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The 1940-1941 college year found Gamma Beta Chi under the leadership of the class of 1941. Brother Bill Wiley had been elected president for the first semester and brothers Frank Day and Bill Banks, secretary and treasurer, respectively. Immediately the threefold keynote for the year was set before the members for approval: good fellowship with the student body, close harmony within the fraternity, and the closest possible co- operation with the administration and its policies. This year the Gamma Beta dance opened the annual series of fraternity dances on the WILEY, HOLWES hill; it was to occur sometime during the the ques- When?-was gamma Bela CAl month of November. committee presented its The dance tion. novel plans which later proved to be another The blue and the red ... "first" for the Blue and Red. Why not hold the dance on Homecoming night, letting the Officers alumni sponsor the banquet, and the frater- First Semester nity, the dance'? Definite plans were drafted, Chi W1LLlAl\1 R, WILEY and approved by the proper authorities. So Cununo FRANK DAY on November 9, Gamma Bela Chi became the Beta WILLIAM BANKS first fraternity ever to hold a dance in the Sergeant-at-Arm.s WILLIAM PARKS Gill Gymnasium. Chaplain PHILIP AOAMS Senior members can look about a club room Beta Pi ROBERT PODLICH in its best shape of their four years on the Second Semester Chi HENRY HOLLJES Hill. The club room sports newly painted Canuna WILLlAi\l DENNIS walls and ceiling, a refinished floor, new fur- niture, and an ever-growing number of maga- Beta, WILLIAM BANKS Sergeant-at-Anns WILLlAl\1 WILEY zines-and the club members enjoy them. ChapLain BA YNE DUDLEY It is true, the success which the fraternity Beta Pi HOBERT MOORE would like to have met in athletics has not 94