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Show Scribblers' Club o NE languid afternoon in October, 1908, Mr. La Fayette Lentz Butler, an English teacher, fresh from Princeton, announced that he would help the men of the University of Utah to organize a Scribblers' club. Remembering the fate of other similar ventures, the men looked passively and yawned.On the evening of the initial meeting a dozen men, partly through curiosity, partly through loyalty, moped into the room where Mr. Butler waited. The young instructor "fired up" in an attempt to get the fellows interested. "We shall do- more than write stupidly and talk dryly on standard literature," he said, "We shall smoke and eat." A couple of fellows woke up and asked him what he said. The noise stirred the rest and they cleared their throats and straightened their neckties. It was easy going then. An organization was effected with ten charter members. The first regular meeting went down in school history as a very smoky affair. But out of the smoke rose high promise. Every man suddenly became imbued with the idea that he could do more than smoke. He could write, he could criticise and help his fellow writer, he could find great interest in standard authors, he could spur local men to say significant things on vital topics, he could learn to speak, he could learn to act, he could even consign smoke to a very inferior place in the scheme. An attempt to realize these ideals, then, has been the work of the members of the Club since its foundation.Today the Club has twenty active members, and ten honorary, non-active and graduate members. It has written and criticised about seventy-five papers. It has listened to approximately twenty pointed lectures. It has given two banquets at down-town hotels. It has produced before the public an excellent farce, written by its founder. It has been entertained at the rooms of practically all its members. This modest record inspires its membership with the belief that the Club will continue in the University as long as a need for the work it does is felt.OfficersFirst Semester Second SemesterPresident, Delbert M. Draper, Lorin A. WhitmoreVice-President, Lorin A. Whitmore, Jonathan GibbsSecretary, Lloyd H. Hamien, Logan MorrisTreasurer, Jonathan Gibbs, Benjamin F. HowellsHonorary MembersGeorge Hastings A. Blaine RobertsL. L. ButlerActive MembersLorin A. Whitmore D. H. Sandin Joel Ricks C. T. Woodbury L. H. Hamren Harold Holman Logan Morris Jonathan Gibbs Clifford Ashby N. M. JuddO. RomneyB. F. Howells Allyn Moser Hugo B. Anderson Stephen Wilcox F. A. Johnson John Fife Delbert M. Draper Thomas Chamberlin Thomas Stokes B. F. Ballantyne(150) |