University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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PI KAPPA ALPHA Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity was founded in 1868 at the University of Virginia shortly after the close of the Civil War. Six young Virginians bound to- gether in a comradeship through a desire to perpet- uate the brotherly feeling that existed among them. Those six founders made the fraternity what it is today and now over 25,000 men have become brothers of the same oath and bond. The Beta Omicron chapter was established at the University of Oklahoma in 1920 by eighteen men who were members of a local fraternity which had been formed for the purpose of affiliating with Pi Kappa Alpha. Lynn Riggs, famous playwright, and Joseph Benton, former star of the Metropolitan Opera, are only two of its members who have achieved prominence. The Pi KA ' s opened up the old stand with a bang as most of the old members at last made the coveted transition from soldier to student ( to use the word loosely). George Jennings, who may have been in school with the father of some of the current freshmen, emerged as first semester president and almost lost the rest of his hair trying to get the boys to stop telling war stories long enough to listen to him. Another relic of the past is the one and only Rip Harris who climaxed a tumultuous semester by hanging his pin on Theta Mary Ann Nesbitt. Jim Goodwin stars in the romantic department for pinning Jackie Griffis of the Alphagam clan. Jim may be currently recognized by the large ring in his nose. Howard Moyer surprised no one by marrying Danny Miller, but everyone was astounded when Clarence Peard started introducing Kappa Liz Jones as Mrs. Charlie Wright established his bird dogs in the OFFICERS First Semester George E. Jennings George Barzellone William Maltby Robert Harrell . . Robert L. Reddin Jack Harris . . . President . Vice-President . Secretary . . Treasurer . Rush Chairman Social Chairman Second Semester George Barzellone Harry Moreland Keith A. Ross Robert A. Harrell . . Dick Foster . . . Ralph Reiger back yard over the protests of the rest of the house and spent the rest of the year trying to lure young coeds out to see them . . . always at night. Wright also started a campaign to show the pledges how easy it was to get dates, from which he emerged dazed and bleeding. Guss Babb started the year as Pledge Master with visions of employing the methods of Dachau on his charges, but when last seen he was seeking sanctuary in the radio station while 30 irate pledges howled for his scalp. One of the more successful boys was Bill Fleet Parks, who seems to be number one with Theta Linda Colbert — and one of the least successful was Lew Bond, who is about number 10 with a lot of people. Page 362

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iB f First Row, left to right: Mrs. Popper, housemother, Allen Amgott. Harvey Aronson, Lawrence Jay Axel- rod, Harold Butler. Chet Cowan, Sheldon Enham Third Row: Leonard Leventhal, Stanley Levine, Ful- ton B. Menein, Sanford Parisar, Theodore PassofF, Richard Peller, Carl Perry Second Row: Don Feterman, Richard Finkelstein. Carl Fishbien. Irving Fishman, Ben Frank, Jerry Frankel. John Herzfeld Fourth Row: Jack Pollock, Harold Poplinger, How- ard S. Schaer, Phil Scheffler, Manfred Schmidt, Rob- ert Schreiber, Philip Percy Shnier Fi[th Row: Arthur Silbert. Jack Silver, Sammy Sil- ver, Robert Wagner, Neil Wertheim, John H. Winter Page 36 i

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1 n,. !po p (f r f f Firsf i oif, Ze f to right: Mrs. Nedom, housemother, Wayne R. Adams, Guss K. Babb, George S. Barzel- lone, George Bell, Van H. Bland, Jr., Lewis Bond, Neil Baird, Robert F. Casteel, Jerome Carrington Fourth Row: Bill Maltby, DeWitt Merrell, LeRoy Merveldt, James S. Milbourn, Harry D. Moreland, Howard G. Moyer, Charles L. McBride, C. James McFerron, Dick McMurray, J. D. Newbern Second Row: Tom Cox, Jack Cravitt, Kenneth Cut- berth, Marshall Dayton, Jackson Drew, Dick Fos- ter, Donald A. Gilchrist, James H. Goodwin, Joe Gravitt, O. L. Grimes Fifth Row: Charles R. Olson, Bill Owen, Bill Parks, William C. Peacock, James Peard, R. L. Reddin, Ralph Reiger, James D. Riley, Tom Rixleben, George Roller Third Row: John Hager, George D. Hann, Thomas Kelly Harrah, Robert D. Harrel, Jack Harris, Jesse W. Heck, Tom Hendricks, George Jennings, Paul Jordan, Lee Kennon Sixth Row: Lenton Roller, Norman Roller, Joe SchafF, Oscar Stiles, Laurence W. Varvel, Bob Whittet, Wayne Willis, William R. Wimbish, Charles Wright Page 363