W. R. TATE, Treasurer
Plaza Bank of Commerce, 234 Alameda Road
Kansas City 2, Missouri -

HARRY S. GORGAS, President
~ Gorgas, Thomas & Co., 76 Beaver Street

New York 5, N. Y. < C. F. WILLIAMS, Secretary

1940 East Sixth Street
’ Cleveland 14, Ohio

THE SHIRLEY E. MESERVE, Attorney General
555 South Flower Street,
Los Angeles 13, California

HARLAN B SELBY, Vice President
Post Office Box 797
Morgantown, W. Va.

 

PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY

March 24, 1945

To All Chapters, Alumni Associations, Members of the S.Ce;
and about 1,000 other Key Alumni}

Dear Brothers:

Phi Kappa Psi has offered to it an opportunity for expansion which based upon
our experience of the past fifteen years is unique and remarkable.

In the course of recent Grand Arch Councils, the demand for expansion of the
Fraternity has been very manifest, especially among the undergraduate chapters.
There has been a very definite feeling that Phi Kappa Psi should add to its
strength particularly in the south and southwest, and should fill in the gaps and
link together our more isolated and scattered chapters in the sections of the
country where we are sparsely represented.

Some impatience has been expressed with the Executive Council for not provid~
ing and bringing to the attention of the Fraternity local fraternities and peti-
tioning groups. The fact is, however, that local fraternities have practically
disappeared from college campuses and they are just not available.

Our permanent Comittee on Collegiate Information, of which the Chairman is
Brother John F. Ramsey, Calif. Gamma '28, formerly an instructor at Alabama and
Oregon State and now in Washington, D.C., has presented a report describing and
recommending as desirable institutions for expansion by Phi Kappa Psi elevén insti-
tutions in the South, Southwest and Northwest.

Among these is the University of Arizona at Tucson regarding which Brother
Ramsey reports as follows:

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON, ARIZONA: Chartered 1885; first instruction,
1891... Colleges of the University founded as follows: Agriculture, 1890; Mines &
Engineering, 1890; Liberal Arts, 1915; Education, 1920; Law, 1925; Fine Arts, 1934;
Graduate School, 1934; Home Economics, 1922. e » Fees: No tuition for Arizona
residents; out of state residents, $100 per semester. . . Faculty: 211 . + «
Enroliment: 2,873; men, 1,811; graduates, 211. . » Library: 131,365 volumes.
$12,835 spent on books during 1938-9. . » Endowment: $48,136. Total income,
$1,907,136. Budget, 1939-40; $1,868,714. . . Grounds: 75 acres. Buildings valued
at $3,132,157. PWA-WPA grants; $502,612. . . Fraternities: Kappa Sigma, 1915; :
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1917; Sigma Nu, 1918; Sigma Chi, 1919; Phi Delta Theta, 1922;
Delta Sigma Nu, 1922; Delta Chi, 1925; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1925; Zeta Beta Tau, 1926;
Alpha Tau Omega, 1930; Phi Gamma Delta, 1931. . . Inactive Fraternities: Beta Kappa.

We have in Tucsoti a small but active and interested alumi group including
two members of the S.C. In the University we have two Phi Psi undergraduates, also
two sons of Phi Psis, and we understand that another Phi Psi is about to enter.

The above group is extremely anxious to and is willing and eager to immediately