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

252 THE SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for January, 1954
University, the University of Chicago, and taught
in secondary schools and colleges and practiced law
before joining the faculty of the University of Kentucky
in 1908. From 1912 to 1934 he was head of
the department of education there.
Atlanta, Brother Tinsley was associated in Atlanta
with the Internal Revenue Department. A veteran
of World War II, he served in the China, Burma
and India Theater. He was a member of the Disabled
Veterans, the American Legion and the
Ousley Methodist Church of Decatur.
KEITH SPERRY, Willamette '50, for four seasons a-
standout football halfback for his alma mater, was
killed, Oct. 20, 1953, in a plane crash at the Corpus
Christi, Tex., Naval Air Training Base. Brother
Sperry, a resident of Atherton, Calif., reportedly was
in a jet trainer and making his final flight before
getting his commission.
BERT T. HARVEY, Westminster '06, died at Pomona
Valley Community Hospital, Pomona, Calif., October
15, 1953. He had been in the real estate
business in Pomona and was a member and former
chairman of the County Regional Planning Com-
EuGENE O. HARRIS, JR., Sewanee '25, was killed in
an automobile accident near Nashville, Tenn.,
Oct. 26, 1953. A resident of Nashville, he was serving
as president of the Sewanee Alumni Association of
Nashville at the time of his death.
FOSTER HUME, JR., Sewanee '22, died at his home in
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 13, 1953. Brother Hume had lived
at Atlanta, where he was sales representative for the
Chamberlin Co. of America, for 20 years.
DR. B. EARLE PARKER, DePauw '01, retired Methodist
minister, died at a hospital in Salem, Ore., Aug. 27,
1952. He was 74 years old and since his retirement
in 1947 had been residing in Salem and supplying
the pulpit of Pratum Methodist Church near there.
A former member of the Board of trustees of Willamette
University, Brother Parker had had a long
and distinguished career in the churches he seri>ed.
Among them were the First Methodist Church in
Salem and the First Methodist Church in Eugene,
Ore. Mrs. Parker writes: "Earle loved his fraternity
and made good use of membership in the university
churches where he had served."
DANIEL GARFIELD GRANT, Stanford '04, first president
of the onetime Los Angeles Curb Exchange, died
at St. Vincent's Hospital at Los Angeles, Calif.,
Nov. 2, 1953. Brother Grant, who came to Los
Angeles in 1900, entered the investment business
shortly thereafter and continued in it until his
retirement.
MALCOLM H. BAIRD, Northwestern '03, died in Buffalo,
N.Y., July 4, 1953. A brother of Robert W.
Baird, Northwestern '05, he was also a brother-inlaw
of the late F. J. R. Mitchell, P.P.G.C.
ROBERT BURTON HOUSE, JR., North Carolina '41, son
of Chancellor and Mrs. R. B. House, Chapel Hill,
N.C, died at Memorial Hospital there, in October,
1953. Brother House did research work with the
National Defense Research Council, following his
graduation from school. He later was commissioned
in the Navy and served in the Pacific on combat
duty. After the war he studied law and received the
LL.B. degree at Yale in 1949. He practiced in Washington,
D.C. and had done legal work with the State
Department.
MELVIN D. TINSLEY, Emory '43, died in an Atlanta,
Ga., hospital, Sept. 13, 1953. A lifelong resident of
CHARLES EDWARD BURNHAM, JR., Georgia Tech '48,
was killed in an automobile accident, Sept. 23, 1953.
He was 32 years old and in the last six years had
developed his own business, American Youth
Abroad, specializing in sending American students
to Europe, into one of the larger agencies in the
Northwest. Born in Eau Claire, Wis., Brother
Burnham later attended Horace Mann-high school
at Gary, Ind., and Georgia Institute of Technology.
He served Georgia Beta as president and was outstanding
in scholarship and in editorial work, serving
as editor of Technolog, Folloiving graduation
he became an instructor in engineering at the University
of Minnesota until he developed his travel
business. A veteran of World War II, he was a member
of Hi; and IITS. Among the survivors is a
brother, Richard D. Burnham, Indiana '50.
GEORGE W. MOHR, Washington '11, died in a hospital
at Seattle, Wash., his home, Nov. 17, ^953.
He was 67 years old and had recently worked for
the National Steel Construction Company. Before
coming to Seattle in 1930 to enter the bond business
with his brother, he had been an automobile dealer
at Spokane, Wash. During his undergraduate days.
Brother Mohr was captain of the first crew to use
the Conibear stroke developed at the university by
Hiram Conibear.