Vol. Phi Gamma Delia, DePauw University, Greencaslle, Indiana 102 SPRING, 1958 Worth of Phi Gamma Fijis Planning Many More Improvements Delta After Graduation At House and Annex McCormack Stresses On March 8, 1958, Lambda en earlier in the day with the E.L. joyed the return of a number of Moraller pin to honor him as the Lambda Chapter would like, contributions toward furniture for her graduate brothers to celebrate pledge who had done the most hereby, to extend to all the grad and renovation of the newly ac the Norris Pig Dinner and the in itiation of 13 new Fijis. The din ner was a great success thanks to the work of Brother Joe Cof fin '33, who organized the evening by serving as toas'tmaster, Broth er Buren outstanding work in athletics at uate brothers its thanks for some (Continued on Page 4) fine financial assistance. Your I quired annex were really appre ciated, and we thought you might like to know how we've put your money to use. So here's the latest THIS IS DEPAUW? McCormack '30, who progress report. We equipped the house with old desks and dressers from the chapter-house, and were able to purchase all new desks and about 20 new dressers for the house. inspired the newly-initiated and active brothers alike with his speech for the evening, not to (The present chapter paid about mention the mere presence of the returning brothers, including half the cost of the desks.) With this start, we proceeded to have built, 12 movable wooden closets. Brother Clarence Cook '93, Lamb da's oldest living graduate broth er, Brother Charles Sargeant (Purdue), Section Chief, and These cabinets measure 8'x4'x2-2' Brother Willard Gambold Purple Legionaire. closet space. The chapter (the freshmen!) has finished the cab Those who were initiated in clude Cecil E. Beeson, Jr., Rich ard A. Darfler, Alan W. Fisher, James M. Force, Donald M. Good- willie, Jr., Jack W. Hatcher, Ber nard L. Lavery, Kenneth and have given us much good '31, R. Locke, Robert L. Ottoman, Robert D. Perkins, Donald F. William son, Daniel G. Yohe, and our ex change student from Durham Un iversity, England, Geoffrey How ard. Of these 13 men, Robert Otto man was chosen by the upperclassmen as the outstanding pledge for his scholastic achieve ment, work in activities, and ef fort for the house, and for this he was awarded the Sheldon Trophy by Brother Larry Rose '59, Chap ter President. For displaying out inets in light maple, and they are handsome additions. A Wabash water fight on May 13th turned into a near DePauw "panty-iraid" as about 150 Wabash men carried their battle to our campus. "Phi Gam" was the first stop on their riotous route, and nearly 500 DePauw men were finally involved— to the chargrin of water-soaked Housemothers and Deans! Dam age to the "Fiji Castle" was relatively minor, despite exagger ated reports ciarried by area newspapers. is one of our most- sought and favorite past-times here, we were overjoyed with the ,. which haveHollywood-type been installed inbeds the annex, and will stay there (com pensation for using the old desks ana dressers). The kitchen has been converted Spring Rush Nets 7! Fijis Plan For Fall This year's spring rushing sea son, highlighted with the impor standing aptitude for schoarship tant Fiji Isle, Prom, and Scholar into a Head, with single unit showers installed, and the up stairs head facilities have been expanded. The floors of both have been covered with linoleum, an especially durable, long-wearirg flooring. Many other small with the vital qualities of a Phi improvements have been effected, Gam. Needless to say, we're including piping music into the head! All in all, the physical proud of them! The first Fiji pledge for this' Plant has shaped up pretty well, by obtaining a higher grade aver ship week end, has been quite we are hoping to take further age than any of his pledge broth successful. La.nbda has pledged spring is Don Chambers from Web.ster Groves, Mo. Don ranks strides in these directions. seven men this spring, each giv ers, Jack Hatcher was awarded There are presently 13 men sitthe greatly esteemed Cook ring. ing a