o THETA DEUTERON STAR. CHRISTMAS NUMBER, 1910. Vol. 1. pleased with our purchase, and enter was seen trickling down the cheeks of ed those in whom the old sacred and ten into the festivities of the celebra tion with their former youthful zest. We were very fortunate in having with us on that night, the ex-Vice Banquet Last June Great Success. Never, perhaps, In the history of Theta Deuteron, was there such an en thusiastic and congenial assemuly of Fljis as gathered about the banquet board at the Fairbanks Lodge on June No. 1 President, Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks, in whose honor Theta Deuteron Lodge is named. "Charlie." as his classmates and close friends love to call him, was master of the occasion as symposiarch. der memories of past days were loos ened. To the younger men it spoke volumes, for it made the grand old fra ternity dearer than ever to them. Time could not be acocunted for, and 3 a. m. rolled around before any one was aware of it. However, the His ready wit was ever in evidence. spirit of the evening had so gripped the younger men, that after an hour's The toasts were admirably taken care of by Dr. Rathmell, of Chattanoo ga, Tenn.; Supt. McKay Vance, of Del- pretended rest, they started for Monnett Hall, the abode of the "fair ones," garbed in their pajamas, shielded on- The Bunch 14th of last Commencement. In response to the which were sent out a invitations month in ad aware; Rev. Deaton, of Piqua, Ohio; Sam Blair, of Delaware. All of the toasts showed that the vance, sixty-five of the "royal canaba- blue blood of Fijiism was still run lian band" gathered under Delta's star ning in the veins of our alumni. for an event which in the minds and All the fraternity songs were sung a number of times, but none were as hearts of all present will always be linked in the future with tender mem effective, perhaps, as the "Wine Song," ories. sung by brothers Vance, Trout and Story, as they used to sing it when they were in the chapter back in the good old school days. Not only were they encored, but here and there a tear It was an occasion of no ordi nary kind, as for the first time the alumni and active chapter met to feast and sing in their own home. The alumni expressed themselves as highly ly from the scrutinizing eye by a has tily snatched bed-cover. There, the exhuberant spirits burst forth into song, and in the grey of the morning the girls were forced to listen to all the songs in our repertoire.. Suffice it to say that the brothers didn't get much sleep, but so successful did our ban quet-celebration turn out that the ac tive chapter has voted to make it an annual affair. So brothers, save your sheckles and he on hand next June for the second annual Commence ment banquet. \r\nTHETll DEOIERON STAR Editor-in Chief. Assistant Editor. Clarence E. Blunie. 'II. lyloyd C. Mcrriinan. '12. 1 418 Louisville Trust Bldg., Louisville, Ky. This magazine, published once ; o month, contains a letter from each i Chapter, the minutes and proceedings of each National Ekklesia, besides ar Published Three Times a Year. ticles of interest to every Fiji. Subscription Price: Your Interest and Hearty* Co-operation. Christmas will soon be here. the mother-heart will beat How as she Of University Serenaded First Time by Fiji Boys. watches for the return of her sons and EDITORIAL daughters. What a spirit of peace and love will enshroud the family hearth as they gather around it as of yore. With what expectation will packages be unwrapped on that morn ing, when each wishes the other a son, and a member of Lambda Deuter enter into the spirit of Peace on Earth, "Merry Christmas." on Good Will Toward Men. brother. You are a member of a fra ternity, and therefore an advocate of To Fiji's everywhere, we extend our best wishes for aMerry Christmas and a Happy Hew Year. May we all With this number the teron .Star enters Theta Deu- upon a career which, it is hoped, will fill all of the expectations the Chapter dreams for it. We have long felt the need after having left the old college, not having an opportunity to return for a number of years and not having heard how the Chapter is progressing—that you lose your interest. It is natural. To remedy this state of affairs, the Chap ter has voted that, in the future the Theta Deuteron Star shall be issued three times a year, and sent, especial ly, to her alumni, and then to all oth ers interested. dear brotherhood. What are you doing for the unfortunate and poor? Remember the words of the