JhsL ^IpJtjCL fflhijL TUuva, University of Michigan Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta New Series Vol. VII ANN ARBOR, MICH., JANUARY, 1942 University Officials Class President Elect Norm Call Cut School Year Senior Class Prexv By Three Weeks Of Literary College •/ Speedup Made To Conform Erstwhile Football Back With War Needs; Second Adds To His Many Honors; Snodgrass On J-Hop Board Semester To End May 30 Norm Call '42, Norwalk, Ohio, "hard luck" member of the varsity football team, was elected president of the senior class of the literary college in November. "Greyhound" Call has been thwar ted throughout his football career at Michigan by injuries, but he won the election handily. He is also a member of the Student National Defense group on the campus, com- The brothers at "707" learned January 14 that their school year will be made three weeks shorter as a result of action taken by Uni versity officials to speedup gradua tion dates. The current semester will end a week earlier than planned, spring vacation has been eliminated, and Commencement will be held on May 30 instead of June 20, thus making Michigan's 1942 class of more than 2,000 graduates available for war service three weeks earlier than had been expected. Examinations will be only two hours long instead '• 3E posed of campus leaders. He was B chairman of the economics panel m wrffl \ K discussion for the Winter Parley /I in January. The parley is a '« - % 'im '^^^d get-together of students and faculty NORM CALL '42 holds three of the members to discuss prominent world of three. The stepped-up program was an highest positions on campus. He nounced by the new University War is currently president of the senBoard. The new calendar, they ior class of the literary college. pointed out, does not shorten actual a member of Michigamua, and study periods, but rather takes up I president of Phi Gamma Delta, slack in the old program, advancing j===z=^=== and shortening examination and registration periods and eliminat 'CInvh /ittfl TCtlPollf Another Fiji helping to keep "707" at the top of the activities The cramming of all final exam 'Take Wives Recently heap—despite the distractions of ing spring vacation. !I ^ problems. "Camel" Call on graduating this May has his eye on law school and the president of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, Mary Lou Ewing, longest running Fiji sweetheart. Two recent Alpha Phi alumni inations into a one-week period will call for some real studying on the 'were married in recent weeks and who was chosen t e rep e the engagement of another has been ^ the foiestry sc oo on part of the Pijis and we shall rise i to the occasion. : "The Fabulous" Buck Dawson, j Several Fiji Alumni Have New Addresses John • ClL'k Ml! '42BAd, now inJ r,• Vri 1 • result of fame through ^dver- s his senior year in the business ad- tisme." for his lost coat m the-Uaiiy o nnci- ,ministration school, was man-ied to |?®t an ® q'pnate tmn on the Student Senate. New addresses for several Alpha ]Miss Ruth M. Diehlman on January Phi alumni members have been re- ; 3 at Sault Ste Marie, Mich. They are living at 917 Bath, Ann Arbor,\Emmons And Mahon ceived since the last isue. Accord- ; ing to the post office, the addresses awhile of the following men are: David H. Decker '22, 240 Pros John finishes his work for a AwardS c (leffree. Jack Knecht '41E was married to The Herbert Wilson Smith trophy pect, Elmhurst, 111.; Edward L. 1Miss Patricia Rynearson at Fenton, was awarded this year to Sam m Hulse '29, 24 Washington Ave., IMich., on November 29, 1941. Mrs. mons Jr. '44, son of Samuel m Schenectady, N. Y.; Charles M. 1Knecht also studied at Michigan mons '16, of Rio de Janeiro, Biazi Drinkwater '10, Hotel Hamilton, and e they are now living in Evans- The trophy is awarded each Washington, D. C.; John P. Com- ton. t 111. to the sophomore member who has stock Jr. '24, 2890 Mary, Omaha, Glen Morse '41L is engaged to shown unusual ability in campus Neb.; Hubert A. Downey '14L, 304 rmarry Miss Mary Standerline '43 activities and fraternity interest Davis, Evanston, 111. 5 SM, of Chicago, it was announced during his freshman year, Robert C. Mueller '38, 504 Penn- in i November. The future Mrs. The Scholarship Trophy was presylvania Ave., Medford, Ore.; An- IMorse is a member of Pi Beta Phi. sented to Hank Mahon 44, of Mans drew M. Brown '89, 2836 Altura, ( Glen is a patent attorney for a field, Ohio, who established the best La Cresenta, Calif. C Grand Rapids firm. grades last year. \r\nPage Two January, 1942 THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS Alpha Phiji News Cannibal Short Cuts By Buck Dawson EXTRA!