THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS forth as hordes of Michigan points. But in order to prevent the se Alpdta PlUfi Alumni News quence from boring any procrastiGeorge Roscoe Harper, '981aw, nators, there was a huge moving lawyer in Goshen, Indiana, writes wheel with immense feet attached "my son Charles E. Harper is an that whirled around, significant of electrician with the New York Cen the hard-charging Michigan for tral . . . is mai-ried and has ward wall. And to complete the two lovely girls . . . my only lit- & Company in New York, belongs to tbe University Club, Lawyers' Club, Phi Gamma Delta Club, and the University of Michigan Club— all of wbich are in New York City. Karl Freese, Jr., '37, is University of Michigan Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Volume XIII V, with picture of a great offense in action, erai'y success was a short article Mutschler Brothers Company in the rifle arm of Chuck Ortmann Number 2 ANN ARBOR, MICH., DECEMBER, 1948 in the Saturday Evening Post in Nappanee, Indiana. was constantly in motion tossing the fall of 1907 . . . my greatest John Arthur Kany, '37 Purdue, passes to the sticky fingers of Dick success has been in keeping a an experimental engineer with Lin Rifenberg. large number of friends and clients coln Mercury Division of the Ford The outcome was an amazing pledge-motivated affair that moved, groaned and produced . .. and the campus loved it! Fijis-Phi Delts Join For Centennial Dance over many good years." Motor Company in Dearborn, writes Henry S. Slyfield, '06, Detroit lawyer and former president of the Detroit Bar Association, is also president of the Michigan Malle able Iron Company. "I don't know how it is I got on Thomas Henry Read, '06, attor ney at law, has served as com a member of the Science Research Club in Ann Arbor. your mailing list, but I like it!" A. Burgess Vial, '40, director of the Pasteur Institute of the Uni versity Hospital in Ann Arbor, is Lafayette Stuch, '43, restaurant owner in Wayland, Michigan (132 gion and District Commander of years. South Main), writes "enjoyed very the Legion. much your food and hospitality And this is the year. December Frederick W. Marble, '15, is a last week. Congratulations on sec 10th the Phi Gams and Phi Delts It only happens every hundred will hold a Centennial Dance at the American Legion Home mander of Post 88 American Le banker with the Stock Growers Na tional Bank in in ming. Cheyenne, Wyo Ann Arbor. C*. wm ond place in display. Wish I could 1' have seen the damn thing work!" Jack H. Vaughn, '43, a marine Raymond C. Smith, '20, served corps officer during the war, is now as a major in the Air Corps in the a student at the University of to Ann Arbor are cordially invited second World war and now works Pennsylvania. to attend the formal . . . please in the Penobscot Building in De George M. Irwin, '43, Quincy's respond if you plan to be here . . . Any of you alumni who can get you probably won't be around for the next Phi Gam-Phi Delt Cen tennial, so try to make this one. Dean Barnard's Baby troit. "young man of the year" does H. Willis Heidbreder, '2.3, is a so much that we would have to branch manager for Metropolitan supplement the News to get it all Life in Traverse City, Michigan, in . . . but he always finds time and a member of the Elks and to get to Pig Dinners and will be Rotary Clubs. up for the one in '49—first official Richard H. Rowland, '23, is the acceptance received! Vice-president-General Manager of Robert G. Janigo, '45, is a law This spring, if all goes well. Bro ther Barnard will be the proud the Industrial Division of the Na yer with the Land Title and Abpapa of a bouncing baby radio tional Battery Company in De- ti'act Company in Detroit. station. The proposed student radio sta tion will operate from the new General Service building and will make use of the broadcast facilities of WUOM, the University station. Dean plans to teeth his baby on pew, New York. James Ralson Mulkey, '47, is an Charles Bartlett Emery, '25, di engineer with Hamilton Standard rector of the Citizen's National Pi'ops in East Hartford, Connecti Bank and physician in Bedford, cut. Indiana, served forty-four months with the medical corps during the SIXTEEH MEN ON A RADIATOR. (See Photo on Page 1) war . . . son Charlie, Jr., is now four hours of broadcast five days a Fiji pledge. Manly K. Hunt, '28, lawyer with As ihey line up for Tuesday evening a week. The initial programs will be mostly music and news for stu Turner, Hunt and DeBolt in Chi hazing, from left to right in plioto on dent consumption. In the next few cago, is a member of tbe Mid-Day hage one. they are, top row. Chuc]{ years. Dean hopes that the sta Lawyers Club and Legal Club of Spross, Art Bec\. Bill Dibble, and Charlie Emery; secotid row, George tion will become a powerful in Chicago. Thomas E. Sunderland, '28, gen !^ua. Dtcl{ Hotoell, Xfeale Traves. Phil fluence on campus, an integral part eral counsel for Standard Oil Com Anderson (slipping), Butch Md^uire, of Michigan life. Slu Cammett and Bill Hic\man, third The University Executive Coun pany in Chicago, earned the bronze cil on Radio will be directly re star and worked his way through row, Spence Par.sons (holding on), sponsible for financing the station, all ranks to Lieutenant Colonel. George Allen, Bill Loveless (with pen Durwin D. Algycr, '29, invest cil on ear), Leo Calhoun and while Dean will be in charge of ment banker with Goldman, Sachs Tlernan. the station's policy and program. Tom (For identification of pledges above, see bad; page.) Building Fund Drive Shifts Into High Gear Sixteen Radiator-Active Pledgt Now Wear The Fiji White Star A goal of 810,000 has been set foi' the first year of the Build Sixteen new men now populate dents— and the combination brings ing Fund collections. A system together a terrific group of men. the radiators, while five others whereby a financial pledge may be have stepped from the neophyte stage to that of newly initiated brothers. The new initiates—after expos ure to the rigors of hell week—ai-e Chuck Murray, Bill Erwin, Dick Cossitt. Tom McCann and George Olson. First, the pledge king, Leo Mel- fulfilled over a two- or three-year vin Calhoun, fi'om Port