Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-03-03

OF Bowdoinham. Elected President of
Maine d. X. l.. at Augusta House
Banquet. Monday Evening
IF we permit those higher and
finer things We learned at College
and in the Fraternity to pass from
: our lives we shall have exchanged
our birthright for mass of pot
tage," declared Governor Ralph @.
Brewster, Bowdoin College, '09, in
addressing the Maine Alumni Asso-
| citation of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity at their annual banquet
held Monday evening at the Au-
/ gusta House.
| The get-together was attended by
the undergraduate members of
! Theta Chapter of Bowdein and XII
| Chapter of Colby together with a
! good-sized delegation of alumni
| from these two. chapters and visi-
tors from other chapters outside of
the State. The mingling of alumni
and undergraduates, the splendid
addresses of the evening and the en-
thusiasm of the gathering combined
! to make the occasion very enjoyable
| for all in attendance.
| Officers Elected
| Uc IIdlUc ALUMNI tSSoN W
Delta Kappa Epsilon elected the fol-
| lowing officers for the ensuing year:
| President State Treasurer William
l.. Bonney Of Bowdoin. Ni Chapter
90; vice presidents, Hon. Blaine s.
Viles of Augusta. Theta '03; and
Hon. Herbert f.. Wadsworth of Win
throp, 90: secretary treasurer. Lew
is A. Burleigh, Jr,, of Augusta,
Theta 10.
While a sumptuous rcpast !as
being served, the gathering was ci-
| tertained by a ne musical program
consisting of jazz selections rendered
by an orchestra from Nj Chapter,
led by Philip NJ. O'Brien. Theta
! Chapter % and vocal solos by At
torney Bernard Archibald of Houl-
ton, Theta '04, and Carl Rood and
Lewis McBey, XII '27.
State Treasurer Bonney presided
over the postprandial exercises as
POSTMASTER and the speakers of the
evening were: Governor Ralph ..
Brewster OF Portland, Theta '09:
| Professor Stanley Chase of Bowdoin
| College, Theta '05: Norman l.. Bas-
sett of Augusta, Nj 81; DR.. Lewis
f. Hodgkins, mayor of Ellsworth,
Dartmouth Chapter 'S5; and Donald
Sprague, Xi, 20.
The toastmaster read kilograms OF
| greetings to the brothers from
James A. Hawes, general secretary
cf the ID. X. T.. Council; President
Kenneth C. NJ. Mills, of Bowdoin
| College, Theta Chapter. John Clair
Minot of Boston, Theta Chapter and
William Webb of Wabash. Minnp
Theta, '0j.
The Speakers
! Professor Chase of BoWdoin col
| lege. the first speaker, stated that
Theta Chapter is mourning the loss
of two of it's distinguished brothers
who died during the past year. Pro-
lessor +. n. Whittier of Bowdo:a
College, and Congressman DeAlvah
S. Alexander of Buffalo, y. Y. lie
pointed out that Theta Chapter is
mindful of the large number of solid
citizens who have gone out from Nj
Chapter, among them being Chief
| Justice Leslie c. Cornish of the
Maine Supreme court. lie stated
that the fraternity is strong in de-
veloping individuality among its
members-bringing out the particu-
lar qualities that each may possess
that is not n common trait.
The Colby Chapter undergrad duates
representative, Donald SpraSue,
told of the firm stand taken by XII
Chapter of d. X. l.. at Colby in
pledging itself not to engage in any
"dicker" with any other fraternity
| in college politics.
| A number of humorous stories were
told by Mayor Hodgkins of Els
worth, being received with much ap-
| plauSe.
The story of the founding of the
| fyct nh 10 Mt n nf tho I)alta
pa Epsilon fraternity was told by
Norman l.. Bassett of Augusta. The
| first chapter at Yale was founded on
June 9, 1914. The Bowdoin chapter
| was founded in 1916. He stated that
two boys from Eliot. Maine. went to
college, the first, Elisha b. Shap-
! leigh going to Yale, and the other.
John Samuel Hill Fogg, going to
Bowdoin. Mr.. Fogg became greatly
| interested in the fraternity which
was founded at Yale and through his
| friendship with Mr.. Shapleigh, the
second chapter of Delta Kappa Ep-
silon was founded at Bowdoin. Mr..
| Shapleigh then eXerted his influence
for the founding of the third chap
ter at Colby In 1876.
Mr.. Bassett brought to the bro
| theirs the message of greeting from
Chief Justice Leslie G. Cornish of
| Augusta.
Governor Brewster
| Governor Brewster, the last
speaker of the evening, stressed the
fact that in the last ten years Maine
has actually been bringing here more
pc. pie born in other states than she
has sent out to other states. He
pointed out that the proof of this is
in the census statistics of 1920.
He pointed to the need of a col
lege, a fraternity or a state laying
| emphasis on the things that are
nice. and declared that whereas the
tendency used to be for folks in the
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