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

40 THE SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for September, 1953
is interesting to note in a recent issue of Railway
Age of the near completion of the first subway in
Toronto, Ont., Canada, by the De Leuw firm.
President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
has named JEROME K. KUYKENDALL, Washington
'30, to be a member of the Federal Power Commission
for a five-year term. Brother Kuykendall,
who is a lawyer of Olympia. Wash., has been chairman
of the Washington State Power Commission.
The Senate Commerce Committee approved his
nomination unanimously. Senator Charles W. Tobey
of New Hampshire, chairman of the committee,
remarking that "he should be marked 100%" on his
answers to a series of difficult questions.
DR. JOSEPH E. ATCHISON, Louisiana State '38
Recognized pulp and paper expert
DR. JOSEPH E. ATCHISON, Louisiana State '38, former
Chief of the Pulp and Paper Branch of the Economic
Cooperation Administration, Washington,
has joined the executive staff of Parsons & Whittemore,
Inc., New York, internationally known suppliers
of pulp, paper and machinery. For the past
year. Dr. Atchison has been associated with Puerto
Rican 'Paper Products, Inc., at San Juan.
In four years with the EGA, now the Mutual
Security Agency, Atchison, spent much of his time
studying and helping to rehabilitate and improve
the pulp and paper industries in foreign countries.
He directed studies and projects designed to utilize
raw materials of many lands for the manufacture of
pulp and paper. During the past year, he has been
manager of a paperboard mill and director of a
bagasse pulp pilot plant in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
A chemical engineering graduate of Louisiana
State University in 1938, Atchison got his doctor's
degree from the Institute of Paper Chemistry, connected
with Lawrence College, Appleton, Wis., in
1942. At this time he was active in Wisconsin Beta
chapter of 4> A 6. During the next four years he was
in the Chemical Corps, U. S. Army, serving primarily
in the Pacific Theater.
Through his extensive travels and as a result of
his imany publications, especially in the field of
utilization of agricultural residues and other short
fibred raw materials for manufacture of pulp and
paper. Dr. Atchison has gained world-wide recognition
in the pulp and paper field.
Famed Phi Engineer
Receives Another Honor
CHARLES DE LEUW, Illinois '12, president of the
famed engineering firm of De Leuw, Gather &
Company, was recently elected president of the
Western Society of Engineers. He is also serving
currently as vice-president of the American Institute
of Consulting Engineers.
In connection with Brother De Leuw's honors, it
Phi of 64 Years' Standing Retires
After Long, Interesting Career
A recent letter from Louis E. VAN NORMAN,
CCN.Y. '91, of San Diego, Calif., tells that he is
well and active at 84 except for failing eyesight. A
loyal Phi for 64 years. Brother Van Norman, until
his retirement, had a most interesting career in
many fields.
Following his University education he sailed for
Europe where he served as a free lance correspondent
and contributor to many American newspapers.
He was one of the first department editors of
Literary Digest and later became editor of Nation's
Business.
Following World War I, he was sent abroad by
the Department of Commerce to report on new
economic units of Eastern Europe. He was in Warsaw
when the Bolsheviks were driving westward to
crush Poland and later served as economic adviser
to the American ambassador in Roumania.
A personal friend of many of the great people
of that time, include Paderewski and Modjeska,
he included stories about them in his final career,
that of lecturer on "What's Behind the World
News" for which his previous experiences had more
than prepared him.
During the filming of the Esther Williams'
picture Easy to Love, A.F. LT. STEWART MCDONALD,
IJCI, Cornell '52, a national champion in water skiing,
skimmed over the Cypress Gardens with Miss
Williams atop his shoulders while the leading man
watched from the sidelines.
KENTON R. CRAVENS, Kansas '25, St. Louis, Mo.,
banker, has been made head of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation. His mission will be to let the
RFC die by June, 1954, and transfer its functions
to the Commerce Department.
The Kansas City, Mo., Golf Association has announced
its affiliation with the Western Golf Association
and the Chick Evans [Northwestern '13]
Caddy Scholarship Foundation. The object of this
non-profit foundation is to provide college educa: