Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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The Freshmen

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19 1 T Cl ARLA FRESHMAN HISTORY O N SEPTEMBER 15, 1915, Muhlenberg College opened her doors and extended her right hand of fellowship to the class of 1919, the fifty-second class in the history of our beloved Alma Mater. After carefully taking us out of the green packages in which we had been sent by parcel post, the faculty scrutinized us and decided that we as the class of 1919 were a most excellent collection of embryo ministers, professors, physicians, statesmen and traffic policemen. Accordingly we were enrolled, carefully instructed in college traditions and Freshman rules, and, with the aid of several Juniors, we organized, and then waited for developments. lln the annual class fights we had such an easy time of it that we almost concluded that Muhlenberg College was an excellent place to take the rest cure. The pole fight was for- feited to us. Then came the banner fight. With an air of confidence the Sophs marched down the field to the tree to which our banner was nailed. But that air of confidence was changed to one of sullen despair, when they saw a rawhide banner carefully nailed to the tree with forty-penny spikes. They struggled desperately, but it was all in vain. The signal to cease the fray was given and “our flag was still there.” We then lost the annual class football game, not because we had no gridiron stars but because they played on the varsity and were debarred from the class game. Three o our men have been granted the varsity “M” in football and a number of others did excel- lent work with the scrubs. We had a splendid basketball team and lost the series by a close margin. Our track prospects are exceptionally promising. Some of our men hold excellent records and will certainly do commendable work, both for the class and the college. But above all we pride ourselves in our scholarship. We have convincingly demon- strated that we possess talented men in the various fields of knowledge. Eight of the twenty men on the college glee club are members of our class. The class is active in literary work and has manifested its ability in the Freshman number of the Muhlenberg Weekly. “Meliora Sequamur” is the standard around which we shall continue to rally our forces throughout our college course. That we may be students of a type that will ever reflect the glory and honor of our noble Alma Mater, is the sincere aim and desire of the class of Nineteen Nineteen. Historian. 97

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191 T CIARL A FRESHMAN CLASS OFFICERS FIRST TERM Frederick J. Kroesen President William G. Wahl Vice President Henry Heuer, Jr Secretary Charles F. Reichardt Treasurer Lloyd M, BELLIS Historian Raymond A. Kline Monitor SECOND TERM Charles F. Reichardt President Luther A. Krouse Vice President Edwin G. Arner Secretary Titus V. Druckenmiller Treasurer Lloyd M. BELLIS Historian George DeLoziER Monitor Class Motto — “Meliora Sequamur” Class Flower — Yellow Lily Class Colors — Orange and Navy Blue Class Yell Rip ’em up ! Reign supreme ! Muhlenberg ! Nineteen ! 99