THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS Building Fund Progress Brightens more than 1,000 miles to come, drop in. Your building fund committee is pleased to report that some pro gress has been made in recent months on the building fund. A brief recapitulation might be in order to bring us all up to date. The fund, christened the "Alpha Phi Association Building Fund," Foorman I. Miller and his son years that lie ahead we must rea lize some important factors. We Stubby were among the Minnesota must all contribute more and at a weekend's visitors. Both enjoyed faster rate if we are ever to be the visit and Stubby tells us that he is planning to fill one of those in a position to build. At the present rate of growth of halfback spots in six or eight the fund it would take many years years since Michigan will probably was launched with an initial con important thing we must consider inclined to agree with Stubby. as we peer into the crystal ball is The death of Chester Brown, this: Fraternities in general must rise to the occasion of a changing '97, on January 4, 1949, has re era, one in which they are being cently been reported to the chap squeezed by the pressure of groups ter. tribution of $1,500 from the active chapter at Pig Dinner in 1947. Things dragged slowly until Pig Dinner time 1949. Most of the to build. But I believe the most contributions during the interim came from the active chapter. which would abolish them. We They assessed themselves $1.00 must look at the problem in the per man per month! In addition light of the Michigan situation. the actives donated their life The university has been expanding blood by selling it at $15 a pint its dormitory facilities at a great and donating the proceeds to the rate. A new quadrangie will be fund. The total in March 1949 erected soon immediately south of was $2,900, and the situation the West Quadrangle. looked quite glum. Make no mistake about it, these Business started picking up quarters are attractive and if fra about that time and shortly after ternities are to flourish here they Pig Dinner we were able to report must be able to offer more to their that the fund had nearly doubled. members in the way of living Contributions have continued to quarters than the dormitories. If roll in at a fairly steady rate and Phi Gamma Delta is to continue to outshine the others and obtain the total is now over $7,200.00 Practically all of the donations the best men it must have more since early summer are the result to offer! Hence the crying need for a new house. of the laborious efforts of Ward It is the hope of the committee Peterson, Sr. He has hand-written that all will continue their efforts 506 letters to the alumni soliciting to build up the fund. Send in contributions. Ward certainly mer those banks full of money and its a vote of thanks. Shake his those checks as often as possible. left-hand please since his right is "wrote down to the wrist." In viewing our project over the ALUMNI NEWS The Alpha Phiji News Univsrsily of Michigan Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta October, 1949 Ann Arbor, Michigan need new blood by then. We are Army Day Brings Many Alumni Back For Visit to 707 King football smiled not too kindly on Michigan's Wolverines but he managed a little better for Brothers Herb Smith, '10, and William Hart, '14, have been named to serve on the publicity committee of the Michigan Me morial-Phoenix Project. Brother the Phi Gams and more than 50 alumni who watched the Michigan I streak snap at 25. All in all the [ weekend was a roaring success and we are planning a repeat per formance next year. It seems that Hart is with the DuPont de Ne- mours Co. in the advertising de the 40 tickets we ordered were not partment. He was recently in Ann enough and we have hopes of se curing 100 for next year's home coming game. It all began Saturday morning when some of you entered the familiar portal to see the active crew busily trying to remove the last few stubborn spots on win Arbor and managed to see the Minnesota football game, after which he and A1 Frederick, '14, visited their old home at 707. A new entry in the Fiji clan was announced by Mr. and Mrs. Hank Fonde. She is Karen Rhea, dows and floors. Lunch was served born Sept. 26, 1948. Hank, '47, is now coaching football at Ann Ar bor High School. and the procession began to the Michigan Stadium where the next three hours were spent in agony. Buffet supper at the house was the next thing on the agenda followed by a record dance at the house. The Army weekend brought to 707 Oxford Road many timehonored as well as recent gradu ates of the University. Coming Alumni... (Continued from page 1) Fraternally, Danny Auer, A1 Frederick, '14, who is with Diesel-Electric (the BIG ONES) where "business is good when there is any." Herb Beyer, '45, Dawson, both of the '47 