. The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. nearest rival. The daily catalogue of events, listedon the bulletin in the main lobby, is arunning inventory of all the types ofactivity which the fertile undergraduatemind can devise. With the exception offootball, ice hockey and roulette, theUnion has facilities for practically anygames; and its staff has at one time oranother helped arrange a wedding cere-mony for two friendless Chinese stu-dents whose nearest relative was 6,000miles away, a barn dance, a nationalprofessional billiard match, an all-stateart show, a midwest yacht regatta, anda score of national
. The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega. nearest rival. The daily catalogue of events, listedon the bulletin in the main lobby, is arunning inventory of all the types ofactivity which the fertile undergraduatemind can devise. With the exception offootball, ice hockey and roulette, theUnion has facilities for practically anygames; and its staff has at one time oranother helped arrange a wedding cere-mony for two friendless Chinese stu-dents whose nearest relative was 6,000miles away, a barn dance, a nationalprofessional billiard match, an all-stateart show, a midwest yacht regatta, anda score of national conventions. Theresan old saying at Wisconsin that any-thing can happen at the Union—andthat practically everything does! The story of how this hazy dream be-came a functioning reality is a long one,in which figure the names of many prominent Wisconsin alumni, studentsand faculty members. It is a story ofinfinitely hard work, of discouragement,of amazing ingenuity, of in a more special sense it is the col-. 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
Size: 1361px × 1835px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthoralphatauomega, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksub
