Letters and Reports from Active Chapters FIRST PROVINCE THETA CHAPTER-PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE Active men back, 10. Initiates, 4. Usual number in chapter, 12. With the coming of the holidays and the holiday season we realize that we have passed the half-way point in another college year. A successful football season has just closed. Gettysburg, ably led by Captain Stratten, 1917, has had her most successful season for a number of years. Theta was the fortunate possessor of five pledges who were, as we considered them, the best of the incoming class: Brothers Charles S. Houck, Frederick, Md.; Walter W. Rockey, Bellville, N.J.; and P. E. Miller, Chambersburg, Pa., 1920. We also initiated Frank D. Howard, 1920, who was pledged last year. As pledges we have L. L. Johnson and M. M. Hurd, 1919. M. H. Secrist, 1918, was recently elected leader and manager of the Mandolin Club. The chapter started off the year with a splendid house dance, and the subsequent events have, to judge by the attendance and the appreciation of the guests, fully demonstrated that we are by no means losing any of our social prestige. The regular routine of the old college on the hill is again in full swing, and Kappa Chapter is taking its usual prominent part. Kappa has, as in times past, pledged its usual number of good men. Ten have had the honor of taking the oath of allegiance. We have never sacrificed quality for quantity in the personnel of our pledges, as is evident to everyone after meeting them. Sigma Chi has always figured prominently in athletics at Bucknell. Brother Mangan, quarter-back, is the able general of the football team. His absence, on account of having three ribs broken during the StateBucknell game, has been materially felt, as is evident in the scores. Brother Dent, left end, and Pledge Baldauf, full-back, are both stars, as is also Pledge Miller, half-back. All these are varsity men. Pledge Gerhart is quarter-back and Brother Stover is half-back of the second team. Brother Heinrich is captain of the Sophomore football team. We have been outdoing our previous record on the social side of college life, having had two dances and a smoker during the first month of school. Brother West was elected secretary of the Senior class; Brother Lees, president of the Junior class; Brother Dent, president of the Sophomore class; and Pledge Miller, vice-president of the Freshman class. Brother Ackerman is assistant editor of The Bucknellian, our college weekly. Brother Mellinger is on the student council. Brother Downing is assistant comptroller of the athletic association, the comptroller always being a faculty member, and he is also an associate editor of The Bucknellian. Brother Hindman is editor of the L'Agenda, the Junior yearbook. The humble scribe was elected head cheer-leader by the student body, and in an uncompleted tennis tournament of the college has reached the semi-finals. He, with Pledge Speare, is working his way to the top in the doubles. Since the opening of college Omicron has made a number of worthy pledges: Crook, Atlantic City, N.J.; Miller, Carlisle, Pa.; Loewe, New Freedom, Pa.; and Morganthall, Waynesboro, Pa. Besides, we have initiated Elwood Swope, Altoona, Pa., and Paul Sheedy and Harold Wilson, Elizabeth, N.J. Brother Swope, who entered law school this year and who is a graduate of Susquehanna, is the biggest football catch in college this year, for he is the most consistent ground gainer on the eleven and we predict that he will be captain on next year's team. He is also a star in basket-ball, takes part in four track events, and plays in the outer garden of the baseball nine. He will, without a doubt, be a four-letter man for Omicron. "Red" also sings a good baritone, and is Ar in his studies. Brother Paul Sheedy is one of a committee of four who are conducting the assembly dances, of which the first will be the Football Hop on November 4. He is also taking active interest in the welfare of the Wilson Female College at Chambersburg. The chapter was pleased at the return of Brother Huntsman, Tyrone, Pa., who came back to college after having missed a year and is now reinstated as a member of the class of 1919. Brother George Little of Kappa has come to Dickinson this year and ranks as a Junior in college. We must admit that the chapter feels distinctly the loss, or rather absence (for no departed brother is lost to Sigma Chi), of eight loyal and active members from our roll of last year. As a tribute to these we cannot say more. Omicron has been quite prominent this fall. Brother Reiser has organized a Hughes club at law school and was elected its president. He was mainly responsible for the joint debate between the Democratic and Republican students held here recently, and will campaign the county with a flying squadron during the last ten days prior to election. Brother George Little, who "blew" in from Kappa, leads the quartet attached to that selfsame flying squadron. Brother John Gillespie is slated for the presidency of the Senior class in law and ought to have a walkover, since he has the backing of the organization. Brother Morgan Sheedy has been elected minority cheer-leader and manager of the drum corps. Brother Thompson represents