  from  Paul's  own 
notebook  of  hard-and-fast  experience.  "Don't 
get  impatient,"  Paul  says.  "Give  more  than 
you're  being  paid  for  and  eventually  you'll 
be  paid  for  more  than  you  give." 

In  his  broader  philosophy,  Paul  feels  that 


Neiv  Chapters 

I  South  Carolina  chapter  was  re-established 
December  15.  It  was  first  chartered  on 
May  2,  1904,  withdrawn  in  1906,  re- 
established in  1929  and  again  withdrawn  in 
1938.  Among  those  officiating  at  ceremonies 
were  Grand  Secretary  Hindman  and  As- 
sistant to  Grand  Secretary  Petersen.  This 
makes  Number  109. 

■      Indiana  State  Teachers  College,  Pennsyl- 
vania, received  a  charter  as  the  Frater- 
nity's 110th  chapter  on  January  5.  Phi  Sigma 
local  became  Pennsylvania  Xi. 

H      The  first  chapter  for  the  state  of  Arizona 
is    scheduled    for   installation  at   Arizona 
State,  Tempe,  Ariz.,  on  February  16.  It  will 
be  the  111th  chapter. 

I  Installation  ceremonies  have  also  been 
scheduled  for  the  Pegis  Club  at  the 
Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology  in 
Boston,  as  the  fourth  chapter  in  the  state, 
the  112th  in  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon,  on  February 
23. 


while  technically  our  way  of  life  has  ad- 
vanced, human  worth  has  been  somewhat 
adulterated  through  careless  standards. 
"We've  lost  our  ability  to  have  confidence 
in  others,"  he  says.  "If  our  educational 
system  could  and  would  rebuild  our  faith  in 
ourselves  and  our  fellow  man  it  would  be  the 
salvation  of  this  sorry  world." 

Although  fraternities,  including  Sigma  Phi 
Epsilon,  are  doing  their  share,  he  feels  they 
could  do  even  better.  National  fraternities 
would  be  better  equipped  to  carry  on  their 
work,  he  believes,  if  they  would  get  together 
to  establish  an  "Interfraternity  Center" 
somewhere  in  the  Midwest  where  all  N.I.C. 
fraternities  would  have  their  central  busi- 
ness offices,  using  centralized  facilities  for 
services  such  as  printing,  addressograph,  and 
the  like. 

Although  Paul  confesses  that  he  still  has 
his  nose  to  the  grindstone  trying  to  get  his 
business  to  a  point  where  it  will  run  itself, 
he  allows  nothing  to  interfere  with  his  prin- 
cipal hobby— his  Fraternity.  His  best  friends 
are  Sig  Eps. 

His  luckiest  break:  meeting  Margaret  Ann 
(Peggie)  Weber,  whom  he  married  in  1931. 
They  have  no  children.  Their  home  is  in 
San  Gabriel,  about  11  miles  from  L.A.,  at 
421  North  Segovia  Avenue. 


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Group  of  fraternity  leaders  enjoy  dinner  at  N.I.C.  meeting  in  November.  Grand  Sec- 
retary William  W.  Hindman,  Jr.,  third  from  left  at  speakers'  table,  heads  secretaries. 

The  N.I.C.  Sta^s  Its  43rd  Revival 

On  the  175th  Anniversary  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  it  holds  its  1951  program 
in  Virginia,  with  the  same  theme  as  in  years  past  and  similar  agenda. 

By   JOHN   ROBSOI¥,   Lawrence    College,    '28 


RESPECTING  the  birth  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
at  the  College  of  William  and  Mary 
one  and  three-quarters  centuries  ago,  one 
of  the  most  conglomerate  and  populous  as- 
semblages of  collegiate  Greeks  that  has  ever 
gathered  in  one  place  under  one  banner 
traveled  to  Virginia  in  November. 

It  was  a  pilgrimage  of  Panhellenic  penin- 
sulans  that  might  cause  true  Grecian  natives 
to  feel  like  pretenders.  They  ranged  in  age 
from  19  years  to  close  to  90  and  their 
numbers  must  have  run  into  thousands. 

There  were  the  Phi  Beta  Kappas  them- 
selves whose  historic  through-glory-to-the- 
stars  body  is  a  member  of  the  Association  of 
College  Honor  Societies. 

There  were  the  social  sorority  women, 
whose  association  is  the  National  Panhellenic 
Conference.  They  met  at  Williamsburg;  the 
other  groups  at  Old  Point  Comfort. 

There  were  the  professional  sorority 
women,  whose  group  is  the  Professional  Pan- 
hellenic Association. 

There  were  the  professional  men  of  the 
Professional  Interfraternity  Conference. 

There  were  the  august  minions  of  the 
Interfraternity  Research  and  Advisory  Coun- 


cil, headed  by  L.  G.  Balfour,  jeweler  to  the 
interfraternity  world. 

Finally  there  were  the  men  of  the  Na- 
tional Interfraternity  Conference,  an  asso- 
ciation of  59  men's  social  fraternities,  of 
which  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  is  one.  This  is 
a  nonlegislative  body;  it  purports  merely  to 
advise,  counsel,  correlate,  and  interpret.  This 
conference  has  in  the  last  few  years  accom- 
modated as  a  wing  some  undergraduate 
members  of  the  same  fraternities.  However, 
these  undergraduates  were  not  brought  here 
by  their  fraternities  but  were  sent  as  repre- 
sentatives of  the  interfraternity  councils  on 
their  campuses. 

Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  was  represented  offi- 
cially at  the  N.I.C.  by  Grand  President  Luis 
Roberts,  Grand  Secretary  William  W.  Hind- 
man,  Jr.,  Grand  Secretary  Emeritus  William 
L.  Phillips,  and  Journal  Editor  John  Rob- 
son. 

Bill  Hindman  is  1951-52  president  of  the 
College  Fraternity  Secretaries  Association, 
whose  members,  along  with  the  delegates  of 
the  undergraduate  conference,  have  a  direct 
pertinent  connection  with  Fraternity  Row. 
The  secretaries  are  full-time  fraternity  ex- 


138 


perts.  Though  they  held  a  brief  business 
meeting,  many  of  them  professed  that  at- 
tendance at  the  Conference  repaid  them 
best  in  small  informal  sessions  among  them- 
selves. 

Among  Sig  Ep  undergraduates  present 
were  Harold  S.  Myers  of  the  University  of 
Nebraska  and  Ralph  Gesell  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Delaware. 

At  least  one  Sig  Ep  was  a  delegate  to  the 
men's  professional  conference:  Dr.  Emmett 
B.  Carmichael,  Colorado  Alpha,  currently 
president  of  Phi  Beta  Pi  Medical  Fraternity 
and  a  former  editor  of  its  quarterly. 

Also  present  at  the  Conference  were  As- 
sistants to  the  Grand  Secretary  Frank  J. 
Ruck,  Jr.  and  Carl  O.  Petersen. 

Delegates  to  the  N.I.C.  met  in  the  Hotel 
Chamberlain,  Old  Point  Comfort,  on  Novem- 
ber 27,  28,  and  29,  to  participate  in  a  pro- 
gram that  was  for  the  most  part  a  replica 
of  that  of  1950. 

The  oldster  division  of  the  Conference  has 
for  years  been  quarterbacked  by  a  New 
York  coterie  that  is  a  world  removed  from 
the  perspective  of  chapter-house  life. 

So-called  Business  Sessions 

Following  the  opening  of  the  sessions  on 
Friday  morning  some  time  was  given  to 
reports  and  the  announcement  of  commit- 
tees. Then  Clifton  W.  Phalen,  Phi  Gamma 
Delta,  chairman  of  the  N.I.C.  Committee 
on  Public  Relations,  presided  at  a  panel 
discussion  on  public  relations.  He  had  done 
this  before  at  the  1950  N.I.C.  His  panel 
members  included  a  fraternity  national  presi- 
dent, a  university  dean  of  administration, 
and  a  career  public  relations  man— Richard 
Powell,  assistant  to  the  president  of  N.  W. 
Ayer  &  Son,  advertising  and  public  rela- 
tions agency. 

The  Institute  committee  of  the  Conference 
recommended  a  public  relations  program 
for  the  N.I.C.  which  would—  ^ 

1.  Support  an  intensified  eflFort  on  public 
relations  through  the  National  Interfrater- 
nity  Foundation  and  to  raise  necessary 
money  to  improve  fraternity  scholarship, 
conduct,  attitudes,  and  public  acceptance. 

2.  Induce  all  fraternity  men  to  take  an 
active  interest  in  making  their  fraternity  a 


N.I.C.  Chairman  Ray  Warnock  addressing 
Sig  Ep  Conclave  in  September  about  two 
months   before  his   death  at  Penn  State. 


better  fraternity— physically,  morally,  intel- 
lectually, and  socially. 

This  committee  also  recommended  estab- 
lishment of  a  National  Interfraternity  Week. 
"It  is  our  behef,"  the  report  baldly  stated, 
"'that  we  who  are  mostly  interested  in  fra- 
ternities have  been  the  ones  who  have 
failed  them  so  badly." 

The  Friday  afternoon  session  of  the  pro- 
gram introduced  four  separate  round  tables, 
held  in  various  auditoriums,  each  under  its 
own  chairman,  as  follows:  Spiritual  Values 
in  Fraternities,  led  by  Maj.  Gen.  Charles  I. 
Carpenter,  chief  of  Air  Force  chaplains; 
Chapter  Relations  with  Alumni,  led  by 
Worthy  Grand  Master  of  Kappa  Sigma 
Francis  S.  Van  Derbur;  Chapter  Activities, 
led  by  Alpha  Tau  Omega  executive  secre- 
tary Stewart  D.  Daniels;  and  Greek  Weeks, 
led  by  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  Eminent  Su- 
preme Recorder  John  O.  Moseley. 

That  evening  members  of  the  College 
Fraternity  Secretaries  Association  and  the 
College  Fraternity  Editors  Association  held 
a  joint  dinner  and  meeting  which  were 
chiefly  social. 

The  third  and  final  session  of  the  Confer- 
ence, on  Saturday  morning,  was  addressed 
by  Col.  D.  O.  Omer,  general  counsel  to 
the  Selective  Service  OflBce,  on  the  subject 
"Selective  Service  and  Other  Military  Fac- 


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•      ••••**** 
A  Collegian  Views  the  N.I.C. 


By  HAROLD   S.  MYERS 
University  of  Nebraska 

THE  undergraduate  conference  of  the  N.I.C. 
at  Old  Point  Comfort,  in  the  two  brief  days 
that  the  meeting  took  place,  taught  me  the 
importance  of  fraternities  working  together. 

I  enjoyed  the  good  fortune  of  serving  as 
chairman  of  the  scholarship  functions  com- 
mittee. In  our  discussions  many  ideas  were 
exchanged  for  fostering  better  scholarship 
programs  on  our  campuses.  I  believe  high 
scholarship  should  be  one  of  the  main  goals 
of  every  fraternity  man  and  that  through 
working  with  the  IFC  every  chapter  should 
put  in  real  effort  towards  raising  the  stand- 
ard on  its  campus.  Many  undergraduates  at 
the  conference  said  they  were  going  to  take 
the  suggestions  they  obtained  back  to  their 
various  schools  and  get  them  into  their  pro- 
grams. 

Another  point  that  highlighted  the  con- 
ference was  the  discussion  of  Greek  Weeks 
and  Help  Weeks.  The  fraternity  men  of 
America  might  continue  to  promote  the  old 
kind  of  pre-initiation  week,  but  to  what  end 
or  satisfaction?  In  view  of  the  way  in  which 
public  opinion  is  mounting,  it  seems  to  me 
that  the  time  is  over-ripe  for  every  Sig  Ep 
chapter  that  has  not  already  done  so  to  turn 
its  next  Hell  Week  into  a  Help  Week.  Let 
the  public  look  on  all  our  chapters  and  on 
the  whole  Greek-letter  system  with  respect 
instead  of  contempt.  Greek  Week  can  make 
the  fraternity  strong  and  above  reproach.  In- 
telligently planned  and  conducted,  this  one 
week  can  probably  do  more  good  in  letting 
the  public  get  to  know  us  through  our  good 
works  than  any  other  activity  on  our  campus. 

While  a  lot  of  money  and  time  were  spent 
in  promoting  and  carrying  out  the  program 
of  this  conference,  I  do  not  believe  any 
gathering  can  equal  this  one  in  the  cause  of 
fraternities.  Spirit  and  co-operation  lent 
themselves  fully  to  a  conference  in  which  I 
was  extremely  proud  to  play  a  part. 

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tors  which  May  Affect  1952  College  En- 
rollments." In  view  of  a  host  of  uncertainties, 
no  positive  assertion  could  be  made  respect- 
ing the  male  collegian. 

At  this  session  also,  a  nominating  com- 
mittee presented  a  slate  of  new  officers 
which  the  delegates  accepted.  They  are: 
chairman,  Charles  E.  Pledger,  Jr.,  Theta 
Delta  Chi;  vice-chairman,  C.  R.  Yeager,  Pi 
Kappa  Alpha;  secretary,  Lloyd  S.  Cochran, 
Alpha  Sigma  Phi;  treasurer,  Joseph  A.  Mc- 
Cusker,  Theta  Chi;  and  educational  ad- 
viser. Dean  J.  Fenton  Daugherty,  Phi  Kappa 
Psi. 

Ideals  and  the  Undergraduate 

Officials  of  this  43rd  conference  in  plan- 
ning their  agenda  did  not  take  up  where  the 
42nd  meeting  left  off.  They  merely  started 
with  a  clean  sheet.  The  oldsters  gathered 
there  did  hear  the  report  of  a  newly  formed 
committee  on  Ideals  and  Spiritual  Inspira- 
tion that  it  had  never  heard  before.  This 
committee  had  been  set  up  by  the  late  Ar- 
thur Ray  Warnock,  Beta  Theta  Pi,  before 
he  died  November  4,  1951,  in  his  twelfth 
month  as  Conference  chairman. 

Dean  Warnock,  perhaps  one  of  the  half- 
dozen  best  chairmen  the  N.I.C.  has  had 
since  its  launching  in  1909,  had  obviously 
envisioned  his  plan  against  the  background 
of  a  noble  piece  of  Scripture.  Though  he 
died  before  he  had  had  a  chance  to  prepare 
his  chairman's  report,  now  his  committee 
existed;  it  had  personnel;  it  had  made  a  re- 
port. It  still  needed  the  power  of  the  golden- 
rule  heart  to  give  it  full  dimension. 

The  undergraduates— the  fraternity  men 
who  live  fraternity  and  who  breathe  living 
spirit  into  the  term  "College  Fraternity"— 
held  a  conference  of  their  own  which  was 
actually  stimulating  to  the  participants. 
Among  outstanding  leaders  in  their  own 
group,  the  discussants  went  over  Greek 
Week,  Selectivity,  Scholarship,  Chapter 
Public  Relations,  and  other  pertinent  sub- 
jects in  their  every-day  lives. 

These  sessions  were  well  conducted  by 
Horace  G.  Nichol,  Delta  Upsilon.  Sig  Ep 
Harold  S.  Myers  of  the  University  of  Ne- 
braska headed  a  committee  which  dealt 
with  the  subject  of  scholarship.  He  was  one 


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of  the  four  or  five  collegians  privileged  to 
report  to  the  regular  N.I.C.  session.  All  these 
reports,  however,  were  given  in  the  same 
understandable  language  of  realistic  brother- 
hood. They  did  not  smack  of  the  gospel  of 
fraternity  that  is  contrived  in  the  tranquillity 
of  an  armchair  at  a  university  club.  Hence 
all  the  collegians  went  home  feeling  fairly 
repaid  for  the  time  and  effort  they  had 
put  in. 

The  Published  Reports 

A  printed  program  was  handed  to  the 
delegates  and  guests  of  the  Conference 
when  they  registered.  This  contained  also 
the  reports  of  officers  and  committees, 
though  these  reports  were  not  vocally  pre- 
sented or  discussed.  There  are  17  standing 
committees  and  7  special  committees. 

The  first  report  was  that  of  the  secretary 
of  the  N.I.C.  His  report  began:  "In  the 
South  Sea  Islands  deep-chested  natives  dive 
time  after  time,  bringing  up  handsful  [sic] 
of  oysters  in  the  hope  that  some  of  them 
may  contain  pearls.  A  diver  may  work  for 
hours  without  acquiring  more  than  the  basis 
for  a  stew.  The  efforts  of  the  Executive 
Committee  might  be  compared  to  these 
oysters  and  the  results  achieved  to  the  pearls 
found.  The  year  just  closed  was  active  and 
interesting  and  in  the  opinion  of  your  Secre- 
tary many  pearls  were  found." 

He  did  not  name  any. 

The  report  of  the  treasurer  revealed  with 
tasteful  brevity  that  $5,873  had  been  taken 
in  in  dues  for  the  calendar  year  1950,  the 
Conference  had  $7,971.04  on  hand,  and  no 
outstanding  indebtedness. 

The  report  of  the  committee  on  chapter- 
house discussions  urged  "more  and  better 
group  discussion  programs  at  chapter  fire- 
sides throughout  the  land." 

The  report  of  the  committee  on  Greek 
Weeks  and  regional  conferences  urged  the 
growth  of  Greek  Weeks  and  the  elimination 
of  Hell  Weeks.  It  urged  that  some  construc- 
tive community  service  be  included  in  Greek 
Week. 

The  report  of  the  membership  committee 
stated  that  no  new  applications  for  member- 
ship in  the  N.I.C.  were  received  during 
the  year. 


The  report  of  the  newly  formed  com- 
mittee on  ideals  and  spiritual  inspiration 
voiced  a  well-worn  keynote  in  stating  that 
"Our  fraternities  were  all  founded  on  ideals; 
noble  and  inspiring  thoughts  are  expressed 
in  our  rituals  and  one  of  the  first  steps 
to  be  taken  is  for  every  fraternity  man  to 
live  up  to  the  truths  in  which  he  professes 
to  beHeve."  It  contained  a  host  of  literary 
quotations. 

The  final  report— that  of  the  committee 
on  services  to  member  fraternities— pro- 
fessed it  had  nothing  to  present  in  1951 
"other  than  the  suggestion  that  our  mem- 
bers carefully  analyze  our  1950  report  which 
is  a  part  of  the  Year  Book  and  which  has 
been  widely  distributed."  It  concluded  wry- 
ly that  "This  report  contains  suggestions  and 
recommendations  on  which  no  action  has 
been  taken," 

The  1950  report  of  this  committee  is  as 
stimulating  as  it  is  lengthy.  Its  first  two 
recommendations  are  here  quoted  in  en- 
tirety, its  third  in  part: 

YEARBOOK.  The  Conference  Yearbook  should 
be  reduced  in  size,  be  distributed  as  soon  as 
humanly  possible  after  annual  meetings  of  the 
Conference,  and  should  be  published  on  a  self- 
sustaining  basis.  It  should  be  edited  in  such 
form  as  will  enable  it  to  command  wide  reading 
by  fraternity  and  college  officials  and  by  mem- 
bers of  undergraduate  chapters. 

ANNUAL  MEETINGS.  Occasional  annual  meet- 
ings of  the  Conference  should  be  held  in  central 
locations  throughout  the  country.  Though  New 
York  is  normally  the  most  convenient  place  of 
assembly  for  Conference  and  fraternity  officers 
residing  in  the  eastern  areas,  an  occasional 
annual  meeting  in  other  areas  would  have  the 
advantage  of  stimulating  interest  in  the  Con- 
ference and  the  fraternity  movement  elsewhere 
in  the  country. 

UNDERGRADUATE     PARTICIPATION     IN     ANNUAL 

MEETINGS.  Your  committcc  believes  that  under- 
graduate participation  in  the  annual  meetings  of 
the  Conference  is  highly  desirable,  both  as  a 
way  of  acquainting  undergraduates  with  the 
work  of  the  Conference  and  of  bringing  the 
undergraduate  views  to  the  attention  of  adult 
delegates.  It  is  of  the  opinion,  however,  that 
member  fraternities'  interests  can  best  be  served 
if  the  undergraduates  present  are  representa- 
tives of  the  interests  of  individual  fraternities  as 
are  the  adult  delegates. 

Whether  the  1951-52  officers  would  pro- 
duce some  helpful  action  from  these  con- 


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"The  Undergraduate  Conference  of  the 
N.I.C.  gave  us  an  opportunity  to  exchange 
problems,  solutions,  and  viewpoints.  How- 
ever, the  undergraduates  have  no  part  as 
a  governing  or  policy-making  body.  They 
are  merely  guests  of  the  N.I.C.  Conference 
and  are  set  aside  to  talk  things  over  and 
acquire  an  over-all  knowledge  of  the  fra- 
ternity systems.  Advisers  were  appointed 
at  each  session  as  an  aid  from  the  N.I.C.  to 
answer  questions. 

"I  was  greatly  impressed  by  the  vastness 
of  the  fraternity  system  as  a  whole  and 
the  extensive  program  it  carried  out.  To 
get  together  and  discuss  problems  with 
men  from  all  the  fraternities  over  the 
entire  country  made  me  conscious  of  this. 

"The  two  most  valuable  parts  of  the 
conference  were  the  panel  discussions  and 
the  after-hour,  informal  exchanges  of 
ideas.  The  panel  discussions,  however,  had 
the  disadvantages  of  large-size  groups  and 
the  shortage  of  time. 

"It  was  through  these  contacts  that  the 
delegates  obtained  the  core  of  material 
to  take  back  to  their  own  IFCs. 

"The  conference  afforded  an  excellent 
opportunity  to  establish  new  acquain- 
tances and  renew  old  fraternity  friend- 
ships."— Ralph   Gesell,  Delaware  Alpha 


structive   and   thoughtful   recommendations 
remained  to  be  seen. 

The  social  climax  of  the  Hellenic  pilgrim- 
age was  the  formal  banquet  of  the  Interfra- 
ternity  Research  and  Advisory  Council  at 
the  Hotel  Chamberlain,  on  Saturday  eve- 
ning, November  29,  where  delegates  of  all 
groups  were  brought  together  as  guests. 
President  Arthur  S.  Flemming  of  Ohio  Wes- 
leyan  University,  chairman  of  the  Man- 
power Policy  Commission,  Office  of  Defense 
Mobihzation,  spoke  on  emergencies  in  U.  S. 
manpower. 

Was  Anything  Accomplished? 

Though  the  N.I.C.  after  nearly  half  a  cen- 
tury is  still  very  much  a  nebula  whirring  in 
chaos,  the  Virginia  meeting  afforded  the 
undergraduates  an  impetus  to  which  can 
be  imparted  an  increasing  amount  of  mo- 
mentum. Speaking  with  authority  from  the 
perspective  of  chapter-house  life,  they  were 
more  nearly  full-Hedged  participants  than 
they  had  ever  been.  The  committee  on 
their  own  conference  for  the  first  time  in- 


cluded four  of  their  own  number:  an  under- 
graduate each  from  Hamilton,  Colgate,  Rut- 
gers, and  Pennsylvania,  who  met  in  New 
York  for  a  planning  committee. 

The  Virginia  meeting  also  witnessed  the 
first  report  of  the  committee  on  ideals  and 
spiritual  values  already  mentioned.  The 
committee  did  miss  a  splendid  chance  to 
demonstrate  the  high  pertinence  of  these  in- 
tangibles to  brotherhood.  This  chance  oc- 
curred when  the  national  president  of  a 
fraternity  arose  from  his  seat,  to  allege  that 
another  national  had  stolen  one  of  its  chap- 
ters and  that  the  case  was  now  being  liti- 
gated in  the  courts.  And  yet  who  ought  to 
speak  about  ideals  and  spiritual  values  at 
such  a  time  or  attempt  to  apply  them  to  a 
case  of  brotherhood  in  point? 

Who  would  say,  "God  be  praised,  gentle- 
men, for  brotherhood  is  still  being  enjoyed 
in  that  'stolen'  chapter.  The  real  possession, 
which  is  the  possession  of  brotherhood,  has 
not  been  stolen.  If  any  man  take  away  thy 
coat,  let  him  have  thy  cloak  also." 

It  was  fitting  that  the  ideals  should  be 
expressed;  no  attempt  need  be  made  to 
apply  them  merely  because  a  chapter  is 
supposed  to  have  been  stolen.  Is  not  mo- 
rality the  business  of  Heaven?  Are  not  men 
on  earth  merely  to  let  themselves  continue 
to  slip  into  wars  and  continue  to  kill  their 
brothers?  Surely  they  are  not  to  try  to  teach 
them  by  example  how  to  get  along  with  one 
another.  Should  not  real  fraternity  be  per- 
mitted to  begin  in  the  barracks?  Well  ap- 
plauded had  been  the  ideals-and-spiritual- 
values  report  which  quoted  Shakespeare  in 
exclaiming,  "What  a  piece  of  work  is  man! 
How  noble  in  reason!" 

Thus  while  the  ideals  committee's  first 
report  was  replete  with  gems  from  ancient 
and  modern  literature  that  were  a  far  cry 
from  the  stage  of  application  in  practical 
fraternity  policy,  the  spirit,  isolated  in  its 
own  neo-pagan  nimbus,  was  at  least  there. 

Followers  of  the  official  interfraternity 
scene  will  await  new  gems  of  Scripture  and 
literature  in  the  report  of  next  year.  For 
therewith  the  realm  of  brotherhood  pro- 
gresses and  the  conference  of  the  men's  fra- 
ternities continues  to  achieve  new  mile- 
stones. 


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Colorado    A    &    M    collegian    Zanis    Bulavs    of 
Latvia.   The    Sig    Eps    teach    him   brotherhood. 


A  New  Course 
In  Brotherhood 

Home  of  Colorado  A  &  M  Sig  Eps 
aflFords  Zanis  Bulavs,  a  displaced 
lad  of  Latvia,  an  unforgettable 
curriculum   in   living   fraternity. 

ny    RODERT    R.    MELVIN 

IF  Zanis  Bulavs,  a  happy  student  in  the 
Colorado  Gamma  chapter  house,  ever 
gets  back  to  his  native  Latvia,  he  will  be 
well  qualified  to  promote  the  fraternity 
movement.  In  that  country  he  had  belonged 
to  a  small  fraternity  of  Latvian  students,  but 
it  was  very  different  from  Fraternity  Row 
in  the  U.S.,  he  says.  He  vows  that  he  has 
found  a  perfect  campus  life  at  the  Fort 
Collins  college. 

Zanis  received  an  opportunity  in  July  last 
year  to  come  to  America  as  a  displaced 
person.  He  was  chosen  from  a  list  of  dis- 
placed persons  submitted  to  the  Sig  Eps  by 
the  interfraternity  council,  moved  into  the 


house  when  he  arrived  here  to  attend  col- 
lege. 

Coming  from  Snepele,  Latvia,  Zanis  has 
seen  much  history  made.  In  1940  he  saw  his 
country  invaded  by  the  Russians,  and  only  a 
year  later  by  the  Germans.  Before  the  Rus- 
sians left,  however,  they  managed  to  send 
many  Latvians  to  Siberia— in  fact,  25,000  in 
one  night  in  1941.  Since  their  taking  over 
of  Latvia  again  in  1945,  many  more  of 
Zanis'  countrymen  have  ended  up  in  the 
cold  wastes  of  Siberia. 

Zanis  himself  did  not  see  the  Russians 
take  over  his  country  again,  since  in  1944 
he  was  taken  to  Germany  to  dig  trenches. 
Then  with  the  Russian  invasion  his  choice 
was  either  to  remain  in  Germany  as  a  dis- 
placed person,  or  return  to  Latvia,  which  is 
now  behind  the  iron  curtain.  With  the 
realization  that  only  a  dark  fate  awaited  him 
if  he  returned  to  his  homeland,  Zanis  chose 
to  stay  in  Germany  until  this  year  when  he 
got  an  opportunity  to  come  to  the  United 
States. 

Attending  Aggies  on  a  scholarship  oflFered 
by  the  foreign  student's  service  fund,  he  is 
majoring  in  civil  engineering.  Zanis  thinks, 
however,  that  he  will  need  only  two  more 
years  of  study  before  he  gets  his  degree, 
since  he  has  already  had  some  higher  educa- 
tion. This  he  got  when  he  attended  the 
Baltic  University  in  Germany  from  March, 
1946,  to  March,  1949. 

Having  taught  himself  English  out  of  a 
book,  Zanis  is  having  some  trouble,  espe- 
cially in  his  classes,  in  understanding  all 
that  is  said.  He  is  certain  though  that  living 
in  such  close  contact  with  Americans,  this 
difficulty  will  soon  be  corrected.  Zanis  has 
proved  himself  a  capable  and  willing  stu- 
dent and  is  quickly  becoming  adjusted  to 
our  way  of  Ufe.  He  is  enjoying  the  social 
functions  and  life  at  the  house  and  the  entire 
chapter  is  enjoying  having  him  living  there 
and  helping  him  feel  at  home. 

The  Sig  Eps  are  the  sole  sponsors  of  such 
a  project  at  Colorado  A  &  M,  and  we  have 
found  that  in  helping  this  displaced  person 
student  we  ourselves  have  benefited.  We 
have  learned  much  from  this  experience  and 
have  received  much  satisfaction  from  being 
able  to  help  such  a  fine,  deserving  person  as 
our  new  Latvian  friend  Zanis  Bulavs. 


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Kentucky  heads  list  of  Homecoming  firsts  with  house  decoration  that  is  handsome, 
clever,  professional  in  workmanship,  and  also  invites  alumni  to  watch  television. 

Happy,  Happy  Homecofflin^s  like  These 

Returning  alumni  are  proud  of  first-prize  winning  Kentucky,  Southern 
California,  Santa  Barbara,  Ohio  Northern,  Ohio  Wesleyan,  and  Lehigh. 


This  unusual  float  of  the  Southern  Cal  Sig 
Eps  won  prize  in  field  of  36  for  being  the 
most  symbolic  in  Homecoming  competition. 


ONE  fact  of  college  life  that  Fraternity 
Row  learns  more  fully  year  after  year 
is  that  good  hospitality  pays  at  all  times— 
but  especially  at  Homecoming. 

The  men  in  the  chapters  are  trying  to 
build  better  floats,  provide  better  decorated 
houses,  and  in  every  way  plan  programs  for 
their  returning  alumni  that  are  really  tops. 

The  best  house  decorations,  as  those  on 
these  pages  show,  are  perhaps  those  that 
make  use  of  a  motif  that  has  a  new,  popu- 
lar angle.  But  they  must  be  beautiful,  they 
must  be  in  good  taste,  they  must  impress, 
and  they  must  amuse.  If  they  are  functional 
also,  so  much  the  better.  Additional  mate- 
rial on  Homecoming  appears  in  the  alumni 
and  undergraduate  pages. 


Merry-go-round  on  Tulsa's  first-place 
float  revolved  depicting  the  Sig  Ep 
Heart,  a  hurricane,  a  football  player, 
a  returning  alumnus,  and  a  T.U.  man 
branding    the    Kansas    State    Wildcat. 


Santa  Barbara  men   design  prize-winning 
float  "Between  Devil  and  Deep  Blue  C." 


Ohio  Northern's  first-place  decorations 
based  on  sacrificial  altar  for  grid  foes. 


At  Ohio  Wesleyan  house,  "LSDFT"  meant 
"Let's    squash    Dennison's    footl)all    team." 


Lehigh  Sig  Eps  demonstrated  that  a 
clever  display  can  be  based  on  a  pun. 
Lafayette's  football  mascot  traveled 
to  Easton  and  was  "Bee-witched,  Bee- 
bothered,  and  Bee-wildered"  by  Lehive. 


San  Diego  Sig  Eps  held  Saints  and  Sinners  dance  as  all-campus  affair  for  Community  Chest. 


Parties  Plus 

The  urge  to  aid  their  fellows  is 
influencing  good  fraternity  men 
even  with  their  social  calendar. 


P: 


MOM  Starlet  Monica  Lewis  is  pledged  Golden  Anniver- 
sary Girl  of  Cal  Beta  by  Tom  Eads.  Other  Cal  Betans, 
left  to  right:   Kimball,  Kelley,  Mitchell,  and  Richmond. 


'ARTIES  aren't  just  parties  any  more.  On 
many  campuses,  social  committees  are 
loaded  not  only  with  brains,  industry,  and 
ingenuity,  but  also  with  a  flair  for  well  do- 
ing and  for  promoting  the  good  name  of  the 
chapter  and  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon. 

At  San  Diego,  Sig  Eps  staged  their  first 
Saints  and  Sinners  Dance  as  an  all-campus 


U.S.C.  Sig   Eps  again.  Here  they  have  Met  star  Blanche  Thebom   suggesting  ideas  for  chapter's 
"Sig  Ep  Night  at  the  Opera."  Chapter  president  Don  DuBose  revises  script  while  members  look  on. 


aflFair,  the  proceeds  going  to  San  Diego's 
Community  Chest  Drive. 

At  Southern  California,  handsome  pubUc 
relations  mentor  Rick  Spalla  got  petite 
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  starlet  Monica  Lewis 
named  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon's  "Golden  Anni- 
versary Girl." 

At  Southern  California  also,  the  same 
fellow  enlisted  the  help  of  MetropoUtan 
Opera  Star  Blanche  Thebom  to  help  the  Sig 
Eps  stage  a  special  stunt  night  for  the 
chapter— "Sig  Ep  Night  at  the  Opera." 

Syracuse  Sig  Eps  saw  redheaded  Con- 
over  model  Marjorie  Richardsen  modeling 
in  a  downtown  fashion  store,  asked  her 
whether  she  would  like  to  be  their  new 
housemother. 

At  Cornell,  a  group  of  Sig  Eps  who 
wanted  to  learn  the  Charleston  obtained 
worthwhile  dancing  lessons  and  a  crack  at 
some  good  publicity  also  by  inviting  some 
Kappa  Alpha  Thetas  over  for  a  party  to 
teach  them. 

On  many  campuses,  social  programs  were 
making  more  sense  than  they  ever  had 
before.  After  the  Thanksgiving  recess  many 
chapters  were  planning  Christmas  parties 
for  underprivileged  children. 

But  up  to  that  time,  San  Diego's  Saints 
and  Sinners  Dance,  held  on  December  1, 
perhaps  deserves  the  highest  praise.  It 
marked  the  first  time  that  a  social  fraternity 
held  an  all-campus  dance  at  San  Diego,  the 
proceeds  of  which  were  given  to  charity.  By 
this  event,  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  at  San  Diego 
achieved  an  unusual  boost  in  the  eyes  of 
the  public.  Pledges  conceived  the  idea  and 
made  all  the  arrangements.  Alumnus 
Howard  Quam  emceed  the  entertainment 
which  included  John  Stone  with  piano 
comedy  and  Louis  Jones  and  his  saxophone. 
Decorations  consisted  of  pearly  gates,  a  live 
volcano.  Guests  danced  on  the  clouds. 

At  Syracuse,  a  house  party,  "Sig  Ep  in 
Paris,"  gave  the  New  York  Alpha  social 
committee  the  opportunity  to  entertain  a 
celebrated  professional  model,  enjoy  them- 
selves thoroughly,  and  boost  their  social 
prestige  on  the  campus  by  several  notches. 

At  right:  Kentucky's  Bill  Green, 
chosen  best  Li'l  Abner  on  campus 
at  the  Sadie  Hawkins  Day  dance. 

Far  right:  Cornell's  John  Moy- 
er  gets  Charleston  lesson  from 
Jo  Clifton,  Kappa  Alpha  Theta. 


Syracuse  Sig  Eps  obtain  publicity  break  by 
asking  Conover  model  Marge  Richardsen  to 
become  their  housemother  at  New  York  Alpha. 


Muhlenberg  president 
John  Delissio  presents 
sweelhearl  pin  to  house- 
mother   Daisey   Moyer. 


Rutgers  men  keep  house 
parties  well  behaved 
by  inviting  house  parents 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  June. 


Here  is  Kentucky's  capable  Mom  Sweatt 
again,  really  putting  over  a  pledge  tea. 
Below:  Wisconsin  chapter's  Queen  of 
Hearts  Shirley  Hackbart  and  attendants. 


Above:  Richmond  party  was 
enlivened  by  quartet  singing 
of,  left  to  right,  Robertson, 
Bond,  Rutledge,  and  Howard. 
Right:  Pledge  formal  at  Emporia. 


Other  Parties 
With  an  An^le 

PARTIES  that  are  good  during  any  season 
are  those  in  which  some  good  will  is 
manufactured  and  prestige  enhanced. 

Kentucky's  charming  housemother  Mom 
Sweatt  helped  the  fortunes  of  the  chapter  at 
a  recent  tea  given  sorority  pledges  by  the 
new  crop  of  Sig  Ep  pledges.  Mom  Sweatt, 
who  perhaps  more  than  any  other  person 
helped  keep  the  chapter  on  its  feet  during 
World  War  II,  is  a  veritable  professor  of 
social  angles.  She  has  helped  the  success  of 
many  parties. 

At  Richmond,  a  recent  party  was  held 
during  which  Brothers  Robertson,  Bond, 
Rutledge,  and  Howard  entertained  as  a 
quartet.  The  capacity  to  entertain  is  an  in- 
valuable social  skill  and  parties  which  pro- 
vide opportunities  for  such  entertainment 
are  a  greater  boon  to  the  chapter  and  its 
members  than  those  which  do  not. 

The  most  successful  parties  demonstrate 
that  extensive  planning  pays  in  formulating 
the  chapter's  social  program,  as  the  angles 
to  be  exploited  are  countless. 

When  a  sorority  chapter  plays  Arthur 
Murray  to  a  fraternity  chapter,  as  the  Thetas 
did  for  the  Sig  Eps  at  Cornell  (see  preced- 
ing page),  it  helps  everybody. 

When  Theta  Nancy  Morrow  was  told 
New  York  Beta  had  scheduled  a  Roaring 
Twenties  party,  she  asked,  "How  many  of 


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French  Cafe  house  parly  at  Rutgers  was  preceded  by  candlelight  steak  dinner. 
Below,   right:    Cornell   president   Bosshardt   greets  Theta    Charleston   teachers. 


you  boys  can  Charleston?"  Social  Chairman 
Bob  Brandt  admitted  he  could  count 
Charlestoning  Sig  Eps  on  his  ears.  As  a 
result,  Nancy,  who  is  pinned  to  Wink 
Winkelman,  '51,  a  lieutenant  in  the  USAF 
stationed  in  Florida,  arrived  at  the  house 
with  a  group  of  her  sisters  ready  to  give 
lessons.  Bob  Benzinger  rattled  oflF  some  ex- 
plosive piano  while  the  girls  demonstrated 
the  Charleston,  and  then  set  their  class  to 
work,  jerking  and  flapping  in  real  Roaring 
Twenties  fashion.  The  rest  of  the  week 
brothers  practiced  this  home  work  while 
walls  reverberated.  But  the  result  was  an- 
other great  party  for  New  York  Beta. 


Alabama  Sig  Eps  entertain  members  of  Alpha  Delta  Pi  sorority  at  a  coffee  hour. 


