Page Four THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS Versatile A1 Wall A Natural at 707 Ralph L. Erlewine, '39, is the Harvey W. Clarke, '39, attomey vice-president and treasurer of the in Spokane, is active in the Elks,. Pennsylvania Boiler and Burner Phi Gamma Delta Club, and sev Manufacturing Corporation in Lan eral Spokane clubs. Athlete, student, professional en * * * tertainer, undertaker's assistant, caster, Pennsylvania. Ralph now cook, waiter, and welder — that's has three sons, John 6, Ralph 3, Forest Evashevski, '41, helped and Robert 1. our house man, A1 Wall. make things rough for the varsity * * It all started about the turn of June. As an athlete, A1 dabbled in just about everything. While in Oberlin high school he played foot ball, basketball, and baseball—mix ❖ « September 25th when Michigan played Michigan State. Evy is the Response Urged campus in the near future. A complete directory of the brothers in Alpha Phi chapter was published in 1936 for the benefit * * * * * Joseph E. Gandy, '26, attorney Frank Boni, '47, is now a mech and auto dealer in Seattle, Wash anical engineer with Babcox and ington, was the regional director Wilcox. ^ of the War Production Board dur * ❖ * Robert Grandy, '47, now connect ing World War II. About 1929 he turned to his real ❖ ed with the Ecott Paper Company, Royal F. Cherry, '26, employ love, entertainment. His musical ability carried him into clubs and ment manager of Oldsmobile, Lans has been elected chairman of the house parties and his repertoire ing, Michigan, now has a family of grew until now A1 has an evening's four children: Donald 13, Michael worth of ballads and songs ready 10, Caroline 9, and Patrick 2. years. ❖ for any occasion. In 1935 he picked up another sideline—he became an undertak ❖ t- me! Alpha Phi Board for the next three ^ ^ This fall a number of alumni have been to the house. Among Lawrence Keith Goodrich, '28, is these were W. Homer Hattendorf, the assistant treasurer of McGraw '24, in Ann Arbor for a meeting Hill Publishing Company. er's assistant. From 1940 until 1943 ^ « A1 was the proprietor of his own John George, '34, building con tavern, selling out in 1943 to work in the Willow Run bomber plant tractor in Spokane and father of three girls, lists Rotary, Masonic, as an assembler and welder. University Club of Spokane, and Since 1946 A1 has been at 707— Early Birds under outside interests. still an athlete, an undertaker's as sistant, and an entertainer, believe ❖ with the Athletic Board; Guy Phil ip Pfaffman, Jr., '27, Guy C. Conkle, '36, and Howard E. Egert, '40, who showed up in time for the Kappa-Fiji listening party during the Purdue game. Others of the brothers who have been up for football games are Buck Dawson, Robert Moody Clafiin, '36, is the '43, Frank Long, '46, George Hs * radio Station Manager of WGAP Spaulding, '47, Chick Kamin, '47, in Maryville, Tennessee. and Glen Neff, '48. This summer Manly Hunt, '28, helped initiate William Knecht, '38, is practic a little party when he stopped ited the house this summer while in town on a vacation. He is liv ing law with Knapp, Cushing, with his family in Ann Arbor en ing at 1388 Palmetto, Clearwater, Hershberger, and Stevenson in Chi route to Chicago after a vacation M. Crego Smith, '35, also vis Florida. Jj: cago. Number 1 NEED A DIRECTORY team in the state, and plugging for a chapter of Fijis on the M.S.C. * * * he decided to settle down, got mar School of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jack Adamson, '47, is selling in ried, and entered the United States is general manager of the Capital Postal Service. Al's been settling Transit Company in Washington, surance in the Los Angeles region B.C. with Watwood and Company. down ever since. He was a member of the Acme WE 100% Alumni tired as Principal Emeritus of Ann Iron Company. After one year in Oberlin Col * * ♦ Arbor public schools. lege, A1 became a cook and waiter * * * Herbert Beyer, Jr., '47, is a sales on a ship sailing the Great Lakes. Samuel Ewart Emmons, 16E, a engineer with the Microbore Com His nautical life didn't last long however, and, when he was twenty, former president of the American pany in Ferndale, Michigan. ns ANN ARBOR, MICH., OCTOBER, 1948 Volume XIII backfield coach of the second best Ralph Dickinson Goodrich, '03, is Henry T. Fielding, '42, is a sales the dean of the College of Engi engineer with The M. W. Kellogg ing in a