Tau Kappa Alpha, a speech organization, selected only avery small percentage of speech students for membership. Besides students, selectfaculty were also made members.  In 1939this group was three years old (see 1939 Aurora pg. 78).  The Archives collection contains a stencilwith the T. K. A. initials and a length of chain on which cards containing thenames and initiation dates of members were connected with paperclips.  Rusted, the paperclips were removed, but the cardswith names and initiation dates remain, the earliest being George Beauchamp,initiated April, 1926, and followed by: Benjamin Stoner April 1929, DallasDickey October, 1930, Joe Wagner April, 1930, Joseph Stoner April, 1933, ArthurLafollette April 1935, Paul Baker May 18, 1936, Vernon Van Dyke May 18, 1936,Andrew Cordier May 18, 1936, Russell Winger May 18, 1936, Jeannette Jackson May18, 1936, Winston Brembeck May 18, 1936, Howard Winger May 18, 1936, WinnifredBrubaker May 18, 1936, Paul Geisenhof May 18, 1936, Mabel Ridenour May 18,1936, Norbert Drake May 18, 1936, Helen Eberhart November 6, 1936, Paul KinselNovember 6, 1936, Robert Noffsinger November 7, 1936, Laph Lawson November 7,1936, Dean Smith November 7, 1936, Lewis Lloyd November 6, 1936,, Lewis LloydNovember 6, 1936, Fred Conkling November 6, 1936, Paul Boase May 18, 1936,Ralph Finnell November 6, 1936, Leroy Fish November 6, 1936, Paul Byers April14, 1937, Howard Sollenberger April 14, 1937, Fred Fox March 21, 1937, (D?) BarwinKelley March 11, 1937, Frances Smith April 14, 1937, Hubert Cordier April 14,1937, Robert Ott April 14, 1937, Forrest Burcroff April 14, 1937, JamesPottenger April 14, 1937, Pauline Ross April 14, 1937, Byron Sites April 14,1937, Lloyd Hoff May 2, 1937, Ida Mae Barcus May 2, 1937, Paul Smith May 2,1937, John Beauchamp September 11, 1937, Howard Nyhart October 15, 1937, EdnaEberhart October 15, 1937, Mary Darley December 4, 1937, Galen Wenger December4, 1937, Wilbur Brookover October 15, 1937, James McFadden December 4, 1937,Truman Yoder February 25, 1938, Paul Keller April 1, 1938, Lester Young April1, 1938, Edwin Keller April 1, 1938, Inez Goughnour April 4, 1938, BarbaraBarnhart April 4, 1938, Eva Lois Zimpelman April 4 1938, Donald Sincroft April8, 1938, Wilbur Eikenberry April 8, 1938, Robert Hoover April 8, 1938, LelandEmrick April 8, 1938, Mildred Knull April 4, 1938, Charles Wells, Jr. May 14,1938, Winnifred Ray May 14, 1938, J. Raymond Schutz October 22, 1938, IvanEikenberry October 23, 1938, Bertha Thornburgh October 22, 1938, Lloyd WilliamHilbert October 10, 1941, Vernon Miller May 11, 1941, Perry Rohrer April 4,1941, Gus Chinworth, Jr. March 10, 1939, Ward Vandegrift March 10, 1939,Dorothy Jean Byerly March 10, 1939, Robert Underhill March 19, 1940, EdwinGrossnickle March 19, 1940, Geneva Pottenger March 19, 1940, Dale Peters March20, 1940, Kenneth Richards March 20, 1940, Grace McClaran March 20, 1940,Melvin Burkholder April 27, 1940, Archie Grogan April 27, 1940, Dale FlemingApril 27, 1940, Otho Winger March 4, 1941, Benton Rhoades March 25, 1941,Wilbur Heisey March 25, 1941, Sadie Wampler March 25, 1941, Fern Rohrer March25, 1941, W. W. Peters March 25, 1941, Wilbur Dunbar March 25, 1941, JamesBrock March 25, 1941, Eloise Kelly March 15, 1942, Ted McLaughlin March 15,1942, Carl Holl March 15, 1942, Floyd Mallott March 15, 1942, Richard BarnhartMarch 15, 1942, Loreta Shull March 15, 1942, Catherine Beauchamp December 2,1942, Mary Ellen Ronald February 18, 1943, Vernon Schwalm February 18, 1943,Robert Henry Miller February 18, 1943 (R. H. Miller?), Earl Sharp February 18,1945, Earl Sharp February 18, 1943, Forrest Seal February 18, 1943, FredRakestraw February 18, 1943, James Schafer February 18, 1943, Helen Myers April25, 1944, Maurine Miller April 25, 1944, Mildred Mahoney April 25, 1944, EmmaLou Sailors April 25, 1944, Keith Hoover 1945, Cole Brembeck 1945, Joe Mow1945, Gordon Shull 1945, Helen Brembeck 1945, Mary Fuju 1946, Clair Siple 1946,David Waas 1946, Suzanne Eiler 1946, Joyce Burchby 1946Melvin Null 1947, WayneMiller 1947, Jack Butler 1947, Ralph Yaney 1947, Glen Crago 1947, ElsiRossmanith 1947, William Gorden 1948, Ellis Hays 1948, Philip Parker 1948,Gilbert Weldy 1948, Roger Sappington 1949, Donald Miller 1949, Erich Hofmann1949, J. William Norris 1949, Jerome Wait 1949, William Robert McFadden 1949,Dean Denlinger 1949, Dale Barnard 1950, Robert Kelley 1950, Robert Weimer 1950,Bernita Yunker 1950, Graydon Snyder 1950, George Getz 1950, Ted Sommer 1951,Wayne Eberly 1951, Jack Bormuth 1951, Patricia Thomas 1952, Richard Weick 1952,William Vlarke 1953, Cloyd Dye, Jr. May 11, 1953, Willis Joseph 1954, KeithMullins 1954, Patricia Haynes 1954, Gene Stebbins May 17, 1955, Mary GilchristMay 17, 1955, Donald Terry May 15, 1956, Mary Dunbar May 15, 1956, David KingMay 15, 1956, Gloria Anderson May 20, 1957, James Taylor May 20, 1957, DonaldHardman May 20, 1957, Sondra Miley May 20, 1957, Phil Shellhaas May 20, 1957,Dave Kreider May 1958, Pat Million May 1958, Rolf Theen May 1958, PhyllisSheets May 14, 1959, Connie Stavropulos May 14, 1959 (probably), Sharon MourerMay 14, 1959, Robert Johanson May 15, 1960, Lois Kieffaber May 15, 1960, ArthurGish 1962, Peggy Gish May 20, 1963.