[23961] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] UMOC Founding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen d Kranzer)
Thu Oct 9 16:14:33 2003
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:13:45 -0400
Reply-To: Ellen d Kranzer <ccrazy@theworld.com>
From: Ellen d Kranzer <ccrazy@theworld.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <F32001085EA6D211B61B00805F6FE69E04EAD823@exchsv2.ogsnet.og
s.state.ny.us>
At 03:07 PM 10/9/2003, you wrote:
>So, hearing so many schools doing UMOC for so long, who founded UMOC?
>Introduced the concept? Ran the first project and where?
>
>-Rich "REV" Vehlow
I'm not sure where it started. Alpha Chi started running UMOC in the early
50s. I forget the exact date off the top of my head -- sometime between
1951 & 1953. In those days, T&T ran a lot of 'how to' articles. According
to AX's records, the chapter got the idea to do UMOC from one of those
how-to articles in T&T. Unfortunately, the T&T issue in question is one of
the few that isn't in AX's archives. Apparently though, the article had
fairly detailed information about running a UMOC. Again, off the top of my
head, I don't remember the date of the issue, but it's probably in the time
frame 1949-1952. The info in AX's office didn't include the name of the
chapter that had written the T&T article, though they do mention that it
had been written by a chapter. My own suspicion is that it is one of the
inactive chapters (or one that has a period when it was inactive) since
"Where did UMOC start?" seems to be a recurring question and I've never
seen any chapter claim responsibiliby.
Y.i.S.
Ellen c.c. Kranzer
Advisor, Alpha Chi
P.S. These days AX runs UMOC as "Ugliest Manifestation on Campus". There's
a container of milk that has run for something like the last 10 years (Yes,
the same container of milk. Yes, it's a real item. Yes, it's pretty ugly at
this point.)
