The Lambda Deuteron Fiji Published by and for members of Lambda Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gaiiuiia Delia. Dcnisoii University, Gianyille^. Twenty-ciglit Pages .11 NK, 1043 Vol. .35, No. 2 THIS IS THE STORY OF MY LIFE • » • « * « « * « Billy Chamberlin '93 Tells of Zestful Living and Qrandpa's Wonder Soap Bourbon By William F. Chambeilin '03 This is the exciting story oj our eminent and beloved William F. Chamberlin '93, historian of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. PROLEGOMENA Condensed from the autobiography, "/ Remember," he wrote for his This reverie has long been g'andchildren while he was touring South America in 1941, the narra postponed. For years I have tive reproduced in these pages abounds in fascinating adventures, in desired to write down some ot the cluding many about Fifis and Denison. In a review of the book which pleasant and amusing experiences appeared in the April issue of "The Phi Gamma Delta," Max B. Norof my ^ cliildhood, boyhood and pell '12 said: "It is one thing to live a full life and quite another to young manhood. I have wanted my grandchildren and my step make literature of an autobiographical account of it. William Fosdick Chamberlin has achieved both." whiskey three times a day and here I am—a grandfather. 1 was born in February and that first summer 1 was taken to the old Chamberlin farm. It was thought that the mountain air would be good for me. The fi rst day I was there my mother let me fall out of her arms on the hard wood kitchen fl oor. That just, about ended my young career and grandchildren and all who are yet you would have been spared "I to come, to know that there have wen nn*nv_liappy incidents, lots Remember." No such luck for you, my dears. I recovered but I have always imagined that if it had not been for that fall, I might of tun and wondertm comnanlon- ships in the Grandpa and life ot "Dampty," Uncle Bill, or by have been what other name he may, in affec tion I hope, be called. a brilliant mcCii. Not a Bashful Child I suppose that the time of child hood CHILDHOOD happiest period of It is certainly free from Remember" boy, where were you born?" the responsibility but so full, as "1 IRISH BOY was being ex- amiii,»(i for Army duty. The doctor said, is one's life. my own childhood day, of danger. "Me?"' The Allegheny River ran in front of my Uncle Jim's home in Salamanca. We were permitted to play on the river. We built rafts replied Pat, "I was born in the front parlor, sor." I was born in the front parlor of the home of my maternal grand and father, Jesse Thorne Fosdick the river. The water was very deep and none of u.s knew how to swim. at Randolph, Cattaraugus County, N. Y., midway between Jamestown around the island in The fact is we were not permitted to learn to swim. When we were tired of playing on the river we and Salamanca on the Seneca In dian Reservation. fl oated The date was would pool the little change we February 20, 1870. The fact that had, buy a steak and cook it on the bank in an improvised oven. Do boys like beef steak? One of the fascinating cp^peri- I was born on an Indian reserva tion probably accounts for what's the matter with me. Baby Could Take It I have been told that I was a ences during childhood in Sala manca were the frequent parties very sickly baby and that if there had not been the love of my moth and the kissing games we indulged er and the attention of old "Doc" about them the better, my dears, Jones, I would not be here to re member anything. "Doc" Jones it will be for you. was the leading physician of Ran Ohio when I was about three years dolph. My mother's older sister wanted my mother to let me pass out and put up a nice little stone in the Randolph Cemetery. Old •■Doc" Jones said that he was go ing to make me live because in but I am sure the least said My father and mother went to William Fosdick Chamberlin '9.3 old (Billy's childhood recollections in New York State, mentioned ear "Katie" wanted her little boy. were alive today. He was an ex lier, are mainly about summer "Doc" Jones would be the head of perimenter. He instructed my vacations he spent there after he some Rockefeller institute if he mother to rub into my puny body had moved to Dayton Ed.) \r\nJune, THE LAMBDA DEUTEBOIV FIJI Page 3 high school class were held in ft,, There stood on the west side of All of the boys, with the possible the Park—I believe it was known exception of one, are dead, and all as a "Public Common," a Presby terian Church, which when the Common was dignified by the name of "Park" was known as The Park Presbyterian Church. To this church Sunday School I was taken. Sometimes my parents would stay for a church service. "I Remember" that once,—only College Chum of the dear lassies are gone save four times as many girls in ihp, my Cousin Frank and one other. flass as ) r>s. It had beju a cus tom for j'oars for the boys to es cort the g'r's to the T'arewell" traditional party. IVe drew lots and each one took out of a hat the .lame of a girl written on a piece I do not know exactly when child hood ends and what we call boy hood begins but at this time I was ready to enter the Centrai High in Dayton, Ohio. I was now at the advanced age of fourteen. I be gan to sit up and notice girls. I of paper, l his was repeated unli) all of 'he girls were chosen, 'l ien beg.an a marketi.ng, a sell once, I slipped out of the pew and was in a delightful coterie of boys standing in the middle of the asle, and girls. I suddenly seemed to ing and D'ad-.ng of girls. The fel imitated the Minister, who made pass into boyhood, forgetting the up for his lack of diction by saw childhood years which were be ing the air vigorously with both hind hands. I suppose I was then about five years old. I was glad that my "Aunt Em" was not a witness. Hickory Applied In due time I was established in the first grade of the Ninth Dis trict School on Huffman Avenue which was about a half of a mile from our home. I indulged in all of the school sports and sometimes so-called "Music Hali," the thei. tor of Dayton. There were about low who later went to the peni tentiary for forgery was very lucky me. in his cTrawing. It cost me five dollars to get the girl who be came in af'er years the grand BOYHOOD The clique I belonged to maintained mother of ihe Taylor and Cham berlin children. itself during the entire High School experience. There were seven boys and seven girls. We had our parties and din ners and picnics much as young people do today but with this ex Once ception. The girls all had to be got into a schoolyard fight. I was whipped with a hickory pad dle by the Principal, one Carrie Miller. 1 was positively innocent of any wrong doing. The boys were always lined up, no matter what the weather was,and were marched into the school building. Whis pering was taboo, indeed It was IT^ajor crime. Denison Chosen The time was fast approaching when the college question had to be settled. It was somehow taken for granted that I would go to college. Most of the boys and girls home at nine o'clock. In these ter Billy Chamberlin '93 and Andy whom I knew in Dayton, Salaman rible times the boys and girls do Rettig- '93, above, roomed together ca and Montrose were pianning to not even begin at nine o'clock. in the bare accommodations which go somewhere. In Salamanca. The times have changed. We were Talbot Hall offered moi-i> than of) Cornell was the favorite. In Day permitted to escort our girls to the yeai'S ago. ton, Denison was and is toA-a-j a Y. M. C. A. Star Course lectures and entertainments. That was our \ very potinVar achoot. In Mont- to read music readily which was of\ rose, it was Bucknell, which was greatest indulgence but usually our value to me in later years. )the choice of young people. I parents would be sitting nearb.y. / I have mentioned the protracted wanted to go to Cornell. A big boy and a bad boy by the We all got paired but I think that I revival services which were held Your grandmother to be, MinfC name of Harry Saylor talked loud only three marriages culminated b.v most of the Evangelical Hannah, and her chum Elizabeth ly and told Carrie that it was I one of which was mine to Minnie churches in Dayton from JanuaryDodds were booked for Cornell. who had done the talking. Of Hannah, mother of Hannah Cham- first until the "holy spirit" sub Dayton was the residence ot course I protested and said that berlin Taylor and Robert Hasleden sided and the flesh became tired, some Denison Trustees who were Chamberlin. I had not opened my talking ap which was some times as late as wealthy and influeutial. They paratus but Carrie paddied me so Liked Moody Hjiiins the first of May, depending on how were close triends of my father's. vigorously that I could not sit My father was a great lover the converts kept coming into the Dr. Lounsbury, our minister, was • down. of music. He played the violin church. When it was discovered very sure that I should enter the ^ I went out of the school build very well. During my high school that I could play hymns with some ministry and that I should go to ing and ran home. I was indig days he insisted that I take two vigor and interpretation, I was Denison (which at that time had a nant for having been punished for lessons a week on the piano from drafted and during the junior and something I did not do. I regret Blunienschein and two lessons a senior years of my high school charter which required all trus tees to be members of the Baptist that even to this day there are no week on the violin from Marstel- days, I played night after night. kind thoughts of Carrie. She has lar. Then I was compelled to take Father would often lead the sing Church). The college today has long ago gone to her reward what a dancing lesson on Saturday af ing, standing in front of the audi on its board men whose religious ever that may be and wherever ternoon while other boys played ence beating out the time, having affiliations are other than Baptist. The decision was leaning toward that may be. ball. I had little time to work on the congregation sing now forte Denison with a promise from fath My father had been a school music and to do justice to the in and again pianissimo, now the master in Susquehanna County, vestment my father was making in Pennsylvania. He was known as me. I wouid read the score going a strong disciplinarian and be to and from music lessons in a lieved in the use of the rod, so I horse drawn street car with straw did not get much sympathy from on the floor in the wintertime to him. He thought that the "lick keep your feet warm. That was ing" I got from Carrie would do the theory but it did not work me good. 1 got even twenty-five years later when I was President of the Board of Education of Day ton. I succeeded in having the paddle relegated to the oblivion of torture machines. very well. er that if at the end of the fresh men alone and then the women man year at Denison I still want and then altogether. Father was ed to attend Cornell I could do so. not offensive in his leading the Now it was definitely decided hymn singing. In some revival that I would enter Denison in the services I have attended, the pre fall and my parents made arrange centor was a clown in his antics ments for me to room with An and would drive out of me all the I cannot remember the beauty and charm of some of the time I did not play the piano ac lovely hymns. companiments for my father's vio lin playing. During three high ever, that I learned to know most) school years I played violin duets and Sankey regime. The hymns 1 Pax vobis- often with him. It was sometimes I am glad, bow- drew Rettig who was a bit over 1 six feet, a blonde and very good of the Gospel hymns of the Mnodvl Rugged Dorm Life Andrew and I roomed in the irksome when I had school work '! the Billy Sunday era were iesslEast Dormitory since known as dignified and often were noaUng Taibot Hail. We were on the-west Most of my childhood friends to do and wanted to play with the have gone to their eternal homes boys on the Common. I learned t.ior*. than jazz. 1 qj building and on the The graduation exercises of my\ fourth floor. "Chips" Davis and cum, Carrie! \r\nJune, 1943 THE LAMBDA DEUTERON FIJI Page 3 Gummy" Hosier lived across the of Phi Gamma Delta. hall in the front. We heated our Billy Chamberlin's File Bulges At Fraternity's Headquarters rooms with a small "cannon ball" stove. We raised the coal by means of a rope and pulley and stored it in a closet. We cared for our own "student lamps," cleaning them and filling them piano and cornet, under the effi By Cecil J. Wilkinson with oil, if we had any. We loaned cient leadership of Brother Cham and borrowed coal and oil freely. Editor of The Phi Gamma Delhi berlin, made its first appearance One of the handy devices avail in public." There was no running water. All water for bathing had to be car able at tlie headquarters of the ried up three flights of stairs. best fraternity is an inde.\ of ali There were no lavatories. There the articles and personalia which was a building in the rear of Tal- have appeared in ihe 65 volumes bot made entirely of stone. Such of "The Phi Gamma Delta" since were our accommodations. What a its establishment in 1879 in the contrast with the dormitories as old Buckeye town of Delaware they are today. (advt.)—the fourth oldest among all Greek-letter society publica Pledged by Fijis tions. Many of my friends in Dayton So when Editor Lucian C. War had become members of Beta The- ren asked me to write something about that "verry parfait knight" of the royal purple, Billy Chamberlin, 1 a-scurrying went to the repository of all things Delta. Seven single-spaced typewritten index pages are required to chronicle the impress of our Billy upon Phi Gamma Delta. No Fiji— ta Pi in various institutions and I knew that letters had been writ ten to the Betas at Denison. Let ters were also written by Dayton Sigma Chi men to the Denison chapter of Sigma Chi but it was a sort of foregone conclusion that Dissertation on Pig- DEUTERON FIJI is This la was a chal lenge to the historiographer in Billy. At the 1906 Ekklesia in Old Point Comfort he introduced a resolution calling for a report on the advisabiiity and cost of marking the graves of the Imniortai Six. It developed that no one knew where the Founders were buried, nor how many were dead. The following year Billy was giv en the task of finding and mark The flower of fraternity genus ing the graves. Thus began a has always been a patient and painstaking investiga hardy perennial. The next few tion into the history of the fra years we find him serving as the ternity, which resulted in the two chapter correspondent to "The Phi Gamma Delta," vice-chairman of definitive volumes of the superb "History of Phi Gamma Delta." the 1891 Ekklesia, secretary of "Tomos Alpha" (1921) is a story the 1892 conclave, co-editor of of The Beginnings; "Tomos Beta" "Songs of Denison," president of (1926) of The Superstructure. the 1894 state convention of the cannibals, founfler of the Dayton Graduate Chapter, chairman the Ekklesia 1897 in the Met Witli Coolidge of State How fortunate is Phi Gamma Capitol at Nashville, Tenn., and Delta that Billy should have in chief of the Ohio section terested of the fraternity. Billy was also a prolific con iLet us ramble amongst the| honoring. situation Chamberlin I would be a Beta. There were two tributor of articles to the maga factors, however, which changed zine on such topics as "Phi Gam that conclusion. First, 1 did not living or dead—has more. ma Delta at Denison," "Denison's care for some ot We Betas; secI Pig" (Lambda Deuteron was appages ot the journal to learn \parenlly the first chapter to adopt afresh what manner of man is i the Norris Dinner idea after the this whom this issue of THE first porker feast at the Califor- LAMBDA mentable (nia Chapter), "A Letter from the J himself in its annals when he did! A few years later and the priceless memorabilia which he has gathered would have been lost for all time. In recent years Billy has con tributed occasional "Odd Bits of History" to "The Phi Gamma Delta," a sort of footnote to the wealth of material in the general published history. Songbook Editor" (1904), in Our beloved elder statesman Well Suited to I'mjde which he announced plans for the was one of the moving spirits in On page 54 of the March, 1889, compiling of the third edition of the founding of the unique Fiji issue Billy makes his debut into our ballad book, and "Loyalty to Sires and Sons at the White House Delta through Lamba Deuteron's Alma Mater," in which he said, in Washington on May 1, 1925, chapter letter; "We take pleasure "So long as I love my little 2x4 the 77th anniversary of the estab in presenting to the fraternity our latest initiates. Brothers W. P. college, Denison, I shall feel that lishment of the fraternity. He and I have a right to have some part four other dads were the guests of boys should have and he was a hn'i athlete, a great baseball pitch er and splendid football player. He was a bom avtver tongued ora tor and had a good singing voice. His yodel is immortalized in "Things seen and heard" by the celebrated Greek scholar Edgar J. Goodspeed. "Gummy" was a God of boys and to him I gave my Fiji Chamberlin of Dayton, O.; H. B. in the work of Phi Gamma Delta." President Calvin Coolidge (AmDutches of Chicago, E. B. Kin- pledge. I have never regretted my decision. I have served my chapter Lambda Deuteron in many ways. I have had almost every honor in office: Archon, President, succeeding Newton D. Baker. For many years I have been the Na ney of Norwalk, O., and C. B. White of Newark, O. These brothers were all initiated before the last General Convention (Co lumbus, September, 1888) and have proved themselves loyal and enthusiastic Deltas, well suited to wear the royal purple. We were It was about this time that herst '95) on that memorable oc Robert H. Chamberlin, who was casion. (Billy's account of this destined to become a Fiji at Wil on page 6). The preamble of the liams, came along. statement of the object of the as sociation is a classic: "The pur Elected Lay Archon Billy's elevation to a high niche pose of this organization is to im in the Temple of Delta came at press upon all fathers and their the 1905 Ekklesia in Niagara sons, who are members of our sorry to lose Brother Chamberlin Falls, N. Y., when he was elected fraternity, and in time upon their tional Historian. Two volumes this term by reason of the death a Lay Archon, as the Councilors sons, a realization of the noble of the history of the fraternity trinity of principles of our fra of his father. His short connec were then known. He was four have been written and published ternity, with the hope that they tion with us fully demonstrated times re-elected, the term of office by the fraternity. A third book is may outrun the fervor of youth." his admirable qualities and fra in those days being one year. At to be published in 1948 on the oc The latter days of Billy Cham ternal spirit. We shall have him, the 1910 Ekklesia in Niagara casion of the centennial of Phi however, in our freshman class Falls, Ont., he became President berlin are a glorious manifesta Gamma Delta. I have also edited of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma tion of the oneness of Phi Gam next year." "The Songs of Phi Gamma Delta," A year later the Fiji journal Delta, serving for a year rich in ma Delta. May he be spared to 1908 Edition, and have written us to lead the joyous observance carried this note from Lambda achievement for the order. articles for the fraternity's esoteric When Billy was an Archon in •—five years hence—of the centen Deuteron: "A few weeks ago we magazine. 