University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

Text from Pages 1 - 488 of the 1927 volume:

University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania COPYRIGHT 1926 Alfred McClung Lee ED! TOP- V- CH ET FOREWORD ( o reflect a little of the spirit of Industrial Pittsburgh,as it is transmitted to and coordinates itself with the student body of the University of Pittsbu has been our object. o that spirit of Industry which inakes romantic the daily grind and flare of Pittsburgh, we dedicate it. CONTENTS Out of the 6 moke — Aspiration .Tradition _ Organization ) Fraternalism Competition Industry |L And After!Ithe Whistle Alfred M.Lee v MildredHaffner 'MargaretMoore FrankWCurtia Russel Millirom Milton vSafier W Frederick Elwood Tracey N.Tough Edwin N.Hazlet WF Crane Rernaley Richard Morrissey J. R.Davies Alice Paul Fehr ( I.'W. Fox TFPitcairn Leonard B.Colker James Bodley A Jeanette McClure Francis U 11cry ' Edward L.LloydLAliceSimmonds AnneB.Nathanson Mamucl Bracmen J. B.McCrady Eloise Bomhardt (Floyd H.Bragdon J.C.MacBirney THE MELLON INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH TheStaff IS APPRECIATIVE OF THE COOPERATION OF Mr. Charles Archer Carnegie Institute Carnegie Steel Company Detroit Publishing Company Mr. Kenneth M. Gould Jo7ies -' Laughlin Steel Co. Miss Cora Lee MacGregor'Cutler Printing Co. Northern Engraving Company Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Mr. Christ M. Walter White Studios, Inc. “Buttress on buttress, The eye is led up! Out of the smol{e! (Crucibles W. H. MACKENZIE LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS W. Frederick Elwood Literary Editor CONTRIBUTORS W Hervey Allen James McC. Barnett Hannah Bechtel Edith Caplan Frank D. Curtin Frederick P. Mayer Abe Savage Agnes Starret Ernest Wright Duella S. Stranahan................Secretary Our Qity speaks 1..................I have not lost my soul; It lives a glorious thing beneath my smol{e; It is the spirit of the folk, who toil. Radiant as ynolten iron and glowing coke. Men have not glimpsed me yet in my true might They see my body which their hands have made; My soul lies hid beneath the sulphur night, Waiting the dawn of morning, unafraid. My feet are rooted in these ancient hills; I watch my wizard caldrons slowly boil. And hear above the thunder of the mills The wordless prayer and hope of them that toil. --W. HERVEY ALLEN, 15 The (crucible A CRUCIBLE, belching ruddy murk from its encrusting slag—that is the critic's usual connotation of Pittsburgh. On the surface Pittsburgh has that connotation, is that “Shrine of Materialism. But are these critics blind to the molten metal beneath the slag, to the idealism beneath the grime? Pittsburgh has no place for azure skies and babbling brooks; it is a place of industries. Furnaces line her rivers and mills creSt her hills. To them by barge and train come coal and ore and sand; from them go glass and iron and Steel. Pittsburgh is an unrelenting force, driving wheels, and turning rollers, a creative force harsh and overbearing. Always, since the Pyramids were lifted Stone on Stone to a brassy sky, men have been lost in immensities, individuals in their endeavors. Such is the Stigma of Materialism: such is the Stigma of Pittsburgh. When force raises the ribbed vaults of a Cathedral, and beauty Stains the mullioned windows, then artisan and capitalist are brothers and all the world applauds the thrill of creation. Such is the spirit of Pittsburgh, the spirit which redeems her from coarseness and gives her a genuine glory. As truly as soot and smoke are symbols of Materialism, so the red night skies are the torch of the spirit beneath. Cfires Out- night I lay by a fire of twigs at the wood's edge. Below, the river was lacquered with red, flawed light. At dawn I covered the fire with ashes. One night I Stood by a fire in a Slovak, kitchen; A mother sang to her child of the hills of Bohemia, And this night her husband slacked the fire with ashes. One night I Stood by the open hearth at Bessemer. Mournfully, through the dark, a freight tram whistled. Fury and splendor of flames awed me to silence. Time will put out these flames with his own ashes. (m3 Natural Resources T TER rivers brought greatness to Pittsburgh; her coal secured it. Stand at the Point • - some sunset when the sky is orange above Mount Washington and the Ohio flows away in a broad, golden Stream. Look along the shores at the dark lengths of mills with jutting Stacks, and notice in the gloom of the banks between the pastel bridges the barges heaped with coal. Watch, too, the tugboats pushing other barges like extended shadows as their paddle-wheels catch the last sunlight in falling foam. So, for over a century, the rivers have been supplying Pittsburgh's mills. In the graft migration of the late seventeen hundreds a pioneer trading-post grew up on the site of the Golden Triangle — because the Ohio led west to wilderness farms and frontier settlements. Coopers, mercers, ironmongers established their shops and forges, and as early as 1797 General O'Hara put up his glass fadory near the Point. Before the end of two decades the city charter had been granted, and trade was thriving. Pittsburgh's shipbuilders began to conStrud ocean-going vessels. Then came the time when paddle-wheelers first Steamed under the bridges of the growing city. The old Pennsylvania Canal came, too, and went; railroads lined the rivers. Toward the end of the century the world was Startled one day to find Pittsburgh its industrial capital, and at present the city retains her supremacy. But Still the tugs push their barges to supply the mills with cad, and Still the paddle-wheeled Steamers have their regular sailings from the wharves. Her rivers helped Pittsburgh to grow, and they remain one of her greatest assets. In 1784 a Virginian in a description of Pittsburgh wrote: The Kinks of the Mononga-hela on the west, or opposite to Pittsburgh, are Steep, close to the water, and about two hundred yards high. About a third of the way from the top is a vein of cad above one of the rocks. Coal! There in the hillside was the prophecy of greater Pittsburgh. Nor was it long before interpreters appeared. In 1805 the first iron foundry was built; its success led to others. Coil was cheap, for all the hills of the diStrirt had rich veins. Cheap cad! Cheap transportation! The West was opening, had opened to Pittsburgh. The market was at hand, and industry was ready to supply it. Coal stoked the furnaces of the new city, and iron poured forth for all the country and beyond. Farther and farther Pittsburgh sent for her ores, but the coal to smelt them came from her own region. Plentiful coal meant cheap iron, the ability to undersell. And now the mills along the rivers with their smoke by day and fire by night show what power that ability has brought to the city. Nor was it in the iron industry alone that coal gave Pittsburgh an advantage over her competitors. From its Start at O'Hara's plant, glass manufacture has grown until now' the Steel City is also the center of the glass trade in the United States. Indeed, Pittsburgh's prosperity seems destined to increase. The city is fitted by her position to be the distributing center of one of the wealthiest regions of the country; from the offices of her skyscrapers the power of her district is controlled. The oil boom of western Pennsylvania gave new vigor to an already flourishing city. The farmers of the neighboring valleys brought their produce to her markets and left their money in her banks. And with the new century George WeStinghouse reared his great electrical plants to add to the comfort of the world and the fame of greater Pittsburgh. So her coal, so her region, so her rivers have added to the glory of the city — and from her very eminence another advantage has accrued. Her people! The idea seems forced, abortive, but instead it is genuine and healthy. Pittsburgh's people! In the million of her county and the millions of the region think of the skill, the talent. Pittsburgh'sinduStrieshave prospered, and prospering, have attracted able artisans. The skill, the talent will tend to remain, as they have remained through thepassinggenerationsuntilnow'.Why does Brussels Stand for carpets, and Dublin for lace? Initial advantages have drawn skilled labor, and the cities through the centuries have become noted for their products. Pittsburgh, then, still in the strength of her coal and her rivers, has gained and is gaining added vigor from her able people.Coal barges! And mills along the rivers! And in the mills, men! f 16I Soho— Tumbledown hovels of Hunyal(s, Home of the squalid, the wretched; Blind alleys of filth and of darkness. Hillsides— Bare save for rubbish— Barrels, bedsprings, and garbage. Steel mills— Clamor incessant, wild chaos. Whittles, forges infernal. Smoke— Maying twilight of noonday, Sulphurous, soot'laden draperies Fettooning every horizon. Night— Bridges softened to charcoal, Tardlights of green arid of crimson. Furnaces flaming to heaven. Soho— Rugged, unlovely, repulsive, Flaring by night into beauty. C «7! Shady £ane W. HERVEY ALLEN, '15 When Shady Avenue was Shady Lane, Before the city fathers changed the name. And cows Stood switching flies beneath the trees. And old'time gardens hummed with duSty bees, And white ducks paddled in the summer rain; Then everybody drove to church. And Shady Avenue was Shady Lane. We hied on Arabella Street, that too Is changed — Kentucky Avenue — And where the toll-gate flood beside the spring. The phlox and hollyhocks Once flourished by the box Where the gatekeeper sat with key and ring. A wiser looking man there never was. In contemplative mood he smoked and spat. There by the gate he sat In an old dog-eared hat And listened to the yellow jackets' buzz. All this is gone — Gone glimmering down the ways Of old, loved things of our lotI yesterdays. After the little toll-gate by the spring. And the gatekeeper odd ReSts in the quiet sod. Safe in the arms of God Where thrushes sing. Even the spring has gone, for long ago They walled that in. And its dark waters flow A sunless way along: And no one Slops to wonder where they go. For no one hears their song. Only a few old hearts Of these much changed parts, Whose time will soon run out on all the clocks. Catching the scent of clover. Live all the old days over When Shady Avenue was Shady Lane. [18} Industrial Pittsburgh NOT long ago when asked what Pittsburgh would do if invited to pick up her industries and move them west, the answer came, “Oin't go — too busy.” Pittsburgh always has been busy, is busy now, and always will be busy. Away back in the i76o's when there was a little wooden fort at the junction of the rivers and one, or maybe two, houses belonging to the brave men who would risk a home outside of the fortifications, a new discussion swept the colonies; iron had been found. Iron in those days was precious, so precious that the king even promised rewards to en courage its production in the colonies. But as production increased, cad was needed, and the nearer the ore beds, the better. One day, juSt as the red summer sun shoved its rim over the rustling branches on the eastern hill tops, a little party of men left the fort on the Point. With weapons slung across their shoulders they trudged on and on through the brush where briars scratched at their leggings and tore their hands. Game was scarce that day, and by noon the sun was pouring down through the wilting leaves so scorchingly that the men were compelled to crawl into a shallow cave for re . All around them lay chunks of black stuff that glittered a little in the dull light. They examined it. It was cad. Little by little, through the rest of that century, the extensive coal fields came to light. Here was coil for the iron industry, and it was much nearer to the ore beds than that east of the mountains. Soon ore was carted down to the river banks, and before long crude tower' like Structures belched black smoke. When the first furnace was tapped, the settlers Stood around and gasped to see the hissing red snake flow out. The Revolutionary War hastened the new enterprise, and, in 1790, the first permanent furnace was built where Shady Side Station now' Stands. Coil was handy, and ore was carted in over almost inv [ 19 3 passable trails. Team after team of thick-necked oxen tugged and strained through the mud pud' dies and in the broiling sun to bring the ore to the furnace. When the iron was chilled, the artisans at the fort forged it into crude axles and knives to swap for more coon skins. Some of it they made into rough plows to rip the tough sod, and some into tires to bind the wagon wheels. The new industry proved so successful that it grew beyond individual efforts and a company was formed. One night in 1810, while a winter wind howled around the corners of the little cabin and made the tallow candle flicker and cast goblin shadows over the onions Strung from the rafters, a little group of men met around a wcxxJen table. They talked long into the night until the candle guttered in the socket and the log in the fireplace was only a bed of red calls. Out of this meeting came Pittsburgh's first iron company. The little furnace at Shady Side was too small now, for other points both up and down the rivers were calling to Pittsburgh for iron. So they decided to move down nearer the rivers, down which ore could be flaited, and where the iron could be shipped more easily. Together with the foundation of Pittsburgh’s river trade the company Started to build a steel mill down by the river where Joseph Horne's Store now Stands. While this mill was slowly coming into shape, more and more boats were being built on the banks of the Ohio. Pittsburgh had already a bait-building industry that was known throughout the east. As early as 1794 a line of keel baits had been established between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and in 1798 the President Adams, a sea-going vessel, was launched on the Ohio. The Story is told how one ship captain was arrested in Liverpool when he declared his home port as Pittsburgh and the customs officials found it an inland town. S£j, % Pittsburgh labored to get her ships and Steel started, and once they were started she was busier Still. By 1813 the new mill, run entirely by one seventy-horsepower Steam engine, was flinging smoke against the blue sky, and boats came and went with coal, iron, and ore. Through the narrow streets, where muck from the last rain oozed along the gutters, men and boys hustled along, shouting to friends as they passed. Pittsburgh now had other interests than iron. In May of 1798 there had been built up along the river a frame mill run by water power. To that shack teams dragged log after log through the forest where creepers tangled over brush and made travel almost impossi-ble. And out of that mill came roll after roll of yellowish paper that went into Pittsburgh's one newspaper. The Pittsburgh Gazette. There was no whirring press in those days, and each copy was run off separately in a little room where the only light was a flickering flame burning on the end of a rag soaked in grease. With the paper mills came the beginning of one of Pittsburgh's greatest industries, brass. In the woody land around Like Michigan a man found some copper ore. As Pittsburgh already had most of the mills of the country, a load of the ore was floated down the lakes; and finally, one dreary morning, a baitful bumped against the wharf on the Point. Like true pioneers, Pittsburghers could use anything; little by little it was taken into the mills, and soon Fort Pitt copper was on the market. Out of this copper came brass. More and more copper came to our mills, until now there arc fifty brass foundries in Pittsburgh. JuSt while Pittsburgh was busiest with her iron, paper, and brass work, a new enterprise came in to make her busier than ever. A glass plant opened. Back in the old days there was no glass in the windows. The cabins had just mere peepholes for air and rifle slits. At night the rains bait against the oiled paper or skins tacked over the openings; the winds made them crackle and rustle; and sometimes the paper split and had to be mended in the coldest winter. What glass there was had to be carried over the mountains, and the roads were so hid that it rarely ever survived the journey. Then one day a new mill was added to the row along the river bank. A pile of white sand appeared, and more smoke rose and hung over the river. More and more people scurried through the narrow Streets to the water's edge, dodging an ambling cow peacefully chewing her cud in the middle of a Street, and tripping over small boys playing mumbley peg on the baird walk. Soon panes of clear glass took the place of oiled paper, and the window's began to let sunlight Streak across the wooden bowls on the tables. In the factory, a gaping mouth ate up the w'hite sand and digested it into a seething, bubbling liquid. Bronzed men, C il their faces burned from the red heat and glare, Stood from morning to night on a little platform and blew glass bubbles on the ends of sticks. The bubbles took shape and became bottles and panes and dishes that were loaded on boats and sent to the west. Each batch of glass got clearer and clearer until at laSt the sun shone through the windows and turned the apples, strung along the darkest rafters, a deeper red even in the rudest cabin. All this could not go on without more people coming across the mountains. Every day another covered wagon lumbered up into the city square where cows pastured near Grant and Diamond.The new cities of Lawrenceville and Allegheny began to make compe-tition for Pittsburgh. The narrow streets became crowded with burly men in working clothes, school children, and ladies in bustles and hoops out looking for a newcap or the latent bonnet from over the mountains. Then, too, traders from the west labored their way up the Ohio to get supplies for the season and to take home to the women folks some new trinket or vivid calico dress. The Pittsburghers of that time, not unconscious of their growth, wrote in the Gazette: “It is inevitable that Pittsburgh become a great city and an industrial center. At last the railroads came, and Pittsburgh went forward with a boom. Bigger mills, using all the new processes and turning out an end' less Stream of iron. Steel, brass, copper, and glass, spread out over all the adjoining lands until Lawrenceville and Allegheny were part of the city. More new industries came to this section, too, until now Pittsburgh is one of the industrial centers of the world. If there is anything to be made, just bring it to Pitts' burgh. She is eternally hurrying, but as the old saying goes, “If you want to get anything done, ask a busy person. And what is more, she is planning to be busier than ever in the future. Shall we move weSt? No! We are too busy. I Pitt and Pittsburgh WHEN the Githedral of Learning raises its granite towards the sky, the smoke and fog of Pittsburgh will gray its Stone and blacken the Stretch of its walls. No one who has the ideals of the University in mind ever dreams that, with the building finished, Pittsburgh will somehow' alter itself so that blue skies and cottony clouds will always lie above. After the Cathedral is completed, life in our town will go on, to all appearances, much as it has in the past, unchanged in the externals of living. The Streets down town will be no wider; the fatforics will he no less things of fire and Steam and roaring iron; the traffic of grimy barges on the Ohio will Still sweep west and south; the rumble of trucks and trains and mills will Still surge from the Steel plants by the rivers; and the lights of the flaming Stacks at night will Still cover the blackened sky. Life, complex, nervous, powerful, will go on much as it has in the past. The transformation of the material city is not the province of the college, although, it is true, as beauty comes with the building, the same beauty may spread to our Streets and houses and places of business. But, for the most part, those who trust in the University must accept the town and believe that, although it is not beautiful — while it may have its grandeur,— it is yet a good place to live in, a good place in which to go to school and work and build one's home. To be a good Pittsburgher is to accept its mills, its nervous energy, its industry, and even some of its dirt. The province of the Githedral is not toeffetf a material change in our city although it may well do that. Pittsburgh will never grow better by comparing its crooked Streets with the lazy boulevards of Paris or w ith the languor and beauty of Spain. The Githedral of Learning is concerned not with the physical basis of Pittsburgh but with the spirit that made Pitts burgh and with the people w ho are now making and changing it by living here. This is to say nothing new, and yet it is to say everything. Cities are shaped more by the minds of their dwellers than by the contours of the rivers or the shape of the hills or the established industry. Living men and women are the reasons for industries; industries are never, honorably, the shapers of men and women. The Cathedral is concerned alone with the people, those who want to know more of the world around them and their probable place in that world. The relation of the school to the city lies only in their mutual relation to human beings.The mill and the boy; the boy and the school — that is the connection. And the vital problem is: how will the University relate itself to the boy who must some day find his life's work in Pittsburgh industry? The answer is no easy task. First of all, the University must be more than a gigantic vocational training school turning out graduate oil engineers and chemists and factory managers. That course of Study, getting men ready for specific jobs and a specific salary, is poor stuff if it does nothing for the Student except to make his hands more nimble and his mind more full of related farts. The province of the University is to give that training — to help a young man to make his own way after he leaves school. But this education in the facts of a chosen vocation is not the only thing that a university must do, nor is it the most vital of a university's obligations to its young men and women. A man is not a chemist or a doctor or a teacher all day long. There are hours when the business of his profession is left behind and he has time to read a book or to tike a walk or to talk to someone worth the trouble. And then a man must know more than his profession; he must be able to understand ordinary men and women; he must be able to see new places and look at Strange things with a simple delight in the mere fart that he is alive, and the day is full of sunshine, and the path through the woods is a good path and the sticky mud by the creek is somehow pleasant to feel underfoot. There are winter evenings when legal briefs and chemical formula: and lists of dates are no help to fill in the hours before bed, when a man may read if he has been t.iught to find pleasure in books. Then, if a man will, old Scrooge drags his crabbed feet through the fog of a London Christmas Eve; young Henry Esmond walks the green terrace with the Countess; Tom Sawyer dips his tinned heels in the water of the Mississippi wharves; and the Three Musketeers swagger through sunny France. But there are serious things a man cannot solve through his vocational training alone, and these, too, a great university helps make easier when they come. The [ 4l achievements, that a young man dreamsare going to behis.dwindle suddenly even before school days are over. The ambitions that are spurious reveal themselves as self-pride and selfconfi-dence as a boy learns day by day in classes how much human effort has already gone before him, how huge the problems of civilization are, and how humble must be the spirit of the person who would, in the face of a splendid past, do great things in the dim future. This seems like a melancholy gain, but it is a gain, and college gives it. To see your own powers and abilities and worth in proper perspetfive with the rest of the world must be progress. Specialized training cannot help the scientist in those moments when he is not a scientist and is, instead, a perplexed human being Struggling with defeat, or lack of faith, or fear of his task, or lack of friends. University education, that sees its task as the delicate adjust-ment of a person to the world he must inhabit, that can help give courage and understanding to people who need it, and cm give the ability to enjoy life, is genuine educition. Pittsburgh has been praised as the workshop of the world, but it is not certain that it has always been a happy workshop. Industry, thoughtless of people, is a terrible mechanism that breeds poverty and discontent and bad living. There has always been inhuman concern with merchandise for its own sake, and the progress of such industry has always been towards ruin, the whole world over. To give to Pittsburgh industry men and women who are not wholly lost to the meaning of life beyond the fatfory is a great work - Pitt's to accomplish. That task is a gift, to which the Githedral of Learning dedicates itself with every line of its reaching beauty. The fogs and smoke of Pittsburgh will take the newGithedral and make it theirown; they will soften its sharp lines and fuse it with the ground of this city as no builder can. The new building will take the eyes of Pittsburgh from ugliness to beauty, from flat commonplaces to valuable achievement. The town will give to the school; the school will give to the town. That is the true “give and take that ought to occur when a university is erected. In a like manner, in things of the spirit, the Githedral of Learning will tike into its rooms native strength and honesty and ambition and will give out those good things broadened by years of sincere study, widened into a more understanding sympathy for the people who live here, and will give Pittsburgh the ability to realize its own ideals. QCHOOL spirit, or Pitt spirit, is a rather dubious thing to write about if only for the reason that here at Pitt the quality is a rather dubious thing itself. The subject, too, is worn thin; it has been much mulled over and talked about; it has been alternately praised for its presence at the la St football game or decried for its absence, till Students are likely to resent even the mention of the phrase “school spirit and to be utterly unaware of its broad and general relationship to the University as a whole. As a matter of fact, a “spirit of any sort is an ambiguous and elusive thing, and even such a seemingly unghoStlike” one as a school spirit is no exception. Pitt spirit, whatever it is, cum be hedged in by no definitions. The only definite statement that can be made about it is that it either exists or it doesn't. And as far as most Students are concerned, it doesn't, and for them the matter ends there. Perhaps this isn't fair. People are aware that a sort of Pitt spirit, mild and somewhat weary, does exist. One goes to a pep” meeting, is exhorted at, accepts all exhortations meekly, resolves to show some spirit, yells, a bit sheepishly, and leaves the meeting wondering what it was all about, yet feeling virtuous and self-righteous beciuse one's duty has been done. Or, perhaps one Struggles out of a football game, battered and hoarse, but proud to be battered and more than proud to be hoarse, for these conditions are the outward and concrete signs of the elusive spirit. Inwardly, if the proper side has come out victorious, there is a glow, a desire to slap the no less battered shoulder of one's neighbor, and to exchange colorful, if somewhat hoarse, greetings. In fact, it is a fine thing to do one’s duty, since after all one is more comfortable for having done it; and it is a most interesting thing to be hoarse, but being hoarse for the glory of the football team is not only interesting but also noble. Thus, in a small way, one cm assume an heroic attitude and say, “I did my bit to win the game,” and feel entirely happy. These remarks are not intended to disparage football games, or the feeling that pervades during them. No amount of talking or writing about school spirit will make people who attend the games stop their shouting. They enjoy shouting too much. But too often, Pitt spirit is measured by the amount of noise a body of Students can make at a given athletic event. If the noise is a big one, the school has a satisfactory spirit; if the noise is but a mere echo, then the school spirit, in the words of the public, “leaves much to be desired. All this is true enough, but it is only part of the whole truth. Real Pitt spirit ought to be inclusive. And right here, the proper question is “What ought it to include?” This is not so easy to answer; at least after the Statement made above that a spirit of any sort is an elusive thing, one would be wiser, perhaps, not to attempt an answer. A constructive bit of criticism on Pitt spirit might, among other things, say that, with a good school spirit, such a thing as [26! cribbing would be unheard of; it might say that Students would show a proper regard for property and not cut their initials on the arms of chairs, that they would show a proper consideration for others and walk and talk quietly in the halls; it might even designate Students as “searchers after truth, who, above all things, desired — vaguely, yes, but beautifully and earnestly—desired to learn and propagate the best that is in everything. Perhaps a paper on Pitt spirit ought to say these things and much more, for all this is talk and leads nowhere. But, as has been intimated before, there is a certain vagueness in the quality as it manifests itself at the University which dc' fies exactness of definition. Besides, most people, even if they cannot phrase the thing for themselves, recognize the quality when it does exist, and in this case, when it does not exist to any great extent, most Students arc conscious of its lack of presence. Very often people are heard to say that here at Pitt there can be no real school spirit because there is no real canv pus life, that the buildings are too scattered, but that when the Cathedral of Learning is built and there is a campus minus Steps and hills, with dormitories on it, then a mysterious something or other shall emerge from somewhere or other and enfold us all; and where before there was no school spirit at all, there suddenly shall be school spirit, and everybody will be most happy forever after. This, of course, is a matter of con' jeCture and remains to be seen. But do these people mean that the Cathedral of Learning—in the baldest terms, a mere Structure of stone and mortar—shall have the power to make Students yell more lustily at football games, and that this sudden and concrete development of the spirit shall Stop the increasing dis-satisfaction Students are experiencing with the rather artificial school life? And do they mean that this building shall develop in people qualities that never existed before, make poets from clods, and high priests from ordinary laymen? The building itself, of course, means much, but it is rather the people who will give life to the Stones—for all that the Stones shall be very beau-tiful to begin with—who will create whatever spirit there is in them to create, nothing more, nothing less. And there is at this University now a rare opportunity to create the inclusive spirit it now lacks, and opportunity to do things. “It is not our fear that we may do something wrong, but that we may do nothing —a wise motto, but the fear of doing something wrong, it seems, remains a fear, and nothing is done. Students are in an attitude of “watchful waiting —waiting for something to happen, something that is sure to happen, if they wait long enough and watch hard enough. And all the waiting these days seems to center about the new building they shall one day have, which shall suddenly revolutionize learning, and viewpoints, and many other things. In the meantime, the opportunity slips by. It is indeed a fine spirit that would conceive and build a Cathedral of Learning, but it isamuch finer spirit that would be worthy of animating the mere pile of Stone and mortar into the living symbol of the spirit which in turn created it. I 27 I SCHENLEY PARK WE stood on the bridge and looked across to the hundreds of lights floating in the air. Their standards merged into the night, invisible, and the lamps were stately ivory moons, slowly passing and repassing black trees that thrust slim tenta' cles into the fog of light. Before us, out of the formless mass of a house, a white light swayed over the pitch below. NIGHT IN one long line of flame the sun goes plunging down, and a sombre twilight floats earthward. The darkening sky oblitep ates the trees, a few moments before Streaked with gold, and makes them silhouettes, etched clear and Strong, their bars of gray to be erased by the coming of night.Caught in the branches of the trees, the wind whispers broken cadences, and a leaf falls slowly, then swoops down with a soft rustle. [ 28 } J rrr Oi ‘Re omance EVER since the days when Indians swapped coon skins with the settlers whose huts clustered around the block house, Pittsburgh has been noted for its trading and industry. Liter, when artisans came, people began to give up what little agriculture they had carried on for the more profitable iron and Steel industry. Black smoke began to curl out of crude blast furnaces, and red-hot ingots began to glow along the river hanks. Pittsburgh is reaching now the peak of her industrial development, but with this is coming another peak — a peak of culture, art and education. The industry of Pittsburgh may be world-famous, and people may commonly think of the dirt that goes with it, but only a few really consider the beauty of it all. Banked along three rivers are mills in a never-ending line. Have you ever Stood on the bluff above Teaberry Gum at night and watched the flaring mills and the rows of lights Stretching off across the dark hills? Have you ever watched crimson flames lick against a murky sky and send a shower of sparks dancing over the river where lights sparkle on the ripples behind the river baits and barges? Who has not seen bowls of liquid fire spill down to the water's edge, hissing and spitting lavender flames? If you have seen all this, go Stand on Brady Street bridge at night and look up the Monongahela. Watch the orange flames flicker from till Sticks that point up from the river to where golden lights flare and die against a cloud bank. It all seems to be as weird a beauty as if Mime and his gnomes were behind it, forging the Rhinegold or spinning hair for Loki. And these mills produce almost as precious as the ring from the Rhinegold. Heaps of red ore fade into the Steel that makes the battleship. From these hissing furnaces pour forth the Steel that builds the cathedral and the cables of the suspension bridge ; from piles of sand comes the crimson and opal glass of the cathedral window and the lens that brings the Stars nearer; from rows of coke ovens come the dyes to make the delicate pinks and greens of the hill dresses. From Pittsburgh's laboratories, too, comes the radium that is surgery's new weapon. Behind this is wealth, almost untold wealth. If all the silver dollars financing these industries were stacked up, one on top of the other, the pile would be many times higher than even the Githedral of Learning. The University with this behind her, has still more before her, and Pittsburgh is upholding Pitt to the utmost. The mills give their strongest Steel to raise Pitt's towers into the sky; the citizens give of their wealth to bring stone from the mountains to reenforce the Steel. Far above the smoke of the mills, the fogs that hang over the rivers, and the {29} roar and clang of traffic, will tower the Githedral of Learning, a little city within itself, for there thousands of boys and girls will climb the Stairs with their faces ever turned up-ward. And there, year after year, more sons and daughters of these newcomers will rap at the door to be admitted to the magic circle of learning. There a corps of teachers will train young minds to go out to work not only for a bigger and better Pittsburgh, but also for a bigger and better world. From this city on the hillside will come the trained workers that drive ahead. From be' hind the long Stone tobies of the laboratory will come the chemists who will wipe ruSt away. From the school of whirring wheels and roaring furnaces will come the miners who will dig out of the earth her ores and her oils and her innermost secrets. From the midst of coils of eledric wires will come the engineers that build the power to run our trains, light our cities, and guide our mail planes through the night. In Pitt's laboratories men in white uniforms will work almost day and night under bright lights to distil from smoke some new pastel tint. Out of rows of many colored test tubes will come new perfumes, and the secrets of the silk worm will be copied. Heatless light, as cold and pure as moonlight on a frosty night, will shine forth from the laboratories to light the world. Men in white coats, peering through microscopes, will find little bodies that bring health or sickness. The industry will furnish the material and the workers for the University, and Pitt will [30] give the mills the scientific direction that they need. Some people say the schools are too theoretical and the world too practical. Then, with the two working together, a perfect bidance will be reached. Shall we say that a time is coming when capital and labor can work harmoniously together? It is inevitable. To the man who never had a chance, the fact that his children are educated with the sons and daughters of his employer is a new experience. To the employer, worker with millions rather than hands, the faCt that his children associate with and find value in the sons and daughters of his employees is also a new experience. Under the influence of a common symbol and common learning, their differences muit melt away. And their children, learning cooperation in the classroom, will learn cooperation in their work. They will have interests beyond their job; they will be tolerant of the family who lives next door; they will be tolerant of the man whose racial background is not theirs; they will try to appreciate other cultures, other civilizations than their own; they will read for pleasure and enjoy the beautiful things of life that cost so little and yet cannot be paid for. Slowly, perhaps, the mistakes that come from ignorance and misunderstanding will become less and less, until men will live rather than exist. To those who call us dreamers, we give but one word—“Wait!” The world marches on and Pittsburgh is a leader of the host. t 1 The 19 27 Owl The (Cathedral As beacon lights are heralded by matters of the sea Where urind'blown waves and rocky shores foretell catastrophe. Or ancient shrines impel a few, the brave of divers lands To suffer hardships of their quett in hardy pilgrim bands. So is thy life, O monument, to man a Holy See, A tribute to his intellect and not to worldly gain. Firm wrought by ttrength of human toil, in labor rests thy fame. Cathedral but immortal, in a realm of industry. Thy graceful steelnbbed body is as all, a mortal coil Whose life endures until the driving winds of time despoil The beauty of thy structure from its crett to basic soil, Which owes its very nature to the zeal of human toil. Thy spirit owes its origin to worl( of human heart Whose life endures for ages though the ragged shell depart, A spirit, once created, buds and blossoyns, never dies. But always deeply hidden 'neath the human bosom lies. O monument unparalleled, cathedral so ideal Let not all worldly gain destroy the vouchsafes of thy soul. Let not the moneyed dictates of material gain repeal The ever present duties ivhich to ynanl(ind are thy toll. [3 1 Out, of the Smoke zsf Gar toon IF I were an Ea Side hack cartoonist trying an “impression of Pittsburgh by one who has never been there,” it would be in half-tones and undertones. It would look like December dusk in Greenland, but it would be labeled noon. It would be full of people with soot-smeared noses (Pittsburghers always have soot-smeared noses) hustling in and out among busy chimneys; brawny, muscular people with five-hundred candlepower searchlights in one hand and a couple of Steel girders in the other. There are jails for those who refuse to manufacture, and hospitals for those who refuse to hurry. There is a special asylum for poor unfortunates who once too often couldn't find parking space in the business Streets for their cars. These Streets are mere crevasses inhabited by “big bosses who hold the world's non-Stop “Stogie consumption record while directing the “working class, which, by the way, excels everybody for industry, up to date, except the Chinese. Finally, a part of the picture, yet somehow apart from it, its head well above the clouds, Stands the sky-scraper university building with a Freshman walking the Sophomore plank out of the forty-second story window, and the head of the Astronomy Department on the top, looking through a special glass at the moon. Such is the conventional idea of our city. But this same cartoonist, when introduced to the real thing, would forget all about the “impression. For there is something Strangely beautiful in Pittsburgh. Have you ever lost C 33 1 The 1927 Owl. yourself in it, spent days wandering about it blindly and aimlessly to find that out for yourself? Watch it at morning, at noon, or at night, when its Streets are darkened with thousands of specks whirling through alleys and avenues; see its Joseph's coat change in never-ending color patterns all through the day. I have seen it in the early morning, when the first gray Kars merge with the yellow flush in the East, and the sun rises swiftly and Steadily on a summer day. There comes the clangor of the city, and the deep, full-throated bellow of many noises. Higher the sun rises, and louder the din. Pulsating roar of a thousand shops; shuffling, marching. Stamping feet; clap, clap of rolling Street cars and autos; shrill, futile voices; pop and slam of doors; bizarre, mystical color patterns—all mounting in a tremendous crescendo which rises in wild orchestration to a quivering, molten-iron noonday sun. Have you ever gaped at the city at noon, and seen its slim skyscrapers, their geometric line leaping with nervous, ecstatic grace, as they belch forth indiscriminately their Stenogs and bank presidents, clerks and bookkeepers and bosses, who scurry like brightly colored ants to clubs and cafes, restaurants and one-armed joints? They all return instantly, dive Kick into their burrows, and leave the rhythmic monotone of the city behind them. It is a monotone that never ceases; but at night it is only part of romance; for at night the city is romance. Velvety brown Strokes of darkness obliterate the harsh and ugly, and the city has become a jungle. Strange and beautiful; and, high above it, its million of tiny red, yellow, and golden lights prick and Sting a black sky. And below is the monotone of life, at morning, at noon, at night, and always—the city's accompaniment to its own chant of beauty. [34] “The s}{y above flames And glorifies the furnace fire. (cathedral (Columns E. JORDAN WEEKS DIVISIONAL STAFF Alfred M. Lee.............................. . Editor'iri'Chief J. W. Crane Rbmaley . . . Photographic'Editor Eliza Jane Reynolds........................Contributor Duella S. Stranahan..........................Secretary f o Members selected by 1927 Owl Staff [36} THIRTY Juniors, members of the tfaff of the 1927 Owl, met one evening latf fall, not knowing the importance of their meeting. The row of lights of Schenlcy Park was mi y with late fog before the Juniors left, but after long discission a ballot had been taken— for the Hall of Fame. “Not atfivit.es alone,” the Juniors had said, “nor scholarship. Both are important. But how about personality? Does this man impress you? Is this woman attractive except in appearance?” And so the discussion had lengthened, and the lists had narrowed down until the final vote but that was secret; only three were to know the results before the Owl appeared in June. Now for you is the secret opened; ten men and ten women are placed on these pages; twenty Seniors nominated for the Hall of Fame. Not sports, nor clubs, nor scholarship alone has secured their sc-letf ion; all these, it is hoped, and a certain charm, a certain magnetism besides—that subtle virtue of personality. Twenty Seniors have been given the highetf honors their fellow tfudents of the class below can give; they are worthy of the University and of Pittsburgh. I 37l J. CLYDE BARTON Business Manager, 1926 Owl S.S.G.A. Freshman Tennis Manager [38} Aspiration ANNA LOUISE BAKER W.S.G.A. Commission Junior Prom Committee Girls' Debating Club DONALD B. BROWN Editor Pitt Weekly Editor 1926 Owl President Pitt Players {40} ... . M r ; � « HELEN GILLELAND President T.W.C.A. President Girls' Class Organization Glee Club £ 4i 3 ANDREW GUSTAFSON Football Star President Druids [4 1 GRACE HARTMANN Editor Vade Mecum Secretary W.S.G.A. W.A.A. Board C43l JOHN R. JOHNSTON Cap and Gown Star Pitt Wee Committee Pitt Players [ 44 I NANCY JENNINGS Editor of the Question Mark Manager Girls' Glee Club Pitt Players C 45 1 WALTER ROME Manager Cotnbined Musical Clubs President Pitkin Club S.S.G.A. [ 46 1 Aspiration NINA JOHNSTON Secretary Pitt Weekly Chairman Women's Vocational Conference Women s Fraternity Editor, 1926 Owl [47] The 19 27 Owl. IP ♦ HARRY SACK Editor'in'Chief, Pitt Weekly President T.M. and Y.W.H.A. President Junior Class—Business Administration {483 HELEN J. LLOYD Varsity Basket Bal President W.A.A. President Mortar Board ANTHONY W. SMITH Manager Men's Debating T.M.C.A. Cabinet Chairman Canton College Drive [50 3 ELIZA JANE REYNOLDS S.S.G.A. Pitt Players 1926 Owl Staff [5i] ROBERT WINTERS Head Cheerleader Cap and Gown Chairman Junior Prom [52} 1 GERTRUDE SEIGAL President Panhellenic Association Treasurer W.S.G.A. Co'ed Editor Pitt Weekly [ 53 3 ZONAR WISSINGER Football Star M.S.G.A. [54] V J Jr— jivj. MARGARET THOMPSON President W.S.G.A. Manager Girls' Varsity Basketball Vice President Glee Club C 55 1 The 1927 Owl AUBREY S. WOLFORD President S.S.G.A. Business Manager, Pitt Weekly Trac Manager [563 HELEN TOAY W.S.G.A. Commissioni Junior Prom Committee S.S.C.A. [57 ] The IQ'2 7 Owl I 58 1 “The panther stales at midnight; There is a glare above the river. HENRY W. RANGER •DIVISIONAL STAFF Frank D. Curtin .... . Assistant Editor'in'Chief Russell Milliron Contributing Editor CONTRIBUTORS Eloise Bomhard Frank Haffner W. Frederick Elwood Roy M. Hamlin, Jr. Alice P. Fehr Alexander D. Kyle Katheryn Power Duella S. Stranahan Secretary Tradition Tradition THE average college student, a mythical personage himself, does not believe that a Headless Horseman rides at night through Sleepy Hollow. Nor does he credit the new-born legend of the West, that the Grand Gtnyon was cut out when a giant miner dropped his pick. But some people do, some members of the legendary masses. Perhaps, then, it is because the students of the University of Pittsburgh, being cultured and cynical, never Stoop to such stupid drivel that there are so few traditions here. But probably it isn't. Most people, wise and unwise, like to preserve some of the customs which lent their charm to the glamorous past. MoSt college Students like to sit on a Senior fence when there is one to sit on. Pitt, though, doesn't have a Senior fence. In faeft, even the long forbidden sacred walk and Bridge of Sighs have come to be openly violated. And the new Freshman is likely to miss the typically collegiate atmosphere of flapping trousers and shaker sweaters with now and then an afternoon in the dimness of chapel. He may find, though, in time, something unnoticed before. He may learn that when the campus moved to Oakland in 1909 most of the old traditions fell out of the van on the way. And yet it is quite certain that traditions are growing at the University of Pittsburgh. The sweepstakes, Freshman Week, the Pepper Prize, the Hall of Fame—promise to be enshrined with the already sacred Prom. And the Frick Acres Barn, with the Pitt Players building a set in one room, the Panther chuckling to itself in another, in a third the Weekly investigating a new clue, and in the last the Owl perched in a swivel chair waiting for in-spiration, has taken on the air of Greenwich Village. And so it goes. Our tradition has not yet developed into pajama parades or red wagons. But neither have the trees along the drive grown into thick-boled maples. There is hope; worth while annual customs are increasing. [61 1 Student’s $elf- (government Association VOTING favorably upon a plan presented by Omicron Delta Kappa, the undergraduate men of the University established, in the spring of 1924, the Men's Self-Government Association, which began work the following autumn. The organization consisted of four faculty members and twelve men Students chosen from schools and activity-groups. The intention of its creators was that it should occupy the same position to the men in the University as did W.S.G. A. for the women, and that the two bodies should cooperate through the already-existing Student Council, a committee of two men and one woman. During the year 1924-25 it was found utterly impracticable to continue two such organizations with such feeble linkage. Various remedies were proposed and tried, and finally it was decided to abolish M.S.G.A. and create a new body which would be superior in power to W.S.G.A. in all affairs concerning both men and women. Four members of W.S.G.A. were to be elected by that body to seats in the new organization, which was to be called the Student's Self-Government Association. In addition the president of W.S. G.A. was to serve as vice-president of S.S.G.A. The four faculty members who had previously had voting powers recommended that these powers be given up, and that only Students be allowed to vote. The plans for the new body were ratified in general referendum. Difficulties were experienced by S.S.G.A. at once in the fall of 1925. None of the men elected were members of the previous body, and proper records had not been preserved. After establishing itself, however, the board called several pep meetings, the only ones held, and managed a successful football parade and bonfire. It supervised the singing of Christmas carols one night on the lower campus. Liter a number of discussion groups on the World Court were held under its direction. S.S.G.A. undertook direct management of Pitt Week this year. An attempt has been made to vitalize the Student singing by Staging a contest for new songs and by publishing a song book. A committee was appointed to manage the men's vocational conference and to Study the problem of vocational guidance in general; findings are to be reported to S.S.G.A. at the end of the academic year. The old Student Life and Interest Committee was renamed the Student Relations Committee, and with the consent of the Administration, made subsidiary to S.S.G.A. An appropriation was granted S.S.G.A. by the advisory board for expenditure on speakers for general assemblies. A committee has been working all year on this matter, but has experienced difficulties in getting speakers because of its late Start. Three other lines of work that are important were begun during the winter. One was the revision of the constitution, where plans are being considered for better representation, more efficient rules of business, and the possible establishment of a student court. A second is connected with curriculum; a committee will Study for several months matters such as examinations, the system of grading, dishonest practices in quizes, and the causes of the last. A third has to do with extra-curricular activities; a Study is being made of the desirability of the point scale idea and the best system for its enforcement. While the last two lines of activity are being carried out by committees whose power is purely advisory, it is thought by all concerned that this sort of thing is perhaps the most important work Student government can do. [7 8} $ Second Roto: Houston, Flouts. Smith. English, Hamlin. First Row: Long, Rome. Thompson, Wolford, Burgun, Toay, Decker Aubrf.y Wolford Margaret Thompson Helen Toay Kathleen Burgun Harry Decker, Dentistry Wayne English, Education Paul Flouts, Mines Lysbeth Hamilton, W.S.G.A. Fred Hamlin, Publications Ernest Houston, Business Ad. . President Vice President Secretary T reasurer Craig Long, College Elisa Jane Reynolds, W.S.G.A. Walter Rome, Music and Dramatics Anthony W. Smith, Minor Activities Robert Warnock, Athletics William Webb, Engineering ACTIVE MEMBERS [ 79 } ''Women's Self- (government lAssociation HE undergraduate women of the University govern themselves through the Women's Self-Government Association. The purpose of this body is “to footer a spirit of unity and loyalty to the University, to maintain high standards of academic and social life by increasing the sense of individual responsibility, and to regulate all matters pertaining to the student life of its members. W.S.G.A. was founded March 3, 1920, to replace the Women's Activities Association, the old governing body for women Students. Its first president was Rose Fine, College, '21. It is governed by three branches: the legislative, executive and judicial. The power of each branch is vested in a committee made up of representatives from the four classes, the Alumnae, and each school, in conjunction with faculty advisors and the Dean of Women. W.S.G.A. is active in numerous fields. It maintains the Student Lam Fund, from which any needy girl may borrow. It is concerned with the proper use and equipment of the women’s rest rooms in all the University buildings. It assists the Dean of Women in arranging and conducting annual Vocational Conferences for the women Students, as well as supervising housing Standards and conditions. The Question Marl(, the official publication of the organization, which appears at least four times each year, was put out this year under the editorship of Katherine Rowell, College, '28. It summarizes activities and gives information to new Students. The handbook for women Students, Vade Mecum, which appears annually upon the campus, was edited by Lucy Kennedy, College, ’27. It also gives useful information to new Students. Many social activities are conducted under the auspices of W.S.G.A. Lantern Night is held every fall to acquaint the Freshmen women with the customs and traditions of the University. The organization sponsors “Open Houses for all University Students. Book Teas are held monthly at which prominent persons speak; Sherwood Anderson Stands out among the notables this year. Teas are given annually to the various classes. The Senior Breakfast given each spring in honor of the Senior women is another important social event conducted by W.S.G.A. OFFICERS Margaret Thompson, Education. '26 Helen Weigel, Education, '27 . Gertrude Siegal, College, ’26 . Grace Hartmann, Education. '26 . . President Vice President Treasurer Secretar CLASS REPRESENTATIVES Elisabeth Brian. College. ’29 Margery Hewitt. College, '28 Marie Ewing, Education. '27 Helen Toay. Education. 26 . Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Top Row: Ewing, Baker, Hamilton, R. Lew, Harrolo. Second Rou-. Moore. Hervitt. Toav, Kennedy, Gretton, M. Levy. First Row: Briant. Hartmann, Weigel, Tompson, Siegal. Jennings, Thurber STUDENT LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION Roslind Levy, Education. '27 Anna Louise Baker, Education. ’16 Nelue Ash, College. 26 Emily Thurber, College. 27 . Nancy Jennings, College, 26 Florence Gretton, College, ’27 Lysbeth Hamilton, College. 26 . Betty Harrold, Education. ”27 Kathryn Rowell, College. 