/
J.
4

HARRY S. GORGAS, President
Gorgas, Thomas & Co., 76 Beaver Street
New York 5, N. Y.

W. R. TATE, Treasurer
Commerce Trust Co., P. O. Box 248
Kansas City 10, Missouri

C. F. WILLIAMS, Secretary
1940 East Sixth Street
Cleveland 14, Ohio

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

 

PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY

October 15, 1943

Dear Brothers:

It is estimated that 4,300 members of Phi Kappa Psi are now in the armed
services. You will realize this means that 90 per cent of the personnel of our
active chapters have left the campus. In fact, those 4300 Brothers in service
represent about 25 per cent of our living members.

However, it is the aim of the remaining 10 per cent of our undergraduates on
the campuses and of the officers of the Fraternity to carry on our chapters, mains
tain their organizations, preserve their chapter house properties and put Phi Kappa
Psi in a position of greater strength than ever when the war is over.

In this emergency we have to depend more than ever upon our active and in-
terested alumni Brothers. By emergency legislation passed at the Des Moines Grand
Arch Council, it has been possible to appoint alumni committees to function as
active chapters with all necessary authority to hold chapter meetings, to pledge
and to initiate. Such alumni groups are actively functioning at Minnesota Beta,
New York Beta, West Virginia Alpha, Virginia Alpha and Pennsylvania Iota. We urge
the formation of more similar committees to help and cooperate with remaining
undergraduates on the campus,

You have been pleced upon a list of about 1,000 key alumni of Phi Kappa Psi.
It is our aim to regularly furnish you with information as to the development of
the existing emergency situation in our chapters, to keep you informed as to the
actions taken by the officers of the Fraternity, and to urgently request your aid
in working with and helping your own active chapter. We have a great obligation
to return our chapters to the boys in service in the same strong condition that
they were in when they left the campus for the greater work ahead of them.

Fraternally yours,

es st,

President.