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

Chapter Grand . . .Samuel A. W. Carver,Iowa Wesleyan, '83Samuel A. W. Carver, was bornMarch 6, 1859, at Kirkville, Iowa,where he completed his preparatoryschool work. Graduating from IowaWesleyan College in 1883, he receivedhis M.A. degree from the same institutionin 1886. He was prominent inoratory work during his college daysand in 1882 represented Iowa Alpha of$ A 0 at its national convention.For fourteen years after graduationhe practiced law in Ottumwa,Iowa, and in Los Angeles, California,later engaging in the creamery andwholesale ice cream business. Heserved as president of the CaliforniaCreamerymen Association and ofsimilar organizations, and was a frequentcontributor to various dairy andagricultural magazines until his deathin January, 1931, in Los Angeleswhere he was buried.On June 17, 1884, he was marriedto Stella Winans of Mt. Pleasant, whowith four children survive him. Mrs.Carver was the first graduate of IowaWesleyan having been born of one orboth parents who were graduates ofIowa Wesleyan.Brother Carver was interested inmany kinds of philanthropic work andwas an active alumnus of his fraternity.FARRON E. TURNER,Iowa Wesleyan, '29* • •Guy Shields, Iowa Wesleyan, '00Guy Shields, a graduate of IowaWesleyan College in the class of '00,and for many years associated withthe advertising staff of the ChicagoDaily News, died in Chicago, March6, 1931, with interment in the MountHope Cemetery, Chicago.Brother Shields was born in NewLondon, Iowa, July 2, 1872, and after[505]prep school work there entered IowaWesleyan College and affiliated with# A 0. After graduation he workedas a reporter on the Salt Lake CityTribune, then going to the ChicagoDaily News where he was employeduntil his death.In August, 1914, he was married toIda Jean Merriles of Chicago, whowith three young daughters survive.He was a member of the Masonicorder, a Republican in politics, and attendedthe Central M.E. Church inChicago.FARRON E. TURNER,Iowa Wesleyan, '29* • *Xenophon P. Wilfley, Washington(St. Louis), '99Xenophon P. Wilfley, Washington(St. Louis), '99, former United StatesSenator from Missouri, died at hishome in St. Louis May 4 of a cerebralembolism. He had been sick for threedays. He was 60 years old.Brother Wilfley is survived by hiswife and two daughters. Burial tookplace at Oak Grove Cemetery in St.Louis.A sketch of Brother Wilfley from aSt. Louis newspaper follows :A member of the law firm of Wilfley,Williams and Nelson, ex-Senator Wilfleywas one of the foremost attorneys of St.Louis, and was a former president of theMissouri Bar Association. His rise tohigh professional and political positionswas accomplished against great physicalodds.He was the son of a Callaway Countyfarmer, the family removing to AudrainCounty in his boyhood. At the age of 3he was stricken with an acute form ofrheumatism, and necrosis of the legbones developed. As a child he was unableto walk, and was carried about byhis parents and older brother.After years of treatment he becameable to walk, but he was a lifelong crip-