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

THE SCROLL. 57With the nucleus of fifteen of last year's men and pledges, the prospectsfor Indiana Gamma are bright.MAYNE E. PARKER.Irvington, Ind., August 28, 1912.INDIANA DELTA, FRANKLIN COLLEGEIndiana Delta regrets the loss of Brothers Hobbs, Yount and W. Hall fromthe chapter. The last two were graduated in June and the former will take uphis studies at Indiana University. Indiana Delta returns ten old men thisyear. We now have nine pledges all of whom will probably enter college thisfall.Indiana Delta now owns its own chapter house. Last June the Phi DeltaTheta Chapter House Association of Franklin College, duly incorporated underthe laws of the state of Indiana, purchased the Dr. Wood residence at 98 WestMadison Street, The building and lot purchased are in the center of Franklinand about seven minutes walk from the college. The board of directors ofthe chapter house are all alumni of the local chapter and it is due to theirefforts and donations that the chapter house is now an established reality. Thenew house is a commodius and modern frame structure and is better suited tothe needs of the chapter than the one which we have been occupying the lasttwo years.Brothers Grafton Johnson, '87, Greenwood, and Henry Eitel, '72, Indianapolis,have been re-elected to the board of directors of Franklin College. Other newlyelected directors are Brothers Elba Branigin, '92, Franklin, and Rev. Clark R.Parker, '97, Terre Haute. This makes a total of seven Brothers on the board.At the festivities of commencement Brother Neal Thurston, '03, Indianapolis,was re-elected president of the alumni association and Brothers A. A. Alexander,'90, Franklin, and Paul Van Riper, '07, re-elected vice-president and treasurer,respectively.Franklin College had a disastrous baseball season this year winning one lonegame on the schedule. However every player of this year's squad will be innext spring and a good team is expected. Brothers C. Hall, Miller and Overstreetwere among the eight players who were awarded the college monogram.In the competitive examination for the positions of managing editor andeditor-in-chief of the college publication for 1912-13 Brother C. Hall waschosen as managing editor, taking the place of Brother W. Hall who wasgraduated.Brother C. H. Hall, '72, A, M., B. D., D. D., who has taught in FranklinCollege for thirty-seven years, teaching Greek thirty-four years, resigned inJune. His resignation was accepted and the college board in a letter expressedits deep appreciation of his work and its sorrow that he had thought that itwas time for him to resign.CLARENCE HALL.Franklin, Ind., June 21, 1912,INDIANA EPSILON, HANOVER COLLEGEDuring the past year our chapter has been successful in every way. Wefeel as if we have done credit to ourselves in maintaining such a high standard,principally in studies. We have been thrice honored by having the highestmark in school, beating fhe other fraternities by a good margin ; our freshmenespecially distinguishing themselves. President Millis complimented us highlyupon our work, telling us that we had shown better fraternal spirit and workthan any of the other organizations.Although some of our baseball games had to be cancelled because of financialconditions, yet those games that we did play were well done. Our team wasthere "with the goods" and proved itself capable of holding down any secondaryfeam in the state. Again Brothers McLaughlin and Kehoe were on the teamplaying center and left respectively. In the final election of the athletic associa-