Phi Gamma Delia, DePauw Universily, Green aslle, Indiana VOL. 103 WINTER, 1959 PIG DINNER MARCH 2!; MACFALL TO SPEAK The Norris Pig Dinner will continue its tradition as the big event of Lambda's second semester on Saturday evening, March 21. The A! Fisher In Turkey, dinner will follow initiation ceremonies for 16 new men into the chapier, and will begin with cocktail hour (tomato juice style, of course) at 5;30. Writes From Istanbul Brothers Dinner will be served at 6;30. Russell P. MacFall, .will provide the speaking talent class of '25, and Ray Swanson '27,1 for the evening. EDITOR'S NOTE: (Brolher A1 His Fisher '61, is studying al Robarlj detail. for the festivities after yielding th?m chcice promentory on Looking to the north, one can see almost to the Black Sea. Tr th° east, and only a five minute boat ride across the Bosphorus, is Asia with her snow-capped moun tains. The James overlooking stTy in Turkey. historic fortress of Bumeli Hisar, from which the ''"urks laid the siege of Gree'- 1 No, nof evsn a repair village of Rumeli Hisar. D. Dawson, Ivan D. readying a "Dew Line" outpost. ard, But freshmen Dick Hsdley, Kit Brother George Lortz '341, Robert K. McCleaster, Terry L. McCoy, Lortz, and Jim Ross are hard at N. C. Lortz Ross, John H, (son of Smith, and Frederick F. Thorn'-urg (son of Brother James Thornburg '33). bomb" on the Greencastle town THE EVENING'S ACTIVITIES square a ne w coat of aluminum paint. George James work giving the ancient "buzz will also include the usual pres entation of the Boswell trophy, The paint job oame as a project during "Hell Week" ac Tubkish Jerry Griffith, Richard R. Hadley, John W. Hederick, Harry Kent How crew tivities at Lambda this winter. provincial Alikonis, Floyd, Walter R. Foltz, Robert W. Constantinople, is only a stone's round us, above and below, is the J. Andrews, Thomas O. Richard L. Fairchild, throw to the south. And all a- '33 lows; a I the Bosphorus. It is in this s'^me building that my family and I are living during our nine montl-s' Coffin Sixteen freshmen are eligible for initiation including two sons of Lambda Fijis, and read as fol s'holar library Brother Joe side. A hundred years ago a f-mous summer to last year. Brother Dale Chandler '59, chapter president, will pre Istanbul). his DPU BROTHER SWANSON will re his first semester expariencos in built the sume his position as Toastmaster thing as yet from Al about harem- and to him for Pig Dinner duties. Brother or Turkish baths, but r~csrtly re ceived this report from him on statesman visit MacFall is currently night editor cf the Chicago Daily Tribune. We haven't heard any Turkish recent campus for Vocational Day activ ities prompted an invitation to PLEDGES IN ORBIT? College in Istanbul, Turkey. He is spending the year abroad with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Fisher. Mr. Fisher is professor of Middle Eastern History et Ohio rtate University and is in the Middle East on a govrnment OTcnt to study Turkish history in Brother Mac- Fall will give the main address. the Cook Scholarship Ring Brother Clarence Cook '93. by the '^h"ldon trophy, and the Moraller ' award. These will be proc^'eded of Istanbul, the village is no dif Iand white uniforms on their way bv entertainment by the new in- FROM OUR ferent from one that would be a house and gar hundred miles away. The mosque den, which is on the quai just below our garden, walled - in, we with its muhesin calling the Mos are front row lems to prayer five times a day; spectators see the caravans of donkeys carrying ing life as lived ; water, milk, vegetables and fisb in a Turkish' making their way through the village. For, al cobblestone streets; the scores of though we are but six miles north children dressed in their black to and from school; the flocks of jsheep tended by watchful shep Iherds and dogs on the green hills 'behind our house; these scene.