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THE ARGUS ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY VOLUME XXXIX BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1933 SIG .. ALUMNI NUMBER 28 Sigma Chi Celebrates FiftiethAnniversary on Wesleyan Campu, ARGUS WINS RECOGNIION IN I. C. P. A. CONTESTS Complimented on Awards of Honorable Merit The Argus was awarded first place in two out of the three most important classes in the Illinois College Press association competition Saturday at Bradley Polytechnic institute at Peoria. The newspaper was not en-tered in the third class as the staff had received very little information con-cerning the contest. Those attending from here were Mary Ellen Krum and Mildred FitzHenry, the co-editors of the Argus, and Marjorie Kirkpatrick and John Melby. Political Rally Places First First place was awarded in class 13 which was for the most constructive work done by a college paper or an individual acting for the paper for the college, the city, or the state. Under this classification, sponsoring a Wes-leyan political rally prior to the general election last fall, sponsoring the first freshman day in Wesleyan's history, and agitation for reorganization of the Student Union constitution were out-standing projects by the Argus. This was awarded on a basis of outstanding constructive work and was left largely in the hands of the judges. Accord-ing to the instructions sent, this was meant to be a rare reward, and if no piece of work reached a certain stand-ard, there was to be no award. The first place gained in class 14 was for the most constructive piece of work done for the improvement of the work of the editorial department of the paper. This could be a project of any nature. The music page, a literary, music, and art page, won first place. Placed in Each Event Entered The other important class, that for the best all around college newspaper, (Continued on page 4) Committees Named and Cast Additions Made for "The Return of Peter Grimm." "The Return of Peter Grimm," an alumni student play, will be given Fri-day evening, May 26th. Miss Gunn, the coach, is very pleased with the progress the cast is making in the pro-duction of this most interesting drama by David Belasco. Two more char-acters have been added to the cast. William J. Bach, an alunus of the Illinois Wesleyan, who was very outstanding in dramatic work while on the campus, will take the part of Col-onel Tom Lawcton. Grant Fletcher, a student in music school, will add laughs by his antics as the clown. The committees have been selected from both the alumni association and the student body and are as follows: Property-Mrs. Harling, chairman ; Mrs. Mary Helen Chaden, Mrs. Louis Foreman, Wilbur Boise, Marjorie Kirkpatrick. Costume-Bernice Moulic, chairman ; Mrs. Lundeen, and Mrs. Rachel Fuller. Tickets-Margaret Jones, chairman; Lyle Straight, Mrs. Whitmer, Louis Neirstheimer, Martha Hilton and Wal-ter Campbell. Publicity-Mildred Flagg, chairman; Mary Ellen Krum, Justin Alikonis, and Wayne Metcalf. Business Manager-Richard Ash-worth. Electrician-Guy Carlton. Stage-Robert Olson and Russel Mc- Millan. ICE Argus wins in I. C. P. A. Contest page 1. Sigs Hold Golden Jubilee, page 1. A Reformation, page 2. Argus Applications, pace 3. Titans Still in "Little 19" Race, page /pOL=O< oc=oG'70 O<===>OG7000 O(===>Ot===>OC=OC=>04 r.OG70 _ OG. O OUTSTANDING FRATERNITY LEADER (( 0 =Of Oc::=O<==O<===>OOOOO(=OC70=>OC7Oc=o= :>OOO 0voc-' ne09 DR JOSEPH COOKMAN NATE; '90 "The Wet Parade" to Be Given at Presser Hall This Evening "The Wet Parade," by Upton Sin-clair, comes to Wesleyan Friday night at Presser Hall, after performances in the churches of Bloomington and Nor-mal during the past weeks. Mary Alice Hilberg, as Maggie Mae, and John Raber as Kip Tarleton, car-ry the leads, and give very consistent performances. They are supported by Betty Toohill, Alice McCarty, Harold Walters, Tony Blazine, Rueben Her-shey, Raymond Baugh, Gene Stauffer, Clarence Sprague and Edmund Par-ret. The drama concerns the fight of Maggie Mae and Kip to improve tem-perance conditions because of their knowledge of the affects of liquor as shown in the lives of Chilcote Senior, Maggie Mae's father, and "Old Pow" Tarleton, Kip's parent. Chairman of arrangements for Fri-day night is Martha Hilton. The play begins at 7:00 and no ad-mission is being charged. Nate Crabtree to Leave Wesleyan on June First Wesleyan's inspirational graduate of '29, Nate Crabtree, is scheduled to leave the employ of his Alma Mater on June first. His resignation was given Wes-leyan administrative officials because of an unusual offer from a large Chi-cago advertising