The Signet . embers had the ability is shown by their achieve-ments during the first year. During the winter the club wonthe inter-club championship in basketball. This was not an easymatter, as the league was very strong. Of the personal achieve-ments of the members a mere enumeration will suffice. GailMiller won a place on the Varsity basketball team. BallardBuchanan received a commission in the Philippine Constabularyand left to take up his duties in the Islands. Oren Mulkey waselected president and Homer Morris secretary of the Rifle other men succeeded in making the rifle team.
The Signet . embers had the ability is shown by their achieve-ments during the first year. During the winter the club wonthe inter-club championship in basketball. This was not an easymatter, as the league was very strong. Of the personal achieve-ments of the members a mere enumeration will suffice. GailMiller won a place on the Varsity basketball team. BallardBuchanan received a commission in the Philippine Constabularyand left to take up his duties in the Islands. Oren Mulkey waselected president and Homer Morris secretary of the Rifle other men succeeded in making the rifle team. In the fall of 1916 the old members returned and secured abetter home, new men were taken in, and the number wasincreased to about twenty. With this increase in size the clubbecame stronger and was better known. During this year theclub came out third in inter-club football, and second in inter-club baseball, losing only one game. Andrew Murneek, then astudent in agriculture, now in the Horticultural Research. Ph HISTORY OF THETA DEUTERON 153 Department of the College, was elected to the Honorary Agri-culture Fraternity, Alpha Zeta. Oren Mulkey was appointed asMajor in the Cadet Regiment; Harry Patton made the Varsitywrestling squad; A. Merle Scott made the Varsity in baseball;four men played class football. Homer Morris was electedcaptain of the rifle team and later made the highest average scorefor that year. Three other men were successful in making theteam. In the spring the war clouds broke and several of the menleft for service, four receiving commissions. The next fall, withthe old men who returned and the new pledges, the club con-tinued its good work. Grades began to rise while athleticsdecreased in importance. Fourth place in indoor baseball wasthe best accomplishment in intramural athletics. Two men,Homer W. Ferguson and Richard Wilmot, made Varsity and Ferguson were elected to Sigma Tau, a NationalEngineering Fraternity, Walter Kocken to Alpha Zeta. Ei
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