—James "Honk" Hen House," probably noticed Bob Titus, Published quarterly by Alpha Phi derson '34, '35, '36, '37, '38, '39, '40, Bob Gelston, Buck Dawson, Dave Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta '41 and '42, finally graduates at the Pollock and Ed Steele in the cast. 707 Oxford Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. Dean's request because of his high This hoard of grease paint Fijis average (just under C). Honk's did themselves proud in what oldEditor Dale Chamberlin college education, spanning the last timers called the best opera since decade, is not in vain, however, as Cotton Stockings. OFFICERS Norman Call Robert Titus he will be the first assistant to the President captain of the ground mechanics for Treasurer one of Uncle Sam's old training Owen Mays Henry Fielding Ree. Secretary ships upon graduation. In '34, al Cor. Secretary most before Roosevelt got elected Dale Chamberlin Historian president. Honk came to Ann Arbor. Informed by his advisor that he would graduate by Thanksgiving, Can You Help Us Honk was in for a disappointment. Locate These Fijis? Now, nine years later, he leaves the Keeping track of approximately co-ed daughters of the co-ed moth 500 alumni is no simple task. De ers he once knew with this simple spite continual new addresses and farewell: "Well, what the Hell, failure of alumni who move to noti girls, all good things must come to fy the chapter, our list of tempor an end sometime, and besides my arily "lost" members totals only bar exam is waiting—down in Hasix. gen's basement." H: ^ ^ If you can help us locate these men, please write the editor. Their Philip Bell Detwiler '42—that * Those three * * "married" men— Call, Darling and Fielding—take quite a razzing these days when their bosses call on the phone. Brother Jim Snodgrass simply cracks his blacksnake whip when one of the would-be spouses calls and the three stooges knock each other down in the rush for the phone. In the meantime, John Clark has really faced the altar and invites any Fijis around these here parts to stop in and visit he and Ruthie while in town. Ruthie can really rustle up a mean feed bag, so if you are coming to town, drop in at their apartment and stay a few weeks. names and last known addresses middle name does indicate some are: J. Stanley Carter '23, Gastonia, N. C.; Donald D. Dickerson '18, 708 S. Third, Minneapolis; F. Walker Flanagin '13, 1311 Elm, Detroit; Robert L. Hall '27, Wayne, Mich.; Ira B. Jones '30, 102 N. E. St., Marion, Ind.; Samuel A. Wilson '89, 625 Atkinson, Detroit. thing besides his mother's maiden Two Fijis are now on the Student moniker—has forgotten the amber Senate, campus representative body. brew in his quest for a berth on Senior Senator Jim Pilcher claimed this year's wrestling team. his seat in the legislative chamber sS: ❖ * last spring, while Buck Dawson Brother Jack Vaughn, "Easy" to was one of the newly elected Sena the boys, has achieved some fame tors at this fall's plebiscite which as a boxer. Forced to retire from came just two days after Norm Golden Gloves competition after Call was elected senior class prexy four successive years in the state —a post held last year by Fiji For A Few Words About finals. Jack made a comeback in the est Evashevski. Those Questionnaires Detroit during vacation. The only annual Goodfellow tournament in From time to time the chapter trouble was he didn't come back receives a "Who's Who" question far enough. "The resin gets in my naire from an alumnus with the eyes," said Easy, as he caromed off notation,"I've filled several of these the canvas. * * * out before." Recently from "Kell's Any alumni returning for this Half Acre" in Central Lake, Mich., came the following note from Nel year's Mimes Union Opera, "Full son A. Kellogg '04: "With the latest number of The etc., so continue to send him another * * athletics have claimed many of the Alpha Fijis. Harry Anderson and Wayne Wright were two of the seven to reach the all-campus speech finals this last semester, of address, regardless of having while Lafayette Stuch has announc ed several programs over WJR's campus hookup at Morris Hall. In publications work, we have Dave Pollock slaving away on the Michi gan Daily editorial staff, while Ben Douglas and Buck Dawson hold down junior editorships on the filled it in