Due to Ohio Wesleyan’s accelerated program, fraternities here held a rush week between semester for the first time. The university expected about 100 freshmen, mostly men, to enter at that time, since most Ohio high schools were allowing seniors to come to college after completing half of their senior year. They would be given their diplomas at the completion of the first […]

Winter initiafon was held on Sunday, January 3, 1943, for thirteen men of the Beta Theta Pi. Initiation was held early in accordance with the accelerated program of the university, and also because of the uncertaincy of the length of time that the brothers would be in school. “Work Week”, modern counterpart of “Hell Week”, began on New Year’s Day and ran thru […]

After a summer of letter writing and personal calls, the men of Theta chapter of Beta Theta Pi came back to school with a new enthusiasm which had never been shown before. In the spring when they left school, there were nine future freshmen who were wearing Beta pledge pins. These boys represented the finest of the ideals of the fraternity. However, for […]

Theta Men Listed In Who’s Who Compiled from the 1943 edition of WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA JACOB B. COONS, ’98 WILLIAM W. DAWSON, ’14 HARRISON S. ELLIOT, ’05 GEORGE B. HARRIS, ’00 LEWIS 0. HARTMAN. ’00 REUBEN T. SHAW, ’05 JOHN W. SHENK, ’00

Published by Theta Chapter of Beta Theta Pi at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, to disenuninate news of the active chapter and the alumni to its members and friends. EDITOR Howard M. Anderson, Jr., ’44 1942-43 OFFICERS OF THETA CHAPTER First Semester                                           Second Semester President Robert M. Best, ’44          Robert W. Brentlinger, 44 Vice-President Robert […]

This issue of The Theta Review was originally scheduled for publication on the first of June. However, the two men who were assisting your editor in writing the material were called into the Army before they had a chance to write more than four or five articles in this edition. Because of the heavy load of writing, proof reading, and […]

Our nation is now in a struggle for its existence. What the future holds in store, no one knows; but just because the future is dark is no reason for not making plans. To the Ohio Wesleyan campus in the past two years have come leaders of the churches, prominent laymen, and educators to hold two great conferences on the […]