{"id":3250,"date":"1943-02-25T16:44:58","date_gmt":"1943-02-25T16:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2013-03-22T18:09:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:09:30","slug":"alumni-campaign-slowed-down-by-the-word-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/alumni-campaign-slowed-down-by-the-word-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Campaign Slowed Down By the Word War"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Homecoming in 1941, a group of\u00a0alumni got together and streamlined the\u00a0alumni organization of Theta Chapter of\u00a0Beta Theta Pi, and made plans for a house\u00a0modernization fund campaign to raise\u00a0$10,000.<\/p>\n

The old alumni association and the Theta\u00a0chapter house company were combined into\u00a0one unit under a single Board of Trustees. The new group was to stimulate alumni\u00a0interest in the affairs of Theta Chapter, to\u00a0work out a plan to give the chapter help in rushing, and to retire the present most \u00a0gage un the Beta House and make any\u00a0repairs that were needed.<\/p>\n

The retirement of the mortgage and re pairs on the house were to be accomplished\u00a0through the money raised in the moderniza don campaign. Among the repairs planned\u00a0were the rewiring of the house, installation\u00a0of new plumbing, a new roof, and there placement of worn-out furniture on the\u00a0second and third floors as well as on the\u00a0first.<\/p>\n

The meeting, held at the chapter house\u00a0in November, 1941, was attended by\u00a0over 50 alumni. After the constitution of\u00a0the Alumni Association was drawn up, the\u00a0new officers were elected. George B. Harris, ’00, of Cleveland was made president\u00a0and Chairman of the Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n

Fred O Burkhalter ’32 secretary, and Robert E Watson ’11, Delaware was made Treasurer.<\/p>\n

The Board of Trustees consisted of George Harris, ’00, Maynard Craig, ’16, Sam Robinson, 10, Robert Watson, ’11, Fred Burkhalter, ’32.<\/p>\n

The financial campaign got under way about August, 1942, and is still going, al, though, it has bogged down considerably due to war conditions. The campaign was under the direction of George Harris, ’00, and from his office were sent lists to cer\u00actain alumni who represented the various age groups. They in turn were to write letters to those on their lists informing them of the campaign.<\/p>\n

The gual of We campaign was $10,000.\u00a0Each alumni was asked to give a sun) which he felt he could afford. The idea of the campaign was to get large contributions, and wipe out all debt and establish a fund which the active chapter could perpetuate which would take care of all future repairs and improvements. This would eliminate the need for financial campaigns every few years.<\/p>\n

Treasurer Robert Watson reports that $1,320 has been received todate. The reasons for the small amount collected is attributed to the increased cost of living, many of the alumni being called into the armed forces, and in part to the lack of coopera-tion shown by some of those asked to help run the campaign. However, the cooperation could not have been better in most instances. according to President George Harris.<\/p>\n

The results of the campaign are already visible around the house. In the East Par\u00aclor arc two new davenports and chairs, a library table, coffee table, occasional chairs, and several new lamps. On the second floor, there is new carpet in the hallway, and new furniture in the president’s room. This new furniture has improved the looks of the house, and had a great dea: to do with obtaining the excellent pledge classes this year. It has improved the morale of the actives, too. Not quite so tangible as the new furniture are the repairs made on the roof to stop the leaks which were made this spring. They were temporary until a new roof can he put on this summer.<\/p>\n

The alumni association also aided a great deal in rushing in the past two years by the chapter tips and recommendations about boys coming to Wesleyan from their vicin-itl. Much credit is due to John H. Sum- mers, ’08, of Columbus, for his untiring interest and efforts in the field of rushing.<\/p>\n

It is hoped by the Board of Trustees that the campaign can be reawakened when the war is over, if not sooner, so that the $3,200 mortgage can be retired and the needed repairs on plumbing and wiring can be made.<\/p>\n

\"George<\/a>

George Harris<\/p><\/div>\n

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At Homecoming in 1941, a group of\u00a0alumni got together and streamlined the\u00a0alumni organization of Theta Chapter of\u00a0Beta Theta Pi, and made plans for a house\u00a0modernization fund campaign to raise\u00a0$10,000. The old alumni association and the Theta\u00a0chapter house company were combined into\u00a0one unit under a single Board of Trustees. The new group was to stimulate alumni\u00a0interest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-news","category-theta-data","tag-1943-theta-data","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}