Wheel and Chain (Blue Hats)

Members of Wheel and Chain in 1933.

Left to Right: Helen Dickey, Anna Greene, Florence Miller, Margaret Kronenhey, Gertrude Yeager, Jeanne Whittaker, Emma Shawfield, Lucrecia Heisey, Maybelle L. Androvette

Members of Wheel and Chain sit around a desk in March 1943.

Left to Right:  Jeannette Eady Graham, Ruth Caudell Kaufman, Mary Mackie Eshelman, Norma Gaudren Pumphely, Peggy Respess Wane, Charlotte Stafford Baginstore, Josephine Matthews Baum, Myram De Palma Reimer

Members of Wheel and Chain in 1955.

Left to Right: Bobbie Burkett, Jane Myers, Barbara Binning, Ellie Pocius, Lou Howard, Alice Winett, Betty Will, Sandy Marquardt

Wheel and Chain members at the annual tapping on the steps of Old West in 1961.

The members of Wheel and Chain sit on the steps of Old West around 1965.

Top Row: Nancy McAneny, Virginia Hodge, Pamela Grafton

Bottom Row: Doris Detweiler, Anne Albright, Patricia VanAllen, [unknown]

Members of Wheel and Chain sit on the steps of Old West in 1965.

Top Row: Pat Miller, Maureen Newton, Karen Zwart, Pam Searles

Bottom Row: Carol Anne Raskopf, Karen Almstead, Sue Herley

The members of Wheel and Chain sit for a group photograph around 1965.

Top Row: Lauree Eros, Sue LeRoy, Ginny Kreuger

Bottom Row: Carlotte Renshaw, Marilyn, Jackie Jackson, Ginny Sutton

President Howard L. Rubendall, a member of the Class of 1931, stands on the steps of Old West with a group of students. Two students are members of Wheel & Chain. 

Wheel and Chain members at the annual tapping on the steps of Old West on April 13, 1971.

Top Row: Karen Engle, Mary McCullough, Dorsey Green, Jan Brittan, Martha Purvis, Karen Pflug-felder

Bottom Row: Debbie Siegel, Donna Stephens, Cathy Biondi, Mary Moser, Mrs. Carolyn Rubendall

Wheel and Chain members stand on the steps of Old West around 1980.

Left to Right: Betsy Johston, Kathy Poole, Leisa Marshall, Kathleen Tighe, Avery Leslie, Catherine Andriadis, Myrna Bernadel, Rosanne Mistretta, Joan Bishop

Wheel and Chain members from the class of 1981, near the end of their year of service at the annual tapping for new members in April 1981.

Left to Right: Kay Belyea, Lori Anne Tucker, Pamela Foster, Ellen Nicholson, Melanie Nash, Mary Beth Monaha, Colleen Miller, Karin Holm

A group of Wheel & Chain members, wearing their hats, stand together and take a candid picture. 

View of the annual Wheel and Chain tapping ceremony on the steps of Old West in 1983.

The members of Wheel and Chain on the steps of Old West in 1983.

Left-Right: Bambi Stambaugh, Victoria "Vickie" Young, Jennifer DeBerdine, Kathy Kelly, Sandy Kemp, Karen Procopia, Tracy [last name unknown], Vicky Schultz, Kathy Childress, Patterson [last name unknown], Rebecca Frederick

View of the Wheel and Chain tapping ceremony on the steps of Old West in 1984.

A member of Wheel and Chain accepts an item from President Samuel Banks at an event outside Bosler Hall in 1984.

A member of Wheel and Chain at the annual tapping ceremony in front of Old West in 1984.

A Wheel and Chain member at the annual tapping ceremony outside Old West in 1984.

Members of Wheel and Chain at an event in 1984. 

Wheel and Chain members prepare to tap new members in a ceremony on the steps of Old West.

View of two Wheel and Chain members at the annual tapping ceremony in spring 1984.

Three Blue Hats, perhaps the newest members of the Wheel & Chain society on campus, smile together.

View of the Wheel and Chain's annual tapping ceremony on the steps of Old West in 1986.

Wheel and Chain members during the annual tapping ceremony on the steps of Old West in 1986.

Several Wheel and Chain members at an event in 1986.