The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega.[Champaign, Ill., etc.]

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HOMECOMING WAS SPECIAL last fall in Tucson as the Arizona ATO Colony, working toward the scheduled March 10 reactivation of the Epsilon Beta charter, teamed with AAI1 Sorority and ATP Fraternity to win the Greek Week competition.

The trio won the Olympics, limbo dance contest, and T-shirt contest while placing third in the obstacle course, theme party, and Greek productions. Their Homecoming float was judged best by the Bobcats, a student organization.

Arkansas State ATO and AT A Sorority joined forces to take runnerup honors with their “Roast the Cardinals” entry in the stationary display division.

The Taus at Ball State placed second in the annual ATA-AXQ Waterm'elon Bust Games and won the event’s Spirit Trophy.

Clemson, with Brother Charley Pell, Alabama ’64, as head coach before his end-of-season move to Florida, had much to cheer about and did it well.

Gary Gray supervised the “Gunfight at the Clemson Corral,” featuring a shootout among the Tigers and their Atlantic Coast Conf. rivals, that won the Homecoming moving display division, earning Eta Pi chapter a large trophy, $550, and many IFC points.

At Tigerama, the Friday evening pre-Homecoming extravaganza, the ATOs were one of six groups selected to present a skit. The third straight year so honored, ATO staged a takeoff on the Lone Ranger, “The Lone Tiger,” receiving great applause from the crowd of 22,000.

Florida State attracted more than 400 persons to its Homecoming activities, highlighted by the presentation of an ATO Achievement Award to newly-elected State Atty. Gen. James Smith ’62. For the record, the FSU Seminoles sank Navy, 38-6.

Selling 500 Homecoming buttons, Hamline ATOs made a nice profit that will be used to renovate the TV room.

Illinois State participated in a novel bit of cooperation Homecoming when it teamed with four other groups (AZ<t> Fraternity, KA and Xfi sororities, and the

THE “WRIGHT WAY,” an 18x22-foot biplane produced and propelled by ATO and XQ woundup the winner of Culver-Stock-ton’s Homecoming, “Those Were the Days. ” Boyce England & Duane Waite were named to King’s Court to give Eta Omicron chapter cause to celebrate at its alumni barbecue.

McDonald’s Corp.) to produce a float, “It Only Takes a Quarter to Pound S.I.U.,” under the supervision of ATO Shawn Henderson.

Indiana State, for the fourth straight year, had an ATO “Bachelor of the Year,” as Brad Herndon was selected to reign with the Homecoming Queen.

The Homecoming float, “Hold up the Icabods for a Victory,” was judged best at Kearney State where the Taus entry of Mark Carl, Joe Garden, Denise Manson, and Laurie Roth won the annual Turkey Trot relay race.

Louisiana State ATO Sweetheart Dixie Barton was a maid on the Homecoming Queen’s court while Epsilon Zeta chapter Brothers produced the second place Homecoming decoration, “Jolt the Bulldogs back to Athens.”

The ATO-AXQ-OKM' combination at Miami, Ohio, put together the runnerup float at Homecoming, made all the happier by an 18-7 victory over Bowling Green.

Minnesota ATO, whose co-chrm. was Todd Koelfgren, and IIBO teamed for first place in the immobile front competition and Tau pledge class Treas. Mark Chase was elected Homecoming King.

The Taus were on top of things at North Alabama at Homecoming, winning the float trophy entertaining alumni at a post-game reception, and again at Greek Week, winning the Toga pep rally, the spirit stick for the Austin Peay game, and the GUNA (Greeks of North Alabama) skit competition.

North Carolina, gearing up for its Alpha Delta chapter centennial this spring, won the Homecoming float parade trophy and celebrated by entertaining more than 100 alumni, including the reunion group from the 1940s.

A record number of alumni and parents visited the North Dakota “Tau Hut” after the grid win over NDSU at Homecoming, highlighted by the first ATO Golf Classic at the Grand Forks Country Club. The winners were Dr. James Leigh, Lou Crowder, and Tim Lilliboe.

