College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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pMMMM MMMMMM MM? Ci)P COlOtlial (2Bcf)0, 1921 JMMMMAgM MM MM -I i 1 1 I i History of the Class of 1922 HE HISTORY of the class of 1922 must be written if for no other reason than that every class has a history. But the piirpose of this history is not to squander the last few moments of time before this volume is hurried off to the printer in enumerating the many facts of the individuals, rather the heroes and the heroines (for heroic deeds are many and varied since the co-eds came) of our college class. Although custom has decreed that the history of a class should be in general terms, there are facts concerning the accomplishments of the members of this class that should not go by unnoticed. Not all the events to which the members of this class have contributed are worthy of record, but there are some so outstanding, some of such ultimate worth, that no history could be written and deserve the name without a passing mention. Space in these pages is of such intrinsic worth, it is as our only visible heritage to the student generation which shall come after us, to fill with empty platitudes. What we write must be written in brevity and sincerity. Virtues must be recorded and not praised. Gifts and accomplish- ments must be recorded but not evaluated. Every man, every woman, of the thirty-six which make up our class has merit, has gifts, has attainments. It is only when these set the various members off and shed around them particular light, which is essential to a complete under- standing of the group, that we can fully record. Without any further attempt at an Apologia for the fact, that, dominated by an amiable disposition not to proceed with undue haste to the neglect of eternal verities, yet yielding to a categorical imperative that this record must be made clearly and accurately, we adopt the method of approach which is as old as the written word, the method used by the writer of Genesis and the Fourth Gospel. Our history, in the beginning, reaches not to some distant past shrouded with the cobwebs of doubt. It has an accurate location both in time and space, for during one week of September, 19 18, a week which saw the great World War grinding the nations of Europe with greater destructive force than any previous week in its course, during this week dawned the history of the class of 1922. Once more William and Mary gathered together a group of faithful spirits to enter the course of preparation for the battle of life. This class began its history with the establishment of an institution here on the Campus which was to transform the whole student life on the college for a season, namely, the Students ' Army Training Corps. What it contributed to the college is rather hard to say. This much is certain, that several of our members were drawn to our venerable precincts through this medium. Page 104 mw ' m - wm r m mmmmmmmrsrmi. '

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«■ ? Cf)C Colonial OBcbo, 192 1 i [:, To give an adequate picture of student life under the militaristic regime of the S. A. T. C. would take many pag«s. Perhaps some day one of our members may be inspired to write in order the things that made up that interesting chapter in the life of William and Mary. Suffice to say that many of our number came to tread the paths of learning and found that path consisted of little knowl- edge and much work. To us removed by many months from this period there ;. is but one general impression, that of a large number of men raking leaves, scrubbing floors, shining brass that had not gone through that process since f; ' the days of Thomas Jefferson. Of tiie hundred or more men who go t their intro- [;; duction to William and Mary via the Students ' Army Training Corps, only a rela- t; tively small per cent survived the cold showers of disallusionment. K The year 1918 seems to have been the year of miracle, or of calamity (we p leave the decision to the gods on Olympus), for it brought not only the S. A. T. C. ' 2 but also co-education. Perhaps some day there will be added to the list of igj, priorities of William and Mary the fact that she was the first co-educational fj institution in the South. We sincerely hope that the other innovations which make up the interesting list received a warmer welcome than this last named one. It is a time-worn adage that it is useless to cry over spilled milk, and even though this particular brand of milk has spilled itself very much over the Campus and % flooded college life, we who were here before they were have sufficient sports- 5 manship to see only the good in a dismal situation and to shed neither tears of f : joy nor sorrow at their arrival. The fact that nearly one-half our class is of g, the Mary variety shows how completely they have made themselves at home. Turning now from the painting of abstraction to the more concrete process of g examining the personalities whose actions and reactions have made our class history possible, we find things of more than passing interest. 1 In Lead Ammons we find a personality who seems to have a happy faculty of making history of one kind or another. In our Nation ' s history he contributed his part, having enlisted in the service soon after war was evident. , On the campus his contribution has been anything but small. Among the stately pillars of ou r class is Burcher, who is somewhat of a patriarch. As one of the few survivors of the once William and Mary Academy, he carries in his mind memories of the old William and Mary which when related make some of us of the newer William and Alary wonder just a little whether we have not left behind some things which were of greater value than we realized I at the time, yet which are so far behind that all chances of recovery are lost. We refer to the college spirit that was indigenous to the William and Mary of a generation ago which with the modernizing and effeminizing has been to a great gi extent eliminated. Like Virgil, arma virumque cano, the man in this case being Fredie Chandler and the arms, his valor on the baseball diamond. Unlike ' irgil. the power is not given us to sing the praises of this peer of athletes in a manner befitting his accomplishments. Our contribution to the cause of college athletics g , has not been limited to this man, but in him much of our athletic historv- has w Sj been made, and we see that the future holds for him as many rewards as it does ' ■ for those who throw their whole self into the game of life as Fredie does ' ; when playing tackle or handling the mit for Settle. :i Page 103