firm, Mitchell, Wie-land, Faust and Dixon. In his undergraduate days Nate made such an outstanding contribution to the student life of the university that he was hired as Alumni Secretary and Publicity Director of Illinois Wesleyan immediately after his graduation. After one year's service in that capacity he was granted a scholarship for graduate study at Babson Business Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. In the fall of '31 he returned to Bloomington as Alumni Secretary and Assitant Business Manager. In June of 1932 he was appointed Business manager by the Board of Trustees. In was last year when Wesleyan's (Continued on page two) Earlp Life of Sigma Chi Chapter Given This Article Was One of a Series on Wesleyan Frater-nities Which Appeared in The Argus Last Year (Reprinted from The Argus of May 4, 1932.) Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, claims the honor of being the found-ing place of the fraternity of Sigma Chi. In 1855 on June 28th seven men, Thomas Bell, James Caldwell, Daniel Cooper, Isaac Jordan, William Lock-wood, Benjamin Runkle and Franklin Scohey, founded the fratenity as a protest against artificiality and pre-tense, a plea for personal independ-ence and genuine friendship as the only natural basis of association in a college brotherhood. It was the nineteenth college frater-nity in the founding and the third at Miami university, the other two being Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Theta. These three form the now famous Miami Triad, each with more than a hundred charter grants. Alpha Iota chapter was founded at Wesleyar May 19, 1883, through the efforts of Hamlin C. Eddy, a transfer from Northwestern university and a member of Omega chapter. With the assistance of Leon Loehr, Elbert Al-ford, Wallace Foster, William Jones, Charles M. Barickman, William H. Underwood, and Charles Atchinson, a chapter was granted and installation performed by Kappa Kappa chapter of Illinois. The first meeting place was a hall on the third floor of a building where the Cat N' Fiddle is now located. Later meetings were held at Professor Potter's home and on the third floor of Old North Hall. Early in its history, Alpha Iota be-came prominent in the fraternity, Jos-eph C. Nate, James P. Bicket and Ralph Potter holding national admin-istrative offices for a total of seven-teen years. Significant Sigs that are nationally famous are: Grover Cleve-land, Patrick T. Hurley, Secretary of War, Brand Whitlock, Ambassador to Belgium; Roy Chapman Andrew, fa-mous explorer; George Ade, humorist; Booth Tarkington, author, and John T. McCutcheon, dean of American cartoonists. Alpha Iota claims as hei honored Sigs such me as Joseph C. Nate, Grand Historian; Ralph Potter, famous Chicago lawyer; James Bicket, editor of The Chicago American; Fred H. Young, Big Ten official and Panta-granh Sports Editor. Two Hundred to Hear Shepardson Speak at Jubilee Banquet Saturdap Charter Members and All National Officers to Attend On Saturday night, May 13, Alpha Iota will complete its Golden Anniversary Celebration with a banquet at the Illinois Hotel which combines the end of initiation with the Jubilee celebration itself. The festivities are to begin on Friday when Sigma Chi will have charge of the chapel program as a short campus recognition of fifty years of continuous existence on the Wesleyan campus. Members of each fraternity will be on the program to make it an all-round fraternity affair. There will also be a speaker of note who will represent the fraternity. PROMINENT WESLEYAN MEMBERS OF SIGMA CHI ARE LISTED Editors' Note: Because of the long existence of Sigma Chi upon Wes, leyan's campus, the Argus feels that it is fitting to publish the following synopsis of the careers of celebrated alumni of Alpha Iota, at the time of their anniversary celebration. Leon L. Loehr, '85, formerly Vice- President of the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., and now retired, will attend the Sigma Chi reunion May 13. Mr. Loehr is a devoted alum-nus and one of the founders of the Alpha Iota chapter of Sigma Chi. Edward D. Henry, '89, prominent attorney in Springfield continues to be one of Wesleyan's most active alumni in the Capitol city. You can always count on Ed Henry when there is any WVeslevan promoting to he done in Springfield. Dr. Joseph C. Nate '90, is one of the most prominent and well known men in fraternity world. Dr. Nate, for thirty years a trustee of Wesleyan, has been national president of Sigma Chi and at present is one of the eight members of the Executive Committee of the Inter-fraternity council. Dr. Nate is a very close friend of Dr. Shepardson, president