The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-30
Washburn Host to Delegates
From All Over West.
DEBATE THEIR WAY TO KANSAS
California Team Whipping Its
Trip From the Pacific.
Many Colleges ClamOring Tor
Admission to Society.

Delegates from many western COZ
laoes are arriving with their orator.
cal thunder aboard for the Ilrst ma
tiona1 convention of the P1 Kappa
Delta debating and oratory fratern5ey,
to be held at Washburn college frloay
and Saturday. They Will De tiie guess
of the Washburn chapter:
The Pi kappa Delta frat" is CONF
nosed exclusively of boys ana co-eos
who have won distinction IN ln.erc N.a
IeGiate contests of debate ana ora
tory. There are fifteen chapters IN
the leading colleges of the west ana
more are rapidly being added. ~ Is
expected at this convention that Kan
sas university will petition Tor a chap-
ter.
ing schools: Washburn, X s. A. u
Southwestern u, Kansas wesleyan.
Ottawa u. in Kansas; University OF
RedIands and Occidental coliege, IN
California; Eureka colIege ana lllihols
wesleyan. in Illinois; Central univer-
sity Highland Park college, and Iowa
Wesleyan, in Iowa; Nebraska ives
leyan. in Nebraska; Wesleyan college,
in South Dakota; 'Ripon college IN
Wisconsin,; Alabama Polytechnic IN
stitute.
The feature of the convention is the
debating trip being made by the UNI
versity Of 1tedlands debating team,
who are debating their way to the
convention. Last night they won from
the University of New Mexico and to-
night they debate Southwestern uni
versity's team at Winfield. They are
the debating champions of California.
Many Want In.
A big expansion of the fraternity is
forecasted as one of the results of the
! convention, according to Roy Painter,
national secretary of fraternity. Sew
eral colleges are clamoring for admis-
sion and many more are expected to
| petition later.
| Other business before the meeting
will be the revision of the ritual and
changing the design of the emblem.
! Program.
! A big banquet will be given by the
Washburn chapter Saturday evening
/ at Pelletier's tea room.
| The program has been announced
as follows: Friday-Can to order by
/ Temporary Chairman Arthur Eeattie,
president Washburn chapter; address
of welcome by Roy Painter; response
, in behalf of the delegates, j. H. Kren-
myre; introduction of national chapter
president by temporary chairman;
presidents address; 200 p. m, meet
Ting of Kansas state chapter; $500 p.
m, meeting of national convention;
reports and business session. Saturday,
unfinished business and committee
ports; election and installation of new
| officer, banquet and theater party in
/ INC evening
More than thirty delegates from out
/ of town are expected. To date Roy
Painter, national secretary, has re-
/ ceived the following list of out of town
delegates which comprises only about
half of the probable attendance: e. A.
! Vaughn, Alabama Polytechnic; f. r.
Nichols, Fred Fagg, A. d. Jacobson,
Redlands u, California; Howard
/ White, Harry Carlson, Thomas Will
/ liams, Southwestern u; j. b. Heckert
and F. E Lull, Salina Wesleyan; Will
! liam Christensen, Highland Park col
lege, Iowa; j. H. Krenmyre, Illinois
| Wesleyan; r. Z. Gwin, K. S. A. c.;
! Miss Jessie Nye; c. b. Franklin, Des
Moines, Iowa; Price Wheeler, K. S. A.
| C.; Roy Taylor, Ottawa u; Prof. A.
j. McCullock, Southwestern college.
| Washburn Leads All.
The membership of the Washburn
chapter which is the largest in the
| fraternity is as follows: Arthur Beat
| tie, president; Miss Nettie Dean, Miss
Mabel Jones, Miss Flora Harrington,
Miss Audrie Myers, Miss Dorothy
Dales, Miss Kathryn Albaugh, Miss
Avis Clayton, HARDWOOD Benton, John
Williams, Glenn Logan, William Guild,
Roscoe Graves, Harold Whitehead.
Merrill Templeton, Ira Burkholder,
| Glenn Hamilton, Roy Painter, Richard
Fighter, j. w. Clark, c. b. Franklin,
Carl Linge, Albert Reed, Carl Byers
and Prof. L. d. Schonberger.