THE ARCHIA Ipha Rho Chi Fraternity • A rchitecture and the A llied Pro fessiolls

Volume XXXI DECEMBER, 1952 Number 2

Entrance to College of ~1 rchitecture.l University of outhern Cali­fornia at Los Angeles.

Pickett, Grand Lecturer, RetiresAfter 20 Years on Grand Council

Arthur D. Pickett

tion ,at ashington in 1950, re­peated annually ince at Chicagoand evv York. rt wa in, tru­mental in re-e tablishing J<alli­krate chapter at niver ity ofVirginia in 1948.

eeral/lfC Tile Expert

Pickett i widely known for his\vork vvith the cerall1ic tile indus­try, in which hi activitie havebeen nation-wide. 1 ow vice-presi­dent of parta Ceran1ic COll1panyand as istant general ales n1an­agel' for nited tate, QuarryTile Con1pany, he wa, forn1erly,for eight year, pecial represen­tative of A ociated Tile Manu­facturer . He is a mell1ber of thePromotion and Adverti ing Com­mittee of the Tile Council ofAmerica and is chairll1an of thatorganization' committee for pro­moting information in the archi­tectural chool about ceran1ic tiledesign and in, tallation.

Tile for Public Building

When the depres ion of the'30's curtailed activitie of the til

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e~v York Headquarter

Art Pickett', office on 42ndtreet oppo ite Grand Central for

man year provided a directoryand information center for AlphaRho Chi in ew York. Duringthat time, rt a embled an exhi·­bit of A.P.X. drawing, whichwa hown in Jew ork andChicago and at many architec­tural chool. ith Harr Tour,Picket arranged the fir t ~ .P. .dinner meeting at .r. . conven-

fter 1110re than 20 year.:J onthe Grand Council, Arthur DPickett, Round Hill, Virginia,ha, a ked to be relieved of hidutie a Grand Lecturer. Last1110nth, W.G.A. Dwight Ely an­nounced that Robert Calrow

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MOinneapoli > alumni pre ident, hadaccepted appointll1ent a Pickett'ucce Of.

California Plays HostTo 23rd Conv,ention

Andronicu Chapter at niver-ity of outhern California in Lo

Angele vvill be ho t to Alpha RhoChi' 23rd ational ConventionDecember 29, 30 and 31. Conven­tion ession will be held at theChapter House and arrangell1entfor hou ing and entertaining dele­gate and officer have been COlTI­pleted by the active chapter and­Andronicu alulTIni. KennethWormhoudt i W.A., LesterTanner Chapter dvi er, andRos Hutcha on alumni ecretary.

C01Junittre Appointed

In October Dvvight Ely,.G.A., advi ed the active chap­

ter that three alumni committeehad been appointed to report tothe Convention. nominationscommittee of five, with erIe n­ni of Lo ngele, fornler\V.G.., a chairman, wa askedto receive nomination for orthy

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Patio" College of A rchitecture J University of outhern California.

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ConventionGrand Architect fron1 the chap­ters. The committee also includesC. W. Ditchy, Detroit, W. M.Wadsworth, Minneapolis, W. A.Carter, Columbu , and Evert Kin­caid, Chicago.

A finance comn1ittee with Ha­rold L. Parr, Uniontown, Ohio,a chairman, and including LesterS. Tanner, Los Angeles, andRaoul W. Wilkins, Richnl0nd,Virginia, and an expansion com­ll1ittee under Arthur Pickett, ,villreport to the Convention.

Each Chapter Two DelegatesA decided by the 22nd Con­

venti at Champaign, activedelegate will include two fromeach chapter, an upper and alower classman. Alunlni delegatemay al 0 be designated by activechapters. Any member may takepart in convention discussions, butonly delegate may vote.

]"?ull Progra77l

Business sessions will be heldMonday afternoon, the 29th,l""'uesday morning and afternoon,the 30th, and Wednesday nlor­ning, the 31st. An initiation rituall""'ue day afternoon ,,,ill be follo,,,­ed by the Convention banquet atCiro' Restaurant in Hollywood.A ew Year' Eve dinner anddance at the Chapter House ,,,illclose a Convention which pro­lnise to be notable for A.P.X.

