THE Brainstorm of ALPHA LOTA IOWA STATE COLLEGE, AMES, IOWA VOLUME 57, NO. 3 FALL, 1957 A New Chapter On September 28, 1957, the Eighty-Third chapter of Phi Gam ma Delta was installed at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The baby chapter is Imown to the world as Mu Upsilon and was brought in royally. Among the many distinguished persons were Ed Pierce '59 and Howard Summers '60 from Alpha Iota. were Other Cecil notables attending "Scoop" Wilkinson (Ohio Wesleyan '17) and his as sistant Jim Hudson (Missouri '46), Archons Phil Ebeling (Ohio Wesleyan '28), George Bailey (Wisconsin '12), Earnie Lovejoy (Illinois '20), and Banner Lee Mahood (Davidson '22, Vii'ginia '23). Ken Shaw Syracuse ('50) the chief of Section VHI, was also there. Altogether tended the 200 Fijis at Bottom row, 1. to r.: Smith, Shields, McCormick, Kaufman. Top row: Vogol, Rudolph, Miller, Appling, Monroe, Gartner, Dyrland, Coons. ceremonies. During the Installation approxi mately 38 men were initiated. Also five gradutes of Miami were in itiated. Remaining are 10 pledges who should be added to the chapter when mid-year rush comes around. The fields of sports and engi. neering cover the favorite in terests of this year's twelve-man were spent in remodeling their 130 year old house loocated at 130 East High. They worked twelve hours a day on the downstairs and pledge class. Eight pledges are majoring in some form of engi neering while all were unanimous in their feelings for outdoor and contact sports. outside and then worked another five hours on their rooms. For with The three weeks before school example, the Betas painted their kitchen, and while the showers were being painted, the Phi Belts let them use theirs. Mu Upsilon was an experiment in colonizing which proved very successful. Colonizing ailows the Fraternity to choose the men it wants and start a chapter from the beginning right. Undesirable Illinois and Iowa lead the pledge four and three. Other's from Minnesota, Nebraska. sioru'i, and Maryland. are operation major, who resides at Lowell Drive in Des Moines; R'chard David McCormick, 822 N. 16th Street in Fort Dodge, a student in general Terrace in Paxton, a Mechanical Engineering major; and David Lloyd Rudolph, 717 Wilmot Drive, Deerfield, a general engineering student. Mis- New Fiji pledges from Iowa in clude Gordon Joseph Smith, a farm 42 Administrations major; and John Shields, 106 South James Place, an unclassified engineer, lead the contingent which also includes Roy Glenmore Miller, 12 Meridian engineering; traditions do not have to be taken and Eldon Jay Appling, 4907 N. in along with the chapter. The success of Mu Upsilon is amazing when considering the fact 53rd Street in Des Moines. — (Continued on page 3, col. 2) Gar-tner. 112 Gillick, an Industrial Park Ridge claims two of the lour Illinois pledges. Louis Edward Fredric Harold Kauffman, 3108 N. 58 Street, and Gordon Russell Coons, 2308 Country Club are both Industrial Engineering students fr-om Omaha, Nebraska. The south and east boundries of the class are represented by John Carl Vo- gel. Barren Road Route 1, Poplar Bluffs, Missouri, an Agronomy major; and Scott Kendall Monroe, 609 St. Francis Road in Baltimore, Md.. an Aeronautical Engineering student. \r\nPAGE 2 FALL, 1957 BRAINSTORM The Purple Legionaire Pig Dinner As Viewed by a Pledge attached to the Army ROTC unit Pig Dinner 1957! Beginning with the annual pledge blast in the lounge Friday night, and ending when the red-eyed alums left on Sunday morning. Alpha lota's Pig here. Dinner was one fabulous weekend. Brother Donnal was graduated from Culver Military Academy in early Saturday afternoon and were This year Alpha Iota has a new Purple Legionaire in the person of Lieutenant Jack Donnal who is The alums began to show up heralded by the drum-beating, flag-waving pledges on top of the June of 1948 and attended Oberlin College, 1948-49. He then matricu lated to the Pennsylvania State College (now University) in the fall of 1949, and was pledged to the Gamma Phi Chapter. declared a Distinguished Graduate, and, in June was commissioned in the roof. The dinner was scheduled for six o'clock that evening and then the festivities began. Before dinner we (the glorious He was Military of 1953, Regular c'ass of '60) were introduced. This was a very serious ordeal which ended when my pledge brothers and I kissed the pig on the snout but the actives apparently got their directions mixed up. During dinner the actives kept yelling for Army Corps of Engineers. While at Penn State he was a member of DICK Tau Beta Pi and Skull and Bones, HERB a senior honor organization. His first duty assignment was with the Division, Eleventh Fort Air Campbell, Ken tucky, and from there to Korea pledges to fill their mugs. I was In memorium Borne Last Spring, our house amazed as to their capacity while eating a huge dinner. When every Presi one was finshed, (with their food, where he commanded an Engi neer Combat Company for 16 months. Upon returning to U. S. soil he was assigned to the dent, Richard L. Herb, was forced "Garden Leonard Dick. Aide-de- sophmore years and again in the summer before his junior year his presentation of awards. Then came illness caused him the recognition of the oldest alum Wood, Spot", Fort Missouri, as an Camp. The fall of 1956 saw both he and his wife, the former Mary Fitzpatrick, KKG, Penn. State, 1955, journey to Iowa State where he is presently Assistant Professor of Miilitary Science and