February 1, 1923 Vol. IV, No. 4 Part1

When I read through these issues the first time, Convention issues generated more glee in me than almost all of the other things they may have written about. It's hard to believe that our fore-brothers would hold Convention over the Christmas holiday, often times forcing our brothers to leave their homes the day after christmas for a 2-3 day trek.

The 8th Convention in 1923 took place at Demetrios, and this was a good one indeed. This convention marked the election of Dwight Palmer "Pop" Ely to the position of Worthy Grand Architect; a position he would hold for 30 years! However, this almost was not to be. In a race between himself and Harold Peterson, the incumbent WGS, the election was tied. The Convention took another vote, undoubtedly after a few additional endorsements for each nominee, and again, the vote was tied.
This was resolved when the nominator from Mnesicles withdrew his candidate, who was not present. It doesn't say whether Brother Peterson, who was also on the Archi Board, was aware of his nomination.

At the 8th Convention, our organization continued the discussion the idea of having Alumni Associations associated with each chapter "to which all graduates of that chapter would belong regardless of where situated." This would be in lieu of city based Alumni Associations, as they were operating presently. The scheme was introduced at the 7th convention by Brother George A. "So" Whitten, and though it appears to have been met favorably, they hadn't worked all the bugs yet. Can't wait to see what happens in the 9th!

On Page 3, there is a little gem:

Are baldheaded men considered more handsome, more brainy, more impressive, or more agressive than others? At least that was our conclusion after sizing up the bunch around the convention table, for fully fifty per cent of those there had no superfluous hair on their domes.