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

Al umniRussell W. Van Kirk, Arizona, '23,a Dallas employee of the General ElectricCompany, has received an awardunder the Charles A. Coffin Foundation.In the company's organizationat large thirty-seven out of a total of70,000 employees received theseawards in recognition of exceptionalwork by them during 1929. Theaward consists of a certificate ofmerit, a gold medal, and a substantialsum.Brother Van Kirk was born in HartfordCity, Indiana; graduated as anelectrical engineer at the University ofArizona in 1923, and has been with theGeneral Electric Company since Augustof that year. He started as astudent engineer in the company'smain plant at Schenectady, New York,worked on test there and at the Pittsfield,Mass., plant and came to Dallasas an industrial salesman in 1925.He was a charter member of ArizonaAlpha.Herbert Fitzpatrick, Washington &Lee, '92, vice-president and generalcounsel of the Chesapeake & OhioRailway, with headquarters at Cleveland,Ohio, in addition to his recentappointment as vice-president—lawand corporate relations—of the MissouriPacific has been elected to asimilar position on the Texas & Pacific.Brother Fitzpatrick is a very importantmember of the organizationwhich the Van Sweringen Brothers ofCleveland have gathered to take careof their vast railroad interests.RUSSELL W. VAN KIRK, Arizona, '23The recent appointment of JosephC. Hinsey, Iowa Wesleyan-Northwestern,'2i, to the professorship of anatomyin the Medical School of LelandStanford University is of special interestto innumerable friends within thefraternity. Brother Hinsey was initiatedinto