1905 inquiry of his fellow mem nial of the founding of the fra The time came for my initia gave a reception to our lady friends . . . . At this reception. bers on the executive board failed ternity upon which his impress tion into Phi Gamma Delta. I confess that I was scared. I had Lambda Deuteron's orchestra, con sisting of two violins, bass viol. (Continued on Page 4) to reveal any detailed knowledge has been so tremendous and so of the Pounders or early history magnificent! \r\nJune, 1543 THE LAMBDA DEUTEBON FIJI Page 4 BILLY'S STORY (Continued from Page 3) Hall with a good sized stove, wanted to have a surprise for my college days were all over. I en- went back to the console as untered at once a business college ruffled as I could be under the brothers in the bonds and their as it was called and took courses I circumstances and astounded the lady friends. Without telling any in bookkeeping and stenography worshippers by giving out the first been properly prepared by stories one I went out to the Welch Hills of the goat and the tortures of where I found a farmer who had hazing. Fraternity houses did not some goats and arranged for the then exist in Denison and in fact loan of a goat of the male pro there were very few anywhere In clivity. I built a box to keep Sir American Colleges. Lambda DeuWilliam in. Then I built a fire so teron Chapter had a large "Hall" that Rameses would not get cold. over the Jones hardware empori Do you know that goats have a um in a building which still exists bad reputation for smelling? Well, almost opposite the Granville Li and at the end of six months I j half of the hymn "The Son of Man was in the accounting office of Goes Forth to War, using a Trumpet stop without modification the Beaver Soap Company. Some friends of my father were and ending the hymn with a full No one had ever heard urging me to return to Denison organ. it done that way before. It is a militant hymn and I thought need After an absence of a year I re turned to "Fair College on the ed a bold treatment. I have al hill." It was in January, 1890. ways played it that way since and they have and this fellow was a people told me that it was "fetch brary and the Post Office which Balky Organ Quelled champion. By the time the fraing." As a postlude I played my were not there when I was a stu A class mate of mine from Chi dent. The "Hall" had an outside tres and their dates reached and mother wanted me to do so the Hall, his goatship had the Augean stairway. There was an areaway stables completely outclassed. I where heavy goods were pulled up and down. If you use your imag thought I was doing a very smart thing but I was not commended ination you will agree that it was for mj* brilliant idea. On the con admirably adapted for the "rough house" or "horse play" which al trary I was severely criticized and ways preceded the ritual. Then, lost caste. The perfume of that too, there was always a lot of Welch Hills goat still lingers in my memory. "You may break, you monkey business out of doors. may shatter the vase, if you will, "Boys will be boys," you know. The neophyte was compelled to do but the smell of the roses will a lot of stunts around the village hang 'round it still." I'll wager cago, who was an excellent pian ist and had some knowledge of the organ, was serving the Presby terian Church as organist. We had played some piano duets. He too was a Fiji. One Friday afternoon he came into my room and throwing some keys on my table, said; "Billy, I am going beloved "War March of the Priests" after a fashion, without doing much with the pedals. Mt. Parnassus Friends After the service was over, Mr. Wright, President of the Village bank, who was chairman of the Music Committee, gave me an overwhelming congratulation, em It seems that to Cleveland with the football barrassing to me. team to play against Western Re the organ had a habit of going off serve and you will have to substi on a tangent. No one, not even tute for me at the organ on Sun an expert mechanic from Colum that the old Hall is still odoriferand in the surrounding country. day," and off he went. I did not bus, had been able to correct the When my cousin and room mate, ously reminiscent. have time to tell him that I knew difficulty. I had in my dilemma Samuel Scovel Chamberlin, was Bcllgion Lost, Regained nothing about the organ and that / unwittingly released the tensiozi initiated we took him hoodwinked, December came. Letters from I could not or would not do it. of course, to the Welch Hills Cem I of a tracker. A tracker was a long etery and told him to "shin" up my mother told me of the relapse was left with the keys. As I told fibrous piece of wood which was my father had and that the doc- yon, 1 had a great desire to play I pulled down by the pressure on the a tall monument. tors had given up all hope for his\t.he pipe organ. 1 went to the! key and the tracker acting as a To our amaze ment he went up like a monkey. We were puzzled as to how to get him down. We gathered around with arms outstretched to catch him or to break the fall. Some how he landed on terra firma and recovery and me to come church just as soon as I could af- lerer operated to permit the air my ter the keys were in my hands to enter a pipe. At the time I was father would not get well. I wrote and spent the rest of that day and not entitled to any credit for fil home. asked I could not imagine my mother: "You have asked me all day Saturday fussing with the ing something I did not know how organ. to fix. My classmate continued faith and believe. I have done Then came Sunday morning to play football and 1 continued we breathed again. Lest you think this. My father will live." But service. I played the voluntary to play the organ and I soon knew that the initiation was all "tom father died on the 26th day of De and offertory with some degree of how to fix anything which went foolery" let me hasten to add that cember, 1888. It was a very seri religious feeling, as I always tried I wrong. I shall never forget the beautiful ous experence for me because it to do in the 4 5 years 1 was to play At the beginning of the second ritual based on the Masonic forms shattered all my beliefs. It was a church organ. semester in the winter of 1890, which has abided with me all these a long time before I obtained a Remember I had never studied I was back at Denison to finish my years. I can still remember the new conception of what God was. the organ and knew nothing freshman year. Almost as soon rich orotund voice of Charles L. I think it could be called a mathe about the mechanism of the organ. as I returned I was interviewed Seasholes, who presided at my in matical philosophy. You will to pray and taught me to pray in itiation as he recited: "Remember sometimes now thy creator in the days of thy youth." I will not dare to tell you more because I faithfully pro mised on a stack of Bibles that I would never divulge the secrets of Phi Gamma Delta. Billy in Bad Odor The Denison fraternities have doubts as you think about religion but if you seek you will always find God. A little child of your own may lead you. When Robert was a little fellow I went to Louisville, Ken tucky, for a few days on business. One noon his mother telephoned were me to come home because Bob had permitted to give parties which pneumonia and that both lungs called "Receptions." We were affected. I do not know how were were allowed to invite young I ever reached my room in the Immediately after the prayer of by Miss Clara Sinnett, the only that first service and while the or child of Doctor and Mrs. Sinnett gan pumper was getting the bel of Granville, who had built a hand lows filled for the hymn which was some brown stone mansion on top to follow, the organ gave forth a of Mount Parnassus from which terrifying jumble of sounds, "jan there were entrancing views of the gled, harsh and out tune." I was Raccoon Valley. Miss Sinnett was completely flabbergasted and the a very brilliant musician. congregation was nervously on Miss Sinnett who had many edge. iVith as much dignity as I counters became the wife of my could command, I slipped from the beloved "pal" Charles Brown organ bench and went behind the White ('93), who wrote on the organ. I blindly reached out my back of his photograph at our hands almost in supplication to Commencement time: "Alter ego that dumb organ (which was not est amicus. Who can describe it." so dumb after all with all of the Both are today my warm affection Seelbach Hotel. I was choking. faculty and their wives as chaper 1 unlocked the door and got down ons. Lambda Deuteron gave a on my knees. I had not prayed reception for its new members since my father died. Here I was noisy disturbance it was making ate friends. I never go to Gransoon after the initiation. I was again supplicating the Almighty. on the holy Sabbath day) and I ville without going on Mount Paron the committee to arrange the After my father's death I went ladies if we had members of the affairs, representing the Freshman to Granville for a day or two, sold delegation. The party was held most of my belongings and went late in October. We heated the back to Dayton believing that my f Kblare and f"e-ciship Will be cherished mad Ir. 01 gan ceased, its even beyondWhich the twilight. uproar. I heaved a sigh of relief, j At the end of my freshman year L \r\nJune, 1943 THE LAMBDA DEUTERON FIJI I obtained a job to represent The Beaver Soap Company as a sales Billy Launched Business Career on ^^Collegian^^ man in North and South Dakota east of the Missouri River. Page 3 I am sure that if my mother had known what a "wild and wooly" country it was in those days she would never have permitted me to go. Now my school vacations in Sala manca and Heart Lake were over and I was going to work. I think that it is wise for boys when they reach coilege age to do something during the vacation period. The cost of money can be learned in no other way. T visited the soap factory to see the wheels go round and to re ceive my instructions. I had nev er sold anything before; Fuller Brushes were not yet born. I was given a selling quota of twenty boxes a day of "Grandpa's Wonder \ Soap" and I was going into a terri tory where not a single cake of "Grandpa's" had ever been sold. With somewhat of a sad heart and with some fear and trembling I left my mother and sister and started for Elk Point, South Da kota, my first town. earnest looking chap with the big tome, standing at right, is Billy Cliamberlin as he looked Ovitheckles Hecklers as a Denlson freshman. This is a i>icture of the stall" of the "Denison Collegian," of wliich Billy was One afternoon ahont 4 o'ctockl Vmslwess manager. Besides Billy, left to right, they are Edgar .T. (loodspeed, C. H. Speneei', F. B. Wliittewith the horse and bnggy p\as-\more, Willis A. Chamherlin, hlilo B. Price and D. E. Daniels. Shortly after this picture wa,s taken tered with "Grandpa's WonderjBilly embarked on his career as a soap salesnian. Soap" advertising, we stopped in front of "The American House" the legend "Uses Grandpa's Won Plunkard" outfit and was pro in Grafton, North Dakota. The der Soap" and shouted at me "Did nounced an asset. The "Si Plun piazza of The American was full(you do that?" "Are you guilty kard" men were now my friends. of men whose feet were on exhibi of this crime?' I said, "Sure I I followed the company for about tion-as they were "parked" on the am guilty. What about the crime two weeks. The men would often balustrade. As soon as they saw of badgering me when I drove in reach a town before I arrived and the "Grandpa" signs, they com two hours ago?" They vowed that would go the rounds asking for menced to "cat call" and heckle me in every way. I paid no atten tion to them but went at once in to the hotel office. No one was there. There was an old-fashioned priest," Mr. Lewis, "Grandpa's Wonder Soap." "What's was demand but no supply. Now the trouble?" said I. "Does he you know one of the reasons why not know that he should use I became leading salesman of The Grandpa's Wonder Soap'?" "Take Beaver Soap Company for that me," 1 continued, "to Mr. Lewis summer. I have never told the and I will ask his forgiveness and secret of my success before. I ad will take the consequences." Mr. jure you to guard carefully my terribly insulted. Hotel Register on a swivel. It was open so I noticed that on the left hand page, there was printed in large capital letters; THE SI Lewis was at dinner with some PLUNKARD COMEDY COMPANY. members of his company. The There was a space of about five two men marched me down stairs, inches left under this lettering, so each holding an arm and said to 1 took a pen and wrote: "USES the star; "Here is the criminal GRANDPA'S WONDER SOAP." Then followed the names of the members of The Si Plunkard Com edy Company headed by a Mr Lewis who was the star of the company. After that I went out to do my work regardless of the fact that it was late in the after noon. When I returned to The Sioux Indian reservation was on the west side of the river. and I believe that I made more converts than the Baptist mission ary who was on the Reservation. confidence in you. Going into Fargo one morning, my seat mate in the train asked Young Man Goes East The next summer 1 had hoped to be returned to the Dakotas but I was told that Massachusetts had always been a tough territory for The Beaver Soap Company and they wanted to find out why they could not get a trade started in that grand old Commonwealth and inasmuch as I was looked upon as me what I was doing in the Dakotas and after telling him he said; who says that he is guilty." The "Grandpa's Wonder Soap is the actor extended his hand laughing best milled soap on the market." a boy wonder in salesmanship, I heartily, asked me to have dinner The words sounded so convincing was the one to be sacrificed. with him. I was seated in the that I added them to my vocabu I was started in Lee, Lennox, place of honor at his right. lary. One day a druggist asked Great Harrington and those sum me what milled soap was. I stam mer resort communities in the Boom in Grandpa's Soap mered and finally told him that I beautiful Berkshires. No one in Lewis was a remarkable whis did not know, that a man on the these towns ever soiled his hands. the tler. hotel, having disposed of a few boxes, two members of "Si Plun kard" were waiting for me and with much pretense of anger er. All of Sunday afternoon 1 walked among the tepees observing "Lo, the poor Indian." I showed them Here how "Grandpa's Wonder" worked their "high was of Chamherlin, South Dakota, on the east side of the Missouri Riv He would head the proces train had told me and I liked the sound of "milled soap" and so had "Opera House" as all Dakota the used it. He laughed heartily and atres were called, he would whistle told me to send him six boxes. I with band accompaniment "Listen nearly fainted. sion and before we went into the grabbed me by the arm and lead to the Mocking Bird." That night Ing me to the Register, pointed to I played the fiddle for the "Si Young ladies and young gentle men of wealthy families played away the precious hours of the summer without doing any work. "Grandpa's" was a big hunk of I spent one Sunday in the town tar soap and was a wonder in re- \r\nJune. THE liAiMHDA DEUTEKOiV FIJI Page 6 moving grease from the hands of thing he had done in the arrest of mechanics and laborers. But there "Lizzie" was his undoing and I were no mechanics in these places. passed in and went at once to the I commenced to break the company Press table. Some tough looking rules and studied the towns in reporter sized me up and said every possible way and to cut out harshly: "What's you paper?" I calls in communities where there replied, "Times." "Times, what?" he retorted. "What's yours?" 1 were no factories. The whole country in that sum demanded. "Enquirer" said he, mer was agog because of the ap and I snapped back: "Enquirer, proaching trial of Elizabeth Bor- what." The Court was coming in Cole, my Denison Professor of soon. I was one of the Commence, Physics. He had come to Denison ment orators. My subject was; fresh from Brown University. He "The Republic, The Rationale of was born and raised in Old Salem. its Being." How strange it was He was a Brown Beta. He had that my faculty advisor did not ad married the lovely Emily Downer of Granville from whose father some years later I purchased as an individual the stately Avery-Downer mansion of Greek architecture vise that the stilted title should be toned down a bit. "The Daily Denisonian" said that the subject was trite but that the speaker held the attention of the large audience. Perhaps this is the place to tell you, my dears, that I have a mem bership in The Mayflower Soci ety. Elder Brewster's grand daughter was the wife of a Fosold tiling in short hand—Pitman dollars in the bank but I boldly dick from whom I am directly de System, and I think he actually gave my check for three hundred scended. All of my family connections thought I was a real newspaper dollars. With the option in my guy. Anyhow he attended to his|pocket I hurried back to Dayton have a lot of fun in naming me a own business after that. The and confessed to Mr. Torrence "Mayflower," "Son of the Ameri prosecutor told the Judge and the Huffman, President of The Fourth can Revolution, a Denisonian, a Court that he had one more wit National Bank of Daj'ton, who was Mason, and a "Fiji." Then they ness to examine and the Harvard a Denison Trustee. He amazed add in glee: "And he's a Baptist." Professor of Chemislry was sworn me by saying that he would be I guess that it is funny but I sus in to tell the truth, the whole truth glad to take the option and give pect they say these things in a and nothing but the truth. The me cash in addition in amount of golden goblet of affection. I like Prosecutor produced the hatchet .