Huron, pei'iod so that contributions may iilichigan. Leo is a junior in I.it be made with the least possible school, veteran, and plans to en sacrifice is contemplated. ter Yale's Divinity school after Class chairmen for the drive graduation. Right now he has too will soon be receiving additional small parishes up in Huron County information and class lists. Work and drives there each Sunday to has been progressing rather slow The present pledge class is the preach his sermon. The Deacon is ly due to the arduous task of com first ti'uly freshman class that has quite a boy and we expect he will piling lists from a variety of in been pledged since the war. One of the class is a junior and one is a first-semester sophomore while the rest are brand-new college stu help make the pled.ge class a super complete one. (To page 2) sources. However, the committee reports that the file is (To page 5) \r\nPage Two THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS The Alpha Phiji News Published quarterly (but we have so much to tell you that there will be at least five issues this year) by the Alpha Phi Chap ter of Phi Gamma Delta, 707 Ox ford Road, Ami Arbor. If you have any announcements "for the good of the chapter and alumni" we can spread the word to 775 widely scattered Fijis. Comments or complaints will be gratefully received. Plan to attend the Pig Dinner in May, 1949. If you are planning to move, let Charles Bartlett Emery, Jr., from Bedford, Indiana, is a pi-e-med in the Class of '52. Charlie, son of Dr. Charles B. Emery, '25 Alpha Phi, captained his high school football team, and won the Ameri can Legion and Kiwanis scholastic awards; plans to help raise the house average, take a shot at Publications and get in Intramural liard player, basketball player, and Arthur Llewellyn Beck was a member of the high school swim ming team in Grosse Pointe, and is already working out with Matt Mann's freshman crew. Stuart Hyland Cammett, '52, is George Franklin Qua, II, from Editor Dick Hurst a history major in Lit school and Shaker Heights, Ohio, does a little Assoc. Editor Dick Williams native of Detroit. A pretty good of everything: sports, dramatics, Photographer Pat Patterson high school athlete, Stu plans to school politics, glee club and journ combine I-M sports and fraternity alism give him a chance to pick endeavor with his scholastic efforts I his field at Michigan. Shirley W. during his four-year tenure at Smith, '97, Donald Smith, '05, and Mennen Williams Michigan. Clement Smith, '23, all have a Elected Governor Charles Roshong Spross comes claim on the new Fiji. George Leighton Allen is anoth from Toledo via Culver Military Alpha Phi produced its second Academy. Chuck's main extra-1 er Birmingham product. A track Michigan governor in the recent curricular interest lies in clinching man, George was business manag gubernatorial clam - bake when a spot on Michigan's golf team. er of his school year book, a class youthful Democrat G. Mennen Wil Already a polished performer. officer, eagle scout and member of liams, '36, pranced into the gov Chuck took second place in the To tbe National Honor Society. Re ernorship, ousting incumbent Kim ledo Pro-Amateur Open this sum cently Geoi-ge helped the Fijis cap ture the annual cross country title, mer. Sigler. then went out and won the indi The 37-year-old campaigner rode William James Dibble, III, prein on the strong and active sup med. freshman, comes to Michigan vidual all-campus cross country port of the labor element, win from White Plains, New York. Bill championship. Thomas Louis Tiernan, Kankaning the race with almost no con is a pretty fair athlete, plans to test. supplement his pre-med curriculum kee. 111., comes to us via Mor gan Park Military Academy. Tom Williams stepped into an unen with I-M athletics. is an outstanding freshman bas viable spot considering tbat the Neale Thomas Traves from us know. Republicans recaptured control of Rocky River, Ohio, captained his ketball and track prospect and the state legislature and the state high school basketball team, was plans to be a real fraternity man before his four years are over. cabinet. president of the senior class and Philip Carr Anderson, a pre-med Although he was initiated at participated in church activity. Bull Michigan, Yale has probably more Zerman already has him working freshman, is from Jackson, Michi of a claim on the governor in that on his Ensian promotions staff, and gan. Phil is the son of John P. An man engineer, is from Corning, New York. Football, basketball, (From page 1) track, pool and sailing form the Spencer Welsh Parsons, a sopho nucleus of Bill's hopes for extra more in Lit school, comes to Michi- curricular activity while at Michi gan from Kansas City, Missouri. gan. Besides setting his sights Richard Sexton Howell, another pre-med freshman, is from Saginaw, Michigan. The son of Dr. Donald M. Howell, '12 Alpha Phi, Dick is a member of Michigan's freshman swimming team, a bil on a place on the varsity swimming team Spence is quite a musician, an Intramural athlete, and plans to devote some time to Student Publications. Makes Water Sizzle The Fiji natators have one of the finest swimming squads on the campus this season. AVith Bill Upthegrove, varsity breast sti'oker, at the helm giving instructions and a host of aqueous luminaries on hand the team is bound to place high in fraternity swimming com petition. George Olsen, Dick Shultz, and John Donaldson have proven their adeptness as former members of the freshman swimming team. Ol sen is a back-stroke artist and div FMI er, while Shultz is definitely one of the best breast strokers on cam pus. Donaldson, who has an un paralleled amount of buoyancy, is a distance man. Along with these brilliant per formers we have Brothers Spiegel, Doherty, and Heath, who make the waters sizzle with their speed in the short distance races. To round out the squad, there is Vern Judd, a diver, Andy Pringle, distance man and Dick Cossitt, another breast stroker. If the boys don't get water logged (they practice in the® base days), we should ment on rainy days) have the all trophy among oui awards. y CHAMPIONS—Setting a neu- cross country team record, the Fijis swept ,07 and put us right ut the top in I-M .sports. Top roic-Lou Calabre.se. former I-M Champion. John Undamst. I-M hurdle record holder. George Allen, new I-M cross country champion. Bottom Row—Dave Thomas and Dicl{ Russell. •OSS Gountry l^ijis • r. Another fl^rng Fg. g Ts 11. 1 Delta took first place laurels in the team competition with 33 tvcM- points. The Phi Gam entry was so Phi Gamma Delta made track history as they won the InterT a- r f suP^'ior that all seven starters history as they won the Interfraternity Cross Country crown rvith ternity Cross Country crown with on the track, cross country and A rls "flvW garAnother "flying Fiji" gar nered nered track track fame one ^ week after he helped the team win the Cross Country Fraternity Championship. Pledge Broth er George Allen won the AllCampus cross country cham- basketball teams and was active in pionsliip over a select crowd Calabrese last year. Dave Thomas, cinders. he attended the eastern school for I-M sports will claim some of his derson, '24, and was the editor of his high school paper, participated most of his undergraduate work. time. PLEDGES Fiji Tank Squad somewhat of an artist. William Bibb Hickman, freshman engineer, is from Birmingham, Michigan. Bill, a member of the sports. National Honor Society, is the Robert Emmett .McGuire, archi holder of Eastern Michigan League tecture '53, got to the house on the mile I'ecord and an outstanding dis hill from Chicago. Butch has his tance prospect on the freshman eye on the varsity football squad, squad. Bill is also a sailing addict is a pugili.st of some repute and and plans to join the Michigan Ski plans to lend a hand in I-M circles. Club this winter. William Roland Loveless, fresh Page Three December, 1948 student government. At Michigan Phil plans to take a crack at the Daily or Union when he isn't hit ting the books. Then there are Wilson and Herb Barten, pledge trainers, who keep the class on the ball. Webb is in charge of indoctrinat ing the neophytes with tradition and Phi Gam history while Herbie wields the big paddle during haz ing sessions. record - smashing performance. Brothers Lindquist, Allen, and j Calabrese, who placed second,^ third, and fifth respectively, broke|was leading the group of runners tbe record time of 11:37 set by right up to the final stretch of Leather-lunged Lou ran who finished seventh, tied the old out of gas at this point, but Lind of seven competitors in the record time of 11:21. The record. Out of the 101 men en eight entries were considered tered in the two-and-one-quarter- forth a final burst of speed that the cream of all the distance Webb a men on campus. FOR A WINNER PIG DINNER ... MAY, 1949 quist, Allen, and Thomas brought mile jaunt, Russell finished 15th, put the Phi Gams in the winning circle. Kistler 23rd, and Calhoun 27th. The Interfraternity Cross Coun Earl Riskey, director of Intra try trophy, which goes to the win mural sports, called it "the best ex hibition of cross country running ner each year, rests on our livingever put on in the history of the room mantel for you to see dur race." Plven the Michigan Daily ing your next visit to 707. We in commended the team, "Phi Gamma tend to keep it there. \r\nPage Two THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS The Alpha Phiji News Published quarterly (but we have so much to tell you that there will be at least five issues this year) by the Alpha Phi Chap ter of Phi Gamma Delta, 707 Ox ford Road, Ami Arbor. If you have any announcements "for the good of the chapter and alumni" we can spread the word to 775 widely scattered Fijis. Comments or complaints will be gratefully received. Plan to attend the Pig Dinner in May, 1949. If you are planning to move, let Charles Bartlett Emery, Jr., from Bedford, Indiana, is a pi-e-med in the Class of '52. Charlie, son of Dr. Charles B. Emery, '25 Alpha Phi, captained his high school football team, and won the Ameri can Legion and Kiwanis scholastic awards; plans to help raise the house average, take a shot at Publications and get in Intramural liard player, basketball player, and Arthur Llewellyn Beck was a member of the high school swim ming team in Grosse Pointe, and is already working out with Matt Mann's freshman crew. Stuart Hyland Cammett, '52, is George Franklin Qua, II, from Editor Dick Hurst a history major in Lit school and Shaker Heights, Ohio, does a little Assoc. Editor Dick Williams native of Detroit. A pretty good of everything: sports, dramatics, Photographer Pat Patterson high school athlete, Stu plans to school politics, glee club and journ combine I-M sports and fraternity alism give him a chance to pick endeavor with his scholastic efforts I his field at Michigan. Shirley W. during his four-year tenure at Smith, '97, Donald Smith, '05, and Mennen Williams Michigan. Clement Smith, '23, all have a Elected Governor Charles Roshong Spross comes claim on the new Fiji. George Leighton Allen is anoth from Toledo via Culver Military Alpha Phi produced its second Academy. Chuck's main extra-1 er Birmingham product. A track Michigan governor in the recent curricular interest lies in clinching man, George was business manag gubernatorial clam - bake when a spot on Michigan's golf team. er of his school year book, a class youthful Democrat G. Mennen Wil Already a polished performer. officer, eagle scout and member of liams, '36, pranced into the gov Chuck took second place in the To tbe National Honor Society. Re ernorship, ousting incumbent Kim ledo Pro-Amateur Open this sum cently Geoi-ge helped the Fijis cap ture the annual cross country title, mer. Sigler. then went out and won the indi The 37-year-old campaigner rode William James Dibble, III, prein on the strong and active sup med. freshman, comes to Michigan vidual all-campus cross country port of the labor element, win from White Plains, New York. Bill championship. Thomas Louis Tiernan, Kankaning the race with almost no con is a pretty fair athlete, plans to test. supplement his pre-med curriculum kee. 111., comes to us via Mor gan Park Military Academy. Tom Williams stepped into an unen with I-M athletics. is an outstanding freshman bas viable spot considering tbat the Neale Thomas Traves from us know. Republicans recaptured control of Rocky River, Ohio, captained