University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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Beta Theta Pi OFFICERS President - - LAMAR WINEGEART, IR. Vice President - - WILLIAM W. LEWIS Secretary - - LESTER. A. BODDEN, IR. Treasurer - - IOHN P. WILCOX BETA THETA PI was organized at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in Au- gust, l830, making it the oldest national social fraternity in the country. The Betas now have 90 active chapters and 50,000 members and alumni. Among these have been eight associate justices of the United States Supreme Court and many leaders in the other branches of the government, some of whom are Paul V. McNutt, Robert LaFollette, Robert Rice Reynolds, Ioseph W. Byrnes, and Wendell L. Wilkie. A few of our more illustrious business men are Tom Girdler, president of Republic Steel, Charles M. Wilson, president of General Motors, Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of General Electric, S. Clay Williams, chairman of the board of the R. I. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Robert C. Stanley and Paul D. Mercia, president and vice president of International Nickel. Charles H. Nordhoff, of 'lMutiny on the Bounty fame, and Horace Heidt and Billy Mills, band leaders, round out this list of a few of our more outstanding alumni. Gamma Xi of Beta Theta Pi, located at l35l West Masonic Street, was founded at Florida on December l2, l930, at the petition of Delta Tau, local fraternity. Maintaining the trio of tenets to recognize mutual assistance in the honorable labors and aspirations of life, cultivation of the intellect, and friendship, Gamma Xi in its fifteen years of existence has produced leaders in every field of campus activity. Among these have been a president of the student body, heads of all classes, editor and business manager of the Alligator, Seminole Editor, members of the Honor Court, Athletic Council, and Executive Council. Even today Beta is well represented over the campus. Among our local BMOC's are Billy Lewis, past chairman of the Dixie Party and secretary- treasurer of the Athletic Council, Charlie Putnam, president of the Benton Engineering Council, Herman Lee, treasurer of Florida Blue Key, Tom Ed- wards, president of Alpha Phi Ornega, honorary service fraternity, Bobby Reid, secretary of the Inter-Fraternity Council, Haywood Thomas, vice presi- dent of the Gator Pep Club, Roscoe Luke, resident director of Flavet Village, and loe Ridgeley, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi member. On the last report on scholastic averages our pledge class was second highest and the membership as a whole, fourth highest among all fraternities on the campus. On the University faculty and administration Beta Theta Pi has extremely fine representation, numbering fifteen loyal alumni. Some of the positions these men hold are Business Manager, Assistant Business Manager, Director of Housing, Dean of the College of Architecture, and the chairmanships of the Math, Speech, and Biology departments.

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Chi Phi OFFICERS President - - IOSEPH D. FABISH Vice President - - IOSH C. BENNETT Secretary - - THOMAS I. FABABEE Treasurer - A - rosEPH w. MAUaANs Faculty Advisor - IAMES E. CHACE, IB. C HI PHI is the oldest national college fraternity of social nature in existence today. As it now exists it is the result of successive unions of three older organizations, each of which bore the same name. In fraternity history these organizations are known as the Princeton Order, founded at Princeton in 1824, the Southern Order at the University of North Carolina in 1858, and the Hobart Order which was established at Hobart College in 1880. In 1887 the Princeton and Hobart Orders united to form the Northern Order and in 1874 the Northern and Southern Orders combined to form Chi Phi Fraternity. Theta Delta had its inception back in 1828 when a group of men with ideals stressing Honor, Duty, and Comradeship founded the eleventh frater- nity on the University of Florida's campus. It was known as Alpha Delta. Through the efforts of Iames E. Chace and Milton W. Brown, the Chi Phi Council approved the acceptance of a petition from Alpha Delta, and in the Spring of 1834 a petition was presented to the national fraternity. Favorable action resulted and on February 15, 1935, the new chapter was installed. Chi Phi, although it is one of the youngest nationals on the campus, has shown the value of its twelve years of life as a local, a background which gives it a decided advantage over the other nationals of recent entry on the campus. In September of 1945, Chi Phi came back to the University after a two-year period of inactivity due to the war. During the course of the term chapter membership rose from four to twenty-five members and pledges. The chapter participated in all the campus functions and also threw a few of its own. Claude Murphree provided boogie-woogie on the piano at the Tea Dances . The members and pledges all turned out for the Saturday work parties. Prof. Chace still is very active and helps keep the chapter on an even keel. Maugans, back from the wars, brings happiness to the Leesburg girls again. The law students expound their theories to the rest of the fraternity. Goehring's Plymouth is converted to a troop carrier. A large percentage of the brothers are married. DeWinkler burns the midnight oil for the Engineering College. Bennett on the night shift in architecture takes time off to raise the cultural level with his classics on the harmonica.