tt THE \\// KNOX LAl/KUTalU WiLLARD B. Dean 20 Innes Road ScARSDALE, New York 10583 Saturday Noon April 12, 1969 Dear Topper: Thanks to you for your telephone call of last evening. You report that •'things are looking up" at Gamma Deuteron was the best news I have had for a long time. Congratulations and thanks to all those Fijis who are working to rebuild and continue Gamma Deuteron Chapter. Hastily, but fraternally. Bill Dean, Sr. Willard B. Dean PERGE! Gamma Deuteron^s — ^Man Of The YeaT The oldest living member of Gamma Deuteron Chapter at Knox College, is Blake Franklin (Knox '99). 1 tains a law office there. He presently lives in Los Angeles, and main He was unable to return from the Gamma Deuteron Centennial of April, 1967 but sent a cordial letter of greetings to his younger brothers who had gathered together for the Centennial. Our present chapter congratulates Blake and further dedicates this issue of the G.D. Fiji in his honor. 1899 graduation \r\n1969-70 Cabinet TOPPER STEINMAN, the Othmar of the junior history sect, descended upon Galesburg from the town of Freeport-Nanc, Illinois. Top plays IM's, pins, and "savage" football. GARY SOPCHIK is a junior tape major. The newest addition to the brotherhood. Sop has trained his way into the arthritic joints of all FIJI athletes. Sop is the last remaining vestige of Phi Gamma Delta on The Knox Student staff. He holds the esteemed position of Sports Editor. CLIFF SENKPIEL is a sophomore accounting major from Chicago, Illi nois. Known as "Skip", Cliff is a Fiji Junior I.F.C. representative; played football 1, 2,; baseball 1, 2. MAX UTSLER is a junior American studies major from Gilson, Illinois. "CHOPPER" DENOMA, "Terry" to Harley, is a sophomore from the Professional Sports Capital of the World (Rock Island?) who doesn't think that he has to have a major. "Chopper" is the house's IM manager and Head Sophomore Waiter; football 1, 2; basketball 1, 2; baseball 1, 2; Elder 1. What Is A Fraternity? . it's a home away from home . it's a Sunday afternoon in front of the tube . it's a social institution with party weekends . it's a game of wall pong . it's sharing common goals, ideals, ties and coats . it's being a part of the school and helping the community . it's making friends . it's an experience . it's open kitchen . it's memories \r\nALUMNI NEWS-NEWS NEWS NEWS-NEWS 1900 Ralph D. Stevonson is still scndng as a member of Knox College. the Board of Trustees of He was elected to be a Trustee in 1940, so now he is one of the senior members of the Board. Ralph, at 125 pounds — plus or minus a few pounds, was the quarter-back on the Knox football team when in college. He still plays golf, and spends part of each winter at Chand ler, Arizona. 1903 Willis E. Terry is one of the oldest Gam ma Deutcron alumni, but is still in goi.d health. About a year ago, he drove from Florida to Galesburg all by himself. Willis seems to have the secret of eternal youth! He was a founder and charter member of the Rotary Club of Galesburg and head ed the Terry Lumber Company for many years. Class of 1927 1916 1909 Clifford B. Ewart is looking forward to a return to the Knox Campus for Com mencement in June. He will then cele brate, with his living cla.s.smates, the 60th reunion of the Class of 1909. granddaughter, Katherine Cliff has a Ewart Bond, who will graduate in June, being class of 1969. His picture was shown in a recent issue of the Phi Gamma Delta magazine, as a leader in the graduate chapter at Wilmington, North Carolina. 1919 Cloud Wampler lives in retirement with his wife, the former Eugenia Tra.sk, ,a graduate of the Knox Conservatory of Music, in Scottsdale, ,'\rizona. At the time of his retirement, he was Chairman of the Board of the Carrier Corporation of Syra Charles L. Nicholson who is a special ist in newspaper advertising and "doctor" for papers who need counsel on their ad\'ertising problems, continues to operate from his office in Yakima, Washington, vr herc he was for several years the Adver tising Manager of the Yakime Newspapers. cuse, N. Y., and had been President prev He has recently formed a partnership with iously. During his years with that leader in the air conditioning industr)', he led his Glen Rason, who will help him in his n ork, and enable broader service to clients. company to record sales and profits. 