Master, "It is more Blessed to Give Than to Receive." of some plan whereby Chapter and Alum ni could be brought closer together. Too often is it the case, alas! But stop, Phi Gamma Delta at Ohio Wesleyan is much in favor of the coming PanHellenic banquet Anything above board, which will tend to promote the friendship among the fraternities is worthy of consioeration. Plans as they come from the Council would in dicate that they are striving to make it the biggest thing ever held here. Theta Deuteron, "always the winner year after year," noL to be outdone, managed to be the first fraternity this fall to serenade the girls at Monnett Hall. Bro. Beatty, graduate of Deniwas in Delaware as an official at the Antioch game. Knowing his pro clivities as a tenor rJnger, we induced him to spend the night with us and journey up to Monnett, and aid us in entertaining the ladies. So, after a rttle preliminary practice, we made for the Hall, and judging from the ap plause which greeted our efforts, we must have been appreciated—thanks to Bro. Beatty. Being anxious to maintain our high standard of efficiency, we haven't at tempted another, and are still awaiting the arrival of a tenor. When will Bro. Beatty come again? FOOIJA^L It is to be the official organ of the Chapter, which, we trust, At 0. W. U. Finishes Strong will serve to bind you closer to your dear old fraternity. Good Team Next Year. Re-Elected for Next Year. Officers of the Fairbanks Chapter House Association for last year were Commencement, from now on, ought Foot ball at Ohio Wesleyan fell a lit tle below the expectations entertained re-elected at the Comemncement ban quet for all of our members will be held each year some night during Com by the students. mencement week. So enjoyable and successful was the banquet last June, that it is safe to say, those present as was on the fieid last year, we would wipe up quite generally—but we didn't. Nevertheless we had a good team year. They are deserving of much credit and hearty co-operation from the Theta Deuteron alumni for the ef will need no second invitation and if a little of that foot ball luck to present an additional interest to the alumni of this chapter. year. Were YOU there? A ban this Ask We thought that with practically the same team back a had been in our favor, we feel the re brother who was present how he en joyed it; the result will be that you will be on hand in June. —^— sults would have been different. Wesleyan finished strong by defeat ing Wooster 29-0. Then there is some consolation in having held State 6-0. quet In June, to serve for the coming ficient way in which they are hand ling this proposition. It would be a disgrace to the chapter and the fra ternity if after all the energy already spent, we should lose this fine home of ours. However, the officers feel that the alumni will stand by them. Here's to you! Are you a subscriber to the Phi Gamma Delta magazine? If you are interested in the welfare and the hap We are expecting good things of our team next year, as we lose only one will not hesitate to send your name to Leon P. Lewis, plus two dollars, 417- didn't always win, we are beginning Secretary—S. S. Blair. to boost for next year. Treasurer—R. B. Powers. man by graduation. The Wesleyan penings of the fraternity at large, you spirit is not dead, and though we The officers are: President—Col. Ben Hough. Vice President—Hon. B. F. Fresh water. \r\nsented a la Daniel Webster, to the downcast "prep," a sufficiently vivid impression was made upon the brain cells of the degraded Freshman, so fVEy Pays the Boys a Visit. Brother Frank S. McVey, '93. now President of North Dakota University, spent a day in Delaware, recently, be ing initiated into the local chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. While here, he took lunch with the brothers. Surely this search for the kindling wood which his over-lord. Sir Junior, desired. His eagerness, however, fled when he had descended the cellar steps. Leaning up against a post he wonder ed what it meant. Who was his boss? He couldn't tell. As he stood there, swore to remain true—didn't tend to marry her some day? he in Oh, if he only was home, she wouldn't treat him so mean. his heart for was kicked around. They called the fraternity a brotherhood. Brother alumnae would only If appreciate the fact that visits from them serve to stimulate and encourage the chapter, perhaps such visits would occur more frequently. 