University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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Omicron Delta Kappa We Omicron Delta Kappa, leadership honor society for men, was founded December 3, 1914, at Washington and Lee University, Lex- ington, Virginia, by fifteen student and faculty leaders. In the tradition of the idealism and leadership of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, the founders formulated the idea that all-round leadership in college should be recognized, that representative men in all phases of college life should cooperate in worth-while endeavor, and that out- standing students and faculty members should meet on a basis of mutual interest, understanding, and helpfulness. ? Q fag, 1, , i 1 X L. l K 22 f0W, lift to right: Bruce Baird, Don Scheer, Dean Russell, jim Heinz, Bert Bewards, Peck Mi 2515 ll? r1EIilduson. Back row: Richard W. ller, Earl O,Bannon, Dick Weston, Spencer Harper, Bolgfglaclfgglisily M5521 Sfgitgriobert Hancock, Dick Adins, Bill Cooper, Bob Shepard, Bernie Sams,

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The Woodcock Society is the oldest honorary scholastic organization of the University of Louisville, having been organized in 1920 by Dr. john L. Patterson, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and later Chancellor of the University. In that year he invited all recipients of the Woodcock Medal to become the nucleus of a society whose aim would be to secure a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for the Univer- sity. The name was adopted in honor of The Right Reverend Charles E. Woodcock, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky, who had in 1910 initiated the Woodcock Medal award as a memorial to his son. Woodcook l T Membership is augmented each year by a selection of not more than ten per cent of the graduating class whose scholastic standing is at least 2.2 during their junior and senior years, and who possess the characteristics of loyalty, integrity, and initiative. The Woodcock So- ciety presents annual awards to the students who have achieved the highest scholastic standing in the freshman, sophomore, and junior classes, and offers financial aid from its permanent loan fund to graduates of the University for further study. It also makes contribu- tions to the University Library annually. 2 7 , V:',1,:5im fa r 1 . SJ

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Mortar Board was founded in 1918, and at the end of 1955, was serving through 95 chapters, all of which had begun as independent local societies. The University of Louisville group-The Pallas Club- became a Mortar Board chapter in 1949. Its purpose is to provide for the co-operation between societies, to promote college loyalty, to advance the spirit of service and fellowship among university women, to maintain a high standard of scholarship, to recognize and encourage leadership, and to stimulate and develop a finer type of college woman. ortar Board .I ,wr ,pw A 1, ' ii., mega 4 1 , 59,4 - 'r ' 1 41 ,fe yy 1 Q5 X Q ,X , First row: Betty Miles, Historiang Eloise Moore, Vice President, Ioan Scharfenberger, President, Dotty Nichols, Treasurerg Schila Beck, Secretary. Second row: Suzanne Lucheta, Betty Crain, Doris Clay, Judy Ivy, Margaret Fife, Virginia Merideth.