Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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m ss mWcl MARTIN SKELLY FORD MAKIN MII.I.IKEN COLLINS SANDERCOCK SMITH POGGI MARSHALL WITT WEBER ZIMMERMAN DEILV NISBET FOSTER SCHWARTZ SCHIER SHANKWEILER PIMPER DEAN WHITNEY Pi Kappa Alpha Gamma Lambda Chapter 306 Wvandotte Street IN FACULTATE George D. Harmon Bradley Stoughton IN URBE William Rankin A. G. Williams IN UNn ' ERSITATE Nnietceii Thirty-two Charles R. Kates Carl F. Schier Robert W. Phillips JohnF. Schwartz Charles W. Pimper Ray G. Shankvveiler 32

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Pi Kappa Alpha ' I ' he friendship of six Confederate soldiers who fought together ■ - in the Civil War was the reason for the founding of Pi Kappa Alpha at the University of Virginia in 1868. Due to the unsettled condition of the South after the Civil War, the fraternity led a pre- carious existence for the first few years. A convention of three of the four active chapters in 1889 gave new life to the fraternity, and since then, under the leadership of Robert A. Smythe, it has expanded to the enviable position that it now holds in national fraternal affairs. Until 1909 expansion was limited to southern and southwestern states, but during that year all geographical restrictions were re- moved. The Lehigh chapter. Gamma Lambda, was installed on Decem- ber 6, 1929, at 535 Montclair Avenue. In June, 1930, the chapter moved to its present location, 306 Wyandotte Street. Before its installation into Pi Kappa Alpha, the fraternity was a local, Zeta Chi. The in- ception of this group occurred in 1924, and was at that time known as the Seal Club, which name was soon dropped in favor of the Lehigh Ivy Club . In 1926, the club was reorganized as the Zeta Chi fraternity, the constitution being accepted by the faculty in Mav of that vear. 32

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John P. Dean Kenneth L. Foster Nineteen Thirty-three John S. Skelly Robert A. Nisbet Edmund H. Poggi Richard L. Deily Howard H. Ford Thomas R. Makin Erwin E. Marshall Nineteen Tl ' rtr-fo r Harry C. Martin Charles H. Sandercock Geo rge E. Smith Arthur C. Weber Nineteen Thirty-five Edmund Collins, III T. Harry Milliken Edward G. Witt Roll of Active Chapters (Second District) Alpha Upsilon New York University Alpha Chi Syracuse University Alpha Psi Rutgers University Beta Theta.. Cornell University Beta Pi... University of Pennsylvania Gamma Lambda „ Lehigh University 32