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

470 THE SCROLL.hearted bunch of fellows to show their alumni and friends a good, time bygiving them good music, good smoking, drinking and eating, and goodhand shakes.Among the prominent attendants upon the occasion were Dr. Dav'd F.Houston, president of the university, Dr. Morgan Callaway, professor ofEnglish at the university, and Mr. J. H. Gillespie, Texas Alpha, '80.April 10, 1906.EDGAR E. WITT.FORT SMITH.Our almnui club had a very successful meeting on Alumni Day. Wehad an informal banquet at our beautiful new country club and had a jollygood time. There were eleven members present and we spent the ei^eningin rehearsing our old college days and discussing ways and means of betteringour club and of the fraternity in general. We will have anothermeeting before the next national convention and decide on what course wewill pursue in regard to the application for a charter from the University ofArkansas.The following officers were elected: president, Robt. F. Dickins; vicepresident.Jas. E. Reynolds; reporter, Wm. J. Murphy, Jr.; treasurer,Lorick P. Miles.April I, 1906.SAN FRANCISCO.ROBT. F. DICKINS.Alumni Day was celebrated by the San Francisco alumni club, in conjunctionwith the University of California, and the Leland Stanford JuniorUniversity chapters, by a banquet at Delmonico's in San Francisco on Saturdayevening, March 17. Seventy Phis made merry together with goodfare, good cheer, and good talk-Bro. Frank Parcells, California, '91, was the genial toastmaster. Bro.Frank Otis, California, '73, formerly president of the alumni of the Universityof California and a charter member of California Alpha, spoke on thegrowth of the chapter-house idea in America and the blessings which flowfrom the possession of a fit chapter house. Bro. Scott Hendricks, '04, wasa unique representative in that he spoke as a graduate of the University ofCalifornia who, after a year at Harvard, is completing his law course atStanford University. Bro. Louis T. Hickey, '07, told what the men ofCalifornia Alpha are accomplishing in college aud fraternity life; andBro. Heffron of Stanford performed a like service for California Beta. Otherspeakers were Bro. Jacob Reinstein, California, '73, honored bv every Berkeleyman for his services as a regent and as a staunch and inspired friendof the University of California; Bro. Saphro of Alabama, and Bro. MarionS. Blanchard, California, '97, who mounted Pegasus and spoke forth divertingverse. From Golden, Colorado, came a timely letter from Bro. WilliamNathaniel Friend, California, '96, famous in Berkeley legend as the firstyell-leader, as aforetime president of the Associated Students of the Universityof California, as manager of the first eastern trip of the California trackteam, and enshrined in the hearts of the Berkeley Phis for his many verses,still sung around the chapter-house table of California Alpha. With hisletter came a poem which has long had an honored place in Phi literature inCalifornia, a poem particularly appropriate for another reading at this timebecause of the death within the preceding month of its hero, James Tait,better known to generations of Berkeley students as "Jimmie Potatoes," acharacter as famous at Berkeley as John the Orange-man, at Harvard.Berkeley, March 19, 1906. VICTOR H. HENDERSON. "