Page Four THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS NEWS OF ALUMNI EVERYWHERE William E. Post, '04, is VicePresident of the Hughes-Keenan Corporation in Delaware, Ohio. Charles "Bill" Lewis, '22, is the Counselor of Embassy and Consul General in United States Foreign Service at Karachi, Pakistan. James "Jimmie" Johnson, '23, is ent with the Underwood Corpora tion in Hartford, Connecticut. William Theidel, '47, is with Carl Theidel and Sons, Inc., in Hinsdale, Illinois. Frederick Woodward, '46, is now working for the Benjamin Frank lin Hotel in Philadelphia. Secretary-Treasurer . . . General ing Fund Piggy Bank for pennies and such. Do you realize that §14 a man a year is worth §10,000 in a lump? Quote John Thom, '38: "In an other eleven years two of my boys will be at Michigan and, hope fully, will be members of Alpha Phi. Certainly, unless something is done about the chapter house, they may be forced to join some other fraternity which would be a Glen Neff, '48, last year's presi Manager of the Bude Lumber Com dent, comes through town occasion horrible fate." pany in Bude, Mississippi. Brother ally on his job with Babcock and Quote John Madden, '22: "The Johnson writes: "I have a tract of Wilcox Company. one hundred acres that is mostly pasture and woodland for the grazing of a breed of horses known as Tennessee Walking Horses. house on the hill right across from Jack Adamson, '48, is a general Sigma Nu' has got to be replaced. insurance broker in Los Angeles, It needed it twenty-seven years California. ago, didn't it? Now it's a MUST!" Charles Ketterer, '48, is coach Right now, the fund is up to These horses have such nice rid ing at Northville High School in ing gaits that their popularity is Northville, Michigan. ^ ^ ^ spreading to all parts of the coun try. KENNETH W. VANCE,'16, died If any of the brothers are ever February 3, 1949, in Detroit. in these parts I would like to have LIONEL H. DUSCHAK,'04, died them stop in for a visit." November 29, 1938, in an Oakland, Donald Shirley Smith, '29, is in California, hospital after a long the insurance business with the illness. Brother Duschak had been Alexander H. Sibley Company in Detroit. Don participated in the initiation of his nephew, George Qua III, in the February formal initiation of the fall pledge class. William "Ollie" Schoedinger, '43, is the Assistant Sales Manager for F. 0. Schoedinger in Columbus, Ohio, and is already on the Pig Dinner acceptance list. Benjamin Douglas, '43, is a plant engineer with New York Telephone Company in Ticonderoga, New York. Ben has a baby daughter who will be one-year-old in July. a professor of metallurgy at University of California for last eleven years of his life was recognized as one of the §2,500 plus, and picking up in terest as it goes. Continue to send contributions to 707 Oxford . . . do you know, each undergraduate is contribut ing nine bucks a year to OUR fund? Every buck counts! In fact, after a recent Friday night trip to the Schwaben's Tavern the un- the drunk part of the beer pool was the contributed to the fund. Let's make and it grow! na tion's top metallurgists. The death of EMMET UPDE- OPERA (Cont. from p. 1 ) chorus. Dean Barnard was in the AlfiUa PlUfi Ne44j4> University of Michigan Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta April, 1949 Ann Arbor, Michigan Pig Dinner ^^Pll Be There" List Grows committee. The actual fund-raising responsibility is the baby of broth ers Phil Holcombe, '46, and Dan Auer, '46, both members of the Alpha Phi Board. They have a real interest in the problem since they "Include Me In" But how was all this made pos sible? Because, in 1949 and 1950 and each succeeding year, Michi Old Tradition son why Phi Gamma Delta was chapter needed a new house. So they raised money to build it. ties. He's the man who puts out Remember the Union Opera? the most thorough fraternity mag Well, for the first time since azine published. He's the most1941, it came back on campus . . . sought-after personality in frater the biggest show ever, twenty nity circles. He's THE Number dancing "girlies" and all the trim One fraternity man! And Scoop mings in a tremendous effort to is one reason why we want you revive what was once one of to come to this Pig Dinner. It will Michigan's grandest traditions. be his first Alpha Phi Pig Dinner, We were kind of excited about and we want it to be one that will it, too. In fact, the whole house make him come back to succeeding went to Froggy Bottom's premiere ones. That isn't all, but it's sure a to cheer on the rest of the house Will New House Become Reality? Scoop Wilkinson will be here Time: 1957. Place: 707 Oxford Road, Ann have both lived in the house re May 14th. cently and can comprehend its At the Pig Dinner, I mean. Arbor, Michigan. Scoop is the dean of fraternity Plot: Construction of a new shortcomings. men, the most competent man in (Cont'd on page 4) house. ^ ^ his particular field. He is one rea "You DO need a new house"— through the years the Alpha Phi alumni have been saying that, woefully shaking their heads. Soon "we" will become "you" and a new group will be saying "You go—next June, and the next June, further information. etc. . . . New House (Cont. from p. 1) Quote Harry Cossitt, '19: "It law) all had reading parts in the show. Dave Leyshon was the gen eral chairman and was instrumen tal in having the Opera revived. Jim Ebersole wrote the words and boils down to a question of Phi music to four of the show's top Lyons "Tiger" Rowland, '43, is Gamma Delta having a good chap tunes. Bill Zerman was in charge in social psychology research work ter or even having a chapter at of publicity and promotion and was helped by Phil Anderson. Michigan." Froggy Bottom was held for More than that, they will be able Kenneth Allen, '43, is a salesman three nights at the Michigan thea with the United States Gypsum to devote time and energy to this ter and was a complete sell-out at program — which the undergradu Company. all performances. The show did Walter Tiedeman, '44, is a mech ates find hard to do. They will be need a new house." And so it will Quote Glen E. Luke, '10: "I would not be interested in any thing that gets you fellows a who were as noticeable house ten years from now; the show as onions in salad. need is immediate." The latest development in not go on the road this year, but, anical engineer with the Interna here, in a position to keep the if the alumni demand is great William MacGowan, '46, will be graduated this June from Michi gan's school of music. Harley Fortier, '47, is out in Los Angeles and writes copious quanti neophyte takes over and makes the same mistakes all over.) Now, we think the solution has been found: MORE ADDRESS CHANGED building fund campaign has been shapely "gams" in the (Cont. on p. 4) a re-organization of the Campaign DOINGS AROUND 707 OXFORD Howell, George Allen and Phil George Spaulding, '47, has a already hit about two hundred of Queen, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. sales promotion job with Libbey- the most recent graduating classes. George N. Spaulding, '47, 3318 Tullamore Road, Cleveland Heights Owen-Ford Glass Company out of These, to be sure, are the fellows have been added to the furniture Harvey "Mucket" Spaunburg is just starting families at that . . . the assistant to the superintend but each of them will have a Build DeWolf M. Stanley, '49, 1217 North, Pasadena, California. dancing of '22 will be here to give John moral support, but he's got to have more than just classmates to talk to. That's too easy an assign 27, 1949. They are Charles Corn- we can become acquainted with well, Ray Newhall, Charles Em them, and they can become ac ery, Bill Loveless, Bill Hickman, quainted with us. Dick Wakefield is down in Flor George Qua, Spence Parsons, Dick Field Secretary Fred Dixon paid a four-day visit to the house re Cleveland, Ohio. the good start. ment! Anderson. with the smallest incomes . . . and 18, Ohio. national Hollister Mabley, '31, will be Ten men were formally initiated it is possible, we will try to meet into Phi Gamma Delta on February these men this summer so that here and I'll bet that Freeman Peter Rowe, '34, 33 St. Law that a coordinated plan will evolve. rence Ave., Reno, Nevada. Gilbert L. Smith, '49, 226 South The committee's first step has ties on how wonderful it all is. in One fraternity in a recent objective analysis of the country's fraterni John Madden, '22, will also be John Kistler, Pat Patterson, and here. John will be this year's the Phelps Connell displayed their toastmaster. Certainly the Class with the University of Michigan. tional Harvester Company in Ev- whole affair straightened out. (Our transient mob just gets started on enough, the chances are pretty ansville, Indiana. a job, only to graduate; then some good for trips in the future. rated the Number Back On Campus gan Phi Gams realized that their GRAFF, '96, has been reported to singing chorus. Potsy Ryan, George the chapter but we do not have Olson and A1 Jackson (mother-in- Say Most Alumni cently. A new couch and a new chair Crampton, '28, will come. Ed Tripp, '41, will be here for sure. A1 Fred erick, '14, Ward Peterson, '19, Tom Kinkead, '37, John Anderson, '24, ida for spring training with the Don Howell, '12, Colonel Miller, '12, and a bunch of the others are Detroit Tigers. Bill Upthegrove was elected sure bets. You know, it doesn't look president of Triangles, junior en like you can come to this Pig Din ner without seeing at least one of gineering honorary society. A lovely clock has been pur your old buddies. Maybe the guy chased as a war memorial to those you roomed with, drank beer with, who gave their lives in World War or just got to like real well. YOU inventory in the living room. II. It has been placed over the should come, too! Now is the time to let us know if there is any one you want to recommend for fall rushing. If memorial on the mantel that com- (Cont. on p. 3) Here's how the Dinner shapes up. You can roll in any time of \r\nPage Two THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS The Alpha Phiii News Are You a Phi Garn? ... or Were You? The annual initiation ceremony desperately needed to perpetuate was held recently, and ten new gold the lofty principles under which links were added to the chapter they flourished in their college chain. As I recall the ceremony, days? certain pasrnges of the r:tual imAnd how many are going to Editor ................................Dick Hurst pressed me. I find myself con- help us now when we are trying Assoc. Editor........ Dick l\'lcWilliams fronted with some points that l to make it possible for the frater­ think arc important enough for us nity that has trained, developed, Photographer.............. Pat Patterson all to consido·. and matured us to sow its rich re­ The thought that came to me wards in their sons and ours when ,··as this: asrnciation in Phi Gam­ they eventually enroll in the school the May 14 week-end. Friday night ma Delta will endure for a life­ of the:r fathers? is unofficial but you can be sure time. We· should remember Have we done nothing but ex­ that that there will be plenty of chance Phi Gamma Delta is not for col­ pos2 these ten men to a euphonious to meet the brothers and drink lege days alone. We get out of collection of words or have we re­ beer if you can get here early. this fraternity only what we put minded them of the very basis of Activity rolls into high gear Sat­ into it. We must help each other Phi Gamma Delta, the brothers who urday. A buffet luncheon will be whenever we can, and however we have preceded us? We are Fijis served at noon at the house. Then, can. We are a band of brothers an:l we w:U be Fijis all our lives. our business meeting. By the way, who believe in associated friend­ Twenty years from now we will for you who are interested in ship during our say "we are Phi Garns," not "we entire lifetime. learning more about the building were Phi Garns." We hope that These are but a few of the fund, this will be a good time to these 750 men whom we send mail thoughts that went through my get the story. mind, but they seem to illustrate to are Phi Garns, but I wonder . . . ' are you or were you"? The afternoon looks like a ilne the point. The questions they pre­ with grads and cipitated: are we being honest time to talk it over undergrads. Jack Brennan, '39, will with these ten men when we tell take care of beer and softball out them these things, knowing from I at the Brennan farm. Herby Barten experience that we ourselves someThe following address changes and John Lindquist will be down, times doubt them? have been received since the 1949 I wonder . . . I wonder how· directory was published: at Ferry Field running for Mich!gan against Illinois, and there 1s many brothers in Phi Gamma DelDaniel G. Auer, '46, 1121 Birk a ball game scheduled for that ta who have left school maintain Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. afternoon. "the blessing of fraternal associaHugh G. Benson, '23, 2()4 \Vest tion"? How many of them have Fourth Street, Royal Oak, Mich. Then Pig Dinner! really made an effort to seek out Richard J. Brashier, '45, 1720 It's scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at other brothers, to renew old friend- West 101st Place, Chicago 43, Ill. Robert Claflin, '36, 630 N.E., 64th the Allenel with Pig. After the ships, and to relive the experience "oldest" kisses the snout and the that united them in a common Street, Miami, Florida. Jack H. Connelly, '17, 1009 Larch "youngest" kisses the south end bond. Can someone Av tell me how many enue, Takoma Park 12, Mary­ another Pig Dinner starts becomalumni think enough about Phi land. ing a memory. By the way, we Gamma Delta to fill out an adRobert A. Elliott, '38, 1351 No. have no "oldest" yet, but we've dressed penny postcard and return Hudson Street, Chicago 10, Illinois. · got the youngest, and he's prac- 1·t to their ch apter so that their Henry S. Fonde, '47, 714 South ticing. brothers who are still in school State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. can keep the graduates informed Robert Grandy, '46, 6000 Tabor Johnny Madden and Scoop Wilk­ and interested? Road, Apartment 4, Philadelphia, inson will take care of the speak­ Do you have any idea of the Pennsylvania. ing, and the movies of the Cen­ number of brothers living within Gurney 0. Gutekunst, Jr., '46, tennial Ekklesia wind it up. forty miles of their college and Monsanto Chemical, Dayton, Ohio. William P. Kavanaugh, '97, 400 After the dinner we'll go back their chapter who ever find time and make the rafters ring and do to visit their house, to meet new South Bryant, Denver 4, Colorado. Ernest S. Kratzet, '17, 1032 19th some old-time fraternizing for as brothers, to assure themselves that traditions the and precepts that Street, Santa Monica, California. lots got We've like. you as long Robert C. Main, Room 505, Y.M. of sacks, so come early and stay they believed in and respected at late. The House is yours for Pig one time are still the same ideals C.A., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. that guide some sixty young men Warren H. Mayo, '34, 7212 PerDinner week-end. in that same chapter house? ryville Avenue, Ben Avon, Pa. P. S. -The week-end will cost And how many have answered Edwin J. Mercer, '13, 2204 Dime five bucks a man. the plea for help when funds were Building, Detroit 26, Michigan. Published at least quarterly by the Alpha Phi Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta, 707 Oxford Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Acldress Changes I April, 1949 I To