THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS Alpha Phi Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, JUNE, Hi53 Volume XIX Alpha Phi To Get Addition to Chapter House by Autumn By the time next fall No. 4 Meet the Spring '53 Pledges rolls around "the house on the hill" will have acquired a new addition. That at least is the present indi cation, with the Alpha Phi Board scheduled to approve final plans for an extension of the living and din ing rooms at their meeting June 4. :E * * _ The proposed enlargement of the southwest corner of the house calls for a 16 and one-half foot extension of the dining room and a similar increase in the size of the living room. When it is completed the living room and present music room will have been joined to form one large "L" shaped room. Large crowds, such as for Pig Dinner, football week-ends and CAUGHT IN THE ACT—The spring pledge class from left to right; Ed Lewis, Don Mattran, Ernie McCoy, John McMahon, Jim Kruther.s, Keith Coats, John Wine, Larry Cox, Pledge Trainer Paul Geiger, Frank Zinn, John Hodgman, Jim Hodgman, Tom Brush, Kaye Mercer, Bruce Smith, Jim DeLand, Bob Knutson, and Doug other social functions will be much easier to accomodate under the new arrangement. Murray. For those who may fear that the building will take on the ap pearance of a sophisticated boarding house, the architects -■H Second Semester Rushing Session Nets Chdpter 17 Budding Phi Gams Seventeen "red hots" are wear ing the white star of pledgeship in basketball and baseball teams an d Phi Gamma Delta this spring as was chairman of the senior com decor and style will be main the result of a stepped up rushing mittee. At Michigan Frank is look tained throughout. ing forward to a career with The session and some excellent recom Daily. Most instrumental in initiating mendations from the alumni. * * * the expansion project was Brother Ray Smith, '20, who proposed that KAYE MERCER, '5fiE, Flushing, JOHN HODGMAN, '5CE, Fenthe extension be erected in consid ton, comes from a long line of carved out a very versatile career eration of the excellent shewing Hodgmans in Alpha Phi Chapter, for himself while in high school, the house made both in scholarship (See "SECOND," Page 3) being a cousin of Dick, '53, and and over-all activities during the pledge brother Jim, '56. John was past year. editor of his yearbook, a sports Brother Smith also pointed out writer on his high school paper and 15 Attend Denison in making his suggestion that there sang in the church choir. At Michi will be a large number of men mov gan his chief interest is Phi Section Convention ing into the house next year and Gamma Delta. Alpha Phi sent 15 of her Fijis that present conditions around the to the section convention at the board table are overcrowded. TOM BRUSH, '56, Detroit, is the Denison Chapter in Granville the With construction due to start trackman of the class, having co- week-end of April 11 this year, immediately following termination captained his high school team and supplying the largest contingent of this semester, all work on the run three years varsity track and of any chapter in the section. addition should be completed by cross country. He was also senior In addition to the usual festiv have assured us that the present fall. class secretary and a member of E.stimated cost of the project will the student council. Tom is now be $5,500 according to the contrac running freshman track for Michi tors. Present plans call for the gan. •t Alpha Phi Board to underwrite -l-' * ities attendant upon good hospital ity, the brothers gave and took a number of good suggestions in the individual discussion sessions and heard one of the finest fraternity Marshall, talks of the year by Brother Ban ficient funds can be gathered to was associate editor of his high ner Mahood, national historian of school paper, played on the varsity the fraternity. pay for it in full. the cost of the addition until suf FRANK ZINN, '56, \r\nPage 2 June, 1953 THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS CABINET ELECTED: Chapter Names House Officers for New Year Officers to carry on the work of the active chapter at 707 Oxford Road were elected this spring to head the house in one of the most promising years of its 68 year his tory. PRESIDENT — C. N. (Tom) Tinker, '54, takes