$5,000.00. I explained that I de to think so anyhow. In "Sapas a home for Lambda Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. An amount of $300 was asked of murdering her stepmother and ble and I, under the eye of my in by Mr. Downer for a thirty day quisitor was busily writing any option and I had only about fifty her father with a hatchet. The den in Fall River, Massachusetts. and everyone stood. Then the re "Lizzie" Borden had been accused porters all rominenced to scrib family was a wealthy one and owned large mills in Fall River. All circumstances indicated that Lizzie was guilty. The hatchet with which the terrible crime had been committed had been found and had been given to the Depart ment of Chemistry at Harvard for examination by the Common wealth. The Harvard professor of Chemistry was expected to give his testimony on the day I was in Fall River with my cake of and after its identification asked sired the house as a home for my phira and the Slave Girl" by Willa "Grandpa's Wonder" in my poc the Professor one question. Said fraternity and that I hope to raise Gather, Mrs. Colbert says: "The he: "Professor, did you find any enough money from the Chamber- Baptists are good people — well ket. evidence of blood stains on this lin family to justify the naming meaning men and women." Ruse Successful hatchet?" The witness answered: of the house as a memorial for my j I tried to get into the Court "Yes, sir, I did." "That is all," cousin, Samuel Scovel Chamberlin. Room at the morning session but MA.NROOT) said the Prosecutor. The defense It all came to pass. Mr. Huitman,! was denied admittance. I saw a sign which read "Press Entrance" and that gave me an idea. At attorney took the witness. "Now,\who was a EaFayette CoWege \ O'W COEEEGE EIFE and the Professor, are the stains of blood | alumnus and a Sigma Chi, helped) i)IS'da,vs of youth were over like which .vou found on this hatchet me in every way. The night be-1 a tale that Is told. I went back about half past one I went to my from the blood of either Mr. or fore the option expired I was in to Dayton and went to work on nearby hotel and divested myself of coat, collar and tie. I bought a half dozen lead pencils and a lot of paper such as newspaper men use. I also bought a pocket full of good cigars. Then I presented myself at the first of three doors which all reporters had to pass through. I said, "Hello" to the first cop, made some remark such as; "Well, I guess it will all be over this afternoon." I gave him one of my good ten cent cigars and walked on to the next cop who was not as easy. He asked me what my paper was and I quickly an swered, "The Times." He did not ask me what Times. If I had been Mrs. Borden, and if so, which Granville one?" The Professor i-eplied: "I with three hundred to sharpen a pencil and then I my abilities would never carry me the balconj' of one of the to the belgkls of journalism. Then most glorious specimens of Greek- followed business experience in stains are those from the blood of from a human being?" "No, sir, I am not sure" was the answer. "And Colonial architecture in America, two enterprises in which my Cou Professor," persisted the defense to the surprise and consternation sin was interested. From the counsel, "Might it not be possible of our rivals. This lodge—the S. buying of insurance I became in that these stains are those of a S. Chamberlin Lodge was its in terested and determined on an in chicken or possibly a guinea corporated name — served our surance career. I studied in the pig?" The puzzled Professor chapter for twenty-five years. school of "The Travelers' 'in Hart agreed that it might be so. The When it was decided to build a ford and have spent my life in a trial was at its end with this tes modern fraternity house on Col fascinating work. timony and although the general lege Hill, this fine old landmark We all moved to Hartford in public believed that Miss Borden was sold to Kappa Sigma. I fancy had committed this heinous crime, that the negotiation Lizzie" Borden died only within the last year or two. She had lived for nearly 50 years after the passed on the third guardian of horrible homicide. If she were thel court. Now I was thoroughly guilty what must her thoughts wet with perspiration for fear that have been during her long life. my inspiration and my aspiration She was absolutely ostracized. to get into the court room would land me in jail. I immediately asked the third cop for a little story I might use if the trial I liked the work hut don't know, sir." "Now again," option called for payment in gold. soon realized that the rcmunerasaid "Lizzie's" Attorney, "Are The next day the flag of "Phi tion would never be large and tbat you reasonably sure that these Gamma Delta'' appeared, hung 1915. I had commenced riiy work was engin there in 1914. I was employee friend, compelled to say: "The Granville she became a free woman by the eered by my very dear Times'' I am sure my goose would "not guilty" verdict of the jury. Charles Felix Burke. have been cooked but another ten cent cigar and a nonchalant pause The Dayton Daily Press" as a twenty dollar gold certificates. The reporter. Mason, Fiji, Baptist, Etc. Many other pleasant and memo rable experiences were mine that summer in Massachusetts. It had been a successful one as measured number one in what became the Group Department. Everything had to be built from the very ground. I prepared the literature and wrote in long hand the first applicaUons. In ten years I had an office force of about three hun by my sales. In spite of Massa dred and fifty and a held selling chusetts and the conservative pro staff of thirty or forty in various Stately Fi.ji Home Aequii'ed genitors of its shop keepers, I branch offices of the company. One of the finest memories of again lead the summer sales force My fraternity connections gave this summer in Massachusetts is and had the satisfaction in believ me the acquaintance of men 1 that of a visit of an afternoon and ing that the citizens had never be would not otherwise have known. should end and stuck my cigar in to his mouth. The prospect of be night in Marblehead at the sum fore been so clean. ing given credit for some trivial mer cottage of Professor A. D. I When 1 was nineteen years old I Commencement Day came too(met Newton D. Baker at a PW \r\n.Tune, 15)43 Page 7 THE EA^mOA DEUTKRON FI.FI Lord Carteret-Granville is now Gamma Delta Convention in Phila delphia. He was then a freshman from John Hopkins. He spoke Fiji Pilgrim my one hobby. I have written fourteen about articles Busy Summer For Faculty him. beautifully at the convention din ner. He took a rose from the ta EPILOGOMENA ble decoration and pulled it apart. "You cannot," he said, "ascertain the source of the perfume of this rose, you cannot enjoy its beauty by such a method of tearing it apart. Who can analyze the love liness of a friendship?" I AM WRITING to you on the deck the Sanfa Clara. summer will teach for six weeks We are in Latitude sou*h about 20 at the School of Music at North degrees and in longitude west western University. about 70 degrees, somewhere off Tlie mother of J. L. King, Jr., the coast of Chile. (Richmond '13), Mrs. J. L. King, I am watching a sunset again. Sr., died June 1, 1943, at the There is no such marvelous clos family home at Kenbridge, Va. Newton D. Baker was an intimate life long friend. Silent Cal Coolidge I of ing of a day as you see at sea. It have talked for hours with cannot be painted witli words nor witli a brush. At this moment the sun is balanced on the horizon like a big ball of yellow fire on the tip of the nose of a seal in a circus. Tom Marshall, Vice President of the United States. I knew Charley Fairbanks, another Vice President of our country and I had a number of interesting e.xperiences with Calvin Coolidge when he was Gov ernor of Massachusetts, Vice Pres In the Meteorological Unit at Denison. His son, "Billy," was a junior this year at McCallie School at Chat tanooga where he stood second in Mrs. F. W. Mahood, tlie mother of Danner Lee Mahood (Davidson ly full of glory, effulgent. There 22, Virginia '23), died at her are purples, scarlets, vying with home in St. Petersburg, I-^lorida, the miracle of an aurora borealis. December 15th. Danner and Mrs. The day, a perfect day, has ended. Mahood attended the funeral in Soon by some remote control the Washington, December 17th. Dan new moon appears and directly ner, with his family, left after under it the beautiful Venus in all Commencement for a visit with spouting. On May 1, 1925, by prearrangement five men of my choosing went Vne ot the President of the United States to oTganize an. inner circie oi "Fiji Sires and Sons." 1 guess that I was the instigator. The President was hearliiy in fa vor of the enterprise which had as its creed; "The purpose of the or ganization is to impress upon all they may outrun the fervor of youth." The President had writ will have the funeral. He teacliing this summer in Now it is gone! The few clouds in the west are sudden a very wise man. the noble trinity ot principles of our fraternity with the hopes that moments it is his class and was awarded a Chem States. Do not let any teacher of United States history tell you that Coolidge was an incompetent man. He was a silent "Cal" but he was members of our fraternity, and in time on their sons a realization of a few "Len" attended slipped down into the water and istry Medal. Next year he will out of .sight, perchance to play be editor of the year book. with the whales we have seen ident and President of the United j fathers and their sons, who are Hy Max B. Noi'pell '13 Karl H. Eschman '11 again this ot Us loveliness. Again that re- relatives in the South but will be mote control and the Southern ] back by July 1 when he will re Cross appears full of meaning and sume his teaching duties at Deni inspiration. Instinctively my lips son. murmur: Like Brothers King and Ma hood, "Bill" Utter, Fac., is teach ing in Denison's Basic PremeteorI ological Course. Sometime ago "Hold thou thy cross "Before my fading eyes" I am not afraid, my dears. hope that from some unseen van tage ground I may hear your laughter and listen to your songs of merriment and be happy with On a Fiji pilgrimage in Felnui- you in spirit in the years to come. we read in "The Denisonian" an item to the effect that Dr. Utter was writing a book on the early history of Chillicothe, Ohio, but when we later asked him for in ary, 1943, Billy Chainberlin placed I know that soon for me there will formation on the subject he was promptly in the Executive office at a wi'eath on the grave of .John be: uncommunicative. noon, transact the business of cre Templeton McCarty, Plii Gamma ten to me that we were to meet ating "Sires and Sons" and then Delta's founder, at St. Marysville, transfer ourselves to the White Cal. While in T.os .Angeles, he House where Mrs. CoolfSge would called on "Mae Eveljmne," only be waiting for us for lunch. Well, daughter of Founder McCarty. Up the President was stiff and very formal. chair. "Sunset and evening star Frank J. Wright, Fac., as is his And one clear call for me; custom, will teach for six weeks And may there be no moaning of this summer at Columbia, U. ] per photo shows Hilly at McCarty's He did not rise from liTs grave; lower, left to right, Hilly, He chided us because his the bar When I put out to sea; "Mae Evelynne" and William C. TjEGIONNAIKES But such a tide as moving seems asleep Too full for sound and herst was obliged with other fresh men to sing songs in the morning, When that which drew from out members of Newark Post No. 85 the boundless deep of the Ohio Department of the Turns again home. American Legion who hold certifi to awaken seniors and to blacken their boots. Speaking for the at least two and a half hours. Dur ing that time he spoke perhaps six words. These words were group, I informed him that the Mrs. Coolidge fraternity had no such stunts for 'yes" and "no." was very vivacious and a marvel its members and that singing and ous conversationalist. As we left bootblacking were Amhert cus each of us felt that the First Lady toms and adopted by all Amherst of Fiji-land had given her charm fraternity chapters. After the in ing attentions to him in particu terview was over, he never said lar. anything about the luncheon un In 1926 I was transferred to til reminded by his secretary. We were at the White House table for New York by my company. foam Arthur A. Schauwekeer '12, and M. B. Norpell '12 are among the son who was a freshman at Am- Horan '4;l. Twilight and evening bell And after that the dark; And may there be no sadness ot cates to the effect that they have been members in good standing of the Legion continuously for 25 years. farewell When I embark. Co-operation of all Lambda For tho' from out the bourne of Deuteron members in keeping this Time and Place magazine's staff fully informed of The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face news about themselves will be ap preciated. When I have crost the bar." \r\nPage 8 JAP June, 1943 THE LAMBDA DEUTERON FIJI MACHINEGUN Somewhere in FIRE KILLS Guadalcanal on January 22, 1943, treacherous Jap machinegun fire cost the life of Lieut. John L. Pratt '41 of the United States Marine Corps Re Died Fighting JOHNNY PRATT '41 Roommate Recalls Campus Days Enjoyed With Pratt serve. lac. It was built to carry seven passengers, but I shall never for In spirit, John is still cussing get its debut on the campus when out those yellow "Nips." How very John drove up in front of the glad I was to receive Christmas chapel, and nineteen people piled Greeting from that certain Marine out! We cut a few classes that lieutenant, and then — a short day and had a swell time taxiing while after, how shocking and in people off the "Hill" down to the By Lt. Frank G. Sa.xton, Jr., '41 "You will be proud to know," said a letter from a Marine officer to his mother, Mrs. Malcolm L. Pratt of Bellefontaine, O., "that John L. Pratt fought fearlessly and died courageously in the serv ice of his country. In the passing of your son, the Marine Corps lost credible was the news of his death. a gallant officer and a brave man." "Grill." John was always refer- I recall quite vividly our senior ing to the mileage per gallon— year (1940-41) in "Phi Beta High Prai.se for John No details are available as to Suite." e.xactly how and where John was that is, how good it was—until the awful truth came out; namely, We all enjoyed, I believe, John and I were room mates. the richest friendship and fun any killed in action and the fact that that "We three" spent most of its time in a gas station refueling. one could ask. How eagerly we John knew everyone and vicewere planning on that glorious home coming when the score had versa. I remember one week-end been settled—a Marine, a Navy, when John, Frank Ward (better known as "Handy"), and I went and an Army Lieutenant. to Bellefontaine to "close the machine gun bullets felled him reached us in a roundabout way through his classmate, Lieut. Thomas E. Norpell '41 of the Ma rine Corps. Tim met a man who served with John on Guadalcanal and was on the patrol that cost John his life. Tim writes that Fun ill a Cadillac deal" on the Cadillac. Everyone The occupants of Phi Bete Suite from the bank president to the the Marine had nothing but praise Lieut. John L. Pratt '41 USMCK were partners in many a venture. junk wan yelled "Hello" and want One in particular I remember was for the way Jolinny handled his ed to know how everything was platoon. sion to Malanikau have been giv "We three," a 1930 model Cadilwith John. Johnny's death made it a dou en up tor lost. But another trek His friendliness and remarkable ble blow for Mrs. Pratt, who pre into the village is being planned 1 gent efforts were rewarded with a memory for names and faces never viously had been informed that men. He was active in freshman i her husband, Lieut. Comndr. Pratt, be in force and out for blood." ing Rush Week, John asked me A native of Bellefontaine, O. dramatics and debate and served accompany him over to th-also of the Marine Corps, has been missing in action on Guadalcanal where he was born October 27, since August 12, 1942. Circum 1920 (he was 22 when he was| man and sophomore years. ,. . „ chairman that year and had a real A clipping from John s high j jq;, jjjg view of the stances of Dr. Pratt's unfortunate killed), Johnny Pratt was gradu school newspaper in Bellefontaine Bellefontaine High encounter with the enemy are told ated from large freshman class. I believe in "Guadalcanal Diary'' by Rich School in 1936 at the age of si.x- sent us by Mrs. Pratt, says that the freshman had only been there ard Tregaskis, who under the date teen. He entered Denison Univer Johnny in high school was a "good one day, but as we progressed of Thursday, August 13, 1942, sity that fall and was pledged and student who was well-liked, full down the hall, John introduced me initiated that college year by of high spirits and a leader in his to practically the entire class, that wrote: "Back at Col. Leroy Hunt's Lambda Deuteron of Phi Gamma class . . . Four major awards came is, the masculine half. But given command post, where I am billet Delta. He took a pre-Medic course to him in high school. As a fresh another week he knew all the girls ed, I heard some bad news—that and intended to go to Jefferson man he received the American Le too! Col. Goettge, Lieut. Cory, Capt. Medical College at Philadelphia, gion Bronze Award for qualities and this time the e.xpedition will) bumper class at 22 high gradejceased to amaze me. One day duras an athletic trainer in his fresh-/Freshman Dorm. He was rush As the year progressed, he Ringer and several others of our Pa., in the fall. Instead he en of scholarship, leadership, service proved to be a valuable roommate personnel are missing on an excur listed in the U. S. Marine Corps and honor. In his junior year he in more than one way. I became Also old Dr. Reserve Officers Training School became a member of the National Pratt, the incorrigible adventurer, and entered training at Quantico, Honor Society, the highest honor who went along with the expedi Va., within ten days after his grad the high school bestows, and of the Thespians, the dramatic soci uation from Denison. tion for the fun of it. ety. On April 3, 1937, he placed Dr. Pratt Ambushed Excellent Bushing Chainuan "The story is that a Jap prison He received his commission as fourth in the county in the Gen er offered to take Col. Goettge to a second lieutenant in October, eral Scholarship Contest for sen the village, with the contention 1941, the week of his 21st birth iors. that the Japs were willing to sur day. He continued advance train Sister at Deuisou render. So Col. Goettge took a ing for some months and was then "Other activities show a variety sion to Malanikau. party of 26 officers and men and sent to Cleveland to do recruiting set out in a landing boat for Mal anikau. The party made a night landing, ran smack into the mid dle of a Jap ambush. Only three of the party escaped." Under the date of Sunday, Au gust 16th, Tregaskis added: of interests—track, football. Boy service among Ohio college stu Scouts, school patrol, Hi-Y, Latin dents. In March, 1942, he was or Club, Math Club, Photo Club and dered to Camp Elliott, near San Hi-Life. He had a leading role in particularly aware of his marvel ous powers of concentration and organization when we were taking "Anatomy and Physiology." Just prior to exam time,John would read the text, spot the important por tions, and easily get an "A" in the course. If I had the memory John had, I might have too. The three of us had a great time together. There was always something going on in our room. If we weren't arguing with "Handy"' the treasurer, about Diego, Cal., and there received his both the junior and senior plays.' finances, we were having a heated commission as first lieutenant Besides Mrs. Pratt, John is sur shortly before sailing for overseas vived by three Ststers, Sarah of the discussion on foreign affairs. John was not an isolationist—far from duty in the Pacific in October. senior class at Ohio State Univer he believed that peace would "Col. Goettge, Dr. Pratt, Lieut. Johnny's activities at Denison sity, Mary Katharine of Denison's follow only after suppression of Cory, Capt. Ringer and the others included the post of rushing chair sophomore class and Jane of Belle the aggressive nations. who went on the ill-fated excur- man in the fall of 1940. His dili- fontaine. When it was time for the intra- \r\nPage 9 THE EAMBDA DEUTERON FIJI •lime, 1943 mural sports program to get un der way, there was John, always most enthusiastic. I remember one basketball season. John had been leading a pretty soft life and was out of condition from Maliszewski Decorated 5 Times Be-Medaled For Bombing Exploits in Europe too Lambda Deuteron's most decorat much "Grilling." After about five minutes of play, he was all in, and ed man thus far in the current looked anxiously toward the bench war is having a hard time decid for a relief player. No luck! How ing what to call his fourth bomb ever, he soon recovered and from er, we were informed as this issue was about to go to press. The then on was one of the most valu er he told King George VI all about it and was quoted by the Associated Press as telling the King: "We got four of them (en emy planes) and an additional four probables." Following this raid, Mai was in odds were that Capt. Edward P. Maliszewski "42 was going to name on two more red-hot raids with Outside of "partying," I can't the Wahoo. Testimony to the hot recall anything the three of us en it "Geezel 11" after the old codger action Mai encountered is con joyed more than eating! John in the Popeye comics who often tained in his citation for the Dis says "I hate everj^body." was the instigator of many a trip His third bomber, incidentally, tinguished Flying Cross. It said to Columbus for a steak dinner at was Geezel 1 and it suffered the he brought his craft back to base Marzettii's. same fate as two earlier bombers three times "under seemingly im Another thing about John which —shot up so badly that it had to possible conditions." f able men on the team. we won't forget is his wonderful Mai received the Distinguished family. We always looked for be retired from service. Flying Cross in January, also the List of Decoration.s ward to the visits of the Pratts for Mai's mother, source of all this Order of the Purple Heart, signi they were so interesting and sin information, tells us that her son fying he had been wounded in ac cere. They were the type of peo tion. Mrs. Maliszewski said he re ple you could go back to and al has now been decorated five times ceived a machine gun wound in in England. Here's the list; ways feel as though they were one The Distinguished Flying Cross. his leg on one of the trips, but of you. was able to fl y again three days The Purple Heart. As far as settling the score, later. He received the Army Air The Air Medal. "Handy" and I, not to mention the The Oak Leaf Cluster, which is Medal at Army Air Force Head rest of the chapter, have an added quarters in London in February incentive to carry this war home equivalent to a second Distinand his two other decorations lat to Vae ewemy. To even the books! Suished Flying Cioss. er. No details are available as to Capt. Edward F. Maliszewski '42, the above cut of which is one of this magazine's hest invest ments hecause of the numeroifs times its use lias been warranted, is impossihte, fnr there aren't! Maple Leat Cluster, which ~ , m i ^r. enough ot the enemy in the world Us the equivalent oi a second Air \ the reasons for the last three decorations. ever to do that. j JJodal. Mrs. Maliszewski said John's death was an irreparable | We tried hard to get a personal he is continuing' to cover himself with glory from English bombing sta tions. He has been decorated five times. has been commanding his own bomber wielding Indians on its nose, tum ever since his exploits as co-pilot bled out, they were gasping for He was indeed a grand fellow, and but either the mail service was in the Wahoo last November and breath from the acrid smoke which one who I am very proud to say *oo slow or the censor's shears December. overactive. Maybe next issue we filled part of their plane. Malis was my roommate. can have it right from the "horse's zewski and Riordan were spat .Story of Flight C1.EVELAND FIJIS mouth" (no disrespect intended!), Here is the Associated Press ac tered with broken glass. By Elbert P. Kennavd '3'Ji but in the meantime here is what count of one of those famous Wa The Wahoo, which came back Holding fast to old traditions we have pieced together from his hoo flights, as it appeared on page from Lille Nov. 8 and from Rouen loss to all of us who knew him. account from Mai of her actions, the Cleveland members of Lambda Dcuteron staged another get-to mother and newspaper accounts. one of the Detroit News on Decem Dec. 12 with one engine shot away Last Christmas Mai had an op- ber 21, 1942; gether dinner at the University i portunity to learn how hospitable Club on March 9th. the English are. Given a threeAt the welcome suggestion of day leave around December 25th, Brothers Jack Darrow. '14, and Eddie and a bombardier went to Charlie Burchard '?.0, we man- Nottingham. They knew no one aged to round up Ed Cherney '05, there and the prospects for any "Duffy" Davies '15, Walt Kull '20, thing but a dull Christmas looked Harold R. Malcolm '17, Fred Al-1 slim when out of the blue came an and some crew members wounded A United States Bomber Station, each time, did it again afiir a Somewhere in England, Dec. 21.