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

CENTRE PHIS' HELP WEEK PROJECT
Members and Phikeias of Kentucky Alpha-Delta expend their erstwhile Hell Week energies on improving
\the Salvation Army building and grounds in Danville. The house was completely painted, swings on the
playground fixed. At right, four Centre grid stars prepare place to pour concrete shuffJeboard court.
Chapter Help Week Aids Salvation Army
By BOB ENSMINGER, Centre
DURING the last two years THE-SCROLL has carried
many stories telling of the substitution of Help
Week for Hell Week. Helpful and worthwhile community
and campus projects have taken the place
of the meaningless antics which so often contributed
to a bad press for the entire fraternity system.
Though exact statistics are unknown, it is believed
that most Phi chapters have followed the edict of
the General Fraternity in abandoning Hell Week.
Anqther in the series of stories (which we hope
will continue), describing the different projects
adopted by our chapters follows. It is contributed
by the second oldest chapter in the Fraternity,
Kentucky Alpha-Delta at Centre College, Danville,
Kentucky. Incidentally, the project drew three full
columns of space in a Danville Sunday newspaper.
-ED.
THE week of March 1-8 was originally
slated to be the annual "Hell Week"
for the Kentucky Alpha-Delta chapter at
Centre College here. But the men decided
to hold "Help Week" instead of "Hell
Week" and local Salvation Army officials
are happy indeed over the change.
When "the smoke had cleared" from the
boys' labors on the Salvation Army home
and playground on South Fourth Street
* Fonner president and treafeurer of Kentucky Alpha-
Delta as undergraduate; now Publicity Director and
Alumni Secretary of Centre College and Chapter Adviser.
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in Danville, things had taken on quite a
"new look" there. The outside and inside of
the house had been painted. And a number
of additions and improvements were obvious
on the playground.
Persons passing by the Salvation Army
home could see that the outside of the
house was literally "alive" with Phi Delts,
brush in hand. It looked like an Army of
house painters. The boys were jokingly asking
one another to "Show your union card."
Other Phis were painting on the back of
the house and working on the playground.
Four men, all Centre football players, were
making a new shuffleboard court. Two unloaded
crushed rock while two others tapped
it down firmly. Concrete was poured later.
The men were Logan Crouch, Jim Lee,
Carroll Holmes, and Paul Warriner.
Working on the playground swings were
Milt Waldron and Henry Dickinson.
Brother Waldron was perched on the
swing's high cross bar and remained in
that precarious spot for almost an hornwhile
doing a repair job. This kind of enthusiasm
seemed to prevail among all of
the 30 Phi Delt actives and pledges who
gave hours of time and effort.