*Theta Del teron Star Ohio Wesleyan Ui iversity, Delaware, Ohio JUNE, 1949 Volume 3 Number 2 Lausche Commencement Speaker At Graduation Of Eighteen Brothers Bill Strasburg Arthur Flemmlng These Men Will Graduate . Ill Elected President Will Be Inducted As Ninth President Of Student Body ll'i/ts Top Position By 213 Vote MarginIn Three-Way Race Hoover To Deliver • Theta Deuteron is proud of Brother Bill Strasburg, junior from Berea, who was elected Ohio Wesleyan's new student body president. Strasburg student won the coveted government office Inaugural Address At Ceremony, June 11 Eighteen seniors will leave the active chapter at Theta Deuteron for the last time when they receive their diplomas at the commence top ment ceremonies June 13. over Tom WenzJau, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Bob Melville, Alpha Tau Omega, in the student elections deliver The elections Wesleyan university. Former pres ident Herbert Clark Hoover, elder statesman of the Hepu'ohcan par ty, will deliver the tnauguml ad \mo.s Ben Mai-sh, Kappa Sigma. climaxed more than a week of vigorous political campaigning, highlighted by the usual open houses, car parades, dormitory debates, and a campus cluttered by posters, large and small. John Buckley, Bob Huffman, and Doug Pickett served as Strasburg's campaign managers. Strasburg, during his campaign, proposed a broader foreign student exchange program, closer coopera tion with neighboring colleges, a leadership training program, and betterment of student-faculty rela Bog'crs Bennett Schultz Fiji's Prominent In Campus Activities Buckley Hendricks Phi Gamma Delta continues to maintain its top position in camp us activities with the election and appointment of many brothers to key po.sitions. Heading the list is Bill Stras burg who was elected Ohio Wes iUoorhead Pritchard Smith Sfcapf Suffridge Werner ' Chapter Places Second 111 Cheney Cup Race Two Brothers Are Theta Deuteron is the proud possessor of second place in the awarded for excellence in schol arship, campus activities, and relations with the headquarters of the fraternity during the fra ternity year of 1947-48. The Purdue chapter captured first place honors and Arizona rounded out the "big three." Honorable mention went to Idaho, Illinois, and Indiana. House Fund Drive mothers. Mommy Howard, and the members of the chapter. It is hop ed that the new refrigerator can be bought and installed before the goal of $80,000. Tapped By ODK A committee of four was formed to work with Mommy Howard to decide upon a project for the com (Continued on Page 4) Theta Deuteron History ing year and to assist the secre To Be Pnhlished In Fall tary-treasurer in collecting funds. The 80 year history of Theta 7'hls committee is composed of Deuteron chapter will be publish Mrs. C. G. Bozman, Mrs. David E. ed next fall, following its final G.irdner, Mrs. C. B. Williams, and completion this summer. Jack M;-s. Lucien C. Young. Gherlein '48, with the able assist 'At the meeting, the mothers do ance of Ray Druhot '48, and A1 nated $57 toward next year's Fiji Griffin '51, worked diligently last Mothers' club project. The dads year oompiling and writing into contributed $25 and a Fiji grand narrative form the available re cords of the chapter. Alumni, pos fund. sessing information pertinent to k rs. L. F. White presided over the chapter's history, are urged to mother gave another $25 to the lodge for the graduating seniors, Schlobohm, Strasburg Elected To Honorary memorial rooms, each bearing a One hun dred and fifty persons are anti cipated. The graduates are; John A. Smith "Jack", Paines- ville, served as secretary and prexy of Theta Deuteron, gavel of IFC, wielded the would rather sell suits than coughdrops, positively not regular army material. John W. Pritchard "Pritch", Bill Strasburg and Starr Schlo Millburn, N. J., guarded well not bohm are the newest chapter con only Theta Deuteron's dollars but tributions to Omicron Delta Kappa, also its pennies as "T", spent many men's national activities honorary. happy hours in Edgar hall, thinks Strasburg, elected with an or two can live cheaper than one real ganizational major, has been ad soon, intramural faithful, claims vertising, circulation, and business Duchess has many good years left. manager of the Owl, is a varsity Alvin Stapf "Al", Lakewood, debator and a member of Delta faithful brother, potential educa Sigma Rho, debate honorary. He tor, Kappa Delta Pi honorary, cor has served on the YMCA in the kept the typewriter busy as capacities of committee chairman, responding secretary, never becabinet member, and vice-presi Ilieved in "letting George do it", can dent, and has been vice-president , tell you all about India during the of the Chip area YMCA this year. I war years, taught history at Wil He has also been representative- lis this year. at-large to the Student