Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-10
Medical School Of Maine
To Be Hosts
At International Alpha Kappa
Kappa Convention.
Active Members Of Oh apter Are at
Work on Entertainment.

Fraternity at which Theta Cnapter
of the Medical School of Maine will
be the hosts will be held in Portland
In the near future. Alpha Kappa
Kappa is a society with which many
people are unfamiliar but whose his
tory and work gives it a high place
among college fraternities, and no
other Greek Letter medical fraternity,
with the exception of Phi Chi, which
should not be COMPOUNDED with the old
Sophomore society of Phi Chi OF
Rowdoin College, exists in this or any
other country.
College fraternities or societies have
become an essential part of the struc-
ture of college and university life in
this land. They are peculiar to Ameri-
ca, and exist in nearly every institu-
ton of this kind in the United States,
and in the two leading universities
in the Dominion of Canada-McGlll
University of Montreal and the Uni
Versity of Toronto Princeton is the
only university Of prominence in the
American Union which prohibits them.
The Oldest of these societies, Phi Beta
Kappa, dates back to 1!16, the year
of the Declaration of our National In
dependence, and was formed at the
College of William and Mary, Will
liamsburg, Va. 1t was scarcely more
than two decades ago on the 18th OF
september, 1883, that a group of stu
dents in the medical department of
Dartmouth College formed Greek
Letter Society which was called Alpha
Kappa Kappa This was the begin
ming of the fraternity which now en-
braces So chapters, the latest one to
be Instituted being the Alpha Mu
Chapter, at the st. Louis, Missouri,
University School of Medicine; which
chapter was founded as recently as the
18th of March, 1909. Alpha Chapter at
Dartmouth was the first chartered
Greek Letter Society in medical
schools, that was ever established in
this country.
The first general convention of the
fraternity was held with Alpha Chap
| ter of Dartmouth at Hanover, n. H.
The fifteenth general convention this
year is the first to he held in Portland.
| Theta Chapter the fraters of which
| VIII be the hosts Of their brothers at
| this convention WAS instituted in the
| Medical School OF Maine, Brunswick,
on the first day Of June, 1897, the
Medical School of Maine being the
medical department of BowdOin Col
| ege, established by the first Legisla-
ture of this State in 1920 and by the
. provisions of its charter placed under
| the control of the Board of Trustees
| and Overseers of Bowdoin College.
During the first two years of the course
| instruction is given in Brunswick
where the school was founded while
| the third and fourth year classes are
instructed in Portland. Among the
! charter members was Albert Ham
rSturtevant NJ. D. of Augusta of the
Glass of 1899. The list of alumni mem
bers of Theta Chapter and the Hon
orary Members are scattered over q
wide extent of the country, some of
| them having attained high positions
in their chosen profession.
| The Headquarters of the Fraternity,
| during the sessions of the lnterna-
tional Convention in Portland will be
at the Lafayette Hotel, where ban
quot will be given. AT this banquet
the Grand Officers Of the fraternity
Doctors Charles P. Thayer of Boston,
George Cook of Concord, n. H.. James
Brew of Nashville, Tenn, John p
Sprague and Edward l.. Heintz of Chi
caso and Edward r. Pfarre of New
York City. delegates from the thirty
five chapters, many prominent mem
bers of the medical profession, and
Lott How. rf NO
in the hospitable manner for which
Portland has deservedly become IA
nous. large number of active mem
bers of the Alpha Chapter of Dart
mouth and Gamma Chapter of Tufts,
are planning to be present on TINS oc-
casion. which marks and epoch IN the
history of this unique society. Theta
Chapter is to be represented in the
convention by NJ. A. Weber, who has
been elected it's delegate. an honor for
which he is particularly fitted.
The following is a list of the COM
mittees which have already been APP
pointed:
General and Entertainment Com
mittee--Charles F. TraynCr, Biddeford;
Frank Mikelsky. Bath: Merton y.
Weber. F'airteld Adam P. Leighton,
Jr.. Portland; Erastus Eugene Holt,
Portland; all of the fourth year class.
banquet Committee-Erastus Eu-
gene Holt, Jr., Merton A. Weber,
Adam p. leighton, Jr., all of the fourth
year class.
Decoration Committee-Frank Mikel-
sky; Ricardo G. Valladares, Santa
Clara, cuba: of the second year class.
Everett S. Winslow, Portland; Ed
ward Russell Roberts, Portland; Will
liam f. Buck, Portland of the first
year class
Toasts Committee-Josep B. Drum =
mond, Portland Erastus z. Holt, Jr.,
Portland; of the fourth year class;
Clarence L. Scammon, Hartland, of
the second year class.
The delegates during their stay in
Portland will be entertained in a man.
ner that will not only reflect credit
upon their hosts. but will give them
many pleasant memories to reflect on
in time to come. They will enjoy the
hospitality of the most exclusive clubs
Of the city, the doors of which will be
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