THE

LAUREL of Phi Kappa Tau

NATIONAL CoNVENTION

C. W. PosT INsTALLATION

THE ALTAR

SALUTE TO TRANSYLVANIA

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WHAT'S LIFE ALL ABOUT?

By the R everend Charles D. Spotts

National Chaplain

Life is all about many things, among which is man's God-given capacity to

know and to appreciate beauty in its many forms. A man is really not completely

educated; he is not really human in the fullest sense; he has not really profited

from his exposure until his capacity for appreciation of the fine arts has been

awakened and developed.

Life is all about how you respond to the delicate beauty of a showy orchid

growing among the dead leaves under a grove of Tulip Poplar trees ; how you

respond to the graceful motion of a wild duck taking off from the surface of a

placid pond ; how you respond to the matchless beauty of a Venus de Milo in

the Louvre or Michaelangelo's Pieta which will be available at the New York

World's Fair ; how you respond to a van Gogh portrait or the vibrating colors of

Rembrandt's Watch Night ; how you respond to 1:he meaningful beauty ofT .

• ,_ EJ.iot's Quartet ; how you respond to the almost indescribable rapture of Verdi's

Requiem Mass; how you respond to the metaphysical beauty of the psyche, a

human person who is really a person ; how you respond to the reverent beauty

of the holiness of God.

The amassing of passing grades and credits in courses in sc1ence and the

humanities, the cumulative qualifications for a degree, acceptance into a repu­

table Graduate School- these are not enough to open for you the secret of what

life is all about. The greatest compensation of human existence comes to those

who are prepared to know how to appreciate, and accept the finer things in life.

THE LAUREL

jACK L. ANSON, Editor

R. D. LEATHERMAN

Assistant Editor

CONTENTS

VoLUM E LII

D ECEMBER, 1963

UMBER 2

of Phi Kappa Tau The exoteric publication of The Phi Kappa T au Fraternity. Published prior to 19 19 as " Sidelights." Scheduled to

a.ppear qua rterl y under direction and authority of the N ationa l Council of The Pb i Kappa T au Fraternity.

Program for National Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Convention Plans are Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Convention Facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Registration Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Installation at C. W. Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Scholarship Jumps to All-Time H igh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. 0 0 0 0. 0 . 11

William Eyerman, ew Field Secretary . .. . ........... 13

What's Happening to the Altar ? . ....... . ... .. .. .. .. . 14

A Salute to Theta at Transylvania .. . . .... .... . . . ...... 20

Howard L. Jones, All-American . . . . . . . .... .. .. . .... . . 24

Alumni News and Notes . . . .. . . .. . .. . . ... ... . . . . .. . . 25

Chapter Eternal . . ... ... . ... . . . . . . .. . ..... . .... ... . . 28

Area Alumni Associations .. . .. ......... .. .. . .... . . . . 31

Directory . . ... . . . .. ... . ... . .. . ... . ... .. . . . .. .. . .. . . 32

COVER

The main building at C. W. Post College is the main build ing from the Post Estate and now houses th e administrative offices of the college. I t was here that Phi K appa Tau installed its 82nd chapter on February 29, 1964.

THE PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY CENTRAL OFFICE, OXFORD, OHIO A oceptance for mailing at special rates of potage provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917 . Publi hed qua,rterly by the Lawhead Press, Inc., 900 East State Street, Athens , Ohio, offici al printers for The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Athens, Ohio, U .S.A. Additional entry at the Post Office at Oxford. Ohio.

TENTATIVE PROGRAM FOR THE NATIONAL CONVENTION THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO

BOULDER, COLORADO JUNE 24 TO 27, 1964

TuESDAY, Ju E 23, 1964

Evening M tino- of the ational Council, followino- dinn r.

WEo E DAY, J u E 24, 1964

Morning - 8: 30 a.m. Afternoon - 2 : 00 p.m.

Meeting of the ational Council M eting of th a tional Coun il Regi tration - Hall tt Hall Lobby Rehear al for Model Initiation Domain hi f M tino-

Evening

THURSDAY, J

Morning

Noon Afternoon -

Evening

FRIDAY, J NE

Morning

Noon Afternoon -Evening

4 :00p.m. 6:30p.m. 8 :00p.m. 9:00p.m.

E 25, 1964

Dinn r (fir t meal ) Informal Reception Model Initiation (Forum Room )

7: 30 to 8: 30 a.m.Breakfa t 9: 00 a .m. Opening Conv ntion e 1on

12:30 to 1:15 p.m.Luncheon 2 :00p.m. Undero-raduate Work hop

6:00p.m. 9:00p.m.

26, 1964

Alumni Work hop Cookout on Flag taff Mountain Achievement Conte t (Forum Room )

7 : 00 to 8: 30 a.m.Breakfa t 9 : 00 a.m. Bu ine s Se 10n

12:30 to 1: 15 p.m. Luncheon 2 : 00 p.m. Bu iness Se ion 7:00p.m. Banquet (Ballroom, Univer ity

Memorial Center )

SATURDAY, J u E 27, 1964

Morning 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Breakfa t 9 : 00 a.m. Clo ing Busine e 10n

oon 12:30 to 1:15 p.m.Fare' ell Luncheon

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Convention Plans

Lead to Boulder,

Are Complete; All

Colorado, June 24--2 7,

Roads

1964 Business, Fun, Fellowship Highlight 37th National Meeting;

Program Includes Ray Bushey, David Bryant, Russell Danburg and Honored Founder Borradaile

June 24 to 27, 1964, will be interesting, exciting and fellowship-filled days at the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colo­rado. Those days and that location pro­vide the setting for Phi Kappa Tau's 37th National Convention.

When General Chairman Ray A. Bushey, Colomdo, raps his gavel to bring the convention to order, it will be the second time that Phi Kappa Tau has met in the State of Colorado. The earlier time was in 1938 at Troutdale-in-the-Pines.

Bushey, a former domain chief for the fraternity, will officially open the conven­tion on Thursday morning, June 25. How­ever, Wednesday will see considerable ac­tivity as delegates and national officers arrive. First activity will be Tuesday night, June 23 when the National Council will hold the first of several meetings. On Wednesday the delegates will arrive and the first affair will be held that night and will be an informal reception and a model initiation following dinner. Russell Danburg, Lawrence, will again serve as music director.

Thursday morning will see the first busi­ness session, at which time opening cere­monies will be held and national officers' reports heard.

On Thursday afternoon, there will be two workshops. Harold E. Angelo, past national president of the fraternity, and Hugh Fowler, domain chief, with the aid of former domain chief's, will conduct a workshop for Undergraduates that will deal with Public Relations. Larry Mc­Daniel, national alumni secretary, will head a faculty for a seminar devoted to alumni relations.

Thursday, those in attendance will tra­vel up Flagstaff Mountain, near Boulder, for a cookout at 6: 15 p.m. and will re-

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David L. Bryant Southern California

Banquet Speaker

turn to the Forum Room at the Univer­sity M emorial Center for the Convention Achievement Contest- a speaking contest with representatives from each of the twelve domains participating. It is ex­pected that Honored Founder Taylor Borradaile will wield the time-keeper gavel in the closely timed five-minute time limit. Lou Gerding, a former member of the National Council, will serve a master of ceremonies for the con te t.

Business sessions will be held mornina and afternoon on Friday and the da will be capped with the con ention banquet traditionally the highlight of the program.

David L. Bryant, · an alunmu of Pi

Pa ge

chapter a t the University of Southern California, will be the principal peaker a t the banquet. Dr. Bryant is the execu­tive dean of Ca lifornia ta te College­Long Beach and has lon <T been active a a member of Phi K appa Tau. It is through his early aid, combined with that of other Ph.i T a u dean a t Lon <T Beach, tha t Beta P i chapter came into exi tence on that can1 pu . Before rroing to Cali-fornia Sta te Colleg Lon<T Beach a t it founding in 1949, he had been with the United Sta te <TOvernment, and a ocia ted with Colleg of Puge t ound, tanford

niver ity, U niver ity of California, ni­versity of Southern California and Lo

n<Tele Sta te Colle<Te. H e erv d a dean of students for two year a t Lon<T Beach before assuming hi pre entre pon ibiliti .

Other speakers a t the banquet will in­clude retiring council member , Fran ci P. K eiper and C. M. Britt.

Founder Borradaile, an inspira tion to all who know and hear him, will al o speak on the occa ion of the banqu t.

The closin<T e sion will be held a tur­day morning, June 27, and following lunch the delegate will go their individual

way to vacation or return home. While the men are working hard, the

ladie have plan for si<Tht- eein<T and touring. U nder the co-chairman hip of Polly n <Telo Ann Britt and hirley Fowl­er, the ladie committee has planned a tour to Central it and another to D en­ver. T o be made b bu the trip " ill !rive the ladie and children an opportu­nity to e a little of olorado tha t th y mi<Tht not oth rwi e or give them an introduction to pla e they an pend

with th ir fam ilie after the

The R esidence Hall area at University of Colorado is where Phi Kappa Tau will be living during the 37th ational Convention.

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CONVENTION FACTS WHEN? June 24 to June 27, 1964

WHERE? On the campus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo­rado. All undergraduates and national officers wi ll be staying a t H allett R esidence H all. Meals will be taken a t Libby H all. The Banquet will be held in the ballroom of the niversity M emorial Center. The meetings, achievement contest and model initiation will take place in the Forum Room of the University Memorial Center.

WHo? May Attend? Any Phi T au, undergraduate or alumnus, and the ladies and children of alumni.

WHAT TO WEAR? Phi T au conventions are informal, although coat and tie are appropriate for dinner and evening functions, except the cook­out. Ladies will find a cocktail dress suitable for the banquet.

THE WEATHER? Warm in the daytime, cool in the evening, making a coat or sweater necessary.

How To

GET THERE?

PART-TIME?

WHAT WILL

IT COST?

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Boulder is located about 30 miles from D enver at the end of the Boulder-Denver Turnpike. For those who are driving, Den­ver is your reference point and from there take the Boulder­D enver Turnpike to Boulder. For those coming by train, there is frequent bus service to Boulder. Those who fly and arrive a t irregular times will need to take the airport limousine to D enver and travel by bus to Boulder. If you arrive on Wednes­day afternoon, it is anticipated that arrangements will be such that persons will be grouped by fours and will travel by cab to Boulder.

