The Fiji Brainstorm FALL QUARTER NUMBER IOWA STATE COLLEGE, AMES, IOWA OCTOBER 17, 1931 ALUMS BACK FOR OCT. 24 FUORERHEHORIALLODGE PRESENTED TO COLLEGE Y.M.CODNCIL by PARENTS Building Will be Used for Y. M. C. A. Gatherings, Social Leader Groups THIRTEEN PLEDGES IN FRESHMAN CLASS Thirteen is a lucky number for Alpha Iota chapter. Thirteen Fiji pledges have been gathered from north, south, east and west by the chapter under the leadership of Ralph Thomson, chairman of the rushing committee. Letters from and Sunday Meetings alumni of this and other chapters helped great The Lynn Fuhrer Memorial Lodge, erected two miles northwest of the campus on the Y. M. C. A.'s 15-acre tract of land through funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fuhrer of Omaha, Nebraska, in memory of their son, Ljmn, who was killed last May 31, a week before his scheduled graduation from Iowa State, was ded icated on Sunday, September 27. More than 800 people attended the dedica tion ceremony and open house of the lodge. ly in lining up a real freshman class. The fullest cooperation by neighbor ing and distant chapters was also ex perienced. The new freshmen are; Terrill Mill er, Huston, Texas; Nelson Buell, Worcester, Mass.; Richard Burkett, Perry; Jack Welsh, Des Moines; Rob ert Dunkel, Webster City; Wilford Sharp, Forest City; Whiting Harvey, Missouri Valley; Ballard Cone, Sioux HONECONING GAHE WITH HISSODRI TIGERS TO BE REAL BAHLE Coach Veenker is Drilling Cyclones Hard in Tackling and Passing for Big Game Another Homecoming at Iowa State is upon us! The week-end of October 24 is to be a gala event for all re turning alumni. The chapter house is to be turned over to the grads as their headquarters while in Ames. The meals will be great. The active chap ter promises the best Homecoming yet. An attempt is being made to win the cup for the best decorated Falls, South Dakota; Harvey MaUory, Shreveport, Louisiana; Frederick Da mon, Cormcil Bluffs; Frederick Empkie. Council Bluffs; Glenn Fitch, Glendale, California; and Paul Coe, Ames. Potential fraternity brothers of their fathers are .Terrill Miller, son of Paul Miller '06, and Nelson Buell, son of James Buell '05. "Nels" is also the nephew of Walter Buell '08. Per haps a brother to a brother will be Whiting Harvey, brother of Ralph Harvey '31, and Paul Coe, brother of Roland Coe '27. Of these thirteen yearlings, three are freshman grid aspirants, two are -out for a berth with the first-year men on the swimming team, one is out for track and one is in line for a position as Advertising Director f of the Student. We are proud of our freshman class. We are proud of our alumni who co Lynn Fuhrer The service, which was conducted by Ray C. Cunningham, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., included the presen tation speech made by Mr. Fuhrer, and the acception speech made by M. D. Helser, personnel director. A short talk by President R. M. Hughes concluded the service. The memorial, which is a rustic lodge costing approximately $4,000, is situated atop a wooded knoll with two small ravines on either side. The lodge was designed by Prof. A. H. Kimball, head of the Architectural (Please turn to Page 2) operated with us during rushing sea son. REMAINING GAMES ON IOWA STATE GRID SCHEDULE Oct. 24—Missouri at Ames (Home coming). Oct. 31—Oklahoma at Norman. house. Come and see the result of, Fiji ingenuity. The celebration will get under-way Friday evening, Oct. 23, with the annual all-college pep-fest and bar becue from 6 to 7:45 p. m. on State field. After the barbecue, Pi Epsilon 7—^Kansas State at Ames. Nov. 14—Drake at Ames. Pi will give special pepping-up exer Nov. 21—Nebraska at Lincoln. cises. Nine out of ten claimed that Moon Montgomery's picture taken at camp was a perfect likeness of none other than Mabatma Gandhi. What do you think? The famous old victory bell that has, until this fall, been silent for two long years will receive a fresh coat of paint (Please turn to Page 3) \r\nALL-COLLEGE SPORTS The Fiji Brainstorm Published Quarterly by Alpha Iota Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta ALUMNI NOTES TROPHY ON DISPLAY CHAPTER OFFICERS Melvin R. Brown President John F. Montgomery Treasurer Laurel Hade Secretary Ralph Harvey....Corresponding Sec'y William Ouren HistoriaJi PUBLICATION COMMITTEE William Ouren Editor D. Charles Kooser Asst. Elditor Alumni were very active during rushing. Among those present at the house were Jim Buell '05, Walt Buell '08, Dudley Triplett '29, Doctor W. H. Jennings '23, Roland Coe '27, Harry Schmidt '25, Spike Crawford '13, Dwight