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

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA May, 1931tain of the baseball team during bothhis junior and senior years.Following graduation from collegein 1920 he entered business in Schenectadybut in 1922 he was appointedassistant director of athletics at Union,where he remained ever since asa coach and director.Brother Wittner is considered oneof the best athletic officials in NewYork State. He has been an activeleader in standardizing the practicesof officials and the rules governingthe playing of amateur football andbasketball. His work has gained himrecognition from his colleagues andhe holds the following official positions:president of the New YorkState Association of Certified FootballOfficials; president of the AdirondackDistrict Board of Approved BasketballOfficials.He is also a former president ofthe Capital District Athletic OfficialsAssociation, and is a member ofthe following organizations: NationalA.A.U. Basketball Committee; ApprovedOfficials of the Joint BasketballCommittee; American FootballCoaches Association; National Associationof Basketball Coaches of theUnited States; the Pelham Lodge, No.712 of the F. and A.M. Lodge, andthe Mohawk Golf Club.DONALD F. WALLACEDr. Fred Jenner Hodges, Wisconsin,'17, has accepted the professorshipof roentgenology at the medicalschool of the University of Michiganand began his work there April 1. Hehas been a lecturer at the Universityof Wisconsin and roentgenologist atSt. Mary's Hospital, Madison, since1925.Dr. Hodges was prominent on thecampus, holding the greatly covetedposition of student colonel in theR.O.T.C. unit and being elected tomembership in Phi Beta Pi, Sigma Xi,and Alpha Omega Alpha fraternities.He received his B.S. degree in 1917from Wisconsin and his M.D. fromWashington (St. Louis), in 1919.[500]At the outbreak of the war Dr.Hodges joined the Red Cross and sawservice in Serbia and Poland. He returnedto Wisconsin in 1921 to be aninstructor in physiology, which positionhe held until he was promoted tolecturer in roentgenology in 1925.DR. FRED J. HODGESWisconsin, '17He is a member of the RadiologicalSociety of North America and theAmerican Roentgen Ray Society. WisconsinAlpha holds Brother Hodgesas one of its most prominent alumni.WHITLEY AUSTINHerbert B. Rudolph, South Dakota,'16 was appointed late in March byGovernor Warren Green of SouthDakota to fill the state supreme courtvacancy caused by a recent death.Brother Rudolph, a former circuitjudge, was selected from among adozen or more candidates proposedafter the death of the former judge.He took office immediately after theappointment, and will serve for the remainderof the term of the incumbent,ending in 1934. Brother Rudolph obtainedhis' law degree from the Universityof Michigan following hisgraduation from South Dakota. Afterpracticing in Canton, South Dakota,for several years he became countyjudge of Lincoln County from 1921 to1924. Brother Rudolph will be the