If you cannot be present for all the convention, come for tho e sessions or activities that you can ! Even though not in full -time attendance, you can have a meal with the delegates and attend the banquet.

Because of the university housing, costs are exceedingly low. For full-time attendance, here is the rate, which include room, meals and registration fee:

Members Wive Children

Single Room Double O ccupancy

$45.00 40.00

$35.00 30.00

For those attending only the banquet, the charge person.

32.00 27.00

7.00 per

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NATIONAL SECRETARY JACK L. ANSON CENTRAL OFFICE PHI KAPPA TAU FRATERNITY OxFORD, OHIO 45056

I'll be in Boulder, Colorado, for the national convention to be held June 24 to 27, 1964. Here's the information you will need:

(Name (Chapter ) (Class)

(Address or Addresses where you can be contacted)

I will be arriving by ------- - · -----------------(auto, bus, train, plane )

If by plane, I will arrive in Denver at (time, day )

The first meal I will eat at the convention will be _ _ _ _ _ on

I will leave following _____ (which meal ) on__ ______ .

The following persons will be with me : (list the names of all members of your

family who are coming and their ages. If fraternity members accompany you, list their

home addresses and chapters) .

Reservations Needed: I I Single room at $45.00 includes meals and room. I Double room at $40.00 per person, includes

meals and room.

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Who will share room:

(Name ) (Chapter)

(Address-from May 20 to June 20)

NoTE: If you will be alone and want to share a room, we will arrange for some other delegate to share the room.

THE LAUREL

Gamma Kappa Chapter Is

Installed at C. W. Post College on February 2. 9

As 82.nd Phi Tau Chapter

By Nat Tartamella, C. W . Post

Two years of organizational effort wer climaxed on February 29, 1964, with th installation of Gamma Kappa chapter at C. W. Post College on Long Island, New York.

The day began at one o'clo k in the afternoon when the men of the form er local fraternity of Phi Tau gath red for a reception held in the Pioneer Room in the school's new south dining hall. Pres­ent at the reception were the presidents of the various fraternities on campus, as well as distinguished members of Phi Kappa Tau.

At 8 p.m. the Installation Banquet and Charter Signing were held at the Garden City Hotel. Distinguished members of the university administration, national offi­cers, and alumni attended the Installa­tion Banquet. Guests included Pres ident Hoxie, President of C. W. Post College ; Dean DeMarr, dean of men; Mr. Jack L. Anson, national secretary; Mr. Raleigh, field secretary ; Dr. Maran, adviser to Gamma Gamma chapter at St. John 's University; Dr. Loveland, adviser to Phi Kappa Tau at C. W. Post ; and Mr. Bie-

Attending the installation banquet for Gamma Kappa chapter at C. W. Post College were Domain Chief Joseph Rizza, Chapter President K enneth Uhl, ational President W. A. Hammond, Assistant Domain Chief Mason Hurd and Field ec­retary Michael Raleigh.

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Three of the four new men,s residence halls are shown in this photograph.

mann, the New York Alumni Pre ident of Phi Kappa T au.

Mr. Jo eph Rizza, domain chief, acted as toastmaster. President Hoxie, welcomed Phi Kappa T au to C. W. Post College. The main addre s wa delivered by Dr. W. A. Hamm ond, and was followed by Jack Anson's presentation of the charter to K en U yl, chapter president. President

yl, then gave a brief history of the loca l, and of its activities on campus.

History of Phi Tau Since their inception in the Spring of

1960, the goal of Phi Tau has been na­tionalization. At long last, after due con­sideration and harmonious work of all the brothers past a nd present, thi goal has been realized. It a ll began during the Fall of 1959, when a group of students, after having been formed a a ocial club, petitioned the Faculty Committee on Fra­ternities and Sororities for recognition as a fraternity. In order to fulfill the re­quirements for recognition, this group went though a one-year probationary period.

In M ay, 1961, Phi T au received offi­cial recognition of the College and had gained full voting power on the Inter­fra ternity Council. Boa ting a charter

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member hi p of 23 Brothers, Phi T a u had increa ed in member hip, pre tige and e teem. M any of the brother a re active in the extra-curricular program of the campus, some hold major offices in the organization to which they b long.

On February 26, 1962, Mr. J ack An-on ent a telegram to Pre ident Bruce

Lacher, indica ting that Phi Kappa Tau Fra ternity had accepted Phi Tau as a Colony. The good news h ad been ac­cepted with great joy and appreciation by the brothers and friends of Phi T au.

The local fra ternity Phi T au stres eel brotherhood, cholarship and character, and tried to guide itself by, and live up to, these three principles. As a group Phi T au had advanced as a harmoniou brotherhood of college men working for the benefits of each other, the national fra ternity and the institution in which it i loca ted, in ocial, m oral, religiou , and intellectual life.

Phi T au 's first loyalty is to their Alma M ater. They realize that their first d -votion, their fir t duty i to the education­al institution where they ha e matri u­lated. It i a constant aim that Phi T au be an acti e loyal , h lpful and purpo -ful fra ternit within th !if of the !­leg .

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History of C. W. Post College C. W. Post College of Long Island

University was named in memory of Charles William Post, pioneer breakfas t and health food producer, at the sugges­tion of Grover Whalen of the univer­sity's Trustees, supported by the univer­sity's new president, Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly. C. W. Post College was dedicated at ceremonies held ovember 29, 1954, in the centennia l year of Post's birth ; it epitomized his ideal for a better life and brought to fruition the long pro­jected establishment of a strong, new col­lege centrally loca ted to serve the rapid ly expanding Nassau and Suffolk County areas.

This concept had been spearheaded by the Board of Trustees through William Zeckendorf, Board President, and the late Tristram M etcalfe, university president.

The site s I ct d was one of the most beautifu l estates in America - that of Marjorie M erriweather Post, daughter of Charles W. Post. Locat d in the vi llag of Brookville, it provides a n ideal coll ege sit , quiet and rustic, remov d from conges­tion yet within easy distance of thousands of Long Island residents. Situated on roll ­ing countrys ide, the campus has retained much of the character of the original estate and features such beautiful settings as the H elen .Jacobs Conolly Memorial Ga rden, named for the wife of the col­lege's first president.

The first a pplications for admission to the college were accep ted in March, 1955, and the first class began its instruction in September, 1955 . T he initial faculty num­bered eight full-tim e and six part-time members and the initial class, 121. The faculty in the Fall of 1963 numbered 325 a nd the enrollment exceeded 5,000,

In the background is the newly built library at C. W . Post Colt ge. I n the fore­ground is a m emorial to Admiral and Mrs. R ichard L. Conolly. Admiral Conolly was chiefly responsible for the establishment of the school. T he culptor for the m -morial was Pierre Bourdelle. ·

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including 1,600 evening students, 135 di­rected studies students, 150 adult tudie students and 1,100 graduate tudents.

The number of full-time undergraduate students is presently limited to 2,400 and the freshman cla to 800. The 800 fresh­man are selected from some 3,000 appli­cants from all fifty tate and many foreign countrie .

Further indication of the college's de­velopment as one of the faste t growi ng institutions of higher learning in the United Sta te i evidenced in figur which reveal tha t the total budget for 1955-1956 wa $169,363 and tha t eight years later the figure had in rea ed to over $6,000,000. The college' phy ical plant, va lued at 347,737 in 1955, in­creased during the arne period to over $12,000,000.

The purpo e of C. W. Po t College is to develop in its student the power of independent thought, to provide them with the benefits of the rich accumula­tion of knowledge, cu lture and experience of the past and with the developed pro­fessiona l skills of the pre ent ; to improve progressively their mental power and their moral and physical quality and char­acter in order that they can take their place as leaders and useful citizens in their home community, contributing in full measure to its life and progress and that they can participate constructively in the maintenance and development of the free society of our nation .

At its founding, C. W. Post College was led by Admiral Richard Conoll y, who was also president of the parent in­stitution, Long Island University. After the death of Admiral Conolly on March 1, 1962, the University administrative structure was reorganized. Dr. John Pel! was appointed chancellor of the univer­sity, a nd Dr. Gordon Hoxie was elected to the presidency of C . W. Post College. Dr. Eugene Arden succeeded Dr. Hoxie as Dean of Faculty.

Both the university and the college are accredited by the Middle States Associa­tion. The College is a member of the College Board, the Association of Ameri­can Colleges, the Association of Univer­sity Ev ning College , and the Middle At-

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!antic tates A ociation of College of Business dministration.

R ecently Pre ident Hoxie has an­nounced a 20 million expansion program to be accompli hed within the next ten year . The program involving the con-tru tion of a number of major build­

ing , the acquisition of additional campu acreage, and the e tabli hment of en­dowed cholar hip , fe llow hip and pro­fe or hip .

The $20 million goal, a cording to Dr. Hoxie, i earmarked a follow : $15 mil­lion for n w building and nece sary road and land aping; $4,250,000 for additional holar hips, fellowships and profe sor hip · and $750,000 for land acquisitions.

The Interfra t rnity Council at C. W. Po t Coli ge con i t f the following na­tional fraternities: Phi K appa Tau, Al­pha Ep ilon Pi, K appa Delta Rho, Phi

igma D Ita, Phi igma K appa, Tau Ep ilon Phi , Tau Kappa Epsilon and Zeta Beta Tau. There are a lso two locals.

Fraternity Exhibit at

New York World's Fair During the period of August 12 to

ugust 26 the center of a ttention in the magnificent "Hall of Free Enterprise" at the New York World's Fair will be a special fraternity-sorori ty display.

The multi-colored exhibit, under the title of "Young Partners in Free Enter­prise," will be jointly sponsored by the

a tional Interfraternity Conference and the ational Panhellenic Conference.

The presentation will vividly portray the contributions of Greek societies to the · betterment of colleges and universities and to the constructive development of young men and women in North Ameri­ca. Informed young members of men' and women's groups will be on hand at all times during the course of the exhibit to answer que tions, distribute material and accommodate guests.

You will be proud of your exhibit at the World' Fair. Plan to ee it in Au!!U t.

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Scllol11rship

Pili K11pp11

Jumps to All-Time High

T11u R11nks Twelfth

By Ben E. David, Educational Director

Continued efforts in the area of schol­arship over recent years have brought a noticeable improvement in the overall scholastic picture of Phi Kappa Tau. The 1962-63 scholarship report just compiled shows that 70 per cent of all chapters reported were above the all-mens average on their campuses. Thirty chapters showed some measure of improvement over the preceeding year. Of 60 chapters for which grade comparisons could be made, forty-two were on the plus side of the all-mens average. Seven chapters are in schools which have not yet reported grade averages, while three other chap­ters are in schools listed as non-compar­able for the year.

