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

THE SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for March, 1954 359
DR. JAMES PICKENS MCQUEEN, Alabama '09, died in
a hospital at Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 16, 1954. He
was 65 years old and had been in private medical
practice at Birmingham for 41 years. An arJient
sportsman. Brother McQueen served as president of
the Jefferson County sportmen's group, leading a
fight for game and wildlife conservation. A graduate
of Tulane University Medical College, he was a
member of * X medical fraternity. Among the survivors
is a brother, John D. McQueen, Alabama
'04, of Tuscaloosa, Ala.
DR. GEORGE P. ROBERTS, Hanover '99, died at his
home near Tarpon Springs, Fla., Jan. 8, 1954. He was
82 years old and had lived at Tarpon Springs since
1918. Prior to that time he had practiced dentistry
in Cindnnati, Ohio, Indianapolis, Ind., Cuyahoga
Falls, Ohio, and in Alaska. He was a graduate of the
coUege of dental surgery at the University of Cincinnati.
He was a Mason.
WILFERD C. BOUN, Denison 'og, died at his home in
Elmhurst, 111., in December, 1953. Following graduation
from Denison University, Brother Bolin was
employed by the Baltimore & Oliio Railroad Company,
going to Chicago in 1912, and remained with
that firm until his retirement in 1951. His membership
in the Masonic Order included the Chapter,
Council and the Scottish Rite.
HOMER W. CHAMBERLAIN, Denison '11, died in University
Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 21, 1954. A
chemist for the Kauffman-Lattimer Co. at Columbus
for 36 years, he was a member of the First Congregational
Church, and of Barton Smith Lodge at
Toledo, Scottish Rite and Shrine.
FREDERICK JOHN MILLS, Vermont '86, died at Pasadena,
Calif., Sept. 28, 1953. He attained the commission
of captain as a member of U. S. Volunteer
Engineers in the Spanish-American War and remained
a member of the Reserve. In 1893 he was
a member of the Idaho State Legislature and a year
later was appointed lieutenant-governor. He became
assistant engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad
in Idaho and later became division engineer
in construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct from
1907 to 1912 and in 1916 became an engineer for
' the Southern California Edison Co.
JOHN BALLARD LUNDGREN, Iowa Wesleyan '32, sports
editor of The Hawk-Eye Gazette, died in Burlington
Hospital, Burlington, la., Dec. 11, 1953. A native of
Burlington, he later returned there to serve as sports
editor of the newspaper. A journalism major at
Iowa Wesleyan he was editor of the Iowa Wesleyan
News and one of the founders of a humor magazine.
The Woofus, a campus publication.
JOHN B. LUNDGREN, Iowa Wesleyan '32
Brother Lundgren was a member and former di-
' rector of the Kiwanis Club, past exalted ruler of
the Burlington Lodge of Elks, worshipful master of
Malta Lodge in 1938-39, member of the Izaak
Walton League, the First Methodist Church, a director
of the Y.M.C.A., a past president of the Iowa
Daily Press Assodation Sports Writers, and a member
of the alumni advisory committee of the board
of trustees of Iowa Wesleyan College. Among the
survivors is a brother, Warren W. Lundgren, Iowa
Wesleyan '26, of St. Paul, Minn.
DR. CARL MULKY, Iowa State '99, died at his home
in Albuquerque, N.M., Jan. 14, 1954. He was 75
years old and had been practicing medicine at Albuquerque
for the past 33 years, specializing In
diseases of the chest.
A native of Iowa, Brother Mulky received his
medical education at Chicago Homeopathic and
Rush Medical Colleges, later taking postgraduate
training at the Trudeau School of Tuberculosis. He
then went into private practice in his home town of
Knoxville, la., where he remained until 1916. In
1917 he entered the service as a captain in the Medical
Corps and was discharged in 1919. Since then
he had made his home in Albuquerque.
Brother Mulky was one of the founders of the
State Tuberculosis Sanatorium and had recently
been elected president of the medical staff there. He
was a member and past president of the Bernalillo
County Medical Society, the New Mexico Trudeau
Sodety and the New Mexico Tuberculosis Association;
a fellow in the American Medical Association,
the American College of Physicians and the American
College of Chest Physicians; former medical examiner
for the Selective Service Board; a member
of the First Methodist Church; Temple Lodge No.