THE PHI ALPHA The Phi Alpha Published by the Fraternity S. A. E. IN THE NORTHWEST Subscription: Fifty Cents a year By William C. Levere, E. S. R. FRATERNITY DIRECTORY Honorary Eminent Supreme Archon There is a wonderful and new civi- MAJOR GEN. HENRY JERVEY, Tennessee denly sprouted forth. From then on friends, a book, a nice fire and a won- Omega, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. lization developing in the far North- the cordiality was greater than ever derful/ girl." west of the United States and in this and it was like a family of brothers The new house at Corvallis stands THE SUPREME COUNCIL Eminent Supreme Archon great growth, Sigma Alpha Epsilon just home from the wars. Idaho Al- in a commanding position at the head Hon. ARTHUR J. TUTTLE, Michigan Iota- has a part. Minnesota is the gateway pha is repaying the trust the fraternity of a long row of houses. It is impos- Beta, U. S. Court Chambers, to this world and here at the gave to it. Not only does the chapter ing and later when its porch and Detroit, Mich. entrance corner of own the home in which it lives, but white pillars went up, it must have Eminent Supreme Deputy Archon progress. Minnesota, country, with equipment magic to as took It chapters a the remarkable find visiting institution and to during in of imperial this the the officer the of in our we University the finest lot in Moscow, fronting the made it a stunner. The interior rooms T. GIBSON HOBBS, Virginia Omicron very gate of the state university is Law Bldg., Lynchburg, Va. of an magnifi- were taking shape and were the larg- owned by the chapter in fee simple. It est rooms I ever saw in a chapter Eminent Supreme Recorder cent in its will some day build on that lot a fine house. There were three ample closets WILLIAM C. LEVERE, Illinois Psi-Omega was territory fraternity home. There are twelve in each room which was to be shared Box 254, Evanston, UI. dotted fraternity, hundred students on the campus. The by three men with sleeping accommo- Eminent Supreme Warden GEORGE D. KIMBALL, Colorado Zeta my work the six fraternities, four sororities and dations on the porches. Oregon A1- 427 Exchange Bldg., Denver, Colo. fraternity me earlier three locals are all prospering. The pha is blessed with an alumnus in Eminent Supreme Herald months of this college year. Not only university has a fine endowment. The "Midge" Allen who has put his very LAUREN FOREMAN, Georgia Epsilon to the University of Minnesota but to fraternity sky is bright. heart into the building of their home 315 Southern Ry. Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. the splendid state schools of Washing- I have loved Oregon Alpha for so and by day and by night he stood by THE CENTRAL OFFICES ton at Seattle and Pullman, of Ore- many years that I never expected to superintending, working, directing. If Box 254, Evanston, Ill. gon at Eugene and Corvallis, of Idaho find the chapter at Corvallis living in the fellows of Oregon Alpha do not WILLIAM C. LEVERE at Moscow and of Montana at Boze- a basement but so it happened. The put a tablet in that house in his Eminent Supreme Recorder man. Every one of these chapters is consolation connected with it, was honor, I shall be disappointed in them. JAMES E. CHAPMAN Grand Treasurer in an institution fostered by the great that it was their own basement while The list of campus honors carried by BOARD OF TRUSTEES commonwealth of which it is a part. WILLIAM MACK (President) above them was being reared a chap- Oregon Alpha is as long as your arm. 272 Flatbush Ave.. Extension, Brooklyn, N. Y. HENRY G. MACADAM (Vice-President) 544 W. 157th St., New York, N. Y. R. S. UZZELL, 2 Rector St., New York, N. Y. FRANK K. HOUSTON, Chemical National Bank, New York, N. Y. ELMER B. SANFORD (Secretary) 50 Church St., New York, N. Y. ROBERT GIBSON JR. (Trustee Emeritus) PROVINCE ARCHONS Alpha DR. EDWARD MELLUS Beta CHARLES H. RICHARDSON Gamma G. M. ALEXANDER Delta HARRY L. SENN Epsilor H. H. DEANE Zeta ROSCOE C. CHAMBERS Eta HORACE W. WILCOX Theta BEN A. AMES Total JOHN A. AYRES Kappa EDW. HENDERSON Lambda ARTHUR A. COOK Evanston, Illinois, April, 1922. THE BULLETIN BOARD THE NATIONAL CONVENTION Time December 27, 28, 29, 1922 Place Detroit, Michigan NATIONAL STANDING COMMITTEES The Extension Investigating Committee DR. IVAN LEE HOLT, Chairman, St. John's M. E. Church, St. Louis, Mo. The E. S. R. and Major J. M. Kelso, Arkansas Alpha-Upsilon with the Oregon Alpha Chapter at Corvallis EDWARD S. FUNSTEN, 1521 Morgan St., St. Louis, Mo. ROBERT L. HUGHES, 4537 McPherson Ave., St. The whole power of their state is be- ter house which in beauty and useful- The two Colwells, McFadden, Sikes, Louis, Mo. hind them and they are institutions ness is not exceeded in the whole Borgeson, Davis, Bramkamp, Craw- ERNEST C. F. KOKEN, 141 Jefferson Road, which are bound to prosper. Northwest. The brothers at Oregon ford, Fuller, Tasto, and the others I Webster Groves, Mo. HENRY T. SUMMA, JR., 5703 Florissant Ave., I reached Idaho the day the college State College had come back to col- have mentioned have all written St. Louis, Mo. opened. It is never my intention to lege to find their new chapter house their names on