good start toward another 24th in his graduating class of 350, Richard Darfler was initiated top-flight pledge class next fall (Continued on Page 4) I (Conlinued on Page 2) \r\nPAGE 2 SPRING, 1958 TIGER FIJI TIGER FIJI Vol. 102 No. 3 EDITOR J. T. Phipps, '59 ASSISTANT EDITOR Tim Otis, '60 CONTRIBUTORS — Bob Coffin, '58, Dick Weigel, '59, A1 Ratcliffe, '59, Dale Chandler, '59, Larry Rose, '59, Phil Smith, '59, Jim Lowe, '61, and A1 Fisher, '61 PHOTOGRAPHER Mike Tennery, '59 The "Tiger Fiji" is published quarterly by Lambda Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at DePauw University for its Graduate Members and friends. Please send news and changes of address to the editor at the Chapter House, 1002 S. College Ave., Greencastle, Ind. In Memoriam Brother Dr. Hiram L. Jcme Huffines was a well faculty member for 27 years, died suddenly on April 11, of a stroke known Asheville urologist. He was a top authority in his spe cialty, and he had been the author of several papers and essays on urology. Dr. Huffines did much suffered in the class room. of the original research Dr. Hiram L. Jome, head of the economics department and The call boys in the annex are excruciatingly effective. Tim Otis and Dick French are "calling" Phil Mow. on the Fijis Plan Dr. Jome was one of the most treatment of tuberculosis of the' popular teachers at DePauw. Deta Sigma and Sigma Delta Chi. A graduate of St. Olaf College at was Lambda, an Brother outstanding member of the track team. He received his A.B. and B.S. from and the University of Wisconsin, DePauw and his medical degree he was a noted authority on eco at lU. nomics and the author of three important books. His death was a great loss to DePauw, the students, and Wanted He genito-urinary tract with strepto was initiated into Gold Key, top mycin. men's honorary, and in 1955 was While voted "best teacher" by Alpha Huffines all Here He was a member of Phi Rho Any graduate brother who has a recommendation or any inr formation concerning men in terested please 428 in DePauw send Ruth it to Street, this Tim fall Otis. K'alamazoo, Michigan. Formal rush is Sep tember 16-20. Sigma and a fellow of the Amer (Continued from Page 1) uated very comfortably in the an nex, a drop of five from the first semester capacity occupancy. We have had mostly sophomores liv ing there, but have recently ro tated rooms and assignments in order to keep "cliques", etc., from forming. ican Medical Association. He was Generally, the acquisition and a f-'llow of the American College past chief of staff of the Memor occupancy of the annex have been of Surgeons, and a fellow of the ial Missions Hospital, and served bright chapters in Lambda's his southeastern Surgical Section. Dr. on the staffs of various other hos tory. We are living closer to Bro. Thomas R. Huffines Huffines was a member of the pitals in that city. He was a gether, saving some little money Word was recently received by American Board of Urology and member of St. Mary's Episcopal on annex rent (although we do the chapter of the death of Broth in recent years specialized in uro- Church, a Mason, a member of pay the House Corporation a prological surgery. He was a vet er Thomas R. Huffines '16. Broth Kiwanis, and a past president of Dortionately higher rental fee who knew and loved him. er Huffines died at his home in eran of the first world war and the Pen and Plate Club. per man, $13 a month) and mak served with the naval reserve. Asheville, N.C., on May 16. Brother Huffines is survived ing excellent use of the short-cut In Asheville, Dr. Huffines was A member of the class of 1916 by his widow; a daughter, Mrs. across the yard on our way to George Cook of St. Petersburg, campus! Thank you for your past Fla., and two sisters. mAwM and your continued interest and help. Bro. H. J. Barnum Another Lambda initiate. Broth er H.J. Barnum, passed away on LARRY ROSE CHOSEN FOR DPU GOLD KEY Brother Larry Rose '59, was one the eight outstanding junior into the fraternity in 1916, while men tapped for Gold Key this serving as a member of the mu spring. Larry is vice-president