Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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PHI PHI HLPHE1 Organized in 1898 as a literary society, Phi Phi Alpha continued as such until T926 when it was reorganized as a fraternity. ln its forty-four years as a leader on the Alma College campus, Phi Phi Alpha has grown rich in traditions and high standards and has earnestly endeavored to live up to its name which, translated, means Affec- tionate Brothers of Learning. For the last eight years the fraternity has been located in its own house at 313 Philadelphia Avenue. Phi Phi Alpha men were active in almost every phase of campus life this year, playing a leading role in student government, sports, scholastic activities, music, speech, dra- matics, and social life. Seven members of the Student Council were Phis, including Council President Bruce Mellinger, Student Marshall Victor Fox, and Social Chairman .lack Heimforth. Twelve members of Alma's MIAA championship football squad were members of Phi Phi Alpha, Keith Carey and Jimmy Hicks being selected as members of the All-MIAA team, while Rex Holmes received honorable mention on the Little All-American team. In basketball, Alma's highly successful team, which won the league title for the second successive year without a defeat, was paced by the great work of Keith Carey, con- sidered by many to be the best basketball player ever to compete for Alma. He was named to the All-MIAA basketball team for the third straight year. The number of members participating in track, tennis, ancl golf was also large and Phi Phil Alpha, as in other years, was well represented. Scholastically, Phi Phi Alpha ranked among the leaders. The Valedictorian of the 1941 graduating class was a Phi, and this year the only all-A record achieved outside of the senior class was earned by Bob Milham. ln speech, the members of Phi Phi Alpha again excelled, with Jack Gilchrist and Bruce Mellinger as outstanding mem- bers of Alma's crack debate squad. Campus officers who were Phi included the president of the A Club, the president of Phi Sigma Pi Chonorary scholastic societyj, the business managers of the Almanian and Scotsman, the president of Tau Kappa Alpha fnational honorary forensic fraternityi, the editor of the Scotsman, the presi- dent of the sophomore class, the student chairman of the Co-operative Council, and the MIAA sports representative. Victor Fox, Andrew Horne, and Fred Hartt served as presidents of the fraternity for the three electoral terms of this highly successful year. Phi Phi Alpha has also done its share in contributing to the war effort. In addition to the members who have already gone into some branch of the service, many more are soon to go. 94

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Back Row: left to right: Tracy Ellis, Guile Graham, James Miller, Donald Fisher, Van Hardy, Oliver Elliott, Wilbur Callahan, Harold Mazzei. Third Row: Harold Rogers, William Tubbs, William Miller, George Orluck, James Haley, Vernon Walters, Charles Ford. Second Row: Maynard Dodge, Robert Henney, Arthur Geisenhaver, Donald Humphries, Harry Morley, John Burns, Frank Young, Sinclair Ingham. First Row: William Pink, Warren Heitman, Albert Katzenmeyer, William Prescott, Donald Peters, Neil MacNeil, Donald McLogan. On returning to school in the fall of 1941, Bert Katzenmeyer was elected president for the first electoral term. He was assisted by vice-president, Dan Peters, secretory Francis Cogsdillp and corresponding secretary William Prescott. During the second electoral term, Don Peters held the office of president, William Prescott, vice-president, Joe Morse, secretary, and Guile Graham, corresponding secretary. For the third and final period of the school year, William Prescott was the president of Zeta Sigma, Neil MacNeil, vice-president, George Orluck, secretary, and Wilbur Callahan, corresponding secretary. The office of house manager for the first half of the year was held by Ted Welgoss, Guile Graham taking over the duties for the second half. 93

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PHI PHI ALPHA Top Row: left to right: Ed Owen, Frank Closson, Keith Carey, and Bruce Kane. Third Row: Frank Hempy, Don Gillard, Fred Hartt, Graham Markes, Claude Maxwell, Bill Carr, and Charles Purves. Second Row: Bill LaPaugh, .lack Lea, Robert Hubler, Victor Fox, John Hicks, and Jack King. Bottom Row: Dane Smith, Richard Fishbeck, Andy Horne, Bruce Mellinger, and Francis Sherman. Top Row: Grant Dean, Steve Nisbet, Robert Milham, Harold Mayhew, Don Converse, and Robert Baker. Third Row: Harold Hartt, Robert Smith, Robert Dewar, Paul French, Preston Nixon, Jack Mundell, and Robert Lint. Second Row: Jack Hensel, William Hawkins, Bill Crimmins, Duane Waters, Walter Mattison, and Richard Read. Bottom Row: Kenneth Swanson, Herbert Dahl, Alan Goodrich, Gilbert Koch, Tom Fitch, and Rex Wood. 95