Tactics. Homecoming '57 Iowa State, for the first time in quite a few years, looks as though they might have a winning Football team this year. As this issue goes to press, they have beaten the University of Denver, tied Syracuse, and scored on Ok lahoma for the first time since 1951. Coach Jim Meyers is doing a good job. We have reason to believe that many of the Alumni will be back, having received letters verifying same. The house decoration will be something to see. It is too early to reveal what it is, but it will cover the entire front of the house. We think we have a real winner. You are all cordially invited to stop over to the house after the game, A buffet meal will be serv ed. We hope to see many of you there. by illness This was to drop not the Between his from first school. time freshman to for and drop from school. Then on July 3, 1957, after 2 months in the Iowa City and Methodist hospitals, Dick passed away. Jack Krueger, Dick Kuhl, Dave Needham, Ray Oohtout, Bob Bridges and John Innes, all fra ternity brothers of Dick's served as pallbearers in a solemn cer'emony that laid to rest one of Alpha lota's proudest and greatest mem bers. Herbie, as he was called by his brothers and those who knew him closely, was extremely active on campus and in the fraternity for a man who suffered from both Nephritis and anemia, fi'om which his younger brother had died. On campus he wrote a daily column, was Master of Ceremonies of many events, was Editor of the IFC Rush Magazine and voted "Ugliest Man on Campus" during Campus Chest campaign. In the fraternity he held the postions of I mean) Jerry Soloman, the speak er, gave a talk on the problems a fraternity a very is faced impressive with. It was talk telling about our segregation problems. Following Jerry's talk was the to come Spike back for Crawford, Pig Dinner. whose heart pumps royal purple, has only miss ed the annual Pig Dinner two times and was recognized as the oldest alum to come back. After the formalities the tables were cleaned up and the men be gan to file down to the lounge for "refreshinents". I went down there and had just got in the door when about ten mugs were shoved in my face with orders to fill them. I filled them only to learn that I had to drink the foam from the tops. I stayed down there for about three hours chugging foam steadily. I started getting a little dizzy so I went upstairs to see what was goin on. About every room was filled with alums sitting around talking. It seemed like all of them had empty mugs and of course it was my job to fill them. About one A. M. things began to thin out a little. The actives that taiy, and President. At the present lived in the house had long since gone to bed but the bottomless alums were still up and going time, the house is working on a dedication to such a woithy mem strong. It seemed like I was con stantly running down those stairs Rush Chairman, Recording Secre- ber. (Continued on page 3, col. 3) \r\nPAGE 3 FALL, 1957 BRAINSTORM news from the Hlums Dear Brothers: This is in reply to your request that I write something of our ear ly history for your Chapter Pub lication. The incident that comes to mind, I hope will be of interest to others as it was to us. In our time, 1904 to 08, debating was an important college activity. We not only engaged in highly competitive inter-collegiate de bates but on the Iowa State Campus the three literary socie ties hotly contested between them selves for a winning team. In the Spring of 1908 Brother George E. Farmer and myself, rep. resenting the Batchelor Debating Society, found ourselves in the finals for top honors. But un fortunately both our opponents and ourselves had won the neg ative side of the same question. The time before finals was to short to change questions so we decided to draw lots as to which team should take the affirmative. We lost the draw. Prom our study of the subject we had learned that Wisconsin Univ. was the only team that had debated the question and won on the affirmative, so we headed for Madison and the Fiji House. For three days we studied the materi al gathered on the subject by the Wisconsin debators. While at the Fiji House the Wisconsin boys told of their Sec tion Convention soon to be held at Knox College in Galesburg, Bl and insisted our attending as their guests and representing the then baby chapter. The banquet was to be a Ames dress affair. We wired asking that our White Fronts be sent to Galesburg. The train was late and we had to hur ry dressing arriving at Head quarters Hotel after all others had been seated prevented and served. our being This introduced to anyone but the Toastmaster. The first speaker on the pro gram was the delegate from Il linois. barnyard. So embarrassed was the Toastmaster who was to call upon us later as a surprise, that he an nounced our presence and asked that I reply in the defence of Al the others present, but his embar rassment was pathetic. After the banguet we were showered with apologies and in vitations to return to Champaigne which we, for lack of time, were pha Iota. Having come from a boarding school near Santa Bar bara, California where we were required to put on formal dress every night for dinner. I was able to inform the Brother from Cham- paigne that my inspection of the membership at Ames had dis as the Chapters first delegate, I was looked up by the boys from Illinois with the warmest of fra ternal greetings. were really in. closed no straw but rather had I noticed Orchids on our dates