1920 1917 191 I whom attended Knox and were members Lieut. General Hobart R. ("Happy" to his classmates and brothers) Gay, now lives quietly in El Paso, Texas. However, much of his Army life has not been of the quiet variety. He was Ghicf of Staff for Gen of Gamma Deuteron Chapter. This is a eral Patton in World War 11 and served record that probably can't be matched in the entire realm of our fraternity. in Africa, and in France. Later he was head of the ,'^nny area in Chicago, and Flarold G. Inger.soll retired in June of 1968 from the Knox Board of Trustees, on which he had served since 1951. Harold is the father of seven Inger.soll sons all of 1916 Willard L. King, has been given con siderable publicity of late in connection with the proposed constitutional convent ion to be convened in Illinois. After get ting a law degree at the University of Chi cago and after his discharge from the Army, he worked in Springfield as a .staff member of the legal staff of the constitu tional convention held in the early Twen ties. Probably he is the most experienced and knowledgable Illinois attorney in this field of the law, and he has been the sub ject of several newspaper and magazine articles. Murlin Hoover is still busy and contin ues, seemingly forever, in the finance and real estate busine.ss. He has an office at 11I West Washington Boulevard, and does appraising and arranges real estate mort gages for clients. Members of the Class of 1919 hope that he will return for our 50th reunion in June, since he entered Knox in our cla.ss but because of service in after retirement from active seivice, was World War I, he fini.shed with the cla.ss Superintendent of the New Mexico Mili of 1920. tary Academy at Ro.swell, New Mexico. 1921 1919 as Lyslc E. Pritchard lives at Land Ranch" just outside of Lutz, Florida, President and chief executive of the where he raises cattle for the market. Fie and his wife and son have made their home National Dairy Council, whose headquar ters was in Chicago. During his thirty years with that organization, he built it to be an imporatnt factory in the marketing of milk and milk products. Milton's first wife passed away several years ago and as of "Meadow Milton Hult retired in February of 1968 last fall he has married the former -Alice Coolcy, an alumnae of Iowa State College at .Ames, Iowa. at the ranch since he retired from busi ne.ss. Pritch was the first of the more than sixty Knox male graduates who went to work for the American Chicle Company in New York City, and rose to be the President of that concern. After it was merged in 1962 with the Warner-Lambert (Continued on page 4) \r\nAs I See It The Gamma Deuteron Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta has recently experienced a major transformation. Twenty-one men felt that their ideals were unparalleled with those of the National Fraternity and decided to drop from the Chapter. Nine individuals, however, felt that we would like to make every effort to apply the meaning of "Fraternity." This num ber has since increased to twenty-one, all of who hope to co-ordinate efforts to make the Gamma Deuteron Chapter once again a integral part of Phi Gamma Delta. I would also like to take the opportun ity to extend our sincere appreciation to New B.CA. New Board Of Chapter Advisors The B.C.A. is a program whereby in terested graduate members of Phi Gamma Delta provide structured advisory assist ance to the Fraternity's undergraduate chapters. Its purpose is to assist our un dergraduate chapters in maintaining e.xemplary behavior, high morality, academic e.xcellence, and a high degree of efficiency of operation. The B.C.A. is expected to provide close-in aid in counseling and thus continuity in the areas of chapter adminis tration, scholarship, rushing, ritual, pledge education, legal affairs, graduate and pub considerable experience tending to the wounded in hospitals there. 1926 William T. Snyder is the Comptroller at the famous Rockefeller Center in New York City. He lives in Summit, New Jer sey and is still interested in Knox and Gamma Deuteron events. 