— Sunday raid on a vital Nazi air Lieut. Edward P. Maliszewski, drome 80 miles east ot Paris. The Wahoo's gunners accounted 1347 Bedford Road, Grosse Pointe, Mich., co-pilot of the bullet rid tor two ot the more than 40 Ger dled Wahoo, brought his famed man fighter planes bagged in the Flying Fortress safely back again raid. Second Lieut. Gerald D. today from a raid on an Axis tar Rotter of Oatman, Ariz., the len '35, Bob Jones '37, Jim Trues- offer of hospitality from an Engdall '36, Bill Geffine '36 and Joe lish captain and his wife. Carabelli '37. While waiting to go to a hotel, Joe was home on a short fur- 1 they were picked up by this cap lough at the time and we certain- j tain, a perfect stranger, and taken get. Spattered With Glass Maliszewski and the plane's bombardier, got one and 1 the operator, Sergt. Robert L. Wahoo's Stevenson of Indiana, potted the pilot, 25-year-old Lieut. Robert P. Riordan of Houston, Tex., rode ly enjoyed seeing him in such 1 to his home where they were roy the violently vibrating "stick" fettle." The "old boys" ally entertained for their entire seemed to be in good voice that leave. Red-Hot Raids evening and we make special men tion of the sweetness of Jack Dar In our last issue, we told you other. That brought the Wahoo's bag in three raids to ten planes cer hard on the return journey. With tainly shot down and six prob the plane's hydraulic system shot ables. Nazis Attack Recklessly out of commission and the bomber One gunner, Sergt. Joe Bowles, all but uncontrollable, the pilot row's tones. how the Wahoo, the plane on land co-pilot landed the brakeless of Brooklyn, used a screw driver Duffy, not to be outdone, dem which Mai was a co-pilot, was ship in another miracle of luck to make contact and fire the Fort onstrated his signal ability to hold practically riddled to pieces by 30 and flying genius between a parked ress' top turret gun when the fir ing mechanism failed. When en notes longer than the rest of the enemy planes on the Wahoo's re tractor and another bomber. When the crew of the ship, emy cannon fire damaged the hygroup, proving thereby that he is turn from a continental bombing (Continued on Page 10) operation over Lille, France. Lat- bearing a picture of tomahawknot to be outdone by youth. "fine \r\nJune, 1943 THE LAMBDA DEUTERON FIJI Page 10 ty than the bars themselves, lead Neptune s Pal ing a bunch of soldiers in song or marching a squad about the Hell Week Had Nothing On This, Says Shellback Gib Dildine '33 deck. (»ib tlie Glutton Watches are mounted to look for Davey Jones who finallj' slips aboard unseen. In a brief, im pressive ceremony you are handed Gibson Dildine, who ten years ago used to enliven many a dull chapter meeting in Lambda Deuteron's halls by his unorthodox secretary's minutes, here applies his journalistic talent to the shel lacking he look from the Navy as he crossed the Equator. raocracy has not succeeded in pro ducing a perfectly classless soci ety, observation and experience a subpoena to appear the follow had led me to believe that, aside ing day before the court of King from the social stratification im Neptune. Among other things you posed upon service personnel, are charged with "being late to of I have become, per ardua, a Shell back, and, knowing that you must feel, as we all do, that the suc cess of any brother always re dounds to the glory of our noble order, I hasten to give you an cla.ss lines were drawn with such meals and then outeating every familiar yardsticks as economic one else." One ensign was merci By Lieut. W. (iili.son Dildine '.'IS status, comparative heredity, po lessly charged with "minding his Several years ago I read in your lice records, etc. own business." excellent publication that Heli Da\ey Jone.s Signs Card The next morning the latitude Week had been abolished at It came as quite a shock, ac has become practically microscopic Lambda Deuteron. This I recall, cordingly, to learn that mankind and the Poliiwogs swab the decks was hailed as a step forward into is generally divided into two in preparation for the big event. the daylight of humane culture. I classes. Shellbacks and Polliwogs, Then they stand in a huddled ex am sorry to inform you that the and that the latter, whatever may pectant mass, awaiting the pleas United States Navy is still groping be their pretended qualifications, ure of the royal presence. Naval in the night of barbarism. are not worthy of polite notice. and Army officers are mingled I have just been through a sort Now I am glad to report that with enlisted personnel of both abbreviated Hell Week that was in some ways more strenuous than, the one I experienced thir teen years ago in the old Phi Gam house on Broadway. Although long aware that de- account of my elevation to this (DECORATED—Cont. from P. 9) unusual distinction. di'aulic system and smeared oil over the turret so that Bowles could not see, he was directed by a comrade over the plane's inter communication phone and con tinued to blast away. "We saw the Germans high overhead waiting for us as soon as we crossed the channel," said Riordan. "They would peel off in line services. However, the officers are called first. Apparently the assembled Lieut. W. Gibson Dildine '33 dignitaries want to deal with the At the end of the bloody busi higher ranks while their minds ness, you are greeted as a ShellI (and arms) are still fresh. \ (back and, inftated -with s\or-s, -jon Gauntlet -Bidngs Meiuoides \retire to a iresh water shower \ The first step is to charge up meditate upon your new As proof of this extraordinary■ I ladder into a streaming dre hose, t honor, I have a neat card bearing Then you are led before the I The pandemonium continues the authentic signatures of Davey court, plead guilty as hell, and until the last Polliwog is received Jones and King Neptune. I also kneel before King Neptune for into the fold. Then at length, the have a large and beautiful certifi judgment. You are then resigned biue Pacific becomes once more, cate, a triumph of the engraver's to the considerate mercies of a if you except the slight matter of art, printed in five colors. (I am crew of wildly-dressed nautical a global war, as calm arvd peace informed that it is requisitioned maniacs. They are very solici ful as its name. like any other G.I. printed form.) tous. The principal instrument of I intend mailing it to my wife. She their ministrations is a number of The jolly Irish bos'n, who was one at a time and they kept com will probably swoon with delight canvas tubes filled with rags a ringleader in these events, pro ing at us all the way over and when she sees it. soaked in salt water. These are vided a footnote. He said that back to the channel. continuous fight It was one throughout the raid." Rotter said the Nazi fighters came in extremely close in their desperate attacks, some pressing to within 50 feet of the Fortresses. Rotter said he shot the tail off one fighter at 50 yards. "He started smoking and went into a spin. Then suddenly he burst into flames and crashed," he said. Songs Sans Britches the Enemy fire tore a gaping hole, three feet by eighteen inches in the Wahoo's tall and riddled many other parts of the plane. in the familiar manner. the Shellback initiations were There is also some tender dosing originated in the Navy's earlyAs the latitude drops lower and with certain medicinal items from days when long sea voyages were the thermometer mounts higher, the ship's dispensary. Then there incomparably more tedious than the class distinction which I men is bitter work with indelible ink, they are today. tioned earlier begins to be evident. shellac, glue, feathers, hair clip In order to prevent the out The first manifestation is a mys pers and electric shocking ma break of fights and probably other terious meeting of Shellbacks chines. The scene deserves the somewhere in the bowels of the forms of abnormal behavior it was pen of a Dante or a Milton. ship. From then on the air is necessary to provide some hearty electric and charged with sidePeace Restored formal distraction in which all wise glances and muttered asides. There was, of course, a gaunt hands could take part. Hence the As you stagger about the decks let. At one point I could have Shellback ritual. The crossing of Stevenson said he got his Folke- you are conscious of speculative Wulf 190 as it was diving straight looks directed at your backside down on the Fortress. He report and you feel flattered at such ed the pilot apparently was killed, attention. for the plane never pulled out of Then, on a certain day, the its dive but plummeted to ground, where it exploded. applied sworn to the presence of Charlie the line was made the occasion Burchard '30, a prime man with for the ceremony and was planned a barrel stave in the old days. The last ordeal was a crawl through a windsail, a long tubu whole thing comes into the open. lar, canvas affair, used to venti Suddenly a host of Polliwogs is late the hold when there is work swabbing the deck with tooth to be done down there. This was brushes. You find yourself with practically a swim, as the sail was out trousers, which are even more continuou.sly flushed with salt an accessory to an officer's digni- water. elaborately for days ahead. The tradition, the bos'n said, persists only on naval ships. Army transports don't have it and it is seldom that soldiers have an opportunity to go through it. The Navy takes it seriously and the very handsome certificates are Government Issue. i \r\nJune, 1943 THE LAMBDA DErTEUOIf FIJI Pago 11 130 Denison Fijis Serving Nation Here,Abroad By Max B. Xorpell '12 The number of our of whom Scene From Pacific Coast members, we know now to be in 1917 Maj. Raymond S. Knapp, ord nance Department, AUS (F.A.), has been stationed at the Savan active service, is the really im na Ordnance Depot, Proving Ground, 111., since March 14, 1942, pressive total of 130. In the Army, including- the Regulars and the AUS, are 90 wliere and Denison Fijis of whom 15 are or he is "chief of post engineer." facilities He writes: "Our mission is the manufacture, have been overseas. have been In the USNR enrolled 34 of storage, and shipping of all types our of members. Of these, one has been honorably discharged because of ammunition" and that this depot is one of the largest of its kind in the United States. illness, another because of injuries 1921 but is back in there as an Army Lt. Comdr. E. F. Planner won aviation cadet and still another, the out because of hay fever, is off on another start. In the Navy nine General's golf cup Country Club October 4t!i. have seen or are seeing active sea Be fore gas rationing he played twice duty. Then, there are the few Surgeon with the low net at the La Jolla in number but on "Bing" Crosby's course at El Rancho Santa Fe. The day after Marines, "Semper Thanksgiving he looked up John E. Bergman '22 in Santa Monica Fideles". We have lost "Johnny" Pratt in action; two others are overseas. where John is practicing medicine. Our total in the Corps John was turned down for service is five, not including "Bill" Bateman, now in the USNR. in the Medical Corps of the Air Forces because of a knee injury suffered at Denison. "Gene" wrote Fov a complete tahle ot our "Fightin' Fi.jis," see the hach December 8th that he had been at the Marine Corps Base in San page. Diego since the middle of Septem ber but his letter was not post We have exercised due diligence in our efforts to many members ascertain of marked until January 4th. how April 21st he was at the Marine Corps Lambda Air Station, Mojave, Cal., and had Deuteron are now in active service the "good fortune" to be asso ciated at the hospital there with Fiji Lt. Charles B. Darner (Mich with the Armed Forces but feel certain that many are in whose names we do not have. igan '33) (MC) USNR. Requests for information were sent by first class mail to all of whom we knew but many remain is executive officer and "Gene" chief of surgery. 1922 unanswered. turned The only one re unclaimed to Ensign was addressed Maj. Bobci't F. Hamilton '08, our oUle.st Lambda Deuteron Fiji Jesse S. Elliott, Jr., '40, now on duty in the Atlantic. in the sei-vice, in point of college years, is in on all the maneuvers, as We have had replies, by air mail, shown in this photo snapped at Fort George Wright in the State of from the Southwest Pacific and Washington. The major is in the foreground. London so think at least some of the brethren have been dilatory. However, having had an A.E.F. A.P.O. number in World War I, we readily realize that mail isn't always promptly delivered to men he was looking forward to receiv overseas. our columns. On April 22d he was still at Fort George Wright Data on our men in service, ar ranged by classes, follow; in Washington and hopeful soon seeing our next number. 1908 quette University Medical School ing his copy of the then current some years ago and now assigned issue of the FIJI because he al to San Diego. ways found "interesting news" in 1916 I "Oldest Lambda Deuteron Fiji in the service, in point of college year, is Maj. Robert F. Hamilton (Denison '08), who is stationed at Spokane, Wash."—"The Phi Gam ma Delta," December, 1942. "Bob" wrote us December 9 that For the story of Maj. H. C. Seasholes grueling adventures on a life raft, see page 12. First Lt. Lawrence H. Prugh is commanding officer of "Hq. and Hq. AAFTS," at Gulfport Field, Miss., where he has been stationed for many months. "Larry" wants to know if there is any other Fiji there. 1923 "Ernie" Owen continues to be A note, postmarked April 30th from George M. Lyon, command our highest ranking army officer. of er, Medical Corps, USNR, indi He's a colonel now and not a 1913 cated that he was still in the Office lieutenant colonel as before and of the Naval Attache at the Amer is executive officer of the 89th Di ican Embassy in London. George vision Artillery. He tells us that gent, Medical Corps, V-(S), USNR, wrote that a graduate association he is delighted to be back with the field artillery instead of on his is, as for a long time last past, of Phi Gamma Delta in the United previous assignment with the Di Kingdom would be formed May at the U. S. Naval Training Sta vision General Staff. 29th in London and that 50 Fijis tion at San Diego. He was the 1925 organizer of the Medical Specialist were expected to attend the meetCapt. C. T. Risley, U.S. Army Unit Number 78 formed at Mar-|ing. Comdr. J. C. ("Doggie") Sar \r\nPage 12 June, 1943 THE LAMBDA DEUTEUON FIJI Medical Corps, reported November 30th that he was at Love Field, in small life rafts in the open sea. Gen. Twining was commanding an Army bomber on a combat mission These Are Pictures of Same Man Dallas, Tex., with the 5th Ferry ing Command. "Ris" said that he had charge of the dispensary, pharmacy. X-ray, and anesthesia and, outside of that, had nothing in 15126 Robertson F. Smith was at Camp Madison, Madison, Wis., December 23d, in training for a unidentified radio mechanic in the Army Air craft that rescued 1927 Pfc. William M. Bateman was, December 28th on a special detail the Marines in was ways. for Pan American Air On his latest trip East he brother, "Jim," was the PBY down In the on a combat latter photo, magazine. in the Tank Corps in the Philippines 1931 and has not been heard from since the outbreak of the war. Much has happened to "Bill" since we com From "Al" Hage "39 we learn Thc.se are jiossibly the most graphic "before and after" itictiires that Lt. W. Thorne Rimes is now ye.ti will ever see. They show our Maj. H. Craig Seasholes '22 before with Squadron VR-4 at the Naval posed the foregoing. He was hon his grim duel with Pacific Ocean and after. orably discharged from the Marine when she sent the "after" picture (taken from newsreel): "Thi.s Mrs. Sea.sholes remarked Corps April 9, 194 3, to accept a shows Craig's dehydrated aiipearance, hut he can still smile!!!" commission April 10th as lieu tenant (J.G.) in the Navy. He tells us that he had four years of ROTC at Denison and of him and four Craig can be seen among the rescued party. Censors permitting, we hope Maj. Seasholes someday will tell his full story in the pages of our delivered a bomber in Iran. Bill's other forced mission." Dayton, O. One of his brothers, Capt. Edmund Bateman, is piloting Clipper planes between Miami and Rio de Janeiro pilot teen others after they were adrift for six nights and five days in the Coral Sea, when their own plane Forces. for darkness The "combat mission' is also suggested in another Wirephoto picture, this time from the Army, caption of which says: "Brig. Gen. N. F. Twining shakes hands with to do. Pvt. the Solomons when a forced landing was made in January 27th." a commis sion as a second lieutenant in the Army Reserves in 192 7, that he has been in the Army, Marine Corps and Navy, and that all he Craig Seasholes '22 Spends Six _Days Affoat In Life Raft ^ ^ i «« Air Station in Oakland, Calif. Lt. J. R. Mayner, QMC of the Alls, is assistant post qnaTtexxnaaiter at t\\e Army AAministration \ 9icViool tor tire training oi tire / WAAC at the Arkansas Polytech- jnic College at Russellville, Ark. I On December 3d we received a I letter dated November 10th from "■ Before Rescue in Coral Sea' Army Air Forces Medical •""" Corps , needs now is the Air Forces and giving a change of address. But "Plea.se send me a new picture Twining and crew of fi fteen are the Coast Guard. we can't say it was revealing be First Lt. Howard W. Feight is of yourself because the one 1 had found alive. cause it was a change from one "Navy planes come to pick them an intelligence officer with a was in the water six days and A.P.O. number to another, c/o The up. Fifteen who have lived a week Bomber Command overseas east. nights." Postmaster, New York, N. Y. He was commissioned at Miami Beach in September, 1942. 