THE ARCHI

Pickett Retires . . .manufacturers' association, Pickettjoined Sparta Ceramic, then oneof the smaller p1ember companies,and sold tile for some 2,000 PostOffice projects. parta i now thelargest maker of floor tile (ex­cluding quarry tiles).

In 1939 Pickett added ale.'''ork for U. S. Quarry Tile;large t vvall tile manufacturer.The long Ii t of public projectfor which Pickett' companiehave furnished tile include suchgiant as the Pentagon, ew~

York's Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel,and - largest single building tilejob, with 50 carload of tile ­the Clinical enter under con­. truction at Bethesda, l\t1aryland,for the Jational Institute ofHealth.

Designer of TilesA predilection for drawing and

design, Art ay, led him fromhi native Indiana to the architec­tural school at University of Illi­nois. There he found an interestin athletics (\vrestling) conlpetingwith study of architecture and heleft Champaign to work for anarchitect in Indianapoli. A yearlater, Dean Rexford ewcomb ofIllinoi introduced him to the A -ociated Tile Manufacturer.

With thenl he pent 2 year intudy of hi torical tile designs and

uses. He ha probably originatedand developed more tile designs

December, 1952

Robert Calrow" Minneapolis"ne'w 1Jze17zber of Grand CoUllcilJ

succeeding ,1rthur Pickett as G.IJ'

than anyone el e novv in the in­du try.

T/irginia FarlllIn 1925 at Tuc on, Arizona,

Art wa married to Florence Her­rin, ,,,honl he had nlet at Illinoi .After 2 year at Beaver Falls,Pennsylvania, and 20 at Hastings­on-Hud on, Jew York, the Pick­etts now make their home on afarm at Round Hill, in the BlueRidge Mountain of northernVirginia. Their on John, a gra-duate of Illinoi and, like hifather, an nthemio A.P.X., isan architect in ienna, Virginia.Their married daughter, JesseLee Carter, live in Winche tef,Virginia.

Effective SaleslllanshipArt Pickett's inherent 1110de tyand naturally quiet manner con­ceal quite completely the qualitiewhich ha -e l1lade 1lIn so uc e ­ful in promotion and elling forthe building indu try. He claimsan inferiority complex, a condi­tion not often encountered in suc­cessful salesmen. The real clue tohi accomplishment are to befound in his exhaustive technicalknowledge, his taste in design, andmost ignificantly in his never­failing incere and friendly help­fulness.

Art say that an ambition dat­ing from the days when he rode acultivator on an Indiana farm re­lnain to be ati fied - a triparound the world. And for thathe i no,,, making plan .

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~arthur Carrara of Chicago believes A.P.X. should be a 7Jl0re vitalforce in Architecture. The A rchi 7.vishes to report 7ne7nber/ views of theJ"raternity J and here presents Brother Carrara J s.

Alumnus Envisages NewRole For Alpha Rho Chi

encourage this aim and upply theyoung ll1an \vith the proper nou­rishment for the work he will dolater. For us to provide a socialatmosphere for the young archi­tectural cholar is not importanta the very social nature of ourchools doe this much better than

any chapter on can1pus.The band of our ritual- i not

trong enough!In a profession \vhich reshape,'

the thought and liv-.~I'. ing pattern of a

Iw ... people, do \ve not ee, . that we are in need~~ of a ,tronger creative

bond a 111 0 n g u?'Vh,., do \ve pend a l11uch tinlebegging and pleading with ourll1el11ber to attend inlportantevent, to participate and to takerespon ibility? rrhe ans\ver i ail11ple ane - becau e a a group

\ve are dull, ineffective and vvith­aut a national pirit. 'Ve 111U t'top believing that au r strength i111easured by the nUlllber of chap­ter \ve ha\Te, and \veigh au r po­tential by the UI11 total of inl­portant \york that ,ye gi\Te to ourpeople.

