 Its founding members were W.C. Halbert, O. P. Gerhard, H. C. Williams, William Baughn, and F. C. Mueller.By 1914 the art club had grown into a fully functioning fraternity with a roll of six active members, ten pledges, one faculty member and one member urbe (now Associate).In 1915, according to "The Kentuckian Yearbook", the fraternity adopted as its publication "The Quill and Inkhorn", as its flower the Pansy, and as its colors lavender and old gold.