1993 Volume 116 No 1–4 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

Alumni Notes
• Dr. Donald Demkee, Akron
'60, recently donated funds
for a new library at the
Wooster Community
Hospital. The Ubrary wUl
be dedicated to his parents
Samuel and Martha.
• George Auten, Akron '56,
EUet High School footbaU
and track coach in Akron,
Ohio, was honored with
the Caraboolad Coach of
the Year Award.
• George Bertsch, Akron '64,
retired from the U.S. Army
Reserve in August, 1992.
He served for 28 years and
retired with the raiUc of
Ueutenant colonel. He was
a decorated officer who last
served as chief of personnel
for the 30P' Theater Army
Area Command at Fort
Belvoir, Virginia.
• Gordon Q. Kling, Alberta
'69, is the executive editor
of the Cape Times, a
newpaper in Cape Town,
South Africa.
• Wayne Cranford, Arkansas
'62, has been elected
chairman emeritus of
Cranford Johnson
Robinson Woods, Arkansas'
largest and most
respected advertising,
marketing, and pubUc
relations firm.
• Robert R. Neal, Arizona
State '85, was awarded
Salesman of the Year by
Watkins Manufacturing of
Vista, California.
• Dr. Jack C.Hughston,
Auburn '38, the man who is
widely known as the
pioneer in the field of
sports medicine, was
awarded the Jim Woodruff
Jr. Memorial Award in
January. The award honors
individuals for achievement
and humanitarian
contributions to the
community. He is the
founder of the Hughston
Sports Medicine Hospital
in Columbus, Ohio.
• Edmund "Skip" Eveleth,
Brown '32, was asked by
Major General John D.
Robinson to give a speech
to officers at Fort Rucker,
Alabama, about Eveleth's
colorful history in aviation.
Messersmith with Carter
portrait.
He worked for more than
60 years with Igor Sikorsky
and Howard Hughs.
Eveleth plans to write a
book caUed Achievers about
his experiences in the
aviation industry.
• Alfred M. Benson, Brown
'62, was reappointed vice
chairman of the Editorial
Board of The Appraisal
Journal, the premier
joumal of the real estate
appraisal industry. Benson
is president of his own real
estate firm in Tucson,
Arizona.
• Two altunni were Usted
in the Des Moines Register's
"Up and Comers," a Ust of
Iowa's top 24 young
business leaders. Alan
Ryerson, Drake '76, is
principal and treasurer of
Business Capital Corp. and
president of the Iowa
Society of Certified PubUc
Accountants. Eric Turner,
Drake '78, is an attorney
with Langdon & Langdon,
a prestigious law firm in
Des Moines.
• John Scott Hoff, Drake '67,
was recently promoted to
fuU colonel in the U.S. Air
Force Reserve. A recent
graduate of the Air War
College, Hoff has been
assigned as reserve
mobilization assistant to
the commandant of the Air
Force Institute of Technology
in Dayton, Ohio.
• Michael J. Ernst, Eastern
Kentucky '84, was made
Dr. Jack Hughston.
partner in the law firm of
I Stokes, Lazarus &
Carmichael in Atlanta.
• Two Florida Alpha
I alumni decided to merge
two of the largest Horidaj
based brokerages. J. Hyatt
I Brown, Florida '59, chair-
' man and president of
Brown & Brown, and
William F. Poe, Florida '53,
chairman of Poe & Associ-
I ates, will combine their
; companies to create the
j largest brokerage in Florida
and the 14th largest in the
United States. Brown will
be president and CEO, and
Poe wiU be chairman of the
now $83 milUon Poe &
Brown Inc.
• Jack Ragsdale, Franklin
'48, chairman of the
executive committee of the
North American International
Livestock Exposition,
was honored for his
years of work in the
Uvestock industry. An oU
painting of the legendary
cattleman wiU adom the
West Wing of the LouisviUe
Fairgrounds with the
more than 300 other
portraits of past leaders of
the cattle industry.
• Albert L. Crittenden Jr.,
Georgia '54, recently retired
from EU LUly & Co. after 33
years of service. He was a
district sales manager for
23 years in Birmingham,
Alabama and Atlanta.
• Jackson, Mississippi's
Jitney Jungle grocery chain
was Usted 137"" in Forbes
ranking of the top U.S.
58 The ScroU • Spring 1993