Oklahoma City University - Keshena Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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1-,,.,. Delta ward-heelers stuff a goose. Tsh, tsh, Paul Bennett, We've caught you with your hand in a ballot box. Wymore and Estes feed the machine. Dirty Work- ers in line, l. to r., are Bob Spooner, Margaret Galyen Becker, Margaret Milby, Roy Bryant, Maurine McKnight, Willard Wee Willie , Boone, and Pres . Smith. P 0 W E R T Il T B E An inside look at Scarabian Politics and Politioians EE the happy class presidentl What a soft seat he has on the ver1triloquist's knee. That's a Student Council member on the other knee. They can talk. Really! Ot course they can't think, the ventriloguist does that, but they 'really can talk. You don't believe it? Then watch their mouths move. Scarabia has a half-dozen ventriloquists. They operate their dummies, who are the class officers, the Apportioning Board mem- bers, and such, with ease and dexterity. l-lead ventriloquist this year has been Willard Wee Willie Boone, who is the Delta combine's little man with big stutif' For a time, Boone shared with Norman Peter Pytr Glass the dubious honor of be- ing Scarabia's political boss, but a shitt ir' combine membership early in the first see mester stole Pete's thunder and Boone became boss of the Scarabian ward. Pete's last vestige of authority was stripped When, at the end of the twelfth week, the com- mittee of deans removed him from the Student Council presidency and put vice- president Boone in his place. Six weeks later, Wee Willie Was elected by the stu- dent body to till the vacancy. Glass was elected last spring by a Delta combine which included Delta-Psi Omega, Phi Delta, Kappa Phi, the Barb organization, Alpha Omega, and Phi Phi Phi. This com- -?-' 16 -?

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bination swept every office in the spring election from the opposing Phi combine, composed of Theta Kappa Nu, Beta Alpha Phi, Phi Chi Phi, and Kappa Tau Delta. And the summer passed. September came and Glass an- nounced that the Delta combine would support him for the Yell-O- jacket presidency. The Delta Psis, who had a majority in Yell-O-laclv ets, maintained that Glass couldn't fill the job and elected Fred Marsh, a political foe. Glass took his trou- bles to the Kappa Phi chapter and they withdrew from the Delta com- bine, taking Tri Phi with them. There was a scamper for political allies and, when the smoke had blown away the Barb organization had withdrawn from politics, and the new Delta combine consisted of Della Psi, Phi Delta, Alpha Omega, Theta Kappa Nu, and Beta Alpha Phi. The Phi Chis and Kappa Phis, alas, found that temper- amental differences kept them from unite ing, so the Phi Chis astutely announced their withdrawal from politics, and did the political maneuvering under cover for the rest of the year. The new Delta combine has, as The Scarab goes to press, swept all elections of the year, except the Campus queen- ship. lt holds overwhelming majorities on the Student Council and Apportioning Board, dominates the class offices, and holds a slim majority on the Dance Board. The situation may change, however, for in the Scarab queenship campaign the Kappa Phis and Phi Chis managed to unite, and Eleanore Stauffer, Delta candi- date, defeated Mary V. Elliott only by the close score of 169 to l65.-KH. C. DJ Qtr ABOVE: The Phi combine huddles up on a park bench. CThey're out in the cold.J Top row: Elizabeth McNeese, Mary Ann Boesler, Virgil Downing, and Mary V, Elliott. Bottom: Wally Dietz, Pete Glass, and james Vanderpool. BELOW: lt was a historic moment when Pete Glass lrightl turned over the Student Council prexyship to Willard Wee Willie Boone Clettl. +- 17 'fr-