little track and wrestling, neering at the University of Wyo Company in New York City. « >1: * and eventually wound up as a pro ming, Laramie, Wyoming. « * * fessional boxer for a couple of William Southard Corlett, '43, is Lewis L. Forsythe, '04, has re a forester with Cleveland - Cliff's years. * University of Michigan Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta « Geo. Roscoe Harper,'98 law, who the century in Oberlin, Ohio, where A1 spent the first twenty years practices law in Goshen, Ind., re like most of the rest of us, going turned to Michigan and 707 Oxford Road for his class reunion last to school and playing ball. Rifle and Pistol Club for ten years, and in those ten years the club won the State championship twice and placed second six times. AlfUui PUljl ALUMNI NEWS * trip. of the alumni who had lost the We have initiated this extensive program to better alumni relations because we desire a strong alumni element. But to bridge the gap be tween the undergraduates and alumni demands the cooperation of both parties. We feel that we are ready to meet our responsibility ... but we need YOUR help. If you have not whereabouts of other Alpha Phis and also to hold the chapter to gether. sent in your address, class, school Since 1936 we have gone through or profession, please do so now. a war ... a war which saw your We want this directory to be one •chapter existent at Michigan in hundred percent successful. Won't name only. Many of your address you do your share? es were lost during this period. We can honestly say that the chapter position on Michigan's campus There are 775 of us now in the Alpha Phi chapter and the task of keeping an up-to-date file of all the brothers has grown to great Money's money, even if it's blood money! That's the opinion of the Fijis as we launch the 1948 edition of the building fund drive that we ex pect will net §10,000 by June, '49. But we don't want it all to be OUR blood; we need some of yours. Chuck Doherty, building fund chairman, reports that there is now §2,490 in the fund that began two years ago. Of this sum, only ten dollars has come from now is back on its feet. We held a which any alumnus of any frater nity would be proud of. In our re-organization we have decided to publish a much-needed supplement to the 1936 directory. Chapter Boosts Building Fund DOUCHNATIONS a source other than the active chapter, ex cluding the '43, '45 and '46 classes that were instrumental in formu Members Give Life'Blood for Fraternity Special to the Free PreeB ANN ARBOR — Members of lating the long-run building fund plan. The notorious article that ap peared in the Detroit Free Press (besides other papers) is self ex planatory. We really are selling our blood in an attempt to augment the fund and gain publicity. Jerry Phi Gamma Delta at the Uni Hans has taken over the blood com an easy quarter hour of work and pays off at the rate of a buck a the University alumni office in versity of Michigan are literally giving their life-blood for their fraternity. During the last year, each members has been donating a quest of your addresses. We be ing fund to spur alumni contrib lieve that most of them are now utions. correct. But the total was mounting too slowly. Now a new plan has been put into effect. proportions. This summer the chapter histor ian and corresponding secretary spent many hours working with We sent 775 letters to you alumni during the month of August with a return post card questionnaire. Only half of the brothers returned the card which asked for full name, home ad dress, class, degree, school and business or profession. We are planning on printing the directory according to your year in school and also alphabetically. An up-to-date list of the brothers who have passed on will be included, along with a complete history of the chapter. The present group of undergrad uate men is fully aware of their responsibility to you, our alumni. dollar a month to a house build # * # mittee and the till is filling up. It's minute. That's pretty good com pensation for lying on your back and we plan to take full advant age of it. Quite a few of the broth ers were professional donors al ready, but some of the neophytes plus some 10 Inactives are going have trouble with their equilibrium immediately after the pint goes to in a group to University Hospi the ice-box. ALL 55 ACTIVE members tal to donate blood at $17.50 a pint. We who live at 707 see a