Weber State University - Acorn Yearbook (Ogden, UT)

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At Weber Besides rip-roaring fun fests with Alpha Rho, big event for the “Pink Ladies” was the annual Collegiate Promenade, co-sponsored with the Alpha Rhovians. Everything the Pink Ladies have anything to do with is worked up with that dainty color scheme. Even some of their parties have a rosey tinge. Just one well directed shaft from among their emblematic three arrows and quiver, it has been reported, will bring real red blood from the heart of a romantic victim. Club fun was planned this year by Madeline Manning, president; Bunny Payne, vice-president; DeNece Wheelwright, secretary; Marilyn Thomp- son. treasurer; and Janet Swenson, reporter. Sharmea . . . front, Nelda Wardle, Joye Ann Shurtleff, Carolyn Campbell, Madeline Manning, Marilyn Carver, adviser, Janet Swenson, DeNece Wheelwright, Marilyn Thompson, Pat Nelson; middle, Mary Walker, Kay Jon Mildon, lllene Stanfield, Gloria Pratt, Beverly Graves, Alice Felt, Janene Johansen, Coleen Burnett; rear, Bunny Payne, Marleen Wade, Molly Ann Cragun, Shirley Burns, Jean Drake, Shirley Jones, Elizabeth Wahlquist. Alpha Rho Omego . . . front, Jerry Brett, Wendell Farr, Leon Ray, Fred Robe, adviser, Claude Dahl, Blaine Taylor, Dell Foutz, Dennis Jay; middle, Tubber Okuda, Keith Knighton, Darrell Checkctts, Lee Erickson, Doug Middleton, Dale Cowgill, LeGrand Lamb, Merril Sessions; rear, Kent Cannon, Bob Tolman, Gary Loosli, Glen Bridges. “By far the best unchapcroned party thrown by any club anywhere” is the proud praise of Alpha Rho Omega for its rousing spring excursion to Bear Lake. This breezy outfit enveloped these halls of ivy some dozen years ago, hit a calm during the late war and since 1945 has been prominently present as “most active club.” The Alpha Rhovians generally start the year with an amateur boxing card, then follow up with the Collegiate Promenade and selection of Mr. and Miss Collegiate, and finally wind things up with a flourish at Bear Lake. Of this event no coherent after-taking report has ever been obtained. Members are prevalent about the grounds in blue sweaters ornamented with a mixup of bric- a-brac evidently meaning something significant, but just what is anybody’s guess. One of the members’ claims to mental grandeur is that they understand something of what the curlicues mean. At least, the baby blue complexion of the sweaters is nice. Truest of the blue Rhovians were Leon Ray, president; Claude Dahl, vice-president; Lee Eric- son, secretary; Blaine Taylor, treasurer.