28 . Lucy Kennedy, College, ’27 . . . . Chdtrnuin Activities Committee . Chairman Educational Restarch Committee . . . Chairman Housing Committee . . Chairman Women's Rooms Committee . Chairman Student Loan Committee . . . Chairman Vocational Committee . . Chairman Organization Committee . Chairman Social Committee . . . . Editor Question Mark ..............................Editor Vade Mecum SENIOR COURT Helen Toay. Education, ‘26.............................................Chief Jidlice Katherine Coit, Education. '26.....................................Associate Judge Nancy Jennings, College. ’26.......................................Associate Judge Florence Hulton, College. ’26......................................Associate Judge Npllii. Ash, College. '26..........................................Associate Judge FACULTY ADVISERS Dean Thyrsa W. Amo Mrs. L. O. Lohst eter Dr. Florence Teagarden { 8l } — ‘Dental Student (council ACTIVE MEMBERS Charles Brand, '26 .... E. W. Paul, 28 Helen Gilmore, ’27 ... Treasurer Class of 1926 Class of 1928 W. A. Cromie A. A. Booth J. T. Donnelly J. W. Campbell C. E. Hunter J. K. Hackett M. H. Kenner J. H. Jones Miss M. V. Ledden Miss P. G. O'Leary T. O. Morcart J. L. O'Loughlin J. K. Painter K. L. Osborne J. R. Warnick C. M. Peters R. L. Sphar Class of 1927 T. M. Boggs, Jr. Class of 1929 F. B. Broderick J. C. Davis W. R. Dixon C. R. Marshall T. R. Kline M. V. Martin J. C. McBurney T. N. Murphy W. R. Petrie L. R. Price P. J. Rider W. H. Schuler REPRESENTATIVES “Dental Rays” T. N. Tough, '27 Dental Chorus (Not yet elected) Dental Band Dental Orchestra Dental Dramatics FACULTY ADVISERS Dr. F. C. Friesell Dr. W. F. Swanson Dr. J. B. Sutherland Dr. W H. Wright Dr. Robert Zugsmith f Sal Top Row: Schuler, Campbell, Jones, Davis, Spahr, Dickerson, Broderick. Third Row: Cromik, Warnock. Marshall, Painter, Osborne, Murphy, Kenner, Peters, Touch. Second Row: MacBurney, Bocos. Hackett. Martin, Morcart. Leddon, O'Leary, Hunter, Booth. Smith, Kline, Rider. First Row: Swanson. Wright, Nelson, Gilmore, Brand, Paul. Petrie, Sutherland THE Dental Student Council was first organized May 4, 1925. It consists each year of the president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer of each class, and a repre sentative for every fifty men in each class. It also has a representative from each student activity, and five faculty advisors appointed by the Dean. The purpose of the Dental Student Council is to promote the moral, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of the Students of the School of Dentistry. The Council has direction over all activities of the Dental School, including all legislative and advisory matters per taining to its Students. It is felt that this council will be a means of putting across to the Students a closer relationship between the Student body and the faculty, and to cultivate a greater interest in Dental Student activities. Several additions to the constitution have been made. Discussions were held about Cap and Gown ticket distribution, and this year the Dents will all sit in a body at the show. This will enable them to get as many good seats as the rest of the Student body. The Council is making further plans to see that the Dental School is represented in all University functions in the future. They are planning to organize boxing and wrestling teams; the basketball teams have been under way this past season. But boys, here is the best news of the Council. Start now to save your money and begin looking around for the “Girl;” the Council is planning an annual Dentil Ball. C 83 1 The 19 27 Owl 'Pitt 'Weel [may 20, 21, 22, 1925 j IE good old trada time of the year. spring, was come; the flowers that bloom in May were blooming, the weather was incomparable —'tis true! such a sky, such a sun! — and the end of the spring term was only two weeks away when the third annual Pitt Week began, May 20, 1925. The committee had been appointed early in February. There were George M. Durshinger, general chairman;W. S. G. McKee, busi' ness manager; John V. Watkins, J. Wray Connelly, Robert Fleming, Martha Schmucker, James Walsh, Charlotte Beachler, W. J. Dunford, F. C. Coulter, and Jeanne Muter, committee members. Wednesday afternoon the Freshmen and Sophomores started the program with a push' ball content on Ruskin Field. After about forty minutes of Strenuous pushing (“Very rude to push, ever, Mother said,“and awfully warm for the boys!”), time was called and a score of 5 to 1 in favor of the Freshmen announced by the referees. A tug of war between Dentil School and the School of Business Administration followed the pushball contest. This was won, not without a Struggle, by the Dents, who had the advantage, in the beginning, of more practice in pulling things anyhow. Twenty-one fraternity houses threw open their doors for the annual Migratory Dance in the evening. The houses were wonderfully lighted and decorated, the music was good, “double-shuffling” w'as the vogue and everyone had a jolly time going around everywhere and seeing everyone else. On Thursday afternoon a May Day Festival was held in Carnegie Music Hall, at which Miss Anne Schaab was crowned Queen of May. A gay spring play, The Trimplet,” was presented in honor of the new Queen. In the evening a Varsity Night program was given by some of our campus celebrities. Vaudeville arts, readings, and songs of all kinds were presented; and a forgotten line or a quavering voice were greatly enjoyed by the appreciative audience, which didn't miss a thing. With the soft, sw'eet twirring of violins or whatever it was, a gang of hearty campus girls dashed across the Stage and danced a classical dance. The audience howled. It was most surprising to find flowing draperies, soft music, slow movement, rhythm, and grace in the co-ed, w’hom one usually sees only rushing in and out of classes or up and down the hall. “Fancy, fancy, murmured the men. Sweet fancy!” sighed Mother. Fancy had a big part in the Cornet Solo given by Jimmie Murray and Obie Durnell, too. We have yet to hear Jimmie on the cornet, or obie either, for that matter. Among the other arts were an Apache dance and a clown skit. It was a pretty rough clown art, however; CM [85] we hear that Archie Laird almost broke his thumb, which was most an-noying—most annoying! Nine men were tipped by Omicron Delta Kap pa, honorary activities fraternity, after which the audience was sent home, the program being concluded. Dear audience! It was ready to go home, nearly worn out with clapping time and accompanying singers and a lot of other things. Friday was the big day. Early in the afternoon everybody lined up along the boulevard to get a good view of the races. It was a warm day and there was a big crowd. The atmosphere ■ was made considerably warmer, however, with the appearance of The Pittsburgh Roast, a burlesque publication of Sigma Delta Chi. We remember several of the articles. There was something about a Blew girl or was it a blue girl. And a lot of news in the Marriage License column. Headlines were lurid; scandal and dirt were approved, but only in a friendly, laughing way. Twas the spirit of comedy and ridicule, tra-la. First on the program came the girls scooter race, and it went fast. Scooters of all sizes and shapes were entered in this event, which was won by Miss Dorothy Russell, of Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity. The girls' roller-skating content was next. (Why, we should like to know, don't men enter these things?) Miss Nina Johnston, also a Kappa Alpha Theta, won the first place in this event. The famous Inter-fraternity Sweepstakes were won by Pi Lambda Phi. Oh, that was the event! The machines were made from scooters, old bicycles, and kiddie cars which the boys had been Stealing from all the neighborhood kids for the last few weeks. The whistle was blown and all these handsome cars Started gaily down the Street. Frank Keely came smiling through the first rush, pushed by a few of his Phi Gamm pledges — or was it a few of those Phi Gamm football men? At any rate, they pushed too hard around the turn. A few wheels came off, and the car Stopped. Several other airs piled up on the Phi Gamm one.They Stopped, too. Pi Lambda Phi managed to get through first, with Phi Kappa and Kappa Sigma placed second and third. Meanwhile all the little neighborhood kids had gathered around the wreckage at the bend, sobbing and yelling and claiming Stray wheels as their own. It was a touching scene! Friday evening the Pitt Week program came to a close with a University dance at Duquesne Garden. This was the largest dance held at Pitt since last Pitt Week; and a great deal of care was taken to secure order, the crowd being limited Striiftly to Pitt Students. [86} Tra'h'la, tradada! Beat the drums and blow the pipes! Pitt Weel( comes with Springtime, The gay time, the play time. (May it be a time of happy inconsequence!) We thinly it should be a time of happy inconsequence! (Spring makes us imagine that even this is poetry!) {S7} 'Pitt in the Tropics ONE of the most interesting of the year's achieve-ments was the establishment of research classes in Zoology at the Tropical Research Station at Kartabo, British Guiana. Kartabo is placed in the heart of the largest and least known jungle area in the world, about 5 degrees north of the equator. Dr. Samuel H. Williams, Professor of Zoology, who was in charge of the work, accompanied by three students, left early in May for the tropics. The first Stop was New Orleans. From there they went sailing on the Carribean, bound for Georgetown. Tropic seas, connoting romance and beauty and adventure, were all that could be expected. They had the adventure when their ship collided with a four-maSted schooner one dark and Stormy night. Of beauty and romance the hoys don't—or won't—say much. They drifted down through the West Indies and along the coast of Venezuela, through waters historic, famed with the names of Drake, Cortez, and Morgan. To keep up the scientific aspect of the trip, they grappled for sea-weed and trailed nets for pipe fishes, sea horses and marine crustaceans. Occasionally they played they were whalers and threw harpoons at porpoises. No great mortality among the porpoise tribe is reported, however. At Trinidad they visited pitch lakes and exchanged harpoons for cocoanuts, to throw at alligators. Dr. Williams went lizard hunting: he jerked some dead leaves from a palm tree, and disturbed some red wasps. The boys maintain that the professor outdistanced them all in his mad rush for the ship. Moral: don't disturb red wasps. At Brighton they witnessed a weird medicine dance, which lasted for several hours. The moon was full that night. And as the circle of onlookers murmured an unintelligible chant, the woman danced until she fell from exhaustion. The party Stayed in Trinidad for six days and would have Stayed longer; but time and British Steamship lines wait for no man, so they finally landed in Guiana. After securing supplies and servants at Georgetown they crossed the Demerara River to Vreedenhoop. There they boarded a miniature railway and travelled for eighteen miles through rice, cocoanut, and sugar plantations to Parikaon the west bank of the Essequibo River. The river is only fourteen miles wide at this point. Parika marked the end of land travel, and from then on they had to use the government Steamers. As the bait moved on into the interior, signs of human [SSI habitation gradually diminished and only a few scattered huts of the natives marred the jungle which lined both sides of the river. After an all day trip on the Esse-quibo, the bait turned into the Maza-runi, and after a few miles it reached His Majesty's Penal Settlement. From there the party had to travel in its own boats and canoes; jungle travelling be-gan in earnest. When the scientific equipment, supplies, and baggage were loaded, they proceeded up the Mazarunii with the aid of outboard motors, to the mouth of the Cuyuni River. There, on the river bank.at the junction of the two rivers. Stood the laboratory, facing the river and surrounded on three sides by the jungle. The Station itself pre-sented a variety of life. Friendly creatures such as tarantulas, termites, scorp' ions, murine ’possums, and lizards were numerous. Lit' tie pad-footed Gecko lizards curiously poked their heads from the crevices and cackled like chickens. Ma-guire,of Georgia, leaped for one and triumphantly yelled,“1 got him”; but all he had was a writhing tail which the animal had shed in order to escape. According to reports. the first night was a hectic one. As darkness settled, the two-toned cicadas began their concert; hundreds of seven-colored parrots assembled in the over-hanging bamboos for the night; bell birds uttered their resonant calls; “who-are-you V’asked their eternal question; red, howler monkeys made the forests resound with their awful yells; huge bats flew so close to their faces that the boys were forced toered mosquito nets over their cots. Several desires to see the States again were then expressed. Within a short time after the arrival of the group, a menagerie w as Started, and it was not long until agoutis, snakes, ant-eaters, sloths, and monkeys filled the cages. By the fifteenth of July the party was complete. It consisted of twenty Students, representing ten colleges and universities, with Dr. H. E. Enders, of Purdue University, as associate. Eich member of the party was assigned a special problem for Study, general ecological work constituting the assignments. Incidental Studies of the oxygent content of various small Streams, temperature “some oe the boys even visited a nearby village” f 901 4aa£ variations (imagine taking a sloth's temperature) in the three-toed sloth, bamboo growths, life histories of certain moths and butterflies, cannabalism among certain snakes, and so forth, were made. The party found toads that carry their young in pouches on their backs, tree frogs of green and scarlet, snakes that travel from tree to tree, lizards without legs, fish that leave their ponds and roam about in the jungle, blind snakes that burrow in the ground, damsel flies six inches long — and thousands of other interesting forms. Meal time was always interesting. They never knew if they were going to have alii' gator steak or fried monkey? How would you like a nice roaSt leg of baboon? Lizard con' somme is an excellent entree. If they didn't care for any of these, there were labas, iguana, and agoutis to pick from; and, of course, there were always native fruits and vegetables. The rivers were full of interesting kinds of fishes, among which were the Perai which are dangerous, and the Biara which has two teeth in the lower jaw that are so long that they extend through holes in the top of the head. Catfish weighing over one hundred pounds and fresh water flying fish were common. Dr. Williams tried to capture a puny nineToot snake, peaceably sleeping in the river. All it did to him was overturn his dugout, lash his face, and almost drown him. Behold the vidor (pidured here) presenting his trophy. The Indians of the region Still hunt and fish with blow guns and bows and arrows. They were not always friendly but were never hostile. Some of them eat ants and insed larvae. Nice people! They were very obliging about posing for pidures, and some of the boys even visited a nearby village. The summer went by, all too quickly. JuSfc about the time that they were getting aC' cuStomed to cork helmets and mosquito netting and snakes' liver and bacon the word came to pack up. Once Started, the time went slowly enough till they were Kick again in the “States,” back with a coat of tan, some marvelous photographs, and a willing' ness to talk about their “adventures in the “jungle.” Our chief regret is that we couldn't goalongand have something to talk about. But seriously, the party must have had a wonderful experience and the University should be proud of its giving such opportunity to aspiring zoology. DR. WILLIAMS AND HIS “PUNY NINE'FOOT snake [ 91} The University (§tudio of K DTiy f SUCH a thing as a Campus of the Seven League Boots” is a twentieth century reality. and anyone who has a good receiving set cm be in on it.The boots that such a campus dons are light, fairy things, travelling through space and carrying their laid almost around the world. By means of the University Studio, the University has extended its campus over the whole of the United States, and farther, to South America, Africa, and Europe. The 1925-1926 season of braidcasting from the University studio was opened on October 5 by Chancellor Bowman, who gave a talk on Spare Moments. Thereafter, fifteen minute programs were broadcast every night in the week except Saturday and Sunday, as a regular part of the KDKA evening entertainment. The program for the year was arranged according to the types of broadcasts which seemed to give the radio listeners the greatest satisfaction. Mondays were known as Book Nights, the programs consisting of book reviews or of readings and discussions from Standard literature. Tuesday evenings were devoted to series of a cultural nature; Wednesday evenings, to the science series, which proved remarkably popular among high school Students all over the country. Current Events talks were scheduled for Thursdays, and special features, usually by Student organizations, were given on Friday evenings. Monthly Health talks were also given, by members of the Medical School. Among the special features broadcast were concerts by the Glee Clubs, plays by the Pitt Players, and a Christmas Eve entertainment. Mayor Kline, Chancellor Bowman, Dean Manley, and the Honorable James Francis Burke made addresses from the University Studio during the Pittsburgh Forward movement sponsored by the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. No credit was offered for this phase of University work, but for those who wished something more than just listening-in. Radio Publications were issued in connexion with talks that came in series of six or more. These publications usually appeared at the conclusion of a series. They contained the talks exactly as they had been given over the radio, together with lists of reading references for supplementary Study. So any Student on this Campus of the Seven League Boots, who missed a lecture,could simply write in to the Studio for a copy of it. [9 1 The 19 27 Owl 1Deities IN SPITE OF OUR COOL, AGNOSTIC SOPHISTICATION, WE HAVE TO ADMIT THE EXISTENCE AND WOR' SHIP OF CERTAIN LOCAL IDOLS s Our 'Bam HE barn of the old Frick estate, now known as the Shacl{, the Student Union, the Weekly Dump, the Panther Hole, the Owl Shanty, etc., is the dilapidated little edifice back of the Retail Research Bureau on Frick Acres. With the building of the Cathedral it may not be here much longer. Many are the scenes that have enacted thenv selves in the shabby little retreat since the days when it housed the aristocratic Frick horses and cows. The horses and cows have been replaced by the Weekly, the Panther, and the Owl; the occasional chicken that used to Stroll into the barn, by a co-ed painter from the Pitt Players; and the Stray goat by the ticket seeker hunting Loew's Aldine passes. A wealth of tradition has grown up around this sprawly old lean-to. Here, after the day's work is done, the Weekly, Panther, and Owl staffs, like mischievous groups of overgrown school boys who have rigged up imitation offices for themselves out in empty Stalls of the old barn — offices almost like the real thing — gather together and play in seriocomic earnestness at putting out real, honeSt-to-goodness publications. Pitt Player artists all dressed up in smock and tarn, paint industriously at scenery for the next play. The business Staffs of the three publications bring in ads and collect actual money juSt like real barons of industry. The whole place swarms continually with busy, happy Students. On Monday nights, the little Weekly office, filled with smoke, laughter, and the clatter of half a dozen typewriters, is a scene of wild confusion. Articles are written and revised; news pours in from all parts of the campus; reporters go out and in on last minute assignments; and, amidst all the noise, phone calls are shouted out at the top of hoarse voices. By six o'clock most of the Staff has cleared away, and only seven or eight workers remain to put the paper together. At seven, someone goes out with indefinite pecuniary contributions and vague instructions concerning something to eat. On his return, the whole office is at once up and in arms, and the riot continues until the laSt morsel of food has been eaten by someone it didn't belong to. The work goes on into the wee sma' hours until all the news is revised and assembled and all the heads are written. The Weekly Staff, at last, adjourns with sleepy “good nights as the various members turn homeward. Across in another Stall are boxes of Pitt Players tapestries, costumes, curtains, pictures, and scenery. Miniature sets lie around on the boxes. Student artists make most of the scenery, paint the pictures and tapestries, and arrange the sets. Then there is the Panther office, with humorous magazine covers pasted all over two walls and a recently repaired window through which the Weekly Staff snow-balled the occupants at the last snow fall. Here jokes shake the very sides of the little Kirn with laughter. Giricatures and comedy are turned out by the bale. And the business part of the work goes on: contracts, advertising, exchange with other magazines, collections — all back in a Stall of the old barn. And of course there's the Owl office, with its desks and typewriters and piles of copy. Here a third group of Students work for months on the Junior year book. Material on all the campus organizations comes in a Steady Stream. The Staff works all year assembling the book.........and here is the result. No other building on the campus has more traditions grouped around it than our miniature Latin Quarter. Only the thought of the Githcdral can reconcile us to the loss of our playhouse. I 95} The Owl JUST how to give yourself an artistic pat on the back in the most graceful way is indeed a problem. To make your own write up is, similarly, a rather ticklish proposition. Other organizations confidently leave the matter in our hands, reasonably sure that we will say some nice things about them. But for us to tell the Story of our Owl: The first thing in order is to introduce the Family Circle — the Staff, you know. Don Brown, editor of the 1926 Owl, suggested names of those who he thought would be capable of editing the 1927 book. Acting on his suggestion, an editor'in-chief was selcrted by a committee composed of Mr. Hoehl, Mr. Gould, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Gow, and Don himself; the winner of a contest in which those competing their ideas as to what the latest edition of the Owl should be, Mr. Lee Alfred McClung, to be exact was given the honor of guiding its destinies. Then the Assistant Editor-in-chief and the Literary Editor and all the Associates were picked. If you care to know who they were, see page 118. Alarge stiff of sub editors and assistants anJ apprentices was slowly gathered together and organized. The matter of bringing up the Child, or Owlet, if you will, in the way it should go was considered. What was the Owl to be? The general theme of Industrialism, formulated in Lee's eleven-page outline, left much room for difference of opinion. Finally, after much argument, Elwood and Lee sneaked into the Blind Department of Carnegie Library one day, and fought out between them the definite ideas of content and form and make-up. An earthquake was recorded in Italy that day. These ideas were published, in pamphlet form, to tell the campus what the Owl Staff hoped to do, the first time an advertising broadside was ever published in connexion with a Student adivity. Here are some of the things it said: “It is going to be a University Animal. Its interests will be the interests of the University, its Alumni, and its friends. It will be of a type worthy of the dignity that the word, university, has come to connote. “It will be dedicated to the thing from which the inspiration for the Cathedral of Learning came, the Industrial Spirit of Pittsburgh. To carry out this industrial theme, a unique type of art work has been developed. It will not be expressed in the con ventional kind of collegiate drawing but by a conception of genuine artistic power, carried out by students under expert su pervision. This theme will be so •' V-' it t an v V ■ [96} .ainon applied as to bind together the entire book into one symmetric whole.” On Fridays the whole family would meet at the Ruskin for luncheon to discuss write-ups and call-downs and progress in collecting material. These weekly luncheon meetings were later transferred to the Sigma Chi house and supplemented with Wednesday evening meetings. Sigma Chi's neighbors thought that representatives from a matrimonial bureau were calling for dinner. But we had nice chaperones! Social activities, however, didn’t tike up all the time. Mos't of the State Hall people found that out when the Owl office had its little nook in 104. The Panther and Weekly discovered it, too, when the office was moved to the Barn in Frick Acres, thanks to Stone and Webster. Every day during the 'tween semester vacation the entire Owl Staff had to report for work. We didn't have a time clock, but we kept a roll book. We had only one worry ; we were afraid that Elwood and Lee would Starve to death because they never had enough time to eat. Frank Curtin finally devised the plan of hiding a cracker under his coat when he left the cafeteria and bringing it down to divide between the two. Curtin's happy thoughts more than once have saved the day. Lee put a sign on the wall—“Wanted: 30,000 words”—and daily he reduced it by a hundred or so 'til it was most all gone. And so the Stack of copy in the filing case grew. There are one or two things we have omitted in this growth of an Owl. The Story of the pictures is, and rightly should be, a feature Story. Early in December, the photographer arrived from the White Studio, New York. Working with him. Crane Remaley did the remarkable thing of setting up a Studio in the Stadium. By the end of January all the photographs had been madeandall the proofs had been returned. Material was ready for the printers. Page five ninety-three,” says Lee. What are we going to put on it?” “Here's a picture,” says Elwood. Page five ninety-four,” says Lee. We hope you will not think 1927 Owl an unpleasant child, not to your liking, or a vain one. Straining for effect, or anything else like that. There are lots of things on which you could have helped us. Many people have spent many nights bringing up the Owl, trying to make it as full and wise as a well-bred bird should be. You may read every line from cover to cover; or, what is more probable, you may read only your own fraternity, club, or dance news. You may not like our pictures or our Stories, think our setfions silly. We hope you won't, of course, but some of you will; and people will go round campus saying how much worse than usual is this year's Owl. We try to take it philosophically. [97} historical ‘Review of 'Pitt Panther IT IS one of the idiosyncrasies of the people of today to delve into the Stygian mysteries of the past, to open the closet and search the contents, be it either skeleton or coat of arms. It is to cater to this taste that this article was written. (Whew! It was a hard job making up an excuse for this article.) Well, anyhow, years ago, before college comics drew their material from VoUtead and Percy Marks, in 1914 to be exact, Pitt's jack'of'all'trades, George M. P. Baird, by name, decided that the Pitt Students ought to have a lot of things to laugh about and make others laugh. Wherewith he called together the formidable gathering composed of the intellectual elite of the University; namely, Messrs. Sid Hoehl, Dick McDaniel, George Ketchum, Louis Broido, and others. At this meeting was born and fostered the idea of a humorous monthly. There was a long controversy over the name of the proposed magazine. Finally the list of proposed names was cut down to two: the Pitt Panther and the Piper. The vote Stood 4'4, and the gang was in a dilemma. (The preserved dilemma may be seen in the trophy room.) Finally somebody woke up and made the vote 5-4 in favor of, well, you know. The next question was to select an editor. This meeting was being held on November 25, 1914; the aroma of turkey permeated the corridors of Alumni Hall—or what was to be Alumni Hall six years later. The boys became restless, which is the same thing as becoming hungry, and the result was that Sid Hoehl became the first editor of the Pitt Panther with A. B. Divvens, a Sigma Chi, as business manager. Sid Hoehl put out four issues that first year, and to him goes the credit and esteem of having given the Pitt Panther such a good Start that through its subsequent history it [98! neither floundered nor flopped, which is a trifle more than can be said of certain other things started around here. All Hail to Hoehl! Louis Broido succeeded Sid Hoehl with Eddie Lavitz as his business manager. Louis Broido in turn was succeeded by Ralph “Slicky Emerson, a Phi Delt. The momentum given the paper by these early men sent the Pitt Panther on its way merrily. During the war, when everylxxly was fighting for some sort of liberty, including women, a Pitt Co ed, Beryl Pape, assumed charge of the editing of the Panther. During her administration the Panther went on the wane, which means the same thing as going on a spree. While her erst' while Staff members went off to fight for the right of freedom, she fought for freedom of the press. Her successor was not appointed due partly to the loss of Staff members on account of the war and partly to the University censor's unsympathetic attitude towards Beryl's efforts at freedom of the press. During the following year, 1918, Pitt merely existed, for the Panther was not being printed. The members of O.D.K. noticed the tragic decline of the entire school's morale and accordingly got together in 1919 to reorganize the Panther and ap' pointed Dick Love and Frank Maxfield as editor and business manager respectively. The remarkable rise of the Pitt Panther from those early days is a matter of common knowledge. This year the Panther has reached its highest level both on and off the campus. Allow me a word in its current history. This year's editor is Hugh J. Crossland; his business manager, Harold Kaminsky. The innovations and improvements effected by Hugh J. are worthy of epitomizing. The issues average eight pages more than the issues of previous years. One issue, a Holiday number, was so impressive that it received national publicity. (We reproduce the cover to show one reason why it did.) The school year saw the publication of ten issues, the large number ever put out by the Panther. As a ep in developing friendly relations between Pitt and Carnegie, a collaborate number was put out by the combined affs of the Carnegie Tech Puppet and the Pitt Panther. But the mo notable achievement was the position given the Panther by the Associated College Comics of the Ea as one of the five be papers of the Ea , to say nothing of the office of Secretary-Treasurer given the Panther editor, Hugh J. Crossland, as an appreciation for the meritorious service given the Asso' ciation by the Pitt Panther. The Pitt Panther is now an established in itution at the University, and a complimentary credit to it. May the ensuing years entail its preservation and development. [ 99 } 1 ‘Pitt ‘Weekly SURELY no one doubts that the Put Weekly is the University's broadcaster of news and a dired descendent of the College Journal. As a Student directory the Prom Pom vouches for its extensive and elastic mast head. The Pom does so facetiously, of course, for some forty Staff members is not the number “in toto” of the last University registration. Another aspect of its value as the college journal is the make-up of its masthead, somewhat after the fashion of a Student theme: Roman numeral one editor-in-chief and business man' ager; Roman numeral two—body of theme—editors and managers; Roman numeral three — conclusion—the reporters who, we conclude, are responsible for the make-up of the paper. 3ljr piUoluirah Rou; ------TtIV -------- Fraternity Men Arrested For Keeping Chorus Girls BOOKMAKERS ACTIVE Pitt Students Finally Crown Dean Fizell As Czar mat (muss Shis i m fii aTET. mi nuniuu sxsisr'eSS � « ' mw h jri if ami T-jf, mi lilt HIM g ■- ■ � � • Fashioned as a newspaper, the Put Weekly contains news items, society announcements, comment columns, humor, notices, advertisements, and above all, editorials. After all, a newspaper is a medium of expression between the feelings of the readers and the writers who endeavor to report or express such feelings. This year, due to the efforts of Donald B. Brown and Harry W. Sack, who the first and second semesters respectively deserved the name of Editor-in-Chief, the editorial column took definite place in the Weekly and in the attention of the student body. The front page improved upon the newspaper model in containing only news of clean, important interest. “Ooing, Ooing, Chum stars as humor material. It is a column “after these famous lines”: Once a pig mliceman Saw a little hint, Sitting on a surb comb, Ooing ooing chum. This column serves as a student resume of almost everything in the way of local student life, and human nature in general. The alumni page is responsible for the copious mailing list which must be filled out weekly. Again, as a college paper, the Weekly keeps the student body and the graduates informed as to what each is accomplishing. [ ioo ] The questions and answers fostered by the Weekly cannot help but unite the opinion and thoughts of the Students. “Gimpus Comment” and “Communications” bid fair to hold their own as Weekly features. Is it hard or easy to write and manage a school paper? Come to the Barn any Friday or Monday and find out. Fridays, the office overflow’s w’lth reporters who secure assignments; Mondays, the office overflows with reporters who arc writing assignments; Monday night, the editor overflows with suppressed emotion and nervous energy and drastic resolutions in order that the paper may come out on time. The Pitt Weekly always has done so. It probably always will, for surely with leaders at its head and with the co operation of its innumerable reporters, many of whom are Freshmen, and therefore trad' able, and with the growing interest of the Student body, the Pitt Weekly will be a true college journal and a worthy descendent of the College Journal. And yet the paper is still restless and dissatisfied. In the “wee, sma‘ hours” of Monday nights, when the nightmare of industry in the little Kirn reaches its height, the editors conceive w’ild fantasies of future greatness. Next year, they dream, the masthead will be stretched to make a complete campus directory. All incoming Freshmen will become automatically members of the staff. Two more broken type' writers will ornament the already crowded des s. Three more editorial positions will come into existence. And then.........then the Weekly will turn into a semi'weekly. Soon afterward, the editor of the Weekly will take over the duties of the chancellor and inaugurate his pet policies in the University. His election as president will soon repeat the precedent set by the career of Mr. Woodrow Wilson. About this time, the editor suddenly realizes that he must hurry if he is to get home and back in time for his first Tuesday class. The staff plunges feverishly back into its work with the idea of a bi weekly still in mind. They recover most of their sanity before the next Monday nightmare, but they still look forward to two issues a week. They look forward to other improvements, too. Sumptuous offices on the fifty-first story of the Gtthedral of Learning, genuine mahogany desks with three telephones on each, beautiful stenographers with red hair and blue eyes, and, last, typewriters that type, all eventually having places in the realm of that future Daily. [ ioi } 'Pitt Players FOR the past few years the Pitt Players have formed the only serious dramatic effort on the campous. When Chancellor Bowman came to Pitt all Studies in the fine arts were removed to Gimegie Tech. The Players are a relic of that happy time when the University had Studies in music and art and aesthetics as well as Engineering and Business Administration. Handicapped at every turn, the Players have “carried on under tre' mcndous difficulties. With no theatre, no properties except those they made themselves, hardly any place to rehearse, and little money, their productions are rarely appreciated in the light of the troubles producing them. Membership in the Players is Strictly limited to those who try out on a selected sketch before Mrs. Laurence I. MacQueen, the coach. Annually about a hundred people try out for casting Staff, from which about thirty are selected. Many campus leaders have counted Pitt Players as their first activity. Another boast of the Players, if they would, could be their splendid spirit of cooperation. To the outsider the lack of friction between the various parts of the organization is a revelation. In an activity where personal feelings usually play a large part, the submergence of the personal element is remarkable. To a disinterested person, knowing them, the credit is entirely due to their coach, Mrs. MacQueen. Besides a close personal loyalty, the Players have given her their united Strength for the betterment of campus drama. Understanding both her material and the individual Student, beyond most campus activity leaders, she has taught not only the mechanics of Stage production and the elements of voice control, but that indefinite thing that goes to make up the fine spirit of the organization. Almost unnoticed by the average person who goes to a Heinz House production are the Stage and scenery. Never seen are the intricate electric lighting effects of the Stage. Everything is due to the ingenuity of Mr. E. Willis Whited. Four years ago, the prop' erties of Pitt Players included a portable platform and part of a set of drapes. Now they own one of the best portable Stages in the country with almost a complete electrical equip' ment. A peep into the Players technical room down in the Barn on Frick Acres reveals an immense amount of material. C ioa } The r-JXCC' f THE Y hut, which, during the last Christmas vacation, was felonously, stealthily, and prayerfully embezzled from its former location on Thackeray Street and quietly hidden down behind the upper dentil building, has not yet been found by a few woozy Students who, in their college daze, were in the habit of wandering in only occasionally. All the details of the affair did not come to light until the recent trial of the executive secrctiry and his accomplices which has not yet been given out for general publication. M. D. Straney, executive secretary, D. B. Brown, former president, George Main, pres-ident, and A. F. W. Randolph, who had been selling dictionaries in the hut when the two were last seen together, were arraigned before Magistrate J. G. Bowman of Morals Court and charged with the crime. They finally confessed that they had done it as a practical joke on Jim Godfrey, famous Y cook, who had to sleep on the corner of Thackeray and Fifth Avenue for three nights before he found the hut again. Magistrate Bowman fined Secretary Straney ten cents to buy cough drops to cure the cold Jim had contracted and told the culprits not to do it again. The haSty removal and reconstruction of the hut resulted in several serious mistakes. Due to criminal mismanagement on the part of those involved, a door missed its calling and now serves as an ornament in the wall, twenty feet above the floor. The Stage has vanished completely, and some allege that Mr. Straney took it home for his six-year-old son to play on. The office and the lunch counter got separated so that the executive secretary receives dozens of applications for hot dogs daily.The stoves are said to be hidden up in a room behind the mysteriously suspended door; at any rate, the practical jokers had an entire new system of Steam heat installed. The tables became so shifted about that they are now' in very neat, orderly rows. The articles which the conspirators forgot in [ 10$ 3 their haSte leave plenty of room in the main lobby of the hut and space enough for a large conference room seating sixty people. After the committee appointed for the purpose by S.S.G.A. has investigated the mysterious door, which has caused numerous Strained necks among curious Students, the hut will be a greater success than ever, with Jim God' frey's cooking growing better every day, if possible, and the walls all repainted. (Some maintain that in their hurry the embezzlers put the walls up wrong'side out and thus gave the impression of fresh paint.) A few days after the disappearance of the hut, Jim Godfrey discovered it and went to work cooking hot dogs. The aroma attracted the Student body from all over the campus, and on Monday, February 8, the executive secretary gave up trying to hide the hut and declared an open house at which free hot dogs, Steam heat, music and a speech by J. Steele Gow were plentifully distributed. The open house was one of the biggest events in the fourteen years' history of the Pitt Y.M.C.A. Hundreds of unsuspecting victims passing by the upper dental buildings slipped and shot down the icy hill into the back door of the ”Y” hut much to the amusement of the hilarious onlookers. After being thus duly initiated, each one received his assigned hot dog and a seat by the window where he might see the next aCt in the continual neck-breaking performance. Since then the hut has resumed its old routine: Gap and Gown tryouts, “Y” meetings, social hours, suppers and the daily lunch. And though there may Still be a few students who haven't yet found it, it has once more become the largest meeting place on the campus. ( jo-ed ‘Prom THE gala day was September twenty'fifth when the Women's Athletic Association sponsored the Co-ed Prom, unique in its lack of masculine accessories. Brothers, fathers, friends, and sweethearts — all had their clothes ruthlessly confiscated by daring Amazons who, garbed in knickers, tuxedos, and plain suits, escorted the frosh to the Heinz House. Kipling said, “The female of the species is more deadly than the male.” Judging from the appearance some of the girls made, the men have something to fear.The Freshmen renewed their childhood days by dressing as babies. Some in rompers, some feeling natural in short skirts, and Still others industriously sucking peppermint Sticks, were initiated into their first prom. The feature of the evening was a mock wedding ceremony, unusual in that the groom was not nervous but was Strangely elated, being an exception to most grooms. Emmajunge and Jessie Tufts were awarded the prize for the best dressed couple. Mirth, frivolity and youthful ex-uberance reigned supreme, interspersed with shouts of laughter when a particularly incongruous-looking “man'' passed by. I 104 1 cmio JJeinzJfouse THE Heinz House, that gabled, many windowed bungalow against the side of the hil! above Alumni Hall, affords a hospitable welcome to the Students and visitors of the University of Pittsburgh, and at all times Stands as a campus home for those co-eds who feel dragged down by Alumni Hall classes. It is in the fall, however, that the Heinz House literally throws open its doors to all the co-eds. Those co-eds juSt matriculating find the wide porch with its flowered, cretonned wicker furniture a refuge and comfort from the bewilderment of the registration ordeal. Behind the Martha Washington geraniums and Boston ferns topping the porch railings, the new co-eds may sit and talk over fragrant cups of Orange Pekoe with the older girls and with their big sisters. Inside, the light of a lone log glowing in the fire-place, and touching with bronze and orange the framed Cathedral of Learning panel over the mantel piece, adds warmth and cheer to the Heinz House welcome. Once each year at Christmas time the Heinz House has a Christmas tree, Christmas toys, Christmas candy, and Christmas cheer, for the little children from Soho Day Nursery, whom the Y.W.C.A. delight with a true Christmas party. Goin' up to the ‘Friendship Factory’ to-nite?” is a question often asked on Monday nights during the school year. To those unacquainted with Pitt customs, a Heinz House “Open House is a dance given through the generosity of some campus organization to which everyone is welcome. The only requirement for admission is a congenial spirit. One does not exaggerate to call it the “Friendship Factory.” It is the most democratic feature of the campus. There both fraternity and non-fraternity people have a common, social meeting-ground. As the roof is your introduction, it does not take long for even the most retiring soul to get acquainted. Friendships Started here have lasted through college days and sometimes — beyond. Almost every new Student on the campus blesses it as a place where he, or she, can go and, meeting people indiscriminately, make friends. And so, at 9 o'clock on some Monday evenings, when you see Students in groups or in pairs or singly going up to the Heinz House, you know the “Friendship Factory is at work. [ 105 3 'Book Teas A BOOK TEA is not like an or dinary tea, for, with tea and cakes, there are books, and besides the social atmosphere there is a literary one. Six of these teas were given by W.S.G.A. as a part of their work this year. Up to the time the Owl went to press, two teas had been given. For the first one, held Decembcr2o,i925, Sherwood Anderson was secured to add to the literary part of the program. All Students, particularly female, agree that it was unconstitutional for anyone as unromantic and of the earth as Mr. Anderson to lx given such a name as Sherwood, that breathes all over of Robin Hood and his Merry men, of poetry and adventure. Alas for Mr. Anderson! He has no more ideals and illusions! He sees sordid life as it is. It is a tile 'Told by an idiot, Full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Mr. Anderson is not quite aloof enough for that. His feet are in the earth. And on the college campus he is out of place. He was out of place in the Heinz House. The second tea was held on January 13. The literary flavor was supplied by Dr. Hoyt Hopewell Hudson, Professor of English at the University, who discussed the recent novel. Soundings. Dr. Hudson’s talk was very much enjoyed. The principal charaders in the Story of the Book Teas are, of course, the speakers. The committee in charge is next. And then among the gueSts we have numerous faculty members and Students. The English department turned out nobly. The Book Teas alone have afforded the faculty and the Student body an opportunity for literary discussion in a social way. Their popularity has been an encouraging note in Pitt's literary life. [ 106 } Miss Betty Anderson Inter-(fraternity :Ball THE annual Inter'Fraternity Ball opened the big season for formats—or the season for big formats, if you will — of the University. It was held, under the chairmanship of William Foraker, at the Hotel Schenley on January 15, 1926, from nine to two. At ten o'clock Mr. Foraker and Miss Betty Anderson led the grand march through the ball room. Large shields, bearing the Greek letter insignia of the fraternities represented in the Inter'Fraternity Council, decorated the walls of the Blue Room swung with bands of gold and blue. At the head of the Kill room, ju$t beneath the large University shield. Miss Anderson presented the favors to the three hundred and some couples. These favors [ io7 } were little leather cases containing the names of the various fraternities represented and the order of the dances. “Bennie” Kreuger's Brunswick Recording Orchestra had been secured to provide the music. Throngs of enthusiastic dancers gathered around to hear Bennie do tricks with his “sax.” Facing the orchestra was the microphone installed by Station KDKA, broadcasting the latter part of the evening's program. Music by the University Quartet, singing several University songs not heard since football time and other popular numbers was another feature. Between dances there was a general rush for the seats beneath the palms, which gave a sort of Florida atmosphere, don't you know. At twelve o'clock light refreshments of punch and cake were served. Bennie swallowed a few cakes, grabbed his sax, started to play, and dancing began again, to continue with scarcely any intermission, until two o’clock. COMMITTEE William Forakkr, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.Chturman Jason E. Stone, Sigma Chi Milton Harris, Phi Epsilon Pi Clyde Barton, Kappa Sigma John Cost, Phi Delta Theta Barton, Harris, Foraker, Stone, Cault [ 108 3 Miss Katherine Dennv Junior Prom SOMEWHERE in the book the question is asked what Pitt would do if requested to move weSt.The Junior Prom committee muft have misunderstood; they very effectively transferred us to Spain. The old Blue Room of the Schenley, scene of many college “affairs.” was hardly recognizable with its hangings of red and yellow. From each of the panels hung the quartered and barred flags of Castile, Aragon, and Leon but imprinted with the Pittsburgh seal. Great fancy lanterns of brilliant blue and gold silk swayed on ropes of smilax from the ceiling, while “Chub” Steinberg’s orchestra played from a Spanish patio. Off to one side, almost unnoticed but contributing to the general effect, an oasis of palms and ferns sheltered those chaperones and patrons who were not dancing. While the atmosphere was Spanish, the traditional languor of Spain was missing. Tambourine and caftanets and guitar gave place to “sax” and banjo and “Sousa phone.” [ 109 1 Tango and tarentella were forgotten while modern “shufflers with smarting shins cussed the Charleston. But the whole was but a setting for a single idea. To the ladies, that toaSt, old as Ben Johnson's sonnets, was the word of the evening. The men, somber in black and dead white, collegiate in the sense that means the gentleman rather than the bizarre boy, formed a contrasting dilutant for a flaming host of color and beauty. Weaving in and out, fusing and disappearing, were tints and shades, paStels and solid colors, to make up a living rainbow. The languorous cling of Spanish shawls gave the make-believe world a touch of reality. Velvets and chiffons and georgettes and all the rest of the things, that a mere man only knows he enjoys but is hopelessly lost in naming. Struck the fashion note of the moment. To mention beauty is a task we leave to a worthier pen. From ten o'clock, when Chairman Joe Gaynor led Miss Katherine Denny, gowned in pink georgette with a gorgeous Spanish shawl, between the vine-draped pillars of the ballroom entrance, the success of the Prom was assured. Down the ballroom swept the long procession, weaving in and out in serpentine fashion, to receive their favors and programs. In harmony with the general scheme were the favors, heavy Cordovan bracelets bearing the university seal. In the hubbub, the excited buzz of Is your program complete? seemed to absorb all attention. The senoritas-for-the-evening gathered in knots, admiring the favors, the decorations — perhaps, themselves — while the men moved to and fro asking the general question. But a peep over the dark shoulders revealed quite a few X's on the white page. Not to be forgotten is the dinner served at twelve o'clock in the main dining room. Two services were necessary to accommodate the three hundred and fifty couples. Remember your hasty search through all your pockets for the check and the gasp of relief as it was found in that laSt pocket? But why worry about such trifles? Beneath each plate was a Prom Pom Buzzard _ • oxr oin«� SAMUEL BLACK LJNHART MARRIES urn cunt ii urn fii • lAiatun Omm fcmt On l«Mq T. v - -7 [ no ] y copy of the Pront'Pom Buzzard, as scurrilous and caustic as usual. Faces were interesting as they found some comment on themselves or their friends. But soon they were all back to the dance floor. (Did we say “all''?) Perhaps it was our imagination, but was the music just a little more dreamy and the lights dimmer than before? At any rate the laughter was a bit subdued and the “pep,'' that marked the earlier part of the evening, a little less. But two o'clock came all too soon. As the music died away, the rush for the check rooms brought everyone away from Spain to Pittsburgh. February sixth was climbing into the sky as fleets of Yellows” and “Greens” and Packards and Fords rolled away — home. COMMITTEE Joseph Gaykor . Chairman Anne Barrett Marshall Beatty T. B. Broderick I. M. Cowell Thomas Hogan William Howell Stanford Jones Walter Leonard Harold Lowell Anna Bess Matthews John B. McCrady Michael Orris Milton Safier Venus Shakarian Mary Florence Taylor Top Row: Howell, Sapier. Beatty, Mows, McCrady. Second Row: Leonard, Ho 3an. Orris. Jones, Broderick. Front Row: Taylor, Boggs, Shakarian, Gaynor. Mathews, Cowell. Barrett { HI 1 Senior:Ball THE Intef'Fraternity Ball was in January, Junior Prom was in February, the fraternity formals were in March — and along in April came Senior Rill. It was held at a gay time of the year, the time when libraries seemed dark, when people liked to tike walks over campus, and when everything was gentle, and happy, the way it usually is in spring. The end of college life for the seniors was very near then, and they were beginning to feel gentle about a lot of things. They had repented of most of their sins and they wanted to be happy those laSt few months. So every one was in the proper mood for enjoying Senior Rill. Everybody wanted to have a good time, and it was the work of the committee to see that they did. Music, decorations, programs, and favors committees were appointed by ‘’Buck Templeton, chairman of the committee. The entire group was so well organized that the program planned was excellent. The orchestra was of the best; the decorations were lovely, and the favors and programs were clever; all of which served to make the Ball especially enjoyable. Most of the Senior class, of course, was there. Seniors, who had felt no obligation or inspiration to go to Junior Prom, did not f.iil to go to Senior Ball. And those who had gone to Junior Prom with a patronizing air, went to Senior Ball without it. The crowd at Senior Ball was a little taller than the Junior Prom crowd. It was a little more sure of itself, too, being a year older, and more familiar, the way people are at farewell dinners, only this was a dance. 4 Second Row: Warnock. Snyder, Schnabel, Altman. First Row: Jordan, Templeton. Weigel, Sack [ ill] COMMITTEE Pal l Templeton Chairman COLLEGE Betty Anderson Martha Miller William Jordan EDUCATION Pauline Lincenfelser Anna Louise Baker Helen Weigle BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Axel Anderson Jason E. Stone Frank Sack Jack Sciinoble Robert Warnock DENTISTRY Frantz Snyder Fred Altman I nj 1 “Coal barges, a blast furnace spouting flame, steel bars on a jogging freight— The chain of industry. zNCills at Night RODERICK MACKENZIE DIVISIONAL STAFF Alice P. Fehr . Eloise Bomhard Lucy Kennedy Marion Eitel ............................Associate Editor ...................Organization Editor CONTRIBUTORS Hester Scheinman APPRENTICES Harriet Mitchell Duella S. Stranahan Secretary Organizations THE soundness and certainty in the term organization conveys an idea of system, order, and definite development. An organization can only he formed with purpose, thought, ability on the part of its members to master difficulties, and cooperation. It must he remembered, too. that each group attempting to organize must he stimulated by a definite aim, and, in proportion to its executive power and cooperation, must accomplish its purpose. But an organization, no matter how altruistic and noble its aim, becomes a worthless mechanism when its members are so combined and its divisions of labor so divided that it needs president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, a variety of secretaries, librarian, and so on; not contented with such a leading force, it continues parcelling out the work into committees. Hence, with seemingly every member serving in some important capacity, it seems that the members of the organizations might be playing a game. Because only one can be Farmer in the Dell, the others must be pacified with minor positions from the nurse on down to the cheese. Continuing the simile, when the poor cheese “Stands alone,” the organization has fallen apart; the bonds such as they were have severed; the Sir Galahad Grail has been lost. JuSt so with University organizations. The students make up the University as well as the organizations to which they belong. The latter serve as University activities. A corollary is Stated in all geometry tests which reads: “The whole is greater than any of its parts, and is equal to the sum of all its parts.” A too great distribution of the special phases of activities: scholarship, athletics. Student government, student administration, departmental development, overbalances the purpose of a University education. They are but contributing fundamentals to the modern scheme of things of specialization in the University, just as our groupings of experts are in the world without. In?} Top Row Touch, Finkelhor, Wills. Nathanson, Stranahan, Bodley, Lamph, Morrissey. Second Row: Kennedy, Ullery. Power, Shakarias, Scheinman, Remaley, McMillan, Taylor, Mitchell, Eitfl, Bomhard, Swift. First Row: Milliron. Bra mer, Curtin, Elwood, Lee. Lloyd. Fehr. Colkkr THE 1927 OWL Alfred M. Lee . Floyd H. Bracdos Edward L. Lloyd Frank I). Curtin . V. E. Arens Samuel D. Br-cmer W. Frederick Elwood . Alice P. Fehr . W. Crane Remaley Leonard B. Colkpr . Eloise Bomhard . Anne B. Nathanson Francis Ullery Russell Milliron William Lampe Venus Shakarian M. V. Wills . . . Duella S. Stranahan, 29 Marion Eitel,29 Rebecca Rosenbaum,’29 Walter Famariss, 28 David Kaufman,'28 ......................................Editor-in-Chief ................................Business Manager ................................Production Manager ..........................Assistant Editor-in-Chief ........................Assistant Business Manager ...............................Publicity Manager EDITORIAL STAFF . . . Literary Editor Associate Editor . . Photographic Editor . . . Humor Editor Organizations Editor Fraternities Editor Assistant Photographic Editor . Contributing Editor . . . Sports Editor . Co-ed Sports Editor . . . . Junior Editor Secretary APPRENTICES Kathryn Power,'28 Harriet Mitchell,’29 Frank Hapfner, 29 Roy Hamlin,’29 Lysle McMillan, 28 Gertrude Swipt,'29 Morris Finklehor,‘28 W. M. RosE 29 [US]} Second Row: Arens, Greenburger, Kann, McClure, Heddon, McCrady, Fromm. First Row. Pitcairn, Safier, Simmonds, Bragdon, Moore, Hazlett, McBurney Edwin Hazlett . Margaret Moore Milton Safier . Jane Ellen Ball . Bessie Kahn Max Fromm BUSINESS STAFF . . . . Men's Organizations Manager Women's Organizations Manager ......................Circulation Manager ..........................Advertising Assistant .....................................Secretary APPRENTICES Joseph Greenburger Marion Heddon SCHOOL EDITORS AND MANAGERS Business Administration: Russell Miluron, Elinor College: Richard Morrissey. Editor Dentistry: Tracy N. Tough, Editor Education: Mildred Happner, Editor Engineering J. B. Bodley, Editor Mines: J. W. Fox, Editor Thomas Pitcairn, Manager Jeannette McClure, Manager J. C. MacBurney. Manager Alice Simmonds, Manager J. B. McCrady, Manager J. R. Davies, Manager [ 119 | Top Row: Eisenbeis, Gordon, Emm.hr, R. Hamlin, Anderson, Magram, Meier, Goodman, Grossman. Second Rom-. Parker, Tralio, Perovsky, Isaacs, Kann, Beggy, Shephard, Smith, Labowitc, Hoi-kin . Famariss, Buerger. First Row: McKenna, Fehr, Bremer, Sack, Brown, Lampe, F. Hamlin, Happner, Scheinman PITT WEEKLY Donald B. Brown, ’26.......................................Editor-In-Chief Harry W. Sack 26...........................................Editor-inChief Aubrey S. Wolford, 26...................................Business Manager PRESS STAFF Fred Hamlin. 27............................................... ews Editor William Lampe................................................Sports Editor Samuel D. Bremer, '27......................................Managing Editor Leonard B. Colker, 27............................Assistant Managing Editor ASSISTANT EDITORS S. Harold Grossman, 27 Herman Recht, ’28 Elmer Klaber, '26 Wili-red Parker, 28 REPORTORIAL STAFF William N. Anderson, '29 Stanley Goodman, '29 William J. McGill. '28 Mary Jane Beggy, 29 Mildred Happner, '27 Jean McKenna, '28 Rosalind L. Branning, ’29 Roy Hamlin, ’29 Michel Pi-ripano, 28 David D. Buerger, 20 Harry G. Isaacs, ’28 Sam Perovsky, 28 William Eisenbeis. '29 Bessie Kaiin, '28 Cullen Recht. ’29 Charles Emler, '29 P. E. Keller, '27 Hester Scheinman, 29 Walter Famariss, 29 Lillian Labowitz, ‘29 Margaret Shephard, 29 Alice Ffhr. ’27 Herman Magram, '29 Jane Smith. '28 Daniel Gordon, ’27 Theodore Mfier. ’28 R. N. Thayer, 28 Nicholas G. Troilo, '28 { 120 } Second Row: Troxell. Juhilirer. Moore. Mallincer. Ebbnbero. First Row: Johnston. Rothenburg, Wolford, Wilson, Rosenbaum BUSINESS STAFF Henry E. Rothbnberc, 28.......................Advertising Manager C. R. Wilson, '26......................................Comptroller R. Rhody Brenlove, ”26.........................Circulation Manager ASSISTANT CIRCULATION MANAGERS W. J. Jordan, '26 J. F. Healy, '28 Leroy Beauspicner, 28 BUSINESS ASSISTANTS Benjamin Mallincer, 28 Philip Eisenberc, 29 SECRETARIES Nina E. Johnston, 26 Margaret E. Moore. 