These Alumni: Many Thanks ! There's one sure way to find out if you're dead or not. Just take a look in the 1949 Directory. Just two days after the Direc­ tories went into the mail, "de­ ceased" brother Tom Kuzma joy­ fully announced that he was the proud producer of a nine-pound four-ounce baby boy, Tommy, Jr. Not bad for someone pushing up daisies. Then it was noted that one Wil­ liam Dale, '46, would also dislike the prefix "deceased" before his name since he is hard at work with the United States Foreign Service staff. That's about the worst of the mistakes that have cropped up so far. If you tell a guy he's dead long enough, he's bound to get an­ gry and let you know about it; it prompts alumni correspondence very nicely. In post-directory letters to the chapter, several interesting things were 15aid. Orio Deahl, '16, wrote for another Directory because "I would like to have one to carry in my car and another to use in my office." We still have some left in stock and will send them out on request to anyone else who wants an extra. James B. Brill, '18, filled in some unknown directory facts for us and says it's "too far off to say 'yes' for the Pig Dinner but I will try_." Page Three Harry Cossitt, '19, class agent for his class in the Building Fund drive kicked into both causes due to a "severe case of nostalgia" and also writes "I hope to make the Pig Dinner and am looking forward to seeing you then." Meaning you, of course. T. Hollister Mahley, '31, writes: "I shall look forward to seeing you all at the next Pig Dinner." How about it, Class of '31? So far contributions totaling 155 dollars have been received from the following brothers: James Brill, h Harry Cossitt Hollister Ma ley '31, Walter Hickey, '31, Al Fred� erick, '14 Herman Heidbreder '23 Orio De;hl, '16, Erle Kightli�ger: '33 Ed Mercer '13 Francis Goodrich ' '03 ' Dun�in .Algyer ' '28' Orrin Carpenter '11 Benjamin Fullerton, '19, D�nald D. Smith, '04, Henry Slyfield '06 George Harper '98, Andrew Harv'ey, '93, Burges� , Vial, '40, George Davison, 03, Tom Barnum, '92, Ralph Sayles, '09, Tom Read, '06, and Fred Searing, '94. Safety Pinnings NANCY LOUISE AUER became the daughter of the Danny Auer's, December 15, 1948. Danny is of the Class of '46. I KRISTEN LYNN ANDERSON recently became the daughter of Betty and Harry Anderson, '43. * * * CYNTHIA LYNN BONI recently became the daughter of Ruth and Frank Boni, '47. DOINGS AROUND 707 OXFORD (Cont'd from page 1) memorates the sacrifice of Alpha Phi brothers in the first World War. Recently during the early morning hours our new pledge class removed .the dining room furniture from the house and strung it up and down Hill Street. We retaliated. Don't forget to plan to sit with "the house" next fall when we buy a block of seats for the alumni . . . what do you want more, the Army game or homecoming tickets? During hell - week, the pledge class personally distributed Pig 0 Dinner invitations to alumni scattered throughout the state. A more inclusive insurance policy is being taken out on the house. "Mucket's Bucket," the little room at the top of the stairs, has been converted into an office for fraternity business and a filing room for fraternity records. Al Jackson had a lead part in a student production of Saroyan's "Time of Your Life." George Ol­ son had a lead part in a series of speech department plays. All the little kids in the neighborhood come in to watch televi­ sion Sunday evenings. Meet the New Phi Garn Pledges Five men were pledged to Phi Gamma Delta during informal spring rushing. Let me introduce the� · · · Richard Cortez Day is from �ac�son, transferred here as a Jumor from Jackson Junior College, where �e played basketball and was president of the student body_. A three-letter man and president of the school at Jackson High, Dick is p�ay�ng freshman basketball for M1ch1gan and run­ ning intra�ural track for the house. He is twenty-one and has served in the Navy. R"ich ard Frame also comes to us from Jackson Junior College, where he starred on the basketball team which went into the national tournament after winning the state championship. He has just com­ pleted a successful season on the freshman cage team, and will now join the track team. Dick is twen­ ty-one and a veteran of the Navy. John Henr.y Kathe from Ithaca, Indiana, excelled in high school journalism and track, participated in student government and was president of his class. He is now working out with the Fiji track squad, hitting the books, and is a member of the Michigan Marching Band. Richard King Thomas follows his brother, Dave, to Alpha Phi from Petroit Redford high, where he was active in dramatics and student government and made the All-Detroit Football Team. House activities, school work, and the Michigan Daily will take up most of Rioh's time. Parker Owen Pennington is in his own home town, Ann Arbor. Park is a sophomore, active in publications and social activities. In high school, he spent time on the school biweekly and in student government. MORE ADDRESS CHANGES Glen B. Morse, '38, 2224 Monroe Avenue, N. W., Grand Rapids 5, Michigan. Glenn C. Neff, '48, 106 West 56th Street, New York 19, N. Y. Robert B. Otis, '03, 4831 West Alder Drive, San Diego 4, Calif. \r\nPage Two THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS The Alpha Phiii News Are You a Phi Garn? ... or Were You? The annual initiation ceremony desperately needed to perpetuate was held recently, and ten new gold the lofty principles under which links were added to the chapter they flourished in their college chain. As I recall the ceremony, days? certain pasrnges of the r:tual imAnd how many are going to Editor ................................Dick Hurst pressed me. I find myself con- help us now when we are trying Assoc. Editor........ Dick l\'lcWilliams fronted with some points that l to make it possible for the frater­ think arc important enough for us nity that has trained, developed, Photographer.............. Pat Patterson all to consido·. and matured us to sow its rich re­ The thought that came to me wards in their sons and ours when ,··as this: asrnciation in Phi Gam­ they eventually enroll in the school the May 14 week-end. Friday night ma Delta will endure for a life­ of the:r fathers? is unofficial but you can be sure time. We· should remember Have we done nothing but ex­ that that there will be plenty of chance Phi Gamma Delta is not for col­ pos2 these ten men to a euphonious to meet the brothers and drink lege days alone. We get out of collection of words or have we re­ beer if you can get here early. this fraternity only what we put minded them of the very basis of Activity rolls into high gear Sat­ into it. We must help each other Phi Gamma Delta, the brothers who urday. A buffet luncheon will be whenever we can, and however we have preceded us? We are Fijis served at noon at the house. Then, can. We are a band of brothers an:l we w:U be Fijis all our lives. our business meeting. By the way, who believe in associated friend­ Twenty years from now we will for you who are interested in ship during our say "we are Phi Garns," not "we entire lifetime. learning more about the building were Phi Garns." We hope that These are but a few of the fund, this will be a good time to these 750 men whom we send mail thoughts that went through my get the story. mind, but they seem to illustrate to are Phi Garns, but I wonder . . . ' are you or were you"? The afternoon looks like a ilne the point. The questions they pre­ with grads and cipitated: are we being honest time to talk it over undergrads. Jack Brennan, '39, will with these ten men when we tell take care of beer and softball out them these things, knowing from I at the Brennan farm. Herby Barten experience that we ourselves someThe following address changes and John Lindquist will be down, times doubt them? have been received since the 1949 I wonder . . . I wonder how· directory was published: at Ferry Field running for Mich!gan against Illinois, and there 1s many brothers in Phi Gamma DelDaniel G. Auer, '46, 1121 Birk a ball game scheduled for that ta who have left school maintain Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. afternoon. "the blessing of fraternal associaHugh G. Benson, '23, 2()4 \Vest tion"? How many of them have Fourth Street, Royal Oak, Mich. Then Pig Dinner! really made an effort to seek out Richard J. Brashier, '45, 1720 It's scheduled for 7:00 p.m. at other brothers, to renew old friend- West 101st Place, Chicago 43, Ill. Robert Claflin, '36, 630 N.E., 64th the Allenel with Pig. After the ships, and to relive the experience "oldest" kisses the snout and the that united them in a common Street, Miami, Florida. Jack H. Connelly, '17, 1009 Larch "youngest" kisses the south end bond. Can someone Av tell me how many enue, Takoma Park 12, Mary­ another Pig Dinner starts becomalumni think enough about Phi land. ing a memory. By the way, we Gamma Delta to fill out an adRobert A. Elliott, '38, 1351 No. have no "oldest" yet, but we've dressed penny postcard and return Hudson Street, Chicago 10, Illinois. · got the youngest, and he's prac- 1·t to their ch apter so that their Henry S. Fonde, '47, 714 South ticing. brothers who are still in school State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. can keep the graduates informed Robert Grandy, '46, 6000 Tabor Johnny Madden and Scoop Wilk­ and interested? Road, Apartment 4, Philadelphia, inson will take care of the speak­ Do you have any idea of the Pennsylvania. ing, and the movies of the Cen­ number of brothers living within Gurney 0. Gutekunst, Jr., '46, tennial Ekklesia wind it up. forty miles of their college and Monsanto Chemical, Dayton, Ohio. William P. Kavanaugh, '97, 400 After the dinner we'll go back their chapter who ever find time and make the rafters ring and do to visit their house, to meet new South Bryant, Denver 4, Colorado. Ernest S. Kratzet, '17, 1032 19th some old-time fraternizing for as brothers, to assure themselves that traditions the and precepts that Street, Santa Monica, California. lots got We've like. you as long Robert C. Main, Room 505, Y.M. of sacks, so come early and stay they believed in and respected at late. The House is yours for Pig one time are still the same ideals C.A., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. that guide some sixty young men Warren H. Mayo, '34, 7212 PerDinner week-end. in that same chapter house? ryville Avenue, Ben