Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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LIBRARY Acquiring expensive liahits, the lihiaiy spent a ])leasant year adding rare editions to the grow- iiij; la(ks. A choice find was a rare edition (il the Aiikiii Bihle (1782), the first Bible to be published in the colonies in the English lan- guage. An important gift of a very exiJnsive social (liib ill i ' aii 1(1 an expanding American I (illcgc ' was (i cr iiiic hundred bound copies of a lanioiis FriMich magazine which dates back to lo3l. Fioui time to time this year the library has featured some ol it?- rare volumes in inter- esting displays for the benefit of the students. THK LIBRARY STAFK. Mvs. Lena Thomas. Mrs. Minta Folk. Miss Kileii Ewing, Mrs. . nne Nicholson. James M. Nicholson. Carllon West. Mrs. Jean Holt. Miss Minnie Kallam. Mrs. Frances PricharJ and Mrs. Kent Barhee. A BOOK .SIIKl.K f ' he back room of the lihi but home to the library

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J f il Charles Barhani Leslie R. Browder Edgar Christman Marion Davis Bernard A. Harrell B. T. Henderson. II Hugh Martin Lester P. Martin George Mitchell Wiley Mitchell illiani Nicholson Lloyd K. Rector Rohert L. Savage James A. Simpson Nathan Sutton Kennedy Ward Dewej Wells Bill White Lonnie B. Williams Koberl Wilson PHI DELTA PHI Having proved that tliey cDuld win tlie si-holar- sliip trophy, tlie boys from RufFin Inn came out with top leadership victories in the law school elections. The major office of law school was held by Edgar Christman, a senior, who was President of the Student Bar Association. Ruffiii Inn was the winner of two other top posts when its men Bo!) Wilson and Lonnie Williams wcic chosen to serve on the Student Council, and Dewey Wells was elected as law memlier of the Student Legislature. On March 13. Ruflin Inn held Its l)ig event oi the academic veai ' when it met with Phi Delta Phi cha])ters from Carolina and Duke for a joint initi- ation of their new luemlier. ' -. The l!a- leigh Coiuilrv Cluli was chosen for the liig sjiot on the calendar. Mrs. Bets Henderson

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FIRST ROM. Ch;trlcs D. Barliani. Mrs. Audrey Beck, i:vcl ii HI lai ell. Mildred Brooks, Helen Carter, C ynlhia Collins, Eunice Duncan, Margaret Floyd; second row, Patricia 1 oote. Wade M. Cjallant. Jr,, Lawrence Knott, Mary Lide. Mrs, I.eona Littleton, Judson Mitchell, Virgil Moorefield, Mrs. Anne B. Patterson: third row, Fred Sherron. Glenn Shook, Jean Short, John Arthur Taylor. Frank L, Thorne. J. Bernard Vick, M rs, Kate Weaver, Lonnie B. Williams. PHI BETA KAPPA Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastir fraternity founded Decemher .5. ] 776 at the Col- lege of William and Mary in Willianisliurg. Virginia, had its liegiiniings on the Wake Forest Campus in the ])eriod following World War I. The attempt at the estaidishmeiit of a chapter failed, and tlie suiiject did not arise again until 1939 when the idea of a chapter received the sanction of President Kitchin, and in the spring ol 1940 a detailed report of the school was sent to the national headcpiarters, and the school was visited iiy the National President of Phi Beta Kappa. In the fall of 1910 the charter for tlie Wake Forest chapter was passed upon in its an- nual convention held in San Francisco, and the charter was granted on January 13. 1911. Tlie North Carolina Delta ( liapter of Phi Beta Kappa elects each spring memlieis of the stu- dent liodv who excel in sriiolastic standing, character and ctiltural interests to meinliershi|i. Election to this honorary lialernit xvhich was founded with the three axowed principles: de- votion to liicndship. lo iii(iialit and to litera- ture i coii idere(l iinc nl the m(i l coyeted hontns that can come to a student. Ofiicers of the Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for 19.52- .5. ' 5 were Dr. A. C. Reid. president: Dr. (]. ,1. Earp, vice-president: Carlton West, secrelary- tieasurer. In March all those students with outstanding records in scholarship and other necessary qiialificalions were extended imila- lions 1(1 lieconie meuiliers id Phi liela Kap|ia. Twenty-one