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

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA March, 1931gate to the epochal convention of 1880at Indianapolis where our present formof government was devised. He wasan early province president. He hasbeen secretary and president of theWashington club.Brother Summers came to Washingtonin 1887 and the following yearbecame a co-founder of the AlumniClub. He retired from 30 years servicein the War Department in 1917.Major Robert Y. Stuart, Dickinson,'03, might well claim—and his friendsprobably do claim for him—to be oneof the foremost experts on forestry inthe entire country. The claim couldeasily be substantiated as he has hada long, varied, and noteworthy careerin such work. After being graduatedfrom Dickinson he received an M.F.degree from the Yale UniversityForest School in 1906. Early in thecourse of the War he was commissioneda captain of engineers for serviceoverseas. In September, 1917Brother Stuart was sent to France,first for service at Paris and later atTours, where he assisted in the acquisitionof timber for the ForestEngineers. He became a major inOctober, 1918 and before his return inJune, 1919 to the United States occupiednumerous commands of responsibility.Brother Stuart was appointed deputycommissioner for forestry of Pennsylvaniain May, 1920, returned to theU. S. Forest Service in 1927 as chiefof the branch of public relations, andin May, 1928 was made chief of theU. S. Forest Service. He is a memberof the National Capital Park andPlanning Commission, chairman of theForest Protection Board, member ofthe executive council of the Societyof American Foresters, etc., etc.In Isaac R. Hitt, Northwestern, '88,is to be found another Phi who hascombined public and semi public servicein the nation's capital with outstandingservice to his Fraternity.From 1891 to 1894 he served as Treasurerof the General Council, and duringthose years his voice was aninfluential one in the affairs of theFraternity. He has been a Washingtonresident for thirty-five years. Heserved as Major Judge Advocate duringthe World War and in 1925 wasappointed judge of the police court forthe District of Columbia by PresidentCoolidge. His legal training he gainedin the Kent College of Law. BrotherHitt has numerous Masonic and otheraffiliations in Washington.Charles S. Hatfield, Hanover, '04,is a judge of the U. S. Court of CustomsAppeals in Washington, wherehe has been serving since his appointmentby President Harding in Marchof 1923. Like a number of otherBuckeyes he migrated to the smallsouthern Indiana college for hisundergraduate work, and later tookwork at Indiana University and OhioState University, receiving his lawdegree from the latter institution in1907. He then began his practice oflaw in his native state, worked his wayup through the various ranks of theofficial and political world in Ohio,became a prosecuting attorney, was Republicanstate chairman in 1916, andwent to Washington during the Hardingadministration.Alongside Brother Stuart in hisinterest and activity in forestry workmay be mentioned Hugh Potter Baker,Michigan State, '01. Brother Bakerfirst attended Macalester College andlater went to Michigan State where hebecame a member of Michigan Beta.From 1901 to 1904 he attended Yale.Ten years were spent with the U. S.Forest Service examining public landsfor forest reserves in Idaho, Wyoming,Nebraska, Washington, andOregon. He was professor of forestryor silviculture at Iowa State College,Pennsylvania College, and the NewYork State College of Forestry atvarious times. From 1920 to 1928Brother Baker held the responsibleposition of executive secretary of theAmerican Paper and Pulp Association,and since the latter date he has beenaffiliated with the United States Chamberof Commerce.[356]