The annual Barometer Bust, sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, is scheduled every spring. All members of the Barometer staff attend and are amused by the antics of Sigma Delta Chi members and prospective pledges. A future Sigma Delta Chi member loses his pants as faculty members laugh in the background.
C. D. Byrne, Director of Information for the Oregon State System of Higher Education and a member of the Wisconsin chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, takes a bite of ice cream between words with Dr. Rex F. Harlow, Professor of Education at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford School Press Relations Investigation. Dick Kennedy, Editor of the Daily Barometer, is on Dr. Harlow's left. The banquet followed Dr. Harlow's initiation as an associate member of the OSC chapter.
This group under the guidance of Hal Higgs, Sigma Delta Chi man shown in front center, edits the campus Student Directory, a telephone book showing home addresses, school addresses, and school registered. Published in 1938 Beaver, p. 127.
Part of the "festive board" at the Sigma Delta Chi banquet honoring Dr. Rex Harlow, Director of the Stanford School Press Relations Investigation, who was made an associate member of the OSC chapter last April. Dick Gearhart, president of the chapter and last year's delegate, is shown on the extreme right.
Sigma Delta Chi Dick Kennedy, editor of the student daily, and Fred M. Shideler, Head of Journalism Department and alumni member of Sigma Delta Chi, tap out stories at the downtown editorial offices of the student daily newspaper.
Chapter adviser John C. Burtner spreads it on at the annual Barometer Bust, funfest, and party sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi for all students enrolled in journalism or working on the staff of a major publication on the campus. Published in the 1939 Beaver, p. 121.
The Publications Committee of Oregon State College controls all student publications and selects the editors and managers for each one. Members of Sigma Delta Chi predominate on the committee shown above. At the extreme right is E. T. Reed, Publications Editor for the college and an associate member of Sigma Delta Chi. Seated at the head of the table and third from the right is Fred M. Shideler, Head of the Journalism Department, Chairman of the committee, and an alumni member of Sigma Delta Chi. Burch Davis, fourth from right, and Ed Burchell, left are both members of the Oregon State chapter. Published in 1938 Beaver, p. 117.
Another view of the Ben Ames professional meeting, showing Ames (fourth from the left) with President Peavy, Dr. U. G. Dubach, Dean of Men, the Japanese consul from Portland, and W. A. Jensen, executive secretary of the college. Ames gave one of the most interesting talks and brought forth more questions than perhaps any other person who addressed the Sigma Delta Chi men during the year.
Ben Ames, famed United Press European correspondent, was the center of interest at one of the Oregon State Sigma Delta Chi professional meetings last spring. A number of the campus "big shots", including President George W. Peavy (standing) came in for the luncheon meeting. Ames is shown in the center, thumb in vest. Published in the 1938 Beaver, p. 240.