As  Others  See  It 

"The  most  important  facet  of  chapter  or- 
ganization is  pledge  training,"  according  to 
retiring  Phi  Gam  Field  Secretary  William  S. 
Zerman.  In  a  farewell  article  in  the  September, 
1951,  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  he  points  out  that 
pledge  training  is  the  keystone.  "Without  it,"  he 
writes,  "we  are  gambling  on  good  chapter 
leadership  and  we  are  courting  the  hazard  of 
losing  potential  alumni  interest.  Without  it  we 
are  not  bringing  out  the  best  in  our  pledges  in 
respect  to  personality  and  character  and  we  are 
not  encouraging  good  living  and  preparation 
for  hfe  during  the  period  when  a  young  man 
begins  to  crystallize  his  habits."  Two  other  vital 
phases  important  to  the  fraternity,  Zerman  de- 
clares, are  alumni  relations  and  future  expan- 


Delta  Upsilon  Quarterly:  "Your  study  place 
should  be  serene  and  sacred— and  you  can  never 
hope  to  enjoy  your  studying  until  you  find  such 
a  place.  A  well  run  fraternity  house  will  provide 
the  right  setting." 

Prof.  Ralph  A.  Fanning,  Ohio  State  Univer- 
sity in  the  Eleusis  of  Chi  Omega:  "When  the 
smart-looking  girl,  in  the  trim  sweater  adorned 
with  fraternal  emblems,  seated  in  the  fifth  row 
center,  lights  up  a  cigarette  in  the  midst  of 
the  instructor's  lecture  on  French  Gothic  cathe- 
drals, one  feels  that  something  has  gone  wrong 
with  the  cult  of  the  Virgin,  especially  when  a 
restrained  reprimand  from  the  instructor  and 
male  colleagues,  who  would  like  to  smoke  like 
gentlemen,  results  in  a  careless  toss  of  the 
lighted,  lip-stick-stained  butt  on  the  inflammable 
classroom  floor." 


Phi  Kappa  Tau  field  secretary  Jack  Rice  in  the 
fall,  1951,  Laurel  of  Phi  Kappa  Tau  contributes 
a  helpful  thought  on  chapter  public  relations- 
obvious  but  frequently  disregarded:  "Keep 
down  all  excessive  noises— consider  your  neigh- 
bors." 


It  Mahes  Sense 

Herrick  B.  Young,  Delta  Chi,  director  of 
the  International  House  Association:  "We  have 
in  this  country  30,000  students  from  overseas. 
What  they  think  of  America  and  what  impres- 
sion of  America  they  take  back  with  them  is  far 
more  important  than  many  of  us  realize.  Ours  is 
a  challenge.  Ours  is  an  opportunity  to  prove  that 
the  fraternity  system  can  put  meaning  into  the 
word  democracy." 

U.  S.  Senator  William  J.  Fulbright  of  Arkan- 
sas, Sigma  Chi:  "I  know  of  no  better  way  to 
bring  about  a  better  understanding  than  to  en- 
able citizens  of  other  nations  to  come  and  ac- 
quire some  knowledge  of  the  life  and  customs 
in  the  United  States  while  receiving  education 
in  American  institutions." 

Brown  University  President  Henry  M.  Wris- 
ton,  Delta  Tau  Delta:  "The  world  cannot  be 
governed  by  experts;  it  must  be  governed  by 
public  opinion  and  that  means  that  the  citizens 
must  take  a  broad  view.  One  of  the  worst  follies 
of  our  time  has  been  the  assertion  that  the  prob- 
lems of  the  world  are  so  complicated  that  citi- 
zens cannot  understand  them  and  they  must  be 
left  to  the  experts." 

GarflF   B.   Wilson,   Pi   Kappa   Alpha,   in   the 


Panhellenic  Parsley 

Alpha  Tau  Omega  is  in  the  lead  of  fraternities 
that  have  made  Help  Week  grow  and  have  im- 
pressed the  public  by  doing  so.  Reader's  Digest 
of  September,  1951,  gave  two  and  a  half  pages 
to  the  community  help  plan  of  ATO's  Indiana 
chapter  in  an  article  titled  "The  Metamorphosis 
of  Hell  Week."  Not  long  afterwards  Kiwanis 
Magazine  published  an  article  called  "Revolu- 
tion on  Fraternity  Row,"  in  which  ATO  was 
again  cited  as  the  group  that  sparked  the  idea 
which  has  been  kindled  into  flame  on  campuses 
nationally. 

The  Phi  Gams  who  run  the  national  head- 
quarters in  Washington,  D.C.,  call  the  place 
Aspirin  Hall. 

At  a  charity  auction  sponsored  by  the  Uni- 
versity of  Nebraska  last  winter,  the  Delta  Sigma 
Phis  laought  the  pledges  of  Kappa  Delta  for  a 
top  bid  of  $22,  put  them  to  work  cleaning  up 
the   Delta  Sig   chapter  house. 

Random  Identities 

Chief  Justice  Fred  M.  Vinson  of  the  U.  S. 
Supreme  Court  is  a  Phi  Delt,  making  him  a 
fraternity  brother  to  screen  star  Van  Heflin, 
novelist  Louis  Bromfield,  and  New  York  Giant 
star  shortstop  Al  Dark.  .  .  .  Politicos  in  the 
news  who  are  Greeks  include  Senator  Estes 
Kefauver,  Kappa  Sigma,  and  Vice-President 
Alben  Barkley,  Delta  Tau  Delta.  .  .  .  The  late 
Republican  Senator  Arthur  H.  Vandenberg  was 
a  D.U.  .  .  .  Honorary  eminent  supreme  archon 
of  Sigma  Alpha  Epsilon  is  Harold  E.  Stassen, 
Minnesota,  '29. 


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Favorite  West   Virginia  alumnus  Thomas  E.  Millsop  is  steel  company  president  and  mayor. 


West  Virginia  Claims  Major  Steel  Company  President 

Thomas  Millsop,  president  of  the  Weirton  Steel  Company,  has  achieved  an 
enviable  record  in  helping  his  community,  his  college,  and  his  chapter. 

By  AVERY  F.  GASKINS,  University  of  West  Virginia 


THOMAS  E.  MILLSOP,  West  Virginia  Beta,  is 
fast  becoming  a  legend  in  West  Virginia 
and  the  tri-state  area  of  Pennsylvania  and 
Ohio.  In  fact  the  people  of  this  section  of 
the  country  have  shown  such  strong  con- 
fidence in  his  great  ability  to  "do  things 
up  right"  that  it  has  developed  into  a  slogan, 
"Give  it  to  Millsop  if  you  want  it  done." 

At  present  Tom  Millsop  is  president  of 
Weirton  Steel  Company,  Weirton,  W.Va., 
vice-president  of  National  Steel  Corporation, 
president   of  the   National   Steel   Products 


Company  of  Houston,  Tex.,  and  Mayor  of 
the  City  of  Weirton. 

He  began  his  career  with  Weirton  Steel 
Company  in  1927  when  he  was  given  a  job 
in  the  sales  department.  The  company  soon 
recognized  him  as  a  dynamic  leader  and  he 
rose  through  the  ranks  until  June,  1936,  at 
which  time  he  was  made  president  of  the 
company,  at  38  years  of  age,  making  him 
one  of  the  youngest  men  ever  to  head  a 
major  steel  company. 

Tom  Millsop  proved  more  than  faithful 


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to  the  confidence  which  the  company  placed 
in  him.  Under  his  leadership  Weirton  Steel 
made  a  distinguished  record  in  World  War 
II,  winning  three  bestowals  of  the  Army- 
Navy  "E"  flag  with  two  silver  stars  and  the 
Navy  Ordnance  Award. 

His  congenial  and  constructive  attitude 
toward  his  workers  has  earned  him  such 
respect  that  there  is  no  such  thing  as  labor 
trouble  in  his  company.  In  more  than  18 
vears,  there  has  not  been  a  strike  or  loss 
of  production  due  to  labor  trouble  in  the 
Weirton  organization. 

Until  1947,  Weirton,  the  home  town  of 
Thomas  Millsop  was  known  as  the  "largest 
unincorporated  city  in  the  world."  In  1947 
the  city  received  its  charter  and  once  again 
the  workers  and  other  citizens  of  Weirton 
showed  their  confidence  in  Millsop  by  elect- 
ing him  mayor  with  a  majority  of  over 
5tol. 

During  one  four-year  term.  Mayor  Mill- 
sop brought  about  the  adoption  of  a  new 


and  modern  charter,  started  construction  of 
a  new  $4,000,000  Weirton  General  Hos- 
pital, built  a  Community  Center  Building, 
and  organized  a  city  recreation  program. 

This  year  Weirton  took  another  look  at 
the  progress  made  under  their  Mayor  and 
immediately  called  upon  him  to  accept  the 
post  for  a  second  four-year  term.  Despite 
the  pressures  of  many  other  duties,  genial 
Tom  Millsop  agreed  and  was  re-elected  to 
office  by  a  margin  of  over  5  to  1. 

By  a  recent  appointment  to  the  board 
of  governors  of  West  Virginia  University, 
Tom  Millsop  has  again  proven  himself  a 
leader.  Since  the  mines  work  hand  in  hand 
with  the  steel  industry,  he  assumed  a  great 
interest  in  the  School  of  Mines  which  helped 
influence  the  rise  of  the  School  of  Mines  of 
West  Virginia  University  to  one  of  the  top 
ten  mining  schools  in  the  country. 

Brother  Millsop  has  proven  himself  a  very 
loyal  alumnus,  offering  much  needed  advice 
and  aid  to  the  chapter. 


U.  of  Kansas  House  Boasts  U.P.  President 

Arthur  Stoddard,  president  of  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  is  initiated  by 
the  chapter  which  was  once  headed  by  his  son  who  died  on  Iwo  Jima. 


New  Kansas  initiate  Arthur  E.  Stoddard. 


KANSAS  gamma's  already  splendid  roster 
now  proudly  carries  the  name  of  an- 
other outstanding  man  of  achievement. 

Arthur  E.  Stoddard,  president  of  the 
Union  Pacific  Railroad,  was  initiated  by  the 
University  of  Kansas  chapter  on  October  27. 
His  son,  Robert  Stoddard,  a  fonner  presi- 
dent of  the  chapter,  was  killed  by  an  enemy 
bullet  at  Iwo  Jima  on  March  4,  1945. 

The  ceremony  was  attended  by  about  70 
actives  and  alumni,  among  whom  were  a 
number  of  Bob's  former  classmates.  The 
Grand  Chapter  was  represented  by  Wil- 
liam W.  Hindman,  Jr.,  Grand  Secretary. 
Chapter  president  Clarence  I.  Frieze,  Jr. 
headed  the  ritual  team. 

Art  Stoddard  is  thoroughly  a  selfmade 
man.  Born  at  Auburn,  Neb.,  on  July  28, 
1895,   he   began  working  in    1906   for   his 


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father  who  had  a  grading  sub-contract  in 
the  building  of  the  Rock  Island  Line  from 
Guthrie,  Okla.  to  Amarillo,  Tex.  He  started 
his  railroad  career  as  a  shop  apprentice 
with  the  Frisco  Lines  in  1915  at  Springfield, 
Mo.,  and  entered  the  service  of  the  Union 
Pacific  on  April  4,  1916  as  student  station 
helper  at  Gothenburg,  Neb.  From  this  start 
he  worked  his  way  up  through  positions  of 
telegrapher,  train  dispatcher,  trainmaster, 
assistant  superintendent,  superintendent,  as- 
sistant general  manager,  general  manager, 
and  vice-president.  He  was  elected  to  the 
U.P.  presidency  on  March  1,  1949.  He  had 
early  furthered  the  railroad  career  which  he 
loved  by  sandwiching  in  a  year  at  business 
college  (1915-1916)  studying  railway  ad- 
ministration and  a  year  at  Harvard  Univer- 
sity (1917-1918). 

About  the  time  Americans  began  to  fire 
shots  in  World  War  I,  a  young  Art  Stoddard 
looked  away  from  railroad  telegraphy  since 
the  Navy  needed  dot-and-dash  experts  even 
more  urgently.  He  became  a  radio  operator 
on  transport  ships  plying  between  the  United 
States  and  France.  At  the  close  of  World 
War  I  he  was  assigned  to  duty  in  South 
America  until  release  from  his  enlistment 
permitted  him  to  return  to  railroading. 

In  World  War  II,  in  September,  1942,  the 
Transportation  Corps  called.  With  the  rank 
of  Colonel  Art  Stoddard  was  immediately 
sent  to  Iran  to  make  a  study  of  the  railroads 
of  that  country  with  a  view  of  increasing 
the  tonnage  to  the  Red  Army.  After  a  year 
in  the  Middle  East,  he  returned  to  the 
United  States  and  then  moved  to  England 
as  Assistant  Director  General  of  the  G-4 
Division  of  Supreme  Headquarters,  Allied 
Expeditionary  Forces.  Following  the  inva- 
sion of  Europe,  he  was  made  general  man- 
ager of  the  First  Military  Railway  Service  in 
France  and  was  relieved  from  active  duty 
early  in  1946,  returning  to  the  Union  Pacific. 

On  March  11,  1949,  he  was  appointed 
Brigadier  General  in  the  Officers  Reserve 
Corps  of  the  Army  of  the  United  States, 
and  was  appointed  Deputy  Director  Gen- 
eral of  General  Headquarters,  Military  Rail- 
way Service.  On  April  15,  1951,  he  assumed 
command  of  General  Headquarters,  Military 
Railway  Service,  as  Director  General. 


Col.    L.    F.    Downing,    Montana    Alpha,    '36, 
(left),  is  promoted  in  rank  at  Randolph  Field. 


The  Military 

Leighton  F.  Downing,  Montana  Alpha, 
'36,  director  of  administration  of  the 
U.S.A.F.  School  of  Aviation  Medicine, 
Randolph  Field,  Tex.,  has  been  promoted 
to  full  colonel.  Stationed  at  the  aeromedical 
school  since  August,  1949,  he  began  his 
active  military  career  in  1941,  serving  in 
the  China-Burma-India  Theater  during 
World  War  II,  and  being  subsequently  grad- 
uated from  the  Command  and  Staff  School 
at  Maxwell  AFB,  Alabama. 

Col.  Thomas  R.  Aaron,  Virginia  Alpha, 
professor  of  military  science  and  tactics  at 
Rutgers  University,  retired  from  the  U.  S. 
Army  in  July.  In  a  special  retreat  parade  at 
Camp  Kilmer,  N.J.,  he  concluded  32  years 
of  Army  service  that  began  at  West  Point 
in  1916  and  took  him  to  Siberia,  Eniwetok, 
Hawaii,  and  many  posts  in  the  U.S. 

Colonel  Aaron  was  a  frequent  visitor  at 
the  New  Jersey  Beta  house.  His  advice  was 
eagerly  sought  by  the  men  of  the  chapter, 
who  attended  the  service  en  masse. 

But  Colonel  Aaron,  whose  is  the  first  name 
in  the  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  directory  of  mem- 
bership, has  a  new  post.  Back  in  Hawaii, 
where  in  1922  he  married  Margaret  La- 
Mothe,  daughter  of  the  late  Episcopal 
bishop  of  Hawaii,  he  will  teach  mathematics 
on  the  staff  of  Kehehameha  School. 


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Wisconsin  Si^  Ep  Is  Veteran  Disc  Jockey  at  24 

Robert  W.  Swanson,  Wisconsin  Beta,  '50,  who  has  spun  20,000  discs,  leaves 
a  brilliant  career  of  radio  announcing  behind  him  to  enter  the  Air  Force. 

By  KURT   H.   KRAHIV,   University  of  Wisconsin 

Swanson  also  has  interviewed  several  ani- 
mals on  his  record  show,  including  "Bessie 
the  Badger  Cow"  who  predicted  the  out- 
come of  Badger  football  fortunes  this  fall. 
Listeners  throughout  the  country  heard  him 
over  ABC  last  spring  when  he  reported  the 
Shorewood  dog  trial  against  a  collie  who 
allegedly  bit  some  children. 

The  subject  of  a  feature  story  in  the 
(Madison)  Wisconsin  State  Journal  recently. 
Bob  Swanson  was  written  up  for  spinning 
the  20,000th  record  for  his  radio  public. 
In  the  article  Bob  is  quoted  as  saying  that 
his  most  interesting  interview  was  with 
Sally  Rand.  He  also  had  a  15-minute  inter- 
view with  band  leader  Charlie  Spivak.  The 
trumpet  player  liked  Swanson  so  much  that 
he  remained  at  the  studio  for  four  hours 
and  even  read  some  of  Bob's  commercials. 

"Much  of  Swanson's  popularity,"  the  State 
Journal  says,  "was  due  to  his  relaxed,  in- 
formal manner  which  included  ad  libbing 
almost  all  commercials.  Swanson  personally 
checked  on  most  sponsors  and  listeners  had 
confidence  in  his  recommendations. 

"Swanson  was  born  in  Appleton,  Wis.,  in 
1927  and  decided  he  wanted  to  be  a  radio 
announcer  at  the  age  of  ten.  At  17,  he  got 
a  job  at  WIBU  and  became  the  country's 
youngest  staff  announcer." 

Now  at  an  Air  Force  training  base  in 
Idaho,  2nd  Lt.  Bob  Swanson  will  soon  be 
doing  public  relations  for  the  Air,  Force. 


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Radio  man  Bob  Swanson,  Wisconsin 
at    mike    with    unidentified    Santa 


Beta, 
Glaus. 


ROBERT  w.  SWANSON,  Wisconsiu  Beta,  '50, 
can  lay  claim  to  having  been  the  na- 
tion's youngest  radio  staff  announcer.  At 
the  age  of  24  and  only  one  short  year  out  of 
the  University  of  Wisconsin,  Bob  had  seven 
full  years  of  radio  announcing  and  program- 
ming behind  him  when  he  left  station  WISC 
in  Madison  in  December  for  Air  Force  blue. 

For  the  past  three  years  Swanson  was 
program  director  of  WISC  and  also  con- 
ducted his  popular  "Bob  Swanson  Show" 
for  two  and  a  half  hours.  His  daily  record 
program  was  the  longest  and  most  popular 
on  all  six  local  stations. 

Swanson  worked  his  way  through  Wis- 
consin as  an  announcer  at  three  Madison 
stations  and  graduated  with  a  geography 
degree.  He  was  initiated  by  Wisconsin  Beta 
in  1945.  Two  years  later  his  older  brother 
Vernon  was  initiated.  While  in  the  chapter 
Bob  was  historian,  rushing  chairman,  and 
pledge  trainer.  He  often  gave  Stg  Ep  plugs 
on  his  program. 

Always  a  showman,  Swanson  interviewed 
most  band  leaders  when  they  played  town. 
He  also  interviewed  other  celebrities  be- 
tween records  on  his  program. 


Star  of  Magnitude 

A  young  University  of  Wyoming  Sig  Ep 
who  has  recently  hit  the  top  in  athletics  is 
Bill  Sullenberger,  who  left  the  chapter  in 
1947  to  take  an  appointment  to  West  Point. 
A  recent  release  from  the  United  States  Mili- 
tary Academy  states  that  "Sully"  is  one  of 
the  greatest  all-around  athletes  ever  to  hit 
West  Point.  He  has  broken  many  records 


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and  received  many  honors  including  All- 
American.  In  recent  trials  for  the  1952 
Olympics  he  bettered  five  of  the  marks  of 
Bob  Mathias,  decathlon  champion  in  the 
1948  Olympics,  and  tied  two. 


His  San  Diego 

Neil  Morgan,  North  Carolina  Zeta,  '43, 
is  the  author  of  My  San  Diego,  based  on  the 
author's  column  "Crosstown,"  which  is  a 
feature  of  the  San  Diego  Evening  Tribune. 
The  book  which  consists  of  56  pages  and 
sells  for  one  dollar  tells  the  story  of  San 
Diego,  past  and  present.  The  author  himself 
is  the  publisher. 

Tiie  Bench 

Judge  Francis  J.  Knauss,  Colorado  Alpha, 
'05,  who  served  as  Grand  President  for  a 
two-year  term  in  1914-16,  and  again  from 
1916-1923,  has  been  appointed  to  fill  a 
vacancy  on  the  Colorado  Supreme  Court, 
the  state's  highest  tribunal. 

On  August  13,  following  his  appointment, 
the  Rocky  Mountain  News  of  Denver  com- 
mented editorially:  "He  has  long  been  active 
in  Colorado  affairs  and  for  more  than  45 
years  has  been  a  practising  attorney  here. 
He  has  also  had  experience  in  the  legis- 
lature and  in  other  political  affairs.  .  .  . 
Covernor  Thornton  has  again  used  good 
judgment." 

Rotary  Brass 

Three  chapters  of  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  are 
responsible  for  high-offier  personnel  in  the 
affairs  of  that  great  service  organization- 
Rotary  International. 

Tom  Bartlett,  Ohio  Alpha,  '17,  an  insur- 
ance agent  at  North  Baltimore,  Ohio,  as  a 
district  governor  is  responsible  for  the  affairs 
of  51  Rotary  clubs  throughout  Ohio. 

John  T.  Berger,  Missouri  Beta,  city  at- 
torney in  Kirkwood,  Mo.,  governs  29  clubs 
in  one  of  the  four  districts  in  his  home  state. 

Dan  Proctor,  chapter  advisor  to  Oklahoma 
Beta,  a  former  district  governor  of  Rotary, 
former  president  of  the  Oklahoma  Educa- 
tional Association,   has  a   special  office  in 


Insurance  executive  Kennelli  Perry. 

the  organization.  He  is  chairman  of  the 
committee  to  examine  international  student 
projects  financed  by  Rotary  clubs  or  dis- 
tricts. He  resides  at  Chickasha,  Okla. 

Insurance  Brass 

Kenneth  W.  Perry,  Massachusetts  Alpha, 
'29,  formerly  general  agent  for  the  Massa- 
chusetts Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  at 
Hartford,  Conn.,  has  now  been  advanced 
to  the  position  of  du'ector  of  agencies. 

As  supervisor  of  field  force  development, 
he  will  return  to  the  home  offices  at  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  where  he  first  began  as  a  rep- 
resentative for  the  Litchard  and  Cook 
Agency  in  1931. 

Successful  Farmer 

A  recent  article  in  the  Venn  State  Alumni 
News  told  the  success  story  of  R.  Johnston 
Gillan,  Indiana  Alpha,  a  charter  member 
of  his  chapter,  who  is  one  of  the  state  of 
Pennsylvania's  most  successful  fruit  growers 
and  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
Penn  State. 

His  farm,  where  he  engages  in  the  com- 
mercial production  of  apples,  peaches, 
cherries,  and  prunes,  is  situated  in  Franklin 
County  near  St.  Thomas. 


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Frater  in  Universitate  T.  M.  Adams. 

Actor^s  Anecdote 

Yewell  Tomkins,  Wisconsin  Beta,  who  as 
Tom  Ewell  made  a  hit  on  Broadway  for 
his  role  in  John  Loves  Mary,  after  having 
participated  in  28  flops,  has  made  a  series 
of  successful  movies  in  Hollywood.  His  most 
recent  successful  role  is  that  of  Willie  in 
Mauldin's  Up  Front. 

Featured  in  a  Broadway  newspaper  col- 
umn recently,  Tom  Ewell  revealed  that  while 
at  Wisconsin  he  never  seriously  expected 
to  become  an  actor.  "I  waited  on  tables  at 
the  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  house,"  he  said,  "and 
one  year  when  they  had  too  many  waiters 
they  gave  me  a  job  as  second  floor  maid.  I 
had  17  beds  to  make." 


Artcraft 

Nile  Running,  Minnesota  Alpha,  '33,  is 
proprietor  of  the  Nile  Running  Studio, 
Forest  Lake,  Minn.,  producer  of  the  na- 
tionally famed  Edith  Cherry  Originals 
greeting  cards. 

The  studio  which  he  operates  with  his 
wife  and  a  large  staflF  is  one  of  the  few  in 
existence  to  produce  personalized  hand- 
painted  cards.  Orders  come  from  New  York 
to  California,  from  Wisconsin  to  Texas.  In 
the  first  18  months  of  operation  nearly 
250,000  cards  were  produced  at  the  studio. 


High  Presbyterian 

R.  Graham  White,  North  Carolina  Ep- 
silon, '25,  has  been  appointed  secretary  of 
the  permanent  committee  on  the  minister 
and  his  work  for  the  Presbyterian  Church 
in  the  U.  S.  This  committe  operates  as  a 
new  department  of  the  national  church  or- 
ganization and  has  its  oflfices  in  the  Henry 
Grady  Building  at  Atlanta,  Ga. 


As  Others  See  Them 

Past  Grand  President  Dr.  William  C. 
Smolenske,  Colorado  Beta,  '13,  is  the  sub- 
ject of  a  euology  in  the  July,  1951,  issue  of 
the  Desmos  of  Delta  Sigma  Delta,  pro- 
fessional dental  fraternity.  Currently  sec- 
retary-treasurer of  the  Council  of  Graduate 
Chapters  of  that  fraternity,  he  served  as 
international  president  in  1935-36. 


Fratres  in  Faeultate 

G.  Duncan  Wimpress,  Oregon  Beta,  '46, 
director  of  public  relations  and  instructor  in 
journalism  at  Whittier  College  since  1946, 
assumed  the  post  of  assistant  to  the  president 
of  the  Colorado  School  of  Mines  at  Golden, 
Colo.,  on  September  1.  This  is  the  seat  of 
Colorado  Delta  Chapter.  He  was  once  gradu- 
ate assistant  in  the  school  of  journalism  at 
his  alma  mater. 

T.  M.  Adams,  Iowa  Beta,  '32,  chairman 
of  the  agricultural  economics  department  at 
the  State  Agricultural  College  of  Vermont, 
has  recently  been  appointed  associate  dean 
and  director  of  the  college.  On  the  faculty 
since  1934,  he  holds  a  master's  degree  from 
the  University  of  Vermont  and  a  doctorate 
from  Cornell. 

Gould  L.  Harris,  New  York  Gamma, 
professor  in  the  Department  of  Accounting 
Instruction,  New  York  University  School 
of  Commerce,  Accounts,  and  Finance,  has 
just  completed  his  term  as  grand  president 
of  Beta  Alpha  Psi,  the  national  accounting 
fraternity,  and  continues  on  the  council  of 
that  fraternity  for  another  year  as  past 
grand  president. 


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Technology  Proceeds 

Basil  O'Connor,  New  Hampshire  Alpha, 
'12,  president  of  the  National  Foundation 
for  Infantile  Paralysis  and  of  the  Interna- 
tional Pohomyelitis  Congress,  during  the 
past  summer  attended  an  international  con- 
gress of  polio  specialists  in  Copenhagen, 
Denmark.  He  stated  in  his  report  of  the  meet- 
ing that  new  discoveries  have  been  made 
"which  should  place  polio  research  on  an 
entirely  different  level  from  that  of  the  past 
generation." 


Christianity  Recedes 

Walter  W.  Van  Kirk,  Ohio  Epsilon,  '17, 
secretary  of  the  National  Council  of 
Churches  of  Christ  in  America,  gave  the 
principal  address  at  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Ohio  Area  Methodist  Pastors'  School  held 
at  Delaware,  Ohio,  in  September. 

Dr.  Van  Kirk  pointed  out  that  millions 
of  people  are  fearful  that  "education  and 
the  institutions  of  learning  will  be  regi- 
mented by  government  and  the  creativity 
of  the  free  mind  will  be  crushed  or  com- 
promised." 

He  told  the  ministers  that  "Christianity  is 
a  minority  movement.  Here  and  there  across 
the  world.  Christians  have  established  their 
beachheads.  They  believe,  and  with  good 
reason,  that  with  God  on  their  side  they  will 
triumph  over  principalities  and  powers  and 
the  rulers  of  darkness.  But  they  will  do  this 
only  when  they  recognize  how  entrenched 
are  the  evils  against  which  they  are  arrayed." 

Evan*s  Beaven 

Evan  J.  Morris,  Pennsylvania  Eta,  '19,  for 
many  years  a  stalwart  guiding  spirit  in  the 
destinies  of  the  Cornell  chapter,  has  been 
re-elected  a  director  of  the  Chemical  War- 
fare Service  Veterans  Association.  A  major 
in  the  chemical  warfare  service  of  the  regu- 
lar Army  in  World  War  I,  Morris  was  sepa- 
rated from  the  service  with  the  rank  of 
major  in  1922. 

Since  1925  he  has  owned  and  operated 
the  Triangle  Book  Shop  on  the  campus  at 
Ithaca.  In  1948  he  purchased  Sheldon  Court 
from  the  celebrated  Negro  religiose  Father 


Divine,  and  the  130  Cornell  students  who 
today  inhabit  the  building  affectionately  call 
it  Evan's  Heaven. 


In  the  Press 

John  Banting,  Pennsylvania  Kappa,  '41, 
and  his  wife  Mary  Banting  were  featured  in 
a  recent  Redbook  magazine  article  titled 
This  Is  the  Life.  It  is  the  interesting  story  of 
a  young  couple  who  picked  up  their  courage 
and  fled  from  the  inanities  of  the  urban 
treadmill  to  establish  a  successful  citrus- 
growing  business  near  Delray  Beach,  Fla. 

Top  news  story  in  North  Carolina  during 
1950,  in  the  opinion  of  Associated  Press 
member  editors,  was  the  defeat  of  U.S. 
Senator  Frank  Graham  for  his  Senate  seat 
by  Willis  Smith,  North  Carolina  Gamma,  '10. 

Consultant 

Harry  A.  Dorsey,  Ohio  Gamma,  '33,  part- 
ner in  the  management  consultant  firm  of 
Bruce  Payne  &  Associates,  Boston,  Mass., 
has  been  transfered  to  Rio  de  Janeiro,  Brazil, 
for  the  purpose  of  conducting  a  branch  office 
of  the  firm.  One  of  the  firm's  chief  clients 
in  this  area  is  the  Brazilian  National  Steel 
Company. 

Contributor 

Seth  A.  Densmore,  New  Hampshire 
Alpha,  '21,  who  is  engaged  in  public  ac- 
counting practice  at  Burlington,  Vt.,  is  the 
author  of  an  article  in  the  August  issue  of 
The  Journal  of  Accountancy.  It  discusses 
how  accounting  can  help  the  small  business- 
man control  his  profit  by  helping  him  to 
know  where  his  money  comes  from  and 
where  it  goes.  Densmore  is  secretary  of 
the  Vermont  State  Board  of  Accountancy 
and  past  president  (1939-49)  of  the  Vermont 
Society  of  CPAs. 

He  was  a  varsity  athlete  at  his  alma  mater. 


*  -^Nothing  is  so  galling  to  a  people,  not 
broken  in  from  birth,  as  a  government  which 
tells  them  what  to  read.— macaxtley 


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Our  Serious  Program  for  1952 

Fraternity  men  are  exponents  of  better  Americanism.  They  should  show  the 
public  that  nowhere  is  character  taught  better  than  in  the  chapter  houses. 

By  LUIS  ROBERTS,  Grand  President  of  Sigma  Plii  Episilon 

special  time  for  all  the  members  of  the  chapter 
to  donate  blood  to  the  Red  Cross. 

"Thanksgiving  For  Freedom"  was  the  theme 
of  the  Interfraternity  Research  and  Advisory 
Council  celebration  commemorating  the  175th 
anniversary  of  Phi  Beta  Kappa  held  at  Williams- 
burg, Va.,  on  December  1,  1951.  The  college 
fraternities  pledge  themselves  to  protect  our 
freedoms  and  to  carry  forward  into  the  future 
years  the  independence  of  thought  and  action 
upon  which  freedom  is  based. 

Second:  Raising  Sig  Ep's  level  of  scholarship 
in  accordance  with  Dr.  U.  G.  Dubach's  pro- 
gram. May  I  call  your  attention  to  the  following: 

"Be  it  resolved;  That  the  Twenty-second 
Grand  Chapter  Conclave  go  on  record  as  en- 
dorsing the  six  recommendations  on  scholarship 
made  at  the  preceding  Grand  Chapter  Conclave, 
as  herein  reiterated: 

"1.  Pledging.  We  recommend  that  our  chap- 
ters pledge  no  men  in  the  lower  three  deciles 
scholastically  until  they  have  demonstrated 
their  abiUty  to  do  college  work. 

"2.  Initiation.  We  recommend  that  our  chap- 
ters initiate  only  those  pledges  who  have  done 
work  of  grade  acceptable  for  graduation  by  the 
institution. 

"3.  Breaking  Pledges.  We  recommend  that 
unless  a  pledge  has  made  the  required  grade 
within  a  year,  his  pledgeship  shall  be  discon- 
tinued. 

"4.  Initiation.  We  recommend  that  our  chap- 
ters require  for  initiation  a  grade  average  equal 
to  the  graduation  requirement  of  the  institution. 

"5.  Grade  Average  of  Chapters.  We  recom- 
mend that  the  National  set  as  a  minimum  stand- 
ard for  the  chapter  a  grade  average  equal  to 
or  above  the  all-men  average. 

"6.  Planning.  We  recommend  that  the  Na- 
tional request  each  individual  chapter  to  ana- 
lyze last  year's  results,  indicating  in  what  par- 
ticulars they  had  succeeded  and  in  what 
particulars  they  had  failed,  in  each  case  giving 
reasons.  We  recommend  further  that  each 
individual  chapter  then  set  out  its  plans  for  the 
new  year,  indicating  the  measures  they  plan  to 


Author  of  Sig  Ep's  Camp  Plan — Bill 
Hindman — poses  with  young  campers  at 
Green  Lane  Camp.  Bob  Bonnell  at  right. 


AFTER  attending  the  National  Interfraternity 
Conference  this  year  I  realize  what  a  tre- 
mendous responsibility  we  have  in  the  fraternity 
world.  When  I  took  office  this  year  as  your 
Grand  President  I  said  there  were  three  prime 
goals  for  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  during  this  Golden 
Year. 

First:  Spreading  true  Americanism  through- 
out our  universities  and  colleges  through  fra- 
ternity influence.  This  can  best  be  accomplished 
by  changing  "Hell  Week"  to  "Help  Week"  by 
every  chapter  of  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon. 

The  National  Interfraternity  Undergraduate 
Conference  has  gone  on  record  as  favoring  a 
"Greek  Week"  on  campuses  inviting  fraternity 
alumni  and  members  of  the  faculty  and  ad- 
ministration to  participate  in  the  program.  Open 
your  houses  to  the  community  and  let  them 
know  what  goes  on  in  a  fraternity  house. 

I  strongly  recommend  that  you  set  aside  a 


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take  to  improve  their  scholastic  status.  Further, 
we  request  each  chapter  to  indicate  the  relative 
grade  position  it  expects  to  attain  during  the 
ensuing  year." 

If  we  follow  this  six-point  plan  there  will  be 
no  question  about  our  chapters  equaling  or  go- 
ing above  the  all-men's  average. 

Third:  Expansion  of  the  Sig  Ep  Summer 
Camp  program  for  Underprivileged  boys.  "Can 


you  spare  a  dollar  to  send  a  boy  to  camp?"  On 
the  back  cover  of  the  November,  1951,  issue  of 
the  Journal  Brother  Bill  Hindman  again  made 
his  appeal.  How  many  acted  and  sent  in  their 
dollar?  Just  think  if  every  Sig  Ep  sent  in  a 
dollar  we  would  have  $38,000.  This  would  mean 
that  we  could  send  over  3,000  boys  to  camp  this 
summer.  If  you  haven't  sent  in  your  dollar  it's 
not  too  late— DO  it  now. 


THE    DISTRICT    SYSTEM 


Change  in  Carolina 

As  THE  fall  term  began  on  Sig  Ep  campuses, 
several  changes  in  supervisory  personnel  were 
witnessed  in  the  district  system. 

In  District  V,  embracing  the  Carolina  chap- 
ters, R.  D.  Beam,  North  Carolina  Beta,  '26, 
resigned  as  governor  and  was  succeeded  by 
Bedford  W.  Black,  North  Carolina  Zeta,  '41, 
Both  the  outgoing  and  the  incoming  governors 
have  for  many  years  served  as  stalwarts  in 
alumni  supervision  of  their  own  chapters.  A 
good-sized  area  in  which  to  work.  District  V 
includes  the  chapters  at  North  Carolina  State, 
Duke,  University  of  North  Carolina,  Davidson, 
and  Wake  Forest.  Alumni  groups  at  Columbia, 
Charlotte,  Greensboro,  Kannapolis,  and  Raleigh 
are  included. 

Grand  President  Luis  J.  Roberts  in  his  ap- 
pointment of  Bedford  Black,  selected  a  man  of 
broad  experience  in  fraternity  supervision.  A 
practicing  attorney  of  Kannapolis,  N.C.,  Black 
is  a  charter  member  of  the  Wake  Forest  chapter 
and  was  its  13th  initiate.  As  an  undergraduate 
he  not  only  headed  his  chapter  as  president  but 
served  also  as  rush  chairman,  pledgemaster,  and 


New  District  V  Governor  Bedford  Black. 


comptroller.  Since  1946  he  has  been  a  member 
of  his  chapter's  alumni  board  and  has  served  as 
alumni  treasurer  all  that  while. 

In  his  extracurricular  activities  while  at  col- 
lege Black's  flair  for  speaking  came  to  the  fore. 
For  three  years  he  was  speaker  of  the  house  of 
representatives  of  the  student  assembly,  par- 
ticipated in  debate,  and  was  also  Society  Day 
speaker.  He  served  as  a  delegate  to  the  First 
National  Student  Congress  at  Topeka,  Kan.,  in 
1938  and  was  elected  speaker  of  that  large 
house  of  delegates. 

Bedford  Black's  war  record  is  remarkable. 
With  the  Army  Air  Force,  he  has  1,600  hours 
of  flying  time  and  served  in  the  European, 
African,  Middle  Eastern,  and  Pacific  Theatres 
of  operation.  He  received  a  Presidential  Citation, 
air  medal,  and  two  battle  stars. 

Black  is  unmarried.  His  hobbies  include  par- 
ticipation in  the  Kannapolis  Sports  Club  and 
the  Little  Theatre  of  that  city  of  which  he  is  a 
charter  member  and  the  first  president.  He  is 
regional  director  of  the  southeastern  states  of 
the  Young  Democrats  Club  of  America  and  is 
the  vice-chairman  of  the  national  co-ordinating 
council  of  that  body. 

The  Wheat  Belt 

In  District  XIII,  the  resignation  of  Governor 
W.  E.  Rogers  created  a  vacancy  which  has  been 
filled  through  the  appointment  of  C.  H.  Elting, 
Missouri  Alpha,  '24.  This  area  embraces  the 
chapters  at  Baker,  Kansas  State,  University  of 
Kansas,  Washburn,  Emporia,  Missouri,  Wash- 
ington U.  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri  Mines,  Drury, 
Nebraska,  and  Omaha.  Included  also  are  the 
alumni  groups  in  Kansas,  Missouri,  and 
Nebraska. 

Slim  Elting  has  been  president  of  the  Missouri 
Alpha  alumni  board  since  1947  and  was  one  of 
the  prime  movers  in  the  restoration  of  that 
chapter  after  the  war  and  the  return  of  its  house. 
He  was  president  of  the  Kansas  City  Alumni 
Chapter  in  1946-47  and  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee for  the  Kansas  City  Conclave  of  1947. 
He  served  this  alumni  group  as  alternate  dele- 
gate to  the  Chicago  Conclave  and  delegate  to 
the  recent  Conclave  at  Richmond. 

