1953–54 Volume 78 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive
1953–54 Volume 78 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive
1953–54 Volume 78 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive
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240 THE SCROLL of <strong>Phi</strong> <strong>Delta</strong> <strong>Theta</strong> for January, 1954<br />
PHIKEIAS OF VIRGINIA DELTA AT RICHMOND<br />
FIRST ROW: Perkins, Howard, Wiles, Jackson, Shirley, SECOND ROW: Matisco, Beckner, Dunnavant, Nichols, Bininghove,<br />
DuVal, Wandall. THIRD ROW: Eggleston, Crowder, Dunkley, Beam, Breckenridge. NOT PICTURED: Rennolds, Hodges.<br />
fourth place in the Big Six meet highlighted the season.<br />
All four of our football starters, Ray Quillen, Charlie<br />
Modlin, Carlton Schelhorn and Hank Strempek, made<br />
exceUent records for themselves. Hank Strempek ended<br />
the season with an exceptional game against a strong<br />
<strong>No</strong>rth CaroUna team. On the intramural fields Glenn<br />
HoUoman's boys are demonstrating a great deal of<br />
athletic ability. Although the football team was unable<br />
to enter the championship playoffs, the voUeybaU team<br />
finished fourth among the s8 other fraternities. Holloman<br />
and Jack Edwards were the "big spike men" on<br />
the team, while Al Douglas, Jim Bates, and BiU Johnson<br />
demonstrated keen defensive ability. All the Winter<br />
sports are underway now and many points have been<br />
added to the <strong>Phi</strong> total. An off-season Fall rush program<br />
ended with the pledging of three men of the highest<br />
caliber. They are Bill Cockrell, Stan Nick and John<br />
Wallace. They have already replanted the front yard<br />
grass and fixed up the ladies' powder room. Justin<br />
Crowley deserves much praise for financing and organizing<br />
the latter project. Wally Hatch, Al Smith and Sid<br />
Kinkead worked hard to collect enough contributions for<br />
a beautiful new living room rug. Alumni Bill King, Jack<br />
Edwards, Pete Kem, John Pinkham, Jim Roberson, John<br />
Alba, Bob Lesperance, <strong>No</strong>rm Scott and John Gusdonovich<br />
have returned for brief visits lately. We are always<br />
happy to see the older brothers back. Marea Jo Bickley<br />
has helped us in rushing while her husband, Lt. Jim<br />
Bickley, '53, is serving with the Army in Korea. A new<br />
plan was devised for the annual Christmas party December<br />
12. All the brothers brought their best girls and joined<br />
in extensive decoration plans. Wally Hatch arranged for<br />
a dinner which preceded the party. During the Thanksgiving<br />
vacation. Gross McKee picked up a paint brush and<br />
went to work on the ipterior of the house again. Chris<br />
Crowell donated our Christmas cards this year and is<br />
about to publish the "<strong>Phi</strong>-ner Times." Relations with<br />
our neighboring chapters are as pleasant as ever. Washington<br />
and Lee <strong>Phi</strong>s treated the whole house to dinner<br />
after our recent football scrimmage. Frank Young, reporter<br />
at Lehigh University, came down to visit us last<br />
month and extended an invitation for us to visit his<br />
Pennsylvania chapter. The Maryland <strong>Phi</strong>s will bring<br />
their basketbaU team down to the Old Dominion again<br />
this year to meet our high scoring club. We hope they'U<br />
enjoy themselves BOB BIGGAR, Reporter.<br />
VIRGINIA GAMMA, Randolph-Macon College.—The<br />
loss of Chapter Co-advisor Bill Robertson, who entered<br />
the Navy <strong>No</strong>vember 16, is keenly felt. Brother Robertson<br />
served as one of our ablest presidents and is a sincere<br />
friend. Virginia Gamma pledged eighteen fine Freshmen.<br />
We expect much of them and doubt that we wiU<br />
be disappointed. The chapter has had a larger number<br />
of parties this year than last. Of that number—<br />
happily—we have had no stag parties. October 23 Louis<br />
P. Smithey, Randolph-Macon '10, Hamilton Smithey,<br />
Randolph-Macon '42, and their families attended the<br />
dedication of Smithey Hall, . Randolph-Macon's new<br />
physics and mathematics building named in honor of<br />
Royal Bascom Smithey, Professor of Mathematics, 18<strong>78</strong>-<br />
1917. A week later J. Rives Childs, Randolph-Macon '12,<br />
former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, spoke on American<br />
policy in that area, and afterward' visited the chapter<br />
house. Our Homecoming decoration received praise but<br />
not the trophy. A papier-mSch^ tiger tumed on a spit<br />
above a realistic artificial fire made by partially concealing<br />
a cylinder ot aluminum foil turning on a phonograph.<br />
The crinkled aluminum foil reflected light from<br />
concealed red and yellow bulbs. Smoke from bottles of<br />
ammonia and hydrochloric acid completed a perfect<br />
iUusion. The R-M Yellow Jacket seasoned the Tiger a<br />
little prematurely, however. Randolph-Macon lost the<br />
game in the second half to Hampden-Sidney, 20 to 12.<br />
—^JOHN C. JUSTICE, Reporter.<br />
VIRGINIA DELTA, University of Richmond.—Our first<br />
year in our new lodge is proving to be one of the greatest<br />
years in Virginia <strong>Delta</strong>'s expansion program. With this<br />
added inspiration, our mid-semester grades showed Virginia<br />
<strong>Delta</strong> to be well above the all men's average, and<br />
by the end of the school year we should be in an excellent<br />
position to cop scholastic honors. Other physical<br />
improvements have also been realized so far this year—<br />
alumni-donated shrubery was set out and grass was finally<br />
persuaded to grow. Our newly organized Mothers' Club<br />
has really been a help to us this Fall, and solely through<br />
their enthusiastic efforts we now have draperies and<br />
cornices. The Mothers' Club first held a rummage sale<br />
and then a card party, both of which took hard work and<br />
produced phenomenal results. Socially, we have had<br />
unusually wonderful socials each weekend, making good<br />
use of the new lodge. Our big party of the season was<br />
held at the Chesterfield Country Club after Homecoming.<br />
This one was complete with a Dixieland band, plenty<br />
of old grads, and lack of room for the unusually large<br />
turnout. The icing was placed on the cake with the conclusion<br />
of rushing. Our new pledge class of nineteen men
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