The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-23
ATLANTA PLANS TO
ENTERTAIN S, A. E
-Fiftieth Anniversary Convention
Assemblies on Wednesday
PROMINENT MEN COMING
Business Houses Will Be Decorated in
College CoIors and remnants In
Honor of Visiting Fra
ternity Men.

Atlanta, December 22.-(Special)-Th
hftleth anniversary convention of the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity begins
its session here on Wednesday, Decem-
Der %, and will continue for four days,
with representatives from sixty-seven
chapters of this secret order In attend
ance, these embracing representatives
from colleges and universities of all parts
of The country.
The first business meeting will take
place at the Piedmont hotel, selected as
convention headquarters at O'Clock on
the morning of the 18th, and such sessions
will be held every day of the four The
evenings have been set aside for the en-
tertanment of the delegates, a smoker,
dance and banquet having been planned
il their honor.
On Wednesday evening the Georgia Phi
chapter of the Georgia Tech and the At
lanta Alumni association will give a
smoker at the Piedmont hotel, this to be
the opening social event of the conven-
ton. While no especial feature has been
named for Thursday evening, 1t Is eX-
pected that the fraternity men will form
numerous theatre parties, and visit the
several places of amusement in the city.
The dfdeth anniversary dance will take
place at the New Kimball on Friday even
ing with the Atlanta Alumni association
as hosts, and this is being looked TO as
one of the most enjoyable events of the
week. number of Atlanta society people
will be invited, and will no doubt add
charm to the occasion This is to be
dinner dance, and will be followed the
next evening with the anniversary ban
quet at the Kimbal house, the eulmlnat-
ing event OF the convention.
1t is expected that over 500 delegates
will be in Atlanta during the four days,
and the number of frat men will be con-
sderably. augmented by the Atlanta mem
bers who rghtfully boast of a large fol-
lowing.
A committee from the Atlanta Alumni
association has been for several weeks ar
ranging the details of entertainment and
have left nothing undone toward giving
the frat men a royal reception during the
four days OF the convention.
The headquarters at the Piedmont,
where all business sessions will take
place. will be profusely decorated in the
colors, royal purple and old gold, and
college pennants of every college and UNI
iversity represented will be everywhere in
evidence.
The New Kimball, where several social
features will take place, will also be APP
propriately bedecked and the plans for
the banquet call for a scene of unusual
beauty and splendor on this last day of
the convention.
Delegates will commence arriving on
Christmas Day and a reception committee
will look after their welfare as soon as
they alight from their trains, taking them
to the Piedmont and Majestic hotels. both
of which have been selected as stopping
places for the secret order visitors.
A most unique feature of the conven-
ton will be the publication of daily
paper called the Convention Daily News,
which will be issued to members every
morning. William Herman Dart of New
Orleans will be its editor-in-chief and VIII
get out the paper with as much care as
II it were "A regular metropolitan daily.
Here will be published accounts of the
convention proceedings. both business and
social and it's purpose is to keep dele
gates in touch with the events OF the
session.
William c. Levere of Evanston ILL.,, is
the president of the fraternity and Will
naturally he prominent factor IN all
of the. proceedings. Although he is well
along in N,iasSs he takes as much inter-
est i'm the fraternity as a man still an ac-
tive college member and enthusiastically
enters into everything appertanins to the
order.
Others who will be prominent in the
conventions affairs are: Judge John 7.
Pondleton of the Fulton county superior
court Adiutant General w. w. Brandon
Of Alabama. Thomas e. Watson Don AL
my. president of the New York Alumni
association: George d. Kimball treasurer
of the fraternity. Col John r. Rudolph,