of Beta Theta Pi and of the Inter-fraternity council and generally recognized as the out-standing authority on fraternities. Dr. Nate is at the present time, Grand- Historian of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Ralph Potter '90, a classmate of Dr. Nate's, is another outstanding alum-nus who has rendered great service to the University. He is a member of the prominent law firm in Chicago of Cassels, Potter & Bentley, of 209 So. La Salle, St. This firm attained much publicity rtcently when they were ap-pointed to set up a huge trust fund to be used for education purposes-the funds for the trust were supplied from the famous Bendix family. Mr. Pot-ter is also a trustee of Wesleyan. Sam Burnett '94 of Springfield, has been for years Clerk of the United States District Court - in which ca-pacity he has been closely associated with another famous Wesleyan alum-nus, Judge Louis FitzHenry, of the United States district court. Mr. Bur-nett has kept up a warm interest throughout the years for his college and fraternity and plans to be here Saturday for the big festivities. Edgar N. Haefer, '01 of La Grange, who has attained prominence in his chosen field, that of Sales promotion, is another alumnus who has signified his intention of being here tor the re-union. Mr. Haefer, was one of the 'old timers" awarded belated "w" for athletic competition, a few years ago. French T. Ferguson, '04 one of Dr. Wilbert Ferguson's two Sigma Chi sons, still holds a prominent position with the Missoulian Publishing Co., of Missoula, Montana. (Continued on page four) Initiation Saturday Afternoon During the rest of the day there will be alumni gatherings and various frat-ernity events. Several of the classes are planning class reunions for some of those good old fashioned get togethers which are so dear to the hearts of all good fraternity men. Saturday morning will be devoted to golf for those who desire it, and some more reunions. The afternoon will be taken up with the formal initiation ceremonies. The celebration will fin-ish that evening at the Illinois Hotel with the big banquet. Some two hundred alumni and ac-tives are expected to attend this gala event in honor of the new actives and the successful passing of fifty years of history. The main speaker of the eve-ning will be Dr. Francis W. Shepard-son, Permanent President of Beta I ieta P-i, a member ot the Rational In-terfraternity Council, and editor of Bsa:irdo's Greek Manual. Dr. Shepard- has long been active in the frater-nity world and will be a fine addition to the celebration. Each decade in the history of Alpha Iota will be repre-sented by one man in that decade. There will be three of the charter members present, Brothers Loehr, Al-ford and Woodworth. All the national officers will be present, most of them coming down from the National Of-fices in Chicago. The Grand Consul, Daniel Lawrance, vice-president of the University of Cincinnati, will also come over from Cincinnati for the oc-casion. George Ade, the famous hu-morist, is also expected to be present to liven up the occasion a little. An-other one of the distinguished speakers of the evening will be Dr. Joseph C. Nate, who at present is engaged in writing a seven volume history of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and who is also the Chapter visitation officer Dr. Nate, who is a graduate of Wesleyan and a former pastor of the Grace Methodist Church, is one of Sigma Chi's grand old men, and a man who has done as much as anyone else to develop the fraternity world at large. Dr. McPherson and Dr. Ferguson, President and Vice-President of the university respectively, will also be guests at the banquet as will one rep-resentative from each of the frater-nities on the campus. Ralph Potter, an outstanding lawyer in the Middle West and a Wesleyan graduate, will be the toastmaster. Founded Here in 1883 Sigma Chi was founded on the W~es-leyan campus in the spring of 1883, be-ing preceded only by Phi Gamma Delta. For a few years it was ob-liged to be sub rosa, but was later able to publish its membership roll. From that time it has existed continuously on the campus. The national frater-nity was founded at Miami University in 1855. No small part of the credit for the celebration is due to the Alumni As-sociation in its loyal co-operation. The Alumni Committee is headed by John Aldrich, assisted by Frank Rice, Stuart Wyatt. Fred Young, and Roy Barr. Th active committee was headed by John Meiby. These two committees working together have accomplisheda tremendous amount of work in order to make it a success. : Argus Wins in I. C. P. A. Contest -:- s
