\u201cThe General Council was unanimous in its approval of the new mural map of Phi Delta Theta painted by Brother John Garth, Washburn \u201912\u2026and it was further decided that small lithographic reproductions should be produced and made available to members upon order at a price to be determined later.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A print of the map first appeared on the inside back cover of the September 1940 Scroll (in a single color) advertising color reproductions of the map (17\u201d X 22\u201d) to be available for $1.50 postage prepaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist, John Garth, was initiated March 13, 1911 shortly after Kansas Beta was chartered in 1910. He  was assigned Bond # 59.  He graduated from Yale in 1914 and later changed his name from Wallace Hogarth Pettyjohn.  He was a member of the Professional Artists\u2019 League in San Francisco and was included in Who\u2019s Who in Art in America.  He was an Infantry Lieutenant in WWI.  He entered the Chapter Grand June 1, 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no evidence that the map was ever displayed in General Headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Robert J. Miller, Historian Thousands of Phis and visitors have seen the mural map (convention map) exhibited behind the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[440,245,390,441,20,14],"class_list":["post-17991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-convention-map","tag-fraternity","tag-historian","tag-millers-meandering","tag-phi-delta-theta","tag-robert-j-miller"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n