Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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GEORGE ADAM KUNKLE Aquashieola, Pa. Born at Aquashieola, Pa., December 1 1892. Prepared at Perkiomen Seminary Entered Muhlenberg in fall of 1913 Classical Course. Sophronia Literary So ciety. Perkiomen Club; Secretary (2, 3) Lutheran. Democrat. Teaching. It was a cold morning when George Kunklc, who hails from the town of Aquashic- ola (a suburb of the city of Slatington located somewhere in Pennsylvania), came trudging thru the deep snow. He was loaded down with a suitcase filled with books and eats, for he had just returned from a week-end visit to the old home town. “Hello there, George,” said I. “How are you?” “My goodness,” he replied, “I’ve had the rheumatism for the last few days that I can scarcely walk. It’s just like when I was down at Perkiomen Seminary, I’d get these rheumatism spells.” I extended him my sympathy and tried to cheer him up, but failed. “It wouldn’t be so bad,” he continued, “if it had come at another time. But I couldn ' t teach my Sunday School class last Sunday and I ' ll have to miss the County Teachers’ Institute this week.” “Teachers’ Institute!” said I. “Why are you interested in that?” He thereupon revealed to me that he had been a rural pedagogue several years ago, but being intellectually ambitious had deserted that profession to attend college. “But you are not going to teach school after graduation here?” 1 inquired. “No,” he replied. “I am taking the A. B. course and expect to enter the ministry. I have very good notes on the history of religion and if I can stand it, I expect to become a foreign missionary worker.” Now that his plans for the future are known, let every one aid Kunkle in securing an appointment among the heathen tribes; Japan or the Fiji Islands preferred.

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HENRY C. KRAFT 15 E. Green St., West Hazleton, Pa. Born at West Hazleton, December 31, 1887. Prepared at Allentown Prep. En- tered Muhlenberg in the fall of 1913. Classical Course. Sophronia Literary So- ciety; President (3). Deutscher Verein; President (3); Secretary (2). M. C. A. A. P. S. Club. K. K. Klub; Secretary- Treasurer (3). Class Secretary (2). Class Vice President (1). Editor of 1915 Calen- dar. Student Council. Honorable Men- tion in Sophomore German Contest. Lutheran. Republican. Ministry. Kraft was presiding officer of the Luther League convention of the Allentown District at Catasauqua, and the following is my report of the meeting: “The meeting will please come to order. Since President Fry could not be present on account of a severe bronchial attack, he asked me, the vice president, to take charge of the convention tonight. Before we begin, will everybody please remove their hats. We will open our business session with the reading of the minutes by the secretary. You have heard the reading of the minutes. Are there any corrections or alterations? “A member addressed the chair and said, ‘I would suggest that the secretary read the phrase, “to please everybody,” instead of, “to satisfy each one ' s desires.” ’ “The secretary will please make the correction. Are the re any other suggestions? If not, the minutes stand approved as read. The report of officers. Treasurer’s report. We come next to old business. Unfinished business. New business. The suggestion that we have a ' feed ' at each meeting is impracticable; we have other and more beneficial means of dispersing our surplus and we all know, ‘Man must not live by bread alone.’ As a member of the United Luther Leagues of Allentown, I wish to say that the membership contest has brought good results. The Leaguers have socials to which the famished college boys, who are religiously inclined, come for a square meal. At these socials most of our lady members succeed in capturing a young man, for the evening at least. The man seems to do the ladies a lot of good (loud applause). In conclusion I wish to say, may the contest be successful, may the socials continue, and may the ladies reap the benefit.”

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Very rarely has nature succeeded in producing such a composite individual as we find in Landis. He is tall, handsome and athletic. He is witty, versatile and woman- wise. His most obtrusive jokes always fall flat because he does not explain and apply them. He is coolness personified. In spite of all these qualities he has two faults. He loves his feet. He will spend an entire hour admiring his lower extremities. His other fad is Dates. He enjoys Allentown society intensely, but “Nothing steady for me” is his usual expression. One evening after returning from a date, he sat in a chair in front of the hearth in which we had built a coke fire and he soliloquized in this poetic strain: “Summer girl! Oh, summer girl, you have set my head awhirl! With your lips so cherry red, you’ve completely turned my head! To your alabaster brow I make an everlasting vow, and the gold glint of your hair is my joy and my despair. “Charming girl! Oh, charming girl, in life’s oyster you’re the pearl! Who can dance like unto thee? Every step is poetry. When you laugh or when you sing, ’tis like angels murmuring. When the gardens you pass by, roses weep in jealousy. “Summer girl! Oh, summer girl, who’d not love thee is a churl! Who’d deride thee is a crab, with a spirit drear and drab. Who indeed could criticise one possessed of azure eyes, like to those twin orbs of thine, with their depth so crystalline! “Sweetest girl! Oh, sweetest girl, at thy feet my all I hurl! I care not how many swains lie imprisoned in your chains — let me have for my small part just one-twen- tieth of your heart. Let me be your fiance every other Saturday!” 68