1918 Volume 43 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

44 THE SCROLL
PERSONAL
'72—Thomas A. Means died April 18, igi8, at Atlanta, Ga.
GEORGIA GAMMA, MERCER UNIVERSITY
Macón, November ig, igi8.—Mereer University opened its fall term September
16, igi8. The rushing committee of Georgia Gamma assembled several
days before the opening of school. The establishing of the S. A. T. C. unit
at .Mereer caused much delaj' in the academic work, but on the other hand it
b; ought an abuiidance of fraternity material to Mereer that would not have
come otherwise.
At the end of the first week Georgia Gamma had formally pledged eight
new men. We later pledged two more promising youngsters, which brought
our total recruiting for the fall term up to the goodly number ten. It may be
well to say in passing to the next paragraph, that the above mentioned ten
pledges are all the very best calibre to be had. We pursued our strict regulations
in regard to pledging men, and sustained our record of the last eight
years, of not losing a single man we bid.
It was very uncertain up until a week ago that we would be permitted to
initiate before some of the Phikeias w^rre sent to officers' training camps. We
have a new faculty and president at Mereer, and it was with great and long
hesitancy that they gave their final consent to initiate. We immediately
"cracked down" and have recently initiated all our pledges (before the signing
of the "Great .Armistice"), thereby bringing our chapter to a total "war
strength" of t>venty-one active members. The president oí Mereer University
has shown us special fa\'ors.
Georgia Gamma takes great pleasure in introducing the following brothers,
O. C. Turner, Asburn ; M. H. Massee, Macón; Robert M. McKay, Macón; H.
Reid Vaughn, Macón; Charles E. Tillman, Quitman; J. Lafayette Pickard,
Tifton; George Lee Burnette, Macón; Osear W. Burnette, Macón; J. Albert
Lañe, Monticello, and George L. Powell, Dublin.
We take further pleasure in introducing as a Phikeia, Phil Jones of Macón,
recently pledged after a "battle royal" with certain other fraternities. He
accepted our armistice in the usual unconditional manner.
Georgia Gamma has a good bunch of officers and we are progressing along
the various lines of college activities. We all await with interest the result
that will be ours on account of the possible demobilization of the S. A. T. C.
unit. ROBERT C. LAXE.
IDAHO ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO
.MOSCOW, December 12, igi8.-—Idaho Alpha entered upon the present college
year under adverse conditions. The oíd members on returning early to school
were confronted with the request of moving from the fraternity house in order
to accommodate men of the S. .A. T. C. so that the chapter house could be used
as a barracks for the duration of the war. A G promptly responded by
placing the chapter house at the disposal of the government and immediately
found a set of club rooms in order that rushing season would not suffer. Idaho
Alpha has had a most successful rushing season and we take pleasure in
presenting the following pledges: A. Greene, of Moscow; Charles Vogleson,
Chris Weisgerber, Raymond Kerin, Clifton Creelman, Joseph Whitcombe,
Homer Lipps, of Lewiston ; Harold Simmons of Cottonwood ; Maurice Jackson
of Spokane, Wash.; Ralph J. Davis and Earl E. Hastings of Boise; Kenneth
Edwards, John Hamilton. and Harold .Murray of Xampa; Mike Tometz
of Twin Falls; Dan C. McDougall, Fred Murphy, Tr., Kenneth Hull, Eustace
E. Mullen, Emmet Hood, Raymond Burbadge of Pocatello. In the political
life of the school we stand ace high, having elected as ofiicers the following Phis :
sénior president, Y. R. Clements ; júnior president, W. A. Denecke ; sophomore
vice president, A. A. Kinney; frosh president, Hugh Richardson, and frosh
vice president Phikeia Homer Lipps. Our football team playing a shortened