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Excelsior . . . front, Doug Brian, Paul Furlong, Judd Gliss- meycr, Bert Bcrrctt, Lowell Thorstensen, Wes Rose, Ron Gray, Joe Florence, Don Fleming, Keith Maclain, Lew Wangsgord; rear, Joy Olson, adviser, Louis Miller, Dole Randall, Joe Draper, Stuart Stringham, Dee Draney, Jay Brown, Ron Lowder, Bob Critchlow, Garth Willie, Jim Sul- livan, Denny Williams, Talmagc Delonge, Kent Weathers, Dick Keller, Dick Peterson, Ted Morris, Neil Visser, Roy Nelson, Ron Twomey, Darrell Cottle, Gerrald Campbell, Merlin Bingham, Ed Campbell, Don Butler, Farrell Collett, adviser. Social Whirl Now it is out. The Excelsior men put the final fix on Phoenix when they sneaked a skilled juicer J into the truck along with the dogie and he was undetected for six blocks. Almost drained the cow, too. Excelsior has been so good this year that its membership this season is the Phoenix type, ac- cording to former Phoenix fans. Some days a club just cannot win, it seems. Activity program of the White Hats (the white stands for purity, really) includes the Sweetheart Ball, fixed up with sweetheart named by a movie star from among the numerous Weber College sugars, greased pig race, and the annual stag house-wrecking. Big “E” men comprise “oldest and best club on the campus, founded in 1931,” and announce the slogan as “Onward and Up- ward.” As a matter of fact, several of the last year members joined the U. S. air force. Leading “Excels” were Lowell Thorstensen, president; Bob Critchlow, vice-president; Kent Weathers, secretary; and Stuart Stringham, treas- urer. Sigma adds to its conviviality with the coeds and fellowship with the fellows by sponsoring an annual bathing beauty contest, at which Miss Weber is “clorinated by the club each year. A dance follows. With Bikinis banned for the social dance of the organization, the Sigmas turn to something more conservative, such as a pajama dance at which red flannel sleepers are fashionable cover. “Off to the tea room” is the symbolic cry heard around the campus as the Sigma men leave the college quadrangle for their familiar haunt and several sudsy rounds of “Bottoms up.” By tradition the Sigma men arc supposed to win intramurals, but times and types change and thus other clubs arc concerned with mayhem and fun with fractures. Something more friendly and phil- osophical is now the quest of the hairy chests. Cogs this year have been Ed Vendell, president; Glenn Dickson, vice-president; Ernie Edwards, secretary; and Don Dellenbach, treasurer. Sigma Delta Phi . . . front, Ernie Edward , Ed Vendell, Darrell Lund, Glenn Dickson, Jerry Allred, John Malouf, Bob Parkinson, Dec Warner, Jerry Goddard; middle, Phil Christensen, Ralph Dcarden, Dean Pierce, Jim Kent, Lee Farber, Dec Jensen, Duane Smith, Fred Ball; rear, Everett Anthony, Carl McBurney, Jim MacDonald, Don lockhead, Darvel Conley, DeVon Jensen, Don Dellenbach. 30

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Social Whirl lota Tau Kappa . . . front, LaRae King, Lois Poison, Elaine Timmerman, Louise Holmes, Doris Brown, Irleen Word, Ann Crary, Donna Mae Hansen, Gertie Hipa; rear, Ruth Jorgen- sen, Ruthe Okawa, Kae Yamamoto, Aleta Van Sickle, Marie Christensen, Gertie Stallings, adviser, Betty Best, Virginia Clark, Marilyn Lewis, Mildred Wayment, Renee Graham. Iota—or Iota Tau Kappa if you want the whole mouthful at once—seems to have the edge on athletic talent around the place, year in and year out. The Iota gals won the women’s intramural cup in 1952 and, in checking back, the club won the pewter on several other occasions. Iota was chartered in 1935, the same year as Phoenix, which should make these two clubs near relations. The word is also passed around that the Iota women are the type who make the best wives, gaining sveltness with matrimony and style with the husband’s income, in after years. Projects include one in December to help a needy family and another to throw the Print Dress dance. Best bets in club administration were Doris Brown, president; Ann Crary, vice-president; Donna Mae Hansen, secretary; and Lois Poison, treasurer. Skull club’s roster of membership is rather small, so that the conclusion immediately occurred that in order to qualify for membership in this top heavy fraternal group a fellow must have either an extra thick cranium or a peculiarly shaped dome. But Skull indignantly replied to this reasoning that the small membership is entirely the work of the local draft boards. Seems all Skull club can- didates for defense of the country passed the mental test clickety-clack in spite of the nickname Boneheads.” Record of the Skulls shows that this social unit makes up in velocity for fewness in numbers. The club generally enters all events a bunch of college fellows is expected to enter although competition and sheer weight of number of the opposition may finally wear down even these posscssers of “car- tilaginous framework which encloses and protects the brain and chief sense organs, as Webster says of them. The really thick Skulls for next year arc Terry Call, president; Larry Wright, vice-president; Lynn Robert, secretary; Clayton Gabbcrt, treas- urer. Skull . . . front, Clayton Gabbcrt, Dick Nielson, Roy Rus- sell, Lynn Roberts, Terry Call, Grant Schow, Gerald Moser; rear, Lee Hawks, Bob Williamson, Kent Smith, Dean Farns- worth, adviser, Jerry Furgeson, Loren Bolstad, Kent Arave. 32