«4yi t-5?' •I# ri Introducing the Fiji Pledges for 1949-1950 Left to right, top row—Bill Knudsen, Tom Choyce, Morris Johnson, Ron Raitt, Paul Grimm, Wayne Handshy, Glen Rosenquist, Ed Gross, Jack James, Dick Goll, Jim Schleiger, Jack Russell. Middle row—John Elwell, A1 Barnard, Jim Wamsley, Jim Smith, John Addison, Bill Melcher, Jack Paap, Jerry Solomon, John Sinclair, Bill Karrer. Bottom row—George Hancock, Ted Cannon, Jim Elliott, Dick Wadlow, Dick Mallett, Rich Olson, Matt Jaap, Glen Beerline, Mickey Meyers, John McCurdy, Don Field. Not shown—Jerry Merritt. Once again, as in past years. Lambda Nu has finished rush week with a top group of pledges. They are thirty-four in number, the majority being from Ne in his class scholastically, lettered in football, basketball, and track, and was braska with a few from out of state. Tom Choyce from Decatur, Georgia, Ted Cannon from Mitchell was tops on the student council. He is a freshman. The first one (listed alphabetically) is shone as a John Addison who comes from Stanton. club, John attended Stanton High where he had a high scholastic average, partici pated in the school choirs, and was busi ness manager of the high school paper. Society, and was one of the top men in his class scholastically. He is a fresh the member of the letterman's National Athletic Scholastic man in pre-law. ball and track, and participated in fire patrol safety and Red Cross work. Don is a freshman in Engineering. Dick Goll, a football and ba.sketball letterman from Tekamah was president of his class for two years, member of the student council, on the "annual" staff, and president of the letterman's club. Paul Grimm from Blair was in the Jim Elliott from Mitchell participated in football, track, and was member of band, glee club, dramatic society, on the school paper, and lettered in football, track, and basketball. Paul is a freshman the glee club of Mitchell High. He was very high in his class with a 93.4 average went to Lincoln High and was a mem- in Business Administration. Ed Gross from Omaha was a football and is now a letterman jjer of the frosh team, helped Lincoln win football games as a cheerleader and freshman. John is a junior in Business Administra tion. •Next is A1 Barnard from Lincoln. A1 Business Administration From Sidney comes John Elwell who did some acting. excelled in scholarship, lettered in foot ball, basketball, and track, belonged to skill as a scholar, member of Hi-Y, vice lieutenant, choir member, and an officer of the Student Council. He is a P. E. officer for three out of his four years at Glenn Beerline is from Alliance where went to Alliance High and showed president of the Letterman's club, band major. the letterman's club, and was a class Sidney High. John is a Freshman in the Business Administration College. Don Field from Omaha attended Oma ha North where he was a star in foot and voted the best Senior Artist at Omaha Central High. George Hancock comes from Lincoln High where he was on the debating team, choir, student council, and was a member of the tennis team. George is a freshman in Pre-Law. Wayne Handshy from Los Angeles, California, was president of the letterman's society, president of the Student (Continued on Page 2) \r\nGamma Delta have Nu ar?!! alumni of Lambda invited to attend and to rema^^ remembered byCelebration all Fijis. one long to be of the student council and the band. ber of the student council and the mixea Jim Schleiger from Lincoln High in Lincoln was on the school paper and tered in track, football, and was a mem chorus. the Conti- Morris Johnson from Salina, I^nsas, Lincoln on attended St. John's Mmt^ School neSkI downtown cafa ha i,M ®'"t>er 19, 1949. The entire Sfffa reserved the occasion ^d a capacity crowd is for expected. A deas fl ts on the menu and eve^g^ ^ *" ^tl top off the where he was on the football team, the track squad. He is a freshman with a history or science major. Walter Knutzen from San Mateo, Cali fornia, is originally from where he lettered m football The main speaker of the evening will braska, and track at Kearney High. He is a be one of the national officers, well known to aU Phi Gams. In addition to the Pig Dinner the Umversity of Nebraska will be host to the Umversity of Colorado in a Big Seven conference football game the afteraoon of the 19th. Seats are still avail able but they are going fast. If you so • $d.00 for a reserved seat gameorplease mail m $3.60 for a box seat and we will try to accommodate your requests. To eliminate confusion please try to mail in your money before November 1, 1949. Hotel accommodations either Friday or Saturday night wiU be taken care of upon your request. Due to the confusion and the added cost, there will be no dinner at the Fiji Hut for the alumnae wives. Arrange ments will be made by you as to their plans for the night of the dinner. If you desire