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

The Alumni %^ Club Activities
Annual Penn Theta Alumni Reunion Unique
By DON M. CRESSWELL, Penn State
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NE Sunday afternoon this June, on a big, fertile
O tobacco and >potato farm in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, a unique event took place.
It was the 20th anniversary of the "Huber Phi
Delt Reunion" that has been held annually since
1933 for a group of Phis who were members of the
active chapter at Pennsylvania Theta (Penn State)
between 1914 and 1920.
There probably is nothing to equal it in * A 9
annals. If there is,, this Penn Theta bunch Would
like to hear about it!
Back in September, 1914, the chapter rushed a
strikingly handsome, genial and "lovable kid, D.
Mark (Dutch) Huber, fresh from the farm via an
Eastern Pennsylvania prep school. He was pledged
within the hour and until Uncle Sam called him for
World War I he was the life and soul of the chapter
through his friendship and wholeheartedness.
Phis of the 1914-20 era could not and did' not
forget Dutch Huber. During the 1920's a number
of them began dropping in at the farm a few miles
south of the City of Lancaster, during the summer
months, with their wives and children, notably the
Ben Welty's and Bill Miller's of Waynesboro, Pa.
Then Dutch and his charming wife, Polly, in
June, 1932, invited all 1914-20 Phis in the Eastern
Pennsylvania area for whom they had addresses, to
spend a Sunday at the farm. Nearly a dozen turned
out from the classes of '14, '15, '16, '17, '18 (Huber's
class), '19 and '20. The Hubers supplied a picnic
lunch under a spreading English, walnut tree on
the spacious farmhouse lawn and have held the
reunion every year since then except for a few years
during World War II (remember gasoline ration-
PENN STATE PHIS IN ANNUAL REUNION
Phis of Pennsylvania Theta have gotten together annually for 20 years at the Huber Phi Delt Reunion in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, Pictured above is the group at the '52 gathering, FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Wilkinson 'ij,
Hallowell 'ly, Carothers '18, Host D. Mark Huber '18, A. Miller '18, Bliss '18, Barnard '18, Cresswell '18, and
D. Huber '4'j (Phi son of the host), STANDING:, W. Miller '15, Welty '75, Eichelberger '14, Towson '16, W. Oehrle '16, Sonin-law
W. Cook, W. Miller, Jr, '42 (Phi son of W. Miller, Sr. INSET: For contrast, after 18 years, the 1935 reunion group.
SEATED: Barnard, Arner, Carothers, Huber, Cresswell, Welty, W. Miller, W. Oehrle. STANDING: A. Oehrle, Wilkinson,
Eichelberger.
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