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Kappa Delta Phi Founding Father Louis Theodore Morse passed away on January 30 1920.
Louis Theodore Morse was born on July 9 1874 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the 1st treasurer of Kappa Delta Phi. After graduating from Bridgewater in 1900, he moved to New York City and eventually ended up in West Sommerville, Massachusetts. Louis Morse is buried in the Shawsheen Cemetery in Bedford Ma.
Kappa Delta Phi Founding Father Joseph Augustine Cushman
Joseph Augustine Cushman was born on January 31, 1881 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He was the captain and catcher for the baseball team along with fullback and manager for the football team. He graduated in 1901 from Bridgewater. He was the assistant curator at the Museum of Natural History in Boston as well as a geologist for the U.S Government. Joseph Cushman passed way on April 16 1949 and is buried in Great Hills Cemetery, which is located in Boston Ma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Augustine_Cushman
from the Cushman Foundation
Joseph Augustine Cushman was perhaps the most important foraminiferal researcher in the first half of the twentieth century. A native of Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard University (B.S.) in 1903 and began his career as a Curator with the Boston Society of Natural History. While there, he continued to study part-time for his Ph.D., which he received from Harvard in 1909. In 1904, he requested a loan of material from the U.S. National Museum (USNM) to use as a comparison with the Pleistocene specimens from Panama that he was studying. Thus began a life-long collaboration with the USNM.
In 1912, Dr. Cushman began an association with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), which continued throughout most of his career. He first used foraminifera to correlate sands in artesian wells for the USGS, a technique which developed into the correlation of subsurface strata penetrated in wells drilled for oil. In 1923, he resigned from the Boston Society of Natural History and built a laboratory behind his house in Sharon, Massachusetts. From this private laboratory, Dr. Cushman consulted for oil companies, taught classes in micropaleontology to both undergraduate and graduate students, collaborated with an international array of visiting scientists, and conducted his own research with a staff of assistants. He built up one of the world’s pre-eminent collections of foraminifera, authored the widely used text book, “Foraminifera, Their Classification and Economic Use”, and published 554 scholarly publications, including 14 that were published posthumously. Many of his papers were published in the Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research, a journal he established in 1925.
Upon his death in 1949, the collections and library were bequeathed to the National Museum of Natural History (part of the Smithsonian Institution) where they remain a major resource for researchers around the world.
The ‘Contributions’ series was continued with a slight name change in 1950, to the Contributions from the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, coinciding with the creation of the Cushman Foundation. In 1970, the name of the series was changed again to the Journal of Foraminiferal Research.
Alpha Beta Chapter of Kappa Delta Phi National Fraternity was founded at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island on January 29th, 1994.
Kappa Delta Phi Founding Father William Everett Smith passed away on January 23 in 1943.
William Everett Smith was born on July 26 1876 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. While a member of Kappa Delta Phi, he served on the Executive Committee and as President. He was Assistant Business Manager to the yearbook and a member of the Normal Club serving as treasurer of the literary committee. He also was one time president of the tennis club and Athletic Association as well as the glee club.
He graduated from Bridgewater in 1902. During his postgraduate career he was head master at English High School in Boston Ma. William Smith passed way on January 23 1943 and is buried in the Waterside Cemetery in Marblehead, Ma.
For more information about English High School in Boston
The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts is a high school that was founded in 1821.
The school is currently located in the Jamaica Plain area of Boston, its seventh location in the city. Its second location, on the corner of Pickney and Anderson Streets, eventually became the Phillips School, a school for then free born and emancipated African Americans before the American Civil War.
On January 17th, 1914 Beta Chapter of Kappa Delta Phi National Fraternity was founded at Salem State College, Salem Massachusetts.
From the 50th year anniversary book of Kappa Delta Phi in regards to Beta Chapter.
Beta Chapter of Kappa Delta Phi, founded in 1914 under the enthusiastic leadership of the late Sumner W. Cushing, a member of the faculty at the Salem Normal School, and also a brother of Alpha Chapter of Bridgewater, has held and will hold a very important place in the memory of Salem Teachers College men who have had the good fortune to belong to this organization.
In 1914, a delegation from Alpha Chapter whose desire it was to have the men at Salem share in the spirit of fraternal friendship, initiated a group of eleven charter members: Walter Brooks, James S. Collins, Harlan D. Crowell, William Foley, Joseph M. Gilmore, Myron R. Hutchinson, John J. McGlew, James F. Peebles, Austin M. Rankin, Edmund Richards, and Andreas W. S. Turner.
The following year, Mr. J. Asbury Pitman, the Principal at Salem until 1937, was among the group to be admitted to the fraternity. It was through the efforts of Brothers Pitman and Cushing that the chapter members were granted use of a fraternity room in the college building. Initiations and all chapter activities were then conducted on the school premises and were encouraged by the faculty. It was unfortunate, indeed, when open recognition of the fraternity was no longer possible, and we were forced to hold our meetings elsewhere.
Unknown to many of the hundreds of graduates, our fraternity has lived through these years in spite of opposition because of the splendid principles upon which our fraternity was founded.
For years it has been the spirit of our chapter to bring the male members to a closer understanding “through common ideals and purposes”. The group has sponsored and promoted the highest and best educational practices and finally has created a bond of friendship among its members that makes for excellent fellowship and united effort in a common cause.
From 1920 to 1940, Beta Chapter grew steadily. The boys tried to get together at least four or five times a year and during these twenty years instituted some very worthwhile programs and activities of which Salem will always be proud.
During the period of World War II, our chapter had a slight slumber. Some thought it would never wake up, but when the boys came back again Beta Chapter of Kappa Delta Phi came with them in fun force.
During the last two years, we have added seventy-five fine men to our ranks, and we are growing steadily. Meetings are held regularly at the Hotel Hawthorne in Salem, and socials, dances, and outings are all a part of the year’s enjoyment. We have accomplished many improvements around the College and have plans for others.
If the future can be somewhat predicted by this review of the past, then we surely should be grateful for the many pleasant experiences which our membership in Beta Chapter will make possible for each one of us. For in our Fraternity, “the welfare of each is bound up in the good of all”.
Brother Dan Morrell suffered a heart attack on 12/12/06 while playing hockey. Dan pledged at Omicron chapter, North Adams State College, during the Fall semester of 1994.
MORRELL Daniel A., of Quincy, suddenly on December 12, 2006. The beloved son of Daniel and Marilyn (Little) Morrell of Quincy. Devoted fiancee of Carly Sell of Quincy, formerly of CT. Brother of Janet DAntona of Squantum, Lisa McAlpine of Marshfield and Erin Bonica of Quincy. Grandson of Florence Morrell of Quincy and the late Frank Morrell and the late Pete and Priscilla Little. Uncle of Priscilla, Luke, Matthew, David, Adam and John. Daniel also leaves behind his beloved dog Clarence. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the Funeral from the Keohane Funeral Home, 785 Hancock St., WOLLASTON, Monday at 9 a.m. Funeral Mass in Holy Trinity Parish in Most Blessed Sacrament Church at 10:00 a.m. Visiting hours, Sunday 2-8 p.m. Burial in Pine Hill Cemetery, Quincy. Donations in memory of Daniel may be made to Quincy Youth Hockey Scholarship Fund, 60 Murphy Memorial Drive, Quincy, MA 02169.