class, and Bob Cole, '45, Fort Wayne, have been frequent visitors on Indiana, brought us up to date on Co-chairman. the furthest was Sam Jack Post, '49E, and June Len these football weekends. "Mouse" nox of Ann Arbor, have announced is working with Standard Oil Co. that they are to be married No and Buck is selling nylon hosiery. vember 18th. Brother Post is em We are looking forward to more ployed as a salesman for the Eddy visits from these two, especially Valve Co. in Schnectady, N. Y. since Brother Dawson borrowed Robert J. Norwick, '4.3, returned one of your editor's shirts. to watch Michigan defeat Minne sota. Nipper is with the Pickards and Mather Co. in the Corporate department. the doings of the 1945 class. Also from Indiana came Bob Grandy, '46. Joe Riggs, '22, brought his entire family from their Detroit home for lunch Saturday. Herbert Upton, '21, held forth with a pre-dance party Saturday George Sutherland, '50, married night which was attended by the Maggie McCann this summer. The active chapter and several of the list of married Fijis still in school visiting alumni. is quite sizeable. Our only com Ralph Morse, Wisconsin (Mu) plaint is that we don't see enough '13, brought from Grand Rapids of them. the very good news that he is Monday has been designated as going to supply the music room Walter K. Scherer, '24, and his wife visited the house a couple of weekends ago. Walt is introducing his oldest son and grooming him visiting day for . Ann Arbor alum for the class of '54. with chairs and tables. He is also directly responsible for the ni. Last Monday Bud Rea, '22, and leather furniture the house has Edwin J. Mercer, '13, and his Jack Brennan, '39, initiated our now. wife and daughter were also here Monday luncheon club idea and With three more home games: for the Minnesota game. Brother found it a success. Of course this Purdue, Indiana, and Ohio State, Mercer said that he enjoyed the isn't limited to only those alumni the active chapter hopes to see as old remembrances and the hospi tality of the present chapter. Harold L. Walters and Buck from Ann Arbor so if you want to many alumni as can make it. get away from those Monday Remember, drop in anytime, you washday lunches and don't have are always welcome at 707, Emmons, Jr;, '44, from Baltimore, Md., who brought greetings from his father, Sam Emmons, Sr., '17. Close be hind Emmons was "Thomas Thomas, 29, from Oil City, Pa. Walking to the house were brothers Stu and Don Todd and heir respective wives, Doris and Nancy. Also from Ann Arbor were Bob and Connie Dunlop and Phil and Helen Henderson. From Phi Gamma Delta's New Field Secretary: William F. Zerman Alpha Phi's William S. (for Sheridan) Zerman, '49, is right in his element in his new job as the fraternity's 22nd Field Secretary, for dealing with people is his forte. Generous and good-natured, "Bull" Zerman will always be remembered at 707 and on the University's vast campus as a man who was never too busy to sit down and thrash nearby Ypsilanti, came Bob Ulrich, '41, and his wife, Mabel. Dr. Donald M. Howell, '12, dropped in after the game, with his wife and son Don, Jr., to see out a knotty his son Richard Sexton, '52. Jack problem or proffer some friendly Anderson, '24, and his wife came advice. from Jackson to see son Philip, These qualities should stand him 52, and were chaperons at the in good stead now that he has lance Saturday night. Charles joined Fred Dixon as the other Emery, '52, was visited by his member of the team which rides father Dr. C. B. Emery, '25, and the Fiji circuit keeping a paternal family, from Bedford, Indiana. From Detroit and vicinity came eye cocked on the well-being of (See Alumni, page 4) (See Bill Zerman, page 3) \r\nTHE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS T?'inro*c? X-idlTlC 707 Oxford Road, Ann Arbor, Michipran. Taken by Brief Illness Editor—Charles Norwood, '50, Muskegon, Heights. Henry Earle "Daddy" Riggs (Kansas '86) is gone. Assoc. Editors—Dave Thomas, '50, Leaving behind a remarkable re Detroit, George Qua, '52, Cleve cord in American engineering and land, Ohio. an abiding loyalty to Phi Gamma Delta, the grand old patriarch of Vol. 14 No. 1 Alpha Phi died July 5, 1949. His death came after a short illness Chapter Chain Now Decorates Dining Room Brotherhood is back to normal numbers. Forty-five men now com prise the active chapter at 707, with 20 additional pledges now trotting up the freshman stairs. in Detroit's Harper Hospital. Dr. Riggs' illustrious career be gan in 1865 in Lawrence, Kan. After receiving his AB degree from the University of Kansas, he did railway construction and main tenance work in Nebraska, Mis souri '■fs and Texas until 1890. In We did something new this year. that year he joined the Ann Arbor We got the chapter chain out and & Northern Michigan Railroad as put it in the dining room paneling. chief