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Re: [APO-L] Toast Song Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brown Michael-EMB021)
Thu Feb 5 10:12:16 2004
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:11:03 -0500
Reply-To: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@motorola.com>
From: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@motorola.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
>From: Derek Cashman <derek_cashman@yahoo.com>
>
>Was surfing the national website recently and came across an interesting,... um,... >"error." Please read the following quote and think about what might sound a little weird >(the quote is from http://www.apo.org/about/traditions/toast_song/index.shtml):
>
> The lyrics to the first verse of this song were created in 1925 by Dale Bartlett of
>Omicron chapter at The University of Iowa. The second verse was written by Robert
>Northwood of Epsilon Mu at the University of Maryland and were adopted as part of the
>Toast Song at the National Convention in 1964.
>
>Ok, so for those of you still wondering, the "error" is in the statement about Dale
>Bartlett from Omicron chapter at U of Iowa writing the first verse of the song in 1925.
>I'm not entirely certain when Omicron chapter was founded, but it surely wasn't in 1925!! >Theta chapter at UVa wasn't founded until 1929, so Omicron chapter couldn't have been
>founded until at least 1929.
>
>So my question now is, when exactly was the first verse of the toast song written? And
>yes, I already asked Randy Finder (he's the one that actually suggested posting it to
>APO-L),...
Ask, and ye shall receive...
In going thru my collection of Lightbearers and T&T, I found the following:
In the May, 1931 issue of the Lightbearer, the first one published after Bartle became Supreme Grand Master, the Toast Song is printed. It cites the author as Dale T. Bartlett, Iota (that's Park University). Most likely, it was adopted as our official Toast Song at the 3rd National Convention just held in March of 1931.
So, not only is the date incorrect, but so is the Chapter. :)
Michael Brown
APO LM & TB
Member, National History & Archive Committee