1930 Staff Sgt. Henry B. O'Brien is at Chanute Field, 111., where he is an instructor, acting in the ad ministrative capacity of technical supervisor of the Weather School, his assignment being to the AAFTTS, Department of Weather. This is a direct quote Ellsworth D. Haynes was grad uated January 15th from the Hos pital Corps School, U.S. Naval what Hospital, at Great Lakes, 111., with said: the rating of pharmacist's mate, second class. si.x-week basic He completed his training course from a on one canteen of water, a bar of letter our Maj. H. Craig Seasholes chocolate, a can of sardines and wrote Mrs. Seasholes in Cleveland two seagulls. Who's complaining weeks ago and it is the only di about rationing! Not Gen Twin rect reference we have from the ing and his men, forced down in a major to the plane wreck he was storm at sea. The general and in on last January in the Coral his men have endured the pangs Sea. of hunger and burning thirst, For the best account of the freezing nights and the scorching major's brush with death we must sun by day. They know what turn to Metro newsreel which de hardship really is." picted the rescue of the major's The newsreel commentator said party by another plane. Here is Seasholes' plane was forced down 1933 "Gib" Dildine wrote December 26th from Camp Davis, N. 0. : "A copy union, of the FIJI is like especially when the day before Christmas. literally almost where meet 1 the old a re it comes only friends It Is place these days. The same day it came I ran into a fellow from my old outfit who told me Joe Carabelli is now at the Cavalry Officer Can the newsreel commentator by a storm, but an added angle didate School at Fort Riley, Kan. is added in captions of Wirephoto This is probably true and he will Diet of Seagulls pictures of the rescue which ap undoubtedly have graduated before "For six days Army fliers have peared in the newspapers. the next FIJI comes out. This, I searching the vast expanse "Combat Mission" believe, removes all Lambda of the sea for tiny bobbing pin Here is what one caption on a Deuteron men from the 107th peting with 465 other bluejackeis points, visibility poor and the Wirephoto rescue picture from the Cavalry, as "Chuck" Eddy has al from 37 states for the high rating. ocean mighty big, but at last the Navy says: "A Navy PBY stands ready been commissioned. At S. L. Fox '15 is our authority tireless vigil is rewarded. Below by to rescue Brig. Gen. Nathan F. this post I run into none of the for stating that "Steve" Richards are two fragile rafts tossing on Twining of Portland, Ore., and brethren. I imagine Rathje must The good news is his party of fourteen after they was recently inducted into the the water. have been here at sometime as I Army. radioed to shore — Brig. Gen. had spent five days and six nights note that his arm is Antiaircraft. with a grade average of 95.4, com been \r\nPage 13 THE LAMBDA DEUTEKON ELII June, 1943 Next Thursday (December 31st) g omerys are the proud parents of ary and April 21st was enrolled I leave here as a second lieu a daughter, Jean Frances, born in the Infantry Branch of the Offi tenant. Until I reach my next April 16 th and weighing nine cers Candidate School at Fort Mother and child are Benning, Ga., with the rank of post I will not know my future ad pounds. corporal. On February 9th he dress. For ten days or so I will with him at the post. married Betty Scribner, sister of be at the home of my wife's Our guess is that the medic re parents, 3317 East 117th Street, ferred to in the following item Cleveland. There I propose to get from "The Phi Gamma Delta" for a look at my infant son for the December, 1942, is Capt. John D. first time." In the "Cleveland Osmond, Jr., AUS. We now quote: Plain Dealer," January 5th was a "Writes Corporal Donald Smith story of his return to Cleveland (Hanover '41) from Fort Knox, "Rod" Scribner '34. Ralph 1938 On April 26th Carl A. Frazier was "still a private" in the AUS and a member of a Signal Post Service Company in the Signal Corps, stationed in New Orleans. re "In the middle of the Mojave ported that he had run into Capt. Desert a hell of a way from any "Dan" Jenkins '33 at Fort Ben where" is the way First Lt. John ning and planned to have another D. Jones, of the Infantry, de "nice visit" with him in the near future. scribed his location April 20th. His wife, the former Margery Ann The address, December 8th, of Kibler, who has been with him Ralph E. Siekman, was near Fort Lewis, Wash., is back prise and delight upon entrance lations on becoming the father of into the Army to fi nd that the 35007938, Headquarters Company, in Newark with their new daugh a son and winning a commission doctor who examined me was a A.P.O. 37, C O The Postmaster, ter, Carolyn Terry, born March 17th. Her Uncle "Rod" '33, sug in the antiaircraft service. The Fiji. I didn't have time to learn San Francisco, Cal. and a visit to the city room of that Ky.: 'You can imagine my sur paper where he received congratu writeup was topped by a good his name, but he was from the likeness of "Gib" in his new uni Denison Chapter'." John writes form. It was reported that Mrs. that he was recently privileged to Dildine and their infant would ac follow up his interest in X-ray bycompany him when he left for his taking an excellent course in new post in California and that he Roentgenology at the Mayo Clinic came up from the ranks to win in Rochester, Minn. While there his commission. Enlisting in the he enjoyed frequent visits with Dr. 107th Cavalry in October, 1940, John S. Atwater (Western Reserve as a private, he was made a '35, Denison '35), who is a Fel corporal the following March, low in Medicine at the Clinic. promoted to sergeant in February, Shortly after his return to Fort 1942, and to master sergeant in Knox he was transferred to Tilton May, 1942. On February 19th he Hospital at Fort Dix, N. J., where Pfc. gests that, because his niece was 1937 born on St. Patrick's day, she could have been named Patricia. Arnold, wrote us December 1st: John David is now a captain and "I dont believe the FIJI has me has been in the Array since Sep Ensign, now Lt. (j.g.), O. McN. married yet." Fortunately for us, tember 22, 1941. his brother-in-law, Second Lt. Kenneth McL. Jones '38, USNR, "Ham" Webster '38 turned him in August 28th exactly six months after the marriage. At the time of the December message "Neill" was at the Armed Guard Center in New Orleans turned from and six had months just at re sea and Thomas E. Norpell '41, sec ond lieutenant, USMCR, spent an evening in San Diego late in No vember swapping service stories. Kenneth, a survivor of the tor pedoed "Wasp," was then with a with the pleasant prospect of a carrier air service unit there. On ■wrote tl\at "Willie Rathje and I he is continuing his duties in the month ashore before going out December 1st he was advanced in ■went swimming in tine Pacific the \x-ray department. again. Now, however, he is train his rating from Y3c to Y2c. On December 28th he was with a otlver day." A.ic>Ti\ 2,4tlr we Ivad aM Cpl. Samuel L. Rogers of the ing at the Submarine Chaser V-niail note of April 12th on Guadalcanal dur- i Training uenier in njiami, r lu. Training Center in Miami, Fia. Fighting Squadron destined for iitn "written in the //ng- f/,g (/lere. His mother His mother, Mrs. O. M. Arnold, service on a new carrier and wrote lit Islands and May 15th another j heard from him since | the widow of Oscar M. Arnold '11 saying he was "on an island in March 26th but a Marine back is "Head Dormitory Resident" at the Pacific below the Equator." from the far Southwest Pacific Denison. (Gib's account of his initiation area reported seeing him out there "The Fiji Hunch" for Novem into the status of "shellback" as not long ago. ber, 1942, published by our Cleve he crossed the equator is on page land Graduate Chapter, informed 19:16 10). us that Staff Sergeant Joseph C. Ensign F. Wayne Ketner, USNR, Capt. Daniel C. Jenkins, after Carabelli, Jr., was stationed at having taught at the infantry- was at Treasure Island, San Fran the Desert Training Center, Camp school at Fort Benning, Ga., for cisco, on March 16th. He got his Young, Indio, Cal. Why couldn't indoctrination at Tuscon, Ariz., exactly one year and three "Joe" have sent us this informa months, is now Ass't G-3, Hq. and his commission November 3d. tion in time for the December is XII Corps, at Columbia, S. C., At Tuscon his bunk mate was Wil sue of the FIJI? He has since been liam D. ("Dab") Lewis '38. On where he is "the operations offi commissioned a second lieutenant May 20th he reported that he was cer in that office." attached to the Office of Inshore and, we learn from the Spring William W. Raymond was com "Hunch," i.s in the Mechanized missioned a second lieutenant at Patrol, Eighth Naval District, in Cavalry at Fort Riley, Kans. Fort Benning, Ga., last April and New Orleans, but that on May H. Bruce McNair on May 3rd next day married Miss Helen 2 4th he would be detached and wrote: "I'm being inducted into sent to Sabine, Tex., for duty Heile of Oak Park, 111. "Bill" is with appreciation of receiving his copy of the December issue of the FIJI. The Fleet Postoffice at San Francisco now forwards his mail. Ensign William D. Lewis is in Washington. D. C., doing photo graphic interpretation for the Navy. Cpl. John W. Raymond is with an Army bombardment group on the other side of the Atlantic. John is a member of a ground crew servicing American planes. Sgt. Richard J. Pearse is with a Military Police Escort Guard Com pany at Camp Breckenridge, Ky. H. H. Webster was commis sioned a Second Lieutenant July 3, 1942. On November 30th he the Army May 5th. I'm starting had just been transferred to a new We quote the following now stationed at Fort Leonard afloat. as a Buck Private and in a week Bombardier School at Concho from his letter: "Last evening, Wood, Mo. or two I'll probably be a Yard Field, San Angelo, Tex., where he while having dinner at the Algiers 1935 was engaged in piloting bom Bird." Second Lt. Harold Johnson is Officers' Club, I was introduced to bardier cadets, and evidently, had Lt. John S. Pettit, USNR, writes at Headquarters, 5th Service a good looking J.G. who turned recently seen Capt. "Dick" Ashley on stationery headed thus: Command, in the Public Relations out to be none other than 'Chuck' '35, who, "Ham" reported, had ar United States Atlantic Fleet, Serv Branch, at Fort Hayes, Colum Jones '42. He is waiting for his rived at the Midland Army Flying ship now and expects to be sent ice Force, Utility Squadron Four, School about a month before bus, O. John F. Montgomery was pro out again within the next few U. S. Naval Air Station, Norfolk. where he was flight, surgeon. On Vi rginia. John's job "is to super moted to a captaincy on March weeks." When he entered the vise the upkeep and maintenance May 2d Ham was a first lieutenant Navy, Wayne was president of the 8th, two years after he joined up. of the planes in the squadron." He in the Army Air Forces and sta He is in the communications office Columbus Exchange Club. tioned at the Bombardier School Pvt. Ralph E. Lidster, Jr., re tells us how many there are so at San Angelo, Texas. of the 56th Cavalry Brigade at we know his task is a real one. Fort Mclntosh, Tex. The Mont- turned from Iceland last Febru- \r\nPage 14 June, 1943 THE LAMBDA DEL'TEROX FIJI 1939 Reserve University February 10, R. M. Coughenour wrote April 1943. He then had a commission 22d that he was attending the as a second lieutenant in the AUS USNR Midshipmen's School at Reserve. He now has a commis Notre Dame, Ind., and was ex sion as a first lieutenant in the Texas with a Troop Carrier Squad ron of the Army Air Forces, "the main function of which is to Qlobetrotter carry paratroopers, air borne in fantry, tow gliders and haul sup plies. (His) principal duty is that pecting to be graduated May 27th. dental division of the Medical First Lt. Charies F. Eddy of the Corps of the AUS and was ordered of an aerial radio operator and Army Corps of Engineers (Avia to leave Newark for Camp Pickett, mechanic." He married Virginia tion) is somewhere in the remote Va., June 15th. His Fiji brother- Ruth Knox at Hinsdalh, Hi., on Southwest Pacific area. in-iaw, Lt. Ben E. Jacoby (Ohio March 20th. Leonard G. Weiis '3 8, Albert M. Hage has had a pro Wesleyan ',36), USNR (MC), re his brother-in-law, was best man. motion recently and is now a iieu- cently was in active service for The bride is a Kappa, belonged to tenant (j.g.) in the USNR. "Ai" about fi ve months in the nortli the Class of '4 2 at Denison and was graduated from Northwestern writes that he has "run into a few African Area and, when we were of the brothers out here" and last informed, has been assigned in 1943. that "Al" McNeili and "Art" Gehr to Norfolk. Donald A. Nicholie is "an en "passed througli here some time Wallace C. Smith is an aviation listed man in the pilot school (at ago." He sees "Whitey" Rimes cadet at the Army Air Forces the SAAAB, Santa Ana,Calif.), do often. "Ai" is still at the LI. S. Technicai School, Grand Rapids, ing administrative clerical work, Navai Air Station at Alameda, Cal. Mich. This school is an advanced in the capacity of assistant Ensign James L. Hahn, USNR, wrote May 2d that he had just completed his training at the De stroyer Base at San Diego and was leaving for duty in the Pacific. Ensign Aian Young Lidster, USNR, wrote April 27th: I've just training center for meteorology sergeant major. Don and his wife "Waliy" writes that he have our sincere sympathy for the cadets. will be commissioned the last of death of their daughter, Carol November. Lane, January 7, 1943, caused by 1940 the lodging of a minute particle Second Lt. Donald B. Duffey of of food in her stracia or food pipe. the Army Air Forces was at Biggs Many weeks ago "Sockeye" had a lit. Charles B. Jones '42 VSNK returned from indoctrination Field, Tex., May 9th where he visit in Los Angeles wit'n school at Fort Schuyler, N. Y., was a bombardier in a combat "Wumps" Geneser, '42. of receiving his wings about the and will report to Princeton May crew for whom heavy bombard Lt. Thomas E. Norpell, USMCR, middle of August. 11th for further instruction. As ment was planned. He had reached Camp Elliott November Last December 4tb, Second Lt. to brancli of service, I hope to previously been in training at Big 24tb and for sometime thereafter , John H. Ttoebm was an vnstrnctor get sub-chaser duty shortly after Spring, Tex. At press time, he was stationed tbere and at Camp \\n recrnU training in tire Vi.it.T.C. completing my work at Prince was reported by Phil Mavon "34 to Pendieton. He underwent a ton- j at Fort Belvoir, Va. A first lieuton . . . On April 21st Marge had be at Advanced Bombardier) Isillectom.v at San Diego on Jan !tenant April 29th he had taken a an eight-lb. fourteen-ounce bo.v, School, Kingman, Ariz. uary 3dth. Many weeks ago, fol course at Fort Banning in Spe Douglas McNeill, Lambda Deutei'From Mrs. W. H. Hassard, Sr., lowing a Westerly course with the cial Weapons and was back at in 19fi4. Wiiat a boy and looks we have the following message Marines, he crossed the Equator Fort Belvoir "training our boys." like good Fiji material. . ." under date of May 21: "In reply but we don't know to what desti ■Jack" reports that he sees Fiist Allen L. McNeill "39, ensign to your letter addressed to Win. nation. Under date of iilay 12ih Lt. John A. Lindstrom '40 quite USNR, and Thomas E. Norpell '41, H. Hassard, Jr., he has been he wrote that he was then a first regularly. second lieutenant, USMCR, Iiad wounded in action in the North lieutenant and "a battalion staff Lt. (j.g.) Raymond W. West, the pleasure of seeing eacli other African Area and will probably be officer, specificaiiy the intelligence USNR, writes April 22: "As you November 27th in San Diego. It returned to the United States in officer." First Lt. Stanley P. can guess from my numerous was a chance meeting in a hotel the near future. He was a navi Wright (Dartmouth '4 2) is a changes of address, have been on lobby. "Al" was then about to gator on a bomber B-2 4. He re platoon leader in the same bat several different ships and seen push out on the Pacific and as this ceived his commission last Sep talion. most of the old blue Pacific." He issue went to press was reported tember and left the States in Jan on duty in the South Pacific. First Lt. Frank G. Saxton was, April 24th commanding officer of First Lt. John A. Lindstrom, the 1923rd Quartermaster Com USMCR, is an instructor in the pany (Trk) (Avn), Army of the Candidates Class in the Marine United States, at the Army Air Corps Scliools at Quantico, Va. Base, Rapid City, S. D. uary." From the Spring issue of the "Fiji Hunch" we learned that Second Lt. Louis B. Pettit was in the Army Air Forces Pre-flight School at Maxwell Field, Ala. First Lt. Robert W. McGiflin Second Lt. John W. Reed, of tile Arm.v Air Forces is now at USMCR, was at Quantico, Va., Anti-submarine Headquarters in April 25til in a reserve officers' the City of New York. class and expected to be there un Born January 20, 1943, to Rich til May 19th. John A. Lindstrom ard H. White and Mrs. White a '40, first lieutenant, USMCR, was son, Richard Denis. "The Denison one of the instructors of Iiis can didates' class. John reported there were Fijis in his company from Texas. Yale, and Virginia and that they got together every once in a while and chewed the censor. 