1926 Robert B. Kyle retired last Aitgust after more than forty years with the American Chicle Company and since 1962, the War ner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Company. He started his career as a salesman, rose to be a Vice-President in charge of Market lic relations, and finances. ing, and after the American Chicle Com pany merged with Warner-Lambert, he was in charge of institutional sales for all tude; the attitude of Gamma Deuteron is The following men have expre.ssed an intere.st in forming an active Board of Chapter .Advisors and are planning on having their first meeting next month and to continue having monthly meetings after Warner-Lambert products. He and his wife, Virginia, also a member of-the Kno.x ' class of 1926, live in Manhasset, Long Is based on a willingness to co-operate, to that: land. the Gamma Deuteron Graduates and other Phi Gamma Delta members for their sup port. I believe anyone's life rests on his atti persevere and with this in mind the future will be bright. Leland Swanson '19 PERGE! Topper Steinman, President Help Weak? Jack Fi.sher '54 C. Garrett Jorden '43 1930 Luke Edwards '57 cause he is so quiet, has moved with his Harry Neumiller, Jr. '51 family from Springfield to Delray Beach C. Richard Neumiller '53 in Florida. John Weidman '55 Board of Trustees about five or six years Karl K. Taylor '60 ago, and has been a generous contributor to his Alma Mater, having given $100,000 Tom Doyle '45 for a chapel in memory of his brother Robert C. Taylor, Knox 1929. Fie was killed in action near the end of World Chuck Gibbs '50 Nelson Hanks '53 place from Wednesday night, April 9 through Saturday afternoon, April 12. Commencing with a bulwark platoon of five overweight pledges and one not-sooverweight one, Help Week turned into a Ron Pearson '54 Don Stoffcl '5 !• Fred Burgland '29 Charles A. Wright (Chicago '57) John Rosene '68 (New PI.) real "Flell Week" for all dirt and broken windows with the enthusiastic aid of the active chapter. as a total of twenty windows were chang ed, the living room, television room and foyer were smoothly varnished with a light oak finish, radiators were painted, up Grad News... (Continued from page 3) Pharmaceutical Company, he became a stairs hallways were scrubbed and waxed, director of the latter well known firm, and the rackrooms were thoroughly cleaned, served for several years as a Vice-Chair the greater majority of the plumbing leaks were stopped at the spouts by our able and energetic Field Secretary, and innummer- story in the old Horatio Alger tradition, having risen from a trainee in 1921 to be able the chief executive more than thirty years other care of. needs were carefully taken In the eyes of our cook, the man of the Board. His is a real success later. house showed more neatness and smelled 1925 The tremendous enthusiasm generated by the close knit group of actives and pledges their home in Mesa, .^rizona, he having party to relax the exhausted bodies of (Knox '93) owned farm lands. The latter was a member of Gamma Deuteron Chap ter when in college. Henry still holds the Knox records in the 100 yards and 220 yards dash. He was so fast that he was in 1932. 1936 Donald W. Thomas was promoted and assigned, later in 1968, to be in charge of the laboratories of the Bell Telephone Company in Holmdel, N. J. He bad been in charge of labor relations and has progre.ssed up the ladder with the Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph Company or one of its subsidiaries, in recent years. His son, Jim Thomas, was a FIJI in the class of 1965 at Knox. cleaner than she had ever seen it before. working together in eager harmony was transformed Saturday evening into a mild War If. The Taylors come from Virginia Illinois where their father, Bert C. Taylor invited to tryout for the U.S. Olmpic team Sleep was at a minimum and work was at an incredible maximum, He retired from the Knox Bruce Rowe Jack Doyle '40 A fairly adequate refurbishing of the Gamma Deutron Chapter House took Henry S. Taylor, nicknamed "Noisy" be Harold E. Way and his wife now make retired a couple of years ago as Professor and the head of the Physics Department of Union College in Schenestady, N. Y. 1939 Fritz Rabenstein is back in Ottawa, Illi nois and associated with his family busi ness there. He had served as Assistant Dean of the Business School of North Cliff Senkpiel, Although retired, he still handles special assignments for the National .Science Foundation. His son, John, who is a doc western University for .several years. He was a speaker at the Gamma Deuteron Recording Secretary tor, served over iit Viet Natri, and had Centennial in 1967. cvcrvone, PERGE!