THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS Alpha Phi Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta ANN ARBOR. MICH., MARCH, 1954 LPHA PHI WINS CHENEY CUP AFTER YEAR OF WORK Pig Dinner Set For May 15 At Barton Hilis By Gene Hartwijr Alpha Phi has finally clone it. By Tony Baiiadio Crystalballing imo the futurej^ For the first time in its 69-year history on the Michigan campus the Fijis at 707 Oxford have come up with a winning chapter in the Cheney Cup competition for the (he Norris Pig Dinner can be clearly seen as the traditional spring gathering for the alumni of Alpha Phi chapter. May 15 is last school year. the date of the 1954 rendition, and Barton Hills Country Club is the place. Looking even more carefully we find that the main speaker for this year's Dinner will be the executive secretary of the lational fraternity and editor of In the breakdown of the three phases of chapter operations considered in the .judging the chapter ranked third in scholar ship, first in chapter adminis tration and sixth in extracur ricular activities among the 81 chapters of the fraternity. Footsore messengers from na tional headquarters brought the Phi Gamma Delta" who hardly needs any introduction ... Cecil J. (Scoop) Wilkinson. telegram of glad tidings as the chapter sat down to dinner Janu In correspondence with "Scoop," he said he thought the Dinner would certainly be occasion for \ ary 14. In his telegram Brother Cecil J. Wilkinson, now on vacation in .South America had this to say: "TAKING ADVANTAGE formal presentation of the Che- i ney Cup to the chapter. afternoon, many fine secondary! MY ABSENCE FROM UNITED STATES —COMMITTEE ON CHENEY CUP HAS AWARDED THAT COVETED TROPHY FOR ACADEMIC YEAR OF 1952-53 TO ALPHA PHI CHAPTER — SERIOUSLY I AM DELIGHTED AND CONGRATULATE YOU UPON RECEIVING HONOR HIGHLY MERITED" — Cecil J. Wilkinson Winning the Cheney Cup cul minates an eight-year drive by the chapter bringing it to its current high point after the disrupting war years. Credit for the strides made by the chapter last year in par ticular goes largely to the able administration of the Cabinet including President Joe Middleton, '53; Treasurer Kent Hol- wadel, '54 BAd.; Recording Sec retary Joe Heinlein, '53; Corre sponding Secretary Robert Erf, '53E, and Historian Floyd Zar- ^ The traditional picnic in the j\J THE CHENEY CUP speakers, chapter recognition awards, the "pig," and brothei:s .comes to Alpha Phi at last of Phi Gamma Delta participat\K ing in a day of friendship and \ exchange of both past accom-' scholarship in the last two years plishments and future ambi shot the house up to within sec tions promise to be some of the ond from top on campus and third ingredients which will make from Jordon Cup honors in the the 1954 Pig Dinner worth your fraternity. A parlicularly strong internal organization system and a sound committee setup coupled to give the chapter its first place in chapter administration. Within the last two years there has while. You will be getting further in formation both through corre spondence and future issues of the Alpha Phiji News. Grab your calendar and mark this date. May 15. been a move toward bringing all chapter activities such as finances and alumni publica tions within the chapter house itself. The present bookkeeping sys Section Meeting To Be Held Here A fraternal welcome will be ex tem was organized by Brother tended to Fijis of Section VHI as Holwadel last year and its suc "707" is host to the annual Sec cess has been assured by a pro tion Convention April 9, 10 and gram for training treasurers as 11. Delegates from Ohio State, sistants so that continuity and One factor which continually adequate knowledge of the sys Ohio Wesleyan, Denison, Western Reserve and Wittenberg will kept the chapter out of considera tem can be maintained. Plans are already underfoot for check in Friday, April 9, for a tion for the award had been schol arship. In previous years Alpha a delegation of the Michigan Fijis weekend which promises high Phi ranked somewhere in the mid to be on hand at the Ekklesia in educational and entertainment bock, '54A. dle of the list of 81 chapters on Los Angeles this summer to re values. (See SECTION MEETING page four) this score. An all out drive on ceive the silver cup. . .