to attend the Pig Dinner Please fill out the form below and mail it to Robert E. Yarwood, 1425 R St., Lincoln, Nebraska, at your earliest pos sible convenience. Tickets for the dinner will be sold the evening of the dinner at the Continental Cafe. The price, yet to be determined, will be considerably lower than that of last year. Money for football tickets must be mailed in as soon as possible. annual, sang in the choir, and let^rea in football, basketball, and track. He is a freshman in pre-med. Dick Mallot from Lincoln High let tered in wrestling, was a member of the choir, on the National Honor Society, and on the National Athletic Honor So ciety. ^ . Jerry Merritt from Lincoln went to Lincoln High where he lettered in ball and basketball. He has also attended Kiski Prep, lettering there in football and basketball. William Melcher from Omaha went to Omaha Central and was the track team He was also a sports writer for the campaign manager for student affairs. James Smith from Hartley was a letterman in football, basketball, and track. He also was on the high school annuall staff and president of his sopho more and junior classes. He is a fresh man. Jim Wamsley comes from Sidney where he attended Sidney high school lettering in football. He was a member of the band, president of his junior class and participated in photography. He also attended Hastings College where he was on the swimming team. Jim is a junior with a chem-pre-med major. Rich Wadlow from Lincoln went to Lincoln High where he w5s a cheer a freshman in pre-med. opera. He is a freshman with a pre- Mickey Meyers from Benson High in Omaha was very high scholastically and leader, member of the choir, and in the mortician major. was an R.O.T.C. member, and was on the rifle team. He is a freshman in Busi ness Administration. John McCurdy from Lincoln attended Northeast High School and lettered in football, basketball, and track. He was a member of the Hub-Club, a class presi dent, and on the decorating committee for the school paper. He is a sophomore in Engineering. of the R.O.T.C. He is a sophomore in business administration. Jack Paap, from Otoe, was very high scholastically, lettered in baseball, bas ketball, Softball, and took part in dra matics. He is a sophomore in pre-med. Ron Raitt Lambda Nu Today, Phi Gamma Delta, a from Ainsworth went bi-monthly publication published by the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta, Lambda Nu Chapter, Lincoln, Nebraska. Mrs. Mae Minier John Sinclair from John Marshall High manager, in the German club, Latin club, and a dark room manager. He is Alum Notes William E. Long (Nebraska '14), pio neer rancher and major stock grower of Johnson county, Wyoming, died sud den^ of a heart attack, Tuesday, Sep^mber 13, 1949, at his sheep camp near Hazelton, Wyoming. He had left Buffalo early Tuesday morning apparently in good health, and died soon after reach ing the camp. eraduated from the Univer- sity of Nebraska where he was a mem ber of the football team and a loyal brother of Phi Gamma Delta. to Ainsworth High where he lettered in football, basketball, track, and baseball Leo Harkson ('51) music. school paper, in the boys' glee club, and council, in the choir, and was a member Ed Racely ('50) football, track, basketball and was in the band, senior class play, mixed chorus and boys' glee club. He is a junior in scholastically and participated in student council affairs, was the editor of the Cook High School where he was tops to Lincoln^ Nebraska Neil Solomon (Jerry) comes from Culbertson where he participated in School in Los Angeles, California, let tered in gymnastics, track, and footbaU. Send Pig Dinner Reservations 1425 R Street worked on intra-mural athletics. He is a freshman in business administration. sophomore in Civil Engineering. Bill Karrer from McCook went to Mc- Rich Olson from Benson High in Oma ha lettered in football and basketball, was a member of Hi-Y, on the student BOB YARWOOD staff, the frosh team, and was a member Jack James is from North PIatte where he went to North Platte High and let Address William A. Scheurick, Jr. Apt 1> Langdon Street, Cambridge Mass. He is now attending Law School at Harvard. Visitors Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B Lovett stopped Editor Asst. Editor Society Editor at the house after the Minnesota game. Mr. Lovett is a Yale alumnus who just moved to Omaha and is anxious to get acquainted with Nebraska Fijis. He is associated with the Rwere Copper and Brass, Inc., at 5019 Underwood Ave. \r\nLAMBDA NU TODAY From the President Lambda Nu launched is on its Now New Ownership week here it looks like the second half of the century is off to a good start. We placed the white star on thirty-five well chosen men this year, especially strengthening our hold in Omaha and Lincoln. We feel it is ne:essary to pledge a large