Blue Key Procures Wildcat Butch III for College Mascot

V O L . 30. Issue 3. UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, DURHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, OCTOBER 3, 1939. PRICE, THREE CENTS D. Long, World Wanted: Talent Honor Roll Figures Here comes that chance for any of Navigator, Speaks you who want to give for old Alma for Last Semester Mater. W e are looking for more talent Tomorrow Evening — be it fire eater or tap dancer to use Show Large Gain at our rallies. We don’t expect to run Noted Adventurer Speaks smack into any professionals but a Paul Dupell, Class of ’39 Of Unusual Experiences good amateur will do the trick. Now Leads University With don’t be bashful, girls and fellows, if Circumnavigating Globe you can eat peas with a knife, let us Average of Ninety-five Imagine a round the world cruise in know. W e will not promise any im The honor roll for the last semester a 32-foot ketch! This was the hazard mediate Broadway contracts because is much larger than it has been for ous experience of Dwight Long, youth the only scouts present at our rallies some time. The highest average in ful skipper of the tiny ship, “ Idle are Boy Scouts, but the show must go the University was earned by Paul T. Hour”, who will appear in Murkland on. So let’s see some of our student Dupell, of the senior class, who re auditorium on Wednesday, October 4, talent come to the fore. Let me know ceived a final average of 95. William at 8:00 P.M. in the first lecture of the if you have something to give. K. W idger, Jr., again led the fresh current season. Dick Nellson, President, man class with 92.8 as a grade for the According to Mr. Long, who left the Student Council. semester. University of Washington because he A complete list of those receiving felt he could obtain a more genuine Local Newman Club honors follows: liberal education through first-hand ex “NEW WILDCAT MASCOT” Freshman Class perience in all parts of the world, less Host at Conference High Honor (8) than ten navigators have accomplished The University of New Hampshire Ave. Coll. Name such a feat. Newman Club was host to the twenty- Blue Key Procures Wildcat 92.8 Tech. Widger, William K., Jr. Setting out from native Seattle with fourth International Conference of the 91.8 Tech. Mayor, Rowland H. a sole companion and his dog, he first Newman Club Federation at Mt. Wash 91.6 Agr. Russell, Robert H. Butch III for College Mascot 91.4 L.A. stopped at San Francisco. There, he ington hotel on September 8-10, with Dupell, Raymond R. met and befriended ex-President Hoov an attendance of over two hundred Shades of Bill Cowell and the Ben all wildcats are heir, and went the wray 91.2 L.A. Ordway, Richard J, er. Mr. L ong’s next stop was at H on representatives from colleges of the son Animal Farm! The oldsters of the of his predecessor, leaving an ache in 90.5 L.A. Kimball, Roland B. olulu, where he was forced to swear United States and Canada. university may well harken back to the all lo}ral New Hampshire hearts. 90.3 L.A. Greenaway, Doris M. in a new mate, an ex-postmaster, be The New Hampshire chaplain, Rev. days when a spitting, snarling wildcat That ache will soon disappear. The 90.2 Tech. Blaine, Ralph R. cause his original companion suffered J. Desmond O’Connor, was general pulled his leather-gauntleted handler dynasty has been re-established by the Honor (38) an attack of appendicitis. chaplain of the convention. The con the length of the gridiron, and struck efforts of Blue Key, for after several L.A., Foley, Teresa M.; L.A., Mauri- At Tahiti, he parted with the ex vention had several notable speakers fear to the hearts of the staunchest of months of intensive search in the Ca cette, Eleanor F.; Tech., Breck, Don postmaster, and acquired a new com of the Church and laymen including enemy. No longer will they have to nadian wilds, the senior honor society ald W.; L.A., Jacques, Dorothy R.; panion, a fifteen-year old native boy, the Honorable David I. Walsh, U. S. sigh for the good old days; no longer has at last secured a worthy pretender Tech., Sanborn, Robert D.; L.A., who accompanied Mr. Long to Ceylon. Senator from Massachusetts; the Most will they wander into the Commons to the throne who will take up the Boucher, Armand R.; Tech., Linnell, The skipper encountered many har Rev. John B. Peterson, D.D., Bishop trophy room to shed a tear before the title of Butch III and the leash and Richard D.; L.A., Barnett, Lyndon R.; rowing experiences throughout the jour of Manchester; the