11 was a source of much gratifica tion, also, that a man of Bro. McVey's position not only could write these words in our guest-book, "as good as ever, which is saying a good deal," but who, without solicitation, went to Bro. Ben Hough, president of the Chapter House Association, asking for a blank that he might make a sub scription. That is fraternal spirit With such men behind us we can't fail—we dare not. She would caress him with her sly love glances. hood? He felt the dictionaries must have made a mistake in their defini tion of this word. That evening he was told to put on Honor Links to Golden Chair. Six pledges, on the evening of Nov. 5, were initiated into the sacred mys teries of Phi Gamma chapter believes to Delta. The have captured six as fine barbarians as roamed the campus in Freshmen jeans. The ini tiates are: Lawrence A. Powers, How ard S. Ulrey, Delaware; Ralph B. Sul livan, William I. Nellis, Dayton; Carl Campbell, Parkersburg, W. Va.; and Walter B. Reeves, Columbus. We are pround to introduce them to the fra his best, for the initiated men were to entertain the pledge men. W hat could it mean? Slowly he made his toilet, and slid into his new ten-dol lar suit which mother had bought. "The lunch is ready," floated up the banquet was served by the active chapter, after which Hon. B. F. Fresh stairs. water, father of the Fairbanks' Lodge, It must all be a joke! But down the stairs he trudged. Lo! he thought it ternity at large. After the ceremonies a six-course took the reins in his own hands as symposiarch. By his opponents he is feared in the court room, but to us he a dream, as he entered the dining room. Ther sat the brothers, gath ered around tables loaded with good things to eat. The lights were turned out, and only the soft red glow from plauded heartily as he arose to intro and called him a good feilow. '14. even offered him a cigar. in Here he More is plain "Judge," and the boys ap duce the toasters. Those responding were Rev. John Bass Shelton; R. B. the shaded candles illuminated the Powers; H. M. LeSourd, '11; Ralph room. They slapped him on the back B. Sullivan and H. Stanley Ulrey, em Lunch Six he thought of home and that sweetfaced High School girl to whom he was a treat for us, to meet a man of Deuteron. Adds idly twirling his pipe in his fingers, our chapter who, though busy with the world, still had a warm spot in the YOUR SON." that he eagerly made for the cellar to Initiated Into Phi Beta Kappa Theta thought. The boys are beginning to love me. I'm getting along swell in my lessons. Please send me a ten. of New Pledges. "How glad highest. Then came the toasts. we are to get such a He could fine bunch That's what scarcely in our heart's affection, his ears. them success in whatever paths they room," commanded the chesty sopho Why he actually gasped when one his "Yes, and hurry up about it, too," chimed in a fellow classmate. To the new brothers we offer a place said. believe remarked of they more of a pledgenian. classmates A number of others were called on, and it is needless to say that the spirit of love and loyalty was of the understand. Freshmen." "Get me that Trig book from my They He couldn't in a of and wish may mark out for themselves. toast how glad the Freshmen were to have Co-operation spells success. These had a chance to put one of the Soph columns are open to you at any time, But no harm brother Fiji, should you choose to No sooner had the transformed omores in the bath tub. "servant" started on this errand, befell his bold classmate, and gradu when a Junior, overcome by the ex- ally he fell in with the spirit generat aked position to which ne had aspir ed by the fraternity songs, the funny the Thcta Deuteron Star all that it can ed after four or five years 01 hard la stories, the soft glow of the shaded candles, the blue curling smoke. That and should be. night, before he retired, he wrote a H. I. Fullerton, '11, left us this year to attend Yale, where he affiliated with bor (mostly aspired), demanded that first consideration was due him. Af ter a few well-selected points, support ing his argument, had been duly pre little letter home: "Dear Pap—It ain't so bad as I publish a communication brothers at large. to your Help us to make the Nu Deuteron Chapter. \r\nhis father's law offices at Cleveland, and attending night law school. "Tud" spent the last few days of November SEMESTERS with us. NOW WHAT NEXT ? Harry Cox is with the Steam Shovel Co., of Marion, 0. Allan H. Graham, '10, is employed by the Federal Electric Sign Co., at Buffalo, N. Y. Donald