February 25. Brother Barnum was initiated of sic faculty here at DePauw. of the Student Senate, on the N.Y., Conservatory of Music, Publications Board, Phi Elta Sig Brother Barnum was conductor ma, Rector Scholar, University of the DePauw Symphony Or Scheduling Committee, Univer chestra and professor of violin sity Choir, co-chairman of Reli and harmony here and at Iowa gious Evaluation Week, and past An honor graduate of Ithica, 'W- A picture of annex efficiency and organization, Phil Smith works at his desk in a four man room—"The Rose Room". State University. president of Lambda Chapter. He is survived by his wife; a Larry has also achieved a 2.6 ac son, Howard J. Barnum Jr.; and cumulative grade average out of a daughter, Mrs. Harriet Ihrig. a possible 3.0. \r\nSPRING, —• ,— TIGER FIJI 1958 PAGE 3 m. THE MIDNIGHT OIL msms Brother George Lortz '34, re Brother Jerry Burand '55 and turned to the campus with his his wife Jo are in San Antonio, son "Kit" scholarship week end. Tex. (905 Overhill), where Broth >!« * * er Burand is a psychiatric social 1 We were pleased to have back worker at the new Lackland AFB as recent visitors, Brothers David Hospital. * * * M. Jenkins, C. Richard Gamble, Brother Bruce Nixon '56, mar and Vernon C. Dahlstrom, all ried Carolyn Peabody on March Dave and his wife, Jan (Peters) 29 in Gobin Memorial Methodist Tri Delt, '57, were on a vacation Church, Greencastle, Ind. They prior to Dave's entrance into the now live at 3360 Meadows Court, Apt, E-3, Indianapolis. Brother Army. from the Class of '57. is employed with the Vern has finished his sales Nixon training and is now settled with Phillips Petroleum Co. * ♦ * Anchor-Hocking in Winchester, Brother Mike Yohe, '57, was Indiana. Dick is in sales training with initiated into the local chapter of Continental Steel Corp. in Ko- Phi Beta Kappa at the ceremony komo, Indiana. He and his wife, this spring. ♦ Martha (Faitz) Delta Gamma '57, live at 1034J S. Buckeye. ♦ ♦ Brother Dick Murphy '59, was married to Nancy Turner '59. Cmdr. John B. Honan '37, is Kappa Alpha Theta on April 4, ♦ ♦ ♦ now assigned to the USS KearBrother Mike Tennery '59, was saige (CVA-33), c/o FPO, San recently elevated to one of the Francisco, California. ♦ * » high campus offices—that of uni Brother Richard M. Foote '48. versity photographer. He replaces is now Regional Director of the Brother John Oldenkamp '58. * National * ♦ Industrial ♦ Conference * « Board in Cleveland, Ohio. Brother Address Changes: Foote and his wife live at 1057 Abbieshire, Lakewood, Ohio. * » ♦ Brother John Graff '55, is Per sonnel and Administrative Offi aboard the USS Pocono. I R.H. Cline 1912 Central Road Glenview, Illinois Robert R. Freund cer c/o Dr. Lever Brother Graff has already made two six-months' jaunts to the Mediterranean and expects to Loveland, Florida make a third before he winds UD his Navy duty. home Neal Randolph (Purdue), chairman of Ihe Beta Graduate Cup Committee explains procedure to the chapter representatives. Sitting at his left is Brother Art Gemmer, Lambda '43. Brother Graff's address is 1276 W. Ocean View Ave., Apt. 2, Norfolk 3, Va. Robert M. Frash 201 E. 40th St., Apt. 5F New York 16, N.Y. Larned G. Bradford RED, Sumner St. Marshfield, Mass. Lambda Hosts Section IX For Annual Conclave Lambda had the pleasure of hosting the annual Section Con vention on Sunday, March 23. Charles Sargeant, Chief of Sec tion IX, served as an alumni ad visor for the event, and Dale Chandler, Lambda President, was llOfh Ekklesia Scpf-ember 3-6 In Swampscotf-, Mass The 110th Ekklesia is scheduled for Swampscott, Mass. (12 miles out of Boston) on September 3, 4, 5 and 6. It will be the first can- nibalian conclave in New Eng land in 29 years. A resort hotel, the New Ocean chairman of the proceedings. Rep House, will be official headquar resentatives were present from ters. The Ocean House is oper the five chapters in our section— Purdue, Wabash, Hanover, Indi ana and DePauw. ated on the American plan (room and three meals) and attractive rates are offered. They run from Brother Chandler presided at $10.75 