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

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S . Kappa 1gI'II'l.G. CFFICERS President A - FRANK F. FORTH Vice President - - TCHN B. HARVEY Secretary - - ,ELMER C. HlLL Treasurer - - HENRY W. EVANS KAPPA SlGMA traces its ancestry to the University ot Bologna, ltaly, where, in the year MOU, students organized a society as protection against the evil governor, Cossa. Atter spreading to other European universities, the ideals ot the traternity finally were brought to the United States when Kappa Sigma was tounded at the University of Virginia in l869. The expansion oi Kappa Sigma in this country was very rapid. lt was the tirst Southern traternity to place a chapter in the North, and it is now, with l2U chapters in this country, one ot the two largest social organizations in the World. Delta Delta, the local chapter, became one ot the iirst national organiza- tions established on the campus when a charter was granted to the Delta Rho local in l922. Since that time the chapter has produced three presidents ot the student body and many other leaders ot campus activities. Prominent Kappa Sigma alumni in the state include Governor Millard Caldwell, States Attorney, Keith Black, Assistant Attorney General, Cecil T. Farringon, Royall P. Terry, past chairman oi the State Board ot Control, and lohn Fahs, banker and mayor ot Leesburg. Kappa Sigma, always in the ioretront socially with such tunctions as its annual llHobo Hop , is also a leader in other campus activities. Members prominent at the University include H. Miller, Gator iootball team captain, Doug Sanders, Vice President ot the Glee Club, Donald Gallentine, President ot Benton Engineering Society, Frank Forth, Vice President oi the Forestry Club, Dick Wylie, member oi Honor Court, and many others.

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Phi elm Theta OPPlOERS President - - - PORD L. THOMPSON Vice President - - - IOSEPH L. PRlCE secretary - - WM. c. EDMisroN, in Treasurer - V ROBERT O. BROOKS GN December 28, 1848, six outstanding men met at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and united themselves in the bonds of Phi Delta Theta. Prom 1848 to 1948 the membership roll has grown to approximately 80,000 men in 108 chapters. ln the year 1925 the Florida Alpha chapter of Phi Delta Theta was chartered at the University and has since been a leader in social activities, scholarship, and athletics. Over the strains of Phi Delta Theta for Aye , with the huge success of rush week, Florida Alpha is once again upholding its reputation for frolicking fun .... Football week-ends and frolics pack the house with glamor gals galore. . . Looking good in the intramurals as usual .... Politics and student government keep our BlVlOC's busy .... Once good wholesome bachelors but now hen-pecked hubbies are Goss, Reynolds, Gaines, and Wynne. By the time this is published Edminston may've joined the long line of lovers .... Goathead and the Big lnjun are still in the running .... Powell Schell has seen and dated almost everything now .... 17ord's going to shock Drk TeSelle by going to class prepared some day .... l-lank and Brother Price mix nicely. . . . The portly Senator from Mayo is cute .... Bishop and Pratt are fighting Gatormen .... Nants and Cargo lead Peachead about by the fuzz on his cranium .... Sheehan made S298 on his Bottle .... Two-gun has joined the Bow ties and bent pipe boys over in Law School. The jacksonville boys applied for flying licenses to use for week-end journeys .... Honest loe and Bee Bee fight more than married couples do ..,. The Croy and Schell brothers sleep with golf clubs under their pillows .... Time is near for the remaining veterans to come back to Gatorland, and Florida Alpha will continue to keep Phi Delta Theta, as ever, superexcellent.