Pappy
Pap's final reference above was to the university's intention to
suspend him for organizing a fraternity dance during his student
days. He beat them to the punch by switching to Indiana
University to finish out his college years.
THE INDOMITABLE BETTIE LOCKE
Pap wrote this speech for his daughter Ann to deliver at a
convention of sorority Kappa Alpha Theta.
Bettie Locke Hamilton--the fabulous Bettie Locke of Greek letter
sorority lore and literature--was no hand for dalliance,
amorously or otherwise, in 1868 or any other time thereafter up
to her death in 1939.
Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University) located at my
hometown, Greencastle, Indiana, decided to admit female students,
beginning in the Fall of 1868, after a debate that started on a
high level after much prayerful thought and meditation and ended
in a knockdown and drag-out verbal fight that divided the
dignitaries, bisected the Methodist Church temporarily, split the
faculty into two hostile camps and put the town into a dither--
from railroad depot to barber shop and livery barn.
Rumor hath it that promptly at 8 o'clock on the morning of
opening day, Bettie Locke presented herself for admission--the
first female registrant of Asbury.
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