The  new  governor  of  District  XIII  has  re- 


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District  XIII's  new  Governor  C,  H.  Elting. 


New  Assistant  District  Governor  Wolf. 


cently  moved  from  Kansas  City  to  Topeka  where 
he  is  associated  with  the  Southwestern  Bell 
Telephone  Company  as  traffic  equipment  engi- 
neer for  the  state  of  Kansas. 

He  is  married.  A  daughter  Julie  was  born  in 
1941,  a  son  C.  H.  Elting,  Jr.  in  1942.  The  C.  H. 
stands  for  "Cyrus  Harold."  Mrs.  Elting— -Celeste 
—is  a  graduate  of  Virginia  College  at  Roanoke, 
Va. 

Slim's  hobbies,  outside  of  the  Fraternity 
which  takes  a  great  deal  of  his  time,  are  sail- 
boat racing  (snipe  class),  fishing,  and  stamp 
collecting. 

Out  East 

Governor  of  District  IV  Herb  Smith,  Junior 
Grand  Marshal-elect  and  chairman  of  the  recent 
Conclave,  has  left  Richmond  to  head  a  southern 
territory  of  Republic  Steel  Corporation,  with 
offices  in  Atlanta,  Ga. 

In  District  II,  Governor  Robert  E.  Bromley, 
New  York  Gamma,  '36,  has  been  given  the 
services  of  an  assistant.  He  is  George  Edward 
Wolf,  New  York  Gamma,  '48,  a  former  presi- 
dent of  his  chapter  and  at  present  secretary  of 
the  New  York  Alumni  Chapter  and  since  1948 
chairman  of  its  historical  committee. 

While  on  the  campus  George  Wolf  also  served 
his  chapter  as  rush  chairman  and  as  house 
chairman,  continuing  his  active  interest  in  the 
chapter  after  graduation  when  he  remained  on 
campus  to  earn  his  M.A.  degree  in  education  in 
1951. 

Always  interested  in  the  making  of  motion 
pictures,  George  is  associated  with  Murphy- 
LiUis  Productions,  Inc.,  723  Seventh  Avenue, 
New   York,    as    assistant   production   manager. 


He  has  also  worked  for  the  department  of 
motion  pictures  of  his  alma  mater  and  for  the 
Skouras  Theatres  Corporation  and  the  Victory- 
Bayside  Theatre  Corporation. 

Also  interested  in  politics,  he  is  currently 
serving  as  Republican  Committeeman  for  Dis- 
trict 66,  Nassau  County,  N.Y.,  and  has  served 
as  an  inspector  of  elections. 

Unmarried,  his  chief  hobbies  are  writing, 
photography,  travel,  music,  and  hiking.  His 
home  is  at  Little  Neck,  Long  Island. 

Ira  Sunny  Cal 

Paul  B.  Slater,  California  Beta,  who  was 
elected  to  the  office  of  Junior  Grand  Marshal 
at  the  Richmond  Conclave  in  September,  has 
resigned  his  post  as  governor  of  the  California 
District— XVIII.  His  successor  is  a  former  Grand 
President  of  the  Fraternity,  who  has  also  served 
previously  as  governor  of  the  district— Robert  L. 
Ryan,  California  Alpha,  '25.  Bob  first  became 
governor  in  March,  1937.  He  assumed  the  post 
once  more  in  November,  1951. 

Central  Office  Alumni 

George  K.  Salt,  Florida  Gamma,  resigned  his 
post  as  field  secretary  in  November  to  return 
to  his  alma  mater  in  an  administrative  post.  He 
will  work  in  the  office  of  administration  at  the 
University  of  Miami  processing  admissions. 

George  joined  the  Central  Office  staff  in  Rich- 
mond during  the  summer  of  1950.  Though 
pledged  at  Penn  State— his  home  is  Pittsburgh- 
he  became  a  charter  member  of  the  chapter  at 
Miami,  serving  as  rush  chairman  and  president 
as  well  as  alternate  delegate  to  the  1949  Con- 
clave. 


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More  Happy  Returns  of  1901 

Many  active  and  graduate  groups  hold  banquets  to  commemorate  Fraternity's 
birth.  Founder  WilHam   L.   PhilHps  gets  TV  set  as   gift  of  Grand  Chapter 


Richmond 

A  LARGE  group  of  members  of  the  Richmond 
Alumni  Chapter  and  of  tlie  University  of  Rich- 
mond active  chapter  were  present  for  the  Rich- 
mond birthday  party  on  November  1. 

All  applauded  as  Assistant  to  the  Grand  Sec- 
retary Frank  J.  Ruck,  Jr.,  presented  a  handsome 
console  model  Westinghouse  20-inch  TV  set 
to  Founder  William  L.  Phillips  in  behalf  of  the 
Grand  Chapter.  The  occasion  was  an  anniver- 
sary for  Uncle  Billy,  also,  for  he  has  worked  for 
his  beloved  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  since  before  its 
birth  and  he  still  devotes  much  of  his  time  and 
energy  for  its  growth  and  improvement. 

The  Sig  Eps  who  gathered  in  Richmond  com- 
prised one  of  scores  of  groups  throughout  the 
U.S.  to  celebrate  the  event  which  took  place 
in  old  Ryland  Hall  on  this  date  50  years  ago 
when  the  Fraternity  was  officially  born. 

They  were  honoring,  besides  Uncle  Billy 
Phillips,  11  other  Founders:  Carter  Ashton 
Jenkens,  William  Hugh  Carter,  Thomas  Temple 
Wright,  Lucian  Baum  Cox,  Robert  Allen  Mc- 
Farland,  and  Thomas  Vaden  McCaul,  some  of 
whom  were  participating  on  that  evening  as 
guests  of  honor  in  banquets  elsewhere.  Also 
they  were  honoring  the  memory  of  those  de- 
parted: Benjamin  Donald  Gaw,  William 
Andrew  Wallace,  Richard  Spurgeon  Owens, 
Edgar  Lee  Allen,  and  Franklin  Webb  Kerfoot. 
To  Founder  Owens,  who  died  July  6,  1950,  a 
great  posthumous  honor  had  come  when  a  spe- 
cial memorial  chapel  in  his  name  at  the  Calvary 
Baptist  Church  at  Roanoke  was  dedicated  two 
weeks  before. 

Following  the  presentation  and  brief  address- 
es, a  brief  business  meeting  was  conducted  at 
which  the  following  new  officers  were  elected: 


Uncle  Billy  Phillips  tries  out  TV  set 
given  him  by  Grand  Chapter  at  Rich- 
mond's 50th  Anniversary  dinner.  Assist- 
ant to  Grand  Secretary  Ruck  and  Junior 
Grand  Marshal-elect  Herb  Smith  watch. 

Jim  Barnes,  president;  Jim  Coleman,  vice-presi- 
dent; Harry  Thompson,  secretary;  Tom  Woods, 
treasurer;  and  Ralph  Kinsey,  historian. 

Retiring  president  of  the  group  is  Warden  N. 
Hartman,  Colorado  Alpha. 

Albuquerque 

Past  Grand  President  Dr.  William  C.  Smolen- 
ske,  governor  of  District  XV,  was  the  chief 
speaker  at  the  University  of  New  Mexico  Sig 
Ep  50th  anniversary  party  on  October  30,  for  the 
active  alumni  chapters. 

The  actives  sponsored  the  banquet  which  was 
held  in  the  Greer  Room  of  the  famous  Hilton 
Hotel   at   Albuquerque.    Chapter  vice-president 


Gathering  of  loyal  Seattle  Sig  Eps  at  their  Founders'  Day  banquet  on  November  1. 


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At  Albuquerque's  50th  Anniversary  parly, 
pledges,  actives,  alumni,  and  former  Grand 
President  Smolenske   (front)   smile  together. 


Jack  Bolander,  serving  as  emcee,  introduced  no 
less  than  40  brothers. 

Four  newspapers  and  three  radio  stations 
carried  publicity  for  the  event,  which  aided 
Chairman  Ken  Meyer's  efforts.  Dr.  Lloyd  S. 
Tireman  sent  his  regrets  from  Bangkok,  Siam. 
New  Mexico  Alpha  is  extremely  grateful  for  the 
presence  of  Dr.  Smolenske  at  the  dinner.  He 
brought  the  alumni  up  to  date  on  the  fraternity's 
national  expansion  program  and  other  events 
and  urged  the  reorganization  of  the  alumni 
group  at  Albuquerque. 

Following  the  dinner,  an  alumni  group  was 
organized  and  the  following  officers  elected: 
president,  Bernard  J.  Myer,  '34;  vice-president, 
John  Wichelns,  '50;  comptroller,  E.  L.  Alford, 
'49  (succeeding  Oren  Strong);  chapter  adviser, 
Jesse  E.  Baxter,  '40;  and  secretary  and  historian, 
Ferris  L.  Johnson,  '51. 

Sig  Eps  in  the  Albuquerque  area  desiring  to 
participate  in  meetings  are  urged  to  get  in 
touch  with  the  historian— F.  L.  Johnson,  804 
North  La  Veta  Drive. 

—Ferris  L.  Johnson 


Grand  Secretary  William  W.  Hindman,  Jr.,  and 
Cleveland  Alumni  president  Harold  Hayes,  both 
at  rear,  congratulate  new  initiates  (left  to 
right)   James  Kurtz,  Fred  Haffner,  Carl  Snyder. 


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Boston 

Members  of  the  Boston  Alumni  Chapter  met 
for  dinner  on  November  1  at  the  Pegis  Club 
house,  Massachusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  to 
celebrate  Founders'  Day.  Feature  of  the  meeting 
was  an  address  on  "U.S.A.  and  the  World,"  by 
Dr.  WiUiam  Verhage,  Wisconsin  Alpha,  '28,  of 
the  faculty  of  political  economy,  Boston  Uni- 
versity. Discussion  dealt  with  the  responsibility 
of  America  towards  Britain,  Iran,  Egypt,  and 
other  countries  in  keeping  world  order. 

Cleveland 

A  visit  by  Grand  Secretary  WiUiam  Hindman 
and  the  initiation  of  three  Clevelanders  were 
highlights  of  the  annual  Founders'  Day  banquet 
held  November  2  by  the  Cleveland  Alumni 
Chapter.  Hindman  brought  members  of  the 
chapter  up  to  date  on  fraternity  progress  and 
reported  on  the  spirit  that  keynoted  the  50th 
Anniversary  Conclave  in  these  words: 

"We  are  looking  forward  to  our  next  50 
years,  with  enthusiasm  running  high  in  all 
chapters  despite  the  many  clouds  on  the  hori- 
zon." 

District  Governor  Harry  B.  Kurtz  presided  at 
the  initiation  ceremonies,  with  these  three  men 
becoming  members  of  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon:  Fred 
Haffner,  Sr.,  who  has  been  actively  associated 
with  Sig  Ep  alumni  in  Cleveland  since  his  son, 
now  in  California,  became  a  member  at  Cali- 
fornia Beta;  James  B.  Kurtz  and  Carl  J.  Snyder, 
both  former  pledges  at  Ohio  Gamma,  who  have 
continued  their  fraternity  contacts  for  many 
years  since  leaving  college. 

Los  Angeles 

The  Oakmont  Country  Club  in  Glendale  was 
the  scene  of  the  annual  Founders'  Day  banquet 
staged  by  the  Los  Angeles  Alumni  Chapter  on 
November  5.  Seventy-four  Sig  Eps,  actives  and 
alumni,  gathered  around  the  festive  board  to 
pay  homage  to  Sig  Ep's  founders  on  the  Golden 
Anniversary  celebration. 

Grand  President  Luie  Roberts  made  the  trip 
up  from  San  Diego  to  be  the  principal  speaker. 
Luie  launched  his  campaign  for  true  American- 
ism in  our  colleges  and  universities,  and  made 
an  eloquent  plea  for  the  Sig  Ep  Boys  Camp 
Fund. 

Past  Grand  President  Bob  Ryan  also  ad- 
dressed the  banquet,  as  did  Paul  Slater,  newly 
elected  Junior  Grand  Marshal.  At  the  conclu- 
sion of  President  Roberts'  talk,  he  announced 
the  resignation  of  Slater  as  district  governor, 
and  taking  Ryan  by  surprise  appointed  him  as 
district  governor  of  District  XVIII.  Everyone 
is  glad  to  know  that  Bob's  interest  and  guidance 
will  continue  to  belong  to  Sig  Ep  for  a  long 
time  to  come. 


Alumni  chapter  president  Bob  Shipp  con- 
ducted his  swan  song,  and  when  he  announced 
the  report  of  the  nomination  committee  for 
chapter  ofBcers  for  the  coming  year  there  wasn't 
one  note  of  discord.  New  officers  elected  are 
Richard  B.  Newton,  president;  Richard  J. 
Pearson,  vice-president;  Robert  Reis,  secretary; 
and  George  Daniels,  treasurer.  All  are  California 
Beta  men  but  Newton  hastened  to  emphasize 
that  it  is  an  aU-Sig  Ep  slate.  An  alumni  council 
of  20  men,  whose  duties  are  to  work  with  the 
oflBcers  on  alumni  functions  during  the  coming 
year,  also  was  elected. 

Philadelphia 

This  alumni  chapter  had  to  put  oflF  its  Golden 
Anniversary  banquet  until  November  12  in  order 
to  get  Uncle  Billy  Phillips  as  honor  guest,  since 
Richmond  had  full  claims  on  him  for  November 
1. 

The  dinner  was  held  at  the  Undine  Barge 
Club  and  was  informal. 

New  ofBcers  were  elected  for  the  coming  year, 

Stillwater 

Festivities  occurring  at  Oklahoma  Alpha's 
Founders'  Day  banquet  November  3  at  Still- 
water, included  burning  of  the  mortgage  on  the 
house  at  324  Monroe  Street.  Among  those  pres- 
ent were  Carl  Peterson,  Assistant  to  the  Grand 
Secretary,  Paul  Odor,  Oklahoma  Alpha  Chap- 
ter president,  George  Green,  Jr.,  Oklahoma 
Alpha's  first  pledge  and  vice-president  of  the 
First  National  Bank  and  Trust  Co.  of  Oklahoma 
City;  Clarence  Paden,  president,  Oklahoma 
Alpha  Alumni  Corporation;  A.  O.  Martin,  sec- 
retary-treasurer of  the  Alumni  Corporation— 
the  mortgage  was  retired  after  25  years. 

San  Diego 

California  Delta  celebrated  the  Golden  Anni- 
versary with  a  dinner  in  the  Garden  Room  of 
San  Diego's  Manor  Hotel  on  November  19. 
Alumni  were  there  in  great  numbers  and  were 
represented  at  the  head  table  by  Grand  Presi- 
dent Luis  Roberts,  Alumni  President  Howard 
Quam  Stan  Mackie,  and  Al  Schuss.  The  actives 
were  represented  by  Chapter  President  Dave 
Raper,  Vice-President  Bill  Montepagono,  and 
past  president  and  present  historian  Dick  Curtis. 

After  the  dinner,  Dave  Raper  introduced  Stan 
Mackie  who  served  as  emcee.  He  introduced 
Grand  President  Luis  Roberts  who  told  us  of 
the  Fraternity's  beginning  and  highfights  of  its 
growth  up  to  the  Conclave  held  in  Richmond 
last  June. 

Our  principal  speaker  for  the  evening  was  Al 
Schuss  who  is  associated  with  an  advertising 
agency  in  San  Diego.  He  spoke  of  his  experi- 
ences since  leaving  the  University  of  Washing- 


Paul  Odor,  left,  helps  George  Green,  Jr., 
first  pledge  of  Oklahoma  Alpha,  burn 
house  mortgage  at  banquet  in  Stillwater. 

ton  and  his  chapter,  Washing+on  Beta.  He  was 
with  the  Columbia  Broadca?::.ig  System  at  the 
beginning  of  that  network,  has  served  as  an 
FBI  agent  in  the  Chicago  area,  and  more  re- 
cently has  been  a  sports  announcer. 

The  dinner  was  closed  with  Luis  Roberts 
leading  in  a  group  rendition  of  the  Fraternity's 
Anthem. 

Wichita 

The  Wichita  Alumni  Chapter  held  its 
Founders'  Day  banquet  in  the  Alfis  Hotel  on 
November  1.  Carl  O.  Petersen  of  the  Grand 
Chapter,  who  gave  the  principal  address,  was 
introduced  by  outgoing  president  Jerome  John- 
son. About  30  members  were  present,  including 
several  brothers  on  duty  at  the  Wichita  Air 
Force  base. 

Election  of  officers  resulted  in  a  unanimous 


Drake  Sig  Eps  boasted  to  alumni  that  foot- 
ball team  would  "Flush  Iowa  State  royally." 


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vote  for  Lester  Kappelman,  president;  Gene 
Bullinger,  vice-president;  Lyle  Woodring,  treas- 
urer; and  Dwight  Castello,  secretary. 

At  a  short  business  meeting,  it  vi^as  decided 
that  our  calendar  and  social  year  would  follow 
the  school  year.  It  was  decided  to  have  an  in- 
formal weekly  get-together  for  lunch  at  a  down- 
Itown  restaurant  on  each  Thursday  at  12:00 
noon.  Elmer  Hier,  Kansas  Gamma,  manager  of 
the  Allis,  offered  the  chapter  the  use  of  a 
special  table  in  the  Allis  CoflFee  Shop.  All  Sig 
-Eps,  graduate  and  undergraduate,  are  invited 
and  no  reservations  are  necessary. 

—Rockwell  Smith 


Notes  on  Homecoming 

At  Temple,  activities  of  the  fall  semester 
were  highlighted  by  the  winning  of  second 
place  for  the  homecoming  display.  Construction 
was  supervised  by  Herb  Collins.  The  Temple 
Owl  was  shown  pulling  the  Fordham  Ram  by 
the  tail  and  both  figures  were  constructed  of 
wire,  paste,  paper,  and  hard  work.  The  finished 
product  made  a  hit  with  returning  alumni  who 
were  happy  to  see  the  Sig  Eps  back  in  the 
running. 

At  Alabama,  a  smoker  honoring  the  alumni 
was  held  on  one  night,  with  a  semiformal  house 
dance  following  the  next  night.  Since  Alabama's 
slogan  for  the  Homecoming  game  with  the 
University  of  Florida  was  MGM  ( Make  'Gators 
Moan),  lawn  decorations  consisted  of  a  large 
theater  stage  backed  by  a  revolving  screen  on 
which  were  painted  comic  illustrations  of  the 
traditional  battle  between  the  Florida  'Gators 
and  the  Red  Elephants  of  Alabama. 

At  Indiana,  more  than  125  guests  ttimed  out 
for  Homecoming  weekend.  Among  this  num- 
ber were  more  than  30  alumni,  who  met  in  the 


morning  for  the  annual  alumni  meeting.  Alumni 
board  elections  were  held,  and  the  new  mem- 
bers are  Russell  B.  Wyatt,  '36,  and  George 
Grigsby,  '50,  treasurer.  Other  members  are 
Howard  Evans,  president;  Maurice  Felger,  sec- 
retary; Richard  Thompson;  and  B.  R.  Davidson. 

Homecoming  decorations  of  the  U.  of  Florida 
Sig  Ep  house  consisted  of  an  alligator  dressed 
as  a  football  player  kicking  a  Vandy  player 
into  the  hatch  of  a  rocket  ship  which  was  about 
30'  high  and  6'  in  diameter  covered  in  silver 
foil  and  flashing  at  the  bottom  in  preparation 
for  a  take-off.  Sound  effects  were  produced  by 
Bob  Johnson  and  Neils  Lahr  on  a  wire  recorder. 
The  flicker  buttons  for  the  lights  on  the  rocket 
ship  lighting  system  found  a  funny  way  of 
getting  into  the  lights  all  over  the  house;  the 
house  looked  strange  flashing  on  and  off  in 
places  like  a  Christmas  tree.  .  .  .  Decorations 
for  the  front  of  the  house  were  done  by  En- 
gineer John  Anderson  and  aifiliates. 

The  Sig  Ep  float  carried  the  Queen  of  Hearts 
with  her  court— five  pretty  co-eds,  one  of  them 
the  reigning  queen  from  last  Golden  Heart 
weekend.  The  committee  headed  by  George 
Campbell  worked  until  parade  time. 

Among  the  returning  alumni  were  Fotios  V. 
Bokas,  Bonnie  I.  Smith,  Hoke  S.  Johnson,  John 
M.  Marees,  V.  V.  Moore  (USAF),  Walt  Stacy, 
and  Dave  Hendon.  Max  S.  Cleland  came  over 
from  Daytona  Beach  for  the  first  time  in  15 
years. 

The  alumni  annual  meeting  and  election  of 
officers  was  held  Saturday  after  the  buffet  din- 
ner. 

On  Friday  night  Gator  Growl  was  held  at 
Florida  Field  with  laughs,  songs,  skits,  and 
fireworks.  The  football  game  Saturday  afternoon 
was  a  Florida  Victory  over  Vandy  which  gave 
good  reason  to  party  Saturday  night.  The 
weekend  was  big  and  beautiful,  but  Sunday 
came  and  everyone  left  the  University  like  a 
rising  fog. 


OTHER     GROUP     DOINGS 


Berheley 

Fall  activities  of  the  Berkeley  Alumni  have 
been  marked  by  closer  relations  with  the  active 
chapter. 

The  housing  situation  is  still  the  main  problem 
facing  both  the  active  house  and  the  alumni 
board.  However,  both  groups  are  co-operating 
in  efforts  to  bring  about  a  solution.  In  tlie 
meantime  temporary  quarters  have  been  secured 
at  2431  Durant  Avenue,  Berkeley. 

New  faces  on  the  board  replacing  retiring 
members  include  Robert  Ray,  Agnus  Crocker, 
Roger  Thompson,  and  Wayne  Gray. 

Founders'   Day   was   celebrated   with    a  fine 


banquet  held  November  9.  Football  movies  of 
California's  grid  victories  of  last  year  were 
shown.  Robert  Brorson  arranged  the  successful 
event.  —Wayne  Gray 

ClevelatBd 

The  Cleveland  Alumni  Chapter  again  played 
host  to  northern  Ohio's  Sig  Ep  actives  at  the 
annual  Christmas  semi-formal.  This  year's  dance 
was  held  at  the  Cleveland  Hotel  on  December 
28.  The  affair  was  well  attended  by  both  alumni 
and  actives  home  for  the  holidays  from  colleges 
in  several  states. 

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Omaha  alumni  tour  Falstaff  brewery  at  which  the  product  was  not  introduced  until 
after   the   business  meeting.   David   F.   Barber,  Nebraska   Alpha,   '44,  arranged   tour. 


Cleveland  Alumni  roster  of  officers  and  board  of 
directors.  New  officers  for  1951-52  are: 

Harold  O.  Hayes,  Minnesota  Alpha,  '23,  presi- 
dent; Richard  A.  Steudel,  Michigan  Alpha,  '41, 
vice-president;  Jack  Gamble,  Washington  Alpha, 
'38,  secretary;  Eugene  Hulbert,  Iowa  Beta,  '46, 
treasurer. 

Board  of  directors  includes  Charles  F.  Stew- 
art, Florida  Alpha,  '28,  chairman;  Gordan  Weir, 
Ohio  Zeta,  '49;  K.  B.  Wiggins,  Ohio  Gamma, 
'20;  Myles  S.  Wilder,  Vermont  Alpha,  '08; 
Harold  G.  Fitch,  West  Virginia  Beta;  Harry 
Kieding,  Illinois  Alpha,  '35;  James  Snodgrass, 
Ohio  Zeta,  '50;  William  Allen,  Jr.,  Pennsylvania 
Lambda,  '49;  and  John  M.  Stroud,  Ohio  Epsilon, 

Cleveland  alumni  hold  weekly  luncheon  meet- 
ings at  the  Nanking  Restaurant,  710  Euclid 
Ave.,  every  Friday  noon.       —Jack  Gamble 

Kansas  City 

The  Annual  Ladies'  Night  was  held  on 
October  16  at  Paup's  on  Highway  50  in  John- 
son County.  Approximately  30  couples  attended. 

A  professional  travel  lecturer  showed  motion 
pictures  of  European  travel  points  of  interest  to 
tourists. 

Dick  Southall  served  as  chairman  of  arrange- 
ments. 


3iissoMUa 

The  Friday  noon  meeting  of  the  Missoula 
Alumni  Association  is  always  an  occasion  for 
Western  Montana  Sig  Eps.  This  organization 
has  not  missed  a  regular  meeting  since   1939. 

Montana  Alpha's  John  W.  Bonner,  Governor 
of  Montana,  was  the  guest  of  honor  Friday 
noon,  July  20.  The  meeting  was  held  at  the 


Steak  House  operated  by  Brother  Charles  S. 
Gaughan.  The  Missoula  Alumni  group  has  been 
very  active  in  keeping  Montana  Alpha  on  its 
toes.  John  McGilvry  is  alumni  secretary-treas- 
urer. —Lloyd  Hogan 

Otnaha 

Omaha  alumni  were  guests  of  the  Falstaff 
Brewing  Corporation  at  Nebraska's  largest 
brewery  October  10,  1951.  Members  held  their 
regular  business  meeting  and  election  of  officers 
but  they  also  toured  the  brewery,  saw  a  hunt- 
ing dog  film,  and  enjoyed  a  dutch  lunch  as 
guests  of  Falstaff's  Omaha  family  of  450  em- 
ployees. 

Robert  Wolfe,  Nebraska  Alpha,  '44,  of  1812 
North  Fifty-fourth  Street,  Omaha,  was  elected 
president  of  the  Alumni  Chapter,  succeeding 
Clarence  Raish.  He  is  assistant  buyer  of  whole- 
sale hardware  for  Wright  and  Wilhelmy  Co., 
Omaha. 

Other  officers  are  R.  F.  Wellman,  re-elected 
vice-president,  and  John  R.  Spaulding,  secre- 
tary-treasurer. Program  plans  for  1952  were 
discussed.  Representatives  of  the  new  Beta 
Chapter  at  the  University  of  Omaha  joined  in 
the  "business  and  pleasure"  at  the  Falstaff 
plant. 

Those  who  attended  the  Falstaff  party  were: 
Wolfe,  Raish,  Welbnan,  Spaulding,  Dr.  H.  E. 
Monger,  George  H.  Thompson,  Gordon  Diggle, 
Patrick  E.  Thomas,  Walter  Gaebler,  Dale  Arm- 
strong, D.  K.  Bryant,  James  Purney,  Ernest 
Gray,  Gene  Benton,  Warren  Vickory,  James  T. 
Duncan,  Hyle  G.  Burke,  Jack  Feierman,  J.  W. 
Kurtz,  M.  G.  Van  Scoy,  Dr.  Gene  Slattery, 
William  Whited,  John  R.  Browning,  Dr.  James 
D.  Bradley,  and  Richard  Denser. 

The  Sig  Eps  were  shown  through  the  Falstaff 


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Alumni  groups  whose  attendance  has  fallen  off 
might  help  change  a  losing  game  into  a  win- 
ning one  by  mailing  out  announcements  like 
this.  Also  get  more  worth-while  talks  from  speak- 
ers like  Boston's  and  less  small  talk  from  the 
kind    but    deadly    bores    who    kill    attendance. 

plant  by  David  F.  Barber,  Nebraska  Alpha,  '43, 
public  relations  representative  in  Omaha  for  the 
Falstaff  Brewing  Corporation  which  owns  and 
operates  five  modern  breweries  in  the  heart  of 
Ainerica. 


New  Yorh 

At  the  first  fall  meeting  organization  com- 
mittees were  appointed  and  a  program  for  the 
coming  year  approved.  The  meeting  was  fol- 
lowed by  a  social  period  and  card  party  at 
which  a  poker  and  several  bridge  tables  con- 
vened. 

On  November  24,  the  association  sponsored  a 
cocktail  party  attended  by  24  couples.  After 
dinner,  the  group  attended  the  Sid  Ceasar- 
Imogene  Coca  telecast,  "Show  of  Shows"— and 
many  of  the  couples  returned  to  the  New  York 
Gamma  house  to  share  with  the  active  chapter 
in  its  Fordham  game  house  party.  Thanks  to 
Mrs.  Eula  Jorgenson  and  Mrs.  Dorothy  Yanega 
for  the  attractive  and  tasty  hors  d'oeuvres,  to 
George  Wolf  for  the  telecast  arrangements  and 
to  the  Social  Committeemen  Bud  Jorgenson  and 
Charlie  Moore  for  a  wonderful  evening. 


A  final  membership  application  mailing  will 
be  processed  in  the  near  future.  Any  alumnus 
in  the  New  York  area  desiring  to  become  afBh- 
ated  with  this  chapter  is  welcome.  Please  con- 
tact the  secretary,  George  E.  Wolf,  3  Glenwood 
Avenue,  Little  Neck,  L.I.,  for  information  and  a 
membership  application, 

Pittsburgh 

Our  group  met  in  the  new  chapter  house  of 
Pennsylvania  Gamma  on  November  18.  Presi- 
dent Art  MacFadden  reviewed  the  Conclave 
which  he  attended  as  our  representative.  Elec- 
tion of  officers  was  held  with  the  following 
elected  to  serve  for  the  coming  year:  president, 
A.  Fred  Walters,  Jr.;  vice-president,  George  W. 
CoUins;  treasurer.  Smith  W.  Gealy;  secretary, 
Allan  T.  Johnston.  —Allan  T.  Johnston 


^      BRIEFS      ^ 
Dartmouth 

Russell  L.  Durgin  has  returned  to  the  U.S. 
from  Tokyo,  Japan,  where  he  has  served  the 
Y.M.C.A.  for  30  years,  latterly  as  senior  secre- 
tary of  the  International  Committee  of  the 
Y.M.C.A.  and  honorary  secretary  of  the  Japanese 
National  Committee.  Illness  forced  his  resigna- 
tion. He  has  assumed  a  new  post  in  New  York 
City  as  staff  associate  of  the  Japan  International 
Christian  University  Foundation,  Inc. 

Frank  J.  Johnson,  '51,  of  San  Pedro,  Calif., 
has  enrolled  at  the  School  of  Advanced  Inter- 
national Studies  of  Johns  Hopkins  University, 
which  branch  is  situated  at  Washington,  D.C. 

Delaware 

H.  Dudley  Barton,  '51,  is  the  new  district 
sales  engineer  for  Haveg  Corporation  in  charge 
of  the  Connecticut  district  at  Hartford,  Conn. 


Denver 

Oliver  W.  Gushee  has  accepted  the  post  of 
musical  director  at  the  West  Side  High  School, 
Denver.  For  several  years  he  had  taught  music 
in  Japan. 

Dwight  F.  Johnson,  '46,  is  the  new  executive 
secretary  at  the  West  Side  Y.M.C.A.  at  Denver. 


Florida 

Dan  McCarty,  '34,  who  was  defeated  in  a 
close  race  for  the  governorship  of  Florida  in 
1948,  has  again  entered  in  this  year's  contest. 
The  Florida  campus  campaign  slogan  will  be 
"Dan  is  due  in  '52." 

Donald    R.    Mathews,    '29,    head   of  Alumni 


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Affairs  at  the  University  of  Florida,  is  looking 
forward  to  a  seat  in  the  State  Legislature. 

James  E.  Cross,  '45,  is  also  running  for  the 
State  Legislature  from  Gainesville. 

Kansas  State 

Kenneth  B.  Hamlin,  '41,  resigned  as  president 
of  the  Denver  Alumni  Chapter,  to  accept  a  posi- 
tion with  the  Bell  Telephone  Company  at  New 
York  City. 

3iinnesota 

Robert  Brown,  ex-'52,  is  associated  with  one 
of  the  leading  pharmaceutical  houses  as  a  sales- 
man with  offices  at  Bismarck,  N.D. 

N.Y.U. 

Jim  Dimond,  '51,  is  head  of  the  co-ordination 
department  of  the  Ferris  Buick  Corporation,  the 
Bronx,  N.Y. 


ALUMNI     FAVORITES 


WALTER  SCHERF 
Carroll  College,  T6 


Southern  California 

The  Pearson  twins,  Dick  and  Andrall,  '44, 
who  married  twins  last  March,  still  are  doing 
the  twin  act.  They  both  received  promotions  in 
November.  Dick  was  made  advertising  and  sales 
promotion  manager  of  the  Bireley's  Division  of 
General  Foods  Corp.,  with  headquarters  in  Los 
Angeles,  and  Andrall  was  appointed  assistant 
product  manager  for  Chase  and  Sanborn  (Stand- 
ard Brands),  and  has  moved  to  New  York  to 
take  up  his  new  duties  of  co-ordination  manu- 
facturing, advertising  and  sales  for  his  firm.  His 
address  is  15  Park  View,  Bronxville  8,  N.Y. 
Dick  will  be  in  charge  of  all  advertising  and 
sales  promotion  for  Bireley's  non-carbonated 
drink  line. 


Stetson 

Bruce  Perkins  is  associated  with  the  Hospital 
Supply  Corporation  at  College  Point,  N.Y. 

Robert  Willard  is  under  contract  with  a  lec- 
ture agency  in  Georgia,  associated  with  the 
Hallmark  motion  picture,  "The  Prince  of  Peace." 

Texas 

James  Collins,  of  Austin,  Tex.,  recently  repre- 
sented the  public  schools  of  that  city  as  delegate 
to  the  annual  convention  of  the  National  Edu- 
cation Association  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 


Washington 

Monroe  H.  Hubbell,  '33,  lis  associate  dean  of 
Long  Beach  City  College,  Long  Beach,  Calif. 


AT  the  Sig  Ep  house  at  Carroll,  one  of  the 
favorite  alumni  is  Walter  Scherf,  '16.  His  un- 
failing encouragement  has  given  the  chapter 
leaders  especially  a  much  belter  sense  of 
direction.  The  men  know  he  is  behind  them 
as  a  whole  and  it  helps  them  do  better. 

Walter  Scherf  lives  at  Green  Bay,  Wis., 
where  he  heads  the  Northern  Glove  and  Mit- 
ten Co.,  which  he  himself  organized  in  1920 
after  a  period  of  service  in  the  Air  Corps  in 
World  War  L  In  World  War  II,  his  gloves 
and  mittens,  many  of  which  are  made  from 
deer  hides,  helped  keep  GI  hands  warm.  For 
this  the  company  was  given  the  Army  and 
Navy  E  award. 

Once  when  Walter  visited  the  house  he 
saw  that  the  fellows  could  use  a  pool  table 
in  the  recreation  room,  so  he  bought  them 
one.  He  is  constantly  inviting  Sig  Eps  to  his 
beautiful  home  and  last  spring  entertained 
18  of  them  at  a  dinner-dance.  He  provided 
dates  for  the  lot.  The  next  morning — Sunday 
— all  18  of  them  accompanied  him  to  church 
and  then  all  played  golf  at  his  club. 

Walter  Scherf's  interests  loudly  declare 
that  he  wants  to  do  good  where  he  can.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of 
Bellin  Memorial  Hospital.  Under  his  chair- 
manship, the  Red  Cross  campaign  for  funds 
exceeded  its  quota  last  year.  He  served  14 
years  on  the  city  water  commission.  He  is  a 
director  of  the  Y.M.C.A. 

Keenly  interested  in  sports,  he  is  a  director 
of  the  Green  Bay  Packers  Football  Club  and 
a  charter  member  of  the  Oneida  Golf  and 
Riding  Club. 


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Grand  Historian  Bob  Kelly,  left,  with 
fellow  N.Y.U.  alumni  Bud  Quadland,  seated, 
and  George  Trudeau.  Photo  by  Mary  Kelly. 

Washington  State 

Lauron  W.  Gies,  '48,  is  a  member  of  the 
June,  1952,  class  of  the  American  Institute  for 
Foreign  Trade  at  Thunderbird  Field,  Phoenix, 
Ariz.  The  course  concentrates  on  techniques  of 
international  business  administration,  foreign 
languages,  and  characteristics  of  foreign  coun- 
tries. 


Westminster 

John  P.  Melhorn  is  head  of  Fisher  Scientific 
Corporation  of  Canada. 

Harry  Headley,  is  associated  with  the  Car- 
negie-Illinois Steel  Corporation  as  chief  of  sales 
personnel. 


Williawn  and  Mary 

Carlton  E.  Sundin,  '32,  has  been  appointed 
manager  of  the  office  of  the  Chesapeake  and 
Potomac  Telephone  Company  of  Virginia  at 
Hampton,  Va.  He  first  joined  the  organization  at 
Richmond  in  1936  and  has  also  served  at  Arling- 
ton, Lynchburg,  Winchester,  and  Suffolk. 


i^       OVR     liVAR     STORY       ^ 

THE  following  is  a  report  by  chapters  of  their 
members  who  have  recently  entered  the  service 
of  their  country: 

Arkansas:  Air  Force— 2nd  Lt.  Russell  Lueg, 
2nd  Lt.  Ervin  Glenn. 


Florida:  Army— Bryon  Cooksey,  Robert  Sages, 
Robert  Busse,  Foster  Olroyd,  George  T.  Shder. 
Marines— Scott  Sutton.  Air  Force— Carl  Cason, 
John  Cederlund,  Herbert  Wetherby,  Bruce  Ray, 
V.  V.  Moore,  Bob  Wood,  George  Grimsley, 
George  Bokas,  John  Molpus,  Robert  Birt, 
George  Kolias,  Joseph  Delmar,  Tom  Baker, 
Ronald  Clapp,  William  Birsch.  Navy— Tom 
Stone,  Ernest  Polhtz,  Douglas  Parker,  Bill 
Sheldon,  George  Morrison,  Bill  Blanford,  Walter 
Maddox. 

Florida  Southern:  Army— Pvt.  William 
Milazzo,  Camp  Chaffee,  Ark.;  Sgt.  John  Ward, 
Mitchel  AFB,  N.Y.;  Dick  Hanson,  Bainbridge, 
Md.;  1st.  Lt.  Virgil  Koenig,  iMemphis,  Tenn.; 
Edward  Carey,  Camp  Moffett,  Great  Lakes,  111. 

Florida  State:  Air  Force— Herb  Marsh, 
Lackland  Air  Force  Base,  San  Antonio,  Tex. 
Army— Doug  McMillan,  Jr.,  Fort  Jackson,  S.C. 

Illinois  Tech:  Army— John  Murphy,  Don 
Picha,  George  Pelc. 

Indiana:  Army— Jack  Swanson,  '51,  Fort 
Leonard  Wood,  Mo.;  2nd  Lt.  James  Greek,  '51, 
Fort  Lee,  Va. 

Johns  Hopkins:  1st  Lt.  Richard  C.  Bund, 
Maryland  Alpha,  a  radar  observer  in  Randolph 
Field's  B-29  combat  crew  training  program,  has 
been  assigned  to  Lockbourne  Air  Force  Base, 
Columbus,  Ohio. 

Kansas:  Keg  Moorhead  is  at  Fort  Riley, 
Kan.,  until  the  first  of  February  when  he  expects 
to  be  sent  to  Korea.  Other  men  at  Fort  Riley  in- 
clude William  R.  Snook,  Eugene  S.  Ryan,  and 
Gene  Riling. 


