Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-01-16
BETA THETA PI TO
INSTALL SATURDAY
Gamma Delta to Become National
Advent of Great National
Is Heartily Welcomed

Announcement was made on the
campus last week that the local So
ciety Gamma Delta is to be installed
as Gamma Theta chapter of Beta
Theta Pi Saturday. The ceremonies
will be confined entirely to the week
end and Sunday morning, in order to
comply with the big nationals policy
OF allowing nothing to interfere with
the scholastic work of the members
and pledges.
Initiation ceremonies will be con-
Quoted under the supervision of DR..
Francis w. Shepardson of Spring
field, H., director of the Illinois
board of education, and president of
Beta Theta Pi, probably assisted by
a committee of upperclassmen from
Gamma Gamma chapter of Beta
Theta Pi at the University of Idaho.
The charter was granted to Gam
ma Delta in the early part of last
September, at the S0th general con-
vention of Beta Theta Pi, which was
held at that time in Swampscott,
Mass. The delegates representing
the local chapter were J. w. Boyer,
]. d. Hamilton, and Gilbert p. Rob-
inson A unanimous vote of the 10
chapters was recorded in favor of
establishing a chapter of the nation
al fraternity at this institution.
Beta Theta Pi is one Of the oldest
and strongest of college fraternities
in this country. Founded at Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1899, it
was the first of the fraternities to
organize west of the Alleghenies, and
has been known as a western organi-
zation, although it was founded in
what we now consider as the east.
There are now 70 active chapters on
the rolls of the fraternity, and the
membership is we'll in excess of
$4,000. The total property owned
by the various chapters OF the fra
ternity is over a million dollars.
Canaan Delta was organized in
January, 1912, and as been aspiring
towards a chapter in Beta Theta Pi
from the very beginning. the at
tainment of its goal is an accomplish
ment of which the local society can
we'll be proud, for Beta is one of the
most conservative of fratelnitles in
the matter of expansion. The big
national has very few chapters i'll
land Erdnt colleges, AMI the grant.
ing Of a chapter to this institution
indicates that the prejudice against
our type of school is past breaking
down and that he east Is expeli'tA-
ing a growing respect for the west
ern colleges.
This marks the arrival of the third
of the Miami Triad" the two pre-
ceding ones being Phi Delta Theta
and Sigma Chi, installed in 1913 and
1919, respectively,
The undergraduate members who
are to be initiated Saturday into the
national fraternity are as follows;
Donald j. Stewart, William B. Lam
ey Ernest Johnson. d. Olin Bean,
Arthur II, Wegner, Leslie G. Fertig,
Hdfold W. MeTrin, Laurence 4. La
veCn end Milton G. E,ndsluw all of
Spokane; Julian o. Swanson Of Che
ney, Martcil Kotula of Pc Ell, Rob-
ert A. Binns, J. Graham Binns, Cliff
ford c. Gay, Robert r. Swan, and AL
fred D. Merritt, all of Tacoma, Wal
ter f. Hansen and Charles Huffman
OF Los Angeles; Harold W. Merritt
and Lester W Herman of Everett,
Hamilton of Walla Walla, Atho NJ.
Love of Garfield. Merle w Means of
Monroe, Herbert S. Hamilton of Che
Ian. Ralph Strauss and Clarence A.
Sauer of Yakima, Leslie c.. Obenland
OF Pomeroy, Weldon Williams OF
Vera. Merle P. Junk of Olympia, and
Jeryis NJ. Fulmer, Hubert A. Spald-
ing. Walter E. Beach. Charles b. Car
penter, and Payne Pfeiffer, all OF
Pullman.
The faculty members who will al
so go in are Bruce McCully, Prof.
William r. Shaw, and Fri b. Parker.
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