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

T^HE baby is growing and doing fine, thank you.
He has hair on his chest and is making his voice
heard around the Texas Tech campus. We call him
Texas Epsilon, you know. He came into being just
last May, and, my, how he's expanded.
His initiates now number 167. The active chapter
comprises 58 initiates and 29 Phikeias. The members
include the student body president, two members of
the Student Council, three nominees to Who's Who
in American Colleges and Universities, the editor
and the business manager of the college annual,
five holders of academic scholarships, and ten lettermen
in the Double-T Association.
Texas Epsilon's alumni group now includes two
men whose name may be added to the Fraternity's
roster of men in Who's Who. Dr. Clifford B. Jones,
president emeritus of Tech and a member of Silver
Key, was initiated into 4i A 6 at the installation.
Now Dr. D. M. Wiggins, Lubbock banker and
former Tech president, has been initiated as a
Brother in the Bond by virtue of his membership
in Silver Key.
The baby's float in the Homecoming Parade at
Tech won first place in the comic division. It was
a prophetic blue whale that prophesied a "whale
of a victory for Tech" over the University of Arizona.
Texas Epsilon has had two initiations this year,
possibly a third by the time this report is in print.
October 4, in the home of Parker Prouty, Oklahoma
'23, a group of 26 Phikeias and four former
members of Silver Key subscribed to the Bond
and became brothers.
The Phikeia group included: T. Glen Cary,
Brownfield; G. Decker McKim, Don W. Bacon,
Robert D. Beckwith, Jerry C. Brown, William R.
Bunton, Samuel T. Camp Jr., Sammy M. Hodge,
C. Melvin Deardorff, William A. Kilpatrick, Roy
A. Middleton, Don N. Mills and Ben Lee Wilson,
all of Lubbock; Jim M. Alexander, Abilene; T.
Farrell Bryant, San Angelo; Gerald S. Ford, Dallas;
Royal M. Hagerty, Pass Christian, Miss.; Gary D.
Hancock, Kermit; Ted Harrison, Roswell, N.M.;
John W. Jones, Brady; David L. Larson, Marfa;
David L. Loughridge, Fort Worth; E. B. Moreman
Jr., Amarillo; Danny E. Owen, Plainview; C. Jack
Pruitt, Odessa, and W. Jack Nelson, Denver City.
The Silver Key group comprised Dr. Wiggins;
Thomas J. Friday, Midland, and James B. Hall and
Billy M. Scales, both of Lubbock.
At Homecoming, the first weekend in November,
an initiation in three sessions took place, the rites
being conducted at the First Presbyterian Church.
One Phikeia of the active chapter, John V. Thompson,
iSrownfield, and 24 Silver Key alumni became
brothers.
In the Silver Key alumni group were Tanner
Laine, John B. Malone, Fred Underwood, Wesley
B. Hamilton, Joe K. Jones, John F. Moss, Ted G.
Waldrip, Dudley P. Repp, L. Graves Fowler, H.
The Baby's Gaining Weight
By DICK R. MCGUIRE, President, Texas Epsilon
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Orville Alderson, Jack C. Alderson and Lyon O.
Sparks, all of Lubbock; Jimmie Rufus Brown and
Frank M. Coker, Dallas; Frederic R. Harp, Lamesa;
Charles H. Sulinger, Tulsa, Okla.; Robert T. Fee
Jr., Colorado City; Elgin W. Smith, Willow City;
Joe Warren Scales, Spur; Jennings Temple Lewis,
Blackwell; James Henry Robertson III, Aspermont;
John N. Simpson Jr., Tulia; James Norman Morris,
Sulphur Springs, and Richard P. Scaling, Fort
Worth.
Ready for initiation at this writing are Phikeias
Billy Jack Harris of Plainview, Marland S. Ribble
of Fort Worth and Clifford L. Sartin of Olney.
Other Phikeias in the present pledge class are:
Bennett E. Bechtol, Joe L. Martin, and James H.
Dean, all of Amarillo; Freddy E. Briggs, Roy Furr,
Don T. McEntire, Joe Dean Smith, Bill Williams,
James L. Box, Sherrill D. Manning, Glenn E. Rainer,
Don L. Sparks, and J. Jerry Van Pelt, all of Lubbock;
Bowden W. Cook, Dothan, Ala.; Hugh R.
Fewin, Burkburnett; Jerry Bob Johnson, Hale
Center; Bobby Ray McGehee, Lampasas; Ralph
G. Martin and Dwayne F. West, Fort Worth;
Minor W. Nelson, Winters; James D. Odom,
Alvarado; N. Gale Orr, Littlefield; Jim Polk, Abilene;
Harold Spraggins, West Point, Ga.; George
Thacker, Dayton, Ohio, and M. Wayne Teague,
Sundown.
Texas Epsilon can be justifiably proud of its
campus leaders. J. C. Chambers, president of Silver
Key before the installation last May, is president of
the Student Association and is chief of the executive
council of the Board of Student Organizations.
He also is on the executive council charged with
the operation of the Student Union Building.
Serving with him on the Student Council are
Brother Moody Alexander, immediate past president
of Texas Epsilon, and Phikeia Glen Rainer, both
of whom have been nominated for Who's Who in
American Colleges and Universities.
Alexander, who, along with Phikeia Odom, serves
as trainer for the Red Raider football team, earned
a gridiron numeral in his freshman year. He is a
student representative to the Athletic Council and
is vice commander of the Arnold Air Society. Last
Spring he was named Tech's Ugly Man in a
contest staged by A 4> fl, service fraternity of former
Boy Scouts, to raise money for the American Cancer
Society. The contest netted $600, which was presented
to the ACS in memory of the late Mrs. Roy
Hagerty, beloved stepmother of Royal Hagerty,
member of A * Ji and then a Phikeia.
Phikeia Rainer is president of H S *, scholastic
honorary, and ASP, forensics honorary. He is
chairman of the executive council of the Board of
Student Organizations. He is a member of A SII and
is a former C. N. Hilton scholar. Last summer
Lubbock sent him as city ambassador to Holland,
where he lived with a Dutch family and studied
life in that country.