council and Edward Werner "Ed", Dayton, at the present time is president of well acquainted with the paths of the student body. Vetville, Pi Phi wife keeps him on Schlobohm, with a major in the ball, should be an excellent journalism and debate, has been medicine man, rolls a bowling ball cil of Red Cross college units. The Construction plans call for the fraternity editor, managing editor, Wesleyan chapter was given top building of quarters for the house and for the past year, editor-inrecognition this year among 300 mother, separate rooms for alumni chief of Le Bijou. He is a member other college units. and parents, an attractive chapter Brothers return to the house next Starr Schlobohm, editor of the room, recreation room, library, and of Pi Delta Epsilon, journalism fall. honorary. Having participated in 1949 Bijou, has been selected as The Fiji Mothers' club held its chairman of next year's campus enough two-man rooms to com both freshman and varsity debate, fortably provide for Theta Deuannual Mothers' Day meeting at curriculum committee. he is a member of Delta Sigma teron's increased active member Fairbanks Lodge Sunday, May 8. R'ho and was recently elected pres In publications, Fiji's have es ship. Mrs. Carl L. Coleman was elected pecially strong representation. In ident of that honorary. Consist Several memorial rooms have president for the coming year; and the editorial department of the ently on the Dean's list and a Mrs. Robert W. Agler, secretary- Transcript, Phil Smith serves as already been sjyoken for. These member of Phi society, he has al treasurer. A I/o/iei tii/iiier wili oe servecl' June 12 at 12:30 at Fairbank's parents, and alumni. Wilkinson Directs elected chairman of the Ohio coun dress. Kis.siier iliajiieiti competition for the Cheney cup, Representation Strong In Journalism, Debate Huffman JLtVil leyan's student body president, tions. after winning the campus election last March by a large plurality. Mothers Raise $688 Bill served as representative-atlargc th's past year. For New Refrigerator, Ed DcHart has upheld Phi Gam "Scoop" Wilkinson, with the aid Elect Officers For Year ma Delta's time-honored reputa of Brother Ken Collins, Washing Six-hundred and eighty-eight tion in the field of journalism by ton '04, has taken over the reigns dollars has been raised by the Fiji being chosen editor of the Trans of the new house campaign. Mothers' club for the purchase of cript for the coming year. Ed serv With approximately $20,000 col a new commercial refrigerator for ed this year as managing editor. lected in the drive'"ttius far, all ef Fairbanks Lodge. Of this sum, Doug Pickett, chairman of the forts are being made to enlist ?235 has been collected through the Wesleyan Red Cross unit, was alumni aid to reach the eventual saving of sales tax stamps by the ad as the ninth president of Ohio elected male representative-atlarge on the Student council. This victory mak'Cs Stra.sburg f'ic f:r,.jt Phi Gam student body president since Harry "Moon" Zink was ter tieasurer, was defeated in the race for student body secretary by commencement An important highlight of the weekend will be the formal inaug uration of Dr. Arthur S. Plemming The victor by 213 votes, Stras burg had served a year term as the btarf~Scnlobohm, the new chap- the dress. held last March. elected in 1940. Frank J. Lausche, governor of Ohio, will with ease despite expanding waist line. Robert Kutscher "Kutch", Oberlin, the leader of the (campus) band, pillar at Sanborn hall, hopes to have decent car someday, defin ite asset to fraternity scholarship, pinned to Chi O sweetheart. Louis J. Hendricks "Lou", Cin cinnati, real warrior on the foot ball field, dealer in automobiles, so served on the Constitutional Re bronze plaque with the donor's sings second tenor like it should be vision committee and is chairman name, sung, has ability to be good family of the University Curriculum com mittee for the coming year. Rogers. include the recreation room and a chapter room, each costing $5000; the "E's" room, two alumni bedrooms, and the house mother's room at $1,500 each; 18 student rooms at $1,200 each. Oontributions of $300 or more will be named on a bronze plaque in the faculty library, which will honor all past and present Fiji faculty members. All contributors will be named on an appropriate memorial in the chapter room. physician, Theta Deuteron's Will Dallas H. Moorhead "Dal", Findlay (L is for the lads and lassies), Bouquets To Chid Mills business man all the way, we are For Edition Of Starlet glad he left the farm, pinned to The editors of the Star and the Delta Gam prexy, engineered The brothers of the active chapter ex ta Deuteron's successful social tend their sincere appreciation and program this year. applause to (Jhid Mills for his pub G. Rorick Amos "Speedy", St. lication of the Starlet last April. Clairsville, one