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

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA March, 1931The subject of the 1931 Founders' Day discussion is "Phi Delta Thetain 1948." This date will mark the one-hundredth birthday of the fraternityand it should be interesting to trace our development since ourfounding and equally as interesting to try to predict what we will be likein the year of our centennial.Many of us feel that there are a number of unsolved problems facingus and all fraternities and that we ought all to be thinking about them anddevising methods to work them out. Chapter houses, junior colleges,dormitories, deferred pledging: what will they mean to us ?Let us discuss these questions candidly and try to solve them so thatwhen we gather at old Miami in 1948 we may look back rather than forwardto them.We announce with sorrow the first break in the board of the SCROLLEndowment Fund Trustees; John T. Boddie, Kentucky Military Institute,'84—Vanderbilt, '87, who has recently passed to the Chapter Grand. Initiatedby a long inactive chapter but affiliated by one whose illustrious sonshave probably contributed more to the upbuilding of Phi Delta Theta thanany other, Brother Boddie gave unstintingly of his valuable time andinfluence to the affair of the fraternity and his loss is one which is difficuhto bear.It will be remembered by the older generation of Phis that BrotherBoddie and his brother maintained a register of members of the fraternityin Chicago during the World's Fair of 1893. He became a Trustee ofthe SCROLL Endowment Fund at its inception in 1910 and has helped tobuild the remarkable record which these trustees have made in the handlingof that fund. These men inspected all property upon which money hasbeen loaned, they have kept the fund invested up to within a few hundreddollars at six per cent interest and they have not sustained a single loss.I3M]