=and many more are all to be seen from our windows and gardcr is Robert gate. On a nearby hill College, the American school here (Continued on Page 4) itiat°s and the traditional pig kissing ceremony. The meal will feature, fit tingly enough, roast pork and all the trimmings. A good turn out is hoped for. A full house at '002 S. College on March 21 would add the perfect touch to the occasion. Hope to see you then! \r\nTIGER FIJI PAGE 2 WINTER, 1959 Rush CommiHee Four Pledges Make Phi Eta Sigma Sets Up Spring Program, Plans CiiNiBSatS®E.K Lambda is looking forward to Spring Rush this year in hopes of building a strong nucleus for next year's pledge class. \ The Rush Committee, headed by chairman Tim Otis and assistant Jim Force, is hard at work. Many high school seniors have already been contacted and invited to spend a SMITH weekend here at DePauw with the Lambda Fijis. SPRING RUSH AT DEPAUW serves two main functions. First, we attempt to interest the boys who visit us in definitely coming this the Youth Minister at Centenary year's Rector Scholar Dinner was Christian Church in Indianapolis Brother James Pence, '34. Brother and is also a second year student Pence, now bank president in at Christian Theological Semin The feature speaker at South Haven, Michigan, returned to campus on Jan. 13 to address ary. 4c CPU's top male scholars as presi-| dent of the Rector Scholar Alum This year's Phi Gamma Delta ni Association. pledge class has placed four boys cn Phi Eta Sigma, the frcshmar * The Jtt ♦ ♦ to DePauw. We make sure they see the campus, talk to various orofersors, meet with the Admis sions Director and, if they are interested in athletics, talk with the men in the Athletic Depart Now retired from his insurance ment. We also make sure that business in Cleveland, O., Brother they haye dates with beautiful Secondly, the Roy D. Hudson '14, and his wife Depauw coeds. * * * plan to travel extensively in their men of Lambda haye a chance to appointment of Brother trailer home. Their mailing ad liye with and talk to these boys In doing this we R. F. Phersick '28, as manager dress is P. O. Box 15, Bay Village, for a weekend. gible for Phi Eta Sigma a fresh of six Indiana Bell Telephone can look at these men as prosOhio. man must maintain an average of oectiye pledges and see if they ♦ ♦ * * suburban exchanges in the In 2.5 or better on the possible thrc measure up to the high standards dianapolis area was recently an Pfc Richard Hayward '56, is peint system. which would make them good Phi scholastic honorary. To be eli John Smith, Ivan Floyd, and Jim Ross all made 2.75 for their first semester and John Hederick finished the term with an out nounced. * * * now stationed with the Signal * Corps Meteorlogical Team, P. O. Brother John Stockberger '49, Drawer is now a vice president of the Stockberger Machinery standing 2.85. Fort Wayne, Indiana. * * * * John Smith of Urbana, Illinoi." Co. in 21, Ft. Clayton, Canal Zone. ♦ * * * Gams. This spring a new facet has been added to the rush program. The Rush Committee is planning fcur rush trips to different towns per to membership of the Board in the Indiana, Illinois area. These Election of Brother Frank Tup- is a political science major. Ivan will take Brother Tom Deselm '56, was cf Directors and also to the post trips Floyd of West Lafayette, Indiana released from the U.S. Army last cf Executive Vice President has March and April. place during We thin'k that rnd John Hederick of Skoki?, Illi April and has returned to his job by meeting many of the top-notch been announced by the Durham nois are both in prc-engineering as a Student Actuary with the Manufacturing Co., Muncie, In boys in their homes and talking Ross of Norwalk, Ohio is State Farm Life Insurance Co. in diana. Brother Tupper graduated to them and their parents that we studying to become a veterinarian Bloomington, 111. The DeSelms in the class of '48 and joined the can do even a more thorough job Jim now reside at 355 S. Osborn Ave., sales department of the firm in of impressing them with DePauw We feel that year. He also was recently and Phi Gamma Delta. PIP PIP—SCHOLARSHIP Kan'kakee, III. ♦ * * ♦ named Muncie's "Outstanding that a great deal can be accomp The new director of Admissions Young Man of 1958" by the lished through these rush trips. over Ihe past semester rates a few at California Western U. in San Muncie Junior Chamber of Com WITH THIS STEPPED UP LAMBDA'S SCHOLARSHIP words in this issue of the Tiger Fiji. According to the house scholarship committee, the Fijis Diego is Brother John Oldenkamp merce. '56. t ••K -V SS * * * The Indiana National Bank lo compiled a house average of 1.65, spring rush program we will be counting on the support of our graduate