1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

316 THE SCROLLmittees, conferences, and associations, not only in states in whichhe- has lived, but also in national associations and societies. Thisline of his activities began in 1892, when he was elected presidentof the Southeastern Kansas Teachers Assqciation; in 1899 he becamea member of the Kansas State Board of Education. While atMiami he was secretary of the Ohio Conference of College Deansand Presidents, 1902-1905; president of the Ohio College Association,1903 and 1904; chairman of the committee of the latter associationwhich formulated a scheme later adopted by the state kno\vnas "An Educational Policy for Ohio." Nationally he has been secretaryof the National Association of State Universities since 1910,and elector of the American Hall of Fame since the same year. Sincegoing to Vermont he has been made president of the Board of LibraryCommissioners for the State of Vermont.Doctor Benton's activities have not been confined wholly to educationalcircles, but have also extended into the co-ordinate circlesof the church. He has always been a member, and for manyyears a licensed minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church North.From 1904 to 1910, he was president of the Educational Society ofthe Cincinnati Conference of his Church; from 1908 to 1909 hewas president of the Young Men's Christian Association for theState of Ohio, and is now a member of the General Committee ofthe Vermont State Young Men's Christian Association.Doctor Benton has contributed largely to the educational literatureof the country, being the author of many special articles publishedboth in bulletins and magazines, dealing with subjects on educationaland religious lines, a list of which would be too numerousfor the space available, in this sketch.While at Ohio Wesleyan, he was initiated into the Phi DeltaTheta Fraternity, and ever since that time has taken an ardentinterest in the Fraternity and in those chapters whose good fortuneit has been to come within the range of his activities. He is alsoa member of the honorary fraternities, Tau Kappa Alpha and PhiBeta Kappa.Such in brief has been the career of our new president, and PhiDelta Theta looks forward to the coming two years with the utmostconfidence that under the guidance of his experienced and skilledhands, the Fraternity will advance to a position unassailed and supremein the Greek world.ELMER CHARLESS HENDERSONElmer Charless Henderson, who was elected historian of the generalcouncil of Phi Delta Theta at the Chicago convention, wasbom in the town in which he now lives, Fulton, Mo., on January 30,1873. His parents also were born and have always lived in Fulton,while his paternal grandmother, a granddaughter of Daniel Boone,became a resident of Missouri before the territory of Louisiana waspurchased by the United States.