engineer. On Oct. 1 of the the same year. We checked with "Scoop" before doing it and it's perfectly ok. 787 Dr. Riggs was married in Los links, brothers, and yours is there Angeles to the former Emma somewhere. Maybe it's between Hynes. two of your best college buddies From 1896 to 1912 he was a (when did you last write them?), member of the firm of Riggs & maybe it's next to the link of the Sherman, consulting engineers of brother who married your Fiji sweetheart. It's there anyway and it's there for a purpose—because you are a Phi Gamma Delta. Toledo, 0, On May.l, 1912, he was named professor and head of the University of Michigan's en gineering department. Upon his retirement from the faculty in I want to thank everyone who 19.30, he was made honorary pro sent us a recommend on any man fessor of civil engineering. rushing here this fall. Eight hun In 1937 the University gave him HENRY E. RIGGS, C.E.'IO, D.Eng. (Hon.) '37 Former Head of the University's Department of Civil Engineer ing, died in Detroit in July. the return of the Michigan Chap ter of Phi Gamma Delta to the University campus in 1902, "Dad dy" Riggs has been an active par ticipant in alumni functions ever since. He never missed a Norris dred men rushed in the fall—that's the honorary degree of doctor of Dinner unless it was absolutely a lot of men to look at. We don't engineering and in the following impossible for him to attend. No see all 800 but we see as many year he was elected president of one who has heard his talks on as possible and we do see every the American Society of Civil En those occasions on "What The An introduction gineers. His victory in that elec Fraternity Means to Me" will soon through a recommendation is the tion was considerably notable in forget them. recommend. head start we need. If we foul up once in a while, forgive us, be cause 20 out of 800 makes it that he defeated a man who was at the time a member of the late a President Roosevelt's engineering rough proposition. By the way, board of review and associated come on up and meet our new with TVA. pledges—you recommended a lot Instrumental in bringing about of them. And keep those recom mends coming. through the streets of Ann Arbor A bunch of guys were down at from the "P" Bell to the House the P-Bell recently and tossed and due to darkness and other their change on the table for the conditions, was unable to recall evening's rounds of beer . , . the exact location of 707. Ap there were a few coins in the fund proaching a newsboy on a corner at the end of the evening so into he asked, "Can you tell me the Dr. Riggs was the second gen eration in a four generation Fiji family; in all, there are a total of 19 Fiji's in the Riggs clan. Dr. Riggs is survived by his wife and six children. of Newest Alpha Phis On Oct. 2, 1949, six men were formally initiated into the clan 111, Gilbert Lee Smith. it. After an injury cut short his football-playing days, his ener Hungry Gang George Seymour, '39, "The De troit area Phi Gams' support of the Pig Dinner in '50 once again. In the kitchen there Building Fund." John Madden, '22, toastmaster is a new culinary expert who has wasted little time in demonstrating of the '49 Pig Dinner: "I've said her abilities. She is Mrs. Gertrude enough." Dillard until you sample one of We held a dinner recently in her meals at which time she be honor of Ward Peterson who wrote comes "Gertie." Mrs. Johnson, our former cook, each of you last year—but if he found that the years made the job didn't write you drop a line to him at 707 a little too much, and sought and he will . . . yearbook, "The Michiganensian," a place with less hungry mouths Work will soon begin on the by a then-perennial Fiji BMOC, j: to feed. Our brand of appetite is gies were enlisted for the campus able promotions direction, "The j William Curry, Jr. William D. Edwards, Jr., '28. Crisler's football team where he hoped to use his 6 ft., 215 lb. frame to advantage. In the Spring of 1947 he was pledged to the fraternity and began to devote an increasing amount of his time to Buck Dawson. Under "Bull's" cap LiUN 1 CLUB 707 Jumping into the main current the tremendously expanded The old adage that the fastest Pig Dinner is deplorable." post-war Michigan campus, "Bull" Phil Holcombe, '46, "Fill your way to a man's heart is through promptly organized a small dance band and went out for Fritz the stomach has proven itself true piggy banks for the Alpha Phi of Fiji brotherhood. They are Leo M. Calhoun, Port Huron; William way to the Phi Gam house?" The J, Dibble, White Plains, N, Y.; the building fund they went. boy bulled himself up to his sta John H, Kathe, Elyria, Ohio; ^ ^ We want to see all of you up ture of three full feet and shouted, Richard K. Thomas, Detroit; here; any time that you can make "Damn best house on campus! Thomas L, Tiernan, Kankakee, 111,; Right up