Posted on February 9, 2018

Mortar Board, the honor society for college seniors, got its start at the University of Idaho as a local society of 13 senior women in 1921. By 1923, a national chapter was installed, but unfortunately today is no longer active. [Read More]

Posted on February 8, 2018

“The Philharmonic Club was organized in 1894. The purpose is to further the musical interests of the University of Idaho. Any person interested in the study of music is eligible to membership.” - University of Idaho Philharmonic Club Year Book 1906-1907 [Read More]

Posted on January 31, 2018

The Vandal Flying Club offered students and community members an opportunity to learn the art of flying inexpensively. According to the Gem of the Mountains yearbook, the organization was started in 1949. It was created with the purpose of helping licensed pilots with the cost of flying and to teach... [Read More]

Posted on January 25, 2018

The Hell Divers was an organization on campus that dated back to at least the 1930s. Based on photos the group was Co-ed as early as the 1950s. The Hell Divers had regular performances for the public, one of the major ones was their Mothers Day Water Show. [Read More]

Posted on January 17, 2018

Aldrich Entomology Club Newsletter: “The club was founded during the fall semester of 1961 and owes its inception to Dr. W.F. Barr and Art Gittins. The purpose of the club is primarily to encourage graduate and undergraduate students and others interested in the field of entomology in the furtherance of... [Read More]

Posted on February 9, 2016

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.... [Read More]

Posted on February 5, 2016

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. [Read More]

Posted on January 29, 2016

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. [Read More]

Posted on January 22, 2016

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... [Read More]

Posted on January 15, 2016

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... [Read More]

Posted on January 9, 2016

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. [Read More]

Posted on January 1, 2016

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... [Read More]

Posted on December 23, 2015

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... [Read More]

Posted on December 19, 2015

Chrestomathean Preparatory Debating Society [Read More]

Posted on December 12, 2015

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Posted on December 5, 2015

The Vandal Flying Club publication [1] [Read More]