The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-21
PHI GAMMA DELTA.
Beta Deuteron Chapter Ban
quets at Hotel Lucerne.
THE ROANOKE TINES BUREAU,
HOTEL LUCERNE. SAIEM VA

THE ROANOKE TIMES BUREAU,
HOTEL LUCERNE, SALEM, VA.
The Beta Deutcron Chapter Of the Phi
Gamma Delta Fraternity gave ban
quet at the Hotel Lucerne "Wednesday
night which was q most pleasant affair.
The long table was profusely decor
ated. At each plato was dainty little
bouquet of fragrant white violets tied in
the fraternity colors.
AT 8 o'clock the brothers, with their
lady guests, filed into the dining room.
The members and the ladies accom-
panylng were as follows: Miss Bessie
Tompkins and R. NJ. Kelly, Miss Mamie
Tompkins and w. L. Wood, Miss Grace
Hutchinson and A. l.. Lotspoich. Miss
Bessie Wiley and r. c. Craig, Miss
Mamie Timberlake and l.. l.. Day, Miss
Mollie Burdette and Is. e. Copenhaver.
Miss Julia McCauley and J. =. Woods,
Miss Matte Ferguson and r. Arm
strong, Miss Hannah Armstrong and
Rev. j. TX. Is. Schcrer, of Pulaski City;
Miss Mamie Moon and III. II. Pechin, Miss
Bessie Moon and j. w. Seig, and Miss
Grimes Burwell and r. NJ. Wiley.
The gentlemen unaccompanied by
any of creations pride" were Messrs.
10. M. Armstrong, L. NJ. Smead J. NJ.
w. Ballard, Jr
The chaperones were Mrs. &C. Temp
kins and Mrs. William Bowles.
The guests of the fraternity were
trof. E. V. II. Painter and lady, VIM.
Bowles and lady, and DR.. Oscar Wiley.
Judge Wingfeld Griffin, Of the county
court, was toastmastcr.
1t was long ere ample menu, gotten
up by Major Longley. of the Lucernc,
was thoroughly and completely discuss
ed,and the length of the discussion bore
testimony to the Majors ability to
cater.
Toastmastcr Judge Griffin arose. ana
in one of his characteristic speeches
welcomed the guests to tho banquet. He
paid glowing tribute to the ladies, and
said without their winning ways, charm
ing looks, and refining influences, life
would be a barren waste.
The first toast responed to was ''the
formative influences of fraternity" by
Prof. +. V. n. Painter, and the theme
was factions, looks words, stops, form
the alphabet by which you may spell
character"
The professor maintained that char
acter is formed by the environment in
which that person is brought up. There
are two environments, tho Professor
CoiAs aSblNC duO DdSSlF6. L uO HCUlNG on
vironment is one in which deliberate
influence is exertcd. Life is full of ac-
tive environments. The tender solicit
tudo of n mother, the school in which
the ideas of the child first take from are
active environments, and ono Of the
most active and even aggressive environ
mcnts is the college fraternity It's
unique and mercilcss in its formative
influence, and the proof of what he said
was to be found by casting admiring
chances at the presence in which he
stood.
DIR. Wiley was next on the toast
masters list to respond to the toast,
Our fratcr in frocks. His badge is
beauty aid his password purity. True
blue his colors and his grip invincible."
DIR. Wiley is an older stager in reply
ing to toasts and the ease with which he
arose and addressed "Mr Toastmaster"
in his rich Virginia brogue, made tho
young men envy him.
Tho doctors speech glowcd with
chlyalrlc tributes to woman, and he
proved, to the satisfactio of all, that
he did not, like Boucicault, wish Adam
had died with all his ribs in his body"
The doctor said Homer had made a
fatal mistake in the siege of Troy in
stead of the beautiful Helen That was
because Homer did not live in Salem.
Ii. III. Pechin made Il little gem of n
response to the toast ''Our True Aim"
He said fraternities wero the outcome
of feeling in the human heart that
has existed since the beginning of time
AS result masonic orders, trades
unions and societies of all kinds had
sprung up, and the Greek letter fratcr-
nifty found a field in the college world.
The college student may win high
honors and degrees from his alma
mater, but it is tho fraternity that can
soften his heart and plant in him prin-
ciplcs of true nobility
"a diamond in the Sky" was responded
to by Rev. j. A. Il. Schcrer, Of Pulaski.
in speech adorned with all the flames
OF rhetoric. 1t was tribute to the
star of the fraternity
After the banquet the college songs
and music were the order in the parlors
of the hotel.