definite That will bring the fratern ity more than $1,100. need for a new house, not for us, but for the men who will be pledg The Phi Gams are having their blood typed now. They plan to continue giving blood at regu lar intervals throughout the ing Phi Gam ten years from now. There is no need to consider the shortcomings of the present house now, for that has been done time year. The building fund was set up as part of a 15-year program. At the end of that time, the fraternity hopes to build a new home. and time again. Rather, let me point out that the Alpha Phi Asso ciation, your representative in de ciding long range policy, whole(Cont'd on p. 2) \r\nTHE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS The Alpha Phiji News | Alpha Phi's Tie in Bloomer Bowl October, 1948 Page Three Back to Michigan 21,000: 28 to 0, by the Psi U's. Coach Coepha Phi Chapter of Phi Gamma ler, athletic chairman for the house, nen said that the boys had given Delta, 707 Oxford Road, Ann Ar- Fiji musclemen are plying their too much blood to the building fund. After the season was over, the bor, Michigan. abilities in inter-fraternity sports. —; —: The football team, coached by Daisy gridders received word that they Published quarterly by the Al- Under the tutelage of John Kist- Dick Hurst Coenen, looked forward to a bril- were invited to the Bloomer Bowl Assoc. Editor Dick McWilliams Rant season on the gridiron. The to play the Alpha Phi Sorority. Photographer Pat Patterson first game with the Triangles was The men from 707 were outweighed very heartening. The Fiji's pow- but fought tit-for-tat for a 12-12 ered their way thi-ough by a score tie. The highlight of the game was the hidden ball play which the however,themselves the boys Phi's must have extended used with devastating re too far, since they were defeated sults. Brothers Coenen, Craighead, by the Phi Kappa Psi's, 31 to 0 Eckerle, McCann, Rankin, Upthe- I i Uiit'"F" In my first letter to you I wish three days later. But the gridders grove, Watkins, and Wilson should to comment briefly on the active never lost faith even though they be commended for their participa chapter as it stands today and its were edged out in the next game, plans for the future. wn Eish, now .h. Alpha Phi Chap- What Cooks at 707 ter has a working force of fifty- three actives plus sixteen new pledges. Although this situation seniors the chapter will be at its afternoon best possible strength for work in football with the Alpha Phi's and ^ There has been a marked im- the parade. In the way of special provement in spirit—college spirit, events, a Centennial Dance will be if you wish to call it that—with the ''eld with the Phi Delts on Deceminflux of new men into the house, |ber 10th. the pressure on the old-timers the U .. Building Fund rJUlltlinff t UnCl ball keeps moving along. Our chief interest this year is in you, our alumnus, for only with , ^ Buffet suppers are in order aft er every home game . . . come up and try it. Pj j ganization by classes has been ex- a'i!'^v,q tremely slow for several reasons paign for a we -oiganize Phi graduate an main one is that only nine- un eigia ua e Fraternally, Robert Robert Spiegel Spiegel "E" PLAN TO ATTEND THE PIG DINNER THIS SPRING ! tough enough!). * * * Veterans: Only half the population is now getting the free ride. A nine per cent drop places veteran enrollment s-" proposed class representa- * More than one thousand students THIS IS NO ALUMNUS ... at of the winning school for the year. per hour poured through the gym during the three-day registration least he has no class. Rather it is Butch, however, is ever ours. Butch, unclaimed son of a boxed who keeps his shaggy hide in re pose at 767. Dutch was a gift from the Northwestern Chapter arriving along with a trophy appropriately period. » * * writes often and reports his health rolled exactly the same number of has improved considerably since his students as last year: 3,827. The College of Engineering en adoption. + * know as Dutch's Barrel. The bar rel is annually inscribed with the matic character (he doesn't bite— often) completely charmed the gan game and sent to the chapter alumni at homecoming. * Courses: Eighty-seven new courses or de- ! gree programs have been added to Fiji Cover Boy Is All-Star Man ♦ * Ann Arbor: Hank Fonde, '47, has been nom nent football magazine this fall in a picture of the play that won the Big Nine title last year. It was