{/ \r\n:/ • If THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWl Page 2 House Manager Position Created By Keii Shaw "707" has a new official—the Send News ... f Once again the call goe.sxuit to all loyal cannibals of the "707" clan to relay by tom tom, telegraph, letter or phone call any news about themselves House Manager. or other alumni brethren that Bob Webster, recently returned may come to their attention. from a two year hitch in the Air Force, a junior, and enrolled in pre-law, became the first ap PRESIDENT REPORTS ... pointee to the new position. We were founded on the Michi 1 ,v» ly ' iX ]vimarc: Socially Speaking... By Ed Lewis The Alpha Phijis are trying big things in the social world this spring. • Five exchange dinners are on the docket with sororities on cam pus and the longest board table anywhere should prove quite a topic of conversation among those sitting around it for the first time. One of the "firsts" being looked forward to this spring is The office was created in or der to remove some of the bur densome details from the cab inet members and also because gan campus in the year 1885 and in the ensuing 68 years went with out official plaudits from the na tional fraternity. At all times we it was felt that buying supplies and being responsible for the upkeep of two houses was very much a full time occupation. have been known as one of the the Jefferson Duo Dinner Dance March 13. Plans have been "top houses" on the -Michigan fra ternity scene and also as an "ex made to-split both groups up, having half the Fijis go to the ample chapter" of Phi Gamma Delta. In other words we were Bob is receiving his board for good but not quite the best. the job, and it is the feeling of the brothers that he has done a great deal towards paying for his own salary by saving money on purchases, and promptly taking care of minor repairs before they Suddenly in our 69th year of existence as Alpha Phi chapter of Phi Gamma Delta we were recognized as best. First in chapter organization, third in Phi Psi's for dinner and half the Phi Psi's come up the hill for dinner. The dance itself will be held at the Phi Psi house and it's hoped that another great Alpha Phi tradition wili be in the making. Spring Pledge Formal honoring scholarship, sixth in extracur ricular activities of all 81 under graduate chapters. our recently acquired 20 neo phytes is scheduled for March 26. is also charged with the hazard It will be served up in traditional ous and unpopular task of inspir As soon as the news was re Fiji style with Earl Pearson's ing the brethren to keep their leased the telegrams began to band supplying the necessary rooms clean. become serious. Brother Webster flock to the portals of 707 Oxford He brings a good deal of ex perience with him to the new position, having been House sound effects. Road all saying the same thing, The weekend of April 23-24 will in essence, "congratulations, yoii find Ann Arbor alive to the gaiety undergraduates have worked hard of the biennial Michigras Carni and deserve it." I wonder if we, val. Jim Deland is chairman of the undergraduates, do deserve the committee for the house and doing his hitch and having per formed clerical and supply all the praise as winners of the plans are in progress for our float Orin H. Cheney Cup. Granted we and booth. It promises to be a work while in the Air Force. have carried out the material du great weekend for a big alumni Although Bob will probably ties that have had to be done but return. and Grounds Chairman before leave us for Law School next September, he is training two ea ger assistants. Bob Cassel and yj K Jim Kruthers, ■ to' take his place. Even though Bob has only been on the job since February 1st, he has aptly demonstrated to the rest of the chapter as well as to members of the Alpha Phi Board, the value of the new position. certain intangibles come to mind. Pig Dinner is slated for May Without self-sacrifices on the 15 with all its attendant festi part of the alumni, with no in vities and Cecil J. (Scoop) Wil tention of being recognized or kinson on hand as the main applauded, the goal of endeavor speaker. of the undergraduates would Mother's Weekend and the May have been impossible. As a re Festival will occur May 1 and 2. sult of the tasks you alumni Rounding out the social season brothers undertook and your we the undergraduates havje had some 800 shining while stars go before us after whiJh and \ Assets Liabilities ... \) to pattern our