79th Annual Rosen-Hutsell ODK Cake Race
Oct. 31, 2007
3:30 p.m.
Hutsell-Rosen Track

 

Rosen-Hutsell-ODK Cake Race

The annual Rosen-Hutsell-ODK Cake Race takes place Homecoming Week

This year the Auburn tradition was on Halloween!
Oct. 31, 2007



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/

Aubie and track emeritus Coach Mel Rosen
 
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!





Chaney Shafferman, co-chair, and Elizabeth Hard, vice president

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: Jan-Paul Papaioannou, Senior in Accounting.

VICE PRESIDENT: Elizabeth Hard, Senior in Public Relations.

SECRETARY/TREASURER: Kristy Cottrell, Junior in Accounting.

FACULTY SECRETARY: Dr. Dale A. Coleman, Associate Professor of Animal Science.

FACULTY ADVISER: Dr. Susan Hubbard, Associate Professor of Nutrition & Food Science

Web page and photos by Ed Williams, Professor
Department of Communication and Journalism
Faculty Adviser, The Auburn Plainsman

willik5@auburn.edu