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

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The Alumni Club Activities
BEAUMONT
OUR ANNUAL CHRISTMAS dance was held this year at the
Harvest Club, Monday night, December 28, from g until
1, honoring our actives and Phikeias: John Blackwell,
Albert Briggs, Jr., Charles Shine, H. A. Butler, Roland
Folse, Howard Crowe and Lloyd Perkins. Tony Martin's
orchestra of Houston furnished the music and Parker
Folse and John Sargl served as co-chaiiinen of the decorating
committee. President Ed Stedman, Jr., was general
chairman with the following committee: Frank Adams,
Parker Folse, W. F. Weed, Harvey Munro, Bobby Huey,
Preston Darland, Jim McNicholas, Charles Monkhouse and
John Sargl HARVEY MUNRO, Reporter.
BUFFALO
IN CASE SOME of the Buffalo area alumni have not seen
the section—The RoU of Alumni Clubs—^we wish to point
out the bi-weekly luncheon meetings being held. Cards
have been sent to those who are known to us, but if
there is a Buffalo Phi who reads this SCROLL and did not
receive a card—Let us know I Out of town visitors please
call Roger Gross for the dates. Plans are already underway
for our Founders Day banquet to be held late in March.
Our intended speaker is Barrett Herrick, who holds the
position of Reporter on the General Council. It is our good
fortune to have Brother Herrick, an outstanding citizen
and fraternity booster, as our main speaker. As Brother
Herrick is a much sought after speaker, our date can not
be set at this time. Notification wUl be forthcoming
when the time and date are set.—ROGER CHRISTIAN, JR.,
Reporter.
CINCINNATI
IN THE LAST issue of THE SCROLL our news letter expressed
a hope that the new Alumni Secretary from nearby
Oxford would visit us and arouse enthusiasm which
seems to have been somewhat dormant among the rank
and file for some time. We still will be glad to have the
Alumni Secretary visit us, but when he does we believe
that we can show him an alumni body which is red hot.
Here are our plans tor the next thirteen months: A tourissues-per-year
paper. The Magna Phi, will be published
and sent to all known Phi alumni in fhe Greater Cincinnati
area. (Thanks to "Tibbie" Woods, our treasurer,
who spent considerable effort to develop an up-to-date
mailing and telephone list of alumni, we find that there
are approximately 600 from at least 58 chapters, in the
area.) Our dues, which have remained at $3 per year
for some 46 years, have been raised to include admission
to the annual Founders Day banquet at a reduced rate
and subscription to The Magna Phi; this will provide
the executive board with more funds with which to
carry on the activities of the Club. The social schedule:
CHARLESTON
As OF THE MONTH of November the Charleston Alumni
group initiated a movement to once again reorganize on
a going basis. We now beUeve our former efforts to
sustain interest failed because in similar past instances
we had attempted too quickly to get a program underway
which, because of its very bigness, toppled at the outset
because required foundation in basic planning was too
little. The emphasis now is on numerous luncheon meetings
of the temporary officers only, to prepare ourselves
step by step for what is hoped will evolve into a solid
organization. Temporarily in command are the foUowing:
Richard Sterling, president; Robert Nuzum, secretary-treasurer;
Felix LUly, vice president, and Ben Rubrecht.
Reporter. Notices wiU go out to the numerous Phis
in this area advising them of meetings the first Tuesday
of each month. Our present long range plans include
a dance to be held in February.—BEN RUBRECHT, Reporter.
CENTRAL NEW YORK STATE
SOME ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY alumni ot Central New
York met at the New York Epsilon chapter house, Syracuse,
for a reunion and annual dinner Friday evening,
November 13, 1953. Guests of honor were the Rev. Ralph
Sockman, D.D., and Ray BlackweU, newly appointed
Alumni Secretary. Phis from Allegheny, Brown, Butler,
Colgate, Comell, Denison, Ohio Wesleyan and Washington
and Lee Universities joined with Syracuse in attendance.
Honors during the year have come to Albert B.
Merrill, Syracuse '14, elected president of the Board of
Trustees of Syracuse University; T. Frank Dolan,
Syracuse '16, who received an honorary LL.D. from
LeMoyne CoUege, Syracuse, and Theodore Bowes, Dickinson
'27, from the department of Liberal Arts and Syracuse
College of Law recently appointed U. S. Attorney by
President Eisenhower. Harry B. Reddick, Syracuse '99,
was elected delegate from this Alumni Association to the
biennial convention of * A 6 in September, 1954. Reports
from G. W. Lighton, alumni treasurer, Richard Randall,
president, and Hamilton Dixon, treasurer, of the active
chapter indicated a prosperous condition of New York
Epsilon.—HARRY B. REDDICK, Secretary.
LOS ANGELES
INJECTION OF THE "On The Spot" feature into weekly
programs of the Los Angeles Alumni Club has had a
lively effect on the turnouts and interest at the Friday
noon luncheons at Los Angeles' University Club, 614
South Hope Street. That good old human tendency ot
wanting to watch the other fellow work out of a hole,
has something to do with it. The Los Angeles Club went
into the "On The Spot" program tentatively prior to this
year, but in late autumn of 1953, the program became
December 14, Stag Christmas Party in the Victory Room
of the Sheraton-Gibson Hotel; January 7, dinner at the ~ definite. J-«!—•— Each ••'--'- weekly '-'- luncheon ' ' produces ->• two - drawings. -> •
Ohio Theta house; February, Bock Beer Frolic; March, One drawing puts a member "on the spot"; he has to
Founders Day Banquet; April, dinner at the Ohio Theta make the talk or stage the program for the subsequent
house; May, Country Club Outing; June, dinner at the Friday. The other drawing determines who wins a door
Ohio Theta house; July and August, no meetings, vacation;
prize. No brother goes "on the spot" more than once a
September, Annual Rush party; October, migra­
year. He gets off "the spot" by talking about his business,
tion to an out-of-town football game; November, dinner his hobby, or by producing a guest speaker of interesting
at the Ohio Theta house; December, formal dinnerdance.
The dinners at the Ohio Theta house are scheduled the programs have ignited much interest. One of the "on
caliber who will address the Friday gathering. To date
for the first Thursday of the months indicated; dates for the spot" speakers took the Los Angeles Phis through
other events will be published later.—PORTER P. LOWRY,
the ramifications of a multi-million dollar, chain department
store business from "the inside." One attorney
Reporter.
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