'Ve nlU t stop placing the lnan­tIe of full-fledged 111enlbeL hipover the apprentice, and only ini­tiate hin1 into our life at a point ..and only to the degree that he i ~

able to understand; then later 111

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Mnesiclc/ ne'w Chapter HOllse at ll1inneapolis ~cill be cOlllpletedearly next year. Picture sho~vs East (rear) facade 'with living areaabove and chapter rooln belou'. Balcol/V is to be added. Proiect has beenaccelerated to ill (Iude clubroollz and {LorIN itory IIlli ts ill 01; C 0 perat iOIl.

Joneses, \ve hould be spendinglnore time on finding honest youngtalent and establishing it a an in­tegral part of the cultural life ofAmerica.. 1~he opportunity for all of thilS ours.

We hould impre -- the archite ­tural tudent - and indeed it iour re pansibility to do "a ­\vith the importance of his chosen\vark, and further in pire him bythe lneans that a group like ourcan de ign and place at hi di­pasa!.

lour fraternity, in it de per­ate attempt to keep chapter aliveand o\\~n real estate, forgetting tofoster an architectural ,pirit ­the only real function it hauldhaye? Too 111any of our brothertoo early drift out ide the realmof architectu"re. 'Ve all kno\v that,~eIling building Inaterials. l11an­aging real e tate etc .. are prafit­able fields, but our ain1 nlust beto encou rage and deyrelop archi ­teet.

It i' our re pon ibility to ,eethat the architectural chool al a

THE ARCH THATMAY FAIL

By Arthur A. Carrara J

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Alpha Rho Chi i tra1l11ng toC0111pete vvith the social fraternalpattern accepted in our Atnericanuniver ities. Although the lllen\vho founded our fraternity feltthe need for organization, theyfailed to give u an eI11otionalspi rit \vhich is the heart and forceof a creative bodY. For an exanl­pIe of vvhat is n1~ant by enl0tion­a1 pirit, let us read again theDeclaration of Independence ortudy the architectural revolution

\vbich also had it birth in fhi:countrv.

It hould also be ignificant thatat the til11e of the birth of i\.P.X.the great leader. of our pro­fe sian \vere ali,-c, and theirthought., creative \york and \yrit­ing, \vere an in, eparable part ofthe architectural oil of that dav.I s it not trangc that so little ~fthis tone ha found it \\-av intoau r organization? ) et. O~l the\vhole, the architectural profe,­~ion in i\Illerica has felt and heed­ed the ne\v Ie son \"hile \ye. \i\-itha concentrated body of '- upposedlvcreative TIlen, are alrl10st totallyltn~l\vare of the nnpoTtance arrdbeauty of this ne\v architecturallife.

At this nl0Il1ent our fraternitycould and should be one of thestrange t and lnost re pected ar­chitectural groups in our country.if not in the \vorld. \1\7e shouicibe preparing the ground foryoung architect to beco111e crea­ti\Te leaders and to attack the cur..ricula and pattern, \vhich denythe gro\yth of ind i2:enou~ 'York i~lthi, country. I nst;1d of \\Tastingour energie, Inonev and tinle o~~keepin 0- French P~~ovincial 1'oof:-;over our heads. and in, i, ting onkeeping up \\~ith the fratern~d

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National A.P.X. Alumni Dues New Role.

Henry E. Fairchild

L. S. StanleyHoward W. TuttleJohn D. Eastl. Morgan Yost

C. A. RoesslerW. R. GomonAlger W. LuckhamVictor E. NewbergR. C. DonkervoetW. At. WarrickRobert C. HallMaurice R. Mer!anWalter R. ThompsonOrin F. Stone

Wallace HolmOgden F. BeemanBruce R. ChurchThomas VolkHarvey M. King

Gerald A. PerkinsArtnur D. PickettHarford FieldDonald H. HonnHarold C. KniebuschArthur P. MuellerM. Rob. Des MaraisCharles F. Norris