With 70 per cent of the chapters above the all-men's average of their campus, Phi Kappa Tau ranks twelfth among the 60 fraternities in the National Interfra­ternity Conference. In achieving this all­time high, Phi Kappa Tau was beaten only by two fraternities which are basical­ly agriculture fraternities and nine which are predominantly Jewish.

This push on scholarship is evidenced by the grade improvement of other fra­ternities as well. A close look at the rec­ords by individual campus show that while forty-two of our chapters were above the all-men's average, eighteen of this group were below the all fraternity aver­age at their school. This means simply that at many schools the all fraternity average is higher than the all-mens aver­age. By analyzing these statistics we can see that fraternities in some places are accepting the challenge being put to them. Perhaps in a few more years the fraternity grade level will stand above the record for the all-mens average.

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The general picture of the scholastic setup can be seen from Chart I. This shows the rank on campus, position with the all fraternity average, and the index below or above the AMA, and the change from the previous report. Other charts include chapters making the most im­provement over the year, chapters show­ing the greatest decrease, chapters rank­ing first on campus, last on campus, and the numbers of chapters above the all­mens average over several years.

Top honors from grades in Phi Kappa Tau for 1962-63 go to Franklin and Marshall. Second place goes to Transyl­vania, with Lafayette in third place in the Phi Kappa Tau listing. Fourth place goes to Colgate. Fifth place was taken by Upsilon at Nebraska Wesleyan.

Among those chapters below the all­mens average about one-third were not appreciably below the index. Only two chapters were in last place on their cam­pus, as compared to five the preceeding year. In many cases the percentage of im­provement over the year was startling. I t gave real evidence of chapter emphasi . This year saw the greatest improvement in scholarship in many year .

Efforts of the domain chiefs and a -sistant domain chiefs have played a major role in this overall picture. The e men are responsible for the chapter schola r­ship programs, and it i evident tha t the e programs in most cases were not ju t plan on paper, but are workable and effective.

The Phi Kappa Tau scholarship pic­ture is the best it has been in ear . Yet despite our good record in man chapter there is much room for improvement a is evidenced by those chapter at th low­er level on Chart I.

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1962.-63 SCHOLARSHIP IEPOI · Ranking Order of Phi Kappa Tau Chapters by NIC Index

Index + Campus or - from

Chapter School .Rank AFA AMA Change

Xi Franklin & Marshall - 2/11 above + 20.83 up Theta Transylvania 1/4 above 19.61 down Alpha Omicron Lafayette 1/19 above 18.00 down Alpha Upsilon Colgate 1/14 above 17.99 up Upsilon Nebraska Wesleyan 1/4 above 15.93 down Phi Bethany 2/ 5 above 12 .71 up Beta Omicron Maryland 14/24 below 12.00 down Beta Phi Westminster 3/4 below 11.12 down Alpha Miami 8/20 below 10.17 down Lambda Purdue 8/ 38 above 9.44 up Gamma Beta Cincinnati 9/ 19 below 9.22 up Alpha 'Pi Washington 4/31 above 9.08 up Gamma Zeta Connecticut 5/ 17 above 8.59 up Alpha Delta Case Tech 2/ 12 above 8.26 down Mu Lawrence 2/6 above 8.13 up Alpha Gamma Delaware 5/ 9 below 7.62 up Beta Zeta New Mexico Sta te 3/8 above 6.86 down Kappa Kentucky 9/ 19 below 5.99 up Iota Coe 2/ 5 above 5.98 up Gamma Epsilon University of Pacific 1/4 above 5.88 up Alpha Sigma Colorado State 3/ 15 above 5.70 up Beta Upsilon Hobart 1/8 above 5.55 up Beta Ohio 8/17 below 5.40 down Pi Southern California 4/ 26 above 4.91 up Alpha Phi Akron 5/ 17 below 4.57 up Tau Michigan 10/ 40 above 4.31 down Gamma Eta East Carolina 1/8 above 4.25 down Alpha Chi Mississippi State 5/ 10 below 3.83 down Chi North Carolina State 10/17 below 3.55 down Beta Theta Kansas 10/24 below 3.11 down Beta Alpha Texas 12/ 32 above 2.38 up Alpha Alpha M ichigan State 12/29 below 2.34 up Gamma Theta Western Michigan 2/ 11 above 2.04 Alpha Omega Baldwin Wallace 2/6 above 1.53 up Beta Pi Middlebury 6/ 8 below 1.20 down Epsilon Mt. Union 2/4 below 1.18 down Alpha Lambda Auburn 7/22 above 1.15 up Nu California 18/ 43 above 1.14 up Rho Rensselaer 6/2 7 above 1.13 up Eta Muhlenberg 4/ 6 below 1.04 down Beta Tau Bowling Green 13/ 16 below 0.58 up Beta Beta Louisville 3/ 7 above 0.39 up

Index Alpha Epsilon Kansas State 15/22 below 0.06 up Alpha Eta Florida 13/26 above 0.50 down Alpha Tau Cornell 19/49 above 0.56 down Alpha Rho Georgia Tech 18/ 26 below 0.67 down Beta Iota Florida State 8/ 17 above 2.31 up Beta Epsilon Southern Mississippi 4/7 above 2.96 up Psi Colorado 13/2 1 below 3.01 up Beta Mu Kent State 10/ 15 below 4.23 down Alpha Zeta Oregon State 20/32 below 5.01 down Omicron Penn State 23/ 46 below 5.20 down Delta Centre 5/6 below 5.63 up Zeta Illinois 39/52 below 7.04 up Beta Gamma Idaho 13/ 16 below 7.07 down Beta Chi Southern Illinois 6/7 below 11.83 down Beta Lambda Indiana 24/28 below 12.52 down Alpha Nu Iowa State 29/31 below 14.84 Beta Kappa Oklahoma State 22/22 below 25.62 down Beta Xi Georgia 21/21 below 28.90 down Gamma Ohio State not comparable Alpha Theta William and Mary not comparable Beta Psi Long ·Beach State not comparable Alpha Kappa Washington State not yet reported Alpha Psi Texas Western not yet reported Beta Omega Chico State not yet reported Gamma Alpha Michigan Tech not yet reported Gamma Gamma St. John's not yet reported Gamma Delta Nor them Michigan not yet reported Gamma Iota Sacramento State not yet reported Comparisons are not made of Colony Status.

Chart II - Chapters Making Most Improve­ment in 1962-63 over 1961-62

School Index: 196 1-62 So. California - 20.93 franklin & Mar. - 2.15 Coe - 10.55 Kansas State - 12.16 Colorado State 5.51 Bethany 1.91 Baldwin Wallace 9.07 Michigan State 7.82 Colgate + 8.28

1962-63 + 4.91 + 20.83 + 5.98 - 0.06 + 5.70 + 12.71 + 1.53 + 2.34 + 17.99

'7o Imju . 25 .1.!+ 22 .98 16.53 12.10 11.21 10.80 10.60 I 0.16 9.71

Chart III - Chapters Having Greatest Decrease in 1962-63 ove r 1961-62

School I ndex : Oklahoma State Georgia Mississippi Sta te Idaho Kent State Southern Illinois East Carolina Georgia Tech Middlebury

1961-62 - 4.07 - 9.21 + 16.61 + 4.46 + 6.71 - 1.05 + 12.70 + 6.72 + 8.47

1962-63 - 25.62 - 28.90 + 3.83 - 7.07 - 4.23 - 11 .83 + 4.25

0.67 + 1.20

% De-crease 21.55 19.69 12.78 11.53 10.94 10.78 8.45 7.39 7.27

C h::~rt IV Chapters Ranking First

S chool Transylvania Lafayette Colgate University of Hobart East Carolin::1

on Their Campus Rank on Campus

1/ 4 1/ 19 1/14

Pacifi c 1/ 4 1/ 8 1/ 8

Index 19.6 1 18.00 17.99 5.88 5.55 4.25

C hart V - Chapter Ranking Last on Their Campus

School Oklahoma State Georgia

Rank on Campus 22 / 22 21 / 21

Index - 25.62 - 28.90

Chart VI - Chapters Above AMA as Listed at Time of Annual Report

1962-63 42 above 18 below

1961-62 34 above 31 below

1960-61 35 above 29 below

1959-60 32 above 28 below

1958-59 21 above 3 1 below

1957-58 24 above 31 below

1956-5 7 25 above 34 below

1955-56 20 above 42 below

1954-55 22 above 43 below

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New Is

Field Secretary William Eyerman

William P . Eyerman, who gradua tes in June a t Eas t Carolina Col lege, will join the Central Office staff as a fi eld secretary in August. A charter member of Gamma Eta chapter, he h as served Gamma E ta as secretary, house manager, parlia­m entarian, assistant house manager, rush chairman, p ledge master, social cha irman, Homecoming director, Domain Confer­ence co-chairman, editor a nd Laurel cor­respondent.

Bill, who has majored in English, has been active in student governmen't and in the college union program a t Ea t Carolina. His positions read like a roster of positions avai lable and include the presidency of the freshman and sopho­more classes, vice president and president of student government, president of the State Student L egislature of North Caro­lina and president of the State Student Legislature Senate Chamber.

He was given the Outstanding Senate Award in 1963 and the Best Speaker Award in 1964.

fV illia rn P. Eyerman F idrl Sf' rr r ta ry

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What's Happening to the A/tor?

By John Robson

A thoughtful article surveying the sta­tus of the fraternity ystem appeared re­cently in the Univer ity of Montana stu­dent new paper, the Kaimin. It was ig­nificantly titled, "The Problem of the Greeks Is Communication ," and the author Mary Ellen Myrene concluded with these paragraph : "The weakness i that the Greeks cannot express the scope of their needs to the administration. They cannot expre s the scope of their motiva­tions to the Independents. And they can­not express the scope of their humane­ness to other Greeks. The weakness is with sheer communication."

ABO T THE AUTHOR

John Robson has degrees from Law­rence College and Columbia University. A former associate editor of THINK Magazine and a staff editor for other publications, he has edited the Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal for twenty-two years . He has been managing editor of Banta's Greek Exchange ince 1956 and i editor of the recently published 17th Edition of Baird's !11anual of American College Fra­ternities.