lives so that the Alpha Phi Chapter might hela usual invitations to this affair promise to be the most sought after on campus in the later days of May. part of the upward march (Jf.. What a great asset that new addition is! the Fraternity of Phi Gamma The Alpha Phiji News I)(!lta, It has culminated in this our Not only does the new spacious ness encourage brothers to gather 69th year in the winning of the before and after meals in will be the pre-flnals Fiji Island whole-hearted devotion to them Grass Skirt Formal May 22. As mo Cheney Cup but without you Published quarterly for alumni members and friends by Alpha Phi Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta at the University of Michi gan. ments of Fiji fellowship, but it alumni brothers it would have has served as one of our best EDITOR been impossible. Thanks to each rushers . . . hence, a great pledge and every one of you who made it John Upton possible each in your own way class. But it is not Thanks to some financed yet. but mainly in your constant old faithfuls, in Phi Gamma Delta. much of it is paid for. Come on, you abstainers, let's give! Fraternally, Tom Tinker '55 PHOTOGRAPHER faith Mike Scherer '.54 News and chanpes of address should be sent to the Editor, 707 Oxford, Ann Arbor, Michii^an. \r\nMARCH THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS VERSATILITY Page 3 MARKS SPRING PLEDGE CLASS THE SPRING CBOP-First row left to right: Rom Portwood, Bill Steinmeyer, Paul Melgaard, Roger Severson, Jim Davies. Second row: Bud Wilcox, Keith Pohl, Bill Moeller, Bruce Boss, Fred Williams, Fred Lyons, Chuck Sharp. Top row: Dave Grey, Steve Kale, A1 Schadel, Ross Smith, Dave Wakely, Pete Grumme, Tom Sawyer, Fred Gielow. ROGER SEVERSON, '57, Otta FRED WILLIAMS and BRUCE: W U Every man we bid is a pledge of Alpha Phi Chapter this spring. wa,, 111., is planning to be an elec BOSS are "Lit" School freshmen With this amazing record the trical engineer. Rog is combining chapter has added 20 more white a good scholastic record and var from Grand Rapids. Although' Bruce went to Ottawa Hills and stars to the roster of would-be sity track with earning his way Fred to Union High, their high school interests are surprisingly Fijis. Combining a good deal of through school. similar. Both were student council versatility with a 3.1 scholastic FRED LYONS, '57, Poland, presidents, members of the Senior average the class should have a Ohio, in pre-business, was three Play and track team, and by the lot to offer the fraternity. PETER GRUMME, '55, Stock times class president, also presi way, "A" students. Although dent of his student council, presi Bruce is still investigating occu dent of the county Methodist pations, Fred is looking forward holm, Sweden, is not a native Youth League, an "A," student, to a career in the diplomatic serv Swede, but was born in Cologne, Germany, and lived there during and a letter-winner in basketball ice. and track. He is successfully con the Allied bombing of that old tinuing his track interests, here. KEITH POHL and JIM DA- I city. An economics major, Pete plans to go into business after his BILL STEINMEYER,-'57, Tole VIES are graduates of Muskegon college days. do, Ohio, is a political science ma Heights High. Keith, a sopho jor. A football, basketball, and DAVE GREY, '57, New York, baseball player at Toledo Scott N.Y., whose father, an English High and Staunton Military Acad professor at Columbia University, emy, Bill is working for the guard is a Fiji from the University of position on the football squad. Chicago, attended Horace Mann The chapter had a pleasant sur High. Dave played baseball and prise when we discovered Bill soccer there, and worked on the was a first tenor, which will great school yearbook. He is consider ly strengthen our IFC sing hopes. ing Journalism, working on the Daily to further, that interest. more, was senior class president in '52, and Jim followed him in the post last year! Keith's inter ests at Michigan are the Union and business administration; Jim's are football and engineering. PAUL MELGAARD,'57, Edmore, Mich., has a last name genuinely Scandinavian; his father was DAVE WAKELY*.I'lVoodville, born in Denmark. Paul has made s * * Ohio, is a frsehman transfer from an exceptional start here, going STEVE KALE, '57, La Porte, Kenyon College. Dave's dad is a Ind., was a member of the student golf pro, and