Ohio State paired with AXQ to develop an eye-appealing float for the Homecoming parade for which the theme was “Thanks for the Memories” and the grand marshal was Bob Hope. Tom Mitchusson was selected for the Homecoming court and a large number of alumni attended the ATO dance, held at the Cloisters and featuring the music of “The Majesties,” a band of Tau alumni.

For the sixth straight year, Salem ATOs won the Homecoming float competition. Meanwhile on the West coast, San Diego State Taus won Greek Week for the third straight year, taking individual firsts in the sorority sing, broom ride, spoon string, and slow bike ride, the latter won by WM Kurt Ryan.

San Jose State welcomed more than 200 coupl es — i ncl uding the Jim Thompsons from Tokyo, Japan—to the Sept. 30 dinner and dance at the Marriott Hotel, San Jose. Alumni Relations Officer

MILLIKIN U. KING of

Homecoming was WM Mike Briggs, picked on basis of scholarship, activities, student vote,

&�personal interview with selected faculty members. TheQl chapter was close second overall (3 points out of first) in Homecoming standings, having won the Games & placed second in Talent Show.

Joe Vargas coordinated the undergraduate and alumni affair.

The Alpha Phi chapter at South Carolina started a new tradition last year by crowning Beth Hughey, Queen of the Greeks, at the ATO-sponsored Miss Greek Beauty Pageant, whose proceeds go to the American Cancer Society.

South Dakota celebrated Dakota Days, the Homecoming, with a trendy Disco Nite unequaled by any party in recent memory.

A four-section caterpiller—or Centre-piller—carried by 10 Taus took best Homecoming float honors for the Southwestern at Memphis chapter. The float implored “Make ’m Crawl, Lynx,” which they did, defeating the Centre Colonels, 56-12.

Texas Tech had more than 50 alumni return for the Homecoming party at the lodge while a mortgage-burning was the scheduled highlight of the W.P.I. Homecoming for Taus of Gamma Sigma chapter.

Making it three times in the last four years, ATO was the overall winner at the Washington State Homecoming, teaming with KKT Sorority to place first in the sign contest and second in spirit.

Chief of Prov. XIII in 1961-69, Barry Jones, Washington State ’55, was honored as Co-Dad of the Year during the Nov. 3-5 Dads Weekend at WSU where sons Scott and Craig are PRO and a pledge, respectively, of the Gamma Chi chapter.

MAP OF MIAMI draws attention of Doug Stearley (left), Chuck Pierce, & LS Maureen Crandall, Rose-Hulman ATO-sponsored Homecoming Queen later picked to be state of Indiana’s representative in all Orange Bowl festivities. She is a St. Mary-of-the-Woods College sophomore education major.

KEARNEY STATE

NEBRASKA ZETA UPSILON, Kearney State College— 2221 7th Ave., Kearney, NE 68847. Ph. 308-237-9956. Jeff Joern, WM; Donald K. Briggs, Adviser. Prov. XVII. NEBRASKA ZETA UPSILON ALUMNI ASSN.-pres., Dave Rader, 3802 Ave. K, Kearney, NE 68847; sec., Don Briggs, 1210 W. 22nd, Kearney, NE 68847. Meetings, 2nd Thursday each month. Noon, at Kearney Elks Club.

Heading the chapter as its new officers are: WM Jeff Joern; WC Doug Russell; WKE Randy Forst; WKA Doug Hinze; WSc. Steve Blocher; WU Lynn Michael; and WS Mark Taylor.

Russell is an infielder with the varsity baseball team; Blocher is a gridder; and Tom Howe was a wrestling team member.

Jim Wood played the role of “Fulk” in the campus production of “A Cry of Players” and is a member of the Choraleers, the concert choir.

Marty Merrill & Tom Howe

KENTUCKY

KENTUCKY MU IOTA, University of Kentucky— 340 Clifton Ave., Lexington, KY 40508. Ph. 606-258-4471. Brian Rutemiller, WM; Robert Blakeman, Bill Thompson, Advisers. Prov. XXXV.

The IM basketball team, second in its division, set two campus recreation records when it won a 48-5 game—a defensive record for least points allowed in a game and an offensive mark for the biggest point margin.

Mu Iota chapter was football champs of both the “A” and “B” leagues and won the Fraternity track title while being runner-up in softball and swimming.