Dean Weldon P. hofstall of Arizona tate Univer ity before the convention of

Kappa Delta Ia t ummer deplored the arne hortcoming of Fraternity Row:

lack of knowledge. Not knowing how to communicate. ot knowing what idealism and religion rea lly are or how to use them . Knowing how to fit religion into the unday cheme of things but not knowing it place in everyday affairs.

The fraternity world has not been able to make capital of the lesson that when there i no Altar the chapter dies, or­more accurately- never live . The rock of trength that the Altar provides is shown

by the good fraternity chapter as it rushes, pledge , properly train , and initiates good men. Adherence to the Altar assures the upremacy of good conduct, leadership, cholar hip, loyal alumni , and even good

housing. But above all it assures a joyou · brotherhood whose gifts touch Eternity.

In the days of the Hebrew prophet Amo , the world of hi people was askew. their institutions were riding a pendulum . Then, in a vi ion before Amo , God ap­peared tanding a tride the tilted cit and its leaning wall with Hi mm out­tretched and in Hi hand a plumblin .

And God poke to Amo , a ing. I will et you a a plumbline among t my

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people." The plumbline of Amos is in th altar of the fraternities, and it tells them, as nothing else can, which side is up in this topsy-turvy world.

Certain chapters go on year after year maintaining their houses on the para­mount living belief in the Fa therhood of God, training their neophytes accordingly, and giving their members an ideal fra­ternity experience. But with such chap­ters, ironically, communication so often is accomplished with little recourse to vocabulary; the essential lessons are con­veyed from one class to the next to a large extent by wordless example, and also to a large extent by the language of the heart which is the language of the altar but nevertheless has no palpable tongue. These chapters demonstrate what a great thing a college fraternity can be when the altar is there.

It is Dean Shofstall's contention that fraternity leaders on the whole a re igno­rant of the proper methods of teaching their members, and they themselves too frequently fail to learn how to under­stand the ritual and practice what it preaches.

On many campuses the fraternity sys­tem is gradually being enveloped by an a lien environment. The Greeks are threatened by a growing complex of ob­stacles, and so long as ignorance with re­spect to obeying the ritual continues as the order of affairs, the future is not bright. Dean Shofstall, who is a Sigma Tau Gamma, believes that outdated methods of selecting members, immature methods of choosing either personal or group activities, and perhaps above all superficial methods of training members may be laid at the door of ignorance. Yet nothing is done about it.

Time was when the aimless fraternity chapter could go on living a pointless existence, and unless it fell grievously out of line or failed under the burden of its own inertia and aimlessness it was toler­ated and it went on.

But no longer. The world is in revolu­tion and the campus is in ferment. Ma­terialistic forces, dynamic as they have become, threaten to turn over everything ; the campus, where doubletalk gives birth to confusing and enervating value sys­tems, and even the church where reli-

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gion has be n transmut d into a phon y opiat . Thes basi in titutions ar ask w. The language of br thcrhood has b com muffled. The oll eg fraternity, h lpless to command the tongue whi h xplains the a ltar, or to follow it, fa ils to justify itself.

No one has described the job the fra­ternities m ust do b tter than John H en­ry Frizzell, former chaplain of P nnsyl­vania tate University and ritualist of Phi K appa Psi, .who puts it th is way: "The American college fraternity ys tem is living up neither to its job nor its op­portunity. It is not turning out m n who stand head and shoulders in our Ameri­can life above the run-of-the-mill citizen as examples of high character, sound ideals, and four-square Americanism ... . The tendency toward moral deteriora­tion, particularly with respect to simple honesty, trustworthiness, and loya lty to principles, is not being combated in our fraternities to the extent that it should be. The fraternity system has ideals and opportunities unequa led in the whole col­lege setup for inculcating and developing these simple characteristics in the sup­posedly intelligent men who are its mem­bers. Is it doing it? You know that it isn 't."

The solution ? The altar, of cou r e. Dr. Frizzell urges: "Go back to your a ltars. Listen again to those almost inspired words of your rituals, of the charge . They are not mumbo-jumbo or hocu -pocus, they are practical ideal , creed to live by, philosophies of life, which, if you'll let them, can change your whole life and making living a real, worthwhile adventure. In those r itu als, you II find God and the teachings of J e u .

R eligion: Take I t or L eave I t?

As the campus is letting reliaion fad farther and farther into the background the fraternities are tending to let it fad also. Society a a whole is re pon ible too. A fraternity chapter wi thout an al tar i nothing. The campus which fail to pia God above the cun-iculum i n' t mu h either. Without religion higher edu ation has gone ludicrously off the beam . Dean Shofstall reveals ju t how di turb d he i by the problems of campu athei m ' h n he says : " Many think ther i ort

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The frat ernity system has ideals ... are they being lived up to?

of compromise between athei m and reli­gion . M any think religion i a private matter and not of concern for everybody. Other do not ev n realize that religion is the e sence of our way of life. Very few even know how our live , our fra­ternity, our university, and our nation owe their past, their pre ent, and, above a ll else, their futur to religion. ' Th lesson is that we mu t make religiou ideal and value of fraternitie a link to the daily lives of the member .

"Fraternities are ba ed upon a moralit based upon religion which i ba ed upon belief in God," Dean Shofsta ll a sert . "Knowina God is not a ingle achieve­ment in time and space. Knowing God is instead a proce s- a way of life." Pledge education fails unless this truth i brought home. H e goes on to say that "The fra­ternity is the es entia! bridge between the church and the university. H owever, the university is today unfriendly to the social fra ternity in the same way and for the same reason the university is often un­friendly to all religious and spiritual values."

D ea n Shofstall cen ures the pagani m of Alma M a ter in the e word : "Higher education . . . has become nonreligious. The new or modem university is either neutral towa rd God or rejects Him. This is not as it should be !" And so the pa­ganism of Alma M ater may we ll be the most horrible living fact on the horizon of higher education today, for when paganism characterizes an environment, the language of brotherhood i discredited . It is made to seem unfashionable and in­appropriate. It soon falls out of u e.

In their initia tion ceremonies, the fra­ternities light a candle in this darknes , but it should be a radiant, everlasting light. Alas! When the ritual is la id away, fraternit y leadership , being o often tongue-tied, seem ignorant again walk in ignorance a nd ta lk in ignoran e. And it i ca ught in th broad. swift CUlT nt

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of mat riali m. ommum a tion fail the light goe out.

The T yranny of Word

Twenty-five years ago tuart Cha wrot a book titled The Tyranny of Words in which he tated that many of the world ' mi fortun were caused b the failure of languaae a a tool of com­munication. He que tioned whether mod-rn method of mas ducation promoted

a much knowledge in the tudent' mind a they did confu ion. " We . need . true meaning for urvival, ' he a td, and la­mented th fact that no teacher was teaching such meaning and that there wa c;rcely a cha ir of emantics (the tudy of meanings ) in any college in the

country. "We need protection from cha m made by words as well as from dane-erous ditche across the highway," he "asserted. Chase r e p res en ted th e dangerous chasms as blabs - semantic blanks where no meaning comes through . H e proposed that semantics would bring a standard into focus where man could "at least agree that this statement make ense and 'that tatement makes blab."

Fra ternity leaders must learn with greater confidence that words which are learned at the altar are not blab; the job is to learn them well, understand how to use them well daily, to rely on them with complete faith, and not to avoid using them.

Quo V ad is, Little Man?

By a pplying Gospel principles, the lie is given the a sertion by foes of the fra­ternity system that the Greeks are op­posed to intellectuality. The Greeks do oppo e an over-balanced intellectualiza­tion even a J e u does - that i to a intellectual pur uit at the e-xpen e of the proper share of pirit and bod ha harm­ful re ult .

Over-int lie tualization on the mpu

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Why the 'I don't care' attitude so prevalent among today's students?

is not the same thing as paganism or atheism, but both result from applica­tion of the principle, 'The white heat of the intellect dries up the red blood of the heart., The heart is needed for the enjoyment of life. It is needed for God. ~t. is needed for brotherhood. Ironically It IS even needed for true loyalty to Alma Mater. To be sure, over-indulgence in sensual pleasure takes the savor from the salt, to use the Gospel metaphor, but equally so does over-intellectualization. Illustrations proving this rule are so abun­dant that one might quickly make a large book of them.

What the scholar gains by giving his all to the world of the intellect is usually of worth, but not always are the human consequences favorable. Paul S. Henshaw, a scientist for the Atomic Engery Com­mission, recently announced the develop­ment of a new achievement - "Informa­tion Science" - which promises to do for the human brain "in a twinkling" what it took evolution many hundreds of thousands of years to do. Thanks to com­puter wizardry, made possible through in­tensive application of the intellect, there is early likelihood of bringing total accum­ulated knowledge such as housed in the great libraries to bear on a single problem or concept, and also for a single mind to probe all recorded subject-matter in se­lected fields , irrespective of location or language, and to consider the results of analyses quite beyond the capabilities of the human mind. So says Dr. Henshaw, adding. "But science hasn' t even imagined what this will lead to in emotional ex­perience."

If science hasn't imagined it, there are qualified observers who have. In an ad­dress which he gave in 1960 before the student body of Bowdoin College, Henry M. Wriston, a member of Delta Tau Delta, warned: " In the modern age there is no danger that you will escape social contacts and social pressures, but there is

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grave danger tha t you will lose the flavo rs and the joys which are inherent in the pursuit of happiness, one of your funda­mental rights." That is to say, the phrase, "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi­ness," offers a better checklist of criteria towards which an institution's purposes are aimed than can be found in the body of the scientifically motivated directives of higher education. As an unidentified sage has said, "Science and the Intellect can deliver only the facts; they do not bring Happiness."

Jesus said on the Mount : "Ye are the salt of the earth ; but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men."

A letter-writer in the Pennsylvania State Daily Collegian, bewailing " the stereotype thinking which is prevalent among the great masses of the school,' commented: "Blam ing a few IBM ma­chines for a lack of individual personality is analogous to the homely old maid who blames her ugliness on her mirror. Let' face the facts, brothers, a t dear old State there is very little individuality to be stifled ."

The Drury Mirror editorializes: "Per­haps rather than being stupid, Drury tu­dents are just too anemic, apathetic, and void of concern for the state of the world , and even the campus, to try to do any­thing about it."