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Full Text | THE ARGUS ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY VOLUME XXXIX BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1933 SIG .. ALUMNI NUMBER 28 Sigma Chi Celebrates FiftiethAnniversary on Wesleyan Campu, ARGUS WINS RECOGNIION IN I. C. P. A. CONTESTS Complimented on Awards of Honorable Merit The Argus was awarded first place in two out of the three most important classes in the Illinois College Press association competition Saturday at Bradley Polytechnic institute at Peoria. The newspaper was not en-tered in the third class as the staff had received very little information con-cerning the contest. Those attending from here were Mary Ellen Krum and Mildred FitzHenry, the co-editors of the Argus, and Marjorie Kirkpatrick and John Melby. Political Rally Places First First place was awarded in class 13 which was for the most constructive work done by a college paper or an individual acting for the paper for the college, the city, or the state. Under this classification, sponsoring a Wes-leyan political rally prior to the general election last fall, sponsoring the first freshman day in Wesleyan's history, and agitation for reorganization of the Student Union constitution were out-standing projects by the Argus. This was awarded on a basis of outstanding constructive work and was left largely in the hands of the judges. Accord-ing to the instructions sent, this was meant to be a rare reward, and if no piece of work reached a certain stand-ard, there was to be no award. The first place gained in class 14 was for the most constructive piece of work done for the improvement of the work of the editorial department of the paper. This could be a project of any nature. The music page, a literary, music, and art page, won first place. Placed in Each Event Entered The other important class, that for the best all around college newspaper, (Continued on page 4) Committees Named and Cast Additions Made for "The Return of Peter Grimm." "The Return of Peter Grimm," an alumni student play, will be given Fri-day evening, May 26th. Miss Gunn, the coach, is very pleased with the progress the cast is making in the pro-duction of this most interesting drama by David Belasco. Two more char-acters have been added to the cast. William J. Bach, an alunus of the Illinois Wesleyan, who was very outstanding in dramatic work while on the campus, will take the part of Col-onel Tom Lawcton. Grant Fletcher, a student in music school, will add laughs by his antics as the clown. The committees have been selected from both the alumni association and the student body and are as follows: Property-Mrs. Harling, chairman ; Mrs. Mary Helen Chaden, Mrs. Louis Foreman, Wilbur Boise, Marjorie Kirkpatrick. Costume-Bernice Moulic, chairman ; Mrs. Lundeen, and Mrs. Rachel Fuller. Tickets-Margaret Jones, chairman; Lyle Straight, Mrs. Whitmer, Louis Neirstheimer, Martha Hilton and Wal-ter Campbell. Publicity-Mildred Flagg, chairman; Mary Ellen Krum, Justin Alikonis, and Wayne Metcalf. Business Manager-Richard Ash-worth. Electrician-Guy Carlton. Stage-Robert Olson and Russel Mc- Millan. ICE Argus wins in I. C. P. A. Contest page 1. Sigs Hold Golden Jubilee, page 1. A Reformation, page 2. Argus Applications, pace 3. Titans Still in "Little 19" Race, page /pOL=O< oc=oG'70 O<===>OG7000 O(===>Ot===>OC=OC=>04 r.OG70 _ OG. O OUTSTANDING FRATERNITY LEADER (( 0 =Of Oc::=O<==O<===>OOOOO(=OC70=>OC7Oc=o= :>OOO 0voc-' ne09 DR JOSEPH COOKMAN NATE; '90 "The Wet Parade" to Be Given at Presser Hall This Evening "The Wet Parade," by Upton Sin-clair, comes to Wesleyan Friday night at Presser Hall, after performances in the churches of Bloomington and Nor-mal during the past weeks. Mary Alice Hilberg, as Maggie Mae, and John Raber as Kip Tarleton, car-ry the leads, and give very consistent performances. They are supported by Betty Toohill, Alice McCarty, Harold Walters, Tony Blazine, Rueben Her-shey, Raymond Baugh, Gene Stauffer, Clarence Sprague and Edmund Par-ret. The drama concerns the fight of Maggie Mae and Kip to improve tem-perance conditions because of their knowledge of the affects of liquor as shown in the lives of Chilcote Senior, Maggie Mae's father, and "Old Pow" Tarleton, Kip's parent. Chairman of arrangements for Fri-day night is Martha Hilton. The play begins at 7:00 and no ad-mission is being charged. Nate Crabtree to Leave Wesleyan on June First Wesleyan's inspirational graduate of '29, Nate Crabtree, is scheduled to leave the employ of his Alma Mater on June first. His resignation was given Wes-leyan administrative officials because of an unusual offer from a large Chi-cago advertising firm, Mitchell, Wie-land, Faust