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Re: [APO-L] UMOC Founding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Rock)
Thu Oct 9 16:31:12 2003
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:29:34 -0400
Reply-To: Chris Rock <rock@cmer.org>
From: Chris Rock <rock@cmer.org>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031009155555.01b41750@camail1.harvard.edu>
I'm afraid I can't cite a source, nor really confirm the information, but
this may help someone else in searching for the answer.
I was told once that UMOC started no later than the 20's. It was a social
Greek thing initially. Ugly was actually an acronym for understanding,
generous, loyal, and youthful, consider to be qualities of an outstanding
young man.
I've heard the time frame and acronym often enough that it's either true or
one heck of an urban legend. I suppose any organization really could have
started it as a fundraiser.
Can any confirm or disconfirm that information?
Chris
At 04:13 PM 10/9/03, Ellen d Kranzer wrote:
>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.)
