Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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' '-ll BETA THETA PI Founded at Miami University, 18.1.8 Active Chapters-S7 Nu of Beta Theta Pi I . . . . 1881 ' FRATRES lN FACULTATE Edward Ellery Nelson Wfallace Nitchman FRATRES IN UNIVERSITATE Wfilliam Landreth Bailey Nelson Pitts Collamer Duane 'Wlilson Crichton 1933 lYilliam Tindall George Donald Edward Nitchman Marcel Jaques Suter R olvert Hoffman Wfiley Charles Viilliam Bennett Dorsey Follin Hughes Wlilliam Theodore Brockwehl Charles Laurence Dain Duncan Scott McNab Arthur A. Bullard . Burton B. Delack Clement A. Finch Esmond XV. Gifford ' e'-fbi. -1 PK . , r- U . 'P '-F ... W ' 1 151 isa WEE: 1 IEEE 'ai 5 ll'1...QL.. ll E 4 . .L -I ,., ,i-..--111 1 1 1934 Boris Radoyevich john King Sullivan 1935 Stanley Eldridge Mower Eugene Ellsworth Ryon Frederick Antoine Xklaterman 1936 John L. Hollenbeclc Charles M. Krull Robert E. lNells Richard L. Wfoodruff Homer D. Swart 180

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- Theta Nu llpsilon was founded at p ' 1 XVeslyan University, Middletown, Con- - necticut, on -December 5., 1870, and fol- lowed a hectic career until 1923, when the policy was adopted at the Philadelphia .1-Q' il,. .ff-il convention which delinitely placed the 'if' order in the status of a general academic fraternity. It was founded for the pur- -gvflffifi pose of bringing together a group of con- , genial fellows who possessed ability for . leadership, and were representative stu- 8 one r 4 saw i dents in all phases of college life. The 'ibm fraternity grew too rapidly, and at one time had as many as eighty-two recognized sub rosa chapters, which have now been suspended and are no longer entitled to use the name. Fifteen chapters now exist and much credit is due to those who served the society on the grand council since 1920, because the most important constructive work that will effect the future of the organization is due to these faithful workers. 179 i

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IKNET ul f Beta Theta Pi was formed at Miami Univer- NS-Gwp knitxudflffaf . my J e,x:0k,xK ayff W. 1 v V- 4 . . 1 . . bd. - sity, Oxtoicl, Gino, its first formal meeting emg S tm W -aww , . held August 8, 1839. john Reily Knox '39, desig- ig fill E' f j 2 - . . S nated in the fraternity as Petter Knox was the -'lllllllr1'lIIIIll-1'lWU ' moving' spirit connected with the founding. The I society was the first fraternity to originate west of the Alleghenies, and at the time of its organization, T- Alpha Delta Phi, which established a branch at lVliami in 1833, was the only fraternity with a west- ? T? ern chapter. The presence at Miami of Alpha Delta Phi and opposition to it led to the formation of Beta 'D I -1' : si llllll W A my . - . . . . W 'W ' ll Theta P1. The traternity incorporates Clgllty-SIX 5 active and twenty-two inactive chapters. Among prominent members are: United States Senators VVilliam E. Borah, Robert M. LaFollete and VVilliam H. McMaster, Supreme Court Justice Wfillis VanDevanterg Ambassador Dwight VV. Morrow, Owen D. Youngg jay N. Darling Q Ding j cartoonist, Paul V. McNutt, American Legion Commander. I o l,'u Nw' If l4'lUjll4lli l 'X' ,n LEA 5 if e? if J-L N4 'xl x ,Q 'vm CL W!! It W1 gtfzmfw lflllggi all 'Htl :QRS ESR ESFKISQI-G:-',a1.i: up