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

232 THE SCROLL.The printers are now setting type on the last forms of thehistory of the fraternity—the index of names.Bro. H. G. Blakeley, Wisconsin.'oo, is with the Twin ButtesMining Co., Tucson, Arizona. Bro. Blakeley writes thatthere are about nine Phi Delta Thetas in the vicinity of Tucson,and that they will soon get together for a dinner andeffect an organization. He says that they are determinedthat their brothers elsewhere shall realize that they cling totheir dear old fraternity, and that there are some Phis in thatremote locality to welcome any visiting brothers. Undersuch circumstances the ties of fraternity may be made morereal than in any other situation. The thing needful is foreach of these brothers to subscribe for the fraternity periodicals.JOHN M, P. THATCHER,John M. P. Thatcher, the winner of the southern inter-collegiateoratorical contest in August, 1905, is a native of'Somerset,Ky. After graduatingfrom the Somerset high schoolhe entered Central University,at Danville, where he was sooninitiated into Kentucky Alpha-"Delta. He achieved the followingcollege honors: 1902,winner of second prize, annualdeclamatory contest; 1903,track team; 1904, gymnasiumteam, track team, footballteam, second prize in the annualoratorical contest; 1905,president of the Deialogianliterary society, president ofthe dramatic club, member ofthe college annual staff, presidentof the senior class in oratory,orator class day, commencementspeaker, winner ofthe oratorical contest on February22, winner of the inter­JOHN M. P. THATCHER,Central,'os.collegiate oratorical contest of Kentucky. Bro. Thatcher'scrowning success was fully described in the October SCROLL.He is now teaching in the high school at Clarksville, Tenn.