Emporia     State:     Navy— David    Pyle     and 
Robert  McCoy,  San  Diego,  Calif. 


At  Armed  Forces  Information  School  at  Fort 
Slocum,  N.Y.,  three  Sig  Eps  get  together.  From 
left:  Sgt.  Charles  C.  Jones,  USA,  New  Mexico 
Alpha,  '49;  Pfc.  Lynton  M.  Patt,  USAF,  In- 
diana Alpha,  '51;  and  Pvt.  Charles  E.  Whaley, 
USA,  Kentucky  Alpha,  '49. 


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Ensign  Paul  Skolaut  of  the  U.  S.  Navy  is 
with  the  U.  S.  S.  Brown  at  San  Francisco,  CaHf. 

Kale  Gentry  is  with  the  air  force  somewhere 
in  Utah,  and  Charles  Owen  is  located  at  Vint 
Hills  Farm,  Warrenton,  Va.,  with  the  Signal 
Corps,  and  expects  to  be  back  in  school  for  the 
spring  semester. 

Frank  Obenland,  at  last  word,  was  with  the 
Army  Medical  Corps  in  Japan,  and  Douglas 
Paddock  is  at  Lowery  Field,  Denver,  Colo. 

Maine;  Army— 2nd  Lt.  Francis  T.  Decoteau, 
'50,  Camp  Cook,  Calif.;  2nd  Lt.  Walter  T. 
White,  '51,  Fort  Monmouth,  N.J.;  2nd  Lt. 
Edgar  E.  Gammon,  '51,  Fort  Bhss,  Tex.;  2nd 
Lt.  Roger  H.  Brown,  '51,  Fort  Bliss,  Tex.;  2nd 
Lt.  Richard  H.  Hale,  '51,  Fort  Monmouth,  N.J.; 
2nd  Lt.  Durwood  H.  Seely,  Fort  Benning,  Ga.; 
Pfc.  Edwin  C.  Manzer,  '51  Camp  Chaffee,  Ark.; 
2nd  Lt.  Ronald  P.  Gendron,  '51,  Fort  Bliss, 
Tex.;  Pfc.  Robert  O.  Judkins,  '51,  Fort  Mon- 
mouth, N.J.;  Cpl.  Richard  E.  Leighton,  '52, 
Fort  Breckinridge,  Ky.  Marines— 2nd  Lt.  George 
N.  Whalen,  '51,  Quantico,  Va.  Air  Force— Pfc. 
Benjamin  S.  Blanchard,  '51,  Sampson  Air  Force 
Base,  N.Y. 

Miami  (Ohio)  :  Coast  Guard— Robert  Albright, 
'51,  and  Harold  Hayes,  '51.,  New  London, 
Conn.  Marines— John  Dopier,  '51.  Army— Louis 
Bremer. 

Minnesota:  Army— Bill  Reilly.  Navy— Lee 
Jensen.  Air  Force— Bob  Williams  and  Bob  Pool. 

Montana:  Air  Force— 2nd  Lt.  Edward  G. 
Heihnan,  '50,  was  ordered  to  active  duty  at 
Lackland  Air  Force  Base,  Tex.,  December  7, 
1951. 

New  Mexico:  Navy— Ensign  Bob  Albright, 
'50,  returned  to  the  States  for  treatment  of 
bums  received  during  October,  1951,  while 
stationed  on  the  aircraft  carrier  Philippine  Seas. 
Marines— Lt.  Don  Kendrick,  reported  to  be 
home  after  being  wounded  in  Korea. 

N.Y.U.:  Air  Force— Norman  Lethbridge, 
Chuck  Brown,  Jim  Morrissean,  Frank  Demaro. 
Navy— Bob  StoU.  Marines— Bruce  Beckwith, 
George  Price. 

Omaha:  Air  Force— Jerry  Leffler  and  Al  Zack. 
Navy— Jack  Dawson. 

Pennsylvania:  Bob  Adams,  Air  Corps;  Herb 
Agocs,  Navy,  stationed  at  Bainbridge  and  play- 
ing football  there  along  with  Reds  Bagnell;  Curt 
Gager,  Lieutenant  in  Marines  at  Quantico  ex- 
pecting to  leave  for  Korea  at  any  time;  Bud 
Harvey,  Army;  Jim  Kuhlman,  Ensign  in  Navy 
in  Washington;  Vic  Mikovich,  Navy  at  Great 
Lakes;  Al  Power,  Army  at  Vint  Hill  Farms,  Md.; 
Jerry  Romaine,  Navy  at  Great  Lakes;  Al  Taglia- 
ferri.  Army;  Bob  Wilkins,  Ensign  in  Navy. 


On  NROTC  cruise  at  Pensacola,  Fla.,  are 
T,  Kratt,  Nebraska  Alpha,  G.  E.  Dillon, 
Oregon  Alpha,  D.  L.  Barber,  Oregon  Alpha, 
R.  D.  Thoes,  Oklahoma  Beta,  and  R.  C. 
Drews,    Colorado    Alpha.    Midshipmen    all. 

San  Diego:  Army— Lt.  Bill  Morton,  Lt.  Bob 
Anderson,  and  Tom  Keen,  all  at  Fort  Benning, 
Ga.;  Pvt.  Ed  Fauquier  and  Bill  Dunn,  at  Fort 
Ord,  Calif. 


Southern     California: 
Larry  Shinn. 


Sam     Mooradian, 


Southern  California:  Marines— Joseph  F. 
Holt,  III,  '47,  a  past  president  of  his  chapter, 
onetime  president  of  the  Young  Republicans  of 
California,  writes  as  follows  from  Korea  where 
he  is  serving  with  the  Marines:  "My  outfit 
moves  up  to  the  very  front  lines  in  two  days. 
This  is  a  dirty,  rotten,  cold,  stinking,  mountain- 
ous country.  Me— I  have  an  infantry  platoon. 
Been  going  out  on  patrols  around  here  cleaning 
up  stray  gooks  (North  Koreans).  The  lieutenant 
I  believe  got  his  leg  blown  off  out  on  patrol 
yesterday.  1  take  the  same  patrol  tomorrow.  One 
thing,  you  are  so  cold  and  worn  out  from  climb- 
ing these  mountains  you  don't  worry  about 
getting  killed.  I  wish  lots  of  Congressmen  were 
here.  They  need  a  conscience— this  is  a  war, 
damn  real." 

Stetson:  Navy— Bud  James,  Jacksonville, 
Fla. 

Texas:  Navy— Jerry  Babcock,  San  Diego 
Naval  Station.  Army— Bob  Kipp,  discharged; 
Ben  Tompkins,  star  Longhorn  quarterback  in 
1950,  Fort  Sam  Houston;  Lt.  Stuart  Scott,  Fort 
Hood,  Tex.;  Lts.  John  Hammond  and  Dan 
Stuart,  Korea;  Max  Luther,  III,  Camp  Chaffee, 
Ark.  Air  Force— Eddie  Steen,  Biloxi,  Miss.;  Rich- 
ard McDuffie  and  Don  Holstead,  Lackland,  San 
Antonio,  Tex.;  Bill  Cantrell,  discharged. 

Washburn:  Marines— Dean  Parker,  John 
Buckmeier.  Air  Force— Gene  Hug.  Naval  Air 
Cadets— Robert  Roe. 

Wisconsin:  Navy— Pete  Wirtz,  '51,  Washing- 
ton, D.C.  Air  Force-2nd  Lt.  Robert  Smith, 
Europe.  Army— 1st  Lt.  Marvin  Neumann,  '51, 
paratroopers. 


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Married  in  high  style.  Russell  C.  Meyers,  Ohio  Theta.  See  item  in  Vital  Data. 


*      VITAL    DATA      * 

Married 

"When  Love  speaks,  the  voice  of  all  the  gods 
makes  heaven  drowsy  with  the  harmony." 

—SHAKESPEARE 

William  Richard  McChrystal,  California  Beta, 
'46,  and  Sara  Elizabeth  Mercer,  on  October  6, 
1951,  at  South  Pasadena,  Calif. 

Ed  Monreal,  California  Gamma,  and  Betty 
Mahler,  on  Columbus  Day,  1951,  at  Santa  Bar- 
bara, Calif. 

Dave  Reed,  California  Gamma,  and  Dorothy 
Burnett,  on  Columbus  Day,  1951,  at  Santa 
Barbara,  Calif. 

Paul  E.  DiSabatino,  Delaware  Alpha,  '51, 
and  Bettyanne  G.  Jennings,  on  November  24, 
1951,  at  Wilmington,  Del. 

Herbert  L.  Marsh,  Florida  Epsilon,  '51,  and 
Marge  Thompson,  on  November  16,  1951,  at 
Tallahassee,  Fla.;  with  chapter  brother  George 
Gnann  as  best  man. 

Howard  Conrad  Gennett,  Georgia  Alpha,  '53, 
and  Kathryn  Ann  Odenwald,  on  October  13, 
1951,  in  the  Saint  Philip  and  Saint  James 
Church,  Baltimore,  Md. 

James  Greek,  Indiana  Beta,  '51,  and  Anne 
Burkebile,  on  November  10,  1951,  at  Toledo, 
Ohio. 

Don  Bhss,  Kansas  Delta,  and  Paula  Stunkel, 
on  August  19,  1951,  at  Topeka,  Kan. 

Frank  S.  Foster,  Maine  Alpha,  '52,  and  Co- 
rinne  Peary,  on  September  9,  1951,  at  Farming- 
ton,  Maine. 

Chester  A.  Worthylake,  Jr.,  Maine  Alpha,  '52, 
and  Carolyn  Coolidge,  during  June,  1951,  at 
Marblehead,  Mass. 

George  A.  Remillard,  Maine  Alpha,  '53,  and 
EHnor  Horton,  on  June  25,  1951,  at  Old  Town, 
Maine. 

Charles  R.  Preble,  Maine  Alpha,  '49,  and 
Louise  Stella  Kulas,  on  September  28,  1951,  at 
Bar  Harbor,  Maine. 

Joseph   M.   Lupsha,   Maine   Alpha,   '50,   and 


Sylvia  Kathryn  Jordan,  on  October  1,  1951,  at 
Flagstaff,  Ariz. 

Alan  Douglas  Fitch,  Michigan  Alpha,  and 
Gretchen  Barbara  Bailey,  on  November  3,  1951. 

Roger  M.  Bellows,  Jr.,  Michigan  Alpha,  and 
Evelyn  Schmidt,  on  October  13,  1951. 

Liberate  Daniel  D'Addona,  Michigan  Alpha, 
and  Dorothy  Annette  De  Wolff,  on  October  6, 
1951. 

Harold  Glading  Neimeyer,  Michigan  Alpha, 
and  Peggy  Gleason,  during  August,  1951. 

Duane  Fuller,  Michigan  Alpha,  and  Ethelyn 
Bonita  Groomes,  during  August,  1951. 

Robert  L.  Doelling,  Missouri  Beta,  '40,  a 
member  of  his  chapter's  alumni  board,  and 
Mary  Theresa  Bergen,  on  November  8,  1951. 

Eugene  Lang,  Missouri  Gamma,  and  Rose 
Roesch,  on  September  8,  1951,  at  St.  Louis, 
Mo. 

C.  Graydon  East,  Missouri  Gamma,  '50,  and 
Joan  Ing,  Pi  Kappa  Sigma,  '51,  on  June  15, 
1951,  at  Herrin,  111. 

Charles  Heeger,  Missouri  Gamma  and  Emily 
Collins,  during  August,  1951,  at  Union,  Mo. 

George  A.  Danz,  Missouri  Gamma,  '50,  and 
Mary  Ann  S wails,  on  November  26,  1951,  at 
Union,  Mo. 

Edward  George  Heilman,  Montana  Alpha, 
'50,  and  Donna  Marie  Dever,  on  November  5, 
1951,  at  San  Jose,  Calif. 

Thomas  A.  WiUiams,  New  Jersey  Beta,  '51, 
and  Susan  Seybold,  in  November,  1951  in 
Merchantville,  N.J. 

Frank  Gregory  Bertics,  New  Jersey  Beta,  '52, 
and  Ina  Bobrovnichy,  in  August,  1951,  in  Lake- 
wood,  N.J. 

Frank  H.  O'dell,  New  Jersey  Beta,  '52,  and 
Carol  Robinson,  in  June,  1951,  in  Hamburg, 
N.J. 

William  Jarvis  Martin,  New  York  Alpha,  '51, 
and  Jane  Louise  Woodworth,  Alpha  Phi,  Syra- 
cuse, '51,  on  November  10,  1951,  at  Fayette- 
ville,  N.Y.;  with  chapter  brothers  Jim  Kolbe, 
Dee  Strickler,  and  Bill  Robeson  as  ushers. 

Gene  H.  Little,  North  Carohna  Epsilon,  '52, 


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and  Carolyn  Allen,  on  September  1,  1951,  at 
Charlotte,  N.C. 

Will  Herndon,  North  Carolina  Epsilon,  '53, 
and  Jean  Lynch,  on  December  19,  1951. 

Frank  Furman,  Jr.,  North  Carolina  Epsilon, 
'49,  and  Martha  Jane  Bird,  on  December  8, 
1951,  at  Jacksonville,  Fla. 

Art  Armstrong,  Ohio  Epsilon,  '53,  and  Jane 
Armstrong,  Alpha  Chi  Omega,  on  November 
3,  1951,  at  Ben  Avon,  Pa. 

Walter  Desmond,  Ohio  Eta,  '50,  and  Justyn 
Patterson,  on  November  24,  1951,  at  Columbus, 
Ohio. 

Russell  C.  Meyers,  Ohio  Theta,  and  Lovetta 
Davies,  U.  of  Cincinnati  Chi  Omega,  on  July 
7,  1951,  in  the  Kennedy  Heights  Presbyterian 
Church,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Terry  Sears  Leard,  Oklahoma  Alpha,  and 
Marilyn  Ann  Webb,  on  August  4,  1951,  at 
Muskogee,  Okla. 

Jack  Miller,  Oklahoma  Alpha,  and  Anita  Bark- 
hurst,  on  September  4,  1951,  at  Tulsa,  Okla. 

Walter  Beatty,  Oklahoma  Alpha,  and  S.  J. 
Larkin,  during  June  1951,  at  Oklahoma  City, 
Okla. 

Earl  Casner,  Oklahoma  Alpha,  and  Patsy 
Landis,  at  Wichita,  Kan.;  date  not  reported. 

Vaughn  Demergian,  Wisconsin  Beta,  '52,  and 
Betty  Jeanne  Boeing,  on  November  3,  1951, 
at  Madison,  Wis. 

Fred  R.  Winchell,  Wisconsin  Gamma,  '50, 
and  Joyce  Schroeder,  on  September  9,  1950, 
with  chapter  brother  Philip  Kieser  as  an  usher. 


Born 

"Our    neighbors'    children    are    always    the 

worst."  —OLD  GERMAN  SAYING 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  B.  Faerber,  Colorado 
Beta,  '27,  a  daughter,  Christina  Louise,  on 
July  15,  1951,  at  Birmingham,  Ala. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Paul  M.  Denes,  Colorado 
Beta,  '48,  a  son,  David  Paul,  their  first  child, 
on  September  12,  1951,  in  Mercy  Hospital,  San 
Diego,  Calif. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Reitter,  Florida 
Epsilon,  '53,  a  daughter,  Diann  Gail,  on  August 
27,  1951,  at  Tallahassee,  Fla.     ' 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Christy  Dale,  Florida  Ep- 
silon, '50,  a  daughter,  Iwana,  during  October, 
1951,  at  Lakeland,  Fla. 

To  Lt.  and  Mrs.  Harry  Melville  Rogers, 
USN,  Indiana  Alpha,  '44,  a  daughter,  Amanda 
Jean,  on  September  29,  1951,  in  the  U.  S. 
Naval  Hospital,  Annapolis,  Md.;  while  daddy 
was  serving  at  the  Academy  as  an  instructor  in 
marine  engineering. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  R.  Glasa,  Indiana  Alpha, 
'49,  a  son,  James  Gregory,  on  November  10, 
1951,  at  Kendallville,  Ind. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Allen,  Indiana 
Beta,  '50,  a  son,  Scott,  on  October  23,  1951. 


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To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  Aldrich,  Maine  Alpha, 
'50,  a  son,  Martin  Lloyd,  on  November  2,  1951, 
at  Lewiston,  Maine. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  J.  Anderson,  Michigan 
Alpha,  '47,  a  daughter,  Jody  Elizabeth,  on 
September  14,  1951,  at  Rockford,  111. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Donald  H.  Telthorse,  Mis- 
souri Gamma,  '51,  a  daunghter.  Donna  Marie, 
on  August  6,  1951,  at  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harry  W.  Cyphers,  Jr., 
New  Jersey  Beta,  '47,  a  son,  Ronald  Charles, 
on  October  5,  1951,  in  Grace  Hospital,  Morgan- 
ton,  N.C. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  R.  McHugh,  New 
York  Alpha,  '38,  a  daughter,  Ann  Elizabeth,  on 
September  24,  1951,  in  Memorial  Hospital,  Mas- 
sena,  N.Y. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  E.  Simpson,  New 
York  Alpha,  '52,  a  son,  Robert  Edward  II,  on 
October  17,   1951,  at  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leslie  E.  Cansler,  Jr.,  North 
Carolina  Zeta,  '41,  a  son,  Robert  Stanley,  on 
November  15,  1951,   at  Wilmington,  Del. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lloyd  Van  Seawell,  North 
Carolina  Zeta,  a  son,  Lloyd  Vann,  III,  on 
November  15,  1951. 

To  1st  Lt.  and  Mrs.  Albert  G.  Williams, 
Pennsylvania  Kappa,  '48,  a  daughter,  Barbara 
Jo-Anne,  on  May  10,  1951,  in  the  U.  S.  Naval 
Hospital,  Quantico,  Va. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  PhiUips,  Virginia 
Eta,  a  daughter,  Paige,  on  October  31,  1951. 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  N.  Alvis,  Wisconsin 
Alpha,  '47,  a  son,  Robert  Young,  on  September 
28,  1951. 


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Rutgers  Sig  Eps  at  the  Colgate  game  do  their  best  cheering  coxswained  by  Werner  Ewert's  bugle. 


Pigskin  Postlude 

More  Sig  Eps  played  for  football  fame 
in  1951  than  they  did  the  year  before. 


No  ail-Americans  are  reported  in  this  year's 
football  review,  though  the  review  contains 
more  names  than  that  of  1950.  The  1951  sea- 
son's all- Americans  were  chosen  chiefly  from  the 
nation's  top  dozen  teams. 

Don  Menasco,  last  year  ail-American  end 
from  Texas,  had  the  misfortune  of  playing  on  a 
team  this  year  that  did  not  do  nearly  as  well 
as  it  did  last  year.  Equally  unfortunate  for  his 
brilliant  Sig  Ep  teammate  Gib  Dawson. 

While  Illinois  possessed  one  of  the  best  teams 
in  the  nation,  if  not  the  best,  the  chapter  there 


Bob  Wilson,  quarterback 
Colorado 


Bill  Allen,  tackle 
Colorado 

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Bill  Brooks,  center 
Colorado 


Arlan  Straub,  quarterback 
Colorado  A  &  M 


Bill  Noxon,  end 
Colorado  A  &  M 


Paul  McDill,  tackle 
Colorado  A  &  M 


made  no  report.  Last  year  it  boasted  five  varsity 
representatives. 

Leo  Sugar  of  Purdue  received  credit  long  due 
when  he  played  in  the  East- West  game  in  San 
Francisco. 

At  Penn,  fullback  Joe  Varaitas  led  his  team's 
ground-gainers  during  the  season  with  640 
yards.  He  is  certainly  one  of  the  strongest  hopes 
for  1952  all-America,  barring  injury  or  the 
draft. 

Fastest  man  on  the  mighty  Tennessee  Vols 
was  Ed  Morgan.  He  and  his  Sig  Ep  teammate 
Doug  Atkins  have  been  named  on  several  all- 
sectional  teams. 

At  Southern  California,  Johnny  Williams 
earned  a  reputation  for  being  the  Pacific  Coast 
Conference's  best  safety  man. 

At  Cornell,  Jim  Jerome  received  all-American 
honorable  mention. 

Unhappily,  many  chapters  having  accom- 
plished players  did  not  trouble  to  report  them. 


Al  Binkley,  guard 
Colorado  A  &  M 


Russ  Burwell,  back 
Colorado 


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Don  Reichert,  fullback 
Colorado  A  &  M 

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Bob  Vasey,  tackle 
Colorado  A  &  M 


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Ivan  Glick,  tackle 
Colorado  A  &  M 


Jim  Jerome,  tackle 
Cornell 


Bill  McNeely,  tackle 
Davidson 


The  COLORADO  A  &  M  football  team  had 
seven  Sig  Eps  on  its  roster  this  year.  Playing 
first-string  defensive  right  guard  all  season  was 
Al  Binkley,  a  junior  physical  education  major 
from  Wheat  Ridge.  Al  is  20  years  old,  stands 
6'  tall,  w^eighs  185  povmds,  and  is  the  Skyline 
Conference  heavyweight  wrestling  champion  as 
well  as  being  a  returning  football  letterman.  His 
aggressiveness  and  tireless  playing  won  for  him 
the  "player  of  the  week"  award  during  the 
season.  He  goes  by  the  nickname  of  "Bink." 

Don  Reichert,  a  senior  physical  education 
major  from  St.  Francis,  Kan.,  although  playing 
his  first  year  of  football,  won  a  regular  starting 
position  at  safety  on  the  defensive  unit  this 
year  and  often  ran  from  the  fullback  slot  on 
the  offensive  team.  Don,  who  as  a  wrestler 
holds  the  Skyline  Conference  177-pound  title, 
is  21  years  old,  stands  6'  tall,  and  now  weighs 
in  at  184  pounds.  Don  answers  to  the  nickname 
"Rack." 


Returning  letterman  Ivan  Glick,  a  senior 
dairy  production  major  from  La  Porte,  was  a 
consistent  line  stalwart  on  the  Aggie  defensive 
unit  this  year  playing  alternately  in  the  defen- 
sive right  tackle,  guard,  and  end  positions.  The 
only  married  man  of  the  Sig  Ep  gridders,  Ivan 
is  24  years  old,  stands  6'  tall,  and  weighs  174 
pounds. 

Seeing  much  action  this  year  as  an  offensive 
right  end  was  Bill  Noxon,  a  senior  from  Denver, 
majoring  in  physical  education.  A  returning 
letterman  with  a  knack  for  snaring  passes.  Bill 
is  20  years  old,  weighs  165  pounds,  and  is 
6'  tall. 

Paul  McDill,  a  junior  agriculture  major  from 
Brush,  played  on  the  offensive  unit  this  year 
in  the  right  tackle  and  guard  positions.  Paul 
is  20  years  old  and  packs  175  pounds  on  his 
5'10"  frame.  He  is  also  Colorado  Gamma's 
pledge  trainer  and  is  nicknamed  "Heavy." 

Tv/o-year   letter   winner    Arlan    Straub    is    a 


Bill  Doppstadt,  tackle 
Delaware 


Larry  Dalton,  end 
Delaware 


Tom  Daley,  halfback 
Delaware 


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Don  Carmichael,  halfback 
Delaware 


Bill  Nitsche,  tackle 
Lawrence 


Neal  Marshall,  lineman 
Lawrence 


sharp  passing  quarterback  from  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
A  senior  majoring  in  physical  education,  Arlan 
is  20  years  old,  6'  tall,  and  weighs  165  pounds. 

Bob  Vasey,  a  sophomore  agriculture  major 
from  Cozad,  Neb.,  played  in  the  left  tackle 
position  this  year.  Bob  is  19  years  old,  stands 
6'2"  tall,  and  weighs  180  pounds. 

At  CORNELL,  big  (6'3",  235)  Jim  Jerome 
has  been  regular  left  tackle  on  the  defensive 
squad  for  the  past  two  seasons.  Jim  was  nomi- 
nated for  lineman  of  the  week  three  times  last 
year,  and  also  received  honorable  mention  for 
the  AP  All-America  team.  This  year  Jim  has 
continued  to  play  an  explosive  game  and  on 
the  basis  of  his  performance  against  Michigan 
was  selected  for  the  All-Ivy  League  team  by 
Allison  Danzig  of  the  New  York  Times.  Jim 
was  nominated  for  the  lineman  of  the  week 
again  this  year  after  the  Columbia  game.  A 
married  man,  Jim  will  be  graduated  this  year 
as    a  history   major,   but  the   Army  has   plans 


for  him,  and  he  will  receive  his  active  commis- 
sion as  a  lieutenant  along  with  his  diploma. 

Four  brothers  from  DELAWARE  were  mem- 
bers of  the  1951  Blue  Hens.  This  season  the 
team  posted  a  5-3  record  with  wins  over 
P.  M.  C,  West  Chester  State  Teachers,  Muhlen- 
berg, Lafayette,  and  Lehigh.  Losses  were  suf- 
fered at  the  hands  of  Connecticut,  Temple,  and 
Bucknell. 

Don  Carmichael  was  starting  offensive  right 
halfback.  Don  is  5'10",  and  weighs  173  lbs.  He 
is  a  21 -year-old  senior  from  Wilmington,  and 
played  his  high  school  football  at  P.S.  duPont 
where  he  received  All-State  recognition  as  a 
halfback.  Don  started  the  1951  season  as  de- 
fensive safety  man  but  because  of  his  running 
ability  was  soon  shifted  to  the  halfback  slot  of 
the  offensive  platoon.  He  ran  from  this  slot  and 
became  the  leading  ground  gainer  on  the  squad 
and  was  also  the  leading  scorer  of  the  team 
with  5  touchdowns. 


Bob  Proctor,  halfback 
Missouri  Mines 


Bill  Ulz,  tackle 
Missouri  Mines 


Dick  Hampel,  quarterback 
Missouri  Mines 


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Gene  Huffman,  halfback 
Missouri  Mines 


Edward  Segelbacher,  guard 
Muhlenberg 


Dick  Derstine,  guard 
Muhlenberg 


Tom  Daley  is  a  S'lOM"  junior  from  New- 
burgh,  N.Y.  He  is  20  years  old  and  played  his 
high  school  football  at  Chaminade  High  in 
Newburgh.  Tom  was  offensive  left  halfback  on 
the  second  offensive  unit. 

Larry  Dalton  is  a  6'1"  junior  from  Media, 
Pa.  He  is  20  years  old  and  played  high  school 
football  for  Swarthmore  High  where  he  was 
recognized  as  an  All-County  halfback.  At  the 
University  of  Delaware  he  was  converted  into 
a  defensive  left  end,  and  played  that  position 
on  the  1st  defensive  platoon  last  season  and 
this.  Also  this  season,  he  became  the  punter 
for  the  team,  and  posted  a  38.6  yard  punting 
average. 

Bill  Doppstadt  is  a  6'0",  195-pound  sopho- 
more from  St.  Albans,  N.Y.  He  is  19  years  old 
and  was  all-New  Jersey  prep  school  guard  at 
Blair  Academy.  At  the  University  of  Delaware 
he  was  converted  to  an  offensive  tackle  on  the 
freshman  squad  last  year  and  this  year  moved 


into  the  right  tackle  slot  on  the  starting  offensive 
team. 

At  EMPORIA  STATE,  three  Sig  Eps  saw 
regular  action:  John  Gaston,  Don  Halst,  and 
Robert  Allison.  The  last  named  was  elected 
honorary  captain  of  the  defensive  team. 

Jack  Pappas  is  FLORIDA'S  tackle  from 
Tarpon  Springs,  where  he  sparked  his  high 
school  team  as  fullback  and  captained  the 
track  team.  This  seasoned  veteran  of  6'  200 
pounds  was  a  standout  in  Coach  Bob  Wood- 
ruff's defensive  line  in  the  1950  season.  Jack 
played  freshman  football  in  his  old  fullback 
position.  He  is  fiery,  quick,  tough,  and  hard 
hitting. 

At  FLORIDA  STATE,  Bill  Driver  played 
defensive  right  end.  Hal  Leddy  was  chief  man- 
ager of  the  team. 

Carl  Sandefur  is  KANSAS  Gamma's  only 
varsity  football  representative  this  fall.  Carl,  a 
6'3",    220-pound  senior  in  physical  education, 


Carl  Sammarco,  tackle 
Penn 


Jack  Moses,  end 
Penn 


Andy  Capone,  center 
Penn 


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Bob  Page,  tackle 
Penn 


Joe    Varaitas,  fullback 
Penn 


Leo  Sugar,  end 
Purdue 


is  this  year  putting  the  finishing  touches  on  a 
fine  three-year  career  at  Kansas  University. 
Playing  almost  every  minute  of  the  offensive 
portion  of  a  rugged  ten-game  schedule  at  his 
left  tackle  position,  Carl  has  consistently  proven 
himself  a  major  factor  in  boosting  Kansas  into 
an  8  won,  2  lost  record  against  such  opposi- 
tion as  Texas  Christian,  Oklahoma  University, 
and  the  University  of  Colorado.  Besides  his 
football  interests,  Carl,  a  native  of  Lawrence, 
has  lettered  two  years  as  the  number  one  pitcher 
on  K.  U.'s  varsity  baseball  team,  and  holds 
high  hopes  of  breaking  into  the  major  leagues 
after  graduation. 

At  Lawrence  College,  helping  to  bolster  the 
1951  championship  Vikings  was  Sig  Ep  Bill 
Nitsche.  Bill  has  been  a  member  of  the  Letter- 
man's  club  since  his  sophomore  year. 

"Big  Bill"  (240  lbs.)  played  tackle  on  de- 
fense and  was  named  to  the  second  all-confer- 
ence team  as  a  junior.  Offensively  he  is  a  guard. 


"Bill"  is  a  veteran  of  the  Marine  Corps.  He 
served  a  year  and  a  half  aboard  an  aircraft 
carrier  as  a  mechanic.  He  serves  as  steward  here 
at  the  house.  As  hobbies  he  lists  hunting  and 
fishing  as  his  favorites.  He  plans  to  teach 
biology  next  year  and  possibly  serve  as  a  coach. 

Another  varsity  football  player  is  Neal  Mar- 
shall. Neal  has  been  an  outstanding  lineman 
on  Viking  teams  for  the  past  three  years.  This 
year  was  Neal's  hardluck  year.  He  received 
a  shoulder  separation  in  mid-season  which  kept 
him  from  participating  in  two  games. 

MISSOURI  MINES  claimed  seven  men  on 
the  traveling  squad  for  Sig  Ep:  Bob  Proctor, 
Bill  Ulz,  Dick  Hampel,  Gene  Huffman,  Bill 
Roemerman,  Don  Matson,  and  Jerry  Klobe.  Of 
these  seven,  five  were  on  the  first  team.  Bob 
Proctor  played  left  half  until  a  knee  injury 
put  him  out  for  the  rest  of  the  season  after 
the  fifth  game.  Bob  is  a  senior  in  mechanical 
engineering,    and   will    graduate   this    January. 


PQ. 


Johnny  Williams,  halfback 
Southern  California 


Ron  Fazekas,  tackle 
Stetson 


Louis  Paar,  back 
Stetson 


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Alfred   Uaub,  guard 
Stetson 


Clarence  Hughes,  tackle 
Stetson 


Eddie  Morgan,  wingback 
Tennessee 


He  hails  from  Ziegler,  111.  Bob  is  also  the  only 
man  who  has  played  twice  in  the  Corn  Bowl 
at  Bloomington,  111.  He  played  first  while  at- 
tending Southern  Illinois  University,  and  then 
again  last  year  while  on  the  varsity  of  Missouri 
Mines.  Bob  is  also  chapter  president. 

Bill  Ulz  played  offensive  and  most  of  the 
defensive  left  tackle  this  year  until  he  was  also 
injured  in  the  fifth  game.  Bill  is  a  senior  in 
mining  engineering  and  graduated  in  June.  He 
is  from  Gillespie,  111.,  where  he  was  all  confer- 
ence in  his  high  school  days.  Bill  is  chapter 
secretary. 

Rich  Hampel  was  the  quarterback  on  the 
varsity  squad  this  year  and  also  played  line 
backer  on  defense  when  needed.  Rich  is  a 
sophomore  in  ceramic  engineering.  He  suffered 
a  back  injury  in  the  next  to  last  game  this  year. 
Rich's  home  is  in  St.  Louis. 

Gene  Huffman,  who  was  voted  all-confer- 
ence right  halfback  last  year,  continued  to  play 


outstanding  ball  at  that  position  again  this  year. 
Gene  is  from  RoUa,  and  is  a  senior  in  civil  en- 
gineering. 

Bill  Roemerman  didn't  get  to  play  until  the 
fourth  game  of  the  season  due  to  an  ankle  in- 
jury, but  was  the  starting  fullback  from  the 
day  his  ankle  healed.  He  is  a  St.  Louis  sopho- 
more in  civil  engineering. 

Don  Matson,  a  senior  in  mining  geology, 
from  St.  Louis,  has  been  on  the  traveling  squad 
for  two  years  as  a  backfield  utility  man. 

Jerry  Klobe,  of  St.  Genevieve,  senior  in  chemi- 
cal Engineering,  has  played  defensive  guard 
since  he  transferred  to  this  school  a  year  ago. 

At  the  University  of  OMAHA,  three  men 
played  on  the  varsity:  Don  Hopkins,  a  line- 
backer, and  John  Jeter  and  Don  Beatty  as 
centers. 

PENN  climaxed  a  rather  poor  season  with  a 
victory  over  Cornell  by  7-0.  First  among  the 
ball    carriers   was    Sig    Ep    Joe    Varaitas,    who 


Doug  Atkins,  end 
Tennessee 


Don  Menasco,  end 
Texas 


Floyd  Harrawood,  guard 
Tulsa 


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Ken  Bridges,  end 
Wake  Forest 


Cliff  Stansbury,  guard 
Washburn 


Ed  Havel,  guard 
Washburn 


carried  the  ball  31  times  for  151  yards.  Joe, 
205-pound  fullback  from  Swoyersville,  led  all 
Penn  ground  gainers  this  past  year  with  640 
yards.  His  play  each  week  has  earned  him  the 
plaudits  of  many  opposing  coaches  and  sports- 
writers.  Although  only  a  sophomore,  Joe  has 
performed  with  the  same  ability  that  last  year's 
fullback,  Sig  Ep  Al  Corbo  showed.  Those 
around  here  at  Penn  feel  that  Joe  is  destined 
to  be  an  All-American  either  next  year  or  his 
senior  year. 

At  the  first-string  left  end  stands  Jack  Moses, 
who  has  just  finished  his  second  year  as  a 
regular  end.  This  past  year,  Jack  was  the  lead- 
ing pass  catcher  and  scored  four  touchdowns. 

Two  other  sophomores  are  outstanding  mem- 
bers of  this  year's  squad:  Carl  Sammarco  at 
offensive  tackle  and  pledge  Gerry  Robinson  at 
tailback.  After  working  in  spring  practice  and 
at  the  Hershey  training  camp,  Carl  was  pro- 
moted to  a  starting  position,  and  just  couldn't 
be  moved  out,  except  for  a  brief  interval  be- 
cause of  an  injury. 

The  two  graduating  seniors  are  Andy  Capone 
and  Bob  Page.  Andy  played  a  lot  of  ball  as  a 
linebacker  and  Bob  played  quite  a  bit  as  a 
defensive  tackle.  Bad  knees  kept  both  of  them 
out  of  several  games. 

At  a  defensive  end  position,  is  Norm  Bou- 
dreau.  Norm,  an  ex-Marine,  had  tough  luck  in 
the  William  and  Mary  game,  suffering  a  dis- 
located elbow.  He  was  unable  to  play  after 
that. 

At  RANDOLPH-MACON,  Lawrence  Shifflet, 
star  fullback  and  linebacker,  was  named  on 
the  first-string  all-Little  Six  Team  for  the 
second  consecutive  year.  Other  varsity  players 
were  Barnes  and  Carter. 

Clarence  Hughes,  co-captain  of  the  STET- 
SON Hatters,  defensive  tackle,  is  also  president 
of  his  chapter.  He  closed  his  fourth  year  of 
college  football  directing  his  team  from  the 
bench  with  his  arm  in  a  cast  from  an  injury. 


Hughes  hails  from  Daytona  Beach  where  he 
played  two  years  with  Mainland  High  School 
before  enrolling  at  Stetson.  He  is  23,  six  feet 
three,  and  weighs  195.  He  has  earned  four 
football  letters. 

Ron  Fazekas,  of  Buffalo,  N.Y.,  is  playing 
his  second  year  with  the  Stetson  Hatter  team. 
He  also  is  a  defensive  tackle  and  has  seen  lots 
of  action  this  year.  He  is  22,  six  feet  one,  and 
weighs  196.  He  played  two  years  at  Kenmore 
High  School  before  transferring  to  Stetson. 

Also  from  Buffalo  is  Lou  Paar,  a  back  who 
has  shown  a  lot  of  improvement  during  the 
season.  In  September,  he  was  a  back  on  the 
squad  used  by  the  varsity  to  demonstrate  plays 
of  the  opposing  teams.  In  November  he  was 
on  the  starting  defensive  eleven.  He  is  a 
sophomore,  21,  five  feet  eight,  and  weighs  160. 

Al  Daub,  of  Rutherford,  N.J.  is  a  guard, 
either  on  the  offensive  or  the  defensive  team. 
He  had  played  with  Rutherford  High  School 
before  coming  to  Stetson.  He  is  20,  five  feet 
nine,  and  weighs  190. 

Sig  Ep  is  well-represented  among  the  mighty 
TENNESSEE  Vols.  Performing  for  the  fresh- 
man offensive  is  Stanley  Lis,  reserve  offensive 
halfback;  Oaka  Williams,  reserve  offensive 
tackle,  an  excellent  kick-off  and  extra  point 
man;  Tony  Syzmanski,  offensive  guard  who  was 
recently  elected  "Joe  College"  for  the  year 
1951;  Ed  Morgan,  who  runs  wingback  in  Herky 
Payne's  second  and  fourth  quarter  backfields. 
Ed  is  the  fastest  man  on  the  team,  and  once 
past  the  line  of  scrimmage,  he  is  rarely  stopped 
short  of  the  opponent's  goal  line.  Finally,  there 
is  mountainous  Doug  Atkins,  who  anchors  the 
right  side  of  the  Volunteer  defensive  line. 
Doug  has  unlimited  potentialities,  as  he  de- 
fends against  passes  or  plays  nm  to  his  side 
with  equal  vigor.  He  has  been  named  on  sev- 
eral all-sectional  teams.  Doug  also  plays  center 
on  the  Vol  basketball  team. 

At  TULSA,  Floyd  Harrawood  is  240  pounds 


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Bob  Jennings,  guard 
Washburn 


Don  Bliss,  tackle 
Washburn 


Dick  Loring,  quarterback 
West  Virginia 


Jim  Danter,  guard 
West  Virginia 

of  brotherhood  and  football  dynamite.  "Tiny" 
is  the  type  of  fraternity  man  that  a  Sig  Ep  rush 
chairman  dreams  about.  Floyd  began  his  col- 
lege football  career  at  Tennessee  but  left  the 
Vols  in  1948  to  come  to  Tulsa  University. 
Tennessee's  loss  was  Tulsa's  gain  as  any  of 
Tulsa's  opponents  will  verify.  Floyd  is  big, 
fast,  and  plays  a  very  smart  game. 

