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

VoL LV, No. 3THIi SCROLLPHI DELTA THETAand likewise of the Oregon Alpha andBeta men who accompained us, that theBritish Columbia Chapter should havea wonderful future before it. An unusualchapter group and an outstandingalumni are the assets that it starts with.Social Activities: On November 21the Chapter gave its annual fall informalunder the managership of Griffin. Hedid his usual efficient job in making arrangementsand the dance was very muchof a success. The upperclassmen alsohad their fall dinner the last week inOctober.GEORGE KINNEARWashington Beta, Whitman CollegeInitiates: Harvey Maclin, BalfourGibson, Richard Johnston, October 15,1930.Chapter House Improvements: Paintand calcimine during the summer monthshave put the chapter house proper infine shape and the Brothers and Phikesare now engaged in improving the lawnsand garden.Campus Activities: Jones, businessmanager of the college paper, has justreturned from the P.I.P.A. conventionheld at the University of California atLos Angeles. Klise is publicity managerof the Blue Moon, quarterly humormagazine. Hove, Applegate, and Robbinsare the letterman nucleus of this season'svarsity basketball squad, and Gibsonand Robb, along with Phikeias Gordonand Carpenter, show considerable promiseof making the team. Al Newman was recentlyelected yell leader by the studentbody and is busy with plans for the annualHomecoming celebration. Featuresof the Homecoming programme are contestsamong the social groups of the campusin constructing the most original andinteresting window displays and floatsfor the Armistice day parade. Monroeand Phikeia Hoon are in charge of thework for the Phis and are determinedto win one or both of the cups to beawarded. Ostrander and Boley havebeen chosen members of the varsity debatesquad for their second year. Robbinsand Phikeias Hoon and Fisher areon the college glee club which is justcompleting a long practice preparatoryto a tour of the Northwest. Applegate,who is playing his third season as quarterbackon the varsity football eleven,has been elected president of the juniorclass. Besides Applegate, eight otherBrothers and Phikes have had regularberths on the gridiron squad this fall,including Council, Yeager, Gibson, andMonroe, and Phikeias DeVaney, Boyd,Barnes, and Hillyard. Phikeia Sutterhas been playing a lot with the regularsand has prospects of making a letter nextyear. Council, three-season veteran onthe football team, has been elected presidentof.the "W" club, campus lettermanorganization. Robb and Sexton andPhikeia Ault are on the college pep band.Captain Oswald has been working out onthe courts all fall and looks competentto bring home another unbroken stringof victories in tennis next spring.Social Activities: A fireside was givenby the Brothers October 18 at the homeof Paine Paul, whose father, likewise,is a Phi. The evening was spent in dancingand card playing, with refreshmentsserved toward the end of the entertainment.The Brothers and Phikeias havebeen taking turns in bringing guests toSunday dinner, and some real enjoymenthas been afforded both around the tableand later, when the house orchestra andsongsters add to the merry making.PAUL BOLEYWashington Gamma, WashingtonState CollegePhikeias: Lester Keene, Walla Walla,Washington; Theron Stafford, Cle Elum,Washington.Initiates: Oct. 23rd., 1930. ChariesBeaulieu, Everett, Wash.; Charles Crawford,Los Angeles, California; EdwinDumas, Dayton, Wash.; Thoralf Torkelson,Everett, Washington.Campus Activities: Tonkin, two yearveteran, is playing his last season of collegefootball on the best team WashingtonState College has ever had. He hasbeen an outstanding player all seasonespecially against Cahfornia where he returnedpunts and kick-offs 160 yardsduring the game. Blackhold is sportseditor of The Evergreen, College triweeklyand Stuart is night editor. Coleand Lochridge are on the advertisingstaff. Gilbert and Dolan took leadingparts in the all college play, "The NutFarm." Dolan, Gilbert, Boone andDumas have been given parts in play,"Loyalties," to be presented in the nearfuture. Tonkin is colonel in the WashingtonState unit of the R.O.T.C. Hen-[221 ]