on top of the hill," it. and Neale T, Traves, Rocky River, —Dick Hurst A visitor was wending his way . rkOT most successful year in its long Pig Dimier Poll history. He gained his largest measure Results Tabulated of Fun and Frolic' of success in the gigantic job of Last year at Pig Dinner a This summer saw an attempt at promoting the revival of the Union was passed out face lifting on the living and din Opera which enjoyed a smash run questionnaire ing rooms of the House, A new at the Michigan Theatre last among you in the hopes that the ceiling of the sound deadening Spring. While at the University, chapter might benefit from your (we need it) variety was added to Brother Zerman was treasurer of opinions on the House, men, and the living room as well as new Druids, senior men's honorary so conditions therein. The answers ciety, and a member of Sigma we got were in accord in some wallpaper. The dining room undeiAvent a Delta Chi, honorary journalistic things and widely divergent on fresh coat of paint to try and re fraternity. He was also president others. After much calculating move the effects of the annual of the Toledo Club which he or and tabulating and consultation swimming races during Hell-week. ganized to bring native Toledoans with Gallup and Roper the follow With the beginning of the Fall together on campus and give his ing results were determined. The semester an energetic crew took brothers a chance to screen Ohio's concensus has it that: The condition of the house is hold and the walls, windows, finest for dating possibilities. Corresponding Secretary to the as good as can be expected after fl oors and all exposed portions of our beloved relic were injected fraternity was only one of the sixty four years of ser^dce. with new life from soap and water, many services which he rendered The best way to improve the old Alpha Phi, and at the Pig Dinner house is to build a new one. paint, and elbow grease. The Arch students supplied the in May, 1949, he was awarded the The active chapter is satisfac color schemes, the Engineering Reynolds R. Smith award for the tory, but that there is always room students the manpower and the undergraduate who had done the for improvement. Lit students applauded the entire most for his chapter during the More men could be brought back year. proceedings. for Pig Dinner if we placed em In addition to these activities, The results were gratifying, and phasis on class reunions. "Bull" found time to be the Ann through the maze of checkered You are in favor of returning Arbor correspondent for "The To walls, striped ceilings, and clash ledo Blade" and major in journal for a football game in the Fall. ing colors someone was heard to ism at the University. He was The worth of this has been tested re-name the place, "Fijiland, Four also campus representative for a and proved in the Army football Floors of Fun and Frolic." large cigarette concern, but be weekend. came so embarrassed when the Most of you are working and in Fiji house won the television set a position to employ Fijis! Bill Zerman . . . offered as a prize in his company's We also asked you for comments (Continued from page 1) wrapper-collecting contest, that he and printable quotations. Most of found it necessary to resign. His you were too full of pig or beer the fraternity's 79 chapters. His appointment by the Archons resignation was not so early how to respond to this request but we climaxes a colorful and useful car ever, as to prevent him from learn did get a few. eer at the University. "Bull" fi rst ing enough about next year's plans Henry Booth, '22, "Americans hit Ann Arbor town in June, 1946, to drop a few hints which got old need to get over the idea that after getting his discharge from Alpha Phi off to a head start on they should receive something for the Army where he had served 33 the current contest during the nothing and participate in govern months as a medical technician summer. ment rather than always condemn both in this country and overseas. So here's to "Bull" Zerman, it." Previous to his army stint, he had Field Secretary. May he prosper Kieth "Body" Yoder, '41, "Be attended Defiance College in Ohio exceedingly and never forget the sincere in what you do and the where football and sports writing Alpha Phi Building Fund. future will take care of itself." vied for his attention. 