his ketball and track prospect and the state legislature and the state high school basketball team, was plans to be a real fraternity man before his four years are over. cabinet. president of the senior class and Philip Carr Anderson, a pre-med Although he was initiated at participated in church activity. Bull Michigan, Yale has probably more Zerman already has him working freshman, is from Jackson, Michi of a claim on the governor in that on his Ensian promotions staff, and gan. Phil is the son of John P. An man engineer, is from Corning, New York. Football, basketball, (From page 1) track, pool and sailing form the Spencer Welsh Parsons, a sopho nucleus of Bill's hopes for extra more in Lit school, comes to Michi- curricular activity while at Michi gan from Kansas City, Missouri. gan. Besides setting his sights Richard Sexton Howell, another pre-med freshman, is from Saginaw, Michigan. The son of Dr. Donald M. Howell, '12 Alpha Phi, Dick is a member of Michigan's freshman swimming team, a bil on a place on the varsity swimming team Spence is quite a musician, an Intramural athlete, and plans to devote some time to Student Publications. Makes Water Sizzle The Fiji natators have one of the finest swimming squads on the campus this season. AVith Bill Upthegrove, varsity breast sti'oker, at the helm giving instructions and a host of aqueous luminaries on hand the team is bound to place high in fraternity swimming com petition. George Olsen, Dick Shultz, and John Donaldson have proven their adeptness as former members of the freshman swimming team. Ol sen is a back-stroke artist and div FMI er, while Shultz is definitely one of the best breast strokers on cam pus. Donaldson, who has an un paralleled amount of buoyancy, is a distance man. Along with these brilliant per formers we have Brothers Spiegel, Doherty, and Heath, who make the waters sizzle with their speed in the short distance races. To round out the squad, there is Vern Judd, a diver, Andy Pringle, distance man and Dick Cossitt, another breast stroker. If the boys don't get water logged (they practice in the® base days), we should ment on rainy days) have the all trophy among oui awards. y CHAMPIONS—Setting a neu- cross country team record, the Fijis swept ,07 and put us right ut the top in I-M .sports. Top roic-Lou Calabre.se. former I-M Champion. John Undamst. I-M hurdle record holder. George Allen, new I-M cross country champion. Bottom Row—Dave Thomas and Dicl{ Russell. •OSS Gountry l^ijis • r. Another fl^rng Fg. g Ts 11. 1 Delta took first place laurels in the team competition with 33 tvcM- points. The Phi Gam entry was so Phi Gamma Delta made track history as they won the InterT a- r f suP^'ior that all seven starters history as they won the Interfraternity Cross Country crown rvith ternity Cross Country crown with on the track, cross country and A rls "flvW garAnother "flying Fiji" gar nered nered track track fame one ^ week after he helped the team win the Cross Country Fraternity Championship. Pledge Broth er George Allen won the AllCampus cross country cham- basketball teams and was active in pionsliip over a select crowd Calabrese last year. Dave Thomas, cinders. he attended the eastern school for I-M sports will claim some of his derson, '24, and was the editor of his high school paper, participated most of his undergraduate work. time. PLEDGES Fiji Tank Squad somewhat of an artist. William Bibb Hickman, freshman engineer, is from Birmingham, Michigan. Bill, a member of the sports. National Honor Society, is the Robert Emmett .McGuire, archi holder of Eastern Michigan League tecture '53, got to the house on the mile I'ecord and an outstanding dis hill from Chicago. Butch has his tance prospect on the freshman eye on the varsity football squad, squad. Bill is also a sailing addict is a pugili.st of some repute and and plans to join the Michigan Ski plans to lend a hand in I-M circles. Club this winter. William Roland Loveless, fresh Page Three December, 1948 student government. At Michigan Phil plans to take a crack at the Daily or Union when he isn't hit ting the books. Then there are Wilson and Herb Barten, pledge trainers, who keep the class on the ball. Webb is in charge of indoctrinat ing the neophytes with tradition and Phi Gam history while Herbie wields the big paddle during haz ing sessions. record - smashing performance. Brothers Lindquist, Allen, and j Calabrese, who placed second,^ third, and fifth respectively, broke|was leading the group of runners tbe record time of 11:37 set by right up to the final stretch of Leather-lunged Lou ran who finished seventh, tied the old out of gas at this point, but Lind of seven competitors in the record time of 11:21. The record. Out of the 101 men en eight entries were considered tered in the two-and-one-quarter- forth a final burst of speed that the cream of all the distance Webb a men on campus. FOR A WINNER PIG DINNER ... MAY, 1949 quist, Allen, and Thomas brought mile jaunt, Russell finished 15th, put the Phi Gams in the winning circle. Kistler 23rd, and Calhoun 27th. The Interfraternity Cross Coun Earl Riskey, director of Intra try trophy, which goes to the win mural sports, called it "the best ex hibition of cross country running ner each year, rests on our livingever put on in the history of the room mantel for you to see dur race." Plven the Michigan Daily ing your next visit to 707. We in commended the team, "Phi Gamma tend to keep it there. \r\nTHE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS The Fiji Band ... A Message From: OUR PRESIDENT Dear Brothers: In my second letter this year I wish to analyze just what Alpha Phi chapter has done as the re sult of the cumulative rejuvena tion that began last spring. Per haps this is just a consideration of spirit and its effect on a par ticular bunch of men. I personally think that the new attitude, the zeal with which we meet every campus challenge as it arises, has pushed us up to the top of the campus heap—and that's quite a heap. New blood in the form of four pledge classes (fall and spring) flows with an exuberance that is front of the Union only to discover that most of the prospective rally army was following Phi Gamma Delta's ten-piece unit down to Fer ry Field. But