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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Nov. 29, 1951
Phi Delta Theta First Fraternity To Move West Of Mississippi
Phi Delta Theat was the first fraternity to be established on this side of the Mississippi river.
The national fraternity was founded Dec. 26, 1848, at the University of Miami, Oxford, Ohio. Alpha chapter at the University of Kansas was chartered in 1882 and is now one of 115 active chapters.
The Harvard trophy, given to the most outstanding chapter of Phi Delta Theta, has been won by the Kansas chapter five times, more than any other one chapter.
In 1923 the chapter moved to its present house at 1621 Edgehill road. The house has been doubled in size since that time, providing for a new dining room, kitchen, study rooms and sleeping porch.
Phi Delta Theta members have held every important federal office, including the presidency, vice-presidency and every cabinet post. The fraternity also provides one out of every 60 men listed in "Who's Who in America."
A few of the outstanding Alpha alumni are William Allen White, sage of Emporia; Ray Evans, all-American football star, and Brock Pemberton, Broadway producer. Senator Harry Darby is art honorary member of the Kansas chapter.
Traditional Phi Delt social functions include the fall Harvest party, the Christmas formal and the "Southern mess" or formal dinnerdance.
Mrs. J. H. Kreamer, housemother, has been with the fraternity for 25 years.
National President Visits Phi Kappa Sigs
Dr. Edgar M. Draper, national president of Phi Kappa Sigma, will visit the local chapter of the fraternity Sunday.
Dr. Draper has been attending a meeting of the National Research committee in Chicago and will stop in Lawrence on the way to his home in Seattle, Wash.
He plans to spend most of the day visiting with chapter officers and members and talking to University officials.
Dr. Draper was elected national president at the Phi Kappa Sigma national convention celebrating the fraternity's centennial in the summer of 1950.
He has been a member of the executive board of the national fraternity since 1938.
This will be Dr. Draper's first visit to the Kansas chapter. Members of the Phi Kappa Sigma Kansas City Alumni association will meet his train in Kansas City and bring him to Lawrence where they will remain for the day's activities.
Urk And Berger To Discuss
Trip To Spain At El Ateneo
Henry Turk, former instructor of German, and Klaus Berger, assistant professor of history of art, will speak at a meeting of the Spanish Club, El Ateneo, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 113 Strong.
They will tell of the trip they made to Spain during the past summer.
Durzle Attends Discussion
Dr. J. A. Burzle, professor of German, will participate in a roundtable discussion by directors of student Fulbright programs, of the Rocky mountain area conference Saturday at Denver. This is a special meeting called by the state department and the Institute of International education.
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Province President To Visit Local SAI
Mary Jane Waggoner, province president of Theta province of Sigma Alpha Iota, national music fraternity for women, will visit the University of Kansas local chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota Dec. 5-7.
Miss Waggoner is an instructor in piano at the University of Nebraska.
Miss Waggoner graduated from the University of Kansas, receiving her bachelor of music degree in piano under Donald M. Swarthout.
Following graduation, she was graduate assistant in the music department at Kansas State college at Manhattan. She has studied with Carl Friedberg, and she attended the Jullard School of Music last summer.
Last spring Miss Waggoner was elected vice-president of the Pi Kappa Lambda chapter at the University of Nebraska. She is a member of Delta Gamma sorority.
While in Lawrence, she will hold conferences with several school officials and with chapter officers and advisors. Among features of the visit will include a study of Sigma Alpha Iota's national objectives various projects, fraternity ritual and musicals.
Other chapters which Miss Wag-
MISS MARY JANE WAGGONER
goner will visit are Washburn Municipal university, Bethany college, Kansas State Teachers college at Pittsburg, Ft. Hays State College, Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, and Mount St. Scholastica college.
Campus contacts will be made with 97 college chapters by nine other province presidents, who with the Executive board make up the National council of Sigma Alpha Iota.
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