Evening journal., 1920-04-17
KAPPA ALPHA
BOYSGIVEDANCE
Elaborate Decorations Feat
ured Fraternity Hop at
Newark Last Night
MANY GUESTS FROM
OUTSIDE STATE
speoLal % Tne EvenIng Jou.naI.

Special 90 The Evening Journal.
NEWARK, April i7.-One OF The most
beautiful and enjoyable social functions
ever held under the auspices OF a fra
ternily OF Delaware College was The
sixteenth annual dance OF the Beta
Epsilon Chapter, Kappa Alpha Frazier
nifty. in the Y. NJ. c. A building last
evening. II was largely attended by
young men and young women from an
parts OF Delaware and many points
outside
One Of the features OF the dance was
the elaborate decorations OF tho ball
room. The banquet han and their ap-
proaches. The ceiling Of the big
dance hall was festooned with thou
sands Of feet OF -ed and Grange stream
crs. radieting from a big Illuminated
red cross IN the center and being
caught up here and there with red
and orange lights. The front OF the
gallery and the window seals were
banked with cedar, pine aud laurel.
In one corner Of the dance noor was
a moss-covered rockery with a foun-
tain playing musically into an artificial
pool In two other corners were small
lovers retreats, composed Of small
cedars. iu the other corner was the
station or The palronesses, also dec
GRATED pieitlly with evergrcens.
In the center OF The dance floor the
orchestra stand was surrounded by
palms and other poiied nlanis on lne
walls were The banners OF The Kappa
Alpha. Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma WI
and Omega Alpha. An illuminated
Kappa Alpha coat-of-arms occupied a
conspicuous place on the south side
OF the dance hail.
In The banquet hall the same color
scheme was carried out. The tables
belns Illuminated with candelabra with
red and orange shades.
The college boys who are members
~ The Kappa Alpha had spent many
ours OF labor and much money In the
successful effort TO make the decora-
lions the most elaborate and ornate in
Doe history OF the fraternity.
In luiting them up. one OF the boys,
Joseph Shelley Meyers, sfell % feet from
The ceiling OF the dance hall and land
"a on a pile OF chairs, which spread
when ne struck them and saved him
jury when he struck the floor. AS 10
yas. he was badly bruised and shaken
and taken to the innrmary. President
Mitchell wanted him TO remain there
under treatment He refused to do so
saying he was bent-bound and deter
mined to take part in the dance
through which he had suffered such a
fall
An orchestra organized especially for
The occasion by George Madden, presl-
dent OF the fraternity, furnished the
music. The grand march was Fead by
George Madden and Miss Laura SAL
van, Of Milford.
The patronesses were: MIS-. =, r. l..
Smith. Mrs. @. r. Dutton. Mrs. w II.
Steel Mrs s. ]. Wright. Mrs S. c.
Mitchell, Dean Wlnlfred ]. Robinson.
Mrs. C. B. Evans. Mrs. John Piling.
Mrs. j. p. Wright, Mrs. Alexander
Donoho. Mrs. Herman Tyson, Mrs. ]. p.
Cam, Mrs. e. B. Wright Mrs. c. A.
McCue.
President Mitchell and his wife and
daughter and several members OF the
faculty were present.
Il was a formal affair In every sense
and many Of the gowns OF the dancers
were unusually attractive.
Tho Kappa Alpha Chapter roll is as
follows:
Fratres in Edward Laur-
ence Smith. George Elliott sDution.
Fratres In urbe-Norris Nathan
Wright, Walter Hossinger Steel.
Fraires IN Collesia, i920-William El-
lison Barnard. George Clarence Brow
er. Robert Adrian Colphts. Leon Hack
EFT, Gordy, Reed Graves, Stanley Drake
Loomis. Harry Walter Loose. Charles
Stewart Lynch, John Francis McNhor-
ter, Frank Robinson Pool, Jr. Hasson
Taylor Terrell
iq2i-William Claggett Dorsey Dono-
hn. Roland Goodman Handy, George
Harney Madden. jefferson Foard Pool.
George Massey Sipple. Rudolph York
Taggart
i922-Theodore Roosevelt Dantz. Lin
dlle. Carson Fisher. William Emerson
Hallett, Melvin Hopkins. Thomas Mum
cey Kieth. Arley Benjamin Magee. Jo-
seph Shelley Meyers, John Edwin VIII
son, Charles Whitney Woodrow.
i923-Edward Reynolds Barnard. WI
lard Davis Boyce. Harry Richardson
Cole. Henry Carlton Draper. James
Grayson Elliott, Harlan Fisher Haines,
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