Lewis '93, Harley Helm '19, Ivan Myers '29 and Verdene An thony '31. ANDERSON Jim Buell is chief engineer for the CHOSEN AS TEACHER IN NEW TUTORIAL SYSTEM Morgan construction company. Harry Schmidt has been reappointed line coach to aid Coach Veenker and is Believing 100 per cent initiation of freshmen to be possible, the house, depending on the support pledged it last Pig dinner by the alumni appoint ed Lyle Anderson '31 as tutor for this school year upon the suggestion of its faculty advisory committee. The committee includes William B. Sar- again head of intramural atheltics. Dwight Lewis has changed his ad dress from the "windy" city to Des Moines. Report has it that Harris Yancey '29 is no longer working in Salina, Kansas, and that George Harrell '29 is no longer designing airplanes in Wichita, Kansas, but is now located 1931 Program Now Under Way with Speedball Conspicuously evident is the large all-college intramural trophy which is proudly pointed out to all visitors at the Fiji house. A special table has been given it in a favored position in the living room. The backgroimd is a brocatel print, the gift of Doctor and Mrs. William H. Jennings. Be side it is the first intramural cup to be awarded — the inter-fratemity baseball league cup, season of 1907, which was copped by the Noit Avrata nine. A picture of Lynn Fuhrer has fit tingly found a place on the table, for it was under his leadership as intra mural manager that we fought for the trophy. Three legs are needed for' permanent possession or two more by the house. The other fraternities les, dairy industry, chairman; Mitch ell V. Chamley, technical journalism; and William H. Jennings, Jr., physical chemistry. Lyle received his Bachelor of Science degree last year, having ma jored in Economic Science. He held the highest scholastic record in the '31 is at Schenectady, N. Y. in the Taking post-graduate work are Wally Miller '31 at Iowa and Russ ma Rho, 1929-30. Although the intramural season Industrial Kintzley at Columbia. started disastrously for the actives with a 8-6 defeat tendered them in Science Division as a at Washington, D. C. Arthur Douglas '31 is working for Gambles at Waukon and Abe Martin General Electric training school. And we thought the alumni consid which have been able to carve their initials on the mammoth cup are Phi Kappa Psi, 1924-25, 1926-27; Adelante, 1925-26; Sigma Nu, 1927-28; Sigma Chi, 1928-29; and Alpha Gam freshman, as a junior and for the four years as a whole, being named Honor ered Phi Gamma Delta first! For, as speedball by Phi Delta T h e t a, Student in the course in Industrial formal notice would have it, "Bom, they still have a chance for the lea Science. Andy is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi, an honorary scholar ship fraternity. Andy is now pursuing post-gradu to Brother Hugh Richardson '29 and Mrs. Richardson, a daughter, Anne. Visitors at the house have includ gue cup if they win the rest of their games. The intramural manager this year is Elwyn Spear who last year ed Pa Prince (Illinois Wesleyan '02), was on the house all-college handball ate work in Economics and is an in Clare Forrester '26, Leland McBroom structor in accounting. He is requir '13, Robert Spurgeon (Colorado Col ed to spend a minimum of 20 hours weekly in supervising the freshmen. lege '26), Albert Hillix (Missouri '20), championship team. Besides speedball there is also fall track, handball, the pentathalon tests, golf and ten nis on the fall intramural program. In remuneration the chapter is pro Jr., '05, Rex L. Ross, Jr. (Washing viding him with room and board in addition to an alumni subscription of $200. It has been proposed that this $200 be raised by 200 $1 subscrip ton '31), Manson F. Backus, H, tions from the alumni roster of Al pha Iota. Admittedly, the number of fresh men initiated in the past has been Carlton Swiller '20, Merritt Green, (Washington '31), and Gregg Ouren '25. 