the Illinois game and with the ball game all tied 7-7, Hank burst through the line and went eleven yards into the end zone; final score: happened to the other thirty? If for grad work and another season you have been asked to act as of eligibility. His play was good chairman of your class and have enough to get him a berth on the not responded, please do so; a College All-Star team that met the YES or NO will do the trick. Cards in Chicago early in the fail. Class lists are now being com Now he is back in Ann Arbor the University John Lindquist Steals the Show schedule. * High want 810,000 this year; there's a school gridiron team, which at lot of work to be done. Help us present date have won three and lost none. That doleful expression peering at you results from "Dutch's" past. He is now on parole from the city pound. As a reminder of his delin quent days. Butch sports a familiar 7C7 on his furry chest. His phleg score of the Northwestern-Michi he graduated from the University forty-nine class chairmen. What in 1947, Fonde returned last year 'out! . r ,'*'f » * Surprise: piled. We have 775 alumni and coaching if*™ Registration: Foster Parents' Plan, has been re- tives responded to a request for Michigan 14, Illinois 7. Although chapter. fl T I Uj last year (as if things weren't adopted by the chapter for an other year. He's quite a boy . . . (Cont'd from p. 1) ni relationship. ^ Throughout the year some of you Phi Gam house at Michigan, will receive letters from us +v,;= Orn,-. , that 1 Let's get together on this. ®P enrolled this fall—an increase of 339 over last year. Women are go ing at nice odds; 5,036 of them and a decrease of twenty-six from * j heartedly supported and continues inated Fiji cover boy of the year. your help and cooperation can we fC . • • ^ ^ ■ j„i,i „i„v,^ to support the decision to create Hank made the cover of a promi establish that indispensable alum, maintain . . a fund j, , that ^ eventuebuauiio" ,, edge them an are the most common item the confusion of making out a and with this new blood putting demand a response, ease ac Men on campus, with 15,496 of them at 10,593. committee-a Gerard Mielecamp, war orphan ^ance-has a cal- adopted by the house through the presents a large house, it is felt Weekly that with the loss of twenty-four ^..change dinners, sorority-Fiji lisboth campus and house activities. tion. A record of 21,000-plus students surprised a University that was expecting a drop in enrollment. . Bad luck scourged the Fiji track ber in :08.9 seconds to break the men as they lost the Inter-frater- nine-year-old Intramural record of A total of 7,600 students now nity track meet by just one and a :09.0 seconds. Lindquist stole the live in private homes, apartments half points. Spectators were amazed show over the other trackmen en and rooming houses in Ann Arbor. by the 707 crew which forged ahead * * tered from 37 fraternities on cam- * in the earlier part of the meet by The Village: Approximately 1,500 married stu placing first in three events. The dents and 800 single veterans are bad luck came when Dick Precious, still out of luck. Leather - lunged Lou Calabrese then went out and ran away from who hasn't hit a low hurdle in years the entire field of milers. Lou will be on hand again when the cross Eight hundred students commute stacle and fell to the ground. He country season comes around. Other 9|: 4: * of running, tripped on the last ob Even Worse: was yards ahead of the nearest man points were earned when Chuck and would have given the house Murray tied for second in the high * * * the needed points to win. This mis jump and Tom Hendi'y placed third Rushing: hap gave the Beta's a chance to in the pole vault. It was a hard Nine hundred of them did it this score points and finally win. one to lose, but the thinclads from Oxford Road are looking forward year; 540 were pledged. The bright spot of the meet oc to the Spring track meet. curred when John Lindquist, our Foreign Affairs: daily from Saline, Ypsilanti and other nearby towns. His Highness Mahmoud, brother speedy house steward, garnered a of the King of Persia, is enrolled first place in the quarter mile and in Business Administration School went on to set a new record in this fall. Sixty different countries the high hurdles. John was the only are represented by 700 foreign stu- double winner of the day. He dents. stepped over 65 yards of tall tim LET'S BUILD A NEW HOUSE ! \r\nTHE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS The Alpha Phiji News | Alpha Phi's Tie in Bloomer Bowl October, 1948 Page Three Back to Michigan 21,000: 28 to 0, by the Psi U's. Coach Coepha Phi Chapter of Phi Gamma ler, athletic chairman for the house, nen said that the boys had given Delta, 707 Oxford Road, Ann Ar- Fiji musclemen are plying their too much blood to the building fund. After the season was over, the bor, Michigan. abilities in inter-fraternity sports. —; —: The football team, coached by Daisy gridders received word that they Published quarterly by the Al- Under the tutelage of John Kist- Dick Hurst Coenen, looked forward to a bril- were invited to the Bloomer Bowl Assoc. Editor Dick McWilliams Rant season on the gridiron. The to play the Alpha Phi Sorority. Photographer Pat Patterson first game with the Triangles was The men from 707 were outweighed very heartening. The Fiji's pow- but fought tit-for-tat for a 12-12 ered their way thi-ough by a score tie. The highlight of the game was the hidden ball play which the however,themselves the boys Phi's must have extended used with devastating re too far, since they were defeated sults. Brothers Coenen, Craighead, by the Phi Kappa Psi's, 31 to 0 Eckerle, McCann, Rankin, Upthe- I i Uiit'"F" In my first letter to you I wish three days later. But the gridders grove, Watkins, and Wilson should to comment briefly on the active never lost faith even though they be commended for their participa chapter as it stands today and its were edged out in the next game, plans for the future. wn Eish, now .h. Alpha Phi Chap- What Cooks at 707 ter has a working force of fifty- three actives plus sixteen new pledges. Although this situation seniors the chapter will be at its afternoon best possible strength for work in football with the Alpha Phi's and ^ There has been a marked im- the parade. In the way of special provement in spirit—college spirit, events, a Centennial Dance will be if you wish to call it that—with the ''eld with the Phi Delts on Deceminflux of new men into the house, |ber 10th. the pressure on the old-timers the U .. Building Fund rJUlltlinff t UnCl ball keeps moving along. Our chief interest this year is in you, our alumnus, for only with , ^ Buffet suppers are in order aft er every home game . . . come up and try it. Pj j ganization by classes has been ex- a'i!'^v,q tremely slow for several reasons paign for a we -oiganize Phi graduate an main one is that only nine- un eigia ua e Fraternally, Robert Robert Spiegel Spiegel "E" PLAN TO ATTEND THE PIG DINNER THIS SPRING ! tough enough!). * * * Veterans: Only half the population is now getting the free ride. A nine per cent drop places veteran enrollment s-" proposed class representa- * More than one thousand students THIS IS NO ALUMNUS ... at of the winning school for the year. per hour poured through the gym during the three-day registration least he has no class. Rather it is Butch, however, is ever ours. Butch, unclaimed son of a boxed who keeps his shaggy hide in re pose at 767. Dutch was a gift from the Northwestern Chapter arriving along with a trophy appropriately period. » * * writes often and reports his health rolled exactly the same number of has improved considerably since his students as last year: 3,827. The College of Engineering en adoption. + * know as Dutch's Barrel. The bar rel is annually inscribed with the matic character (he doesn't bite— often) completely charmed the gan game and sent to the chapter alumni at homecoming. * Courses: Eighty-seven new courses or de- ! gree programs have been added to Fiji Cover Boy Is All-Star Man ♦ * Ann Arbor: Hank Fonde, '47, has been nom nent football magazine this fall in a picture of the play that won the Big Nine title last year. It was the Illinois game and with the ball game all tied 7-7, Hank burst through the line and went eleven yards into the end zone; final score: happened to the other thirty? If for grad work and another season you have been asked to act as of eligibility. His play was good chairman of your class and have enough to get him a berth on the not responded, please do so; a College All-Star team that met the YES or NO will do the trick. Cards in Chicago early in the fail. Class lists are now being com Now he is back in Ann Arbor the University John Lindquist Steals the Show schedule. * High want 810,000 this year; there's a school gridiron team, which at lot of work