1942 Charies D. Brannan is taking a course of eight weeks in the Sub Technicai Sgt. Howard H. marine Chaser Training Center at Siegei (Denison '41, Ohio State '41) has been promoted to the Miami, Fia., and hopes to be as rank of warrant officer and is still signed to a Destroyer Escort at in the Office of the Directorate of the end of this course. "Debbie" Flying Safety in Winston-Salein. was commissioned an Ensign April 23d at the Midshipmen's School at Alumnus" says that Denis is for From Maj. Barton F. Walker Denison. Mrs. White is the farm er Prisciila Alden Wescott, D.U. '40, and a member of Delta Gam ma. the USNR "Dick" is attending Midshipmen's School fat about chapter days and nlEjhts. Northwestern University. Joseph P. Shai, II, '39, received his D.D.S. degree from Western tells us on what battle wagon he is but we dasn't repeat the name if we want our paper passed by 1941 the at Northwestern Lh we learn that his son. Air Cadet Aviation Cadet Richard H. Barton F. Walker. Jr.. was, on Bridge, USNR, is getting fi ghter May 22d, at the Army Flying training at Borin Field, Pensa- School at Greenville, Miss., where cola, Fla., and, April 25th hoped he expected to be for anotlier four to be commissioned an Ensign "in weeks when he will proceed to about eight or ten weeks." "Dick" some other school or field for ad Tech. Sgt. David P. Flory is in vanced training with expectations writes that, during his training, he has been at various times and \r\nJune, 19-43 THE LAMBDA DEl'TEHOiV FIJI Page 15 places with Frank Ward '42, ly in connection with the handling year s graduating class at Denison "Bob" McKinney '4 3, and of Navy crews operating the guns reported on or about May 31st at One "Chuck" Ortman '44, and that he on troop transport ships. the University of Notre Dame for has met a number of Fijis from trip took him from New York to training as midshipmen in the otber chapters. Australia and New Caledonia and USNR under V-7. These brethren "Tom" Fox sent us, from Fort back to San Francisco. This trip are Richard D. Buttermore, Rob Biley, Kansas, as newsy a letter lasted about 3 months and cov ert E. Grimm, Hugh B. McCulas we have received with items ered about 31,000 miles. His ship loch, and Richard P. Winkier. For about many of the brethren but was among those which landed the the first month tliey will be ad Aviation Cadet space permits our quoting only the first American troops in Australia dressed as A. S. and thereafter and his impression of that coun as Midshipmen. m following: "My present rank is that of pri try and of its people was most vate in the United States Army. I favorable. have just finished my basic train "Another trip took him from ing here at the Cavalry Replace New York to Halifax, to Belfast, ment Training Center and am now Ireland, to Glasgow, Scotland, to employed, at no increase in pay, Freetown, Africa, to Capetown as a typewriter drone in the and Durban, South Africa, to Classification Section. Present in Aden, Arabia, and to Suez. Then dications point to my remaining back through Aden, Durban, and here in the dust bowl for the rest Capetown to New York. This trip of the war. I have made applica required about SU months and tion for Officer Candidate School, covered about 55,000 miles. An but from this camp a man in Lim other trip took him from New ited Service might as well try to York to Casablanca and back to In a missive of April 20th Rex L. Brophy informed us that he was at the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute where he and liis com rades were called Air Crew Stu dents but that his Army rank was that of a private. Boyd B. Chambers, Jr., was graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point June 1st. He received a commission as sec ond lieutenant in the' Reguiar Army but we have no idea to what branch of the service he has been ■mm. jump over the moon as to get into New York—requiring about lU assigned. As far as we know, he OCS." On IMay 14th he was a months and covering about 8,000 is the first member of Lambda corporal in the same outfit. miles. His ship landed in Casa- Deuteron to be a West Point grad Ensign Arthur C. Gehr is at sea i blanca about two days after ac- uate. The graduating class of 514 members was the largest in the Academy's history and the first to San Francisco. On February 17, 'Following his present train1943, at San Diego, Cat., he mar- , ing in Miami he expects to be on be graduated under the shortened three-year curriculum. ried Miss Helen Suiter, formerly Jack Sccliof '44 and his address is Fleet Postoffice, 1 tfve fighting had ceased. jactive duty on one of the new Sub- of Evanston, 111. Mr. Gelrr Chasers now being put into com - uTJtes that "Art" reported late in March to his ship and that no According to a letter of June mission. The training course at/^" tram his father, Lt. William C. Miami is most strenuous and since | "ow participating in word ha.s been receii'ed from him / it calis for 80 or more hours of naneuvers in Tennessee wilh a Pvt. Don A. Finefrock is said to 'oe with an Army Medical Bat talion somewhere in India. The fi rst training two of months Aviation of the Cadet Wil liam M. Fisher, USNR, were at .Nampa, Idaho, where, his mother :-ei)orts, he was the fi rst of his Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop. group to solo and got grades all between 95 and 100. We have .\bout two weeks ago he com Second Lt. W. A. Geneser was time to enjoy the beach." pleted a second course of three since heard from him to the ef with an Armored Regiment at In our December, 1942, issue months at Fort Rlley. His ap fect that after .May 1st he would Camp Chaffee, Ark. on April 29th. He had previously been on tem appeared an account of the ex pears to he another case where be at the U. R. Naval Pre-liight porary duty for two months at ploits of Capt. E. P. Maiiszew- overseas duty is not unlikely in School at St. Mary's College, Cal. ski. Flying Fortress pilot. On Page the near future. Charles W. Lewis was clas.sified Fort Knox, Kv. Robert A. McKinney was, June as an aviation student or aviation Elsewhere we have referred to a 5 the story of his daring deeds is Uh, a Naval aviation cadet at cadet candidate on May 25th and letter from "Gene" Planner '21. 1®°'^'-'"^^^'^Enclosed with it was a note from 1 When he wrote us last April, Corpus Christi, Tex., and hoping was awaiting appointment as an Lt. (j.g.) Charles B. Jones, USNR, Pvt. G. Robert ("Duke") Smith to he graduated in three weeks aviation cadet in tiie Army Air since. work per week, there has been no indicating that he had been in San was an instructor at the Limited 1 and commissioned an Ensign in Forces. He was stationed at Clemson, S. C., with The 37th Col lege Training Detachment. Paul R. ("Dick") Petrequin is sister of Lt. "Tim" Norpell '41, Wise. a corporal in a Quartermaster Hugh McCulloch '43 told us Av. Cad. Frank Handy Ward came home for the holidays from New York, where she is attending had been about three months at Company of the Army Air Forces some time ago that Robert C. the "Katie" Gibbs School, almost the U. S. Naval Air Station at and April 25th his address was McGraw was in the Army but we her fi rst subject of conversation Corpus Christi, Texas, when we care of The Postmaster, New have been unable to obtain addi tional information. was her enjoyment of Chuck's heard from him under date of York, N. Y. Diego. When Maxine Norpell, the j Service School at Camp McCoy, the USNR. company on the train from New April 21st. 1944 He expected to he York to Pittsburgh whither he there until June completing his was hound for a visit with his advanced flight training in the father. When he wrote us April USMCR. Frank reported that 20th he was an executive officer "Bob" McKinney '43, and "Chuck' engaged in submarine chaser Ortman '44, were in training at duty. That's the best "chaser" the same Station and that Presi dent Roosevelt had stopped there there is, right now. Pvt. James R. Courtney is tak Edwin R. Mead transferred March 14. 1943, from the RCAF ing basic training in Antiaircraft to the American Forces as a. at Camp Haan, Cal., in the Coast Flight Officer. He has been over Artillery Corps of the Army and seas for a long time now. expects to be a code clerk in com Pvt. Harrison W. ("Bill") Rog munications. ers was at Alva, Okla., in the Cpl. Hamilton Lehr Fess, Jr.. is co-ordinator in the engineering on his way back from Mexico and When Clarence L. Fox '15 was in Florida last winter he visited been favored with "a big sky office of a Bombing Squadron in he Army Air Forces. His address with Chuck and made this report parade . . . off shore a ways." U. S. Army Air Forces April 22d. is in care of The Postmaster, New Tex., Aviation Cadet Center, on May 19th and had been classified on Chuck's travels: "His active duty has been main- 1943 Four Fiji members of this York. He was an aviation cadet at the Army Air Force Classifica tion Center at the San Antonio, \r\nJune, 194S THE LAMBDA DEL'TEBON FIJI Paee 16 to be trained as a pilot and was waiting to be sent to a pre-flight Aid To Army Paul Quay Sends Dogs to War, Including One Tobacco Chewer school. Aviation Cadet John J. Seehof is in training at the Army Air Forces Basic Flying School at Court- By Elbert F. Kennard '32 |naire under "special land, Ala. If Ripley ever is in Cleveland, dog has ^ and is apparently making good but Quay wonders if it is getting Pvt. George P. Stelzer was at it would be a good bet for him to Fort Hayes in Columbus, May stop and see Paul Q. Quay '20 for 29th, but had not yet been as some unusual material for his Be signed to any branch of service. lieve It Or Not cartoons. ^AR Does Rfor our its daily chew. (Editor's Note: "Gobby," long time Lambda Duet ^ lArmed Forces As regional director of Dogs tor tobacco expert, could well appre Defense, Inc.. for the Cleveland ciate the seriousness of the situa USNR, after three months in a area. Brother Quay is an expert tion.) ground training course at MonCollie-Hounds, I'olice-Cliows on matters canine and he has some mouth College is now flying small Quay has frequently met own odd tales to tell. planes at a War Training School There was, for example, the dog ers who cannot decide whether'to Aviation Cadet Phillip L. Ward, i^f near Madison and living at the who was accustomed to receive give or not to give." Sometimes Phi Delta Theta House at the each day "one small chew of Union these owners wait until the crate University of Wisconsin. Workman tobacco," or at least so is standing with door open to re 104.-) his owner stated on the question- ceive their dog and then change their minds about the whole prop Cpl. Byron B. Ashbrook, Jr., osition. This presents a difficulty is with a Bombardment Squadron Sam Houston, Tex., but is expect as the exact number of dogs for of tbe Army Air Forces. When ing a change of address soon. Robert R. West was a private the army must be sent in each last heard from he was at Glas eiVE Does AND DOUARS n DOeS FOB DEFENSE II (Itt it iiitn • 111 TIU • shipment. He has learned now This is one of the new posters gow, Mont., and expecting to find in the Army Air Forces April that for any fifteen dogs ordered used in the work of Paul Q. Qua> himself in the near future at an 27th at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. embarkation least five '20 to recruit dogs for the Uuited and classified as a Meteorologist., he should have v,at „oiiori in nt I port. Pvt. Chappell F. Cashman onl"Bob" was then awaiting May 12th was in a company otlment" to his training center. | Statse Armed Forces \ infantry and had been at Fortl Pvt. Harold B. Wright is in the 1 "While pure bred dogs are pre- Lewis, Wash., for two and a half 1 A.A.F.T.T.C. at the University He reports that h\s .Te xesr.terrng all months. He described himself as\Wisconsin. \doss offered for aerxrce, fnspect- a "Yardbird or Jeep," expressions new to us, an infantryman in f World War I. Aviation Student George L. Crocker is in training in the Army Air Forces at the University of Nevada in Reno. Alian K. Estabrook has been at Great Lakes, 111., since April 8th 1040 jceptahle to the army. We don't know where but in jtm^i'^d that cross bied [or physical and temper ntnosK reiectins: the in- the Army are Richard C. Chris- Shepherd and Doberman is an tian Cpl. Robert D. Hassett, Peter/cellent canine recrui ^anyl ^ rejected), collecting the ac| strange combinations laie ggpted ones at shipping centers F. Legler. Philip B McGraw and offered such as Collie-Hounds an / dispatching them to the army William H. Sherer. Police-Chows. Some owners, find ' John C. Crawford is in training ing that their breed is not accept at Little Creek, Va., for service in the Navy. Aviation Cadet Thomas P. Hen- in training as an apprentice sea able bring the dog in on some pre-| upon receipt of government crates and shipping orders. Schools Sponsor Dogs text and then, depart quickly. Ap parently they hope that if he is dry, Army Air Forces, is now in faced with the necessity of dispos pre-flight training at Ellington be graduated June 21 and hopes Field, Tex., and is classified as a ing of the dog in some manner he may try it on the army. to go on to a trade school. navigator. While stationed at man in the USNR. He expects to Dog Anuy of 32,5,000 Pvt. John S. Hassett is in the the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Army authorities say that "a Meteorology Division of the Army Center he was in the same bar man and a sentry dog have been Air Forces and is studying at racks as Aviation Cadet Stanley L. found equal to six regular guards." Denison and living in Curtis Hall. Orr, '46. In recognition of this usefulness of Richard F. Jones and Kennedy Stanley L. Orr, Jr., on April As all of this requires money and as Dogs for Defense, Inc., is not financed by the government fully half of the time of the local committee is spent in raising funds. The main money-raising project has been campaigns in the schools. A newly-recruited dog is used to stage a demonstration of dogs as soldiers the tl. S. dog obedience training. By making Legler, Jr., are roommates at the 19th. was at the San Antonio army is expected to enlist the serv contributions toward the procure University of Michigan where they Aviation Cadet Center of the ices of 325,000 canines. Not long ment expenses of the dog, the chil are in the Pre-meteorology School. Army Air Forces as an Aviation dren sponsor it for military serv after Pearl Harbor, Dogs for De They now rank as privates but, Cadet and had been classified for fense, Inc. was organized as a non after a fourteen-mpnth ice. Thus there is established a course, pilot training. they expect to be second lieu tenants and weather men. profit agency to secure and train partnership between the original Don Eschman '4 5 tells us that dogs for service in the armed owner who gives his dog and the William R. West is in the USNR forces. More recently it has be school which pays its expenses. John M. Morton and Herbert S. but we have no particulars. "Bill" is evidently one of the brethren who did not receive one of our letters requesting information mailed to all of our members in Price, Jr.. are in the Army now: John at Clemson. S. C., and Herb at Camp Edwards, Mass., accord ing to Don Eschman, '4 5. active service. To those who did ert H. Six was in training at not respond to the first one a sec Camp Wheeler, Georgia. He's now ond was sent so we have made a (May 30th) in Headquarters Com reasonable effort to get the pany of the 378th Infantry at Fort "dope". As December dawned Pvt. Rob come the sole procurement agency This plan has worked well in and donations from for the supplying of war dogs, the Cleveland training of K-9 Dog Corps being schools have ranged from ?8 to solely in the hands of the U. S. $284. Army Re-Mount Service. Brother Quay began his Dogs for Defense activities in August, 1942, when the army was glad to have trainers, both amateur and professional, to give basic obedi- The total receipts during one schUol year have exceeded $2,080. Dog clubs and interested indi viduals also have made contribu tions to this work and a new (DOGS DETECT Cont.on Page 25) \r\nr June, 1943 THE LAMBDA DEUTEKON FIJI Page 17 .'"mm VIA GaAuma Delta House, Deuison Campus, (iranville, O. Active Chapter Cut To Handful;Co-Eds To Live in House Bl'LLETI.V Representatives of Denison's eight fraternity groups, includ ing Merrill R. Montgomery '06 of Lambda Deuteron, at a meet ing in Granville on June 13, 1943, accepted a proposal by college olbcials regarding rental of the fraternity bouses during the coming year. Tliese are the minimum guai'anteed pajnnents by the college for the coming year; $1,.'>00 apiece for the four upitili bouses, including Ijainbda Deuteron's; .'SI,200 for the Com mons Clul); .$1,000 to Kappa Sigma and $750 for tlie SAE's and Laml)da Cbi Alpha. Rental is from August 15tb to May 15tli. Co-eds are to be lioused in the four upliill bouses; possiWy freshman boys in the Commons Club and possibly upperclass fraternity men in downhill bouses. By Clarence L. Fox, '15 All of our alumni will naturally ville under present war conditions. and that the fraternity houses enough revenue will be received As soon as it was announced which are located up-hill will be to enable us to meet the interest that boys of eighteen years of age used by the University for tiie charges on our indebtedness. Some were to be drafted, it became ap housing and feeding of freshman plan is also being considered which would make it possible for downparent that the number of male girls. iiill fraternities to meet their students in all colleges would be Fraternities to Continue so greatly reduced as to make nor mal operation of fraternities im possible. Fortunately we haye been able to go through the 19424 3 school year successfully, al though by the time Commence ment came around the number of men in our chapter had been cut in half. The outlook for next year It had been hoped that by this time final arrangements could be completed between the up-hill fra ternities and the University as to the financial terms on which these financial obligations during the war period even though their houses may not be needed by the University. If such a plan Is put into effect, it would result in the up-hill fraternities receiving some houses would be used. what less than would otherwise be With this two Pan-Hellenic meet the case, but in the Pan-Hellenic ings with University oflicers were meetings referred to above the held in May, but no final decision sentiment was very much in favor is for not more than three civilian could be reached because the Uni of doing whatever could be done members of our chapter being in versity had not yet received the to assure the continuation of ali school and perhaps four will be final terms of the contract with fraternities now represented on there as members of the Navy the Navy. Under these circum unit. It obviously would be im stances it was recommended that possible to operate the chapter house with a group of this size. Navy Housed Downhill vided for in up-hill dormitories the Denison campus. In the next issue of the Lambda each fraternity appoint one alumni Deuteron Fiji we will be able to representative living within easy report as to the final arrangements reach of Granville and invest him made for the use of our house for with authority to act on this pro Beginning July 1st there will be a unit of 425 Navy men enter Den- gram. Accordingly the Board of ison and the plan is for fTiem to Trustees of the S. S. Chamberlin be housed and fed in the girls Association has appointed Merrill dormitories and dining room lo Montgomery '06 as its representa cated down-hill. It is expected tive with power to conclude an ar be Interested in knowing what is that upper class girls can be pro to become of our house in Gran in mind the duration. Co-operation of all Lambda Deuteron members in keeping this magazine's staff fully informed of news about themselves will be ap rangement with the University. It is hoped and expected that preciated. \r\nJune, 1943 THE EAMBDA DBUTEKON FIJI Page 18 Evangelist^^ Spring Peaceful in Granville, But Dr. King Sees a Difference Robert Frost Disappointing After Dr.King By Biiciaii C. Warren '38 Our venerated Fiji professor of English in the following masterful essay tells of wartime Granville and of the strong bonds of fra ternal friendship which link Deni- Denison, like the gentle mother, Dr. J. L. King, a Fiji product awaits fearfully but courageously the heart-break and the pain. On our bulletin board in from the University of Richmond and head of Denison's Department Swasey Chapel there are now several hun -Ik son Phi Gamma Deltas all over dred names, nine of them in gold letters, and we know that with the the globe. decide to become a preacher be passing weeks and months these Uy .1. L. King- lists will increase. It seems prob able the that even if of English, missed his calling by not becoming an evangelist and, if I recollect correctly, almost did fore the lure of Shakespeare and Shelley became too strong. war lasts It is spring in Granville! The long, no bomb will scar the sym fresh green grass, the budding metry of our landscape, no flame trees, the gay dandelions and an will destroy our buildings, nor As one who took practically every course he taught and as one occasional friendship, I can still feel the spell of the evangelistic style with crocus clothe College Hill in beauty. "For lo, the win who basked in the warmth of his enemy strut our streets; but the war will reach us just the same. ter is past, the rain is over and Our chimes ring out a clear, sweet gone, the flowers appear on the message of peace and goodwill which earth; the time of the singing of across the hills at twilight, but, birds is come." Already the as we listen, we hear in the back robin, the cardinal, and the dove ground the rattle of machineguns make the dawn melodious with and the scream of falling bombs. their song, and soon the little We go to visitors from the South — the wrens and the warblers—will add would read poetry or cent of the Mother's Day Banquet talks for liambda Deuteron Dr. J. Li. King and the mist in the mothers' eyes as he finished always was wondrous our humble tasks of teaching about sines and cosines, he give an inspirational address. He undoubtedly has given 7 5 per bubble reputation Ito behold. even at the I Plato and Aristotle, Shakespeare Frost and King cannon's mouth." . . . "Or ever! and Shelley, ("If Winter comes, the silver cord he loosed, or the\ The New Fngland poet, "Rohert more the Hill is wrapped in a can Spring he far behindl""). We ^ 1 golden howl he hroken . ."V AndlFrost, came to lect-nre In dranvernal loveliness. walk