Recently at the U niversity of K an a . 600 students rrathered to hear a debat "Resolved that the Christian ethic should be adjusted to fit the current American transition in sexual morality." At M on­tana, at Tuesday Topic Nirrht, A ociate Professor of Philosophy Cynthia chu ter contended that moral rules are made and altered by man and are neither right nor wrong by any traditional set tandard .

At the Universit of Nevada the age-

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brush begins an editorial: "What is it that makes students have such an !-don' t­care attitude about so many thing ?'

The college does not realize that it it­self is often the chief creator of "apathy' because it butters up the candidate for in­tellectual achievement as though he were the salt of the earth, when the truth i , far from being the salt of the earth, al­though he might be in o many ca e he is rendered saltless. And at orne college , only those student are admitted whom the hellbent-for-excellence high chool have already de alted. How ridi ulou , then, for the pre ident of the college to complain at length, "I cannot understand what ha happened to the pirit of the student body!"

Yes, in many place , the carnpu a tmo­phere i good for nothing, and the tu­dents, save those who know the altar, have lost their savor. We are taught by a great teacher that tho e who labor to do right, who strive to be ju t, who are magnanimous and pure in heart, who are good neighbors, who are humble rather than arrogant of spirit, who walk daily with God, are the alt of the earth.

Such men are described as being up­right and good beside the altar of the chapter house. The adjectives upright and good are of little formal consequence to Alma Mater. On the other hand, the ultima thule of the scholar astride the pendulum appears to be mastery of a specific field of knowledge. And so he · leads his students down the garden path with respect to the proper meaning of life, for he confuses his own pallid goal with their own more sanguine one. Josiah Royce, an American philosopher of the early century, held that the permanence of a man's values and commitment is the measure of his immortality. The good fraternity chapter has the man of the Beatitudes in focus ; but the new, over­intellectualized Alma Mater says, "We do not seek this kind of man- Suffocate him!"

The M eaning of the Altar

Too little space remains for me to show the application of a fraternity discipline of semantics to the greate t of all teach­ing. In a manuscript titled Educating fo r

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Brotherhood, I di cu application of this teaching for collegians. I anticipate that a new type of manual must oon replace the old which ha arown ob olete. The carry-over of the ritual into a true text­book of the principles of brotherhood brina the light of the errnon on the Mo~nt on man is ue which today har­a collegian .

Often called th greate t truth the world ha ever known, the Lord' com­mandment is a po itively tated ummary with p ychologi al guideline of the T en

ommandment . On th Mount, Je u gave it during hi ermon, when a lawyer of th Phari a ked Him, "Ma ter, whi h i the great t commandment in the law?" Je u aid unto him, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy h art and with all thy oul, and with all thy mind . Thi i th fir t and great com­mandm nt. And the econd i like unto it, 'Thou halt love thy neighbor as thy-elf. ' On the e two ommandments hang

all the law and th prophets." All! The o-called Christian world's

great black ma rk i that o little effort has been made to communicate th truth of thi commandment- that i , " to bridge the blab-blab chasm" to the hearts and minds of men. A healthy society- and hould not the campus be a healthy socie­

ty?- has vitality in three realms: the in­tellectual, the phy ical, and the spiritual. Judeo-Chri tian doctrine ays that man is made of body, mind, and spirit. True health is possible only when all three di­mensions of exi tence are healthy. Fra­ternity life respects all three dimensions.

George D. toddard, chancellor of New York University, a Sigma Pi, says the same thing when he advises us to go back, whenever we can, to the three-di­mensional, non-magical world of muscles, organs, and sen ory perceptions. He ex- . plains, "Away from the clutter of words, there is what the physiologists call the wisdom of the body. It is older than any culture. Its controlling mechanisms lie below the cerebral cortex running deep into every fiber." Dr. Stoddard's warning concerning over-intellectualization is thi : "Having gone from good specimen of animals- a a naturali t " ould rate them - to rather weak pale une.x rei ed d -pendent creature - all in order to achi v

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the higher virtues of speech, history, and technology-man is now, through notable defects in social and spiritual quality, in danger of losing this new life."

In the fraternity leadership training program, despite scattered exceptions, the topics invariably dealt with- rush, pledge education, public relations, alumni rela­tions, scholarship, conduct and social af­fairs, and all the others-get seeds down only into barren soil where they die or lie until that soil can be prepared. It cannot be prepared by philistines. The discussants of the usual topics can pre­pare the soil when they are familiar with the language of brotherhood, when in their hearts they grasp what lies behind it; then they can pass it along to others.

But because they eschew the language of brotherhood, most of the fraternity leadership schools, save in those instances where the heart itself is moved and the spirit of the man lifted, are abysmal, de­moralizing failures. Despite the most painstaking planning and programming and the most gallantly extended effort of highly dedicated and gifted leaders, they fall flat, and the time and money spent on them are an utter waste. Many observ­ers try to say this, but here, too, the ears turned to catch advice are usually still echoing with irrelevant mumbo-jumbo-

What's Happening to the Altar? by John Robson is the first of a series of articles prepared for fraternity magazines by "Operation Challenge," a project established by the 58 member College Fraternity Editors A ssociation.

Operation Challenge came about as the result of Carl ]. Gladfelter, Editor of the Chi Phi Chakett, requesting Lucian War­ren, Editor of The Phi Gamma Delta, to conduct a survey of the Moonshooter project of the American Alumni Council and its associate, Editorial Projects for Education. As a direct result of his report to the 1963 annual meeting of the Editors, a resolution authorizing the project was adopted and a committee appointed by Association president, Harold E. ] acob-

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or blab-blab which has created a chasm. Such phrases as " the principles of the

founders," " the truths of the altar," and " the lessons of the ritual" have vital prac­tical meanings. But these meanings too seldom get through to the heart at all. They should be thoroughly studied as a first step in fraternity education. Even on the most atheistic campus the case for fraternities should be stated. However it is not being stated there, or anywhere, and it cannot be stated without a super­ior command of an authoritative spiritual vocabulary.

In the shadow of a still far too ma­terialistic world, the unknown language of brotherhood must be learned well; it is a language undeveloped and unrecog­nized, a language known for its sounds but not for its meaning. In the shadow of One World this language all the peoples of the world must come to know general­ly in order to communicate effectively with one another.

It is up to fraternity men to do their share-perhaps even to lead the way- in teaching it. In rushing, they should not be ashamed to emphasize what the ritual stands for. On the other hand, if they forsake their altars completely, the fra­ternity cannot possibly live: The Altar i the first fact of fraternity life.

sen, Editor of The Emerald of Sigma Pi to "make available to those fraternity magazines desiring it, professionally writ­ten and edited material covering subjects of common interest and value to frat er­nities."

Permission to reprint the article or any portion thereof must be obtained from th Author and the Operation Challenge Committee.

The m embers of the " Operation Chal­lenge" Committee are: Ralph F. Burns, Alpha Sigma Phi, H erbert L. Brown, Phi Sigma Kappa, R obert D. L ynn, Pi K appa Alpha, Durward Owen, Pi Kappa Phi John Robson, Sigma Phi Epsilon Francis Wacker, Delta Sigma Phi, and Carl ]. Gladfelter, Chi Phi Chairman.

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The Laurel Salutes Theta Chapter!

Winner of Roland Maxwell Outstanding Chapter

Award Makes Great Contribution

Cultural, Educational, Athl tic, Leader hip and ocial A tivitie Highlight Frat rnity Program at T ran ylvania

Theta can ay that Phi Tau i the mo t outstandin" ocial organization on Tran­sylvania's campu . H ere are orne of the activities, awards and points of int re t of Theta for the past two year .

T he chapter has made many contribu­tion to the cultural growth of it mem­bers and Tran ylvania. T hey have many brothers consi tantly participating in the drama productions, inging in the hoir, playing in the Tran ylvania Orche tra, and taking part in student art exhibi tion . Theta has men in the major office of the Transylvania T heater A sociation, a well as on the Accent on R eligion Com­mittee. They have and do encourage members to participa te in these activitie .

Theta provides a very important part of the social activitie of the campus through its presentation of an open tu­dent center party every year. The closed formal activities include The Playboy Party, The Dream Girl Formal and a Spring Picnic. Of course there are many informal parties and Theta is yearly asked to many sorority desserts. A a chapter they also participate in the other campu social functions and devote a definite part of pledge training to polishing the im­portant social grace of pledges.

The chapter maintains a small chapel, Wright Chapel, where students and facul­ty can go for medita tion. They have pre­sented many books to the campus library. On Awards' Day at the end of each year, Theta presents the H edrick M emorial Scholarship Cup and the Faculty M em­ber-of-the-Year award. This past year the pledges painted the Student Center and built three scale models of the cam­pus to serve as visitor's directories. Pledges built a fine redwood ki sing-tree bench

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for the u e of th mor am rou f th ampu population.

Th ta provid th ampu with many u t tanding leader . T he following i a

partial li ting of the offi held by her men during vari u time in th last two years: pre ident of tud n t Coun il, treas­ur r of tudent Council, pr iden t of the In terna tional R elation lub, chair­man of Tran ylvania Day both years, chairman of A cen t on R eligion and ac­tivity participation in tha t committee, p re iden t of Lampas, the tuden t honor­ary and lead r hip ociety; president of Tran ylvania Theatre A ocia tion, vice pr ident of T ran ylvania T h eater A so­cia tion, vice pre ident of tudent C hris­ti an A ociation, vice pre ident of Inter­fraterni ty Counci l, chairman of Campus C inema both years, pre ident of the Freshman Committee, and vice presiden t of the Internationa l R elia tions C lub. A far as other honor are concerned they have had men chosen for Who's Who in American Colleges and nivers1hes, a T heta man as M r. Pioneer, the most out­standing senior man on campus, and all eligible sophomores chosen as Student Leader . They are not specifically a lead­er training organization, but are happy to say that the members are the campu leaders. In a thletics, too, Theta provide · the campus with leadership . The chapter has had two All-American Basketball players, a Little All-American Player, and a High School All-American Pia er. Three members of the fre hman basket­ball team four member of the varsit baseball team were member of Theta not to mention the on tant hapter par­ticipa tion in the di erse intramural activi­ti . Thi rear th \ on th intt·amural

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Morris on Hall, a landmark on the Transylvania campus.

football tournament, beating a very strong athletic fraternity . In the community Theta is represented by two members serving in local churches and one mem­ber instructing the deaf.