18-0 defeat in touch football. Pledge- Doctor and Mrs. Jennings have re ported a summer trip through Ken tucky, West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. Most of the trip was will the freshmen be initiated but the spent in mountainous country where the hill people still use hand looms in weaving. Doc also visited his home town of Elizabeth City, North Car house average will be brought from olina. very low. The tutorial system is a definite remedial measure. Not only its low position to the top. Everyone SARLES CHOSEN the plan a success. - At the present time every fresh man has apportioned his time avail able for studying and is required to follow the chart which was made for through William B. Sarles (Wiscon man has a room on the third floor and absolute adherence to study-hour rules is observed by actives and fresh men. The theory is working to the letter at the present time. Watch our scholarship rating at the end of this quarter. Phi Gamma Delta will lead the list. Both actives and freshmen! brother Burkett is intramural man ager for the yearlings who are at tempting to garner a maximum nmnber of points for the house. Last year the freshmen contributed great ly toward our getting the large allcollege trophy. Well, they'd better win. FUHRER MEMORIAL LODGE at the house is taking scholarship seriously—that is necessary to make him by Andy with the cooperation of his college counsellor. Every fresh Freshman intramural started off with a successful practice game with the Sigma Nus who were tendered an Our contacts with the college are (Continued from Page 1) Engineering Department. Equipped with kitchen, dining room, storeroom and bunks in the attic, the 40 by 22 sin "26) Dairy Industry professor. Bin foot lodge is estimated to accommo attended Wisconsin last spring and received his doctor's degree. "Prof Sarles is chairman of the faculty ad visory committee which includes R®*'" porches the full length of the build ing are equipped with rustic chairs tor William H. Jennings '23, head of the Physical Chemistry department, and Asst. Prof. Mitchell V. Charnley (Williams '19), of the Technical Journalism department. If you should chance upon the Fiji House, the man with the imder-slung pipe is Bill. date from 150 to 200 persons. Two tables and settees. ' A large fireplace in the main room and pipeless furnace wiU furnish warmth for winter gatherings The knoU on which the lodge"stands affords facilities for winter skiing and the heating accommodations will ner mit winter firesides and parties. \r\nTICKETS ARE RESERVED For Homecoming- or any other game the depression price of 52 will buy a reserved seat. To have tickets held for you, write or wire John Montgomery, 325 Ash Ave., Ames, Iowa. Remember that the other Big Six teams have slumped off while Iowa State has a new coach who has to make a name for himself. This is our first Big Six game. Another fea ture of-Homecoming is the polo game with Oklahoma University on Fri HELP! FIJIS LOST! NOTIFY THE CHAPTER Location of Men is to Be Sent to Headquarters HOUSE ACTIVE ON CAMPUS The chapter is making its usual fall drive to enter everyone from -the house in college acti-vities. Our motto is, "Get out ye brothers and die for Phi Oh where! Oh where have they gone? The headquarters of the fra ternity has begun a great Fiji man hunt in an effort to reduce the num ber of "missing" members to the low est possible figure. The local chapter Gamma Delta." The Student seems to be claiming the interests of most of the energetic members -with Wes Brott circulation manager of the Student, Derral Kooser Issue Editor, Bill Ouren holding a reporting berth and Pledge Empkie in line for adver tising director. Pursuing further journalistic incli nations is Derral Kooser who is ad vertising manager of the Green Gan day afternoon and the return chuk- is also at loss to know where to send kers played on the morning of Home coming. Come and watch Dick Hoist ride 'em till they drop. tions to many of its alumni. Look at the following list of "lost" brothers. Many noses have been missing from der. Pledge Dunkel is working on the Bomb. HOLST AND BROWN PLAY POLO the fold for some time. Any informa tion as to the whereabouts of the And where is the polo toggery go ing -with the boys? The sport of kings has foimd advocates on the ceimpus in Dick Hoist and Mel Brown who are champion mallet-wielders. Dick play ed on the team last year when polo was inaugurated on the campus. The Iowa State team is the only aggrega tion in the state entered in intercol legiate competition. Games have been arranged with Missouri, Oklahoma University and Oklahoma Military. Two games -with each -will be played. HOMECOMING GAME WITH MO. (Continued from Page I) from the many pennies and nickles tossed into the bean-pot in Central Building. Saturday, the 24th, at 2 o'clock, the Cyclones line up against their tradi tional rivals, the Missouri Tigers. This promises to be one of the great est of homecoming games in years, as both teams have sho-wn about equal strength thus far this season. Mis souri has lost the first three games by small margins, but they have en- chapter bulletins and other publica foregoing men or clews as to ways and means of locating them