Phi Delta Theta Fraternity

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Memories of Oregon Gamma are best stated with the special friends in Salem. One pledge helped me find a date for an upcoming dance at Willamette. His sister was at Salem High and had a girlfriend that they introduced me and we had a blind date. We saw each other after that and she, Shirley, came to Willamette and became a Chi Omega. That next summer I was to be drafted to the military for service in the Korean War. I decided to join the Navy and served four years. Shirley and I kept in touch and while I was in electronics training in San Francisco, we married. My last assignment in the Navy was to be part of the first crew assigned to a new ship being built in Tacoma, Washington and Shirley got her first teaching job in Portland, Oregon. I was discharged after my service and started at Oregon State in Portland. Then we moved to Salem where I commuted to Corvallis to finish my degree. We have been happily married since 1952 and it all started at Willamette U.