Columbia University - Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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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

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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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college activities. For the last time as undergraduates, the men of 1930 had their chance to leave the marks of their passing on Morningside Heights. And they did things. Captain Bleecker, Bill Buser, james Campbell, and Remey Tys made a powerful quartet on the gridiron, and Bleecker was mentioned at the end of the football season for All-American honors. joe Hagen just missed establishing a new record of three consecutive wins in the two-mile run of the I. C. A. A. A. A. games, when he took the runner-up position in his last year of competition. Tys and Magurk, captain and ex-captain respectively of the basketball team, were instrumental in leading the Lions to victory in the Eastern Intercollegiate League. As guards they played stellar basketball and helped take the championship away from the University of Pennsylvania. Middleton and Ballon played as substitutes on the team. Four men, Blesse, Bonynge, Sanford, and Captain Murphy again took their seats in the Varsity shell for their last year of rowing at Columbia. Having taken one first place and one sceond place at Poughkeepsie in their two previous years of rowing, they grasped their oars again for one more climatic season. Water polo and swimming took their places among the successful sports on Morn- inside Heights, when, under the leadership of Tom Brown and Williain Gaynor, they finished well up in the van of the natatorial league. Although the wrestling squad did not fare so well, Captain Orrin Clark continued to score his points as he had done in the past. Varsity Show had its full quota of 1930 men. Seymour Bloom, conductor of the Off-Hour column of Spertfrlor, was co-author of the chosen play, Heiglw Phazmola. George P. Odom, Sheridan Garratt, and Homer Pearson made up the managing board of the production, which was held at the Mecca Temple. As in the previous play, Keating assumed a leading part. Banigan and Kosting, editor-in-chief and business manager of Spectator, continued to uphold the traditions of the Campus publication before handing over the reins of the managing board to the succeeding class. The one major editorial campaign of the year, a drive to have the Athletic Association provide a special cheering section for the student body, was brought to a successful close, and undergraduates obtained seats to the foot- ball games on the fifty-yard line. COLUMBIAN, with Lutz, Rosenberg, Parker, and Feldman at its helm, initiated several innovations in the publication, among them being the insertion of a Junior sec- tion to take its place beside the Senior group. The activities of the Class of 1950 in its last college year were too' widespread to enumerate. A simple acknowledgement must do for all those others who gave their time and energy to the College. Senior Week and Commencement Day are yet to come, but the advance rumblings of the annual drive for Senior endowment policies is already on. Election of permanent class olicers will be here soon, and we shall vote for three vice-presidents, it is a pre- monition of years around the corner. Already, as we talk to lower classmen, we stammer and swallow our words as the phrase Now in my day . . rises to' our lips.