27 Rebecca Rosenbaum, 28 ASSISTANT SECRETARIES [ l« 3 Arthur Koenig, '29 Morley Juuelirbr, '29 Second Row: McClenahan, Slemnger, Harser. Sier, Funare, Conratm. First Row: Newman, Ireland, Crossland. Kaminsky, Eliashop, Jones, Davis PITT PANTHER Hugh J. Crossland . Harold Kaminsky . Edward C. Harner . Leon Henry . Stanford Jones . B. G. Davis M. S. Finkelhor ....................................Editor-in Chwf ................................Business Manager ...............................Advertising Manager ...................Assistant Advertising Manager ...............................Circulation Manager ASSOCIATE EDITORS W. H. Newman Ernest Wright EDITORIAL BOARD James V. Funaro Kathryn Rowell Harry Wasson, Jr. ART STAFF W. A. Baker, Jr. Kathryn Philpot W. Conrath William Rose John Schaub Leon Eliashop BUSINESS BOARD Robert H. Ireland BUSINESS ASSISTANTS F. L. SlLVERBLATT HERBERT McClENAHAN George Slesinger CIRCULATION STAFF Herbert M. Dent Joseph E. Gp.ssner { 122 J Second Row: Winters, Johnston, Powell, Floyd, Stevens. First Row: Main, Lenoeneelser, Baker, Eskey, Webb PITT WEEK COMMITTEE William H. Webb, Engineering, .............................Chairman George Main, Business Administration,‘26 .... Business Manager Anna Louise Baker, Education, 26..........................Secretary Alice Eskey, Education,'26 Robert L. Floyd, Business Administration, John Johnson, College,‘26 Pauline Lingbnfelser, Education,‘26 William B. Parsons, Dentistry,'26 Edward H. Powell, Engineering,' ) Ernest Simonson, Dentistry,'26 Henry Stevens, Business Administration,'26 Robert Winters, Mines,'28 I ] Top Rou1: Hague. Macram. Young, Fromm. Second Row: Allison, Stranahan, Gcxdecke, Wagle. Smith. Buzzard, Haymaker, Stedeeord. First Row: Spowart, Klaber, Jennings, Brown. Kann, Sisr, Elwood PITT PLAYERS ACTING STAFF Donald B. Brown..................... Annette Nosoep...................... Katherine C. Rowell................. . President Vice President . Secretory Ray Allison Jane Ellen Ball Stanton Beleour Margaret Bf.rg Florence Blose Milton Brauman Rhody Brenlove Alfred Burgert Frederick Elwood Joseph Gessner Elizabeth Gcedecki J. Ross Hague Betty Haymaker Nancy Jennings Bessie Anna Kann Elmer Klaber Jule Koreef Margaret MacKown Herman Magram Jacob Srciier Charles Lysle Seif Alexander Shaw James Sloan Jane Smith John Stkadyford Duella S. Stranahan Robert Vilsack Mildred Wagle Robert Young £i 4} Second Row: Spowart. Eisenbero, Sawders, Parry, Ramsey. First Row: Korefe, Fromm. Powell. Murray, Curtis, Buzzard TECHNICAL STAFF J. M. Cameron..................... E. Willis Whited .... R. McD. Murray. Engineering, '27 E. H. Powell, Engineering. 26 . A. N. Curtis, Engineering, ’27 H. E. Ramsey, Dentistry, 29 Max Fromm, College, 27 . . . . Manager Technical Director Assistant Technical Director Stage Manager . . . . Electrician . Purchasing Agent . . Pro[ erty Manager R. H. Perry. Engineering. '28 J. A. MacEwen. Engineering. '28 Philip Eisenbero, Business Ad., '28 J. W. Matson. Jr.. Engineering, 28 Saul Boharas, College, '27 ART STAFF Mary C. Sawders. College Special Jules Koreff, Education. '28 PROPERTY STAFF Mary A. Buzzard, College. ’29 Sylvia Ress, College. ‘29 Francis L. Freidlander, Ed., '28 C. N. Spowart, College. ’27 Florence E. Goldfarii, College, '28 [ J!5 ] (_‘ap and Qown SOME twenty years ago this spring, one thousand and one derby hats suffered severe concussion of the dome at a certain first night held at the Nixon Theatre. The carnage in numbers resulted from an enthusiastic audience going into spasms of approval over a play entitled “In Wupland,” a vehicle which marked the birth of the University Cap and Gown Club. The project was run under the guidance of Dr. J. S. Ashbrook, an in-struCtor in the Dental School. The aCtors were chosen from his men Students. Derby hats have long since gone by the boards but Cap and Gowners Still play to full houses every spring. The organization has been extended to make its competitive membership open to the entire male population of the University; a place in the cast or chorus has become one of the most coveted campus honors. “The Red Moon,” the 1926 production will go dow'n in history as the most elaborate and most efficient of any since Walter B. Edmundson has become director. The play ap-peared at the Nixon Theatre, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, May 5, 6, 7 and 8, and Saturday matinee. But with all due credit to Mr. Edmundson we must also give praise to the following: S. S. Hcehl, Gus A. Shnabcl, Mrs. Gus A. Shnabel, Dr. Earl J. Cox, Dr. J. S. Ashbrook, and Karl E. Davis. After repeated “one, two, three, fours” and “four, three, two, ones,” the rough edges get filed away as the cast and chorus begin to work in clock-work fashion as all good productions should. If Gilda Gray could see these performances, she would abdicate her exalted position to the ardent Pitt performers: the “exposure” is not along the same lines yet the effect is, in some manner, the same. And this year's production would put Eddie Cantor and A1 Jolson to shame. The weird legend, “a red moon brings revolution to the kingdom,” is interpreted in song and dance numbers for Neuros, the sleeping king of Monomania, the tiny kingdom situated “somewhere” in the Balkan peninsula. Tricked into a position that threatens him with the loss of his throne, the king decides to make a virtue of necessity and surprises his enemies by voluntarily abdicating in favor of the new' republic. But he is not to be counted out of the running as he announces himself as a candidate for the presidency. The treacherous Paranox, the Prime Minister, leads the King's enemies in the “campaign” and induces the queen, who does not understand the situation, to announce herself as “apposition” to the king. It begins to look very much like a family affair when the third party arises and tosses the hat-hind of the Crown Prince into the Presidential ballot. Each candidate has an American “boss” who tries his best to campaign in the real American fashion. This just encourages the family “spats” of the dignified royalty as they pull their best strings to win out in the coming election. All the Stir about “campaign” and “election” arouses the republic and raises the Monomaniacs to the point of civil war. The situation is at a feverish heat on the eve of the election when the queen, with a plurality of four, withdraws as a presidential candidate in favor of the Crown Prince. Disgusted with the whole proceeding, the king also draws out of the race in favor of his son. All came to a happy ending with the final settlement of these political and domestic controversies, and as the proverbial saying goes, “All's well that ends well.” [126] Organization Top Row: Cox, Stedeeord, Bair. Hewitt, Crookston. Guthrie, Murray, McLaughlin, Hopkins. Fourth Row: (Cough, Jones, McIntyre, Smith. Sorber. Newman, Hackett, Kerr, Stone. Third Row: Powell, Murray, MacBurney, Dent, Butler, Gessner, Cupp, Bregenzer Second Row: Berg, Rothenbkrg, Cummings, Thomas, Winters, Long, Lauler, Rock, Smith. First Row: Hornhrook. Jubilkrer. Brantlinger. Dunlop. Lihbprman, Kirkpatrick OFFICERS W. A. Bonesteel. Business Administration, o6 .... Business Manager Donald Dupe. College, 26........................Production Manager S. S. Ho hl.........................................Graduate Manager Assistant Managers A. Victor Crookston, College, ’27 H. Cummings, Dentistry. ’28 CAST Robert W. Winters. Mines. 26 John R. Johnston, College, 26 Harry Long, Dentistry, 27 A. Eves, Jr., Business Ad., 27 R. W. Thomas, Business Ad., ’26 E. Sorber, College, '28 Robert Hackett, College, ’29 Frank Butler, College, '27 J. C. McBurney, Dentistry, 27 J. E. Gessner, College, '29 J. W. Cupp, College, 28 H. G. Bregenzer, College. 28 Herbert Dent, College, '29 CHORUS C. F. Berg, College, ’27 F. Brantlinger. Dentistry, '28 J. A. Dunlop. Dentistry, '27 O. Gilleland. Dentistry. '28 Robert Kirkpatrick. College, '29 K. R. Krugh, College, 29 John Lauler, College, 28 Harry Lifberman, College, '28 William Newman, C 1 7 ] E. H. Powell, Engineering, 26 Paul H. Rock, College, ’28 J. C. Blair, Business Ad., '27 J. R. Hewitt, Business Ad., ‘28 C. G. Hopkins, College, 28 Henry Rothenburg, College, '28 W. R. Tinker, College. ‘29 Harry Murray, College, ’27 College, ’28 The 1927 Owl Top Row: Parker. DeFrance, Rumble, Junce, Fleming, Jennings Gordon. Third Row: Corbett. Burgun. Arthur, Cox. Koons, Kratske, Thompson, Kettering, Zacharias. Second Row: McCune, Barkin. Dunning, Berclass. Klmmeler. Minette, Smith. Kirsch, Gilleland, Weaver. First Row: Dair. Patterson, Brindley, Henderson. Mayhew. Ewing, Wicman, Borenstein, Schmid girls ’ glee Club IN the fall of 1922,after a lapse of several years, the Girl's Glee Club was reorganized by Alpha Lambda Nu, now Mortar Baird, honorary senior activities fraternity. Mr. T. Earle Yearsley directed the club's activities. The main event of that season was the home concert in Carnegie Music Hall which was held in conjunction with the Combined Musical Clubs. In the spring of 1925, the club gave its first home concert in the Music Hall and intends to have that the climax of each season's program. That same spring the club gave a concert at Erie, Pennsylvania. The Girls' Glee Club provides activity for University girls interested in singing and also introduces the musical side of campus life to countless listeners throughout the country. This year the club has given several radio concerts, has entertained at the Veteran's Hospital at Aspinwall, and the Irene Kaufmann Settlement, and as well has presented a number of church concerts. The latter part of the second semester an exchange concert was Staged with the Girls' Glee Club of the University of Cincinnati. {128) Organization ACTIVE MEMBERS Marie Ewing . Della Henderson . Elizabeth Brindley . Alma Carlson Helen Wigman Charlotte McCune . Mrs. Charles E. Mayhew Belle Bornstein . President Vice President Secretary Treasurer . Librarian . Manage . Director Student Director Harriet Arthur Dorothy Barkin Clara Bhrclass Kathleen Burgun Florence Chitevter CHARLOrrt Corbett Florence Cox-Jean Dair Helen DeFrance Katherine Dunning Catherine Fleming Helen Gilleland Mary F. Gordon Nancy Jennings Fmma Junge Betty Kemmler Betty Kettering Lillian Kirsch Dorothy Keens Mavis Kratzke Josephine Minetti Anne Nathanson Kay Parker Florence Patterson Louise Putnam Katherine Rowell Virginia Rumble Pearl Rush Bertha Schmid Betty Smith Ruth Smith Elsie Thomson Helen Turner Anne Weaver Jane Zaciiarias { 129 ] The 1927 Owl Combined dMusical Qlubs THE combined Musical Clubs is the oldest notvathletic organization on the campus, and from its first inception has been one of the major activities. At the present time, membership is on a competitive basis, and because of this, the club has produced each year a musical organization that is one of the finest in the East. The Musical Clubs make more public appearances during the year than any other school organization. They present on an average of twenty-three concerts, including two trips made to different places in the Tri-Statc district. Both load concerts and trips serve to Stimulate an active interest on the part of the members—to urge each one indi-vidually to do his best to make a highly successful club. Ernest Sampson. ’26 Walter Rome. ’16 Milton Sapier, ’17 K. C. Cotton, '27 . Robert D. Ayars . President . Manager Vice President . Secretary . Treasurer GLEE CLUB MEMBERS Jack Clark, '26 K. C. Cotton, 27 M. K. Carmicha’.l, 27 .... Wendell Holmes, 29 ... . Assistant Student Leader D. DkVere Jamison R P. Eaton Raymond L. Anderson John A. Mitchell James M. Barnett Charles Montgomery Russel Biddle William Peterson Thomas H. Carson Thomas Pitcairn G. M. Cochran Charles Ray Walter D. Cox Howard Rieger William Jordan Alonzo E. Russell Harold Koch Norman G. Schmidt Eugene L. Lantz John A. Seieert Joseph A. Leech George Spudel Robert Logan Wesley Tinker Albert Mattman P. M. Tully H. E. McCartney Charles Vanderpool John R. McConnell Fred Vohr Chester S. McLaughlin Clyde Woleord Chalmers Zahniskr [ 130} Upper: Rosie, Sampson. Lower: Sapibr, Logan, Tully, Zahnbbr, Brown, Carmichael QUARTET Ned Brown...................First Tenor Chalmkr Zahnbbr . . . Second Tenor Robert Logan...................Baritone John McConnell.....................Bass { IJI ) ENSEMBLE MEMBERS Milton Saim, 17................................... ... Vice Pr«uicnc David Buchman, ‘17.......................................... . Sxrctary Milton Safipr, ‘r?................................... . Student Ixader George L. McKv.mry............................................. Director Joseph Cohen. V .....................................................AsiiiLint Lender E. A Montgomery, 26 . Edgar Bell John Banki.rt Gerald Brannon Rhody Brenlovp Alvin Cibula Jack DelVuchio W.LLIAM ElttNBtl Philip Eispnberg Stanley Eeitlfr J. N. Garber Leonard Grinberg Cecil Hardec Accomfumrt Harry Hill Edward Kieling Hal Koch Milton Link Alvin Lippard Craig Lost; Herman Magram William Rider Charles Stow art Karl Swaruel, Jr. M. G. Walters Paul Waltnpr Top Row: Buchman. Hades, Lj.sk, McKinney. Sonherg, Cibula. Koch, Eaton. Pitcairn, Leech, Lor:, Lippard, DblVenchie. Third Row: Peterson, Walters, Magram, Bell, Zahnber, Leieert, Cochran, Wolford, Vanderpool, Conrath, Mitchell, Barnett, Speidel. Second Raw: Mattman. Eisberey. Greenberg. Cohen, McLaughlin, McConell. Logan, Biddle. Lantt. Wittuk. Anderson, Holmes, Russell. First Row: Brannon. Waltso, Keeling, McCartney. Ray Thompson. Rowe, Cotton, Clarke, Cormeriiaul, Vohr. Campbell, Saeier [ 132 ] Second Row: McAfee. Hudson, Rbcht, Irwin, Thurber. Shapiro, Ball. First Row: Kopelman, Kann, Plaster, Warca, Benedict Cjirls ’ Debating Qlub A LTHOUGH the Girls' Debating Club was founded at the University of Pittsburgh in Ottober, 1921, it was not until the following year that a definite program was realized when Marie Messer, Theresa Kahn, and Teresina Marino reorganized the group. The first faculty advisors included Prof. F. H. Line, Prof. Brosius, and Dr. Fisher. This year Mr. Thomas M. Pearce and Theresa Kahn, of the English Department, are supervising the work. The group has inaugurated a new policy of debating before high schools and various women's organizations. The teams met with Swarthmore and Westminster Colleges the first semester; in the second semester they met with Ohio State, West Virginia, George Washington, and Cincinnati universities. MEMBERS Catherine Plaster, V7................................President Mary Warca, '16........................................Manager Alice Irwin Sylvia Russ Frances Brand Bessie Kann Paerl Rush Grace Broadwater Lillian Labowitz Bella Shapiro Virginia Cobbler Rose Levitt Mary Jane Beocy Sylvia Corman Alice McApee Marion Benedict Dorothy Davis Clara Jean Pink Helen Booth Beatrice Horewitz Emily Thurber [ 33 ] 'Pitt 'Band THE Pitt Band was organized under the leadership of Saul Sabad and the management of Don Kirk in the school year of 1911-12, when the Students and alumni of the University felt the need of a Student band and loyally subscribed sufficient funds for the purchase of the necessary instruments. The first public appearance of the Pitt Band was at Forbes Field, Saturday, October 14, 1911, at the Ohio-Pitt football game. From that time until the year 1917'18 the band continued its growth and existence. Then, after the interruption of the war, Gustav L. Schramm was secured as faculty ad' visor and M. S. Rocereto as coach. In 1920 the Athletic Council adopted the policy of sending the band to the annual Pitt'Penn game at Philadelphia. The first annual banquet came in 1920. During the year 1923-24 the band began to make a reputation for itself. It appeared for the first time before a New York audience, at the Pitt-Syracuse football game, and the New York Press spoke of it as the “finest Student band that ever came to town.” In Philadelphia at the Pitt-Penn game the band met with equally great success. From 1920 until the present time the band has not only been known as the best football Student band, but has grown to an equal Standing in concert work. In 1922 the first Annual Home Concert was given. Since that time the band has continued to give one home concert a year and several outside concerts. During the present school year the band has continued its popularity under the management of Paul K. Stewart and with A. Lednum Plette as condudor. { 34 } OFFICERS Paul K. Stewart..............................................Business Manager Harold Shaffer..............................................Assistant Manager M. Korbelak..................................................Property Manager Lednum Plette.................................................Student Conductor Leland Fonda..........................................................Secretary J. W. Miluron.........................................................Librarian M. S. Rocereto............................................................Coach Robert Avers..................................................Faculty Advisor PLAYERS Baritone Darr Bassoon Anschuetz Clarinets Herman Hinderer Lally Miller Milliron Plette Rosenshein Rubenstein Sensnick SWARTZEL Theophilus Zangrilli Cornets Graham Grundmann Hockenberry Koch Lichter Mever Riggle Shamburg Skidmore Flute ami Piccolo Bracks ann Rathgeber Drums Cooper James Judkovitz McKinney Phiper Spbars Saxophones Jamison Korbelak Marks Rosenzweig Shapeer Ofxe Seder Horns Blistein Reed Rizer S ger Stewart Trombones Anderson Clark Corbet Evans Fonda Gluck Tubas Arons Cox JORDHAL Krupa fiMl The ThCen’s Debating z.Association THE Men's Debating Association footers forensic activity on the campus.The policy is not to make a limited number of good debaters, but to allow as many men as possibly can take advantage of the opportunities that the University offers in this field. The English Department supervises debating and gives academic credit for successful participation. This year the scope of debating was enlarged, and various teams debated before the high schools in the district to heighten their interest in the InterHigh School Debating Contest annually conducted by the University. Debates were also held between Pittsburgh clubs and organizations and the University teams. The annual triangular debate was held between Pennsylvania State College, Washington and Jefferson College, and the University. An open forum type of debating which interests the audience in the question and not in the decision was successfully tried this past season. Two trips of ten days in length were made this year by the association, the one to Iowa, and the other to South Carolina. On these tours, at which many colleges were visited, the two questions, Resolved that the Federal government should own, operate, and control the coal mines and Resolved that the States should ratify the amendment on child labor were discussed. MEMBERS James M. Barnett Nathan Perilman James K. Mierly Samuel Alpern William Anderson Harold Campbell A. L. Davies Abraham Fishkin Harry Frank Elia Haca Fred Hamlin President Secretary Manager Hal Koch Herman Kramer Norman Mattis Owen Moran Charles Schermer Leo Shapiro Anthony W. Smith E. Basil Welsh, Jr. COACHES Mr. Raymond Howes Prop. Wayland M. Parrish Mr. Ross Scanlon [ ] Second Row: Eisenbeb, Campbell, Randolph, Hopkins. First Row: Bradshaw, Straney, Main, Seawriciit, Hamlin The Pitt T. zM. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT Dr. S. B. Liniiart.................................................Chairman Mr. M. D. Straney.......................................Executive Secretary STUDENT STAFF George G. Main.......................... DrLMAR Seawright........................ CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES George Hart................................Chapel Committee Fred Hamlin............................Deputation Committee H. B. Bradshaw...................Foreign Students Committee A. S. Randolph................Discussion Groups Committee George Fetterman...............................Hew Students Committee Gibson Hopkins..........................Publicity Committee William Eisenbeis.......................... Music Committee G. Alex Campbell .... Community Services Committee R. L. Floyd ...............................Social Committee President Secretary { 37 ] Women’s Qhristian a.Association T’MdE Young Women's Christian Association at Pitt broadens the spiritual side of a college girl's life. Mrs. L. J. Gibbs, wife of the former head of the English department, was influential in Parting the organization on the campus in May, 1910. At that time only fifteen girls belonged to the “Y. W. ; now three hundred co-eds are members. Jean Donaldson attended the “Y. W. convention in the summer of 1919 at Dennison University, and was the organization chairman the next year. They had little money; accordingly, several “Y. W. members rolled up their sleeves and after an afternoon of toil in their mother's kitchen, had fifty boxes of fudge and seafoam. This was sold in Thaw-Hall and two delegates were sent to a Student Volunteer convention during the Christmas holidays at Kansas City. During the next two years Helen FroSt Dice, now wife of the University librarian, was the president. The association inaugurated “Dairy Lunches which they served in 105 Thaw Hall. On this occasion they made $40. Another of the early presidents was Florence Teagarden, now assistant professor of psychology at Pitt. At this time the “Y. W.“ was Still considered a side issue, and received no support from the faculty. Yet it had weekly meetings and occasional socials, did social service work, and sent delegates to Eaglesmere. In 1915 the only office the “Y. W.“ had was a P. O. box in the rest room in State Hall. By the next year though they had one hundred members, ten girls teaching at Kingsley, two Bible Study classes, and helped support a teacher at Canton Chriirian College. Now the “Y. W.“ has a comfortable office in the Heinz House with Miss Helen Battrick as executive secretory. The purpose of the association is “to lead Students to faith in God through Jesus Christ. Any girl in sympathy with this purpose may join. Each year the “Y. W. sponsors the Big and Little Sister movement, and organizes commission groups among the freshmen co-eds. Sixty girls did social work this year at Soho, Kingsley, or Irene Kaufman settlement houses. Several teas were given during the year for foreign Students; and the World Court Conference was held in Pittsburgh last November 12 and 13 under the auspices of the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. In the finance drive the Y. W. C. A. raised $1200. The remainder of the budget was raised through the sale of candy in Alumni Hall and in the other campus buildings during candy week. All of the Monday noon meetings this year were devoted to Bible Study and World Fellowship programs. Ten girls attended the Bruce Curry Bible Conference in November at Penn State, and twenty girls expedt to go to Eiglesmere this summer. Second Rou : Turner, Taylor, Johnston, Howard, Campbell. Moore. McClure. First Row: Harrold. Morrison, Battrick, Gilleland. Coit, Kettering Helen Gilleland . Katherine Coit . Betty Kettering . Katherine Morrison Elizabeth Harold OFFICERS ..................................President .............................Vice President ..................................Secretary ................................Treasurer .................Undergraduate Re present at we COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN Philippine Johnston . Dorothy Herrick . Lysbeth Hamilton . Helen Turner Louise Kreger . Jessie Campbell Mary Florence Taylor Jeanette McClure Gladys Howard Katherine Coit . Margaret Moore . . . Finance . . Social Sennce . World Fellowship . . . Publicity . . . . Lunch Freshman Commission . . . . Social . . . Membership . . . . Candy . Religious Education W S G.A. Representative [ � 9 3 The 1927 Owl Young 'JJSCen’s and Young Women V Hebrew Association THE primary purpose of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association is to promote the religious and social welfare of the Jewish Students of the Univer' sity. It is rapidly taking its place as an atfive Pitt organization and is doing for the Hebrew students the same work that the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. do for the Christian Students. This association is comparatively recent, organized at the close of the last school year. Its achievements have been few, as its headquarters on Bellefield Avenue have been recently completed. During the week of dedication of the new building, a “Pitt Nite was held under the auspices of the student organization. A reception for the Freshman Students was held during the month of February. Pitt Students participated in the oratorical con' test held by the senior organization in the State of Pennsylvania. { 140 1 Organization Second Row: Eliashop, Brainier, Ashinsky, Abrams, Shapiro, Fish kin. First Row: Seigal, Sapier, Sack Perilman. Kann OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Harry Sack, a6.............................................................President Milton Safier, '27.....................................................Vice President Gertrude Siegal, '16........................................................Secretary Nathan Perilman, '27........................................................Treasurer Manny Abrams Florence Ashinsky Carolyn Berglass Lewis Berman Samuel Brasmer Leon Eliashoff Maurice Finkelhor Samuel Fishkin Milton Harris Bessie Kann Annette Nosopp David Olbum Sidney Rosenberg Hester Scheinman Jacob Secher Leo Shapiro Matthew Trust Jack Vatz C141] The 1927 Owl Qhiron Club THE Chiron Club is an organization composed of Pre'Medical students selected on the basis of scholarship, character, and participation in college activities. It was organized in 1922 and was officially recognized by the University in May, 1923. It is the outgrowth of the various pre-medical organizations which have been in existence from time to time ever since collegiate work was prerequisite to entering the Medical school. The aims of the Chiron Club are to Stimulate and to foster interest and knowledge along medical lines. It does this by having men who are prominent in the medical profession and allied sciences address the club at frequent intervals. It encourages Students who are undecided to continue their work in the line of medicine. Although its membership is limited, its interests tike in the whole group of pre medical Students, which is the second largest in the college. Annually there is an inspection trip taken through the Medical School, and there are various other gatherings throughout the year which are open to all Students. Time and effort is given to provide for the social welfare of their members; dances and smokers have a regular place in the program of the club's activities. At present, plans are being formulated for the expansion of the club into a national organization by its union with similar pre-medical organizations in other colleges and universities. { 4 ] Organization Second Row: Roy, Lose, Bush. Keeling, Fetterman, Walton, Potts. First Row: Hudson, Sampson, Smith, McMiCH tL, Johnston, Herrington John C. McMich pl, ‘27.................................................President Ben L. Jones, ‘26.................................................Vice President William H. Howell, '27.................................................Secretary ACTIVE MEMBERS Ernest G. Smith, '27 Robert Donaldson, ’27 J. P. Cameron, 26 Frank Corbett, 28 George Fetterman, 28 Lee Harrington, ’27 H. B. Hudson, ’27 R. R. Huggins. '28 James Johnston, ‘27 Edward Keeling, '27 . Treasurer Corresponding Secretary L. Craig Long, ‘26 Murray McElwee, '27 Myron L. McGarvey, 27 Sidney Potts, 26 Robert Roy, ’28 Ernest Sampson, ’27 Robert Taylor, ‘28 Paul Waltner, '27 lull Vitkin Qlub IN JANUARY, 1914, when Dr. Elizabeth Martin, at that time the Dean of Women at the University of Pittsburgh, requeued Dr. Hugh T. Kerr of the Shadyside Presbyterian Church to teach a small group of students, she little realized that she was making a sug-geStion to Dr. Kerr which was to give him an opportunity for a religious work among Students the influence of which would prove both far-reaching and permanent. This is the history of the origin of the Pitkin Club as read at the tenth anniversary celebration. Pitkin Club takes its name from Horace Tracy Pitkin, an American missionary who was killed in the Boxer Uprising of 1900 in China. It was the first organized religious club at the University and aims to acquaint Students with various mission fields and their needs and to promote interest in Christian work. This year South America was Studied and several returned missionaries told of their experiences on the mission field. At the annual Christmas party this year for twenty poor children, Aubrey Wolford, treasurer of the club, played the role of Santa Claus. Other members returned to 'second childhood” for an evening and delighted the little tots with games and songs. Campus problems have also held the attention of Pitkin Club members this year. Several meetings were spent in discussing the causes of cribbing in University classes and the remedies that could be in ituted again them. I M4 ] ACTIVE MEMBERS Walter Rome . Margaret Moore Virginia Rumble Aubrp.v Wolford . President Vice President Secretary 'T reasurer Nina Johnston .... J. D. Alfonso Eileen Barnes K. Logan Barnes Helen C. Bat-trick Theo. Biddle Margaret Boleky Mildred Buckley Jessie Campbell Mary Caven Elizabeth Chalmers Minnie Charlesworth G. Mason Cochran Virginia Coffman Lillian Cole Frank J. Corbett Mildred Craig Agnes Davis Frances DeHaven Wilma Eckert Wayne English Jean Francis Helen Gilleland Ann Gcbdbcke Elza Haga Fred Hamlin Roy Hamlin Betty Harrold Kathryn Hartman Grace Hartman Elizabeth Haymaker Dorothy Herrick Florence Hulton J. H. Irwin Philippine Johnston Helen Keene Bert Kenyon Betty Kettering Lilhas M. Laing Allen Levin Dorothy Lillich ..................Historian Emily Locke Vera Lohmeykr Florence M. Lohr C. Craig Long Helen Milar William C. Miller Virginia Milligan Margaret Morrissey Richard Morrissey Katherine Morrison Margaret McAnulty Martha McAnulty Jeanette McClure Margaret McCurdy Thomas McKenna James M. McMichel Kinley McMillan Richard Murphy Kay Parker WlLLA PlCKFORD Katherine Power Elsa Pr ECer Harold Prothero Albert Randolph Mary Reeser Isabel Riulet Leila Richey Mildred Rutter Doris Shoop Beatrix Stevp.ns Mary M. Taylor Harold Thompson Marion Trimble Lois Turbett Anna Uhl Frances Ullery Mason Walters Frances E. Young Paul Young Chalmers Zahniser [145 3 The 1927 Owl J£e Qercle Franca is PARLEZ VOUS francais?Si non, vous ne pouvez pas devenir un membre du cercle lc plus vif de TUniversite. Si, oui, jouirez les seances du cercle francais. This year the club had three meetings at which the programs were given by university Students. Jokes and anecdotes are really funny when told in French, and French music seems to possess special charm. At another meeting Miss Beatrice Young, assistant professor of modern languages, who juSt returned from a tour around the world, spoke about “Spain and Italy. She especially related her visits to the Alhambra, the Vatican, and the bull fights in Spain. The French Club also inaugurated a traditional Christmas Party the paSt season. Miss Elizabeth Schmid of the modern language department entertained with a Christmas Story, and Mrs. Joseph A. McCurdy, with several Christmas songs. A yuledog was burned, French games were played, and refreshments served in true French style. Then in January M. Edouard de la Meilliaie, a Student at Pitt, acquainted the club with the happenings at French colleges. In France soccer instead of football is the collegiate sport. A play, too, “Les Deux Sourds, was given by the French Club. Not only Students but also the entire modern language faculty turned out for the play. This same spirit was manifest at all the meetings. OFFICERS Lillian M. Feiir, 26................. Martha McElroy, ’26................... Jeanne Cuy, ‘27....................... Primitivo Columbo, ’28................ Virginia Milligan. ‘28................ Margaret McConamev, 26............... Philomena Carson. '26................. Alice P. Fehr, '27.................... . . . President . Vice President . . . Secretary . . Treasurer . Music Chairman Social Chairman Program Chairman Publicity Chairman i «46 1 Second Rote: Waddell. Ho ;an, Arter, Hartmann. Foil Row: Rodgers, Kuhl, Ahfl, Wenti, Timms Refiners' (flub THE Refiners' Club is an organization in the School of Mines, in which every member of the Refining course is a member. The purpose of the club is both social and tech' nical. By means of informal talks from men in the industry, and the cooperation of the graduates from the course, benefit to the members of the club will result. It is hoped that an additional interest in the course especially among the lower classmen will result from the activity of the club. [ 147 1 The 1927 Owl Top Row: Robinson, Langford, Miu.ru. Davis.Grimm. Fnu Row: Riehl, Lynch. Kearney. Arens,Grundman. Cvening Students ’ a.Association THE Evening School Association, composed of students of the Evening Division of the University, was founded in 1910. In 1923 the name was changed to the Evening Students' Association of the School of Business Administration. The Association's program is composed of six annual events: Christmas Dance, Men's Smoker, Girls' Party, Spring Banquet, Dramatic Club Production, and June Prom. OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Paul W. Kearney.....................................................President E. Deane Lynch.................................................Vice President Ferdinand C. Arens..............................................Treasurcr Tiiomas W. Langford.................................................Secretary Abraham Davis Mabel Grundman Phil M. Riehl Clarence Grimm W:ujam T. Miller Sam L. Robinson f 14 ] Top Row: Lupanuci, Nukovitch. Reynolds. Bloch, Sorher. Second Row: Sloane, Yelin, Siee. Guidez, Troilo. Harner, Rodgers, McFarren. First Row: McGrath, Rosenparb, Hart. Houston. Brenlove, Jordon, Williams, Wallace. Welch John ( Marshall Qluh THE John Marshall Club was organized for predegal students in 1921. At their regular noon luncheon prominent lawyers and business men give them a wider scope of the profession of law and create a social atmosphere between Student and lawyer. The club also aims to promote social welfare, campus activities, and high scholarship. ACTIVE MEMBERS R. Rhody Brenlove. ’26.........................................President Eenest Houston, ’26................................ . Vice President George S. Hart, '16.......................................... Secretary J. William Jordan. V .........................................Treasurer J. G. Bell, 28 R. G. Rogers, '27 Everett Sorber. '28 S. H. Brazely, ’27 Charles Scmrr, ’27 Nicholas Troilo, '28 Paul McGrath, 27 James W. Sloan, '28 Nicholas Unkovitch, 28 L. Allen Reynolds, '26 Charles Seif, ’27 James Wallace, ’27 E. Basil Welsh, ”27 Jack Yelin, ’26 [149 3 Women V c,Athletic z.Association HE Women's Athletic Association was formed primarily to enlist the intere of the women students of the University in athletics. The founders hoped to provide in it. too, the means of gaining experience in the management of these sports and in conduding meetings. They aimed at the same time to promote scholarship and to footer school con' sciousness and spirit. How well the organization has fulfilled its aim its rapid growth will demonstrate. In 1919 two members of the varsity basketball team, Margaret McClenahan and Ethel James, laid the foundations on which in 1921, when Miss McClenahan became an assistant professor of Physical Education in the University, the present Women's Athletic Association grew. Now, less than five years later, the association has about three hundred members on its rolls. Under its present officers, headed by Helen Lloyd, it is continuing its progress. Under the control of the Women's Athletic Association are the present teams: varsity basketball, class basketball, hockey, swimming, track, volleyball, baseball, and tennis. The successful players, in accordance with a carefully weighed point sy em, are awarded numerals or letters at the end of each year. These various sports and their other events are supervised by the Governing Board. Among its other activities the Women's Athletic Association includes hockey rallies, basketball rallies, “pep parties, and a field festival at the end of the year. But most prominent of these social events is the famous Co-Ed Prom, to which upperclasswomen, in their brothers' Hickey Freemans, escort their beribboned “little si crs, the freshmen. In this way the association adds to the traditions of itself and the schools. In this way, also, has the growing membership been accompanied by the fulfillment of all the original hopes. The Women's Athletic Association takes its place with the leading bodies of the campus. { 150 1 Top Row: Matheson, Thompson, Perovsky. Second Roto: O'Donnell, Muter, Burgun. Russell. Hazlett, First Row: McClenahan, Shakarian, Lloyd, Eskey. Koch OFFICERS Helen Lloyd........................................................President Venus Shakarian.........................................................Vice President Dorothy Koch.......................................................Secretary Alice Eskey........................................................Treasurer Margaret A. McClenahan.......................................Faculty Adiisor GOVERNING BOARD Venus Shakarian, Hockey Ruth Thompson. Basketball Kathleen Burgun, Swimming Janet Matheson, Tennis Dorothy Russell. Tracl( Kathryn Hazlett, Baseball Marjorie Hewitt, Hiding Jeanne Muter, Social Grace O'Donnell. Publicity Emily Thurber, VV.S G.A. [I5i] Cosmopolitan Qlub Argentina Albert F. Carlos Chile Luis A Avalos China Wakes Chanc. C. T. Chp.s T. Y. Chen T. S. Chi C. H. Chon Yen Yu Lai H. C. Lino F. Seeto J. M. Speto L. D. Swing Pao-Lo Wang W. L. Ya Cieth Slouilpa Vera Prudkt France Genevieve Docerreau Germain Duteau Alfred Farken Octave Schnurer Germany E. Fichtl F. Tolkmitt Greece Jeanne Cuy Thau a Penzickrs Hungana V. Z. Muzsnay India Duca M. Ban wet S. T. Das Gupta M. N. Durr M. Faruki M R. Malhotia H. K. Mitra Ram Nath Atma S. Pai S. N. Sen Italy R. Alexander A. Pprna Jugo-Slaiia Amalia G. Lisak Mexico S. Perez Bermea Albert Costina Carlos Lara Norway Kornelius Poisland Palestine Aoner Abulafia Baruh Komarov Philippines Alfonso Cruc de Jesus Permin Del Rosario Francisco A. Reyes Zoilo Retes Porto Rico Frank Campos Poland Anthony Czevenskie Stephen Daryriski Kou mania George T. Motor Russia Lagodkin Constantine Alexander Grech Robert Palkoitz Anna Rabinovitz Nicholas Shatalop Genia Sidransky Henna Sidransky M. Smirnofe Scotland Robert Hunter Serbia Mary Mamula West Africa Constant Metzger Samuel Metzger L'nitcd States Helen Battrick Estelle M. Bonnell Mrs. L. Bryant L. Bryant Margaret Calvert Ethyle Clough Hilda Friedman Louis Johnston Glendenning Kpeblp. Sarah Larkin Katherine Lawlers Mary Lazorchak Wilma Lendel Martha McAnulty Mabel McKee Helen Patterson Jean Saw hill Ruth Scanlon Mary Schulz Lav in a Silver Mmk. A. W. Sparks Harold Thompson Yvonne Torgerson Frank Troup Y. S. Wishoski {152 3 Fettbrman, English, Brand, Forakkr, Floyd, Webb Senior Qabinet THIS year a new plan in electing class officers was inaugurated. Officers were elected in each of the six schools of the University, and the presidents of these schools were organized to make up the personnel of the Senior Qabinet. The Cabinet has elected its own officers as well as the ring, invitations. Senior Ball, class day, and class Memorial fund committees. OFFICERS William S. Foraker, Mines...................................................President Charles F. Brand, Dentistry.................................................Treasurer Wayne R. English, Education.................................................Secretary Adam Fetterman, College Robert L. Floyd, Business William H. Webb, Engineering Administration INVITATION COMMITTEE Clyde Barton. Business Admini-Oration................................Chairman Business Admim tratum Dentistry Engineering Leland Frantz B. B. Zimmerman Wilbur McNeil College Education Mines Janet McLean Margaret Boleki A. A. Arter RING COMMITTEE Jack McCamny, Mines........................................Chairman Business Administration Dentistry Engineering Frank Keely Jack Clarke Edward McLean College Education Mines Pharmacy Helen Weigel Alice Eskey Harry Johnstin Earl Graham [I53l Second Row: Hamlin, Rome, Shakarian, Wolford. Matheson, Buchman, Brown. Fint Row: Thompson, Hartman, Burgun, Lloyd, Muter, Gilleland Jfonorary Ushers Donald B. Brown, 26...........................Chief Usher J. Clyde Barton, ”26.................Assistant Chief Usher Fred Hamlin, 27.....................Assistant Chief Usher Andrew Barclay Allan Bryson Kathleen Burgun Katherine Coit John Cost Hugh Crossland William Gault Helen Gilleland Grace Hartmann John R. Johnston CLASS OF 1926 Nina Johnston Helen Lloyd Jeanne Muter Samuel Nowry Sylvia Perovsky Walter Rome Gertrude Siegal Anthony W. Smith Helen Toay Margaret Thompson Aubrey S. Wolford CLASS OF David Buchman Jessie Campbell Albert V. Crookston, Jr. George Fetterman Rebecca E. Fine Lysueth Hamilton Jeanette McClure 1927 Janet Matheson Margaret Miller Albert Randolph Venus Shakarian Emily Thurber Theodore Wilson Frederick Woltman [ 154 1 Top Row: Hall, Mandexter, Hill, Lee. Second Row: Scott, Brogwell, Phillips, Briggs, Brogwell, McDonald, Waldon, Mills. First Row: Spence, Woods, Mandexter, Levy, Parr, Mann, Hancock C GC-W. ACTIVE MEMBERS Marjorie T. Levy President Dorothea Mandexter Vice President Cora Woods Secretary Thelma Parr Treasurer Rhetta Arter Martha Hill Allene Briggs Vivian Judkins Alma Brogwell Nancy Lpe Etta Brogwell Irene Mandexter Margaret Brown Dolores Mann Elizabeth Campbell Virginia McDonald Oxlean Collins Nannie Mbtcalp Mary Covington Virginia Mills Mary Cundipp Julia Philips Edith Douglas Lelia Scott Maxine Eckstein Mildred Spence Katherine Hancock Marguerite Taylor Maryann Hall Melissa Turfley Marian Hill Thelma Williman Inez Winston C155 3 Qzvens T “'HE duty of working quietly in the background at small and uncoveted tasks is promis' cd the newly-tapped Freshman Cwen, and whether this promise is kept or not can be attested by the many organizations which she serves even if it’s only waiting on table at a class dinner. By the end of her Sophomore year every Cwen feels she could easily hang out her shingle as an experienced waitress after having served S.S.G.A. dinners. Senior Breakfast, Miss Amos' dinner to Seniors, and all the others. The Cwens feel that in these ways they are carrying out the idea with which a group of Sophomore girls in 1921 Started this fraternity for women who had distinguished themselves during their Freshman year in scholarship, leadership, and participation in activities. Under the guidance of Dean Amos, these girls organized a local society called the Cwens, derived from the Anglo-Saxon for “Queen, the members of which were to be active during the Sophomore year only. The Cwens chose the sceptre and crown as the symbols of their order. When an informal conference was called three years later, with other schools who had Sophomore activities organizations, for the purpose of making Cwens national, this pin was liked so well that it was adopted as national. Delegates from Miami, Missouri, and Pittsburgh were sent to Miami University in May, 1925, where Cwens became a national honorary fraternity with Pitt as Alpha Chapter. The Cwen hat is worn on all occasions where Cwens act as a group, and during the first few weeks of school as a sign to Freshmen who want help. A Cwen and Druid Prom was a new tradition among the two Sophomore honoraries. At the dance, held Hallowe'en evening in the Faculty Club, a Spanish artist gave several feature dances. LaSt hill the Cwens adopted “Alice, a Salvation Army orphan. At Christmas time they dressed like children and played games with her and four other orphans. “Alice received a Christmas present from every Cwen. [156} Second Row: Wimchlbr, Meals, Kratske, Kann, Nanz, Harrold, Wicman. First Row: Noble, Rerser, Rowell, Koch, Thomhon ACTIVE MEMBERS Kathryn Rowell, College, ’28 . Dorothy Koch, College, '28 . . . President Vice President Mary Rerser, College, '28.......................................Secretary and Treasurer Betty Harrold. College, 28 Bessie Kann, College. '28 Mavis Kratsky. College, '28 Mary Belle Meals, College, '28 Mary Louise Nani, College, '28 Goldie Noble, College. ‘28 Ruth Thompson. College, 28 Sylvia Wkcmsler, College, 28 Helen Wicman, College. ‘28 t 157 } The 1927 Owl Sixth Row: Lewis, Kriegersman (Wash. U.), Greenpield. Capt. Hardy, Gephardt (edge of picture). Fifth Row: Meerman, Christie, McKain, Moss, Maj, Windslow. Fourth Row: Hennican, Schroth (U. of Cin.), Applebaum, Hayman, Keeley, Floyd, Harrell, Capt. Turley. Third Row: Wright (Wash. U.), Owens (Wash. U.), Stimson (Wash. U.), Ellis (Wash. U.), Seidel (Wash. U.), Payne (U. of Cin.). Secorid Row: Lupinacci, Geidel, Corder (Wash. U.), Rosenberg (Wash. U.), King (Wash. U.), Hawbecker, McFarrbn, Eschenbrenner (Wash. U.). First Row: Durnell. Friedrich, Murray, Houston ‘Reserve Officers Training Qorps AT the University of Pittsburgh, two units of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. xjL Coast Artillery and Medical, are maintained. Both units are established and main tained in accordance with the National Defense Act to provide systematic military training, with the primary object of qualifying selected Students for appointment as officers in the Officers Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States. Advanced course Students attend a summer camp for six weeks with all expenses paid by the government and pay in addition. The Medical Students go to Carlisle Barracks. Pennsylvania, and the Coast Artillery Students to Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia. [ 158! « « « t t I' ' H « « « S f • •: ' «- ft- « f • •' ’• © f f -I ' « ••.■♦ «■ «r v V Top Row: Cameron, Jones. Elwood, Lupinacci, Carey, Brett, Miller. E. M., Stone. Third Row: Cox, Hayman, McGowan, Br ecker, Arnd, Rilby, Hartman, Remaley, Houston, Baumann, Gorski, Miller, R. S. S«otu1 Row: Miller, J. V., Murray, Griffith. Harrell, Arthurs, Wills, M. V., Seif, Geidfl, Wills, H. P., Smith, McFarren, Farmer, Keeley, Floyd, Wissincbr. First Row: Duffy, Higgins, Harter, Mingo , Horsfall, Morgan, Parmalee, Evans, H ehle, Browne MILITARY STAFF Major Lloyd P. Horsfall, C.A.C................Professor of Military Science and Tactics Major Jay D. Mingo . M.C. . . AssUtant Professor of Military Science and Tactics Captain Maurice Morgan, C.A.C.. . Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics First Lt. Archibald L. Parmalee, C.A.C.. AuiAmi Pro «sor of Military Science and Tactics First Lt. Paul L. Harter, C.A.C. . . Assiitant Professor of Military Science and Tactics Staff Sgt. Peter L. Duffy, D.E.M.L.............................Military Instructor Sct. Eddie C. Evans, D.E.M.L.........................Military Instructor (Mechanic) Mr. Percy St. C. Browne. Warrant Officer Retired .... Military Storekeeper { 159 } The 1927 Owl Top Row: Johnston, Mm, Hoffman, Culbertson, Cook, Wylb. Third Row: Aonew, Abulapice, Cramer, Hartmann, Connell, Orr, Kee, Balla, Pratt, Patillo. Second Row: Mitchell, Carothers, Henry, Isaacs, Powell, Baum. Curtis, Papieski, Watkins. McCoy. First Row: Krug, Anderson. Miller. Swetonic, McTaggert, Gorhem, Dycme. Shing STUDENT BRANCH clAmerican Institute of Electrical Engineers I AM proud of having been a president of this organization, said Alexander Graham Bell, who served as national president in 1891. A roster of the past presidents of the Institute contains names famous throughout the whole engineering world. Norvin Green, president of the Western Union Telegraph, was the first president of the Institute, and Frank B. Jewett, vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was president in 1922. Mr. H. E. Dyche of the University is a member of the A.I.E.E. member' ship committee this year. The local chapter, organized October 6, 1915, holds weekly meetings with Student speakers, and also several social gatherings throughout the year. Only students in the junior and senior classes in Electrical Engineering are members. Three national conventions are held each year. The midwinter convention is perhaps the most interesting, for it is devoted to the presentation of technical papers and to iiv speCtion trips to points of engineering interest. S. A. Swetonic was chairman of the local group this year, F. E. McTaggart, vice chairman, and L. M. Brush, secretory and treasurer. { 160 } f f f f V fJ %► v W v Second Row : Pitcairn. Floyd Wilner, Zaciiaria . Rome. McClintock. Main. Fust Row: Wolpord. Knox, Monks, Houston, Rpitell. Finciret, Millikon 'Business Administration Association THE Business Administration Association has had a varied history in the School of Business Administration. The organization is composed, at present, of the Junior and Senior classes and the Special students of the day division. It has a cheSt fund for special purposes, and this fund and various social events are held for the benefit of the members. The biggest event on the social calendar of the school was the first annual Christmas Party and Dance held juSt before the Christmas holidays at the Faculty Club. The ball' room was decorated with holly, mistletoe, and a giant pine tree loaded with ornaments. The music for this event was furnished by the Steel City Collegians. During the evening a black face comedy skit was put on by Bob Ayars, of the Accounting department. OFFICERS Ernest Houston...........................................President Samuel Fingeret........................................Vice President Rupus Monks.................................................Secretary William Knox.............................................Treasurer CABINET MEMBERS Clyde Barton Joseph McClintock Walter Rome Aubrey Wolpord Robert Floyd Rusaell Milliron Harry Sack Jane Zacharias George Main Thomas Pitcairn Walter Wilner [ 161 } [ 162 ] “CTUr rafihole choked, ,nS the Gy V Wr E“ Jord am w The 19 27 Owl DIVISIONAL STAFF Alice P. Fehr Anne B. Nathanson .... Fraternities Editor CONTRIBUTORS Mildred Haffner Francis Ullery APPRENTICES Katheryn Power Gertrude Swift Duella S. Stranahan . . Secretary [ 4 ] Qfrciternalism OMRADESHIP is highly recommended these days: for the world, in a great Locarno; for industry, in the cooperation of capital and labor—a spirit of brotherhood. More of it might be tried to advantage; indeed, even in a university. An ideal school, like an ideal world, would be a place of mutual helpfulness; and its graduates might startle some of the money-grasping, apathetic populace already at large. Unfortunately, ideal schools, like ideal worlds, are millenial gads, somewhat scarce or non-existent. Student bodies are not brotherhoods — far from it; nor were they at the time when our grandfathers in beaver hats escorted parasols through lilac gardens. Recognizing the sober fact, as they sometimes did, those of our sires who had like interests drew themselves into“a closer circle of comradeship,' and fraternities appeared. “Fraternities, they said, should be bands of young men (or of young women) linked as brothers (or sisters) for common improvement. And as such, fraternities would be ideal. But, to repeat, ideals are somewhat scarce. Comradeship and clannishness are not far apart. Common betterment, perhaps, but at the expense of others, of the rest of the school. Sure, I'll vote for him; lie's my brother. Why, yes, I have the very man fraternity brother of mine. Even worse, these old-time comradeships might possibly descend to the level of glorified eating-clubs, of young men who, careless of anybody but themselves, feel social prestige secured with the pinning of a certain emblem on their ve s. Other people are so remote, anyway. There are quite a few fraternities on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Some of them, it is remotely possible, might not lie ideal. If so, there might be, again it is remotely possible, some slight improvement. { 165 ] Top Row: Graeman, Harris. William?, Webb. Silverblatt. Secorul Row: Stone, Hewitt, Gault. Barnett, Schaumberg. First Row: Harrold, Bracdon. Barton, Wilson. Foraker. Linn, Bazell The Inter fraternity Qouncil THE Interfraternity Council, composed of two representatives from each of the seven' teen leading social fraternities on the campus, maintains close relationship among the fraternities, and brings the fraternities and the University closer together. Each year the Interfraternity Council, with the cooperation of the Athletic Association of the University, sponsors the Interfraternity Track and Field Contests and the Inter-fraternity Basketball Series. The cup for basketball was awarded to Phi Kappa last year; Sigma Pi finished first in track; and Pi Lambda Phi received the interfraternity sweepstakes cup. During the past year arrangements for Interfraternity Rifle Meets have been made. The annual Interfraternity Ball,which is always the first formal of the college year, is under the auspices of the Council. A series of Interfraternity Smokers arc also given throughout the year. Semi-annually a silver loving cup, the gift of John C. Fetterman, former Dean of Men, is awarded to the fraternity in the Council which has attained the highest scholastic average of that year. Rules pertaining to the rushing and pledging of men have been adopted by the Council and are under its direct supervision. { 166 } OFFICERS Charles R Wilson George Main . J. Clyde Barton . WILL!AM FORAKER . President Vice President . Secretary . Treasurer Delta Sigma Phi Floyd Brag don J. R. Hewitt Delta Tan Delta Charles R. Wilson James K. Mierley Kappa u Sidney Bazell Milton Grasbman Kappa Sigma J. Clyde Barton Harry McCleery Lambda Chi Alpha George G. Main Chester L. Wentz Phi Epsilon Pi Milton E. Harris Milton Sapier Phi Gamma Delta Howard Linn Axel Anderson Pi Lambda Phi Harry Sack Richard Goldberg Pi Rho Delta Henry A. Young Maurice J. Harrold Sigma Alpha Mu Leon Eliashopp Stanley Feitler Sigma Alpha Epsilon William Foraker Sigma Chi Jason E. Stone Frank Schaumberc Sigma Pi Harold A. Stech James Barnett Theta Chi William Webb A. Victor Crookston Thefa Delta Psi Kenneth Thompson Charles Gutherie Phi Kappa Robert B. Johnston J. W. Lawler { 167 ] c-Alpha Qamma Phi ALPHA GAMMA PHI was founded at the University of Pittsburgh in the Evening Di-vision of the School of Business Administration in 1916. The fraternity is an organiza tion of men whose aim it is to complete the full fouryear course necessary to secure the Certificate of Attainment. It has grown steadily in numbers and in spirit, and it is dedicated to further good fellowship among the Students and to assist the school administration in every way to carry out its program and principle in the government of the school. Alpha Gamma Phi believes that “he lives most who thinks most, feels the noblest, and aCts beSt.“ It fosters scholarship and uses it as a prerequisite for membership. The fraternity encourages participation in school activities. [ 68 ] ACTIVE MEMBERS rrarrr Fenton J. C. Russell .... President C. K. Shirey N. M. Fording T reasurer William H. Specht Secretary Joe N. Geyser Sen be Louis D. Vockel . Tyler George A. Altman W. J. Hoffman Clarence C� . Barth J. A. Kendra CurrORD J. Boyle D. O. Kirk H. E. Bihrhorst A. C. Livengood H. W. Behrhorst C. Reynolds Manley Leon M. Churchon Daniel Meyer C. A. Conklin David L. Mitchell H. E. Da:r E. Reeves Murphy John E. Davis S. L. Robinson A. N. French Ernest L. Raboch C. Arthur Gallo Charles A. Rueckert E. K. Geyser W. L. Sebring G. J. Gould J. W. Seothe R. M. Griffiths L. G. Sigafoo H. E. Henry J W. Spilker G. K. Herrington B. V. Stencp.r E. R. Wilke { 169 } 'Delta Sigma Thi ALPHA OMEGA, local fraternity founded in 1914, was granted a charter, two years later, l in Delta Sigma Phi, international social fraternity. As Omega chapter the local group was installed in 1916. When the United States entered the war in 1917 a majority of the members of the local chapter entered the service, and therefore the chapter was inactive until the fall of 1919. Delta Sigma Phi has chapters at Pennsylvania State College, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and University of California. The installation of a chapter at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, has made Delta Sigma Phi international. FACULTY MEMBERS Dr. N. A. N. Cleven Dr. J. S. Oartel Dr. C. M. Williams PLEDGES William Barth, College, 29 James Brady, College, ’29 W. E. Fisher, College. '28 Charles Harrison, College, ’29 Malcom Kinsey, College, '29 Stafford Mace. Business Ad., ’28 Frank Ward Marshall, Faculty, Acct. Dept., Business Ad. R. J. Toole. College, ’27 Charles Vial, College. '29 { 170 1 Top Row: Buttermore, Lohr, Meibails. Butler. Hewitt, McQuarrie, Rankin. Hustead, Humphrey. Davies. Miller, Hopkins. Reed. Third Row: Miller, Rogers. Fair, Byers. Hyslop, McCreary, Bedos, Deets, Herderer, Hazlett, Keller. Wharton, Harrison, Davies. Second Roto: Craet, Price, Cleven, Bracdon, Liddle. Warnock. Flantz, Rome, Montgomery, Stewart. First Row: Williams. Jones, Wills, Nettreur. Rankin ACTIVE MEMBERS J. R. Warnik, Dentistry, '26.................. Walter J. Rome, Business Administration, '26 Floyd H. Bracdon, College, ’27................ Ray A. Liddle, Business Administration, 26 . President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Charles Beers, College. '26 H. Russel Bowers, Engineering, '26 Charles Buttermore, Dentistry, ”28 Frank Butler, College, '27 Joel Bernhard, Dentistry, '28 James Crapt, Engineering, 27 Byron Debts, College, '28 J. Albert Davies, College, ‘28 J. R. Davies, Mines, '27 Clifford Fair, College, '28 Paul E. Flautz. Mines. '27 Edwin Hazlett, College, '27 John R. Hewitt, College, '28 Kenneth Hinderer, College, '28 C. G. Hopkins, College, '28 H. Humphreys, Business Ad., 27 W. D. Husted, Dentistry, 28 John Hyslop, Dentistry. '28 William Hyslop. Dentistry, '26 H P. Wills, Henry Jones, College. 