before. Michiganensian. News carne a blue questionnaire— until it is returned. An alumnus who moves frequently will receive several times before. If your files a questionnaire after each change which I recollect to have filled out are incomplete, I shall be glad to (ill it out. The only recent change in my life was my retirement in 1939 from Lehigh University and my coming here to live. I enjoy every * Speech and journalism as well as We hope this explains the situa •i* ^5 5|; tion. These questionnaires are our Chuck Adams and Hank Mahon chief source of alumni news and continue their good work in the naturally we are anxious to receive number of The News." For the information of Brother them. If you are getting one, please Kellogg and all other alumni, here's send it in. They do cost money. why many of you continue to re A new form being sent out with ceive these blanks: First, every this issue is the "If You're In The alumnus receives one until he fin Army Now" blank. It is hoped that Naval ROTC, while pledges Cole, Spaumburg and Anderson also add strength to the salty atmosphere that is slowly enveloping the house on the hill. ally fills it in and returns it. Second, all alumni in the nation's armed Dr. James A. Rolls '20, 23M, a he receives no more unless we are services, regardless of whether you notified by the post office that he have already notified us of that physician in Washington, D. C., has has changed his address. In that fact, will send in this blank after just changed his mailing address in that city to 1371 Hamilton N.W. case we assume he has a new job. filling it in. \r\nJanuary, 1942 Page Three THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS Varsity Athletics LETTERS Attract Many Fijis Likes The Deep South To Yost Fieldhouse Dear Editor: If you're interested in the stuff I've been doing-. I'll give it to you. Of the 37 in my class (flying ca dets), only four have -washed out so far, -which is a fine record. I soloed a couple weeks ago at eight Three Phi Gams Aspire For Places On WrestlingTeam; Four Out For Track Never before in the history of hours. Since then, I have flown a "707" has Yost Field House shel lot solo and should get my final tered so many Phi Gam athletes. Led by our old athletic manager, Phil Detwiler, who has since been replaced by Sam Emnions, are two other Fiji grapplers, Maurey An check this coming week. After we pass our check we are put into a pool for four weeks whei-e we really get some concentrated derson and Vernon Judd. The trio ground school. There are 142 stu dents on board now, but by tne the 15th ibth of December we'll have more than "KNUTE" WEIDMAN '41 Training To Be Navy Flyer 400. The head of this pool, Lieut. is competing for positions on Coach Cliff Keen's squad in 'the 136, 128 and freshman classes, respectively. On the indoor dirt track below Wiley, came in the office last night and had a long informal chat with fiddle-faddle, I ve met more the wrestling alcove, five Fiji thin dads are fighting their hearts out for posts on the track team. Jour nalist Dawson not only writes but runs the half-mile and quarter-mile. a few of us, which is not the usual ®^ tlia" ] thing in the Navy. He was in the '"f A"" Arbor m a year, but I last war, is an ex-engineering pro- only have about one date a week fessor from Columbia and is plenty then usually to go to a movie Freshman standouts on the team up in his line. He gave us a lot of some place to drink and dance, are dynamic Hume twins, Ross dope about our coming ground depending upon how much money and the Bob, who run both the half school and Pensacola. I f^o. We get ?74 a month, but In the pool we'll have eight hours comes out for food and about of classes a day, no liberty on Fri- for laundij, so that doesn t leave day and Sunday nights, classes Sat- "^"cli. A lot of poker and craps urday morning- and home work to ^oes on here, but I ve been so condo at night. We will get up at 4:30 mstently unlucky that I ve given it and receive no flying instruction. "P- ,. „ j, Our classes will be flight theory, f »» sending you a gallon of oyssemaphore, blinker, math, navigaand since there are only 14 tion, naval tradition, aerodynamics, dozen in a gallon, you d better sit engines, etc. But if we make the uear the head of the table so you grade, it'll be a lot easier for us at sure and get a seiving of them. Pensacola. ^ —Knute Weidman '41 and the quarter-mile. Art Upton, frosh King, is one of Coach Doherty's long distance runners. The Phi