over the post of head of the house from outgoing president Joe Middleton, '53 BAd. Tom, who makes his home in East Lansing, is majoring in geology, and says he plans to make Phi Gamma Delta his full-time job dur ing the following year. THE CABINET—Officers of Alpha Phi Chapter are shown seated from left to right, Tom Tinker, president; Eugene Hartwig, historian; Bob Wells, recording secretary; Pepper Holt, treasurer; and John Shaefer, corresponding secretary. TREASURER—Harold (Pepper) Holt, '54E, assumes financial mas tery of the house as treasurer for the year '53-'54. Pepper is from Niles, Michigan, is on the wrest ling team and is a member of Triangles and Vulcans engineering honoraries. RECORDING SECRETARY — Easterner Bob Wells, '55, from THE PRESIDENT'S COLUMN As the school year comes to a New Haven, Connecticut, lifts the pen as the chapter's minute taker Activities-wise we again found during the coming year. Bob is close here at Alpha Phi, I look back with great pride on the suc ourselves well represented in the cesses we have had and the pro top posts on campus this year. gress that has been made in bring Within the last month 14 brothers ing the chapter to the place that have been tapped by the various it ought to be among the 81. The campus honoraries. Three were scholarship has been excellent and taken into Michigamua, two into Vulcans, five into Sphinx, and four the men in the house have con tributed to chapter functions with into Druids. * * a spirit that was good to see. Pig Dinner was in my mind a tremendous success this year and was thoroughly enjoyed by Tom Hail Pledg^e Award Established Shortly after the tragic automo bile accident which took the life of pledge brother Tom Hail, '56E, early this spring, the active chap ter decided to establish the "Tom Hail Award" for the most out standing pledge, an award to be voted upon and presented by the pledge class itself. A plaque is being secured as a token of the award and a commit tee has been set up to arrive at the criteria for awarding the plaque. The award has been es tablished as a fitting memorial to pledge brother Hail and as a trib ute to the pledge who in the eyes of his own class is voted most out standing. all those who were able to at business manager of the 'Ensian and a recently-initiated member of Sphinx. * t. CORRESPOiNDING SECRE TARY—A former Navy Air Force Lieutenant and now corresponding secretary of the chapter, John Shaefer, '54E, calls Toledo, Ohio, his home and is one of the slide- rulo men of the engineering col lege. * * * tend. There was a representative group from every class from 1897 to 1957. I only wish more of you brothers could have been '55, will be the historian of Alpha here at 707 with us. Phi in the new cabinet. Gene man HISTORIAN—Another of the Cleveland crew, Eugene Hartwig, As some of you may know we ages to keep busy as a night edi are building a now addition to the tor of The Daily and is also a house this summer and the active newly-initiated member of Sphinx. chapter is looking forward with expectation to the fall when it will The Alpha Phiji News be completed. Published for alumni members Now I would like to personally and friends quarterly by Alpha Phi Chapter of Phi wish you all a very happy summer (Jamma Delta at the University of Michiand again extend to you a cordial p:an. invitation to stop in at the "house EDITOR on the hill" at any time you are Eugene Hartwig '55 in the vicinity of Ann Arbor. Fraternally, News and chanpres of address should be Tom Tinker, '54, President sent to the Editor, 707 Oxford, Ann Arbor, Michij^an. \r\nJune, 1953 Page 3 THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS Glimpse of Pig Dinner Second Semester Pledg-es Display 1 Bountiful Talent •! (Continued from Page 1) playing football, basketball, run ning track and playing in the band as well as working on the year book. At Michigan, Kaye has al ready enlisted in the legions of the marching band. JOHN WINE, '56, Detroit, fron; Redford high school, was on the track and swimming teams as well as being a member o fthe Key Club and Hi-Y. John has already made something of a name for himself 0,t the^University as station man ager of the West Quad radio. ^ s* 49e.