Avon, Pa. P. S. -The week-end will cost And how many have answered Edwin J. Mercer, '13, 2204 Dime five bucks a man. the plea for help when funds were Building, Detroit 26, Michigan. Published at least quarterly by the Alpha Phi Chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta, 707 Oxford Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Acldress Changes I April, 1949 I To These Alumni: Many Thanks ! There's one sure way to find out if you're dead or not. Just take a look in the 1949 Directory. Just two days after the Direc­ tories went into the mail, "de­ ceased" brother Tom Kuzma joy­ fully announced that he was the proud producer of a nine-pound four-ounce baby boy, Tommy, Jr. Not bad for someone pushing up daisies. Then it was noted that one Wil­ liam Dale, '46, would also dislike the prefix "deceased" before his name since he is hard at work with the United States Foreign Service staff. That's about the worst of the mistakes that have cropped up so far. If you tell a guy he's dead long enough, he's bound to get an­ gry and let you know about it; it prompts alumni correspondence very nicely. In post-directory letters to the chapter, several interesting things were 15aid. Orio Deahl, '16, wrote for another Directory because "I would like to have one to carry in my car and another to use in my office." We still have some left in stock and will send them out on request to anyone else who wants an extra. James B. Brill, '18, filled in some unknown directory facts for us and says it's "too far off to say 'yes' for the Pig Dinner but I will try_." Page Three Harry Cossitt, '19, class agent for his class in the Building Fund drive kicked into both causes due to a "severe case of nostalgia" and also writes "I hope to make the Pig Dinner and am looking forward to seeing you then." Meaning you, of course. T. Hollister Mahley, '31, writes: "I shall look forward to seeing you all at the next Pig Dinner." How about it, Class of '31? So far contributions totaling 155 dollars have been received from the following brothers: James Brill, h Harry Cossitt Hollister Ma ley '31, Walter Hickey, '31, Al Fred� erick, '14 Herman Heidbreder '23 Orio De;hl, '16, Erle Kightli�ger: '33 Ed Mercer '13 Francis Goodrich ' '03 ' Dun�in .Algyer ' '28' Orrin Carpenter '11 Benjamin Fullerton, '19, D�nald D. Smith, '04, Henry Slyfield '06 George Harper '98, Andrew Harv'ey, '93, Burges� , Vial, '40, George Davison, 03, Tom Barnum, '92, Ralph Sayles, '09, Tom Read, '06, and Fred Searing, '94. Safety Pinnings NANCY LOUISE AUER became the daughter of the Danny Auer's, December 15, 1948. Danny is of the Class of '46. I KRISTEN LYNN ANDERSON recently became the daughter of Betty and Harry Anderson, '43. * * * CYNTHIA LYNN BONI recently became the daughter of Ruth and Frank Boni, '47. DOINGS AROUND 707 OXFORD (Cont'd from page 1) memorates the sacrifice of Alpha Phi brothers in the first World War. Recently during the early morning hours our new pledge class removed .the dining room furniture from the house and strung it up and down Hill Street. We retaliated. Don't forget to plan to sit with "the house" next fall when we buy a block of seats for the alumni . . . what do you want more, the Army game or homecoming tickets? During hell - week, the pledge class personally distributed Pig 0 Dinner invitations to alumni scattered throughout the state. A more inclusive insurance policy is being taken out on the house. "Mucket's Bucket," the little room at the top of the stairs, has been converted into an office for fraternity business and a filing room for fraternity records. Al Jackson had a lead part in a student production of Saroyan's "Time of Your Life." George Ol­ son had a lead part in a series of speech department plays. All the little kids in the neighborhood come in to watch televi­ sion Sunday evenings. Meet the New Phi Garn Pledges Five men were pledged to Phi Gamma Delta during informal spring rushing. Let me introduce the� · · · Richard Cortez Day is from �ac�son, transferred here as a Jumor from Jackson Junior College, where �e played basketball and was president of the student body_. A three-letter man and president of the school at Jackson High, Dick is p�ay�ng freshman basketball for M1ch1gan and run­ ning intra�ural track for the house. He is twenty-one and has served in the Navy. R"ich ard Frame also comes to us from Jackson Junior College, where he starred on the basketball team which went into the national tournament after winning the state championship. He has just com­ pleted a successful season on the freshman cage team, and will now join the track team. Dick is twen­ ty-one and a veteran of the Navy. John Henr.y Kathe from Ithaca, Indiana, excelled in high school journalism and track, participated in student government and was president of his class. He is now working out with the Fiji track squad, hitting the books, and is a member of the Michigan Marching Band. Richard King Thomas follows his brother, Dave, to Alpha Phi from Petroit Redford high, where he was active in dramatics and student government and made the All-Detroit Football Team. House activities, school work, and the Michigan Daily will take up most of Rioh's time. Parker Owen Pennington