we left enough of a The Fiji marching band is now following to entice them to come considered second only to the Uni down and entertain the Fiji-spurred versity marching band. gathering. Of course, we will even debate This incident drew considerable our relegation to the second place comment from various campus slot. We may not be as smooth a quarters and when it was discov musical combination, our men may ered that the University marching not step as smartly, but they sui'e band would be unable to spark the have the spirit. team send-off previous to the Min It all happened this way . . . nesota game the Wolverine Club Pep rallies at Michigan have lost (sponsor of all pep rallies) invited that old fire my dad used to tell me the Fijis to take over . . . and about. Nowadays, a docile crowd of they did! students gather around a large Starting in front of the Union, bonfire and passively participate the band and its followers marched in prepping the team for the game, up South U to the engine arch, then tread quietly back to their through the immortal portal and residences with no thoughts of down the diag, disrupting classes i-aising hell disturbing their gray and drawing students into the fold matter. Everyone, that is, but the for the march to the station. We Fijis. don't know if the Fiji send-off did Our band has changed things: the trick or not, but we still have it sort of plays the part of the Pied that Little Brown Jug . . . We Piper. Its provocative efforts are haven't stormed the local cinema in irresistable and hordes of students pre-game activity—but hope that it First in the Land? hard to imagine. Last spi'ing the co-operative efforts of the house produced a double winner in the Michigras booth and parade com petition. This fall the Fiji march ing band got top billing in fra ternity conversation through its efforts in instilling a little pep in pep rallies. The second place honors in home follow. At the Northwestern rally isn't far in the future. coming again proved that when the University band arrived in Present board member positions you're looking for a winner at are filled by the following men: Michigan you can look to 707 Ox Ward D. Peterson, 1325 Minerva ford. In fraternity sports the house is hanging on to a close second place, in extra-curricular activity Ulrich Elected Board Chairman Road, Ann Arbor; Raymond C. Smith, 301 Lake Shore Road, At the last meeting of the Board Grosse Pointe Farms; Alvah B. members of the house hold top of the Alpha Phi Association, Rob Frederick, 478 Lincoln Road, Grosse positions in nearly every campus organization. We're pushing in ert Ulrich, '41, was elected to the Pointe; Robert D. Ulrich, 615 For position of chairman. Robert Gran- est, Ypsilanti; Donald Lescohier, every direction, yet ever striving dy, '47, was forced to resign his 1317 Somerset, Detroit; Dr. Bur to produce a strong bond of broth chairmanship when his job made gess Vial, 426 East Kingsley, Ann erhood within the active chapter it necessary for him to move to Arbor; Philip Holcombe, 208 West and among our alumni. Ann Street, Ann Arbor, and Jack With our grand new pledge class the East coast. At the same meeting. Jack Bren- Brennan, 1309 Miller Avenue, Ann and sti'ong alumni support we ex nan, '38, was appointed to fill the Arbor. pect the Fiji snowball to keep on rolling, and rolling . . . and roll vacancy created by Grandy's de parture. In the way of new busi ing! ness, a finance committee was set Fraternally, up to produce more efficiency in We have an up - to - the - minute ROBERT SPIEGEL, the conduct of association and permanent alumni file at your serv President. chapter business. A budget will be ice and would be glad to give you made out, with sinking funds es information on any of your longtablished to meet any emergency lost brothers. Write us, or drop TIME OF YOUR LIFE ... that might arise requiring exten in when you're in Ann Arbor. '49 PIG DINNER sive outlays from the Board's This file is kept up, mainly, IN MAY! funds. through the Who's Who blanks Board meetings are held at 7:15 you send back to us, filled in. on the second Tuesday of each Please . . . if you haven't already Attend Alpha Phi Board month at the chapter house. Every done that small good deed . . . do Meetings at 7 15, the one is urged to attend, especially it today. Keeping up a strong, Informaf-ion On Top second Tuesday of Every Month! the alumni from Ann Arbor and healthy fraternity takes co-opera vicinity. tion. Page Five December, 1948 MICHIGAN POINT MACHINE — An explanation may be necessary. In the lower left-hand corner is the con veyor belt that carried the points 80 feet out to the street. Above it the Ortmann-Rife combination, and pro ceeding from left to right the Kempthorn crushing arm, the plunger with grinder beneath, the Dworsl{y mauling arm, the gnashing jaws beneath, the hard-hitting line and finally the driv ing force, quarterback Elliott. BUILDING FUND (From page 1) almost complete and that the cam paign is ready to shift into high gear. Many of the active chapter and the alumni will be saddened to see the actual enactment of a pro gram pointing toward the replace ment of the beloved old building at 707 Oxford. All realize, how Homecoming Display Captures Imagination of Thousands Homecoming week - end isn't points, however. They carried a homecoming week-end unless there niessage that caused near colliever, the absolute necessity of pro r . j j sions by drivers trying to read and viding a new house in the near IS a display m the front yard defuture. The size and age of the picting the total destruction of the present structure makes its con opposing team. tinued habitation impractical. Be The gross monstrosity that cause of the increased enrollment, there are many more men than greeted homecoming alumni this ever before on campus who merit year, the brain child of A1 Jack . f navigate through traffic ^ at the The message went something something like like this: this: . . . pointed remarks by distin guished Phi Gam alumni on the eve of this historic battle . . . Win pledging. The chapter is too often son and the result of much labor, ston Churchill, Eton, '98 . . . A forced to pass up good prospects did the trick. The huge machine because of