and Dixon. In his undergraduate days Nate made such an outstanding contribution to the student life of the university that he was hired as Alumni Secretary and Publicity Director of Illinois Wesleyan immediately after his graduation. After one year's service in that capacity he was granted a scholarship for graduate study at Babson Business Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. In the fall of '31 he returned to Bloomington as Alumni Secretary and Assitant Business Manager. In June of 1932 he was appointed Business manager by the Board of Trustees. In was last year when Wesleyan's (Continued on page two) Earlp Life of Sigma Chi Chapter Given This Article Was One of a Series on Wesleyan Frater-nities Which Appeared in The Argus Last Year (Reprinted from The Argus of May 4, 1932.) Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, claims the honor of being the found-ing place of the fraternity of Sigma Chi. In 1855 on June 28th seven men, Thomas Bell, James Caldwell, Daniel Cooper, Isaac Jordan, William Lock-wood, Benjamin Runkle and Franklin Scohey, founded the fratenity as a protest against artificiality and pre-tense, a plea for personal independ-ence and genuine friendship as the only natural basis of association in a college brotherhood. It was the nineteenth college frater-nity in the founding and the third at Miami university, the other two being Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Theta. These three form the now famous Miami Triad, each with more than a hundred charter grants. Alpha Iota chapter was founded at Wesleyar May 19, 1883, through the efforts of Hamlin C. Eddy, a transfer from Northwestern university and a member of Omega chapter. With the assistance of Leon Loehr, Elbert Al-ford, Wallace Foster, William Jones, Charles M. Barickman, William H. Underwood, and Charles Atchinson, a chapter was granted and installation performed by Kappa Kappa chapter of Illinois. The first meeting place was a hall on the third floor of a building where the Cat N' Fiddle is now located. Later meetings were held at Professor Potter's home and on the third floor of Old North Hall. Early in its history, Alpha Iota be-came prominent in the fraternity, Jos-eph C. Nate, James P. Bicket and Ralph Potter holding national admin-istrative offices for a total of seven-teen years. Significant Sigs that are nationally famous are: Grover Cleve-land, Patrick T. Hurley, Secretary of War, Brand Whitlock, Ambassador to Belgium; Roy Chapman Andrew, fa-mous explorer; George Ade, humorist; Booth Tarkington, author, and John T. McCutcheon, dean of American cartoonists. Alpha Iota claims as hei honored Sigs such me as Joseph C. Nate, Grand Historian; Ralph Potter, famous Chicago lawyer; James Bicket, editor of The Chicago American; Fred H. Young, Big Ten official and Panta-granh Sports Editor. Two Hundred to Hear Shepardson Speak at Jubilee Banquet Saturdap Charter Members and All National Officers to Attend On Saturday night, May 13, Alpha Iota will complete its Golden Anniversary Celebration with a banquet at the Illinois Hotel which combines the end of initiation with the Jubilee celebration itself. The festivities are to begin on Friday when Sigma Chi will have charge of the chapel program as a short campus recognition of fifty years of continuous existence on the Wesleyan campus. Members of each fraternity will be on the program to make it an all-round fraternity affair. There will also be a speaker of note who will represent the fraternity. PROMINENT WESLEYAN MEMBERS OF SIGMA CHI ARE LISTED Editors' Note: Because of the long existence of Sigma Chi upon Wes, leyan's campus, the Argus feels that it is fitting to publish the following synopsis of the careers of celebrated alumni of Alpha Iota, at the time of their anniversary celebration. Leon L. Loehr, '85, formerly Vice- President of the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., and now retired, will attend the Sigma Chi reunion May 13. Mr. Loehr is a devoted alum-nus and one of the founders of the Alpha Iota chapter of Sigma Chi. Edward D. Henry, '89, prominent attorney in Springfield continues to be one of Wesleyan's most active alumni in the Capitol city. You can always count on Ed Henry when there is any WVeslevan promoting to he done in Springfield. Dr. Joseph C. Nate '90, is one of the most prominent and well known men in fraternity world. Dr. Nate, for thirty years a trustee of Wesleyan, has been national president of Sigma Chi and at present is one of the eight members of the Executive Committee of the Inter-fraternity council. Dr. Nate is a very close friend of Dr. Shepardson, president of Beta Theta Pi and