'Rush Week' On College Campus
This article is about five social fraternities being allowed to hold the first formal rush. This and other articles may be found in the University Archives.
Citation for this article is: "'Rush Week' On College Campus" Daily Reflector, January 23, 1958.
East Carolina College's first formal Rush Week for social fraternities is in progress on the campus this week. Five fraternities are participating in activities.
Last fall the East Carolina Board of Trustees approved a recommendation by college President John D. Messick that five local social fraternities be granted permission to become affiliated with national fraternities. Since this time much interest in the social fraternities on the campus has developed and steps have been taken by these groups towards becoming affiliated with national organizations.
William H. Wallace Remembers
I was I.F.C. president in 1959 and a member of Theta Chi, which was previously Phi Gamma Pi, and was the first "national" fraternity at ECU. As president of I.F.C., I worked closely with Dean Tucker, who quite often advised me that the University was certainly going to "hell" as a result of fraternities being at ECU. A number of years later, after I had graduated, I saw Dean Tucker, and he put his arm
around my shoulder and said to me "Bill, do you remember how nice the fraternity system was back when you were at ECU . . . well, its all changed now and I want to tell you that they are going to be responsible for the schools going to hell before its over." He was a good guy to all of us until the I.F.C. sponsored a band with the name of The Dave Clark Five. After he heard some of the music and learned that the common name for the band was "The Hot Nuts" he almost killed and/or
kicked us out of school.My wife, Hazel Collier Wallace, a member of Alpha Delta Pi, was the first girl pinned by a fraternity member at ECU. After which I was taken across the street to
Wright fountain and thrown in. That was in 1958.