'Fijiland, Four Floors The Alpha Phiji News Alpha Phi's Beloved Published at least quarterly Quarterly by the TU^ Alpha Phi Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, XXdll^ October, 1949 just the ticket for "Gertie," and new Medical Research center for if you have been suffering from which the University recently re Ensian" upped its sales by an as- I1 that lean look, just come up and ceived a $3 million gift from the Kresge Foundation. tonishing amount and had the partake of the Fiji board. \r\nTHE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS T?'inro*c? X-idlTlC 707 Oxford Road, Ann Arbor, Michipran. Taken by Brief Illness Editor—Charles Norwood, '50, Muskegon, Heights. Henry Earle "Daddy" Riggs (Kansas '86) is gone. Assoc. Editors—Dave Thomas, '50, Leaving behind a remarkable re Detroit, George Qua, '52, Cleve cord in American engineering and land, Ohio. an abiding loyalty to Phi Gamma Delta, the grand old patriarch of Vol. 14 No. 1 Alpha Phi died July 5, 1949. His death came after a short illness Chapter Chain Now Decorates Dining Room Brotherhood is back to normal numbers. Forty-five men now com prise the active chapter at 707, with 20 additional pledges now trotting up the freshman stairs. in Detroit's Harper Hospital. Dr. Riggs' illustrious career be gan in 1865 in Lawrence, Kan. After receiving his AB degree from the University of Kansas, he did railway construction and main tenance work in Nebraska, Mis souri '■fs and Texas until 1890. In We did something new this year. that year he joined the Ann Arbor We got the chapter chain out and & Northern Michigan Railroad as put it in the dining room paneling. chief engineer. On Oct. 1 of the the same year. We checked with "Scoop" before doing it and it's perfectly ok. 787 Dr. Riggs was married in Los links, brothers, and yours is there Angeles to the former Emma somewhere. Maybe it's between Hynes. two of your best college buddies From 1896 to 1912 he was a (when did you last write them?), member of the firm of Riggs & maybe it's next to the link of the Sherman, consulting engineers of brother who married your Fiji sweetheart. It's there anyway and it's there for a purpose—because you are a Phi Gamma Delta. Toledo, 0, On May.l, 1912, he was named professor and head of the University of Michigan's en gineering department. Upon his retirement from the faculty in I want to thank everyone who 19.30, he was made honorary pro sent us a recommend on any man fessor of civil engineering. rushing here this fall. Eight hun In 1937 the University gave him HENRY E. RIGGS, C.E.'IO, D.Eng. (Hon.) '37 Former Head of the University's Department of Civil Engineer ing, died in Detroit in July. the return of the Michigan Chap ter of Phi Gamma Delta to the University campus in 1902, "Dad dy" Riggs has been an active par ticipant in alumni functions ever since. He never missed a Norris dred men rushed in the fall—that's the honorary degree of doctor of Dinner unless it was absolutely a lot of men to look at. We don't engineering and in the following impossible for him to attend. No see all 800 but we see as many year he was elected president of one who has heard his talks on as possible and we do see every the American Society of Civil En those occasions on "What The An introduction gineers. His victory in that elec Fraternity Means to Me" will soon through a recommendation is the tion was considerably notable in forget them. recommend. head start we need. If we foul up once in a while, forgive us, be cause 20 out of 800 makes it that he defeated a man who was at the time a member of the late a President Roosevelt's engineering rough proposition. By the way, board of review and associated come on up and meet our new with TVA. pledges—you recommended a lot Instrumental in bringing about of them. And keep those recom mends coming. through the streets of Ann Arbor A bunch of guys were down at from the "P" Bell to the House the P-Bell recently and tossed and due to darkness and other their change on the table for the conditions, was unable to recall evening's rounds of beer . , . the exact location of 707. Ap there were a few coins in the fund proaching a newsboy on a corner at the end of the evening so into he asked, "Can you tell me the Dr. Riggs was the second gen eration in a four generation Fiji family; in all, there are a total of 19 Fiji's in the Riggs clan. Dr. Riggs is survived by his wife and six children. of Newest Alpha Phis On Oct. 2, 1949, six men were formally initiated into the clan 111, Gilbert Lee Smith. it. After an injury cut short his football-playing days, his ener Hungry Gang George Seymour, '39, "The De troit area Phi Gams' support of the Pig Dinner in '50 once again. In the kitchen there Building Fund." John Madden, '22, toastmaster is a new culinary expert who has wasted little time in demonstrating of the '49 Pig Dinner: "I've said her abilities. She is Mrs. Gertrude enough." Dillard until you sample one of We held a dinner recently in her meals at which time she be honor of Ward Peterson who wrote comes "Gertie." Mrs. Johnson, our former cook, each of you last year—but if he found that the years made the job didn't write you drop a line to him at 707 a little too much, and sought and he will . . . yearbook, "The Michiganensian," a place with less hungry mouths Work will soon begin on the by a then-perennial Fiji BMOC, j: to