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

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Top Row: Howard. Gunderson. Chapman. Prof. Shors, Hauck. Bottom Row: Bain. Dugan. Cation. MacLeod. Senior Men Honored by Membership in Bine Key The Blue Key, national activities and scholastic honorary Fraternity, was organized at the Univers- ity of Florida in 1925. Its chief concern was, as it is now, service to the university. Just one year after its national foundation, a Blue Key chapter Mas initiated on the Butler campus. Since that time, the fraternity has grown to include more than eighty chapters throughout the nation. Memhership in the Blue Key is composed of upperclassmen and the Butler chapter limits its memhership to men of the senior class. Memhers are chosen on the hasis of high scholastic achieve- ment, participation in school activities and organi- zations, service to the university, and popularity. In co-operation with the Scarlet Quill. Blue Key annually sponsors the entire homecoming festivities. This year the homecoming dance, which was held in the Egyptian Room of the Murat Temple, was a huge success and proved to he one of the social highlights of the year. The organiza- tion also holds a yearly hanquet for members of the football team and staff, at which they make awards to deserving players. Officers this year were Billy G. Dugan, presi- dent: Paul Bain, vice-president; Paul Bevelheimer. secretary; Bill Howard, treasurer; Jim Catton. alum secretary; and Professor Shors, adviser. 28 Chairman Boh Chapman presents the queen of the 1950 homecoming dance with her trophy at intermission time of one of Butler ' s most successful homecoming dances. This year the dance was held in the Egyptian Room of the Murat Temple, which was com- pletely filled with Butler students and guests shortly after the first strains of music reach- ed the ears of the dancers.

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BUTLER EDUCATION WILL HELP SENIORS FACE WORLD PROBLEMS The seniors now graduating from college have a sense of responsibility never hefore experienced by any graduating class. An indefinite future lies hefore them; they have an extremely important part to play in spreading the hlanket of peace and good-will throughout the various fields in life which they plan to settle. Whatever the world situation may hring, the knowledge and experi- ence which they have accumulated during the past four years will aid them to conquer whatever prob- lems with which they may be faced with skill and understanding. For their class officers, the gradu- ating class of 1951 chose Bernard Goodman, treasurer; Annabelle Church, secretary; Bob Mossburg, president; and Mauri Owens, vice- president. 27 V

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Second Row: Heiney, Bodley, Harvey Thomas, Keller. First Row: Church, Malott, Bundy, Lewis LeBien. Not in Picture: Cochran, Kennedy. Senior Brains— Graduating in the Class of 1951 Members of Scarlet Quill, senior women ' s honorary, are chosen on the basis of scholarship, character, personality, and participatio n in extra- curricular activities. The organization ' s purpose is to foster valuable campus activities and to develop leadership and responsibility among its members. Traditionally new members of Scarlet Quill are capped during the inter- mission at Spring. Graduating members go through the audience and place their mortar boards on the heads of the chosen junior girls and present them formally to the student body. The members are identified during the school year bv white crew hats trimmed with a scarlet feather. Scarlet Quill annually sponsors a Poverty Prom to give the students an inexpensive dance and to raise money for a scholarship the organization awards. The senior woman ' s honorary also sponsors, with Blue Key, the annual Homecoming Dance. The dance, held this year in the Egyptian Room, was the most successful Homecoming Dance ever held and one of the best dances of the school year. Scarlet Quill and Blue Kev also award trophies over the Homecoming week-end to the queen and to the winner of the house decorations. Officers were Winifred Bundy, president; Mary Ann Malott. vice-presi- dent; Betty Ann Lewis, secretary; and Joan LeBien. treasurer. Annabelle Church was co-chairman of the Homecoming Dance. Dr. Emma Lou Thorn- brough is the faculty sponsor. ?.?