1933-05-12

              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
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"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 -:-
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