1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THB SCROLL. 267Aldredge, Lafayette, '05; Thomas Lee Coles, Alabama, '04,who attended the New York convention; Richard HuntingtonKimball, Texas, '03, a member of the Texas Beta ChapterHouse Corporation; Frederick Almyroh Prince, Knox, '06,who made an enviable record on the 'Varsity football team atthe Academy last fall, and Edwin Martin Watson, Washingtonand Lee, '02, who is a native of Martinsville, Va.It will be noticed how the number of Phis increases in thelower classes, which seems to show that more are going toWest Point every year. It will be interesting to note howmany matriculate with the class of 1908, to verify this theory.It is also worthy of remark that of- the thirteen Phis eightcome from the South as compared with three from the middleWest and two from the East, both of these latter from thestate of Pennsylvania. The record on the whole is one ofwhich the fraternity might well be proud and one which, it isthought, has not been equaled by any other fraternity.BERNARD iVf. L.ERNST.REUNION OF VERMONT PHIS.A reunion of all the living graduates of People's Academyat Morrisville, Vt., who have joined * A ® was held at theresidence of Thomas C. Cheney, Morrisville, December 26,1903. In nineteen years this academy has sent out eighteenmen who have become Phis. With the exception of H. M. C.Chase and S. L. Gates, both of Vermont Alpha, class of '88,all of the eighteen are living. The boys are well scattered,some having come from Minneapolis, Boston, New York,Albany and Schenectady, but all were present. It is verydoubtful whether another fitting school in the entire country,located in a village of 1500 inhabitants, has sent out so manygraduates in the last nineteen years who have become meriibersof * A ® as has the People's Academy. The followingaccount of the reunion is clipped from the Morrisville Newsand Citizen:The home of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Cheney of this place was the sceneSaturday afternoon of a very pleasant gathering of alumni and undergraduatesof the University of Vermont. The occasion was a reunion of thegraduates of People's Academy, who entered the university and becamemembers of Vermont Alpha chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.Every living Phi graduate of the academy, to the number of 16, was present,several of the alumni coming long distances to attend this unique reunion.The alumni of People's Academy present were:—