Identifier: palmofalphatauom5719alph (find matches)
Title: The Palm of Alpha Tau Omega
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Alpha Tau Omega
Subjects: Greek letter societies
Publisher: (Champaign, Ill., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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akesof predecessors, moreenthusiastic thanpractical, and foundhimself faced withthe herculean task ofcollecting from apa-thetic alumni thesecond half of themillion dollar fundneeded to erect theUnion. In the midstof his task, the Re-gents had asked himto organize, virtuallyfrom scratch, a newrecords system forthe universitys 60,-000 alumni. Becausesuch records wouldbe of incalculablevalue in prosecutingthe Union campaign,he hesitated to refuse.Yet he knew it wouldbe physically impossible to carry on bothjobs. An assistant, unless he were justthe right one, would only be a liability.Then he remembered Butts. For twodays he kept the wires to Springfieldhot and on the third day Butts arrivedin Madison to begin, as Alumni Re-corder, a still uninterrupted adminis-trative connection with the universityin which he had made undergraduatehistory. Butts was only well started on thepainstaking job of organizing the gradu-ate records when Bollard left to jointhe presidents staff at the University
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THE LAKE TERRACE OF THE WISCONSIN UNION, overlook-ing Lake Mendota. Regular meal service is available here duringthe spring and summer months. of Chicago. Ever since Porters returnto Madison he had had an active partin the Union campaign and it wasnatural enough that the Union Execu-tive Coi?imittee should have appointedhim to succeed his chief. S.0.8. TO BERG8TRESSER Taking his cue from Bollard, Buttssent an S. 0. S. to a third Gamma Tau,John Bergstresser, who, rememberingthe good old days, came back. LikeButts, he came back to stay and nowholds a professorship in education andgives most of his time to being assistant 276 THE PALM, September, 1937 dean of the universitys largest college. The Union campaign had reached an-other of a long series of crises whenButts slipped into the saddle. Convincedthat after eight years of listening tovague promises that construction wouldstart next spring or next fallalumni would not kick in with promisedcontributions until some tangible andvisible b

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