Louis C. WilliamsTHERON

DEMETRIOS

PAEONIOS

KALLIKRAiESWaverly C. Ormond

DINOCRATESArthur L. Gardner

Clarence Rinard H. M. SoudersRichard J. Crowley

Ervin L. BruneCarl E. MeinhardtJames Kratky, Jr.Frank G. Sander

IKTINOSD. R. HumphreyArthur l. Held, Jr.James W. KideneyRobert C. GaedeJ. Wesley OldsCharles M. SmithErvin BaileyD. P. MacintoshH. Arthur TuckerRalph W. Demmon

MNESICLESH. E. BerghultOrrin D. FieldHoward B. GilmanFloyd W. BrownR. P. Damberg

Jack WoodA. O. BumgardnerEd. LerchJohn W. SteinmannLaurence SchwallRobert E. BolesW. Harold TannerEdwin E. Newcomb

his work make him the full parti­cipant all of us are now in nall1e.Later, perhaps, it might be neces­sary to divorce ourselves fronl theschools and provide guilds whichwould be under the direction andteachings of our master Inell1bers.No apprentice who has receivedpartial initiation with us, andlater full recognition, would everwalk the streets in search of "vork)but would flow into places createdby us. From the start of hiscourse - from young scholar tocomplete architect - he wouldfeel the real and honest bond ofbrotherhood. Then, and onlythen, can we sing "l~hine arch"vill never fail."

Reading

E. McClain

A. R. Melander

Harold I. SchoenKeener G. SmithArthur S. Brewer

Eccles D. Everhart

Robert

Bernard E. KinsockRalph M. lineGeorge LindebergRalph C. llewellynJames A. RussellEdward J. SlyghRoss ThieleWilbur C. WebbRichard K. Albyn

Part Life Payments

Annual Dues Pa1id SinceSeptember Archi

ANDRONICUS

DEMETRIOS

ANTHEMIOS

Lot GreenClyde T. Oak leyWalter A. Taylor

ANDRONICUSGerald H. Bense

ANTHEMIOSDale Benedict John PickettCarl R. Blum R. A. PigozziR. J. Pfeiffer Victor Pojman

Savo M. Stoshitch

KALLIKRATESEric D. H. Beall

POLYKLlTOSGeorge D. Smith Jr.

THERONHugh W. Brown Jr. Harold L.

MNESICLESDonald Campbell

Lester S. Tanner James W. RiceDonald L. Bartels Geo. K. RobinsonRalph Haver Marion Lee EllisJohn C. Lindsay Russell S. FieldsMelville Garton Gus W. Kalionzes

Robson Chambers

Wm. R. WilliamsBernard IveyStanley RadenzWm. A. RollestonWm. H. AppierJohn F. BartelsBruce D. BoswellRalph W. Crain, Jr.Fred H. Jobusch

IKTINOSRussel D. Alexander Willard C. NelsonArnold B. Berg John J. White, Jr.Emil Lorch Richard C. Zimmer

No.1 Dwight P. Ely Demetrios2 Verle L. Annis Theron3 G. A. Whitten Anthemios4 Myron R. Dassett Mnesicles5 Anton Johnson Mnesicles6 J. W. Ganschinietz Anthemios7 C. W. Shaver (Hon.) Paeonios8 Harry J. Korslund Mnesicles9 S. L. Tesone Theron