WAKE  FOREST'S  contribution  to  the  Sig 
Ep  football  hall  of  fame  this  year  is  Kenneth 
K.  Bridges.  He  is  chapter  president  and  an 
all-round  campus  great. 

The  first  Wake  Forest  student  to  greet  the 
freshmen  this  year  was  Ken  in  the  capacity  of 
chairman  of  the  Freshman  Orientation  Com- 
mittee. After  he  and  his  committee  had  finished 
with  the  freshmen,  the  school  year  started, 
punctuated  every  Saturday  with  a  football 
game.  Sports  fans  saw  Ken  playing  a  great  game 
as  defensive  right  end  for  the  Demon  Deacons. 
Already  sufficiently  impressed  with  his  ability 
and    importance,    collegians    filed    into    chapel 


one  morning  to  hear  him  chosen  as  one  of 
Wake  Forest's  candidates  for  the  college  Who's 
Who  and  several  weeks  later  hear  him  listed 
as  a  member  of  Omicron  Delta  Kappa  leader- 
ship fraternity.  They  hear  of  him  again  when 
he  is  picked  to  be  one  of  Wake  Forest's  two 
contestants  for  a  Rhodes  Scholarship. 

At  WESTMINSTER  in  Pennsylvania,  Paul 
"Doc"  Campbell  served  as  team  co-captain, 
while  Bob  Sistek,  sophom.ore  end,  winding  up 
the  season  with  a  broken  ankle,  ranked  13th  in 
pass  receiving  among  the  nation's  small  colleges. 

At  WEST  VIRGINIA,  Jim  Danter,  guard 
and  co-captain,  has  earned  three  letters  and 
has  played  brilliant  ball  both  on  offense  and 
defense.  He  was  named  to  the  All-Southern 
Conference  third  team  for  1950.  Graduating 
senior. 

Dick  Loring  has  been  quarterbacking  for 
three  years  and  has  earned  three  letters.  Grad- 
uating senior. 

Tommy  AUman,  fullback,  pledge  of  West 
Virginia  Beta,  has  just  finished  his  first  season 
with  the  Mountaineers  and  proved  himself  as 
one  of  the  finest  fullbacks  on  offense  and  one 
of  the  toughest  line  backers  in  the  Southern 
Conference.  Playing  center  on  the  freshman 
squad  in  1950,  he  was  switched  to  fullback 
when  his  great  line  plunging  power  was  dis- 
covered. 

Both  the  Rose  Bowl  Game  and  the  East-West 
Game  at  San  Francisco  were  afforded  the  serv- 
ices of  the  Illini's  great  175-piece  hand.  Sig  Eps 
will  be  interested  in  knowing  that  this,  the 
world's  oldest,  largest,  and  best  known  football 
marching  band,  is  directed  by  Mark  H.  Hind- 
sleij,  Indiana  Beta,  '25. 

Drum  major  of  the  band  is  Illinois  Alpha's 
own  historian  Dick  Rodgers,  in  his  fourth  year 
with  the  band.  Other  Illinois  Alphans:  Gerald 
Valier,  cornet;  and  pledges  Don  Bornholdt,  Bob 
Runyon,  and  Dave  Mann. 


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At  Maine  interfraternity  sing,  the  tradition  of  the  red  suspenders  was  born.  They  took  2nd. 

A  Budding  Tradition  in  New  England 

Sig  Eps  of  Maine  join  their  University  of  Massachusetts 
brothers  in  cultivating  the  habit  of  the  red  suspenders. 

By  JOHN  HEINTZ,  University  of  Massaciinisetts 


I 


To  Massachusetts  Alpha 

For  quite  some  time,  several  of  the  fel- 
lows have  been  carrying  on  a  campaign  to 
adopt  some  sort  of  uniform  dress  to  set  us 
apart  as  a  group  on  campus.  .  .  .  Ever  since 
last  year  when  a  few  of  the  boys  saw  your 
.  .  .  distinctive  red  suspenders,  the  trend 
has  been  toward  this  sort  of  attire.  Last 
night,  we  voted  unanimously  to  adopt  the 
red  suspenders.  .  .  . 

Maine  Alpha 

AT  THE  football  rallies  in  the  fall,  during 
Greek  Week  in  April,  at  the  Sweetheart 
Ball  in  May,  at  house  parties  throughout  the 
year  and  at  Sig  Ep  weddings,  tlie  brothers  of 
Massachusetts  Alpha,  to  be  properly  dressed, 
attire  themselves  in  white  shirts  and  bright 
fire  engine  red  suspenders.  At  almost  any  event 
in  which  the  chapter  participates  as  a  group, 
red  suspenders  are  the  order  of  the  day.  This 
tradition,  started  three  years  ago,  is  the  most 
cherished  tradition  of  the  brothers  and  the  most 
controversial  on  our  campus. 

It  all  started  with  the  interfraternity  sing  in 
1949.  The  chapter  at  that  time  had  no  house 
and  was  rehearsing  for  the  sing  in  the  Old  Col- 
lege Chapel.  One  night,  one  of  the  brothers 
came  to  the  rehearsal  wearing  a  pair  of  bright 
crimson  galluses.  Slowly  the  idea  caught  on  and 
some  of  the  other  brothers  started  to  adorn 
themselves  with  them.  Soon  the  boys  decided  to 


save  them  as  a  surprise  for  the  sing  and  wear 
them  with  tux  pants  and  white  shirts. 

The  night  of  the  sing  men  of  each  fraternity 
got  up  in  turn,  some  wearing  full  tuxedos,  others 
something  else;  the  brothers  of  almost  every 
house  were  dressed  alike.  When  the  audience 
looked  over  to  where  Sig  Ep  was  sitting  all 
they  could  see  was  a  variety  of  sport  jackets. 
It  looked  as  if  this  new  house  had  no  chance 
in  the  competition  since  it  obviously  possessed 
insufficient  ingenuity   to   dress   homogeneously. 

At  the  signal  of  the  leader,  the  brothers  rose 
in  unison,  took  off  their  jackets  and  filed  one 
by  one  up  to  the  stage  with  the  suspenders 
showing  with  white  shirts  and  tux  pants.  The 
second  place  prize  won  that  night  was  attributed 
as  much  to  the  red  suspenders  as  to  the  pol- 
ished rendition  of  "Donkey  Serenade"  and 
"Lo,  a  Voice  to  Heaven  Sounding." 

The  campus  at  first  was  amused  by  the 
recurring  crimson  galluses.  However,  when  Sig 
Eps  affected  this  attire  to  classes  and  almost 
everywhere  it  created  adverse  comment  and 
criticism.  Last  year  and  this  year  the  sus- 
penders have  been  confined  to  football  rallies, 
interfraternity  competition  and  Sig  Ep  functions. 

Nevertheless,  we  have  discovered  that  the 
red  suspenders  aid  our  unity  and  spirit.  They  are 
indicative  to  us  of  the  house  pulling  together 
to  cheer,  to  accomphsh  some  task  or  for  that 
fraternal  spirit  which  makes  our  chapter  stick 
together. 


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Traffic  Goof  Helps  Make  Better  Drivers 

Temple's  Ed  Guenther  aids  safety  campaign  in  role  of  masked  Silly  Willie  who 
breaks  every  traffic  rule  in  order  to  teach  Philadelphians  how  not  to  drive. 

By    DEAN   D.   YOUNG,   Temple    University 


Temple's  Ed  Guenther. 


BEING  given  the  title  of  Silly  Willie  on  the 
face  of  it  does  not  appear  to  be  much  of 
an  honor.  Pennsylvania  Mu's  Edward  Guenther, 
hou'ever,  performed  a  real  service  to  the  com- 
munity in  order  to  be  awarded  that  title  by  the 
Philadelphia  Highway  Traffic  Board-WFIL 
safety  campaign  committee. 

Conceived  in  1949,  Silly  Willie  is  a  comic 
character  portraying  the  role  of  traffic  goof. 
Dressed  in  mask  and  costume,  the  character 
breaks  every  rule  of  traffic  sense— for  a  purpose. 
He  represents  the  ultimate  in  driver  and 
pedestrian  stupidity,  as  illustrations  of  the  con- 
tinual need  for  traffic  alertness. 

The  Philadelphia  safety  campaign  extended 
for  one  month  beginning  on  November  15,  and 
the  safety  message  was  conveyed  through  radio, 
television,  car  cards,  bumper  strips,  banners, 
and  other  devices.  The  Junior  Chamber  of 
Commerce  stenciled  the  safety  slogan:  "Be 
Safe,  Not  Silly,"  on  street-corners  and  subway 
grates;  and  Ed  Guenther  as  Silly  Willie  ap- 
peared with  his  girl  friend  Daffy  Dilly  at 
schools,  clubs,  neighborhood  movies,  military 
installations,  sports  events,  civic  and  social 
functions.  In  addition,  they  toured  the  mid-city 
district  with  a  WFIL  loudspeaker  unit. 

To  portray  such  a  character  requires  a  great 


deal  of  sharp  driving  know-how.  When  the 
campaign  was  over  Ed  Guenther  was  com- 
mended for  a  job  well  done. 

Guenther,  now  a  senior,  came  to  Temple  from 
Merchantville,  N.J.  He  was  pledged  Sig  Ep  in 
the  fall  of  1950  and  became  active  in  January, 
1951.  During  World  War  II  he  served  two 
years  with  the  11th  Airborne  Division  in  Japan. 
He  is  a  journalism  major,  a  member  of  Sigma 
Delta  Chi,  professional  honorary  journalism 
society,  and  Scabbard  and  Blade.  He  is  chapter 
secretary  and  co-editor  of  The  Mu  Review. 


i^      BIG    MEN      if 
Tom  W^arren 

Modest  Tom  Warren  is  another  Sig  athlete. 
Tom  excels  as  a  swimmer  and  is  co-captain 
of  the  Lawrence  team.  In  his  freshman  year 
Tom  paced  the  Sig  Eps  in  the  interfraternity 
meet  with  three  firsts  and  was  anchor  man 
on  the  winning  relay  team.  Also  in  his  freshman 
year  Tom  set  a  new  record  of  3:45.4  in  the 
individual  medley  of  the  state  indoor  A.A.U. 
meet.  In  his  sophomore  year  Tom  again  paced 
the  champion  Sig  Eps  in  the  interfraternity 
meet  with  wins  in  all  three  events  he  entered. 
He  again  anchored  the  relay  team  which  set  a 
new  interfraternity  record  of  1:49.6  for  the 
200-yard  relay.  In  the  summer  of  1951  Tom 
broke  2  records  in  the  state  A.A.U.  outdoor 
meet.  He  holds  many  college  and  pool  records 
and  with  one  more  year  of  college  competition 
left  he  is  expected  to  cut  still  further  time  off 
the  records.  — Ramon  Steck 

iPick  Hoffman 

Ohio  Kappa's  BMOC  this  semester  is  Richard 
Hoffman,  senior  from  New  York  City,  While 
Dick  has  been  here  he  has  maintained  at  least 
a  B  average  and  has  been  on  the  Dean's  List 
all  through  college.  He  recently  was  elected 
president  of  Omicron  Delta  Kappa  and  is  vice- 
president  of  Book  and  Motor,  scholastic  honor- 
ary. He  is  also  a  member  of  Kappa  Delta  Pi, 
education  honorary,  and  a  founder  of  Phi  Alpha 
Theta,  history  honorary. 

In  dramatics  Dick  is  tops,  too.  He  is  a 
member  of  workshop  players;  a  former  historian 
of  Theta  Alpha  Phi,  drama  honorary.  He  has 
taken  part  in  such  major  productions  as  Family 


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Portrait,  Born  Yesterday,  Uncle  Tom's  Cabin, 
Romeo  and  Juliet,  Double  Door,  The  Male 
Animal,  Two  Blind  Mice,  Othello,  has  had 
leads  in  such  productions  as  Joan  of  Lorraine, 
Three  Men  on  a  Horse,  Dangerous  Corner, 
Light  Up  The  Sky,  and  Fire  Sale. 

Dick  is  a  charter  member  of  the  chapter  and 
has  been  scholarship  chairman.  In  intramural 
activities  he  has  played  first  string  in  football, 
basketball,  track,  and  baseball.  He  is  also  a 
member  of  the  fraternity  debate  team  and 
entertains  at  smokers. 

Last  summer  Dick  was  publicity  director  of 
Huron  Playhouse  which  is  Bowling  Green  State 
University  summer  theater. 

After  graduation  he  plans  to  study  for  his 
master's  degree.  —Roger  Day 

ToMii  Selden 

Tom  Selden,  Ohio  Wesleyan  senior,  has 
earned  a  reputation  as  the  outstanding  actor  on 
campus.  Even  before  he  came  here,  he  won  a 
"Best  Actor"  award  in  his  home  town  of  Arling- 
ton, Va. 

Tom  has  acted  in  five  major  college  produc- 
tions and  served  as  stage  manager  for  Miss 
Frances  Starr,  a  guest  star  in  the  University's 
production  of  The  Silver  Cord.  He  has  worked 
as  a  professional  actor  in  the  original  company 
of  Paul  Green's  Faith  of  Our  Fathers,  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  and  this  past  season  worked  in 
two  summer  theaters  in  Virginia. 

He  is  director  of  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  Talent 
Bureau  and  spends  other  off-stage  time  in 
radio  where  he  is  program  and  production  di- 
rector of  the  campus  radio  station  and  director 
of  a  weekly  drama  program. 

Tom  is  a  member  of  the  Tower  Players  and 


Lawrence's  Tom  Warren. 

a  former  president  of  that  group.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Alpha  Epsilon  Rho,  national  radio 
honorary;  vice-president  of  Wesleyan  Players; 
and  president  of  Theta  Alpha  Phi,  national 
dramatics  honorary. 

His  scholastic  average  is  somewhat  above  3 
points  and  he  is  also  a  member  of  the  national 
educational  honorary  Kappa  Delta  Pi. 

Tom  hopes  eventually  for  a  long  career  in 
the  professional  theater.       —Arnold  Torke 

Bob  Pehrson 

Robert  Allan  Pehrson,  Massachusetts  Alpha, 
transferred  to  the  University  as  a  sophomore 
from  the  Veteran's  Branch  at  Fort  Devens,  and 
is  continuing  his  military  career  here.  He  re- 
ceived the  Reserve  Officers  Association  Trophy 
as  the  outstanding  cadet  in  junior  year  military. 
This  year  he  has  been  appointed  to  Cadet 
Colonel  commanding  the  ROTC  Regiment, 
Armor.  Bob's  prior  military  service  includes  18 
months  with  the  American  occupation  troops 
in  Japan. 


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Massachusetts'  Bob  Pehrson. 


Ohio  Wesleyan's  Tom  Selden. 


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"West  Virginia's  James  F.  Danter. 


On  campus,  he  has  been  chosen  to  Adelphia— 
the  senior  men's  honorary  society  for  service  to 
the  university  and  extracurricular  activities.  He 
is  also  active  in  the  Senate,  the  student  govern- 
ing body,  holding  the  triple  post  of  chairman 
of  the  finance  committee,  chairman  of  the 
election  committee,   and  treasurer. 

Bob  won  the  Clifford  B.  Scott  scholarship 
award  last  year.  He  is  chairman  of  the  activities 
committee,  and  serves  as  a  sparkhng  emcee  at 
our  parties.  —'George  A.  Nickless 


Bill  Sarber 

Pennsylvania  Mu's  William  R.  Sarber  was 
selected  from  a  group  of  over  1,500  men,  repre- 
senting 37  universities  and  colleges,  as  the  most 
outstanding  cadet  to  attend  the  5th  Annual 
Transportation  Corps  ROTC  training  camp  at 
Ft.  Eustis,  Va.,  this  past  summer. 

Sarber,  a  senior  at  Temple  University,  cur- 
rently pledgemaster  of  his  chapter,  pledged 
Sig  Ep  in  the  fall  of  1950  and  became  active 
in  January,  1951.  He  enrolled  in  the  ROTC 
courses  in  the  fall  of  1950.  A  veteran.  Bill 
served  his  18-month  enlistment  throughout  the 
Italian  peninsula  with  the  occupation  troops 
from  October,  1946  until  March,   1948. 

Bill  received  the  award  for  outstanding 
achievement  while  attending  the  required  six 
weeks  encampment.  Selection  was  based  on 
leadership  qualities,  examination  scores,  over- 
all military  abilities,  and  the  votes  of  fellow 
cadets. 

The  presentation  of  the  award  was  made  by 
Maj.  Gen.  Frank  Heilman,  Chief  of  Transpor- 
tation, U.  S.  Army,  at  the  formal  parade  which 


concluded  graduation  exercises  at  the  camp. 

Bill's  home  town  is  Pennsauken,  N.J.  He 
entered  Temple  in  September,  1948,  as  an 
accounting  major.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
honorary  accounting  society,  the  IFC,  and  is 
vice-president  of  Scabbard  and  Blade.  He  made 
the  Dean's  List  last  year  with  a  B  average. 


Branson  Bayless 

Tennessee  Alpha's  Bronson  Bayless,  a  senior 
in  chemical  engineering,  began  his  scholastic 
and  activities  work  on  the  Tennessee  Engineer 
as  a  freshman.  During  that  year  he  maintained 
a  grade  average  high  enough  to  warrant  his 
initiation  into  Phi  Eta  Sigma,  freshman  honor- 
ary, and  began  his  three  years  of  hard  work. 
As  a  sophomore  he  became  a  member  of  Alpha 
Chi  Sigma.  By  his  junior  year  his  activities  had 
gained  him  membership  in  Omicron  Delta 
Kappa;  his  grades  were  high  enough  to  warrant 
his  initiation  into  Tau  Beta  Pi.  Last  year  he 
served  as  assistant  editor  of  the  Tennessee  En- 
gineer and  as  secretary-treasurer  of  the  A.C.E. 
board,  student  group  co-ordination  activities  of 
the  various  engineering  organizations.  During 
that  year  he  was  elected  secretary  of  Alpha 
Chi  Sigma  as  well  as  president  of  Phi  Eta 
Sigma. 

Bronson  is  comptroller  of  his  chapter. 


Jitn  Danter 

James  F.  Danter,  22,  of  Charleston,  W.Va., 
is  West  Virginia  Beta's  contribution  to  the 
BMOC  column  for  1951.  "Jimbo,"  as  he  is 
known  to  his  friends,  is  active  in  all  campus 
affairs   and  is  a  representative  of  high  caUber. 

Among  Jim's  many  accomplishments:  senior 
class  president  for  1951-52;  co-captain  of  the 
WVU  Mountaineer  football  squad;  ROTC  As- 
sociation officer;  cadet  officer  in  ROTC;  past 
president  of  physical  education  club;  member 
of  Fi  Batar  Capper,  mock  men's  honorary; 
member  of  Mountain,  ranking  senior  men's 
honorary;  Southern  Conference  third  team, 
football,  1950. 

Danter,  who  is  married,  is  a  physical  educa- 
tion major  and  besides  all  his  activities  main- 
tains a  3.0  average  and  was  recipient  of  the 
Athletic  Scholarship  award  for  1950,  given  to 
the  member  of  WVU  athletic  teams  maintaining 
the  highest  average  scholastically. 

Danter  has  been  a  member  of  the  student 
council  for  the  three  past  years,  being  his 
Sophomore  class  president,  his  junior  class  repre- 
sentative, and  now  his  senior  class  president. 
Serving  on  many  committees  he  has  distin- 
guished himself  to  his  fellow  students  and  is 
one  of  the  best  known  students  on  campus. 

—Jake  Lantz 


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^      REPORTS      ^ 

Alabama 

Individual  achievement:  James  Pinkston, 
Druids;  Tommy  McLaughlin,  Delta  Sigma  Chi; 
James  Gamble,  vice-president  of  Alpha  Kappa 
Xi;  Clifton  Turner,  Beta  Alpha  Xi;  Harry  Causey 
and  Alfred  Sahba,  Scabbard  and  Blade;  Gordon 
Conner,  Rho  Alpha  Tau,  Philos,  and  Delta 
Sigma  Pi;  Roland  Jackson,  Alfred  Saliba,  and 
WiUiam  Gregory,  Alabama  Quadrangle;  and 
WilUam  Gregory,  president  of  Delta  Sigma  Pi 
and  a  member  of  the  executive  commerce  coun- 
cil. 

Men  of  the  chapter  are  divided  in  three 
groups  at  our  semesterly  Scholarship  Banquet. 
The  men  having  better  than  a  2.0  average  from 
the  previous  semester  enjoy  steaks;  those  with  an 
average  between  1.5  and  2.0  sit  down  to  ham; 
while  the  men  with  averages  below  1.5  are 
reluctantly  required  to  eat  mush. 

Last  spring  the  over-all  average  of  the  Ala- 
bama Sig  Eps  ranked  in  the  upper  half  of  the 
26  fraternities  on  campus. 

Our  football  team  missed  the  league  play- 
offs by  only  one  game. 

Fall  initiates:  Gordon  Conner,  a  commerce 
major,  Roanoke,  Va.;  Lewis  Brooks,  pre-law, 
Elba;  Lewis  Chesser,  Andalusia,  pre-med. 

New  pledges:  Michael  Propst  and  Hugh 
Burdette. 

Recent  events  include  a  number  of  pledge- 
swaps  with  different  sororities;  and  coffee  and 
dessert  hours  for  the  Zeta  Tau  Alpha  and  Alpha 
Delta  Pi  sororities.      —Harry  Gene  Causey 

Arhansas 

Wayne  A.  Myers,  rush  chairman  for  1951,  was 
elected  Phi  Beta  Kappa.  James  J.  Pappas  be- 
came an  active  member  of  Phi  Sigma,  national 
honorary  biology  society,  as  did  the  under- 
signed who  also  edits  the  premedical  student 
publication,  The  Probe. 

The  intramural  football  team,  paced  by  West, 
Gatchell,  Yoder,  and  Miskovsky,  entered  the 
playoffs  for  the  campus  championship. 

Woody  Herman  and  his  orchestra  came  to  the 
campus  on  December  15  for  a  student  dance, 
and  we  planned  a  unique  breakfast  party  in  his 
honor.  — Emil  F.  Miskovsky,  Jr. 

Baldivin-Wallace 

Manpower:  30  actives. 

Fortified  with  a  new  house,  completely  re- 
modeled and  redecorated,  plenty  of  vigor  and 
new  ideas,  the  men  set  out  to  stage  a  top- 
notch  Homecoming.  Hard  work  by  the  Special 
Events  Committee  headed  by  Bob  Pirchner 
brought  us  second-place  honors. 

Next,  rushing  took  over  the  spotlight,  and 
at  the  end  of  the  first  rush  period,  Ohio  Zeta 


had  its  largest  pledge  class:  21  men.  New 
pledges:  Frank  Basile,  Cosmo  Conte,  John 
Corry,  Chuck  Daniels,  John  Dufault,  Roger 
Fohrmeyer,  Lowell  Franz,  Gary  Greenfield, 
Sheldon  Hopkins,  Don  Kneisley,  John  Kort,  Dick 
Hanson,  Joe  Mead,  Dick  Neuman,  Paul  Ressler, 
Jim  Root,  Al  Ruess,  Bill  Shankland,  Dick  Span- 
enberg,  Dave  Walker,  and  Dave  Williamson. 
At  the  end  of  the  final  rush  period  for  the  fall 
quarter,  three  more  men  were  added:  Jon 
Best,  Walt  Dickhaut,  and  Dave  Petrella.  Co- 
chairmen  Dunlap  and  Frazier  plus  active  chap- 
ter members  deserve  much  credit. 

A  formal  house  party  featuring  dancing,  en- 
tertainment, TV,  and  cards  highspotted  the 
social  calendar.  The  social  committee  is  headed 
by  Stan  Dunlap. 

In  tlie  "A"  league  of  touch  football,  Sig  Ep 
has  won  three,  tied  three,  and  lost  one.  In  the 
"B"  league,  Sig  Ep  took  third  place  in  a  field 
of  five. 

Chapter  president  Ron  Platz  is  also  Greek 
Council  president.  As  a  freshman  Ron  won  his 
numerals  in  football,  and  as  a  sophomore  re- 
ceived his  varsity  letter  in  baseball.  A  physical 
education  major,  with  an  eye  to  the  future  as 
a  coach,  he  came  to  the  campus  from  New 
Philadelphia.  —William  Giese 

Boston 

This  chapter  celebrated  tlie  first  anniversary 
of  its  installation  on  November  10  with  a 
Parents'    Day.    Approximately    70   parents    and 

Boston  U  Sig  Ep  house,  63  Bay  State  Road. 


Halftime   for  Bowling  Green   Sig  Eps  in 
football  game  in  which  they  beat  ATOs. 

guests  attended  the  Boston  U. -Oregon  football 
game  in  the  afternoon  and  the  buflFet  supper 
and  dance  in  the  evening.  Mrs.  Harold  C.  Case, 
wife  of  the  University  president,  was  among  the 
guests. 

Initiated:  Dean  B.  Sargent,  candidate  for  var- 
sity hockey. 

The  rushing  committee's  program,  chaired  by 
Harold  Schofield,  saw  nineteen  men  installed 
as  pledges.  A  highhght  of  the  rushing  season 
was  a  Christmas  party  with  all  the  trimmings, 
including  caroling,  mistletoe,  and  Santa  Claus, 
portrayed  by  Bill  Nolan. 

Hugh  Dwelley  directed  our  sponsorship  of 
the  recent  Interfraternity  Conference  Seminar 
held  at  tlie  University,  the  first  of  its  kind  ever 
conducted   by  the  fraternities. 

—Dickson  O.  Scott 


Bowling  Green 

New  pledges:  Howard  C.  Mizer,  Carmen 
Pegnato,  Daniel  Baker,  and  Alan  Jones. 

Ohio  Kappa  won  the  all-campus  charity  drive 
trophy  this  year.  The  school  sets  aside  one 
week  for  the  collection  of  money  to  be  given 
to  eight  charitable  organizations.  The  fraternity 
doing  the  most  for  this  drive  is  given  a  rotating 
trophy.  The  winner  is  decided  by  percentage  of 
group  contribution,  posters,  and  skits  given  in  a 
variety  show.  Ohio  Kappa  had  a  200  per  cent 
contribution,  placed  second  in  the  poster  con- 
tests and  fourth  in  the  variety  show. 

Our  football  team  wound  up  the  season  with 
a  6-2  record.  Dave  Ledvina  of  Parma  finished 
second  in  the  league  for  scoring.  We  ended  in 
second  place  in  golf. 

In  bowling  we  are  undefeated  with  a  36^0 
record  and  have  every  trophy  awarded  within 
our  grasp.  We  have  high  game,  high  series, 
high  single  game,  Russ  Gresien  (242)  and  high 
individual  series  and  high  individual  average, 
Dick  Phinney  ( 183).  -Roger  Day 


Buchnell 

Newly  pledged:  Alden  W.  Eaton,  Michael  A. 
Goodrich,  Frazer  V.  Hadley,  Murdo  J.  Mac- 
kenzie, John  C.  McCulloch,  John  G.  Nordahl, 
John  F.  Pooley,  Robert  Redick,  Jerold  J.  Savory, 
and  Merrett  R.  Stierheim. 

October  16  initiates:  Joseph  S.  Boldry,  '54; 
Douglass  L.  Burnham,  '54;  Kenneth  A.  Stott, 
'54;  Robert  J.  Wallace,  '54.  November  18  in- 
itiates: Roy  J.  Eisemann,  '54;  Luther  M.  Ertel, 
'54;  William  iM.  Gurges,  '54. 

Led  by  Paul  Anderson,  the  intramural  cross 
country  team   finished   fifth    against    13  rivals. 

Scholarship:   Sixth  place  in  13. 

— ZyGMUNT  J.  LiPINSKI 


Colorado 

Three  trophies  have  come  to  the  Colorado 
Sig  Eps  for  Homecoming— float,  house  decora- 
tions, and  chariot  race.  But  our  most  publicized 
contribution  to  Homecoming  was  the  large  sign 
we  erected  after  a  strong  wind  had  torn  our 
house  decorations  to  shreds.  It  read:  "The  wind 
blew,  the  decorations  flew,  the  hell  with  you." 
In  small  print  we  added,  "Happy  Homecoming." 

At  present,  we  are  undefeated  in  football  and 
water  polo. 

Bill  Allen,  Bob  Wilson,  and  Bill  Brooks  have 
all  played  varsity  football,  and  Russ  Burwell 
and  K.  C.  Reeves  have  been  on  the  Buff 
Bombers  (B)  squad. 

Our  pledges  gave  their  fall  party  recently 
in  the  form  of  a  French  Apache  dance.  The 
pledges  also  well  nigh  demolished  ye  old  post 
office  (our  house)  during  the  fall  sneak. 

Dair  Stewart  is  Varsity  Nights  technical  di- 
rector this  fall.  Several  men  have  had  good 
spots  on  the  campus  paper.  — Lloyd  Dakden 


Colorado  A  &  3§ 

The  Colorado  Gamma  Sig  Eps  continued 
to  rank  high  scholastically  among  the  Colorado 
A&M  fraternities  when  the  1951  spring  quarter 
averages  were  compiled.  With  an  average  of 
2.43  (on  the  basis  of  4.00,  A;  3.00,  B;  2.00,  C; 
1.00,  D;  etc.)  we  ranked  fourth  among  the  14 
fraternities  on  the  campus  and  first  among  the 
larger  fraternities. 

The  homecoming  theme  at  Colorado  A&M 
this  year  was  "Aggies  Always"  and  the  Sig  Eps 
took  second  place  in  the  class  I  fraternity  divi- 
sion house  decorations  with  a  large,  colorful  dis- 
play using  the  theme  "Aggies  Always— United 
In  Freedom."  With  a  massive,  sky-blue  back- 
ground covering  the  front  of  the  house  the  dis- 
play centered  about  a  huge  world  globe  which 
continually  revolved.  On  one  side  of  the  globe 
in  the  foreground  of  the  display  stood  a  replica 
of  a  schoolhouse  with  signs  depicting  the 
aspects    of    a    well-balanced    education    which 


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led  along  the  path  to  higher  education,  while 
on  the  other  side  of  the  foreground  a  large 
torch  of  freedom  and  education  burned  con- 
tinually. On  the  backdrop  were  the  Greek  sym- 
bols of  all  the  social  organizations  on  the  A&M 
campus  including  the  independent  student 
groups  and  on  the  revolving  base  of  the  globe 
were  the  theme  words  "Aggies  Always— United 
In  Freedom."  —Robert  B.  Melvin 

Colorado  Mines 

Homecoming,  October  27,  with  Joe  Irwin 
as  decorations  chairman,  saw  us  take  second 
place  in  the  float  contest.  Many  alumni  showed 
up  to  enjoy  the  homecoming  party  and  dance. 

In  the  homecoming  soap  box  derby,  our 
entry,  driven  by  pledge  Gene  "Barney  Old- 
field"  Olinger,  whipped  all  competition.  Our 
speedsters  on  the  cross-country  team  finished 
out  of  the  money. 

To  top  off  Homecoming,  the  Mines  football 
team,  led  by  Sig  Eps  Bill  Cooke,  Ron  Bethurum, 
Bud  Rebeck,  Drex  Lee,  Tom  Wyman,  Max 
Settlemyre,  Ed  Gauike,  and  Fred  Cross,  upset 
the  Colorado  State  team,  14-13,  on  the  road 
to  the  conference  championship  for  Mines.  The 
absolute  clincher  was  the  victory  over  Colorado 
College,  14-6,  on  November  17.  Drex  Lee 
came  into  his  own  in  this  game,  sparking  the 
team  to  a  thrilling  last-half  rally  with  his  pass- 
ing and  receiving. 

Bethurum,  Rebeck,  Cooke,  Wyman  and  Settle- 
myre are  all  good  bets  for  All-Conference  honors 
this  year.  Bethurum  is  a  classy  tailback,  while 
the  others  are  the  mainstays  of  the  Mines  line. 

Looking  good  for  the  frosh  team  are  pledges 
Bill  Campbell,  George  Duehurst,  and  Dick  Ker- 
wald. 

The  school  rifle  team,  one  of  the  best  in  the 
Fifth  Army  area,  has  Sig  Ep  George  Freeland, 
and  pledges  Gene  Olinger  and  Gene  Riche. 

Our  intramural  football  team  won  nine  and 
lost  one  to  take  second  place.  Our  rifle  team 
also  just  missed  first-place. 

On  October  20,  the  pledges  threw  a  Gay 
Nineties  party  for  the  actives  and  their  dates. 

Clyde  Newell  is  the  20th  pledge  of  the  fall 
semester. 

Bill  Bradley  and  Carl  Bochow  are  Blue  Key. 
Bill  Cooke  was  pledged  to  Theta  Tau,  and  Tom 
Wyman  to  Sigma  Gamma  Epsilon.  Andy  Pat- 
ten is  the  sports  editor  of  the  1952  Prospector, 
yearbook. 

Gordon  Wimpress,  Oregon  Beta,  is  assistant 
to  the  President  at  Mines.  He  previously  served 
in  an  executive  capacity  at  Whittier  J.C.  in 
Whittier,  Calif.  —Chuck  Trautmann 

Cornell 

Fall  pledges:  Bob  Cowie,  Garden  City;  "Tec" 
Abraham,  Staten  Island;  Al  Crawford,  Garden 
City;  Cliff  Holgren,  Margate,  N.J.;  Irwin  King, 


Selkirk;  Chuck  Koester,  St.  Albans;  Jim  Liedell, 
Brookside,  N.J.;  Jerry  McDonald,  Whitesboro; 
Paul  Romano,  Pelham;  Paul  Schilling,  Bayside; 
and  John  Stull,  Litchfield,  Conn. 

Ralph  Zaganailoff  is  research  director  of  the 
Cornell  Rocket  Society.  Bruce  Campbell  is  cap- 
tain of  the  swimming  team.  Thurl  Merrit  is  a 
member  of  the   Floricultural   honorary. 

Vicks,  Smitli,  and  Blackwood  play  with  the 
Big  Red  Band,  Bernie  Bates  sings  with  the 
Glee  Club,  and  Bob  Benzinger  plays  piano 
accompaniment  for  the  Glee  Club.  Jay  Robin- 
son and  Bob  Titus  both  sing  with  the  Sage 
Chapel  Choir. 

Bill  Bellamy  is  on  the  publications  committee 
for  the  Cornell  IFC  and  Nick  Steinthal  is  on  the 
Greek  Week  Committee. 

There  will  be  Sig  Eps  in  all  the  boats  the 
Cornell  Crew  puts  in  the  water  this  spring: 
John  Moyer  with  the  varsity,  Herb  Brewer 
with  the  150  crew,  and  Pledges  Paul  Romano 
and  John  Stull  with  the  freshman  crew.  Norm 
Thomas  and  Benn  Walton  are  on  the  varsity 
golf  team,  Jim  Blackwood  is  on  the  pistol  team. 
Pledge  Bob  Cowie  is  on  the  fencing  squad. 
Pledge  Jerry  MacDonald  is  a  candidate  for 
quarterback  on  the  freshman  football  team,  and 
Nick  Steinthal  is  a  breakstroker  for  the  swim- 
ming team. 

Don  Griffin  is  a  member  of  Pi  Tau  Sigma, 
Kappa  Tau  Chi,  Tau  Beta  Phi,  and  Red  Key. 
Dave  Blais,  Glenn  Knierim,  Bob  Spangler,  and 
Bruce  Campbell  are  all  members  of  Scabbard 
and  Blade,  and  Campbell  was  recently  elected 
to  Sphinx.  Bob  Spangler  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Electrical  Engineer's  Social,  Delta  Club, 
along  with  Bob  Pinkley.       — iMark  Perrier 

Davidson 

Homecoming  weekend  took  place  October  12 
and  13.  Elliot  Lawrence  played  one  of  the  best 
series  of  dances  ever  held  at  Davidson.  After 
the  dance  Saturday  night,  Joe  Neisler  enter- 
tained the  chapter  at  his  cabin  at  Lake  Mon- 
tonia. 

Our  Homecoming  decorations,  a  giant  steam 
roller,  came  in  second  for  the  best  decorated 
fraternity  house. 

Our  next  party  will  be  held  at  the  Selwyn 
Hotel  in  Charlotte— December  8.  Guests  will 
dress  to  portray  different  popular  songs. 

Charlie  Oliver  and  Hal  Davis  were  elected 
to  Le  Cercle  Frangais,  national  honorary  French 
fraternity.  On  October  29,  Dr.  A.  V.  Goldiere, 
frater  in  facultate,  was  tapped  for  membership 
in  ODK.  Elton  Cahow,  pre-med  student  from 
Ft.  Pierce,  Fla.,  has  been  elected  to  Alpha 
Epsilon  Delta,  honorary  pre-med.  Ralph  Rob- 
erts, secretary  of  the  Davidson  College  Band, 
was  tapped  for  membership  in  Scabbard  and 
Blade.  Morgan  Bailey,  chapter  treasurer,  has 
been   elected  treasurer  of  Phi   Mu   Alpha  and 


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Delaware's  Bill  Schockley. 

president  of  the  Davidson  College  Male  Chorus. 
Lee  Seagle  was  recognized  at  graduation  last 
spring  for  his  high  scholastic  rating.  He  was 
given  the  Alumni  Association  Medal  as  the 
freshman  who  has  made  the  highest  average. 
— Alvin  G.  Cain 

Delaivare 

Manpower:  40  actives,  12  pledges.  Four  new 
pledges  have  been  added  to  the  roU:  James  Win- 
field,  Wilmington;  Jack  McBride,  Gary,  Ind.; 
and  James  and  John  Todd,  identical  twins  from 
Nottingham,  Pa.  Fall  rushing  began  November 
28.  Delaware  Alpha  held  three  smokers  and 
two  house  parties  for  the  rushees. 

October  27,  D.elaware  Alpha  was  host  to  the 
brothers  from  Muhlenberg  in  our  third  annual 
get-together.  A  touch-football  game  was  won 
by  Delaware  Alpha  by  a  13-7  score,  thereby 
giving  us  the  "Little  Red  Jug"  as  a  house  trophy 
until  the  two  chapters  meet  again  next  year. 
The  touch-football  game  was  followed  by  a 
dinner  party  in  the  chapter  house.  Next  the 
brotliers  from  both  chapters  journeyed  to  Wil- 
mington Park  to  watch  the  football  game  be- 
tween the  University  of  Delaware  and  Muhlen- 
berg. 

The  Interfraternity  Ball  was  held  at  the  Uni- 
versity November  23  and  24.  Vincent  Lopez 
was  the  featured  orchestra.  Brother  Ralph  Ges- 
sell,  president  of  the  IFC,  headed  the  receiving 
line  at  the  dance.  Delaware  Alpha  was  one  of 
the  four  host  houses  for  the  intermission  parties 
on  Friday  night,  and  many  members  from  the 
other  fraternities  visited  us.  On  Saturday  we 
had  a  dinner  party  for  the  alumni  and  actives, 
and  also  held  an  open  house  from  8  to  12,  and 
brothers  from  the  other  fraternities  visited  us. 
Alumni  who  took  in  the  week-end  were  Chick 


DeFiore,  Joe  Miller,  Joe  Baldwin,  Bib  MiUer, 
Les  Riggs,  Don  Huston,  and  Peter  Anderson. 

