A Sig at the Head of the Stanford Unit

of the American Ambulance

Responding to the appeal for a helping hand to the wounded and dying soldier somewhere in France-Brother Joseph Eastman, at the head of a corps of twenty-five Stanford students, including Brothers Hal Blote, 1918, and Carl Randau, 1919, of Alpha Omega, left California on February 4 to join the American Ambulance in France.

Brother Eastman announced a French ambulance-service meeting a few months ago to be held in the chapter-house smoking-room. Long before the scheduled hour men from all parts of the campus had streamed in, filled the large front room to its utmost capacity, and crowded on tiptoes around the door while Brother Eastman modestly explained that a group of San Francisco capitalists had volunteered to pay the expenses of a Stanford ambulance corps at the front. An even hundred men filed their applications at once. For weeks afterward men from Cornell, Illinois, and in fact from all parts of the country, as well as from Stanford, kept Brother Eastman hot-footing to take care of their applications and to manage the project until the list was finally confined to twenty-five.

The Stanford unit, it is generally believed, will serve as a flying squadron on the front wherever the fighting is heaviest. It is engaged for six months.

GEORGE I. LYNN, Alpha Omega

St. Louis Is Ready

Patriotism and Good-Fellowship to Hold Sway at the

Grand Chapter

LESLIE H. GAULT

Zeta Zeta 1900

WHEN the thirty-third Grand Chapter of Sigma
Chi convenes in St. Louis on the twenty-eighth of
June, it will be sixty-two years to the day from the
founding of the Fraternity.

Furthermore, when the thirty-third Grand Chapter convenes, it will find St. Louis and St. Louis Sigs ready to extend to all White Cross wearers and their ladies a sincere and hearty welcome. So prolific has been the "pep"-ery (from "pep," not pepper) leadership of "Pop" Henning that even now arrangements are made for your physical and mental comfort and pleasure.

While the principal feature of any Sigma Chi gathering is the spirit of good fellowship that always runs riot on such occasions, nevertheless various supplementary diversions have been planned, as was set forth in the program and article which appeared in the February Quarterly.

The momentum developed by the entertainment and arrangement committees in preparing the tentative program has kept them in motion, and consequently other features have been added.

One of the most recent announcements is an open golf tournament. When golf was mentioned in our recent article as an optional entertainment, we were not advised that there were so many "bugs" in the Fraternity; but this information is now in our possession. It is offered by what lawyers would call the best evidence; that is, direct testimony-not hearsay. In other words, the golfers themselves have told us that they make the course in

bogey or better. Billy Brothers says lawyers would call that an admission—something that proves itself. We are cautioned, however, that there are some possible exceptions that might change the result occasionally, such as a slice on a pull; or some unusual topographical barrier, like a pond or an embankment. We understand this, of course; we don't expect the impossible.

At any rate we have decided to stage a pre-convention championship tournament. A beautiful loving cup will be presented to the winner. This cup will be donated (we hope) by some loyal Sig, and it will be duly inscribed with the names of the recipient and donor.

This tournament will be open at two o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, June 27. Entries must be in by June 1. So catch an earlier train to the convention and bat 'em out. Send all applications for the honor of donating the cup, and for entries to brother W. C. Henning.

Sig fellowship and music have always gone hand in hand. The thirty-third Grand Chapter will be no exception. In keeping with the present national situation, the musical theme will be largely patriotic. A song, "Old Glory," written by John Richard Weathers, Lambda 1872, to be sung to the tune of "The Red, White, and Blue", will hold a prominent place on the musical program.

In addition to the entertainment features, there will be, in the words of Grand Consul Allen, "Much serious work to be done in St. Louis." Since those words were written, our country has entered the realm of war, and our serious work has as a result been extended.

It is indeed a fitting time for Sigma Chis to meet. Our Fraternity was conceived, as it were, upon the eve of war, and the war record of Sigma Chi with its pages of boyish valor and loyalty is one of which we can well be proud. As in the past, so now Sigma Chis will fight and die, if need be, for the flag of their country; therefore one of the greatest privileges of the thirty-third Grand Chapter will be to wish Godspeed to the cause and to those who fight for it.