West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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D Sphinx, senior men ' s honorary, is one of the nnost active organizations on the campus of West Virginia University. The most important of its activities, and one of the most important on the campus, is the an- nual Interfraternity Sing, sponsored by Sphinx each Mother ' s Day. Sphinx also sponsors awards for the best decorated fraternity house on Homecoming Day and last year for the first time, it supervised a play contest, de- signed to create more dramatic interest among cam- pus organizations; each year it gives certificates to the ten highest ranking freshmen. In line with Its policy toward freshmen. Sphinx helps to publish the . sh- man handbook and conducts freshman guidance meetings. Officers for 1940-41 are: Bob Shuman, Emperor; Charles hHenry, Steward; John hiindsley. Scribe. First raw: Joseph Patrick Condry, Ned E. Shott. Second row; Clarence Edwin Smith, James Rowe McCartney. DaCosta Smith, Jr., Clyde Robert Cattrell, Milton Sidney Koslow, Harry A. Stansbury, Jr., Robert Harold Loeb. Third row: H. Paige Bell, Jr.. Delford Lee Cottrill. David Dale Johnson, Jr., Harold Joseph Fleming, Paul Sterling Deem. John Pack Hindsley, William Jackson Carter. [20]

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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]

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First row: Howard Henry, Roger Hicks. James McCartney, Reedy Miller, Bill Nutter, Harry Stansbury, Joe Condry, Richard Mc- Clung, Harold Fleming, Charles Stansbury, Ted Brown. Second row: Albert Klebe, James Ruch. Jake Caudill, Jack Springer, Joe Beatty, John Lee Sullivan, Ed Kimble, Kemp McLaughlin, Tom Gillooly, Charles Strauss. Third row: John Carliss, Bob Shuman. Douglas Foley, James Borror, Ed Siegrist, Dave Johnson, Richard Pharr, Don Ezeli. Fourth row: John Hackney, J. B. White, Robert Wilson, Elbert Matthews, Bud Smith, Julius Singleton. Arch Bullard, Jack Browning, William Vance, Thad Pritt, Fi Batar Cappar is the men ' s mock honorary for lettermen and campus leaders; Alfa chapter was founded at West Virginia University on March 13, 1914. The members of the new society adopted as their badge the small square of leather, emblematic of the goal of college life, the sheepskin. The fasten- er Is a small piece of brass whose significance Is a secret of the organization. Two important functions of Fi Batar are sponsor- ship of an annual Tag Day, proceeds of which are used to make scholarship loans to minor sports ath- letes, and participation In the Freshman hHonor Court, which serves to prescribe the punishment for violators of freshman rules. Officers for 1940-41 were: Joseph Condry, L. hi. C. P.; h arold J. Fleming, vIce-L. hi. C. P.; hiarry Stansbury, Keeper of the Conklin; Lew Mclntlre, Keeper of the h oard. [21] I