Two  brothers  from  Delaware  Alpha  have 
enlisted  in  the  United  States  Coast  Guard:  Tom 
Baylis  and  Secretary  Arthur  Grier. 

—Paul  E.  Kern,  Jr. 

Denver 

November  11  initiates;  Wayne  Coykendall, 
Jack   Fowler,  Jack   Corell,   and  James  Roth. 

Fall  pledges:  Nick  Ambrose,  Walt  Dawler, 
Jack  Garrison,  Richard  Helin,  Warren  JeflFrey, 
Jerry  LaVigne,  Bob  Maire,  Don  Modica,  Bob 
Naylor,  Dick  Payne,  Tom  Pitus,  Harrison  Race, 
Blaine  Robinson,  Edgar  Schaefer,  Alan  Shada, 
Gerry  Sparks,  Fritz  Holstein. 

Dick  Henke  participated  in  varsity  football. 

Dann  Starr  was  named  outstanding  business 
student  in  the  state  and  attended  a  convention 
of  the  National  Association  of  Manufacturers  in 
New  York  in  December. 

Officers:  president,  Bob  Jones,  vice-president, 
Bob  Grisenti,  secretary,  Edward  Fay,  comptrol- 
ler, Edward  Robinson.  —Bob  Urban  a 

Drake 

Soon  after  actives  and  pledges  finished  paint- 
ing the  exterior  of  the  house,  work  began  on 
the  annual  Homecoming  house  decoration.  We 
were  rewarded  when  the  Sig  Eps  were  presented 
the  first-place  trophy  at  the  Drake  Homecoming 
Dance. 

The  annual  Christmas  party  was  held  Decem- 
ber 1  at  the  house,  with  Santa  Claus  (Jim  Mil- 
ler) dehvering  personal  invitations,  with  Santa's 
sleigh  on  the  roof  of  the  house,  and  with  the 
grounds  lit  up  like  a  Christmas  tree. 

—Joe  Cullen 

Drury 

Missouri  Delta's  social  program  has  included 
a  Frontier  Days  party,  complete  with  calf- 
roping,  at  the  chapter  house.  On  November  3 
the  chapter  celebrated  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
of  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  with  a  formal  dance  at 
the  Anchor  Club. 

Recently  initiated:  Arno  Guenther,  Brookline; 
and  Bom  Malone,  Sedalia. 

The  football  team  placed  fourth  in  the  inter- 
fraternity competition.  Basketball  games  started 
in  late  December. 

Pledge  class  activities  include  a  monthly 
dinner  and  redecoration  of  the  recreation  room. 
Pledge  class  officers:  Bill  Dunlap,  president; 
Joe  Kirby,  vice-president;  and  Leroy  Sumners, 
secretary  and  treasurer. 

The  Mothers'  Club  of  Missouri  Delta  held 
its  organization  meeting  at  the  house  Novem- 
ber 20.  The  group  staged  a  Christmas  dinner 
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The  chapter  held  its  annual  open  house  from 
2:00  to  4:00  p.m.  on  Sunday,  December  9. 

Actives,  pledges,  and  the  Mothers'  Club  en- 
tertained the  children  of  the  Burge  Hospital 
poho  unit  with  a  Christmas  party  on  the  eve- 
ning of  December  10.  Gifts,  individual  Christ- 
mas trees,  cake,  and  ice  cream  were  provided 
by  the  chapter  and  mothers.  Bill  Haymes  di- 
rected short  skits  and  a  program  of  holiday 
music  for  the  children.  — Al  Summers 


Duke 

Manpower:  When  the  year  opened  we  had 
a  membership  of  23  actives  and  three  excellent 
pledges,  John  Littlepage,  Doug  Douglas,  and 
Frank  Green.  At  the  next  formal  rushing  period 
we  expect  to  pledge  25  additional  men. 

The  chapter  has  been  awarded  the  Interfra- 
temity  Council  Scholarship  Trophy  for  having 
shown  the  greatest  improvement  in  its  scho- 
lastic average  the  previous  semester.  Our  aver- 
age increased  .202  points  per  man  last  semester, 
and  we  jumped  from  fifteenth  to  fifth  in  scho- 
lastic standing  among  Duke  fraternities! 

Athletic  chairman  George  Delbos  has  our 
intramural  teams  among  the  most  active  on 
campus  and  ranking  near  the  top  in  each  sport, 
football,  volley  ball,  etc. 

Frank  Brranco,  our  social  chairman,  staged 
a  fine  fall  cabin  party.  Each  week  we  have 
open  house  and  these  are  always  well  attended. 
Another  Sig  Ep  innovation  this  year  will  be  a 
Christmas  party  given  for  the  underprivileged 
children  of  the  local  community  center. 

Our  homecoming  display  ranked  tliird  among 
25.  Congratulations  to  Ed  Joyner  and  Ted 
Clifton  for  the  engineering  and  art  work.  Ed 
is  also  an  active  tennis  enthusiast.  He  won  the 
fraternity  tennis  tournament  and  received  a 
handsome  trophy.  —Eugene  Bondurant 


Emporia  State 

Manpower:  19  pledges— Don  Glage,  Charles 
Turney,  Gene  Thomas,  Joe  Thomas,  Larry  Robb, 
Jerry  O'Donnell,  Gerald  LiUian,  John  Noonan, 
Peter  Catanese,  Ed  McCardle,  John  Zumalt,  Ad 
Denning,  Bob  Black,  Darrell  Deines,  Gene 
Pingle,  John  Gaston,  Jack  Price,  Roger  Sargent, 
Wally  Waldrip. 

Recent  social  events  include  a  Halloween 
party  at  the  house  and  the  pledge  semi-formal 
dance. 

On  November  15  every  man  in  the  chapter 
gave  a  pint  of  blood  to  the  Red  Cross. 

Emporia  State  fraternities  and  sororities  this 
year  spent  nothing  for  Homecoming.  Instead 
they  gave  money  they  would  have  spent  for 
decorations  for  flood  relief.     —Philip  L.  Reed 


Florida 

Jimmy  Gibbons,  a  member  of  our  "Fighting 
Gator  Band,"  has  become  a  member  of  Kappa 
Kappa  Psi,  honorary  band  fraternity,  and  is  a 
pledge  in  Alpha  Kappa  Psi,  honorary  business. 
Henry  Kittleson  is  treasurer  of  Florida  Blue 
Key.  Bill  Moredock  is  advertising  manager  of 
the  Florida  Alligator,  campus  newspaper.  Clyde 
Smith  and  Roland  Hitt  were  commissioned  sec- 
ond heutenants  in  the  Infantry  and  Air  Force, 
respectively,  through  advanced  R.O.T.C.  Other 
brothers  in  advanced  R.O.T.C.  this  semester: 
Fred  Droege  and  Carl  Bell. 

Initiated  November  14:  L.  Lamar  Peterman, 
Orlando,   major   in   civil  engineering. 

—Bill  Moredock 


Florida  State 

The  chapter  sponsored  a  member  of  the 
queen's  court  at  Homecoming  and  also  won 
the  trophy  for  the  best  fraternity  Homecoming 
skit. 

The  basketball  team  posted  a  5  and  1  record 
for  the  season  and  will  play  in  the  final  cham- 
pionship tournament. 

Dallas  Lloyd  was  elected  chapter  president 
following  the  resignation  of  Charles  Dills,  who 
had  served  in  that  office  for  18  months.  Other 
officers  recently  elected  are  Herb  Nasrallah, 
comptroller;  John  Lutz,  historian;  Jim  Dalafave, 
secretary;  Dave  Hainlin,  guard;  Bill  Reiter,  IFC 
delegate. 

Dick  Fuquay  returned  to  school  after  study- 
ing for  a  semester  in  Paris,  France. 

Recent  initiates:  Jim  Evans,  Niceville;  Herb 
Nasrallah,  Jacksonville;  Doug  McMillen,  Jr.,  Leo 
Crutchfield,  Tallahassee;  E.  H.  Battley,  Port 
Huron,  Mich.;  John  Buckley,  Marianna;  Jim 
Dalafave,  Caryville;  John  Lutz,  Bonifay;  Jack 
Gardner,  Okeechobee;  John  VanDeusen,  W. 
Palm  Beach;  Dave  Stinson,  Calumet  City,  111. 

Mrs.  Robert  B.  Kemp,  formerly  of  Miami, 
is  now  our  housemother. 

Tom  Bowen,  charter  member  of  the  chapter, 
has  been  chosen  vice-president  of  the  campus 
chapter  of  Alpha  Phi  Omega  service  fraternity. 

The  chapter  voted  100  per  cent  to  give  blood 
in  the  current  drive.  —John  Lutz 


Florida  Southern 

Manpower:  27  actives.  We  lost  18  brothers 
via  graduation  last  June  and  7  to  the  Armed 
Forces  during  the  summer. 

Oin-  campus  has  less  than  1,400  students,  but 
is  represented  by  nine  national  fraternities.  So 
rushing  was  definitely  big  business  this  year 
and  demanded  more  time  and  energy  than  ever 
before.  Under  the  able  leadership  of  rush  chair- 


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man  Ken  Williams  we  pledged  16  men:  Al 
Huff,  Amity ville,  N.Y.,  Paul  Flores,  Holly  Hill; 
George  O'Neil,  Scituate,  Mass.;  Chick  Walker, 
Manhasset,  N.Y.;  Danny  Caprio,  Newark,  N.J.; 
John  Mancini,  Fair  Lawn,  N.J.;  Bill  Stapleton, 
Cleveland,  Ohio;  Victor  Abbott,  Freeport,  N.Y.; 
John  WiUiams,  South  Bend,  Ind.;  Joe  Tonole, 
Dumont,  N.J.;  Don  Hill,  Springfield,  Mass.; 
Don  Sutte,  River  Forest,  111.;  Kinch  Campbell, 
Milford,  111.;  Nick  Pellegrino,  Miami;  Jack  San- 
zari,  East  Paterson,  N.J.;  and  Frank  Szabo, 
Lakeland. 

Pellegrino  and  Sanzari  are  first-string  mem- 
bers of  the  varsity  basketball  squad.  Paul 
Flores  is  an  active  participant  in  college  dra- 
matics, recently  in  the  cast  of  Harvey.  Don 
Hill  recently  entered  college  after  leaving  the 
musical  field  where  he  played  with  many  of 
the   leading   dance  bands   in   the   country. 

—Bill  Peterson 

Georgia  Tech 

Manpower:  Actives  34;  pledges  17.  We  lost 
two  brothers  to  the  armed  forces  this  fall:  Herb 
Mcintosh  is  in  the  Navy  and  Keecher  Powell 
is  in  the  Marines. 

Georgia  Alpha  began  the  football  season  by 
defeating  Sigma  Nu  27-0.  We  finished  our 
season  last  year  in  second  place.  Our  volleyball 
team,  like  the  football  team,  has  played  only 
one  match. 

One  of  the  highlights  of  the  rush  season 
was  a  Sunday  afternoon  at  alumni  brother 
Elwyn  Tomhnson's  lodge.  Dancing,  boating, 
swimming,  and  games  were  a  few  of  the  ac- 
tivities. Early  in  the  evening  a  delicious  buffet 
dinner  was  served.  This  outing,  plus  a  few 
house  dances,  a  hayride,  costume  parties,  and 
smokers,  made  it  a  successful,  enjoyable  rush 
season. 

The  house  has  had  a  few  changes  made.  In 
our  back  yard  is  a  new  patio.  Upon  walking 
into  the  basement  you  might,  at  first,  think  that 
you  were  on  a  ship,  but  after  looking  things 
over  you  discover  that  it  is  an  unusual  party 
room.  Port  holes  provide  for  air  from  the  out- 


Indiana  fellows  put  on  a  work  week  that 
may  not  impress  the  public  but  gives  them 
fireplace  wood.  Actives  and  pledges  both. 


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side.  Behind  one  wall  are  two  goldfish  bowls 
which  are  exposed  to  the  room  by  port  holes. 
Running  lights  of  red,  green,  and  blue  along 
with  indirect  color  lighting  give  off  a  soft 
glow.  Fish  netting  and  nautical  objects  such 
as  speaking  tubes,  ship  screws,  wheels,  and  a 
compass  box  finish  the  effect.  Harold  Baldwin 
did  most  of  the  work.  —George  Purcell 


Illinois  Tech 

Initiated  this  semester:  Buszkiewicz,  Buckley, 
Campbell,  Delaney,  Ehart,  Gray,  Montgomery, 
Neugebauer,  Rayfield,  Rodgers. 

Pledged  this  semester:  Chris  Andros,  Dick 
Bandringa,  Mike  Bitsas,  Vick  Brunzie,  John 
Kunka,  Dan  McLaughlin,  Wally  Marshall,  Bob 
Martin,  Jim  Murray,  Dick  Squires,  Bob  Colvert, 
Frank  Puckett,  Bill  Easson.  The  pledge  banquet 
was  held  November  21. 

An  outstanding  social  event  was  the  fourth 
Annual  Open  Roast  given  by  this  chapter,  open 
to  the  school  and  friends  of  Sig  Eps.  The  Open 
Roast  committee  under  the  leadership  of  Len 
Murphy  saw  to  the  planning  of  this  event,  which 
had  about  250  people  in  attendance.  The  social 
committee  under  Ted  Rigas  has  staged  our 
first  Queen  of  Hearts  Ball  to  be  held  at  the 
Conrad  Hilton  Hotel.  The  actives  and  pledges 
are  bringing  in  pictures  of  their  sweetheart  in 
order  to  facilitate  the  selection  of  a  Queen. 
The  Integral  Ball  given  by  the  school  at  the 
Hotel  Sherman  will  be  attended  in  force  by 
the  chapter.  Sig  Ep  dates  will  be  identified 
by  a  rose  and  violet  corsage  in  the  shape  of 
a  heart. 

Dick  Wardell,  our  president,  will  head  the 
directory  committee  for  editing  the  Illinois  In- 
stitute of  Technology  Directory.  Bruno  Busz- 
kiewicz has  been  elected  vice-president  of  the 
local  chapter  of  the  A.S.M.E.  Bert  Neighbour 
has  been  elected  secretary  of  I.F.C. 

Jim  Springer  is  editing  a  chapter  newspaper 
which  should  be  in  the  mail  soon,  and  which  is 
intended  to  maintain  the  interest  of  the  alumni. 

Lon  Williams  was  elected  corresponding  sec- 
retary to  replace  Ned  Blood  who  left  school. 
—Donald  Snipes 


Indiana 

The  fall  pledge  class  held  a  dance,  the 
"Boatman's  Brawl,"  November  17.  The  front 
of  the  house  was  decorated  to  resemble  the 
deck  of  a  ship,  and  the  rooms  inside  were  ar- 
ranged to  look  like  a  ship's  lounge.  Actives  and 
pledges  completed  the  sea-going  scenery  with 
salty  costumes  of  all  descriptions. 

The  next  day,  Sunday,  pledges  bowed  to  the 
actives  in  a  touch  football  game  played  on 
snowy  Dunn  Meadow,  in  below  freezing 
weather.    Score:    7-0.  —Howard  Larson 


Iowa 

Manpower:  20  actives,  29  pledges.  Transfers: 
Jim  Gordon  and  Dan  Asby. 

New  officers:  president.  Gale  Hansen;  vice- 
president.  Barrel  Croat;  comptroller.  Bill  Fos- 
ter; secretary,  Gar  Hauck;  historian,  Don  Asby; 
delegate  at  large,  Jim  Gordon;  senior  marshal, 
Don  Clay;  junior  marshal,  Wally  Ingram; 
guide.  Bob  McCarty;  chaplain,  Ron  Rodgers. 

The  new  pledge  class  is  the  largest  on  cam- 
pus. 

Our  winter  formal,  having  the  theme  "Man- 
hattan at  Midnight,"  was  held  December  14. 
It  was  planned  by  Social  Chairman  Rod  Miller. 

Other  parties  have  included  a  series  of  ex- 
changes with  sororities. 

Sig  Eps  and  Delta  Gammas  pooled  their 
ability  to  construct  a  float  for  Homecoming 
which  was  judged  the  best  "dual  entry"  float. 
Darrel  Croat  received  the  University's  award 
for  designing  the  Homecoming  "Corn  Monu- 
ment." Chapter  president  Gale  Hansen  and 
Pledge  Wally  Adamson  have  been  selected  as 
distinguished  military  students.  Dick  Laban 
was  named  to  the  all-America  swimming  team. 

—Don  Asby 

Johns  Hophins 

House  improvements:  The  second  and  tliird 
floor  bedrooms  have  been  entirely  repainted  and 
refurnished  with  new  beds  and  chiffoniers.  New 
cabinets  have  been  installed  in  tlie  kitchen  to 
lighten  the  work  of  Amanda,  our  cook.  In  addi- 
tion, the  Mothers'  Club  has  given  us  curtains. 
The  house  is  completely  occupied  and  the  meal 
plan,  under  the  direction  of  Bill  Trumbull,  is 
successful. 

Formal  rushing  ended  November  11  and  we 
emerged  with  a  pledge  class  of  14:  William 
Bishop,  Robert  Corney,  Otis  "Dutch"  Devilbiss, 
Roland  Eppley,  Dick  Holland,  Ed  Kennedy, 
Frank  Musial,  John  Rodowski,  "Rip"  Roebling, 
Henry  Schoeder,  Robert  Waterman,  Hal  Gul- 
len,  James  Denny,  and  Lou  Pederson.  Jim  Aqua- 
vella,  rush  chairman,  hopes  to  swell  our  pledge 
group  to  20. 

Recently  the  chapter's  Scott  Key  award  went 
to  Dan  Peckham,  who  entered  the  United 
States  Naval  Academy  last  July.  The  chapter 
now  has  two  brothers  at  the  Academy  since 
Ken  Tracy  also  received  an  appointment  there 
last  year, 

Jerry  Williamson  co-captained  the  soccer 
team  this  year  and  "Mush"  Wotell  ran  for  the 
cross  country  squad.  Bob  Erlandson  returns  to 
the  fencing  team  again  this  winter  and  Charhe 
Gerwig  will  be  back  on  the  rifle  team. 

Bill  Trumbull  returned  to  the  student  Council 
as  vice-president. 

Chapter  officers:  Lee  Parks,  president;  Chip 
Williamson,  vice-president;  comptroller,  George 
Stershic;   secretary,   Al   MiUer;   historian,   Law- 


Kentucky's  Bob  Griffith. 


rence  Walz;  chaplain,  Don  Creath;  senior  mar- 
shal, Jim  Acquavella;  junior  marshal,  Bill  Zerr; 
and  guard,  Chuck  Lewis.— Lawrence  Walz 

Kansas 

Dale  Dodge,  of  Mission,  chapter  secretary 
and  IFC  representative,  is  cheerleader. 

Clarence  Chambers  is  Kansas  University's 
new  drum-major. 

Phil  Peterson  served  as  a  delegate  of  Pi  Tau 
Sigma,  national  honorary  mechanical  engineer- 
ing fraternity,  at  its  national  convention  at 
Lexington,  Ky. 

Art  DalzeU,  sophomore,  is  number  three  man 
on  Kansas'  national  championship  aspiring  cross- 
country and  two  mile  team  with  a  respectable 
9:25.5.  He  accompanied  the  team  on  Novem- 
ber 26  to  national  championship  competition  at 
East  Lansing,  Mich. 

Hugh  Satterwhite  has  served  as  an  able  as- 
sistant to  track  coach  Bill  Easton  in  his  capacity 
of  student  manager.  He  is  also  Cadet  captain 
in  charge  of  Infantry  Company  C.  in  the  ROTC. 
—Doug   Fenity,  Jr. 

Kentucky 

Homecoming  the  first  weekend  of  November 
was  enjoyed  by  the  alumni.  The  weekend  was 
planned  by  Jack  Taylor,  Alumni  Relations 
chairman  and  Monthly  Alumni  Newsnotes  edi- 
tor. A  party  and  dinner  were  held.  Our  "Sig 
Ep  T-V"  homecoming  decoration  won  first 
place.  The  whole  chapter  worked  on  the  decora- 
tions but  success  can  be  in  great  part  attributed 
to  Ralph  Shell,  our  southerner  with  Yankee 
ingenuity.    The    winning    band    formation    was 


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Lawrence's  Mark  Else  leads  40-man  all-Sig  Ep  choir  in  Christmas  serenade.  Featuring 
Jack  Zwei  as  soloist,  the  choir  sang  carols  for  old  peoples'  homes  during  holidays. 


submitted  for  us  by  Henry  Moody,  and  it  was 
a  banner  day  when  our  Greek  letters  were 
flashed  in  the  card  section  denoting  that  we 
had  won  the  band  formation  contest— a  clean 
sweep  of  home  coming! 

A  cheer  contest  sponsored  by  the  campus  pep 
organization  was  won  easily  by  a  large  turnout 
of  Sig  Eps  and  an  original  cheer  led  by  Scotty 
Griffith   and   Bill   Rice. 

The  Annual  campus  Sadie  Hawkins  Day 
Dance  turned  into  a  Sig-Ep  afi^air  with  Bill 
Green  winning  the  cup  for  the  best  Lil  Abner, 
and  Bill  Rice  proving  himself  to  be  the  best 
turnip  chomper. 

The  new  pledge  class  has  held  teas  for  the 
pledge  classes  of  the  sororities. 

With  special  help  from  Ronny  Fuydal, 
Athletic  Chairman  Dick  Dorsey,  and  Jim  Har- 
mon, we  ended  up  with  a  football  percentage  of 
500.  In  volleyball  Sig  Ep  is  pressing  for  the 
lead  with  a  won  4  and  lost  1  record.  In  the 
annual  turkey  run,  which  is  a  cross  country 
event,  we  gained  second  place. 

House  parties,  outstanding  of  which  was  an 
Apache  Party,  have  been  numerous  and  suc- 
cessful this  fall. 

New  initiates:  Howard  George  Brewer,  Jr., 
Rockville  Centre,  N.Y.;  Donald  Wayne  Ryles, 
Lexington;  Charles  Edward  Shinnik,  Evanston, 
111.;  WilHam  Robert  Watson,  Wallins;  Bryce 
Dale  Franklin,  Somerset;  Robert  Allen  Murray, 
Lexington.  Jack  Jones  Early,  Corbin,  graduate 
student  and  a  State  Representative,  was  recently 
initiated  as  an  honorary  member. 


Kentucky  Alpha  has  affiliated  three  transfer 
students  from  Kentucky  Beta:  James  Robert 
Bruner,  Harlan;  Don  Allen  Clayton  and  Robert 
Clarence  Denzinger,   of  Louisville. 

— ^Larry  Myers 

Lawrence 

Wisconsin'  Alpha  has  become  strongest  on 
campus  with  the  pledging  of  24  freshmen.  It  is 
the  largest  pledge  class  on  campus  and  has 
shown  through  participation  in  all  school  activi- 
ties that  it  is  the  best. 

Sig  Ep  has  75  actives  and  pledges,  the  largest 
group  ever  to  represent  tlie  fraternity  on  this 
campus.  Members  can  be  found  active  in  stu- 
dent government,  choir,  athletics,  and  any 
other  activity  where  outstanding  men  are 
needed. 

Our  chief  candidate  for  Phi  Beta  Kappa  is 
Jim  Sampter,  who  has  maintained  a  grade  aver- 
age of  well  over  a  two  point. 

Chapter  president  John  Hollingsworth,  an 
English  major,  writes  poetry  in  his  spare  time. 
Industrial  relations  is  his  minor. 

Dick  Oleson,  a  junior,  is  on  the  basketball 
team  and  is  a  member  of  the  student  executive 
committee. 

Of  the  10  Sig  Eps  who  sing  in  the  Lawrence 
choir.  Jack  Zwei  is  perhaps  the  most  outstanding. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  the  concert  choir 
since  his  freshman  year  and  was  chosen  as 
baritone  soloist  as  a  sophomore  and  this  year 
will  again  fill  this  capacity.  He  is  a  student  in 


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the  conservatory  of  music  and  is  a  voice  major. 
In  his  sjjare  time  he  sings  at  weddings,  parties, 
and  general  get-togethers.  Jack  enjoys  hunting 
and  fishing  in  his  spare  time. 

As  a  high  school  student  Jack  was  selected 
as  the  outstanding  baritone  of  Wisconsin  for  two 
consecutive  years.  He  is  a  member  of  Phi  Mu 
Alpha  Sinfonia,  a  professional  music  fraternity, 
in  which  chapter  he  holds  the  office  of  presi- 
dent. —Ramon    Steck 

Lehigh 

Fall  pledges:  Caspar  Kaffke,  Silver  Spring, 
Md.;  William  Johnson,  Lancaster;  Robert  Moyer, 
Bethlehem;  and  T.  Graham  Ralph,  Danielson, 
Conn. 

October  initiates:  John  Bailey,  White  Plains, 
N.Y.;  Richard  Barrie,  Rye,  N.Y.;  Andrew 
Knecht,  Yonkers,  N.Y.;  James  Murray,  Fairfield, 
Conn.;  and  Alexander  Turpin,  Stewart  Manor, 
N.Y. 

No  rushing  of  freshmen  can  take  place  until 
the  spring  semester.  To  compensate  for  this,  the 
brothers  have  been  busy  making  contacts  with 
the  freshmen,  to  get  them  lined  up  for  the 
three  weeks  of  extended  rushing,  which  will 
take  place  in  February. 

Sometime  this  winter  the  pledges  are  going  to 
paint  the  council  room  in  the  Bethlehem  City 
Hall  for  the  city.  This  project  is  being  under- 
taken to  show  the  people  of  Bethlehem  that 
fraternity  men  are  willing  and  ready  to  benefit 
Bethlehem  instead  of  harming  her. 

Homecoming  witnessed  the  arrival  of  alumni 
who  were  able  to  celebrate  our  football  victory 
over  Lafayette.  The  chapter  won  first  place  in 
the  Interfraternity  Display  Contest.  The  display 
victory  was  the  result  of  the  efforts  of  Bob  Slaw, 
who  directed  the  making  and  erection  of  the 
display.  The  prize  for  the  winning  display  con- 
sists of  a  two-foot  high  traveling  cup. 

—Richard    A.    Doan 

Louisville 

Brothers  of  other  chapters  from  Fort  Knox 
have  been  present  at  several  parties.  They  have 
helped  us  in  rushing  by  illustrating  the  national 
nature  of  the  Fraternity.  Brothers  from  Kentucky 
Alpha  have  visited  us  frequently  and  we  have 
been  down  to  Lexington  on  football  weekends. 

Bob  Wolfe,  vice-president,  was  tapped  by 
ODK  and  was  also  elected  vice-president  of 
Sigma  Tau  honorary  engineering  fraternity. 
Frank  Gitscher,  '50,  our  facility  adviser,  has 
been  appointed  backfield  coach  of  varsity  foot- 
ball. 

Dave  Craft  was  elected  to  the  University  stu- 
dent council  and  to  the  Dental  School  student 
council. 

District  Governor  Dick  Panther  addressed 
a  joint  active-alumni  Founders'  Day  meeting  the 
first  week  of  November. 


The  basement  of  the  house  has  been  repainted 
and  converted  to  a  game  room.  The  pledge 
class  is  re-doing  the  chapter  room  and  study 
room.  Plans  have  been  made  for  a  library. 

3Maine 

Maine  Alpha  initiated  its  100th  brother  No- 
vember 18.  Oakley  Porter,  number  100,  is  a 
married  sophomore  veteran  with  two  handsome 
future  Sig  Ep  boys,  all  living  in  Orono.  15  other 
nev/  initiates  included:  Kenneth  Barnard,  Carl 
Bridges,  Roger  Chick,  Ralph  Clark,  George 
Earle,  Chester  Harris,  Leonard  McGinnis,  Ralph 
Martin,  James  Mendros,  Edwin  Pert,  Edward 
Plossay,  Robert  Stender,  Earle  Tarr,  Glendon 
Winton,  and  Robert  Willett. 

Previous  to  their  initiation,  as  part  of  their 
Greek  week  activities,  the  entire  pledge  class 
worked  at  least  one  afternoon  apiece  on  an 
interfraternity  constructive  work  program.  Presi- 
dent Art  Hathaway,  originator  of  the  much 
publicized  Sig  Ep  work  program  last  spring, 
was  the  IFC  chairman  in  charge  of  operations 
when  13  of  the  17  campus  fraternities  joined 
hands  in  cleaning  and  painting  the  Old  Town 
city  building.  The  over-all  program  was  similar 
to  the  work  done  by  our  eight  pledges  last  spring 
on  the  Orono  Town  Hall. 

Howard  Low,  formerly  of  Michigan  Alpha, 
was  affiliated  on  November  18. 

A  steak  banquet  was  held  at  the  Pilot's  Grill, 
Bangor,  for  the  new  brothers  Tuesday  evening 
before  Thanksgiving.  Johnny  Maturo,  Michigan 
Alpha  '50,  football  line  coach  at  Maine,  was 
the  chief  speaker. 

Thanks  to  the  highest  pledge  class  point  aver- 
age on  campus,  Maine  Alpha  placed  second 
out  of  17  fraternities  in  scholarship  for  the 
last  spring  semester  with  a  2.49,  which  was  well 
above  the  all-men's  average. 

The  annual  Homecoming  "Mountaineer's 
Ramble"  was  held  for  the  second  year  at  the 
Stillwater  Firehouse  with  an  excellent  showing 
of  returned  alumni.  It  was  staged  by  Social 
chairman  Ken  Wiley  with  entertainment  by  the 
whole  pledge  class  featuring  Ron  Schutt  and 
Bub  Pert  who  are  becoming  an  indispensable 
comedy  twosome.  Jimmy  Hawes'  trio  supplied 
the  music  and  Major  and  Mrs.  Hugh  Wendle, 
Delaware   Alpha,   were   among   the   chaperons. 

The  fall  houseparty  formal  was  held,  Novem- 
ber 30  at  the  Penobscot  Valley  Country  Club 
with  an  informal  dance  the  following  night  in 
the  chapter  room. 

Famed  AP  correspondent,  Hal  Boyle,  while 
at  the  University  as  a  newspaper  conclave 
speaker,  took  time  off  to  come  over  and  meet  us. 

We  unveiled  our  new  red  suspenders  at  the 
pre-game  Homecoming  rally.  We  owe  great 
thanks  to  Massachusetts  Alpha  for  the  idea 
and  aid  in  obtaining  them.  The  general  reaction 
on  campus  has  been  very  good,  as  they  repre- 
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Three  brothers  have  recently  been  initiated 
into  respective  honorary  societies:  Ronald 
Schutt,  Tau  Beta  Pi;  Laurence  Cable,  Sigma 
Mu  Sigma;  and  Jack  Kelly,  Xi  Sigma  Pi. 

— Dvi'iGHT  R.  Holmes 

Marshail 

In  the  last  year,  graduation  and  the  armed 
services  have  taken  42  per  cent  of  the  active 
group.  How^ever,  22  men  were  pledged  this 
semester,  one  of  the  largest  pledge  groups. 
Three  of  the  four  offices  in  the  freshman  class 
are  held  by  Sig  Ep  pledges:  president,  Daun 
Pace,  Huntington;  vice-president,  Paul  Jones, 
Dunbar;   secretary,  Bruce  Thabit,   Huntington. 

The  Sig  Ep  football  team  ended  a  successful 
year  under  the  helm  of  coach  Bill  Griffith,  win- 
ning three  out  of  four  games.  The  soccer  team 
was  tops. 

An  informal  dance  was  held  October  20  at  the 
Shawkey  Student  Union.  Gene  Linsey  and 
orchestra  furnished  the  music. 

Pledgemaster  Doug  Bradshaw  has  initiated 
study  periods  for  the  pledge  class.  Each  period 
lasts  for  two  hours  and  these  periods  are  at- 
tended three  times  a  week. 

Homecoming  on  November  17  saw  Marshall 
lose  to  a  Dayton  team  34-13. 

Omicron  Delta  Kappa  pledged  10  men 
during  Homecoming  festivities.  Among  these 
only  two  were  Greeks  and  both  were  Sig  Eps: 
John  Cornell,  junior,  Clarkesburg;  and  CliJBFord 
Mickel,  senior,  Charleston.       —Ernie  Soter 

Miami  (Ohio) 

Ohio  Eta  won  the  scholarship  improvement 
trophy  having  the  greatest  improvement  of  any 
fraternity  on  campus. 

New  initiates:  Jim  McCausland  (outstanding 
pledge),  Walt  Kania,  Dick  Brown,  Bob  Rice, 
Paul  Light,  Wayne  Harris,  Dan  Burgess,  Ken 
KoUer,  Carl  Fletcher,  Kim  Graf,  Tom  Lameier, 
Reese  Sutton,  Bob  Hofius,  and  Jack  Strietel- 
meier. 

Gaylord  Bennett  is  president  of  the  YMCA. 

Recently  pledged:  Bob  Nicholls,  Ernie 
Noetzel,  Bud  Burge,  Bob  Davenport,  Terry 
Swisher,  Don  Fleming,  Bob  Hamm,  Bill  Kifi^- 
meyer,  Bob  Jacob,  and  Richie  Skelton. 

John  Young  is  president  of  Delta  Sigma  Pi, 
men's  business  fraternity.  Dave  Gordon  is  presi- 
dent of  the  industrial  management  club. 

—William  P.  Watts 

Michigan 

Michigan  Alpha  is  still  on  top.  Socially  our 
parties  are  the  best  on  campus.  Athletically  we 
are  pointing  for  our  fourth  straight  all-year 
campus  championship.  In  activities  our  men  are 
leaders.  And  to  top  it  off  our  alumni  are  ener- 
getic and  cooperative. 


Michigan's  Ken  Babcock. 

Football  weekends  with  preparties,  dances, 
and  Gleaners  parties  have  been  sparked  by  social 
chairman  Lome  Norton.  Visiting  alumni,  their 
wives,  and  friends  will  long  remember  these 
gala  affairs.  Meanwhile  actives  and  dates  are 
eagerly  awaiting  the  already  planned  costume 
party,  Halloween  party.  Homecoming  dance, 
pledge  formal,  and  Christmas  formal. 

Michigan  track  star  Joe  LaRue  is  at  the  helm 
this  year  in  charge  of  house  athletics.  Paddy 
Haas,  appointed  captain  of  football,  has  piloted 
his  unscored-upon-wonders  to  a  perfect  3-0 
record  so  far  this  season.  Members  of  the  team 
are  Dave  Space,  Jack  Main,  Curt  Murton,  Ross 
Phalzgraff,  Chick  Gast,  Dick  Martin,  Joe  La- 
Rue,  Joe  Hipfel,  Lome  Norton,  Bob  Ohlheiser, 
Ken  Babcock,  and  Ole  Haroldson. 

Assistant  to  the  Grand  Secretary  Carl  Peter- 
sen, and  Field  Secretary  Bob  Bonnell  visited  the 
chapter  for  tlie  formal  initiation  of  Joe  Hipfel, 
Frank  Spicciati,  and  John  Vennerholm. 

Rush  chairman  Chick  Gast  has  conducted 
fall  rushing  successfully.  New  pledges  are  Neill 
Bowman,  William  Gary,  Ed  Conlin,  Jack  Conlin, 
Herb  Hood,  Jim  Hubbell,  Bumpy  Jones,  Dick 
Lowery,  Don  MacGregor,  Don  Mason,  Herman 
Snyder,  and  Pete  Thomassen.  Total  chapter 
strength  stands  at  76. 

Ron  Stachowiak,  chairman  for  Homecoming 
display,  has  also  been  appointed  chapter  chap- 
lain. 

Ken  Babcock,  pre-med  student,  is  chairman  of 
the  campus  action  committee.  Ole  Haroldson 
is  a  member  of  student  legislature.  Harry  Hill- 
man  is  a  senior  member  of  the  engine  honor 
council.  Leo  Wasserberger  was  elected  president 
of  the  freshman  class  in  dental  school. 

This  summer  alumni  sponsored  an  extensive 
reconditioning  of  the  house.  From  the  outside. 


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improvements  include  a  new  coat  of  paint  and 
a  glass-encased  porch,  15  x  40  feet.  On  the 
inside,  tile  floors  were  laid  in  the  living  room, 
hall,  and  dining  room.  A  new  oil  heating  plant 
for  the  entire  house  was  installed. 

^Leo  Wasserberger 

Minnesota 

Manpower:  15  actives.  Results  of  a  rush  week 
soon  to  be  held  will  be  reported  in  the  next 
Journal. 

Jim  Trunk  is  president  of  the  Educational 
Board;  Art  Olson,  president  of  the  Elementary 
Education  Men's  Club;  Bob  Johnson,  secretary 
of  Sigma  Delta  Chi  and  member  of  the  Board 
of  Publications;  Roger  Carlson,  president  of 
Beta  Gamma  Sigma;  Len  Nadasdy,  president 
of  the  Republican  club;  Dick  Jacobson,  mem- 
ber of  Grey  Friars. 

Dennis  Brown,  formerly  of  the  Denver  chap- 
ter has  transferred  to  Minnesota. 

—Bob  Johnson 

Mississippi  State 

We  have  started  serving  meals  in  our  recently 
acquired  house,  obtained  a  housemother,  and 
pledged  a  class  of  40  men. 

The  meals  were  started  on  October  1,  immedi- 
ately following  the  acquisition  of  our  kitchen 
equipment.  We  have  a  cook  and  a  houseboy 
to  help  with  the  serving,  and  we  are  feeding 
approximately  50  men  two  meals  a  day.  Our 
kitchen  is  managed  by  WilHam  J.  BuBard  of 
McCarley,  Miss. 

Our  housemother  is  Mrs.  E.  E.  Wilkins.  Her 
services  were  obtained  through  Charles  H. 
Johnson  and  several  of  our  alumni. 

Our  40  new  pledges  are  being  trained  by 
Walter  A.  Bishop  of  Roanoke,  Va. 

In  the  intramural  program,  we  have  advanced 
to  the  finals  in  the  golf  division.  We  have  won 
two  and  lost  two  games  in  volleyball.  Our 
sports  program  is  headed  by  Joe  E.  Beckham 
of  Swiftown,  Miss. 

In  a  special  election  held  recently,  William 
D.  Neal,  Jr.,  CarroUton,  was  elected  president; 
William  J.  DuBard,  McCarley,  comptroller; 
and  William  W.  Sykes,  Jackson,  secretary.  Other 
officers:  A.  Carl  Long,  Jr.,  vice-president; 
Henry  C.  Waterer,  Jr.,  historian. 

Alumni  and  actives  of  the  Memphis  State 
chapter  entertained  Mississippi  Beta  with  a  party 
following  the  football  game  between  the  two 
schools. 

Mississippi  Alpha  men  were  guests  of  honor 
at  a  stag  party  given  November  30,  on  the  eve 
of  the  annual  Mississippi  State-Ole  Miss  foot- 
ball game.  Our  social  functions  are  directed 
by  Ike  W.  Savelle  of  Columbus,  Miss. 

Recently  initiated:  Bobby  P.  West,  Hamilton, 
Miss.  Bobby  was  voted  outstanding  pledge  on 


the  basis  of  points  awarded  and  was  accord- 
ingly given  a  jeweled  pin  by  the  chapter.  He  is 
an  excellent  musician  and  entertainer. 

