Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-20
Reunion Z And Reception On
Saturday Are Features In
Connection With Installing
OF Delta Sigma As Chapter
OF Beta Theta Pi Fra
ternity.

Va >SSN AAASs~
ternity.
AS the anal feature of tho cere-
monies in connection with the in
stalling of Delta Sigma as a Gamma
Kappa chapter-.of Beta Theta Pi,
national academic fraternity, the
members of the chapter attended IN
a body, the morning service at the
First PresbyteriaH church on Sunday.
Rev. L. Halsey Ambrose, pastor,
subject, He Who Would Be Great"
and the choir sang special anthems.
A reception n danae at the
campus armory on Saturday night,
for tho university body, and a reunion
on Saturday morning, held for all
district, were included. on Saturdays
program, The representatives present
Included the installing officers. r. NJ.
Thompson and w. D. Mcclure of Min
neapolis; Horace c. Weigley, an
alumnus Of Northwestern university;
Herbert L.. olston,> alumnus Of South
Dakota university, n E. p. Gerth
OF the Minnesota chapter. Van c.
Adams and R. B. Lndamood, dele
gates from the active chapters of
Minnesota n South Dakota re-
spectively, also attended, as we'll as
Hilton Melby, Ward Ruckman, o. L.
Beard and Ed Munroe of Minnesota;
Maurice A. CLANCY Of South Dakota:
E. J. Taylor of Bismarck. and Miles
X. Lander. Harrison c.. Barnes, Rein
hold Jacob and Earl c. Koran Of
4 Grand Forks.
The initiation proper took place
Friday morning and afternoon in the
- Z D hall Nlncjry nyl$h q fnrnoo i ho n.
Quet in the evening.
, Third National q
Beta Theta Pl is tho third national
academic fraternity to establish a
chapter atf the University Of North
Dakota. Sigma Chi was installed at
the institution in 1907 n Phi Delta
Theta in 1918. Other mems frater-
mites at the school are Alpha Kappa
Zeta, founded 1907, which is to be In
stalled as q chapter OF Alpha Tau
omega A fnis, week; syng RSo foundsd
1912. and Beta Chi, Kappa Psi Beta.
and Pi Rho Chi, all founded in 1921.
Beta Theta Pi was founded at Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio. August 8,
1899. It is the Oldest Of the Miami
Triad" the three fraternities original
bers Of the triad are Phi Delta Theta
and Sigma Chi. Beta Theta Pi was
the first national fraternity to be es-
tablished west Of the Allegheny
mountains. It now has eighty.thres
chapters distributed in 81 states of
the Union.
Prominent Members
Members of the fraternity taking
an active part In the affairs of the
countrySup until 1907 have been list;
ed as follows: Fourteen district Judges,
~ TT g ooraforo 90 TT g ronro~op$o-
tives, seven y. s.. ministers to foreign
1 countries, 23 governors, AZ state JUS
y tees of the supreme court, 10 college
presidents. nine brigadier generals In
i the federal army. two commanders in
q the federal navy. 18 members in the
of state supreme courts, and 43 presi-
Z Dental electors. a..
Members Of the fraternity living III
North Dakota, are: Bismarck. NJ. H.
Atkinson T. R. Atkinson, e. ]. Taylor
n B. A.. Thomas: Cando. g. J.
gard; Fargo, W. B. Douglas. w. B.
Hancock, H..A. Hard, R.. ]. Fairfield,
Stanley A. Smith. and Max Morgan;
Flaxton. DR.. J. 8. ,Grogan; Grand
Forks, H. c. Barnes, G. r. jacob.
NJ. K. Lander. E. c. Hornn: Harvey,
jamestown. Alfred Steel; Mandan, w.
w. Fuller; Milnar, D. L. Vail; Valley
! City, +. r. Goodier, X. Q. Simenson,
". G. Simenson, and O. G. Samdahl;
Wahpeton. DR.. R.. H. Devine; Wishek,
F. N. ellis; Armenia. 8. NJ. Higgins.
Delta Sigma
Delta Sigma fraternity was organic.
&c at the University Of North Dakota
in 1911 and began pe%titioning for q
chapter in$Beta Theta Pi shortly after
At the present time it has % active
~ anil nro. g. IA v11l~nl N,a~o1o.,o 49,
l06 in it's alumni group. The active
group is shown in the accompanying
picture. The pledged members are
Alfred Woelbert, Halvor STEVENSON
Alta Bye, Robert Knapp, Meryl Grit
fths. Everett sproul, Raymond Ruth
4 Urban Plain, Rhetnhold Goehl, Marti1
Gronvold. Carleton Aim, MagnuI
Geston and Robert Milloy.
l33 A number Of the alumni member
Of the group were in the city for tn
initiation. They are: DR.. A. C.. Dean
DR.. John Moore, DR.. H. w. II. Law
George Wilder, n E. ]. Lander. al
OF Grand, Forks; Lester T. Sproul, o
Buffalo, Nd; Frank II. Sussex, o
Hope. N. D.; David O.. Lima, OF Min
n%eapolis; Pat Costello, Of Cooperstowr
N. D.; William Bublitz, of Dickinson
Nd, and ALI Johnson. OF Dickinson
Greek Societies
Greek Letter Societies." as fra
terntties are called, are organized !
colleges and universities OF the cour
try OF the lodge system. each natior
al group comprising a number OF a.
ffliated lodges Of which only one {
any. one fraternity Is connected wit
the same institution. The lodges a,
called Chapters" They are nomi,
ally secret. Each chapter admi
;33 members from the lowest or fresl
man class. n Of course loses its a
tive members as the students depa
from college, consequently eachtcha1
ter has In It at the same time men
bers OF all the four college class
and frequently those pursuing pos
s.sf graduate studies. Almost universal
III members OF any particular cha
Es ter live together In q chapter house
Et national organizations in gener
have established clubs or association
having headquarters at the centerss
K population The leading fraternfti
publish Journals usually from four
aTsIghtg times during the college yea
Hull The earliest OF these wal the BE
Dtfeta sPaL,s first issued In 1872.
aU~ll CT &C.,.