1939–40 Volume 64 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

Phis at West Point 1938-39
Front row, left to right: Vance, Oklahoma; Lane, Southwestern; Lycon, Washington State; Twyman,
Knox; Alsop, Kentucky; Jacoby, Missouri; Ewell, Duke. Back row, left to right: Millican, DePauw;
Spillman, Northwestern; Bentley, Auburn; HoweU, Sewanee; Hutson, Illinois; Williams, Vanderbilt;
Andeck, Iowa Slate; Marsh, Michigan State.
THE SCROLL brings you the latest additions to the long Une of Phis who are serving
their country as officers of its regular army.
On June 12 nine Phis graduated from West Point as second lieutenants. They
leave behind them a strong band of underclassmen, brother Phis, who in a few
years will join them as brother officers.
Four years ago Phis from all over the United States reported on July first as new
cadets of the United States Military Academy. There followed as strenuous a summer
as they will ever face again. During those trying months it was while struggling
along a dusty road on a hike or picking themselves up after a spill in a game that
these fellows began to know their brother Phis. Louisiana met Michigan; Washington
met Pennsylvania; and the march was never quite so hard from then on.
Plebe year changed to yearling year; yearlings became second classmen; and second
classmen were at last first classmen with one year to go.
This unusual band of Phis were not permitted to organize in any way as such, or
to be active as a group, but they were always ready to help a brother if he needed
help and to wish him luck as he graduated.—ROBERT C. TWYMAN, Knox '36
The Minneapolis Convention
Keep in mind the date and place! August ^y-jo, 1940, Minneapolis, Minnesota! Headquarters
will be at Nicollet Hotel. The local committee is busy with preliminary arrangements, and
another notable General Convention is in prospect. Fuller announcements will appear in the
next issue of the SCROLL.
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