27 P. E. Keller. College, '28 Earl Lohr, Business Ad., ’27 D. S. MacQuarrie, College, '28 Fred McCreary. Dentistry, '26 Walter P. McKain. Engineering, ‘26 David Michels, College. '28 Charles E. Miller, College, '28 Edward Miller, Business Ad., ’27 Charles Montgomery, College, 28 Paul W. Netrour, Business Ad.. ‘27 R. M. Price, Engineering, 27 D. B. Rankin, Engineering. '27 T. H. Rankin, College, ’28 W. D. Reed, Mines, '27 Walter B. Rocers, College, 28 Clarence Stewart. Business Ad., '27 H. J. Wharton, Mines, '28 R. A. Williams, Dentistry, 26 pneering, '26 [ 171 } Delta Tau 'Delta ('’AMMA SIGMA Chapter of Delta Tau Delta was founded in 1864 at the Western y University of Pennsylvania. It became inactive in 1871, was revived in 1877, and again died in 1879. After being organised eight years the old Alpha Alpha local fraternity was granted a charter in 1914. In the spring of 1925 Gamma Sigma chapter purchased the home at 4712 Bayard Street which it had occupied since 1914. A Delt Mothers' Club composed of the mothers of the actives, pledges, and alumni of the chapter has been formed and the meetings of this club are held at the chapter house every two weeks. Aside from the regular dances and smokers held at the chapter house, a Christmas party was given for fourteen newsboys from the newsboys home, a father and son smoker was held, and the annual spring formal took place in May at the Longvue Country Club. FACULTY MEMBERS T. W. Brand Robert Edgore H. E. Frieseu. Dr. S. B. Linmart Lieut. A. L. Parmflee James Rochr W. F. Sevanson Dr. Francis Thorpe John Weber [ 172 I Fourth Row: Tayborn, McCamfy, C. Ray, Cradle, Miller, Anthony, Fisher, Jones, Andrew. Leslie. Tesh, K(enic. Third Row: Stanford, Dens more. Fox, Decker, Oiimks, Hodges, Coll, Crahb, Schaffer. Second Row: Rogers, Mierly. Troxall. Mother Campbell, Templeton, Springer. Spancler. Wilson. First Row: Enclfhart, Simpson, Barnes, Cooper ACTIVE MEMBERS P. S. TEMPLETON, ’26 D. E. TROXELL, 27 Vice President C. R. Wilson, ‘26 E. F. Barnes, ’27 J. K. Mierley, ”28 T. M. Cooper, '28 E. M. Miller. '27 H. A. Decker, 28 C. M. Ray, '27 C. P. Dinnsmore, '28 W. F. Rogers, '26 A. Enclehart, '27 A. W. Smith. HI. '26 P. S. Fisher, ’28 R. B. Simpson, '28 J. A. Hodges, 26 H. A. Spangler, 26 P. R. Jones, '28 G. R. Springer, V PLEDGES W. S. Andrews, '29 Richard Kredel, ’29 J. D. Anthony, ’29 Albert Leslie, 29 Paul Bushnell, 29 Morrow McLf.nahan, ’29 C. E. Crabb, Jr., ’29 Richard Ohmes, ’29 Richard Cole, ‘29 David Riggs, '29 A. B. Fox, '29 Frederick Sanford, '29 K. A. Taylor, '29 C 73 I 'Delta Xi Omega TN the fall of 1923, a group was organized on the campus under the name of Delta Xi Omega. Interested in athletics, in scholarship, in drama, and Student publications, the fraternity purposes a furthering of University spirit. The fraternity group has received encouragement and the cooperation of Dr. M. R. Gabbert. List June the house at 315 N. Craig street was secured as fraternity headquarters. FACULTY MEMBER Dr. Mont R. Gahhert [ 174 I Top Row: Kosh, Smith, Bkrkfy. Nickle. McKay, McCabe, Cox, Spowart. Secoitd Row: Cravotta, Clark, Fundaro, Bregenzbr, Siep, Waltner, Lange. First Row: Benedict, Hyde, Montgomery, Conroth, Biflski, Neeson ACTIVE MEMBERS Edward A. Montgomery..................................................President Walter D. Cox....................................................Vice President Charles L. Seif.......................................................Secretary Russell C. Hyde.......................................................Treasurer John Allshouse Hal Kosh Clyde Bkrkfy Edward Kelly Albert Berezenay Raymond Lange Henry Bregenzbr Phillip McCabe Stephen Bodnar Allen V. Morgan Joseph Benedict Victor Neeson Alexander Bielski Harold Nickel Joseph Cameron George Modrack Herman Conrath Frederick Schermerhcrn Charles A. Cravotta Charles N. Spowart Herbert Forst Edward C. Smith James V. Funaro Paul Waltner PLEDGES Lawrence Clark Paul Schultz Jack Del Veochio James Sloan Harold Campbell John Slonakkr Charles McKay Milton Tully [ 75 } Ksppa Hu THAT it might become a brotherhood of Jewish college men of like aims and ideals, and that it might be a means of promoting social and intellectual fellowship among the college men of America, Kappu Nu was organized at the University of Rochester, in 1911. A local group was organized as Omega Kappa in 1920. It petitioned Kappa Nu in 1921, and in the same year was instilled as Xi chapter. The Xi (Sen) Breeze is the official monthly publication of the load chapter. Associates to the editor, Myron H. Broida, are Abraham Fishkin and Harold J. Adelson. George Keats, president of the Jewish Brotherhood, Jack Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Chemistry). Dr. Harry Salon of the West Penn Hospital, and Samuel W. Fishbein, president of the Western Pennsylvania Sunday School Teachers’ Association, are among the prominent members of the local Xi chapter of Kappa Nu. [ 176 1 Fraternalism Fourth Row: Balter, Flinter, Grossman. Third Row: Fingerkt, Rudner, Block, Grafman, Landy, H. Fbhkin. Second Row: Creimer, Adelson. Malkopp, L. R. Block. Greenbercer, Selkowitz, Gutmacher. Perilman. First Row: Yu dor, Wilner, A. Fbhkin, Broida. Hkrscovitz, Bazell. Levanthal ACTIVE MEMBERS Myron H. Broida, '27 Abraham H. Fbhkin, 27 Carl Rosenberg, 28 ISADORE KrEINER, '28 . Harold J. Addelson, 26 Sidney R. Bazell, '28 Samuel Fincert, 26 Marcus A. Punter, ’27 Milton Grafman, ’28 Sidney Herskowitz, 27 Julius Landy, 28 Nathan A. Jack R. Leventhal, 26 Jacob Malkopp. ’26 Hymen Robinson. 26 Morris Ramuach, 26 William Rospnbleet, 28 Milton Silkowitz, 28 Walter Wilner, ’26 Perilman, 26 PLEDGES Sidney Balter, ’29 L. Rodman Block, '28 Samuel Block, ’27 Hymen Fishkin, ‘29 Joseph Greekbercer. '28 Harold Grossman, 27 Bernard Gutmacher. '28 Samuel Rudnkr, '29 K SK S. o. i 77 } l appa Sigma KAPPA SIGMA was founded at the University of Virginia, December 10, 1869. Practically every important college and university from the Atlantic to the Pacific has a Kappa Sigma chapter. At present it is considered one of the largest national fraternities, if not the largest. The local chapter was formerly the local fraternity. Sigma Kappa Pi, which was founded March 20, 1916, and admitted to Kappa Sigma October 18, 1920. FACULTY MEMBERS G.M.P. Baird Dr. F. J. Tyson C«7«] Fourth Row: Carrier, Kyle. Bradshaw, Hilsing, Shapfer. Peter, Voight, Thorsell, Cupp. Reed, I’ickard, McKee, Campmeyer, J. Murray. Third Row: Johnston, Patten, Dibbold, Berg, Coulter, Hall, J. Farrar, H. Murray, W. Pascheday. Jones. Second Row: R Craig, McCleery, Miluron, H. Craig, Barton. Stryker. Hillyer, Arens, Raney, Thomas. Fir.it Row: Peterman. R Wilson, Farrill. Skillen, Kappler, Barnes, Emory ACTIVE MEMBERS Russell Milliron William Pascheday Theodore Wilson Joseph Cupp . V. E. Arens A. T. Barnes Clyde Barton, 26 C. H. Berg, '27 E. B. Bradshaw C. M. Brown, '26 W. A. Coulter, 27 H. E. Craig, '27 R. M. Craig J. T. Diebold, ’26 J. H. Farrar J. S. Farrily R. S. Hall, ’26 R. E. Hillyer,'27 W. B. Carson. Jr. Edward Davis T. K. Hilsing W. H. Howell, '27 W. G. Johnston J. Kampmyer, '28 R. J. Kappler, ’27 A. D. Kyle H. McCleery, 28 J. W. McKee M. Meyers, ’26 H. Murray, ’28 J. Murray, 26 C. M. Pascheday, '27 J. C. Patton H. E. Peterman PLEDGES Huffman McCall R. E. Taft { 179 3 . . . G.M. . . G.P. . . G.M.P. . . G.S. G. C. Peters, ’28 V. W. Pickard A. Pool O. Raney R. Roy, '28 R. L. Shaffer, 26 J. Skillen,‘28 W. H. Stryher. '26 R. Thomas, 26 E. R. Thorsell R. Wilson, '28 T. Wilson, '27 A. S. Wolford. ‘26 C. E. Voight Edward Wooley J ambda £hi zAlpha GAMMA EPSILON ZETA of Lambda Chi Alpha was installed at the University of Pittsburgh in 1919. The load chapter was formerly called Omega Alpha Pi, a load fraternity founded by six men in 1916. The fraternity grew so rapidly that inside three years it had twenty'two active members, and ranked among the leading loads on the campus. Since the installation of the national here the chapter has been very adtive in Student activities, as well as ranking among the very first in scholarship. Such men as Clyde Rowe, first editor of the Pitt Weekly, and Frank Maxfield, the first business manager of the Panther, were among the airly members of the load chapter. The present home of the chapter was purchased last yair, and is located on Terrace Street one block from the new Pitt Stadium. The alumni of the local chapter assisted in the purchase of the fraternity home. FACULTY MEMBERS Prof. R. D. Avers Raymond Blackburn William G. Crouch Dr. Charles B. King George D. Morgan Prof. James D. Reed Gustav L. Schramm George M. Stewart [180! Top Row: Main, Hall, Garson, White. Jones. Connor, Miller, McAtee, Arnold, Lieth. Second Row: Mitchell. Parmentf.r, Pottinger. Powell, Hill. Dale, Tucker, Stewart, Curtis, Groves. Brightbill, Rider. First Row: K. Wilson, Parker. White kettle, Bodley, Reed. Wentz, D. Wilson ACTIVE MEMBERS John W. Reed, '27 . Chester L. Wentz, ‘27 . J. B. Bodley, 27 Kenneth E. Whitekettle, '28 Dwight Wilson, '26 . Wilfred C. Parker, '28 Stanford F. Jones, '27 . President Vice President Sxretary Treasurer Correspondent House Manager . Steward Harry Brightbill. '28 Paul Conner. ’28 Foster Dale. '28 Robert Emhree, ’27 Hugh V. Groves, VS Nelson Groves, '27 William Hall, ’28 Curtis H. Kooser. 27 John Langham, 27 Kenneth S. George G. Main, ”26 Leroy Marshall, '27 Harold Maryott, ”28 D. P. Mitchell, 27 Edward H. Powell. V William Rider, ’28 Godfrey A. Trbscow, 8 Merwin B. Tucker. Vi John S. Weitz, '26 Wilson, '27 PLEDGES H. Nelson Carnahan, '29 Arthur N. Curtis, '29 Armand F. Hobhle '29 David K. Hill. ’29 Hubert J. Maxwell, ”29 Rfa P. Miller, '29 Harry E. Pottbiger, '29 Edward Shultz, '29 David C. Stewart, ’29 John C. Todd, ’29 R. Georg- White, '29 Emmett ( Willi a vis Omega Delta IT WAS the desire of Wayne Theophilus, J. F. Pearson, Russel Dixon, Graham Netting, and John Watkins, who founded Omega Delta on April 28, 1924, that the fraternity should esteem high scholarship as an achievement of just as high calibre as athletic prowess or social prominence. The founders also felt that a fraternity should not restrict the in' dividuality of its members and should afford each man counsel and discussion of his problem. In order to prevent such mistakes as might occur through ha y rushing, it was decided never to pledge a man until he had completed one semester's work at the University. An average of “B” was laid down as prerequisite for pledging. At least one activity was also specified as desirable for membership in Omega Delta fraternity. The initiation banquet was held at the Ruskin dining room May 26, 1924. Founders' Day is always celebrated on April 28 by a banquet, attended by all founders, alumni, and adtives. A Fathers' Day celebration is also held each school year. FACULTY MEMBERS Jay F. W. Pearson Russel Dixon Russel Biddle [.823 Second Row: Welsh, Kusler, Mattis, Hughes, Curtin. First Row: Burke. Klaber. Troup, Snyder, El wood ACTIVE MEMBERS Frank Troup, College. '26 . James Burke, College, '28 George A. Snyder, College. ‘28 Elmer G. Klaber, College, '26 W. F. Elwood, College, '27 William Bierman, College. '28 William A. Clark, College, '29 Frank Curtin, College, '27 Francis Hughes, College, '28 Karl I). Kutchka, College, '26 Archibald Laird, College, 26 . President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Corresponding Secretary Norman Mattis. College. '27 Graham Netting, College, '26 Robert P. Saling, College, ‘26 Edwin E. Thompson, College, 27 M. Vincent Wills, College, '27 E. Basil Welsh, College, 27 [ 183 3 Phi Pet a Pelt a T ELTA GAMMA TAU, for the last year a local fraternity, was formally instilled as Omega chapter of the Phi Beta Delta national Jewish fraternity at a ceremony held in the Hotel Schenley, April 5, 1925. Prominent speakers were included in the after-dinner program. Meyer Bloom, of the local chapter, was toastmaster. Morris M. Berger, president of the Pitt chapter, welcomed the gueSts. Delta Gamma Tau was founded in October, 1923, and one month later was recognized by University authorities. Phi Beta Delta originated at Columbia University, where it was founded in 1912. Among the other twenty-one chapters that have been established are those at the following large schools: New York City College, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of California, and University of Iowa. [ 184 3 ACTIVE MEMBERS Morris Bf.rc.er.................................................................President Herman Seville.............................................................Vice President George Ringgold.............................................................Secretary 1. J. Ruderman............................................................. Treasurer Mever Bloom Oscar Lipsitz Hillis Cohen Jack Little Julios Diomondstom Nathan Mandfll Victor Eisenstein I. J. Morgan Sam Fleecer Julius Quint Benjamin Goodstein Sydney Rosenberg David W. Granf.r Joseph L. Rubin Theodore Grossman Sydney M. Saul Howard I. Housman Leo Shapiro Sam Licmten Meyer Tolochko PLPDGES Maurice Liderman Joseph Roman Herman Lowenthal A.Savage Jerome Supowitz Phi ‘Delta Theta PHI DELTA THETA is one of the “Miami Triad which is composed of the three Greek Letter fraternities. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi, each of which was founded at Miami University. Iota, the local chapter of Phi Delta Theta, was formed by the absorption in 191S of Delta Sigma Pi, a local fraternity that had been founded in 1908 before the University moved to the present campus. The early expansion of Phi Delta Theta was limited almost entirely to schools in the Middle West. Between 1869 and 1879, the fraternity entered many southern institutions, and during the next ten years moved eastward, completing its nationalization. t 186 } Fourth Row: Benkbrt, Br Svley, Johns. Brown. Meghan, Roberts, Kearney, Kylander, Parker. ‘Thud Row: Pierce. Fetterman. Curll. Evans. Duvall. Moore. Gcehring. McKenna, Treas, Wilson. Second Row: Kcedel, Grindle, Rowe, Doverspike, Wilkins, Hayman, Johnstin, McKee, Stoupfer. First Row: Martin. Turner, Ward, Westervelt ACTIVE MEMBERS Adam Fetterman President W. Benton Rome .... Harrison Goeiiring . SecreWr)i Chester Doverspike Tiiomas McKenna . Chaplain Maurice J. Arnd Samuel Kcedel Waynp. J. Brawley Clarence Kylander John W. Cost William T. McKee Hugh Downs, Jr. E. D. Palmer George S. Ewing Malcolm M. Parker George H. Fetterman John A. Roberts Edwin R. Freas Howard A. Stoupfer William G. Gault Robert B. Taylor H. Brooks Gentzel William D. Turner John E. Grindle Calvert Wist Firman Hayman William J. Wilkins Harry Johnstin Hugh M. Wilson PLEDGES John B. Beckert Ralph B. Mecahan Paul Brown George W. Montgomery Robert Curll William W. Moorp. Howard C. Duvall Audley Pierce Harry H. Johns, Jr. Edward Ward James Martin Peter Wester velt [ 187 3 Phi Cpsilon Pi PHI EPSILON PI was founded at the College of the City of New York on November aj, 1905. The national headquarters of the twenty-four chapters are at Philadelphia. In the winter of 1915, Zeta chapter was installed at the University of Pittsburgh. The chapter house at 425 Morewood Avenue was purchased in September, 1921. Some of the chapters are located at the City College of New York, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State College, University of Virginia, Georgia School of Technology, University of Maine, University of Syracuse, Northwestern University, University of Illinois, Iowa State University, University of Michigan, and University of Minnesota. [188 3 Fraternal ism Top Row: Simon. Eisenberg, Barron. Feinstein, Levenson. Landay, Rotherberc. Second Rou- Click. Collins. M. Jubilerer. Schweiger, Lippard. Lenchner. Rubin. Front Row: S. Jubilerer. Kline, Sapier. Harris, Buchman, Richman. Sedar ACTIVE MEMBERS Rex Milton E. Harris, Business Administration, '26 . Benjamin H. Richman, Business Administration, V . David H. Buchman, College, ’27 Milton Sapier, College. ‘27 . Harry K. Kline, Dentistry, 26 . Lester Block, Business Ad., 26 Leonard Collins, College, “27 Harry Feinstein. College. '28 Arthur W. Click, College. 27 Samuel Jubelirer, College, 27 Herman Kramer, College, '27 . Vice Superior . Treasurer . . . . Corresponding Secretary . . . . Recording Secretary Leonard Lenchner, Dentistry, '27 Martin Landay, Dentistry, 28 Alvin P. Lippard, College, 28 Harry E. Rothenberc, College. 28 Kona Simon, College, 28 Samuel Lowenstein, College, ’28 PLEDGES Milton Banov, ’28 Bernard A. Barron, 29 Arthur M. Eisenberg, ’2S Morely Jubelirer, '29 Eli Levenson. ’29 Herman Rubin, 28 Louis I. Sapolsky. '29 Milton Schweiger, '29 Harold Seder, '29 [ 189 } Phi Cjamma ‘Delta ON December 28, 1916, Phi Zeta Phi, a local fraternity, was granted a charter as Pi Sigma chapter of Phi Gamma Delta. Members of Phi Gamma Delta who are actively prominent in Pitt affairs include Karl E. Davis, A. R. Hamilton, C. W. Ridinger, B. H. Smyers, Guy M. Williamson, H. Clifford Carlson, Dr. F. R. Kendricks, and S. Marsh Johnson. ACTIVE MEMBERS Axel J. Anderson, Business Administration, 26.................President William A. Boneiteel, Business Administration..................Treasurer John H. Martin, Business Administration, 27 Recording Secretary Robert S. DeWaters. Dentistry. '26...............Corresponding Secretary John B. McCrady. English, '27..................................Historian [ IQO 1 r rarer,r r To ) Koto: Welch, Irwin, Murray, McGrew, Edgar, Latimore, Wbsincer, Slick, Wunderlick, Rose, Linn, Nowry, Jones. Third Row: Rock, Jack, McMillan, Winters. Biddle, Fyock, Frederick, Hagan, Bbrkman. R. Brinker, Kiper, Davis, Jordan, W. Brisker. Second Row: Knavbr, Rauch, McCrady, Schaeffer, Anderson, DeWaters, Martin, McCutcheon. Klewer. First Row: Sautters, Barnes. Newsome. Peterson, Kowalis, Keeley Richard H. Biddle, College, '28 William E. Brinker, Engineering, '08 Jesse J. Brown. Business Ad., '26 Ralph E. Chase, Business Ad., '26 Wesley F. Davis, Dentistry, '26 James E. Flynn, College, '28 Charles P. Friedrich, Engineering. ‘26 Dwight A. Fyock, Business Ad., '28 Robert M. Gordon, Engineering, '27 James W. Hagan, Business Ad., 28 Robert L. Irwin. Denti ry, '26 Clyde A. Jack, Dentistry, ’27 D. Carlton Jones, Oil Gas, 26 Frank W. Keeley, Business Ad., '26 John J. Kiper, Dentistry, '26 George L. Klewer. Business Ad., ’26 Norman R. Knaubr, Engineering, '26 Howard Linn, Engineering, 27 Frank B. Madden, Dentistry, '26 Carl W. McCutcheon, Dentistry, ’26 Blair V. McMillan, College. '27 Harry R. Murray, College, ’27 Robert L. Newsome. Dentistry, '28 S. Ebuert Nowry, Engineering, '26 William G. Peterson, College, '28 Paul H. Rock, Business Ad., '28 Robert S. Rose, Engineering, '27 Carl H. Shaffer, Engineering, '26 W. Wendell Steele, Business Ad., 26 Gilbert L. Welsh, Business Ad., ’28 Robert W. Winters, Mines. '26 Zonar A. Wissinger, Dentistry, ’26 PLEDGES A. Markley Barnes, College, ’29 Stanley J. Berkman, College, '29 Robert K. Brinker, College, ‘29 Charles F. Detweiler, College, ’29 Ralph Edgar, College, '27 Donald S. Gwinn, College, '29 George Kowallis, College, '27 William J. Latimore, College, '29 J. Arthur McConnell, College, '29 George McGrew, College, '29 Jay E. Raucii, College, '29 George G. Sautter, College, ‘29 John H. Suck, College, '29 Charles H. Wunderlich, College, '29 { 191 } Phi 'Kcippa MU CHAPTER of Phi Kappa was organized January 24, 1921, by a group of Githolic Students and was known under the Greek caption of Psi Delta Chi. Two months later the University granted recognition to the organization and in May of the same year a home was obtained in the North Highland district of the city. At the opening of the fall term in 1922 the young fraternity, imbued with a spirit of accomplishment, made rapid strides in firmly establishing itself among the Greek Letter groups of the campus. Application was sought with a national Catholic fraternity and in May 1922 Psi Delta Chi became Mu chapter of Phi Kappa. Shortly afterwards the fraternity purchased the home it now occupies at the corner of Bellefield and Bayard Streets. The acquisition of a home in the very heart of the fraternity district gave added impetus to the zeal of the chapter members. The individual efforts of the load chapter, guided by the watchword “Githolic gentle men”, have ever been directed toward the fostering of a true fraternal spirit. William A. Herron, who served as the first president of Psi Delta Chi, is now prac ticing medicine. “Eddie” O'Donnell is manager of the Wheeling branch of the Goodrich Co. and “Bob” McGuigan is also in the “stogie city” with a Steel corporation. The professions of chemistry, physics and law have attracted other charter members. Frank Murphy and Joe Baldus are in the chemical field and Ed Thalte is physicist for the Flannery Co. Tom Donahue has established a brokerage office in Wall Street while “Bill” Blemmel is pratfising law at Johnstown. { 192 1 1 Top Row: Johnston, Donahue, Bride, J. Schmitt. Greeno, Byrne, Kelly, Rooney. Schrako, Benedict, Kern, Cosey. Third Row: Nolan, Lawler. O'Boyle, Breen. Healey. Parilla. Barr, Herron, O'Hara, Aaman, Fawcett. Second Roto: McMahon, Long, Burkhart, Wick. Gaynor, Harding. Dimond, Bailor, Snyder. Hillery. Feeney. First Row: Kennedy, McDermott, McTiernan, Keeney, H. Schmitt. Frisk, Hestor. O'Hagan ACTIVE MEMBERS John J. Harding, 26............................................ President Joseph Gaynor, '27......................................... Vice President James Wick, '27 ................................Recording Secretary John J. Borbonus, '27...............................Corresponding Secretary Charles A. Dimond, ‘26............................................Treasurer Joseph R. Bailer, 26...............................................Steward Joseph O Hagen, '27...............................................Historian Alfred M. Amass, '27 Joseph A. Gaus, 26 Neil C. Ludgate Frank J. Benedict, ’27 Donald A. Healey, '26 Joseph M. Mras. '26 John P. Breen. '28 William J. Hester, 26 Francis J. McCurry, '28 William F. Brennan, '28 Leo E. Hillery Joseph T. McMahon Fred J. Bretthollf, '28 Walter S. Holzmastkr, '26 Francis A. Nolan, 28 Charles H. Burhard, '28 Robert B. Johnston. 27 Patrick J. O’Hara, ’28 John F. Curran Thomas J. Kennedy, '27 Norman A. Schick. ’28 Edward P. Donohue William F. Kern, 28 Henry F. Schmidt. '28 James T. Fawcett. '27 John W Lauler, 28 Francis M. Snyder, 26 Chester J. Frisk, '27 Paul Snyder. ‘26 PLEDGES Francis W. Bride. ’29 Carroll Herron, '29 James P. McDermott, '29 Jerome Casey, '29 Paul A. Keeney, ’29 John F. O'Boyle, '29 Albert A. Demahlia, 29 Charles A. Lang, '29 Arthur R. Parilla John E. Donavan, '29 Harry Long, '29 James P. Rooney, ‘29 Richard J. Feeney, '29 George F. McDermott, '29 John R. Rudge, ’29 Albert P. Guarino. ’29 Edward L. Sherako, ’29 C 193 I The 1927 Owl Pi J ambda Phi (''AMMA SIGMA chapter of Pi Lambda Phi was organized as a local fraternity at the University of Pittsburgh in 1912. The load, known as Gamma Sigma fraternity, was granted its charter on May 6,1914. Among the first national fraternities to charter a ch.ipter at Pitt, Pi Lambda Phi was the first fraternal group at the University of Pittsburgh to include Jewish students. At Yale University, on March 21, 1895, Pi Lambda Phi was founded by Henry Mark Fisher, Louis Iampter Levy and Frederic M. Werner. Soon thereafter chapters were instilled at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard and other Eastern Schools. Among chapters installed in recent years are those at Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Wisconsin and Amherst. The chapter home, located at 225 North Dithridge Street, was purchased in 1920. [ 94 3 Top Row: P. Goldberg, Finklehor, Keller. Kaufman, H. Isaacs. Mallinger, Lieberman, Lavaur, Bk kmek, Second Row: Sack, Friedman, D. Levinson. Racusin, Shenkan, Hartenstein, Davis, Friedman, Lasner, R. Levinson. First Row: R. Goldberg, Frank, Williams, Sack, Gessner, Kramer. Herbert, Isaacs ACTIVE MEMBERS Harry W. Sack, Business Administration, '27 David Silverblatt, Business Administration, ’26 Harry Frank, Business Administration, '26 . Milton Gessner, Business Administration, ’26 . Bernard Cramer, Dentistry, '27............... Allan Davis, Business Ad., 27 Ben Davis, College, ‘26 Maurice Finkelhor, College. ’27 S. Bernard Foster, College. ’26 Bernard Friedman, College. ‘27 Townsend Friedman, College, '26 Richard Goldberg. Dentistry, 28 Harold Hartenstein, Dentistry. '28 Harry Isaacs, College, '28 Herbert Isaacs, Engineering, '27 ...................Rex . . . A rchon . Keeper of the Archives Keeper of the Exchequer Master of Vor David Kaufman, Business Ad., 27 Nathan Keller, Education, '26 Sol Lasner, College, 27 Ralph Levison, Dentistry, ‘27 Harry Lieberman, Business Ad., '27 Benjamin Mallinger. Bus. Ad., '27 Manuel Menster, Business Ad.. '26 Joel Per, College. 26 Oscar Racusin, Dentistry, ’28 Frank R. Sack. Business Ad., ’26 PLEDGES Samuel Bremer, College, '27 Bernard Lavaur, College, '29 Philip Goldberg, College, ’29 David Levison, College. '28 Joseph Shenken, College. ‘29 FACULTY MEMBERS Prof. Alexander Silverman Alexander Cooper Ezra Levy Dr. Mortimer Cohen David E. Levin { 195 3 The I927 Owl TV cRko 'Delta pi RHO DELTA, local social fraternity, was organized June 5, 1921 with twelve charter • members. These men, long associated in school activities, decided to establish a social fraternity among themselves so that they might share their ideals and their social life. Procuring a house, the fraternity grew rapidly and in October, 1921, the University authorities gave official recognition. In January, 1924, the InterTraternity Council admitted the organization into the conference. The next November the fraternity moved to its present house at 250 McKee Place, not far from the Stadium. J. Lloyd Mahoney, an instructor in finance in the School of Business Administration, is the faculty advisor of the local chapter. ACTIVE MEMBERS William H. Knox. Business Administration, '16 Fred Bauman. Engineering. ‘27 ... Paul Clark, Business Administration, V Maurice Harrold. Business Administration, ‘27 Trevor West, Business Administration, '27 Joseph H. Baker. Business Administration, '27 . Ralph Kuhns. Business Administration. 26 . . . . President . . We President . . . . Secretary . . . Treasurer . . . . Steward Corresponding Secretary . . . Htflorian [ 196 } Top Row: Morrison, Whebny, Burtt, Tarr, Smeltzur. Lang, Williams, Young, Hagkrty. Rayburn, McIntosh. Second Row: Meimans, Baker, Robertson, Busch, Falck, Myer. Simpson, Hamblin, Painter, Lewis, Schlay, Riley, Bender. First Row: Anderson, Kouns, Harold, Baumann, Knox. Mahony, West, Thompson Edward A. Agnew, Engineering, ’27 Edward L. Anderson, College, '28 Harry Anschentz, Law, '28 Floyd A. Bender, Business Ad., ’28 Francis J. Burtt, Engineering, ”27 John F. Busch, Business Ad., 27 Robert W. Fahringer, Law, 28 John A. Falck, College, 26 W. Kenneth Hamblin, Law, ’28 Warden H. Immel, College, ‘28 Herbert A. Juncbluth, Engrg., '28 Harry F. Lang, Business Ad., '27 James H. Lewis; Engineering, '27 James F. McIntosh, Dentistry ‘26 Wilbert Morrison, Business Ad., 27 William A. Myers, College, '27 Clark H. Painter, Engineering, '28 Frederick M. Patterson, Engineering, ’27 Ernest Sampson, College, 26 John Schwabrow, Engineering, '27 Donald K. Simpson. College, 27 Alton B. Smkltzer, Engineering, '28 William F. Spear, College. 27 Lawrence P. Tarr, Business Ad., '26 J. Glen Thompson, College, '28 Robert R. Thorne, Engineering, '27 Wilmer S. Werry, Business Ad., 27 Henry A. Young. Engineering, ”28 PLEDGES Wesley C. Allison, College, '28 Nelson O. Anderson, Bus. Ad., ’29 Herbert L. Costolo. College, '29 Carl Fascius, College, '28 Harold N. Harper, College, 28 James H. MacIntyrf, Bus. Ad.. ‘26 Leonard H. Merrimans, Engineering, ‘28 Donald B. Raybourne, College, ”28 Robert R. Riley, Business Ad., '28 John F. Robertson, Engineering. ’28 Donald H. Schlag, College, '28 Tom Williams, Engineering. 29 C 97 3 Sigma Ipha epsilon INCE 1856, when it was founded at the University of Alabama, Sigma Alpha Epsilon has expanded to the other colleges until at present it numbers ninety'five adtive chapters. Chi Omicron, a load group on the campus, was instilled as Pennsylvania Chi Omicron chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon on March 9,1913.The present chapter house at 244 Bellefield Avenue was purchased in December, 1920. The chapter house was first located on DeSota Street and later on Baum Boulevard. ACTIVE MEMBERS Lex M. Depp. Engineering, '27 ... J. Walter Leonard, Jr., B.A., '27 Robert F. Rohm, College, ’28 . Carl A. Stayer, B.A., 26 ... Robert L. Floyd, B.A., ’26........ Charles A. Baylor, Dentistry, 28 John K. Gr pp, Dentistry, 28 ... Harold Meybin, Dentistry, ’28 . . Eminent ArcHon Eminent Deputy Archon Eminent Correspondent . Eminent Treasurer . . Eminent Recorder . Eminent Warden . . Eminent Herald . Eminent Chronicler { 198 } Top Roto; Arnold, Pilkington, David, Wish art. Tinker, Armstrong, Hackett, Kimmkll, Jarrktt, Me Lauchun. Second Row: Sensenick, Smith, Groome, Graeep, Furniss. Mayo, Baylor, Brown, Cigrand. D. Kurtz. Ftr t Row: Layfield, Parson, Bowers, Rohm, Floyd, Gustafson, Stayer, Snyder. Newton. Meyhin, T. Kurtz George H. Armstrong, Dentistry, '27 Jack H. Clarke, Dentistry, 26 William S. Foraker. Mines, 26 Dwight L. Grimm, Dentistry, '27 Andrew F. Gustafson, B.A., ‘26 Wilbur D. Hockensmith, College, '28 William P. James, B.A., 27 William M. Jarrbtt, Dentistry, 27 Ray B. Johnston, B.A.. '28 Harry Lenhart, Dentistry, ’27 J. Howard Mayo, Dentistry, '27 Harry McCandlkss, College, '29 William N. McClelland, Dentistry. ’28 John N. McLaughlin, College, '28 John T. McMahon. College. '28 Elton L. Newton, College, '29 Earl L. Rodgers, College, '27 Jack Z. Rohm, College. 28 Ross W. Stevins, Dentistry, '28 Floyd K. Snyder, Dentistry, '27 Robert L. Warnock. Dentistry, 26 Harold D Wishart, Law. '29 PLEDGES William Arnold, College, '29 Theodore Bowers, College, '29 Robert Brown, College, ’29 Clyde E. Cicrand, College, ‘29 Harry M. Furniss. Dentistry, ’28 Robert L. Hackett, College. '29 Frank Har ey, College, 29 William Kiner, College, 29 Ernest G. Edward Kimmkll, College, 29 Edward Kiser, College, ’29 Donald F. Kurtz, College, '29 Rynd Miller, College, '29 W. Scott Nf.ttrour, College. '29 Frank Parsons, College, 28 Roy Price. College. 29 Louis E. Sensnick, College, '29 1, College. 28 FACULTY MEMBERS Prof. George B. Hatfield Prof. Karl D. Swartzel I 199 1 t . c,« Sigma zJllpha zJXtu ' T'O BAND together Jewish students of worthy character that they might spread the doctrines of fraternalism, that they might themselves be benefited and might bring credit and honor to their college. Sigma Alpha Mu was organized on Thanksgiving Eve, November 26, 1909, at the College of the City of New York. Not until 1913 was ex-pansion to other schools attempted, but since then the number of chapters has increased steadily. The local chapter which is known as Psi chapter was installed in 1919. As an aid for fraternity coordination, a Regional Advisory system was introduced in 1920. It provides for a geographical grouping of the chapters into seven provinces, each province headed and supervised by a regional advisor. The annual convention is held in mid'winter and is attended by chapter and alumni delegates. At this time an executive board is elected. The executive body, known as the Octagon, consists of eight alumni fratres. Four are elected for a foupyear term; the other four are life members. At its first regular meeting each year, the Otfagon elects the supreme officers of the national fraternity. Both Memorial and Founder’s Day are observed annually. It has been the custom for the local chapter to hold a Stag banquet each year, and a formal dance in June. FACULTY MEMBERS Dr. Alexander Lowy Dr. Robert Zugsmith [ 200 } Second Row: Witt, Schamberg. Henry, Buerger, Rosenberg, Hodes. First Row: Klater, Levinson, Orrincer, Eliashof. Silverman. Broverman, Kaminsky ACTIVE MEMBERS Leon Eliashofe, Business Administration, '26....................Prior Stanley Fkitler, Business Administration ‘28................Exchequer Harold Bender, Dentistry 27 ... Recorder Louis Braverman, IXnti iy. '28 Joseph Orrincer, Business Ad.. '27 Leon Levinson, Engineering, '28 Saul Silverman, College, ’26 Morris Silverman. College. ’26 David Buerger Philip Eisenuerg Philip Hodes Leon Henry PLEDOES Harold Kaminsky Homer Klater Jack Rosenberg Milton Schamberg Sidney Witt [ 201 } Sigma (iii DETA THETA chapter of Sigma Chi was formerly the Delta Kappa local. As the first national social fraternity on the University of Pittsburgh campus it was granted a charter by Sigma Chi on July 2, 1909. Still possessed with a knack of Starting things, the Sigma Chi organized the Inter-fraternity Council several years later. The Panther, Pitt's humorous publication, and two social interfraternity clubs, Framasors and Turtles, are also achievements of members of the local chapter. The present chapter house at 165 North Dithridge Street was purchased in 1919 by the Pittsburgh Alumni chapter. Although the membership of the local chapter dropped to six members during the late war, the chapter was able to carry over and keep its charter. Each year Beta Theta chapter gives a reception for the Alumni and their wives, and a tea for their own mothers. A mask ball and an annual picnic the last week of school are also included in the social program. Hervey Allen, the well known modern poet, and Dr. J. B. Sutherland, head football coach at the University, are graduates of the local chapter. FACULTY MEMBERS Chancellor John G. Bowman Thomas M. Pearce Dr. Joseph F. Lambie Prop. F. Percival Hunt Dr. J. B. Sutherland Dr. William S. McEllrov I 202 J Top Row: Martin, Coburn, McKee, Holmes, Schaumberg, Seeley, Hughes, Thompson, Wagner, Murray. Second Row: Varner, Critcheield, Petty, Zimmerman, Dennis. Tough, Gloteelty, Hiles, Post, Allison. Leithead. Hrrnblom. First Row: Elder, Johnston. Scott. Stewart, Stone, Frantt, Kelley, Steele, Beatty, Lee ACTIVE MEMBERS Jason E. Stone, Jr., ‘26............................................President Norman Stewart, Jr., a6.......................................Vice President Harry Scott, 28....................................................Secretary Leland S. Frantz, ‘26...............................................Treasurer Edward Allison, '28 Frank B. Hoeeman, ”27 Edward Philips, '28 Robert I. Baxmier, ’26 Clifton O. Hughes, 27 Frank Schaumberg, ‘28 Marshall Beatty, '27 Roy Johnston, '26 Robert Seeley, 28 Herman Elder, 27 Russell Kelley, 46 Donald Smith, ’28 Edward Gloteelty, '28 Alfred M. Lee, 27 Robert Steele, ’27 Alex Hamilton, V Brucp Leithead, 28 John Thompson,'27 Theodore Hrrnblom.'27 Edward L. Lloyd. '27 Silas E. Thompson, '27 Homer Hiles,'28 Lynden Morrow, '28 Tracey N. Tough, 27 Harry Petty, '26 PLEDGES John Coburn, ‘27 P. D. Critchpield. '28 Fred Dennis, '29 Jack Holmes, '29 William Martin, '29 Wayne McKee, Jr.. '29 William Thompson, ‘29 Forrest M. Varner, ”28 W. W. Wagner, ‘29 Falor Westfall, '29 Paul Zimmerman, ’28 [ 20 1 Sigma Pi T OUNDED at Vincennes University, Indiana, in 1897, Sigma Pi fraternity remained a local until 1909 when it consolidated with four other locals which were organised at Ohio State University, the University of Illinois, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania. The local fraternity, Delta Upsilon Kappa, was founded in December, 1920. As Chi chapter of Sigma Pi it was installed early in 1925. Until the fall of 1924 the chapter house was located on Center Avenue, but at that time moved to its present site, 212 North Dithridge Street. [ 204 } N Top Row: Jones, Phillips, Peterson, Kerr, Mitchell, Hkks,Thorse, Crawford, Currier. Middle Row: Baehr. Rearick. McCartney, Bowers, Emllr, Adams, Means, Larson, Dunbar, Bishton. Front Row: Mills. Barnett. Main, Stech, Cotton, Lampe. Kerr ACTIVE MEMBERS Harold A. Stech, ’27 . . Sage Herbert R. McLenahan, V ...............................Firil Counselor W. Arthur Brady, ’26..................................Second Counselor Karl C. Cotton, 27....................................Third CounseUn James M. Barnett, ’26.................................Fourth Counselor Ralph A. Main, ’26..............................................Herald William S. Lampe. ‘27....................................Correspondent Woodward C. Adams, ’28 Lee Herrington. 27 Byron A. Baur, '28 George R. Jones, ’28 Maurice H. Bowers, '27 George C. Kerr, ’27 Thomas I. Brisker, '26 Harold B. Kerr, 27 James T. Crawford. '28 Siegfried A. Larson, '28 Harold V. Currier, V� Robert B. Lowe, ’28 Samuel G. Fisher, ’26 James M. Mills, '27 Wilmer M. Fisher, ’26 John A. Mitchell, 28 Ralph A. Hamilton, '28 Herman E. McCartney, ’27 Theodore K. Hess, 28 James G. McKibbin, '28 Franklin O. Robinson, 27 PLEDGES Lawrence P. B ehr. ‘28 J. Stuart Hunter, '28 William O. Peterson, '27 William H. Bishton, 29 Linton D. Means, '29 Clarence E. Phillips, '29 Glenn C. Boundy, '27 Theodore H. Meier, '29 Richard M. Skidmore, '29 Herbert L. Dunbar, '27 A. Ladley Pearson, '29 Ivan E. Thompson. ’29 Charles L. Emler, ’29 Walter A. Thorn. '29 { 205 } The 1927 Owl Square and (‘ampass THE Pumas Club, a local campus organization of students and members of the faculty who were also Master Masons, became a chapter of the National Intercollegiate Fraternity of Square and Compass on May 17, 1924. Square and Compass was founded at Washington and Lee University in 1917 to provide a democratic intercollegiate Masonic organization which would federate the various Masonic clubs that have existed in American educational institutions for many years. Its aim is to provide a college organization where members of the Student body and the faculty can and will meet on the same level, thereby promoting Study and interest in the history, symbolism, jurisprudence, and philosophy of Freemasonry. HONORARY MEMBERS Dr. S. B. McCormick Dr. C. Wallace Petty FACULTY MEMBERS Dr. N. A. N. Cleven J. Howard Dice Prof. J. F. Dilworth Dr. E. M. Frost Dr. J. W. Oliver Harry H. Provin Dr. S. H. Williams [ 206 } ACTIVE MEMBERS J. W. Reed, Mines, ‘27...................................................Prestdent Walter J. Rome. B.A., 'if ..........................................Vice President Archibald Laird, Medicine, '29...........................................Secretary G. Stanley Rupp, B.A., 25...............................................Treasurer Historian Chaplain . Guide Marshall J. Howard Dice, College, 11. John Moore, B.A., '26 Myron McGarvey, College, 26 George T. Welsh, College, 26 . W. L. Anderson, Medicine, '29 B. F. Asche, Economics. '12 G. R. Boardman, Engineering. ‘25 C. B. Book, Education, 25 H. J. Bush, Medicine, 27 P. H. Byers, Economics, 26 William Campbell, Economics, '15 H. M. Cherry, Economics. 25 J. Y. Dale. Economics, ’25 R. B. Davidson, College, '26 A. B. Denniston, College. ‘26 G. M. Fehr, College, '26 L. C. Ferguson, Law, '25 T. R. Fredley, College, 27 C. E. Frey, Economics. ”25 C. L. Garson, Economics. 24 W. Harry Geist, College,‘20 Verl V. Groomes, Economics, ’23 A. A. Grubbs, Denti ry, 25 Kenneth B. Haas, Economics, '24 Russell J. Hamilton, Economics, ‘23 P. R. Hilleman, College,’20 A. F. James, Economics, ’25 D. 1. Jamison, College. '26 Walter Keck, Engineering, 27 Joseph Kelly, College, '25 T. R. Kendrick, Medicine. '21 Bertram Kenyon, Law, ’28 R. P. Marshall, Engineering, ’22 R. A. McCrady, Law, 14 G. B. McDowell, College, ’26 T. C. McKee, Medicine, '26 P. W. Nettrour, College. 26 C. D. Newton, Medicine, ’29 S. H. Romksuurg, Dentistry, ’24 F. P. Schubtte, College, '27 F. L. Smith, Medicine, 27 Charles H. Sporck, College, ”25 E. C. Stover, College, '26 J. L. Sykes, Engineering, '26 Walton Wood, College. '27 Zareh Yardum, Economics, '22 Donald C. Yates, Engineering, ’25 E. A. Zehpuss, Economics, ‘25 [ 207 } The 1927 Owl Theta Qhi SIGMA EPSILON was the name of a group of students in the Engineering School of the University of Pittsburgh who organized in 1915. Although membership in this group was first limited to engineering Students, it later extended to Students in all the schools, and as a social fraternity petitioned Theta Chi, entering the national group as Alpha Beta chapter in 1919. At Norwich University, which was formerly located at Norwich but is now at Northfield, Vermont, Alpha chapter of Theta Chi was established in 1856. ACTIVE MEMBERS . . . President . . Vice President . . . Secretary . . . Treasurer C. Fred Altman, Dentistry, 26. A. Victor Crookston, B.A., 27 William H. Webb, English, 26 . John Kenneth Dubrr, B.A., 26 [208} Top Iiou : Clements, Stokes, Blair, Fontaine, Tracey, Corbett, Sturm, Luker, Muciiow, Cozad, Watson. Second Row: Forman, Lynch, Noll. Bennett. Zimmerman, Church, Thomas, Patterson. First Row: Holstein, Heltman, Carlson, Duerr, Altman, Webb, Crookston, Morgan, Bartholomew, McLaughlin J. A. B e.r, Jr., College, '28 Andrew Sloan Barclay, B.A., '26 Thomas H. Ba .tholomew, B.A., '27 J. Scott Brown, College, 28 Joseph W. Carlson, Mines. ’26 Hugh L. Church. Dentistry, ’27 Clyde C. Clements, College. ‘28 Walter Cope. Medicine, ‘28 Frank J. Corbett. College, '28 William H. Cozad, Dentistry. 26 Frank M. Creath, Dentistry, 26 Albert J. Forrest, B.A.. 26 J. Paul Heltman, College. '28 Fred McD. Holstein. Dentistry, ’27 Paull William Kflly, Engineering, ’27 William P. King, Dentistry. ’28 J. Donald Lynch, College. '28 Joseph Allen McEwpn, Engineering, '28 William B. Parsons. Dentistry, '26 William B. Patterson, College, '28 William J. Regan, Engineering. 26 Jack E. Stokes, College, ‘28 Ward T. Sturm, Dentistry. ’27 Allen M. Watson, Engineering, '26 James Hugh Wallace, B.A., '27 Charles Ross Luker, College. 28 PLEDGES Joseph Bennet, College, '29 Thomas Leonard Blair, College, 3,0 James D. Clokey, College, 28 Gerald J. Collins. College, '29 Lewis Edward Fontaine, College, 30 William Arthur Forman, College. ‘29 Milton McLaughlin, College, ‘29 James Magee, Dentistry, “28 Joseph Morgan, College, '29 William G. Muchow, College, “29 Carl Vincent Noll, Mines. '27 William B. Parry, College, '29 Walter V. Richardson, College, '29 Victor Frank Collins, College. ’29 John F. Tracey, College, ‘29 Thomas Zimmerman, Engineering, '27 I 209 } The 19 7 Owl Theta 'Delta Tsi THETA DELTA PSI, a local social fraternity, was founded in the fall of 1920 to provide a medium through which its members might more successfully strive toward ideals of high personal character, good scholarship, and loyalty to their Alma Mater. The fraternity was organized on December 6, 1920, official university recognition came on February 2, 1921, and admission to the interfraternity conference soon followed. The local chapter first occupied a house at 446 Amberson Avenue, but at the close of the college year found it necessary to seek new quarters. A new chapter house was found almost next door to the old one. They remained here only a few years and this last summer moved to the new and commodious home located at 151 North Dithridge Street. Charles A. Foster, the first vice president of the fraternity, is now assistant to Dr. Sieg, Dean of the College. FACULTY MEMBER Charles A. Foster { 210 1 Top Row: Smith. Riggle. Phifer. Newman, Haves, Link. Wilbur. T Stewart. Cameron. Wolfe. Long, Arthurs. ‘Third Row: Carnahan, Biebel .Donaldson. London, Remaley Hawk. Dennison. Henrici, P. Stewart, McClintock, Lipiiart, Houston. Second Row: Balfour Durr, Thompson, Bpu, Johnston, Major. Voelker. Eves, Guthrie. Front Row: Frank. St.Clair, Monks. Beacon, Miller, Wise ACTIVE MEMBERS John R. Johnston. College. ’26................................. ... President John R. Bell, Jr.. College. '27...............................Vice President Louis B. Vcilker, College. '28........................Corresponding Secretary Ira O. Major. Engineering. ’27............................Recording Secretary R. Kenneth Thompson, Business Adn-.iniSration, 26 .... Treasurer Chester B. Hays, College. '26.................................House Manager Frank J. Arthurs, Jr.. Engineering. ‘27 J. C. McClintock, Business Ad., 27 W. Carson Beacon. College. ’28 John V. Miller, College. '27 S. Beleour. College. 28 Rufus G. Monks. Business Ad., '27 Waydp Bloom, Business Ad., ’26 William Newman, College, ’28 J. P. Cameron, College, 26 John Phifer. Engineering. 26 J. D. Donaldson, College, '27 F. T. Pitcairn. Business Ad., 27 Donald A. Durr, College, ’26 Crane Remaley. College, ’27 Ambrosf Eves, Jr., Business Ad., ’27 L. R. Riggs, Engineering. 26 Charles Gutherie, College. 28 Nelson Runger. College. '27 G. T Hawk, College, ’28 Fulton Smith, College, 28 Fred Henrici, College, 28 Harold Speedy. College. 28 Ernest Houston, Business Ad., ‘26 Donald St. Claire, College. ’28 Milton R. Link, Dentistry, '27 R. K. Stewart, Business Ad., 26 Cleon C. London, College. '28 Tom Stewart, College, ’28 L. Craig Long, College, '26 L. Wise, College. '28 K. Wolfe, Mines. ’27 PLEDGES Richard Carnahan, Engineering, 27 Walter Dennison. College, '29 George Tronk, College. ’27 [ 211 1 f Jill ‘Women'' s fraternities SORORITIES, what a world of comment they can call up! They have been discussed at faculty meetings and on the Streets, at national assemblies and in private homes— everywhere someone is ever ready to criticize. The strangest part of it all is that the fraternity men, the members of the brother organizations, are first to talk. Frequently they have asked, “What have you received from being a sorority girl other than gossip? Are your sorority friends, real friends? Has the pin you wear been worth the price you paid?” It certainly looks as if these men had been disappointed with their choice of a fraternity and are trying to influence others. After all it all leads to this one question, Do the sororities accomplish anything?” Statistics show that the majority of leaders, either in scholarship or in activities, are sorority girls. Whether this is brought about by the sororities themselves or is the reason that the girls are sorority members, is a question. They are Still leaders, however, even though they remain in their sorority group. Each year new things are tried; some are found wanting; others meet with marked success; but because an innovation does not glitter from the Start is no reason it should be condemned. This year, as every year, we are trying something new—Second Semester Rushing. Why not give it a fair try? Test it out thoroughly. Investigate each little defect; and if necessary, eradicate it. So far there are many things to be said pro and con. The sorority girl is given a better chance to become acquainted with Freshman girls—to see them as they really are and not in the artificial light of rushing parties. It also gives Fresh' men an opportunity to Study sorority life that they may choose intelligently and not be disappointed in their choice. A whole semester can be devoted to Study, so that rushing will conflict as little as possible with lessons. On the other hand many think that instead of raising the scholastic Standing of the girls by giving them an uninterrupted semester of Study, it is lowering these Standards by devoting this whole period to preparation for rushing. How true this may be is yet to be seen. If it is the case, surely we can see that the girls themselves are defeating the whole purpose by not playing fair, being square, and hitting the line hard. Several years ago a council of sorority presidents was formed to discuss problems and create a closer feeling among the groups. This fall a year's program was presented. The first affair, a tea, was held at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house with Kappa Kappa Gamma, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Delta Sigma, and Alpha Epsilon Phi as hostesses. In December Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Xi Delta, Beta Phi Alpha, and Chi Omega were hostesses at a bridge party. A dance at the Delta Delta Delta house was sponsored by Delta Delta Delta, Delta Phi Epsilon, Kappa Delta, and Phi Mu. At the Zcta Tau Alpha house there was a luncheon with Zeta Tau Alpha, Phi Sigma Sigma, Pi Beta Phi, Theta Phi Alpha in charge. As a grand climax, a swimming party and a song contest have been scheduled. So Fir these events have been very successful and we can only hope that in the future they will continue to do as much good. l } cPcm-?Helle)iic THE local chapter of the National Pan-Hellenic Association is an adtual governing hotly. Under its care this year, Pitt girls have encouraged scholarship by stricftly refraining from first semester rushing. As much as the association encourages spirit and cooperation in women's activities, it has relegated these to their proper place in favor of scholarship among women's fraternities. Delta Zeta won the silver “Pan-Hel cup last year with an average of 81.74, just four-tenths of a point ahead of Phi Sigma Sigma. Pan-Hellenic’s second accomplishment has been the fostering of better spirit among all women of the University. Among the women's fraternities, its regular monthly meetings have been augmented by informal meetings to create a better understanding between the seventeen fraternity presidents. Women of the Freshman class were introduced to fraternities through five teas where they were entertained by Pan-Hellenic representatives, and through two forums where problems relating to rushing and pledging were discussed. In line with its “harmony program Pan-Hellenic held three general assemblies of all fraternity girls where fraternity problems were discussed by both Students and faculty members. On March 11 and 12 a fraternity conference was held which closed with the Pan-Hellenic banquet. The Pan-Hellenic Formal was held April 30 at the Schenley Hotel. {214! r (r. wjamnsm Second Row: Logan, Endsley, Lillich, Jones, McElroy, Thompson, Reuser, Ullf.ry. First Row Hemple. Matteson, Morrissey, Siecal. Ewing, Cmitester. McGlean ACTIVE MEMBERS Gertrude Siegal. Alpha Epsilon Phi.......................................President Margaret Morrissey. Phi Mu..........................................Vice President Ruth Matteson, Theta Phi Alpha..................................Secretary Florence Chitester, Alpha Delta Sigma...........................Treasurer Alpha Delta Pi Elsie Thompson Alpha Xi Delta Marian Logan Beta Phi Alpha Martha McElroy Chi Omega Daine Wacemann Delta Delta Delta Marie Ewing Delta Phi Epsilon Dorothy Barkin Delta Zeta Dorothy Lillich Kappa Alpha Theta Edithe Endsley Kappa Delta Frances Ullery Kappa Kappa Gamma Janet McLean Phi Sigma Sigma Annette Nosopp Pi Beta Phi Nellis Hemple Zeta Tau Alpha Gladys Howard { 215 } cl Alpha 'Delta Pi THE Adelphian Society of the Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Georgia, founded the national fraternity. Alpha Delta Phi on May 15, 1851. Although its name was changed to Alpha Delta Pi in 1905, the only reason for the change was that a men's fraternity had already established its title as such. Since installation, February 15, 1925, Alpha Iota chapter represents one of the oldest national fraternities on the campus. The next best thing to a fraternity house is a chapter room. This year, for the first time. Alpha Iota has secured at 291 North Dithridge Street that substitute for a house. As a remembrance gift, at graduation each Senior is presented with a pair of beaten silver candle Sticks engraved with the fraternity seal. Alta G. Charles represented Alpha Iota at the national convention in Rainer Park, Washington, July 1925. The national fraternity has begun to accumulate an endowment fund of seventy'fivc thousand dollars to be a memorial to its founders. Elsie Thomson and Mary Wortman are in charge of the local chapter's contribution. [ 3 Top Row Smith, Evans, Nantz, Charles, Wortman. Second Row: Haller, Young, Weis, Willock. Chad-wick. Irons First Row Thompson, Blose, Bradbury. Rex. DeMartini. Kline. Coy ACTIVE MEMBERS Helen Rex. '26.................................................President Mable Bradbury. 27.......................................Vice President Martha Klein, 27....................................Recording Secretary Deloris DeMartini, '27.........................................Treasurer Emma Adams, '26..................................Corresponding Secretary Marcelle Acker, College, 25; Medicine, 29 Florence Blose. ’26 Carrol Miller, 26 Thelma Chadwick, '27 Mary Louise Nance, '28 Alta Charles 26 Ruth Smith, ’28 Dorothy Coy, 28 Elsie Thomson, '26 Margaret Evans, '28 Velma Weis, ’28 Frances Keeper. 26 Gladys Willock, 27 Cortula Loos, '26 Mary Wortman, ‘28 PLEDGES Marie Haller, ’28 Grace Irons, ’28 Catherine Young, '28 [ 217 1 Owl utlpha Delta Sigma ALPHA DELTA SIGMA was organized in 1920 as the G.G.G. club with Emma Erk as president. In March, 1921, the Greek name was adopted and the group was reorganized as a local fraternity on the campus. Jennie Munro was president of the group for two years. Every fall the Alpha Delta Sigmas hold a Bacon Bat out in the country. Weiners, bacon, and marshmallows are toasted over the fire. After supper the fraternity orchestra, compos-ed of mouth organs, xylophones, whistles, and jew’s harps, plays several selections. Another tradition of Alpha Delta Sigma is Pledge Night, on which the pledges “tike” the actives to dinner. La St year the fraternity members were led on a three-mile tramp through Oakland. Up dirty alleys and down side-Streets they went. Even a visit to the Police Station was made before finally they reached the place selected for the dinner. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Starrett, charter members of the local group, are members of the University faculty. Marguerite Atwater, a former instructor at Pitt, is consulting psychologist at Morganza Training School. FACULTY MEMBERS Mrs. C. V. Starrett Mrs. Virginia B. Taylor Fratcrnalisro Second Row: Wright, Mosch, McAnulty, Barnes, Broadwater. Charlesworth. Plaster. First Row. McAnulty, McClure. Hutchinson, Koons, Chitester, Cox, Johnson ACTIVE MEMBERS Dorothy Koons, 26 President Florence Chitester. '27 Vice President Margaret McAnulty, 26 Margaret Hutchinson. ’27 . Aileen Barnes, ”27 Grace Caster. Special Florence Cox, '26 Verna Curry. 26 .........................Secretary ........................Treasurer Frances Johnson, ’26 Elsie McClure, ”27 Catherine Plaster, “27 Sarah Shaw, Special PLEDGES Minnie Charlesworth. '28 Alma Mosch, '26 Elizabeth Wilkinson, ’28 { 219} zAlpha Cpsilon Phi ALPHA EPSILON PHI instilled Nu chapter at the University through the absorp- Ation of Chi Gamma Theta, the local group which was originally formed in 1919. As a national organization. Alpha Epsilon Phi outlines in detail a program of social service in which all the chapters participate. In addition to this work, dentil clinics have been established in several of the large cities, notably in New York. These are supported by the national chapter. Although Upsilon chapter at Akron University entertained the second annual conclave of the second province in December, 1925, Nu chapter was honored with the role of hostess for the first conclave which was held in March, 1925. The national conventions offer a triennial opportunity for intercommunication of the chapters. The local Nu chapter has also had the distinction of placing two of its members into national offices: Edith Lazarus is now concerned with the exacting duties of Treasurer, and Ethel Saniel is both Director of Social Service and Province Director. Among the honorary members of the local chapter are Mrs. Enoch Rauh, president of the Associated Charities of Pittsburgh; Dr. Luba Robin Goldsmith, one of the first women to enter the Medical School of the University, the former medical advisor to the University women, and the author of the recent Jewish opera, “East and West”; and Mrs. Alexander Silverman, chairman of various Jewish organization committees. Annual Senior D.iy is observed in June by the members of Nu chapter in honor of the Seniors and alumnae. The graduation gift to each Senior is a silver Kir pin engraved with the fraternity seal. [ 220 ] Fraecmatism Top Row: Nathanson, Chernopf. Ress, Levy, Friedman. Second Row: Maniieim. Margolis, Kann, Azen, Frankle, Goldstein. Fir.it Row: Scheinman, Friedlander, Siegal, Azen. Goldparb. Grien, Greenberg ACTIVE MEMBERS Yetta Azen, College, '26 . Florence Goldfarb, College, '28 . Elsie Hopes, College, ’26 Mrs. Alexander Silverman . Dean . Scribe . Treasurer Faculty Advisor Rose Azen, College. '28 Beatrice Chernopp. College. 26 Sylvia Frankle, Education. '27 Frances Friedlander, College. '28 Minnie Green. College. 28 Gertrude Sieg Ruth Greenberg, College. ‘28 Rosalind Levy, College. '27 Dorothy Margolis, College. 27 Anne Nathanson, Education. '27 Hester Scheinman, Education, '28 Education, 26 PLEDGES Alice Friedman. College. ‘28 Naomi Maniieim, College. ’28 Helen Goldstein, College. ’28 Sylvia Ress, College, '28 { 221 } The 1927 Owl zAlpha Xi Delta HE Pittsburgh Alumnae chapter of Alpha Xi Delta and two students, Marguerite Roberts of Iota chapter and Muriel Scott of Delta chapter, were instrumental in the founding of a local fraternity. Alpha Delta, in 1917. On May 17 of the next year. Alpha Delta, consisting of twenty girls, was instilled as Alpha Alpha chapter of Alpha Xi Delti. The biennial convention of the thirty'nine chapters of the fraternity will be held at Glacier National Park. Each chapter celebrates Founder's Day with an annual luncheon. They present to the founders at this time a love gift of money for the Memorial Scholar-ship Fund. The local chapter entertains its alumna; at a housewarming during the Christmas Holidays. Each summer a reunion is held at the country home of Ruth Wallace. The graduation gift to each senior is a jewelled Alpha Alpha guard. FACULTY MEMBERS Adelaide Jonej, A B.. ’22, M.A., '23, Miriam L. Bommard, B.S., ’21; M.A., 21 [222} Second Row: Bomhard, Hervey, Sachter. Patterson, Gass, Stormpels, Logan. First Row: Rewbridge, Dotterer, Baker. Henderson, Dair ACTIVE MEMBERS Anna Louise Baker, Education, '26 President Dorothy Dotterer. Education, '27 Helen Rewbridge, College, '28 . Della Henderson, College, 28 Eloise Bomhard, College, '27 Jean Dair, College, '27 Hannah Gass, Education, '28 Kathryn Hkrvp.y, College. ”28 Ruth Thoj .........................Vice President . . . . Recording Secretary . . . . Corresponding Secretary Marion Logan, College, '28 Louise Luke, College, ’26 Viola Sachter, College, 28 Elizabeth Stormpels. College, ’28 College, '28 PLEDGES Leah Fella bom. College. 28 Martha McAnulty, College, 28 Louise Patterson, College, 28 { 223 V ‘Beta Phi lAlpha UNFORTUNATE fiances little know what they are in for when they become en-gaged to a Beta Phi Alpha Senior. Every year, at a breakfast in the spring, the aforementioned vidim must present the fraternity with a huge box of candy. In case no seniors are engaged, the committee furnishes a box of lolly-pops. Beta Phi Alpha is the former local Theta Gamma Phi. It was installed as a national in May, 1924, by Dorothy Osborne, national inspector from Alpha chapter, at the University of California. On each campus a Mary Gordon Holway loan fund is being established to help Beta Phi Alphas go through college. Mary Gordon Holway is a Pi Beta Phi who sponsored the organization of the national fraternity, Beta Phi Alpha. One of the chapter traditions is Parents' Night, which is held every spring. The attives entertain with an original play, and the pledges give songs and a Stunt. Most of the alumnae are teachers in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, or in the larger region of western Pennsylvania. Margaret Boyd is head of the English department at Bloomsburg, Pa. Esther Noll is on the English staff at the University, and Louise White is taking graduate work at Pitt. During the Christmas holidays, Hannah Bechtel represented the Pitt chapter at the fifth biennial convention at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. The University of Southern California, the University of Minnesota, and Ohio Wesleyan University were granted charters at this convention. HONORARY MEMBER Mrs. Georck B. Hatfield I� 4l Top Roto: Schatz, Stevenson, Barle, Milligan, Lauder Second Roto: White, Femr, Bechtel, Eckert, Baker. First Row: Hartman, Stutzman, Uhl, McElroy, Keene. Schindehutte. Loiimeyer ACTIVE MEMBERS Martha McElroy, College, ‘26................................................President Anna Uhl, Education, 26...............................................Vice President Helen Keene, College. 27.........................................Recording Secretory Elizabeth Schindehutte, Education. 26 Ruth Stutzman, Education. 27 . Beryl Baker, Education. 26 Nellie Bark. Education. 26 Hannah Bechtel, Education, 27 Alma Carlson, Education, ’26 Mildred Craic, College, ’28 Wilma Eckert, Business Ad., ’27 Lillian Fehr. Education. 26 Mary Sterri . Correspond mg Secretory ...........................Treasurer Kathryn Hartman. Education. 26 Dorothy Herrick, Education. ‘26 Acnes Lauder, Education. 26 Vera Lohmeyer. Education. 27 Virginia Milligan, Education. 27 Frances Peach, Education. 26 Geneva Schatz, College, 28 College. 