LeBaron Park Benjamin, Be-'23
President of Beta Chapter
September 1925 - March 1926
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On September 26, 1925, Beta re-located to its third home, at 39 East Tenth Street, with newer and better quarters, where it could take care of out-of-town brothers wishing to stop in New York. The rent was $110 a month. Bro. George Stretch, Be-'21, at the time wrote: "The boys have a new house. I think the move a good one...Now we have a real apartment with real sleeping rooms, which afford more privacy for living and study. I always felt it was something of an imposition to ask a man to live in the other place, as there was no privacy there whatsoever; in fact, there was not even a decent place for a man to hang his clothes. We have several fireplaces, and several rooms, open together, are large enough for meetings. Ordinarily, such a place would be out of the question at the money. The only reason for it is that the house is an old one and in a thoroughly business section, one might call it a manufacturing section. But we cannot have our cake and eat it too, so we have to overlook the surroundings, although the place is most convenient to the School of Commerce and all transit facilities."

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That same month, in the words of Bro. Zimri Oseland, Be-'21, Beta "took the bull by the horns and designed & had executed their own 'official' hat band." As Bro. George Stretch had earlier (May 15, 1925) written, "in this town practically everyone of any account wears a colored hat band, on his straw." Beta's bands certainly were impressive: black background, a medium green band in center (about one inch wide), small black bands on either side of the green band, then small gold bands next to those small black bands, and finally black bands at top and bottom. The new hat bands were sold for $1 each.

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Programme from the 6th Annual Banquet
of Beta Chapter
15 May 1926
Builders Trade Club
New York, New York
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The Fraternity's fourth national convention met on Decemner 26-28, 1924, at the Commercial Club in San Francisco, California, hosted by Epsilon Chapter of the University of California at Berkeley. The convention elected Bro. Leo Drew O'Neill, the Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration at Boston University, to succeed Bro. Von KleinSmid, as National President for the term 1926-28. (This fourth national convention on December 28-30, 1926, re-convened in Webster Hall of the University of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, and re-elected Bro. O'Neil to serve as National President for a second term 1928-30).

Leo Drew O'Neil, Ga-'22
The Fifth National President
of Delta Phi Epsilon Foreign Service Fraternity
June 1926 - June 1930
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George W. Stretch, Be-'21,
was National Vice-President for Beta
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Programme from the 7th Annual Banquet
of Beta Chapter
14 May 1927
Fraunces Tavern
New York, New York
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On October 1, 1928, Beta moved to its fourth home, this time to a larger house at 82 Washington Place, on the west side of Washington Square Park.

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The 4th "Beta House"
82 Washington Place
New York, NY
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Beta Chapter in the Spring of 1929
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Beta Chapter in the Spring of 1930

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Paul Valentine Horn, Be-'29
Seventeenth National President
Delta Phi Epsilon Foreign Service Fraternity

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