its limited facilities. caught the imagination of thous The rectification of these conditions ands of spectators on their way to is a necessary but regrettable the game, the mechanism's seven step. moving parts causing its public It is hoped by the committee to stare in amazement. The net re that all Phi Gams will plan for a sult was second place in the esti donation now so that the class mation of the judges who had 91 chairman's request will not find entries to choose from this year. them unprepared. The story of the point machine is fairlv simple . . . the actual con.struction a problem that caused BLOOD . . . For the building fund you real ize . . . we'll do anything for bloody, sweaty, sandy battle" . . . King Tut, Cairo, '23 (B.C.) "Michi gan in a breeze—my mummy done ptolemy" . . . Frank Leahy, Chau cer Grade School, '09, "The Illini by 40 points" . . . General George C. Custer, West Point, '85,"A great battle; standing room only" . . . James Caesar Petrillo, "peanuts, peanuts, popcorn" . . . etc. These points didn't materialize from plain air. They were the con our Tau Bets to scratch their cal tribution of the complicated con traption halfway up to the house. culating heads. In the method of the devastating Obviously, the essential require fury (usually) of our Michigan money! Thus far seventeen of the broth ment of a point machine is points Maulers, the machine proceeded to ers have donated seventeen pints and, as we are forced to comment, crush a hapless player between two of liquid that the hospital main "we had a million of 'em." battering rams. Then, when this tains is thinner than 3.2 . . . but Stretching to the street from our destruction was complete, a thirtythey still pay off . . . and another immense integration of grinding foot ramrod descended on the vic twenty-three brothers have allowed mechanism was an eighty-foot con tim and squeezed his meager frame the hospital to classify their blood veyor belt. On the belt were points into a funnel-shaped instrument. as to type and quality. —a continuous stream of them—to From the funnel he was shoved Never have so many given so be plucked off by passing motor into the grinding jaws of a carni ists. These weren't just ordinary vorous lineman, then issued much for so little . . . \r\nTHE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS The Fiji Band ... A Message From: OUR PRESIDENT Dear Brothers: In my second letter this year I wish to analyze just what Alpha Phi chapter has done as the re sult of the cumulative rejuvena tion that began last spring. Per haps this is just a consideration of spirit and its effect on a par ticular bunch of men. I personally think that the new attitude, the zeal with which we meet every campus challenge as it arises, has pushed us up to the top of the campus heap—and that's quite a heap. New blood in the form of four pledge classes (fall and spring) flows with an exuberance that is front of the Union only to discover that most of the prospective rally army was following Phi Gamma Delta's ten-piece unit down to Fer ry Field. But we left enough of a The Fiji marching band is now following to entice them to come considered second only to the Uni down and entertain the Fiji-spurred versity marching band. gathering. Of course, we will even debate This incident drew considerable our relegation to the second place comment from various campus slot. We may not be as smooth a quarters and when it was discov musical combination, our men may ered that the University marching not step as smartly, but they sui'e band would be unable to spark the have the spirit. team send-off previous to the Min It all happened this way . . . nesota game the Wolverine Club Pep rallies at Michigan have lost (sponsor of all pep rallies) invited that old fire my dad used to tell me the Fijis to take over . . . and about. Nowadays, a docile crowd of they did! students gather around a large Starting in front of the Union, bonfire and passively participate the band and its followers marched in prepping the team for the game, up South U to the engine arch, then tread quietly back to their through the immortal portal and residences with no thoughts of down the diag, disrupting classes i-aising hell disturbing their gray and drawing students into the fold matter. Everyone, that is, but the for the march to the station. We Fijis. don't know if the Fiji send-off did Our band has changed things: the trick or not, but we still have it sort of plays the part of the Pied that Little Brown Jug . . . We Piper. Its provocative efforts are haven't stormed the local cinema in irresistable and hordes of students pre-game activity—but hope that it First in the Land? hard to imagine. Last spi'ing the co-operative efforts of the house produced a double winner in the Michigras booth and parade com petition. This fall the Fiji march ing band got top billing in fra ternity conversation through its efforts in instilling a little pep in pep rallies. The second place honors in home follow. At the Northwestern rally isn't far in the future. coming again proved that when the University band arrived in Present board member positions you're looking for a winner at are filled by the following men: Michigan you can look to 707 Ox Ward D. Peterson, 1325 Minerva ford. In fraternity sports the house is hanging on to a close second place, in extra-curricular activity Ulrich Elected Board Chairman Road, Ann Arbor; Raymond C. Smith, 301 Lake Shore Road, At the last meeting of the Board Grosse Pointe Farms; Alvah B. members of the house hold top of the Alpha Phi Association, Rob Frederick, 478 Lincoln Road, Grosse positions in nearly every campus organization. We're pushing in ert Ulrich, '41, was elected to the Pointe; Robert D. Ulrich, 615 For position of chairman. Robert Gran- est, Ypsilanti; Donald Lescohier, every direction, yet ever striving dy, '47, was forced to resign his 1317 Somerset, Detroit; Dr. Bur to produce a strong bond of broth chairmanship when his job made gess Vial, 426 East Kingsley, Ann erhood within the active chapter it necessary for him to move to Arbor; Philip Holcombe, 208 West and among our alumni. Ann Street, Ann Arbor, and Jack With our grand new pledge class the East coast. At the same meeting. Jack