Setting the scholastic pace for their Brothers were: Greg Sommerkamp, a 4.0 G-PA pre-med major and residence hall advisor; Mike Bara, 3.8 and I1TZ treas.; Mike Knuckles, 3.8; and Chuck Malkus, 3.2 and Scripps-Howard Journalism Scholarship winner, past SGA press secy., and Campus Recreation IM Councilor.

Campus leadership was also provided by: Keith Muth, yearbook editor; Craig Ross, campus Recreation official; and Pledge Master Kevin Shoupe, a residence hall advisor.�Chuck Malkus

LAMAR

TEXAS ZETA THETA, Lamar University— “D” Wing Plummer Hall, P.O. Box 10018, Box 6-K, Lamar U., Beaumont, TX 77710. Lynn Harris, Ph. 713-962-7214, WM; Thomas Hinote, Adviser. Prov. XV.

Good news last fall was the recognition of Zeta Theta chapter as No. 1 among the 10 fraternities in scholastic improvement, according to its G-PA, for spring ’78.

The fall pledge class held an end-of-season softball tournament for 16 City League teams. The Sunday afternoon event netted more than $300 for the chapter treasury.

Pledged Robert Guidroz ’83, Joel Abbo, Mike Hemmings, Beaumont; Ward Rosen ’80, Houston; Mark Cobb ’79, Port Aransas; Perry Collier ’81, Silsbee; and Geoff Kemble ’79, West Point, NY.

LEHIGH

PENNSYLVANIA ALPHA RHO, Lehigh University-Box F-3, Bethlehem, PA 18015. Ph. 215-691-2170. Joseph D’Ambrisi, WM; Dr. Edward Evenson, Adviser. Prov. XIV.

WM Joe D’Ambrisi was elected to the Forum, the student legislative body; WKE Steve Gimigliano was selected for BA'I' and BTZ membership; and John Davidson continues in the coming year as treas. of the class of ’81.

Completing the corps of Alpha Rho officers elected in March are: WC Steve Cross; WKA Thomas O’Donnell; WSc. Nicholas Miron; WU Thomas Faenza; WS Hugh Klein; House Mgr. Scott Mitchell; Social Chrm. Daniel Robinson; Pledge Master Kevin Wilk; and Asst. Pledge Masters Tom Knoop and Ron Witte.

Past WS Peter Sudano and Dave Wagner were presidents of the Geology Club and Karate Club, respectively, while Wagner and three other seniors—past WM Ernest Markezin, past WC William Shannon, and Bob Moore—were involved in the Senior Class Gift Campaign.

Brother Moore was also a member of the Educational Policy Committee and served in the Forum with Sudano, Shannon, Thomas Deutsch, Daniel Robinson, and David Snyder.

Dave Hellekjaer broke his own school record in the discus when he placed third in the Penn Relays.

Spring football participants were safety Keith Conley, kicker Ted Iobst, running back Robert Romeo, and linebacker Ron Witte; Robert Moore and Steve Tanen were rugby players; and freshman pledges Peter Shyes and Don Moyle were on the lacrosse team. ATO IM wrestling champs were Richard Rogers at 155 pounds and Scott Mitchell at 170 pounds.

A special thanks to the alumni for their purchase of new dining room chairs last fall. And thanks too, Andy Vandergrift, for tireless work repairing and renovating the chapter house last summer.

Tom O’Donnel & Daniel Robinson

LOUISIANA STATE

LOUISIANA EPSILON ZETA, Louisiana State University—P.O. Box FR, Univ. Station, Baton Rouge, LA 70893. Ph. 504-343-0943. Russ Godwin, WM; Dana Lar-penteur. Adviser. Prov. XXIV.

“ATO membership is permanent: not just for college years and not just for Brothers in your chapter, but a lasting bond that endures for as long as you live and makes you a Brother of every man who has ever taken or will take the vows of our beloved Fraternity.”

In recent years, the Epsilon Zeta chapter has lost contact with many of its alumni; some alumni have let this absence dampen their Fraternity spirit.

We, the undergraduate Brothers of EZ chapter of ATO, are sincerely interested in revitalizing lost spirit and restoring lost ties. However, we need your help.