the chapter on the inter-fraternity dance committee. Rushing season was marked by a number of social functions, such as house dances and smokers, not to forget a pleasant trip to Harrisburg by automobile. At Dickinson's game of football at F & M on October 28, Omicron was represented by ten of her fourteen active members. Thus far this year we have had visits from Brothers Frank Puderbaugh and Edwin Bolger, both of Altoona. Brother Albert Allison, now teaching school at Summit Hill, made a short call during the month of September. Brother Ben Branch, of Mauch Chunk, also dropped off at Omicron on his way to a Superior Court hearing at Philadelphia. Omicron extends a hearty wish that more of its older members might call around so that the younger might enjoy their acquaintance. Let us hope that the alumni will recognize the sincerity of this appeal. CARLISLE, PA. MARLIN S. UNGER PHI CHAPTER-LAFAYETTE COLLEGE Number of active men back, 14. Usual number in chapter, 21. Strenuous hardly expresses the past rushing season at Lafayette. But now that the smoke has blown away, we see ten of the finest men of the incoming class proudly exhibiting the White Cross in their buttenholes: Ralph Prout, Kenneth Nicholson, Willis Plack, Winfield Angus, Harry Fuhrmann, Charles Schober, Joseph Walsh, Harvey Albright, John Davis, and Frank Swartwout. Sigs are still "going good" in college activities. In football Brother Parks and Pledge Schober are fighting for backfield positions on the varsity. Brothery Hodgson is the mainstay of the line on the Sophomore team. Pledges Nicholson and Albright are playing on the Freshman team. Recently a dual track meet between the Sophomore and Freshman classes was held. Three of our pledges starred for the Freshmen; Prout ran away with the hundred and two-twenty, Angus won the quarter and finished a close second in the low hurdles, while Plack showed up well in the distance events. Coach Bruce claims that Angus and Prout are two of the best track men that ever entered Lafayette. They both came here with big prep school reputations; Pledge Angus belongs to the New York A.C. while Pledge Prout is a Boston A.A. man. At soccer Brothers Hodgson, Millar, and Warne are playing on the varsity. Brother Millar has been elected vice-president of the Junior class, and Brother Warren was elected one of the four assistant football managers. Brother Hodgson gained this honor for basket-ball. Pledges Swartwout and Walsh are in the college band, and Brother Woods has induced Brother "College" Jones to help him keep up the social prestige of the chapter. EASTON, PA. WILLARD WARNE ALPHA RHO CHAPTER-LEHIGH UNIVERSITY Number of active men back, 10. Number of pledges in college, 7. Usual number in chapter, 18. The rushing season has just closed, and Alpha Rho, starting with ten men, has been fortunate in securing six pledges: Albert Ebermann, Bethlehem, Pa.; Roger Harvey, Newark, N.J.; William Burnes, Port Chester, N.Y.; William France, Phillipsburg, Pa.; Charles Greenall, Allentown, Pa.; Reuben Moyer, Macungie, Pa. With Brothers Flinn and Probasco returning next February, this will make a total of eighteen men in the house. The initiation will be held on November 24, thus affording our alumni an opportunity to attend both the initiation and the annual Lehigh-Lafayette football game the next day. Despite our many diversions, scholarship has not been neglected, nearly all of the men having clean slates. Brother McCann and Pledge Frobisher are members of the Tau Beta Pi honorary engineering society. Brother Nichols has been elected to "Sword and Crescent" and Brother Whigham, who was recently initiated into the Scimitar Club, a Sophomore society, is president of the Sophomore class and a member of the Arcadia, the student self-government committee. We are also well represented in athletics. Brother Kehrer, affiliated from Alpha Gamma, is starting his second year as manager of the wrestling team, of which Brother McCullough is a member. Brothers Schultz, of the varsity track team, and Whigham were members of the Sophomore football team. Since the opening of college we have had visits from Brothers Reed, 1898; Sheridan, 1908; Daniels, 1906; Williams, 1916; Todd, 1916; Brewster, 1916; and Drabble, 1918. BETHLEHEM, PA. November 3, 1916 S. B. OVERTON ALPHA CHI CHAPTER- -PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Number of active men back, 21. Number of initiates this fall, 1. Usual number in chapter, 30. Number of pledges in college, 8. Only twenty-one of last year's active men returned this fall when Penn State opened September 18. We lost six Seniors by graduation, and Brother Dissinger, who has enlisted in the Cavalry, is now stationed on the border. With her active chapter small and facing the hardest rushing season in the history of the chapter, Alpha Chi opened the scholastic year with energy and enthusiasm, and, after several weeks of the most strenuous rushing, we succeeded in pledging nine men and have a line on several others. We take pleasure in introducing to Sigma Chi Brother Clarence Beck and Pledges Charles Burley, Newark, N.J.; C. W. Brumbaugh, Washington, D.C.; H. S. Bruner, Reading, Pa.; J. D. Tyson, Reading, Pa.; M. W. McEntire, Williamsport, Pa.; Gilder |