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

444 THE SCROLLOn Saturday evening, April 19, the events were brought to a closeby the formal installation ball which was held in the university gymnasium.The gym was decorated with the colors of the Fraternityand the hundreds of streamers festooned across the hall formeda vast canopy which was both pleasing and restful. A latticedbower in the center of the hall hid the orchestra. The hall waslighted by two rows of Japanese chandeliers attractively decoratedwith fringed shades and trailing smilax. One of the favor dancesconsisted of a large corsage bouquet of white carnations whicheach gentleman presented to his partner. A number of * A ®pieces were played by the orchestra and a true Phi spirit was displayedas we all joined in the singing of the various fraternity songs.Those initiated at the time of the installation are the following:Donald Bruce McDonald, Oscar Orin Wilcox, George LlewelynKoehn, Albert Bushnell Hemp, Philip Roach Bangs, Oscar RussellPreble, Frederick Joseph Brockoff, Randell J. Larson, James BurtonCrary, Andy Morton Carr, Stuart Ross Campbell, Cyril John Glaspel,John Howard McKnight, Edgar Arlen Fisher, William GladstonePoole, John Sad, Mack Vincent Traynor, Owen Tudor Owen,John Gerald Harris, John Donovan O'Reilly, Vernon HaynesSprague, Louis Gustave Tellner, Joseph Harold Forster, MiltonHarold Mason, Frederick Barnes Froebel; all of the active chapter.Also the following alumni: Melvin Amos Brannon, William Hutchinson,John Raymond Dryden, Clinton Adam Thompson, ThomasGarfield Johnson, Paul Bartlett Griffith, Olgev Burton Burtness,John Floyd Stevens, Albert Nelson Wold, Ansel Griggs Wineman,Frederick Henry Bradshaw, John Earl McFadden, Newton CarlAbbott, Jr., Orpheus Harrs Halverson, Francis Clyde Duffy, RichardCarter Hutchinson, John Miller Anderson, Ragnvald AndersonNestos, David Thomas McCanna, Vincent Parker Smith, WilliamFrederick Lemke and John Ambrose Johnson.The North Dakota chapter becomes a member of * A 0 undermost auspicious circumstances. With its new home built at a costof $24,000, and located on the university campus there is everyreason to state that its enviable record of the past will be maintained.The Palladium of February, 1911, of April 1911, and of October,1912, contain sketches of the history of the Varsity Bachelor Club,which I believe will substantiate our belief that North DakotaAlpha has a future of a most glowing nature and that the prestige andproperty, the brains, loyalty and enterprise of the Bachelors transferredto * A 0 will make our Fraternity one not to be surpassed byany present or future fraternity that may enter North Dakota.A few of our leading alumni are Hon. P. D. Norton, Congress^man from the third North Dakota district; W. F. Lemke, presidentof the Mexico Land Finance Co. (who came all the way from Mexicoto attend the installation) ; G. Grimson, State's attorney of CavalierCounty; Fred Traynor, former member of the state legis-