. The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. PORTER BUTTS Director of the Wisconsin Union lege and post-college biography of oneman who had an idea and saw it through. ALL-AROUND STUDENT Porter Butts came to Wisconsin fromSpringfield, Illinois, in 1920. In com-pany with other pledges of the GammaTau chapter, he was duly inducted intocampus activities by his elder Sale 22, now professor of Englishat Cornell, was then editor of the Cardi-nal and he suspected that Butts had themaldngs of a journalist. When Buttssucceeded to the editorship in 1924, Bill 274 THE PALM, September, 1937. A CORNER OF T
. The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. PORTER BUTTS Director of the Wisconsin Union lege and post-college biography of oneman who had an idea and saw it through. ALL-AROUND STUDENT Porter Butts came to Wisconsin fromSpringfield, Illinois, in 1920. In com-pany with other pledges of the GammaTau chapter, he was duly inducted intocampus activities by his elder Sale 22, now professor of Englishat Cornell, was then editor of the Cardi-nal and he suspected that Butts had themaldngs of a journalist. When Buttssucceeded to the editorship in 1924, Bill 274 THE PALM, September, 1937. A CORNER OF THE UNIONS FAMOUSWisconsins unequivocal ansiuer to the oldmice or are we menf was sure of it. Cully Maier, also 22,thought Porter sang somewhat betterthan his brother neophytes, and soonButts was rehearsing with the HaresfootClub. Butts proved that he could sing—well enough to carry the femininelead in three of Haresf oots famous bur-lesque productions which annually madea two-week tour of the middle west;whats more he could, and did, dancewell enough so that specialty danceswere written into two of the productionsfor him. In his spare time he didlibrettos for the shows and when thedirector quit in 24, Butts, then presi-dent of the club, carried on in his placeand managed to swing the biggest pro- duction the club hadever attempted overthe longest circuit inits history, and bringit home very much inthe black. Other undergradu-ates had attemptedequally strenuous ac-tivity schedules inthe past, only to havetheir careers checkedby the faculty who,old spoil sports thatthey a
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