to be done. Help us present date have won three and lost none. That doleful expression peering at you results from "Dutch's" past. He is now on parole from the city pound. As a reminder of his delin quent days. Butch sports a familiar 7C7 on his furry chest. His phleg score of the Northwestern-Michi he graduated from the University forty-nine class chairmen. What in 1947, Fonde returned last year 'out! . r ,'*'f » * Surprise: piled. We have 775 alumni and coaching if*™ Registration: Foster Parents' Plan, has been re- tives responded to a request for Michigan 14, Illinois 7. Although chapter. fl T I Uj last year (as if things weren't adopted by the chapter for an other year. He's quite a boy . . . (Cont'd from p. 1) ni relationship. ^ Throughout the year some of you Phi Gam house at Michigan, will receive letters from us +v,;= Orn,-. , that 1 Let's get together on this. ®P enrolled this fall—an increase of 339 over last year. Women are go ing at nice odds; 5,036 of them and a decrease of twenty-six from * j heartedly supported and continues inated Fiji cover boy of the year. your help and cooperation can we fC . • • ^ ^ ■ j„i,i „i„v,^ to support the decision to create Hank made the cover of a promi establish that indispensable alum, maintain . . a fund j, , that ^ eventuebuauiio" ,, edge them an are the most common item the confusion of making out a and with this new blood putting demand a response, ease ac Men on campus, with 15,496 of them at 10,593. committee-a Gerard Mielecamp, war orphan ^ance-has a cal- adopted by the house through the presents a large house, it is felt Weekly that with the loss of twenty-four ^..change dinners, sorority-Fiji lisboth campus and house activities. tion. A record of 21,000-plus students surprised a University that was expecting a drop in enrollment. . Bad luck scourged the Fiji track ber in :08.9 seconds to break the men as they lost the Inter-frater- nine-year-old Intramural record of A total of 7,600 students now nity track meet by just one and a :09.0 seconds. Lindquist stole the live in private homes, apartments half points. Spectators were amazed show over the other trackmen en and rooming houses in Ann Arbor. by the 707 crew which forged ahead * * tered from 37 fraternities on cam- * in the earlier part of the meet by The Village: Approximately 1,500 married stu placing first in three events. The dents and 800 single veterans are bad luck came when Dick Precious, still out of luck. Leather - lunged Lou Calabrese then went out and ran away from who hasn't hit a low hurdle in years the entire field of milers. Lou will be on hand again when the cross Eight hundred students commute stacle and fell to the ground. He country season comes around. Other 9|: 4: * of running, tripped on the last ob Even Worse: was yards ahead of the nearest man points were earned when Chuck and would have given the house Murray tied for second in the high * * * the needed points to win. This mis jump and Tom Hendi'y placed third Rushing: hap gave the Beta's a chance to in the pole vault. It was a hard Nine hundred of them did it this score points and finally win. one to lose, but the thinclads from Oxford Road are looking forward year; 540 were pledged. The bright spot of the meet oc to the Spring track meet. curred when John Lindquist, our Foreign Affairs: daily from Saline, Ypsilanti and other nearby towns. His Highness Mahmoud, brother speedy house steward, garnered a of the King of Persia, is enrolled first place in the quarter mile and in Business Administration School went on to set a new record in this fall. Sixty different countries the high hurdles. John was the only are represented by 700 foreign stu- double winner of the day. He dents. stepped over 65 yards of tall tim LET'S BUILD A NEW HOUSE ! \r\nPage Four THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS Versatile A1 Wall A Natural at 707 Ralph L. Erlewine, '39, is the Harvey W. Clarke, '39, attomey vice-president and treasurer of the in Spokane, is active in the Elks,. Pennsylvania Boiler and Burner Phi Gamma Delta Club, and sev Manufacturing Corporation in Lan eral Spokane clubs. Athlete, student, professional en * * * tertainer, undertaker's assistant, caster, Pennsylvania. Ralph now cook, waiter, and welder — that's has three sons, John 6, Ralph 3, Forest Evashevski, '41, helped and Robert 1. our house man, A1 Wall. make things rough for the varsity * * It all started about the