1937–38 Volume 62 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

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The SCROLL of Phi Delta Theta for October, 1937
RALPH V. DICKERMAN, JR.. Dartmouth '31, assistant
manager of sales of the Benjamin Frank-
Un Hotel, Philadelphia, surprised his friends
when he returned from a vacation auto trip to
the Pacific Coast early in August by bringing
with him a wife. Brother Dickerman and Miss
Elizabeth Eleanor Elliott of North Hollywood,
California, wfere married in All Saints Episcopal
Church, Beverly Hills, on July 29. Upon leaving
Philadelphia early in July Brother Dickerman
told his friends that he was driving to his old
home in Springfield, Illinois, to visit his mother
and perhaps might go to the Coast if the weather
was good. Evidently he encountered fine weather
west and his vacation trip proved to be a wedding
trip. Mrs. Dickerman was graduated from
the Ward Belmont School in Nashville, Tennessee,
in 1930 and her home has been in California
since. Brother Dickerman has been with the
hotel chain of which the Benjamin Franklin is
one link since his graduation from Dartmouth.
He has charge of conventions and sales gatherings
for the hotel. He is a member of the Board
of Directors of the Philadelphia Alumni Club.
ADDISON POUND, JR., Florida '35, receives half
of the first prize award of $100,000 in the recent
Old Gold cigarette contest. William R. Staggs.
of U.S.S. Ranger, Coronado, California, was announced
as the winner by the judges of the contest.
But Staggs and Pound worked the contest
out together, with the understanding that they
would share equally any prize money they received.
They are both attached to the Ranger,
and were cadets together at Pensacola training
school. Brother Pound graduated with high honors
from the coUege of engineering. University
of Florida, in 1935 before entering the Naval
Training School as a flying cadet. He was with
the aircraft carrier Lexington in the search about
Howland Island for the missing Amelia Earhart.
EARL E. MOVER, Kansas '23. Pennsylvania '25,
entered the legal department of the Fire Association
of Philadelphia August 1. Brother Moyer
has served thirteen years in the Insurance Department
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
at the Philadelphia office. His positions have
been examiner, then chief examiner, and finally
compensation actuary in charge of rate-making
for all workmen's compensation insurance. In
1935 Brother Moyer received his LL.B. degree
from Temple University. His new duties with
the Fire Association will have much to do with
legal matters of affiliated companies, The Lumberman's,
The Reliance Fire, and The PhUadelphia
National Fire Company.
WILLIAM R. MAIN, Allegheny '07, and Mrs.
Main were kept busy attending Commencements
in June. Their daughter, Elizabeth, graduated at
Mt. Holyoke College on June 14 and on the
eighteenth their son, Malcolm, was graduated
from Phillips Andover. Elizabeth is spending
the vacation period with a coUege friend touring
France, England, and Scotland on bicycles
and report an excellent summer. Malcolm plans
to enter Yale in the fall.
EDWARD M. DEALEY, Texas '13, editor of the
Dallas Journal and News, was elected president
of the Southern Newspaper Publishers' Assodation
in May. This organization represents 233
newspapers in fourteen states. Brother Dealey is
one of the leaders in the great enterprise which
has developed a process of manufacturing newsprint
paper from southern pine. This promises
to have widespread influence on the economic
life of the whole South.
REAR AoMtRAL W. T. CLUVERIUS, Tulane '95,
was greeted by the Philadelphia Alumni Club
as he took up his duties as Commandant of the
Philadelphia Navy Yard about the middle of
June. Admiral Cluverius is known to many
Philadelphia Phis as he was located there during
the war time activities of the U. S. Shipping
Board when building an emergency fleet. A
special alumni dinner is to be given in his
honor.
WALTER I. COOPER, Pennsylvania '93, and Mrs.
Cooper have been at Southwest Harbor. Me.,
for the Summer where he has been recuperating
from an operation performed in the early Spring.
Late reports from his secretary were that he
was getting along nicely and planned to return
to Philadelphia in the early fall. Brother Cooper
is always actively interested in Alumni Club matters.
DR. ALBERT J. SALATHE, Colgate '10, Ph.D.
from Chicago, who for several years has been
in charge of the Department of Chemistry at
Syracuse University, took up new duties in the
manufacturing field this summer with the Brown
Company of Portland, Me., large paper manufaaurers.
DR. CHAMP H. HOLMES, Georgia ^15, of Atlanta,
was elected president of the American College of
Chest Physicians at their Atlantic City convention
in June. He received his medical education
at Johns Hopkins University. He is one of the
editors of the Journal of Diseases of the Chest.
THEOIKIRE W. METCALFE. Nebraska '17, former
lieutenant-governor of Nebraska, was elected
State Commander of the American Legion at the
convention at ScottsbluS August 25. He served
during the World War with the 8th Nebraska
and the 134th Infantry at Camp Cody.