to $15.00 per day per per the first instructional meeting. son. Morning sessions included dis The social program includes the cussions on internal organization, chapter reunion luncheon and the alumni relations, and finances. stag smoker on September 3, the At noon the group took time grand Ekklesia ball on Septem out for dinner served at the chap ber 4 and the traditional Ekklesia ter house. Rush, pledge training, banquet on September 5. A reg scholarship and cup reports were istration fee (not expected discussion topics during the af ceed $20.00) will cover ternoon sessions. Discussion group secretai-ies re to ex these events. It is expected that more than ported to the entire delegation 750 Fijis will attend this biennial the results of their meetings in a gathering. The delegates from Lambda mid-afternoon session again con ducted by Brother Chandler. Chapter are to be Dale Chandler Brother Sargeant presented his '59, J.T. Phipps '59 and Thomas annual report with the upcoming West '60. Ekklesia and next year's section convention being given special BRO. CLARENCE A. COOK attention. TO receive CITATION The entire day proved to be a Brother Clarence A. Cook '93. profitable one for not only the one of our oldest and most faith Lambda Fijis present but our ful graduates has been chosen to guests as well. Experience, it is receive an Alumni Citation. He Brother Joe Coffin, Lambda '33, explains Beta Graduate Chap ter plans for a Section IX Hush Party. Brother Sargeant looks on, at this, the second general session of the Section Convention. said, is the best teacher, and in was chosen by a group of veteran this convention we have profited faculty members for outstanding from the combined experience of Iachievement and service five chapters. ' reflect honor on DePauw. which \r\nPAGE 4 SPRING, 1958 TIGER FIJI Nine Fijis in Top Fijis Are Second in DPU Spring Sports 3 Mojor IM Sporfs Spring Rush (Continued from Page 1) He has taken part in many ac This spring, as usual, there are The intramural season at De tivities including student govern many Fiji men participating in Pauw was opened with speedball, ment, business manager of the varsity sports here at DePauw. golf, and tennis. This year for the vear book, and church choir. Participating in the two major first time, there will be no all in ^ thletic-wise, Don is a tennis spring sports, baseball and track, tramural trophy awarded. The man; he also played baseball and are nine Lambda athletes. awards will be given for each in basketball at Webster Groves. In track and field events, Jim dividual sport. However, the in Ivan Floyd of West Lafayette, Guttman '60, a discus and javelin tramural board voted in a recent Ind., was the second to wear the hurler, and freshman sprinter Bob meeting to return to the old sys white star this spring. Ivan is Perkins have already made a tem next year. in the top five per cent of his graduating class at West Lafay ette High School. He has been president of his junior cass, co"ditor of the high school year book, president; of the student council, and sports editor of the school paper. Ivan has three Geoffrey Howard, our English exchange student, has become a vital part of our brotherhood. Initiated with the class of '61, Geff is shown here, reading his poem at the Pig Dinner. Peg Dinner (Continued from Page 1) DePauw. the And Daniel Yche had misfortune of being the years of football and high school careers in basketball, track, and Griffith of Bosse 15th. In Jim Force, Don Joyner, Bud and Ken Locke were Our main gains in the winter were made in bowling and bas High starters on the freshman squad ketball. -chool in Evansville, Ind., has compiled a fine 94.7 schoastic re cord at Bosse, and has praticipated in varsity football, as well as the school newspaper, drama tics, and choir. Tom Neeld, from Xenia, Ohio, in a graduating class of 190, ranked The .speedball team, hampered In baseball, A1 Heeter, who this by the fu epidemic, still managed year was switched to the mound, to finish third in our league. The turned in several creditable pitch golf team finished