turn of June. As an athlete, A1 dabbled in just about everything. While in Oberlin high school he played foot ball, basketball, and baseball—mix ❖ « September 25th when Michigan played Michigan State. Evy is the Response Urged campus in the near future. A complete directory of the brothers in Alpha Phi chapter was published in 1936 for the benefit * * * * * Joseph E. Gandy, '26, attorney Frank Boni, '47, is now a mech and auto dealer in Seattle, Wash anical engineer with Babcox and ington, was the regional director Wilcox. ^ of the War Production Board dur * ❖ * Robert Grandy, '47, now connect ing World War II. About 1929 he turned to his real ❖ ed with the Ecott Paper Company, Royal F. Cherry, '26, employ love, entertainment. His musical ability carried him into clubs and ment manager of Oldsmobile, Lans has been elected chairman of the house parties and his repertoire ing, Michigan, now has a family of grew until now A1 has an evening's four children: Donald 13, Michael worth of ballads and songs ready 10, Caroline 9, and Patrick 2. years. ❖ for any occasion. In 1935 he picked up another sideline—he became an undertak ❖ t- me! Alpha Phi Board for the next three ^ ^ This fall a number of alumni have been to the house. Among Lawrence Keith Goodrich, '28, is these were W. Homer Hattendorf, the assistant treasurer of McGraw '24, in Ann Arbor for a meeting Hill Publishing Company. er's assistant. From 1940 until 1943 ^ « A1 was the proprietor of his own John George, '34, building con tavern, selling out in 1943 to work in the Willow Run bomber plant tractor in Spokane and father of three girls, lists Rotary, Masonic, as an assembler and welder. University Club of Spokane, and Since 1946 A1 has been at 707— Early Birds under outside interests. still an athlete, an undertaker's as sistant, and an entertainer, believe ❖ with the Athletic Board; Guy Phil ip Pfaffman, Jr., '27, Guy C. Conkle, '36, and Howard E. Egert, '40, who showed up in time for the Kappa-Fiji listening party during the Purdue game. Others of the brothers who have been up for football games are Buck Dawson, Robert Moody Clafiin, '36, is the '43, Frank Long, '46, George Hs * radio Station Manager of WGAP Spaulding, '47, Chick Kamin, '47, in Maryville, Tennessee. and Glen Neff, '48. This summer Manly Hunt, '28, helped initiate William Knecht, '38, is practic a little party when he stopped ited the house this summer while in town on a vacation. He is liv ing law with Knapp, Cushing, with his family in Ann Arbor en ing at 1388 Palmetto, Clearwater, Hershberger, and Stevenson in Chi route to Chicago after a vacation M. Crego Smith, '35, also vis Florida. Jj: cago. Number 1 NEED A DIRECTORY team in the state, and plugging for a chapter of Fijis on the M.S.C. * * * he decided to settle down, got mar School of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jack Adamson, '47, is selling in ried, and entered the United States is general manager of the Capital Postal Service. Al's been settling Transit Company in Washington, surance in the Los Angeles region B.C. with Watwood and Company. down ever since. He was a member of the Acme WE 100% Alumni tired as Principal Emeritus of Ann Iron Company. After one year in Oberlin Col * * ♦ Arbor public schools. lege, A1 became a cook and waiter * * * Herbert Beyer, Jr., '47, is a sales on a ship sailing the Great Lakes. Samuel Ewart Emmons, 16E, a engineer with the Microbore Com His nautical life didn't last long however, and, when he was twenty, former president of the American pany in Ferndale, Michigan. ns ANN ARBOR, MICH., OCTOBER, 1948 Volume XIII backfield coach of the second best Ralph Dickinson Goodrich, '03, is Henry T. Fielding, '42, is a sales the dean of the College of Engi engineer with The M. W. Kellogg ing in a little track and wrestling, neering at the University of Wyo Company in New York City. « >1: * and eventually wound up as a pro ming, Laramie, Wyoming. « * * fessional boxer for a couple of William Southard Corlett, '43, is Lewis L. Forsythe, '04, has re a forester with Cleveland - Cliff's years. * University of Michigan Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta « Geo. Roscoe Harper,'98 law, who the century in Oberlin, Ohio, where A1 spent the first twenty years practices law in Goshen, Ind., re like most of the rest of us, going turned to Michigan and 707 Oxford Road for his class reunion last to school and playing ball. Rifle and Pistol