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

THE SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for January, 1954 189
Lehigh
University
Kyle Samuel Crichton, '17, author, educator (originally
listed in error under Dickinson College)
Texas Technological
College
Dr. Clifford B. Jones, educator
Dr. D. M. Wiggins, banker and educator
University of Vermont
A. H. Kehoe, '11, electrical engineer
University of Wisconsin
Austin S. Iglehart, '12, executive
You Never Look Back
(Continued from page i8^)
Some time during the night, however, a
scheduled course change complicated the
zig-zag—a steering pitfall for many a Navy
Skipper—and the lookout of the LST peered
into the blackness just in time to see a
huge form bearing down upon his tiny
ship, screamed his warning to the skipper.
Without seconds or knots to spare, the
skipper instantly became a seasoned seafarer,
ordered hard right rudder, full speed
ahead, and narrowly escaped being
rammed by the larger ship.
But that was not the end of his troubles.
When he finally steadied his LST and
attempted to find his position in the convoy
in all of the darkness, the convoy wasn't
to be found, much less his assigned station.
With no means of communicating, he
maintained the course he considered appropriate
and set his engines at top speed to
overtake the ships that had left him.
Those were anxious hours of blackness,
with no sight of fellow ships. With the first
gray twilight of dawn he was topside peering
anxiously around the horizon, ahead
and to each side, hoping for a glimpse of
the convoy.
Again and again he searched, and as the
day grew brighter, his heart grew heavier.
Finally, a young sailor lookout ventured
to inquire of the skipper, "What are you
looking for, sir"
"I'm looking for that convoy we lost last
night," he exclaimed bitterly.
"Well, why don't you look behind us"
said the sailor.
The skipper of that ship is a civilian again
today.
He is the skipper of an equally important
project right here in Macon.
His name is Logan Lewis, chairman of
the Community Chest campaign.
He is a man who is so accustomed to looking
out ahead of things that he doesn't
think to look behind.
That is why the Chest campaign is going
to succeed with his leadership.
Like his skipper days on the LST, he is
going to take this Community Chest crew
full speed ahead, until other communities
in the convoy will be looking at Macon
away out front.
You never get there by looking back.
With Phis in the World of Sports
By DR. JOHN DAVIS, JR., Washburn '38
Don Addington (S.M.U.), a golfer on the 1953
All-Phi Honor Roll, captured the third annual Las
Vegas Invitational Golf Tournament... . Frank Matter
(Case) was named to the AAU All-American
swimming team in the long distance event. . . . Gene
Sultze (Wisconsin), a distance runner named on the
1953 All-Phi Honor Roll, ran sixth in a cross country
meet as Wisconsin upset the defending NCAA Michigan
State team. Sultze also ran fourth in the Loyola
Invitational cross-country meet. . . . Bob HoUen
(Penn State) finished sixth in the annual NCAA
cross-country championship at East Lansing, Michigan
late in November. . . . Wallace "Wah-Wah"
Jones (Kentucky), former basketball great, was
elected Sheriff of the county which includes Lexington.
. . . Barry Porter (UCLA), last season's Bruin
basketball captain, has been appointed assistant
frosh cage coach for 1953-54. ... A pair of former
AU-Americans and AU-Phi football selections, Ray
Beck (Ga. Tech), now playing for Fort Jackson, S.C,
and George Morris (Ga. Tech), performing with
Fort Belvoir, Va., were chosen by the Army Times
newspaper poll for the 1953 All-Army football
team.
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