Men of Theta seek diligently to main­tain good public relations with a ll with whom they come in contact. They spon-

Harlan Judd, president of Theta chap­ter at Transylvania, receives the Roland Ma xwe ll Outstanding Chapter Award from National Secretary Anson as Nation­al President W. A. Hammond watches.

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sor an orphan in Korea. Theta cooper­ates fully with the national fraternity by abiding by all its ru les and by being prompt in all correspondence. She i ex­tremely active in participating with other chapters through domain activ itie . Par­ticipation in campus affairs has previous­ly been shown through the many brother they have in positions of campu leader­ship. Each year they sponsor everal chap­lain's projects such as a party for the Children 's Home and the clean-up at the Lexington Orphanage. The chapter i now organizing an effective system where­by they will have an alumni bulletin and a reception. Theta is active in the Inter­fraternity Council of Transylvania, having two of the four officers. Through the IFC, men of Theta have been in tru­mental in aiding the entire Greek stem of the co llege. The men have played pri ­mary roles in helping IFC to develop a new constitution and rush rules . Each year, the chapter publishes Theta otes which is an effective rush bulle tin . It contains messages from the advi er and president, pictures of some of the acti i­ties, and individual quotes about th "Brothers." They also now ha e an alum­ni bulletin to aid in relation ' i th th alumni.

They have just completed the decora­tion of our new chapter room in th ne'

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dorm and are indeed proud of the panel­ing and built in stereo system.

The fraternity spirit of Theta chapter is one of a true brotherhood. Through­out the year numerous factions and dis­putes arise, but through the counsel of a superb adviser and by the efforts of an excellent executive council and the work of the brothers, the disputes are settled and the chapter i drawn closer together. Theta chapter is composed of a kaleido­scopic assemblage of personalities and in­terests who are drawn together by one common bond, Brotherhood. This pirit of brotherhood shown through genuine interest in each other causes them to work together and cooperate more fully.

The primary philosophy of the pledge training of Theta chapter of Phi Kappa Tau is to e tabli h a system which will adequately prepare the neophyte to be able to attain a position in the brother­hood. Tineteen of the most outstanding men of Transylvania are presently under­going this training and they anticipate picking up several more at the beginning of spring quarter. A neophyte of Theta undergoes training in many aspects of fraternity, including: the history of Phi Kappa Tau, an understanding of our

chapter, an understanding of social graces, an encouragement and aid in his scho­lastic endeavors.

The pledge of Theta undergoes a com­plete and effective period of training in the history of Phi Kappa Tau. He is given many tests on the material in the pledge manual and he must pas at least 95 0 on the pledge final before initia­tion. Pledge are also called before the chapter for a period of oral questioning everal time if it i felt that they aren't

putting forth enough effort. Throughout the period of pledge prep­

aration, members of the chapter offer as-i tance and e ncouragement to the

pledges regarding their tudies. They have no actual tudy program except that of offering pecial assistance to those who have need of it.

As a chapter, Theta endorse no physi­cal hazing. However, they do set one week aside for "active appreciation week" in which the pledges do small favors for the brothers. They have also had great success with a system of pledge talks which consists of each pledge spending at least 15-30 minutes with each brother. This i an opportunity for each to get better acquainted with the other.

Beta Alpha chapter's house under construction at the University of T exas. The building is scheduled for occupancy this fall.

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Two Ensigns Serve on Staff of COMSEVENFLT Upon graduation from college, Rich­

ard Geraghty, St . fohn's, and Lynn Liv­ingston, S outhern California, attended Naval Officer Candidate School at New­port, Rhode Island, where they won their commissions as Ensigns in the United States Navy and are now serving together on the staff of the Commander of the Seventh Fleet.

A f t e r commissioning exercises on March 8, 1963, Ensign Geraghty re­ceived orders to communications school in Newport, Rhode Island, and Ensign Liv­ingston received orders to communications school in San Diego. Upon completion of school a t their respective locations, the new Ensigns received orders to Yokosuka, Japan where they were assigned to the staff of the Commander of the 7th fleet m the Pacific, Vice Admiral T. H. Moorer.

The 7th fleet is the largest fleet in the world, consisting of 125 ships and 80,000 officers and men . At the present time, Comsevenflt and his staff are embarked on the modern guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Providence ; however, in May of 64 the staff will claim the U.S.S. Okla­homa City as their new flag ship. Ensigns Geraghty and Livingston have had ex-periences beyond their highest expecta­tions. Since joining the staff in April, 1963, the two young officers have traveled from one tip of the Orient to the other -Hong Kong, Singapore, Manila, K eeleng, Bankok, Guam, Okinawa, and Kobe are just a few of the interesting parts visited by the pair. Both Dick and Lynn are working in highly classified jobs at the present, but their main duties come under the heading of staff communications.

Geraghty, a charter member of Gam­ma Gamma chapter at St. John 's in New York, held the offices of president and treasurer while an undergraduate.

Lynn Livingston is a transfer student from Long Beach State College who was sent by national to recolonize a t Pi chap­ter at U.S.C. Lynn held the offices of president, vice president, secretary, treas-urer, pledge master and a few minor posi-tions. Both Dick and Lynn feel that their training as fraternity men have aided them tremendously in their present duties.

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R . Lynn L ivingston Southern California

Richard P. Geraghty St . John s

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Sports Illustrated Names Howard Jones, Colgate,

Silver Anniversary All--American of 1938--1963

Dr. Howard L. j ones (right) receives Sports I llustrated All-American A ward, Silver Goal Posts, from Governor Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts.

Twenty- five years ago they were twenty-five energetic youngsters playing football at as many colleges. This winter they were honored as summa cum laude Americans for a quarter-century of out­standing career achievement.

They are the nation's twenty-five Silver Anniversary All-Americas of 1938-63, selected by a panel of twelve distinguished judges for the magazine Sports Illustrated. Among the winners is Dr. Howard L. Jones, then a Colgate varsity gridder and member of the U . S. Olympic Hockey team, and now president of Northfield and Mount Hermon Schools. H e is an alumnus of Alpha Upsilon chapter and has erved as chapter adviser, member and chairman of the Board of Governor

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and as a director and officer of the house corporation.

Seventy-one candidates for the career All-America honor were nominated by their colleges, and the task of choosing the out tanding from the outstanding was per­formed by men such as Col. Earl H . Blaik,. executive committee chairman, Avco Corp.; Austin T. Cushman, chairman, Sears Roebuck & Co.; E. Roland Harri­man, chairman, American Red Cro s · Dr. Leland J. Haworth, director, National Science Foundation ; William W. cran­ton, governor of Pennsylvania; Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen pre ident emeritu , U nion Theological eminary and L li B. Worthinoton pre ident t 1 Corp.

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Winnowed out as winners with Dr. Jones were such sports greats as Allie Reynolds of Oklahoma State, Vic Bottari of California and Marshall Goldberg of Pittsburgh. The award is not for past football skill, however, but "to emphasize the pursuit of rounded human values in which athletics and education are joined."

Dr. Jones is the only Massachusetts win­ner. Four others were named from New England: Representative Emillo Q. Dad­dario, U.S. Congressman, Robert W. Gib­son, vice president of the Toro Company, and the Reverend Robert L. Green, Jr., Wilton clergyman, all of Connecticut, and Dr. Daniel F. Hanley, physician at Bow­doin College, Maine.

Sports Illustrated, in announcing the winners, headlined its article "They met the challenges of a changing era," and lauded the group for its "distinguished ac­tivities and mature citizenship." In its

DR . .JoHN SHANKWEILER, Muhlenberg, retired head of the Biology Department at Muhlenberg College, was honored by a surprise award for his service to the community through the college and the profession of medicine at the annual din­ner of the Allentown , Pennsylvania, Chamber of Commerce in March. Dr. Shankweiler, a former Domain Chief for Phi Kappa Tau, was a lso honored by the local chapter of the American Associa­tion of University Professors and by the Red Cross Lehigh County chapter.

JonN GooD and W. C. (BILL) GooD, both alumni of Alpha Phi chapter at Ak­ron, had their firm, Good Supply and Equipment Company, in Akron, named first "distributor of the Month" in the publication of the Instrument Society of America-Akron Section. John, president of the company, and Bill, the vice presi-

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December 2nd issue, the magazine aired opinions of the winners on the status of college football today. The following paragraph is taken from the S jJorts Illus­trated article:

"At my college, Colgate," says Howard L. Jones, president of Northfield and Mt. Hermon preparatory schools in North­field, Mass., "football does not 'wag the dog.' It is played with zest - we enjoy winning - but the general conviction is that what happens in the classroom is of greatest importance."

The citation on which the judges based their selection of Dr. Jones listed his football and hockey achievements, his World War II tour with the Air Trans­port Command, his twelve-year career at Colgate culminating in the vice presidency in charge of development, and his vig­orous action for Northfield and Mount Hermon since 1961.

dent, handle a complete line of valves and fittings for instrument lines.

RICHARD A. LENHART, Bowling Green, is program director of Bowlin ~Y. Green State University's Union. In addition to coordinating the work of a group of volunteers, collectively know as the Union Activities Organization, and eeing that a well-rounded series of campus events is provided, he works with the Maumee Valley Civic Theater which he wa in tru­mental in starting and ha directed i.x plays, played in two and written and di­rected one.

DR. EARL W . BLA K, L awrence, has held the state presiden ies of the Okla­homa Chapter ·of the Council for Ex­ceptional Children and the Oklahoma Speech and Hearing A sociation and ' as recently elected to Who's Who in Okla-

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homa. At Northea tern State College in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, where he is Di­rector of Clinical Services, he also edits a dramatics magazine, Plays of the Month.

RoBERT W. LICHTINGER, Ohio, has been appointed ea tern di trict sale manager for uclear Data, Inc. Palatine, Illinois, manufacturers of nucle~r analysis a~d mea. urement in trument . Formerly v1ce pre 1dent of Charles Walch A oci­ate before the firm was acquired by Nu­clear Data, he will make hi headquarter in Hamden, Connecticut.

GEORGE H. BRUI GTON, Illinois, who owns the George Bruington Cattle Com­pany imports between 300 and 400 car­loads of feeder and stocker cattle from the range each year. Located in Mon­mouth, Illinois, he has erved for seven­teen years on the Board of Education and is a member of the executive committee of the Illinois Association of School Board for the Western Illinoi Di trict. He planned to spend most of March on a people-to-people tour in South America visiting Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chi!~ and Peru .

