Reamer Club to rededicate
campus fountain Sunday
By Matt Poston
Staff
Writer
A campus monument infused with tradition and legend
will be rededicated at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday between Stanley Coulter Hall
and Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry.
Water will once again flow through the Stone Lions’
Fountain, a gift from the class of 1903, thanks to the Reamer Club.
The Reamer Club raised close to $50,000 from alumni,
corporations and friends of Purdue to help fund the restoration project
and celebrate the club’s 75th anniversary. Until it was taken apart
for restoration last spring, the Stone Lions’ Fountain was an important
landmark for the Reamer Club.
The group would gather around the fountain and
sing various school songs and cheers. This Sunday, that Reamer Club
tradition will resume.
Jessica Sawyer, a sophomore in the School of Pharmacy
and co-chairperson for the fundraising drive, said she is excited to
see water running from the fountain for the first time since the 1930s
or '40s.
Amber Frederick, a 1999 animal science graduate
and current graduate student, devised the idea to restore the fountain
so water would run through it once again.
Frederick said there are many legends that surround
the Lions’ Head Fountain.
"If you kiss someone under the Bell Tower
and then walk past the fountain, you will get married," Frederick
said.
Sawyer said that another legend says that if a
virgin walks by the fountain, the lions are supposed to roar.
Frederick is pleased to see all her hard work pay
off in the fountain’s rededication.
"I’m happy to see it finished, and I’m
excited to see it run and take one of the first drinks from the fountain,"
Frederick said.
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