Record In Army Oversees Meet - The Rattle, Fall 1945
As appeared in The Rattle - Vol. XXXIV No. 1 - Sept., Oct., Nov. 1945
Theta Chi Sets Record In Army Oversees Meet
In Army Overseas Meet Lt. Gerald Karver, Penn State, won the 1500-meter run in 4 min., 02.1 sec., a new Army record, as the American E.T.O. team defeated the Mediterranean Zone, 69.24, before 25,000 G.I.'s in the biggest inter-theater Ar-my sports event ever held overseas. The contests took place August 26 at Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany. Among the score of generals occupying box seats were General George S. Patton, commander of the Third Army, and Lieutenant General Walter B. Smith, representing General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was unable to attend. As a result of this performance on the part of Omega's track star, he is touring Europe as a member of the Fifth Army's track and field team.
L. to r., front row: Maxwell E. MacDowell, Colgate, '14, National Board of Trustees; George Starr Lasher, Michigan, '11, editor The Rattle of Theta Chi; Frederick W. Leduc, Colgate, '12, national president; Earl D. Rhodes, Rensselaer, '21, National Board of Trustees; George V. Catuna, Rensselaer, '13, former national president; back row: James G. Lewis, Delaware, '12, former national vice president; Dr. Harold Browning, Rhode Island, '14, vice president and dean of students, Rhode Island State College; Dr. Robert W. Bishop, Cincinnati, executive secretary of Omicron Delta Kappa and secretary of the Association of Honor Societies; Stanton Belfour, Pittsburgh, national president Omicron Delta Kappa; George W. Chapman, Penn State, '20, national treasurer; Dean Cad Kallgren, Colgate, '17; Floyd Field, Georgia Tech, '02, dean of men, Georgia Tech; Francis H. S. Ede, Dickinson, '17, national secretary. Absent from the picture, Franklin W. Plummer, Indiana, '46, representing the Indiana University Interfraternity Council, and Col. Charles Ross Greening, Washing-ton State, '32, who is director of the Prisoners of War Exhibition - as appeared in The Rattle, Fall 1945