is in his own home town, Ann Arbor. Park is a sophomore, active in publications and social activities. In high school, he spent time on the school biweekly and in student government. MORE ADDRESS CHANGES Glen B. Morse, '38, 2224 Monroe Avenue, N. W., Grand Rapids 5, Michigan. Glenn C. Neff, '48, 106 West 56th Street, New York 19, N. Y. Robert B. Otis, '03, 4831 West Alder Drive, San Diego 4, Calif. \r\nPage Four THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS NEWS OF ALUMNI EVERYWHERE William E. Post, '04, is VicePresident of the Hughes-Keenan Corporation in Delaware, Ohio. Charles "Bill" Lewis, '22, is the Counselor of Embassy and Consul General in United States Foreign Service at Karachi, Pakistan. James "Jimmie" Johnson, '23, is ent with the Underwood Corpora tion in Hartford, Connecticut. William Theidel, '47, is with Carl Theidel and Sons, Inc., in Hinsdale, Illinois. Frederick Woodward, '46, is now working for the Benjamin Frank lin Hotel in Philadelphia. Secretary-Treasurer . . . General ing Fund Piggy Bank for pennies and such. Do you realize that §14 a man a year is worth §10,000 in a lump? Quote John Thom, '38: "In an other eleven years two of my boys will be at Michigan and, hope fully, will be members of Alpha Phi. Certainly, unless something is done about the chapter house, they may be forced to join some other fraternity which would be a Glen Neff, '48, last year's presi Manager of the Bude Lumber Com dent, comes through town occasion horrible fate." pany in Bude, Mississippi. Brother ally on his job with Babcock and Quote John Madden, '22: "The Johnson writes: "I have a tract of Wilcox Company. one hundred acres that is mostly pasture and woodland for the grazing of a breed of horses known as Tennessee Walking Horses. house on the hill right across from Jack Adamson, '48, is a general Sigma Nu' has got to be replaced. insurance broker in Los Angeles, It needed it twenty-seven years California. ago, didn't it? Now it's a MUST!" Charles Ketterer, '48, is coach Right now, the fund is up to These horses have such nice rid ing at Northville High School in ing gaits that their popularity is Northville, Michigan. ^ ^ ^ spreading to all parts of the coun try. KENNETH W. VANCE,'16, died If any of the brothers are ever February 3, 1949, in Detroit. in these parts I would like to have LIONEL H. DUSCHAK,'04, died them stop in for a visit." November 29, 1938, in an Oakland, Donald Shirley Smith, '29, is in California, hospital after a long the insurance business with the illness. Brother Duschak had been Alexander H. Sibley Company in Detroit. Don participated in the initiation of his nephew, George Qua III, in the February formal initiation of the fall pledge class. William "Ollie" Schoedinger, '43, is the Assistant Sales Manager for F. 0. Schoedinger in Columbus, Ohio, and is already on the Pig Dinner acceptance list. Benjamin Douglas, '43, is a plant engineer with New York Telephone Company in Ticonderoga, New York. Ben has a baby daughter who will be one-year-old in July. a professor of metallurgy at University of California for last eleven years of his life was recognized as one of the §2,500 plus, and picking up in terest as it goes. Continue to send contributions to 707 Oxford . . . do you know, each undergraduate is contribut ing nine bucks a year to OUR fund? Every buck counts! In fact, after a recent Friday night trip to the Schwaben's Tavern the un- the drunk part of the beer pool was the contributed to the fund. Let's make and it grow! na tion's top metallurgists. The death of EMMET UPDE- OPERA (Cont. from p. 1 ) chorus. Dean Barnard was in the AlfiUa PlUfi Ne44j4> University of Michigan Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta April, 1949 Ann Arbor, Michigan Pig Dinner ^^Pll Be There" List Grows committee. The actual fund-raising responsibility is the baby of broth ers Phil Holcombe, '46, and Dan Auer, '46, both members of the Alpha Phi Board. They have a real interest in the problem since they "Include Me In" But how was all this made pos sible? Because, in 1949 and 1950 and each succeeding year, Michi Old Tradition son why Phi Gamma Delta was chapter needed a new house. So they raised money to build it. ties. He's the man who puts out Remember the Union Opera? the most thorough fraternity mag Well, for the first time since azine published. He's the most1941, it came back on campus . . . sought-after personality in frater the biggest show ever, twenty nity circles. He's THE Number dancing "girlies" and all the trim One fraternity man! And Scoop mings in a tremendous effort to is one reason why we want you revive what was once one of to come to this Pig Dinner. It will Michigan's grandest traditions. be his first Alpha Phi Pig Dinner, We were kind of excited about and we want it to be one that will it, too. In fact, the whole house make him come back to succeeding went to Froggy Bottom's premiere ones. That isn't all, but it's sure a to cheer on the rest of the house Will New House Become Reality? Scoop Wilkinson will be here Time: 1957. Place: 707 Oxford Road, Ann have both lived in the house re May 14th. cently and can comprehend its At the Pig Dinner, I mean. Arbor, Michigan. Scoop is the dean of