some page of the fra- J. D. TURNER, 135 Washington Ave., Lexing- steal up on a chapter unawares. It rapidly going up but not near enough ternity activity. It seems to me that ton, Ky. seems only fair they should be given to completion for them to move in. if I were an alumnus of a chapter like R. E. BRENNEMAN, 1421 Wightman Ave., a chance "to wash Minerva's face" Then they found there was no where Pittsburgh, Pa. this I would work my head off for it, C. K. CAIRNS, 236 West Ave., Sidney, Ohio, when visitation is at hand, but a mix- else to go. Every house in town was but the fly in the ointment at Corval- Committee on National Laws ture of incidents prevented this and full. So they moved into the basement lis is the little support that the alumni O. K. QUIVEY, Chairman, 834 Park Ave., when I raised the latch of the Idaho where they were to be two months be- of the chapter have given in the Baltimore, Md. Alpha door and stepped through, I was fore they could go higher. Under all house venture. These fine splendid E. LLOYD POSEY, Room 2010, 208 So. LaSalle an unexpected guest. Two years have the circumstances they got on very active men at Corvallis have wrought St., Chicago, Illinois. passed since the Moscow chapter was well. The kitchen was to be in the HAROLD TAYLOR, Eagle Picher Lead Co., 208 marvels and made Oregon Alpha a So. LaSalle St., Chicago, Illinois. handed its charter and now it owns basement anyway and the trunk room greater, finer chapter to belong to. Standing Committee on Scholarship its home, with its indebtedness half served as a dining hall. The future They are an honor to their alumni. PROF. CHARLES H. RICHARDSON, Chairman, paid. They were starting the year chapter hall was also below ground Let their alumni honor them and help Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. with nineteen active men and when and did very well for a living room. them. PROF. HARRY P. WELD, Cornell University, I left they had ten pledges with sev- The sleeping porches were already Oregon air is something on which Ithaca, New York. eral more in sight. It was a pleasure PROF. WINFIELD S. BARNEY, Ohio University, built and so they were getting along Sigma Alpha Epsilon thrives. Oregon Athens, Ohio. to see the way they rushed. They and I am sure they can be no cheerier Beta at the University of Oregon has made their rushees feel so much at in these days when they are enjoying used the first two years of its life in PROVINCE BETA CONVENTION AT PITTSBURGH, home, that they forgot they were the comforts of their superb home which to build a chapter and, believe APRIL 27, 28, 29. there on trial and soon felt they fitted than they were when they were in the me, they have succeeded. A chapter into the atmosphere exactly. It could "trenches." You see they had a lot that has almost no alumni, that can RE-INSTATEMENT not have been hard though for any of assets. There was "Mother" Fow- buy a family home, build an addition Henry F. Manget has been re-instat- chapter to be agreeable to such pros- ler, their competent and able house- to it that blends into the original ed as a member of Sigma Alpha Epsil- pectives for they were young men of a keeper. Then "Gap" Powell, football structure and then make a payment on by action of his chapter, Georgia type that was distinctly likeable. Ev- captain and one of the manliest young on their purchase of $243.00 each Epsilon, and the Supreme Council. erybody traveled fast that evening. fellows that ever wore a fraternity month is traveling. The addition is The songs were sung with a spirit, pin, was there, beloved by all the the finest dining room in the S. A. E. OUR MAIL BAG the stories were pointed, clean and campus as well as his chapter mates. fraternity. Active and pledges I found "I would like to make a suggestion witty, the conversation was lively and Ben Schumacher, the archon of the the chapter numbering forty-four men concerning any future letters you send covered the field of college affairs and chapter, is a real optimist. Carrying and when they are seated around one out concerning the Endowment Plan. life in which these new young men heavy college work and handling chap- long oblong table, is a sight worth see- I believe it might be well to incorpor- were interested and the unfailing ter affairs up to the notch, he said his ing. Think of it. you lovers of family, ate in the call for subscriptions the courtesy of Idaho Alpha was like a only worry was "twenty-three hours a table at which three times a day, question, "If a brother handed you this banner of charm that hung above us he had lost somewhere and could not over two scores of brothers, young, at- blank and asked you to sign it now all. It was about ten o'clock that the find." But this failed to dishearten tractive, honorable in conduct and would you say, 'Come around tomor- buttonholes of a number of the at- him. Why should it when to use his ideals, gather. Oh, what a happy row? Fraternally, H. E. Mecredy, Va. tractive freshmen took on a gay as- own language, "I have good health, a mother Minerva must be. Horton Theta.' pect as the S. A. E. pledge button sud- dry place to sleep, a warm meal, kind Beeman, the archon of the Eugene