Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-12-09
SIGMA DELTA CHI
GRANTS CHARTER
TO III" SOCIETY

Word received. Thursday night
from the, national convention Of Sig
ma Delta Chi. national honorary jour
| nalistic fraternity, which opened
Thursday at Ames, Iowa, states that
.Gridiron, a journalistic fraternity OF
the University of North Dakota, was
granted a charter in the national or
g~anization. Only W. Of nine petitions
were. granted during the opening SEES
| sion of the convention, the other be-
Ing to the Medill school of journalism,
Northwestern university, Chicago.
The University Of North Dakota re-
| ceived the S8th charter, Northwestern
the 37th.
Sigma Delta Chi was founded at
DePaw university, Green Castle, Indi-
ana, April IT, 1909. 1t takes its mem
bers from the student bodies of schools
of journalism and from other colleges
where men are actively interested in
journalistic work. It is composed Of
active and alumni chapters. There are
So active chapters and a number Of
alumni chapters in the larger cities.
numbers President Warren G. Hard
ing and Henry c. Wallace, secretary
Of agriculture.
DR.. ". G. Bleyer Of the University
of Wisconsin Is serving as honorary
president Of Sigma Delta Chi. Lee A.
| White of the Detroit News is national
president. Other officers are: Cartill
Sproull, first national vice president;
! II. H. Herbert Of the University OF
meth Hogate. secretary; Norman Bad
der of the University of Indiana,
treasurer.
Gridiron Members.
Gridiron was formed at the Univer-
sity Of North Dakota last fall among
those students taking or Immediately
interested in journalism at the school.
Charter members of the organization
are:
Walter c.. Foley, Edward Butler,
William Powell, John Mills, Theodore
Speiser, Leslie Erhardt, Rachard Wat
son. Otis Bryant, Thomas Ennis,
renee w. Murphy, faculty member of
Gridiron. became a member of Sigma
Delta Chi while a student at the UNI
versity of Wisconsin.
Paul Samuelson is representing
Gridiron at the convention.
Other Chapters.
Chapters Of the organization are
found in DePaw university. Green
Castle Ind; Kansas university. Law
renee, Kan; Michigan university ct
Ann Arbor. Mich; Virginia university.
University. Va: Denver university,
Denver. Colo: Washington universe
ty, Seattle. Wash: Purdue university.
Lafayette. Ind; Ohio State university.
Columbus, O.: Wisconsin university.
Madison, Wis; Iowa university. Iowa
City, Ia: Illinois university, Cham
paign- Urbana, ILL.,; Missouri university.
Columbia, Mo-: Texas university. Aus
tin, Tex: Oregon university, Eugene,
Wash; Oklahoma university, Norman.
Ogla.: Indiana university. Blooming
ton. Ill. Nebraska university, Lincoln,
Neb:: Iowa State college, Ames. Ia;
Leland Stanford university, Stanford.
Cal: Montana university. Missoula.
Mont; Louisiana university, Baton
Rouge, La-;t Kansas Ctate college.
Manhattan, Kan; Maine university,
Orono, Me-: Beloit college. Be!oit,
Wis; Minnesota university, Minneap-
OILS, Mimi; Miami university, Oxford.
o.; Knox college. Galesburg. Ill:
Western Reserve university. Cleveland,
land, o.; Grinnell college, GrinneN,
Ia; Pittsburgh university, Pittsburgh,
PIT; Columbia university. New York
city; Colorado university. Boulder,
| Colo; Cornell university, ithaca, N. z,
North Carolina university. Chapel
Hill, N. c.: Oregon State college, Cor
wallis, Ore; Marquette university, Mil
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