fraternity Plot: Construction of a new shortcomings. men, the most competent man in (Cont'd on page 4) house. ^ ^ his particular field. He is one rea "You DO need a new house"— through the years the Alpha Phi alumni have been saying that, woefully shaking their heads. Soon "we" will become "you" and a new group will be saying "You go—next June, and the next June, further information. etc. . . . New House (Cont. from p. 1) Quote Harry Cossitt, '19: "It law) all had reading parts in the show. Dave Leyshon was the gen eral chairman and was instrumen tal in having the Opera revived. Jim Ebersole wrote the words and boils down to a question of Phi music to four of the show's top Lyons "Tiger" Rowland, '43, is Gamma Delta having a good chap tunes. Bill Zerman was in charge in social psychology research work ter or even having a chapter at of publicity and promotion and was helped by Phil Anderson. Michigan." Froggy Bottom was held for More than that, they will be able Kenneth Allen, '43, is a salesman three nights at the Michigan thea with the United States Gypsum to devote time and energy to this ter and was a complete sell-out at program — which the undergradu Company. all performances. The show did Walter Tiedeman, '44, is a mech ates find hard to do. They will be need a new house." And so it will Quote Glen E. Luke, '10: "I would not be interested in any thing that gets you fellows a who were as noticeable house ten years from now; the show as onions in salad. need is immediate." The latest development in not go on the road this year, but, anical engineer with the Interna here, in a position to keep the if the alumni demand is great William MacGowan, '46, will be graduated this June from Michi gan's school of music. Harley Fortier, '47, is out in Los Angeles and writes copious quanti neophyte takes over and makes the same mistakes all over.) Now, we think the solution has been found: MORE ADDRESS CHANGED building fund campaign has been shapely "gams" in the (Cont. on p. 4) a re-organization of the Campaign DOINGS AROUND 707 OXFORD Howell, George Allen and Phil George Spaulding, '47, has a already hit about two hundred of Queen, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. sales promotion job with Libbey- the most recent graduating classes. George N. Spaulding, '47, 3318 Tullamore Road, Cleveland Heights Owen-Ford Glass Company out of These, to be sure, are the fellows have been added to the furniture Harvey "Mucket" Spaunburg is just starting families at that . . . the assistant to the superintend but each of them will have a Build DeWolf M. Stanley, '49, 1217 North, Pasadena, California. dancing of '22 will be here to give John moral support, but he's got to have more than just classmates to talk to. That's too easy an assign 27, 1949. They are Charles Corn- we can become acquainted with well, Ray Newhall, Charles Em them, and they can become ac ery, Bill Loveless, Bill Hickman, quainted with us. Dick Wakefield is down in Flor George Qua, Spence Parsons, Dick Field Secretary Fred Dixon paid a four-day visit to the house re Cleveland, Ohio. the good start. ment! Anderson. with the smallest incomes . . . and 18, Ohio. national Hollister Mabley, '31, will be Ten men were formally initiated it is possible, we will try to meet into Phi Gamma Delta on February these men this summer so that here and I'll bet that Freeman Peter Rowe, '34, 33 St. Law that a coordinated plan will evolve. rence Ave., Reno, Nevada. Gilbert L. Smith, '49, 226 South The committee's first step has ties on how wonderful it all is. in One fraternity in a recent objective analysis of the country's fraterni John Madden, '22, will also be John Kistler, Pat Patterson, and here. John will be this year's the Phelps Connell displayed their toastmaster. Certainly the Class with the University of Michigan. tional Harvester Company in Ev- whole affair straightened out. (Our transient mob just gets started on enough, the chances are pretty ansville, Indiana. a job, only to graduate; then some good for trips in the future. rated the Number Back On Campus gan Phi Gams realized that their GRAFF, '96, has been reported to singing chorus. Potsy Ryan, George the chapter but we do not have Olson and A1 Jackson (mother-in- Say Most Alumni cently. A new couch and a new chair Crampton, '28, will come. Ed Tripp, '41, will be here for sure. A1 Fred erick, '14, Ward Peterson, '19, Tom Kinkead, '37, John Anderson, '24, ida for spring training with the Don Howell, '12, Colonel Miller, '12, and a bunch of the others are Detroit Tigers. Bill Upthegrove was elected sure bets. You know, it doesn't look president of Triangles, junior en like you can come to this Pig Din ner without seeing at least one of gineering honorary society. A lovely clock has been pur your old buddies. Maybe the guy chased as a war memorial to those you roomed with, drank beer with, who gave their lives in World War or just got to like real well. YOU inventory in the living room. II. It has been placed over the should come, too! Now is the time to let us know if there is any one you want to recommend for fall rushing. If memorial on the mantel that com- (Cont. on p. 3) Here's how the Dinner shapes up. You can roll in any time of