1953–54 Volume 78 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

LOS ANGELES
AT THE JULY IO MEETING of the Los Angeles Alumni
Club it was decided to discontinue the -weekly luncheons
temporarily tor the balance of the Summer. The resumption
of meetings September ii found your reporter out
of the city and now, recently returned in early October,
he finds himself under a handicap in reporting the
activities of the Club for the past month. However, judging
from the excellent card notices Secretary Don Phinney
has been sending out following the period of hibernation
it would seem that all is well with the "good ship Phi"
at the L.A. Alumni Club.
This report, therefore, is necessarily confined to the
period from April to July lo. To begin with, good attendance
has marked most of our weekly luncheons since we
moved over to the University Club last April. It was a
happy change and we are hoping that still more of the
brothers will find it possible to be with us on Friday
noons. The interest in the luncheons has increased since
the inauguration last Spring of a policy of having a brief
talk or other program given or sponsored by one ot the
brothers who is selected to carry on tor tlie following
week.
Outstanding among these programs was the contribution
ot Lee Hansen who exhibited and narrated beautiful
colored movies of the Bikini and Marshall Islands atom
bomb tests which were truly awe-inspiring and unique.
Lee was present at those tests in the capacity of Lieutenant
Commander in the Navy and had a lot to do with
shooting the pictures, which naturally accounts for their
superb exceUence.
At another meeting we were privileged to view movies
of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange in operation. These
also were shown by Hansen and were narrated by President
Tom Phelan, with the program sponsored by
Treasurer Elmer Callen.
At other meetings we have had the pleasure ot listening
to Tom Phelan expound on the vagaries of the Los
Angeles Stock Exchange, ot which he is Executive vice
president; Frank Maxwell give a most interesting account
of some of his experiences as a stock broker (actually
sounded more like a detective story); Secretary Don
Phinney relate some of the mysteries of commercial chemical
production; Ken Cutler, also a stock broker, give a
further insight into that business; Otto Steiert render a
learned dissertation on salesmanship; and Ed Olson, of
the F.B.I., give us the low-down on the functioning of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation. All ot these programs
have been interesting, informative and entertaining.
At our May i meeting we had 20 speakers present!
That's right—20! With 20 brothers in attendance a lively
discussion ensued relative to the continuing efforts being
made to effect a change in the membership clause of the
Constitution of our Fraternity. Everyone present was a
speaker and got in his two-bits worth on the subject,
and when a vote was taken on the question, "Is a
change necessary or desirable" the result was: No—20
votes; Yes—none.
And now a word to all Phis in this vicinity, as well as
to all visiting Phis. We extend a cordial invitation to
you to attend our weekly luncheons at the University
Club, 614 So. Hope Street—every Friday at 12:15 P.M.
(noon). No reservations are necessary. Just come, introduce
yourself, and partake of the good Phi fellowship
which you will find there in abundance.—Louis G. TELL-
NER, Reporter.
PITTSBURGH
THE ANNUAL SMOKER ot the Pittsburgh Alumni Club, held
Oct. 2, 1953, in the .\lumni Room of the University Club
of Pittsburgh found some one-hundred alumni, actives.
KANSAS CITY'S .\NNUAL HARVEST PARTY
TOP: Club officials Gene Manglesdorf, president, Mac
Tinklepaugh, and Harry McClure are happy over success
of the party, CENTER: Elmer Rhoden, Jr., Missouri '44,
and Clarence McGuire, Kansas '29, appear lo be in some
kind of a race involving women's apparel, BOTTOM: View
of the more than 4^0 in attendance enjoying dinner.
pledges, and rushees enjoying the refreshments, food,
smokes, entertainment, movies, and fraternal fellowship
plaimed by Chairman Thomas C. McDermott and his
committee Mile Summers, William Fiand, and Don Baker.
Under the direction of our President Tice F. Ryan, Jr.,
we paused to pay homage and respect to those brothers
recently departed. In April the Honorable W. Heber
Dithrich, W. ir J. '09, who was a member of the Superior
Court of Pennsylvania; in June, Robert W. (Roy) Lindsay,
W. ir J. '02, an ardent Phi who was in constant attendance
at all functions as weU as past president of the
Pennsylvania Alumni Club and past Province president
when this province embraced what is now nearly aU of
Pennsylvania; in September, Dr. Lawrence E. Van Kirk,
W. & J. '16, who was Dean ot the School of Dentistry at
the University of Pittsburgh and has been accredited with