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

THE SCROLLPHI DELTA THETA October, 1930ated by Pennsylvania Zeta chapter andwas one of the most loyal and hardworking members.After his graduation in June, 1895he studied for several years in Brusselsat the celebrated School of Diplomacyand then lived in Paris until 1900when he returned to Japan.After his return he served in theJapanese foreign office for six years,being part of the time private secretaryto the foreign minister. It was thenhis duty to entertain prominent Americansin their visits to Japan and hewas in entire charge of the entertainmentof Governor-General Taft whospent some time in Japan while he wasgovernor of the Philippine Islands.After several years service in theforeign office he resigned and enteredthe House of Peers where he was oneof the prominent leaders in one of themost influential groups called the KenKiu Kwai. He was increasingly activeand influential in political life.After his return to Japan he marriedthe daughter of Baron Mitsui.On May 13, 1929, he died suddenlyof heart disease. He is survived byhis widow and one son.CRAIG ATMORE, Pennsylvania, '95• • •M. Hoke Gottschall, Dickinson, '00$ A © lost one of its stalwarts withthe sudden death on the lawn of hisPittsburgh home. May 17, of MurrenHoke Gottschall, purchasing agent ofthe Standard Oil Company of Pennsylvania,and for years president ofAlpha South province and for sometime president of the Pittsburgh alumniclub. Brother Gottschall was fiftytwo.Despite a busy career which afterhis graduation involved extensive realestate operations in the Pittsburghsuburbs, secretaryship to Mayor Babcockof Pittsburgh, and chief of thebureau of statistics of the Departmentof Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania,Brother Gottschall was everready for service for * A 0.The same activity which marked hisundergraduate days in the chapter wascarried into his alumni years. Duringmost of the time he resided inPittsburgh he headed the alumni clubthere and was prominent in the planningof the Pittsburgh national convention.When he removed to Harrisburghe was again active in the alumniclub of that city and then became presidentof Alpha South province. Heattended the general convention atCleveland and in addition to other contributionshe made to it, he was one ofthe speakers at the convention dinner.In his last days he was leader of hisdistrict in the financial campaign fora new house for his chapter at Carlisle.Brother Gottschall had hut recentlycompleted a palatial home on NewburnDrive, Pittsburgh, and was rapidlyforging ahead in Pittsburgh businesscircles. He was a Mason, a memberof the Rotary and of the Episcopalchurch. His immediate survivors area widow and a married daughter, Mrs.[56]Lloyd R. Baker of Chambersburg,Pennsylvania.• • *Dr. J. B. Wiritersteen, Dickinson, '99Dr. J. Boone Wintersteen, Dickinson,'99, for many years a physician,died in Philadelphia, April 13. I?rotherWintersteen was born in Port Carbon,Pennsylvania. After his pre-mediccourse at Dickinson he was graduatedfrom the University of Pennsylvania.Up to the World War he practicedmedicine in Moorestown, New Jersey.He joined the colors in 1917 and wasassigned to Fort Benjamin Harrison.After the war he became attached tothe Veterans Bureau in Philadelphiafor several years after which he resumedthe practice of medicine in thatcity. He was a member of the artclub and the University Club of Philadelphia.• • •Henry Louis Dressier, Pittsburgh, '21Henry Louis Dressier, Pittsburgh,'21, died at his home in Swissvale,