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

388 THE SCROLL.New Orleans but came in time for the Proteus ball. Thisball was on a grander and more gorgeous scale than ever beforeand we are sure that it had no more attentive spectatorsand participants than the Phi Delta Theta party.Miss Louise Wright, sponsor of Georgia Gamma, was oneof us during the convention, and with the other ladies addedmuch to our pleasure.We regretted very much the accident which preventedgetting Miss Wright in the convention picture. We werealso exceedingly sorry not to have Brothers De Witt andSteen with us.Theta province has needed just such stimulation as wasgiven by this convention. The chapters of the province arewidely separated and ordinarily have little acquaintance witheach other, and are so far also from the great body of thefraternity, that there is a tendency to forget our duty to andinterest in the general fraternity and its national organization.The meeting and exchange of courtesies in provinceconventions will acquaint us with each other, interest us ineach other, and stimulate interest in and loyalty to our belovedPhi Delta Theta. Any lukewarm Phi would do well tovisit Louisiana Alpha. It would do him good and make himproud of his fraternity and his fraternity brothers. Theboys certainly overlooked no opportunity to make their visitorshave a great time and their success.in so doing will longbe attested by those brothers and "sisters" who attendedTheta province's first convention.The province appreciates the visit of Bro. Ruick to itsconvention and votes him to be a prince of good fellows.The next convention of the province will be held with theTexas chapters, at Austin, sometime in the spring, of 1907.EDGAR E. WITT, Texas, 1900.F, AUGUSTUS HEINZE.Among the younger generation of Phis who have achievednational success and reputation is F. Augustus Heinze, Columbia'89, through whose generosity New York Delta hasbeen enabled to move into a home of its own.Bro. Heinze is distinctly a self-made man. His careerhas been truly meteoric except that unlike the meteor, he has