Please drop us a line that you too are interested in “a bond as strong as right itself and as lasting as humanity ...”

This program of improved alumni relations was supported by last fall’s officers: WM Mike Templet; WC Pat Mestayer; WKE Tom Jung; WKA Tom Chance; WSc. Hunter Whealdon; WU Doug Cook; WS Marty Hogan; and Pledge Trainer Russ Godwin.

And it has been continued by the officers: WM Russ Godwin; WC Doug Cook; WKE Hunter Whealdon; WKA Charles Hostitler; WSc. Logan Pruitt; Pledge Trainer Mike McKim; and House Mgr. Scott Couper.

Last fall’s IM activity included a divisional third in football and an overall second in volleyball.�Logan Pruitt

LOUISIANA TECH

LOUISIANA ZETA CHI, Louisiana Tech University-202 S. Bonner, Ruston, LA 71270. Ph. 318-255-6609. F. Mark Bonner, WM; Dr. Harold Hedrick, Adviser. Prov.

XXIV.

Moving into second place scholastically among fraternities, Zeta Chi chapter had six men with G-PA’s above 3.0—past WKA Mark Bonner, Jim Guinn, past WKE Jeff Noe, James Smith, John

“HISTORY SHOULD BE MADE as dra

matic and interesting as possible without sacrificing its seriousness,” said Dr. T. Harry Williams, L.S.U. ’55 as a faculty member, whose July 6 death is reported in the “In Memoriam” section.

“It’s a story easy to make fascinating because it’s a story of human beings.

“Aside from the wonderful human interest of the period, the Civil War deserves study as our only tragedy, our only great failure. We have to try to understand why Americans got themselves into such a state that they went to shooting each other.

“As to the importance of history in general, a country that did not know its history would be like a man who had lost his memory. The man could not explain himself to others or even understand himself. Neither could the country.”

How well Brother Williams contributed to the understanding of history is perhaps best summarized by the LSU Citation of Distinction presented him in 1970:

“A teacher who brings excitement and drama to the classroom, an historian who is admired and respected by his fellow historians, a writer who merits his country’s highest literary awards, a scholar who reaffirms for us all the worth of excellence, a man who wears the mantle of achievement with humility and grace.”

COLORADO STATE Otto E. Benell, Init. ’20

Born ’96; Died —

Clayton W. Watkins, Init. ’23

Born ’96; Died December 22, 1978

CORNELL

Lawrence E. Noble, Init. ’17

Born ’99; Died —1974 John N. Sinsabaugh, Init. ’24 Born ’04; Died —

John E. Upstill, Init. ’20

Born ’01; Died March 20, 1979

DELAWARE William G. Harding, Init. ’68

Born ’48; Died —

DEPAUW Frank M. Jeffery, Init. ’24

Born ’88; Died —

Harold H. McCann, Init. ’59

Born ’01; Died April 11, 1979 John M. Peterson, Init. ’28

Born ’10; Died June 25, 1979

DRAKE John A. Hull, Init. ’38

Born ’17; Died —

Reinard W. Schlesser, Init. ’24

Born ’03; Died February 22, 1979 Arthur V. Trumbo, Init. ’29

Born ’06; Died June 30, 1979

DUKE Carter W. Farriss, Init. ’27

Born '09; Died —

EMORY Ellis L. Jones, Init. ’57

Born ’38; Died —

Charles W. Smart, Init. ’37

Born ’17; Died July 30, 1977

FLORIDA STATE Dossey C. Merritt, Init. ’52

Born ’33; Died March 12, 1979 Serving more than 22 years in the Air Force and holding command pilot rating, Lt. Col. Merritt was chief of base operations and training, 2849th Air Base Group, Hill AFB, Utah.

He completed a 1970-71 tour in Vietnam with the Seventh Air Force, serving in flight operations, and was commander of Goodfellow AFB, Texas, serving with the AF Security Service, prior to 1978. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy.

