Omega Chapter News - The Rattle, April 1942
As appeared in The Rattle - Vol. XXX, No. 5 - April-May 1942
News
Omega Chapter ranked twelfth among Penn State fraternities for the first semester, well above the all-college as well as the all-men's average.
Another gold star is added to Theta Chi's service flag for World War II, this one to commemorate George Harkess, Penn State, '39, who was killed in an airplane crash while engaged in maneuvers in Trinidad.
High Scout Award To George W. Chapman
Before a crowd of over 900 Scouts and ladies attending the 32nd annual Scooters dinner of the Philadelphia Scout Council, George W. Chapman, Theta Chi‘s national treasurer, was presented with the Silver Beaver Award. This award is presented for "distinguished service to boyhood" by local scout councils, with the consent and approval of the National Council and is the highest award of this nature which local councils of the Boy Scouts of America can present The dinner was held at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel at Philadelphia, February 14.
In presenting the award. the president of the Philadelphia Scout Council. Dr. Philip A. Boyer, read a long citation outlining the service to scouting that George Chapman had given in many capacities in the put thirty years. For the last five years the recipient of the award has been chairman of one of the six districts in the Philadelphia Council and a member of the executive hoard of the council.
The Silver Beaver Award consists of a certificate and the figure of a beaver cut in silver and suspended on a blue and white ribbon. It is worn around the neck only at formal Scout affairs.