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

Vol. LV, No. 4THESCROLLPHI DELTA THETAIn the death car there were five collegestudents, four of Duke University,and one from North CarolinaState College. The three in the front.Brother Chapman, Fred Ingram,S * E, at North Carolina State, andJames Johnson, were killed instantly.James Jarret, A X A and Thomas Miller,both Duke students were seriouslyinjured.The students were on their way tothe Duke-Navy football game at Annapolisand Brother Chapman was tomeet his parents at Washington, D.C,and accompany them home later.The idol of his parents. BrotherChapman entered Duke in 1929, andimmediately became outstanding. Hewas chosen as a member of the FreshmanFriendship Council and wasprominent in the activities of his class.As a dash man on the freshman trackteam, he had great prospects for abrilliant future on the cinder path.He was initiated into North CarolinaAlpha in February, 1930) and tookan active part in the work of hisfraternity.Brother Chapman was born May 4,1911, at Hagerstown, Maryland, thefirst child of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra DouglasChapman. He attended high schoolat Hagerstown where he was a starmember of the track team and wonacademic honors in his four yearsthere.Clean in habits and in body, he waslooked up to by the members of NorthCarolina .\lpha as a model for a perfectlife. Of course, the Lord knowsbest, but it was with heart-breakingsorrow that North Carolina Alpha sawhim pass from their midst.TED MANN• • •Dr. R. Mark Brown, Utah, '09Dr. R. Mark Brown, Utah, '09, diedat a hospital at Salt Lake City, Utah,Friday, September 12, 1930, from septicemia,following an operation forgall bladder trouble. .\t the time ofhis death Dr. Brown was a resident ofOgden, Utah, but maintained an office[285]in the Medical Arts Building in SaltLake City. Utah, specializing in X-rayphotography. He is survived by hiswidow and three children.Dr. Brown in 1909 graduated fromthe University of Utah with a degreeof A.B., which included two years premedicalwork. In 1912 he received hismedical degree from Columbia University.Prior to his attendance at theUniversity of Utah he was a student atthe Utah State Agricultural Collegeat Logan, Utah. Dr. Brown playedfootball during his student days. Healso had a splendid baritone voice andplayed in the dramatic club.At the time of his death he wasengaged in research work in connectionwith X-ray photography and wasto have given a paper at the Novembermeeting of X-ray specialists in LosAngeles, California, on the results ofhis experiments in connection with thedetermination of sex prior to birth bymeans of X-ray photography. Hisdeath was very sudden and wholly unexpected,striking him in the prime oflife and in the full vigor of his mentaland physical powers. A host offriends mourn his passing.R. Wareily Smith, Texas, '87R. Waverly Smith, Texas, '87,prominent Galveston banker an 1philanthropist, died at his summerhome on Long Island, New York, July12. Brother and Mrs. Smith spentseveral months of each year in theEast. Funeral ser\ices were held inNew York where the body wastemporarily interred. Brother Smithwas president of the First NationalBank of Galveston, Texas, and hadlong been prominent in civic aff^airs inthat city. He had been particularlyactive in the organization of the Sealy-Smith Foundation, which administersa bequest of several million dollarsleft by John Sealy, Brother Smith'sbrother-in-law, to the John SealyHospital. Brother Smith was born inVirginia but moved to Texas in early