1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 197has withdrawn to pursue his college course in the east- However, Bro.Grinstead is closely connected with the chapter as he was elected generalmanager of the student activities besides being private secretary to PresidentKane. Bro. Geary is now rapidly recovering from a two months siege oftyphoid fever and will again be on the campus in a short time.The chapter considers this as one of the most successful rushing seasonsand takes pleasure in introducing to the fraternity the following new men:Bros. Wm. Beurhaus, '09, Tacoma; Lynn Ratcliffe, '09, Cheney; Coy andRalph Chittenden, '09, Cadillac, Mich.; Samuel Lamping, '09, Seattle;Frank Dowd, '09, Seattle; Vern Begley, '09, Seattle, and Perrett Gault, '07,Tacoma. Oscar Carlisle is at the present lime wearing the colors of 4» A 9.Bros. Tilley and Dowd represent us on the football team. Bro. Dowd hasbeen out of the game for a few past weeks, due to a broken collar bone, butearnestly hopes to be in the Thanksgiving game.Bro. Hoover was re-elected captain of the baseball team for next spring.Seattle, November 25, 1905.J. W. HOOVER.ALUMNI CLUBS,CINCINNATI.For the fall meeting of the Cincinnati alumni club, Bros. Guido Goresand Stuart McGill planned an informal dinner at the Stag Cafe which wasenjoyed to the utmost by some thirty Phis including members of the alumniclub, active chapter men and guests.Bro. Scott Bonham, Ohio Beta, '82, president of the club, served as toastmaster—in itself, enough to insure a very enjoyable evening. Bro. Bonhamhas a very fetching way of drawing one out, which means, that every manfrom the head of the table down is called upon either to defend himself ortell what he knows upon any subject Bro. Bonham may name. Droppinghis tone of pleasant banter for a few moments the toast master spoke veryfeelingly on the dreadful tragedy that has occurred within the past month atKenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, where Stewart Pierson, a Cincinnati boywho was run over by a train and killed on the very night he was to be initiatedinto AKE. Reports from Gambier maintain that it was no part of theinitiation for young Pierson to be down on the railroad track. Bro. Bonhamtook occasion, however, to implore the active chapter of Ohio Theta mostearnestly against thoughtlessness and roughness or brutality in initiations.He recommended also that they pass a resolution of condolence and send acopy to the AKE chapter at Gambier.The following motions were passed: A committee appointed by the chairconsisting of Bros. Guido Gores, William McD. Shaw, J. M. Smedes todraw up resolutions on the deaths of Andrew Carr Kemper, Ohio Alpha,'53 and of E. H. Baker of Cincinnati; and Bro. Calvin Vos, Ohio Theta,'04, to go as alumni delegate to the province convention to meet this yearwith Michigan Alpha, Ann Arbor, from November 9 to II.The alumni present were; Bros. Dr. A. B. Thrasher, Hon* T. H. Mc­Conica, Jos. C. Finnell, Wm. E. O'Kane,!. J. Cox, Dr. K. O. Foltz, S. A.McGill, Paul F. Wehmer, Walter M. Schoenle, Guido.Gores, Judge Wm.McD. Shaw, J. M. Smedes, Dr. J. H. McCready, Dr. J. L. Cleveland, Nat.C. Murray, Edw. J. Durr, Harry C. Fetsch, Scott Bonham, Wm. H. Fillmore.The active chapter members present were; Bros. Chas. A. Schroetter,Alfred T. Kreimer, Edwin M. Adams, Edwin G. Bahlmann, Walter W.Morris, Godfrey A. Doeller, Edwin O Schroetter, Calvin Vos, Daniel Moore.WILLIAM H. FILLMORE.