Columbia University - Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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class. Joe Hagen won his letter in indoor track and proved himself to be one of the outstanding runners of the country in the process of winning the letter. One more class affair was held during the year, a Sophomore Hop in John jay. Busher was chairman of the committee arranging the dance, which was an unusually successful one. In the elections at the end of the year, Buser beat Hagen by twenty-three votes for the presidency of the next year's junior Class. Goldthwaite was made vice-president, while Brown and johnson became secretary and treasurer. JUNIOR YEAR For the third successive September, the Class of 1930 gathered on the Morningside campus to start a new college year. The turbulent days of Freshman and Sophomore battles were over. Tug-of-war, cane sprees, and Dinner Week appeal to an upperclass- man only in the realm of memory, Athletics still held the interest of the class, and many seasoned veterans returned to bolster the varsity teams. Bleecker, Buser, Campbell, and Tys won their letters on the gridirong and later in the year, when the vote for the captaincy of the following year's team resulted in a tie between Bleecker and Campbell, the latter withdrew in order, he said, to maintain the morale of the team. The class had the distinction of having two men hold the captaincy of the basket- ball team for two consecutive seasons. Don Magurk led the squad through its games that year, while Tys was elected captain for the next season. They, together with Middle- ton and Blatterman, adequately represented the class on the court. The making of another championship crew started that Fall with the resumption of training. Blesse, Bonynge, Sanford, and Murphy rowed in the boat which carried the Blue and Wluite colors first over the finish line at Poughkeepsie. Murphywas elected captain of the Varsity shell for the 1930 races. joe Hagen in the meantime continued to turn in sterling performances on the track. He annexed the I. C. A. A. A. A. two-mile championship for the second time. Ghil- lany, Hanley, and Joyce also were consistent winners on Merner's squad. Baseball, with three out of the four infielders juniors, and the minor sports, car- ried the numerals of 1930 into the van of intercollegiate competition. In swimming especially, the nucleus of Gaynor, Kraft, and Oberist played an important role. Tom Brown was elected captain of the water polo team, while Gaynor received the same honor from the natators. The rifle team, with four juniors on the squad, won the Eastern Intercollegiate title. Julius Roth and Haaken Gulbransen won the national intercollegiate saber championship for Columbia, Gulbransen was elected captain of the team. In the non-athletic activities, 1930 more than held its own. COLUMBIANIS Senior Board was composed of Lutz, Parker, Rosenberg, Isaacs, V. Campbell and Mikolanis. Spectaiow Freshman candidates of two years ago had turned into competent News and Business Board men, Banigan, Block, Claman, Isaacs, Kaufman, Kosting, Meyer and Rosenberg showed up well. Matthews spoke on the debating team, Katims managed the orchestra, and Peyser on the Vanity and Lawrence, Wiggins and Levy on fever re- ceived their crowns for good work. Managerial prospects received their awards during the Spring semester with the announcement by the A. A. of appointments to the different reams. Banigan received the football mangership, Platt was assigned to crew, Henry obtained the baseball man- agership. Aikenhead was selected in basketball, and Odom was chosen for track. Nor-

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publications, the band, and the orchestra, the Class of 1950 was in the full swing of the college year. Emboldened by the lack of disciplinary measures at the start of the semester, the Freshmen discarded caution and neglected to wear their caps and cards. A surprise assault of the Black Avengers put a quick stop to this state of affairs. Unexpectedly they donned their black costumes and dragged their old pillory box to the area in front of Hamilton Hall. All yearlings without caps, cards or black socks were promptly imprisoned in the stocks. Although the tug-of-war proved to be a 'Waterloo for the forty Sophomores who turned out against ten times that number of Freshmen, one of the'most successful of song-fests was held in the South Field stands. The University Band, clad in its new blue uniforms, made its initial appearance on the Campus to lead the Frosh in the College songs. Some of the words and most of the melodies of Smzr Sami and Rom' Lion Roar came from the throats of the meek yearlings, as many of them were led from the stands and smeared with blacking because of too great modesty in singing the songs. Not a sign of rebellion came from the now subdued Freshmen as white tags were given to those who had successfully passed the test. As a fitting end to class activities for the winter session, the Sophomores trounced the Frosh in the cane sprees, winning five of the seven bouts. Peyser, Odom, Pettit, Arnold, and Brown marked up the winning units for the class, while Pirone and Fiordalisi were trounced by their opponents. Committee appointments were announced by Campbell before the Christmas holi- days, Baruch had been named previously to head the Vigilance Committee for the songhfestg and now finances were put in charge of a group of men under Stanley Wilson, and William Blaisdell was appointed to take charge of dances. Meanwhile, Howard Vincent was selected by Specffzfor to be editor of the next issue of the Blue Book. Dinner W'eek re-opened the traditional conflict between the Sophomore and Fresh- man classes soon after the mid-year exams. Student Board re-organized the contest along a system of points by which a definite winner could be chosen. The listless attitude of the class at the beginning of the year seemed to have been left behind as its members organized for the struggle. The Class of 1951 held its dinner at the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn. More than 150 yearlings were dining quietly in the hotel when fifty Sophomores intruded. Not waiting to attack individual men, they overturned tables and ruined the dinner in a thorough, systematic way. A storm of eggs and tomatoes was directed at the Frosh before they realized what it was all about. A good scrap was in progress when police reserves arrived, dispersing the Sophomores. The Student Board penalty of fifty points for this attack scarcely lessened the pleasure obtained from it. The Amber Lantern Inn in Flushing had been selected by the Dinner Committee, under George Banigan, for the Sophomore banquet, and careful plans had been laid to convey the members of the class to the inn. The time of the dinner strategically was set at a late hour of the night, to throw the Frosh off the scent, but the plan did not work well, for, when the Sophomores arrived, they found the Freshmen lined up outside. The owner of the inn grew panicky at the thought of a class scrap within his walls and called for the police. The latter, arriving on the scene in short order, refused to let anyone enter the inn. Still remembering the class welcome that they owed the Frosh, the men of 1950 offered to hold a free-for-all battle in one of the nearby fields, but the yearlings wisely refused and left for home. Basketball received its group of 1950 men in Magurk, Tys, Blatterman and Mid- dleton. The election of Magurk to the captaincy of the team while still a Sohphomore was one the several forms of recognition of athletic ability accorded to members of the

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ton became the swimming manager, Daniel got the -layvee football managership, and Mansfield and Steward took the helms of fencing and wrestling. The junior year of 1930 saw a complete revision in the organization and character of the Blue Key society. From its status of Sophomore managerial club, it was changed to a junior society with a new set of duties. The entertaining of visiting teams and so- cieties became the new purpose of the organization. Having worked informally under the direction of Harold a Rousselot '29, chairman of Student Board, during the ,first half of the year, the society received its charter from the University Committee on Student Activities early in February. The five assistant managers of the major sports, together with Daniel, Goldthwaite, McMahon, and Giddings, became the first members of the society. Henceforth Columbia would have an able committee to look after the welfare of visitors, The third year of college centered around the junior Prom and its attendant frater- nity dances. Early in the year, President Buser appointed Banigan chairman of junior Week and selected Campbell as Prom Committee chairman, Henry patroness chairman, Blatterman favor chairman, Platt publicity chairman, and johnson finance chairman. As usual, the night of Washingtonls Birthday was chosen for the Prom, and the committee selected the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza. for the dance. The first unit of the Meyer- Davis Band provided the music. As junior Week opened, the third-year men were en- tertained in the various Campus houses at tea dances, open-house was kept by the fraternities. The night of the Prom was the high mark of the year. One hundred and seventy- Hve couples joined in the grand march to the dinning hall for the midnight supper, where they heard the results of the Student Board elections, in which Banigan and Tys were named. The orchestra played from ten P. M. to four o'clo'ck in the morning, when to the tune of a syncopated Rom' Lian Roar, the last dance of the junior Prom was whirled through. Elections of juniors to the responsible posts of the College, which they would hold during their final year, closed the year on the class activities. Campbell, Bleecker, Hagen, Sanford, and Henry were added to Student Board. Campbell was chosen chair- man and Henry was named secretary of the body. Class elections found the following men chosen to lead the class through its Senior year: George Odom, president, Remey Tys, vice-president, Iohn Henry, secretary, Joseph Hagen, treasurer. Spectator elected Banigan, Kosting, Claman, Kaufman, and Thomas to its Manag- ing Board and appointed Block and Isaacs as news and sports editors. Levy became managing editor of ferter, while Odom, Garrett and Pearson received the managing positions of the next year's Varsity Show. COLUMBIAN chose Lutz for its editor-in-chief, Rosenberg as business manager, Parker managing editor, and Feldman as art editor. Bancroft, Calyer, and Twaddell received gold crowns for orchestral work, and the inde- pendent Morningride selected Meyer, Lawrence, and Feldman to carry on its literary tradition. Vafriiy selected Louis Barillet as editor, W. Bradford Smith, managing editor, Alfred Konheim, business manager, and Max Feldman, art editor. The Junior year, with the gates of graduation still far enough away to be alluring, was over. THE SENIOR YEAR The Senior Year, year of leadership and leave-taking, opened for the class of 1930 with Student Board members, publication editors, and sports managers at the wheel of