should be sent to Executive Secretary CecU J Wilkinson, 810 18th St., N. W. Washington, D. C., with a copy of the chapter. The men listed are also "lost" to the college files. Lester Harry Anderson '21; Lloyd Emerson Cole '20; Ralph Waldo Hanchette '11; William L. Harris '22; Donald Edward Holmes '14; Henry S. Houston '18; Gordon Wallace Mahoney '23; J. Lithgow Mitchell '13; William B. Peterson '24; Richard Aubrey Willis '21; Glenn C. Jones '16; John Newman '13; and Harry H. Grulke '21. In order to keep the fraternity files up-to-date, members of the chap ter should immediately jnotify the chapter about a change in address. A chapter which does not have direct Lntect with all of its alumni is not as strong as one which does. eight freshmen OUT FOR ACTIVITIES superior teams to those that Iowa State has won from. Iowa State met a master in Detroit two Several of the yearlings are future varsity material for a college sport Pitch Ballard Cone and Bob school is no- D-r-A°? mg gndsters. comes to produc- VeenLr on fundamentals''' mentor, George week to pol^e ^ made evidSt ^ troit. Srame with De- when'thr^ctormf son's leg brSee w ^ ed on by the nna left half on tur accident he -aia until his "P" ed to school return- the regular ta^ifi Roe is 6 feet o the team ^een count- giving ^ vfovry. mches and weighs can see Oiiee amm ^ outfit. doors of ^ci'get that the open on ^re to be wide ecoming week-end. Impson has been chosen Bob Clark has been elected on the Industrial Science council and is working on personnel leaflets. Pledge Damon is out for a play production managership. Insel Shanor is an accepted member of the glee club and is to be conscript ed as a committee of one to improve the tonal quality of our nightly "sings." Although no longer our beloved "Prexy," Wes Brott is still president of the interfraternity coimcil. Wes has become technically minded and has been compiling fraternity scholar ship ratings and charting their year ly rise and fall. His reports advising a twenty-nine hours at 80 require ment instead of thirty at 80 was unanimously accepted by the inter fraternity coimcil and given to the president. Lee Straight has been appointed senior football manager, a stupend ous rise from "water-boy." Lee's trips so far have included Sioux City for the game with Morningside College and Detroit for the game with De troit University. The Field Artillery department has a first lieutenant from the house in F a for a berth on the freshman Derral Kooser. The engineering de partment will not make its appoint is competing as a yea "goose-step" and Terrill Miller swunmStrg sauad; yearling trackster. 5 S^as^ center on the Webster ^itTSven and has every chance to f « name for himself. The combasketball season wiU find ments until later. The observers are present John Montgomery, Joe Norman, and Jim. McNaught, lieutenants; Insel Shanor, first sergeant; and Ivan Impson and Lee Straight, sergeants. Plfdges BueP and Empkie aspiring Sr a Srth on the frosh-varsity qumtet. Pledge Roe of two around 200 n set-back Sell and Jack Welsh hre^ striving Ivan as a member of the Athletic council by Cardinal Guild. new pbexy elected ThenpLssary resignation of "Prexy^' F, an early quarterBrott elec^ Melvin Brown of Sioux City officeBrott as president was ifed. iito chapter. was ap- ''^•^ted steward, a job which had been EoSinued by the chapter for sev eral years. Brother Fijis, huddle for a little dirt dishing. We wouldn't teU who, but nom de plume by the name of Dick Hoist makes weekly visits to Milford to see a certain Pi Beta Phi schoohnarm caUed LuciUe Penfield by those that have but a speaking acquaintanceship. And, while bring ing blushes, we might add that you should see those corduroy pants that are guaranteed to stand in the comer until spoken to. \r\nHOUSE IS CLEANED THOMSON IS LANKY Immediately upon arriving at Ames the Fiji boys started to create order out of chaos but found that the job of cleaning-up needed a few experts. Painters were called in and the porti co was repainted, the bathrooms were slapped with a second coat, and the floors refinished. New carpeting was laid on the stairs, curtains were bought for the entire upstairs, chand eliers purchased and the rugs were cleaned. Rushing found the house in tip-top shape and the boys on their Ralph Thomson, lanky Fiji forward on last year's cage team, reported this week for the first annual prac tice of the year. Pledge Meier, al though not in school now, is coimted on as likely varsity material this win FIVE nJIS WEDDED DURING SDNNER Depression Evidently Didn't Fiji Hearts Hit Who said anything