A 1960s basketball rivalry between the University of Idaho and Idaho State University sees the winning team of the annual series sporting a smiling, silver spud trophy, the “King Spud.”
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Happy Valentines Day and looking forward to the upcoming University of Idaho Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival
I Wish You Love by Caterina Valente and Stanley Black and His OrchestraHappy Valentines Day and looking forward to the upcoming University of Idaho Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, February 24 - 27 from UI Library Special Collections and International Jazz Collections!
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To the spud and beyond!
Historical Student Clubs
Active apparently only in 1975, the Idaho Star Trek Club had at least 13 members. With brief mentions of a possible local chapter of a fan club in the 1980s and 1990s, and online interest just recently, there might still be some Star Trek fans out there on the Palouse....
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So many clubs...
Historical Student Clubs
![Committee on Student Organizations [1]](https://webpages.uidaho.edu/library/spec/harvester/objects/thumbs/studentorganizationscorrespondence_th.jpg)
Next week I will be wrapping up the #Student Clubs series, although today’s find did leave an opening for a continuance down the road.
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A Liberty Loving Society
Historical Student Clubs
The Websterian Society was a debate club open to any University of Idaho student in good standing. The society existed over 50 years, from just three years after the doors opened to the latest mention I could find was in 1949.
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Ladies of WRA - Historical Student Clubs
Historical Student Clubs
The Women’s Recreation Association was open to all women on the University of Idaho campus, promoting all types of fall, winter and spring sports as well as folk and modern dancing. The WRA organized both intramural and extramural teams, no doubt with help from the physical education department. Here are...
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Well Worth While
Historical Student Clubs
Blue Key, a national honor society, became a part of the Vandal community in 1925, shortly after it originated at the University of Florida in 1924 Blue Key had a strong start at the UI, composed of upper class students who were leaders in various student activities and maintained a vital...
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Glee Club on Tour
Historical Student Clubs
![Glee Club [1]](https://webpages.uidaho.edu/library/spec/harvester/objects/thumbs/gleeclub_1_th.jpg)
The time-honored tradition of musical clubs has not wavered
throughout the history of the University of Idaho, from choral and glee clubs to the Vandaleers Concert Choir and Jazz Choir.
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Ring in the New Year with SCA ... - Historical Student Clubs
The Society for Creative Anachronism, that is! While not technically a student club, the Society for Creative Anachronism was a non-profit organization with enough members who were University students to garner a page in the 1985 Gem of the Mountains Yearbook. The group was created around 1978 and from what...
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Orchesis at Christmastime
Historical Student Clubs
This week’s student club is Orchesis, a dance honorary created at the University of Idaho around 1948 with the first performance being May 7, 1948. The club was organized for the advanced modern dance students, starting a tradition of dance recitals at every Christmastime and for the May Fete or...
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