WILLIAM N. LIGGETT, Miami, was named executive vice president and a member of the Board of Directors of the First National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, in March. In his new position, he will serve as senior loan officer of the bank. He joined First National's staff in 1939 as an assistant vice president in the De­partment of Banks and later took over the department as a vice president. An alumnus of Alpha chapter, he has served for a number of years as a director of the chapter house corporation and was one of five prominent alumni who served on the national fraternity's Evaluation Commit­tee in 1962.

RICHARD ERVIN, Florida, took office on January 17, 1964, as justice on the Flor­ida Supreme Court. Ervin, who had served fourteen years on the State Cabinet as Attorney General of the State of Flor­ida, has built a record of steady service in his years on the cabinet.

DR. W. FoRRESTER MALEY Illinois, ha

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been notified of hi selection for inclu­sion in the 1964 issue of the Dictionary of International Biography, publi hed in London. lections are made from out­standing individual in all fields of en­deavor from three continents. Dr. Mal­ey, who i a urgeon and lives in Evans­ton, Illinoi , practiced in Galesburg, Illi­noi from 1936 to 1948 and in Chicago ince that time. During World War II,

he erved a a lieutenant colonel in the rmy with the 3rd Auxiliary urgical

Group in the frican, Mediterranean and European Th aie r of Operation wher he participated in even campaigns and two inva ion . He i captain and owner of th motor yacht "Rassal", a member of the Chicago Yacht Club (champion of power yachts, 1959) and fleet surgeon. He has written numerous scientific papers and ection of a book "Front Line urgeon ' .

JosEPH K . Du KER, Miami, who ju t completed a four-year term a domain chief for Phi Kappa Tau, ha been named manager of the Terminal Office of th Fir t National Bank of Cin innati, Ohio. A member of the staff since 1946, he wa manager of the Roselawn office before joining the Ninth and Main office where he wa operation officer. He serve as secretary-treasurer of Alpha chapter's Graduate Council.

The engineer who directed the plan­ning and construction of the $200 million 17.6 mile bridge-tunnel spanning the Chesapeake Bay is PERCY ZELL MICHEN­ER, an alumnus of the University of Illi­nois and Zeta chapter. Four years in the making, the project carries traffic over and under the bay between Kiptopeke on Virginia's eastern shore peninsula and Virginia Beach.

Lour A. CHATEAU, Auburn has been . ' . promoted to beutenant colonel m the United tates Army. The colonel a vet­eran of more than eighteen y~ars of military ervice is an Anny instructor at the Air Force-Ground Operations chool at Hurlburt Field, Florida.

Fir t Lieutenant GEORGE V. JR. , Ohio, has been awarded oak leaf lu ter to th Unit d

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A number of the alumni that returned for Oklahoma State's fift eenth anniversary took time to pose for a photographer.

Force Air Medal. A C-124 Globemaster pilot in the 19th Logistic Support Squad­ron at Kelly AFB, Texas, he was pre­sented the medal for meritorious achieve­ment while participating in aerial flight over VietNam.

LEoN A. BLACKMON, Auburn, has been selected for promotion to the rank of major in the United States Air Force. He is a B-52 aircraft commander in the 644th Bombardment Squadron at K. I. Sawyer AFB, Michigan.

Colonel STANLEY LuTz, ]R., M aunt Union, has been notified that he will be assigned to the Office of the Surgeon General at Headquarters, U. S. Air Force in Washington, D. C., in .June. He will assume the position of deputy director of plans and hospitalization. He earned his medical degree at the University of St. Louis Medical School.

GERALD A. HATTENDORF, Washington, is a member of a special team getting ready to conduct second-phase tests of the world's largest jet transport, the C-141 Starlifter, at the U. S. Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California. Major Hattendorf will serve as a project engineer during flight testing.

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CHARLES W. MEDICK, Ohio State, was named winner of the 1964 Saturday E ve­ning Post's Benjamin Franklin Quality Dealer Award. The owner of L. E. and C. W. Medick Co., Inc. , a Ford dealer­ship in Columbus, Ohio, he received the award at special ceremonies held in De­troit at the opening of the 47th annual convention of the National Automobile Dealers Association. The award is part of a campaign by the Post and au to dealer to show the majority of the dealers are ethical and respected civic leaders in their communities. Medick is without question one of the first citizens of Co­lumbus. He has headed the United Ap­peals drive, the Pilot Dogs program and many other community projects. H e i a member of the Board of Directors of The Phi Kappa Tau Foundation.

GEORGE W. R uDY, N ew York, has been appointed manager of the Philadelphia Branch Office of The Union Central Life Insurance Company. Rudy, who ha been with the company since 1949 wa named manager of the Harri burg Arrenc in 1952, Agency Coordinator at the Home Office in 1960 and manager of a econd Philadelphia Agency in 1961. The no Philadelphia agencies ha e been mer d and Rudy will manage the combined operation.

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Chapter Eternal

C. B. AR OLD, Centre, has been reported a deceased. H e was a cha rter member of D el ta chapter and had been re tired .

LAUREN 0. BITLER, Ohio, di ed on June 18, 1962, according to recent information received at the Central Office. H e resided in Lakewood , Ohio, was a real es ta te broker and had been initiated a t Beta chap ter in 1920.

WI LLIAM Roo EVELT Bowi E, Lafayette, ha been reported as deceased . H e was initiated in 1929 a t Alpha Omicron chapter and lived in Northport, New York .

WILLIAM THOMAS DALTON, Mississippi State, has been reported as deceased by the alumni secretary of Alpha Chi chapter. Initia ted in 1943 , he was living in Starkville a t the time of his death.

HARLAN j EWETT DICKERSON, Ohio, died on April 22 , 1961. Gradua ted in 1911 a t Ohio University, where he was a cha rter member of Beta chapter, he had lived in South Char­les ton, Oh io, since 1958.

TYLER BE NETT DuNLAP, North Carolina State, died on M a rch 14, 1964. A 1925 initiate a t ·Chi chapter, he had resid ed in Sumter, South Carolina, for many years.

C HARL ES JosEPH EM ERSO , Miami, died November 6, 1963, at h is home in St. Anne, Illinois. A 1947 initia te at Alpha chapter, he was a dentist and practiced in K ankakee, Illi­nois.

HowARD HEATH EVANS, Centre, has been reported as deceased. Initiated in 1932 at Del­ta chapter, he had lived in Louisville, K en­tucky, for many years.

WILLIAM F . FARLEY, III, M iami, died on November 27, 1963, as a result of cancer. For ten years he was an engineering specialist with Sylvania Electrical Products in Palo Alto, California.

CLARE CE VERNON FAULK ER, North Caro­lina State, died in April, 1949, according to recent information received at the Central Office. He was a 1923 initiate a t Chi chapter a nd resided in Nashville, North Carolina.

FRANK GERMAN, Miami, who lived in R ip­ley, Ohio, has been deceased for five years. H e was an early m embe·r of Alpha chapter.

EDMUND F . GoEDDE, Illinois, died March

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8. 1964, as a result of a heart a ttack. Initiated in 1925 at Zeta chapter, he had lived in East St. Louis, Illinois.

GEORGE GRIMM, K entucky, died M ay 28, 1963, a a result of a heart a ttack. He resided in Fort Thomas, K entucky, at the time of his initia tion a t K appa chapter and moved to California in 194 1. t the time of his death, he wa re id ing in Pacific Palisades, California.

FRA NK W. HAMMETT Akron, died on Sep­tember 6, 1963, in an ntonia, T exas, where he had lived for a number of years. H e was ini tiat cJ in 1938 , t . lpha Phi chapter.

C HARLE HART H A D CHI! , M iami, di ed pri l 22, 1964, afte r a ten-month illness. Dr.

H a ncl schin , profe or emeritus of German who was 90, was initi , ted a t Alpha chapter as ~ faculty memb r in 1908. An 1897 graduate of Bald win-Wa llace Coll ege, he retired from the faculty at Mi ami in 1944 and ~ontinued a tive as a speaker and writ r. While teaching a t Miami, he d veloped the " direct method" of teaching foreign la nguages. The wid ely used a udio-ora l teac hing method is based on that. H e was a form er m~n agi ng editor of Modern L anguage Journal and in 1959 received one of th e first ten na tional Foreign Language Achieveme nt Awards. For m any years he helped oach Miam i's boxers .

j o H ALDEN H ANNA, Califor-nia, a 1926 mttmte a t u hapter, has been reported as deceased. For ma ny years he had lived in W eb­ster City, Iowa.

H uGH J . H ANSON, Ohio Wesleyan , died on ovember 11 , 1952, according to recent in­

formation received a t the Central Office. He lived in Warren, Ohio, and was initia ted at Alpha Mu chapter in 1935.

R u s EL SMITH HE NRY, Coe, died April 25, 1963, of a coronary failure . A charter m ember in 1920 of Iota chapter, he had lived in Erie, Pennsylvania, for many years.

R oBERT E . HITTLE, Lawrence, died on No­vember 19, 1963, while on a business trip. H e had been an insurance field claim super­visor in Chicago for the past three years and was a 1947 initiate at Mu chapter.

joH N LAVALLEE HoLCOMBE, California, a retired commissioner of the U. S. D epartment of Labor's Bureau of L abor-Management R e­ports, died on February 28, 1964, while ISJt ­ing the University of California in Berkele . Initiated in 1929 at u chapter, he had been given the unpreced ented assignment of reg­ulating the internal affairs of trad uni n

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under powers given the Labor Department by the Landrum-Griffin Act. His home since 195 7 had been Springfield, Virginia .

S. F. jOHNSON, Mount Union, died on December 19, 1963. An early member of Epsilon chapter, he had Jived in Atwater, Ohio .

J. ARTHUR KAPP, Law rence, died in D e­cember, 1962. He was initiated in 1936 at Mu chapter and had lived in Appleton, Wis­consin, since 1957 .

C. ]OHN MAmso KYLE, William & Mary, died on O ctober 13, 1962. He was a charter member of Alpha Theta chapter, having been initiated in 1927, and resided in Roanoke, Virginia.

LEROY LEIGHTON LEISTER, Muhlenberg, died in 1961. He was initiated in 1914 at Eta chapter and had served as superintendent of schools for ·Montville and Waterford, Con­necticut.

STERLING PAINE LENOIR, Mississippi State, has been reported as deceased by the alumni secretary of Alpha Chi chapter where he was initiated in 1943. He had made his home in Prairie, Mississippi.

]. STANLEY LIVINGSTON, Washington State, died on December 30, 1963, as a result of lung cancer in Sunnyside, Washington, where he lived. Initiated in 1932, he worked as a reporter for the Yakima Daily Republic for seven years before entering the avy during World War II. After release from the serv­ice, he was with Pacific Power and Light in Walla Walla, Toppenish, Tillamook and Sun­nyside, Washington .

WILLIAM H . LoWTH, Delaware, has been reported as deceased. He was initiated at Alpha Gamma chapter in 1950 and resided in Gibbstown, New Jersey.

WILLIAM PERRY McCuNE, Mount Union, died on December 3, 1963. A Methodist pas­tor for 28 years, he had served various churches in Pennsylvania until he retired because of illness in 1959. He was initiated in 1924 at Epsilon chapter and lived in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

RICHARD LEN McGuiRE, Kansas State, who was initiated in 1958 at Alpha Epsilon chap­ter has been reported as deceased. He lived m Parsons, Kansas.

VIRGIL CLEMENT PETTIT, Ohio, died m Washington, D. C., on April 13, 1963, fol­lowing a heart attack. He was graduated 'in 1919 from Ohio University where he had been

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initi a ted at B ta hapter. H e was with the Sta te Department in Washington and had served in many parts of the world for many years. At th e tim e of his dea th he was a division chief in the State D epartment's For­eign Office.

WILLIAM LL EWELYN RI NTELMA N, Wisconsin, died April 27 , 1963, in Atl antic City H ospita l in Atlantic City, New J ersey. H e was a harter member o f Omega chapter at the University of Wisconsin a nd had lived in Glassboro, ew Jersey, since 1950.

R ALPH I. RoBINS ON, Mount Union, who was initi a ted in 1926 a t Epsilon chapter, died in December, 1963. He was a minister and had served a number of churches in Pennsyl­vania, living in Titusville at the time of his dea th.

J. ELLSWORTH Ross, Southern California, has been reported as deceased. He was initi­a ted at Pi chapter in 1923 and lived in Los Angeles all of his life.

FRANK S. SANDEMAN, Long Beach, a charter member of Beta Psi chapter at California State College at Long Beach , has been reported as deceased.

GEORGE WILLIAM ScoTT, ]R ., Mississippi State, who was initiated in 1942 at Alpha Chi chapter, died July 1, 1962. H e lived in Corinth, Mississippi, where he operated Scott Oil Com­pany. D eeply interested in community life, he was named Corinth's " Outstanding Young M an" 'in 1956, had served as Alcorn County D evelopment Council president in 1955 and was president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1956.

FELIX ANDREW ScROGGs, North Carolina State, died on November 27, 1954, according to information just received at the Central Office. A 1924 initiate at Chi chapter, he was living in Asheville, orth Carolina, at the time of his death.

FRANK E . TRESSLER, Lafayette, died on January 26, 1964. H e had graduated from Lafayette in 1924 where he had been a member of a local fraternity which later be­came Alpha Omicron chapter. In 1948 he wa initiated at Alpha Omicron chapter. H e had earned his law degree at Harvard in 1928 and lived in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania.

]AMES TvsoN, M ichigan State, has been reported as deceased . A charter m ember of Alpha Alpha chapter, he was a m ember of the faculty at Michigan tate niver ity 111

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ALABAMA

Auburn-Opelika Olin N. Andrews, Jr . , pres. , 201 Elm St., Apt. 1. Auburn , Ala.

Mobile Charles F . Bigelow, chairman, 123 Fig St., Fairhope, Ala.

CALIFORNIA

Long Beach John J . O'Shea, pres., 5121 E. 3rd St. , Long Beach, Calif.

Sacramento Roger J . Gunther, pres. , 3430 Kentfield Dr .. Sacramento, Calif.

Southern California James E . Dutch, pres., 1869 Margie Ln., Ana­heim, Calif.

COLORADO

Denver Dr. Arthur Gottman, pres., St. Ma ry-Co rwin Hospital, Pueblo, Colo.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Washington Richard S. Will , pres., 7814 Garland Ave., T a ­koma P ark, Md.

FLORIDA

J acksonvi lle a nd NE Florida Floyd G. Yeager, pres., Suite 704, Lynch Bldg .. Jacksonville 2, Fla.

Greater Miami R . Belvin Cooper, pres., 1629 NW 35th St .. Mia mi, Fla.

Orlando and Central Florida Martin J. Cooper, pres.. 3707 Da leford Rd., Orlando, Fla.

Tallahassee William F. Daniel , pres ., Box 12, Tallahassee, Fla.

ILLINOIS

Chicago William S. Budd, pres., 318 N . 5th Ave., May­wood, Ill.

INDIANA

Indianapolis Donal A. Bryson , pres. , 2601 Sequa yse, La fayette, Ind.

KANSAS

Wichita Robert D. Scott., pres. , 3567 Del Sienno, Wichita , Kans.

MISSISSIPPI

Laurel Waldo C. Bounds. pres., 1614 Old Ba y Springs Rd.. L aurel, Miss .

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ASSOCIATIONS

NEBRASKA

Omaha Dr. John Allely, pres., 4313 March, Omaha, Nebr.

NEW YORK New York City

Bernard F . Biemann, pres., 118 Chester Ave., Garden City, L.I., N.Y.

omo Akron-Tri-County

Co-chairmen: J ames K. Heilmeier, 2649 Haw­thorn Rd., Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and Michael Weltzien, 238 The Brooklands, Akron 6. Ohio

Dayton John W. Missall, Jr., pres., 653 Dorsey Ct., Dayton, Ohio

Cleveland P aul Radomsky, chairman, 26820 Tungston Rd .. Euclid 32, Ohio

Greater Cincinnati Albert R. Oriez, pres., 7279 Mosbrook Rd .. Cincinnati 43, Ohio

Toledo John B. Snyder , pres ., 4164 Emmaiea n Rd .. Toledo, Ohio

OKLAHOMA

Oklnhoma City Gary Snyder, pres . , 3709 N . L inda . Okla homa City, Okla.

OREGON

Portland-Va ncouver, Wash. L. Glenn Stukey, pres . , 801 Flint Ave .. Va n­couver , Wash.

TEXAS

Austin Leon A. Whitney, pres . , 2313 Hartford Rd .. Austin, Tex.

El Paso Harold G. Peer, pres., 517 Balboa, El P a so . Texas

Houston Wayne M. Ada m , chairman, 5239 Imogene, Houston, Tex.

Odessa-Midland W. Rogers Berggren , pres. , 2110 E . 8th. Odessa, Tex.

San Antonio Arthur W. Roberts. p res., 122 Rosema ry. Sa n Antonio, Tex .

WASIDNGTON

Seattle-Bellevue Albert 0 . Fretwell, pres., 2225-74th, S .E .. Mercer Island, Wash.

Spokane James E . Story, cbliirma n , 4015 S . Hogan, Stlokane. W ash .

WISCONSIN

Milwaukee Russell W . Wepfer, pres., 7681 N . 44th St ., Milwaukee 23 , Wise.

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3. Chapters ! Chi. A-Gamma, A-Theta, B-Omicron, G-Eta

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8. William S. Budd ------------------------318 N. 6th Ave., Maywood, Ill. 60163 Chapters: Zeta, Iota, Lambda, Mu, B-Lambda, B-Chi. Bradley Colony

9. Hugh C. Fowler --------------------6399 S. Clarkson, Littleton, Colo. 80120 Chapters: Upsilon, Psi, A-Epsilon, A-Nu, A-Sigma, B-Theta

10. N. Eugene St. Clair --------------------10306 Crittendon, Dallas, Tex. 76229 Chapters: A-Psi. B-Aipha. B-Zeta, B-Kappa

11. Clarence R. Bergland ------------------6430 Conant, Long Beach, Calif. 90808 Chapters: Nu, Pi, B-Psi, B-Omega, G-Epsilon, G-Iota

12. Chapters: A-Zeta, A-Kappa, A-Pi, B-Gamma, B-Sigma

THE Pm KAPPA TAU FOUNDATION President ____ E. T. Boles, The Ohio Company, 61 N. High St. Columbus, Ohio 43216 Treasurer __________ Frank R. Musrush, The Ohio Company, 51 N. High St .. Columbus.

Ohio 43215

THE LAUREL

The President's Message

To The Men of Phi Kappa Tau:

THE NATIONAL FRATERNITY

There are 60 great national fraternities on the campuses of American Col­leges and Universities. Each has its ritual and its ways of training its members. Made up of human beings, each has its weaknesses and its strong points, but on the whole, each has a favorable balance on the side of right, good works and idealism.

Phi Kappa Tau, through its National Council and its National Conventions, operates under a constitution in the administration of our national affairs, and for the maintenance of our na tional policy. Through its e ighty-two chapters, Phi Kappa Tau, has initiated more than 32,000 men. About 1,200 men are be­coming alumni annually, and new chapters are being chartered frequently.

It is the declared obligation of every member and of every chapter to act in accordance with the policy of the national fra ternity. Each and every Phi Tau should be familiar with the statutes and statements of policy of the fra ternity in order, in the words of our preamble,

"to bind chapters with the National Fraternity so that a perfect integratitm may be formed."

Let me add my interpretation of the objectives of Phi Kappa Tau by com-paring our ideals to the sailing of four great ships on the sea of American life:

Fellowship : Men are gregarious. M en want and need com­panionship. M en want and need counsel, criticism, and en­couragement.

Scholarship: Mankind has been called Homo Sapiens,-Know­ing Man. M en want and need to know the background of their race, its present status, and its possibilities.

Guardianship: The current generation of n'ien has been given the products of the past. The culture, the standards of living, the ideals are passed on in trust. M en owe a debt to posterity.

Citizenship: The wholesome association of M en for using the accumulated knowledge of the race in accepting inherited responsibility makes for good citizenship. This is a common obligation of Men.

The next National Convention of Phi Kappa T au will be held at Boulder Colorado, June 24 to 27, 1964. Let every delegate and visitor come to this con­vention prepared to make it a pleasant and constructive occasion in fortifyin rr our Fellowship, our Scholarship, our Guardianship and our Citizenship.

Fraternally yours,

W. A. HAMMOND

The courtyard of S ewall Hall, an upperclass women's R esidence Hall at the University of Colorado, is typical of the architecture and scenic beauty of the campus where Phi Kappa Tau will hold its 37th National Convention from june 24 to 27, 1964.