brothers. Through rec Brother Walter Lindley '47, cated in Indianapolis, last month ommendations of graduate broth based on a three point system. This is a big improvement over a has been named the Executive elected Brother J. Kurl Mardt '28 ers like yourself we hope to ac 1.4 average of second semester Vice President in charge of Bo- as Executive Vice President of quire another fine pledge class land Associates, Ltd., Honolulu the bank's Board of Directors. here at Lambda. If you know last year. advertising and sales promotion Brother Mardt has been with the of any fine young men in your THE SENIORS TOOK grade firm. He and his wife live at bank since 1928, and is also a area who are outstanding in the honors with a 1.89, and the fresh 2851 Ka'hawai St., Honolulu, Ha director of the Automobile Under areas of activities, scholarship, men amassed a commendable 1.52 mark. Four freshmen qualified for Phi Eta Sigma, Frosh scholar ship honorary; and ten men made the Dean's List, for those averag ing a 2.5 or better. waii. writers Inc., treasurer of the Child athletics, integrity, and personal Guidance Clinic Inc., and a mem ity please inform us on the rush Brother Bob Bock '57, is now ber of the Reserve City Bankers recommendation form enclosed ♦ * » ♦ Association. j on the inside sheet of this paper. Brother William McGaughey We will get your boy down here living units. But in lany case'34, was speaker at a DePauw for a weekend and sell him on DUE TO UNIVERSITY policy, even unofficially-we feel that chapel on Friday, Feb. 6. Brother DePauw and Phi Gamma Delta. scholarship averages are no long Lambda's record shows a definite McGaughey spoke about "The Now is the time to let us know er computed or compared by improvement in the field of (Continued on Page 4) DePauw offices for the individual scholarship! (Continued on Page 3) \r\n'tVINiEri ioSS TIGER FIJI PAGE 3 Three Lambda Fijis Compete In Varsity Sports Wegenke, Crosby, Roeder Wearing Lambda Cagers Hi Lite Winter IM Season BOTTOMS UP! DePauw Colors The DePauw winter sports Basketball has dominated the scene has seen three Lambda IM scene around the Fiji lair this Fijis make resounding contribu winter. Chances w'hich looked tions to Tiger varsity competition % good at the outset of the schedule, in wrestling, basketball and swim Juniors Gary Wegenke with four returnees from the Fiji ming. runnerup squad of last year, have and Darrell Crosby and sopho been up and down during the more Dave Roeder have been act season and still leave the Fijl'^ ive since November wearing the with a good shot at a playoff berth. a Old Gold and Black in these three sports. Upset losses to DU and Sig plu' Perhaps the most exciting and trouncing by league-leading interesting sport on the campus SAE give the Phi Gams a 10-3 this winter has been wrestling. record in the 16 team fracas. We Tiger grapplers in their first in rest in fifth place but have tercollegiate season on the mats dumped Phi Psi and Beta, third have compiled an outstanding and fourth place holders, and record and are possibly one of have only Sigma Nu left to play the finest small college wrestling among the league leaders. The teams in the Midwest. Under the squad is on a five game victory jtutelage of Coach Mike Snavely, binge and has a good shot at DePauw has won nine matches fourth place with a solid finish and lest only one. They have Juniors Phil Mow and Junior Gary Wegenke makes a "canvas back" of his Ball Stale opponent, giving the Tigers five points toward one of their nine victories this season. Dick scored two victories each over In French, senior Larry Beiller and diana Central and Ball State, and guard and forward for the Tiger at 3-6, but Dave's relay crews sophomore Don Joyner have wins over Wabash, Eastern Illi cagers. have splashed to victory against shouldered the burden of play nois, Cincinnati, Bradley, and Chi Indiana State twice, Berea State Early season efforts against this season. The fifth position cago. Denison and Indiana Central (Ky.), and against Albion College has alternated between freshmen A VITAL COG IN THIS fine have been the most fruitful for in Michigan. John Bromley and Kit Lortz. team is Brother Gary Wegenke Darrell this year as he hit 14 and The only other IM activity this '60. Wrestling as the Tiger's 147 11 points