softly our wonted way, hut \ , . \ .,, , a u their voices to the chorus. Once . , ,, , \always the singing—"Mary Annlville and Dr. King made it a field we feel the surge and pull of the),, „ 'McCarthy, "For He s a Jolly day for Robert Frosts poetry lu It is quiet and peaceful in I war, nevertheless. Ours Is the Good Fiji," "When College Songs his classes on the day of the lec Granville! Boys and girls still /quiet agony of waiting Grnnvillc—Oasis of Peace ture. climb the steep ascent to knowl edge. Absent-minded and starry- eyed professors still talk of "the glory that was Greece," and dream of a world in which pover ty and prejudice and hate and war shall be no more. Here is an oasis of peace in a desert of war. Without noise or the fanfare of trumpets destiny in we live out our Granville. An little occa "When College Songs- One More Spring He had the students spell- bound with his recitations of The home of Lambda Deuteron "Sontething there is that doesn't I like to believe that across the stands firm in its accustomed love a wall" and "Home is the miles, invisible bands reach from place. As this is written, some place, when you have to go there hose boys back to Lambda Deuterboys, a dwindling number, still they have to take you in." The , on—from Africa and England and gather in its hall for study and L ij rui t i j j students loved it and swarmed to , , _ . • . India and China and Iceland and talk and song. Jupiter and the Frost lecture. the Islands of the Pacific back to Minerva still look placidly down It was an anti-climax. Frost Denison. upon eager youth, but as we As a poet Robert "A soul-joined chain invites our was a frost. gather there, I find that in the Frost still rates high in my esti band lull of the conversation or in the "And memory links us hand in mation, but he ought to have taken Dr. King around on his lec hand." To those boys everywhere, I ture tours. The poetry was torpid mist over the should like to say as I have said stuff as Frost read it; it danced sional plane sails innocently and pause between songs, my mind majestically by on its way toward takes sudden flight and I am fly Columbus or Pittsburgh. At in frequent intervals the siren ing through the English Channel in a crippled so often in the House— at Dr. King's bidding. sounds a warning of a blackout plane with Maliszewski; or strug If I call Dr. King's manner "God grant you find one face and Livy's wardens rush to their gling in treacherous waters of the there, evangelistic, do not think that I posts, and the unfrightened in South Pacific with Craig Sea"You loved when all was mean he is a mossback with oldhabitants of this undisturbed vil slioles; or basking in Eskimo- young." fashioned ideas. J never knew lage sit quietly in the dark with land with Ralph Lidster; or rid him to take a drink, yet he con out fear or consternation until the ing deep into the heart of Texas "All Qlear" is given. Yes, in with John Montgomery; or help Granville, we have been touched I hope that wherever you are, fessed to his Shakespeare classes you may draw joy and strength that he hugely relished the Falfrom your memories of your days ing the Marines somewhere in the only lightly by the war. Were it at Denison. We who are left be Pacific with Tim Norpell; or — not for rationed gas and food hind take pride in your glory and Suddenly the halls of Lambda know sorrow in your suffering. stuffs we would apparently know Deuteron are filled with the boys little of the strain and the agony Remember the star of Phi Gamma who have come and gone. Memo of the conflict raging on the other Delta still shines and we are with ries, memories crowd upon me— side of the world. you in its light. Pig Dinners, Christmas and Com Yes, it's spring in Granville— War LtU'ks In Background mencement Parties, Sweetheart one more Spring. But there is a But do not be deceived. Amid Serenades, Dad's Day, Mother's the beauty and the tranquility. Day, Initiations — ("seeking the piercing poignancy to its beauty and a tumult in its peace. staff drunk scenes and he showed it by the absorbed and realistic way he read Falstaff passages. Rousseau and Billy He used to preach Rousseau to his classes, and we always sus pected that he followed Rousseau to the letter in bringing up his son, Billy. Rousseau and the Kings believed in giving a child \r\nJune, 1943 the EAMBDA HEVTERON PI.Jl a maximum of freedom and a min imum of discipline. One Mother's Day Sunday after dinner, Billy's exploits, I recall, sent chills streaking down the mothers' spines. As the group Page 19 Active Chapter Roster College Year 1948 picture was being taken on the SENIORS—CLASS OF 1943 Is Successful Despite Times George David Steams (Joe) Richard Donald Buttermore (Dixie) 9300 S. Damcn Avenue rear lawn of the house on the 001 10th Street Chicago, Illinois Parkersburp, W. Va. Chapter Recording Secretary; Uni hill, Billy started climbing the Phi Society; Geolopry Society 1, 2, 3, versity Flayers 2, 3; Adytum 1, 2; IJ.v Dick riiri.stiaii '40 4; Blue Key 2, 3. 4. president 3; Portfolio 2, 3. trellis to the overhanging balcony Varsity Golf Team; "D" Association George Pickering Stelzer (Bromo) above. I doubt if he was more 3. 4; President of the Senior Class; It has been hard going, but the 233 W. Water Street Omicrcn De.ta Kappa 4. Urbana. Ohio than six years old, yet Dr. and active chapter has had a success President of Freshman Dormitory, Elmer Grimm (Grimey) Mrr. King ignored him and were Robert Math Club 1 ; Denisonian 1, 2, 3, ful and a happy year. 2202 McDaniel Ave. Circulation Manager 2. Business Kvnnston, Illinois chatting unconcernedly as if the We were 27 strong when rush Manager 3 ; Pi Delta Epsilon 3 ; Stu Chapter Recordin^r Secretary 4 ; Glee dent Car Committee 3; D. S. G. A. week made its appearance early child could not have slipped and Club 1, 2. 3, 4; f-Veshman Track, Men's Council 3; Blue Key 3. Varsity Track 2, 3.^ 4; "D" Associa been dashed to the cement below. In the ascent, the child's foot be came caught and as boys rushed tion 3, 4; Adytum Staff 2. 3; Board of Control of Publications 3; Var Then sity Debate 4 ; A Cappella Choir 3, 4. 630 he con 3. 4: D. S. G. A. Men's Council 3. 4 ; Junior Class Treasurer; Senior Class Treasurer; that Omicron Delta Kappa, vice president 3, 4 ; Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. Nephew of Frank W. McCulloch (Williams '26); cousin of John M. Betts (Amherst '42); brother of event. Mrs. King a War Worker Lee Roland Ashman (Hurricane) 850 Belmont Park North to a \itt\e hit oi a scare, although freshman Math Club 1. 2; Geological Society 1, 2; Football Manager 1, 2; Inter fraternity Council 2; D. S. G. A. brook and Robert Six left for the Army. Board of Control of Music 2; Phi Mu Alpha 2; Blue Key. Host.s to Betas Son of Karl H. Eschman '11. Secretary foothaW; freshman George Franklin Johnson (Frank) track; editor 2. previous climbing e.xploits he had ) ing the sophomores in football and holding the seniors to a tie. While on the subject of football, we try Society 2. mustn't forget Rex Brophy, junior, Charles Brand English (Chas.) and George Crocker, sophomore, 400 College St. Urbana, Ohio and freshman Tom Hendry, who Denisonian 2. Circulation Manager 2. played varsity football. About Donald Frazier Eschman (Don) Granville, Ohio. this time the first two of many de Chapter Treasurer 2; Glee Club 1, 2; Orchestra 1, 2; Phi Socfiety; partures took place as Byron Ash- R PortfoWo 2; Adytum 1, 2, 2; sports wx.\>\a.\ued to me that'm "BiWy'sV seventeen Chapter Corresponding Secretary 2; 1120 Forest Rd. Lakewood, Ohio Chapter CorrespondinK Soon Phi Society: Orchestra 1, 2; Chemis Richard Pringle Winkler (Wink) that day and I think, he owned up September. new Denisonians were wearing the White Star. A spirited group, the pledges took great delight in beat Dayton, Ohio Robert H. McCulloch '4 6. I asked Dr. King later whether he wasn't afraid for Billy's safety manager 4 ; Pi Delta Epsilon 2, 3. 4; Freshman Track. Varsity Track 2, 3, 4; Blue Key 2 3. 4; Interfraternity Council railing, where he can still be seen of SOPHOMORES—CLASS OF 1945 Place manaKer 3, business self in what seemed like a pre carious position on the balcony pictures Dartmouth Evanston, Illinois Chapter President 4 ; Chapter His torian 3; Phi Society; Denisonian Business Staff 1. 2. 3, 4, advertising tinued his way and perched him in the group Martinsburg Road Mt. Vernon. Ohio Student Car Committee 3. Hugh Betts McCulIoch (Mac) to the rescue, Billy screamed; "Don't take me down—just get my foot free." in David Lanning Upham Homecoming and Dad's Day D. No. 5. Niles-Cortland Road, brought back loyal alumni and Glee Club 1. 2; Chemistry Society 2: fathers, although the gatherings German Club 2. in previous Nenh'^w of Ellis B, Johnson '1.0 were smaller tlian Warren, Ohio \ Son of Frederick N. Winkler (Ohio; State '14), brother of Frederick P. I eaJcen care to Instruct his son In( WinkJer (Ohio State '39). James and Norman C. Johnson '33. 'years. On November 14, 1942, P. Winklcr (Ohio State '41) and safe ways of climbing. Wesley P. Winkier (Ohio State FRESHMEN—CLASS OF 1946 the annual Norn's Pig Dinner was '41). Anyway, Bill thrived on his up (Initiated January 22, 1943) held. Dr. William Utter was the Richard Carlton Christian (Chick) bringing and is now, I understand, Joseph Bates Wise (Joe) 231 Northviow Road Waynesburg-, Ohio speaker, and Dick Christian, the Dayton. Ohio fetching many honors as a junior Freshman track; freshman dramatics; Vnr.'^ity Ba.sketba]!; Deni'^onian Sports youngest of all, did "honors" on Varsity debate 2, 3; Varsity Track at McCallie School, Chattanooga. Staff; Adytum. 2. 4. the pig's port. Under George Peter Ferguson Legler (Pete) Mrs. King, who undoubtedly still 044 Schnntz Ave. JUNIORS—CLASS OF 1944 Steam's able planning, the fall retains as much of her Alabama John Paul Butz (Jack) Davton, Ohio Band, drum-major 1 ; Phi Mu Alpha formal—a Fiji Island grass skirt accent as she did when I was in 310 East Gale Street Anirola, Indiana Son of Ellis P. Leglor *07: cousin school, and she had a great deal, Band 1, 2; Chemistry Society 2. 3. of Kennedy Legler '45. is now working on a 3 until 11 William Chapman Maxwell (Max) 1012 Judson Ave. p. m. shift at the Owens-Corning Evanston, Illinois 19 17-1921; member of Denison war plant in Newark, O. Robert Hathorn McCulloch (Junior) University Faculty since 192-1. 630 Dartmo'ith Place They are a grand family. And E'-anston. Illinois Fraternal Affiliations: member he is a grand guy. His friendship of Phi Beta Kappa, national schol and counsel were an outstanding arship honorary fraternity; mem treasure of ray college years. ber For those seekers after facts instead of impressions, we list the following data on Dr. King's life of Language Association of America: member of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity. War Record: second lieutenant. as supplied us by the Denisoii Machine Gun Company, 15nth In fantry. News Bureau: Travels Abroad: one year in Native of Virginia. Colleges attended—Degrees re 19 32 in study and travel in ceived: A. B., University of Rich Europe, studying at University of mond, 1913; M. A., 1922, and Bordeaux. Ph.D., 1927, from Columbia Uni Author: "Dr. George W. Bag- versity; studied at University of ley, a Study in Virginia Litera ture," Columbia University Press, Bordeaux, France. Teaching Record: Alderson 1927; "Ed Thoreau's Walden," Academy 1913-1915; Jones High MacMillian Press; Introduction to School in Tennessee, 1915-1916; DuBose's "The Life of W. L. YanCulf Coast Military Academy 1916- cey," Peter Smith Co., N. Y., 1937. Mississippi State College, Hobby: Golf.- dance—was a great success. Our volleyball team didn't win the championship, but a good time was had by all. With Grimm di recting, the chapter serenaded the girls' dorms, and the annual Phi Chapter Historian 1 ; Freshman Foot ball Manager 1; Adytum 1. Gam-Beta smoker was held in Brother of H'icrh B. McCulloch '43; our quarters this fall. Carl Fra nenhew of Frank W, McCulloch (Williams '261 ; cousin of John M. zier, an alumnus, gave his annual smoker for the chapter before Bruce Francis Randall (Poopy) leaving for the Army. Our speed1259 Dorchest.er Road Bc?tts (Amherst *42). Birmingham. Mich. Varsity Track 1. William Henry Sherer (Willy) 3012 Ridgeway Road Davton, Ohio Denisonian Circulation Staff 1. James Nevin Sutherin (Jim) 205 Logan St. Be'lford. Ohio Varsity Basbetbal! 1 ; Varsity Base ball 1. Son of Francis J. Sutherin (Ohio Wesleyan '17) William Raloh West (Hose-nose) 333 E. Lincoln Ave. Wheaton. Illinois Denisonian Circulation Staff. SECOND SEMESTER FRESHMEN— CLASS OF 1946 (Initiated May 2. 1943) Dr-^ald Lockhart Atwell (Don) 238 Walnut St. Sewickley, Pa. Grandson of Charles T. Atwell *89 ; son of Donald B. AtweJl '17. ball team fought for the champion ship all the way, and several boys made the all-star team. The "Fiji Fisticuffs," with the freshmen slugging it out with the sopho mores, was a highlight of fall campus activities. Two freshmen, Jim Sutherin and Dick Christian, played varsity bas ketball for Denison's Big Red. James Alfred Perkins (Jim) 103 Meadow Lane Grosse Pointe. Mich. John Frank Peters (Jack) 2691 South Union Aiiiance. Ohio Arthur Leiand Stuckey (Art) 1326 South Linden Ave. Aiiiance, Ohio. \r\nJune, 1943 THE EAMBDA PEUTERON FIJI Page 20 With the atmosphere perfect, our Wartime Cuts Fiji Qraduates to Third of Normal Christmas Formai will remain in the memories of all who attended. Just before vacation we held our annual Christmas party for the kiddies of Granvilie. Our two in tramural basketball squads made a good start and ended well up in the standings. Attend Church En Mas.se We survived exams, and Janu ary 22nd saw seventeen pledges initiated. Soon afterward, new actives John Crawford and Bob Hess left for the Navy. Charles Goudie transferred to Wayne Uni versity, and Phil McGraw was drafted. Most of the chapter heard Norman Thomas speak in the Bap tist Church, as well as hearing ad dresses in chapel programs by Dr. Howard Thurman and Michael Coleman. Attending "en masse," Lambda Deuteron Fijls filled up the first two rows on Deni-Sunday, on which a church program was or ganized and presented by students. Hugh B. McCulloch Rifhard P. Winkler Richard D. Buttermore Some of the healthier he-men of the Phi Gam quarters donated, blood to the Red Cross unit ap pearing in town for one day. Our quartet, composed of Bill Maxwell, Frank Johnson, Don Eschman and These are piclures a) the entire grafhia/ing class of Deiilso/i /'I'/is. They have just received their de- Bob Grimm were "lops" at the In ter-Fraternity quartet sing. Four new pledges joined our circle in January at the beginning of the second semester. They wei-e Jack Peters, Arthur Stucky, James Per I grees from the university. They hardly had time to get their degees from the college before Uncle Sam snapped up four of them into kins and Donald Atwell. In the latter part of February c we lost five more men to the Army Air Corps, Rex Brophy, newly active service. McCulloch, Buttermore, Winkier and Grimm luent elected president, and Charles Lewis, both juniors, were called as were sophomore George Crocker and freshman Stanley Orr and Tom Hendry. John Hassett and to the University oj Notre Dame for training as midshipmen in the USNR under V-1. Robert West left for meteorology training at other schools and John Morton was drafted. All '0^13 were Hohert E. Grimm members of the class of '4 5. Joseph B. AVise Rumors Rami)ant During the second semester our o nly ERG members. The rumor ball performer, was the first fresh officially came to an end man in Lambda Deuteron's his freshmen lived at the house. Uncle season Sam took over Curtis Hall, fresh man men's dorm, for a meteorol ogy unit of 200 students. The sem ester might well be termed the "rumoriest" term in Denison's his tory as several hours a day were spent in sorting out rumors con cerning the status of the Enlisted Reserve Corps. Expected to re port for active duty last January, the ERC's stayed with us all year. Three Dayton freshmen—William Sherer, Peter Legler, and Dick Christian—and one junior, George Stelzer, were Phi Gamma Delta's though and all commencement time. Spring intramurais were sur prisingly successful, considering we had only 26 boys on the four teams. Pete Legler and Jack Butz volleyed the tennis team into a second place tie, while golf swing- With the coming of May our singing talents turned to "Sweet heart Serenades" and the annual Townsmen's Reception for the faculty of Denison and the men of Granvilie. The four pledges were initiated on May 2nd, which gave us an ac won third place. The Softball tive chapter of 22. team and our tracksters bid for Gas rationing and other war top positions in the league. Hugh time restrictions on Mother's Day McCulloch, Bob Grimm, Jim Schul- cut down attendance to fourteen er and Bruce Randall were varsity mothers. The Commencement track men and Jim Sutherin, base dance took place on May 21st. sters Bill West and Dick Christian Tivo Third-Generation Fijis in Active Group reported about tory to win a varsity letter. The active chapter had two third-generation Denison Fijis rn its rolls this year: John M. Kinncy '43 and Don Atwell '4(i. Kinney is the .son of the late Edwin H. Kinney '17 and grandson of the late B. Bruce Kinncy '9'2; also the nephew of Er.iniitt S. Kinney '97. Atwell is the son of Donald B. Atwell '17 and grandson of the late Charles T. Atwell '88, one of the chapter's founders. \r\nJune, 1943 THE liAMIlDA DEUTERON FIJI Page 21 Orley See '08 Doctor of Music Men's Senior Class Offices Given Degree Monopolized by Phi Qams By University One of Lambda Deuteron s dis tinguished musicians, Orley H. See '08, conductor of the Oakland the degree of Doctor Commencement just concluded are shown in the following table: Baseball—Jim Sufherin. Dick Buttermore. Hugh McCuIloch. (both of the men's offices) Appropriately, anoiher of Lambda Deuteron's distinguished mu sicians, Karl H. Eschman '11, head of Denison's Conservatory of Music, read the citation. Publications: Editor of the Adytum — Rex Brophy. Business Manager of the Denisonian—Hugh McCuiloch. Circulation Manager of the Denisonian—George Stelzer. Here is what Brother Eschman .said about Brother See: "Mr. President: "I have the honor to present (old staff) Oriey See as a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Music. "It is particularly fitting that we should recognize at this time Orley H. See '08 are making for the enrichment of Commencement our civilization. Tavig\\t at Denison "Ox\ws See \s a wa,V\xe ot 0\\\o, a graduate of Doane Academ.y, a /"or-j-jjer scudenc and a member of Denison. He was on the faculty of the Central Missouri State Col lege at Warrenshurg, Mo., and of Pennsylvania State College, at Indiana, Pa. Most of his life, how Scheler. Honornries: Phi Beta Kappa—John Kinney. Omicron Delta Kappa — Hugh McCuiloch, Dick Buttermore. Blue Key — Dick Buttermore (Pres.), Hugh McCuiloch, Don Eschman, George Stelzer. Pi Delta Epsilon—Hugh McCui loch, George Stelzer. Phu Mu Alpha—Don Eschman, Harold Wright, Peter Legler. Tau Kappa Alpha—Dick Butter Business Manager of the Denisonian—George Stelzer. more. Circulation Manager of the Den- Glee Club: isonian—Charles English, Boh Grimm, Don Eschman, (new staff) Frank Johnson, Harold .