of the Inter-fraternity council and generally recognized as the out-standing authority on fraternities. Dr. Nate is at the present time, Grand- Historian of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Ralph Potter '90, a classmate of Dr. Nate's, is another outstanding alum-nus who has rendered great service to the University. He is a member of the prominent law firm in Chicago of Cassels, Potter & Bentley, of 209 So. La Salle, St. This firm attained much publicity rtcently when they were ap-pointed to set up a huge trust fund to be used for education purposes-the funds for the trust were supplied from the famous Bendix family. Mr. Pot-ter is also a trustee of Wesleyan. Sam Burnett '94 of Springfield, has been for years Clerk of the United States District Court - in which ca-pacity he has been closely associated with another famous Wesleyan alum-nus, Judge Louis FitzHenry, of the United States district court. Mr. Bur-nett has kept up a warm interest throughout the years for his college and fraternity and plans to be here Saturday for the big festivities. Edgar N. Haefer, '01 of La Grange, who has attained prominence in his chosen field, that of Sales promotion, is another alumnus who has signified his intention of being here tor the re-union. Mr. Haefer, was one of the 'old timers" awarded belated "w" for athletic competition, a few years ago. French T. Ferguson, '04 one of Dr. Wilbert Ferguson's two Sigma Chi sons, still holds a prominent position with the Missoulian Publishing Co., of Missoula, Montana. (Continued on page four) Initiation Saturday Afternoon During the rest of the day there will be alumni gatherings and various frat-ernity events. Several of the classes are planning class reunions for some of those good old fashioned get togethers which are so dear to the hearts of all good fraternity men. Saturday morning will be devoted to golf for those who desire it, and some more reunions. The afternoon will be taken up with the formal initiation ceremonies. The celebration will fin-ish that evening at the Illinois Hotel with the big banquet. Some two hundred alumni and ac-tives are expected to attend this gala event in honor of the new actives and the successful passing of fifty years of history. The main speaker of the eve-ning will be Dr. Francis W. Shepard-son, Permanent President of Beta I ieta P-i, a member ot the Rational In-terfraternity Council, and editor of Bsa:irdo's Greek Manual. Dr. Shepard- has long been active in the frater-nity world and will be a fine addition to the celebration. Each decade in the history of Alpha Iota will be repre-sented by one man in that decade. There will be three of the charter members present, Brothers Loehr, Al-ford and Woodworth. All the national officers will be present, most of them coming down from the National Of-fices in Chicago. The Grand Consul, Daniel Lawrance, vice-president of the University of Cincinnati, will also come over from Cincinnati for the oc-casion. George Ade, the famous hu-morist, is also expected to be present to liven up the occasion a little. An-other one of the distinguished speakers of the evening will be Dr. Joseph C. Nate, who at present is engaged in writing a seven volume history of the Sigma Chi fraternity, and who is also the Chapter visitation officer Dr. Nate, who is a graduate of Wesleyan and a former pastor of the Grace Methodist Church, is one of Sigma Chi's grand old men, and a man who has done as much as anyone else to develop the fraternity world at large. Dr. McPherson and Dr. Ferguson, President and Vice-President of the university respectively, will also be guests at the banquet as will one rep-resentative from each of the frater-nities on the campus. Ralph Potter, an outstanding lawyer in the Middle West and a Wesleyan graduate, will be the toastmaster. Founded Here in 1883 Sigma Chi was founded on the W~es-leyan campus in the spring of 1883, be-ing preceded only by Phi Gamma Delta. For a few years it was ob-liged to be sub rosa, but was later able to publish its membership roll. From that time it has existed continuously on the campus. The national frater-nity was founded at Miami University in 1855. No small part of the credit for the celebration is due to the Alumni As-sociation in its loyal co-operation. The Alumni Committee is headed by John Aldrich, assisted by Frank Rice, Stuart Wyatt. Fred Young, and Roy Barr. Th active committee was headed by John Meiby. These two committees working together have accomplisheda tremendous amount of work in order to make it a success. : Argus Wins in I. C. P. A. Contest -:- s |
Collection | Student and Alumni News Periodicals (Illinois Wesleyan University) |