Most Rev. Mat glass case wherein reposes Butch I in gauntlets of the official mascot of the L.A., Blais, Lawrence F. • Tech., Nev- ney, including hurricanes, blazing heat, thew F. Brady, D.D., Bishop of Burl all his glory, savage but mute testi sporting fortunes of the university. ers, Ashley D.; L.A., Peterson, Jean* sunken reefs, high winds and out-of- ington, Vt.; the Rev. Michael Ahearn mony of the taxidermist’s art. Blue Key was assisted in its search by nette L.; L.A., Johnson, Maxine T.; date sailing charts. of Weston College; and Professor It has been many years since Butch Phil Shannon, owner and trainer of L.A., Westfall, Neal O.; L.A., Avery, For those with a spark of adventure- Harold Tobin of Dartmouth college. I stalked stiffly along the greensward the father of Butch III. Phil will also Ilene E.; L.A., Meinelt, Gertrude E.; lust, this illustrated lecture should The conference was very successful of Memorial Field. He was a novelty help in the college education of Butch L.A., Ames, Barbara E.; L.A., Billings, prove to be most inspiring. from every standpoint. then, and widely heralded, but his heart himself. (Continued on page 4) was not in it* he was pining for Ben Phil Dunlap, political boss of the son Animal Farm, and eventually he ward of Durham, and Carl Randall will Bergethon Gives Promise of pined completely away, and died la serve as Butch’s keepers, and he may Faculty Chemists mented, the first of an illustrious line. be seetj in his cage in the rear of Butch II was secured some time later, Lambda Chi upon his arrival. He will Enjoy Boston Trip New Deal for Musical Groups and he too did his act with becoming parade for all home games, and he may by Charles Clark and the first all-state chorus festival in ferociousness. But he too in time fell be taken along for the campaigns on Attend American Chem. foreign soil if Dr. Oberlander pro More dynamic than a charge of Indiana. " heir to one of the mysterious diseases Society Four-day Fall —ptomaine was suspected—to which nounces him fit to travel. T.N.T. and just as effective in what The Student Council asserted through Meeting; Conant Speaks ever he undertakes, Bjorner W. Berge- Dick Nellson that “in Mr. Bergethon thon, the new faculty member in the student body will find a person Election Day Set Sackett Announces Eight members of the faculty of the charge of the musical organizations, whose interests are parallel with theirs.” university department of chemistry en has a genius for organization which He is vitally concerned with their en for Late October Fraternity Figures joyed a four-day visit to Boston re was much in evidence at the first con thusiasm for a high degree of college cently as the American Chemical So vocation of the year, when a sixty- spirit, a spirit that will be on a par Class elections are in the offing, and Statistics regarding fraternity aver ciety held its annual fall meeting. The piece band, the largest in the history with our “big time” neighbors. Berg with the coming of the last part of ages for 1938-39 have been recently meeting held additional significance of the University, greeted the student ethon realizes that in the band and October, new' hands will take over the announced and show that the highest this year due to the authoritative talks body. other University musical organizations reins of the different class govern average among fraternities is the 77.536 on chemical warfare and its possibili there lies the key to a door that wrill ments. The temporary freshman lead obtained by Alpha Gamma Rho, while He was seated at his desk in the ties in relation to the present European bring this student enthusiasm out on ers will be replaced by permanent ones. the sorority high was reached by Theta new, spacious offices of the music de conflict, and several of the talks, es top or will cause it to stagnate and go Upsilon with a 79.934. For the second partment on the third floor of Ballard Leaders will be chosen by nomina pecially that of Harvard’s president, on in a lackadaisical way. semester of 1938-39 the 78.860 average hall when we went to interview this tion. Nominees will be chosen by pe James Bryant Conant, were widely We have long needed a man whose of the sororities gives them an appreci man who will shape the future destinies titions circulated throughout the class. publicized in the Boston papers. whole interest is in our musical or able lead over the fraternity average of of music at the University.

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