about a de pression? At least the alumni of Al pha Iota have been faring well in the marriage market. In fact the ratio of summer- marriages to pre-summer engagements was nearly one. Al though this quarter has brought few smoke rings to the dining room, give toes. ter. As last year's team is intact. Coach Louis Menze is pointing his charges toward the Bix Six championship. Ac cording to Coach Menze, the reserve strength is excellent and with this aid Iowa State should be in the race all the time. the brothers time. An early spring wedding was that of Kenneth C. Gray '33 and Miss Ethel Margaret Wood. The couple are residing at Delta, Colorado. Ken neth was linotype operator for the Ames Tribune-Times last year and has a similar position for the Delta publication. Pledge-brother Glenn L. Thomson '32 and Miss Manette Farnsworth were married during the latter part of July. Mrs. Thomson is a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Glenn is completing his college course. Later in the summer Ivan Myers '29 and Miss Margaret Hart were married in Des Moines. Ivan is now running a Hudson and Essex agency at Ames. The lengthening list of Pi Beta Phi- Phi Gamma Delta marriages now in LYNN FUHRER MEMORIAL LODGE cludes the wedding of Frederick Ed win Denslow '30 and Miss Dorothy Dunlap who were married at Ames. "A short time ago Lynn and Ed is now selling jewelry, with Ames I were freshmen, met together in a bond of pledgeship, began happy days climaxed by a stern probation and glorified by a as his stamping ground. This month brought the first fall marriage when Clarence Ahlstrand '28 and Miss Elyzabethe Kauffman were married at Omaha. Clancy is District Sales Supervisor of the solemn initiation. We were taught that fraternity means fellowship and brotherhood, in before self, and he squandered many hours to promote its wel fare, fight for it on the field, and serve judiciously on its cabinet. Now our class has been graduated. Ljmn, especially, more than his classmates, has left a spirit that points towards Northwestern Bell Telephone com cluding those elements of sac that rounded fullness of fra pany at Grand Island, rifice and ternity. It will endure through Nebraska, where the couple will reside. o ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PLANNED The mcreasing number of post-col lege Fijis and Profs of Fiji deriva tion in town has brought to the minds of some of them the "big idea" of some sort of graduate association. The meetings would be held at the house .on some convenient night. The list of Fiji residents includes Doctor William B. Sarles (Wisconsin '26), Doctor William H. Jennings '23 Asst Prof. Mitchell V. Charnley (Williams '19), George C. Ernst '26, Edwin Den slow '30, Dudley S. Triplett '29, Ivan Myers '29, Asst. Prof. Harry Schmidt '25, Newton Hake '23, Galen Tilden '94, Phihp Damon '97, Verdene An thony '31, and Rev. J. s. Dancey (Hlinois Wesleyan '99). Alpha Iota Chapter is in the mov ies now! This movie will be added to that of other chapters and used in in rushing. high achievement. Lynn learned his lessons well. classes to come." Whether in the parlor before the open fireplace with a score of the fellows or on the open highway wdth a brother a thou sand miles from home, he bore out our traditions—generous to the limit, high-minded, and al ways one of the fellows. He be lieved that his fraternity came —^Verdene Anthony '31 "I whose can't think of anyone death has affected me more deeply. Lynn was a per fect fraternity man. I will never forget the good times we had together at the last Ekklesia." "Pa" Prince (111. Wesleyan '02) DANCE AFTER DRAKE GAME And all the house a solemn stillness holds. Secure in their third floor , Soft music and the Fiji house— there is no better combination. Rob sanctuary, the busy frosh peruse their ert Clark, social chairman, has annmmced that November 14 is the date and Paul Davis the orchestra. AU Alumni are cordially invited. Come and see Iowa State clash wdth Drake on the local field. If you decide to come be sure and write to the house soon enough to have your tickets re served. The door will be wide open and the boys will have on their best front. Be sure and come for either the game or the dance or both. musty books. Such thirst for learning! Such knowledge-seeking knaves! "And who is that? The tutor you say?" ' The long and short of it! The long of the frosh class is Nels BuSS towers 6 feet 4 ^ches-the air stS^ thinning out about there Thp L .• Freddie Damon whom natiir^°^^ ^ compressed to the minimum « 5 inches. Off those stilt^n! ® knees! ' ■ "-"tf your