Bren- Brennan, 1309 Miller Avenue, Ann and sti'ong alumni support we ex nan, '38, was appointed to fill the Arbor. pect the Fiji snowball to keep on rolling, and rolling . . . and roll vacancy created by Grandy's de parture. In the way of new busi ing! ness, a finance committee was set Fraternally, up to produce more efficiency in We have an up - to - the - minute ROBERT SPIEGEL, the conduct of association and permanent alumni file at your serv President. chapter business. A budget will be ice and would be glad to give you made out, with sinking funds es information on any of your longtablished to meet any emergency lost brothers. Write us, or drop TIME OF YOUR LIFE ... that might arise requiring exten in when you're in Ann Arbor. '49 PIG DINNER sive outlays from the Board's This file is kept up, mainly, IN MAY! funds. through the Who's Who blanks Board meetings are held at 7:15 you send back to us, filled in. on the second Tuesday of each Please . . . if you haven't already Attend Alpha Phi Board month at the chapter house. Every done that small good deed . . . do Meetings at 7 15, the one is urged to attend, especially it today. Keeping up a strong, Informaf-ion On Top second Tuesday of Every Month! the alumni from Ann Arbor and healthy fraternity takes co-opera vicinity. tion. Page Five December, 1948 MICHIGAN POINT MACHINE — An explanation may be necessary. In the lower left-hand corner is the con veyor belt that carried the points 80 feet out to the street. Above it the Ortmann-Rife combination, and pro ceeding from left to right the Kempthorn crushing arm, the plunger with grinder beneath, the Dworsl{y mauling arm, the gnashing jaws beneath, the hard-hitting line and finally the driv ing force, quarterback Elliott. BUILDING FUND (From page 1) almost complete and that the cam paign is ready to shift into high gear. Many of the active chapter and the alumni will be saddened to see the actual enactment of a pro gram pointing toward the replace ment of the beloved old building at 707 Oxford. All realize, how Homecoming Display Captures Imagination of Thousands Homecoming week - end isn't points, however. They carried a homecoming week-end unless there niessage that caused near colliever, the absolute necessity of pro r . j j sions by drivers trying to read and viding a new house in the near IS a display m the front yard defuture. The size and age of the picting the total destruction of the present structure makes its con opposing team. tinued habitation impractical. Be The gross monstrosity that cause of the increased enrollment, there are many more men than greeted homecoming alumni this ever before on campus who merit year, the brain child of A1 Jack . f navigate through traffic ^ at the The message went something something like like this: this: . . . pointed remarks by distin guished Phi Gam alumni on the eve of this historic battle . . . Win pledging. The chapter is too often son and the result of much labor, ston Churchill, Eton, '98 . . . A forced to pass up good prospects did the trick. The huge machine because of its limited facilities. caught the imagination of thous The rectification of these conditions ands of spectators on their way to is a necessary but regrettable the game, the mechanism's seven step. moving parts causing its public It is hoped by the committee to stare in amazement. The net re that all Phi Gams will plan for a sult was second place in the esti donation now so that the class mation of the judges who had 91 chairman's request will not find entries to choose from this year. them unprepared. The story of the point machine is fairlv simple . . . the actual con.struction a problem that caused BLOOD . . . For the building fund you real ize . . . we'll do anything for bloody, sweaty, sandy battle" . . . King Tut, Cairo, '23 (B.C.) "Michi gan in a breeze—my mummy done ptolemy" . . . Frank Leahy, Chau cer Grade School, '09, "The Illini by 40 points" . . . General George C. Custer, West Point, '85,"A great battle; standing room only" . . . James Caesar Petrillo, "peanuts, peanuts, popcorn" . . . etc. These points didn't materialize from plain air. They were the con our Tau Bets to scratch their cal tribution of the complicated con traption halfway up to the house. culating heads. In the method of the devastating Obviously, the essential require fury (usually) of our Michigan money! Thus far seventeen of the broth ment of a point machine is points Maulers, the machine proceeded to ers have donated seventeen pints and, as we are forced to comment, crush a hapless player between two of liquid that the hospital main "we had a million of 'em." battering rams. Then, when this tains is thinner than 3.2 . . . but Stretching to the street from our destruction was complete, a thirtythey still pay off . . . and another immense integration of grinding foot ramrod descended on the vic twenty-three brothers have allowed mechanism was an eighty-foot con tim and squeezed his meager frame the hospital to classify their blood veyor belt. On the belt were points into a funnel-shaped instrument. as to type and quality. —a continuous stream of them—to From the funnel he was shoved Never have so many given so be plucked off by passing motor into the grinding jaws of a carni ists. These weren't just ordinary vorous lineman, then issued much for so little . . . \r\nTHE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS forth as hordes of Michigan points. But in order to prevent the se Alpdta PlUfi Alumni News quence from boring any procrastiGeorge Roscoe Harper, '981aw, nators, there was a huge moving lawyer in Goshen, Indiana, writes wheel with immense feet attached "my son Charles E. Harper is an that whirled around, significant of electrician with the New York Cen the hard-charging Michigan for tral . . . is mai-ried and has ward wall. And to complete the two lovely girls . . . my only lit- & Company in New York, belongs to tbe University Club, Lawyers' Club, Phi Gamma Delta Club, and the University of Michigan Club— all of wbich are in New York City. Karl Freese, Jr., '37, is University of Michigan Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta Volume XIII V, with picture of a great offense in action, erai'y success was a short