respectively. Recently season has been bowling. Fiji Dound class man, "Wedge" has he has received starting nods akeglers finished only 200 pins be h'-d tough sledding during the gainst St. Joe, Ball State and hind the leaders yet could grab only a ninth place. Kitchen Initiated The 47 members of first half of the season, running Evansville after a good showing into several rugged opponents. in a 59-54 Tiger surprise over But Gary has come back strong of Washington of St. Louis. Darrell's late, as evidenced by his pin of point per game average stands at his opponent from Ball State on 5.2. Fiji Af- Helm Of New Sailing Club Activify The DePauw Sailing Club is once again active after several years of relative hibernation, thanks largely to the efforts of Lambda's Feb. 7 (above). undergraduate chapter were join The wrestlers at press time were ed by sophomore Jim Kitchen on ending their season with a match February 23. Jim, from Louis against Valparaiso. The squad is ville, Kentucky, enters the looking forward to the Little State Brother Don Goodwillie '61. As new Commodore of the Brotherhood as a member of the meet at Wabash in early March group for its 1958-59 season, Don 1957-58 pledge class. has been instrumental in plans #hich point to, at last, an active with excellent chances of walking off with all the honors. FPRING RUSH (Continued from Page 2) future for DePauw sailors. THEY WILL LOSE only two A men via graduation this spring them down here to the campus others will be back on the canvas for a weekend this spring. With next fall in anticipation of another good spring regatta sched ule, pitting DePauw crews against about these boys so we can get and, of course, Gary and five CROSBY ROEDER the likes of Wayne, Purdue, In- jdiana, Notre Dame. Detroit and BROTHER DAVE ROEDER '61, Northwestern, has been lined up your help Lambda will once a- fine year. "Wedge" hails out of South of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, is Ifollowing reinstatement of the gain have the best pledge class on Bend Central High School and having a good first year for iclub on both local and national the DePauw campus next fall. here at the house doubles as Coach Charlie Erdmann's swim levels. ming squad this season. Th? turn of the recent .semester Dave came to DePauw after saw the club gain affiliation with A 3-17 RECORD illustrates the troubles of Coach Elmer McCall's winning Wisconsin state honors the DePauw Student Union Build pledge trainer. WATCH FOR JUNE 6 basketballers this winter, but in the 200 yard freestyle, and as a ing Board and renew its member Lambda has active representation Tiger tanker is working as anchor ship with the Midwest Intercol from Brother Darrell Crosby '60. man on the 400 yard medley and legiate Sailing Association at a regional meeting at Indiana Uni Darrell, hailing from Rock Island, 400 yard freestyle relays. The record for the season stands versity on Feb. 14. Illinois, has been working both at \r\nPAGE 4 TIGER FIJI FISHER TIGER FIJI WINTER, IN TURKEY (Continued from Page 1) Vol. 103 No. 2 that my EDITOR brother and I attend 1S59 In Memoriam Lambda regrets to inform the Jim Force '61 There are five Americans, several chapter of the death of Brother CONTRIBUTCRS — Tim Otis '60, Dick Murphy '59, Buck Thornburg Arabs, and the other nine hund Marion H. Hedges '10, on January '62, Bud Lavery '61, A1 Fisher '61, Bob Mer- red students are Turks. Luckily 5 of t'nis year. Brother Hedges riam '61. for me, the classes for the most passed away following a heart at part sre taught in English, as my tack in Takoma Park, Md. He knowledge of Turkish is not toe was 70 years old. The Tiger Fiji is published quarterly by Lambda of Phi Gamma great as yet. Brother Hedges has been known Delta at DePauw University for its Graduate Brothers and friends. THE TURKISH BOYS at the to countless pledge tests as one Please send news and changes of address to the editor in care of !school are all very friendly and cf the founders and charter mem the Chapter House, 1002 South College, Greencsatle, Ind. hospitable, and both my brother bers of Sigma Delta Chi, national and I have had dinner with sev Lambda Elects Ken Locke '61 eral of them. journalism honorary fraternity. One of these din His illustrious career includes ners I shall never forget, it being founder and