HE beginning of the now very popular organization known as the Nu Meds was seen in 1913, when the first two years of medical work, making up the pre-clinical courses, were transferred to the College of Medicine located in Omaha, leaving two years of academic work to be taken at the city campus in Lincoln. With the two years preparatory work in Lincoln, the students in the pre-medic course found a need for an organization in which only those in the College of Arts and Sciences who were taking the work preparatory to the course in medicine could be joined with common interests and bonds, The Nu Meds society was then founded.

     Membership in the organization is open to all students taking academic work in preparation for the course in medicine at Omaha. The aim and purpose of the society is to better acquaint the students with the real medical atmosphere that they will be in later, and to bring about a. closer friendship among the pre-medic students.

      The Nu Meds hold monthly banquets at which time all the members gather and are addressed by medical men of prominence, visiting doctors, alumni faculty members of the College of Medicine and other colleges who are particularly interested in medicine and the pre-medic course. These are regular get-togethers intended to emphasize the importance and seriousness of the medical vocation, as well as furnishing entertainment and a common relationship between all the pre-medic students.

      The Nu Meds have three events of significance to the year's activities. Two of these are the tapping of members of Theta Nu. This occurs twice a year at a monthly banquet. Theta Nu is an honorary pre-medic fraternity, the members of which are selected on the basis of scholarship, leadership, personality, and participation in student activities. It is an honor sought after by pre-medic students.

 

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     The third event of interest is Pre-Medic Day at Omaha. This comes usually late in April, and is a trip of inspection to the College of Medicine in Omaha. In the morning the college is inspected under the guidance of medical students at the school. Operations and medical services of different kinds are witnessed and explained by the faculty members or persons in charge. In the afternoon various sorts of entertainment are provided, usually a ball game for the men and teas for the women. In the evening a smoker is held at the University Club, to bring together the students and faculty of the College of Medicine and the pre-medic students. Many of the visitors stay for the rest of the week to enjoy theatre parties and dances given by the medical fraternities. The pre-medics are, in this way, given an insight into the work that they will meet in the four years of actual work in medicine.

     Nu Meds society is growing every year. New students are becoming more and more interested in the organization as it increases its activities and becomes more important to the undergraduate. The future will bring many developments to further help the society and the college which it represents.

OFFICERS

FIRST SEMESTER
President	ROBERT E. STALEY
Vice-President	DELBERT K. JUDD
Secretary-Treasurer	FREDRICK VAN VALIN
Sergeant-at-Arms	GEORGE H. MORANVILLE
SECOND SEMESTER
President	DELBERT K. JUDD
Vice-President	PORTER FORCADE
Secretary-Treasurer	L. S. MCNEIL
Sergeant-at-Arms	HARVEY D. RUNTY

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