Phi Delta Theta Fraternity

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It was a privilege to share business career recollections in the Summer 2008 issue of The Scroll in "Bob Marcks career in car design," as well as in naming Hank McKinnies the individual "Who Exemplifies Rectitude" to me, in the same issue. He was president of the Northwestern Chapter when I became a Phikeia. As a Phikeia, I once innocently sat in the president's seat at lunch. He quietly sat elsewhere, but at next Thursday's "lineup" I was informed of my misdeed, and had to eat off the fireplace mantle for a week. Hank is now better known as Jeffery Hunter, a famous Phi whose film and television career includes a leading role in the classic western, "The Searchers" (He knew he "had arrived when he was given as many bullets as they gave John Wayne"), and as Captain Pike in the pilot episode of "Star Trek." At the time of his untimely death at age 42 in 1969, we had reconnected; I was also living in the LA area then. Very recently, several other chapter brothers and I contributed to a new book, "Jeffery Hunter, The Film, Television, Radio and Stage Performances," by Paul Green.