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

Vol. LV, No. 6THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETAber 8, 1871, and was the son of Mr.and Mrs. Marshal F. Tingley. He attendedhigh school at Marion, afterwhich he entered Purdue University.Here he became a charter member ofIndiana Theta and acquired the degreeof B.C.E. Brother Tingley entered theU. S. Weather Bureau Service on July16,1898, and was assigned to the Kinston,Jamaica, station to assist Mr. WilliamB. Stockman organize the WestIndian Weather Service for the protectionof the American Fleet duringthe Spanish American War. Theheadquarters of this service weremoved to Havana, Cuba, in January,1899, and upon Mr. Stockman's departureBrother Tingley was left incharge at Kinston. He served in thisposition until June, 1899, when he wastransferred to the headquarters stationat Havana as assistant. His servicesat Havana were brief as he was sickwhen he arrived and in a short timetook to his bed with typhoid fever.When he was able to travel in August,1899, he was transferred to New Yorkpending further orders.After his return to the StatesBrother Tingley served at several fieldstations of the Bureau, including Atlanta,Wilmington, Jacksonville, KeyWest. In November, 1901, he was assignedto the Central Office of theWeather Bureau at Washington, D.C,where he served continuously until thetime of his death. For a number ofyears Brother Tingley served as anassistant in the administrative officesof the Weather Bureau where he wascharged with the responsibility of thepreparation and issuing of official instructions,travel orders, and assignmentsof personnel.While engaged in this work he becamedeeply interested in technicalproblems, more particularly investigationslooking to the possibility of extendingthe period of weather forecasts.As a result of his deep interestin this work he was selected for Chiefof the Marine Division on April 1,1920, where he was primarily concernedwith the compilation of statisticsand literature which were circulatedto every quarter of the globe andwere highly regarded by seamen.These data were disseminated chieflythrough the medium of the Pilot Chart,published by the Hydrographic Officeof the Navy Department in co-operationwith the Weather Bureau.During the past ten years of hisservice as Chief of the Marine Division,Brother Tingley has specializedin investigations of long-range weather[407]FRANKLIN GINN TINGLEYPurdue, '93forecasts especially as regards the influenceof the oceanic pressure areasin the North Atlantic and North Pacificon the weather of North America.Recently he was placed in charge ofimportant investigations of the relationof ocean surface water temperatureto seasonal weather conditions.Brother Tingley also rendered valuableservice as the Weather Bureaurepresentative on the U. S. Load LineCommittee for the Zoning of theOceans.Since 1901 he has made his homein Hyattsville, Maryland. SurvivingBrother Tingley are his widow, whobefore her marriage was Miss GraceFuller of Hyattsville, and a son, EgbertF. Tingley who is a charter memberof Maryland Alpha.Among the various organizations ofwhich Brother Tingley was a member