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

HIGHLIGHTS OF ILLINOIS BETA SCHOLARSHIP BANQUET
LEFT: Chancellor Kimpton (right) presents I.F.C, Scholarship Trophy to Al Keisker, chapter president, CENTER: Province
President Bud Banta presented the George S. Ward Scholarship Trophy for the Fraternity to Keisker after appropriate
remarks, RIGHT: Dean of Students Robert Strozier sounded a warning as Bob Harrison and Murray Hurlihy listened
soberly.
was increased. In the annual intramural swimming meet
we placed second, missing first place by only one point.
During the Winter we are planing to field a strong
basketball team, hoping to win the school championship
for the fourth straight year. The Mothers' Club of
Georgia Delta helped us greatly during the quarter by
presenting us with a new piano and by decorating the
house for Christmas. December 11 we played host to a
group of underprivileged children from Hillside Cottages
at a Christmas party. Each of the small boys received gifts in
addition to the gifts presented to the Orphanage. Saturday
night, December 12, the annual Christmas party for the
members of the chapter was held and that Sunday
morning the chapter participated in the annual Empty
Stocking Fund Drive which is sponsored by the Atlanta
Junior Chamber of Commerce. The funds solicited from this
drive help make Christmas merrier for the underprivileged
people of Atlanta.—RENDER CRAYTON, Reporter.
IDAHO ALPHA, University of Idaho.—December was
a busy month for members as well as pledges. Harvey
Hoff has returned from New York where he represented
the state of Idaho, as the student guest of the National
Association ot Manufacturers, at their annual convention.
Included in the month's activities was the annual
Christmas dance with the theme "Silver Bells." Decorations
centered around the theme of Dickens' Christmas
Carol with the past, present, and future being depicted
in the three main rooms. Reidar UUevaalseter, our exchange
student, and Norman Gertson are representing the
Phis on the Vandal ski team. Gertson is a one year
letterman. Idaho's basketball team is rated one of the
best on the coast. This year's team is being buUt around
big 6' 8" Dwight Morrison. A Senior Phi, Morrison was
the second highest scorer on the squad and led the Coast
Conference in rebounds. Two Phikeias and one member
have won scholarships for the 1953-54 school year. Bud
Raymond Fisher has won the Carol Howe Foster award
for $300. The Foster award is given to the Senior, who
in his Sophomore and Junior years as a Phi has maintained
the highest scholastic average. Mickey McCarty and
Paul Cooper, Phikeias, won the Carl Raymond Gray and
the Spokane Press Club awards respectively. McCarty's
award was for outstanding work in 4-H work and
Cooper's for work in journalism. Phikeia Steve Emerine
and John Mix were tapped for the journaUsm honorary,
A 2 X. In intramurals the Phis are leading in total points
after scoring high in football, volleyball and swimming.
—BUD FISHER, Reporter.
ILLINOIS ALPHA, Northwestern University.—Highlighting
the Fall quarter for Illinois Alpha was, of course.
Homecoming. The numerous returning alumni enjoyed
themselves at Fred Emich's garage with a party. Jack
Holmbeck, alumni secretary for the active chapter, gave a
short dissertation stressing the need for good alumni relations.
His ideas were weU received and with continued
work, we are sure they will be realized. In the field of
intramural sports the Phis are again engaged in trying
to win their third consecutive. I.M. title. With basketbaU
in season Illinois Alpha is leading the N.U. team.
John Biever, this year's captain and last year's most
valuable player, heads the Ust of returning candidates.
Frank Petrancek, Steve Delaney and Howie Wegbury fill
out the list. For the past several months a familiar face
has been seen occasionaUy around the house. Ed Brandon,
now Ensign U.S.N.R., lias been stationed at Glenview
Naval Air Station. Mark Engdahl headed the committee
on judicial reform of the Interfratemity Coimcil. He very
ably handled the issues which were rather controversial.
The social season was climaxed with the Fall formal at
the Columbia Yacht Club in Chicago BOB LEBUHN,
Reporter.
ILLINOIS BETA, University of Chicago.—^Do you Uke
banquets with nice people who say interesting things
So do we. We had a scholarship banquet at the Illinois
Beta chapter house on November 23. We had some nice
people there who said interesting things. Chancellor
Kimpton of the University of Chicago was one of them.
He presented our president, Al Keisker, the Interfraternity
Council scholarship trophy. He said we are pretty
bright, and pretty good. We thanked him. Another one
of the nice people who were there was George Banta,
III, Iota Province President. He gave Al the George S.
Ward Scholarship Trophy, from *Ae, and sat down.
But first, he said we are pretty good, and pretty bright.
We thanked him. There were lots of nice people there.
For instance, a third one was Robert Strozier, dean of
students at the University of Chicago. Bob Harrison, our
alumni secretary, and Murray Hurlihy, our chapter adviser,
-were very serious as they listened to him. He
didn't say we are pretty bright, and he didn't say we are
pretty good. As a matter of fact, he did say we might
not be around very long. He spoke "as a fraternity man,
and as a Southerner." In response to our questions, he
said if we didn't get rid of our selectivity clause, we
probably wouldn't be allowed to remain on the campus.
He was very friendly, but he was very serious too. We
thanked him and then adjourned to think about aU the
nice people who had come to our banquet and said
interesting things. Three or four hours later, we'd figured
out that we are pretty bright and pretty good for people
who might not be around very long.—LES FOSTER, Editor,
Maroon Phi.
ILLINOIS DELTA-ZETA, Knox College.—Phi Delta
Theta on the Knox campus has had an unusually good