G.M.I. Max L. Mosher, Init. ’63

Born ’06; Died January 20, 1978

GEORGIA

Jefferson Davis Curry, Init. ’29

Born ’08; Died May 7, 1974 Floyd H. Searcy, Init. ’29 Born ’09; Died May 7, 1979 Samuel B. Spence, Init. ’15

Born ’98; Died —

GEORGIA TECH Berryman T. Longino, Init. ’04

Born —; Died —

GETTYSBURG

Roy M. Crouthamel, Init. ’30

Born ’12; Died April 7, 1979 Clemuel L. Kressler, Init. ’21 Born ’99; Died —

John B. Zinn, Init. ’05

Born ’88; Died January 29, 1979

HILLSDALE Thomas J. Mobily, Init. ’30

Born ’10; Died February 17, 1977

IDAHO Harold F. Stichter, Init. ’36

Born ’16; Died March 29, 1979

INDIANA Charles M. Robinson, Init. ’53

Born ’34; Died February 8, 1979

IOWA Keith E. Queal, Init. ’32

Born ’07; Died January 28, 1979

IOWA STATE Harry L. Hilleary, Init. ’14

Born ’90; Died March 7, 1979

JOHN HOPKINS George E. Banks Jr., Init. ’26

Born ’07; Died March 22, 1979

KANSAS

David W. Cooper, Init. ’68

Born ’47; Died December 20, 1978 C. Willard King, Init. ’13

Born ’92; Died June 21, 1979 Retiring at age 70 in 1963, the KU law graduate was associated for 22 years with the U.S. Manpower Commission, an auxiliary of the Employment Security Commission.

A World War I veteran of Army service in France, Brother King practiced law for a brief time in his native Marion, KS., joined the Booker Sales Co., and moved to Oklahoma City to establish a branch firm, the Booker-King Sales Co.

Survivors include his wife, Lenore.

KEARNEY STATE Berhard F. Stutheit, Init. ’66

Born ’06; Died January 11, 1978 A member of the KSC faculty for 30 years, he became Dean of Men in 1945 and Dean of Students in 1954, retiring in 1973.

LOUISIANA STATE Van D. Robinson, Init. ’41

Born ’09; Died April 13, 1979 T. Harry Williams, Init. ’55

Born ’09; Died July 6, 1979 Regarded by his colleagues as perhaps the nation’s greatest living Civil War historian, Dr. Williams was as highly regarded by students who would crowd Louisiana State U. registration tables every semester to sign up for his courses because of his reputation as a fascinating lecturer.

Before joining the LSU faculty in 1941, Dr. Williams taught at the U. of Wisconsin, where he earned his M.A. and Ph.D.

INITIATED 65 YEARS APART into ATO but Brothers in love of Fraternity were Erling Lunde, Chicago, a past Province Chief & alumni leader who was featured speaker at ’76 Congress at age 85, and Ken Williams, West Georgia, 22-year-old past WM & WKE of chapter who will dedicate its new house in honor of his leadership.

One of the first three persons to be accorded the honorary rank of Boyd Professor at LSU, he was a visiting professor at the universities of West Virginia, Rhode Island, and Tulane, as well as Oxford University, England, where he occupied the Chair in American History.

Brother Williams won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1970 for Huey Long, his biography of the governor who ruled Louisiana with dictatorial power in the 1930s before being assassinated in 1935.

He was the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Lincoln and His Generals, Lincoln and the Radicals, P.G.T. Beauregard: Napoleon in Gray, and two volumes— The Union Sundered and The Union Restored—in the six volume Life History of the United States.

Retiring this past May, he had worked for the last three years on a major biography of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson, unfinished at his death.

His LSU ATO Brothers of Epsilon Zeta chapter will long remember Brother Williams’ pipe-smoking informal discussions of everything from baseball to politics. Colorful stories and anecdotes were his trademark and he shared them all with the Taus.

As he put it, “The fraternity system provides one avenue by which we can get away from the impersonality” of life in a large college community.

His survivors include his wife.

M.I.T. Willard C. Brown, Init. ’14

Born ’95; Died April 14, 1979 Graduating first in his class at V.M.I. in 1914 and being initiated into ATO that fall as an M.I.T. graduate student, he was employed 40 years with the General Electric Company, Nela Park, Ohio, before retirement to Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1967.

Brother Brown was instrumental in inventing the first two-filament headlight that became standard on all cars.

Past president, Gold Medalist, and Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering