Founder Hoback possessed an engaging personality and, according to other founders, was a natural leader. He helped to write the first ritual and, as provisional vice president prior to the first Conclave, was an installing officer when Beta and Delta chapters were admitted into the Fraternity. At the organizational meeting of the Fraternity, Founder Hoback was elected temporary chairman and he subsequently served as chairman of committees appointed to draft the first Constitution and By-Laws. He then served with the Army of Occupation until March of 1919 and attended classes at the University of Besancon in France.Įnrolling in classes in Warrensburg the following summer, he took a room in the "House of Trotter" at 101 Ming for the summer term and soon developed a strong friendship with his fellow occupants, including Allen R. Mihiel, and the Defensive Sector at Taul. Hoback and several other men who would found Sigma Tau Gamma two years later began their service in France on June 28, 1918, participating in Meuse-Argonne, St. Hoback began his college career at Warrensburg in 1916 before volunteering for military service with Ambulance Company 355 the following year. The second name found on the original petition is Brother Leland Hoback. from George Peabody College, he returned to his alma mater in 1932 as a member of the faculty. After teaching for several years and earning a Ph.D. He spent the following year as a principal in Warrensburg and in the spring was elected President at the first Conclave. He moved to Rich Hill in the fall where he spent three years as the school superintendent then went to Leland Stanford University, earning the M.A. Since the literary societies which had dominated campus activities before the war appeared too restrictive, Founder Ellis and other students, several of whom had served together during the war, conceived the idea of a fraternity during the summer term. They became a part of Ambulance Company 355 which served in France during World War I and returned to the states in the spring of 1919 for their discharge.
He returned to CMSC (Central Missouri) in 1916 and attended until enlisting with several fellow students in the Army.
2" in Warrensburg in 1913, earning a regents certificate in six months so that he could teach in the elementary schools. Upon graduation, he taught in a rural school then enrolled as a student at "Normal No. in 1889, Emmett Ellis was 30 years of age, the oldest of the Founders, when he posted the notice of the original meeting of the Fraternity on the college bulletin board in 1920.
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