\thlctics: Wright, Boh Six. Football—Rex Brophy, George Who's Wio in American College.s Crocker managers — Chas. and Universities: the contributions which the Arts Assistant Professor of Music at Track—Boh Grimm, Hugh Mc Cuiloch, Bruce Randall, Jim Golf—Dick Buttermore. Treasurer of the Senior Class— exercises. the faculty, from 1909 to 1911, as Christian. President of the Senior Class— of Music on May 24th during Denison's Basketball—Jim Sutherin, Dick Class Officers: (Cal.) Symphony Orchestra, re ceived Outstanding offices held by Fijis at Denison during the college year Ceivce\sHe\d Lewis and Robert Tawse. Hugh McCuiloch. Active Chapter Officers Dic/i Chrislians arlicle in ad joining columns was wrillen early in May. so we asked Don Eschman lo bring us up to dale on active ent is acting as both president and treasurer of the active chapter. Recording Secretary — George Cabinet chapter affairs. Don for the pres President and Treasurer—Don D. Steams '44. Corresponding Secretary — Lee ald F. Eschman '45. (Hugh McCuiloch '43 remained R. Ashman '4 5. Historian — Robert H. McCui as president until Commencement Ry Don Eschman '45 loch '4G. Coast, where he has helped to At commencement time we had because President-elect Rex Bro Coniniittces phy '44 was called into service.) create and maintain a musical hut fifteen hoys who hadn't re ever, has been spent on the Pacific culture, which has developed, ceived their orders, out of a grand during the span of his lifetime, from that of an artistic frontier to a musical maturity, rivaling that of any section of our coun try. House Chairman — John P. Butz. total of 50 different members dur diplomas. The Commencement Yard Chairman — Richard P. ing the year. Three of the five dance went off as usual, even to Winkler. seniors entered midshipman's having it outdoors, thanks to our Social Committee—Charles B. school a week after receiving their social chairman, Charlie English, ind the entire house. Counting English, William H. Sharer and "In this advance, Orley See has 1 994, he has been Conductor of those who had received their or had an active part: In the Exten the Oakland Orchestra. ders, but had not reported tor sion Department of the University "If we boast of a largo increase of California, in performances of in the number of orchestras, per chamber music for many colleges forming the great symphonic liter and universities, and in many ature with standards comparable duty by tlien, there were Treasury Committee — Lee R. Ashman, Bruce F. Randall and five seniors, three juniors, four sopho mores and eight freshmen James N. Sutherin. still around for the big weekend. James N. Sutherin. Athletics — Robert E. Grimm and Richard C. Christian. Junior Representative to the This summer, the civilian men community enterprises, including to those maintained by the or the direction of all entertainment chestras which could be counted still around will live in the house, Interfraternity Council — Donald during the first World War, at the on the fingers of one band thirty even though there won't be over F. Eschman. Presidio an.d Fort Scott Posts in years ago, this development is due San Francisco. Aided Musichs Ri.se "He became a member of the four of these around. The Navy to the contributions of such men boys, of course, will have to live in a dormitory. We had hoped as Orley See. "An American Conductor, active for around six or eight of these to San Francisco Symphony Orches in the encouragement and per get back in this unit, but it seems formance of American composi as if some of them will be sent tion was hut four years old, and tions—Mr. President, I am happy somewhere else. You can see, he contributed to its artistic de to present Orley See for the hon therefore, the situation we are tra in 1919 when that organiza velopment for fifteen years. Since orary degree of Doctor of Music.'' going to be in. Music—Robert E. Grimm, 'Wil liam C. Maxwell. Scholarship—Chas. English. Pledge Trainer—Hugh B. Mc Cuiloch. Library—Peter F. Legler. Scrapbook—Richard C. Chris tian. Freshman Affairs—the cabinet. \r\nJune, 1943 THE LAMHDA DEUTEKON FEH Page 22 The LAMBDA DEUTERON FIJI Lambda Deuteron Magazine Highly Praised by''Scoop' Published twice a year by alumni and active members of tbe Lambda Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Editor Lucian C. Warren '36, 1)8 Ardmore Ph, Buffalo, iN. Associate Editors Max B. Norpell '12, 607 Newark Trust Building, Newark, 0. Elbert F. Kennard '32, 915 Caledonia Kd., Cleveland Heights, 0. John E. Olt '35, 61 East Dixon Avenue, Dayton, 0. Clarence L. Fox '15, 302 Stephenson Building, Detroit, Mich. Philip G. Mavon '34, 545 Exmoor, Kenilworlh, 111. JUNE, 1943 Vol. 35 of the Granville knights so bold By Euciaii C. Wai ren 'S(i It's nice to be appreciated and striving on the sea, in the air and judging from some of the bou on land. A roster is also present quets which have been tossed our ed on the 82 Denison Fijis who way the LAMBDA DEUTERON are fighting the Axis." Ir\t.\y,Y. vtewkon, WnVWr V>n\Nsrs\\.y •, is due the new coach, tor the! gg^^er of educational and miiiUQ^/ 1037 I w* "ts' t /iny, ■ tseason, 26 out of 28 ganie.s were average sized urban! Married February 12. 2242,/geLral secreCary.'Tnd/anJ^'a/^J^^^^ lga"nlr's2rr"^r''Te Z MaTls Max IS \ice president 01 ""T tlie ivew pg„j,grsJi,p in'"m Newport News ark Recreation Committee. "Wjobn E. Hughes '37, son of Mr.Lan Missionary Association; presi^^rs. William L. Hughes. 3041 aent. Bethany Assembly, and jJerbysJiire Ed., Cleveland L^ch that good results can be anJ ^iss Jayne Pearse, Homer C. Price, the father of tlcipated. An early activity ot the daughter of Dr. Arthur J. Pearse Thomas H. Price '27, died March committee was successfully com- .p 24, .943, A,so surv.vl,,, .3,, hlsLet.O .weok's .,„o .l.o„ » widow, Gertrude H. Price, and I city-wide survey of child welfare one daughter, Mrs. Paul (Eliza-1 needs covered 90 per cent of the ^ ,p,-> , .Yrc! Pparse A,,":., cT.v. land Heights, and sister of Rich member. National Board of Educa tion, Disciples of Christ. We don't have taken out, but know, and the trouble think that should to find Brother Hoover was born or raised in or beth Price) Hoeber. To the Hoe-( families of the city through the'ef ard Judson Pearse '38. and a horticulturist. of the American Welding and prominent resident of that place, Manufacturing Company of War and one of his sisters, Aliss Flora near Croton, Licking County, 1938 bers was born a son, Paul Richard, forts of the civilian block organi Ohio, because one of his brothers, "Frank J. Shanaberg (Denison March 1st. Air. Price has been in zation. Such a piece of work has Carl S. Hoover, who died only '38) is the new manager of the "Who's Who" both as an educator not been duplicated anywhere in about two weeks before, was a He was one the country. Paul's wife, Muriel, of the famous eight sons of Thom and their two children. Penny ano as Davis Price and Sarah Jane Chris, joined him late in April. (Jones) Price all born on the old They can be addressed at 2202 price farm in the Welsh Hills. Of Oak St., Newport News. Paul in product development department Hoover, a former member of Denison's faculty, still lives there. Two ta," April, 1943. As previously reported, "Bob" other sisters, Mrs. Lillian Lemon dulged in a stopover in Newark Van Wagoner is with the FBI. On of Cleveland, and Airs. Alinnie the eight only Enoch J. '88 is now living. February 27th on his way East. 1931 Among the Fijis he saw was a J. Thain ("Nig") Raymond left classmate, "Rod" Jones. New York for Los Angeles last Frank L. Elliott was re-elected January to work for Howard February 19th a member df the Hughes in the engineering depart board of directors of the Newark ment of the Hughes Aircraft Com Y. AI. C. A. and treasurer of the pany and is now a records super board. visor. His work is chiefly on the Born December 26, 1942, to Mr. Kaiser-Hughes Cargo Ship, which and Airs. Roderic M. Jones, a has been described in the Los An daughter, Georgia Flory, weigh geles papers, by permission of the ing seven pounds. ren, O."—"The Phi Gamma Del January 18th he wrote that, after Bulford of Hilliard, Fla., and a a year in the Los Angeles office brother, Demas, also survive him. Wilson Gardner Hoover '96, a and three months in the Seattle office, he had been assigned to San retired clergyman, living at St. Juan, Puerto Rico. Louisville, Licking County, Ohio, says that Guy Hoover was no rela Don Fitch is attending the Uni tive of his but that he knew him versity of Wisconsin Medical well and favorably. 1942 School. 1944 Jr., announce the engagement of Delta" for their daughter, Madeleine Pease, Mrs. Jones is March reports the election of John to Donnell R. Matthews, son of "The Phi Gamma OWI, as being powered by 8 en the former Frances Upson IFory, a B. Adams (Denison '79, Amherst Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Matthews gines, to weigh 200 tons, with niece of the late George D. Upson '4 4) as president of our Alpha Chi of Birmingham. Miss Pease was wing spread of 220 feet and a '11 and the late Howard H. Upson chapter. graduated from Kingswood School length of 218 feet, and to carry (Ohio State '12), and is a gradu"Mr. and Mrs. Warren Pease, and attended Stephens College. \r\nthe IjAMBDA DEUTERON FIJI June, 1943 Dr. Garhartt Page 37 Orlo J. Price is Victim of Heart Attack Dies in Ohio Is Buried In Granville, 0. six years. He then went to Lan sing, Mich., where he had charge of a Baptist Church until the first World War. During the war. Dr. Price served at the Y.M.C.A. Headquarters in Washington. In 1919 he went to Rochester and for twenty years was execu By Max B. Noipell '13 By Max B. Norpell '13 The Rev. Dr. John Ernest Car- liartt (Denison '03, Western Re serve '13), rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Ashtabula, O., at Roscoe, head of Churches. the Federation of He had been secretary '94, widely known Baptist ciergy- of the Michigan Federation of man and author, died of a heart Churches, 1909-1919; a member attack February 12th while de of the Northern Baptist Conven livering a lecture at the Univer tion Executive Committee, 1915- died on January 25th in Ashtabuia. Burial was in Maple Grove Cemetery, Granville. Born tive The Rev. Dr. Orlo Josiah Price 18; trustee of the Rochester-Col He was born May 11. 1870, one gate Divinity School; organiza of the eight sons of Thomas Davis tional secretary of the New York sity Club in Winter Park, Fla. Coshocton Price County, 0., May 18, 1878, the son of John M. and Emily Taylor Gar hartt, he attended Doane Acad emy and, in 1899-1901, Denison University. He was initiated Sep tember 23, 1899, by Lambda and Sarah Jane (Jones) State Council of Churches in 1922 Price, on the old Price homestead and 1923. and was a member of in the Welsh Hills. One of his two the feHrtSvjy.s Another, Milo B. '92, died Febru ary 19, 1940. Of the eight, only Thereafter he studied at Western Enoch survives. degree from Kenyon College and committee of a charter member of our chapter, of Christ in America from 1925 Deuteron into Phi Gamma Delta Reserve University and in 1911 affiliated with Xi Deuteron Chap ter. In 1914 he received an A.B. administrative Fiji brothers, Enoch J. '88, was the Federal Council of Churches until 1932. The others were Author of Religious Woi-ks The summer home of the Ira M (D.U. '79), S. Eber, (D.U. Prices had been for several years 84). Homer C., who was a grad- at Pittsford near Rochester. The Rev. Dr. John E. Carhartt u^te of Ohio State and died He was the author of several '03, who died January'24111 in Ash- March 24th, and Asa and Mark. religious works, including "120 Ph.D from Leipzig Years of Protestantism," wrote a attended Bexley Hall, Theological 1 tabula, is shown in the uniform of Seminary, in Gambler. \a chaplain in the Ai-my Reseiwe. Ordained, in 1945 \- Dr. Price was graduated from series of articles on Russia and many magazine articles on re Denison with an A.B. degree in -r- him- by Deni- ^1894 \n lblb "Biabon l-,ennavd or- \ vras conierred upon dained bim Deacon in the Episco-\son University and by Renyon advanced to the Priesthood ^College and he was listed In sev- by Jeral editions of "Who's Who and i^fc|^d his B.D. de- Dimity Sch^^ In 1898 and his Ph.D. degree from the UniAfter serving Clergy" and "Who's Who in versify of Leipzig in 1901. He as secretary to Bishop Du Moulin America." In World War I he had two D.D. degrees, one from and Priest in charge of St. An served in the Army as a chaplain Hillside College in 1911 and drew's Mission, Toledo, for three with the rank of first lieutenant one from Denison in 1919. years, he spent two years at Trin and was a chaplain in the Army His first pastorate was at Freeity Cathedral, Cleveland. In 1921 Reserve at the time of his death port, 111., where he remained for Bishop Du Moulin. while Senior Curate of St. Paul's and a member of the American Church, Cleveland, he was vicar of Legion. He was a past chaplain in the St. Alban's Parish became selfArmy and Navy Union and, ac supporting, Mr. Carhartt was tive in Diocesan affairs, was re called as rector and remained cently elected historiographer and eight years, resigning to accept a registrar of the Diocese of Ohio. position on the staff of Washing A Knight Templar and 32d degree ton Cathedral. As field represen Mason, he was a past commander tative of the Cathedral, Mr. Car of the Columbian Commandry and hartt lectured in many churches chaplain of the Cleveland Chapter and aroused interest in the actual of Rojourners and a past grand building of the new structure. chaplain of the Masonic Grand The Rev. Mr. Carhartt assumed Lodge of Ohio. pastorate Church of St. Peter's at Ashtabula in August, 1931, of which he was rector at the time of his death. D.D. Degree at Denison ethical / ^ We have before us as we write a letter dated June 12, 1935, from him in to "The which he New York coined Times" the word "onomitophobia" and a letter to "Billy" Chamberlin '93, of about the same date, in which he calls doing the "last things,' eschatol- We still possess a letter that Dr. Price wrote us June 7, 1935, "He was known for his love of to express his appreciation of re fraternalism, and his zeal for ceiving copies of the Semi-CenHistory of Lambda Knight Templarism. He was a stu tennial He said that he had dent of the traditions and legends Deuteron. of this branch of Masonry, and had "not a few twinges of con held high positions in the organ science for not keeping in closer ization in Ashtabula, the district contact with the Chapter." ritual of his church. and state. His acceptance of him the "Ashtabula He married Miss Eva Bronson civic responsibility was manifest Graves of Chicago in 1902. Mrs. in his membership on the city Price and their three sons and Board of Health and as a member Star- He is survived by one sister. Miss Stella Carhartt, of Roscoe, and two Fiji nephews, Ernest C. Brelstord '24, and Charles M. Brelsford '29, whose mother, the late Gertrude (Carhartt) Brels able organizer, a man of high greatly miss this friendly man. ford, was the first wife of Dr. Mil- scholarly attainments, as an in The city as a whole joins in offer dividual who was staunch in his ing deepest sympathy to the peo The honorary degree of D.D. beliefs and convictions. He was ple of St. Peter's." lard Brelsford '97. and ogy. of the Selective Service Advisory Beacon" said, among other things, Board. His participation in the interests of veterans' organiza in an editorial; tions was noteworthy. "He was an outstanding figure "Dr. Carhartt was a generous in the Episcopal faith, and man, one who gave freely to all this extended far beyond the worthy causes. He was especially boundaries of his local interest. generous with any service he was He was known as an exceptionally able to render. Ashtabula will Of historical an authority on the pageantry and St. Alban's-on-the-Heights. When the ligious, of Chi- topics. I two daughters, Walter, Thomas, and Bronson Price and Price, Miss Mrs. Sarah survive him. Mary Lithgow, He is survived also by three grandchildren. Of the five children, only the daughter, Mary, went to Denison; Bronson, Thomas and Sarah attended Antioch, and Walter was gradu ated from Ohio State in agricul ture. Funeral services were in Welsh Hills Church and the burial was in the Welsh Hills Cemetery. \r\nJune, 1943 THE LAMBDA DEUTERON FIJI Page28 Fightin' Fijis: Lambda Deuteron's Service Stars List Piei)aii'(l by Max B. Noi pell '12 Decorated: Killed in Action on Guadalcanal: o i.3- First Lt. John Jj. Pratt '41, USMCR. Medal, for heroism in rescue of fliers forced down in Greenland. Wounded in action; Capt. Edward P. Maliszewski '42, Army Air Forces, The Dis- Second Lt. William H. Hassard, Jr., '40, Army Air Forces, tinguished Flying Cross, The Purple Heart, The Air Medal, in North Africa. The Oak Leaf Cluster, The Maple Leaf Cluster, for bravery Capt. Edwaifl P. Maliszewski '42, Army Air Forces, in bomb in bombing raids over Europe. ing raids over Europe. 1940 1908 Donald S. Bethune, Aviation Cadet. USNR. (Honorably discharged May 15, Robert F. Hamilton, Major, Air Forces, Corps of Engineers. 1942, because of illness). 1913 Donald B. Duffey. Second Lieutenant. Army, Air l-orees. J. Clyde Sargent, Commander, USNR, Medical Corps. Jesse S. Elliott. Jr., Ensign, USNR, (On Sea Duty). William H. Hassard, Jr.. Second Lieutenant, Army, Air Forces. 1915 Harry B. Carney, Major, Army, Air Forces. John A. Lindstrom, First Lieutenant, USM^CR. Robert W. McGiflin, First Lieutenant, Army. Air horces. 1916 Richard H. White, Midshipman, USNR. George M. Lyon, Commander, USNR(MC), (Overseas). 1917 1941 Raymond S. Knapp, Major, Army, Ordnance Department (F. A.) David P. Flory, Technical Sergeant, Army, Air Forces, Donald A. Nicholie, Assistant Sergeant Major, Army, Air Forces- 1921 Eugene F. Pfannor, Ideutenant Commander, USNR (MC) (Assigned from Thomas E. Norpell, First Lieutenant, USMCR, Infantry (Overseas). USMCR). John H. Roehm, First Lieutenant, Army, Corps of Engineers. Frank G. Saxton, Jr., First Lieutenant, Army, Air Forces, QMC. 1922 Eawrcnco H. Prugh, First Lieutenant, Army, Air Forces. H. Craig Scaaholcs, Major, Army, Infantry, (Overseas). Howard H. Siegel, "Warrant Ofhcer. Army, Air Forces. Barton F. Walker Jr., Aviation Cadet, Army, Air Forces (Honorably dis charged on or about July 17, 1942, from the USNR because of in 1923 Ernest T. Owen, Colonel, Army, F. A. juries). Raymond W. West, Lieutenant (j. g.), USNR, (On Sea Duty). 1925 Clarence T. Rislcy, Captain. Army, M. C. 1942 Donald H. Ashley, Private, Army, (Overseas). Delhert C. Brannan, Ensign, USNR. Richard H. Bridge, Aviation Cadet, USNR. Thomas C. Fox. Corporal, Arm'y. Arthur C. Gehr, Ensign, USNR, (On Sea Duty). "Wilson A. Gencser. Second Lieutenant. Army, Armored Forees. 1926 Fred W. Ducro, Private, Army, Finance Department. Robertson F. Smith, l*rivate. Army, Air Forces. 1927 "William • Ma,j. John K. McBidde '.31, Army Air Forces M. C., Soldier s M. Unteman, Lieutenant (,j. g.), USNR. (formerly a Pfc In the USMCR). Charles B. Jones. Eieut'^nant (j. g.)."USNR, (On Sea Outy^. Howard W. Fcight, First Lieutenant, Avmy, Air Forces, (^•etscaal, Edward P. "N(a\\s7.cwsV.\, Oav\.a\rv, Krmy, A\t St^N-e-n B. iV\ntoT\, Jr.. Vrl-vate, ArmM.v Thomas A. Uendricks, First Lieutenant. Army. Signal ^ 1030 KI)t\voefh D Hayncs, Pbiln.iacisfs Mate, Second -'V Henry tt. (>'flri'cn, Sta/T .Scrg€»nnf, Army, Air Forces, ^ w-utw.. - of Weather. Stephen H. Hichnrtis, Private. Army. Frank H. Ward. Aviation Cadet. C/SJfC/i'. 1943 1931 Joseph R. Mnyncr, Seconr/ Lictitenniit, Army. QMC. John R. Me/lride, Hfnjor. Army. Air Forces, iVf, C. (Overseas). William J. Rnthje, Jr.. Scrend Lieutenant. Army. Const Artillery. IF. Tliorne Rime.s, Lieutenant (s. g.) USNR. 1933 •Ari'M. Air Forces (Overseas). John W. ri- dui.M W. Gibson JiiMii . nniel C. .'^pnbin.h.' • • •>:. .Army, Anti-aircraft, (Overseas). Army. WilliHr.j W. I.'fi'. ni" . George W. Mung-^r, Midshipman,USNRJ G. Robert Smith. Private..yXrmy. Jl Rex L. Brophy. Private (Air Crew Student). Army. Air Forces. Richard D. Buttcrmorc. Apprentice Seaman. USNR. Boyd B. Chambers. .Jr.. Second Lieutenant, Army. Robert E. Grimm. Apprentice Seaman, USNR. William C. Horan, Second Lieutenant, Army, Cavalry. Hugh B. McCulloch, Apprentice Seaman. XJSNR. Robert A. McKinney. Av/afion Cadet. USNR. Paul R. Petrequin, Corporal. Army. QMC. (Overseas). Richard P. WinkJer, Apprentice Seaman, USNR. 1944 Rii< ■ •Jl ril Detachment. i• .M. Ki'br.' f li.-sn.M K. « •. J'ublir Relations Branch. .lohn F. Moo:-. .Tohn r>. James R. Courtney. Private. Army, Coast Artillery, Anti-aircraft. Hamilton L. Fess, Corporal, Army, Air Forces (Overseas). Don A. Finefrock, Private, Army, Medical Service (Overseas). William H. Fisher. Aviation Cadet. USNR. Charles W. Lewis, Aviation Cadet Candidate, Army, Air Forces. S.nniiD.'i ' '•-» a-' r. Robert C. McGraw, Private, Army. Edwin R. Mead, Flight Officer, Armv Air Forces, (Overseas: Has been .lanioji T. i. hiui 1". IVayiu- Ketiifi-. I,".. • ' I . R.djitiona Dejiartment. ^. MM; Duty). Ralph E. Li'lster, .)r.. . \