class again this year to maintain our strength in the years to come. The chapter membership is down this year to just over one hundred and next year it will drop to what we feel will be "nor mal" again. National figures show that with a pledge class of thirty men the house will have 15 seniors in three years. Fifty per cent drop out of school, transfer or don't make the grade. With enrollment dropping off every year it will be to our advantage both financially and socially to have strength in numbers as well as unity and prestige. The fraternal spirit of Lambda Nu has been kindled into full flame by my predecessors, John Binning and Chuck Thoene. We are on top—and we will stay on top. Thanks to all the alumni who helped us with our rushing program this year. Your interest in the fraternity is appre ciated and will help us to maintain our strength. In particular I want to thank Jerry Merritt for the use of the beach for our riish parties. Harold Holmquist and I attended the Fiji Academy this summer in Granville, Ohio, and we derived invaluable ex perience which will help our officers to better conduct the affairs of the chapter. The Academy is a school for Fiji officers and will be held on off-Eklessia years. A full report of the Academy will be given in the next issue of Phi Gamma Delta. We of Larnbda Nu realize the spot light we are in at Nebraska because we are on top, and we appreciate our obliga tion to keep the Fiji name on top. We are proud of our chapter and I wish to remind you that it is YOUR chapter and we want you to be proud of it. We as undergraduates are proud too of YOU as alumni for all you have done to put us where we are. We are eager to see alumni activity increase and realize what a great boon it is to our chapter. I should like each of you to consider this a personal invitation to visit our chapter whenever you can and see what Tambda Nu is today. We are planning another big Pig Dinner this year and During the last few months the in quiry concerning ownership and title to the Chapter House of Lambda Nu of Phi Gamma Delta has reached a more than usual volume. the real situation Investigation into has revealed that although the present is not as unsatis factory as was originally thought, some changes should be made to obtain the best results from all aspects, including that of taxation. and step back, look at, and compare this one with previous rush weeks, it is pleasing to report that our alumni support and co operation was at a higher level than during any previous rush week I can remember. We received many telephone calls, telegrams and personal letters, but they came early enough for us to act upon has had a continuous existence since that date. One of the primary consid erations is the fact that the original they can cause is confusion. I know this cooperation will continue in the future. corporation will die a legal death in 1955 due to the content and scope of the laws of the state in force at the time and also due to the wording of the articles. Modern corporation law has them and not at the last minute when all Last month I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Sioux City Alumni developed the corporate creature of perpetual existence, and the Lambda rush party held at Sioux City. There, alumni of Phi Gamma Delta—mostly from Ames, Iowa U—hold regular meet ings. Lambda Nu is well represented in that organization. Their last year's presi dent was Harold Jacobson, '47, and their Nu Association should most definitely be of the perpetual type. group has been organized a little over two years, and is already a credit to the The accountants for the corporation are now attempting to convince the Commissioner of Internal Revenue that a more favorable determination should be made concerning the extent of taxes entire fraternity. paid by the corporation, but regardless ol that decision a change should be made so positive that even the most stubborn of commissioners would favor application of the least tax available. The houses of the past and the one of the present have been purchased by contributions from the members of our fraternity. These contributions came in many different forms. Some were president this year is John Call '48. This It is my hope that we can start an alumni association in Lincoln, keep it growing until a graduate chapter can be organized. This will depend upon future developments but our present plans for the alumni are to meet once every month for dinner at the house. All men in the Lincoln area will be notified when the meetings are to be held. We need your support—so please attend. Allen T. O'Connor Purple Legionnaire direct donations and gifts, some were stock purchases, some were amounts paid into the corporation by active chapters in excess of their rent. An exact allocation of shares seems almost impossible and surely not practicable. The