Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-11-03
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72O ANNUAL CONVENTION
DELTA UPSILON FRA
TERNlTY.
To BE Held with MiddIebury Chapter
October 26.2S, 1906. Hon. Elijah IL.
Sherman, go, Elected Honorary Presi-

October 26.2S, 1906. Hon. Elijah Ii.
Sherman, go, Elected Honorary Presi-
dent.
At the seventy first annual convention
of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, held
with the Hamilton College Chapter at
Clinton and Utica, n. Y, Oct Goth and
9th, it was unanimously voted to have
the convention of 1906 with the Middle
bury College Chapter at Middlebury,
Delta Upsilon is one of the largest
Greek letter societies in the college
world, having chapters in thirty
colleges, including Toronto and McGill
in Canada, and between nine and ten
thousand members. Next year is the
fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
the Middlebury chapter, which enter
tains in honor of that event. The con-
vention has been held in Middlebury
twice before, when the fraternity was
much smaller than it now is. Senator
Justin S. Morrill, was president of the
last convention held there in 1874.
1t is customary to give the entertain
ing chapter the pick of the offices for
the year it entertains. At the Hamil-
ton convention last week the following
offices were elected Honorary presi-
dent, Hon. Elijah B. Sherman, Middle
bury, go, of Chicago; president, Hon.
Fletcher d. Proctor, Amherst 'S2, of
Proctor; first vice e-president, Thomas H,
Noonan, Middlebury, 81, of Buffalo, n.
Y; second vice-president, Charles M.
Leners, Stanford, '9S, of San Francisco,
Cal; third vice-president, Moody d.
Holmes, Middlebury, '0S, of Concord,
n. H; secretary, Arthur E. Bestor,
Chicago, '0l, of Chicago; treasurer
Thomas E. Boyce, Middlebury, '73, of
Middlebury; auditor, Bert L. Stafford,
Esq, Middlebury, '0l, of Rutland; his
torian, Prof. John F. Genning, Union,
70, of Amherst, Mass; poet Philip Bee
ker Goetz, Harvard, '93, of Buffalo, n.
Y; orator, Hon Walter f. Howard,
Middlebury, 70, of Middlebury; chap
lain, Rev. Gibbs Braislin, Brown, 80, of
Rutland. The executive council con-
tains graduates of Columbia, Harvard,
Swarthmore, Michigan. Chicago, Hamil-
ton, Adelbert and Colby. If the attend
ance at recent conventions is maintained
nearly four hundred men will attend the
Middlebury convention. The New York
Boston and Chicago men will run
specials from those cities.
The Nliddlebury College men at the
Hamilton convention We're j. NJ.
Kicker, '06, of Waterbury; C. A. Acton,
or. of Mt. Vernon, n. Y; w. L. Bar
mum, '07, of Cornwall; Carl a. Perkins
'O7, of East Walpole, Mass; George
Learned '08, of Wells River; Samuel b
Botsford, '00 of Buffalo, n. Y; james
Moore, &c. of Oneida. ~ Y, anC
/ Thomas II. NOonan of Buffalo, \, y
/ Among those on the program of speakers
at that convention were President NJ
/ w Stryker of Hamilton College, Hon
William Travers jerome of New York
| Rev. DR.. q. p. Clifford of Buffalo \. Y.
and Ermon j. Ridgway Of New York
editor of Everybody's Magazine; Alber
l.. Blair of Boston, editor of the Bostol
Journal. was POSTMASTER at the ban
quet. Mr.. Jerome, who is member
of the Amherst chapter, was unabl
to attend. and a telegram, expressing
appreciation of his bold stand and won
derful fight in New York, was sent b,
his fraternity brothers.