vice chairman of the CANNIBAL CORNER a nine course affair including National Planning Association, many Turkish "delicacies" su''h labor information specialist with Graduate in a Changing World," as raw fish, eggplant with goat's and then revisited Lambda chap cherse, and watermelon with the Social Security Board, and special consultant to the Tennes ter for lunch on Saturday. yogurt. see Valley Authority. ♦ * * * K'^n Locke, a Fiji .sophomore Although I am attending Robert from Gary, Indiana, has been Another DePauw speaker in re College, I have much spare tim- i In addition. Brother Hedges served as research director of the elcct'd by the chapter as its cent weeks was Brother Russell P. and, as we are fortunate enough International Brotherhood of Student Senate representative. MacFall '25, night editor of the to have our car with us, we do Ken will hold this position for "^hicago Tribune. Brother Mac- good deal of traveling around. W" Electrical Workers, was a profes sor of English at Beloit ColUge the next two years. He succeeds Fall, who is to address this year's have seen many famous histori for four years and authored two I -•rr-- Ros°, who was very active Pig Dinner, returned to campus sites, but ?s this countrv is so in the organization, serving as on Feb. 13-14 as a speaker in the novels. A recipient of a master's rich with such places, we havr Vice President this past year. drgree from Harvard, he gradu DePauw Vocational Day program. (Continued from Page 2) To DPU Senate only begun to see them all. 4: * K^n is a pre-msdical student Brother Bill McMurray '56, has and has an accumulative grade average of 2.1. He was a mem been restationed in Maryland. His ber of the freshman baseball team, present address is: V W-2 is active in Alpha Delta Sigma and Young Republicans, as well Naval Air Station as being on the advertising staff Patuxent River, Maryland 9|I i(l 4c cf the DePauw. He is also sopho more representative on the house Brother A1 Grundstrom '59, was pledge training committee. married to Miss ./^nn Egbert, Theta '59 on Jan. 21 in Indianap olis. 'FALSTAFF' ONE OF OUR FAVORITE - its, and one we make often, is to ated from DePauw with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He is survived by his wife, a see the old Grand Bazaar. This daughter and a sister. is the nearest that the Turks have come to a department store, and they sell everything from Turk ite, tut from an unmentionable ish rugs to o'd Harem rings. In house, has just arrived and we the oldest part of the Bazaar, the are planning to do a lot of travel Bedeistan, we have made several ing together. All of us are going f'-iends among the merchants, on" to drive around in Anatolia for of whom is Kafiroff. a real old The Grundstroms are now timer who has just about every thr-e weeks in April, and see both backwoods Turkey and the mod residing in the university housing thing in his shop. ern capitol at Ankara. on Locust St. while both complete We leave Turkey in June to The,second semester will prove undergraduate studies. three months driving I think, to be even more inter spend ♦ 4( >t! ♦ esting than the first. Another through Europe, and then back to Brother Bob Erickson '58, is American boy, a fellow DePauw- the States and DePauw. now in Naval OCS training. His address is: UCSA USNR Sec. C-2, Class 42 US Naval School Officer Can DEAR RUSHEE didate US Naval Station, Newport, R. I 9N >le Brother Chuck Kingman '58, and Miss Barb Ward, Alpha Phi '59 were married in Shaker Heights, Ohio on December 22. 41 « « >(< Brother Bob Coffin '58, leaves mascot, the Armed Forces on March 13 at poses with golf ball for a Fiji photcgraph. A black and white pup of some kind, she was given Fort Riley, Kansas, and is plan ning to be married on March 28 "Falslaff," the shelter from a annex storm ond has since become a favorite of in Indianapolis. * December rain annex inhabitants. She gets out on campus, too, having recently attended the * ♦ * Another graduate of '58, Broth er Jim Hannah has also completed his military service and now is selling Studebakers in Gary, Indi ADS jazz concert and several ana. university classes. en in Gary. His address is 4579 Van Bur- Hush Chairman Tim Olis '60, readies a letter to one of many high school seniors being contacted by the Fiji spring rush program.