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

588 THE SCROLL.ball '05, Bro. James, captain baseball '06. All will be back next year exceptingBros. Fisher, Preston, Miller.April 20, n B # entertained $ A 0 with dancing. The floor and musicwere excellent.G. D. MILLER.Athens, May 26, 1906.MICHIGAN ALPHA, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.'J'he committees are still working hard on the raising of funds for theMichigan Union and on May 4 and 5 a minstrel show was given for its benefit.The burlesque, "Merchant of Michigan," made a big hit. Bro. Curtisand Bro. Graham both had a part in the play, and Bro. Rowell was one ofthe freshman ballet. In the street parade we gave a farcical representationof an Uncle Tom's Cabin troupe with Bro. Graham as little Eva.The class societies recently held elections and Bro. Pritchard made Friars;Bro. Curtis, Michigamua; Bros. Curtis and Tullock, Vulcans; Bro. French;Sphinx; and Bro. Rowell, Pipe and Bowl.On May 29 the alumni gave a party al the chapter house and the nextafternoon we all saw Michigan win the baseball game from Illinois. It wasthe first party of its kind we have had and everyone was enthusiastic aboutit. Bro. Hardy says we ought to make it an annual affair. The guestswere: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Hardv, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McCoU, Mr. andMrs. H. A. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs.' W. P. Putnam, Mr. and Mrs. E. H.Sutton, C. M. Preston, and Miss Helen Joyce, I. J. Bradway and Miss AdaHeaton, and Roy D. Chapin, of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Foster,Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Lyons, and Miss Daisy R. Chapin, of Lansing, Mr. andMrs. R. B. Thayer, of Saginaw, Calvin Bently and Miss Irma Brewer, ofOwosso, W. A. Eversman and Miss Helen Votriede of Toledo, R. B. Linsleyand Miss Laura Kumm of Three Rivers, H. E. Coffin of Detroit, andMiss T. V. Allen of Battle Creek, Hugh Clarke of Coldwater, C. C. Quinlanof Indianapolis, and Paul Steketee of Grand Rapids, Mr. and Mrs. G. P.Burns, and Drs. Sanders, Jones, Newcomer, and Castell.We have recently pledged Charles Patterson of Pueblo, Col., making twopledge men for next year. Along this line, we want to strongly urge thealumni to send in recommendations of men coming to college next fall. Theactive chapter are especially anxious to get a bne on new men as we lose alarge number of men this year. Send in letters to the reporter during thesummer and try to let us know when the men will arrive in Ann Arbor,because it is a very difficult thing to locate him after he has been here for ashort time.The newly elected reporter is George H. Bristol; home address, 220 S.Scoville Ave., Oak Park, III. ARCHIE OAKES.Ann Arbor, June 2, 1906.EPSILON PROVINCE.INDIANA ALPHA, INDIANA UNIVERSITY.The commencement season this year at Indiana University promises to beone of the most notable in the history of the university. The largest classever graduated will be given degrees and the splendid new student buildingwill be dedicated with an address by the president of Swarthmore. Thecommencement day address will be delivered by one of America's mostnotable men, the Honorable Joseph Wingate Folk, governor of Missouri.By graduation we will lose Bro. Norman Walker who will take a responsibleposition with the Sante Fe Railroad Co. in New Mexico; Walter