—Henry  C.  Waterer,  Jr. 

Missouri 

After  winning  the  pledge-active  football  game 
by  a  score  of  13-0,  our  pledges  turned  their 
attention  to  the  fall  formal.  They  did  all  the 
planning  and  work.  Theme  of  the  dance  was 
the  "Sig  Ep  Park";  it  was  held  at  the  house 
November  3.  Brother  Don  Fry  and  his  band 
provided  the  music. 

Homecoming  was  held  on  October  27  with 
the  Tigers  winning  over  Nebraska.  Ernie  Dun- 
ning was  in  charge  of  decorations  and  we  took 
second  place  in  the  float. 

New  initiates:  Robert  McMillen  and  Carl 
Schweitzer,  Windsor;  Dean  Douglas,  Lakeland, 
Fla.;  Richard  Halferty,  Poplar  BluflF;  Robert 
Gneiser,  York,  Pa.;  Harold  Aldridge,  St.  Louis; 
Robert  Locarni,  Carthage;  and  Bob  Duckworth, 
Salem. 

New  pledges:  Jerry  Livingston,  Gene  Korpal, 
and  Richard  Chasteen,  Vandalia;  Jack  Steven- 
son, Beloit,  Wis.;  Eddie  Eckles,  Marshall;  Greg 
Oliver  and  Jerry  Wheeler.— Juan  R.  Martin 

Missouri  Mines 

Fall  initiates:  Donald  Bogue,  metallurgy, 
Normandy;  Gene  Trytko,  electrical  engineering. 
South  Bend,  Ind.;  Don  Bailey,  mining.  West 
Franklin,  N.H.;  John  Priest,  civil  engineering, 
Hannibal;  Lloyd  Mason,  chemical  engineering, 
Hannibal;  Tony  Bruskas,  mining  geology,  JoUet, 
111.;  Bob  Custer,  chemical  engineering,  Kansas 
City. 

Muhlenberg 

The  zenith  of  the  new  season's  social  whirl 
was  reached  November  19  in  the  formal  dinner 
dance  at  the  Brookside  Country  Club.  A  cock- 
tail party  in  the  colorful  Green  Room  of  the 
club  preceded  the  dance  which  was  attended  by 
most  of  the  actives  and  many  fun-seeking 
alumni.  The  chapter's  barbershop  quartet,  which 
had  just  copped  the  coveted  Interfraternity  Song 
trophy,  entertained. 

President  John  Delissio  presented  a  sweetheart 
pin  to  Daisey  Moyer,  our  beloved  housemother 
for  30  years.  A  house  party  closed  the  weekend. 

John  Bankowsky  and  Bob  Richardson,  social 
co-chairmen,  have  planned  a  Senior  Ball  to  be 
held  December  14. 

Our  football  team  won  the  intramural  foot- 
ball race  and  will  play  for  the  Interfraternity 
Trophy  in  December. 

Rush  Chairman,  Bob  Richardson  guided 
our  rushing  efforts  to  a  result  of  a  pledge  class 
of  13  upper-class  men.  Dr.  Byron  D.  Wilkins, 


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New  Mexico's  Jack  Bolander  holds  cake  his  girl 
baked  for  his  birthday.  From  left:  Dillman, 
Parsons,  the  lucky  man  himself,  Bergin,  Lamb. 

prominent  surgeon,  spoke  on  the  benefits  of  fra- 
ternal life  at  our  stag  buffet  supper. 

Following  in  the  footsteps  of  our  Maine 
chapter  our  hell  week  has  been  supplanted  by  a 
work  week  in  which  some  step  of  civic  improve- 
ment is  planned. 

We  were  awarded  the  coveted  scholastic 
trophy  for  having  the  highest  scholastic  average 
on  campus. 

Bob  Richardson  earned  the  lead  role  in  the 
Mask  &  Dagger  production  of  Romeo  and 
Juliet.  Varsity  letters  were  won  by  Ed  Martin 
and  Dick  Derstine  for  soccer  and  football, 
respectively.  Pete  Mourad,  John  Faust,  and  Ev 
Thierfelder  were  chosen  for  the  college  Who's 
Who. 

Initiated  November  20:  Pete  Mourad,  Gino 
Ancora,  and  Frank  Marucci. 

—Richard  Whitaker 

New  3texico 

Manpower:  Nine  men  have  been  pledged: 
Wayne  A,  Davidson,  Clovis;  James  Lamb,  Ft. 
Wayne,  Ind.;  James  McFarlan,  Tucson,  Ariz.; 
L.  D.  Chisholm,  Baton  Rouge,  La.;  Jack  Mc- 
Clelland, St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  William  Kunkell, 
Albuquerque;  Everett  Dillman,  Panama  Canal 
Zone:  David  Jackson,  Gallup;  and  Billy  J. 
Raggett,   Albuquerque. 

New  officers:  Darrell  U.  Davidson,  Osage. 
Iowa,  president;  Jack  C.  Bolander,  Duncan, 
Okla.,  vice-president;  John  J.  Ermatinger,  Chi- 
cago, 111.,  secretary;  James  S.  Bergin,  Albuquer- 
que, comptroller;  and  James  Houghten,  Albu- 
querque, house  manager. 

Jack  Bolander  is  editor  of  the  NROTC  unit's 
newspaper,  the  Sunline,  and  a  cadet  ensign. 
He  is  past  president  and  present  publicity  direc- 
tor for  the  campus  Young  Democrats.  He  is  past 
president  of  the  United  Student  Christian  Fel- 
lowship. 

Chuck  Gassaway  is  president  of  IFC  for  1951- 
52.  He  is  doing  honors  work  in  chemical  engi- 
neering, and  is  a  member  of  the  AIChE.  Jack 
Ermatinger  is  the  latest  night  editor  to  be  added 


to  the  Loho  staff.  He  is  treasurer  of  the  New 
Mexico  chapter  of  Sigma  Delta  Chi,  national 
journalistic  professional  fraternity,  and  is  also  a 
member  of  the  Press  Club. 

Pledgetrainer  Jim  Parsons  was  one  of  a  group 
which  received  ribbons  for  outstanding  work 
in  the  Air  Force  ROTC.  Social  chairman  Jim 
Houghten  has  been  tapped  by  Delta  Sigma  Pi, 
honorary  business  fraternity.  Pledge  Dave  Jack- 
son is  Mesa  Vista  dorm  athletic  chairman  and 
Sunline  staff  cartoonist,  besides  being  active  in 
the  Young  Democrat  group. 

A  Christmas  party  with  the  Chi  Omegas  was 
held  December  15.  Local  orphans  were  enter- 
tained and  given  gifts.  Don  George  played  Santa 
Glaus.  —Jack  Ermatinger 

N.Y.U. 

Manpower:  15-pledges— Ted  Basil,  Tom 
Carney,  Ed  Cronin,  John  Gearrity,  William 
Heath,  George  Postian,  Bob  Shiflet,  Seth  Thau- 
gut,  Joe  Bellini,  Doc  Ignaccolo,  Russ  Gilligan, 
Ken  Martin,  Bill  Klein,  Roger  Lane,  Joe  De- 
Mattia.  Pledge  Martin  is  on  the  track  team. 

Chapter  president  Ed  Randell  is  picture  edi- 
tor of  the  Violet,  yearbook;  Dean  Mauser  is  on 
tlie  yearbook  also,  as  business  manager.  Frank 
Acuri,  chapter  comptroller,  is  vice-president  of 
the  student  council  in  the  school  of  commerce. 

Both  actives  and  alumni  attended  the  annual 
Sadie  Hawkins  Day  dance. 

Nine  actives  and  pledges  accompanied  the 
football  team  to  Philadelphia  for  the  Temple 
game  and  were  guests  of  the  Sig  Ep  chapter 
there.  —Douglas  W.  Deane 

North  Carolina  State 

Fall  initiates:  Richard  L.  Quickel,  Jr.,  Char- 
lotte; Gene  Clark,  Shelby;  Archie  T.  Spiers,  Jr., 
Newport  News,  Va.;  Robert  C.  Wilkins,  York, 
Pa. 

Pledges:  Ted  Best,  Oscar  Doster,  Charles 
Winecoff,  Robert  McDonald,  Charles  Moss, 
David  Parrott,  Freddy  Moore,  John  Wells, 
Frank  Northup. 

The  IFC  sponsored  pledge  dance  in  Decem- 
ber featured  Charlie  Spivak's  orchestra. 

In  the  intramural  race,  the  football  and  volley- 
ball teams  won  sectional  championships,  while 
William  James  and  C.  L.  Corn  placed  in  the 
boxing  finals. 

John  Cunningham  has  been  elected  chaplain. 
—Alan  A.  Lowe 

Ohio  Northern 

Homecoming  was  featured  by  the  return  of 
many  alumni  and  by  our  winning  the  decorations 
trophy.  This  was  a  heroic  Buddha  that  looked 
down  upon  a  sacrificial  altar  upon  which  reposed 
a  football  opponent.  Behind  the  altar  stood  an 


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Ohio  Northern  player  brandishing  a  dagger. 

Bob  St.  Louis,  Paul  Covert,  and  Herbert  Cox 
hold  the  positions  of  president  of  the  IFC,  stu- 
dent council,  and  senior  class,  respectively. 

Duane  Daffler,  Leon  Wenzel,  and  Ernest 
Boye  are  on  the  student  council.  Gerald  Boltz 
is  one  of  the  editors  of  the  college  paper.  Jack 
Curtis  is  head  of  the  college's  student  speech 
department. 

The  winter  formal  will  be  held  January  19. 
—Frank  Shurtz 

Ohio  Wesley  an 

The  chapter  won  the  first-place  trophy  for 
the  best  homecoming  display. 

The  Dads'  Day  Variety  Show  was  the  fea- 
ture of  our  Dads'  Day  weekend  held  recently, 
directed  by  Tom  Seldon. 

In  the  intramural  program  we  won  the  volley- 
ball championship  and  placed  second  in  foot- 
ball. The  freshmen  in  their  own  league  also 
won  the  volleyball  championship  and  took  sec- 
ond place  in  football. 

Officers:  president,  Tom  Gerstacker;  vice- 
president.  Cliff  Cooper;  historian,  Jake  Lewis; 
secretary,  Jim  Faile;  guard,  John  Hubbinger; 
senior  marshal.  Norm  Noblet;  junior  marshal, 
Vale  Benning.  —Arnold  Torke,  Jr. 

Oklahoma  A  &  3M 

The  Oklahoma  Alpha  athletic  team  won  the 
intramural  fraternity  league  football  champion- 
ship. In  varsity  athletics  F.  A.  Dry  and  Dale 
Holderman  are  participating  in  their  last  year 
of  college  football.  Dry  is  playing  first  team  of- 
fensive center  this  year  while  Holderman  is 
holding  down  defensive  end  on  the  first  pla- 
toon. 

The  annual  Bowery  Brawl,  our  costume  dance 
portraying  the  gay  nineties,  was  attended  by 
approximately  400  Sig  Eps  and  guests. 

Big  men  on  the  campus  this  year  are  Terry 
Leard,  editor-in-chief  of  the  Redskin,  student 
yearbook;  Jack  Givens,  president  of  the  Student 
Senate;  and  Bob  Harrison,  chosen  for  Who's 
Who.  —Conrad  Hart 


Omaha 

Our  chapter  opened  the  fraternity  functions 
by  presenting  an  informal  Greek  Sing. 

Our  intramural  football  team,  sparked  by 
linebacker  Duane  Lippold,  placed  second  in 
the  league.  —Dick  Carson 

Oregon  State 

New  pledges:  Gilbert  Bateson,  Stanley  Bhnk- 
horn,  Brent  Cameron,  Jim  Carlisle,  Jim  Col- 
burn,  Bill  Cox,  Roy  Dayton,  Allan  de  Lauben- 


fels,  Don  Houk,  Gene  MacFarland,  Scott 
McGowan,  Larry  Mehl,  Darrell  Palmer,  Jim 
Sherburne,  Keith  Sime,  Herb  Troeh,  Dick  Wise, 
and  Bill  Green.  Hold-over  pledges  from  last  year 
include:  Neal  Fisher,  Dave  Morris,  Gene  Paul, 
and  Jim  Todd. 

The  pledges  are  continuing  their  drive  to 
win  the  Phil  Small  Thane  Trophy  for  the  best 
scholastic,  activity,  and  sports  record  for  fresh- 
men classes  among  the  various  fraternities. 

Dalton  Cooley,  Bruce  Ruminski,  Bob  Set- 
teles,  and  James  Whiteley  were  initiated  in 
October  to  l3ring  the  number  of  initiates  in  our 
chapter  to  505. 

Oregon  Alpha  topped  all  fraternities  last 
spring  term  with  a  2.89  average.  We  also  topped 
the  campus  for  the  year  by  accumulating  a  2.96 
average  for  the  three  terms. 

Our  intramural  team  won  another  trophy  for 
the  mantel  in  rowing.  This  same  four  rowed 
against  an  athletic  club  from  the  University  of 
British  Columbia  during  Homecoming,  but  was 
beaten  by  a  length  and  one  half.  Intramural 
football  is  now  in  progress. 

We  are  playing  host  to  Tony  Syriotis,  a 
foreign  student  from  Greece,  who  is  going  to 
school  here  on  the  Interfraternity  Council  Schol- 
arship and  who  is  a  recent  graduate  from  high 
school  in  Greece.  He  is  a  sophomore  in  electri- 
cal engineering. 

The  draft  situation  at  Oregon  Alpha  is  very 
good.  Most  of  our  members  and  pledges  are 
either  veterans  or  are  in  some  form  of  military 
reserve  units.  On  drill  days  it  looks  like  a 
V.F.W.  convention.  Since  the  outbreak  of  the 
Korean  Campaign,  we  have  lost  only  seven 
men  to  the  military:  Bob  Wicks,  '51,  Ralph 
Paul,  '52,  Doug  Lang,  '52,  Cliff  Sinith,  '52, 
Dwane  Brenneman,  '53,  Bob  Blount,  '51,  and 
Forrest  Gathercoal,  '54.  One  of  these  is  already 
back.  Bob  Wicks  who  was  called  back  into  the 
reserves  last  year  is  again  with  us. 

Penn 

Manpower:  Two  weeks  of  fall  rushing  quar- 
terbacked  by  Jim  Hughes  has  paid  off  with  15 
fine  pledges,  including  Gerry  Robinson,  star 
tailback  of  this  year's  varsity  football  team.  The 
others:  Clarke  Glennon,  Dick  Ligouri,  Vince 
Retten,  Gene  Davalos,  Harry  Richards,  Larry 
Pierce,  Dan  Thompson,  Bob  Johnson,  Frank 
Basile,  Frank  Schoendorfer,  Ed  Wright,  and 
Alan  Rose. 

Among  these  men  are  real  stars  of  baseball, 
track,  wrestling,  and  swimming;  also  several 
band  members  and  two  fellows  interested  in 
the  Mask  and  Wig  show. 

Regular  parties  have  been  held  following  each 
football  game  with  the  exception  of  Dartmouth 
weekend.  Navy  weekend  was  biggest  and  best. 
Thanks  to  pledge  Ed  Wright  and  a  group  of 
the    brothers,    the   house    was    well   decorated: 


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poster  for  the  Navy  game  was  one  of  the  final- 
ists for  the  first  time. 

Our  basement  has  been  redecorated  with  the 
color  scheme  changed  to  green  and  yellow. 
Fluorescent  lights  were  installed  and  the  walls 
decorated  with  football  designs.  Ffrench,  Kenny, 
Clark,  and  Oesman,  and  pledge  Wright  were 
responsible.  — Rogers  Vaughn 

Pitt 

Pennsylvania  Gamma  now  has  a  house!  It 
is  a  12-room,  stone  and  shingle,  three-story 
house  located  at  525  South  Aiken  Avenue, 
East  Liberty,  Pittsburgh.  It  is  our  first  real  house 
since  we  were  reinstated  three  years  ago. 

June  graduation  at  Pitt  saw  15  brothers  leave. 
William  J.  Condon  was  voted  the  outstanding 
senior  in  Mining  and  graduated  first  in  his  class. 
Thirty-one  brothers  returned  to  school  this 
September,  while  the  Armed  Services  claimed 
three  men  who  had  planned  to  return— William 
Westland  was  recalled  to  the  Navy,  Frank 
Chalmers  was  called  into  the  Army,  and  Ray- 
mond  Whitney   entered    the   Air   Corps. 

The  recent  commencement  exercises  and  the 
Armed  Services  have  made  deep  inroads  upon 
our  membership,  but  the  returning  31  actives 
and  three  holdover  pledges  hope  to  bolster  this 
number  considerably  during  the  current  rushing 
season.  —Edward  G.  Minnich 


tlandolph-3Macon 

Manpower:  4  new  initiates  and  9  new 
pledges. 

Recent  initiates:  Dick  Ferano,  Tom  Yarring- 
ton,  Stasi  Delvizis,  and  Luke  Smith. 

New  pledges:  Richard  Harper,  Earl  Stone, 
Jesse  Lennon,  Dave  Holloway,  Egbert  Jackson, 
Billy  Cooke,  Lloyd  Gladden,  Gene  Furr,  and 
Frank  Osborne. 

Carson  Barnes  is  president  of  the  intramural 
athletic  council.  Henry  Carter  was  elected  to 
Omicron  Delta  Kappa.         —Jerry  Michael 

Rensselaer 

Renovation  and  redecoration  of  the  house  in- 
cluded repainting  the  study  rooms  and  bed- 
rooms. A  few  brothers  have  made  their  own 
wall  ornaments  and  drapes.  The  commons  room 
and  a  small  adjoining  room  have  been  wall- 
papered and  all  furniture  in  the  commons  has 
been  completely  recovered  to  make  the  first 
floor  of  the  house  look  like  new.  Kaestle  and 
Vigezzi  have  installed  a  new  shower  unit  in  the 
first-floor  bathroom. 

Five  brothers  got  together  and  formed  a 
Dixeland-jazz  band  and  have  become  a  good 
background  for  the  house  parties  as  well  as  play- 
ing for  other  groups  outside  the  R.P.I,  campus. 
—Norman  F.  BArao 


Richmond 

Homecoming  came  off  with  great  success 
here  at  the  Mother  Chapter.  Much  time  was 
spent  working  on  our  "Float"  which  was  dis- 
played during  the  William  and  Mary-Richmond 
game.  John  Wooldridge,  as  well  as  others, 
worked  long  and  hard  on  the  float. 

Fall  pledges:  Jabe  Cooper,  Ray  Shepherd, 
Bill  Perkins,  and  Ken  Bryan,  all  from  Richmond. 

Actives  recently  initiated:  Dick  Moore,  Doug 
Thorpe,  Lawrence  Bond  and  Clinton  Felton 
(who  was  activated  at  the  Conclave  during 
the  initiation  ceremony). 

A  new  television  set  was  bought  just  in  time 
to  see  the  World  Series. 

Jack  Griffin,  former  president,  was  drafted 
into  the  Marine  Corps  early  this  fall. 

The  chapter  joined  with  the  Richmond 
Alumni  Chapter  to  celebrate  Founders'  Day  at 
a   banquet   given  at  the  WiUiam   Byrd   Hotel. 

Congratulations  are  due  to  those  men  who 
were  tapped  by  honoraries.  Omicron  Delta 
Kappa  initiated  Doug  Clark;  Pi  Delta  Epsilon, 
Andre  Nielsen  and  also  Clark;  Phi  Alpha  Theta, 
Ward  Harkrader,  Bill  Chalfin,  and  Nielsen. 
Virginia  Alpha  had  more  men  tapped  for 
honorary  societies  than  any  other  fraternity. 
—William  W.  Chaffin 


Rutgers 

New  Jersey  Beta  pledged  13  men  during  fall 
rushing.  Hank  Daaleman,  rush  chairman,  is  re- 
sponsible for  this  fine  class,  consisting  of:  Jim 
McCahill  (president),  Nick  Korolkoff  (vice- 
president),  Tony  Shalna,  Bob  Swan,  Ray  Fitz- 
patrick,  Roy  Winkler,  Steve  Sugar,  Frank 
Gundaker,  Dick  Roeser,  Gene  Young,  Elwood 
Heerwagen,  Marshall  McGrain,  and  Joe  Rebo- 
vich. 

Indicative  of  the  feelings  of  the  house  upon 
stressing  scholarship,  half  of  this  pledge  class 
are  scholarship  students.  At  present  the  class  is 
forming  their  own  Dixie  band. 

May,  1951,  initiates  ( not  previously  reported): 
Lewis  Kuhl  ( son  of  Rutgers  Sig  Ep  Lewis  Kuhl, 
Sr.,  '22),  Robert  Wells,  Eugene  Marshall,  Henry 
Lewis,  Herman  Connors,  Douglas  James,  Don- 
ald DeSalvia,  Richard  Belthoff,  William  Thomp- 
son, Wilfred  Compher,  Thomas  ■Kitchen,  John 
Senkewicz,  John  Devlin.  Walter  Gabruk  was 
initiated  in  October. 

Ross  Mathews,  '51,  who  received  the  Scott 
Key  Scholarship  Award,  is  working  for  his 
master's  degree. 

Our  football  team  placed  second.  In  cross 
country  out  of  25  competing  living  groups  we 
placed  second,  with  John  Senkewicz  garnering 
first-place  honors.  Our  champion  basketball  team 
is  bolstered  by  some  capable  pledges. 

New  Jersey  Beta  has  started  work  on  a  house 
newspaper.  Bill  Jeney,  publicity  chairman,  with 


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At  Randolph-Macon  house,  no  one  loves 
books  more  than  Phi  Bete  aspirants  Howard 
Jernigan  and  his  roommate  Richard  Ferano. 


the  help  of  the  historian,  will  publish  the  paper 
which  is  to  be  called  The  Raritanian. 

Lew  Kuhl  has  been  awarded  the  title  "Most 
Collegiate  Dressed  Man  on  Campus." 

Before  Thanksgiving  we  played  host  to  five 
underprivileged  children  at  an  annual  turkey 
dinner. 

Frank  Adams,  former  chapter  president,  after 
serving  Uncle  Sam  for  a  year,  is  returning  to 
school  next  semester. 

The  house  has  a  new  mascot— a  beautiful  Irish 
setter  named  Mr.  Murphy  who  leads  the  Rutgers 
football  team  on  the  field. 

The  New  Jersey  Beta  alumni  held  an  outing 
November  17.  The  group  is  headed  by  Frank 
Johnson,  president;  Edward  Enberg,  secretary; 
Doctor  Gemeroy,  member  of  the  board  of  trus- 
tees. 

Highlighting  the  year's  activities  New  Jersey 
Beta  won  the  Rutgers  Spirit  Trophy,  awarded 
the  first  time.  The  trophy  was  given  to  that 
living  group  which  displayed  the  most  spirit  (not 
"spirits")  at  pep  rallies  and  football  games. 
Walt  Roy  worked  like  a  beaver  to  help  us  win 
the  trophy.  —Thomas  A.  Kitchen 

San  Diego 

An  illustrated  two-column  article  appeared  in 
the  San  Diego,  Calif.,  Union  recently  concern- 
ing the  strange  accident  and  fight  for  recovery 
of  Curtis  Tritchka. 

Last  Easter  when  Curt  and  ten  of  his  chapter 
brothers  were  diving  in  the  surf  at  Estero  Beach, 
Curt  cracked  one  of  his  vertebrae  and  injured 
his  spinal  cord  in  a  freak  accident  that  left  him 
almost  fully  paralyzed  and  nearly  took  his  life. 

Though  he  now  walks  on  crutches,  medical 
specialists  still  cannot  say  whether  he  will  fully 
recover. 


California  Delta  welcomed  15  pledges  at  the 
end  of  the  rush  season.  The  pledges  then  elected 
their  officers:  Dick  Mackie  (son  of  Stan  Mackie, 
California  Beta),  president;  Jim  Scott,  vice-presi- 
dent; Ed  Starr,  historian;  Rick  Ledesma,  guard. 

On  November  19,  we  celebrated  the  Golden 
Anniversary  of  the  Fraternity  with  a  dinner. 
Grand  President  Luis  Roberts  and  Al  Schuss, 
Washington  Beta,  were  our  chief  speakers. 

On  December  1,  we  held  Saints  and  Sinners, 
a  dressy  sport  dance  from  which  all  the  pro- 
ceeds went  to  the  Red  Feather  Campaign  in 
San  Diego. 

On  New  Year's  Eve  we  had  a  dance  jointly 
held  with  the  local  chapter  of  Alpha  Tau 
Omega. 

Semester  vacation  hit  us  January  21,  and  all 
the  members  went  their  various  and  sundry 
ways.  School  started  again  on  February  I  and  by 
then  plans  were  well  underway  for  our  annual 
Queen  of  Hearts  Ball. 

Rushing  has  started  again  and  last  semester's 
pledges  have  become  members.  —Ed  Stakr 

Santa  Barbara 

The  chapter  has  moved  from  the  former  home 
in  Mission  Canyon  to  the  Chapel  Inn  this  year. 
The  house  was  built  by  the  consul  from  Spain 
over  30  years  ago.  After  the  war,  the  house  was 
turned  into  an  Inn.  In  1947  we  occupied  it  for 
a  year  until  a  medical  research  group  moved  in. 
Last  September,  18  actives  returned  to  the  new 
home  while  7  men  were  recently  initiated  into 
the  chapter.  The  recent  initiates  are:  Bill  Camp- 
bell, Jack  Daulton,  John  Dickinson,  Dave  Keve- 
lin,  Ed  Monreal,  Andy  Spaan,  Hale  ToUeth,  and 
Capt.  George  Trebilcock,  new  faculty  adviser. 

New  pledges:  Hugh  Cameron,  Chuck  Light- 
foot,  Bill  Mitchel,  Tony  Romasanta,  Gregg 
Stevens,  Buzz  Walder,  and  Paul  Williamson. 

Santa  Barbara  homecoming  welcomed  back 
many  alumni.  Seen  at  the  house  and  traditional 
alumni  breakfast  were:  Major  Bill  Colbern  (first 
chapter  member),  Ray  Hogaboom,  Stan  Lokken, 
Jack  Jardine,  Walt  Sant,  Bud  Hammerstrom, 
John  Borie,  Bob  Rice,  Don  Tooker  (back  from 
Korea),  George  Stevenson,  Ed  Faukuier,  Ken 
Kellogg,  Reno  Chackel,  and  Syl  Goodenow. 
Our  Homecoming  float,  a  12-foot  red  Devil 
prodding  the  Whittier  Poet  into  the  sea,  won 
second  place  among  fraternities.  The  theme 
followed  the  song  title:  "Between  the  Devil  and 
the  Deep  Blue  'C'." 

Sig  Ep,  Sig  Pi,  Theta,  and  Pi  Phi  held  a 
combined  party  at  the  house  last  Halloween. 
Hal  Aarset  won  the  best  costume  prize  for  his 
Jap  pirate.  A  buffet  dinner  was  served  and 
everyone  danced  to  McNamara's  combo. 

Dave  Kevelin  and  Andy  Spaan  played  varsity 
football  this  season.  Dave  played  tackle  and 
Andy,  who  broke  his  wrist  in  the  Fresno  State 
game,    played    end.  —Alan    Gillmore 


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Home  of  Stevens  men  at  530  Hudson  Street, 
Hoboken,  N.J.  The  house  has  four  floors. 


Southern  California 

Recent  initiates:  Larry  Shinn,  Alan  Carpenter, 
Robert  Riley,  Richard  Carter,  Tom  Eads,  Harry 
Klinck,  Charles  Mathewson,  Frank  Erpelding, 
James  Hotra,  Hugh  Kimball,  George  Gabrich, 
Hank  Moomjian. 


Stetson 

Recently  pledged:  Alfred  Daub,  William  Mc- 
Rrayer,  A.  Ray  McClure,  Louis  Paar,  Clifford 
Revell,  Charles  Rose,  and  Laurence  Willard. 

A  moonhght  cruise  on  the  St.  Johns  River 
and  a  victory  party  at  the  Orange  City  Hotel 
following  the  Richmond  football  game  high- 
lighted our  social  calendar. 

The  Phi  Society,  liberal  arts  honorary,  pledged 
Bruno  Diguilian.  Bruce  Lane  was  initiated  into 
Gamma  Sigma  Epsilon,  national  honorary  chem- 
istry fraternity.  Kenneth  Wing  was  tapped  by 
Gamma  Sigma  Epsilon,  Sigma  Pi  Kappa,  honor- 
ary journalistic  fraternity,  and  Der  Deutsche 
Verein,  an  honorary  German  organization. 

CarroU  Lewis,  who  was  elected  president  of 
the  junior  class,  also  headed  the  barbecue  com- 


mittee for  Homecoming.  Horace  Smith  is  treas- 
urer of  the  IFC. 

Our  dining-room  is  again  in  operation,  with 
Bruno  Diguilian  as  steward  and  Mrs.  Nola 
.McClintock  from  Deland  as  our  new  house 
mother. 

William  Cuddy  is  interning  this  semester  in 
Seabreeze  High  School  at  Daytona  Beach. 

—Ken   Wing 

Stevens 

Our  football  team  has  entered  the  finals  for 
the  interfraternity  football  chamionship  after 
beating  Sigma  Nu  in  the  last  league  game. 

Jerry  Duys  and  Denny  Lenders  have  played 
a  very  succesful  season  on  the  varsity  soccer 
squad.  John  Gibb,  commodore  of  the  Yacht 
Club,  has  led  his  men  to  place  very  well  in 
recent  intercollegiate  races.  Our  representatives 
in  the  Glee  Club  include  the  vice-president  and 
secretary  as  well  as  others  in  several  activities. 
Dave  Lebet  and  Ed  Dillingham  are  teaching  in 
the  Industries  Training  School  here  at  nights 
under  Brother  Prof.  Matt  Bilyk. 

Recent  improvements  to  the  house,  spurred 
on  mainly  by  our  Mothers'  Club  addition  of  new 
rugs  and  draperies,  include  new  floors  in  the 
chapter  rooms  and  a  completely  refinished  din- 
ing-room floor.  Our  pledges,  tired  of  the  out- 
moded brownstone  parts  of  the  exterior  of  our 
house,  have  refinished  it  in  white.  Most  of  the 
work  was  done  at  night  with  spotlights. 

New  initiates:  Pete  Kalika  and  Herb  Epp  of 
New  York  City,  Charles  Clark  and  Bill  Davis  of 
Jersey  City,  Dave  Findlay  of  Bronxville,  N.Y., 
and  Dave  Lebet  of  Haverhill,  Mass. 

—Edward   M.    Smith,   Jr. 

Syracuse 

Beginning  September  12,  29  brothers  returned 
to  ready  the  house  for  rushing  and  the  months 
of  studying  and  partying  ahead.  Extensive  re- 
decoration  of  the  study  room  immediately 
began  with  wallpaper  the  current  vogue.  The 
fall  initiation  class  painted  the  woodwork  in 
the  dining  and  music  rooms  and  the  upstairs- 
hall. 

Thirty-eight  active  brothers  and  16  pledges 
are  keeping  the  chapter  in  its  traditional  high 
position  at  Syracuse  with  Bill  Landis  cracking 
the  presidential  whip. 

Fall  rushing  was  conducted  by  Rod  Phibbs 
with  a  pledging  of  16  men.  New  pledges  were 
entertained  at  dinner  October  10  followed  by 
the  formal  pledging  ceremonies. 

Pledged:  Conrad  Brickman,  Syracuse;  Robert 
Clark,  White  Plains;  John  Creatura,  Schenec- 
tady; William  Donahoe,  E.  Orange,  N.J.;  Wil- 
ham  Fagan,  Stafford ville.  Conn.;  Frank  Folts, 
Belmont,  Mass.;  Paul  Frahm,  Flushing;  Robert 
Garver,  Liverpool;  William  Gregory,  Skaneat- 
eles;  Herman  Harding,  Liverpool;  Frank  Lewis, 


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Syracuse;  Roderick  Meier,  Rochester;  Victor 
Methe,  Springfield,  Mass.;  Willis  Price,  Syra- 
cuse; John  Robinson,  Rochester;  and  William 
Thompson,  Painted  Post. 

Initiated  October  28:  Robert  Campbell,  Del- 
mar;  William  Danz,  Flushing;  Robert  Fortier, 
Fisherville,  Mass.;  Will  Nunn  Graves,  Edger- 
ton,  Wis.;  Camilo  Mutis,  Bogota,  Colombia; 
John  Riley,  Phelps;  Herbert  Tepper,  Woodside; 
and   Richard  Whiteman,  Dansville. 

Scholastically  New  York  Alpha  is  11th  among 
35  Hill  fraternities  with  an  average  of  1.415. 
(Syracuse  averages  are  computed  on  a  3.  high 
system.)  Our  average  is  higher  than  the  all- 
university  men's  average  and  the  all-fraternity 
average. 

New  York  Alpha  finished  second  in  individual 
flight  competion  in  intramural  football.  We 
have  won  one  and  lost  one  so  far  in  bowling, 
and  we  were  entered  in  intramural  swimming. 
We  are  signed  up  for  basketball,  volleyball, 
and  hope  to  keep  our  ping  pong  crown  for  the 
fifth  straight  year. 

Social  activities  so  far  include  the  initiation 
banquet  with  Dean  of  Men  Frank  Piskor  as 
guest  speaker  and  the  "Sig  Ep  in  Paris"  party 
inspired  by  the  An  American  in  Paris  movie. 
For  this  the  house  was  decorated  with  a  Bo- 
hemian kick,  apache  costumes  were  in  order, 
and  entertainment  provided  by  the  brothers 
included  a  "chanteuse,"  apache  dancers  and  a 
"professor"  from  the  Sorbonne  as  emcee. 

Honorary  brother  A.  E.  Johnson  of  the  Enghsh 
Department  dined  at  the  house  on  November 
14  and  addressed  the  brothers. 

Coming  up  on  the  social  agenda  are  coffees 
with  Tri-Delt,  Kappa  Kappa  Gamma  and  Alpha 
Phi.  After-dinner  speakers  scheduled  are  the 
new  hill  fraternity  advisers,  Theodore  Denise  and 
Assistant  Dean  of  Men  Clifford  J.  Craven,  and 
Stanley  Evans  from  our  alumni  board. 

Christmas  activities  included  a  date  party 
at  the  house  December  15  and  a  stag  party 
after  meeting  December  17.  The  outside  of  the 
house  was  decorated  by  a  five-man  committee 
headed  by  Herb  Soper.  On  the  committee  were 
Jim  Kolbe,  Jack  Cornell,  Herb  Tepper  and 
Bob  Campell. 

The  annual  "Flunker's  Frolic"  between  Christ- 
mas and  finals  rounds  out  social  activities  until 
the  spring  semester  and  our  Sweetheart  banquet 
and  ball, 

Colgate  weekend,  Syracuse's  biggest  football 
weekend,  November  16,  17,  and  18  was  the 
occasion  of  New  York  Alpha's  celebration  of 
Sig  Ep's  50  years  and  our  own  45  years  on 
Piety  Hill. 

Approximately  300  local  alumni  answered  the 
call  of  Doc  Schwartz  from  the  active  chapter 
and  Stanley  Evans  of  the  alumni  board. 

Opening  Friday  night  with  a  house  party 
and  alumni  registration  the  weekend  ended  with 
an  open  house  Sunday  afternoon  attended  by 
actives,  alumni,  dates,  wives  and  representatives 


of  other  Greek  houses  and  the  University  admin- 
istration. 

Following  the  game  ( the  Orange  defeated  the 
Chenango  Valley  Red  9-0),  170  actives,  alumni, 
wives,  and  dates  attended  a  banquet  in  Sims 
Dining  Hall  with  Doc  Schwartz  serving  as 
toastmaster.  Highlighting  the  speakers  were 
Irving  G.  Mathews,  '09,  a  charter  member  of 
the  chapter,  and  "Moe"  LeSieur,  '49.  George 
Scobell,  '15,  led  the  cheers  and  many  a  rousing 
chorus  of  "Pull  Your  Shades  Down,  Alpha  Phi" 
among  other  songs. 

An  alumni-sponsored  party  at  the  Hotel 
Onondaga  Roof  garden  in  downtown  Syracuse 
was  the  finishing  touch  to  the  weekend  reunion 
for  many  alumni  and  actives.  Dancing  to  a 
combo  hired  for  the  occasion,  songs  and  enter- 
tainment provided  by  the  alumni  and  a  race 
through  a  blinding  snowstorm  to  beat  the  1:30 
co-ed  curfew  were  finis  to  a  very  full  day. 

Prominently  missing  from  the  Colgate  week- 
end festivities  was  Buster,  our  nine-year-old 
Great  Dane,  who  developed  a  sore  in  his  mouth 
and  was  rushed  to  the  vet. 

—Dick  Whiteman 


Temple 

Social,  athletic,  and  scholastic  achievements 
were  the  selling  point  that  enabled  us  to  obtain 
the  largest  pledge  class  on  campus  for  the  fall 
semester,  with  17  new  men.  This  gives  us  a 
total  of  36  actives,  6  holdover  pledges,  and  17 
neophytes.  All  the  new  men  have  proved  their 
capabihties  as  future  Sig  Eps. 

Interfraternity  sports  present  an  extremely 
competitive  program  at  Temple.  Since  the  fall 
of  1947,  when  the  active  chapter  returned  to 
full  swing  in  I-F  athletics,  Pennsylvania  Mu  has 
taken  more  first-place  awards  than  any  other 
group. 


Temple's  William  Barber  receives  award  as 
best  cadet  at  Fort  Eustis  ROTC  summer 
camp.  He  was  picked  over  1500  men  repre- 
senting   37    U.S.    colleges   and   universities. 


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During  the  four-year  period,  the  IFC  has 
ofFered  40  trophies  for  athletic  achievement. 
Of  these  the  Sig  Eps  have  taken  28.  They  have 
taken  five  second  and  three  third  place  honors 
in  the  12  remaining  contests. 

In  addition  to  the  individual  awards,  they 
have  won  the  All-Sports  trophy  for  the  past 
three  years.  This  trophy  is  presented  to  the 
fraternity  demonstrating  the  greatest  all-round 
versatility  in  sports  for  the  entire  year. 

The  chapter  trophy  table,  which  needs  to  be 
constantly  enlarged,  is  one  of  the  chapter's  best 
selling  points  to  new  rushees. 

—Dean  D.  Yoxjng 

Tennessee 

New  initiates:  Gene  Bhncoe,  Long  Island, 
N.Y.;  Bob  Boulden,  Orlando,  Fla.;  Frank  Elder, 
Nolensville;  Ed  Hall,  Nashville;  Morris  Estes, 
Nashville;  Ed  Morgan,  Hendersonville,  N.C; 
Jack  Thornton,  Knoxville;  Herb  Crodemange, 
Memphis;  Gene  Koonce,  Jackson;  Tom  McCord, 
Centerville;  Johnny  Reese,  Patriot,  Ind.;  Clyde 
Pitts,  Franklin,  N.C. 

Tennessee  Alpha  pledged  22  new  men  during 
rush  week. 

