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Founding Father Henry Melbourne Vaughan passed away this day in 1939.
Founding Father Henry Melbourne Vaughan was born in Nova Scotia, Berwick on March 27 1874. While attending Bridgewater State College, he played on the tennis team. He graduated from Bridgewater in 1900. He was a teacher in Auburn RI as well as in Millbury. Founding Father Vaughan was married to Cassandra Pierce. Henry Vaughan passed away on May 30 1939 and is buried in the Pocasset Cemetery in Cranston, Rhode Island.
Congratulations to all the graduating seniors.
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Remember Memorial Day and thank the many Kappa Delta Phi Brothers and Kappa Delta Phi NAS sisters that are Service men today. Feel free to leave them a note of thanks in this thread.
On Robert Edward Pellisser, a Brother from Alpha Chapter, Kappa Delta Phi at Bridgewater State College who was the first Brother to give his life in Battle. His days are chronicled in the book A Good Idea of Hell: Letters from a Chasseur a Pied.
Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot soldier - a chasseur a pied. Robert Pellissier, born in France in 1882, had grown up in the US and was teaching at Stanford when the Great War broke out in his homeland. Returning as a volunteer, he saw uninterrupted months of trench warfare in the Vosges mountains of Alsace, the only region where French troops actually captured German territory, a sector largely neglected in World War I literature. Pellissier’s diary and his letters to relatives in America show a panorama of this ghastly war: from the horror of being under fire with 3000 German shells falling on the French troops every day to the monotony of long quiet hours spent in cold, wet trenches. He writes of the grinding and indecisive character of the fighting in the Vosges and of the almost ritualistic shelling and limited tactical offensives, such as the attack at Steinbach in December 1914. His later letters were written from the hospital, from officer training school, and from the front at the Somme. He relays news of all the major battlefields - Flanders, Verdun, Russia, Austria, Gallipoli, Italy, Serbia and the Suez. He also comments on the new technology that changed the nature of war: the machine gun, the new airplanes, U-boats, improved artillery, barbed wire and poison gases. Drama and a sympathetic human voice combine to make this account of a little-reported French front a valuable addition to the literature of World War I.
To the many service men and women that are our Brothers and Sisters in Kappa, THANK YOU for everything you do you keep us safe and your are an inspiration to us all.
May The Spirit Never Die.
Cyrus M. Benson was born in Bridgewater Massachusetts on May 21, 1878. In his career at Bridgewater, he was running back and captain of the football team. He was also secretary and treasurer of section C, of his graduating class and a member of the glee club as well as one time Vice-President of Kappa Delta Phi.
He graduated from Bridgewater in 1900. Cyrus M Benson passed away on February 2, 1931 and is buried in the North Burial Ground in Providence, Rhode Island.
Chi Chapter was founded at then New Hampshire college in 1968.
Chi Chapter of Kappa Delta Phi
41 years later, they are still burning down the house. Say Happy Founders day to the Chi brothers in the OTC forums.
As the end of 2008 was nearing, the brothers of Alpha Gamma chapter joined together to celebrate another alumni weekend. One of the biggest highlights of the weekend was when a group of alumni joined together to re-establish the dormant Alpha Gamma Alumni Association.One of the first major events for the Alumni Association is to participate in the 2009 Relay for Life of Southern Ulster County. The Alpha Gamma Alumni Association’s team, “Team Kappa” has a goal to raise a minimum of $2,500 for the event. The Relay begins on Saturday, June 13 at 11 AM, and will conclude at 6 AM Sunday morning.
Team Kappa is very much looking forward to participating in this great event.
If you would like to help Team Kappa reach their fundraising goals, please click here to make your donation. NOTE: You will be redirected to the American Cancer Society’s website.
For more details, go to http://forums.orderofthecrow.org/showthread.php?t=75690
On June 21 1971, Herman Gammons passed away at Nobel Hospital in Westfield Ma. He was cremated in Springfield and his ashes were buried in Lake Grove Cemetery, in Holliston Ma. He was the last of our founding fathers to pass away.
Herman Gammons was born on May 14, 1880 in Bridgewater, Ma. He played 4 years of baseball as a first baseman, as well as a member of the glee club. He was the 1st Vice-President and Secretary of Kappa Delta Phi along with president of section C in his graduating class. After graduating from Bridgewater in 1901, he went on to Harvard where he attained his masters in teaching. After Harvard he became a high school principal in Ashby. Later on in his career he became principal for a high school in Lewiston, Maine.
He was also the principal of Arlington HS in Arlington MA, where he eventually retired. Later they named the school after him.
While Nahum Leonard was our Founding Father, he was not the first President of Kappa Delta Phi.
1) What was Nahum Leonard’s position in Kappa Delta Phi when founded.
2) Who was the first president of Kappa Delta Phi?
Ours does. Scott Cranston (Nu) noticed something that a lot of us did not, the OTC cracked 1,000,000 posts and we didn’t even notice it. Threads: 67,203, Posts: 1,003,757, Members: 1,689
Normally we don’t make a big deal about how many posts, threads, etc we have over at the OTC, but 1 million seems to be a major milestone and if MikeyD’s can put on their signs “over 1 million served” ….well then who is to argue with a clown flipping burgers?
log on it and say :hay: http://forums.orderofthecrow.org/showthread.php?t=75617 on the 1 million milestone thread and lets get working on 1 billion.
MTSND, the OTC admin team.