28 PLEDGES Esther Stevenson. College. '28 Mildred Wacle, College. '28 [ 225 } (Jbi Omega PHI BETA chapter of Chi Omega was installed at the University of Pittsburgh by Mary C. Love on December 6, 1919. The group installed was formerly known as Alpha Gamma Omicron. The active chapter awards a prize of twenty-five dollars annually to the woman student who excels in the work of the department of economics or sociology. For a number of years it has been customary for the chapter to give a tea dance to all campus pledges, both men and women. Phi Beta chapter is keenly interested in the National Research Fund instituted last year by Chi Omega. In the same connection a book has recently been published and issued to the public and is known as Human Conduct and the Law, written by Mrs. Mary C. Love Collins, national president. On January 25, 1925, a joint Memorial Service was held for Dr. Charles Richardson of Finleyville, Nebraska. The service was attended by members of Kappa Sigma fraternity from both the Carnegie Institute and the University chapters and by members of the local Chi Omega group. Dr. Charles Richardson was an early member of Kappa Sigma and the founder of Chi Omega. [ 226 j Second Row: Stevenson, B r, Eitel, Waucaman, McKnight, Gretton, Cole, Oberlin. First Row: Jones, Miller. TenCate, Corbett, Etzel. Register, Kinney ACTIVE MEMBERS Charlotte Corbett. Education, '26 Louise Ettel, College, '27 . Helen Miller, Education, '27 Martha Register, College, '27 Anaruth B.«r, College, ‘28 Ruth Cole, College, 28 Florence Gretton, Special Alva Jones, Education. ‘26 Harriet Kinney, College, '28 .............................President ...........................Vice President .............................Secretary ................................Treasurer Isabelle McKnight, Education. '27 Evelyn Oberlin, Education, '26 Margaret Probst, College, '26 Kathryn TenCate, Education. '26 Daine Waucaman, College, '28 PLEDGES Marion Eitel, College, 28 Mary Stevenson. College. ’28 Elizabeth Watt { 227 1 The 1927 Owl 'Delta Phi Epsilon DELTA PHI EPSILON, a national social fraternity for Jewish women, was founded at New York University, March 17, 1917. The Pitt chapter was originally the local fraternity. Kappa Upsilon Mu, which was recognized by the University on May 7, 1924. School recognition was followed by admittance to the Pan-hellenic Association in Ortober of the same year. On October 13, 1925, Kappa Upsilon Mu became Delta Phi Epsilon, and the University chapter was installed as Eta chapter. One of the pleasant affairs yearly arranged by the chapter is a picnic at Squaw Run. Every summer groups of alumnae, artives, and pledges forget their collegiate dignity and rush to the picnic grounds. There they go barefoot, wade in the creek, wear knickers, and generally art like children. This picnic is followed, later in the summer, by a swimming party held at a camp near Oakmont. Swimming races, leap frog in the water, and “ducking” are part of the enter' tainment. After the swim, a huge bonfire is built on the beach for an old-fashioned corn roart. After the excitement of rushing and pledging, a banquet is held annually at the Ritten' house for the new initiates. One of the features of this occasion is a succession of rtunts by each new member. Lart year an original song was composed extemporaneously and sung by an initiate during the dinner. [228} Second Roto: Cohen, Raihnovitz, Deakter, Marx, Finkelman, Chotiner, Braunstein. First Row: Capias, Ashinsky, Barkis, Hahpner, Friedman ACTIVE MEMBERS Dorothy Barkis, College, 26 . Florence Ashinsky, College. ‘27 Edith Caplan, College, '27 . Mildred Hafpner, Education, ‘27 Mrs. Alexander Lowy Clara Bkrglass, College, '26 Anna Braunstein, Education, '27 Henrietta Chotiner, College. '27 Alice Cohen, College, '28 .............................Regina .....................Vice Regina Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer Recording Secretary Faculty Advisor and Honorary Member Rebecca Deakter, College, '28 Freda Finkelman, College, 27 Hilda Friedman, College, '26 Anna Raihnovitz, College, '28 [ 229 1 'Delta Delta Delta DELTA OMICRON local was founded in 1913. Three years later it was granted a national chapter in Delta Delta Delta as Alpha Theta chapter. Since Tri Delta was founded in Boston on Thanksgiving Eve, 1888, it is the custom each year for every member to wear a sprig of pine under her pin on that day. The alumnae chapter gives a Founders' Day Banquet each year the Saturday after Thanksgiving. About the middle of April the a ive chapter always honors the alumnae with a Charter Day Dinner. Three of the Alpha Theta graduates, Viola M. Young, '16, Suzan Waddell, 17, and Auleenc Marley Jamison, '18, are now doctors of medicine. Mary Thompson Denman, College, '20, Law, '22, is practicing law with her husband in New CaStle. Mary Robinson, '18, is a missionary in North Africa. I 230] Top Row: M. Taylor. Winters, Ewing, B.+:r, Ziegler, Strasler, Wigman. Second Row: McKenna, Me-Curdy. Patterson. Turner, Soost. Granbkrg, Miller. First Rou . Hildebrand. M. F. Taylor. Brant, Weigel. McClellan, Parker, McCune ACTIVE MEMBERS Helen W. Weigel, Education, 26 Mary Lan McClelland, Education. '26 Anna B. Brant. Education, '26 . Isabel McBane, Education, V Helen Busk. College. '27 Marie Ewing, Education, '27 Signe Granberg, College. '26 Marion Hildebrand, Bus. Ad., ’27 Elizabeth Miller, Education, ”26 Charlotte McCune, Education. '26 Louise McKenna, College, 28 .............................President ...........................Vice President .............................Secretary ................................Treasurer Kathleen Parker, College, 27 Florence Patterson, College. ‘28 Dorothy Soost, Business Ad., '27 Alma Jean Strassler, College. '28 Mary Taylor, College, 28 Mary Florence Taylor, College, '27 Elizabeth Zeigler, Education, ”26 PLEDGES Marcaret McCurdy. College. ‘28 Helen Wigman. College, '28 Helen Turner, College, 27 Edna Winters. College, '28 £ 1 ‘Delta Zeta OMICRON chapter of Delta Zeta was founded at the University of Pittsburgh in Jan uary, 1916. Nationally and locally, this fraternity has concentrated on scholarship. Four times the local chapter has been awarded the Pandicllenic scholarship cup. A “Rose dinner'dance, given each year during rushing, has become one of the local chapter traditions. The pink rose is the Delta Zeta (lower. The invitations, place cards, and decorations for this party are pink roses. The Pitt chapter helps in maintaining the Delta Zeta Community Center for poor people in the Kentucky mountains. Every Christmas they send to the center such gifts as blankets, Christmas tree trimmings, toys, and clothing. Dr. Eleanor Balph has become known for her work in the field of experimental medicine at the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia. Mary Piersol Bunker, Ed. '17, has been in the mission field for five years, at Buitenzorg, Java, where Mr. Bunker is head of the MethodiSt'English school. Mary Sanner Karcher will leave this summer for South China, where her husband is to be Stationed as a medical missionary. FACULTY MEMBERS Catherine Moore Helen Pool Rush Elizabeth Seville i 232 } Top Row: Layland, Shakarian, Ramsey. Parsons. Thurber. Second Roto: Milar, Stultz, Rumble, Pracer. Boliky, Turbett, Kratzke. First Roto: Kettering, Arble, Morrison, Lillich. Moore, Hulton, Hooper ACTIVE MEMBERS Dorothy Lillich, '26 President Margaret Moore, ’27 Vice President Helen Arble, '27 . Florence Hulton, '2(1 Katherine Morrison, 26 . Margaret Boliky, 26 Katherine Hooper, ”28 Elizabeth Kettering, '26 Mavis Kratzke, 28 Edith Layland, ”28 Helen Milar, ‘26 Sara Parsons, ’28 Recording Secretary . Corresponding Secretary ..........................Treasurer Elsa Pracer, '27 Margaret Ramsey, '26 Virginia Rumble, '27 Venus Shakarian, ‘27 Ruth Stultz, '27 Emily Thurber, ’27 Lois Turbett, '28 {233 3 i cippa zjflpha Theta T)EFORE 1908 women's fraternities were unheard of at Pitt. But in this year Helen Frost ■U Dice, Lillie Hagerty McNamara, Dale Findley Dunham, Anna Hopkins Moreland, Marion Lindsay, Mary McKean Bailey, Anne Rcessle Ramsey, Marie Monroe Wright, Marie Scikenberger, and Ida Hattman Started a local fraternity. Pi Theta Nu. For eight years they existed as a local fraternity, and then they became Alpha Omega chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta. Every year an enthusiastic alumna: tells the pledges about the early days of Pi Theta Nu and Alpha Omega, and about chapter customs and traditions. Hazel Keffer Peden has done this for the last few years at an informal supper given by the chapter. The Thetas also have a fondness for silver spoons. At the Senior Dinner, every year each graduate receives a silver spoon, with her name engraved on it. The a itive girls give this gift at the fraternity house during June Commencement Week. FACULTY MEMBERS Coralie Keefer Pearson Marion Wolcott [ 34! Alena Horner Marcaret McClenaman Top Row: Rfnner, Hay, J. McClure, Carson, Kilincsworth. Second Row: Hedden, Thomas, Mathews, Endsley, McKenna, Reineman, Smith. Front Row: Miller, E McClure, Coit, Muter, Russell, McElheny, Lloyd ACTIVE MEMBERS Jeanne E. Muter. Education, V Nina E. Johnston, Education, 26 Mary McElheny, College, '27 . Dorothy Russell, Education, '27 Helen Carson, College. '27 Katherine Coit, College, '26 Edith Endsley, Education, 27 Katherine Flenneg, College, '28 Marian Hedden, College, '28 Hazel Kilincsworth, College, '29 Helen Lloyd, Education, '26 Anna Bess Mathews. Education, '27 Eleanor McClure, Education, '26 President Vice President Secretory Treasurer Jeannette McClure, College, '27 Jean McKenna, College, '27 Martha Miller, College. 26 Katherine Power, College, '28 Brookje Renner, Education. '27 Jane Reynolds, College, 26 Katherine Rinman, College, '28 Kathryn Rowell, College, ‘28 Jane Smith. College, '29 PLEDGES Jean W. Hay, College, 28 Harriet Thomas, College, ‘28 i 255 1 The 19T7 Kappa ‘Delta XI CHAPTER of Kappa Delta was in alled at the University of Pittsburgh on March 15, 1920, twenty-three years after the founding of their first chapter at Farmville, Virginia. Kappa Tau Mu was established at Pitt for the purpose of petitioning Kappa Delta and of doing social service work. Since that time they have pledged their permanent support to the Crippled Children's Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, as a tribute to the founders. The Kappa Deltas spread Christmas cheer by annually getting up a basket for a poor family. They assemble gifts of clothing and toys for the mother and four children, then they fill the basket with all the embellishments of a Christmas dinner. The most delight comes when they go to the home of this family and sec a little crippled boy pull out a toy automobile, a top, or a fur cap. Beatrice Young, of the local chapter, is now assistant professor of Modern Languages at the University. She has recently returned from a trip around the world. She visited the Alhambra, the Vatican, and Canton Christian College. FACULTY MEMBER Miss Beatrice Young I 236] Top Row: McMillin, Duffy, Kazamrous. Cols. Second Row: Arnold, Rihlht, Norris, Ludwig. Clemens. First Row: Irwin, Deitrich, Ullery, Gilmore, Schultz ACTIVE MEMBERS Frances Ullery, Education, '27.................................President Helen Gilmore, Dentistry, 27..................................Secretary Pearl Dietrich, Business Administration, 27....................Treasurer Susan Arnold, Education, '27 Josephine Kazamrous, Medicine, ‘28 Nellie Ash, Education, '26 Alma Lorah, Education, '26 Mary Elizabeth Clemens, Ed., '27 Dorothy Ludwig, College, 28 Lillian Cole, Education, '27 Lysle McMillin, College, ’28 Ardesta Duffy, College. '27 Genevieve Norris, College. '28 Martha Irwin, Education, '26 Isabel Riblet, Education, ’26 Helen Schultz, Dentistry, ’26 I 37 1 'Kelppa Kappa Qamma C'1 AMM A EPSILON chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma was established at the University on February 21, 1919, when a national charter was granted to the members of E. R. O., a local fraternity founded in 1916. In commemoration of the installation of this chapter, the fraternity yearly holds a birthday party on February 21 to which all aCtives and alumnae are invited. Their fraternity periodical, “The Key of K.K.G.,'' the publica-tion of which was authorized in 1881, was the first journal ever published by a women's fraternity. Kappa Kappa Gamma, as a national, also maintains a Student's Aid Fund whose benefit is not limited to members of K.K.G., but is open to all women Students attending colleges where the fraternity has a chapter. The load chapter promotes social welfare service by holding a bridge party annually, the proceeds of which are turned over to the Rose McGill Fund. To show that the fraternity members are good housekeepers and hard workers, every girl last year went out and tramped the Streets during the cold Christmas season selling Christmas cards and Colgate's Soap Flakes. The returns from their labors were used to improve and redecorate the K.K.G. house. The money remaining after these improvements went to their National House Endowment Fund. [� J8] Top Row: Jknncwine, Hampson, Gilleland, Miller, Locke, Bullions, Hewitt. Second Row: McDonald, Ream, Woodward, Howard, Arthur, R. Thompson, McMurray. First Row: M. Thompson, Eskey, Doyle, Mecahan, Toay, H. Gilleland, McLean. Meals ACTIVE MEMBERS Helen Toay, Education, '26 President Adelaide Mecahan, College, 27............................................Secretary Marcaret Thompson, Education, 26 .... Corresponding Secretary Helen Gilleland, Education, ”26 . Harriet Arthur, College, ’26 Margaret Bullions, College, '27 Gertrude Doyle, College. '27 Alice Eskey, Education, '26 Elizabeth Gilleland, College, '27 Christine Hampson, College, '28 Margery Hewitt, College, '28 Helen Howard, College, '26 Louise Jennewine, College, ’28 Helen Wood' .........................Treasurer Mary-Theo Lacke, College, 28 MarY'Belle Meals, College, 28 Margaret Miller, College, '27 Irma McDonald, College, '28 Janet McLean, College, '26 Charlotte McMurray, College, ’28 Dorothy Ream, College, '28 Ruth Thompson, College, '28 Esther Wilt, College, ‘28 d. College, ’28 PLEDGE Elizabeth Harrold, College, '27 [ m 1 The 1927 Owl Thi zMu THE Alpha Mu load fraternity was formally organized at the University February 19, 1920, for the purpose of petitioning to become a chapter of Phi Mu. The founders of the local, Laura M. Schafer, Lesly B. Hastings, and Katherine M. Saunders, completed their organization within the next few months. They were chartered and initiated into Phi Mu as Beta Theta chapter September 19, 20 and 21, 1920, seven months later. Mrs. Zenobia Wooten Keller, the national president of the fraternity, conducted the initiation ceremony. A tea for their mothers is given each year by the active members. Another tradition that the local chapter follows is the presentation of recognition pins to the graduating members at their annual Senior Luncheon. The chapter dresses Christmas dolls every year for the children of the Greenfield Kinder' garten. They have a party, in addition, for the Orthopedic Ward of the Children's Hospital. FACULTY MEMBER Mrs. J. F. L. Rascmen C 2401 Top Row: Locke, Grace Jones. Walker. Caves, Gertrude Jones, DlWalt. Second Row: McElroy, Fullerton, Morrissey, Hazlitt, Caldwell, Harter. First Row: Ley, Campbell. Lincenfelser, Kerr, Hamilton ACTIVE MEMBERS Pauline Lincenfelser, Education, '26......President Mildred S. Kerr, College. '27 Helen E. Campbell, College, 27 Hazel R. Hamilton, College, ‘27 . Grace DeWalt, College. '26 Naomi R. Caldwell. College. 28 Mary Caven, College, 27 A. Rebekah Fullerton, College, 28 Alice Harter, College, '28 Katherine Hazlett, College, '28 Gertrude Jones, College, 27 Grace Jones, College. ’27 ..........................Vice President Recording Secretary . . . . Corresponding Secretary ...........................Treasurer Gladys J. Ley, College, ‘26 Emily Locke, College, ’28 Olive McElroy, College. 28 Margaret R Morrissey, College. ‘28 Marguerite F. Payne, College, ’28 Virginia Walker, College. '28 Esther Wynkoop. College, '27 PLEDGE Helen Cox. College, ‘28 { 41} The 1927 Owl Phi pignut £igma THE local chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma, national fraternity for Jewish women, was organized as Sigma Lambda Chi by a group of Students on January 16,1923. It received school recognition and admittance to Pan-hellenic in February of the same year. On June 15, 1924, Sigma Lambda Chi was installed as the national fraternity chapter. LaSt January the local chapter gave a card party to earn money for their scholarship fund. A scholarship will be awarded soon to a junior girl in the University on the basis of need, personality, and scholarship. This phase of the fraternity’s philanthropic work has received the approval and cooperation of many prominent women's organizations in the city. An Egyptian costume ball is an annual custom of the local chapter. Because their shield is a sphinx on a pyramid, all the decorations of the dance are carried out in pyramid designs. At one end of the ballroom Stands a pyramid tent with its Sphinx fortune-teller. FACULTY MEMBER Mrs. Robprt W. Semenow [242] Second Roto: Rush, Pruger, Zaconick, Burnstein. Lepkowitz, Gold, Bernstein. First Row: Morrison, Reich, Marcolis, Knina, Kirkel ACTIVE MEMBERS Annette Nosoff, Education, '26 . Rose Marcolis, College, 26 Ruth Meritzer, Education, ‘26 Belle Bornstein, College, '26 Sylvia Burnstein, College, 28 Miriam Kirkfl, College. '27 Dorothy Knina. Education, 27 Helen Lepkowitz, College. '26 Tessie Morrison, College, ’27 .............................Archon ......................Vice Archon .............................Scribe Pollyann Pruger, College, '27 Ida S. Reich, College. '27 Pearl Rush, College, ’27 Jennie Weissman, College, '28 Isabel Wilner, College, 28 Sylvia Zaconick, College, '28 PLEDGE Esther Gold, College, 28 1 43} The 19 27 Owl Pi :Beta Phi PENNSYLVANIA Delta chapter of Pi Beta Phi was organized in 1917 by eleven girls under the name of the Dianthians. Mrs. H. B. Murphy of Massachussctts with the help of the Pittsburgh Alumnae Club secured a national charter for them. They were in-stalled September 19, 1919, fifty-two years after Pi Phi was founded. The education of the poor mountain whites in Gatlingburg, Tennesee, is of great concern to the local chapter. Each year they swelter over hot stoves making sea foam, fudge, peanut brittle, and cocoanut balls to sell at a bridge party at the P.A.A. The Pitts-burgh Alumna: Club call up their friends and a crowd jams the bridge rooms. List year $500 was earned and sent to Gatlingburg. At a Christmas “cookie-shine, given each year by the actives, they all gather around the party table spread on the floor. The favor placed at each person's place is a cookie with a burning candle at its center. The girl whose candle burns down first is the center of interest, while the rest munch nut-bread sandwiches, pickles, and cake. The secret of the interest is that this girl is supposed to be the next one of the group to lie married. Charlotte E. Ray, Education, '19, and one of the charter members of Pennsylvania Delta is now Dean of Women at Pennsylvania State College. Marie McSwigan, College, '19, is assistant society editor of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times. Wilhelmina Wehmeier directs the YAV.C.A. camps in Ohio, and organizes camps in the Pacific and Northwestern States. [ 244 3 Top Row: Mitchell, Hotham, Simmonds, McCullough, Cornporth, Sylvia Hannan, Barrett, Schmid. Second Row: McSwican. Jacobs, Webster, Philips, Sarah Hannan, Johnston. Elder, McConachey, Swift. First Row: Hemple. Fulton, Thompson, Hamilton, Fphr, McConahey. Wein ACTIVE MEMBERS Lysbeth Hamilton, College, ’26 . Margaret McConahey, Education. '26 Elizabeth Thomson. College, '27 Sarah Fulton, College, '27 . Alice Fehr, Education. ’27 . Fernk Wein, Education, 26 . Anne Barrett, Medicine, 29 Florence Cornforth. College, '29 Sarah Hannan, College, 26 Sylvia Hannan, College, 26 Nellie Hemple. Education, ’26 Margaret Hotham. College, 27 Ruth Johnston, College. '27 . President Vice President T reasurer Recording Secretary Corresponding Secretary House Manager Harriet Mitchell. College. 28 Dorothy McConachey, Education, ’26 Catherine McCullough, College, ’27 Bertha Schmid, College, ’28 Gertrude Swift, College. '29 Alice Symonds, Education. 27 Elizabeth Webster. Education, ’26 PLEDGES Kathryn Elder, College. '27 Katherine McSwican, College, ’28 Lois Jacobs, College. '27 Ruth Phillips, College, 28 [245 3 Theta Thi Alpha WHEN you see Theta Phi Alphas rushing about the campus selling tickets for a bene fit bridge, you know they are raising the money for the Margaret Enright Memorial Award, a scholarship planned in memory of Margaret Enright, whose sudden death interrupted her proposed Study of medicine. This award is given to the Junior pre-medical woman Student who is most deserving and possessed of the highest scholarship. Theta Phi Alpha has had a variety of names on the Pitt campus. From the O.K.A. club, organized in 1920, it changed to Epsilon Pi Epsilon, which in turn became Kappa chapter of Theta Phi Alpha, a national fraternity for Githolic women. Their charter was granted in May, 1922, and every year a banquet is held at the Schenley on Founder's Day, May 4, to which all alumna, actives and pledges, are invited. Besides this a dance is held every spring to speed the departing seniors. Dr. Alice Schmitz, a graduate of the Pitt Medical School, is now practicing in Pittsburgh. The two Kenny sifters, Marie and Margaret, have recently returned from a six-months Study of music at Fontainebleau, and a tour of Europe. Cecile Schmidt is on the Staff of the Gazette, and Lois Barry is doing advertising work. {246 J Top Row: Icnklzi, Brennan, Matteson, O’Leary. Second Row: Warca, Brecanzer, Noble, McEllicott, Kennedy, Strain. First Row: Smith, Ledden, Murtha, Grusch. Rocerson. Till, Burcun ACTIVE MEMBERS Ruth Grusch, Education, ’26 Eleanor Rocerson, Education. ’26 Katherine Till, College, ’28 Alice Murtha, College. ‘27 . Katherine Philpott, Education, ’26 . Miss Ellen Geyer .... Celeste Breganzer, College, 28 Thelma Brennan, College. 28 Kathleen Burcun, Education, 26 Ruth DeWitt, Education. '26 Marie Icnelzi. College, ’28 Lucy Kennedy, College, ’27 ..........................President ..........................Vice President . . . . Recording Secretary . Corresponding Secretary ...........................Treasurer .......................Faculty Advisor Marcaret Ledden, Dentistry, 26 Martha Masters, Education. ’27 Ruth Matteson, College, ’28 Mary McEllicott, College. '28 Kathleen Noble, College, ’27 Elizabeth Smith, Education, '16 FACULTY MEMBER Miss Elizabeth Blair PLEDGES Adelaide Jackson, Education, 26 Virginia Strain, College, ’28 Mary Warca, College, ’26 i 247 I The. 19 2? Owl Zcta Tau tAlpha TT is the dream or cherished aim of every fraternity chapter to own a house- -a fraternity home. On Craig Street, within the campus circle, the house is the center of local chapter activity; it is an over-night or more permanent “resting place.” Alpha Burkhart Wettach, now national president, and Helen Donaldson, national secretary, are alumna of the Pitt chapter. They were, incidentally, among the founders of the local Chi chapter which was nationally installed in November, 1915. Previous to this, the Chi chapter group had been known as the l.C.C. club. At the banquet, November b, 1925, held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the local chapter, those two national officers were the guests of honor. The Junior or Senior nto outstanding in scholarship, activities, and service to the fraternity, is given the Honor Ring of the fraternity to wear. It is set with an onyx engraved with the seal. Grace Sefton Myer, concert soprano, has her Studio at present in Pittsburgh, bhe has been studying at Fontainbleu, France. Her sister, Alice Aleene hefton, is a physical director of the University, and Mrs. Lottie 0. Lohstoetter, instructor in the department of modern languages, is an advisor of W .S.G. A., an honorary member of Mortar hoard, and a member of Pi Lambda Theta. FACULTY MEMBERS Mrs. Loni 0. LoHsram Auer Attestbmos W1 Top Row: Edwards. Heesom, Newby, Wright, Milligan. Young. Second Row: McCartney, Hazan, Shoop, (Jordon, Tuning, Moye. First Row: Kregbr, Gcedecke, Hartmann. Reeser, Johnston ACTIVE MEMBERS Grace Hartmann, Education, a6........................................President Gladys Howard, Education, 26....................................Vice President Louise Kregar, College, ’26...........................................Treasurer Pearl Marshall, College. ‘28..........................................Secretary Ruth Edwards Lucille Faubel Anne G edecke Mary Frances Gordon Helen Hagen Thelma Heesom Philippine Johnston Erma Young Eleanor Milligan Laura Moye Margaret McCartney Mary Reeser Doris Shoop Juanita Tunning Frances Wright PLEDGES [ 249 } Lois Newby, College. ‘28 Lillian Reed. College, '28 zAlpha 'Kappa zJllpha ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA is the oldest Negro Women's fraternity in the United States. The charter members of Iota chapter were: Gaynell Wright, Carline Davis, Norine Webster Taylor, Marjorie Tansimore Levy, Marcia Canty, and Edna Stratton. Maryann Hall, a Senior in the chapter, has had an honor record so far throughout her entire scholastic career. Katherine Hancock was included in the recognition list of Mortar Board. Iota has members in all fields in many parts of this country, as: teaching, Y.W.C.A. work, and social service work. ACTIVE MEMBERS Nannie S. Metcalfe, College, 27 Elizabeth Randolph, College, 27 . Thelma Parr, Education, 27 Norine W. Taylor, Pharmacy Patricia F. Clark .... . Recording Secretary . Corresponding Secretary . . . Treasurer . Vice President President Maryann Hall, College, 26 Marjorie Levy, College, '27 Katherine Hancock, College, ’28 Virginia McDonald, College. 27 Marian Hill, College, '27 Eleanor Monrob, Education. '26 Jewel Knott, Fine Arts, Tech., '27 Alth-ca Findley, Business Ad. PLEDGES Mary Corington, 28 Maxine Eckstein, 28 Vivian Judkins, Special Dolores Mann, '28 Thelma Williman, ’28 Cora Wood, 28 Grace Wooten (Out of School) Dorothea Mandexter, ‘28 [250] TTONORARY fraternities occupy a unique position on any college campus. Unknown ■ to many and laughed at by those not of their membership, they carry on as a feeble protest, in a life that is too communal, against cooperation and mass-adtion. Probably the first honorary fraternity was formed because a few Stray poets — or was it bridge build' ers — wanted a common meeting place for sympathy and understanding of their problems. They are primarily idealized groups. They always have the glorified atmosphere of the higher and better things about them; excellence which is excessively excellent. We expedt an atmosphere concentrated on one thing; we expedt cooperation and congeniality; we expect a very powerful stimulus for more work. Honorary fraternities often become a source for pride and a reward for work done. The pins are worn and the ideals forgotten. They degenerate into a comfortable mediocrity. It is the pradtice of many honorary fraternities to recognize excellence rather than to encourage it. Too much emphasis should not be put on recognition. Standards should be kept high and higher. Only people who have a genuine love for their work should be pledged. And in order to keep the morale of the organization, pins and ensignia might be done away with. If the honorary fraternity doesn't live up to its ideals, the cause lies in a lack of reason for its existence. Limit the membership to those alone who have ideals similar to those of the fraternity at heart; do away with as much of the outside regalia as possible; make it prove itself. Then we will have a living force — be it in poetry or engi' neering — rather than “juSt another adtivity.” I 251 1 Top Row: Prefer, Patillo. Nowry. Wilkins, Watson, Hartmann, Alexandroff. Firil Row: Hill, Wills, Kuhl. Johnstin, McNeal, Artur, Bryson zAlpha (9micron ACTIVE MEMBERS Harry G. Johnstin.............................................................President Paul E. Kuhl.............................................................. Secretary Donald M. McNeil..............................................................Treasurer George Alexandroff A. A. Artek Allan M. Bryson Frank C. Hartman S Ehrert Nowry Jamfs G. Patillo. Jr. John P. Phifer Byron A. Stump Alan M. Watson William J. Wilkins Harold P. Wills FACULTY MEMBERS E. R. Rath [ 252 J Dr. F. L. Bishop E. G. Hill J. W. Hallock L C. McCandlfs- Top Row: Silver, Smith, Fellabom, Wacle. Young, Jones, McElroy, Muse, Younc, Motyka. Lee. Second Row: Lindle, MacDougal. Lori , Miller. Douglas, Harrold, Dueeey. Cochran, Gourley. Siiaepeer. First Row: Brindley, Cox. M. Ehni, L. Enhi, Baurerle, C. Cox. Chitester, McMillan i appa Vbi ACTIVE MEMBERS Leora Eiini, Tech.................................................President Makcarki Calvert, Tech.................................................Vice President Florence Cox. Tech................................................Recording Secretary Clara Cox, Tech.....................................Corresponding Secretary Ethlyn Bauerle, Tech..............................................Treasurer Edith Haaek, Pitt..................................................Chaplain Harrietti: Young, Pitt............................................Historian Martha Ehni.........................................................Sponsor Wooda Andriessen, Pitt Leah Fellahom, Pitt F.lda M r. Lawhead. Pitt Eiizabpth Brindley, Pitt Mary Frances Gleason, Tech Wilma Lendel, Pitt Mildred Craig, Pitt Carolyn Gray, Tech Liu.ip Must, Pitt Barbara Dixon, Pitt Betty Harrold, Pitt Estella MacNeil, Pitt Lucy Douclas, Tech I orothy Herrick, Pitt Betty MacDougal, Pitt Ardesta Dueeey, Pitt Dorothy Hutchinson, Tech Elenore Stevenson, Tech Mildred Wacle, Pitt PLEDGES Leone R. Bell, Tech Gertrude Gluck, Pitt Cora Ne.yman, i itt Florence Chitester, Pitt Alberta Irvine, Tech Mary Shaeeer. Pitt Minnie Charlesworth, Pitt Jeanne Lord, Pitt Florence Wakepield, Tech Mary Louise Christie, Pitt Jean Miller, Pitt Margaret Wright. Pitt Katherine Dunning, Pitt Lysle McMillin. Pitt Franck Younc, Pitt HONORARY MEMBERS Grace McCarty, Pitt r 53 ] Elizabeth M. Lee, Pitt The 19 27 Owl 'Beta Qamma )igrna F ETA GAMMA SIGMA, national honorary commercial fraternity, was founded February 23, 1913, by the union of three local groups: Beta Gamma Sigma of the University of Wisconsin, Delta Kappa Chi of the University of Illinois, and the Economics Club of the University of California. Only schools which are members of the National Association of Business Schools are eligible to have chapters of the fraternity. The University of Pittsburgh chapter. Beta of Pennsylvania, received its charter May 3, 1920. The fraternity is composed of both faculty and undergraduates of the School of Business Administration. The local chapter aims to promote scholarship among the undergraduates in the realm of business subjects. It is largely upon the degree of scholastic attainment in these subjects that elections to the fraternity are made. [ 54 3 Prater nalism f ♦ f % «ll V F t t % t ? I Top Row: T. Fabiani, Parsch. Second Row: Rbitell. Metzger, Floyd, Bryan. Slesinger. Ayahs, Marshall, Lynch. First Row: Peterson, Blackburn, Stevens, Main, M. Fabiana, Meredith, Frank ACTIVE MEMBERS George G. Main.................................................................President Menotti (). Fabiani.......................................................Vice President Henry A. Stevens...............................................Secretary-Treasurer Wilson W. Bryan Harry H. Frank Robert L. Floyd John C. Peterson George P. Slfjincer FACULTY MEMBERS R. D. Ayers Raymond Blackburn Montfort Jones Dean Louts K. Manley F. W. Marshall Russel Miller William F. Parsch J. G. Quick G. L. Schramm Charles Van Sickle HONORARY MEMBERS Dr. John G. Bowman Dr. J. T. Holdswortii 1)r. Samuel B. McCormick [ 55 1 Z' 'JhCortar Board ‘HAT the outstanding women students of the University might not he slighted by - ■ the appearance of Omicron Kappa Delta, Alpha Limbda Nu was organized in 1915. In 1925 it became Mortar Board, national honorary women's fraternity. To Stimulate the interest of women Students in activities, Mortar Baird publishes every fall a recognition list of Sophomore and Junior women. This list is based entirely on ac-tivities of the Freshmen and Sophomores. These women arc formally presented to the active and alumna; members of Mortar Baird at a recognition party. The Greek letters on the Mortar Baird of their pin. Pi Sigma Alpha, represent the quah ities upon which membership in Mortar Board is based, namely: personality, scholarship, and activities. [256] lurrjrra Second Row: Gilleland. Perovsky, Muter, Johnston, Thompson. First Row: Hartmann, Lloyd, Siecal ACTIVE MEMBERS Helen Lloyd, Education. 26 Philippine Johnston Education. ’26 Dean Thyrsa Amos Dk. Marion Shepard Helen Gilleland. Education. '26 Grace Hartmann, Education, 26 Jeanne Muter, Education, '26 . President Secretary and Treasurer Faculty Advisor Faculty Advisor Sylvia Perovsky, Education, ’2(1 Gertrude Siecal, College, ”26 Margaret Thompson. Education. ‘26 HONORARY MEMBERS Miss Blossom Henry Miss Helen Rush Mrs. Lottie O. Lohstieter Dr. Florence Teagarden C 2571 The, 1927 Owl 0micron T)elta %cippa MICRON DELTA KAPPA is an honorary fraternity for the recognition of emi-nence in scholarship, athletics, campus publications, and literary and forensic attainments. It was founded at Washington Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, in 1914. The local chapter was chartered in 1916. It has chapters at the following schools: Washington Lee University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pittsburgh, Davidson College, University of Richmond, Centre College, College of William Mary, and the University of Akron. Parsons, Rome, Kenyon, Barton, Dale, Sack ACTIVE MEMBERS Bertram H. Kenyon........................................President Walter J. Rome......................................Vice President J. Clyde Barton...............................Secretary, Treasurer J. F. W. Pearson Harry W. Sack Donald B. Brown William B. Parsons A. W. Smith, III John Y. Dale ZONAR WlSSINOER FACULTY MEMBERS Dr. J. S. Ashbrook G. M. P. Baird Dr. H. Clifford Carlson George I. Carson Karl E. Davis Dr. H. E. Friesell Sydney S. Hcehl J. Steele Gow Kenneth M. Gould James P. Herron Howard C. Kidd P. V. McParland J. G. Quick Frank J. Shea Gustav L. Schramm Dr. J. B. Sutherland Dr. Francis N. Thorff. Dr. Francis Tyson I 59 1 UAX, the honorary group of girls majoring in science, is an organization to keep alive and spread scientific interest on the campus. It is the outgrowth of a biology seminar group founded in 1916 by seven charter members: Evangeline Merriman, Mary Aiken, Mildred Klingman, Artis Jones Rinko, Henrietta Yates Taylor, Edna Hickby, and Amy Whitmore. The organization expanded, taking in girls from other departments until at present it includes girls majoring in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Psychology, and Biology. Each month the club tikes up a different field of scientific study. One of the members specializing in a center field seletfs a speaker to address the group; Dr. H. D. Curtis of the Allegheny Observatory and Jay F. W. Pearson, a member of the Kartibo expedition, were among the outstanding speakers this year. At least once a year the Quax give a luncheon to all girls majoring in science who have a high Standing in their major. The club also sup-ports the Collembola Club and other scientific organizations on the campus. Most of the members of Quax are active members in the club specializing in their particular field. ACTIVE MEMBERS Mary Warga, College, 26.......................................President Helen Turner, College,‘27.................................Vice President Catherine Gebhart, College. 27................................Secretary Mary Florence Taylor, Education, '27..........................Treasurer Dr. Florence Teagarden...................................Faculty Adn« r Emily Gray, College. '27 Sylvia Pbrovsky, Education. 26 Ruth Gruscii, Education. ‘26 Mary M. Taylor, Education, '26 Lysbeth Hamilton. College, ’26 Margaret Thompson, Education, 26 Jeanette McClure, College, '27 Mildred Trescuer. College. '27 [ 260 ] mwT Phi z Alpha Theta ACTIVE MEMBERS Laura M. Braun . Hosier Bower . Esther Geist . Percy Caley Virginia Niemann Dr. N. A. N. Cleven Joseph Benedict Morris Berger Margaret Bollen A dele Connelly Mary C. Cook Charlotte Corbett Prop. James Dilworth Russel Dixon Florence Elliot Williasi Ewart William Fennell Ida Gealey Rabbi Herman Hailperin Rev. H. E. Harmon Prop. George Hatpield William Hayward Agnes Hewitt Prop. A. P. James Elizabeth Ledwidce Esther Magneeson Margretta Martin Prop. William J. Martin-Jane E. McKenzie Jennie Munroe Dr. J. W. Oliver Anna Prenter L. Allen Reynolds . President Vice President . Secretary . Treasurer Press Representsiie . Faculty Adtuor Leila Rupp Frances Saurman Mable Schar Eulalia Schramm Jack Sell William Semple Flora Shapiro Prop. Paul F. Shupp Mable Stables Allethe Standish Prop. James Thompson Prudence Trimble Florence Turner Marion While HONORARY MEMBERS Mrs. N. A. N. Cleven Dr. William J. Holland Dr. Evan T. Sage Prop. Henry Scribner I 26l ] Pi Xjimbda Theta TRUE, Pi Lambda Theta is the school'ma’rm's honorary, but don’t let this conjure up any picture of prim, severe ladies whose chief delight is to send people to the black-board, or make them and in a corner, for they have had two University May Queens as prominent members during the past few years. While they may discuss at their secret meetings the alternatives of pouring, cramming, or pounding things into their youthful charges, they go in for quite different activities on the campus. Delta, the local chapter, was organized in 1914 at the University of Pittsburgh under the name of Kappa Pi; and three years later became national at a convention held at the University of Missouri. Dean Will Grant Chambers was the sponsor for the young fraternity, and under his leadership and with the encouragement of Mrs. Chambers, the ideals for the group were early worked out. From the first it was felt that high scholarship and success in the profession of teaching should be the prime essential for membership. [ } mm Fraternalism Bad{ Row Toav. Johnston, Gilluland. Hartmann, Evans. Front Row: Erickson. McKenzie, R. Blessing. Soepel, Hcerr, Wvlie, L. Blessing ACTIVE MEMBERS Catherine A. Sopppl Mrs. Flora Tesh Jean Wright Carrie Lee Wylie Katherine Hcerr Louise Blessing Laura Braun Deborah Carter Mrs. A. M. Carmalt Mary E. Cook Emily Evans Anna Fineman Katherine Foulker Henrietta Frietley Esther Geist Mildred Guiney Elizabeth Highberger Louise Hoge Rosa Blessing Esther Erickson Helen Gilleland Theresa Kahn Elizabeth Kammerer Mrs. Lotte Lohstckter Josephine Marshall Helen Maxwell Lucy McCarty Ruth McFarland Claire McKay Dorothy Nauman Nancy Nolin Sara Palmer Anna Prenter Mary E. Rankin PLEDGES Grace Hartmann Gladys Howard Philippine Johnston Jane E. McKenzie [ 3] . . President . Vice President Keeper of Records T reasurer Corresponding Secretary Recording Secretary Mrs. Jennie Raschen Elizabeth Reid Mary Roach Frances Roch Anna Schaab Hplen Scu-tprER Florabel Shapiro Eleanor Smith Rose Stewart Alma Swanil Louise Wright Myrtif Wylie Eleanor Milligan Myra C. Simpson Helen N. Toay S«oml Row: Stutsman, Bechtel, Jennings, Carson. First Row: Flanagan. Weigle, Arthur, Mrs. Starret, Savage §uill Glub James Flanagan Nell'e Ash Frer Stalnaker Harriet V. Arthur Hannah Bechtel, 27 John Burke, ’28 Edith Caplan, 27 Alma Carlson. ’26 Helen Carson, '27 Katherine Coit, ‘26 Hugh Cropland, ’26 Louis Dankmeyer. '27 Honora Delaney, 28 Mrs. G. Demmel, '26 Freda Finklpman, ’27 Stewart Hunter, '28 Nancy Jennings, '26 Raymond Howes Percival Hunt Frederick Mayer Chancellor Keeper of the Parchment Warden of the Purse Scribe Mavis Kratcke, ’28 Harry Kousler, 28 Mr. Lessen berry, 26 Elsie McClure, '27 Dorothy Parker, ‘26 Katheryn Power, '28 Henrietta Rony, '26 Kathryn Rowell. '28 Abe Savage, '27 Mary Sterret, '28 Ruth Stutzman, ’27 Mildred Weigle, 28 Helen Weigel, 26 Harriet Ralston Mrs. C. V. Starret Earnest Wright ACTIVE MEMBERS FACULTY MEMBERS { 264 } IttT £igma Kappa Phi ACTIVE MEMBERS Nina Johnston, College, '26............................................President Martha McElroy, College. '26......................................Vice President Helen Milar, Education, '26...........................................Treasurer Dorothy Torreyson, Education. ”26.....................................Secretary Caroline Berclass, College, '26 Martha Irwin, Education, '26 Gladys Ley, College, ’26 Isabelle Riiilutt, Education, ’26 Elizabeth Schilken, Graduate Mary Taylor, Education, 26 Prop. M. A. DeVitis Miss Mary Dunbar Prop. Erle Fairpield Miss Blossom Henry Prop. R. H. Johnson Helen D. Buse Henrietta Carroll Henrietta Chotiner Dolores DeMartini Fern FACULTY MEMBERS Esther Magnison Margaret Miller Ida Reich James Stinchcomu White Miss Adelaide Jones Mrs. Lotte Lohstceter Dr. J. H. Raschen Prop. Evan T. Sage Prop. Henry Scribner Miss Beatrice Young PLEDGES Grace DeWalt Lillian Fehr Hazel Hamilton Mildred Happner Wein Louise [ 265 } Professional C'fraternities BACK in the fourteenth century, so the history texts tell, skilled workmen organized guilds to protect their trades and to serve as training classes for their apprentices. In this way merchants and bankers became members of merchant guilds and the artisans and laborers were associated with craft guilds. The history texts also record that these guilds had a decidedly advantageous influence on medieval life since they would comprise in membership nearly all the inhabitants of a town. At modern colleges and universities the Students are trained for chosen professions. They arc made to follow out a definite program so that upon graduation they may become qualified as members of various professions. Accordingly, Students in a school of Business Administration or in a Research Bureau for Retail Training prepare for commercial work; those in a school of the College or of Education specialize in the humanities or in the sciences; Engineering, Mines, Pharmacy, Medical, Dentil, and Law School Students train for the respective professions. But during the period of supervised Study in the colleges or universities, the Students find themselves in training classes which apprentice them to instructors for a set period of time. Such apprenticeship confines relations between Students and instructors to class' room activities. The organization of groups which limit membership to Students of the individual schools provides a broader and more social interrelationship. Professional fraternities, then, for so these groups are called, are the college and university guilds. To a certain extent they are exclusive in membership, of course. The student members are placed under the leadership of recognized professional alumni and advisors. Scholastic restraint, however, is removed by fraternal intercourse. The apprentices enjoy a happier period of training, it is safe to assume, than was possible in the Middle Ages. A pursuit of their work is optional. Libor is not squeezed out of them, nor must they toil in dungeons or in sweat-shops. They do not receive wages. Because professional fraternities are social training classes for college Students, they take their place by the side of the social fraternities; but beyond Stimulating good fellowship, they definitely direct and encourage their members to individual goals and, emulating the history of the guilds, they have a decidedly advantageous influence upon university life. I266J Top Row: Arnold. Parmenter, Zimmerman. Watson. Winters, Schimmel. Second Row Craig, Flaut , Fernandez. Frazer. Gailey, Larson. First Row: Johnjtin, Wilkins, Arter, Foraker, Jones. Goodalk Sigma Cjamma Epsilon ON THEIR merits in the fields of geology, mining, and metallurgy, members are chosen to the national professional fraternity. Sigma Gamma Epsilon. Alpha chapter was organized at the University of Kansas in 1915 and in the same year Beta chapter was in alled at the University of Pittsburgh. ACTIVE MEMBERS A. A. Arter, '16................................................President William S. Foraker. '26....................................Vice President William J. Wilkins, 26...............................Secretary Treasurer I). C. Jones, 26...............................................Historian H. H. Arnold, '27 J. A. Frazier, '26 C. O. Parmenter, '27 W. C. Craig. '26 W. B. Gealy, Graduate H. G. Schimmel, 26 C. A. Fernandez. '26 H. G. Johnsttn, ’26 A. M. Watson. '26 P. Flautz, '26 J. R. Larson. '26 R. W. Winters, '26 C. C. Zimmerman, 26 PLEDGES J. A. Gray, 27 T. A. Trax, Graduate FACULTY ADVISER Stephen Lincoln Goodalp. Ph.B., E.M., Sc.D., Professor of Metallurgy [267} ‘Dental Inter fraternity (Conference REPRESENTATIVES Alpha Omega Alfred Mormon D. B. Zimmerman Alpha Zeta Gamma L. S. Berman M. I.Trobe Delta Sigma Delta Roland Filer R. O. Rush Psi Omega W. Schuller E. A. Simonson Xi Ps, Phi C. W. Letcher A. G. Reese FACULTY ADVISERS Dr. H. W. Bradlev Dr. W. S. Swanson Dr. C. S. Cuden Dr. A. I. Wise Dr. A. C. Young [268] To Row: Rush, Berman, Caplan, Reese. Front Roiv. Schuller, Simonson, Filer, Letcher THE Dental Interfraternity Conference is composed of two representatives from each of the five fraternities adtive in Dental School. As an organization, the coiv ference serves to maintain closer relationships among the fraternities and to keep them a part of the adtive life of the University. The rushing and pledging of Freshmen comes under the supervision of this conference, and at its diredtion, rules have been formulated and adopted by its members. C 269 j 'i-Alpha Q,)i S ma THE local chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma was developed from an old Chemistry club. The club petitioned the national chemical fraternity and became Omega chapter on June 12, 1915. Alpha Chi Sigma was founded at the University of Wisconsin in 1902. Its membership includes Sophomore, Junior, Senior, and graduate Students of chemistry and chemical engineering who expect to make some phase of chemistry their life work. Professional chemists and chemical engineers of note are also admitted. Gilbert Thiessen, '25, is now with his father in Sheffield, England. Thiessen is working in the department of fuel technology of the University of Sheffield on a fuel research problem under a school fellowship. He will be abroad until next spring and then experts to return to the University in the fall of 1926. FACULTY MEMBERS Prop. W. E Baldwin Dr. C. C. Kino W. A. Hamor William L. Nelson Dr. E. V. Hjort Prop. A. L. Robinson A. W. Johnson James Roche Dr. («. Stegeman Dr. Kendall S. Thsh Prop. J. L. Young {270 3 ¥mwcmMsm Top Row: Cooper, Balcar, Dietrich. Lamb, Dickson, Kuhl, Kerr. Ross. Donaldson. Second Row: Jamieson, Bryson, Marshall, Stappord, Deeds. Thomas. Meadows, Carlson. First Row: Atwood, Linton, Andrew, Weller, Snyder, Horne, Sipple ACTIVE MEMBERS Louis F. Weller, College, 26.........................................President Carl S. Andrew, Engineering, 28...................................Vice President John A. Linton, Engineering, 28......................................Secretary Darwin L. Snyder, Engineering, 26....................................Treasurer Charles H. Atwood, Engineering, 26 Paul Kuhl, Engineering. 26 Allan M. Bryson, Engineering, '26 C. P. Scanlon, Engineering, 26 Louis E. Deitrich, College. 26 Horace L. Sipple, College, ‘26 Harlan F. Horne. College, 26 Henry A. Spangler, Engineering, '26 E. F. STArroRD, Engineering. 26 PLEDGES Fred R. Balcar, Graduate Thomas Carlson, Engineering, '27 Samuel M. Cooper. College. '29 J. R. Deeds, Engineering, '28 W. R. Dickson, Engineering, 28 H. C. Donaldson, Engineering, '28 C. Haward, College, ’28 Wayne Jamieson, Engineering, '27 W. R. Kerr, College. 28 William C. Lamb, College. 28 T. H. Marshall, College, '29 E. S. Meadows, College, '28 William C. Miller, College. ’28 R. G. Ross, College, ’28 George W. Smith, College, ”28 W. H. Thomas, College, 28 [271 ] Owi '-Alpha Kappa Psi TO FOSTER scientific research in the fields of commerce, accounts, and finance, and to educate the public to appreciate and demand higher ideals in these fields, were the purposes of the founding of Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity. Among the fortyone college chapters is Delta, installed at the University of Pittsburgh in October, 1912. In furtherance of their aim, Delta chapter has made two single contributions. It has established a trust fund to yield perpetually an income of one hundred dollars to be awarded annually to the Junior or Senior of the School of Business Administration attaining the highest scholastic average. It has also made a pledge of one thousand and forty dollars to the Cathedral of Learning Fund as an expression of loyalty to Alma Mater, and a perpetual reminder to future generations of their active interest in this worthy project. FACULTY MEMBERS Aubmy L. Asrnn Charles C. Sheppard Ira G. Flocken Douglas G. Sisterson HONORARY MEMBERS Joseph Conrad Dr. John Holdsworth Prop. Albert Wright C 272 I Organization Top Row: Hermansdorfer, Hobbah. Derby, Brown, Langford, Weimer. Third Row: N. Wunderly, Gardner, Pfiaum. Moorehead, Senrock, Kiester. Miller. W Taylor, Lono. Morgan. Statlander. Sproll. Second Row: Brynp. Hillman, Greene, Irwin, Nobs, F. Arens. Rehorst, Lynch. G. Wunderly, Hope-man. First Row: Hilp, Witt. Edmunson, Butterworth, Kearney, V. Arens Walters, Miller ACTIVE MEMBERS Paul W. Kearney...............................................President Josrrii G. Butterworth..................................Vice President Verne E. Arens................................................Secretary Charles A. Witt...............................................Treasurer Bert J. Lauble........................................Master of Rituals Clifford L. Walters............................................Chaplain William R. Edmundson.............................................Warden Fred G. Rottoll......................................Chapter Editor Ferd C. Arens James H. Irwin Paul Randolph William H. Bernoulli Robert G. Keister Frank Rehorst James E. Brown Harry C. Leesp Ray C. Robinson Arthur C. Dell E. Deane Lynch R. W. Saunders Crosby G. Gardner . Samuel Miller Joseph P. Scmrock Sylvester F. Grein William T. Miller James L. Scott Andrew T. Heerlein Charles G. Moorhead William Sproll Charles D. Henderson Harold D. Morgan Fred H. Statlander Calvin Hesse George A. Neesham J. Willis Taylor Homer J. Hilf Walter No� James A. Watson Edgar C. Hillman William J. Pflaum Glenn Wunderly Reginald V. Hobhaii Norwood E. Wunderly PLEIXiES Fred S. Brynn Thomas W. Langford B. Arthur Derby M. R. Lare, Jr. Ray L. Green Charles B. Lindsay A. Hermansdorfer William S. Potter William Hoffman Clarence D. Weimer 1173 3 The 1927 Owl zJllpha Omega OMICRON chapter of Alpha Omega had its origin in the Odons Club, an organization formed by Students of the school of dentistry of the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 1920. The Odons Club was granted a charter by Alpha Omega on December 3, 1920. Dr. A. I. Wise, Prartor and Deputy Chancellor of the local chapter, has been engaged in the practice of dentistry for over twenty years and is considered to be one of the most successful practitioners in this vicinity. He was the State delegate to the recent national dental convention. Dr. Walter Goldsmith, Chancellor of the Alumni Club of Alpha Omega, has given numerous talks and clinics during the past year on the phases of dentistry. Another graduate of the local chapter. Dr. H. Meyers, was recently awarded the dental key of honor, thus, admitting him to the membership of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon. He is now doing research in the fields of exodontia and radiology. Dr. Jcel Sissman, past chancellor of the Alpha Omega Alumni Association, is also one of the pioneer key men of the Pitt Dental School. He was graduated with highest honors in his class and continued his fine work in his practice. FACULTY MEMBER Dr. A. I. Wise {274} Top Row: Peresman, Brown, Grbenbercer, Cohen, Abrams, Lewis, Ginsburg, I. Zimmerman, Pihier. Second Row: Altusky, Rosenthal, Friedland, Sigal, Horvitz, Finkel, Farr, Gross, Lapidus. First Row: Applebaum, Himelblau, Rosenberg, Sussman, Fisher, Weiss, Aliskowitz ACTIVE MEMBERS Rudolph Sussman, '27 . Morris H. Fisher, ‘27 Samuel Rosenberg, ‘27 Samuel R. Weiss, ’27 Leonard A. Himelblau, 27 Louis A. Applebaum, '27 . Charles Aliskowitz, '27 Chancellor Vice Chancellor . . Scribe QuctStor Financial Scribe . Editor Macer E. L. Abrams, ‘27 M. Altuskv, '26 E. Brodie, 26 H. Brown, '26 H. M. Cohen, 27 W. Farr, ’28 D. K. Finkel, '27 C. M. Friedland, '27 P. I. Ginsburg, '28 H. Goldberg, '26 M. Gross, '26 H. Greenberger, ’26 M. Green, '28 L. Horvitz, '28 M. H. Kenner, ’26 H. Lamm, '28 P. Lapidus, '27 S. Lewis, ’26 A. Morman, '26 J. Peresman, 26 S. Pittler, 28 J. C. Rosenthal, '26 Z. Sigal, '27 A. C. Weiss, '26 B. B. Zimmerman, 26 I. Zimmerman, ’28 [ 275 1 Owl c.Alpha Zctci Qamma APPA chapter of Alpha Zeta Gamma, national profession.il dental fraternity for Jewish men, had its origin in the Pulp Club formed by students of the School of Dentistry of the University of Pittsburgh in 1922. The following year the club was granted recognition by the Council of the Supreme Chapter at Chicago. The national Alpha chapter, organized in 1911, is at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. The local chapter tips men from the School of Dentistry annually, choosing them according to scholastic Standing, character, and personality. The organization, though new on the campus, has gradually gained prestige until it is one of the leading Jewish Dental professional fraternities. Chapters are found in the most prominent schools of the country, namely, Chicago College of Dentil Surgery, University of Illinois, University of California, University of Maryland, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Pittsburgh, Tuft Dentil College, Harvard Dentil School, Western Reserve, and Cleveland. Graduate chapters are found in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, and a number of States throughout the west. New chapters are now being formed at the University of Pennsylvania and Rochester Dental School. [ 276 ] Top Row: Saperstein, Goldstbin, Bereneield, Black, Lippman, Silvbrstein, Kurtz. Second Row: Meyers, Lew, Gross, Litman. Rosen, Graver, Geller. Firfl Row: Wilstein, Trobe, Rosenberg, Berman, PlTTLER, CaPLAN ACTIVE MEMBERS L. S. Berman, '26 . M. Trobe, '26 . S. Rosenberg, '26 . H. Pittler, 27 . S. Z. Caplan, '27 . S. Geller, '27 B. Wilstein. '26 Dr. M. R. Greene Grand Mailer Worthy Mailer Junior Mailer . Scribe Financial Saibe Senior Marshal Junior Marshal . T reasurer M. Bernekld. '28 D. Black, 28 H. R. Flansbaum, '28 P. Fox. '28 M. Goldstein, '28 J. Grauer, '27 S. Gross, '28 B. Kurtz, '28 H. Levev, '28 H. Lipman, ‘27 O. Litman, ’28 H. Mevers, ‘26 J. Rock man, ’28 O. Rosan, '28 O. Sapperstein, '28 M. SlLVERSTEIN, V28 J. Davis, ’28 J. Greenbercer, '28 PLEDGES M. Lesson, ’28 S. Lindenberg, '2S H. Tongue, '28 { 277 I “Delta (§igma Pi A LEXANDER F. MAKAY was instrumental in founding at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University the national professional commercial fraternity. Delta Sigma Pi. Organized in 1907, no other chapters were installed until 1914, at Northwestern University. Following the chartering of Gamma chapter in 1916 at Boston University, the local Delta chapter was installed at the University of Pittsburgh. National conventions are held annually. The purpose of the fraternity is three-fold: to foster the Study of business in the universities; to encourage scholarship; and to augment a closer relationship between the Student and the leader of the business world. I 781 ‘Delta Theta Thi TJ PROMOTE the cause of legal learning among law students through court trials md the reading of local papers, and to develop principles of justice and brotherhood among its members, a professional legal fraternity known as Delta Theta Phi was organized. There are fifty'seven chapters which are called senates. In honor of the Lite Chief Justice Gibson, a worthy Pennsylvania jurist, the Pittsburgh chapter is called the Gibson Senate. President Calvin Coolidge is a member of Delta Theta Phi, and also Chief Justice Moschzisker of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Judge James R. McFarlane of Common Pleas Court; Richard W. Martin, City Solicitor; John D. Meyer, former assistant district attorney; Gustav Schramm, instructor in the department of political science; Prof. George Jarvis, of the law school; and William Eckert, 24, who held the highest average ever attained in the Law School, are alumni of the local chapter. I 279 1 'Delta J)igma Delta FOUNDED at the University of Michigan, March 5, 1883, Delta Sigma Delta is the oldesft national dental fraternity. Its largest chapter is that at the University of Pitts burgh, which as Sigma chapter was charted in 1903. Chapters are established at various dental colleges through the country. Some of them are at the University of Michigan, Chicago College of Dental Surgery, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Kansas City Dentil College, St. Louis University, University of Buffalo, University of Pittsburgh, Georgetown University, University of Iowa, Louisville Dental College, and the University of Tennessee. FACULTY MEMBERS Dr. C. R. Frieke Dr. D. C. Ledden Dr. W. H. Wright Dr. C. W. Hagan Dr. H. J. Sedwick Dr. A. C. Young Dr. J. R. Jackson Dr. C. P. Turner Dr. R. Zugsmith ACTIVE MEMBERS Rohert Rush..................................................Grand Master R. E. Filer..................................................Worthy Mafter B. Fast............................................................Scribe T. R. Kline.....................................................Hiilorian R. E. DivELY....................................................Treasurer W. H. Archer. ’27 E. S. Derr. '28 R McEioowney, V H. J. Baker. '26 C. Diem, '26 B. McKinnan, '26 R. L. Bastrks . 26 W. R. Dixon, 27 T. McMahon. 27 V E. Berg. ‘26 J p Donalson, '27 D. D. Miller, 27 W M. Black. 26 R I. Duwell. 26 H. B Miller. 