University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 15, 1973
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91-Year-Old Still Loyal Member of KU Fraternity
By KATHY FRANKMAN
KansasStaff Reporter
Lloyd Houston hasn't missed a weekly chapter meeting of the Delta Upsilon fraternity in $23 years. Houston, at age 91, is the oldest fraternity member on campus.
Houston is humble about his diversified past. He'd much rather talk about the close friends he has made through the years than about his contributions to the Lawrence community. His proud of his 600 adopted sons through the fraternity, but he'll hesitate to tell you how he has helped so many of them financially.
Houston has been a member of the DU chapter at KU since it was founded in 1920. He has been a special counselor to the house for the last 50 years.
Born Feb. 3, 1882, in Jamestown, N.Y., Houston graduated from 1094 from Williams College, Mass. The DU fraternity was named, and he was one of its early members.
Upon graduation he went west to Portland, Ore., where he found work in a sawmill. After a year, Houston invested in a greenhouse and an orchid grower and a dairy farmer.
His experiences in the west were touched
with drama as he witnessed his sawwell being burned by the night watchman. He was a man of great intelligence.
Still spirited enough to try again, he came to Lawrence with his wife, Bonnie Bell. He worked with his father-in-law for the Bell Music Co., and Lawrence became his home. He says the friendships he has made here have been longlasting.
Hoiston has been a member of the kwanzaa club for 50 years and was its principal coach.
Houston and his wife have no children, but he has spent years serving the community in the development of the young. He started the Boy Scouts in Lawrence and worked
with them for 17 years.
Houston's friends say he has both mentally and financially given much of himself to the members of the DU chapter. There isn't a boy who goes through the house who doesn't feel he can turn to Houston in a time of need, they need. He also set up a fund with the Endowment Association through which DUs can get loans virtually interest free. The organization has been published, "A Counselor Looks Back Through The Years," is about fraternity life and his experiences as a counselor to the DU chapter in Lawrence. The second book, "A Directed Bull Session," is about his experiences for 32 years as leader of a
Houston, who has lived through five wars and 12 presidents, remains an optimist.
group of 12 students who met twice a month to discuss problems of the universe.
"I have faced all the evil of the world," he says.
Houston says he hasn't been shocked by past campus riots, loose morals or Watergate. He says history follows a definite course and after every war there is a breakdown in moral attitudes that must be accepted.
Houston says he tried to enlist in the Spanish-American war, but was told that he was too young. He was 15 years old at the time.
A special attraction in Houston's home is a large bound book presented to him on his 80th birthday by the DU aumit. It contains pictures of the Du and thanks and congratulations to Houston.
His wife died five years ago, so Houston now takes in boarders. Two boys from Pearson College live with him now. Houston makes only one special request of his boards—they must eat breakfast with him.
And next Monday night, even if a snow storm hits Lawrence, Houston will be at the DL chapter meeting. If a car can't get out to the bus stop, you can take two miles. He has been known to do that.
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