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Barrett Cup

June 1934
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Barrett Cup
June 1934

Six senior nominees for the Barrett Cup award were voted upon by the three upper classes of the College on May 10. The men named for this highest undergraduate honor by a faculty committee passing upon preliminary student nominations were David Henry Callaway Jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mac Gillivray Collins, of Omaha, Neb.; Emerson Day, of Bronxville, N. Y.; David Talmage Hedges, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Roald Amundsen Morton, of New Rochelle, N. Y.; and Da,na Stearns ton, of Pasadena, California.

The qualifications of the Barrett Cup award call for the election of "that member of the senior class whom the three upper classes choose as giving the greatest promise of becoming a factor in the outside world through his strength of character and qualities of leadership, record of scholarship and broad achievement, and his influence among his fellows."

Callaway is manager of varsity swimming, business manager of the Jack o'Lantern, and the representative of the business boards of the publications in Palaeopitus. He is one of the three undergraduate members of the Athletic Council, and is also a member of Green Key, Casque and Gauntlet, and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

Collins is manager of The Players, and is the representative of non-athletic organizations in Palaeopitus. He was recently elected treasurer of the senior class, and is a member of Green Key and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Day, who is a Senior Fellow, has been prominent in the work of the Outing Club and was director of the 1934 Carnival. He is a Phi Beta Kappa student, and has participated in debating and dramatics. He is a member of Cabin and Trail, the Canoe Club, Forensic Union, German Club, Zeta Alpha Phi, Casque and Gauntlet, and Zeta Psi fraternity.

Hedges, who played in the backfield of the varsity football team for the past three seasons, is president of Palaeopitus and vice-president of the senior class. He is a member of the Interfraternity Council Judiciary Board, The Players, the Undergraduate Fire Squad, Green Key, Sphinx, and Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.

Morton has been a three-sport man throughout his college career, winning insignia in football, hockey and baseball in each of the past four years. He was awarded a Morrill Allen Gallagher Scholarship at the start of the present college year, and is Chief of the Undergraduate Fire Squad. He is a member of Green Key, Sphinx, and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Redington is president of the Interfraternity Council and has been active in the Glee Club. He is a member of Sphinx and Kappa Kappa Kappa fraternity.

Barrett Cup winners in previous years, since the establishment of the award in 1913, have been: 1914 Paul Witmer Loudon 1915 Charles Edmund Griffith Jr. 1916 Chester Albert Pudrith 1917 Robert Gordon Paine 1918 Harvey Perley Hood 2d 1919 Percy Allen Grey 1920 Jackson Livingston Cannell 1921 Frank Artell Ross Jr. 1922 John Porter Carleton 1923 Donald Robinson Moore 1924 Arthur Nightingale Thurston 1925 Lawrence Gillelan Leavitt 1926 Nathan Kuhns Parker 1927 Charles William Bartlett 1928 Leßoy Crosby Milliken 1929 Carl Bernhardt Spaeth 1930 Harold Ellsworth Booma 1931 Willard Clayton WolfE 1932 Howland Hill Sargeant 1933 Lyman Eldredge Wakefield Jr.