South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-11-07
OUR TELLER CITIZENS
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HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI DAY.
Alumnus Neal WEIGH. class 10. is
seeking the higher education at Indi-
ana university. lie was pledged
Delta Tau quicker'n wink.
AIumnus Charles Berteling, class
II. toow a two-day trip down the
river last summer. His lunch the
first day consisted of pork tenderloin
roasted over a campfire, NabiscO
waters and soda crackers. The sec
ona day his lunch consisted of soda
crackers.
AIumpus Leland Rowe, class II. is
attending Wabash college and the
brightest spot In his Christmas vaca-
ton is the annual Pan-Hellenic ban
quet.
AIumnus Paul Paxson. class 10. is
learning 90 be a scientific farmer at
Ames. Iowa. He has become 50 ex-
pert in his line that he can look a
potato in the eye and tell you just
what il Is thinking about.
Alumnus Irwin DoIk. class 90, oc-
cupies q desk next ours, and is so
saturated with statistics and general
Information that we have dispensed
with the dictionary and encyclopedia
entirely. He can tell us anything we
desire 10 know. from the number and
depth OF canals on Mars TO the price
OF eggs in March. 1899.
Alumnus Gale HarFOp. class '0S, is
a thoroughly educated young man.
Not content with a course at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. he absorbed ad-
ditional learning at Harvard, and
holds degrees from both Institutions.
AIumnus Donald Kahn. class OF is
our most promising short story writer
lie contributes regularly TO the pOpu-
lar magazines and while attending the
University of Michigan wrote a play
for the Comedy club which scored a
big hit.
AIumnus Wilbert Ward, class '06, is
now a member OF a New York law
firm. We have some recollection of
Wilbert's working in a foundry at the
hardest kind of manual labor during
his summer vacations before he had
finished college.
AIumnus Myron Buck. o. was a
member Of the crew of the "ZlOthub,"
capt. Bob Hardy which cruised down
the ST. Joe about Is years ago. Myron
was the youngest seamOn on board.
Alumnus Willard Stephenson, class
'04 used To own a little brown pony
called Rosy His brother. Don, had a
half interest in the pet and each of
tn CbOys resOrted to all sorts of
strategy to unload the grooming and
feeding on to the other.
AIumnus Noel Dunbar. class 'O3,
played on the Yale varsity football
team somewhere around 1907 or '07.
While on the Yale freshman team he
had the unique pleasure of Dumping
into Theodore Roosevelt, jr.. Of the
Harvard freshman team.
AIuInnus Warren Davies. class 90.
when a boy in Chaplin park was aC~
knOwledged the best baseball player
on Anderson's field, and was elected
captain Of every team in succession
lie moved out of the neighborhood in
the height Of the season one sum-
mer AMI thus gave the runners-up
chance TO star.
Alumnus Harold Herr, class '01.
once foated down the river on a raft
made of pOrch-pillars. and was hav
ing a bang-up time until the current
swept his craft under an overhanging
tree and brushed him into the water.
After that he lost interest in the ex-
petition.
-Alumnus DIR. Edgar Myers. class 90,
was a member of the star football
team of that year. and twice playeC
ont the game with a broken collar
bone.
Alumnus Dayton Applegate. class
'99 was a camera enthusiast and at
one time was engaged in commercial
photography in Ithaca, y. Y.
Nlumnus Forest Hitler. class '9S,
wit hhis family took a trip TO Cali
fOTuia right in the midst of stretch
OF particularly severe winter weather.
thereby creating considerable envy.
GIumnus John Busby, class 81, has