And when Herbert L. “Butch” Meeker was a Washington State senior, the governor of the state, Roland Hartley, presented the WSU student body its first live cougar mascot. The students promptly ...

University mascot Butch T. Cougar waved the biggest flag ... started my first year of college,” Leavitt said, wearing a WSU T-shirt and waving a crimson flag. Leavitt had just graduated from ...