article Mutschler Brothers Company in the rifle arm of Chuck Ortmann Number 2 ANN ARBOR, MICH., DECEMBER, 1948 in the Saturday Evening Post in Nappanee, Indiana. was constantly in motion tossing the fall of 1907 . . . my greatest John Arthur Kany, '37 Purdue, passes to the sticky fingers of Dick success has been in keeping a an experimental engineer with Lin Rifenberg. large number of friends and clients coln Mercury Division of the Ford The outcome was an amazing pledge-motivated affair that moved, groaned and produced . .. and the campus loved it! Fijis-Phi Delts Join For Centennial Dance over many good years." Motor Company in Dearborn, writes Henry S. Slyfield, '06, Detroit lawyer and former president of the Detroit Bar Association, is also president of the Michigan Malle able Iron Company. "I don't know how it is I got on Thomas Henry Read, '06, attor ney at law, has served as com a member of the Science Research Club in Ann Arbor. your mailing list, but I like it!" A. Burgess Vial, '40, director of the Pasteur Institute of the Uni versity Hospital in Ann Arbor, is Lafayette Stuch, '43, restaurant owner in Wayland, Michigan (132 gion and District Commander of years. South Main), writes "enjoyed very the Legion. much your food and hospitality And this is the year. December Frederick W. Marble, '15, is a last week. Congratulations on sec 10th the Phi Gams and Phi Delts It only happens every hundred will hold a Centennial Dance at the American Legion Home mander of Post 88 American Le banker with the Stock Growers Na tional Bank in in ming. Cheyenne, Wyo Ann Arbor. C*. wm ond place in display. Wish I could 1' have seen the damn thing work!" Jack H. Vaughn, '43, a marine Raymond C. Smith, '20, served corps officer during the war, is now as a major in the Air Corps in the a student at the University of to Ann Arbor are cordially invited second World war and now works Pennsylvania. to attend the formal . . . please in the Penobscot Building in De George M. Irwin, '43, Quincy's respond if you plan to be here . . . Any of you alumni who can get you probably won't be around for the next Phi Gam-Phi Delt Cen tennial, so try to make this one. Dean Barnard's Baby troit. "young man of the year" does H. Willis Heidbreder, '2.3, is a so much that we would have to branch manager for Metropolitan supplement the News to get it all Life in Traverse City, Michigan, in . . . but he always finds time and a member of the Elks and to get to Pig Dinners and will be Rotary Clubs. up for the one in '49—first official Richard H. Rowland, '23, is the acceptance received! Vice-president-General Manager of Robert G. Janigo, '45, is a law This spring, if all goes well. Bro ther Barnard will be the proud the Industrial Division of the Na yer with the Land Title and Abpapa of a bouncing baby radio tional Battery Company in De- ti'act Company in Detroit. station. The proposed student radio sta tion will operate from the new General Service building and will make use of the broadcast facilities of WUOM, the University station. Dean plans to teeth his baby on pew, New York. James Ralson Mulkey, '47, is an Charles Bartlett Emery, '25, di engineer with Hamilton Standard rector of the Citizen's National Pi'ops in East Hartford, Connecti Bank and physician in Bedford, cut. Indiana, served forty-four months with the medical corps during the SIXTEEH MEN ON A RADIATOR. (See Photo on Page 1) war . . . son Charlie, Jr., is now four hours of broadcast five days a Fiji pledge. Manly K. Hunt, '28, lawyer with As ihey line up for Tuesday evening a week. The initial programs will be mostly music and news for stu Turner, Hunt and DeBolt in Chi hazing, from left to right in plioto on dent consumption. In the next few cago, is a member of tbe Mid-Day hage one. they are, top row. Chuc]{ years. Dean hopes that the sta Lawyers Club and Legal Club of Spross, Art Bec\. Bill Dibble, and Charlie Emery; secotid row, George tion will become a powerful in Chicago. Thomas E. Sunderland, '28, gen !^ua. Dtcl{ Hotoell, Xfeale Traves. Phil fluence on campus, an integral part eral counsel for Standard Oil Com Anderson (slipping), Butch Md^uire, of Michigan life. Slu Cammett and Bill Hic\man, third The University Executive Coun pany in Chicago, earned the bronze cil on Radio will be directly re star and worked his way through row, Spence Par.sons (holding on), sponsible for financing the station, all ranks to Lieutenant Colonel. George Allen, Bill Loveless (with pen Durwin D. Algycr, '29, invest cil on ear), Leo Calhoun and while Dean will be in charge of ment banker with Goldman, Sachs Tlernan. the station's policy and program. Tom (For identification of pledges above, see bad; page.) Building Fund Drive Shifts Into High Gear Sixteen Radiator-Active Pledgt Now Wear The Fiji White Star A goal of 810,000 has been set foi' the first year of the Build Sixteen new men now populate dents— and the combination brings ing Fund collections. A system together a terrific group of men. the radiators, while five others whereby a financial pledge may be have stepped from the neophyte stage to that of newly initiated brothers. The new initiates—after expos ure to the rigors of hell week—ai-e Chuck Murray, Bill Erwin, Dick Cossitt. Tom McCann and George Olson. First, the pledge king, Leo Mel- fulfilled over a two- or three-year vin Calhoun, fi'om Port Huron, pei'iod so that contributions may iilichigan. Leo is a junior in I.it be made with the least possible school, veteran, and plans to en sacrifice is contemplated. ter Yale's Divinity school after Class chairmen for the drive graduation. Right now he has too will soon be receiving additional small parishes up in Huron County information and class lists. Work and drives there each Sunday to has been progressing rather slow The present pledge class is the preach his sermon. The Deacon is ly due to the arduous task of com first ti'uly freshman class that has quite a boy and we expect he will piling lists from a variety of in been pledged since the war. One of the class is a junior and one is a first-semester sophomore while the rest are brand-new college stu help make the pled.ge class a super complete one. (To page 2) sources. However, the committee reports that the file is (To page 5)