-> PIG DINNER—Taking that after dinner stretch foiiowing a meal of succulent roast pig with all the trimmings arc left to right; Section Chief Harry L. Davis, Jr., Western Reserve, '37; Alpha Phi Board President Burgess Vial, '40; Chapter President Tom Tinker, '54; guest speaker Congressman Frazier Reams, Tenn., '19; Purple Legionnaire Bill Zerman, '49; and Field Secretary Jordan Knikkeberg, Idaho, '51. THE DRUM BEAT: BOB KNUTSON,'56, Grand Ra pids, is pledge king of the spring class and in addition to being the valedictorian of his graduating class was on the football, baseball and basketball teams. Bob's out side activities at Michigan center around the IFC and the freshman wrestling team. * * * KEITH COATS, '56E, Pitts burgh, Pa., the 4-point man in the class, played football and basket ball in high school as well as win ning a number of scholastic awards and being a member of the drama and debate clubs. Keith, here at Michigan, is on the Engineering GEORGE R. HARPER, '98, was Honor Council and is working with News From Fijis Everywhere ROBERT W. PRECIOUS, '46,' now with the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co. in New York City, writes us that he hopes The Alpha Phiji News can get around to do ing a complete story on the war years at Alpha Phi. Count on it in one of the early issues next fall. Ill Sympathy ... the oldest Fiji at this year's Pig the IFC. * * * Dinner and did the honors royally. ED LEWIS, '55, Grosse Pointe Brother Harper, now a retired but not inactive lawyer in Goshen, Farms, the sophomore of the Indiana, tells us how he helped pledge class, ran on the track and build the Big Bonfire on campus cross country _ teams in. his -senior when the Maine was sunk in 1898 year as well as working on the at the beginning of the Spanish- senior annual staff. Ed plans to go into medical school after gradu American War. ation. * Within the last three months Phi Gamma Delta and Alpha Phi Chap ter has lost three brothers, Daniel Auer, '46, Martin Cranston, '47, and John Parker, '01, all of whom have passed on. Brother Auer was killed in an automobile accident in April while JOHN G. WHITE, '23, is now living at 105 East Delaware Place, Chicago 11, 111. Brother White, a resident partner in Reynolds & Co., is a member of the Chicago Golf Club, the Executives Club and the Saddle and Cycle. If. ,}: Brother Cranston was involved in an airplane crash the same month. STANLEY E. BETZ, '32, now Brother Parker, vice-president of a resident of Palos Verdes Estates, the Consolidated Edison Co. of New Calif., on the west coast, is presi York City and a former teacher at dent of Auto and Marine Electric, the University died in March. Inc., and has a family of three The chapter and the fraternity children: Susan 15, Karen 10, and extends their sincerest sympathy a budding Fiji, Stuart 12. to parents and friends. (See "NEWS," Page 4) * * JOHN McMAHON, '56, Chicago, 111., was vice-president of his high school class, captain of the wrest ling team and played for four years on the football team. Red-haired and modest, John has been out for the freshman wrestling team here at Michigan. * * * DOUG MURRAY, '56, Muskegon, an outstanding athlete in high school playing varsity football, basketball and baseball, was also editor of his school paper and an nual and president of the student council. Here at the University, (See "SPORTS," Page 4) \r\nPage 4 June, 1953 THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS News From Fijis Everywhere ARTHUR E. MANCL, '45, has tumed to the teaching profession in his new position as assistant professor of architecture at the University of Arkansas in Fayettcville. Says Brother Mancl, "I still consider myself primarily an archi tect, not a teacher." JAMES B. BRILL, '49E, is now living at 5775 Hillside Ave., In dianapolis 20, Ind. Brother Brill is an engineer with the National Engineering Co. of Indianapolis. vada. Brother Rowe is a former coach and athletic director in various Cleveland and Ohio schools * H! as well as a former chairman of WILLIAM W. COON, '46, has a the National Basketball Rules year-old son, Christopher Warner Committee. ^ if. if. . . keep those legacies coming. JACK ROHRBAUGH,'47, claims Giving instruction in surgery keeps these bureaucrats in Washington Brother Coon busy in University are "strange animals and must be Hospital, Ann Arbor. t. t' u handled carefully to avoid break ROBERT