10 O. D. Lantz Paeonios11 George L. Dahl Mnesicles12 John P. Guyer Anthemios13 David C. Mi lIer Demetrio$14 Kenneth C. Black Iktinos15 William H. Koenig Paeonios16 Ralph W. Hammett Mnesicles17 Robert Y. Meyer Andronicus18 Warren C. Sutter Demetrios19 John R. Rysgaard Mnesicles20 Glen H. Thomas Anthemios21 James E. Mitchell Iktinos22 Glynn W. Shifflet Mnesicles23 Ralph G. Dix, Jr. Demetrios24 C. Mason Whitney Iktinos25 Charles Taylor Miller Iktinos26 Charles R. Sutton Anthemios27 George E. Hudgins Theron28 Ralph M. Ball Theron29 Case M. Rutledge Anthemios30 J. G. Ingels A.ndronicus31 W. 1. Halligan Demetrios32 C. C. Cohagen Iktinos33 F. E. Wesley, Jr. Demetrios34 F. E. Hoganson Mnesicles35 A. E. Knowlton Demetrios36 R. F. Ganschinietz Anthemios37 Robert P. Potter Mnesicles38 Miguel C. Rozas Iktinos39 G. W. Van Keppel Iktinos40 H. Evert Kincaid Anthemios41 Frank Moorman Mnesicles42 Charles W. Cloud Demetrios43 Lorentz Schmidt Anthemios44 R. C. Kaestner Andronicus45 Carl P. Dumbolton Anthemios46 Herbert B. Beidler Anthemios47 Maurice V. Rnaers Iktinos48 Walter F. MacGregor Mnesicles49 Walter Briqgs Anthemios50 S. l. Stolte Mnesicles51 J. Parker Garwick Demetrios52 David R. Anderson Iktinos53 Stanley T. Radenz Anthemios54 Luke J. Vortman Anthemios55 Arthur D. Pickett Anthemios56 Charles G. Slater lktinos57 V. E~ Fulker Demetrios58 Ross Shumaker Demetrios59 Fred M. Harley Iktinos60 Paul E. Nystrom Mnesicles61 Newton F. Marvin Demetrios62 Marion A. Carter Demetrios63 Jas. B. Morison Iktinos64 C. P. Holt Theron65 John H. Burqess Iktinos66 L. J. Black Demetrios67 Donald E. Gunnerson Anthemios68 Clair W. Ditchy Iktinos69 John Combs Andronicus70 Dean W. Axline Demetrios71 Jeremy H. Lepard Iktinos72 Harold I. Glasoe Andronicus73 Joseph M. Mills Dinocrates74 Richard G. Snyder Iktinos

THE AllCHT, published by Alpha Rho Chi Fraternity, EDITOR, John Joseph Zimmerman, 147 East 18 St., NewYork 3. Circulation office, Box 713 Station A, Champaign, Illinois. ALPHA RHO CHI is a national social collegefraternity limiting" its membership to students of e.rchitecture and the allied professions. GRAND COUNCIL~

D\vight P. Ely, 'Y.G.A .. 40 South Third St., Columbus 15, Ohio; James Lendrun'l, '·V.G.S., 21 Greencroft Rd., Cham­paign, Ill., Georg'e A. Whitten, W.G.E., 1619 vValnut Ave., Wiln'lette, Ill.; Robert F. Calrow, G.L., 5701 Penn Ave.South, 1\iinneapolis. 1\Iinn. ACTIVE CHAPTERS: ANDRO NICUS'-U. of So. Californin. 710 'V. 28th St., Los An­geles 7, Calif.; ANTHEl\HOS-U. of Illinois. 1108 S'o. 1st St., Champaign, Ill.; DE1\IETRIOS-Ohio State Univ..101 12th Ave., Columbus. Ohio; IKTINOS-U. of ~Iichigan, 640 Oxford Rd., Ann Arbor, 1\1'ich; KALLIKRATES-L:'.

of Virginia, Box 1702 Uni\'. Station, Charlottesville, Va.; 1\INE E'ICLES-L. of 1\1innesota, 609 Ontario St. S. E., ~Iinneapolis.

A IUI/Ini dues payable to the W.G.E. for support and expansion ofthe Fraternity were established by the 1938 Convention and affirlned bythe 1948 Conventioll. A nllual dues are $1.00 and life dues $25.00 pay­able at one thne or in three consecutive annual installments. PaY171entsof life dues are designated IILife M elllberships.N Following pay171entsare reported by George A. If/hitten" W.G.E.~ to Nov. 1, 1952:

Paid Up Life "lembers ~~ ~~~~II~s c~· K~·:~~~~~nhg ~~~~~~~~s77 Harrison G. Overend Anthemios78 Albert H. Trowell Iktinos79 Jack M. Goldman Anthemios80 Sylvester J. Stepnoski Iktinos81 John Wallace Green Demetrios82 Leo R. Campbell Demetrios83 W. R. Auble Anthemios84 Fred A. Rohn Anthem ios85 Arthur A. Sercombe Iktinos