Gams lost the interfra- ternity wrestling championship by only one point to the Phi Delta Thetas in intramural sports. That same evening the Fijis received an other heartbreaking defeat by beingeliminated from the fraternity swimming- tournament in which we have won second place for three I'm glad we will be going there. Thanks, Knute, from all the years. In other interfraternity sports because it is the oldest Naval train- brothers for those oysters. They ing base in the world and much made a ivonderful stew. Flying now drawing to a conclusion, the more in the line of luxuries than Cadet Hubert Weidman was locat- house has reached the semi-finals Corpus Christi or Jacksonville. He ed at the date of his letter (Decem- in water polo, which we have strongsaid there were 1,800 cadets there, ber 6) at the USNRAB, Window intentions of winning, and basket two officers' clubs to which all the 28, New Orleans. Before joining ball. The latter team is under the cadets belong, 15 sail boats, riding stables, large boats for deep-sea fishing, a swimming pool, a dance with a good band every weekend, the Navy early last fall he loas a cost accountant for Ex-Cello Corp., Detroit, ivhere his home address is 680 Merrick. etc. Last Friday we had a student Horses To Air Corps dance here, the first since the base expert coaching of Harry Anderson. Joseph E. Gandy '26 received his law degree from the University of Washington in 1929 and has since been a practicing- attorney in Seat tle. He is with the firm of Hulbert, was opened in April, and I was f^ur Editor: Helsell and Bettens, 1111 Whitegeneral chairman. Since most of It's Saturday a. m. and the room Henry-Stuart Bldg-., Seattle. Mrs. the students were new and from 's all spic and span, nothing to do Gandy was Laurene Tatlow, who town, I helped them get dates with but wait for inspection, so I'm studied gals in town and at Newcomb and catching- up on some correspond- (Kappa Kappa Gamma). most of the 40 dates that we got ence. turned out well. I never saw girls As Riess has already told you, it's at Smith and Colorado ^ From John C. Thom '38, now of respond so well to blind dates as pi'etty rough and I'm really work- New York City, comes a kind word they do here in New Orleans. And big hard, from six a. m. to ten p. of thanks for the baby spoon sent the same goes for the families here. ui. We fly in the a. m. and go to his recently-born son, in accord They like the Navy a lot and every to ground school in the afternoon, ance with the old Fiji custom. Jack week 40 or 50 of the boys get in- We have three classes, one in math and his enlarged family is now liv vited out to Sunday dinner in the (logs, vectors and trig), engines ing at 35-16 76th St., Jackson best homes in the city. {Continued on Page i) Heights, Long Island, N. Y. \r\nPage Four January, 1942 THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS News From Alumni Everywhere More news comes in concerning work, from 20,000 to 40,000 feet, in 30 Pine St., New York. Mrs. Al Alpha Phi alumni now serving in a re-designed Army P-40. Funny gyer (Helga Lund) presented him the nation's armed forces. George things happen to engines at those with their first child, Deanne, last D. Seymour '39 is a private in Bat tery C, First Battalion, 177th Field Artillery, Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. Formerly of Pontiac, Mich., he has been in the Army eight months. He altitudes and it is our job to find May 7. They live at 25 E. 86th St., out what and why. The whole thing New York City. "D" is a member sounds fascinating, and it is, but of the Phi Gamma Delta Club, Uni that is not fighting." versity Club, Broad Street Club, « ❖ ^ Robert S. Bradley '38 is an ac Alpha Phiji will certainly be bright countant with the Pullman Com and U of M Club. * writes: "The future issues of The * ❖ Forest Evashevski '41 like all spots in a dull existence . . . If pany and lives at 2030 W. Fifth good alumni, sends in his question all the lads feel as I do, you would need a special issue for your letters to the editor. How about a special appeal to John Roberts and Walt Peckinpaugh, who also seem to be suffering maimed digits?" . . . . Lynn Riess Jr. '41, whose letter appeared in the last issue has re cently been transferred to Stock ton Field, Calif, for more advanced training in the U. S. Army Air Corps. He was previously at Mof- Ave., Gary, Ind. He was married naire for his record in our files. As Nov. 2, 1940, to Helen Morton, previously reported in these col Michigan Alpha Omicron Pi. umns, he is coach at Hamilton Col 4! * lege, Clinton, N. Y. His residence Author of many articles and re at 9 Prospect, Clinton, is presided views in various leading journals over by Mrs. Evashevski (Ruth is Theodore Hornberger '27, pro Brown, Albion Delta Gamma). fessor of English at the University of Texas. "Ted" also studied at ❖ At A: Thomas Thomas '29, also known King's College, London (1927-28) as just "Tom," is a physician in and received his M.A. and Ph.D. that Phi Gam town of Oil City, Pa., degrees from Michigan while serv where he lives with his wife and fett Field .... Alfred C. Stoddard ing on the faculty. He was instruc small daughter, Jane Kay, now five '31, who the last issue listed as stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, was released from the Army last Sept. 16 because he was over the 28-year age limit. However, he writes (Jan. 6) that he has been ordered to re port back for active duty on Janu ary 12. "Al" was an attorney in Bisbee, Ariz., before the war and served as deputy county attorney, Cochise county. He is not married. months old, at 102 Maple. Brother Thomas, like some other Oil City Fijis, was editor of the Michigan- tor in English here from 1928 to 1936, and assistant professor in 1936-37 and Research Fellow, Huntington Library, 1936-37. Mrs. Horn berger was Marian Welles, Michi gan Pi Beta Phi, and they have two daughters, Jean, 12 years old, and Katharine, nine. They live at 1315 Meriden Lane, Austin, Texas. * * * ensian and a member of Michigamua. Hi At George H. Borneman '37 was a member of the chapter's "lost" file until he walked into the house re cently and had dinner with the Durwin D. Algyer '29 is in the chapter. George is an accountant « ♦ « investment banking business with at the University Hospital here and Released last fall from the Naval the firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co., lives at 1523 So. University. Air Corps where he was an Ensign, John A. Rinek '39E, is now a test pilot for Pratt and Whitney Air craft, East Hartford, Conn. When The Alumni Letter Column still in the Navy, he was stationed for a while in Hawaii. He writes: {Continued from Page 3) "I wish to add my voice in the wil and airplanes. You know how me derness to the rejuvenated and highy efficient alumni column. There chanically inclined I was! Hell, I you have a fine institution. It might can't fix a fiat tire, so the ground have sounded nice to be out of the school keeps me studying at night, Navy, as I now find myself. Civilian when the upper classmen aren't jobs sound mighty nice, but this is hazing you. It's just like being a freshman at no time to enjoy them. Watching a good war going on and not being school again, only more discipline. in it raises the old fire-horse feel This part of the Army is a lot Lynn. If you pass your 20-hour check and your 60-hour check, you are pretty certain to get by. Pre vious flying is a great help also. . . . It's surprising how much you can learn about flying in nine hours. I soloed this week and it is quite an experience. Well, keep 'em flying and perhaps some day I'll fly up to see you guys. ing. Test piloting, however, is no different than the regular Army. —Elmer Gedeon '39 cinch, especially when it is engin This branch encourages initiative, The chapter wishes *'Ged** lots eering-test piloting. It is without the other destroys it. The only social relaxation we of luck on his checks. After play a doubt an exclusive profession and have is on the weekends when the ing professional baseball for the one of the newest, too. There are lots of pilots, but not many who are also engineers. It is amazing how an engineering education is almost essential in the modern world. At the present time I am spending most of the time on the ground learning about engines and how to conduct tests and what to look for. I am boys go into Phoenix,about 13 miles Washington Senators and their south of here. Tempe College is farm teamSj helping coach at Mich located there and I spend my time igan, and getting drafted into the over there fighting tea hounds for TJ. S. Army cavalry, '*Ged** was recently transferred to the Air the parlor sofa. Our class goes to basic training Corps, where, as described above, at Baker Field, Calif., the 17th of he is learning to get his wings. January. If I haven't "washed-out" By now, he can probably be ad to specialize in high altitude test by then, Til probably get to see dressed at Baker Field, Calif.