Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Anderson Atkinson Bish Covill Gillett Grady Hawk Heilman Mylander Pfeiffer Stein essa. as a local group in 1914, Mortar Board, Senior women’s honorary now boasts 83 chapters over the nation. Each chapter bears the name of the Ohio State chapter, as well as using the same Greek motto and constitution as the charter chapter. Members are selected to meet the ideals of scholarship, leadership and service to the University. A joint initiation is held with Sphinx. Preceding the ceremonies, a Can- dlelight Serenade on which new members receive a mortar board to be worn the following day, is held. Near noon of the following day initiates join old members on the Long Walk and proceed to the formal initiation which is held at Mirror Lake Hollow. For the first time since the founding, the Ohio State chapter called a State Mortar Board Day. All six of the Ohio Chapters responded with fitting festivities and rites. Weekly meetings were devoted to fellowship, with many of the Fall Quarter meetings being devoted to the Annual Home- coming Mum Sale. Proceeds from the sale are always used to support the scholarship fund maintained by Mortar Board. The scholarship is awarded each year to an outstanding high school senior who has shown an interest in Ohio State Univer- sity to further her studies. In the Winter Quarter, a Recognition Banquet and Reception is held to honor outstanding women students for undergraduate fetes in extra-curricular fields. Service activities rounded out the year. Williams Wolfe Officers Patricia Pfeiffer, President Jean Ann Wolfe, Vice President Ruth Crane, Secretary Jean Anderson, Treasurer Fallon Morris

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ae Mortar Board Jane Anderson Marilyn Atkinson Ann Bish Dolores Coplon Beryl Covill Ruth Crane Louise Fallon Patricia Gillett Jeanne Grady Members Mary Lou Hawk Mae Heilman Mary Ann Morris Joan Mylander Pat Pfeiffer Judith Stein Suzanne Williams Jean Ann Wolfe UPPER LEFT: New Member Judy Stein receives the token member- ship into Mortar Board, her high- est honor in the undergraduate level while white-clad initiates look on expectantly. UPPER RIGHT: Mirror Lake Hollow finds the girls of Mortar Board listen- ing intently to the secret cere- monies of Mortar Board. LOWER LEFT: Beanie Drake heads the re- ceiving line as new members are welcomed into the inner circle of Campus activity. LOWER RIGHT: The white-clad new mem- bers are linked arm in arm with retiring members as they lead them to Mirror Lake Hollow for the final initiation ceremonies.

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Atwood Billingsly Burkholder Kincaid Loveland McKinney Sims Trautwein Yon Kaenel B ENCOURAGING all types of extra-curricular activities, the men of the Senior men’s honoraty, Sphinx, hope to better the University and its program for all students. This is done by honoring only those Harsha (Advisor) Kettering Rummel men who have taken a real part in their undergraduate Dodd, Donnelly Geiser years at State. The men who at the end of their Junior Morris Nitschke Office year have presented outstanding service in some field of Jenkins Thompson Stecker (Advisor) endeavor, and who have in the eyes of their fellow leaders, demonstrated themselves as capable, willing and gentlemanly at all times are considered for mem- bership in the highest of the men’s honoraries. Sphinx’s main project during the year is the annual recognition banquet, which was held on February 27 of this year. At this banquet, it is their privilege to Officers honor men from all four classes who have in any way been active in campus affairs, or show promise of even- Karl Loveland, Vice President tual leadership. It was at this banquet that two Senior Dan Mckinneyy Secpesary men were informed of their selection to membership Dick Von Kaenel, Treasurer into Sphinx. The two men tapped for outstanding undergraduate feats were John Jenkins and James Thompson. The tapping ceremony was most impres- sive, and carried the feeling of the high honor it is. Sphinx was founded January 26, 1907, when four campus leaders decided that an honorary in which fra- ternity affiliation, friendships or political associations would be forgotten, and with a purpose to serve the University could be the only honorary group befitting the University. Since that time in 1907, the men of Sphinx have let their achievements speak for them- selves. Dick Sims, President 20