26 E 280 ] f i vvviv IV % w tf 11 «f � T f f f i - “ n r ♦ V «• Top Row: Bastrkss, Hauber, James, Diem, Butts, Duwell, Scott. DeMoise. Third Row: Derr, Kettering, Berg, Cowes, Painter, Miller, Nicholson, Peters, Callaghan. Walton. Second Row: Rider, Me-Camby, Daubenspect, McEldowney. Davies. Evans, Fisher, Baker, Calcott. Black, Wright. First Row: Cutler, McMahon, Kline, Fast, Rush. Filer, Dively, Salata, Chalpont, Smith Brantlincrr. '28 G. V. Burns, '28 H. D. Butts, 26 R. J. Calcott, ’27 M. Calligan, '27 A. Campell. ’28 J. W. Campell. '28 P. J. Campell, ‘26 H. D. Chalfont, 28 N. J. Clawson, 26 C. H. Cochran, ’27 F. R. Collins, '26 D. L. Corbett. ’26 I. J. Coisal, 27 C. E. Cowan, '27 A. A. Cutler, '28 P. Daubenspect, '27 T. C. Davidson, '28 F. Demoise. '28 R. Cowan, ’28 J. Davies, 27 L. Englf.hach. 28 H. S. Evans, 27 P. Fisher, 26 W. R. Flint, 26 J. W. Gibson, 26 O. E. Gilleland, '28 R. Gripping, '27 R. Hartley, '27 V. Hauber, '27 T. P. Hennrssy, '26 W. C. Hershey, 27 F. D. Irwin, ’28 W. T. James, ‘28 D. F. Kennedy, ’28 H. V. Kettering, '27 K. J. Kilbury, V W. H. Kredel, '27 R. L. Kreiger, '28 T. McCamley, '26 W. B. Wright, V P. F Minnick, 28 j. F. Mullen. '28 Nelson, '28 E. H. Newcome, '27 M E. Nicholson, ’28 K. L. Osborne, '28 E. C. Ottoson. V J. K. Painter, 26 C. M. Peters, 28 H. J. Ralston. '28 P. J. Rider. ’27 A. J. Salata, 28 P. A. Schneider, 26 H. L. Scott, ’28 R. Smith, '27 F. Snyder, 26 L. M. Stahlman, '26 W. P. Stamm, '26 C. R. Walton, ’27 PLEDGES R. Ellsworth, '27 P. McCracken, '28 W. Patterson, ”28 I 281 } Kappa Psi T) ETA KAPPA chapter of the Kappa Psi pharmaceutical fraternity received its charter •U on March 26, 1912. This organization was founded on a basis of an older academic society in which Mr. Harvey Smith held membership. The academic society expanded greatly, and the entrance of graduates of the academic chapter into colleges of pharmacy in the fall of 1879 marked the beginning of Greek Letter pharmaceutical societies in the United States. In 1884 it was decided to establish chapters in college only, to discontinue the academic chapters, and to continue as a strictly professional fraternity. Kappa Psi is now Strictly and completely pharmaceutical. Beta Kappa chapter has a house located at 258 Bellefield Avenue. {282] Top Row: Grohman, Reall. Mick. Ehrhart. Second Row: Piper, Beyer, Clarke, Iept, Lew. First Row: Young, Wardlaw, Smira, Hacmaier, Townsend. ACTIVE MEMBERS H. C. Shira . . . Regent F. A. Williams . Vice Regent N. SCHLECEL . F. S. McGinnis . . Treasurer R. W. Keown Historian R. R. McCandless . Chaplain A. M. Baxter W. J. Edwards F. Jervis T. B. Miller W. R. Bell C. M. Erhart E. W. Johnson H. S. Minor M. F. Beyer J. O. Errigo D. G. Knobel F. D. Moser R. E. Beyers W. G. Flowers C. N. Kohary R. J. Ostrander J. J. Born J. A. Frank J. A. Lash H. Pappe, Jr. F. B Carroll E. C. Grohman J. A. MacCartney H. L. Perry E. Clark L. H. Hagmaier R. Mahood P. A. Piper I). B. Corub G. B. Hobby R. F. McGrew R. T. Reall C. L. Dapp H. R. Hubbs C. J. McGregor W. W. Sandless W. A. Davis B. W. Hupple T. R. McMillen F. H. Smith W. E. Drily E. C. Ippt R. E. Mick H. C. Tagmyer J. P. Doyle W. L. Isenberg C. A. Miller C. H. Weister G. H. Wilson L. Vcelker U. T. Young £283} Phi 'Delta £hi A f THE beginning of the current year. Mu chapter procured a new house. Although it is situated a little farther from the School of Pharmacy than the old one, it is in a better locality, and is a larger and better house. A campaign is now being conducted to raise money to buy new furnishings. The local chapter was founded in 1906 by Dr. J. H. Beal, then a professor in the Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy. Although the active membership of the load chapter has heretofore been small, it is very probable that this will be increased with the pharmacy course being increased to three years. This might seem to point to the preference of a larger fraternity chapter and the disregard of scholarship, friendliness, and brotherhood which are the requirements for membership in Mu chapter. FACULTY MEMBERS { 284 ] Dr. James H. Beal Dr. John H. Wurdack Fraternalism ACTIVE MEMBERS Robert T. Wilev, '26 . J. Gnu Cook, 26 Vice President Sheldon Hargreaves. '26 Roy S. Thomas, ’26 .... Treasurer Fenton L. Bachman, ’28 Donald W. Johnson, 16 Glen W. Barcus, '28 J. Vernon Kealry, ‘28 Eugene E. Burke, '26 F. Karl Langguth, V Allen O. Grimm, ‘28 Edwin Mounteord. ’26 Garland W. Harsha, ’26 George B. Saylor, V« C. Rexeord Hkasley, '26 Andrew J. Steele. 28 Paul Hodgkinson, '28 Thomas M. Trimble, '28 George E. Jamison. ’26 William E. Walinsley, '28 PLEDGES Alton Curry, '28 E. Robert Moore, ’28 Louis Isabella, 28 James E. Murphy. ‘28 Charles M. Jenkins, '28 Daniel Wollam, '28 [285! The 1927 Owl Psi Omega IN THE twenty-nine years that the Psi Omegas have been on the Pitt campus they have had five chapter houses. The first one, on Fifth Avenue, was occupied for sixteen years. The third house did not spread its protecting roof over them very long; hardly had they recovered from their la move when a serious fire destroyed this house. Undaunted, the local chapter repaired to the University Track House. Two years of saving and they were able to buy their present house on Bellefield Avenue. Nu chapter of Psi Omega, national professional dentil fraternity, was at no time a local society, but was national from the time of its founding on the Pitt campus. In March, 1897, the Supreme Council, of which Dean H. E. Friesell was a member, granted a charter to E. A. Waughaman, Charles E. Peters, Girl S. Horner, C. L. McChesney, W. P. Lytle, and J. K. Scott. The Psi Omegas probably have more members of their fraternity on the Dental School faculty than any other professional group. They boast of fifty-eight faculty members. Among them are Dean H. E. Friesell, and Dr. J. B. Sutherland, head football coach. PLEDGES E. M. Shiring, '28 G. E. Todd. '28 D. T. McGee W. G. Scott. ’27 R. H. Shoop, '28 R. M. Williams, ’27 I. S. Prosser, '27 R. D. Crumpton, '28 A. M. C. Smith. ”27 I. D. E. Klingbeil, ’28 D. R. L. Robinson, '27 F. R. Davis, ‘27 J. K. Hackett, ’28 H. W. Irwin, 28 E. Jones, '28 { 286 1 rma n Top Rou : Mellin, Bowden, Robison, Davis, McGeb, Nelson, Crouse, Sargent, Broderick. Fourth Row: G a Skeen, Robinson, Prosser, Woods, Smith, Powell, Davis, Hastings, Cummins, Farquhar. Third Row: Crumpton, Booth, Hoban, Bothwell, Scott, Blymin, Hypsley, Best, Conrad, Henry, Schnabel. Second Row: Morgart, Boggs, Owens, Fr elick, Schuler, Simonson, Alter, Michlin, Lowe. Higginbotham. First Row: Pechan, Toner, McNemry, Dennis, John son. Nicholson, Rupp, Rubtbr ACTIVE MEMBERS E. A. Simonson, 26 W H. Shuler F. K. Owens . J. B. Alters A. O. Best, 26 J. V. Best, 28 G. S. Blymirh, 27 M. T. Boggs, '27 A. A. Booth, '28 W. G. Bothwell, ”27 H. E. Bowden, 27 J. R. Bowers, 26 C. F. Brand, ”26 F. B. Broderick, ’27 F. L. Conrad, '28 H. J. Coulson, 26 G. N. Cummins, ’28 C. V. Davis, ‘26 J. G. Dennis, '27 • J. T. Donnley, 26 J. A. Dunlap, '27 J. G. Farquhar, ’26 C. S. Frcehlich, '27 C. S. Frye, '27 R. N. Gaskeen, '28 J. F. Gearhart, '28 W. E. Gilbp-rt, '26 E. F. Grouse, 28 W. J. Hastings, 26 H. E. Henry, '28 U. F. Higginbotham, ‘27 R. W. Hipsley, 26 W. P. Hoban, 28 R. L. Irwin, '26 T. G. Johnson, ’26 W. E. Johnson, '27 J. M. Klaus, ’27 W. C. Lowe, ‘26 P. O. Marsh, '27 J. D. Math ewson, '27 D. L. McCullough, '27 J. M. McNerney, 26 C. F. Mkllin, 27 R. W. Michler, ’26 W. D. Miller, ’26 T. O. Morgart, '26 C. N. Nelson, '28 H. B. Nicholson, '26 J. L. O'Laughlin, ‘28 W. B. Parson, '26 W. P. Patton, 26 E. W. Paul. 28 Grand Mater Junior Mailer Secretary Treasurer A. R. Pechan, '28 B. D. Powell, ’26 W. W. Ramsey, '26 P. H. Reister, ‘26 W. I. Reuter, 27 F. A. Robinson, ’28 P. J. Rock, '26 G. H. Roupp, 26 P. E. Sargeant, '28 J. A. Scanlon, ‘28 J. S. Schnahp.l, '26 J. H. Sbnnbtt, '26 R. L. Spahr, '28 C. E. Toner, ’26 R. J. Woods, '27 C. L. Woodward, ’28 {287} Xi Psi Phi N MAY 2, 1924, twenty'two Dents, President P. R. Boyles in chair, got together at the Fort Pitt Hotel for the installation of Alpha Upsilon chapter of Xi Psi Phi, a professional Dental fraternity. These Dents had all decided on careers in the practice of Dentistry and believed that by organization in a Strong professional fraternity they would get a better, more substantial foundation on which to build a successful life. After holding meetings in State Hall and at the Delta Sigma Delta house, a chapter house was finally secured at 4801 Centre Avenue. After Staying there one year, the fraternity moved to 235 McKee Place, its present home. The Xi Psi Phi's hold a Supreme Chapter meeting each year. Brother P. R. Boyles, to whom Dental Rays, the new' Dental journal, is indebted, was Alpha Upsilon's delegate to the Supreme Chapter meeting held at Dallas, Texas, in 1924; and last year C. E. Hunter represented the chapter at Louisville, Kentucky. J. A. Norw'icki, past president of the class of '27, is now Junior Master of the Trowrel fraternity. Two charter members of the local chapter. Dr. H. W. Bradley and Dr. P. W. Shragen, are demonstrators in Prosthetic Technicas on the Dental School faculty. PLEDGES S. L. Boland, 27 F. F. Fairlamb, '27 John R. McConnell, 28 F. H. Brown, ‘28 Carl Grundman, '27 J. K. Sanner, ’27 J. H. Dull. '27 L. M. Smylik. 28 [088} Top Row: Collins, Husted, Scraccs, Jenny, Tidball, Stewart. Hester, Walls, Cook, Hinderer, Gardner, Williams. Grundman, Coz ad. Fourth Row: Beldham, De Grange, Mulligan, Lang, W. Hunter. Black, Nixon, Cornelius, Grape, Brown, Smiley. Griffin, Spencler, Sanner, Greer, Engle, Anderson. Third Row: Miller, Steele, Smith, Stinson, Butchers. George, Boland, MacBurney, Weible, Ycung, Lapsley. Flemming, Doll. Wentzel, Witnauer. Morrison, Haymaker. Second Row: Ellwood, Philips, F. Smith, Currier. Bradley, Reese. Letcher, Creath, Kottraba. Townsend, Nowicki. Fnfl Row: Fairlamb, Leighner, Wilson, Guthridge, Knaub, McConnell, Hunziker. Black. Kerchival ACTIVE MEMBERS A. G. Reese, 26 C. W. Lechter, ’27 F. E. Smith, '26 F. M. Creath, '26 . President Vice President . Secretary . Treasurer C. F. Altman, 26 L. W. Anderson, '27 C. H. Askey, ‘26 V. E. Beldham, ’26 J. L. Black, '27 R. E. Brungard. ”26 H. A. Butchers, '27 T. I. Brinker, 26 J. R. Cook, '28 W. H. Cozad, '26 R. F. Cornflius W. A. Cromie, '26 H. V. Currier. ’26 C. C. Collins, ’26 H. Di-Grange B. F. Dively, '27 M. E. Elwood, '26 E. D. Engle, '26 C. T. Flemming, 26 H. D. Gardner, '26 W. D. George G. R. Grapp, '27 D. F. Greer, '28 R. W. Griffin, 28 C. B. Guthridge, '27 W. D. Hustead, ’28 J. S. Hunziker, '27 G. T. Haymaker, 26 P. D. Hinderer H. H. Heeter, 26 A. L. Hunter C. E. Hunter, '26 W H. Hunter E. R. Jenney, '27 F C. Wentzel, ’28 W. B. Younc, '27 R. L. Kerchival, '26 J. M. Kottraba, 27 H. L. Kribbs, ‘28 F. R. Knaub, 27 J. H. Leighner, 26 M. E. Laupper. 26 P. M. Lapsley, ’26 E. E. Ling, ’28 G. C. McBurney, '27 S. F. Morrison, '26 C. K. Miller, ’26 A. F. Miller, ’26 H. R. McCall, 28 R. A. Mulligan, '27 J. A. Nowicki, '27 E. C. Nixon, ‘28 J. S. Phillips, 26 A. S. Russler, ’26 G. E. Smith, '27 H. E. Snowden, '28 F. I. Spbngler, ”28 L. C. Smith. '28 P. C. Scraggs, ’28 A. M. Stinson, ‘26 H. Snowden, 27 W. W. Steele F. R. Stewart William Townsend, ’27 E. L. Vincent. '26 H. L. Williams K. E. Wilson, ’26 A. C. Witnauer, ‘27 F. E. Wibel, ’28 W. H Walls, 28 G. V. Tidball I 289 1 { 290 1 “A concrete bowl, huge, crowded with color, echoes The shouts of Tight, Pitt, Fight!' A mine disasler, twelve miles off, (fills a yuan From the squad of' 08. He died fighting. The 1927 Owl DIVISIONAL STAFF William S. Lampe....................Sports Editor Venus Shakarian ..............Co'ed Sports Editor Duklla S. Stranahan Secretary Nicholas G. Troilo . . Apprentice [ 292 } -.Athletic Council Dr. A. F. Judd, '95, Chairman C. W. Ridinger, 95, Treasurer K. E. Davis, 'io, Secretary G. I. Carson, '23, Assistant Secretary ALUMNI REPRESENTATIVES Robert E. Grove, '14 J. P. Herron, '15 Laurence B. Hurst, 02 Harry W. Leonard, '12 Norman McLeod, '17 Dr. P. V. McParland, 04 C. W. Ridinger, '95 Prof. Alexander Silverman, ’02 B. H. Smyers, '93 Dr. J. H. Wagner, '14 FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES Prop. H. E. Dyche Dr. H. E. Friesell, 'ii Dr. E. M. Frost Erle G. Hill Prof. A. P. James Dr. A. F. Judd, 95 Prof. J. C. Reed Dr. F. D. Tyson J. Garfield Houston, '02 STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES Ira O. Major James K. Mierly Frank W. Keely Donald Dupf William T. Corbett John D. McCamey EX OFFICIO MEMBERS K. E. Davis, Graduate'Manager of Athletics Dr. S. B. Linhart, representing the Chancellor A. R. Hamilton, '94, representing the Board of Trustees Cftadium Committee Homer D. Williams, Chairman A. R. Hamilton, 94 C. W. Ridinger, 95 Dr. A. F. Judd, '95 C. D. Wettach, 97 A. J. Kelly, Jr. C. L. Wooldridge, '97 [ 293 3 1925 Sports headers TEAMS coaches captains MANAGERS FOOTBALL Dr. John B. Sutherland, ’i8 Ralph E. Chase V Wilkes Barre, Pa. A. J. Anderson, 26 Jamestown, N. Y. BASKETBALL Dr. H. Clippord Carlson. T8 William Parsons, '26 Pittsburgh R. Q. Warnock. V Larimer. Pa. SWIMMING Patrick J. Cork ' 3 Elliott Brodie, '26 Pittsburgh E. E. Houston, '26 Pittsburgh TRACK Frank J. Shea, ‘20 Howard Linn, '26 Carnegie, Pa. J. W. Cost. 26 Avalon, Pa. CROSS COUNTRY Frank J. Shea, 20 W. T. Corbett, '27 Bellevue. Pa. A. S. WoLroRD, '26 Wilmerding, Pa. TENNIS Dr. T. W. Stephens (Hahnemann) { ot Chosen } J. C. Barton, 26 Wilkinsburg. Pa. GOLF Lambert Flynn Thomas Canon, '26 Thomas Canon. '26 RIFLE Lt. Paul Harter R. C. MacFarlane. ’26 W. L. Jordan, '26 Acting Captain A. F. Hoehle, '26 THE VARSITY ELIGIBILITY CODE 1. One Year Residence Rule—No student may represent the University of Pittsburgh in intercollegiate contests until he has been in residence in the University for one calendar year. 2. ThreE'Year Rule Commencing in 1920. Pitt placed a rigid limitation of three years on a man's varsity participation. 3. Regular Student Rule Members of varsity teams mu be classified Students carrying full schedules, special evening and part-time Students arc not permitted to participate. 4. Graduate and Fellowship Students —No graduate of another college, and no holder of a fellowship in the University may represent Pitt. 5. Summer Ball Rule—No student who has at any time played on teams under the National Baseball Agreement and no Student who has played on a team other than that of the University prior to June 15 or later than September 15 may represent Pitt. 6. Scholastic Standing—No student whose scholarship falls below the required standard of the University may participate in athletics until his scholastic Sanding is approved by the faculty of the school in which he is enrolled. 7. Physical Condition—No Student shall take part in any athletic content without a certificate from proper medical authorities that he is able to enter such a contest. 8. Outside Playing—No member of a varsity squad may engage in competition with any team not representing the University during the training or playing season without written permission from the Graduate Manager of Athletics. { 94 1 etition The 1925 Cjfoothall Team UNDER the leadership of an All'American tackle the 1925 Pitt football team compiled the beit record at the University since the 1916 combination. The team, made up of seven letter men from the previous year and four from the famous freshman team of the year before, made Pitt one of the outstanding teams in the EaSt and the champion of the district. “Horse Chase was an inspiring leader, distinguishing himself in every game and es' pecially in the Penn game as one of the hardest tickles in the country to Stop from breaking through the line. His fine playing while in Philadelphia marked him as a tackle of Alb American calibre. Gustafson was the outstanding star on the offense and caused many coaches to try to build a special defense to Stop him. His individual efforts, climaxed by an 85'yard run after a fumble, defeated West Virginia. “Gusty Y' three field gads against Lafayette set an early season mark for other sharpshooters to try for. In the later games on the schedule Gibby Welch's fine running, especially his noted So-yard run from scrimmage against State and his accurate forward passing mark him as a fine nucleus around which “Jock” Sutherland can build his 1926 offense. Bac Row: Assistant Coach Marsh Johnson, Riester Salata. Fisher. Sarceant, J. Archibald, Steele, D. Archibald, Cutler. Wasmuth, Wissinger. Kern. Assistant Coach G. M. Williamson. Third Row: Assist-ant Coach Alex Stevenson Gustafson. Scanlon, Kifer. Welch, Goldberg, Doverspike, Roberts, Benedict, Seifert, Rose, Linn, Asians. Head Coach Dr. J. B. Sutherland. Second Row; Dr. T. R. Kendrick [Team Physician}; Brown, Hangartner, Irwin, Breen. J. Schmitt, Captain Chase, Jack, Wilson, Fyock, Hockensmith Coulter, Trainer DeVictor. Front Row: Manager Axel Anderson, Hoban, Hagan, Harding, Herrington, H Schmitt. Grindle. Snyder, DeMoise, McCutcheon, Booth, McMillen. [ 295 } 1925 VARSITY STATISTICS NAME POSITION WEIGHT HEIGHT ACE YEAR PREP SCHOOL Amann. Alfred M .... Quarter . . . .. 17 ?:xo 21 1927 Bellefontc Academy Archibald, David S .... End .. 183 6: 21 1927 Westinghouse High School Archibald, Joseph A .. 17a 6:1 21 1927 Bcllcfonte Academy Benedict, F. J .. 170 6: 20 1926 Midland High School Booth, A. A . . Fullbad .. .. 190 5:8 21 1928 Sharon High School Breen, J.P .. 190 5:9 21 1928 Bellefontc Academy Brown, J. J .. 171 5:10 21 1926 Nichols, Buffalo, N. Y. Chase, Ralph E .. . Tackle. . . . . . 210 6:4 21 1926 Wyoming Seminary Coulter, W. A . . 180 5:11 21 1927 Crafton High School Cutler. A. A .... Quarter. . . . 190 6: 20 1928 Bellefontc Academy Dpmoise. F. F . . l60 5:n 22 1928 Greensburg High School Doverspike, C. D ... Tactic . . .. 175 6: 19 1928 New Bethlehem High School Fisher, P R . . 180 6: 19 1928 Avalon High School Fvock, D. W ...Fullback... . . 162 5:10 21 1928 Johnstown High School Goldberg, Richard .. 185 6: 20 1928 Slippery Rock Grindle, J. E Halfback .. 158 5:7 22 1927 Potomac State Gustafson, A. F ...Fullback-.. . . 185 6: 22 1926 West Aurora High School Hagan, James . Halfback ■ . . I69 5:9 20 1928 Windber High School Hangartner, Ulhard. . . . ... Guard. . .. . . 190 :io 22 1926 Schenley High School Harding, J. J .. 5=9 22 1926 Wyoming Seminary Herrington, Lee R. . Halfback.. • • 155 5:8 20 1927 Uniontown High School Hob an, Walter Halfback .. 155 :9 21 1928 Sharpsville High School Hockensmith, W. D .... Center. .. • • � 7f 5:10 20 1928 Culver Military Academy Irwin. Robert L Halfback .. 165 5: 22 1926 Bellefontc Academy Jack, C. A . End .. 174 5:11 21 1927 Kiski School Kern, William Tackle. . . . .. 188 6: 20 1928 Wyoming Seminary Kiper, J. J .... End .. 16? 5:11 22 1926 Irwin High School Linn, Howard . . . Gtuird. . . .. 195 5:11 22 1927 Bellefontc Academy McCutcheon, C. W . .. Halfback . .. i ?:io 22 1926 East Liverpool High School McMillin, B. V End .. 170 5:11 19 1927 Wilkinsburg High School Riester, Herman .. Guard .. 19 6: 19 1927 Westinghouse High School Roberts, John A .. 187 6:1 19 1928 Parkersburg High School Salata, Andrew J. Tackle .. 19 5:10 21 1928 Wyoming Seminary Sargeant. Philip End . . 180 6: 19 1928 New Castle High School Scanlon, James A. End .. 177 6: 21 1928 Kiski School Schmitt. J. A ... Halfback . . 160 5:10 21 1927 Kiski School Seifert, Edward .. Guard . • • 19 5:11 19 1928 Schenley High School Snyder. Floyd K. Fullback 18} 5:8 21 1927 Wilkinsburg High School Steele. Wendell W Guard. .. 183 6:2 21 1926 South Hills High School Wasmuth, Chester H. Tackle .. . . 200 5:11 20 1928 Union High School Welch. Gilbert L Halfback . . 165 :u 21 1928 Parkersburg High School Wilson. T. F Fullback •• 173 :n 20 1927 Wilkinsburg High School WlSSINCER. Z. A. ... Tackle .. 195 6: 21 1926 John«town High School [ 3 The 1925 Cjfootball Reason STADIUM YEAR, the realize tion of the hopes of the Univer-sity of Pittsburgh's most loyal and zealous alumni, brought with it not only the massive, towering concrete walls on the side of “Pitt Hill,” but Stirred up all the lingering memories of a decide ago — memories of that famous 1916 team — as the glory of Notre Dame, in 1924, dimmed with the age of a year. The Stadium saw Pitt in its most glamorous season in those ten years, roared at its reestablishment of the supremacy of college football in Pittsburgh, gurgled at “Jock Sutherland's redemption of himself, and rejoiced with the apotheosis of a Pitt man as an All-American, the pioneer as a firSt-team selection fer several years. Nine games made up the schedule — one of the most formidable in the East — and eight of them ended as Pittsburgh victories; Lafayette, under Herb McCracken, alone barred the way to a Stronger claim on the championship of the country. The schedule opened with an easy victory over a new rival, Washington and Lee, under Jimmy DeHart, but jolted roughly in the second game, when Lafayette, in an unexpected sally, gave Pitt its only defeat of the year. West Virginia followed, but failed to fare better than it had in its most promising seasons in the past few years. Gettysburg, another newcomer on the schedule, offered little opposition and Sutherland used his substitutes for the whole game.The season's feature by virtue of our defeats in the past two seasons—came on the next Saturday: the annual game with Carnegie Tech. Pitt took back the mythical “city title which it had sacrificed in each of the previous two years. Johns-Hopkins,in its second year on the schedule and its first appearance in Pittsburgh, failed to make much of an impression, while the next of the “traditional” games followed with Wash-Jeff. Pitt called the most attention to itself on the next week-end when it flailed Penn — heralded as the ruler of the East, even after its defeat by Illinois — at Philadelphia, with [ 297 I WELCH GOES AROUND RIGHT END AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD IN THE GETTYS' BURG GAME FISHER OF GETTYSBURG ON THE BALL a form that delighted the critics of the nation. The season closed in the usual manner: an uneventful, yet colorful vie' tory over Penn Suite, which marked nothing more than another collapse of Hugo Bezdek. And so, at the season's end, there was little more to do hut to consider Pitt as one of the champions of the country; Dartmouth held sway in the East and was generally accepted as the finest team of the year; Alabama made itself out' standing in the South; and Washington conquered all on the Pacific Coast. “Horse Chase, captain, finished the season with general recognition by the football critics as one of the most finished players produced in the season ; he won places on countless mythical Alb American teams, including those seleded by “Pop Warner, “Knute Rockne and “Tad” Jones. Chase made his greatest impression when he faced Penn; he alone supplied a great part of the offense and defense of the Pitt line, making tackles and opening holes that cynical eastern writers thought impossible of any player in the country. And so he was called the best tackle of the year. At the close of the season, the ballot taken among the 23 lettermen named “Tuffy McMillan as the captain for 1926. McMillan played all year at one of the ends, working opposite “Johnny Kifer. From the caliber of his play, he is expetfed to make a brilliant attempt to fill the place which Chase's graduation leaves. Besides all this, the season saw Jock Sutherland's “redemption of himself, as many like to call it. In his first year, Sutherland had only mediocre success: he had to lay the foundation for his second year's team. The record he made in 1925 will Stand as a silent testimony as to how solidly he foundation. laid that [2983 PITT 28; WASHINGTON AND LEE 0 The opening game of the season—besides marking the opening of the Stadium and its informal dedication — Stands as the first glimpse Pittsburgh had of the promise of the team. Four times Pitt crashed over the WashLee goal, but all that was incidental. Slither land used many men: first, second, and third squad backfields. Gustafson, Harding, Brown, and Welch—a Sophomore—opened as the varsity backfield. Twice touchdowns came from blocked kicks, yet it wasn't until the season neared its close before the realization came that quickness and agility in blocking kicks resulted in many Pitt scores.Pitt resorted almost entirely, however, to the battering assault that marked its play all season. GIBBY WELCH CARRIES THE BALL AGAIN IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF THE WEST VIRGINIA GAME { 99 ! PITT 9; LAFAYETTE 20 The national football firmament first quivered on October 3 when Pitt, already ballyhooed as one of the country's best teams and the one with the second-best prospers, lost its only game. The thing juSt wasn't expected, unless the succession of defeats by Lafayette in the past few years offered a dire prophecy. In the first half, Pitt, although balked on its line attack, piled up enough points to win the average football game, for Andy Gustafson kicked three successive field goals to put Lafayette at a nine-point disadvantage. With the opening of the second half, however, Gebhardt and Kirkleski, responsible for the Pitt defeat in 1924, inspired the Lafayette attack, which netted three touchdowns and two goals. The greatest pain came when the records indicated that it was the worst football defeat Pitt had had since the Syracuse game in 1919. PITT 13; WEST VIRGINIA 6 The West Virginia game, threatening several times to be another defeat, was the turning point of the season. Many claim, from a psychological Standpoint, that the Lafayette defeat indirectly resulted in the success of the season as a whole; it no doubt resulted in the WeSt Virginia victory. At the end of the first half, neither team had scored, in spite of several opportunities each had. The Mountaineers, at the Start of the second half, mastered the shifty Spears' formations, bequeathed to them as part of the system Spears left when he went to Minnesota, and scored on a consistent drive, missing the goal-after-touchdown. Pitt, faced by another defeat, coolly resorted to the forward pass: result, touchdown, with Gustafson kicking goal. West Virginia, relying on Farley, tried the same tactics and took the ball deep into Pitt territory. A score seemed imminent, then Gustafson recovered a fumble and lumbered the length of the field for the last score. I 3003 PITT 13; GETTYSBURG 0 Gettysburg made its debut on the Pitt schedule with a heavy team, but Sutherland met it with most of his substitutes, changed frequently, while his regulars rested for the Carnegie Tech game on the following Saturday. At the Start, only Gustafson of the regular eleven appeared and “Jimmy Hagan ran the team, as quarterback, for the first time. For three periods there was no score, but in the fourth - although there was no worry for Pitt — Roberts and Booth, both from the freshman team of the previous year, made touchdowns. Gettysburg offered a powerful running attack, but couldn't work near the goal lines. The ‘Dedication of the Radium THREE games were won, one lost before the Stadium was officially dedicated. But it was fitting that the most important game on the schedule should be preceded by the exercises, and the most important game, at least for Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Students, was with Carnegie Tech on October 24. Of course it rained; it always did on the famous Saturdays of the 1925 season. But the crowd was out in all its red and yellow slickers, in all its blue and purple umbrellas, in its overshoes and slouch hats. And the crowd was excited; the bowl was almost filled as early as two o'clock, with only the drizzle, the cannon by the track recess, and the filling Stands for entertainment. The newsboys sold out periodically, for papers provided the only dry seats. Wet, packed together, the crowd waited. Then through Entrance C, at the end of the Stadium opposite the medical school, the parade entered. The Tech band in its kilties and the Pitt, with its blue and gold shrouded in yellow oilskins, formed on the field and led the procession. The time of the Panther March set the crowd to clapping; both sides cheered; and as the parade rounded the oval, all the slickers jumped up and waved their hats. The Stadium was a bowl full of MR. HOMER D. WILLIAMS SPEAKING [ 301 1 FIRING THE NATIONAL SALUTE noise. The armies of Pitt and Tech, the local units of R.O.T.C., followed their brilliant comrades with rhythmic khaki, and then, in a dwindling trail, the faculties walked, much bedraggled in spite of their umbrellas. Still the crowd clapped and yelled, and the procession moved around to the reviewing Stand on the Pitt side. Suddenly, though, everything was hushed, and the cheerleaders waved frantically for silence. Through the drizzle came faintly the voice of Chancellor Emeritus McCormick in the invocation. After the prayer the hats went on again, and Homer D. Williams, chairman of the Stadium committee, spoke, formally presenting the bowl to the University. Chancellor Bowman accepted. Thus briefly was the dedication accomplished. But most interesting of all the ceremonies came next, the national salute as the American flag was pulled to the top of its Staff. Twenty-one times, in slow succession, the gun in the far turn flashed and recoiled, and as the smoke rose each time, the boom would burst upon the ears of the opposite Pitt rooters with a crash that seemed to make the concrete tremble; indeed, from the Steps facing the gun the echo moaned back, growing into a weird wail at the end. And when the laSt shot had shocked the quaking co-eds, the bands began to play once more, first for Carnegie Tech its Alma Mater as the Tartan flag ran up the pole; then, turning, they played for Pitt, and the blue and gold unfurled at the far end of the Stadium. The exercises were over, and the parade broke up into groups and filed into the Stands, but the field was cleared only that another dedication should be fulfilled. And the second exercises were quite proper, too. Pitt won the Tech game. PITT 12; CARNEGIE TECH 0 Carnegie Tech — the truest color and the finest flavor of the season gracefully gave up its “city title ; it had to. There was scarcely a minute in which Pitt wasn’t the superior team; not once was any one of Wally Steffen's quick-passing and hidden-ball plays successfully worked for appreciable gains; in no phase of the game did Carnegie compare with Pitt, except, of course, in spirit. Spirit and brains won for Carnegie in 1923 and 1924, { 302 ] PILING UP ON THE GOAL LINE, STATE GAME but in 1925, brains changed sides and allied with brawn and skill. Pitt, however, was out' weighed by an average of over three pounds to each man. Mud marred the game and rain spoiled it for the spe ftators. Among the players. Brown especially Stood out, for his punting averaged 30 to 45 yards for each kick. Harding, at quarter for nearly the whole game, selected his plays wisely, particularly using his forward passes — long ones — at the right times. Two forward passes, to ends, resulted in the touchdowns. Wissinger and Chase formed the Strongest unit of the defense in the line. The formal dedication of the bowl marked the game, too, as above the ordinary afternoon of football. PITT 14; PENN 0 The Penn game is a chapter in football history. Red Grange, with Illinois, had smeared Penn when Penn was considered the greatest club in the East. Penn then gave vent to its grief by whipping Haverford, 66-0, with the serious intention of airing the rest of it on Pitt. Penn doesn't like Pitt, because they've won only once in all the games they've played. But the East was shocked. Pitt opened debonairely with football as it can be played on any sandlot — rushes, end-runs, off-tackle jabs. All were effective; Penn couldn't stop any. Then the EaSt, represented by the best sporting writers and the closest followers of football, was amazed. Harding ran and dashed as he never did before; Welch, rising as an unknown, equalled him; and Gustafson crashed through the Penn line time and time again. And in the meantime, whenever Penn tried to advance. Chase was always in the way. The fans couldn't understand it. Before they could reconcile themselves to seeing this marvelous Penn team outdone for the second time — and on Straight football, too — Harding changed his tartics and opened up the most sparkling forward passing attack, all mixed up with the old plays, that the season had produced on famous Franklin Field. Well, the first team backfield tallied two touchdowns; the second team carried the ball to the five-yard line; the third team took up the fight and Penn kept kicking towards its goal, but the end of the game prevented another score. { 303 } PITT 23; PENN STATE 7 In past years, Penn State couldn't beat Pitt—no matter how success-ful the one and unsuccessful the other — because it was over-confi-dent, or so the alumni and Students said. Last year, it wasn't over-confident. but it lost anyhow, probably because a Penn State defeat is the proper way of closing a Pitt season. State played its best game of the season and actually outgained Pitt, but the Panther won because it was Still alert, and coached to take advantage of its opponents' misplays. State was always dangerous and time and again Started drives sometimes with brilliant forward passing waves that Pitt couldn't Stop- that threatened scores. On the other hand, Pitt was even more brilliant: Welch made an Si-yard dash for touchdown; Saiata recovered a fumble and scored on a 25-yard run; Gustafson kicked a near-perfeCt field-goal; Harding handled the team faultlessly; Brown punted at his best; the line held State for downs on the foot-line, when Linn, for Steele, went in near the end of the third quarter as the first substitution; and there was plenty of mud. Eleven players finished their careers for Pitt. PITT 31; JOHNS'HOPKINS 0 Johns-Hopkins made its first appearance in Pittsburgh, but left little impression, even on Sutherland's second and third squad players. Chase was the only regular to Start and he only played long enough to shake hands with the opposing captain and select the goal. Long runs by Hoban and Grindle resulted in two of the touchdowns, but most of them, on the usual muddy field, came on conservative football. Booth, Schmitt, McCutcheon, and DeMoisc were the other prominent substitutes. AT THE PENN CAME AMOS PUNTS PROM BEHIND W. J.'s GOAL LINE I 304 } Competition BOOTH CRASHES THE JOHNS'HOPKINS LINE IN THE SECOND QUARTER PITT 6; W.csr'J. 0 The annual classic with Wash'JefF proved only another Step in the succession of vie' tories and another frolic in the mud. Sutherland inaugurated to an even more noticeable extent his policy of playing a “waiting” game. Thirty thousand people, grumbling on the cold Stone in a Steady rain, sat perplexed at the “foolhardiness” of the Pitt quirter-back. Seldom did Pitt try to run the ball; it was content merely to receive it, anywhere on the field, and punt it right back. Wash'JefF used just an opposite Style, accepted each time, and sent its Kicks, ineffective in the mud, pounding uselessly at the Pitt line. Neither team gained anything through the first three periods and it looked as though the game would end in a scoreless tie. The alarm grew, for in all history. Stretching over 26 games, Pitt and W. J. had never tied. Minutes passed; the Kittle without results continued in its slow, monotonous way. Pitt punted; Wash'JefF received. Then Wash'JefF, tiring and getting careless after all its useless efforts, swung machinedike back into its plunging. Someone—one of those slimy gray forms fumbled and “Zack” Wissinger rose out of the mess, proving sound Sutherland's theory, pawed up the oozy Kill, and started his perilous run for victory, which ended with a headlong lurch over the goaldine. The game died almost immediately, just as lifeless and fireless as it had Started. Wash'JefF gained more ground than Pitt an advantage sometimes considered the criterion of the better team but it gained none of its ground in Pitt territory, for Pitt always, through Jess Brown, kicked the Kill Kick into W. J. territory. It was a game where individuals were only forms, parts of dull, mud-plaStered machines. 1925 VARSITY FOOTBALL RECORD Pitt .. 28 Washington and Lee. . 0 Pitt 9 Lafayette ... 20 Pitt .... 13 West Virginia ... 6 Pitt 13 Gettysburg .. . 0 Pitt 12 Carnegie Tech . . . 0 Pitt........... 31 Johns-Hopkins.............. o Pitt........... 6 Washington and Jelferson . o Pitt.......... u Penn........................ o Pitt........... 23 Penn State ......... 7 Pitt Total 149 Opponents Total ........ 3$ { SO ] 1925 FRESHMAN STATISTICS PLAYER POSITION WEICHT HEIGHT Anthony, John D. End ... 150 5:il Barnes, Markley . ., . . . 175 5.8 Belack. V. J ... 15? 5: Berk man, Stanley . . ... 155 5:9 Blair, T L •■■ 174 6: Bontempo. Carl A. ... 191 6: Bruce, Earl I) ... l60 5:8 Burger R F. CaRDOIO, WILL!am W. Halfback . .. I4O ...170 5:6 6:1 Cicrand, Clyde Halfback ... Ij8 5:8 Cigrand, Clyde. . . . ... 138 5:8 Closky, Ben W. Ccle, Richard .... Halfback . . End ... I?I 5:5 5:8 Crabb, Charles E ... 155 5:8 Dowling. Howard . Halfback ... 158 57 Dfmalia. Albert . . . Guard ... l8o 5:10 Detweiler. Charles. 178 6:1 Deliman, Michel ... Fullback . .. 194 5:5 Evans. George S ... I5 6: Farrar, J W. Tackle 6:2 Fptcho, William V • ■ • 155 5:9 Flemming, Ben ... 160 5:11 Fox. Alexander B. ... Tackle 175 5:10 Grrrs, Jame« M. Tackle ...199 6:1 Goldberg, Philip ... 155 5:9 Guarino, Albert End ... 174 5:8 Helsing, Theodore R End ... 165 5:11 Johnston, Ray Kiser. ED Halfback ... End 178 6: 5: Laypield, M B. ... 153 5:8 Levison, L. N Halfback ... 145 5:10 LrrrLE. W. E ... 193 5:11 Lutz. Harold Halfback ... lf ? 5:9 Lynch, Siehert A ... 157 6: McCandless, Harry End ... 159 5:10 McGeever. John End ... 75 6:2 McLean, Charles I). . End ... 73 ?: McDermott, |. P Halfhick ... 160 5:8 Meier. Theodore H. Tackle .. 185 5:u Martin, Alvin T ... End 6: Neely, M. Tackle ... 178 5:10 Newcamp, Francis . . Fullback ■ ■ • ■ 182 6:1 Packard, David W End 73 5 = Pflaum. Robert End 6: Phillips, Clarence E Giwrd ... 185 6: Pratt, Samuel End 158 5:7 Rooney, James Raush, Edgar . StuirterbdC . . Tackle ... 170 5:11 5:11 Sautter. J R T ic le ... 184 5:10 Soost, W. J Guard 6:2 Steinhauser, Harry . Halfback 77 5:11 Stewart, Thomas Sherako. Edward Halfback ... End 165 5:n 6:1 Stupple, J. D. . Center ... 160 5:1 Turnblacer. Charles . . End 6: Tuttle, F. A. Halfback . . 155 5:8 Uram, Michael ... 165 5:10 Waller Milford D. Tackle ■ ... 94 5: Ward. Edward W Halfback 5 5:7 White, Justin .... Tackle 5: Wilkinson, P. W Tackle ... 75 5‘ PREP SCHOOL Charleroi High School Broaddus Prep Allegheny High School Slippery Rock Normal Warren High School Woodlawn High School Brentwood High School Allegheny High School Hampton Institute Aurora (111.) High School Aurora (111.) High School Peabody High School Dean Academy Charleroi High School Schenley High School Bcllefonte Academy Crafton High School Braddock High School Ben Avon High School Massanutten Academy Uniontown High School Allegheny High School New Castle High School Jeannette High School New Keasington High School Bcllefonte Academy Wilkinsburg High School Ellwood City High School Wilkinsburg High School Knoxville-Union High School Fifth Avenue High School Freedom High School Evans City High School Ashboro High School Kiski Clairton High School Kiski Duquesne High School East Eric High School Braddock High School Langley High School East Erie High School Allegheny High School Allegheny High School Homestead High School Langley High School Bcllefonte Academy Holy Rosary High School Wilkinsburg High School Peabody High School Allegheny High School Wilkinsburg High School Wyoming Seminary Munhall High School Dormont High School Langley High School Union High School South Hills High School New Castle High School Portage (Ohio) High School Bellevue High School C 306} Competition Top Row: Thompson, Guarino. Demalia, Beckman, Crab, Detwiler. Newcamp, Pplaum, Sckerako. Johnson. Anthony, Coach Carlson. Assistant Coach Templeton. Second Row: Evans. Steinhauser, Lutz, Goldberg, Ward, Captain Barnes, Little. Pratt, Tuttle, Closkv, Helsing. Firti Row: Rooney Uram. Deliman, McCandless, Cigrand, Fox. Waller, Meier Cjfreshman Cjfootball RECORD Pitt .... J3 We£inghousc Tech . . . ... 0 Pitt 20 Penn State 0 Pitt .... 27 We t Virginia ... 6 Pitt 0 Washington and Jefferson. . 0 Pitt .... 3 Kiski 2 Pitt . ... 0 Bellefonte 19 Pitt .... 6 Carnegie Tech . ... 6 Pitt Total. 86 Opponents Total 3 SEVEN is usually considered a lucky number. Pitt Freshman elevens, however, seem to tike exception. For each of the pa t two years, the plebes have pulled through six games with a clean slate, only to lose their final content of the season. In 1924 Kiski won, 17 to o, at Greensburg; in 1925 Bellefonte Academy applied the salt, winning, 19 to o, at Altoona. The team scored a decisive triumph in its first Start, subduing WeStinghouse Tech, 33 to o. The We Virginia yearlings received similar treatment a week later. Kiski offered the fin t serious opposition, but finally lo t. A field goal by Rooney was Pitt's only score, but it won. Carnegie Tech Frosh managed to annex a 6 deadlock with the aid of a sloppy field, but the ensuing Saturday found the rangy Penn State plebes far inferior to the Cubs. The score was 20 to o, the won t trimming inflicted upon a State Freshman team in years. A week later, Wash'Jeff Freshmen held the Carlsonites to a scoreless tie, aided materially by the slippery underfooting and the listless playing of the Cubs. Followed then the Altoona trip and the subsequent defeat by Bellefonte. [ 307 3 The 19 27 Owl Stillk, Marquif, Howell, Km . Co bftt, Rov. Powell. Adams Wolford The 1925 Gross-Gountry Reason THE 1925 cross-country season, while not as successful as that of 1924, is one for Pitt to he proud of. The varsity won four of its six dual meets and placed second in the I.C.A.A.A.A. Championship race, held annually at New York City. Pitt won this event the previous year, hut with only two of five veteran runners hack in school, was unable to repeat. The season's first meet was held at Syracuse University, October 10, Pitt losing after a hard race through a blinding snow storm, 20 to 37. Loucks, Syracuse, won. Ted Corbett, captain, was the first Pitt runner to finish, taking third place. His teammates placed as follows: Kerr, fifth; Howell, seventh; Roy, ninth; Robison, tenth; Adams, eleventh; and Marquis, twelfth. The following week, Pitt defeated Allegheny College over the Schenley Park course by a nearly perfect score, 16-43.Corbett led the way in 28minutes, 18 seconds, setting a new course record. Kerr, Marquis, and Roy, all of Pitt, followed in order. Jones, Allegheny, was fifth. Howell completed Pitt's scoring, sixth. Carnegie Tech was met October 24 over the Schenley Course and defeated by a perfect score. The first six men, all of Pitt, crossed the line in the following order: Corbett, Kerr, Marquis, Howell, Roy and Adams. Corbett's time, through rain and mud, was only five seconds from the course record. In one of the beSt races of the season, the harriers ran to a great win over Alfred College, [308] one of the beit teams in the east, by the score of 21 to 34. Alfred won the Middle Atlantic title two weeks later at Philadelphia. Individual honors again went to Corbett after a race to the finish with Herrick, Alfred captain, and Middle Atlantic individual winner. Corbett won in the last 200 yards. Pitt men who counted in the team score were Kerr, third; Howell, fourth; Marquis, sixth; and Adams, seventh. Roy was eighth and Powell eleventh. The week following, on November 7, the varsity traveled to Penn State for the last meet of the year. State won, 23 to 32. Pitt was not completely outdone, for Corbett, for his fourth Straight victory, ran to an impressive win over Fouracre and Captain Barclay, and broke the State course record by registering a mark of 25 minutes, 23 seconds, in place of 25 minutes, 30 seconds. The Pitt men scored in the following positions: Corbett, first; Kerr, fifth; Howell, seventh; Roy, ninth; and Powell, tenth. Adams and Marquis were out because of illness. The big test of the year, and the one in which the Panther team again made a great bid for fame, was the I.C.A.A.A.A. Championship race at Van Courtlandt Park, Novenv ber23.Pitt failed to retain its title, not being able to match with Syracuse, but with almost as complete a surprise to the Eastern teams landed second place. With two of last year's team and three new men, Pitt took second in a field of nineteen teams. The team scores: Syracuse, 47; Pitt, 84; Harvard, 122; Maine, 144; Penn State, 146; Bates, 159; M.I.T., 186; Yale, 188; Princeton, 215; Cornell, 268; Pennsylvania, 295; Rutgers, 303; Columbia, 321; Dartmouth, 325; N.Y.U., 357; C.C.N.Y., 488. The individual Pitt runners placed as follows: Kerr, fourth; Corbett, sixth; Howell, fifteenth; Marquis, twenty first; and Powell, thirty eighth. The Pitt alternates, Adams and Roy, placed forty'fourth and fifty-ninth. The varsity for all the meets was W. T. Corbett, captain for the second season, George Kerr, captain'deet for 1926, Robert Marquis, William Howell, Edward Powell, Woodward Adams and Robert Roy. These men were awarded minor letters at the close of the season. Aubrey Wolford managed the team and George Stille aefted as assistant. The Freshman team had two meets, winning from Carnegie Tech in a close meet, 26 29, and losing to the Penn State Frosh by the onesided score of 15 40. Hoffman, Pitt, won the Carnegie race, and Cox, State, won the other, with Edwards, the first Pitt man to finish, in sixth place. Members of the Frosh team were Hoffman, Edwards, Mench, Cobun, Campbell, and Kaufman. OLF at Pitt, although it flourished in 1924, almost died out as a varsity sport in 1925. Other schools in the district just quit supporting teams, with the result that the Graduate Manager found it almost impossible to book matches. The varsity played only three times, under Coach Lambert Flynn, professional at Stanton Heights Country Club. In home and home matches with Penn State, Pitt lost twice, 4 2 and 5'0, while it lost again to the Latrobe Country Club team, 6 4, at Latrobe. Only two men, Tom Canon, captain and manager, and William Wade King, received letters. [ 3 Top Row: Howell, Hartley, Murphy, Anderson, Sheay, Peters. Hodge, James, Ribisil. Third Row: Herrington. Talbot, Pascheday, Wick, Archibald, Howard, Smith, Meyers, Grindle. Second Roto. Wylie, Cadmore, Robison, Ppieter, Diebold, Kerr, Gibbs, Fetterman. Schrcedel, McCoy, J. Schmidt, Cost. Firit Row: Cowan, Lynn, Fabiana, Corbett, Wadkins. Kutchka, Lies The 1925 Track Reason THE 1925 track season was highly successful as is readily seen from the records. The runners, again coached by Frank Shea, 1920 Olympic runner, took part in six meets. Of this number, they won the Pitt Inter-Collegiates, the Washington-Jefferson Inter-collegiates, and the Carnegie Tech dual meet, were second to the Naval Academy in the Navy-Pitt-WeSt Virginia triangle meet at Annapolis, and lost to West Virginia and State in dual meets. Individual athletes showed well in the Penn Relays at Philadelphia and the National Intercollegiates at Chicago. The season opened the a week in April when the four-mile relay team ran in the Penn Relays. Fourteen teams competed in the event, which was won by Boston College after a close race with State. Pitt followed Harvard in sixth place, ju nosing out Cornell and Columbia. The Pitt runners on the team were Schroedel, Lies, Wadkins and Captain Corbett. Howell, a regular member of the team, was Liken sick during the trip and Lies, an alternate, ran in his place. The fin$t meet of the year was held May 2 at Annapolis, with the Naval Academy and Weit Virginia. The final score was Navy 87, Pitt 25 and We Virginia 24. Pitts finft { places came in two running events and two field events. Captain Corbett won the two-mile in 9:50 2-5 and set a new Pitt record. Wadkins won the half-mile in a beautiful race. Linn broke the Pitt shot-put record with a heave of 40 feet, 10% inches, and Dave Archibald won the discus throw. West Virginia came back the next week in a dual meet at Pittsburgh and won, 76 4 to 56] u Pitt took firsts in the high hurdles, half-mile, two-mile, discus throw, and shot put, and managed to keep the score close until the last two events with an overwhelming number of second and third places. Following the Mountaineer meet, Pitt moved over to Carnegie Tech for the annual dual attraction and once more emerged victorious, 75 to 60. Cirnegie had the edge in the field events, but outstanding superiority on the track gave Pitt its margin of victory. Pitt won its own Intercollegiate meet. May 24, by a one-point margin, from West Virginia. The final score was Pitt 88, West Virginia 87, Cirnegie Tech 44, and Washington and Jefferson, with only a few men entered, 4. Corbett and Wadkins took Pitt's only firsts in the running events and Linn and Archibald were again best in their events. Pitt’s majority of second place scores again carried it through. The following week found Pitt best in the Wash-Jeff Intercollegiates at Washington. Pitt scored 105 points, W. J. 46, Bethany 42, Geneva 30, and Westminster 11. Five firsts went to Pitt, three on the track and two in the field, Corbett, Wadkins, Schrocedel, Peters, and Linn showing the way. The first three men set new track records for the two-mile, half-mile and mile events. The closing meet of the year was at State College. The high-point scorer of the season was Howard Linn, who scored 39 points, in his three weight events. Archibald was second with 34 points won in the weights. Wadkins scored 32 4 in the running events and Grindle gathered 32 in the sprints and broad jump. Herrington was fifth with 25 in the hurdles. Corbett came next with 22 won in the two-mile. Sauers made 20, Lies 18, Schmidt 17 4, Schrcedel 16, Kutchka 15, Peters 14, Fabiana 13, Gibbs 12, Meyers, 12, Kerr 11, Wick n £, Fetterman 8J 2, Howell 4, Cowan 6, Talbot 4, Marquis 4, James 3, McCoy 2, Robison 2, and Anderson 2. Those listed with ten or more points were awarded letters, along with Manager C. F. Wiley. At the close of the season, the lettermen eledted Howard Linn to the captaincy of the 1926 varsity. HE Freshman track team worked its way through an unusually busy season of four meets, but went through it with only one defeat. The season opened at West Virginia, when Pitt fell, 77 to 49, but the team improved with two more weeks' practice and whipped Kiski, 76 to 48. In the meet that really mattered, the Freshmen swamped Carnegie Tech, 84 1-3 to 38 2-3. In the annual Pitt Intercollegiates at Schenley Oval, the Freshmen evened the score with West Virginia in the Freshman-Prep School class by taking first place with an overwhelming score. The order of finish: Pitt, 42; WeSt Virginia, 24; Carnegie Tech, 19; Indiana Normal, 14; Kiski, 12; Shadyside, 4. The team produced several outstanding men for the 1926 varsity: Moore, short dashes; Crawford, short dashes; Rutter, quarter-mile; Carnahan, quarter-mile; Kampmeyer, mile; Adams, mile; Welch, weights; Cutler, weights. {311} Top Row. McMahon, McGill, Kowallb, Milton, Baur, Richmond, Ribanak. First Row: Campbell, Chase, Parsons, Lisspelt, Reed. Wrobleski ‘Varsity :Basketball PITT started its basketball season poorly, dropping its fir it two games to Michigan and Goodyear Tires, then, after the Christmas holidays, began to play sterling basketball and surprised everybody by keeping it up to the end of the season. As a result, the non-conference tri' ate championship came to Pitt for the second time in four years. A momentary lapse again Geneva, late in February, shoved Pitt to second place in the race, so to win the title it was necessary to invade Grove City and take over Bob Thorn's proteges, an attempt at which was a previous failure. The clean sweep of the three-game scries with Carnegie Tech was an outstanding feature of the season. Captain Parsons, Wrobleski, Kowallis, Reed, Chase, Lissfelt, Rihenak, McMahon, Richmond, McGill and Baur were the outstanding players. The season's record: Pitt ... 2 t Michigan 34 Pitt .... 3« Washington and Jefferson. 28 Pitt 27 Goodyear Tires 34 Pitt .... 30 Penn State 26 Pitt 2S Firestone Tires 21 Put . .... 27 Grove City 30 2S Pitt 33 Ohio State 47 Pitt .... 30 Washington and Jefferson. 2S Pitt 34 Allegheny 16 Pitt .... 29 Geneva 37 Pitt 4S Carnegie Tech Pitt .... 30 West Virginia yr Pitt 43 George Washington 30 Pitt .... 0 Carnegie Tech 29 Pitt 38 West Virginia 23 Pitt Grove City 22 Pitt Penn State . . • 31 [ . 12 } Competition Top Row: Wilion. Coach McM aster, Buchman Second Row: Pickard. Sherwin. Meier, McLean, Skinner, Wunderlich. Firtl Row: Mirvis. Anthony, McCandless, Kirsch, Lynch. Parry Cjfreshman Basketball A TEAM is usually said to have experienced a “checkered season if its win column ■ shows only a slight edge at the end of the year. Accordingly, the 1926 Pitt Freshman basketball team enjoyed only mediocre success. Whenever a Pitt team takes a series from Carnegie Tech, however, the season is declared a “howling success. Hence the Cubs didn't have such a poor season after all. Uniontown High School, 1925 Pennsylvania State champion, was also whipped. Captain Whitey McCandless, of Beaver Falls; Ted Meier, of Erie EaSt; Bill Parry and Charley McLean, of Homestead; Gyp Wunderlich, of Duquesne; Skinner, of DuBois; and Sherwin and Mervis, of Braddock, were the outstanding players. Anthony, Pickard, Kirsch and Lynch topped the list of reserves. The season’s record: Pitt . . 5 Westmghouse Tech 13 Pitt . 26 Kiski ... 28 Put. . .... 28 Waynesburg Freshmen U Pitt • 31 Carnegie Tech ... 22 Put . . JI Bcllefonte Academy 22 Pitt 38 Turtle Creek U. H. S. • • 27 Pitt 9 Carnegie Tech 33 Put ... 18 W. d J. Frosh .. 11 Put 28 California Normal 30 Put ■ • 35 Uniontown High...... ... 30 Pitt 33 Braddock 20 Put 30 West Virginia Frosh . . . 3 Put 28 West Virginia Plcbes 33 Put 31 Kiski ... 39 Pitt. ... .... 28 W. H J. Freshmen 25 Put . . 25 Carnegie Tech ... 23 Put 24 Penn State Frosh 37 Pitt 28 Braddock High ... 29 Pitt 33 California Normal 21 Put 19 Bcllefonte Academy ... 25 Pitt 24 Penn State Frosh 26 [ 3 3 } To i Row: Assistant Manager Guthrie, Simpson, Shenkan, Klater, Robb, Lmicow, Patton. Manager Houston. Second Row: Isaacs, Lubin, Mange, Coach Corr. Lxevnkr, Dent, Speer Fit si Row: London, Nichols, Wright, Captain Brodie, Butts, Smith, Facius 4Varsity Swimming THE 1925 26 season of the Pitt swimming team was highly successful for both the Varsity and the Freshmen.The Varsity, especially, was successful; they lost only to the Navy, the American Intercollegiate Champions, and Michigan. William “Bus Wright, a member of the Sophomore class in the School of Business Administration, was elected captain of the 1927 team. Wright, who captained the Freshman team last year, was additionally honored with the Harry Quigg Taylor Memorial Trophy, the greatest honor that can fall to the lot of a Pitt swimmer. Letters were awarded to Captain Brodie, Wright, Seeley, Steele, Nichols, Flacius, and Houston. Numerals were given to Captain Lithgow, Klater, Mango, Speers, Isaacs, Robb, Shenkan, and Patton. THE RECORD Pitt .. 40 Freshmen ... 31 Pitt .... 19 Michigan ...50 Pitt .... 10 Navy ... 51 Pitt .... 43 Catholic University . . . ...19 Pitt 54 Allegheny Pitt .... 39 Wooster . 21 Pitt ... 38 Notre Dame ■ 3i Pitt .... 25 Homestead Library Club . • 34 Pitt .... 37 Homestead Library Club. . . 21 Pitt 37 Freshmen • 31 {314 3 Competition Varsity Tennis PITT turned out the strongest varsity tennis team in its history in 1925. From the opening match until the closing one, the team never knew defeat and only three times found itself close to it. Rain prevented two of 15 scheduled matches, but the team won every one of the others but three, all of which resulted in ties. The tennis rivalry between Pitt and W. 6? J. reached its height in the spring and to complicate the situation even more, the two squads, at their Strongest, played to two ties in disputing the championship of the district. Bucknell surprised college court followers by tying Pitt near the close of the season. Penn State lost twice, as did Girnegie Tech. The record: Pitt-Bethany (Rain) Pitt • • • 4 Carnegie Tech 2 Pitt-AUegheny (Rain) Pitt. • ■ • ? Juniata 1 Pitt . ... 5 Penn State 2 Pitt ... 3 Bucknell .... 3 Pitt .... 3 W.6PJ 3 Pitt • • • 5 Allegheny Pitt 5 Colgate 0 Pitt . . ■ • ■ r WeA Va. Wesleyan 1 Pitt .... 3 W.tfJ 3 Pitt . . 6 Juniata 0 Pitt . ... 5 Carnegie Tech 1 Pitt . . . 5 Penn State 4 Pitt............ ? Bucknell.................... 1 freshman Tennis THE Freshman tennis team finished its season as the greatest ever produced at the University. Besides that, it was undoubtedly the strongest Freshman tennis team in the country and fully capable of defeating its own varsity. Dodor Tom Stephens coached it along with his duties as varsity coach. He had plenty of material: Johnny and Davey O'Loughlin and Byron Baur alternating as first, second and third men in the singles, with Lawler usually fourth. The doubles were always played by other men selected from the squad. The team went through its whole season without defeat and could easily have scored several more love vittories than it did had the coach not given several inexperienced men opportunities to play. The record: Pitt . . .. 5 Carnegie Tech 1 Pitt. ... 2 Rayen .... Pitt . ... 5 Carnegie Tech 1 Pitt ... 5 Wilkinsburg Pitt . ... 6 Oakmont 0 Pitt ... 0 Wilkinsburg Pitt 1 Pitt . . . 