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RICHARD LEE OGBURN Biology "Dick" Summerfield, North Carolina Oak Ridge Institute Webster Literary Society; Y. M. C. A.; Gamma Beta Chi Club; North Carolina Club; Football Manager, '24; Class Baseball, '24; Class Football, '23; Manager Jesters, '24, '25; Officers' Club. "Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray." "DICK" comes from No'a'th Cawolina, where they chloroform niggers for looking at a white person in the wrong tone of voice. "Dick" first scraped the tar from his heels four years ago on the steps of Ward Hall. There is one motto to which he always adhered, and that is to be comfort' able wherever you can and whenever you can. In his Freshman year he used to make his appearance on the campus in Kentucky jeans, a heavy checkered woolen shirt and with a long-stem pipe in his mouth. As he puffed on his pipe he seemed the very picture of contentment. It was not long before "Dick" made himself well acquainted and won a host of friends. His keen sense of humor, his ready wit, and his endless store of funny tales about the South made him a pleasing and attractive personality. His four years' successful performance with the jesters stands out as a suffi- cient proof of his proficiency along this line. It was while serving in the capacity of manager of the Jesters that his business and executive ability was revealed, and he thereby paved the way for his later position as Football Manager, where he made a phenomenal success. When Ogburn leaves, athletics at W. M. C. will surely lose a valuable man. But, hark! all will not be lost. It is rumored that he has a good understudy. Shroyer is said to be "Dick's" right-hand man. [ 45]