B. OTIS, '03, writes ing or soiling." Brother Rohrbaugh, just recently released to inactive that he is planning to attend the duty from the Navy, is now a trial 50th reunion of the class of '03 on attorney for the Naional Labor Re June 11 and will be looking for lations Board in D. C. and says ward to meeting any of the broth that he will be happy to shed the ers at that time. Brother Otis is light of his experience on any of now living in Orlando, Fla. the brothers who might be con In order to insure receiving sidering Washington as a job seek your copy of The Alpha Phiji ing area in the near future. H-. * :f: News keep those changes of B. WILLIAM CURRY, JR., '48, address flowing into our arch ives here at 707 Oxford Road. For our 700 alumni the aver is now an "accountant with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Lima, Ohio, He tells us that there may be an addition to the family in the fall. age rate of address change per month is about 20. t- FRANK W. LONG, JR., '49, now living in Los Angeles, let us know that he is rooming with George Spaulding, '47. Brother Long says several of the brothers of '49 and '50 have dropped in on them lately including George Eckerle, '49, Bob Orth, and DeWolf Stanley, '49. t' THOMAS J. McCANN, '52, is living in Van Dyke, Mich., now and married to the former D. Pa tricia McClean, a Gamma Phi Beta, at Michigan. * t- CHARLES S. ADAMS, '44, a zone retail manager for Shell Oil Co., in Palo Alto, Calif., now has two sons: Paul, 2, and Charles, 4. A successful war record has lead Brother Adams into taking an ac Sports Popular with Pledge Class (Continued from Page 3) FLOYD A. ROWE, '08E, is re tired now and living in Reno, Ne - tive part in the organized naval reserve at Oakland, Calif. a brother of Dick, '53, and gradu Doug has been out for freshman ated from Redford High School. He football. * * * BRUCE SMITH, '56, Hamilton, Ont., is another of the great Can adians in the house. Bruce was an outstanding track man in high DALE S. COENEN, '51, with participated in tennis and track and the famous advertising firm of was a member of the Hi-Y and Batten, Burton, Durstine & Osborn National Honor Society. He tells in New York City, tells us he is a member of the Michigan Club and us he is "purple" all the way. * * H! the Young Republicans Club of the JIM KRUTHERS, '56E, Dear big city. ^ born, the swimmer in the class, was school, captained the basketball team and played football for two state champion in high school in years. He also served on the Boy's the iOO-yard backstroke, in addi Athletic Association. GEORGE M, TRWIN, '43. active as always Brother Irwin, lists al tion to captaining his team. He most community posts he is now is out for the swimming team at holding many of them connected LARRY COX, '56E, Dowagiac, the University and holds an with the Quincy, 111. symphony another ifine high school athlete, NROTC scholarship. orchestra and other musical and * sf. * was captain of the football team, cultural organizations. on the track team and won the best ERNIE McCOY,'56E, State Col all-around athlete award in his lege, Pa., is the son of Michigan's Summer is here again and senior year. Here at Michigan former basketball coach now at with fall not too far off Alpha Larry is out for varsity football Penn State. In high school and Phi Chapter is again looking having won his freshman numerals. prep school Ernie participated in forward to a very vigorous and * ❖ * football, basketball and swimming. competitive rushing session. JAMES DeLAND, '56, Detroit, At Michigan he is a member of the was a member of the glee club in Freshman Engineering Council. * t' school, in the cast of the senior play and president of the science DON MATTRAN, '56SM, Ann club. So far this year he has Arbor, is originally from Chicago been president of his house in the where he attended high school and quad and is working with the was very active in music activities. Union social committee. Here at Michigan Don is in the Hs * * Marching Band where he plays a JIM HODGMAN, '56, Detroit, is very mean clarinet. With this in mind the active chapter is very anxious to hear of any recommends you alumni may have of men planning to come to Michigan in the fall from your home towns. Send all recommendations to Ruedi Gin- grass, 7837 Mary Wawatosa, Wis. Eillen PI.,