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From the Archives
When in 1947, National Officers Albert Lukken, Alpha Chi (Tulsa) '29, Frank Hill, Alpha Nu (Eastman) '25, and Ernest Harris, Omicron (Cincinnati Conservatory) '33, visited Alpha Chapter, they were entertained in the original "Sinfonia Club" room. Lukken was impressed by the history epitomized by the room and suggested to F. Otis Drayton, Alpha (New England Conservatory '12, that something from it should be preserved to symbolize the origin of the Fraternity.
At the fiftieth anniversary convention the next year, Drayton and Percy Jewett Burrell, Alpha 1899, both past presidents and early members of the Alpha Chapter, presented to the Fraternity a gavel made of wood |
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from the original altar of the Alpha Chapter and from the U.S.S. Constitution, "Old Ironsides," rebuilt and docked in Boston Harbor. The suggestion of the use of the two woods came from the woodworker who made the gavel and who had a part in the rebuilding of the Constitution. |
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