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HOLDS FRAT OFFICE
Jack K. Overmyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Overmyer of this city and a senior at
Indiana University, was recently elected vice-president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity for the
current school year.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, September 15, 1944.
JACK OVERMYER WILL DIRECT RADIO PROGRAM
Jack K. Overmyer of Rochester, senior student at Indiana university, will be student
production [director] for the I. U. “Everyman’s Campus of the Air” radio program which will be
broadcast at 11:30 o’clock Sunday morning over WHAS, Louisville, Ky. This is the fourth in a
series of I.U. students in the radio broadcasting class.
The program will present a half-hour of music by the university’s Radio String ensemble
unde the direction of Betty Phillips of LaPorte, and a drama, “Lincoln In Indiana,” by Don
Walstrum of Hammond. Tom Connor of Whiting will announce the program.
[The News-Sentinel, Friday, February 9, 1945]
JACK OVERMYER SOON TO JOIN SIGMA DELTA CHI
Bloomington, Ind., April 2. - Jack Overmyer of Rochester will be initiated into the
Indiana University chapter of the Sigma Delta Chi professional journalistic fraternity Sunday
afternoon, April 8. The initiation of five students and four professional newspapermen will
reactivate the I. U. chapter which has been inactive for the past two years.
Alumni members of the fraternity in Bloomington will conduct the initiation services at 4
p.m. in the Sigma Delta Chi den, following which there will be an informal dinner.
Students to be initiated will be Harry Griggs, Bloomington; Kent Goodman, Peru; James
Sale, Dillsboro and James Wright, Roachdale, and Overmyer.
[The News-Sentinel, Monday, April 2, 1945]
JACK OVERMYER TO HEAD I.U. SIGMA DELTA CHI
Bloomington, Ind., May 1. - Jack K. Overmyer, senior of Rochester, was recently elected
president of the re-activated chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic
fraternity, on the Indiana university campus.
Overmyer, who is also athletic publicity director for I.U., is in his last year at Indiana. He
is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, social fraternity, besides Sphinx club and Skull and Crescent
and is a former sports editor of The Indiana Daily Student and for the past two years has served as
sports editor of the Arbutus, campus yearbook. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Overmyer,
1017 Main street, Rochester.
[The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, May 1, 1945]
MISS MARGERY HODSON
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Mr. and Mrs. Milo G. Hodson, 216 Wakewa avenue, South Bend, announce the
engagement of their daughter Margery, to Jack K. Overmyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S.
Overmyer, of this city. Both are seniors at Indiana university, Bloomington. Miss Hodson is a
member of the Kappa Alpha Theta, national social sorority, and Mr. Overmyer is a member of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, national social fraternity; athletic publicity director for the university and a
former employee of The News-Sentinel.
[The News-Sentinel, Thursday, July 26, 1945]
HALL OF FAME SELECTS OVERYMER
Jack K. Overmyer, president and owner of The Rochester Sentinel, is one of five persons
who have been selected for 1999 induction into the Indiana Journalis m Hall of Fame.