Article "Ten Things You Don't Know About Ohio State"

[LloydSev]

http://ydr.com/story/psu/47281/

Ten things you didn't know about Ohio State




Friday, October 29, 2004


10. The ashes of former university board trustee Herbert S. Atkinson are buried in a wall in the university's administration building. A placard marks the spot.

9. The original school colors were orange and black.

8. Veterinary medicine professor James H. Snook was found guilty of murdering his mistress in 1929 with hammer blows to the head and by cutting her jugular vein. He was electrocuted the following year.

7. Graduate Harry Drackett invented Windex, and Roy Plunkett invented Teflon.

6. The Orton Hall chimes can be heard three miles away. The bells, increased in number from 12 to 16 recently, have been ringing every 15 minutes for nearly 90 years.

5. Graduate Melvin DeGroote held 925 patents, second only to Thomas Edison. Most of DeGroote's inventions were chemical demulsifiers used to treat crude oil.

4. The "Buckeye Bullet" is the world's fastest electric vehicle. It holds both the international and national speed records. It is designed, built and managed by a team of engineering students.

3. Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer flunked out after one semester.

2. It claims to be the only major university that still presents actual diplomas to individual graduates at its commencement ceremony.

1. Students pulled a university-wide prank in 1926. Maudine Ormsby was "the only cow ever elected homecoming queen."

This should probobaly be moved, I dunno, since the only thing football related is the color part. Didn't even think before I posted it.

 

[scooter1369]

I knew the color one and the Dahmer thing. The rest is new to me.

 

[osugrad21]

Nice find Lloyd...

 

[ScarletInMyVeins]

Does anyone know when the colors were changed to S&G?

 

[LloydSev]

http://www.1122productions.com/tradition/colors/

From Ohio State's athletics site:Orange and black were first chosen as Buckeye colors in 1878. When the selection committee learned that Princeton had already picked those colors, the group instead chose scarlet and gray.

 

[BuckBackHome]

I still tell people about how you get your diploma when you walk at OSU. Everyone thinks it is a stupid fact, but I think it is pretty impressive considering the logistics involved.

 

[Bucktastic]

Orange and Black...can you imagine that today? Thats weird...

Nice post LS.

 

[ntd]

I saw the dimplomas (getting handed out) for the first time this summer...it was impressive

 

[CleveBucks]

they give you your diploma but don't call your name. sort of pointless.