0 Craft on . . . [ 3 5 3 Top Row: Hall, Gage, Fronk, Milus, Unkovich, Atkinson. Hinderer. Fnil Row: Diver. Papimki, Jordan, Harter. Hoehle. Lauler. Horner The ‘Varsity Rifle Ream THE Panther varsity ritlers, Starting out their season minus the services of four regulars who had graduated, and Boh MacFarlane, who was injured in an automobile accident, did particularly well in face of the severe opposition they encountered when they attempted to carry out their schedule. They finishing the season with a total of twenty matches fired, won fourteen and dropped six, two to Penn State, and ended up with a total average of 700. When the ritlers Started their season several followers pointed out that Pitt would not be able to Stand the gatf. Stating that the team was made up largely of new men and only two regulars—Hoehle and Jordan. Pitt developed more than a punch in the weeks that followed. The coach, Paul Harter, had the varsity go through a fixed training schedule, the first ever attempted by a rifle team. Pitt won from the University of New York, Girnegie Tech, Michigan, Maine, Western Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Delaware, Gettysburg, and Johns Hopkins and lost to Penn State. Connecticut, Virginia Poly Tech, Cincinnati and City College of New York. After the season came to a close the ritlers traveled to New’ York to compete in the championship tourney meet of the United States Intercollegiate League, of w’hich Pitt is a member. Harter Started four new-comers and one veteran. Mid'way in the tourney the newcomers became rather Stage frightened and did miserably. Consequently the team ended in eighth place, out of twelve schools entered. [ 316 | Cjiris’ Sports LTHOUGH there are an endless number of sports to which the Physical Education Department would like to devote its time, in this practical world of ours it is almost impossible to realize this aim. And so they merely set up a standard of achievement for the future in proportion to the measure the sports have progressed in the past, and con' centrate their efforts on major sports. Basketball claims first place, as yet, in the girls' program of major sports. There is an extensive varsity program, together with a growing number of class games. Pitt girls have shown the “fight” and ability in basketball to go through an entire season without a single defeat as in '24-'25; to list victories against New York University, Pennsylvania, Temple, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Cincinnati, not to mention the rival schools of Pitt's environs. With the rapidly growing desire for intra'inural programs in all leading colleges, Pitt is looking forward to the coming of this different type of program (and it is bound to come, for it is wholly desirable). It will increase the spirit of competition in the school and afford so many more Students the privilege of participation and the benefits of thorough coaching. But basketball has to make a courtesy to its younger siSter'sport hockey. Field Hockey made its debut three years ago at Pitt and has grown with unprecedented speed. Besides Student spirit, there must be something to a game that will bring a hundred Students out to spend their leisure time before the sun rises on Schenley Oval and until the moon rises at night. The past season there were twelve exciting inter'dass matches. Within the department there is an attempt to organize speed groups. The latest releases of Physical Achievement Tests, results of which are to be worked out from all colleges, by the Russell Sage Foundation, were given to every girl in the department. Seventy'five points constituted a perfect score. Pitt scores showed a great variety in individuals ranging up to sixty'two points. The Students know the requirements of the tests and they know also that individual effort is the only possible way to improve their score. That is an incentive and also a chance for the “individual” to assert herself without being lost in the all too large classes in which she works. Every season brings its favorite sport. In the spring, for the past four years, there has been the annual swimming meet. Furthermore every girl is afforded an opportunity to learn life-saving and pass her Red-Cross Life-Saving Test. In the gymnasium spring programs have differed in the past years. For two years the department ran a group track meet. Other years dancing took first place, bringing in different types, such as English � Country and folk dancing, character, and natural, leading up to pageantry. The Physical Education Department has been the melting-pot” for all these sports, but the Women’s Athletic Association as a Student organization has worked in conjunction with the department and has been a help in shaping the mental, moral, and physical life of the institution. It has been an instrument in carrying out programs, and in baseball took complete charge in its infant year of intra-mural competition. I 3i7 I Top Row: Hartmann. E. L. Russell, D. Russell. Koch. McClenaman. Second Roto: Lloyd, Lawton, Bur-gun, Stutz, Muter. Fir ! Roto: Shakarian, Perovsky Qirti Varsity Basketball THE 1925-1926 season of the girls varsity basketball team included a schedule of only seven games, but all of these were real tussles. The development of intradural competition has cut down the number of available teams and reduced the co-ed schedule to a minimum. Games with Temple and New York Universities on the home floor, and trips to Washington D.C., and Fredericksburg, Virginia, were features on the Co-ed card. The team was captained by Kathleen Burgun, managed by Grace Hartman, and coached by Miss Margaret A. McClenahan, Assistant Professor of Physical Education. Baseball LAST year when the Co-ed Physical Education Department sent out a call for volunteers J to enter a baseball tournament between the classes, many sprightly and enthusiastic co-eds entered into the new annual sport with all the force and vigor that is characteristic in basketball, hockey, tennis, and the other inter-class events. After one round of the tournament the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior teams were in a three-cornered tie with each class vowing it would win in the final round, but the Sophs proved superior and were victors over both the Juniors and the Frosh. This was the first season of baseball; and the splendid spirit that prevailed and the enthusiastic cooperation among the co-eds have guaranteed its place in girls’ athletics. C318] Competition Top Row; Wechsler, Brown. Winters. Thompson, O’Donnell. K. Long. Second Row: McEliieny, Power. S. Lonc. Cheney, McConnell, McClenahan. Firft Row: Lyon, Thomson Cj iris' ‘Reserve Basketball A GIRL'S reserve basketball team was organized in the winter of 1924 by Miss Me- Clenahan to supplement the varsity organization. The 1925-26 season included a schedule of eight games. Competition for positions was spirited, for in addition to developing material for the varsity the reserve increases the opportunities for women to participate in basketball. The team was captained by Elsie Thomson, managed by Mary McElhcny, and coached by Miss Margaret McClenahan. Hockey THE fourth annual hockey season was one of the best seasons ever experienced by Pitt women. The competition between the classes in the inter-class tournament was very keen, and resulted in a three-cornered tie between the Freshmen, Sophomore, and Senior teams. When the tie was played off the Sophomores were on top as the champions, with the Seniors in second place and Freshmen in third. An unusual spirit and enthusiasm was prevalent, for several of the games were played at six-thirty in the morning. Unfavorable weather conditions did not decrease the interest in the tournament, while rainy weather with a muddy field only added to the excitement. A Hockey Breakfast in the Heinz House on December eighth ended Pitt's finest hockey season. I 319] lot ] The 1977 Owl DIVISIONAL STAFF J. W. Crane Remaley .... Photographic Editor CONTRIBUTORS Frank D. Curtin Lysle McMillan Roy Hamlin Francis Ullery M. V. Wills Duella S. Stranahan ... . . Secretary C 322 3 clAdministration AN excellent system requires an excellent personnel; the University of ii Pittsburgh has both. As for its system, that has been perfected as the school has grown. Through all the advance from backwood's academy to modern urban university, the executive system has been evolved to meet greater and greater problems, until today it knits the University, from Chancellor to dudent, into a smoothly operating unity. But systems are dull to speak about, unappealing. Individuals, administrative heads give them life, color. These men and women who carry forward the University and mold its future have in themselves an attraction even greater than the interest their offices give them. To them, on this account, we editors have gone. “Your personal views, we asked them, “of your duties, your problems ; and they have replied in the short sketches which follow. I 3 3] The 19 2 7 Owl YOU ask what happens at my office in the University. In answer, many disagreeable jobs collet there, and some pleasant ones. It is the center of effort to provide the means and opportunity for the real work of the University, that is, the contact in the right kind of environ' ment between the right kind of teachers and the right kind of students. My office, further, is the place where any man or woman of the Univer' sity, student or teacher, who has a constructive idea, is always welcome; and if any of these folk believe that they have a grievance, they are also welcome; in fart, the door is not shut except to people who whine. I have never been good at listening to whining. “The most important thing which I try to do is to expert that each member of the faculty and each Student live at the top level to which he or she has capacity to go. We need, all of us, to expect juSt this kind of living from one another.” I 324] Industry JOHN GABBERT BOWMAN, LL.D. Chancellor { 3 5 ] SAMUEL BLACK McCORMICK, D.D. Chancellor Emeritus THE Chancellor Emeritus holds, perhaps, the mo enviable position in the University. His chief occupation is to watch the wheels go round — usually from Florida in the winter time but the rest of the year from his office in State Hall where he feels that he is again a part of the living, throbbing, ever-expanding University and that it is his very own. The other chief duty of the Chancellor Emeritus is to Stand behind the Chancellor and cheer him on. Better than all others, he knows the incessant toil, the anxious thought, and the watchful solicitude involved in the very office of Chancellor and it is his particular privilege to afford all the encouragement and inspiration he can. For, after all, only as Chancellor Bowman brings his noble plans into realization, does the work of his predecessors have any permanent value. In lending a hand, therefore, and in seeing the University move forward, the Chancellor Emeritus fills a satisfying and useful office. J. STEELE GOW, A.B. Executive Secretary THE By-Laws of the Board of Trustees say the duty of the Executive Secretary of the University is to assist the Chancellor in the educational admini ration of the University. The purpose of educational administration is, in my mind, to create conditions which are conducive to good teaching for the sake of good learning. From time to time and from place to place the definition of good learning and good teaching will vary greatly. But since it is true that a very high percentage of University of Pittsburgh graduates continue to live in and work in Pittsburgh, good learning and good teaching for us must be closely related to the industrial and civic life of this community. To try to learn what ftttsburgh needs and then so to shape our educational policy that we produce Students who can meet these needs and be happy at it is a large part of the job of all of us. whatever our titles. SAMUEL BLACK LINHART, A M., D.D. Secretary of the University THE Secretary is an executive officer of the University. His duties are related to every department of the University and require a knowledge of all the details of its work. As Secretary of the Board of Trustees and its Committees, Dr. Linhart is responsible for seeing that the actions of the Board and its Committees are carried out and must keep a record of all of these actions. He is required to see that legal questions connected with the property of the University and the conduct of its business are properly handled, and, as Assi ant Treasurer, he is charged with the collection of the revenues of the University, and the payment of its obligations. He is, in addition. Treasurer of a number of its special funds and of the funds of organizations connected with it. f 326] Industry THYRSA WEALTHEOW AMOS, A.M. Dean of Women THE Department of the Dean of Women is maintained by the University for the purpose of unifying the extra curricular interests of its women Students. It concerns itself specifically with housing, employment, student loans, vocational guidance, counselling of Student activities, assemblies, conferences. and social adjustments. In all of its work the Department seeks to footer student leadership, to provide stimulating contacts with women of acknowledged leadership, to emphasize the responsibility and place of women in the world's work, and to keep constantly before university students ideals of fine womanhood. W. DON HARRISON, M.A. Dean of Men A SHORT time ago a young man came into Mr. Harrison's . office. His coming was the keeping of a promise. When I was a Freshman, he said, Mr. Ashe sent for me. Without waste of words, he told me that I was not doing my work as well as I should. He was right. I promised him I would do my best, that he would never have to send for me again, and that when 1 was ready to leave 1 would bring him a scholastic report of which 1 could say. 'Here is the proof of my greatest effort.' Mr. Ashe has gone, but I have come to keep my promise. Then he handed Mr. Harrison a record which showed the leadership of his class. Incidentally this man had paid his own way through the University: he had spent eight hours each day driving a truck. As Mr. Harrison sees it, such is the job of the Student Counselor and Dean of Men: to help Students drive ahead at their greatest capacity and on the highest possible level. WILLIAM MORRELL, A.B. Director of Public Information IN a highly organized institution such as a University — and especially in a University which is so definitely a part of the community it serves as is the University of Pittsburgh — there must be a recognized source of public information. Hence the Department of Publications. The director of this department, through official catalogues and bulletins of the school, through the newspapers and magazines, and indirectly through Student publications, endeavors to interpret the University, its activities and purposes, to the community. It's our University — that is the realization he would bring to the people of this great industrial region. { 327 1 SIDNEY H. HOEHL, LL.B. Graduate Manager of Student Activities THE Graduate Manager of Student Activities is held responsible by the faculty for the unsatisfactory work of participants in Student activities and by the Students for the inadequate supply of tenth row First Floor scats for the Cap and Gown Club play. To «udcnts of the School of Dentistry, he is a true friend to all undergraduates, and to the latter, he is or should be an honorary member of all Dental fraternities. Thus he serves a useful purpose in that he provides the incentive for an expression of student opinion and is one of the reasons for that inter-departmental rivalry without which student life would-be spiritless. KARL E. DAVIS, C.E. Graduate Manager of Athletics 'T'HE development of athletic and alumni activities at the X University for the past fourteen years has been in the hands of K. E. Davis, Eng. 'io, who holds the position of Graduate Manager of Athletics and Alumni Secretary. Downtown offices arc maintained at 505-5 Commonwealth Building, Fourth Avenue. The necessity for close cooperation in these activities make the joint position an ideal one. As Graduate Manager of Athletics, Mr. Davis has charge of the operation of the Pitt Stadium, is responsible for all financial matters in connection with athletics, handles the distribution of tickets in connection with the footlxill games, making of all schedules, appointment of Student managers, maintenance of proper coaching staffs, etc. Mr. Davis reports to the University Stadium Committee and the University Athletic Council. As Alumni Secretary, Mr. Davis is custodian of all papers, records, and reports of the alumni body, and is responsible for the development of alumni interest in the University. J. GILBERT QUICK, B.S. Registrar AS Registrar of the University of Pittsburgh, John Gilbert Quick supervises the admission of Students and directs their registration throughout the four years of their attendance. He is vitally concerned with the Student from the beginning to the end of his career at the University, as is indicated by the fact that the Registrar issues the application form and also the diploma. The vast machinery of registration is devised and set into motion by Mr. Quick and representatives of the various Schools, and by means of its operation the Student is kept on the proper scholastic course throughout his collegiate journey. In the office of the Registrar arc filed the official record cards of the Students and from the office are issued, during each year, thousands of reports and transcripts. I $28 1 Industry HARRY SHIPP COLEMAN, B.S. in M.E. Business Manager THE duties of the Business Manager of the University include supervision of the Buildings and Grounds Department, the Purchasing Department, the Cafeteria, the Book Store, and the Printing Department. In addition, the routine business affairs of the University, such as insurance of all kinds, etc., are handled through this office. The time of the Business Manager is divided between the University and Mellon Institute, where he holds the position of Assistant Director in charge_of business affairs. J. HOWARD DICE, B.A., B.L.S. University Librarian THE University of Pittsburgh Library, comprising the general library and more than a dozen departmental libraries. contains approximately 100.000 bound volumes and receives currently over 800 general and technical periodicals. It is not a mere Storehouse of books, but a great series of laboratories, covering almo every field of human interest and is designed both as an agency of instruction and to promote productive activity in research. The University library aims to provide “the means for equipping the Students with the ability to use books to the be« advantage as tools, and to go out into life with the desire to use books for inspiration and for the enrichment of their lives.” KENNETH M. GOULD, M.A. Retiring University Editor THE Staff wishes to acknowledge with gratitude Mr. Goulds aid and cooperation and the continuance of his services even after he had left the University. He,.was a big factor in the success of this year’s Owl. I 3 9 1 Other c.Administration Officials Lee Paul Sieg, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School Raleigh Russell Huggins, M.D., Dean of the School of Medicine Alexander Marshall Thompson, LL.M., Dean of the Law School Heber Doust Curtis, Ph.D., Director of Allegheny Observatory Edward Ray Weidlein, A.M., Sc.D., Director of Mellon Institute of Industrial Research Frank W. Shockley, A.B., Ellis Mills Frost, M.D., Marion Shephard, M.D., Harry Holtin Provin, Mary Frances Philput, A.B., G. Stanley Rupp, Director of Extramural Instruction Director of the Departmeyu of Health Medical Advisor to Women Director of Physical Education Director of Physical Education Auditor C 330 I DEAN LEE P. SIEG The (College HAVING been organized one hundred years before any of the others, the College is the oldest and large of the eight schools in the University. It was founded in 1787 as the Pittsburgh Academy with a mere handful of Students and a faculty of five. Since then the enrollment has increased to over two thousand Students and two hundred and fifty instructors. At fir , the main elements of the curriculum were languages, pure mathematics, belles' lettres, and philosophy, with very little attention being given to professional Studies and the sciences. Its central position has been the nucleus to which the other schools and departments have been added. Their dependence on the College is shown in the fad that all require their entrants to have taken preliminary work in the school. The main departments of the College arc those of Astronomy, Botany, Economics, Ethics, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Zoology, Chemistry, English, Greek, Latin, Modern Languages, Physics, and Psychology. Two of these departments. Psychology and Zoology, have greater enrollments than similar departments in any other American college. Lee Paul Sieg, Ph.D., has been Dean of the College since March 1, 1925. He succeeded Dr. George H. Reavis, who was forced to withdraw because of ill health. Dr. Sieg has created for himself a national reputation as a physicist with his notable work in the fields of crystal Strudure and optical properties of crystals. As a graduate of the State University of Iowa, he came to the University of Pittsburgh in September, 1924, as head of the Physics Department. 1331] The 1927 Owl FLORENCE ASHINSKY Delta Phi Epsilon Board. Y.M.H.A. JANE ALLEN BALL KNOXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL; BYRON W. KING’ SCHOOL OF ORATORY; OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Pitt Players (5); Debating (5) Hiilory S. RICHARD BLOCK JOHNSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL; UNIVERSITY OP PENNSYLVANIA Kappa Nu John Marshall Club; Collcmbola Club History f ANNE BARRETT Pi Beta Phi Junior Prom Committee CHARLES FREDERICK BERG LLECHJU+r HIGH; CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY Kappa Sigma Cap and Gown (a, 3) Medicine MARY R. BLUMBERGER SCHENLEY HICH SCHOOL German Club; French Club German C 33 } The College MABEL BRADBURY WILK1NSBURC HIGH SCHOOL Hockey (i. 2); French Club; Y.W.C.A.; W.A.A.; W.S.G.A. SAMUEL D. BR EMER SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL Pi Lambda Phi; Sigma Delta Chi Pitt Weekly (1. 2. 3). Managing Editor (3); Executive Board, Y.M.H.A.; Avukah; Publicity Manager, 1927 Owl; Debating Association (1) ELOISE R. BOMHARD SHARPSBURC HIGH SCHOOL Pitt Weekly (1, 2); School Editor (2); Pitt Players (1, 2); Girls' Glee Club (1); Y.W.C.A. Finance Committee (2. 3); W S.G.A. Educational Research Committee (3); Organizations Editor, 1927 Owl A HARRY BOWYTZ FLOYD H. BRAGDON BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Phi Assistant Business Manager, 1926 Owl; Business Manager, 1927 Owl; Inter-Fraternity Council (3); Secretary of Junior Class, College (3) Pre-Medicine { 333 1 The 1927 Owl WILLIAM THEODORE BROECKER DAVID H. BUCHMAN BLAIRVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Phi Epsilon Pi Soph Hop Committee (2); Pitt Panther Business Staff (1, 2); Assistant Football Manager (3); Assistant Basketball Manager (3); Musical Clubs (3); Secretary of the Ensemble (2, 3); Honorary Usher(2) Pre-Medicine REGIS FRANCIS BURGER MARGARET C. BULLIONS SWISSVALE HIGH SCHOOL; INDIANA STATE NORMAL Kappa Kappa Gamma Mdtherruilics HELEN D. BUSE WINCHESTER SCHOOL; MADAME SHERTEN's FRENCH SCHOOL Delta Delta Delta Turtles; Secretary of Freshmen Women (1); Member of Sophomore Social Committee (2) Hiitory, French HELEN E. CAMPBELL WESTINCHOU8E HIGH SCHOOL Phi Mu Y.W.C.A. Hi ft on { 334 3 ANTHONY L. CERVINO TURTLE CREEK UNION HIGH SCHOOL Freshman Football Science THELMA CHADWICK CENTERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL; F.ARLHAM COLLEGE Alpha Delta Pi Spanish The College HELEN POMERENE CARSON THURSTON PREPARATORY SCHOOL; WASHINGTON SEMINARY, WASHINGTON, PA. Kappa Alpha Theta Quilt Club; Turtles; W.A.A. English JOHN CH1AVETTA ROYAL GYMNASIO, ITALY; SPRINCFIELD PREPARATORY SCHOOL. SPRINCriELD, MASS. Alpha Phi Delta Chemistry MARY M. CRAVEN VOUNGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL; SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Phi Mu Y.W.C.A.; Pitkin Club; Publicity Committee of Junior Class; French Club English FLORENCE M. CH1TESTER DU BOIS HIGH SCHOOL, DU BOIS, PA. Alpha Delta Sigma; Kanpa Phi Glee Club (i, 2, 3); Treasurer ot Panhellenic (3); Y.W.C.A. Psychology I 335 11 The 1927 Owl VIRGINIA M. CONROY SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL; SETON HILL COLLSC8, CREENSBURG Newman Club; W.A.A. Latin LEO CHRONI5 MRS. FRANCES H. COLE WESTING HOUSE HIGH SCHOOL; INDIANA UNIVERSITY English LAWRENCE OWNS CLARK LEONARD B. COLKER Pitt Weekly (1, 2, 3); Humor Editor. 1927 Owl LEONARD ROBERT COLLINS CHARLEROI HIGH SCHOOL Phi Epsilon Pi Musical Clubs; Pitt Weekly English WALTER D. COX UNION HIGH SCHOOL, TURTLE CREEK Delta Xi Omega Musical Clubs (2. 3); Pitt Players (2) Physics I 336 ] The Colle FRANK D. CURTIN CRAPTON HIGH SCHOOL Omega Delta; Pi Tau Phi Pitt Players (x, a); Pitt Weekly (a); AssiAant Editor'in-Chief, 1917 Owl; Pepper Prize Com' mittee (a, 3) English HAROLD EUGENE CRAIG Kappa Sigma JEAN CUY SARA JEAN DAIR STEELE HICH SCHOOL, DAYTON, OHIO; MIAMI UNIVERSITY, OXFORD, OHIO Alpha Xi Delta Glee Club; Y.W.C.A.; W.S.G.A.; W.A.A.; German Club (a) Library Science DOLARES DE MARTINI UNION HICH SCHOOL, KNOXVILLE Alpha Delta Pi English £ 3371 The 19 27 Owl W. FREDERICK EL WOOD OAK MONT HIGH SCHOOL Omega Delta Literary Editor, the 1917 Owl; Pitt Players; John Marshall Club English LEONARD DePONCEAU JULIA DOYLE GERTRUDE DOYLE Kappa Kappa Gamma CARSON SIMON D1MLING ALLEGHENY HIGH SCHOOL; WASHINGTON JEFTERSON COLLEGE Delta Tau Delta Pre'Medicme AND ARDESTA DUFFY SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Delta; Kappa Phi Hiilory 1338] LOUISE ROSALIND ETZEL SCHCSLEY HIGH SCHOOL Chi Omega W.S.G.A., Vocational Committee (5); John Marshall Club EDWARD J. FISHER HURST HIGH SCHOOL, MOUNT PLEASANT TOWN' SHIP Assistant Cheer Leader (x) The College JOSEPH M. GAYNOR. JR. WILKES BARRE HIGH SCHOOL Phi Kappa, Druids President of Druids (2); Turtles; Chairman of Junior Prom Committee (5); Assistant Football Manager (1, 2, 3); Newman Club. Treasurer (2). President (3) MAX FROMM LOCK HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL Theta Alpha Phi Pitt Players (1. 2), Property Manager (3) Prc'Medwmc ROBERT RUSSELL FRYE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL Phi Mu Sigma Pre'Mcdicme ABRAHAM FISHKIN TARENTUM HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Nu Debating; Y.M.H.A. Council Hiflory SARAH K. FULTON PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL; WELLS COLLEGE Pi Beta Phi Secretary of Junior Women (3); Y.W.C.A. (2. 3) I 339} The 1927 Owl N. L. GUIDEL ELIZABETH GILLELAND SWI33VALE HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Kappa Gamma Turtles; Y.W.C.A. French MILTON W. GOLOMB PIPTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL Medicine H. D. GOEHRING Phi Delta Theta Pre-Medicine THADDEUS GORSKI SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL Crosscountry (2) Chemiilry F. NELSON GROVES SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL Lambda Chi Alpha Inter-Fraternity Track (1, 2) Pre-Medicine S. HAROLD GROSSMAN M UN HALL HIGH SCHOOL; PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Kappa Nu Assiftant Editor of Pitt Weekly (3) Pre-Legal f .340 1 HAZEL R. HAMILTON WILKINSBURG HIGH SCHOOL Phi Mu; Sigma Kappa Phi; Turtles; French Club; Spanish Club French TABR1DA HANBY EDWIN N. HAZLETT MCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Phi Treasurer of College Juniors (3); Inter-Fraternity Basketball (a, 3); Organization Manager, the 1917 Owl FRED HAMLIN SCIIENLEY HIGH SCHOOL; SHARON HICH SCHOOL Omkron Delta Kappa; Sigma Delta Chi; Druids Pitt Weekly, News Editor (3), Editorial Writer (a). Feature Editor (1); Assistant Editor of 1916 Owl; S.S.G.A. Publications Representative (3); Debating (a, 3); Y.M.C.A. (a, 3); Creek Club; Honorary Usher (a). Assistant Head Usher (3) English The College HERBERT S. HEPPS HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL Medicine WALLACE HOPKINS { 341 1 The 1927 Owl MARGARET E. HOTHAM 8WISSVALE HIGH SCHOOL Pi Beta Phi Y.W.C.A.; May Day Pageant (t) WILLIAM HOWELL Kappa Sigma Cross Country (1, a, $); President. College Junior Class LEE R. HERRINGTON UNIONTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Sigma Pi Spike Shoe; Chiron Club; Track (1. a. 5); Football (a. 5); Inter-Fraternity Track HAROLD B. HUDSON CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY; NORWIN HIGH SCHOOL; PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Chiron Club; Glee Club (1) RUTH E. JOHNSTON WILKINSBURO HIGH SCHOOL Pi Beta Phi Framasors; Social Committee. W.S.G.A. HiStory I 34 1 M. J. HOWOLD ISABEL JOHNSTON The College W G. JOHNSTONE. JR. BEN AVON HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Sigma Psychology GRACE BERNICE JONES SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL; OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Phi Mu Turtles Zoology GERTRUDE M. JONES SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL; OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Phi Mu Turtles Zoology LUCY KENNEDY ELLSWORTH HIGH SCHOOL Theta Phi Alpha Cwens. National President ( ); Turtles; 1917 Owl Staff; Editor-In-Chief of Vadc Mecum; Glee Club; W. S. G. A. Discussion Group Chairman; Pitt Players English FRED KELLY ELEANORE KISS AN E EDWARD J. KEELING SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL Musical Clubs (1. a, 3). Secretary (a); Chiron Club; Music Lovers’ Club Pre-Medicme f 343 I MAURICE L KESSLER MCKEESPORT HICK SCHOOL PittMcKce Club Hi lory DOROTHY BENJAMIN KNINA NEW CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL Phi Sigma Sigma Spanish Club (a); Debating (2); Musical Club (x) ETHEL JOYCE KOPELMAN ARNOLD HIGH SCHOOL Debating; Menorah Society; W.A.A. BERTHA KRUGER TURTLE CREEK UNION HIGH SCHOOL Arcus Club, President (2); Collembola Club; W.S.G.A.; Y.W.C.A. Zoology { 344 1 The College HARVEY R. KURTZ TURTLE CREEK UNION HIGH SCHOOL Science SOL LASNER PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Pi Lambda Phi Cap and Gown; Intcr-Fratcrnity Track Pre-Medicine WILLIAM S. LAMPE GEORGE WESTING HOUSE HIGH SCHOOL Sigma Pi; Sigma Delta Clii Pitt Weekly (i, a, 3), Assistant Sporting Editor (a), Sporting Editor (3); Owl (1, 3); Freshman Handbook Sporting Editor (a); Athletic Council (a); Pitt Week Committee (1) HAZEL I. KLINE EDENBURG HIGH SCHOOL; CLARION STATE NORMAL SCHOOL; SARGENT PHYSICAL EDUCATION SCHOOL Ph sical Education ALFRED McCLUNG LEE OAKMONT HIGH SCHOOL Sigma Chi; Sigma Delta Chi Pitt Weekly (1, a); Editor'in-Chief. 1917 0 wl; Honorary Usher English SADYE LEFKOW1TZ HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL Vocational Conference Committee; W.S.G.A. Organizations Committee English i 345 1 The IQ 2 7 Owl ELMER LISSFELT Phi Gamma Delta; Omicron Delta Kappa Basket Ball (i, a, $) MARTHA REGINA MASTERS CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL Theta Phi Alpha Turtles; Secretary Newman Club; Newman Club (i, a. j. 4) Library Science JOHN F. MAURER MCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOL Pre-Medicine ROY MAG1LL ASPINWALL HIGH SCHOOL DOROTHY MARGOLIS NEW KENSINGTON HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Epsilon Phi Freihman Cabinet; Sophomore Hazing Committee Hiflory NORMAN MATTIS CATHERINE L. McCULLOUGH Omega Delta peabody high school Pi Beta Phi Sophomore Class Social Committee; Class Swimming; Social Service Work; Y.W.C.A. Botany I 346! The College FRANCIS LEO McFARREN SACRAMENTO HIGH SCHOOL Swimming;Tenms; Rifle; Military Ball Committee; John Marshall Club; Newman Club English W CONSTANTINE MeGREGOR JEANETTE E. McCLURE NORTH BRADDOCK HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Alpha Theta; Cwens; Quax Class Hockey; Class Basketball; Class Swimming; Class Baseball; Y.W.C.A. Cabinet; W.A.A. Committee; 1917 Owl Staff; Class Cabinet (2); Reserve Basketball (1. 2); Honorary Usher ChcmiAr) MYRON L. McGARVEY K1SKIMINETAS SPRINGS SCHOOL; PITTSBURGH ACADEMY Square and Compass; Chiron Club Pr -Medicine GEORGE McKAIN MARY S. McELHENY PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Alpha Theta Assistant Manager of Basketball; W.S.G.A. Social Committee; Vocational Guidance Conference Committee; French Club French CLARENCE McMILLAN [ 347 1 The 1927 Owl JEAN McKENNA LATROBB HIGH SCHOOL; NATIONAL PARK SEMINARY Kappa Alpha Theta Pitt Weekly; French Club; Pitkin Club English CATHERINE McNERNEY DUBOIS HIGH SCHOOL MILTON MERMELSTEIN m:keesport high school Pre-MfJtcine JOHN COLEMAN McMICHAEL schenlby high school; Pennsylvania state college Omega Epsilon Chiron Club PrC'Mcdicme RICHARD V. MORRISSEY TURTLE CREEK UNION HIGH SCHOOL Pitkin Club (1, 2. 3); 1927 Owl Staff; Collembola Club (2, 5); World Court Committee (3) Botany BLAIR V. McMILLIN WILKINSBURG HIGH SCHOOL Piii Gamma Delta; Druids; Turtles Football; Inter-Fraternity Basketball; Freshman Baseball Chermitry SOL ROBERT MERCUR MCKEESPORT TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL Political Science f 348 ] IRA R. MESSER MCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOL Chemistry The College JOHN V. MILLER WINDBER HIGH SCHOOL; PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Theta Delta Psi Assistant Manager Football (2, $); Pitt Weekly (1); Pitt Players (a) English HARRY MURRAY ADELAIDE MEGAHAN ALMA ROSANN MOSCH EAST HUNTINGDON TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Delta Sigma German Club (1, a); Collembola Club (j); Arcus Club (1. 2) Mathematics VIRGINIA MULLIGAN MCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOL; ALLEGHENY COLLEGE Beta Phi Alpha French Club; Chairman Music Committee; Pitkin Club French RICHARD MURPHY TULSA, OKLAHOMA, HIGH SCHOOL Freshman Track; Varsity Track (2. 4) English t 349 1 The 1927 Owl WILLIAM A. MYERS CRAPTON HIGH SCHOOL Pi Rho Delta Pre-Medicine ANNE BABE NATHANSON SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Epsilon Phi Glee Club (1. 2, 3); Glee Club Quartet (2. 3); Hockey Team (2); Student Loan (3); Costume Design Committee (1, 2); W.S.G.A. Publicity Committee; Owl Staff (3); Y.W.C.A. Committee (3); Vocational Conference Committee (3); W.A.A. Publicity Committee (3) English GERTRUDE DAVID O LEARY BATTLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL; WOOSTER COLLEGE Theta Phi Alpha; Newman Club Hiflorv ALICE RETA MURTHA MOUNT ALOYSIUS ACADEMY, CRE3SON Theta Phi Alpha Social Service Committee English JAMES K. NEALON st. peter's high school, charlotte, n. c.; AQUINAS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, COLUMBUS. OHIO Delta Xi Omega Newman Club Pre-Medicine CHARLES PASCHEDAY ALLEGHENY HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Sigma; Druids Freshman Football; Freshman Track; Varsity Track English POLLYANN PRUGER WILKINSBURG HICH SCHOOL Phi Sigma Sigma French Club; Junior Class Publicity Committee English I 350 1 The College C. LOUISE PUTNAM SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL Girls Glee Club (i, a, j); Pitt Players (a, j); Vocational Conference Committee; Sophomore Hockey Squad; W.S.G.A. (i. a. 3); Y.W.C.A. («. a. 3) Hiilory W. DONALD REID Delta Sigma Phi HARRY NATHAN ROBERTS OAK MONT HIGH SCHOOL MATHA REGESTER DUQUEJNE Chi Omega Vocational Conference Committee; W.S.G.A. (3) Mathematics WILLIAM POMPUT1US IDA S. REICH SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL', NORWIN HIGH SCHOOL, IRWIN Plii Sigma Sigma W.S.G.A. Women's Rooms Committee; Pan-Hellenic Representative; German Club; French Club French VIRGINIA NEWMAN PHILLIPS I'RABODY HIGH SCHOOL; MIAMI UNIVERSITY Delta Gamma; Phi Gamma Phi French i 351 1 The 1927 Owl JOSEPH ROSENFARB nnrM Avenue high school John Marshall Club Political Science MILTON SAFIER MON ESSEN HIGH SCHOOL Pin Epsilon Pi; Druids Vice President of Class (1, 2, 3); Musical Clubs. Leader, Ensemble (1, 2, 3); Cap and Gown (a); Inter'Fratcrnity Council; Chairman Sophomore Committee; Cheerleader (3); 1927 Owl Staff; Junior Prom Committee Hiflory FREDERICK M. SCHERMERHORN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL Delta Xi Omega Psychology R. VIRGINIA RUMBLE CLAIRTON HIGH SCHOOL Delta Zeta Pitkin Club (1, 2. 3); Glee Club (1, 2, 3); W.A.A.; W.S.G.A.; Y.W.C.A. Finance Drive Languages PEARL JUNE RUSH WOODLAWN HIGH SCHOOL; MARGARET MORRISON CARNEGIE COLLEGE Phi Sigma Sigma Glee Club French ALEXANDER I. SHAW OLTTH HIGH SCHOOL Pitt Players (1. 2, 3); Politics Club (3); John Marshall Club t Pohitcal Science J. W. CRANE REMALEY WILKINSBURC HIGH SCHOOL Theta Delta P«; Alpha Delta Epsilon Pitt Weekly (1, 2); Photographic Editor, 1927 Owl; Panther (1) English [ 352 I CLARENCE CRAFTON SMITH WESTING HOUSE HIGH SCHOOL Track Team Hiilory RUTH MARION SHIREY NEW KENSINGTON HIGH SCHOOL W.A.A.; French Club; Debating Club; Me norah Society; Collembola Club English y The College VENT S SHAKAR1AN PEABOOY HIGH SCHOOL Delta Zeta; Cwen . W.A.A. (i, 2. 3); Vanity' Basketball (2, 3); Hockey (1. 2, 3); Swimming (1. 2. ); Tennis (1, 2. 3); Baseball (2. 3); Honorary Usher; 1927 Owl Staff; Junior Prom Committee; Sophomore Hop Committee; W.S.G.A (1. 2. 3); Vocational Guidance Committee; Y.W.C.A. Finance'Committee; Girls' Class Organisation Treasurer (3) ALICE E SLAVKIN PITTSBURGH ACADEMY Zoology THOMAS T. SPENCE. JR. Moxuses high school; Washington and JEErERSON college Theta Kappa Mu Pre- Medicine HESTER R. SCHEINMAN PEABODY HICH SCHOOL Alpha Epsilon Phi Pitt Weekly (3); 1927 Owl Staff; YAV.tf Y.M. H.A. Board of Directors; Sub-Committee of Student Loan English CHARLES NELLIS T. SPOWART SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL Delta Xi Omega Newman Club (1, 2. 3); Pitt Players (1. 2, 3); Musical Clubs (2. 3) [ 5} ] The 1927 Owl HELEN G. TURNER INDIANA STATE NORMAL Delta Delta Delta; Quax Glee Club (1, 2, 3); Y.W.C.A. Publicity Committee (x, 2); W.S.G.A. Publicity Committee; Senior Brcakfa ( 1, a) Psychology C. E. SUTTER ELIZABETH THOMSON Pi Beta Phi EMILY THURBER ALLEGHENY HIGH SCHOOL Delta Zeta; Cwcns Owl Sulf; W.A.A. Board; W.S.G.A. Commission; Honorary Usher; Class Treasurer 12) Hiflory JESSIE E. TUFTS SWISSVALE HIGH SCHOOL Freshman and Reserve Basketball; Hockey Class Swimming; W.A.A.; Y.W.C.A.; W.S.G A. Mathematics [ 354 3 The College E. BASIL WELSH, JR. AVALON HIGH SCHOOL; KDCEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Omega Delta; Phi Mu Sigma Debating (i, 2, 5); Assistant Manager of De-bating (3); John Marshall Club (2, 3); Chess Club (2, 3) History MERLIN VINCENT WILLS PARNASSUS HIGH SCHOOL Phi Mu Sigma; Omega Delta Hiilory FRED H. VOHR P8ABODY HIGH SCHOOL; PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Glee Club Pre-Medicine PAUL L. WALTON GOSHEN, INDIANA, HIGH SCHOOL Delta Xi Omega Chiron Club; Musical Clubs (1, 2. 3); Pitt Players Orchestra; Music Lovers' Club Pre-Medicine MAURICE C. WANDER MCKEESPORT TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL Pre-Medicine JAMES HUGH WALLACE, JR. PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Theta Chi Freshman Track; John Marshall Club (3) History GLADYS M. W1LLOCK KNOXVILLE UNION HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Delta Pi Hockey (1, 2); Baseball; Tennis (1) French { 355 I PITTSBURGH The 1927 Owl I search with the subtle soul of flame The heart of the nOc y earth. T M. ZIMMERMAN ELIZABETH ZIEGLER Delta Delta IX-lta PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH And hot from my anvils the prophesies. Of the miracle years leap forth. FREDERICK WQLTMAN PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Political Soence I am monarch of all the forges, I have solved the riddle of fire CLAIRTON HIGH SCHOOL Football (1); Track (1, 2) Languages [ 35 1 Business Administration DEAN LOUIS K. MANLEY School of Business z.Administration THE University of Pittsburgh organized departments and courses in economic fields in 1908 with the creation of the Evening School of Economics, Accounts, and Finance. In 1910, the School of Economics was founded. In the summer of 1923, these two depart' ments consolidated as the School of Business Administration. The original schools were called into existence by the demands of business men for college trained executives. It was realized that the college graduate entering business without some special preparation suffers a severe handicap, and that specialization upon the fundamentals of business can be of great value. With courses designed to this end, they were given full cooperation by the business men of the district, and the two schools soon developed into important training centers for men and women who were going to enter the business world. The evening division of the school is doing a unique and valuable service to the coni' munity. Students who are unable to attend the day courses are enrolled in this division. The instruction is given in the Chamber of Commerce Building and is of the same content and scope as that of the day division. Dean Louis K. Manley, formerly head of the Political Science Department in the Col lege, has a national reputation as a leader in the field of business education and political science. I 357 1 The 1927 Owl A M. (DUTCH) AMANN JEANNETTE HIGH SCHOOL; DELLEFONTE ACADEMY Phi Kappa; Druids Football (1, 2, 3) MARSHALL H. BEATTY OIL CITY HIGH SCHOOL Sigma Chi Turtles; Junior Prom Committee JOHN G. ALLSHOUSE Delta Xi Omega ANTHONY BARRANTE C 358 1 MYRON HERMAN BROIDA RAVEN SCHOOL, YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO Kappa Nu Debating (1) JOHN F. BUSCH ALLEGHENY HIGH SCHOOL; MILLVALE HIGH SCHOOL Pi Rho Delta WILLIAM ANDREW CADDICK AVALON HIGH SCHOOL GEORGE H. CADDICK AVALON HIGH SCHOOL FRANCIS X. DRISCALL DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY ARTHUR T. CROCKETT PIPTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Phi Alpha Pitt Lyceum, President (3) A. V. CROOKSTON, JR. PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Theta Chi Cap and Gown, Assistant Manager (1, a, 3); Basketball Com (1) KARL CLIFFORD COTTER ALLEGHENY HIGH SCHOOL Sigma Pi Panther Staff (1); Glee Club (a. 3); Executive Secretary of Musical Clubs (2) G. W. DESSYON { 359 } GEORGE J. DIERKER WESTIKGHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma P: THOMAS J. ELIAS SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL Lambda Chi Alpha PAUL K. DODWORTH ALLEGHENY HIGH SCHOOL HANNON EDSON RICHARD W. FIELDSON DUNBAR COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL; ALLEGHENY COL' LECE; WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY Phi Alpha Kappa I 360 1 Business ROBERT EDGAR FULTON PAUL GALBO MON ESSE S' HIGH SCHOOL Italian Club J NEViN CARDER RALPH GUMBERG OAK MONT HIGH SCHOOL AMBROSE EVES. JR OAK MONT HIGH SCHOOL Theta Delta Psi Cap and Gown (2. j) HAROLD M. GELMAN FIFTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL; DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY Evening School Association RENARD E HILLYER LORAIN HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Sigma Track (1. 2) [ 3 Si 1 The 1927 Owl LYMAN D. HUBBARD SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Alpha Phi Debating (1, a) H. HAROLD HUMPHREYS MCKEES ROCKS HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Phi Pitkin Club EDWARD F. HERR ASPINWALL HIGH SCHOOL', PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Kappa Sigma {362! RUSSEL CHARLES HYDE ROBERT J. KAPPLER Kappa Sigma Business ROBERT H. IRELAND ASPINWALL HIGH SCHOOL Pitt Panther, Comptroller STANFORD F. JONES JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Lambda Chi Alpha; Pi Beta Pitt Panther (x, i, 3), Business Ass� «ant (i, l), Circulation Manager (3); Treasurer Junior Class, Business Admmi ration; Assi«ant Tennis Manager (1.2); Junior Prom Committee (5) MR JOHNSTONE THEODORE M. KURTZ. JR. JOSEPH F. LAURENT PEABODY MICH SCHOOL Track Team ALBERT L. KENNEDY NEW BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL; GENEVA HIGH SCHOOL Pitkin Club (a) HARRY F. LANG PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Pi Rho Delta; Kappa Alpha Phi The 1927 Owl J. WALTER LEONARD CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY Sigma Alpha Epsilon Druids; Turtles; Sophomore Hon Committee; Junior Prom Committee; Cap and Gown (a, 3); Assi ant Football Manager (3); Inter-Fraternity Council (3) JOSEPH H McCLINTOGK, JR SCHKSLEY MICH SCHOOL Theta Delta Psi; Kappa Alpha Phi Junior Secretary. Business Administration; Business Administration Cabinet WILLIAM MARION MARS TITUSVILLE HICH SCHOOL HAROLD M. LOWi: WARREN llll.ll SCHOOL Delta Tau Delta lunior Prom Committee EDWARD L. LLOYD HOMESTEAD MICH SCHOOL Sigma Chi Turtles; Production Manager of “1917 Owl ; Chairman. Junior Business Administration; Luncheons Committee EARL LOHR Delta Sigma Phi MR iVcKAIXE [ : 4 I Business TILDEN MENDELSON SCHENLRY HIGH SCHOOL RUSSELL E. MILL1RON DU HOIS HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Sigma President Junior ('lass; Junior Cabinet (j); Owl Staff (i, 2. 5). Associate Editor ($); Track (i); General Chairman Canton Christian College Drive, Business Administration Cibinet EDWARD A. MILLER JOHN H. MARTIN, JR CLEARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL Phi Gamma Delta Assistant Cheer Leader (0 JAMES O. NICHOLS GREENS BURCH HIGH SCHOOL Varsity Swimming Team (a. $); Freshman Swimming Team (i) i 365 1 The 1927 Owl E. M. MILLER Delta Tau Delta JOSEPH ORRINGER MALCOLM M. PARKER PEA BODY HIOH SCHOOL Phi Delta Theta Foreign Student Committee (a); Freshman Football WILLIAM PASCHEDAY SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Sigma WALTER ELIOT PEW UNtONTOWN HIGH SCHOOL; BELLEFONTE ACADEMY; CORNELL UNIVERSITY Theta Delta Chi; Kappa Alpha Phi THOMAS F. PITCAIRN' SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL Theta Delta Psi Musical Clubs (a, 3); Business Staff, 1917 Owl; Cabinet, Business Administration School j { 366 } Business' HOWARD PRICE CHARLES M RAY ALTOONA HIGH SCHOOL; INDIANA STATE NORMAL SCHOOL Delta Tan Delta Glee Club (2. 3), Assistant Manager (3) RICHARD C RCXIERS W. BENTON ROWE JEANNETTE HIGH SCHOOL; PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Phi Delta Theta Y.M.C.A. Forum Committee (3); Vocational Conference Committee (3) FRANK J. SCHILLER PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL { 567 I The 1927 Owi BENJAMIN S1LBERSTEIN TOWNSEND HARRIS HALL, NEW YORK ] ELIZABETH ASHER SILVERMAN SCHKNLEY HIGH SCHOOL DONALD K. SIMPSON TURTLE CREEK UNION HIGH SCHOOL Pi Rho Delta ALICE SLOOKEN GEORGE EDWARD SMITH PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL ISADORE SMITH FIFTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL (368 I HAROLD A. STECH CHARLEROI HIGH SCHOOL Sigma Pi; Phi Delta Chi Inter'Fraternity Council (i, 2. j) TREVOR WEST KEW CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL; GROVE CITY COLLEGE Pi Rho Delta Glee Club J. E. WEISMAN THEODORE F. WILSON EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Sigma i 369 ] The 1927 Owl EDSON WISS1NGER JOHNSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL; CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OP TECHNOLOGY Pi Kappa Alpha (Carnegie Chapter) CHARLES REGINALD WILSON LOTT5VILLE HIGH SCHOOL; WARREN HIGH SCHOOL Delta Tau Delta Interfraternity Council, Secretary (a). President (j); Assistant Manager Basketball; Comptroller Pitt Weekly (j);Chairman Inter-Fraternity Ball; Member Athletic Council (2); Assistant Business Manager. 1926 Owl CHALMERS F ZAHNISER PEAUODY HIGH SCHOOL; COLLEGE OP WOOSTER Kappa Alpha Phi Glee Club (2); Pitt Four (2); Pitkin Club PITTSBURGH I thinly greal tho'ts strong winged with sled. I coin vast iron acts. PITTSBURGH And orb the impalpable dream of seers, into comely lyric facts. PITTSBURGH I am monarch of all the forges. I have solved the riddle of fire. PITTSBURGH Amen of nature to cry of man. Answers at my desire. { 37C } DEAN H. EDMUND FRIESELL The School of 'Dentistry WITH a Student body of over one thousand students and a faculty of one hundred instructors, the School of Dentistry is the largest dental school in the country. Less than one per cent of its graduates have failed to pass the State board examinations and it has always been listed in class “A by the Dental Educational Council of America. On April 20, 1896, the school was granted its first charter as a result of the interest shown by load dentists and citizens. During the first year, there were one hundred and eighteen matriculants on the enrollment. It did not come under complete control of the University until 1905 despite the fad that it was so associated from the beginning. The free dental clinic, first opened in 1897, treats more than seventy thousand patients yearly. This work is of inestimable value to both the Students and the community. To make its work more extensive, thirtythree extramural clinics are now being operated at various hospitals and institutions throughout Western Pennsylvania. Dr. H. Edmund Friesell has been Dean of the Dental School since 1904. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Dentists. f 57i 1 The 1927 Owl HAROLD J. ADELSON KITTANNING HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Nu CHARLES J. ALISKAWITZ MCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Omega L. W. ANDERSON INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL Xi Psi Phi Band (i. a, 3) NORMAN H. ABRAMOVITZ LEECHBURG HIGH SCHOOL LOUIS A. APPLEBAUM FARRELL HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Omega FRANK R ARCARA SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOL (BUFFALO) Alpha Phi Delta W. HARRY ARCHER. JR. ZELIENOPLE HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta [ 37 1 JOSEPH A. ARCHIBALD BEIXEPONTE ACADEMY Phi Kappa Newman Club; Football (i, 2, 3) GEORGE HOBART ARMSTRONG HARRISBURG TECH Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sophomore Dance Committee L. K. BARRY SHARPSBURC HIGH SCHOOL JOSEPH D. AVENT, B.S. UNIVERSITY OP CHICAGO AUSTIN PALMER BECKLEY PITTSBURGH ACADEMY; SALIX HIGH SCHOOL Class Treasurer (2) [ 373 3 The 1927 Owl CLYDES BERKEY JOHNSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Delta Xi Omega; Alpha Phi Epsilon RAY M. BELL. JR CLAYSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL GEORGE S. BLYMIRE DALLASTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Psi Omega KARL J. BIRD CLEARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL; BUCK NELL UNIVERSITY T rowel J. LLOYD BLACK coraopol: high school Xi Psi Phi T. MORTON BOGGS. JR. MONONGAHKLA high school; kiskiminetaj Psi Omega junior Prom Committee; Dental Student Coun cil (J) C 374 3 Dentistry JOHN F. BONOV1CH MAHONEY CITY HIGH SCHOOL WILLIAM G BOTH WELL WILKINSHURC HIGH SCHOOL Psi Omega LOUIS BOTTI TURTLE CREEK UNION HIGH SCHOOL BIRWIN BOWLES CARL SHURZ HIGH SCHOOL. CHICAGO; UNIVERSITY OE CHICAGO T rowel HAROLD E. BOWDEN PREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL Psi Omega FRANCIS B. BRODERICK JOHNSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Psi Omega Class President (5); Junior Prom Committee; George Wharton Pepper Prire Committee (2); Dental Student Council (j); Dental Rays Staff { 575 3 The 19 7 Owl HARRY A. BUTCHERS A MB RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL; CARNEGIE TECH Xi P.m Phi REID JAMES CALCOTT, JR. EAST LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta SOL 2. CAPLAN SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Zeta Gamma M. A. CALLAGHAN MONACA HIGH SCHOOL; DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY Delta Sigma Delta R. EVANS CARTER ALTOONA HIGH SCHOOL; DICKINSON COLLt E VICTOR MANUEL CANINO UNIVERSITY OF PORTO RICO HIGH SCHOOL J. MERLE CHRISTY VANDERGRIPT HICH SCHOOL I 376 ] CHARLES H. COCHRAN, A.B. WILKINSBURG HIGH SCHOOL; ALLEGHENY COLLEGE Phi Gamma Delta; Delta Sigma Delta HARRY M. COHEN WASHINGTON HICH SCHOOL Alpha Omega JAMES HENRY COLE HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL; OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Alpha Phi Alpha; Delta Pi Mu A. A. CONNELLY mount st. mary’s prep rj f yr RALPH B. COOPER JUNIATA HIGH SCHOOL { 577 3 The 1927 Owl HARRY J. COSTANZA PEABODY HlCIi SCHOOL CHARLES E. COWEN MONHALL HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta I. J. COSSEL OWENSDALE HIGH SCHOOL; ALLEGHENY COLLEGE; UNIVERSITY OE WEST VIRGINIA Delta Sigma Delta Junior Prom Committee ALBERT M. COYLE BUTLER HIGH SCHOOL AUDLEY H. DANNAR UNION CITY HIGH SCHOOL; WESTMINSTER COLLEGE [ 37 } Dentistry JOHN DAVIES. JR. JOHNSONBURO HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta Trowel PAULG. DAUBENSPECK. A.B. BRUIN HIGH SCHOOL; GENEVA COLLEGE Delta Sigma Delta President Dental Student Council (2) W. RAYMOND DIXON PITTSBURGH ACADEMY; COLLEGE OP PHARMACY Delta Sigma Delta Dental Student Council (3) BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DIVELY. JR. ALTOONA HIGH SCHOOL; LOCK HAVEN NORMAL; FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE Xi Psi Phi; Alpha Phi Theta VETUS B. DUFF SLIPPERY ROCK NORMAL; GROVE CITY COLLEGB { 379 I The 1927 Owl J. HAROLD DOLL CONNELUVOU HIGH SCHOOL Xi Pm Ph� J. ANDREW DUNLOP SCIO HIGH SCHOOL Psi Omega Cap and Gown (a. 3) JOSEPH M. DUNN st. Bernard's high school. Bradford; st. bonaventure's college HERMAN KINGSLEY ELDER SOUTH BROWNSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL; FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL ACADEMY Sigma Chi ROBERT RAUGH ELDER. BS. SOUTH BROWNSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL . ERANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE Phi Kappa Sigma 4 RICHARD WATSON ELLSWORTH. B.S. MEADVJLLE HIGH SCHOOL; ALLEGHENY COLLEGE Delta Sigma Delta; Plii Delta Theta I 380 J JOHN R. ESCHER NORTH BRADDOCK HIGH SCHOOL HOWARD S. EVANS SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta FREDERIC F. FAIRLAMB HARRISBURG ACADEMY Xi Psi Phi DAVID KAY FINKEL WASHINGTON HICH SCHOOL Alpha Omega GEORGE H. G. FOSTER AMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL; DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY Dental Rays Staff I 581 } The 1927 Owl CHARLES MELVIN FRIEPLAND MONE'SEN MICH SCHOOL Alpha Omega LUCIUS O. FRAZIER SCHENLI'Y HIGH SCHOOL VICTOR FROELICHER st. Vincent's academy CHARLES O. FROEHLICK HARRISBURG TECH Psi Omega CHESTER J. FRISK MEADVILLE HIGH SCHOOL; ST. BONAVENTURE's COLLECE Phi Kappa Newman Club CHARLES S. FRYE. 1R. JOSEPH B. GALBO NORTH EAST HIGH SCHOOL; UNIVERSITY OE MICHIGAN Alpha Phi Delta Newman Club [ s Dentistry K. A. GARDNER WILKINSBURG HIGH SCHOOL HELEN B. GILMORE PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Delta; Upsilon Alpha Secretary Dental Student Council (2. 3); Secretary of Class (2, 3) CHARLES GARDILL DUQUESNE HIGH SCHOOL SIDNEY G. GELLER MCKEES ROCKS HICK SCHOOL Alpha Zeta Gamma Glee Club MORRIS H. GLICK FIFTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL I 383 } THOMAS S. GILARDI PITTSBURGH ACADEMY SIMON GOLD MCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOL J. C. GRAUER riPTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Zcta Gamma THOMAS GROFF HARRISBURG TECH Psi Omega C RICHARD GRIFFING L INKSV ILLS HIGH SCHOOL; ALLEGHENY COLLEGE Phi Delta Theta; Delta Sigma Delta DWIGHT LYNN GRIMM SHINNSTON HIGH SCHOOL Sigma Alpha Epsilon Basketball (i, 2); University Band (j,2) CARL ORUNDMAN WSSTINGHOUSK HIGH SCHOC Xi Psi Phi University Band (1, 2. j) HERMAN GUNSTER WILKES-BARRE HIGH SCHOOL {: «4} Dentistry CLARENCE BYRON GUTHRIDGE SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL Xi Psi Phi CHARLES I. HARVEY BEAVER PALLS HIGH SCHOOL Baseball (i); Football (i. a); Basketball (x) ROBERT DEAN HARTLEY ASPINWALL HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta Track (i) E. THEODORE HERNBLOM OLEAN HIGH SCHOOL; FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL academy; university of Maryland Sigma Chi f 385 } i J. F. HIGINBOTHAM UNIONTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Psi Omega R I. HOBAUGH WILK1NSBURC HIGH SCHOOL Trowel LEONARD A HIMELBLAU SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Omega W. A. HORST FRED M. HOLSTEIN Pittsburgh academy GROVE CITY HIGH SCHOOL Theta Chi C 386 J Dentistry JULYUS P. HOWELL TENNESSEE STATE COLLEGE Alpha Phi Alpha; Delta Pi Mu JOHN S. HUNTZ1KER. JR. PIPTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL Xl Psi Phi JOSEPH G. HUTH ROCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL CLIFTON O. HUGHES PEAbODY HIGH SCHOOL Sigma Chi JACK B. IVEY MCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOL CLYDE A. JACK RIDCEWAY HIGH SCHOOL; KI8KI Phi Gamma Delta Class Treasurer (i. 2); Football (i, 2, 3) WILTON WALTHAM JACKSON ARMSTRONG TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Alpha Phi Alpha; Delta Pi Mu 1387 3 The 1927 Owl BURRELL K. JOHNSON JOHNSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Phi Alpha; Delta Pi Mu WILLIAM M. JARRF.TT RICHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL; AUGUSTA MILITARY ACADEMY; DICKINSON SEMINARY Sigma Alpha Epsilon KENNETH GRAY KELLER SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL EDWARD R. JENNEY MANSFIELD HIGH SCHOOL Xi Psi Phi Dental Student Council (a) THOMAS KENNEDY ST. THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE Phi Kappa Newman Oluh: Baseball fD W. EARLE JOHNSTON FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL; PITTSBURGH ACADEMY; GETTYSBURG COLLEGE Alpha Tau Omega; Psi Om ga HAROLD B. KERR CARROLTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Sigma Pi [J88] JOSEPH W. KINTER INDIANA MICH SCHOOL JOSEPH M. KLAUS ARNOLD PREPARATORY SCHOOL Psi Omega Dental Student Council (2) - THEODORE R. KLINE LKWISTOWN HICH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta Class Treasurer (3); Dental Student Council (3); Dental Rays Staff (3) WILLIAM JAMES KOERNER BUTLER HIGH SCHOOL FURMAN R. KNAUB DALLASTOWN HIGH SCHOOL; UNIVERSITY OP PENNSYLVANIA Xi Psi Phi {389} The 1927 Owl EDMUND S. KRALL SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL JOHN J. LANEVE NEWELL HIGH SCHOOL Assi ant Manager Golf Team (1) WILLIAM H. KREDEL. JR. JOHNSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL; BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY Phi Kappa Psi; Delta Sigma Delta F. REED KYLE PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL PHILIP LAPIDUS 8CHRNLEY HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Omega ARCHIE S. LAWSON. JR. BETHEL HIGH SCHOOL C 390 i Dentistry A. LEANORD LENCHNER SCHENLP.V HIGH SCHOOL Phi Epsilon Pi RALPH LEVISON MCDONALD HIGH SCHOOL Pi Lambda Phi JAMES HARRY LENHART DUQUESNE HIGH SCHOOL Sigma Al[ ha Epsilon Cap and Gown (i, a) CHARLES W. LETCHER SOMERSET HIGH SCHOOL; PRANK UN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE Sigma Pi; Xi Psi Phi HENRY LIPMAN MPTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Zeta Gamma { 391 1 The 1927 Owl J. PAUL McCARDELL CRESSON HIGH SCHOOL william n. McClellan ALLENTOWN HIGH SCHOOL; WILLIAMSON SCHOOL President Freshman Class; President Sophomore Class; Class Vice President (1); Dental Student Council (2); George Wharton Pepper Prize Committee (1) DONALD L. McCOLLOUGH PARNASSUS HIGH SCHOOL; PENN STATE Psi Omega THOMAS G. McMAHON SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta J CURTIS MacBURNEY UNIONTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Xi Psi Phi Dental Student Council ($); Glee Club (1, 2); Dental Manager 1927 Owl; Dental Rays Staff; Pitt Quartet (1,2); Cap and Gown (3) I 39 } JACOB MALKOFF RAYEN HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Ku P. E. MARLEY SCHENLCY HIGH SCHOOL CLYDE LEONARD MARTIN PAUL O. MARSH CREENSBURC HIGH SCHOOL; PP.SN STATE COLLEGE Phi Kappa Psi; Psi Omega ROBERT M. MATHIESON MUNHALL HIGH SCHOOL; WASHINGTON AND JEF' PERSON COLLEGE; UNIVERSITY OP MARYLAND Phi Kappa Sigma; Psi Omega; Druids [ 393 1 The 1927 Owl CARL T. MELLIN PMILIPSBURG HIGH SCHOOL; GETTYSBURG COLLEGE Alpha Tau Omega; Psi Omega J. H. MAYO BUCKHANNON HIGH SCHOOL; WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE Sigma Alpha Epsilon Basketball (1, 2, j) DANIEL DAWSON MILLER. A B. MC CLELLANDTOWN HIGH SCHOOL; MUSKINGUM COLLEGE Delta Sigma Delta JAMES EDGAR MAUCHER CARROLTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Newman Club JAMES M MILLS CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL AND NORMAL Sigma Pi Football (1. 2. 5) ANDREW W. MOOK SytCERTOWN HIGH SCHOOL { 394 1 Dentistry A. E. MOSLEY TARENTUM HIGH SCHOOL RUSSELL B. MOSIER CCSSBWAGO TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL; ED1NBORO STATE NORMAL HAROLD M. NICHOL JOHNSTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Delta Xi Omega ROBERT A. MULLIGAN SOUTH BROWNSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Xi PSi Phi HOWARD C. NEWCOME PUNXSUTAWNEY HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta JOHN A. NO WICK I SCRANTON TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL; TEMPLE UNIVERSITY Xi Psi Phi; Trowel Class President (a) JOSEPH W. NUCCI HR AD DOCK HIGH SCHOOL Newman Club { 395 3 The 1927 Owl RICHARD J. O'LEARY PIEDMONT HIGH SCHOOL LEON E. NUSSBAUM CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY; SCHUYLKILL SEMINARY Beta Theta Sigma HERBERT D. PAUL MCKEE .PORT HIGH SCHOOL STEE’HEN N. PAMPHILIS PITTSBURGH ACADEMY WALTER I. PETRIE CARNEGIE HIGH SCHOOL Dental Student Council (3); Dental Rays Staff (j) ROBERT M. PATTERSON TURTLE CREEK UNION HIGH SCHOOL WYOMING SEMINARY HARRIS PITTLER FIFTH AVENLE HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Zeta Gamma { 39 I Den Lis try IRA S. PROSSER WINDBER HIGH SCHOOL Psi Omega MATTHEW POMMER WILKINSBCRG HIGH SCHOOL WILLIS A. REMLINGER CRAPTON HIGH SCHOOL DANIEL W. RECKLESS DICKSON CITY HIGH SCHOOL JAMES EDWARD RICHARDS SHARON HIGH SCHOOL [ 397 1 The 19r27 Owl SAMUEL ROSENBERG F1PTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Omega ARTHUR M. RILEY ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL J. K. SANNER UNION TOW N HIGH SCHOOL; WITTENBERG COLLEGE Beta Theta Pi; Xi Psi Phi D. L. R. ROBISON STATE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL; PENN STATE Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Psi Omega HENRY J. SCHMITT DONORA HIGH SCHOOL Phi Kappa Football (1. 2, 3); Track (1. 2, 3) 13981 Den Lis try LAWRENCE E. SCHROCK ROCK WOOD HIGH SCHOOL JOSEPH F. SCHMITT DONORA HIGH SCHOOL; KISKI PREP Phi Kappa Foot hall (i. 2. 