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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1964
BELLLL HOWEELL
Greeks Get Ahead In Alumni Survey
Bv Linda Ellis
By Linda Ellis
(Feature-Society Editor)
(Editor's note: This is first in a series about the advantages of fraternity and sorority living.)
The long dispute about the relative worth of belonging to college fraternities and sororities has been given some new fuel to the fire in the form of a survey.
A two year research project recently completed offers new evidence that experience and education provided in college Greek organizations may develop valuable leadership and personality traits according to the Stewart Howe Alumni Service.
The company, located in Lawrence, is 34 years old and provides alumni relations, public relations, and fund raising counsel to many of these organizations.
The research project showed that three out of four of the chief executive officers of the nation's 750 largest corporations who have attended college at an institution where men's college fraternities exist are members of one of those fraternities. It also showed that 70 per cent of the senators and about 40 per cent of the representatives in the 88th Congress are members of college fraternities.
The corporation executive survey utilized the biographical information on the current presidents and chairmen of the boards of the nation's 500 largest industrial firms and 50 each of the largest banking, insurance, merchandising, transportation and utility companies compiled in 1963 by Fortune Magazine.
The significance of these figures becomes apparent when it is considered that college fraternity members constitute only about 20 per cent of the student enrollment of the 424 institutions of higher learning where Greek-letter societies are represented and that alumni members of such organizations—of all ages—make up less than one per cent of the total U.S. population.
Top executives who are fraternity members belong to a total of 54 different national Greek-letter groups, according to the research findings. The majority are alumni of less than 100 of the 424 institutions where fraternity chapters exist.
Some interesting revelations of the study:
- Only about 80 per cent of the top executives attended college.
- Among those who have had college preparation, 60 per cent attended the Big Ten Conference universities, the eight Ivy League schools, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of California.
- Yale University produced nearly twice as many of the top executives as any other single institution.
lives as any other single institution.
Of the nation's 350 tax-supported institutions granting four-year college degrees, the 10 having the largest representation of top executives are in order of magnitude: the universities of Michigan, Illinois, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio State, Texas, the U.S. Naval Academy, Purdue, and Missouri. KU ranks 11th in the survey.
The executives who are alumni of Kansas University are; Kenneth Adams (Sigma Chi), chmn, Phillips Petroleum Co.; Frances Budinger (Phi Kappa Theta), pres., Franklin Life Insurance Co.; J. Mark Hiebert (no fraternity), chmn, Sterling Drug Co.; Emerson Higdon (no fraternity), pres., The Maytag Co.; Benjamin Holland (no fraternity), chmn, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co.; Stanley Learned (Phi Delta Theta), pres, Phillips Petroleum Co.; Dean McGee (Theta Tau), pres, Kerr-McGee Oil Inc.; Charles Spahr (Alpha Kappa Lambda), pres, Standard Oil of Ohio; and Lyndsone Stone (Beta Theta Pi), pres, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co.
In the study revealing that 70 per cent of the senators and about 40 per cent of the representatives in the 88th Congress are members of college social fraternities, sororities or similar groups, the Republicans have a higher number of fraternity men in Congress than the Democrats, in percentages.
The U.S. presidents who were college men are: Rutherford B. Haves, Theodore Roosevelt, James Garfield, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, William McKinley, Grover Cleveland, Chester Arthur and Benjamin Harrison.
In addition to the contributions that fraternities and sororites make toward the individual betterment of their members, they also provide practical values to the universities and colleges.
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To these two young men, these new discoveries are somewhat of a shock. This would be to you too if you were in their position; that of coming from a society of many of today's modern conveniences to discover that suddenly even more advances have been made and were already common to another society.
The mission is located 350 miles up river from his home town. It is a four day trip by motor boat. Joe taught these two grades, with a combined total of twenty-five students, the following subjects: geography, history, English, nature study, arithmetic, personal hygiene, and ethics. While not teaching school, he was the house master for the mission.
Joe, who is 22 years old, and Mike, who is 23 years old, have had six years of Chinese and nine years of English education.
Joe has taught school in a backward area of Malaysia before attending KU. He taught third and fourth grade at an Episcopal mission for one year.
"The climate here is terrible; the trees are losing their leaves," Joe says.
Unusual Season Changes Surprise Malay Brothers
Bv Tom Moore
Joe and Mike SimChaiLim, freshmen from Malaysia, are finding many new and exciting things at KU. It seems that the climate in Joe's part of Malaysia never changes other than a heavy rainy season between November and February.
Joe and Mike are not, as one might think from their introduction here, from the wilds of a jungle where people still live in the Stone Age. Their home town in Malaysia has telephones, small British and Japanese cars, radios, airplanes, mailboxes, street lights, and fireplugs.
The climate is not the only difference in environment that the Sim-ChaiLim brothers are experiencing. In the three weeks that Joe and Mike have been in the United States (they flew directly to Kansas from Malaysia) they have made many new and exciting discoveries. Among the many things that they are seeing for the first time are: television, bowling, and big cars.
The mission is a boarding school, except the students cook their own food which they buy from the mission and wash their clothes in the
river. Joe worked with the students as well as taught them. For his services during that year he was paid $50 per month. The students he taught were from the Makiang tribe.
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The Makiang tribe is a primitive group living in the jungle near the mission. They wear loin clothes and hunt with blow guns. When the tribe sends its children to live at the mission, the children usually adopt the conventional pants and shirts. These children are very poor and all three of their meals each day consist of rice.
When asked what things Joe and Mike find the most different at KU than in Malaysia, Joe said it is much easier to eat food with chop sticks than with a knife and a fork. Mike said that drinking milk at each meal was also taking some adjustment. Both Joe and Mike miss their regular diet of rice and fish, but they do like the food they are getting in the dormitories. Joe lives in Grace Pearson Hall and Mike lives in Ellsworth Hall.
A survey of Library of Congress listings for Barnard College graduates shows that nearly 2,000 books have been written by 640 Barnard authors in the last 75 years. The college made the survey in connection with observance of its 75th anniversary.
Mike and Joe think the students at KU are very friendly. One new discovery that they know about and eagerly await is snow. Can you imagine seeing雪for the first time at your age? They can't either.
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