1964–65 Volume 89 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE ALUMNI FIRING LINEFrancis A. Pitkin (Case '21), after ten governorsand thirty years, has retired from the PennsylvaniaState Planning Board on which he had served sinceits birth in 1934. During his career he has watchedthe planning services of Pennsylvania grow fromsome sixty rather inactive planning commissions to775 local planning commissions, 44 county planningcommissions and 27 regional planning commissions.Brother Pitkin was an engineer in Philadelphia in1934 when the Federal Government asked him totake a leave of absence to assume the position withthe state board for a while. He remained for thirtyyears. This year, two nationwide agencies have honoredhim. He received the Distinguished ServiceAward of the American Institute of Planners andthe Distinguished Service Medal of the NationalRivers and Harbors Congress.President Johnson has nominated Alexander L.Peaslee (Miami '43) for promotion to Class 2 inthe Foreign Service of the United States upon recommendationof the 1964 Foreign Service SelectionBoard. Since his entry into the Foreign Service in1946, following service in the United States Armyand the United Nations Relief and RehabilitationAgency, Brother Peaslee has served in China, Brazil,and Hong Kong. He is presently assigned to theAsian Division of the Bureau of Intelligence andResearch of the Department of State. Among otherduties, he has served as chairman of the Basic Officers'Course of the Foreign Service Institute.Creation of the John M. Lyon Teaching Fund inthe Department of Psychiatry at the University ofColorado School of Medicine was announced inApril. The fund has been established by his friendsand colleagues in honor Of Dr. John M. Lyon(Kansas '32), Denver psychiatrist, who has servedfor more than two decades on the full-time andvolunteer faculty of the Department of Psychiatry.Purpose of the fund is the advancement of psychiatricteaching "in recognition of the outstandingcontributions of Dr. Lyon as teacher, therapist andhumanitarian and in furtherance of the high idealsto which his professional life has been dedicated."Friends of Dr. Lyon who established the fund haveexpressed hope that other associates and colleagueswill add their contributions in order that the fundmay grow toward a permanent endowment.A most interesting speech, "Shakespeare in theGrove," was presented by Ernest Ingold (Illinois'09) at Bohemian Grove in California, July 28, incelebration of the 400th birthday anniversary ofWilliam Shakespeare. Brother Ingold is a recognizedauthority on Shakespeare and is donor of theShakespeare Library at the University of Illinois.Robert T. Fell (Michigan State '67) has joinedthe Canadian firm of C. F. Haughton Ltd., Toronto,one of several companies in the Haughton Industriesthat specializes in advertising, sales promotion,merchandising, printing and other graphicservices. Brother Fell, who previously had beenwith R. L. Polk and Co. in Detroit and for thepast three years in Toronto, will serve his newfirm in charge of sales promotion and new businessdevelopment.ALEXANDER L. PEASLEE, Miami '43, with his familyon Taiwan. Catherine, his wife, at left; the girls areAnn, Peggy, and Sally.[106]Jack Paxton (Stanford '61), WPSD-TV news announcerand reporter at Paducah, Ky., his hometown, has been awarded a national scholarship tostudy a year at the Graduate School of Journalism ofColumbia University. The scholarship, which paysall tuition and fees and part of the student's livingexpenses, is awarded by RCA-NBC annually to ayoung journalist who has finished college with highacademic standing. Brother Paxton served thirteenmonths with the First Cavalry Division in Koreaand finished his two years of active duty at FortDix, N.J. Since November, 1963, he has worked asa fuUtime newsman for WPSD with which he hadbeen associated through three summers.