The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-06-13
Ii CLASS OF s 8

THE CLASS OF 1892.
We have just returned from a class
reunion of the class of 1892 of the State
University of Iowa. Although we have
visited the University many times
since graduation, our impressions this
time when so many of the old boys and
girls were back again, were of an en-
tirely different nature than ever before.
There were ghosts, ghosts, ghosts at
every hand. Phantoms of the. boys
and girls we're not there, pictures CT
e of mirth and mischief. of work
and worry, of bright companionship, OF
and defeats, OF pleasures and
of pains. On every side were ghosts.
But the saddest of these scepters we're
the'shades of departed hopes and am
billions and that awe-inspiring, monu-
mental self-contidence of youth. Nearly
twenty of the old class were there to
attend the class breakfast on Tuesday
morning. The somewhat Aeshy man
with dark mustache and grave and
serious mien sitting beside a most
bright and capable wife was Sollen-
barger. He is a superintendent of
schools in a Southern Iowa city.
Ferron who sat neal was almost too
b%leached out to be therebou' table foot
ball player of a dozen years ago hut he
is a bank cashier at Cleartield Iowa
now and stays in doors more than he
used 10. Hollingsworth is the typical
bank man. He is a trusted employee
OF q Des Moines bank and is just as
suave and cheerful and helpful even
if he is a trihe balier than of old. The
tall lanky boy, q BOY still, Inc boy who
affects a walking stick and very high
collars anil long blonde hair is Stowe.
But Stowe has brains, brains that the
Chicago Chronicle is content to pay for
at a good rouud price as one of its
heavy editorial writer's. The man with
the long Pr nee Albert and tae solemn
counvenauce Is Neison-Frank Nelson
of Kansas. He is State Superintendent
down in the Carrie Nation and he pre-
sided as president of the Alumni As
ISOLATION with ease and dignity.
Shambaugh and Richards are two
most promising members of the Uni
versity faculty. Whitegis the only man
with a beard, has studied abroad.
taken degrees in medicine and he tcois
one of the shining lights of the Uni
versity's teaching force. Gardner halls
from Rapid City S. Oak. and talks
largely OF the prosperity of the Hills
country" and judging from appearances
full share of the prosperity has come
his way. Me6ota is a prosperous at
OF Cedar Rapids. Munger is
one Of the successful business men who
have helped to make Waterloo the
most prosperous city ofthe state. The
mar in clergical garb is called
Father by his flock but to US he was
plain 'Joe" sueppel, although the
effects Of his priestlY calling could be
seen in his actions and expression.
Then there we're the girls Just as
young looking, some of them still
than in 1892. There was
Kate Barber we'll known in Deuison,
who is now a successful teacher in
Ottumwa Julia Rogers one of the
brightest minds of the class who is
capturing new literary honors every
year and who is now connected with
University in New York.
Florence Brown, Aggie Otto, May Gay
nan, Fannie Patton, Sophia Moore all
teachers and workers, happy and help
Then there was Mrs. Laura Clark
the charming wife of one OF
,he members of the medical f~acultythe
only married girl" among those pre-
sent at the reunion What a good time
'%pripging ten and twelve year old jokes
with all the gusto of the latest inven-
lion, telling tales out of school ano
laughing at and with each other out OF
pure JOY at being together again. The
lay was a busy one, a lecture. aramble
the magnificent new collegiate
building and dearer still a trip through
poorer meaner buildings where we
carved our names upon the halls of
fame with deep cut marks which are
q 'ready lost in the maze of more recent
works OF art, a picture-taking-bee on
the old stone steps and then at six
o'clock the Alumni dinner, the great
est event of the kind that takes place
in Iowa during the course CT the year.
event that brings together more OF