West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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:n. ouncled in 1904, Mountain is the ranking senior men ' s honorary organization on the campus. Membership in it is limited to out- standing men students who have been enrolled in the university for at least five semesters. New members are chosen in the spring. As part of its program of aiding the university in all ways possible, Mountain each year sponsors the Mountaineer Week team, one of the most important of all student activities. Active mem- bers of Mountain in 1940-41 were: h arry A. Stansbury, Summit; hlarold J. Fleming, Trail; Robert L. Shuman, Cache; Joseph P. Condry, Robert Mellace, Louis R. Miller, William T. Nut- ter, Paul J. O ' Farrell, John L. Sullivan, Douglas Foley, John h ackney, David Johnson, James Mc- Cartney, Richard McClung, Douglas Phillips, Ned E. Shott. First row: Joe Condry. Richard McClung, Harry Stansbury, James McCartney. Second row: Louis Reed Miller, Ned Shott, Bob Mellace, Dave Johnson, Douglas Foley, Douglas Phillips. Third row. John Sullivan. Paul O ' Farrell, Harold Fleming, William Nutter. Robert Snuman, John Hackney.

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- v VCHEL TUCKWILLER BILL DOTSON FRANK RHUDY BILL KITTS CHARLOTTE MANION MORTON COHN DON BOND Five days a week the students of West Vir- ginia University are supplied with copies of the Daily Athenaeunn, which is published by stu- dents enrolled in the School of Journalism. In September, 1887, the first copy of the Athenaeum rolled from the presses; U. S. Grant Pitzer, its first editor, planned to publish an issue every two weeks, with the help of Julian Fleming, proprietor of the New Dominion steam printing house. The Athenaeum is now published every day except Sunday and Monday; it keeps the stu- dents abreast of national and international news through the medium of the United Press. The staff of the 1940-41 Athenaeum in- cluded Betty Jean Lee, editor-in-chief; Woodrow Wilson, managing editor; Martha Mae Conner, business manager; news editors: Morton Cohn, Bill Dotson, Don Bond, Robert Provence, Rachel Tuckwiller, Charlotte Manion, Mary Bretz, Bill Kitts, William Bambrick, Frank Rhudy; sports editors: Bill Kitts, Don Bond; assistant sports editors, Charles Edgar and Jay Eby; society edi- tors, Rachel Tuckwiller, Helen Louise Dent, Frances Stotler, hHelen Nichols, Eleanor Negri, Flarriett Wickers; literary editors, Elinor Richey, hHarrlett Wickers; assistant business manager, Mark S. Grove. [17J

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First row: Richard Pharr, David D, Johnson, Jr., Paul O ' Farreli, Dr. Richard Aspinall, Harold Fleming. Second row: Clarence E. Smith, Ed Siegrist. Paige Bell, William Powell, John Hackney. Robert Provence. Third row: William Bambrick, Dclford Lee Cottrlll. Jack Springer, Tom Gillooly, Charles Stansbury. The Mountaineer Week Team is a group of goodwill emissaries sponsored each year by Mountain, senior men ' s honorary. Members of the team visit high schools over the entire state and place before their student bodies the ad- vantages of attending West Virginia University. They serve as a liaison between state high schools and the university. Tryouts for positions are held in early March under the direction of Dr. Richard Aspinall, AND MOUNTAINEED WE[K T[AM coach, and it is not until Easter vacation that the team makes its annual tour. This year for the first time, several women students will accom- pany the group and speak before some of the prospective students of the university. Paul J. O ' Farreli is captain of the 1941 team, and hiar- old Fleming the manager. [19]