1930–31 Volume 55 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

Vol. LV, No. 2THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETAwill have charge of the training of menadded to the staff of the company,general supervision of field work, andpersonal work with employees. He isthe son of Bishop Sam R. Hay of theMethodist Church, South.Various leaders of the VirginiaHouse of Delegate were high in theirpraise of the work of Maitland H.Bustard, Randolph-Macon, '22, Virginia,'22, delegate from Danville andPittsylvania County. Brother Bustardhas just finished his first term in theVirginia legislative body. He servedon four important committees and wasactive on the floor of the house as wellas in committee work. He sponsoredlegislation to advance the cause ofaviation in Virginia by making iteasier for towns and cities to provideairports.A special edition of The Nation'sBusiness, issued late in the spring,carries an article on the argiculturalfinance situation by Daniel A. Millett,Washington, '01. Brother Millett isone of the leading business men ofDenver, Colorado, took a prominentpart in the Detroit convention, andprobably will be even more of a factorin the 1932 convention at Estes Park.A Denver project of interest to all* A 0 is the purchase of a formerhome of the great children's poet,Eugene Field, Knox-Missouri, '72, andits removal to a Denver park to serveas a branch library. The home is thegift to the city of Mrs. J. J. Brown,Denver and Paris society matron. Itclimaxes a movement started severalyears ago to honor the memory of thepoet who once lived in Denver andwrote many poems there. The branchwill probably Be known as the EugeneField Memorial Library. Some remodelingof the frame structure willbe necessary but as much as possiblewill be done to preserve the associationsconnecting it with the name ofField.[115]One of the best exhibits at thespring flower show given at Oakland,California, was that of blue lupine,made by William N. Friend, California,'94, postmaster of Oakland. BrotherFriend's hobby is the raising of flowers,particularly California blue lupine,and he has done a great deal to popularizethis flower. The flower showwas held at the Earle C. Anthony(California,'OZ) building."Probably no man in Detroit hasdone more to amuse, entertain, andsafeguard the kiddies of the city thanhas Neal Tomy, one of the best-knownannouncers in radio studios of America."Thus wrote a Detroit magazinerecently in a front page "box" connectedwith a feature story about CorneliusD. Tomy, Northwestern, '01,"Uncle Neal" to thousands and thousandsof Detroit and Michigan children.Brother Tomy receives letters,from an average of 50,000 childreneach year, and he has enrolled 150,000children in his Safety Club, an organizationplanned solely to help his youngfriends avoid the traffic dangers.There was no design in the mannerin which Brother Tomy broke intoradio. After attending Northwesternhe worked for several years in theeditorial department of a New Yorknewspaper. He then purchased apaper in Portland, Michigan, and soldit in 1922. At that time he intendedto move with his family to Californiabut while visiting in Detroit was offeredby the Detroit Free Press the managementof its new radio station,WCX. He accepted and has beenbusy ever since building up an increasingfamily of nephews and nieces.His "Uncle Neal" feature came fromhis desire to originate a children'sprogram. His personality has been sowoven into it that he has been in constantdemand as a speaker at parentteachermeetings, women's clubs, etc.The story of the contribution onePhi made to healthful conditions in