On  November  8  we  held  our  annual  pledge 
dance.  Following  a  buflFet  supper  at  the  chapter 
house,  the  party  moved  to  one  of  the  local 
supper  clubs  for  the  informal  dance. 

Recent  achievements  of  individual  members 
include  Mark  Venrick's  selection  as  Torchbearer, 
high  senior  honor,  and  Pledge  Tony  Szymanski's 
election  as  Joe  College,  freshman  honor.  Howard 
Prince  has  been  elected  chapter  president  of 
the  A.  I.  E.  E.  The  Dixiecrat  Party,  a  campus 
political  compound  of  which  Tennessee  Alpha  is 
a  member,  selected  Brother  Tom  Coleman  as 
chairman.  Under  his  leadership  the  party  carried 
the  fall  elections  without  opposition. 

— NoBAL  King 

Texas 

Sig  Ep,  after  defeating  Phi  Delta  Theta  in 
the  league  playoff  and  Delta  Tau  Delta  for  the 
all-fraternity  championship,  went  on  to  beat 
Oak  Grove  for  the  University  touch  football 
championship.  Members  of  the  team  were  C.  B. 
Sumrall,  who  was  doing  the  passing,  Bill 
Adams,  Dudley  Thompson,  Wes  Pokulda, 
Charles  Bankston,  Granville  Deane,  Brooks 
Goldsmith,  Spencer  Garsee,  Bill  Forrester,  and 
Bob  Wagner.  Men  picked  for  all-intramural 
team  were  Sumrall,  Thompson,  and  Garsee. 

In  soccer  we  defeated  Theta  Xi,  lost  to  Phi 
Delta  Theta.  We  lead  in  the  all-year  team  point 
standing. 

The  annual  party  with  Oklahoma  Beta  was 
held  at  the  Hotel  Melrose  in  Dallas  the  week- 
end of  the  Texas-Oklahoma  football  game. 
Arrangements  were  handled  by  Herb  Craft,  Sr., 
and  Keith  Congdon. 


Phil  Woodruff  is  president  of  Ramshom, 
honorary  senior  Engineering  Society, 

Claude  Goldsmith  is  a  member  of  Silver 
Spurs,  honorary  service  organization;  IFC,  and 
member  of  the  steering  committee  of  the  Fra- 
ternity Clique. 

Bill  Parker  is  a  member  of  Cowboys,  honorary 
service  organization,  and  student  head  of  the 
Texas  Union. 

Joe  Wheat  is  president  of  the  Rusk  Literary 
and  Debating  Society. 

Paul   Martino  is  senior  intramural  manager. 

Joe  Ben  Ashby  is  manager  of  the  Longhorn 
football  team. 

-Ted  Kipp 

Toledo 

Sixteen  brothers  have  been  initiated  at  the 
University  of  Toledo  so  far  this  year,  making 
Ohio  Iota  the  largest  of  the  11  fraternities  on 
campus.  Total  active  membership  is  now  51. 

Twenty-seven  freshmen  were  pledged  Decem- 
ber 4;  almost  one-fifth  of  the  freshmen  going 
Greek  chose  the  house  with  the  Red  Door,  a 
tribute  to  Rush  Chairman  Joe  Krajewski's  well- 
planned  program. 

Larry  Leake  was  appointed  to  fill  an  unex- 
pired term  on  Student  Council  as  junior  men's 
representative  He  is  also  junior  class  president 
and  circulation  manager  of  the  Campus  Col- 
legian,  weekly  student   newspaper. 

Dick  Springer  was  appointed  news  editor 
of  the  Collegian.  Buzz  Bartow,  until  recently 
editor-in-chief  of  the  Collegian,  was  named  copy 
editor  of  the  Blockhouse,  university  yearbook. 
Bill  Benson  was  chosen  to  serve  on  the  art  staff 
of  the  Blockhouse. 

Who's  Who  will  list  Dick  Bensman,  president 
of  student  council;  Larry  Leake,  and  Dick 
Springer.  Leake  is  vice-president  of  the  chapter 
and  Springer  is  comptroller. 

Initiated  in  September:  Buzz  Bartow,  Tom 
Bayer,  and  Bill  Benson,  all  of  last  spring's 
upperclass  pledge  class;  Paul  Zatko,  a  carry- 
over from  last  year's  freshman  pledge  class,  and 
Al  Sorah,  a  former  Chi  Beta  Chi,  the  local  that 
preceded  Ohio  Iota  chapter. 

December  16  initiates:  Bob  Breese,  Duke 
Dayton,  George  Hartman,  Jerry  laguUi,  Russ 
Kiker,  Denny  McEhoy,  Bob  McCarthy,  Bill 
Michael,  Bob  Naveaux,  Ray  Ritzenthaler,  and 
Ernie  Spisz. 

The  annual  Christmas  Formal  was  held  De- 
cember 29  at  the  Toledo  Yacht  Club.  Many 
Toledo  Sig  Eps,  home  from  other  colleges,  were 
welcomed  by  Ohio  Iota,  as  well  as  several 
brothers  on  leave  from  the  armed  services. 

House  improvements  include  an  exterior  coat 
of  paint.  A  new  rug  was  purchased  for  the  liv- 
ing-room with  rugs  for  the  dining-room  and 
halls  yet  to  come.  The  music  room  was  painted 
and  decorated  and  a  new  room,  the  Pipe  Room, 
came  into  being.  The  former  laundry  room  in 


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the  basement,  formerly  an  eye-sore,  was  made 
into  an  interesting  attraction  with  each  of  the 
many  overhead  pipes  being  painted  in  diflFerent 
colors. 

Five  rustic  tables  were  constructed  for  the 
bar  by  Russ  Kiker  and  Gus  Peleusis. 

—Buzz  Bartow 

Tulsa 

Manpower:  48  actives,  14  pledges.  Five  men 
whose  pledgeships  were  continued  over  the 
summer  vacation  were  initiated  October  20: 
Jack  Hendricks,  Leo  Fisher,  Don  Brady,  Bill 
Chambers,  and  Lewis  Collins. 

The  Social  Committee,  with  Bob  Parse  as 
chairman,  has  made  tentative  dates  and  arrange- 
ments for  our  two  largest  annual  functions,  the 
Sig  Ep  Moonshiners  Ball  and  the  Golden  Heart 
Formal.  Two  red-blooded  stag  parties  have  been 
held  at  Lost  City,  one  of  them  as  a  kick-oflF  for 
the  first  semester  of  this  school  year,  and  the 
other  as  a  rush  party  One  of  our  house  parties 
was  augmented  by  a  pre-dance  barbecue. 

Our  intramural  basketball  team,  undefeated 
in  12  games  last  year,  is  waiting  for  the  season 
to  begin.  Oiu:  volleyball  team  has  not  lost  a 
game  so  far. 

The  entire  front  of  our  house  has  been  re- 
modeled, the  biggest  changes  being  the  removal 
of  the  front  porch  and  the  addition  of  a  flag- 
stone patio  and  window  shutters.  The  inside  has 
been  redecorated  with  the  aid  of  our  mothers' 
club.  Latest  contribution  has  been  an  all-metal 
wardrobe  in  each  sleeping  room  and  an  electric 
dripolator  coffee  urn  as  a  Thanksgiving  Day 
present. 

We  won  the  cup  for  winning  the  annual 
homecoming  float  contest.  Our  housemother 
plans  to  present  an  award  to  the  winner  of  our 
ping-pong  tournament. 

—John  Smith 

Virginia 

We  were  greeted  upon  our  return  to  the 
campus  by  a  much-needed  furnace,  hot-water 
tank,  and  set  of  living-room  furniture.  The 
downstairs  received  a  thorough  cleaning  at  the 
hands  of  most  of  the  members  in  preparation 
for  the  Homecoming  Weekend. 

Another  addition  is  an  attractive  bar  designed 
by  Hank  Browne  and  financed  through  the  do- 
nation of  $100  by  Russ  Taylor,  an  inactive 
pledge.  The  bar  is  made  of  glass  brick,  through 
which  diffused  lighting  is  seen,  and  is  topped  by 
hand-finished,  highly  polished  plywood. 

The  Homecoming  Weekend  took  place  Oc- 
tober 20  and  saw  many  of  the  alumni  returning 
to  school  and  to  the  house  for  some  good 
parties.  Our  annual  banquet  was  held  Saturday 
night  at  the  Monticello  Hotel.  Dr.  Earl  R. 
Boggs,  one  of  our  brothers  and  a  member  of 
the  faculty,  was  guest  speaker. 


Curt  Bazemore,  Jr.,  editor  of  the  Cavalier 
Daily,  chapter  president,  won  third  prize  in  the 
college  editorial  competition  sponsored  by  Pi 
Delta  Epsilon,  national  journalism  fraternity. 
In  winning  this  award,  Curt's  editorial  was 
judged  along  with  267  other  entries  from  150 
college  journahsts. 

Bob  Richie,  currently  wearing  a  lieutenant's 
bars  on  a  U.  S.  Marine  uniform,  is  stationed  at 
Quantico,  and  continues  to  drop  by  the  house. 
—George  C.  McIntosh 

W^ahe  Forest 

New  pledges:  Mack  Barrett,  Brookins  Beck, 
James  Boyd,  Tommy  Cole,  Charles  Castor,  Bill 
Grey,  Terry  Gwinn,  Louis  Hallow,  Walter  Hen- 
drix,  Zeke  Johnston,  John  Johnson,  John  Kin- 
law,  Bob  Koontz,  Phillip  Livingston,  Charles 
Morgan,  Dan  Poole,  Richard  Price,  Coy  Privette, 
Craham  Phillips,  Charles  Reaves,  Robert  Sasser, 
Thomas  Todd,  Wayne  Weber,  Jack  Welch,  Dan 
Workman. 

Dick  Warren  is  our  most  recent  initiate. 

Mac  Fuller,  our  social  chairman,  early  in 
October  arranged  an  open  house  for  campus 
women,  coinciding  with  an  afternoon  smoker. 
Homecoming  was  preceded  by  a  cabin  party 
on  the  Halloween  theme,  and  after  our  home- 
coming victory  over  Carolina  we  celebrated  at 
the  interfraternity  dance  at  which  Charlie  Spi- 
vak  played. 

In   athletics  we  won  the   volleyball  trophy. 

Scholastically  we  placed  second  among  the 


Washburn's  Snyder,  Warren,  Vandever,  and 
Etzel  (left  to  right)  dressed  as  hoboes 
to   participate   in   the   Homecoming   parade. 


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fraternities  for  the  preceding  year  and  had  a 
fraternity  average  well  above  the  average  for 
the  school. 

We  have  a  new  housemother-dietitian  for  our 
dining  hall— Mrs.  Matti  Bell  Goodwin  Jones  of 
Dunn,  N.C. 

Among  alumni  back  on  visits  this  fall:  E.  P. 
Ellis,  Tom  Ogburn,  John  Nelson,  L.  P.  Meggin- 
son,  Bill  MoLain,  John  Mauney,  James  Valsame, 
Phil  Scott,  Max  Nance,  Charlie  Wrenn. 

—John  Oates 

Washburn 

Scholarship:  First  among  all  groups. 

In  the  November  Journal  we  stated  that  22 
pledges  were  anticipated.  When  the  rushing 
season  ended  the  figure  stood  at  29. 

Robert  Dunham  was  elected  president  of  the 
sophomore  class  and  Kermit  Palmer  was  elected 
secretary-treasurer  of  the  freshman  class.  Milton 
Elwood  was  elected  first  vice-president  of  the 
Young  Democrats.  Wayne  Taylor  is  president  of 
the  Association  of  Business  Students. 

Robert  Jennings  reigned  as  King  at  Wash- 
burn's 87th  Homecoming.  He  was  elected  by 
the  football  squad.  In  the  homecoming  parade 
the  Sig  Ep  float  received  third  place. 

—Robert  H.  Reeder 


W^ashington 

Manpower:  We  have  pledged  9  more  men  in 
informal  rushing  which,  added  to  our  original 
pledge  class  of  one  holdover  pledge  and  12  ac- 
quired during  formal  rushing,  gives  us  a  total 
of  21  new  men. 

Our  football  team  has  taken  first  place  in  our 
league  and  as  this  is  being  written  is  fighting  for 
first  in  the  all-university  standings.  During  the 
regular  season  we  were  never  scored  upon. 

Our  primary  objective  in  school  scholarship, 
has  gone  up  considerably  from  what  it  was  in 
the  past.  In  the  1949-50  school  year  we  placed 
28th  out  of  40  fraternities,  but  in  one  short 
year  we  came  up  to  14th  place. 

Washington's  Homecoming  game  was  played 
against  Stanford.  Our  theme  for  decoration  was 
"Buffalo  the  Indians"  or  "The  Indians  aren't 
worth  a  plugged  nickle." 

At  our  Founders'  Day  Banquet,  November  19, 
it  was  announced  that  construction  on  our  new 
house  will  start  around  January  1. 

We  have  three  new  officers:  president,  Robert 
Laws;  historian,  Bill  Whitney;  and  rushing 
chairman,  Mark  Stryker, 

Thomas  V.  Kane  was  selected  to  attend  a 
dental  seminar  at  Pakn  Springs,  Calif. 

—William  E.  Whitney 


A  Neophyte  Speaks 

By  PHIL  BACON 

PLEDGE    OF    PENNSYLVANIA    MU 

ONE  of  the  major  events  of  a  young  high 
school  graduate  is  his  first  week  in  col- 
lege. In  this  week  he  must  make  many 
adjustments  by  changing  his  routines,  his 
way  of  thinking,  and  his  habits  to  meet 
the  challenge.  And  it  is  one  of  the  most 
important  challenges  to  be  encountered 
along  the  difficult  road  to  prosperity. 

If  the  student  joins  a  fraternity,  an- 
other major  event  is  the  pledge  period. 
Here,  too,  he  must  make  adjustments.  He 
must  learn  to  adjust  his  personality;  he 
must  learn  to  work  and  to  think  as  part 
of  a  group,  yet  not  submerge  his  own 
identity. 

Too  often  a  pledge  thinks  of  this  pe- 
riod as  a  series  of  menial  tasks  performed 
for  the  advantages  of  the  active  mem- 
bers; but  the  real  purpose  is  to  teach  the 
pledge  to  respect  others,  and  to  prepare 
the  pledge  for  the  active  participation  in 
fraternity  life.  The  pledge  period  and 
fraternity  life  in  general  is,  in  reality, 
one  more  step  on  that  long  and  trying 
road. 


Washington  U  (St.  Louis) 


Missoiui  Beta  moved  and  is  now  located  at 
6559  University  Drive  in  the  new  den  acquired 
about  a  week  before  rush  week  began. 

Rushing  results  so  far  this  semester  are  seven 
men  pledged. 

Our  homecoming  float  this  year,  designed  by 
Bob  Blanke,  was  entitled  "Come  Ona  My 
House"  and  consisted  of  a  Washington  U.  Bear 
beckoning  a  Red-Cat  to  come  to  his  den,  which 
was  a  model  of  Brookings  Hall.  An  open  house 
for  all  alumni  and  friends  of  the  chapter  was 
held  in  the  den  after  the  game. 

On  Founders'  Day  we  were  privileged  to 
have  Founder  Carter  Jenkens  as  our  guest  of 
honor  and  principal  speaker.  His  presence  and 
his  speech  reminded  us  all  of  the  greatness  of 
our  Fraternity  and  what  it  should  mean  to  all 
of  us.  We  were  glad  to  see  many  alumni  in 
attendance  and  it  gave  us  all  a  chance  to  be- 
come better  acquainted. 

Sig  Eps  at  Washington  University  are  receiv- 
ing more  honors.  Dr.  Ralph  Bieber,  head  of  the 
History  Department  and  honorarily  initiated 
into  Sig  Ep,  has  been  made  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
associate.  John  Luedde,  chapter  historian,  was 
elected  to  Pi  Tau  Sigma,  national  mechanical 
engineering  honorary. 

The  social  season  was  highlighted  by  two 
dances,  the  first  of  which  was  held  on  October 
6,  at  the  Hamilton  Wilshire  Hotel.  Music  was 
_       provided    by    KMOX    combo.    Our    Snowball 

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Dance  was  held  on  December  14  also  at  the 
Hamilton  Wilshire  Hotel.  This  was  our  formal 
dance  of  the  year;  the  KMOX  orchestra  played. 

—John  Luedde 

Westminster 

Chuck  Nicholas  and  Frank  Jones  were 
selected  for  the  campus  Who's  Who.  Frank 
Jones  has  been  elected  president  of  Tau  Kappa 
Alpha,  forensic  Honorary,  and  also  has  been 
named  vice-president  of  the  Debators  Associa- 
tion of  Pennsylvania's  colleges. 

Our  chapter  pledged  33  men  this  semester. 

The  scholarship  committee,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Jon  Valentine  and  Don  Carver,  has  set 
up  a  schedule  for  tutoring  and  group  study. 

The  chapter  has  again  won  the  interfraternity 
football  cup  and  also  stands  first  in  the  inter- 
fraternity bowling  league. 

—James  J.  Deighan 

During  the  busy  Alumni  Weekend  in  June, 
time  was  found  to  elect  a  new  alumni  board  to 
guide  Pennsylvania  Lambda's  declining  destin- 
ies. Robert  Hope,  '48,  was  chosen  as  president; 
Russell  Herrscher,  '48,  vice-president;  R.  Elwin 
Fuller,  '42,  secretary-treasurer;  Charles  Ridl, 
'42,  Thomas  Turner,  '45,  and  William  McLhin- 
ney,  '48,  members  of  the  board. 

In  the  first  alumni  board  meeting  of  the  fall 
session  held  October  6,  1951,  steps  were  taken 
to  reduce  delinquent  accounts.  To  strengthen 
the  chapter,  a  revision  of  the  relationship  of  the 
eating  club  to  other  functions  was  undertaken 
during  the  visit  of  Field  Secretary  Walt  Preston. 

The  Memorial  Field  House,  the  new  home  of 
Westminster's  topnotch  Towering  Titans,  is  to 
be  formally  opened  with  appropriate  ceremonies 
at  the  Geneva  College-Westminster  game  on 
December  15,  1951.  As  this  is  being  written,  the 
alumni  board  is  making  plans  for  a  dinner-meet- 
ing prior  to  attending  the  game  in  a  body. 

Among  those  who  will  work  with  the  alumni 
in  obtaining  their  assistance  for  revitalization  of 
the  chanter  are  Tom  Evans,  '48,  Russell  Herr- 
scher, '48,  Thomas  Turner,  '45,  Harry  Ray- 
buck,  '48,  and  Robert  Hope,  '48. 

— R.  Elwin  Fuller 

W^isconsin 

Manpower:  22  actives  and  7  pledges.  Norm 
Anderson  and  Bob  Nanz,  both  Wisconsin 
Camma,  have  affiliated. 

A  Christmas  Formal  was  held  in  the  chapter 
house  December  15. 

The  interfraternity  sports  contest  has  given 
us  a  divisional  championship  in  football  and 
bowling,  and  a  first-place  trophy  in  volleyball. 
Also   we   are   tied   for  first   place   in   basketball 

Rush  chairman  Rog  Martin  served  as  general 
chairman  of  "Sweater  Prom,"  an  annual  campus 


dance  given  for  the  benefit  of  the  Community 
Chest.  Rog's  twin  brother  Bob  is  a  member  of 
the  student  life  and  interest  committee,  which 
governs  student  affairs.  Kurt  Krahn  is  a  member 
of  the  interfraternity  public  relations  committee, 
and  Ray  Volp  serves  as  statistician  in  the  intra- 
mural sports  office.  Joe  Loeffler  coached  one 
of  the  local  high  school  football  teams  this 
season  and  is  wrestling  and  swimming  coach 
at  the  YMCA.  Del  Roehm  plays  viohn  with  the 
University  orchestra  and  also  maintains  an  A 
scholastic  average. 

Chapter  officers:  president.  Bob  Martin;  vice- 
president.  Bill  Hemphill;  secretary,  Kurt  Krahn; 
comptroller,  Roger  Knopf;  historian.  Herb 
Braun;  senior  marshal,  Jim  Braun;  junior  mar- 
shal, Ray  Sanders;  guard.  Earl  Gripentrog. 

—Herb  Braun 

HVorcester  Tech 

Manpower:  recent  pledging  of  25  men  has 
increased  the  total  number  of  men  in  the  house 
to  76. 

Homecoming  Weekend  in  late  October  saw  a 
record  number  of  alumni  returning  to  Boynton 
Hill  and  our  beloved  11  Boynton  Street. 

Nine  Sig  Eps  played  on  the  college  football 
team  which  completed  one  of  its  better  seasons 
with  a  record  of  4  won  and  2  lost:  Joe  Jiunnies 
(co-captain),  Ceorge  Abdow,  Bob  Eldredge,  Ted 
Fritz,  Carl  Hammar,  Alan  Hansen,  Dave 
Holmes,  Jim  MacKay,  and  Pete  Peterson. 

The  annual  Interfraternity  Ball  was  held  at 
the  school  in  mid  December. 

—Phil  Simon 


Wyoming 

Manpower:  Our  chapter  now  numbers  22 
with  the  initiation  of  John  Brannum,  Dave  Bab- 
cock,  and  Ed  Fowler.  Our  pledge  class  is  down 
to  11  since  three  men  have  dropped  because  of 
financial  reasons  and  the  draft. 

We  recently  had  a  pledge-active  day,  the 
first  at  our  chapter. 

Our  pledge  dance  was  held  December  7. 

—Wayne  Helterbran 


Rushees  at  Wisconsin  enjoy  buffet  dinner. 
President   Bob   Martin   at   head   of   table. 


Sigma  Phi  Epsilon 

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■     Sig  Ep  houses  had  red  doors  long  before 
the    U.   of   Massachusetts   boys    (and   now 
the   Maine  fellows  have  got  them,  too)  wore 
red  suspenders. 

A  few  years  ago  the  Ohio  State  men  sent 
us  a  Kodachrome  transparency  of  their  red  door 


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for  use  as  a  Journal  cover,  but  it  came  at  a 
time  when  a  lot  of  malcontents  on  soap  boxes 
throughout  the  country  were  giving  the  name 
"Red"  to  groups  on  the  most  fanciful  pretext, 
and  we  were  extremely  cautious  in  not  using  it. 

And  now  comes  the  Syracuse  chapter, 
through  a  letter  from  Dick  Whiteman,  signaliz- 
ing "the  opening  gun  in  New  York  Alpha's 
campaign  to  aflRx  red  paint  to  the  outer  doors 
of  every  Sig  Ep  chapter  house  on  109  campuses 
in  the  nation," 

Whiteman  points  out  the  interesting  fact  that 
his  chapter's  delegate  to  the  recent  Conclave 
took  a  poll  while  he  was  there  and  discovered 
that  already  38  Sig  Ep  houses  have  red  doors. 

Whiteman  further  states  that  "This  easy 
identification  of  the  red  doors  would  tend  to 
unify  all  chapters.  Any  visiting  Sig  Ep  by 
watching  for  the  red  doors  could  easily  find 
the  local  chapter  house,  thus  making  The  House 
with  the  Red  Doors  synonymous  with  Sigma 
Phi  Epsilon  nationally." 

■  Ever  since  the  last  JotmNAL  was  put  to- 
gether, our  editorial  conscience  has  suflFered 
some  pangs  because  in  trying  to  do  a  fairly 
straight  job  of  reporting  the  Conclave,  we 
omitted  some  paragraphs  of  tribute  to  the  50th 
Anniversary  Conclave's  Grand  President— Dr. 
William  C.  Smolenske. 

It  was  a  generous  gesture  on  the  part  of 
Providence,  we  feel,  that  the  Fraternity  was 
given  such  a  fine  leader  during  the  year  that 
marked  the  end  of  a  half-century  of  Sig  Ep 
existence. 

Doc  Smolenske  has  been  in  every  way  a 
working  Grand  President.  Like  a  man  possessed 
he  has  worked  for  the  Fraternity— not  for  his 
own  honor.  He  worked  at  a  furious  pace  as 
Grand  President,  but  he  had  begun  to  labor 


for  Sig  Ep  long  before.  As  governor  of  the 
Rocky  Mountain  district— one  of  the  largest  in 
the  system— he  held  exemplary  district  meetings 
and  frequently  visited  his  chapters— those  in 
Colorado,   Utah,  Wyoming,  and  New  Mexico. 

No  longer  Grand  President,  he  continues  to 
work  as  district  governor— continues  to  work 
like  a  man  possessed  with  the  conviction  that 
the  right  kind  of  brotherhood  is  so  important 
that  we  should  all  work  our  heads  off  for  it. 

At  home.  Doc  never  has  to  apologize  for 
spending  so  much  time  working  for  Sig  Ep. 
Mrs.  S.  thoroughly  approves.  Son  Jack  is  his 
chapter  brother  at  Denver.  Now  comes  notice 
that  daughter  Donna  Virginia  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Bruce  Thomas  Bowers,  an  up- 
standing man  from  Fraternity  Row— an  S.A.E.— 
on  December  27,  1951,  in  the  Montview 
Boulevard  Presbyterian  Church,  Denver. 

■  The  Economic  Club  of  Detroit  is  a  group 
of  business  and  industrial  tycoons  which  in- 
cludes such  men  as  General  Motors  president 
Charles  E.  Wilson.  Last  October  the  club 
engaged  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon's  dynamic  scholar- 
ship chairman  U.  G.  Dubach  to  deliver  an 
address  at  a  general  members'  luncheon.  They 
printed  an  elaborate  program,  reciting  what 
such  programs  usually  contain,  then  giving  not 
only  the  Dean's  various  titles  and  the  subject 
of  his  address— "What  We  Should  Have 
Learned  in  Our  Foreign  Affairs,  During  the 
Past  Five  Years"— but  also  a  fairly  lengthy 
curriculum  vitae  which  the  Dean  had  provided. 
Heading  a  seemingly  endless  list  of  training, 
experience,  travels,  and  lecture  record,  the 
Dean  had  placed  "Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  Frater- 
nity." Perhaps  the  members  of  the  Economic 
Club  of  Detroit  now  have  a  higher  respect  for 
fraternity  in  this  life  having  seen  the  name  of 
one  accomplished  man's  fraternity  so  prominent- 
ly displayed. 

■  A  milestone  in  Oregon  Alpha  history  was 
reached  in  1951  spring  initiation  when  Jim 

Welty,  freshman  honor  student  of  Medford, 
Ore.,  became  the  500th  initiate  of  the  chapter. 
Adding  significance  to  the  event  was  the 
presence  of  Dean  Dubach,  whom  we  have  just 
mentioned,  now  Dean  of  Men  Emeritus  of 
Oregon  State  College,  who  was  an  initiate 
among  the  early  founders  of  the  chapter  33 
years  ago.  Dr.  Dubach  served  as  adviser  to  the 
chapter  for  30  years,  until  his  retirement  from 
Oregon  State  College  faculty,  and  was  a  prime 
factor  in  building  Oregon  Alpha  into  one  of  the 
outstanding    chapters    among    all    fraternities. 


207 


•  Directory  of  Officers  • 


Founded  at  the  University  of  Richmond,  1901,  by  Carter 
AsHTON  Jenkens,  Benjamin  Donald  Gaw  (d.),  Wil- 
liam Hugh  Carter,  William  Andrew  Wallace  (d.). 
Thomas  Temple  Wright,  William  Lazell  Phillips, 
LuciAN  Baum  Cox,  Richard  Spurceon  Owens  (d.).  Edgar 
Lee  Allen  (d.),  Robert  Alfred  McFarland,  Franklin 
Webb  Kerfoot  (d.),  and  Thomas  Vaden  McCaul.  Chartered 
under  the  Laws  of  the  State  of  Virginia,  1902.  Central  Office: 
15  North  Sixth  St.,  Richmond,  Va. 
grand   president:   Luis  J.   Roberts,   840   B   Street,    San   Diego, 

Calif. 
grand    vice-president:    Frank    H.    Hamack,    P.O.    Box    834, 

Edmonds,  Wash. 
grand  treasurer  :  Edwin   Buchanan,  First  Wisconsin  National 

Bank,   Milwaukee,  Wis. 
GRAND   historian:   Robert   W.    Kelly,   309   Lafayette   St.,   New 

York   12,   N.Y. 
grand  secretary  :  William    W.   Hindman,   Jr.,   15   North   Sixth 

St.,   Richmond  19,  Va. 

grand  guard:  J.  Russelll  Pratt,  4061  Rose  Ave.,  Western 
Springs,    III. 

SENIOR  grand  marshal:  Charles  F.  Stewart,  Cleveland  In- 
surance Agency,  Inc.,  808   Guardian  BIdg.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

JUNIOR  grand  marshal:  PAin-  B.  Slater,  3046  E.  Olympic 
Blvd.,  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 

JUNIOR    GRAND     MARSHAL-ELECT:    HERBERT    H.     SmITH,    4300    West 

Franklin  St.,  Richmond,  Va. 
TRUSTEES  OF  ENDOWMENT  FUND:  WALTER  G.  pLY,  Chairman,  141 
E.  North  St.,  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  Edwin  Buchanan,  Larkin 
Bailey,  Charles  S.  Thompson,  William  C.  Smolenske, 
Luis  J.  Roberts,  William  W.  Hindman,  Jr.  Address  cor- 
respondence to  Secretary  of  the  Board,  William  W.  Hind- 
man, Jr. 

trustees     of     CHARLES     L.     YANCEY     STUDENT    LOAN     FUND  :     RoBERT 

L.  Ryan,  1358  Third  St.,  Santa  Monica,  Calif.;  Earle  W. 
Frost,  710  Rialto  Bldg.,  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  Gustave  A. 
Schmidt,  Jr.,  89  Oakview  Ave.,  Maplewood,  N.J. ;  Wil- 
liam W.  Hindman,  Jr. 
trustees  of  national  headquarters  corporation  :  Ernest  L. 
Dyer,  President,  323  Western  Union  BIdg.,  Norfolk  10,  Va.; 
William  W.  Hindman,  Jr.,  Secretary-Treasurer,  15  North 
Sixth  St.,  Richmond,  Va. ;  Herbert  H.  Smith,  vice-president, 
4300  W.  Franklin  St.,  Richmond,  Va. ;  Dr.  William  C. 
Smolenske;  Frank  H.  Hamack. 

chaplain:  The  Rev.  Thomas  V.  McCaul,  502  N.E.  8th  Ave., 
Gainesville,    Fla. 

other  officials:  John  Robson,  Editor  of  the  Journal,  609  E. 
74th  Ter.,  Kansas  City,  Mo.  and  William  W.  Hindman,  Jr., 
Business  Manager,  15  North  Sixth  St.,  Richmond,  Va. ; 
Franklin  C.  Sewell,  National  Librarian,  c/o  San  Fran- 
cisco Jr.  College,  San  Francisco,  Calif.;  Dr.  U.  G.  Dubach, 
National  Scholarship  Chairman,  9555  S.W.  Lancaster  St., 
Portland,  Ore.;  Edwin  S.  Darden,  National  Advisory 
Architect,   R.F.D.  3,  Box  411,  Merced,  Calif. 

assistants  to  grand  secretary  :  Frank  Ruck,  Jr.,  Carl  O. 
Petersen. 

field  secretaries:  Albert  A.  Mezo,  Walter  J.  Preston, 
Robert  T.   Bonnell,   15   North  Sixth   St.,   Richmond,  Va. 


■  The  year  just  passed  has  been  a  notable  one 
for  fraternities.  It  is  pretty  certain  that  never 
before  in  the  175-year  history  of  Greek-letter 
societies  have  they  enjoyed  such  a  favorable 
press.  People  interested  in  reading  of  campus 
activities  learning  about  Work  Week  have  be- 
gun to  look  on  Fraternity  Row  in  a  new  light. 

Sig  Ep  chapters  could  be  proud  that  they 
were  in  the  forefront  of  the  growing  movement 
to  outmode  the  old  Hell  Week.  But  they  could 
also  be  proud  of  an  achievement  in  which 
Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  had  pioneered— a  very  fine 
Boys'  Camp  Plan. 

With  one  year  of  operation  very  successfully 
completed  last  summer  at  the  University  Camp, 
Green  Lane,  Pa.,  Grand  Secretary  Hindman's 
office  quickly  launched  a  campaign  for  1952 
camp  that  would  assure  an  enlarged  program 
for  the  project. 

Early  returns  in  the  campaign— which  has 
now  been  extended  so  that  it  will  close  Febru- 
ary 15— showed  several  100  per  cent  chapter 
contributions.  Among  the  first  to  achieve  per- 
fect records  were  the  Bowling  Green  and 
Miami  (Ohio)  chapters  with  $53  and  $71,  re- 
spectively; also  Illinois  Alpha  with  $71. 

Grand  Secretary  Hindman's  message  concern- 
ing the  Fund  appears  on  the  back  cover  of 
this  issue.  There  is  still  time  for  all  good  Sig 
Eps  to  come  to  the  aid  of  their  brotherhood  in 
supporting  this  very  noble  activity. 


■  Bill  Moredock  of  the  Florida  house  gets  the 
nod  this  time  for  doing  the  best  job  in 
helping  us  turn  out  an  interesting  Journal. 
His  coverage  includes  a  fine  help  week  story 
with  pictures  as  well  as  an  excellent  piece  on 
homecoming  and  stories  of  various  phases  of 
chapter  life  plus  some  alumni  news  and  list 
of  chapter  brothers  entering  the  service.  Ap- 
parently not  afraid  to  try  out  a  new  simile, 
Bill  ends  his  homecoming  story  with  this  sen- 
tence: "The  weekend  was  big  and  beautiful, 
but  Sunday  came  and  everyone  left  the  Uni- 
versity like  a  rising  fog." 


■  Though  the  Journal  uses  pictures  to  tell 
the  story,  especially  when  correspondents 
and  photographers  come  across  with  some  good 
ones,  not  many  cuts  have  appeared  showing 
scenes  at  scholarship  banquets  where  the  men 
of  good  average  sit  before  luscious  steaks  and 
the  so-called  mush-eaters  or  bean-chewers  sit 
ignominiously  in  the  background. 

Photos  of  these  mush-eaters  generally  reveal 
at  least  one,  or  perhaps  two,  young  fellows, 
who  seem  studious  enough  but  they  just  don't 
look  as  smart  as  the  others.  In  fact,  they  may 
have  studied  hard.  Sometimes  such  devices  as 
the  mushbowl  are  reminiscent  of  dunce  caps, 
which  we  understand  haven't  been  an  ac- 
cepted tool  of  education  for  years.         — J.R. 


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^^^^^^^^^^^^  of  BALFOUR  craftsmen. 

Wear  your  pin  always  wherever  you  may  go. 
A  beautiful  symbol  of  your  fraternity,  your 
pin  not  only  identifies  you  on  campus  or  at 
home,  but  may  be  the  means  of  recognition 
and  the  beginning  of  new  friendships. 

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accessories. 

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Crown  set  diamond     69.50  210.00  169.50                  236.50 

Imitation  crown  set  badge 10.50  13.50 

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Can  /on  spare  a  Dollar 
to  send  a  bo/  to  eanip? 

Help  your  Fraternity  by  helping  others 


•  Once  again  the  lime  has  arrived  for  Sig  Eps, 
through  the  medium  of  our  Sig  Ep  Camp 
Fund,  to  help  others  less  fortunate  than 
ourselves.  The  Sig  Ep  Camp  Fund  reached 
its  goal  for  last  summer  (its  second  year 
of  operation) — the  raising  of  $1,350 — 
which  enabled  it  to  send  108  boys,  one  for 
each  of  our  undergraduate  chapters,  for 
an  approximate  ten-day  camping  period 
during  this  past  summer,  to  the  University 
Camp  for  Boys  at  Green  Lane,  Pennsyl- 
vania. Our  goal  for  this,  our  Golden  Anni- 
versary Year,  is  the  raising  of  sufficient 
funds  to  send  at  least  161  boys,  one  for 
each  of  our  undergraduate  and  alumni 
chapters,  for  a  similar  camping  period  next 
summer  to  the  same  camp.  If  sufficient 
funds  are  contributed,  we  hope  to  be  able  to 
send  some  additional  underprivileged  boys 
to  similar-type  University  connected  boys 
camps,  such  as  those  sponsored  by  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  and  the  University  of 
Southern  California. 

•  The  Grand  Chapter  is  taking  care  of  all  the 
expenses  incurred  in  the  collection  of  these 
contributions  and  thus  100  per  cent  out  of 
every  dollar  you  contribute  will  be  used 
exclusively  to  send  underprivileged  boys  to 
camp — nothing  will  be  taken  out  for  ex- 
penses. 

•  The  National  Executive  Committee,  at  its 
annual  meeting  held  at  the  Hotel  John 
Marshall,  Richmond,  Virginia,  on  Septem- 
ber 2,  1951,  unanimously  passed  the  follow- 


Grand  Secretary,  Central  Office 

Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  Fraternity 

15  North  Sixth  Street,  Richmond   19,  Virginia 

I  am  enclosing  dollar(s)  as  my  con- 
tribution to  the  1952  Sig  Ep  Camp  Fund  which  is 
to  be  used  by  the  Fraternity  to  send  underprivileged 
boys  to  camp  next  summer. 

Name Chapter  and  Class 

Address 


ing  resolution  for  presentation  to  the 
Twenty-second  Grand  Chapter  Conclave: 

Be  It  Resolved:  That  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
(.rand  Chapter  express  its  appreciation  to  all  Active 
Chapters,  Alumni  Chapters,  and  Associations,  Members 
and  Non-members  of  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  Fraternity, 
who  have  contributed  to  the  Camp  Fund,  which  en- 
abled 108  underprivileged  children  to  attend  this  year 
a  summer  camp  where  they  were  able  to  enjoy  the 
benefits  of  healthy  and  group  living;  and  thus  giving 
strength  to  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon's  desire  to  accomplish 
u  worthy  endeavor  outside  its  ordinary  field  of  opera- 
tions. 


•  To  honor  our  Founders  in  this,  our  Golden 
Anniversary  Year,  we  have  decided  to  shift 
the  time  of  our  Annual  Sig  Ep  Camp  Fund 
Campaign  from  the  Spring  of  the  year  to 
the  Fall  and  have  it  start  on  Founders'  Day, 
ISovember  1,  and  run  until  February  15, 
1952. 


•  If  you  approve  of  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon's  par- 
ticipation in  this  project  and  are  anxious 
to  do  your  bit,  please  tear  off  and  fill  in 
the  coupon  below,  attach  a  dollar — or  more 
if  you  wish — enclose  in  an  envelope  and 
send  it  to  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  Fraternity,  15 
North  Sixth  Street,  Richmond  19,  Va.  Please 
send  all  contributions  on  or  preferably  be- 
fore February  15,  1952,  so  that  we  may 
bring  our  campaign  to  a  successful  conclu- 
sion. If  you  send  a  check  make  it  payable 
to  Sigma  Phi  Epsilon  Fraternity.  We  will 
mail  you  a  postal  card  receipt  and  you  will 
get  a  chance  to  see  next  Fall  the  good  your 
gift  has  done  when  the  results  are  featured 
in  the  JOURNAL.  This  is  your  chance  to 
help  Sig  Ep  send  many  boys  to  camp.  A 
gift  of  a  dollar,  given  from  your  heart,  will 
send  a  boy  to  camp  next  summer  for  almost 
a  day. 


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