fourth among ing performances and won his all teams; and even though many fourth letter. Another Fiji, soph of our tennis entries made good omore Gary Wegenke, is also a advances, we didn't have any fin pitcher on the varsity team. alists. Lavery, baseball behind him. Bob name for themselves. athletics at Xenia, Tom played football and while Dave Boeder was a member of the mound staff. They did a fine job on a surprisingly strong freshman team. Our basketball team fin ished the season with a fine 13-3 record which gained us a tie for third place and a spot in the play offs. We advanced to the finals only to lose in the last game. Our activitie.s. Bill played first string final standing was second place. quarterback for the Bearcats, was The bowling team also finished Hi-Y president, and was a wrest second with Bob Erickson, '58, ler on Central's team. Bill ranked leading the individual high score youngest of the pledges, and had was a regular forward on the cage in the upper 10 per cent of his on the tourney. to kiss the tail-end of the pig, sauad. Tom is also a good ac class and was a member of Na Our volleyball, swimming, and while Brother Cook kissed the tivities man and we're looking to tional Honor Society. ping pong teams made fine show Our most recent pledge is Dick ings but were not quite good other end for being the oldest him for a big contribution to next brother present. Two other awards were pre sented during the evening by Brother Coffin—the Bosweil Award to Brother Larry L Rose to honor his being selected by the active chapter as the outstanding Hadley of Shortridge High School fall's pledge class. in Indianapolis, Ind. Dick was a From Urbana, 111., comes John member of Shortridge's tennis Smith. John, son of the ministe'team and ranked in the upper of the First Methodist Church in five per cent of his class scholUrbana, ranks in the top five per astically. cent of his graduating class at This years' summer rush party Urbana High School. John ranked will be held August 1-3 at Lake -mong the top in the state in the James, near Angola, Ind. National Merit Scholarship com Lambda Junior, and the Cook Trophy to Brother Richard French '60, who had made the petition this year. He also is a greatest scholastic improvement top member of Urbana's golf from the previous semester Brother Coffin did an excellent job as toastmaster, keeping the enough to finish in the money. Led by the strong throwing arm of Phil Mow '60, the Fiji Softball teem captured the league champ ionship. In vicing for the playoff trophy, the Phi Gam nine was ousted in the final game by a score of 6 to 4. squad. Bill tral Graham of High School, Muncie Cen Muncie, Ind., evening lively and enjoyable. And and son of Brother Tobert Gra Brother McCormack, who came ham '25, now wears the White n'l the way from New York and Star. Bill has made a name for his position as Vice President and himself at Central in athletics as Treasurer of the Wall Street Jour well nal to speak to the initiates. He related a few incidents as scholastics and other which proved to the graduate brothers joyable for them. and new initiates nity is worth-while. that frater Not only Brother Mc Cormack also gave us some ad vice which we have since found to be advantageous: be different him a when the situation demands it; did he tell us of his own exper iences, but brought with number of replies to letters he this is the road to success. Lambda is looking forward to had sent to his pledge brothers asking them for such information. as successful a Pig Dinner next Wc were interested by a num ; Spring as she had this, and is hoping for as much graduate suping how the fraternity had eom- port, which is essentially the fac ber of accounts of these men. tell pletely changed their attitudes tor that determines its success or and made life so much more en- failure. The Norris Pig Dinner was not without its traditional ceremony and ritual—Brother Clarence Cook, as the oldest Fiji present kissed the pig's snout. This is Brother Dan Yohe, youngest Lambda Fiji enterlaining Brothers McCormack and Sargeant.