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

THE SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for January, 1954 195
DR. DAVID K. TODD, Purdue "48
A Ph.D. in C.E,
two years as hydraulic engineer for the U. S. Bureau
of Reclamation in Denver, Colo. He won his M.S.
degree at New York University in 1949. He has
an imposing list of published articles in scientific
magazines.
New gifts by ERNEST INGOLD,- Illinois '09, San
Francisco businessman, to his alma mater, the University
of Illinois, have been added to one of
America's best collections of Shakespeare's works and
materials about them. He has just added 52 volumes
to the Ingold Collection of Shakespeareana in the
University Library.
JIM KELLY, South Dakota '23, Minnesota track coach,
has been named chairman of the 1956 United
States Olympic men's track and field committee.
NAMED DISTRICT GOVERNORS OF ROTARY
HARRY M. GAMBREL, Colorado College 'ig (left) and
E. HANES AYRES, Vanderbilt '06.
He has served his local Rotary club as president and
is now governor of 33 Rotary clubs in one of four
districts in his state.
Brother Gambrel, a partner in the insurance
firm of Mann, Kerdolff, Kline and Welsh, is president
of the Citizens Regional Planning Council, the
Polce Retirement Board and the U.S.O. at Kansas
City. He also is a governor of the Art Institute and
the Conservatory of Music, and a trustee of the
Museum. There are 51 Rotary Clubs in his district,
one of four in Missouri.
JOSEPH L. LANIER, W&L '27, was elected to the Board
of Trustees of Washington & Lee University in
November. Brother Lanier is president of the West
Point Manufacturing Company, West Point, Ga.,
and is an officer and director in its subsidiary companies.
He is a director also of the First National
Bank, Atlanta, Ga.; First National Bank, West Point;
Atlanta & West Point Railroad Company; Western
Railway of Alabama, Atlanta; and Continental Gin
Company, Birmingham, Ala. He is a trustee of the
George N. Lanier Memorial Hospital, Langdale,
Ala., the Institute of Textile Technology, Charlottesville,
Va., and National Safety Council, Chicago.
JOHN W. LOGAN, Missouri '30, formerly with General
Electric Company for 22 years, has been elected
president of Cambridge Corporation, an engineering
and manufacturing company with headquarters
at Cambridge, Mass.
Two members of 4>Ae—E. HANES AYRES, Vanderbilt
'06, of Columbia, Tenn., and HARRY M.
GAMBREL, Colorado College '19, of Kansas City, Mo.,
are District Governors of Rotary International for
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Brother Ayres, until his recent retirement, was
chairman of the board of the Commerce Union
Bank in Columbia. A past president of the Chamber
of Commerce, he also is a member of the planning
and zoning board and of the Selective Service Board.
Serving as a member of the City Council of Park
Ridge, 111., Alderman CLARE PERLIN Northwestern
'30, had the pleasure of presenting a plaque to
ARNOLD NEUMAN, Northwestern '27, for his efforts
in incorporating a system of job evaluation and
merit rating for the employees of the city. Park
Ridge is one of the first cities to instigate such a
plan.
A former national forest supervisor, WILLIAM G.
GUERNSEY, Idaho '29, has moved to Portland Ore.,
to assume new duties as regional administrator of
the bureau of land management.
TOBIN C. CARLIN, Stanford, '38, has been named
Director of sales for the Dad's Root Beer Company
at Chicago, 111.