Beta B.M.O.C. Leaves for Farm

The name “Wooglin” has become legend among the students on the Ohio Wesleyan campus as well as among the brothers of
Beta Theta Pi.

The Ohio Wesleyan “Wooglin” is a brown and white collie, the mascot of Theta chapter. In his four years in college, he has won his way into the hearts of hundreds of Wesleyan students, and most of the professors.

Woogie was purchased in 1939 by all the members of the chapter, and quickly became the best known Beta on the campus.

At first, the pledges found him a little annoying. But, after all, he was only a six-month old pup, and he soon learned that there was a time and place for every  thing.

After he got acquainted with the brothers, the puppy soon found that he could improve his intellect by regularly at  tending classes.

When Wooglin came to the Beta House, he was the only fraternity dog on the cam  pus. In the next two years, Woogie had several playmates. Pat, the Phi Psi Great Dane, and Duchess, the Phi Gam’s lumber  ing St. Bernard, were the prime contenders for Wooglin’s crown. of “King of the Campus’.’ But better competition than this was needed to remove him from his firmly at  tached position.

With the advent of more fraternity dogs and an ever increasing numbers of town  canine on the campus, one might say that the faculty was being “hounded” to death. As a result, Dean Harold J. Sheridan and Allen C. Conger, registrar, told the Dela ware police to rid the campus of the animals. A campaign for the abolition of dogs resulted. Many dogs were shot, and Robert Brentlinger, president of Theta chapter was arrested for allegedly allowing Wooglin to run at large from sundown to sun  up.

This caused a furor on . the campus. Petitions were circulated and signed by more than 800 students. The chapter decided to fight the case, and enlisted the aid of Forrest E. Smith, father of Beta Don Smith and prosecuting attorney of Frank  lin County. However, the publicity arising from the proceedings in the out-of-town papers forced the chapter to give in and pay the fine.

And so, with the house closing up for the duration, Woogie has left Theta chapter, and the Ohio Wesleyan campus for a new home in Norwalk with Paul Miller, Theta ’43. He has left behind him a lasting memory in the hearts of Wesleyan students who have been on the campus the last four years, and especially the brothers of Beta Theta Pi.