Monmouth College - Ravelings Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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♦ OCTOPUS At the beginning of the year a new landmark was found on M.C. campus which was to remind us of the secret honorary society, the Order of the Octopus. This landmark, as mystic as its members and their work, was merely a tomb- stone with a foreboding black octopus. It ap- peared one morning near the diagonal walk in front of Wallace Hall under the pretense of a newly dug grave. Its immediate impression was the death of the order but since then evidences have reaffirmed the fact that Octopus is very much alive. The organization was founded in the spring of 1928 by a group of seniors who saw the need of an organization to bind together the various groups on the campus and to thus carry on, as a unit, the traditions and ambitions of Monmouth College. Banned from campus in 1942 and re- activated in 1946, the order has led a stormy and secluded life. Today on this page is revealed to you the members of the order who have remained secret during the year. They were chosen by eight members who preceded them and in turn will choose the men from next year ' s senior class to carry on their work. They are: Bill Walton, Walker Robb, Lorin Fassett, Don Cray, Channing Pratt, Lyle Hoover, Eugene Behnke, and Henry Gildemeister.

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First Row: Walton, Robb, Fassett, Cra Second Row: Pratt, Hoover, Behnke, Cildemeister.

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♦ FACULTY We dedicate this Ravel ings to the memory of a man whose life is his greatest monument. He knew and loved all that was beautiful, and found beauty in everything. He was a teacher, a philosopher, a poet, a humorist, a world- traveler, and above all else, a friend. Monmouth College will never forget Dr. C. A. Owen. 20