at the dances. Furthermore the enci-ustment on the shoes was really a which I was quite sure fci'ced to decline. In June of 1908 at the Ekklesia in New York where I went While of Alumni. These men PIG — (Continued from page 2) and A. four before M. I All realized it was five of the diehards from other chapters gave of their time and money that Phi Gamma Delta might enter at Miami. Perhaps the most credit should go to Glenn Barr (Allegheny '19), a professor of Romantic Lan guages at Miami, who saw the re alization of a twenty year dream. Brother Barr is now their Purple Leagonaire. With a wish that they never falter in their fine job of repre senting Phi Gamma Delta, Alpha Iota welcomes this new chapter which is the first real fraternity on the Miami campus. lounge and see how prostrate brothers. and there forms of my I looked I saw in one ion, voted a charter to a Cow College like Ames. We were in his opinion all a bunch of farmer boys with straw protruding from our shirt crusted collars with the and shoes fruits of en the the last pledge corner alum quietly sipping his beer and hum ming to himself. I sat down beside him and we drank and talked till the sun came up. He finally de cided to go to bed when he saw the sun. I went upstairs and view ed the coming day with remorse because Pig Dinner was over but what fun it was! Wanted!! RECOMMENDATIONS for chagrin his talk soon developed shortly after receiving the Petit many had lasted this long. I opened the door and stepped over a few of the Much to our astonishment and into a veritable tirade against those in the fraternity who, so that were upstairs finally went to bed so I decided to go down to the Alpha Chapters. Their success was due mainly to the hard work of several the filling mugs. Time seemed to fly • NEW — (Continued from page 1) home won Allen C. Stelle • the we Fraternally Yours, by the Brothers from Illinois. Hav ing failed to note when he rose to speak that our dress clothes were less in style than those of is sure one we went to Madison to win. polish would Perge! Miami am we debate at Galesburg we lost the would bear close examination even that I Thereafter For the BIGGEST - the BEST - 50th PIG DINNER April 19, 1958 the \r\nBRAINSTORM PAGE 4 mon to many movies. Like most MORE ALUMNI NEWS A things it does seem interesting to look back on but it was no joy couple of weeks ago we re ceived letter romantic success I alumni, that we have not seen or when my "Fiji" friend was sent away because of infection in his thy widow. She was quite comely, mature and sopisticated. After she subsidized many failures to pro duce oil, she got rather demanding though. She had a fabulous villa outside Rio with a tropical garden, he of only had was my marriage to a weal since one The while there. It became unbearable from from I quietly try to dissolve myself in the local liquor. our heard a FALL 1957 left school. He is Burt Heller, '47. Here is his wound. About the only thing I got out of this was a fair know ledge of German.. letter: Brothers: I received your "White Star" and I am glad to see every thing is going so well. I am afraid that I am not going to be able to make Pig Dinner, but I could since I haven't wish I made one yet. After V. E. day I was brought home and recuperated in the Army Hospital in Washington. After five months of flirting with various nurses (I had better luck with German leased I was drafted after only being in the house a year and since going over seas the summer of "44, I have only been in the states once. nurses) and I discharged was re with dis ability pension. Here I was in the cold, cruel world with an inde pendent income and several hun dred dollars worth of accumulated The war taught me more of the meaning of life in good old Delta than I ever imagined in my brief combat pay. college career. During basic I ran across several Fiji's but these were short acquaintances though still very inti-esting. When I was captured at the "Bulge" I was treated in the same sty (the Gerrys called it a hospital) with a thing that I could do in this sit firm in Argentina. We had man aged to eke out a living but again it hasn't followed the Hollywood Phi Gam from sprew forth oil at midnight? Hell Cornell. A lot of Naturally there was only one uation. I invested in an oil drilling formula. When the lease is about to expire, do our wells suddenly time was spent by us comparing no! experiencees. drops his Bola Ball down the shaft and the lease expires. Two weeks Life in prison camps is not of the rowdy hell rising type com The drill breaks, some clod later the new lease strikes oil and canbannas et al. I always enjoyed our visits there but after a later she asked me to divorce her in return for which she would forget the capital. This I did but her next husband didn't forget the capital. So there I was in Arabia, deep in debt and rapidly getting in volved with the British. The only gentlemanly thing to do was take a powder. Now I'm in Sunatra managing a hemp plantation with the ownership of a small inn on the side. There isn't time to tell every thing now but anyone who comes to my inn and says he's a Fiji will have his ear talked off and his gut full of as much as he can drink. Fraternally Burt Perge! Homecoming -- October 26 Plii Pamma V^eila Non-Profit-Org. U. 325 Ash Avenue Ames, Iowa while I began to feel like a guest so I borrowed capital from her to go to Arabia to start work. A year S. POSTACK PAID Permit No. 185 Form 3547 Requested Ames, Iowa / 7^-^