3) WILLIAM H. SCHULLER WILKES HARRK lllttlf SCHOOL W. GEORGE SCOTT GREENSBURG HIGH SCHOOL Psi Omega WILMER H. SHOOP DAUPHIN HIGH SCHOOL; WESTCHESTBR NORMAL SCHOOL S. T. S1EDLICK ST. JOHN KANTY COLLEGE PHILIP W. SILVIS Nl'W BETHLEHEM HIGH SCHOOL [ 399 3 The 1927 Owl FRANCIS C. SMITH CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL ALLEN W. SMITH SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL Swimming Team (1. 2) HAROLD SNOWDEN ELIZABETH HIGH SCHOOL Xi Psi Phi GEORGE E. SMITH KNOXVILLE UNION HIGH SCHOOL Xi Psi Phi ROY A. SMITH JOHNSONBURG HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta University Band (1, 2. 5) FLOYD KENNETH SNYDER Wll.KINSHl.'RC HIGH SCHOOL; WESTMINSTER COLLEGE Sigma Alpha Epsilon Baseball (i, 2); Football (i, 2, $) MILO M. SPENCER OU BOIS HIGH SCHOOL I 400 ] RICHARD MARTIN STALEY PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta ROBERT HILLIS STEELE LATROBE MICH SCHOOL Sigma Chi Track (2. 3) KARL T. STOCK JULIUS B STEINBERG SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL RUDOLPH SUSSMAN PATTIN HIGH SCHOOL; UNIVERSITY OP CALIFORNIA Alpha Omega [ 401 } The 1927 Owl WILLIAM J. TOWNSEND UNIONTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Xl Psi Phi TRACY N. TOUGH OLEAN HIGH SCHOOL; UNIVERSITY Of BUFFALO Xi Psi Phi; Sitjma Chi Dental Student Council ($); Dental Rays Staff; Dental Editor. 1927 Owl DeVERE S. VAUGHAN TURTLE CREEK UNION HIGH SCHOOL GEORGE G. TREESE ROARING SPRING HIGH SCHOOL { 402 } 1 T. W. VANDERGRIFT FAIRMONT HIGH SCHOOL ALEXANDER R VISLAY W1LKINSBURG HIGH SCHOOL; INDIANA NORMAL Football (1,2) SAMUEL R WEISS TURTLE CPKEK UNION IIICK SCHOOL Alpha Omega I) G. WILKINSON HICKORY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL RANDALL L. WILLIAMS MARS HIGH SCHOOL Psi Omega CHARLES R BROOKINS WALTON SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL Delta Sigma Delta Dentistry DANIEL W. WINGARD PITTSBURGH ACADEMY JOHN EARL WISEMAN CARROLL TOWN HIGH SCHOOL ALAN C. WITNAUER TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL; UNIVERSITY OF BUEPALO Xl Psi Phi C 403} The 1927 Owl Mb ROBERT J. WOOD MUNHALL HIGH SCHOOL; PITTSBURGH ACADEMY Psi Omega MACKENZIE F. YOUNG DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Alpha Psi Laugh a little now and then. It lightens life a lot; Don't go mournfully around. Gloomy i� ul forlorn; You can see the funny side Just as well as not. Try to mal(c your fellow� men Glad that you were horn. [ P4 } WILLIAM B. YOUNG BEAVER FALLS HIGH SCHOOL Xi Rd Phi PETER 2AMBA DONORA HIGH SCHOOL Laugh a good deal if you can. That is better still. Laughing lightens labor When you hair to strive. % £ ■ A7 V And you’ll ind occasion, too. If you only will. £f 'W Laugh and show the world that you Are glad that you're alive. C 405 3 f 406} DEAN GROVER H. ALDERMAN The School of education (BOURSES in education were first offered in the University of Pittsburgh in the year 1904 05 in a newly established department of psychology and education. The growth of the enrollment in these courses indicated a real and increasing demand for systematic training for teaching. On February 3, 1910, the School of Education was established to serve as a professional school of collegiate rank for the training of men and women who expedt to enter the profession of teaching. In addition to the regular educational courses, the School maintains several special departments.The Americanization Department aims to meet in some measure the present demand for trained teachers and workers in the field of immigration. This work is aided by the Frick Educational Commission which awards free scholarships to a number of Students from the Pittsburgh district. In the Department of Vocational Education, teachers are trained for trade, vocational, and vocational home economics classes. It is largely supported by Federal and state funds. Upon the resignation of Dean Reavis because of ill health, Grover Henry Alderman, Professor of Education and head of the Department of School Supervision at Indiana State University, w-as appointed to the position of Dean. I 407 } The IQ 27 Owl FRANCES ALLEN HANNAH ELIZABETH BECHTEL SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL; NEW CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL Beta Phi Alpha; Quill Club W.S.G.A. Activities Committee (a); Educational Research Committee (a); W.A.A. (1); Junior Girls' Finance Committee English JAMES DONALD BISHOP TITUSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL; ALLEGHENY COLLEGE Hi tory WOODA ANDRIESSEN SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL-, GENEVA COLLEGE Kappa Phi; Kappa Delta Hi ory SUSAN G. ARNOLD WILKINSBURC HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Delta Women’s Rooms Committee (1); W.S.G.A. Spanish CARL BRACHMAN KNOXVILLE UNION HIGH SCHOOL Phi Delta Chi Band (5) Physical Sc ience ANNA BRAUNSTEIN ASP1NWALL HIGH SCHOOL Delta Phi Epsilon French Club Mathematics { 408 1 Education SOL BOH A R IS JESSIE CAMPBELL OAKMONT HIGH SCHOOL Owens Secretary of Co-eds (a); President of Co-eds (j); Treasurer School of Education Juniors; Y.W. C.A. Cabinet (3) English CLYDE BUSH MARY LOUISE CHRISTY MARY ELIZABETH CLEMENT LILLIAN E. COLE NATRONA HIGH SCHOOL TARENTUM HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Delta Kappa Delta Y.W.C.A. Social Service; Member Junior Pitkin Club Girls Publicity Committee Hiflory English [ 409 1 The 1927 Owl MARY A DR AS N IN ALICE PAUL EEHR BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL Pi Beta Phi Associate Editor 1917 Owl; Pitt Weekly (2. 3). Society Editor. Pitt Players (1. 2); Y W.C A. Social Service (1); W.S.G.A ; Student Loan Fund Committee (1, 2. 3); W.A.A.; Class Basketball (i); Hockey (1. 2); Swimming Manager (1); French Club; Press Manager Girls Glee Club JOHN EM MEL fifth avenue high school; CARNEGIE institute OF TECHNOLOGY Vocations! Education SARAH ELIZABETH EAK1N CLINTONVILLR HIGH SCHOOL; L'ITERY ROCK STATE NORMAL SCHOOL English DOROTHY G. DOTTERER OAK MONT HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Xi Delta W.A.A. Finance Committee (1); W.S.G.A.; Collemboh Club Biological Sciences SYLVIA PHYLIS FRANKLE RAYBN SCHOOL. YOUNCSTOWN, OHIO Alpha Epsilon Phi College Assembly Committee (1); Sophomore Finance Committee (2); Publicity Committee (2); W.S.G.A. Committee (2) English f 410 } Education ANNE MARIE EWING KNOXVILLE UNION HIGH SCHOOL Delta IX-lta Delta; Cwens President Women Glee Club; Junior W.S.G.A. Representative; Pan-Hellenic; Chairman Social Committee English LILLIAN R GOLDSTEIN SCHENLEY HIGH SCHOOL French Club; Classical Club; W.S.G.A.; W. A.A.; Y.W.C.A. ELIZABETH HAZLETT MARGARET E GOOD MESCE t HIGH SCHOOL English MILDRED HAFFNER FI PTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL Delta Phi Epsilon 1927 Owl Staff. Education Editor; Pitt Weekly (2. j); May Day Pageant (1. 2); Social Service Captain ($); Y.W.H.A.; French Club DELLA MAY HENDERSON SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Xi Delta Glee Club (2. ) W.A.A.; College Orchestra (2); Spanish Club; W.S.G.A. Spanish [411I The 1927 Owl T. HICOKO ROSE HISSRECH MARGARET HUTCHINSON SHARPSBURG HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Delta Sigma Inactive Pan-Hellenic Representative; W.S.G A.; W.A.A. English ELIZABETH HARROLD PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Kappa Gamma; Kappa Phi; Cwens WS.G.A., Social Committee (1, a); Hazing Committee (2); Canton College (2). Secretary English TILLIE RUTH KELSON riPTH AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL Arcus Club; French Club English M M: A AL,CE M ,RW,N 1 uscoln Till.) high school; Illinois womans COLLEGE Debating fj): Publicity Committee, Y.W.C.A. English MILDRED S. KERR FORD city high school Phi Mu Hockey (j); Baskethall (1); Baseball (1); Pitkin Club (2); Social Service (3) English I 412 ! Education HELEN KEENE THOMAS L LAWSON LATROBE HIGH SCHOOL Mathematics PAUL LAUTEN ETHEL KAPELMAN ROSALIND N. LEVY SC HEN LEY HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Epsilon Phi W.S.G.A., Chairman of Adivitics Committee; Sophomore Hop Committee; Hazing Committee; Class Swimming Team (a) AMALIA GEORGE LISAK BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL W.S.G.A.; W.A.A.; Cosmopolitan French Club; Arcus Club History Club; [4U] The 1927 Owl JANET MATH ISON NEW KENSINGTON HIGH SCHOOL President Freshman Girls; Secretary W.A.A.; Tennis Chairman, W.A.A.; Cwcns; Girls’ Room Committee. W.S.G.A ; Hockey (1. 2. 5); Basketball (1. 2. j); Honorary Usher ALICE LOUISE McCORMICK NEW CASTLi: HIGH SCHOOL; SLIPPERY ROCK STATE NORMAL SCHOOL; WESTMINSTER COLLEGE W.A.A.; Y.W.C.A. FRANCES M. MARS TITUSVILLE HIGH SCHOCL; SLIPPERY ROCK NORMAL SCHOOL Hiilory MARION PARK LOGAN PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Xi Delta W.A.A.; W.S.G.A., Social Committee Framasor; Pan-Hellenic Representative ANNA BESS MATHEWS Kappa Alpha Theta Turtles; junior Prom Committee English MARY MAMULA ELSIE M. McCLURE MCKEESPORT TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Delta Sigma Collcmbola Club; W.S.G.A.; Y.W.C.A. { 414 } Education MARGARET MORSE MERCER HIGH SCHOOL Phi Mu English JOHN RUSSELL McGOWAN SOUTH HILLS HIGH SCHOOL University Color Sergeant Chemistry MARGARET E MOORE I1RADDOCK HIGH SCHOOL Delta Zeta Y.W.C.A , Cabinet (3); W.S.G.A. Commission (3); Pitkin Club (i, 2); Junior Class Secretary, Education (3); W.A.A (1. a. j); Hockey (:1. 3); Basketball (2); Pitt Weekly (2. 3); 1927 Owl Staff; (Cathedral of Learning Drive; Vocational Guidance (3) MARTHA VIRGINIA MOTYCKA SOUTH HILL' HIGH SCHOOL W.S.G.A. Social Committee; Y.W.C A. Paul l. McGrath GEORCE WEST1NCHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL Pitt Players (1); John Marshall Club (2); Chess Club; Greek Club KATHLEEN M. NOBLE EREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL Theta Phi Alpha W.A.A.; Y.W.C.A.; Hockey (1) History [ 415 } The 1927 Owl P. ANNA PRUNTE WESTINGHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL Italian Club; W.A.A. French THELMA PARR C.N.C.W. KAY PARKER ASPINWALL HIGH SCHOOL Delta Delta Delta; Turtles Glee Club (1. 2, j); Pitkin Club (1, 2, 3) MICHAEL J. ORISS NORTH BRADDOCK HIGH SCHOOL President School of Education; Junior Prom Committee; Assistant Football Manager 1);) Assistant Tennis Manager (1); Newman Club: President Junior Class MARY O. SHAFFER OAK PARK (ILL.) HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Phi English ELSA C. PR ACER ASPINWALL HIGH SCHOOL Delta Zeta W.A.A. French CATHERINE VIRGINIA PLASTER SWISSVALE HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Delta Sigma Debating; President Girls’ Debating Club (2). Pitkin Club; W.A.A. English C 4161 Education LEILA GERALDINE RICHEY PLUM TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL; KDINHORO STATE normal; ohio university; Pennsylvania STATE COLLEGE Arcus Club Biology ALICE MARIE REARDON 8T. THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL Newman Club; Kingsley Settlement Work Latin DOROTHY SLOMBERG MCKEESPORT TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL; MCKEESPORT TRAINING SCHOOL KOR TEACHERS; PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Hiitor K CORNELIA STRING 9CHENLEY HICK SCHOOL German Club; French Club DOROTHY H. RUSSELL EDCEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Alpha Theta; Cwcns Basketball (1.2,3); W.A.A. Board. Chairman Track Committee (3) English HELEN STAHL PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Arcus Club; French Club. Publicity Committee French [417 3 The 19-7 Owl RUTH P. STUTZMAN SCHENLEV HICH SCHOOL Beta Phi Alpha; Quill Club W.S.G.A.; W.A.A. (j); YAV.C A.. Womens Rooms Committee (j); Junior Girls’ Finance Committee (j) English MARY FLORENCE TAYLOR CRArTOS HIGH SCHOOL Delta Delta Delta; Quax Club; Turtles Freshman Class Secretary; Freshman Cabinet; Pitt Weekly (i, 2); Sophomore Class Social Committee; Junior Prom Committee; Y.W.C. A Social Committee ($), Finance Drive (a). Vocational Guidance Conference (5); Senior Break-fa. t (2, ); Student Loan Drive (j); W.S.G.A. Mathematics FERN WEIN FRANCES LOUISE ULLERY WILKISS� URC HIGH SCHOOL Kappa Delta W.S.G.A.; Pitkin Club; Council of Presidents of Women’s Fraternities; Pan-Hellenic Representative (}. 4); Ass’t Photographic Editor Owl Hiftory [418] OUR CITY SPEAKS I have not lost my soul; It lives a glorious thing beneath my smofy; LILLIAN ALICE WHITE AVALON HICH SCHOOL W.A.A.; Hockey (i, 2, 3); Baseball (2, 3); Educational Research Committee (2); Freshman Commission Group Leader (3); W.S.G.A. Women’s Rooms Committee (3); Canton College Drive (a) Latin Education OUR CITY SPEAKS My soul lies hid beneath the sulphur night. Waiting the dawn of morning, unafraid. OUR CITY SPEAKS It is the spirit of the foll{ who toil. Radiant as molten iron and glowing cot e. OUR CITY SPEAKS My feet are rooted in these aiwient hills; I watch my wizard caldrons slowly boil. OUR CITY SPEAKS Men have not glimpsed me yet in my true might They see my body which their hands hate made; OUR CITY SPEAKS And hear above the thunder of the mills The wordless prayer and hope of them that toil. [ 419 1 [ 420 1 DEAN FREDERIC L. BISHOP Schools of Engineering and EMdnes SENDING men into every field of endeavor in the engineering and mining professions, the School of Engineering and the School of Mines have gained a wide reputation. The School of Engineering is one of the oldest of its kind, and its system of requiring Students to put their theories to practice in industrial plants while they are Still in school, has been adopted by many other schools. The courses in Oil and Gas Produrtion in the School of Mines are unequaled. Despite the granting of two Engineering degrees to the University in 1842, a depart' ment of Engineering was not created until the early 60s. The School of Mines was founded in 1895 through an act of the State Legislature. A sum of money was appropriated to the trustees for the purpose of establishing a depart' ment of the Engineering School to be known as the Western Pennsylvania School of Mines and Mining Engineering. The objetf of its creation was to thoroughly educate capable men in the principles and art of mining and mining engineering. Dean Frederic Lendall Bishop, Ph.D., head of both schools, took up the work of the Engineering School in 1909, and in 1923 took over the School of Mines. He is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Highway Education Baird. In 1925, he |was appointed by President Coolidge to a delegation of seven men to represent the United States at the Pan-American Highways Conference in Buenos Aires. C 421 } The 1927 Owi J. FRANK ARTHURS. JR. BROOKF.VILLE HIGH SCHOOL Theta Delta Psi President Engineering School Junior XClass; Secretary Junior Class Cabinet; American Society Civil Engineers Civil Engineering AVNER ABULAF1A HEBREW GYMNASIA HEKZLIA, TEL AVIV. PALESTINE Electrical Engineering WILLIAM M. AM1CK EVERETT HIGH SCHOOL Electrical Engineering ROBERT B. AINSWORTH TURTLE CREEK UNION HIGH SCHOOL Electrical Engineering LAWRENCE B. BIEBEL OAK MONT HIGH SCHOOL Theta Delta Psi Cap and Gown (i. a); Vice President Engineering School Junior Class; Pitkin Club (3) Electrical Engineering NICHOLAS BERTA. JR Pirm AVENUE HIGH SCHOOL; FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE Electrical Engineering J. B. BODLEY CLAIRTON HIGH SCHOOL-, PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Lambda Chi Alpha Track (1); Editor. EngineeringSchool, 1927; Owl Staff; Editor, Engineering and Mining Journal (j) Industrial Engineering { 422 } HAMILTON BROOKS MORRIS HARVEY HIGH SCHOOL-, MARSHALL COLLEGE Chi Beta Phi Electrical Engineering F. J. BURTT Pi Rho Delta Engineering CLEMENT H. BRECHIN TURTLE CREEK UNION HIGH SCHOOL Industrial Engineering JAMES CRAFT Delta Sigma Phi ARTHUR N. CURTISS ERIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL Lamlxla Chi Alpha Cro««C Hintry Team; Pitt Players R. A. GRIFFITH {423 i C. DEWITT CARNAHAN KISKIMINETAS PREPARATORY SCHOOL; PENNSYLVANIA STATE. COLLEGE; WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY The 1927 Owi A. E DICK HOWARD LINN BELLE PONTE ACADEMY; CARNEGIE HIGH SCHOOL Phi Gamma Delta; Druids; Spike Shoe Football (1, 2, 3); Track (1, 2, 3), Captain (j); Secretary Engineering School Junior Class; Inter-Fraternity Council Industrial Engineering HARRY N. HILL MCKEESPORT HIGH SCHOOL Civil Engineering S4 HAROLD L. HENRY KANE HIGH SCHOOL Elettncal Engineering M. G. JARRETT EARL D. HIEBER BELLEVUE HIGH SCHOOL iMedwTiical Engineering C 4 4 } J. H. LEWIS H. I. METZ JOHN B McCRADY EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Phi Gamma Delta Assistant Football Manager; Junior Prom Committee; Staff 1917 Owl ndustruil Engineering IRO O. MAJOR E. H. POWELL Pitt Players (a. 3) DALLAS P. MITCHELL DU BOIS HIGH SCHOOL Lambda Chi Alpha Electrical Engineering L. P. RISHEL [ 4 5 } The 1927 Owl WM. FINLEY SPEER CRAPTON HIGH SCHOOL Pi Rho Delta Chemical Engineering C. H. SHAFFER T. M. ZIMMERMAN Theta Chi DAVID N. WYLIE SEWICKLEY HIGH SCHOOL Electrical Engineering A. ENGLEHARDT, JR. I 426 } Mines M. W. BARNES R. M. GORDON T. F. HOGAN R. E. HANNA JOHN W REED INDIANA NORMAL SCHOOL Lambda Chi Alpha; Square and Compass Y.M.C.A Cabinet EARL L. ROGERS TENNESSEE MILITARY INSTITUTE; UNIVERSITY OP KENTUCKY; COLORADO SCHOOL OP MINES Sigma Alpha Epsilon Treasurer School of Mines Junior Class; Refining Club Oil Re ining WAYNE R. JAMISON PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Alpha Chi Sigma Band Metallurgy I 4 7 5 The 1927 Owl YEE DOO SHING PITTSBURGH ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL Electrical Engineering FRANCISCO A. REYES UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL. MANILA. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Cosmopolitan Club Mining Engineering CHESTER L. WENTZ FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL Lambda Chi Alpha Freshman Track; Crosa Country; Inter-Fra-ternity Council; Refiners Club Oil Refining J. O TIMMS MANNINCTON (w. VA.) HIGH SCHOOL; WEST VIRGINIA university; carnegif institute or TECHNOLOGY Sigma Nu (W. Va. U.) Secretary School of Mines Junior Class; Refiners Club Petroleum Refining JOHN ROBERT SCHWABROW PEABODY HIGH SCHOOL Pi Rho Delta Freshman Football Oil and Gas Production C LeVERNE WEDELL BRADFORD HIGH SCHOOL; CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OT TECHNOLOGY Theta Xi; Refiners Club Oil Refining KENNETH R. D. WOLFE IOWA FALLS (lOWA) HIGH SCHOOL; ELLSWORTH COLLEGE Theta fXdta Psi President School of Mines Junior Class; Refining Club; Rifle Team (1, a); Cabinet of Junior Class Presidents Oil Reining [42S] OUR CITY SPEAKS Mines It is the spirit of Ok foll who toil. Radiant as molten iron and glowing col(e. PITTSBURGH PITTSBURGH Amen of nature to cry of man Answers at my desire. PITTSBURGH I am suarth with the soot of my furnace, I drip with the sweats of toil. I fling the bridges across the gulfs That hold us from the To-Be, PITTSBURGH My fingers throttle the savage wastes, I tear the curse from the soil. PITTSBURGH And build the roads for the bannered march. Of crowded humanity. OUR CITY SPEAKS I hate not lost my soul; It lues a glorious thing beneath my smofc E 4-9 ! “Dusk-Street lights above the gatesy Children playing ‘hide and seel(. DIVISIONAL STAFF Leonard B. Colker....................Associate Editor Hugh J. Crossland....................Contributing Editor CONTRIBUTORS Walter Famariss Bert Link Morris Finklehor William Riechold David M. Kaufman W. M. Rose John Schaub Duella S. Stranahan.................Secretary I 432! r 1 % L Cjfrom Ye 'Weeklie ( files February j—Yc Junior Prom goes over with ye big bang. February 10—Yc Fraternities make ye big rumpus for ye migratory brawl. They get ye olde deaf ear. Yc first of ye series of University chapels saves two souls. Ye fierce radical. Louis Untcrmcyer, is scheduled for yc assembly. He follows ye fate of ye migratory. February 17—Ye olde snappc courses create yc grand rumpus. Six pages of letters pour into ye Weeklie office. Criticism is loud, plentiful, and unrestrained. Yc courses stiffen up. and yc students rage at ye Weeklie. Yc dashing R.O.T.C. chooses ye pretty co-ed captains for ye brilliant military hall. Nina Johnson, Doris N. Shoop, Sarah Fulton. Margaret Sawder. Mary Florence Taylor, and Margaret McLean received ye honorary commissions. Ye Major Frederick E. Woltman gains ye most enviable commendation from ye R .O.T.C. for ye most belligerent letter to ye Weeklie. It is rumored that lie will return to yc army next fall. February 24 Chancellor John G. Bowman addresses ye graduating students at yc grand Charter Day Exercises. March 3—Ye 211 students leave ye olde Alma Mater after ye interviews with W. Don Harrison. Yc withdrawal has nothing to do with yc venerable Charter Day, alas! March 10 Ye big S.S.G.A. smoker draws ye great crowd. Ye Pitt players win ye loving cup for ye best activities booth. Omicron Delta Kappa taps W. Don Harrison, Robert R. Gaw, Charles T. Wettoch, Guy M. Williamson. Ulhard Hangartner, John V. Watkins, James McC. Barnett, George G. Main, Harfxiugh Miller, Fred Hamlin, John R. Johnston. Elmer Lissfelt, Michael Myers, John B. McCrcady, Milton Safier, Paul S. Templeton, C. Reginald Wilson, and Aubrey S. Wolford. March 17—W. Don Harrison demoted to ye position of ye Dean of Men. March 24—Ye men's and yc women's vocational conferences make ye big hit. March 30—Ye new athletic rules forbid ye participation of yc men from other colleges in ye Pitt athletics. Ye olde Pitt Week dates set for May 20, 21. and 22. Ye general snicker. April 7 Ye new honors courses, which will go into effect next year, offer ye seniors ye opportunity for ye additional loaf. Ye Cap and Gown is forbidden ye nonunion student orchestra by yc grand music union. April 14 Ye Senior Ball is yc best in years. Ye co-eds nominate. April 21 Elisabeth Harrold is elected president of W.S.G.A.; Venus Shakarian, president of W.A.A.; and Jessie Campbell, president of ye Y.W.C.A. cabinet. William Webb, Pitt Week chairman, and George Mam. business manager, resign. Yc Pitt Week is cancelled. Ye Silly Self Government Association in yc great uproar. Ye downtown evening school branch established. April 28 Ye Pitt Week is replaced by ye Pitt Potpourri. Ye olde SS.G.A. to take charge all by himself. Sidney S. Hoehl, graduate manager of ye non-athletic student activities, resigns and goes to Florida. Ye Pan-Hell ball goes over with ye bang. May 5 Ye dents vote for ye S.S.G.A. constitution. and it is passed. Yc Red Moon shines with many stars at ye Nixon theater. They say it shone too brightly. John R. Johnston and Robert Winters take ye leading roles. May 12 Francis Newton Thorpe, for sixteen years head of ye political science department, dies. May 19 Ye dents elect ye Student Council for ye school. Mary Reeser, Jessie Campbell, Mary Florence Taylor. Gertrude P. O'Leary, T. M. Boggs, Herman Recht, Edward Palmer. J. P. Broderick, Robert Steele, Andrew Salata. Allan A. Booth. John McLaughlin, Elmer Lissfelt. Fred Hamlin Harry Decker, and J. E. Grindlc compose yc new body. May 26 Student Council elects officers. Fred Hamlin is president; John E. Grindlc. vice-president; Jessie Campbell, secretary; and Harry Decker, treasurer. Ye Pitt Potpourri dance attended by over 2000. Yc whole program a big success. Ye co-ed hall of fame announced by ye Owl. { 433 1 A quiet scene in the Tappa Haifa Kegga fraternity house. Brothers playing bridge with silent viciousness. Other brothers tossing magazines about in a jovial manner. The telephone bell rings. Grand avalanche of Freshmen toward the phone booth. Sweet Voice: Hello, are you there? Freshman: Yes, I'm here. S.V: Is this the Tappa Haifa Kegga house? Frosh: Yes, whom do you wish to speak to? S.V: I want to speak to John Henry. Frosh: Yes, yes, John Henry what? S.V: JuSt John Henry. Frosh (with dawning gleam of intelligence in eyes): Oh, juSt a moment please. (Closes door in phone booth softly. In deep Voice): Hello, this is John Henry speaking. S.V. Oh, hello. Don't you recognize my voice? Frosh (cautiously): Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say I could place my finger right on it, but it does sound somewhat familiar. Is it Kitty? S.V. (indignantly): No! Frosh: I must have been mistaken. Where did I meet you? S.V: Can’t you remember? Frosh: No. And besides it takes too much time. S.V. Well, then, it’s Gloria. And I met you on the corner of Craig and Center, Saturday night. Frosh (hastily): Why, of course, little Gloria. And we had such a good time dancing that night, didn't we? S.V. (puzzled): No, we didn’t. You said your foot was sore and you'd rather tike a ride. Don't you remember? Frosh (now entirely at ease): So we did; so we did. And how about a ride tonight? The moon is shining and what not. S.V: Well, I sort of thought I would Study. Frosh: Oh, no. A little relaxation is what you need tonight. Suppose I call for you at the same place in about twenty minutes? S.V: All right . . dear. Frosh (to Freshman Boss, a little later): George, I have to go down to the library for some outside material. Mu� ‘t get the hop on the Principles of Osculation. Freshman Boss (buried in book): All right, go ahead. Be in by ten thirty. Frosh departs in ha e. INSTALLMENT 999 - GOOD GOSH GWENDOLYN He dashed out of the house into the howling wind. A scarlet gash was on his cheek — his mussed hair and torn collar bespoke of a nasty battle. On he ran. Would he ever make it? He gasped and panted as he heard it drawing closer to him. Another spurt — and he felt that he would drop he heard it hiss behind him; God, was this the la ? He knew it was and his thoughts flashed Kick to that dark house. Why, oh why had he? Another spurt, a hop — he had won. Gosh, he said, as he wiped the rouge from his cheek, a minute more necking, and 1 would have missed the 2:00 Street car. { 434 3 And after theWhistle The Howl Terminates to the UTall of£h ante McMillan When McMillan is running it through. He mangles a line up or two. When he maizes a plunge. They drag in the sponge. And soak UP what's left of the crew. GAYNOR Breezy Joe got a deal that was raw. When migrating got clipped on the jaw. But they couldn't flop Joe; He sated all his dough. Running up and down from Alumni to Thaw. ALEX SHAW Don Harrison's playmate is Shaw, With a mustache that droops to the jaw. With that look of a wiz. And that “mussie of his. All we can say is O. Pshaw. REMALEY Remaley's no Arabian loter. And 'round harems don't usually hover. But since campus totos. Have seen all their photos. The poor boy must J(eef under cover. 0.435 ] HAMLIN Fred seems to be cut out for fame, Like Pinchot or some other dayne. But he Started out punk, For he's writing the junk For the Weekly— Gad, what a shame! LAMPE Bill seeyns a bit out of sorts. He sniffs, and he grunts, and he snorts, When some one alludes He loafs ivith the dudes, They mean he juft knows all the sports. LLOYD This guy Lloyd can sure make a muss. Why he can even call Don and Jack Sus Imagine the egg dares beard Wolford in a fuss. Yet labors all night And makes A's just for spite, And soynehow he's still one of us. SAFIER Here's Mi It with one of fvs toys. He also leads cheers for the boys. Whether eating his grub, Or m the ynusical club. He's always making some noise. [ 436 2 This Year's Poors- (reprinted from the Howl) No review of this year's smut can possibly be successful without throwing a hunka mud or two at Mike Arlen. So, hatchet in hand, we Stealthily approached The Green Hat. We soon discarded the hatchet for a gas-mask. It seems that Iris March (of the mad Marches, yer know) on her wedding night finds her Hubby has halitosis or something. As a result, he grabs his pajamas and leaps from the window. Why he kills himself is a mystery to the characters in the book; also, a mystery to the reader; as for the author, we have our suspicions. Anyhow — Boy Fenwick kills himself, Gerald March (of the mad Marches, yer know) kills himself, and Iris kills herself-; the Author, however, is Still writing books. But how about The Portrait of a Man with Red Hair cries our Howl enthusiast. Well — all right. But half of the Pitt Students and three-fourths of the Juniors will say they know Hugh Walpole was an artist. Well, maybe he was, for all I know. As to the book itself, I would advise only those who haven’t read it to read it; and as for those who have read it, I would Strongly advise reading something else. Then again, there is no moral to the Story, and what modern Student of Psychology (not to mention Physics and Philosophy) wants to read another immoral book? Next comes He Was a Man by Rose Wilder Lane. Now that I have been asked to review the book, I guess I'll have to go through with it, even though I haven't read it. But what does a little thing like not reading a book have to do with reviewing it. On looking over the title again (which you will note I have made an exhaustive Study of), my imagination conjures a picfture of a hero, saving a beautiful girl from drowning on the sixth or seventh floor of the burning Natatorium, or perhaps some other building which was not quite so fire-proof. He Was a Man. Remembering that it was written by a woman, I suppose they marry, settle down, and in the course of a couple of years raise the population of the little village from 398 to an even 400. We have received thirty (or at least four) requests to review Replenishing Jessica. We haven’t read the thing but it has already burned two desk pads and a wicker waste basket — and we sort of recognize the smell. It is full of hot breath on pearl white necks and creaking sofas. The bright orange cover simply vibrates with sex appeal and we feel that the heroine wears GlaStenburys (with or without double-breaSted elbows). { 437 3 A WILD AFTERNOON IN THE WEEKLY OFFICE COLLECTING MATERIAL FOR THE SPRING ISSUE OF THE Panther C 438 3 Ourjnter- Urban Sunday School jQessons STORY A hi Story to be any good MuSl have its love and pisses, But Joseph got the old bum's rush For neckin' Potipher's missus. The Bible says that Joe was tempted But the Deiil he overthrew —. Well — that was Joseph's Story And we'd Sticl{ by it too. MORAL The tale is an old one (How Joey got the gate). But we need only twiSl some names To bring it up to date. STORY Jonah was a ritzy egg, (So goes the Bible tale). He rated firSt'dass cabin On the transatlantic Whale. His footing was unsteady, The air not of the beSl. So Jonah pushed the button And the Whale did the rest. MORAL The Story smells a little damp — But believe me if you choose. The whale may have gulped down Jonah Or he, some snappy booze. The Street cars sure were comfy To travel in that time. Today we freeze in a sardine squeeze And hare to pay a dime. If one wife isn't quite enough The only thing to do. Let's Strive for bigger and better things— Marry more than two. C 439 1 STORY The bearded gent beside us Juft left the S. S. Arl(. It's Hoah on a soapy skiff To find a place to park- Ho one way ftreets to bother him. Ho signs for this or that; He swum around until he found A place called Ararat. MORAL But we lool( for a place to park From Hell to town — and then Only hear a gentil cop. Say Go to Hell again. Them days is gone forever. Of paring where we choose We hafta junk our Leapin Liz, And don our hiking shoes. THE PROTAS IMPROVED PORCELAIN'FACED CROWN The Modern Porcelain Croum A COMPLETE LABORATORY SERVICE CATERING TO THE ENTIRE DENTAL PROFESSION AND PAYING PARTICU' LAR ATTENTION TO THE YOUNG DENTIST JUST ENTERING PRACTICE Vulcanite Dentures [OER AM IOSj Finest Gold Restorations The choice of a laboratory is of utmost importance to the young practitioner. The hearty cooperation this laboratory lends is your assurance of real service PROTAS DENTAL LABORATORIES 24 PENN AVENUE • PITTSBURGH • GRANT 4095 [ 440 } STORY The next guy we offer, Is good old Daniel, Men. Sassed the King, got the can Into the Lion's Den. He didn't pull a miracle (Life the good old Bible wrote). He wrapped his beard around his ears And wore a raccoon coat. MORAL The Moral of this Story Is pretty hard to get; Lend an ear, an eye, a tooth. And you may see it yet. I) Wolford, Sacfe or Wm. Webb Would Stand the critics wail, A raccoon wrap is no damn good. They need a coat of mail. ’TWAS THE NIGHT OF THE PROM 'Tivas the Might of the Prom; and all through the Frat Not one of the brothers knew where he was at; “A collar, shrieked one, “that will not cut my throat. “Who spilt the ashes on my new coat? “Who’s got some liquor? Is your dance order filled? The cork just came out and my whole quart has spilled! Is your woman a honey — can she dance — does she smoke? I'm off these Blind Drags — tonight's is a joke. There's ten o'clock Striking — a rush for the door — The Fords and the Packards go off with a roar. The house is left empty, deserted, forlorn — And at six with the sun, they come Staggering home. C 442 } Im milk-wise- 0vc me Rieck McJunkin MILK [ 443 1 BALL FOUR” “We want a party,” we said; so wc met in the Barracks room to think. “Let us put our swords and muskets away, and have a good time.” All the tin soldiers agreed. So we put away all our ammunition and cleared the Mess Hall, hut we did not know what else to do. We couldn't AT EASE! until the Major said, “Let's have an orchestra, and good music, and a drum, and let's have a dance. And we can have cakes and punch.” “Great guns!” we cried. That will be fine!” And surrounding the brilliant Major, we begged, Where did you manage to think of so capital an idea? And the Major whispered, Don't you know? That is what the tin soldiers do at Tech. And they call it a Military Ball!” And we did, too. WHAT COLLEGE DID TO ME John,” began my mother, “Junior leaves for college in the morning, and it is your duty to apprize him as to the propensity of remaining 'sweet sixteen and never kissed'.” “’Tain't never, Mary; that's your duty,” exclaimed my old man. Why, you worthless son of a runvrunnin', profligated, predacious forefather, wept my progenitor of the betterhalf, “it is the incarnated duty of every father to exhort his young.” “'Tain't never,” said my old man. So saying, I went to college worse than meekly; I went intrepidly, I did not. 1 sneaked up on the campus by means of a 66, a twin six, or what have you, that runs {Connm d on page 448} MELLON-STUART COMPANY Contracting Engineers New York Pittsburgh Ch ICAGO { 444 3 Perhaps no one in Europe in 1492 had the vision to foresee the result of civilized man’s first viev? of the little island of Santo Domingo, and it was little realized in modem times how important vCas the discovery that Dental Cabinet Medicine Closets could be made of a solid piece of white glass. Such a decided improvement deserved a cabinet design that would be more beautiful than anything heretofore, and with drawers that cannot stick or swell, because they are made of steel, with wood fronts. New design glass trays is a late improvement. American Cabinet No. 120 since its introduction three years ago, has had a sales record that is remarkable. Our beautiful new three color catalog is just out. Ask for it. THE AMERICAN CABINET CO. TWO RIVERS. WISCONSIN OUR goods can be purchased from the dealer in combina ' tion with chair, unit, engine, and in fact, a complete ’ outfit, on one contract, on easy monthly payments. We ; . will demonstrate our line in your city before you graduate • . and hope to see every member of the senior class. [ 445 } along Forbes St., dressed in a new pair of yellow shoes and a hat that mother had bought me. And a suit that had trouser bottoms at least eleven inches around the bottom. I was worse than collegiate — I was pitiful. Nevertheless, and moreover, and, perhaps, juSt because, I got into a fraternity. Howcome, I don't know, but when I woke up with a terrific headache and a bump like an Easter egg, I found myself in a room. A room with three boys in the room and me. Three of the boys in the room asked me if I would like to join their tong. “Yes,” I said. Whereupon they jumped on me and put a button in my lapel. And then they had me assume the angle and cracked me over the weak end. The next night they had a smoker and when they asked me how I liked the Salome dance I told them that I thought it lacked originality for it was just a takeoff from Start to finish. The brothers did not seem to like this and one of them yelled, “What did we do with that paddle? Whang! A board had reached its destination and, like a good Samaritan, I turned the other cheek and they broke two more paddles. The next day school Started and our astronomy prof took us down to the Nixon to attend a performance of Artiils and Models. I couldn't understand what that had to do with astronomy, so I asked one of the brothers that evening, at dinner, and he told me that it was a practical course in Studying heavenly bodies. That night after dinner I thought it would be nice to sit around the fire before Studying. It seemed as if everyone else had the same idea. The fullback on the football team came over and pushed me in the face. “You !'? $€?'“? little pledge, let me sit down for ?'“ ' !? ------------------“ he swore-----! he did! Mother had always said it was an unnecessary evil. Almost immediately they Started talking about the most horrid things. First about gambling, then about drinking — and then about terribler things. They discussed women in a way most disrespcdful. I had to leave the room. Mother said to if I ever heard anything like this. “I'm going to bed,” I said. I couldn't get any sleep. My room was the scene of a noisy poker game. I wouldn't join it. I hated that sort of thing. Besides my roommate had taken my last cent with a measly little Straight. I tried to read some Wordsworth, but the noise was too awful. . . . “Books', 'tis a dull and endless flri e: Come forth into the light of things. Let Mature he your teacher. That was it! An inspiration! I would leave the unthinking dross in my room, and, going down to Schenley Park, Stroll along the deserted Street, alone with my thoughts. I went down to the Park and Strolled up around the Circle. Three Steps and I Stepped on a Johnny Walker bottle. There was nothing in the bottle. I strode around some bushes and came upon a touching scene. The conversation went: “Well, suppose my grandmother was a Rooshian, you're part Irish yourself, so you might as well . . . [ 44r 1 {Continued on page 450} [founded 1878]} THE PITTSBURGH COLLEGE of PHARMACY n SCHOOL OF PHARMACY of the UNIVERSITY of PITTSBURGH Forty inth Annual Session Opens September 1926 For definite date and Bulletin of Information address DR. J. A. KOCH, Dean 1431 Boulevard of the Allies PITTSBURGH, PENNA. [ 447 1 At this juncture I skipped back around the bushes to avoid discovery. Another couple was approaching me. There was nothing for me to do but go Kick to the headquarters of our tong, and to bed. It was the night before the prom. Jack was getting me a Blind Drag from “up State.” Those la two words had a fore' boding ring to them. But Jack was sure she was good, although he hadn't seen her for a year. Besides she had two cars, her dad was a millionaire and her name was Hallie T. Oesis. She came in on the P.R.R. the next day and I met her at the Ea Liberty a' tion. When I saw her I got sick. (But, I can assure you that I wasn't afflidted with Hallie T. Oesis.) It was then I Parted to drink. I knew I would die. I had never taken a drink before. But {Continued on [ age 45a} A SAVINGS ACCOUNT The Foundation of your Future WHILE preparing yourself for the future, don’t forget that the achievement of your many plans will depend largely upon your finan' cial ability. A savings account started now will not only help you develop the desirable habit of thrift, but will also enable you to grasp oppor' tunities that make for greater and earlier success. Regardless of the size of your account you will find here a genuine spirit of service in the con' duct of your financial affairs. Capital and Surplus, $15,(XX),000.00 M E L L 0 N N AT IONA L B A N K The occasions are many 4 when the students feel f that a gift of some kind is in order. One big point in favor of sending “Reymer’s is that it always “fits in and is appre' dated. Our new store in Oakland is the most attractive in Pitts' burgh. Evening Dinner as well as Luncheon is served. Meet your friends in the Reyrner Stores £ 44«3 The ®LItl)tr Unit Price 235 With SKUrber Dental Engine $445 AN INSURED PURCHASE Business Judgment Sensible men realize that financial acumen contributes just as much to success in dentistry as professional skill. Thousands of brainy, practical fellows have purchased 221fbrr equipment which never proved burdensome financially. 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Another gulp — and — lived! “But what would Mother say?” some' one asked me. “Well, Mother never said she had been to college,” I said. From then on my college education began. I usually rose about eleven, went to class a bit. Managed with them in some way. Then I rushed home for food. From there I went to the Davis or a tea hop at the Heinz House. Then 1 went to rehearsal for the annual Cap and Gown Club show. Left for a small party. And usually man' aged to get home in time to help the milk' man up the eps. Mother wrote and asked, “Why don’t I get your usual letter every day?” I wrote and I said, “Because I feel I should do the essential things here first.” Which I did. H. §. Balfour Company ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS EXCLUSIVE MANUFACTURERS OF THE 1926 CLASS RING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Special designs and estimates furnished on Fraternity and Special Club Insignia, on Class Pins and Rings, Medals, Loving Cups and Trophies, and on Hon' orary Keys. tWritf for copy of the balfour blue bookT the Standard Reference for Fraternity Jewelry J OFFICIAL JEWELERS BY APPOINTMENT TO THE MAJORITY OF THE LEADING COLLEGE FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES C 450 1 The Electro Dental Unit may be built up, item by item, just as a dentist builds his practice. In this way the initial investment is conserved. FL O W T “Growth is better than Replacement” “The Unit that Grows” One may begin with a simple outfit and gradually build it into the most complete and efficient of all dental operating units, discarding nothing in the process. FULL PARTICULARS FROM YOUR DEALER MY GIRL'S SISTER The 1927 Owl girl's little sifter is cute. She comes in and curtsies, She has a darling lisp, I love her. girl's little sifter is cunning. She saw me kiss sis. She likes candy. I paid her. girl's little sifter is naughty. She spattered my new hat. She swallowed my fraternity pin I scolded her. WOOD AND WATER STREETS My girl's little sister is dead. PITTSBURGH, PA. h's that insidious thing. ♦ Her best friend wouldn't tell her. Bell Phone 1353 Court 1 killed her. AVON COURT 'A ’Place for College Foils Expressly You will enjoy a visit to Avon Court. A good place for College Men to meet downtown. A place where Neck' wear. 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Maloney'24, Sales Manager [ 453 } A REVIEW OF PANTHER “Jfumor The Editorial Baird of the Owl presents among the advertisements of the rest of the book what the Panther considers its best humorous produrtions for the year Lady (to conductor): Mister, does this air go over Manchester Bridge? Conductor: Well, if it does, lady, we're going to get an awful ducking. Cop (to a struggling man in private pond): You can't swim in there. Feller: I know I ain't. That's why I'm hollering for help. Iron City Electric Company WHOLESALE Electrical Supplies 436 SEVENTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. EXIDE BATTERY SERVICE STATION MELWOOD STREET NEAR BAUM BOULEVARD Devon Electric Company 'Appliances for the Home 613 LIBERTY AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. I 454 } IT’S DELICIOUS! Pittsburgh Ice Cream Co. Fairfax 6400 CONFIDENCE FOR over sixty years we have been dealing with the dental profession and with the dental students since the College was opened. During this time it has been our aim, by constant study ot the needs of the dental profession, to render the best possible cooperation. Place your dental problems with us, with full con' fidence they will be taken care of promptly and in a way that will be satisfactory to you. Courtesy—Friendliness—Helpfuhiess—all mean much to our mutual success. jQee (§mith $on Qompany KEENAN BUILDING PITTSBURGH, PENNA. Box 759 cv-s Atlantic 5555 {[chartered i866ij Old and Strongs MAS given helpful banking service for 60 years. Its Commercial, Savings, Safe Deposit and In vestment Departments are equipped with every modern device for the prompt transaction of business. Cordially invites your business and personal Account. Capital .... $500,000.(X) Surplus ... $1000,000.00 Undivided Profits . $443,000.00 QT1)t Cttp Deposit iBank Member Federal Reserve System PENN AND CENTER AVENUES PITTSBURGH, PA. Manager of Concern: Is this the editor speaking well, one of your reporters ju$t fell down the elevator shaft. Editor: All right, 1 11 send down another right away. “I won't wash my face. Grandfather: Now, now. When I was a little lx y I always washed my face. Yes, and now look at it. God made the country, hut it took man to make the country club. Whoever named a certain type of American youth as sheiks played a low trick on the Arabs. SOMERS FITLER 6c TODD COMPANY ' Machinery Supplies for MILLS, MINES. RAILROADS AND CONTRACTORS 327 WATER STREET PITTSBURGH, PA. Court 4860 I 456 ) than a business enterprise an INSTITUTION rOl'R success in dentistry is dependent not only upon the professional ability which you have attained the past four years but upon correct business methods and modern equipment. Realizing this we have worked unceasingly SUCCESS IN DENTISTRY CORHICT IHJSINISS VI IT MOOS MODERN EQUIPMENT to collect and distribute data which will assist the beginner in the practice of dentistry, as well as to manufacture the best and most up-to-date dental equipment modern science and trained minds can produce. We only ask that you take advantage of the assistance we offer you. 1JTTJER HITTER OTMTAt MtiillKClimiSO COMH .V ISl_no. MIMIK v Nearly Half a Century Serving the Dental Profession [ 457 3 Oakland Excellence of Workmanship and Distinctiveness of Design have been Savings Trust outstanding features of Heeren Quality Products Company FOR MORE THAN FIFTY-SIX YEARS MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM «Sa jTeeren Bros. (0. Makers of the famous Pitt “Victory” “The Oakland Bank ' and Panther Medals RINGS PINS-MEDALS FRATERNITY JEWELRY AND DANCE FAVORS Capital . . $300,000.00 Surplus . . $300,000.00 Deposits. $5,000,000.00 Safe Deposit Boxes PENN AVENUE EIGHTH STREET For Rent PITTSBURGH. PA. Tour Why Buy Formal Clothes D Service Station ‘Heut Them for COMPLETE LINE OP ACCESSORIES CAN HE OBTAINED. LARGEST STOCK MICROSCOPES, LABORATORY AND BETWP.P.N NEW YORK AND CHICAGO DISSECTING EQUIPMENT ffUbittington Drrss j uit Co. How Located at 811 LIBERTY AVENUE 6002-3-4 Jenkins Arcade I Day: Grant 2604 1 nones Night: Lafnycttc 4791-K In Hew and Enlarged Quarters SHADES OF HADES Plato: Julius, my lad, sarcasm is Jfetcfe JBrotfjers Company a terrible thing. Caesar: I ought to know, old egg. Pittsburgh's leading a few dirty digs brought me here. SURGICAL SUPPLY HOUSE i o [ 458 ] 24 Hours Fresher Braeburn Farms Milk Cream • Buttermilk Certified Milk H K K M E S y U A L I T Y ! (’ E C R E A M i|)erme£(= £robes JDairp Co. 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ALLEGHENY RIVER SAND AND GRAVEL EXCLUSIVELY Washed and Screened RAIL, RIVER, TRUCK and WAGON SHIPMENTS 42ND AND DAVISON STS. PITTSBURGH Private Exchange FISK 1500 ”0 Leary, how did you all feel when you stumbled into the K.K.K. meeting?” “Rawther put out, Gunther, rawther put out.” “Darktown, never play with Sambo, he's an osteopath.” How do you mean, Mushmouth?” “Oh, he handles the bones too well.” McKenna-Horix Manufacturing Co. {Subsidiary Company of McKENNA BRASS V MANUFACTURING CO. Inc.} Display Fixtures • Brass Pipe and Sheet Aluminum and Brass Castings Electro Plating Railings, Hand Elevators, Job Work, etc. FIRST AVENUE AND WOOD STREET {460 3 )K Looking Toward Industry THERE is a close relationship between the schools and factories of our community. Young men educated in the universities of Pittsburgh look toward the industries of Pittsburgh for an opportunity to apply their knowledge and to continue their training. In turn, industrial institutions look to the colleges for re-emits from which to select those who shall be intrusted with the future progress of their organizations. Our plant at Wilmerding is devoted to the development and building of apparatus that occupies a unique place among products which assure safety and efficiency of railway transportation. The distinctive branch of engineering involved is fascinating in its problems and attractive in its opportunities. Inquiries are invited from college students who may be interested in becoming Air Brake Engineers through the special apprentice course we offer. WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE CO. General Offices and Works: WILMERDING, PA. w w AA A {4 i} As You Glance Through Your ‘‘OWL” in Times to Come REMINISCE! - RECOLLECT! T TOWEVER. it will not he with the “past (nor passed ) A that thoughts of Caulk will come to the practicing den-tist. Rather, you will realize that institution to be a contemporary from one decide to another—a continuously active, though silent partner in the conduct of your practice, and an influence in the progress of dentistry. Particularly if you have Weeder plan and equip your office, you will from the start have the feeling of harmony and “balance which means so much to your enthusiasm. THE L. D. CAULK DENTAL DEPOT, Inc. DIAMOND BANK BUILDING • FIFTH AND LIBERTY AVENUES PITTSBURGH. PA. fyw Co-ed. Are those people married? Senior: No, little girl, this is a prom. She was the dry goods dealer's youngest but she already had notions of her own. Bounder: I see Blinks has a new siren for his car. Rounder. That so! What happened to the blond? JOE C. FRANZ SONS ‘PRINTERS and CALENDAR MAKERS DIRECT MAIL ADVERTISING I PITTSBURGH, PA. { 462 3 53 SOUTH TENTH STREET Ford Twin Cities Plant IN this Ford manufacturing plant designed and built by Stone Webster at St. Paul, Minnesota, the ground area of the single-story main building is nearly 20 acres and the capacity of the power plants, one steam and one hydroelectric, on the Mississippi, is 25,000 horse power. Albert Kahn was Associate Architect on the main building. Materials for manufacturing enter the main building and arc unloaded direct from the railroad cars. It is planned to have the finished product descend by elevator 100 feet to a terminal chamber and go thence by tunnel 700 feet to a boat landing for shipment by water. Tht building it MOO ft t long by 600 f« wide Stone dc Webster INCORPORATED NEW YORK. 120 Brojdway BOSTON, M7 Milk Scw CHICAGO. Fine National Bank Bldg. PHILADELPHIA, Real Eiuu Trust Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO. Holbrook Bldg. PITTSBURGH. Union Trust Bldg. 6 Per Cent. Guaranteed Mortgages Secured I pon Pittsburgh Howes WRITE TOR BOOKLIST AND LIST CONSERVATIVE SAFE A PLAY IN TWO LINES Scene One, Act One. Place—At Party. T ime—Darkness. Condition—Lights are all out. (Now, go on with the play.) One Voice: Is there an electrician here? Another Voice: Yes, I'm an electrician. All Voices: Throw him out. (curtain) Consolidated Ice Company BETTER SERVICE Wagons on Every Street” rm mwT mmm HARVARD JA(ew Peerless t HE Harvard Company has played a great part in helping thousands in the profession towards ma £ A y terial success by its policy of producing only the best along sound but original lines, and distrib' • ‘ ■ uting Harvard products by methods that are ethical, economical and best adapted to the convenience of the dentists who buy them. Students before purchasing, let us tell you now all about, not only Harvard Chairs and Harvard Cabinets but the many other superior products made in the Harvard factory. Your inquiries will be welcome. THE HARVARD COMPANY CANTON OHIO [ 4 5 3 (greetings of The Bank of Pittsburgh National Association Established 1810 THE OLDEST BANK WEST OF THE ALLEGHENIES to THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY WEST OF THE ALLEGHENIES “The doctor's here, sir. I ain't see him. Tell him I'm sick. Good Lor', Goshswegen, I feel stiff all over.” You should, Darkflegal, you have just drank the embalming fluid.” “I'll never do it again,” said the suicide, as he passed the thirty'second jftory on his way down. Pittsburgh gleabemp ESTABLISHED 1882 53I WOOD STREET PITTSBURGH, PA. COLLEGE PREPARATORY, PRIVATE SECRETARY, BOOKKEEPING, STENOGRAPHY, BUSINESS LETTER WRITING, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION and GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES ♦ Day arid ?iight Classes {466} ECONOMIC TRENDS IN THE ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY Have all the big Electrical Discoveries been made ? History abounds in stories of men who at the dawn of the great industrial ora in this country, pulled up stakes and left New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and other eastern centers because, they said, “these cities are as large as they can ever become; all the opportunities here arc gone.” So rapid has been the rise of the electrical industry that it takes a phenomenal development like radio to remind men how young the industry really is, and what boundless fields of service surround it on every side. Four years ago radio meant as little to the average American citizen as do the theorems of Calculus. Today it approaches being a necessity. Last year's sales of radio apparatus reached the astounding total of $350,000,000. In all the annals of business this feat of literally picking a gigantic industry out of the air goes unparalleled. Yet radio is merely one corner of the huge world which electrical genius is exploring. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO. EAST PITTSBURGH. PA. Westinghouse It wu bade in the day of irfl«i that two Westinghouse men, to settle an argument over the accuracy of tbrir watches, built a simple set of radio receiving apparatus. Out of their experiment came KI K. � the pioneer broadcasting station of the country. Other Westinghouse stations arc KYW, WBZ, KKKX. CHE Superior Service of this House is undeni' ably established and universally accepted. Graduates from the school of long experience in handling Dental Supplies and Dental Equipment fill your orders and install your equipment. This Exceptional Service combined with Fair Treat' ment and up'tcvthe'minute stocks tells the story of our twenty years' success. DUNH AM-REIFEL COMPANY 6034 JENKINS • ARCADE PITTSBURGH • PENN A. An undersized Italian was married to a Strapping German woman. Recently he received a black'hand letter which read: “If you don’t give $1,000 to our messenger who will call Sunday for it we will kidnap your wife.” He replied promptly: 1 don't have the $1,000, but your proposition interests me greatly.” Sunday School Teacher: Now, who was it that was found in the bushes? Baseball Fan: Jack Keefe. ANOTHER CHICKEN GONE WRONG Landlady: Isn't this a good chicken? Boarder: It may have been morally, but physically it's a wreck. “Hey, keep off the floor, it's Still wet from paint.” Frosh: Oh, that's all right; can't you see I've got my rubbers on? Newspaper Headline: Won't somebody please give them a drink? [ 468 ] r THE FITNESS OF THINGS U KNOW full ell that the victories of your Alma Mater on the field of athletics have been possible only because of the fitness of your reams. This involved the right kind of men, thorough schooling of these men by competent coaches, proper physical training, and the best possible equipment. In your college studies you have received from competent teachers that, mental coaching which will fit you for the great contest of life. The results of your dental training in the practice of your profession will depend much on the excellence of your mechanical equipment. Superior workmanship requires and demands superior tools and materials. No competent artisan will waste his time and energy on inferior equipment. Much more essential is it that the dentist, whose profession has to do with the healing art, be properly equipped. Since 1844 The House of White has studied the needs of the dental profession. Our aim has been and always will be to aid in the betterment of dentistry by supplying only the best in dental supplies and equipment for the profession. You are assured when using a product bearing the Trade Mark that you are employing the best, and that you are equipped to win. THE S. S. WHITE DENTAL MFG. CO. { 469 1 [ 470 } n w l 411 3 He: I'll he over Sunday night and we can sit in the parlor, and talk, and hold hands, gee! Girl: Must we really do that? He: No. We can skip the preliminaries. Husband: That man is the ugliest person 1 ever saw. Wife: Not so loud, dear. You forget yourself. After the Chambermaid's exams do the sheets go on again? Pro , (in accounting): If you were to Start a set of accounts now what would they look like? J lew Student: Like hell, I guess. McCrady Brothers Company c'Builders Supplies • Jpumbe?' and cJXCill Wot “I'm worried about Mary at the house party. “It's O. K. She'll be in good hands. [established 1870) COAL, BUILDING SPECIALTIES AND STEAM SHOVEL EXCAVATIONS Tards: Main Office: BRADDOCK, PA. Braddock Homestead Wilkinsburo YOUR FUTURE ivill be largely governed by the first position you take after you leave school T, e Duquesne Light Company is always engineering and business administration courses, and public utility experience forms a valuable training ground for future success. Applications for employment may be made at the Employment Bureau, Personnel Department, 435 Sixth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY Live In and Expand Your Business in Greater Pittsburgh in the held for responsible graduates in i 473 1 Bucjuestoe Rational J5anfe 5JJ FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA ♦ W. S. Lin DERM AN S. A. McMullen . Durbin S. Kerr . H. O. Farmer . . Tho®. B. Brownlee . . President . Vice President . . . CdiJticr Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier “I hear you were on a drunk la night.” “ ‘With,' dear, ‘with'.” Cuthbert: When is your birthday, Skippy, I want to buy you a present. Slippy: You're way late, boy, way late. I was born years ago. J st Roofter: Is your married life happy? Zd Rooster: Oh yes, my mother-in-law is an incubator. No one ever will know whether the negro migration was caused by hope of higher wages or fear of a short water-melon crop. J -o Whoop: Something ought to be done about these cruel prison laws. Ec: Why? Whoop: I ju t heard of a poor man being sent up for a stretch. f 4741 COMMON-WEALTH TRUST COMPANY Pittsburgh People Save —every day this is proved by the large numbers of depositors in all walks of life who come into the Commonwealth to make savings deposits. We would like to see you among these depositors who are getting ahead. Here, where 4% interest is paid on savings deposits of $1.00 or more, and both Federal Reserve Bank and State supervision help safeguard funds, you will realize that you have a real banking home. 0111111011111631115 (Trust ffiompamj of Pittsburgh zJ 306 316 Fourth Avenue COMMONWEALTH BVILOINO- l 475 1 C+ 3C 9C+-3C-+.' 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