Willis Mead Everett, Jr. graduated as an attorney at law from Washington & Lee in 1920. After college he became a Colonel in Army intelligence during World War II. At the close of the war he defended eighty-one Germans accused of shooting seventy-four American Prisoner’s of War. These became known as the Malemedy Cases of the Nuremberg War Trials. Everett was the only American defended the Germans in any of the trials. He had twelve of the Germans death sentences reduced to life in prison. After the war, he was given a Certificate of Merit in Atlanta. He also served as the Gamma Eta Chapter advisor from 1941 until 1960.

Everett’s daughter, Mary Campbell Everett, was elected Gamma Eta sweetheart at the age of sixteen. She then developed a serious case of Leukemia and nearly died. Our brothers visited the hospital and several donated blood. Thanks to there aid and assistance, she survived the attack, but eventually died two years later.

In 1960, Everett fell sick and refused to eat. Once again, our brothers came to his aid. Four brothers, Wallace Benjamin Bruce, John Servier Parker, Thomas Henry Harrington, and David M. McKenney, went to his bedside with a loving cup filled with vegetable soup. They sang the “Loving Cup” and passed it around getting him to eats some of the soup. This, however, was not enough and he died a few days later. He was then mad the Wooglin of this chapter.

In the old house the chapter room was dedicated to his memory. In 1995, his son, a member of Phi Delta Theta, donated money to help build our new house. He realized how much Beta Theta Pi meant to his father and he wanted to help us. The pool room is now dedicated to the memory of our Wooglin, Willis Mead Everett, Jr.