of Belmont county's It is gratifying to know that our finer products, had the tough job alumni are so genuinely interested of pledgemastering 22 neophytes, ;n Theta Deuteron, and to know thinks the Marines won the war, that one, ip particular, is willing engaged to Chid Mill's daughter, Subscriptions are deductible un the meeting in place of the past write to Theta Deuteron or Jack der federal income tax laws, since to .sacrifice his own time and Mary. \r\nPage Two THETA DEUTERON STAR THETA DEUTERON STAR STATE OF THE CAMPUS COMMENTS By w. A. Manuel, Purple Ix-gion-aln- By Cob Huffman '49 After you brothers left us at the end of Pi& Dinner weekend with the last issue of the Star folded securely Theta t -r>r, has an unusual opportunity to ent in public relations work for representative political groups. ' T3V. .c • ' i Squire Jim is a character to cap- ti, where he will Dick Michael ill law. pursuo a degree "Mike's" temperament and quiet, cheerful his fatherly council will be missed by his Fiji brothers. Good luck to both of i Jeather davenport.",'and two matched leather j honararry, Dave :sc/iuicz serves as i chairs. good looks are enhanced by the new coat of paint on the living room and the den, both finished you, last fall. The second and third floors have fallen into the renovat brothers! Two Sororities Have Reactivated honorary, recopizes Ed DeHart, Ur. The ending^ is a masterpiece of 1- vice-president education honorary, tiappaj pi_ recognizes A1 Stapf. ' In the Saturday Review of Lit erature poll of literary critics and of the nation's leading jj. (.j,g fjgld of music, Bob Kut- newspapers, "Little Squire Jim" placed among the top 8 out of the cher is a member of Phi Mu Alpha j 63 books mentioned as the best in honorary. current fiction. Victor P. Haas in ing scheme also. Both halls have Milt Rob'nson belongs to the been painted, and five new metal mathematics and physics honor the Saturday Review says, " . . . Here i.s a folktale th.it renew.s wardrobes are supplimenting the arles. one's faith in contemporary Amermuch needed closet space in the •• Jb ive IJl Rrothers lean fiction . . . Cecu J. WHkinson appropriately Of describes "Littlewords: Squire"IfJim" in Vfl Vf^tvillf^ fhg following weak Five brothers have been citizens heart action i.s to be stimulated by of Vetville this year. Brothers | the thrill of a mj'stery, the .specific Chuck Kneen '49, Ed Werner '49, | is to be found upon the Phi Gamma and Chuck Ballard '50 were the j Delta bookshelf; if a pill of roFiji residents at the beginning of | mance is desired there is one of the school year. Then Brothers| royal purple color to be had." Gene Massar '50 and Chud Long! n .i v, '49 staked their claims in Decem ' ^ her_ in_ the little green village. , „ 'yn, to whom his book is dedicated, graduated, and inent I leside in Columbus, Ohio. Recently In February Brother Kneen was: ^ they played host to another prom Brothers Ballard and Massar were lured out of their trailers by the prospect of Fiji author. Paul Engle IIowa '33), who spoke at Wesley an an on the lecture series this year. apartment in town. Brothers Wer Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have been ner and Long have since carried on exceptionally busy but happy the.se the snug, convenient life in the past two months with numerous friendly and close-knit community. autogiaphing parties and lunch eons in their honor. It i.s quite an accomplishment for any man to do These Men Lead Chapter . . . has ^ Pi Delta Epsilon, journalism I ture the imagination of any read- what Bob Marshall excels in. By this is meant 80th Congress. Christman -won't relinquish the reader In Delta Sigma Rho, forensic, ^ true Schlobolim, Phil Smith, and Stras- its kind—was it Little Squire Jim "men's dub", atmosphere about it, burg. \ they buried or his father, the Big with the addition of two new all-\ Cbi Clammn Nu, r.hpmislry^ Squire, dead the.-^ie ten vears' More recently, he returned from Jai>an where he had sjMmt sev en months on a special mission rooms. for the military government. Alpha Delta Pi and Zeta Tau Al In recent months the efforts Chuck Richey '47, practicing law pha sororities, have reactivated on have been concentrated on the with the law firm of Becker and campus this semester. Alpha Del Walsh in Washington, D. C., has ta Pi maintained a chapter here i grounds around the house. The recently been appointed adminis from 1923 to 1936, while Zeta Tau back yard has been made into a trative assistant to the Young Re Alpha functioned from 1923 to volleyball court, a cinder driveway, for delivery trucks put in, and a publican National chairman. A bi 19.35. general beauty treatment given ography of Brother Richey will ap Selection of these sororities was pear shortly in the Young Repub made from a group of nine indi the front yard. Plans are made for painting and