University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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I I POLYGON First Row: Billmycr, Melaragno, Blazar, Murphy. Higginbotham. Hammarlund, Forest. GolT, JalTo. Cook. Second Row: Chiaverini. Faulk. Looby. McIntosh. Barrett. Brown, A. Dean. De Magislris. lannucci. Woodbury President . Vice-President Secretary . Treasurer . OFFICERS . . H. Kenneth Higginbotham .... Edward J. Murphy Arnold R. Blazar . . . . George G. Hammarlund H. Kenneth Higginbotham - 162 -

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I I Fraternities L RATERNITY life offers the highest exemplification of everlasting friendship. The strength of such friendship is enhanced by the ties of secrecy; the joy of such friendship is augmented by everyday association. The presumption should not be made, however, that although friendship within the fraternity may be strong, external friendships are made improb- able; fraternities very often sponsor the active promulgation of outside friendships and, in any case, do not act to prevent them. In the consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of a fra- ternity, which is often the case, the value of friendship as a part of life should be considered and insofar as such is deemed important, so is the fraternity. - 161 -

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POLYGON MEMBERSHIP Faculty Advisers Dean John Barlow Professor Joseph W. Ince Dr. Kenneth E. W right Representatives RHO IOTA KAPPA H. Kenneth Higginbotham Edgar S. Goff THETA CHI Robert A. Barrett, Jr. Gordon W. MacIntosh BETA PHI Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. Victor W. Tkacs DELTA ALPHA PSI Edward S. Murphy Donald P. Faulk LAMBDA CHI ALPHA Arthur L. Dean, Jr. Robert D. Brown SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON Martin L. Looby John N. Terrell ALPHA EPSILON PI Arnold R. Blazar Alfred Jaffe PHI MU DELTA Edgar C. Forest Herbert F. Woodbury TAU KAPPA EPSILON Richard D. Cook Carroll D. Billmyer, Jr. PHI SIGMA George G. Hammarlund Curt J. Rohland ALPHA TAU GAMMA Louis A. Chiaverini Anthony R. De Magistris BETA PSI ALPHA Manrico R. Melaragno Joseph Iannucci Succeeded by Miles Zisserson The Polygon is the interfraternity governing board, and its membership is made up of two representatives from each fraternity and three faculty advisers. Its most important function is the formulation and enforcement of rushing rules, but it also hears and settles all other problems which involve interfraternity relationships. Formed in 191 1, the Polygon represents a material contribution toward maintaining friendly and wholesome association of effort on the campus. - 163 -