feed. Our brand of appetite is gies were enlisted for the campus able promotions direction, "The j William Curry, Jr. William D. Edwards, Jr., '28. Crisler's football team where he hoped to use his 6 ft., 215 lb. frame to advantage. In the Spring of 1947 he was pledged to the fraternity and began to devote an increasing amount of his time to Buck Dawson. Under "Bull's" cap LiUN 1 CLUB 707 Jumping into the main current the tremendously expanded The old adage that the fastest Pig Dinner is deplorable." post-war Michigan campus, "Bull" Phil Holcombe, '46, "Fill your way to a man's heart is through promptly organized a small dance band and went out for Fritz the stomach has proven itself true piggy banks for the Alpha Phi of Fiji brotherhood. They are Leo M. Calhoun, Port Huron; William way to the Phi Gam house?" The J, Dibble, White Plains, N, Y.; the building fund they went. boy bulled himself up to his sta John H, Kathe, Elyria, Ohio; ^ ^ We want to see all of you up ture of three full feet and shouted, Richard K. Thomas, Detroit; here; any time that you can make "Damn best house on campus! Thomas L, Tiernan, Kankakee, 111,; Right up on top of the hill," it. and Neale T, Traves, Rocky River, —Dick Hurst A visitor was wending his way . rkOT most successful year in its long Pig Dimier Poll history. He gained his largest measure Results Tabulated of Fun and Frolic' of success in the gigantic job of Last year at Pig Dinner a This summer saw an attempt at promoting the revival of the Union was passed out face lifting on the living and din Opera which enjoyed a smash run questionnaire ing rooms of the House, A new at the Michigan Theatre last among you in the hopes that the ceiling of the sound deadening Spring. While at the University, chapter might benefit from your (we need it) variety was added to Brother Zerman was treasurer of opinions on the House, men, and the living room as well as new Druids, senior men's honorary so conditions therein. The answers ciety, and a member of Sigma we got were in accord in some wallpaper. The dining room undeiAvent a Delta Chi, honorary journalistic things and widely divergent on fresh coat of paint to try and re fraternity. He was also president others. After much calculating move the effects of the annual of the Toledo Club which he or and tabulating and consultation swimming races during Hell-week. ganized to bring native Toledoans with Gallup and Roper the follow With the beginning of the Fall together on campus and give his ing results were determined. The semester an energetic crew took brothers a chance to screen Ohio's concensus has it that: The condition of the house is hold and the walls, windows, finest for dating possibilities. Corresponding Secretary to the as good as can be expected after fl oors and all exposed portions of our beloved relic were injected fraternity was only one of the sixty four years of ser^dce. with new life from soap and water, many services which he rendered The best way to improve the old Alpha Phi, and at the Pig Dinner house is to build a new one. paint, and elbow grease. The Arch students supplied the in May, 1949, he was awarded the The active chapter is satisfac color schemes, the Engineering Reynolds R. Smith award for the tory, but that there is always room students the manpower and the undergraduate who had done the for improvement. Lit students applauded the entire most for his chapter during the More men could be brought back year. proceedings. for Pig Dinner if we placed em In addition to these activities, The results were gratifying, and phasis on class reunions. "Bull" found time to be the Ann through the maze of checkered You are in favor of returning Arbor correspondent for "The To walls, striped ceilings, and clash ledo Blade" and major in journal for a football game in the Fall. ing colors someone was heard to ism at the University. He was The worth of this has been tested re-name the place, "Fijiland, Four also campus representative for a and proved in the Army football Floors of Fun and Frolic." large cigarette concern, but be weekend. came so embarrassed when the Most of you are working and in Fiji house won the television set a position to employ Fijis! Bill Zerman . . . offered as a prize in his company's We also asked you for comments (Continued from page 1) wrapper-collecting contest, that he and printable quotations. Most of found it necessary to resign. His you were too full of pig or beer the fraternity's 79 chapters. His appointment by the Archons resignation was not so early how to respond to this request but we climaxes a colorful and useful car ever, as to prevent him from learn did get a few. eer at the University. "Bull" fi rst ing enough about next year's plans Henry Booth, '22, "Americans hit Ann Arbor town in June, 1946, to drop a few hints which got old need to get over the idea that after getting his discharge from Alpha Phi off to a head start on they should receive something for the Army where he had served 33 the current contest during the nothing and participate in govern months as a medical technician summer. ment rather than always condemn both in this country and overseas. So here's to "Bull" Zerman, it." Previous to his army stint, he had Field Secretary. May he prosper Kieth "Body" Yoder, '41, "Be attended Defiance College in Ohio exceedingly and never forget the sincere in what you do and the where football and sports writing Alpha Phi Building Fund. future will take care of itself." vied for his attention. 