1950–51 Volume 75 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

The SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for September, 1950 49FRANCIS CHAPIN, Washington & Jefferson 'ai, artInstructor at the Chicago Art Institute, won firstprize at the 54th Exhibition of Chicago Art inMay. Brother Chapin won the Pauline PalmerAward with his painting "Black Bull."STEWART K. BARNES, Utah '29, was recentlyelected secretary of the Guaranty Trust Company,which is the fourth largest bank in theUnited States.VERN HAUGLAND, Montana '31, Associated Pressreporter, was recently made an honorary lifemember of the Army and Navy Union, an organizationof former service personnel. He wasthe first honorary member of the Washingtonunit in thirty years. Brother Haugland was madea member of the President's Own Garrison 104.The garrison was organized in 1907 by PresidentTheodore Roosevelt. Now on the staff of theWashington Bureau of the AP, Haugland wasgiven this honorary membership, an official ofthe Army and Navy Union said, because ofthe moral example he set in the war in thePacific as a correspondent. Brother Hauglandparachuted from a disabled plane over NewGuinea and spent nearly a month working hisway back to safety through the jungles. He wasdecorated by General MacArthur with the SilverStar.Brother Haugland has also been presidentfor the past year of the Washington chapter ofthe Montana State University Alumni Association.He was succeeded in that job this Springby another Phi, J. ALVA REES, '20, a justicedepartment attorney, who will serve until 1951.A. E. R._ "Gus" PETERKA, Case '22At his Lamson and Sessions deskA. E. R. "Gus" PETERKA, Case '22, president ofthe Case alumni association, was recently featuredin an article entitled, "Peterka Profile," inthe February, 1950 issue of the Case Alumnus.Brother Peterka is the director of sales promotionand advertising, as well as assistant salesmanager, of Lamson & Sessions, Cleveland, Ohio,manufacturers. He is also manager of the firm'saircraft division. During World War II, "Gus"was called to active duty in the army with therank of major and was assigned to the Air MaterielCommand at Wright Field. He wound uphis active duty in May, 1945, as a lieutenantcolonel, at which time he was assistant to LieutenantGeneral E. W. Rawlings. Gus rejoinedLamson & Sessions in January, 1946, after beingawarded the Legion of Merit and CommendationRibbon for his war-time service to the AirForce.Brother Peterka is a director of Aircraft HardwareManufacturing Company, Inc. of New Yorkand executive vice-president and director of theCleveland Impact Recorder Corporation. He belongsto the American Society of Metals, AviationDistributors and Manufacturers Association,Cleveland Engineering Society, Cleveland IndustrialMarketers, University Club, National Sojourners,and is a thirty-second degree Mason.Gus holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in theU. S. Air Reserves and is currently commandingofficer of the Cleveland Air Materiel CommandReserve Training Squadron. He is vice-presidentof Ohio's Reserve Officers' Association ofthe U.S.VERNON ARNOLD HAUGLAND, Montana '51Honored by Army and Navy UnionDR. GILBERT HORRAX, Williams '09, who is regardedas one of the greatest brain surgeons inthe world, performed the five-hour operationon golf's all-time great, Bobby Jones, in Mayat the Lahey Clinic in Boston. The operationwas performed to correct a spinal ailment, whichhas troubled the famous golfer for twenty years,and which has resulted in a paralysis conditionof his right leg.