H. Putnam, '08, is with a paving company at Ashland, Ky. He visited the chapter a few days this fall. Semesters and not terms are now in Show Good Judgement By Calling J. B. Shelton to Eagle Freshwater, '10. is on the staff With the vision their Pulpit. of the Ohio State Journal at Colum and resides in Edwardsvilie, 111. He is employed by the Waters-Pierce Oil Co. ,of St. Louis. Robt. B. Powers, of the First Na tional Bank of this city, took unto himself a wife in November. married to a Miss He was Sara C. Rue. of Coshocton, Ohio. Irwin R. Beiler, '07, graduates this year from the Boston School of The ology. D. W. Moore, '11, is in the employ of the Edison Detroit, Mich. One more has been added to our lo cal "Town Fijis," in the person of Rev. John Bass Shelton, who last spring ac cepted a call to the pulpit of the Del aware Baptist Church. Illuminating Co., Fred Eckley, '09, of Though not having been initiated by our Chapter, he is the type of Fiji any chapter may well feel proud of, and he was quickly adopted by us. Because he lives on ly two doors from us, he maintains that his home is the only real Phi Gam were yet young we did as colleges did, but now that we are a university we must do his father in the insurance business H. G. Stewart, dear old "Pat," was again with the brothers. Pat travels in this section of the country and of ten drops in. "Tud" Laning. ex-'ll, is working in do." inaugurated And the How do we like it? til after the final Well—wait un exams for an au thentic reply. A farmer, finding a dozen ldler» stretched out on the ground, offered a shilling to the laziest one of the lot. Eleven jumped up and claimed the re. ward, each asserting himself to b» The shilling, however, Always Be Patient. Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; Hellenic Banquet to be Held for thou hast many faults and imper fections of thine own that require a After Christmas. reciprocation of forbearance. If thou art not able to make thyself that: Frank Foster, ex-'13, of Marion. O., spent a Sunday with the brothers this at Ashland, O. they was given to the twelfth, who had slothfully kept his position. after "Turkey vacation." Paul C. Fritzinger, ex-'13, spent a Sunday at the Lodge. He is assisting universities .semester systems. Thanksgiving with friends in Colum bus, visiting a day with the chapter Winfield Worline, '06, who has opened a law office in Delaware, was secretary of the Delaware County Re publican Committee in the recent elec tion. Judging from the stubbles on his chin. Win was working. as .straightway the laziest. mount, W. Va., as Division Manager of the Bell Telephone Co. Fred spent fall. additional He Deserved to Win. We welcome Bro. Shelton into our midst, and know he will achieve the success in his new field which he de serves. initiation. the risen up with one accord and with the Man of Old, did say: Lo! when we Annex in town. is located at Fair- Rodney Hume, Rho Deuteron, now at Marion, 0., was present for the fall of ?500,000 endowment which they ex pect to raise by March 1, they have bus, Ohio. D. W. Fiegenbaum, '07, was married last spring to Miss Rebecca Springer, operation at Ohio Wesleyan. Oh, Pro gress, what a spur thou art to human endeavor! Carefully and studiously did the pedagogues of Wesleyan read the omens and signs of the times. January the thirteenth has been set which thou wishest to be, how canst by the Council as the night for a Pan- thou expect to mould another in con formity to thy will?—Thomas A. Kem- Helienic banquet at the Donavin Hotel. pls. Elaborate preparations have been set on foot, and the committee is doing its utmoset to make this affair a Anger. Of all passions, there is none so ex grand success. Such a banquet has travagant and outrageous as that of not been held for some years. Twentyanger; other passions solicit and mis one members of the faculty who are lead us, but this runs away with us by Greeks will be invited to attend. An force, and hurries us as well to our orchestra will be on hand to furnish own as to another's ruin; it falls many plenty of good music, and all the fra times upon the wrong person, and dis ternity men of school are looking for charges itself, upon the Innocent In ward to the banquet with keen antici stead of the guilty, and makes the most trivial offenses to be capital, and pation. Bro. Ganger was elected pres punishes an inconsiderate word per ident of the Council, of which, suffice haps with fetters. Infamy or death it to say, we are justly proud.