'Fijiland, Four Floors The Alpha Phiji News Alpha Phi's Beloved Published at least quarterly Quarterly by the TU^ Alpha Phi Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, XXdll^ October, 1949 just the ticket for "Gertie," and new Medical Research center for if you have been suffering from which the University recently re Ensian" upped its sales by an as- I1 that lean look, just come up and ceived a $3 million gift from the Kresge Foundation. tonishing amount and had the partake of the Fiji board. \r\nTHE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS Building Fund Progress Brightens more than 1,000 miles to come, drop in. Your building fund committee is pleased to report that some pro gress has been made in recent months on the building fund. A brief recapitulation might be in order to bring us all up to date. The fund, christened the "Alpha Phi Association Building Fund," Foorman I. Miller and his son years that lie ahead we must rea lize some important factors. We Stubby were among the Minnesota must all contribute more and at a weekend's visitors. Both enjoyed faster rate if we are ever to be the visit and Stubby tells us that he is planning to fill one of those in a position to build. At the present rate of growth of halfback spots in six or eight the fund it would take many years years since Michigan will probably was launched with an initial con important thing we must consider inclined to agree with Stubby. as we peer into the crystal ball is The death of Chester Brown, this: Fraternities in general must rise to the occasion of a changing '97, on January 4, 1949, has re era, one in which they are being cently been reported to the chap squeezed by the pressure of groups ter. tribution of $1,500 from the active chapter at Pig Dinner in 1947. Things dragged slowly until Pig Dinner time 1949. Most of the to build. But I believe the most contributions during the interim came from the active chapter. which would abolish them. We They assessed themselves $1.00 must look at the problem in the per man per month! In addition light of the Michigan situation. the actives donated their life The university has been expanding blood by selling it at $15 a pint its dormitory facilities at a great and donating the proceeds to the rate. A new quadrangie will be fund. The total in March 1949 erected soon immediately south of was $2,900, and the situation the West Quadrangle. looked quite glum. Make no mistake about it, these Business started picking up quarters are attractive and if fra about that time and shortly after ternities are to flourish here they Pig Dinner we were able to report must be able to offer more to their that the fund had nearly doubled. members in the way of living Contributions have continued to quarters than the dormitories. If roll in at a fairly steady rate and Phi Gamma Delta is to continue to outshine the others and obtain the total is now over $7,200.00 Practically all of the donations the best men it must have more since early summer are the result to offer! Hence the crying need for a new house. of the laborious efforts of Ward It is the hope of the committee Peterson, Sr. He has hand-written that all will continue their efforts 506 letters to the alumni soliciting to build up the fund. Send in contributions. Ward certainly mer those banks full of money and its a vote of thanks. Shake his those checks as often as possible. left-hand please since his right is "wrote down to the wrist." In viewing our project over the ALUMNI NEWS The Alpha Phiji News Univsrsily of Michigan Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta October, 1949 Ann Arbor, Michigan need new blood by then. We are Army Day Brings Many Alumni Back For Visit to 707 King football smiled not too kindly on Michigan's Wolverines but he managed a little better for Brothers Herb Smith, '10, and William Hart, '14, have been named to serve on the publicity committee of the Michigan Me morial-Phoenix Project. Brother the Phi Gams and more than 50 alumni who watched the Michigan I streak snap at 25. All in all the [ weekend was a roaring success and we are planning a repeat per formance next year. It seems that Hart is with the DuPont de Ne- mours Co. in the advertising de