following in his foot government. Senior Honor society steps, has his eyes set on Michi and football team at La Porte gan's golf team. At Maumee Val High. Steve is taking engineering, ley High, Dave also competed in here, on a Navy ROTC schol basketball and baseball, and was arship he won for his entire col active in Hi-Y, science club, and male chorus. lege career. * * » out for football and wrestling, and gaining the position of vicepresident of the freshman engi neering honor council. The Fiji Marching Band welcomes Paul, as he plays the baritone horn. See SPRING page four > » \r\nMARCH THE ALPHA PHIJI NEWS Page 4 Fred has a fine record in camp work, with a good job as a coun selor at the Detroit YMCA camp waiting for him this summer, Fred is a potential electrical en ROSS SMITH. '57, Detroit, REX "BUD" WILCOX, '57, Al gineer, Chuck is a pre-law man, Mich,, and AL SCHADEL,'57, De ma, Mich,, though captain of his and Bill is a political science ma troit, Mich,, graduates ol Mac high school football squad and jor, kenzie High, are both in their first recipient of all-state honorable Scoop-75 semester here. Their many com mention. Bud is going to channel At the helm for 33 years. mon experiences in high school his efforts at college along aca "Scoop" Wilkinson is now include student council leader demic lines, with Medical School steering the Phi Gamma Delta ship, National Honor Society, and in mind, (His father is a graduate magazine through its seventywork on the school paper, A1 is of Michigan's Medical School,) SPRING PLEDGE CLASS LOADED WITH TALENT preparing for Law and Ross for Medicine, lift h year of uninterrupted pub TOM SAWYER,'57, Royal Oak, lication. Mich,, was one name which no Ours is the fourth oldest fraone had trouble remembering dur ternit.y magazine in continued ing rushing,-Tom v,.-as president publication. Congratulations, The chapter irritii 'Itiated a total of of his class at Royal Oak High, •Scoop! eight men—seven pledges and one With quite S bit'of high school If be doesn't have your ad holdover—in initiation ceremonies speaking experience behind him, dress, or you aren't getting the early in February,. he intends to utilize this talent in magazine, write him. Rust The eight included?'E-dsvard B, his chosen profession, the law, Building, 1001 15th St. N.W., Grouse, East Lansing; Ron, B, Washington, D.C. ROMULUS "ROM" PORTClarke, LaGrange Park, 111,; WOOD, '57, Detroit, Mich,, is a Frank Gregory, Ashtabula, Ohio; "Lit" school freshman. Because SECTION MEETING (from p. 1) Alan Hartwig, Cleveland, Ohio; A blue ribbon panel of frater Henry Loeb, Highland Park, 111.; Rom was pledged during open rushing last fall, he could help nity experts is being selected by Barry MacKay, Dayton, Qhio; the chapter rush this spring, do the Convention committee to William G, Pusch, LaPorte, Ind,, ing a job everyone was proud of, stimulate discussion on leading and Harrison Wehner, Philadel phia, Pa, BILL MO'eLLER,'''57, Detroit, problems of the chapters repre Mich,, FRED GIELOW, '57, De sented. Guests will include Assistant troit, Mich,, and CHUCK SHARP, Wanted '57, Detroit, Mich,, all were very Executive Secretary James F. Who has information lead ing to the whereabouts of any active in Redford High School, Hudson and Section VIII Chief Hi-Y, senior play, and other Harry L. Davis. Other speakers of the following Fi,jis: stage experience, included in their will be Purple Legionnaire, Ken B^^and Liehtenberger Shaw, and former Purple Le records. Chuck and Bill were Xrthur H. Little both commencement speakers and gionnaire, Bill Zerman, both /Laverne R. Aiken Presidents of their Hi-Y clubs. former field secretaries of the 'Francis L. Brown Bill has a bright future in the fraternity. y INITIATED ... A f Burton D. Floyd Wesley J. Wuerfel James R. McCollum Paul C. Reed Addresses, please!!! p.f Fi.ii band ahead of him, as he played trumpet in Bedford's marching band. Chuck was an of ficer in the varsity club and ranked fifth in high school tennis. Each year the convention site is rotated to a different chapter. The Michigan committee is an ticipating "the biggest and best convention to date," PHI GAMMA DELTA 707 OXFORD ROAD, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN i-OSIAG?' ! Ho.318635 WM. SHERIDAW zerstan 1020 ADKINISTRATZGN bldg. UNIV. OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR, MICH. Form 3547 Requested