lican National Federation newspa cating a desire to colonize or re repairing the front porch furniture, per. activate on the campus. Their and a general washing of the out Follotving the election, Chuck re plans for housing are as yet in side trim on the house. The back turned to Ohio to prepare for the definite. porch is to be closed in to accom state bar exams, which he success The two sororities pledged a to modate the new refrigerator, and fully completed. He then returned tal of 54 women in ceremonies held the back yard grill and fireplace to Washington as a full-fledged March 14. will be repaired. lawyer. With these and other general im The addition of the two soroiBefore coming to the National ties brings the total up to 12. provements, Fairbanks Lodge Federation, Chuck was executive There are now 15 fraternities on should be much ifiore livable for secretary for the Cleveland Uni its last few years. campus. versity Center Board of Commerce and also was legislative secretary to Congressman Francis P. Bolton during the second session of the "Jack" dianapolis Star says—"Marshall has not let a technical perfection represented in campus honorariesi edge of this fresh, fascinthis year atmg and poetic tale. It has a grip been accepted t^ken on the "new look." entensive career in the field of War lads which are still sung in the mountains. Its distinctive quality is peculiarly Southern." The In Phi Gamma Delta has been well, tenant, he has chapter-room, Fairbanks lodge has Lawrence Benedict, class of '20, is back in Delaware after an —ilo-ward Ixttorc and after World altogether It has about it the time-less charm and the humor and the vigor of one of the old bal Honorarles Claim Nine Phi Gams Fairbank's Lodge Undergoes Change Tribune—"an delightful book. With the very noticeable im honorary, are Bob Huffman this ^ Jackson, Ohio. provement of new paint on the year s pre.s.dent, Starr Schlobohm in A 24 year old front porch, and the addition of a next years president, and Bill Louisville Courier-Journal—"Little ex-Army li e u- new convertible recreation room— Strasburg. derson was elected to the Board of Directors for the Portsmouth Wes the Columbus Citizen as legis lative correspondent for Serlpps- Cole- man Osenberg in the New York for rushees. If you have any in formation that may help us in rushing, please fill them out. Your assistance will be appreciat Hill are doing the same type work Sporting a healthy 3.5 scholastic ed by all. recently at Hot Springs, Va. four appeared in leading newspapers throughout the country, and all re unassuming manner and his willmouth) and is doing very well as ingpiess and determined efforts in comptroller at the town's largest the committees he has served department store. John and Jim in and out of the fraternity. Rohr '39, has had an outstanding ued success at his new home. year as athletic director at Ports "Mike' IS written aspects of southern character. ing a BMIP (Big Man In Ports and got together at a convention average and a love for the sciences, has 'Little Squire Jim" is the other three deal with the various holds ter will sorely miss Milt's friendly and North first of these to be publi.shed. The grees Milt Robinson Marshall novels. de- ageously, it will require full co from operation of the graduate as well Wesleyan and as the under-graduate chapter. En MIT. The chap closed in each issue of the Star you n't heard from him, so I suppose we can expect him. Brother Iowa, He has been on the fac ulty at Ohio Wesleyan university since 1939. During the past decade area captains who will be in charge of the rushees and the ac tives from that area. The captains will see that all prospective rush ees are contacted in the summer, thus making it possible for us to footsteps of his formulate a preferred list to work father, R. C. with in the fall. In order for us Robin's o n '17, to carry out this program advant surance company in Portsmouth, course at the Massachusetts" Insti reports the following: "I saw tute of Technology to gain his Brother Ward McCally '43, in Co Bachelor of Sci d lumbus last April. His sister was ence degree. very ill, and he had flown from Milt will there New York to be with her. Brother by follow in the McCally is interning in New York. Harvard, western. that he never re peats the personal message con tained In his autograph. moved bags and baggage to Florida where The he is in the delicatessen business, residents of Fairbanks' Lodge were both surprised and amused one morning not so long ago to be awakened by pledge brother Marshall, who was taking at least that's what he thinks it is. He visited with "Bun" Hoffman, some Sig Chi, this winter. "Jack" extends a welcome to all Fijis to visit his home in Clearwater, add ing, "It's a long way from the his turn at "wake-duty." folks back in Ohio." "Monimie'" HowarcFs Jim Hackley breeze