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

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA March, 1931with the auditing department of the CocaCola Company. The chapter received avery inspirational letter from D. K.Walker, who is with the Penney Companyin Wilmington, North Carolina.ROY JOHNSONGeorgia Delta, Georgia School ofTechnologyNew Officers: Holly Sphar, president;Russell McKinney, warden; Charles Wilson,secretary; Francis K. Hall, reporter;John Corn, chorister; Thorpe Sanders,chaplain.Phikeias: spring semester: JohnOwens, Mac Carter, Atlanta; John Tate,Marietta; William Gillespie, Knoxville,Tennessee; James Garnett, HopkinsviHe,Kentucky.Campus Activities: Conniff was appointedsenior football manager. Stronghas made Charette Club, architecturalfraternity. Spahr is captain of the fencingteam; Bothwell is on freshman basketballsquad. Cornell is assistant businessmanager of the Yellow Jacket.Herron, Flowers, and Corn, and PhikeiasWarner, Davis, Wilson, and Coyare out for spring football practice. Rodenbaughand Owens are out for footballmanagerships; and Cornell and PhikeiasWolcott and Frazier are out for thefreshman basketball managership.Social Activities: Arrangements arebeing made for an informal party onSaturday night, February 14, after thelast of the Panhellenic dances. Membersof the active chapter are planning to givea dinner dance April 24.Chapter Visitors: Billy Smith, Emory;Collins Thurman, Vanderbilt; ClaytonCallaway, Mercer. FRANCIS K. HALLIdaho Alpha, University of IdahoNew Officers: president, RobertBrown; reporter, Paul.Jones; secretary,Charles LeMoyne; historian, John Middleton; warden, Forrest Irwin; chaplain,Wanek Stein; chorister, Morris O'Donnell; alumni secretary, Howard Potts.Phikeias: February 4: William Willis,Wallace; Curtis Mann, Spokane, Washington.Initiates: February 8: Gilbert St. Clair,Charles Hill, McCarthy O'Brien, JohnOlson, Richard Stanton, Norval Ostroot,[418]Harold Boyd, McPherson LeMoyne,Herman Horton, Roger McConnell, RobertBear,Campus Activities: Wilson and Spaugywon varsity football awards and PhikeiaBrailsford won his freshman numerals.Wilson is credited with the longest runfrom scrimmage in America last year.Against Whitman College he ran 105yards for a touchdown. Nelson andChristians are playing on the varsity basketballsquad and Herman and PhikeiaTanner are regulars on the frosh five.Phi Delta Theta is ranking fourth in intramuralstandings at the present timeand has good chances of finishing on topof the heap. The basketball squadopened up the hoop season by trouncingB '9 n, 26 to 9, holding them scorelessin the last half. Phikeia Willis, who isstate golf champion, is expected to addseveral points to the total when the intramuralgolf tournament is played thisspring. H. Robb is manager of dramaticsand has appeared, with Cannon andO'Donnell, in several all-college plays.Jones is editor of the Argonaut, studentpaper, and Middleton, Martin, and PhikeiasWillis and Mann are on the editorialstaff.Social Activities: The upperclassmen'sformal dinner dance just before the,holidaysand the underclassmen's informalon February 13 were outstanding socialaffairs on the campus.Chapter Visitors: Phis on the basketballteams of Oregon, Oregon State,Washington, and Washington State havedropped into the chapter house whentheir teams played in Moscow. LynnRogers, '24, spent a few days at the houseduring January. Paul Brown, Montana,was a chapter visitor February 4.Alumni Personals: G. P. Mix, '01, waselected lieutenant-governor of Idaho inthe recent elections. Mix was the firstIdaho graduate in agriculture and atpresent has two sons in the active chapter.Talbot Jennings, '24, author of theIdaho pageant, "The Light on the Mountains,"which is produced every fouryears, is now in California writing plays.His most recent one. No More Frontier,was given a big ovation by critics. Jenningsalso set up the constitution andgovernment of the ASUI in its presentform. Earl David, '05, is a member ofthe state legislature. Gale Mix, *25, isa Pacific Coast conference basketball officialand is coaching at Moscow HighSchool.PAUL E. JONES