Little Man On Campus By Bibler
NO VACANCIES
ALL FILLED UP!
October 27, 2005
HOMECOMING
Special Section
A man named Pepper.
The University Daily Kansan
October 27, 2005
HOMECOMING
Special Section
A man named Pepper...
73-year-old
By CINDY WHITCOME
Staff Reporter
There do not seem to be many things that are worth waiting more than half a century for, but that is how long a retired Topeka businessman waited to become a Delta Chi. John M. Hardman, 73, was initiated into the Delta Chi fraternity yesterday after leaving the University of Kansas and fraternity 55 years ago to go into business.
"I was talking to some friends in fraternity one day and they said I call the house and find someone become a member," talked to Scott McDowell and he said he would do."
As a member of the pledge class, Hardman lived in the old Delta Chi house on Legend Street, two years before the present house, 1243 W. Campus Road, was built.
Hardman attended KU and lived in the house for a semester but left before initiation.
Although most of his friends from the fraternity are dead, he said he still remembered the good times at KU. Kansas was under prohibition in 1925, and Hardman said he and his friends never did any drinking.
For excitement, we were for the picture show course, if we were girls would ask us to take it. Now that he is said he might attend city's social activity.
"Oh sure, I date," he said the only daughter in damage.