Club for ten years, and in those ten years the club won the State championship twice and placed second six times. AlfUui PUljl ALUMNI NEWS * trip. of the alumni who had lost the We have initiated this extensive program to better alumni relations because we desire a strong alumni element. But to bridge the gap be tween the undergraduates and alumni demands the cooperation of both parties. We feel that we are ready to meet our responsibility ... but we need YOUR help. If you have not whereabouts of other Alpha Phis and also to hold the chapter to gether. sent in your address, class, school Since 1936 we have gone through or profession, please do so now. a war ... a war which saw your We want this directory to be one •chapter existent at Michigan in hundred percent successful. Won't name only. Many of your address you do your share? es were lost during this period. We can honestly say that the chapter position on Michigan's campus There are 775 of us now in the Alpha Phi chapter and the task of keeping an up-to-date file of all the brothers has grown to great Money's money, even if it's blood money! That's the opinion of the Fijis as we launch the 1948 edition of the building fund drive that we ex pect will net §10,000 by June, '49. But we don't want it all to be OUR blood; we need some of yours. Chuck Doherty, building fund chairman, reports that there is now §2,490 in the fund that began two years ago. Of this sum, only ten dollars has come from now is back on its feet. We held a which any alumnus of any frater nity would be proud of. In our re-organization we have decided to publish a much-needed supplement to the 1936 directory. Chapter Boosts Building Fund DOUCHNATIONS a source other than the active chapter, ex cluding the '43, '45 and '46 classes that were instrumental in formu Members Give Life'Blood for Fraternity Special to the Free PreeB ANN ARBOR — Members of lating the long-run building fund plan. The notorious article that ap peared in the Detroit Free Press (besides other papers) is self ex planatory. We really are selling our blood in an attempt to augment the fund and gain publicity. Jerry Phi Gamma Delta at the Uni Hans has taken over the blood com an easy quarter hour of work and pays off at the rate of a buck a the University alumni office in versity of Michigan are literally giving their life-blood for their fraternity. During the last year, each members has been donating a quest of your addresses. We be ing fund to spur alumni contrib lieve that most of them are now utions. correct. But the total was mounting too slowly. Now a new plan has been put into effect. proportions. This summer the chapter histor ian and corresponding secretary spent many hours working with We sent 775 letters to you alumni during the month of August with a return post card questionnaire. Only half of the brothers returned the card which asked for full name, home ad dress, class, degree, school and business or profession. We are planning on printing the directory according to your year in school and also alphabetically. An up-to-date list of the brothers who have passed on will be included, along with a complete history of the chapter. The present group of undergrad uate men is fully aware of their responsibility to you, our alumni. dollar a month to a house build # * # mittee and the till is filling up. It's minute. That's pretty good com pensation for lying on your back and we plan to take full advant age of it. Quite a few of the broth ers were professional donors al ready, but some of the neophytes plus some 10 Inactives are going have trouble with their equilibrium immediately after the pint goes to in a group to University Hospi the ice-box. ALL 55 ACTIVE members tal to donate blood at $17.50 a pint. We who live at 707 see a definite That will bring the fratern ity more than $1,100. need for a new house, not for us, but for the men who will be pledg The Phi Gams are having their blood typed now. They plan to continue giving blood at regu lar intervals throughout the ing Phi Gam ten years from now. There is no need to consider the shortcomings of the present house now, for that has been done time year. The building fund was set up as part of a 15-year program. At the end of that time, the fraternity hopes to build a new home. and time again. Rather, let me point out that the Alpha Phi Asso ciation, your representative in de ciding long range policy, whole(Cont'd on p. 2)