disadvantages of a stock corpora tion are apparent when the problems of disposition after death of a stock DON'T FORGET holder are considered. At present the shares clearly state that no person not a member of Phi Gamma Delta may hold the shares. This is a great protec tion and demonstrates clear planning by some one of those incorporators, nevertheless there is a more clear-cut solution to problems of this type, i. e., some type of membership organization equally restricted but without problems of an interest continuing after demise. digest and usable form. let us down. See you all at the 1949 Pig future you will be hearing more of this problem through personal correspond- Dinner, November 19, after the Colorado game. ^ Geier, President rush over The original Lamba Nu Association, a corporation, was formed in 1905 and hooe you oan come to renew old fra ternal friendships and make new ones. We have takeri it upon ourselves to plan hie celebration under the assumption that we will have a big turnout. Don't that is one has had time to fifty-first year, and from Accordi'ng to Al Lambda Nu FormS I have been appointed to make some preliminary examinations and to bring information to the old corporation into In the near ence. John Binning. THE PIG DINNER \r\nLAMBDA NU TODAY FIJI SOCIETY Early in the summer Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy announced the en gagement and plans for an October wed ding of their daughter Roberta Louise to James R .Gwynn, now of St. Joseph, Mo. We had a real epidemic of "Pinnings" in September. Either they were hold overs or the boys did some fast work. There was: Shirley Hahn and Dan Jones; destine Westmark to Bob Swain; Marjorie Reeve to Jim McMeekin; Anne M. Miles to Rod Fletcher, Carol Younkin and Ed Bruere and Barbara Yeager to Wayne Eisenhart. Needless to say we had quite a smoke screen on several Monday evenings. Another school year successfully on it^ way and time hasn't forgotten how to wing its way past us all too swiftly. Week ends have been busy ones with two home football games and a house party events of the past. smoothly. Mrs. Agnes Lewis, an excel lent cook has a capable assistant, Mrs. Minnie Freeman. Thirty-three men now wear the white star indicating their Phi Gamma Delta affiliation and a promising group they are, anxious to assimilate university and fraternity routine. Weddings and rumors of same domi nated the summer social calendar, Au gust being a popular month. John Cover, Jr., of Alliance and Cath erine Peterson of Ashby were married in the Hyannis, Nebr., Episcopal church. They are establishing their home in Alli ance. At eight o'clock on Saturday evening, August 20, the marriage lines were read for Marilyn Diestel of Fremont and Jack Shirmer in the Salem Lutheran Church in Fremont. Jean Laura Marchand became Mrs. Dale Raitt in Lincoln in the Chapel of Grace Lutheran Church at eight o'clock in the evening of August 22. Sunday, the eleventh of September, at four o'clock in the afternoon was the Russell Legers of Omaha have a son as do the DeWayne Wolfs of Kearney. Sorry but the announcements must have astray so we can't give dates. Russell Leger is no longer on radio, he is in the real estate business in Omaha with Hal Easton. Dr. H. Curtiss Merrick announces the establishing of his offices for general practices of medicine in Suite 208, 10 Suburban Professional Bldg., Norfolk, Virginia. Robert Lollefsen stopped in Lincoln October 22, on his way to Los Angeles where he has the very responsible posi tion of Senior Trial Lawyer with the National Bank of America. Those of us who knew Bob during his University days are not surprised by his rapid climb in the legal field. Jim Malowney stopped just a few min utes early in September to tell us that he is located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as adjuster for Liberty Mutual Casualty Insurance Co. Incidently, we were informed that The pledges initial party had a circus theme and was most realistic, even to pink lemonade, popcorn balls and pea Grace Methodist Church in Lincoln was nuts. the scene of the ceremony. Lincoln visits by several of my former No Barnum-Bailey show moved on leaving as many peanut huUs as were piled up in this Fiji abode. Congratulations to the following: Ruth and Warren Killian on a daughter whose birth date is August 17, 1949; Harlan Robersons of Rockport, Mo., on the ar rival of little Nancy, July 19, 1949. The boys and their wives. It's always such a pleasure to see you all. Come in often, The most important unit in a fraternity house, the kitchen, is operating very date and time chosen by Darlene Pothast for her marriage to Jerry Tomsick. 8-month-old Laurel Lee is an unusual little lady and we didn't argue. Football has been the incentive for won't you? "Mom" Mae Revard Minier NixaTina vxaaa VIAEIAEVO IHd p XjfSjaAiun Avaox jQN vaaiAivq