Coach Mel Rosen and Aubie
A recap of the 81st Annual
Rosen-Hutsell ODK Cake Race
held today,
Nov. 4, 2009,
3:30 p.m.
Hutsell-Rosen Track
The annual Rosen-Hutsell-ODK Cake Race takes place Homecoming Week
and all are encouraged to enter the 2.7 mile race across campus.
The first 25 to finish receive a home-baked cake.
While the first male to cross the finish line wins a kiss from Miss Auburn,
the first female to cross the finish line wins a kiss from a top Auburn male "celebrity."
The race was established in 1928 by Wilbur Hutsell, the track coach at the time,
to discover possible track team recruits in the freshman class. Women began participating in 1977.
Check out: www.auburn.edu/odk/
Rosen-Hutsell-ODK Cake Race
The annual Rosen-Hutsell-ODK Cake Race takes place Homecoming Week
The top 20 males and top 20 females will each receive a cake
and a complimentary T-shirt!
Spirit Points awarded!
A great Auburn
tradition!
http://www.auburn.edu/admissions/auburn/traditions.html
Coach Mel Rosen
Mel Rosen (1928- ) came to Auburn University in the fall of 1955 as an assistant track coach.
By the time he retired in 1991, he had served as head track coach for 28 years
and coached numerous individual and team champions;
he stepped down to serve as head coach of men's track and field for the
U.S. Olympic team in 1992.
http://eoa.auburn.edu/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2341
Encyclopedia of Alabama
ODK has been recognizing outstanding leaders at Auburn University since receiving its charter on May 22, 1928.
In 2003 we had our 75th anniversary. While junior and senior student leaders in any discipline are the primary initiates, faculty, staff, community leaders, graduate students and alumni are also initiated from time to time.
Initiations are held in the fall and spring of each year.
Nominations for membership are solicited from Deans, Department Heads, and others.
These nominees are sent applications to be filled in and submitted.
They then are scored by an ODK student committee using a predetermined point system.
A ballot containing roughly twice the open spots is then prepared from the highest- scored applications and a vote of the active membership is used to select initiates.
The VP is in general the one in charge of the nomination process.
Officers are:
PRESIDENT: Clay Parker, Senior in Biomedical Sciences (Pre-Medicine)
VICE PRESIDENT: Josh Bierman, Senior in Human Resource Mgt.
SECRETARY/TREASURER: Danny FelthamCHAPLAIN: Patrick Llewellyn
FACULTY SECRETARY: Dr. Dale A. Coleman, Associate Professor of Animal Science.
FACULTY ADVISER: Dr. Susan Hubbard, Professor of Human Sciences.
Dr. Dale Coleman, faculty secretary; Coach Mel Rosen; Coach Susan Nunnelly;
Dr. Susan Hubbard, faculty adviser.
Clay Parker, ODK president, and Dr. Dale Coleman, faculty secretary.
Thanks for visiting
The 81st Annual Rosen-Hutsell ODK Cake Race
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009 at 3:30 p.m.
Web page and photos by Ed Williams, Professor
Department of Communication and Journalism
willik5@auburn.edu
