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Re: [APO-L] UMOC Founding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Gallagher)
Thu Oct 9 16:28:08 2003
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:26:33 -0400
Reply-To: Michael Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
From: Michael Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
An inactive chapter or one that was restarted with no locatable alumni or
history, or perhaps one where there is a gap. I know my chapter is missing
various semesters in its now 55-year history.
Michael Gallagher
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellen d Kranzer" <ccrazy@theworld.com>
To: <APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [APO-L] UMOC Founding
> 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.)
>
