Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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From Our Founder to Our La President It is a far cry from Butler ' s founder to her last president, far in years from 1854 to 1907, vet in the period from 1907 to 1920, the college ex- panded over one hundred per cent. It is difficult to make any division of honor between those who made the present possible and those who have so well developed this heritage. Ovid Butler, who did so much toward the founding of this college, accomplished a great work which his successors have continued. We are here concerned with one of those suc- cessors in particular. Ovid Butler Thomas Carr Howe enrolled in Butler College in September of 1884. made a good scholastic record, took part in the activities of the school, and graduated m the year of 1889. After spending two years in university study abroad and subsequently acting as head of the German department in our institution for a period of four years, he was granted leave of absence to attend Harvard Univer- sity as a graduate student where he received his Doctor ' s degree in 1899 and returned to Butler as a professor until 1907, when he was appointed president of the college. The college opened in 1907 with an enrollment of 183 undergraduate stud- ents, or an enrollment of 464, which included the various other departments, such as the Preparatory School, Teachers ' College Study Department, School of Music, School of Art, Summer Session, and graduate students. With the close of June, 1920, the student enrollment was 617, or a total of 1,004, including the above named departments with the exception of the prepara- torv school, and the Schools of Music and of Art, which have been discontinued for a number of vears. The enrollment last fall reached 676. Until the end of 1907, six hundred diplomas bad been granted. The number reached 1,029 last June, of which Mr, Howe signed 429 himself. In the same period the faculty has grown from eighteen members to thirty-six, and various new courses have been added to the curriculum. With Doctor Howe ' s native ability and fine character, combined with his thorough scholastic training, he has placed Butler College in a high position among the outstanding colleges of the covmtry and it is with great pride that we point to the results of his service to our Alma Mater. T. C. Howe Tivcniv-tlirce

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7fie DRIFT I ROBERT EDWARD KENNINGTON belonged to the class of 1915. He v.rent overseas with the Fifty-eighth Infantry, Fourth Division, and fell heroically fighting at Chateau-Thierry on August 4. 1918. Lieutenant Kennington was a man of action, simple and lovable. Danger and hardship exhilarated him. Life had been full of sunshine ; the future prospect was as bright. It was a costlv sacrifice that laid all on the altar of freedom. HENRY REINHOLD LEUKHARDT was a member of the class of 1912. He was a star player on the football team of IQ08, and was made of the stuff of which real athletes are made. All the fire of football was turned into the nobler game in which the world was then engaged. He entered the Air Service, but was later transferred to the Infantry of the Regular Army. Sergeant Leukhardt died of pneumonia on October 2, 1918, at Camp Pike, Arkansas. WILSON RUSSELL MERCER entered the college in the autumn of 1918 with the Students ' Army Training Corps, and fell victim of influenza in the hos- pital unit in Irvington on December II. He was a youth of promise. He was thoughtful and studious and earnest. He loved whatever he was doing with a warm enthusiasm — his school, his studies, his teachers, his military life and its opportunity of service. He was true to every trust committed to him. GUY GRIFFITH MICHAEL was a member of the class of 191 1. He was of the Laiited States Marines and had been in overseas service for more than one year. Corporal Michael died in the Base Hospital of Quantico, Virginia, a few days after his discharge. MARSH WHITNEY NOTTINGHAM entered college with the class of 1919. He was characterized not only by gentle qualities, but also by rugged force and determination. The strong manly qualities were his. He enlisted as a camouflage artist. His overseas service with the Headquarters Company of the Seventy-sixth Field Artillery was brief as it was intense. He fell in action while leading a party across No Man ' s Land on July 31, 1918. MARVIN FRANCIS RACE entered college with the class of 1921. .He seemed a mere bo) but the man was in him and the soldier was in him. In order to be near brothers in the West, he enlisted in the summer of 1918 in the Student Army Training Corps of the University of Nebraska. Here his battle — his first and his last — was fought. A long struggle with influenza ended on January 26, 1919. He was a gracious spirit, loving whatsoever things are fair, and the unconscious influence of his young life has reached far. BRUCE PETTIBONE ROBISON graduated with the class of 1915. Lieu- tenant Robison died near Camp Dodge, Iowa, November 19, 1918. He possessed a manly influence upon his comrades in college as upon his comrades in arms. He was open-minded and high-minded. His soldierly spirit manifested itself in many ways. His life was a heart-rending sacrifice, and we mourn him, but we do not forget that the war has touched him to immortality. MACCREA STEPHENSON was a member of the class of 1912. He be- longed to the Eleventh Aero Squadron. It is known that on the evening of Sep- tember 18, 1918, at the height of the St. Mihiel drive, he left with a squadron of six planes on a bombing expedition. It is also known they were met bv the Richthoven Circus of greatly superior numbers and all shot down. Lieutenant Stephenson was buried by the French peasants in a little cemetery near Jarny. HENRY CLARENCE TOON belonged to the class of 1915. ' After repeated efforts to enter the service, he had been accepted in the Radio Department of the Navy, and had been assigned to the Great Lakes Training Station. Apprentice- Seaman Toon was our first to fall. He died of pneumonia in January, 1918, e ' oing to his death as heroically as any on the battlefield. Tiveiity-tz

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1 7he DRIFT I Board of Diredlors. OFFICERS HILTON U. BROWN President STANLEY SELLICK Secretary and Treasurer. JOHN W. ATHERTON Financial Secretary MEMBERS W. H. Book Chauncy Butler Scot Butler John E. Canaday James L. Clark William G. Irwin Henry Jameson Emsley W. Johnson Hugh Th. Miller Allan B. Philputt Perry H. Clifford R. F. Davidson George B. Davis Thomas W. Grafton Marshall Hacker George F. Quick Marshall T. Reeves GiRNiE L. Reeves Merle Sidener Zach. T. Sweeney Ticcuty-foiir