the 40 tickets we ordered were not partment. He was recently in Ann enough and we have hopes of se curing 100 for next year's home coming game. It all began Saturday morning when some of you entered the familiar portal to see the active crew busily trying to remove the last few stubborn spots on win Arbor and managed to see the Minnesota football game, after which he and A1 Frederick, '14, visited their old home at 707. A new entry in the Fiji clan was announced by Mr. and Mrs. Hank Fonde. She is Karen Rhea, dows and floors. Lunch was served born Sept. 26, 1948. Hank, '47, is now coaching football at Ann Ar bor High School. and the procession began to the Michigan Stadium where the next three hours were spent in agony. Buffet supper at the house was the next thing on the agenda followed by a record dance at the house. The Army weekend brought to 707 Oxford Road many timehonored as well as recent gradu ates of the University. Coming Alumni... (Continued from page 1) Fraternally, Danny Auer, A1 Frederick, '14, who is with Diesel-Electric (the BIG ONES) where "business is good when there is any." Herb Beyer, '45, Dawson, both of the '47 class, and Bob Cole, '45, Fort Wayne, have been frequent visitors on Indiana, brought us up to date on Co-chairman. the furthest was Sam Jack Post, '49E, and June Len these football weekends. "Mouse" nox of Ann Arbor, have announced is working with Standard Oil Co. that they are to be married No and Buck is selling nylon hosiery. vember 18th. Brother Post is em We are looking forward to more ployed as a salesman for the Eddy visits from these two, especially Valve Co. in Schnectady, N. Y. since Brother Dawson borrowed Robert J. Norwick, '4.3, returned one of your editor's shirts. to watch Michigan defeat Minne sota. Nipper is with the Pickards and Mather Co. in the Corporate department. the doings of the 1945 class. Also from Indiana came Bob Grandy, '46. Joe Riggs, '22, brought his entire family from their Detroit home for lunch Saturday. Herbert Upton, '21, held forth with a pre-dance party Saturday George Sutherland, '50, married night which was attended by the Maggie McCann this summer. The active chapter and several of the list of married Fijis still in school visiting alumni. is quite sizeable. Our only com Ralph Morse, Wisconsin (Mu) plaint is that we don't see enough '13, brought from Grand Rapids of them. the very good news that he is Monday has been designated as going to supply the music room Walter K. Scherer, '24, and his wife visited the house a couple of weekends ago. Walt is introducing his oldest son and grooming him visiting day for . Ann Arbor alum for the class of '54. with chairs and tables. He is also directly responsible for the ni. Last Monday Bud Rea, '22, and leather furniture the house has Edwin J. Mercer, '13, and his Jack Brennan, '39, initiated our now. wife and daughter were also here Monday luncheon club idea and With three more home games: for the Minnesota game. Brother found it a success. Of course this Purdue, Indiana, and Ohio State, Mercer said that he enjoyed the isn't limited to only those alumni the active chapter hopes to see as old remembrances and the hospi tality of the present chapter. Harold L. Walters and Buck from Ann Arbor so if you want to many alumni as can make it. get away from those Monday Remember, drop in anytime, you washday lunches and don't have are always welcome at 707, Emmons, Jr;, '44, from Baltimore, Md., who brought greetings from his father, Sam Emmons, Sr., '17. Close be hind Emmons was "Thomas Thomas, 29, from Oil City, Pa. Walking to the house were brothers Stu and Don Todd and heir respective wives, Doris and Nancy. Also from Ann Arbor were Bob and Connie Dunlop and Phil and Helen Henderson. From Phi Gamma Delta's New Field Secretary: William F. Zerman Alpha Phi's William S. (for Sheridan) Zerman, '49, is right in his element in his new job as the fraternity's 22nd Field Secretary, for dealing with people is his forte. Generous and good-natured, "Bull" Zerman will always be remembered at 707 and on the University's vast campus as a man who was never too busy to sit down and thrash nearby Ypsilanti, came Bob Ulrich, '41, and his wife, Mabel. Dr. Donald M. Howell, '12, dropped in after the game, with his wife and son Don, Jr., to see out a knotty his son Richard Sexton, '52. Jack problem or proffer some friendly Anderson, '24, and his wife came advice. from Jackson to see son Philip, These qualities should stand him 52, and were chaperons at the in good stead now that he has lance Saturday night. Charles joined Fred Dixon as the other Emery, '52, was visited by his member of the team which rides father Dr. C. B. Emery, '25, and the Fiji circuit keeping a paternal family, from Bedford, Indiana. From Detroit and vicinity came eye cocked on the well-being of (See Alumni, page 4) (See Bill Zerman, page 3)