THE K N O X F/J/ Volume XXV GALESBURG, ILLINOIS - FALL QUARTER, 1950 No. 1 Knox Fiji Commands 1st Cavalry Division in Albright and VanDyke Receive Korean War Theater Top Offices Of The Senior Class Prominent among Knox Fiji alums today is Major General Hobart On October 16 members of the Senior class of Knox College met to (Hap) Gay, commander of the First elect their leaders through the current school year. The final tally of votes Cavalry Division in war-torn Korea. showed that Don Albright and Cliff Van Dyke had been chosen president General Gay began his military ca- and vice-president, respectively. reer immediately after his gradua- Don Albright, who hails from Oak Park, Illinois, has played varsity tion from Knox in 1917. football for three years including this past successful season during which he served as co-captain of the team. In 1943 General Gay participated "Nuss," as he is usually called in the amphibious landings in the around the house, has also been North Africa and Sicily campaigns. playing varsity basketball for three During the North African landing years. During track season he bol- he passed through enemy bombing sters the Siwash team with his high and infantry fire to reach French jumping abilities. In addition to officials in an attempt to halt hostili- these, Don is a member of the "K" ties at Casablanca. For this act of club, Friars, the GNOS, as well as bravery he was awarded the silver the intramural sports program. star. After Tunisia he received the Cliff Van Dyke, a native of Gales- Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in addition burg, is best known for his ability to the Legion of Merit for his work on the track team. He is a master during the Sicilian campaign. After of the half-mile and mile events. Sicily, he served as chief of staff As a preliminary to the approaching for the late General George Patton's track season this spring, Cliff won famed 7th American Army. the two and two-tenths mile cross From 1947 to 1949, General Gay country meet this fall. He is also commanded the Washington military acting as a member of the athletic district and assumed command of board of control, and was chosen the First Cavalry at Asaka, Japan, last spring as a member of the in September, 1949. Friars. Within the fraternity Cliff Three weeks after the North Ko- is the Phi Gam representative to the rean Communists launched their at- Interfraternity Council. tack on the South, General Gay Newly elected Fiji officers of the commanded the First Cavalry Divi- TWO BROTHERS INITIATED Senior class, Don Albright and sion in an amphibious landing on DURING FALL QUARTER Cliff Van Dyke, confer on some of the east coast of South Korea. Fol- Since the termination of the past their first business. lowing this landing at Pohang, Gay's school year, two men have been First Cavalry Division entered the added to Gamma Deuteron's roster thick of the fighting south of the ill- of active Fijis. Initiated soon after GAMMA DEUTERON RETAINS fated Taejon. From the latest re- the beginning of this school year THE INTERFRATERNITY ports, the First Cavalry Division is was Al Deahl if South Bend, Indiana. SCHOLARSHIP TROPHY still in the thick of the fighting. In addition to his fraternity activi- ties, Al spends a good deal of his For the second year straight, the spare time at the controls of one of Knox Fijimen have retired the Alums Notice! spare time at the controls of one coveted Farnum Fraternity Scholar of the airplanes from Currey's field. When he cannot be seen flying over ship Trophy to their mantle. This the Fiji Castle, Al can usually be trophy, which was originated by Dr. FIJI WINTER found practicing another one of his C. G. Farnum, a Knox Phi Gam and specialties, magic. Need we men- alumnus from Peoria, Ill., is awarded FORMAL tion that Al is also a strong contend- each fall to the fraternity on the er for the chapter's Lydia Pink- campus that had the highest scholas- ham, Trophy, which is awarded an- March 9, 1951 tic standing during the previous nually to Gamma Deuteron's lead- year. Among those helping to re- ing "bull thrower." tain this trophy are Gamma Deu- At the middle of the fall quar- teron's honor students, namely, Har- (Details to be announced ter Gene Anderson of Galva, Illinois, ry Neumiller, Dean Doolen, Bill later date) (Continued on Page 4) Sherrick, Jim Stephenson, Rod Boyn- See "Initiates' ton, and Dick Neumiller. Page Two THE .D. FIJI December, 1950 ments and interviews into an attrac- representative of Paul Davis & Com- tive and scholarly narrative. His pany, investment securities. His son, book is important not because it is John Stephen Laing, is a pledge of ALUM BRIEFS the first biography of a bygone jurist Gamma Deuteron Chapter and one or because it revives some obsolete of the best golfers among the Knox legal controversies, but because it undergraduates. Eric is a regular discloses an exceptional "Chief" and visitor at the House these days and a strangely winning human being." his interest in the fraternity and 1880 Brother King practices law in the college has been renewed during the Gamma Deuteron Chapter lost its city of Chicago where he is senior past year. oldest member recently when Wil- partner of the firm of Rosenthal, 1924 liam S. Harvey of the Class of 1880 King, and Robin. Brother William E. Simpson, 1924, died at the advanced age of ninety 1917 has been taking an active part in the plus. Brother Harvey was one of One of the prominent and active affairs of his Alma Mater recently, the earliest of Knox students to win citizens of the suburban town of having been named co-chairman of a "K" in athletics, having been Scarsdale, New York, in Westches- the drive to raise $200,000 among quite a star in baseball way back ter County, north of New York City, Galesburg friends and alumni for in the days when he was an under- is Paul S. Smith. He is a director the new Knox Memorial Gymnasium graduate. Brother Harvey was the of the Town Club of that residential now in process of completion. Bill brother of another Fiji of the Knox community, and active in many civic is one of the officials of the Simp- chapter-Andrew S. Harvey, of the enterprises. Paul will be remem- son-Powelson Lumber Co. of Gales- Class of 1891, who was one of the bered as the author of the famous burg and has many close ties with founders of the first "Knox Gale," and now well established Knox song Knox and Gamma Deuteron Chap- the college annual. -"Hail Knox All Glorious"-writ ter. His son is establishing quite a 1891 ten when he was an undergraduate reputation for himself as a football One of the most distinguished of at Knox. He is a lawyer and partner player at prep school in Detroit the alumni of our Knox Chapter in the law firm of Dorr, Hammond, where he was the star of the Cran- is Earnest Elmo Calkins, author and Hand and Dawson whose offices are brook School team. Bill himself pioneer advertising executive. Al- located at 61 Broadway in New York was a darn good halfback and quar- though beyond the age of eighty and City. His daughter is a freshman ter-miler when he was an under- not being able to hear well for many at Radcliffe College in Massachu- graduate at Old Siwash in the early years, he continues to be his usual setts and his son, Christopher, is in nineteen twenties. cheery and stimulating self. His high school in Scarsdale. 1925 wife and companion, Mrs. Calkins, 1919 Harold E. Way, formerly vice- died last June and was buried in Charles L. Nicholson who has had president and acting president of Galesburg. In addition to his active varied and broad experiences in the Knox College, is head of the Physics