Delaware Valley College - Cornucopia Yearbook (Doylestown, PA)

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Eleaner Into every life comes a shadow and we had more than our share. In the month of April we suffered a severe set- back When fourteen of our best athletes and scholars left Farm School. This, when added to the loss of Elliot, Stringer, Cahan, Brewer, Ostrolenk, Victor, Klein, Shevitz and Entwisle, by promotion, left us in a serious condition. For a short time we were just bewildered individ- uals and our class was at a standstill. The '25 Spirit then broke loose and pulled us from the rut. We reorganized much smaller and less brilliant, our com- mon efforts keeping us united. This was our severest test, but we came out on top, full of fight. Youth will be served-due to the ab- sence of practically all our baseball players, we lost our baseball game to the Freshmen, 10-9. We did not have a spark of playing ability left. I am still wondering how we held them. It must have been our Do or Die spirit. The Freshmen were over-confident and we had a surprise in store for them. We will never forget that Beat 'em or Bust blood-raising spirit instilled by Coach Stringer. Luckily for the Freshies the game was played on a wet field or the score might have been 15-0, our favor, as it was, they earned a hair-line draw, 6-6. Let me tell you, we walked on air for several days after. To cap our memorable year, we launched our Junior Prom and worked night and day on it. It will be remem- bered as an exclusive affair. We had lots of fun and some Wonderful dancing exhibitions. This was the first year that the Juniors and Seniors had co-operated as a well-directed unit. The Senate and Council were revived and the term was a huge success. We were left full responsibility for the com- ing year. The Juniors were invited to a confab and plans were arranged under the leadership of our esteemed class- mate, Sam Rosenau. PAGE TWENTY And Behold 'vVe had evolved from al'Fresh Villain by the stages of hard work, more study and proper paternal guidance into shin- ing, manicured and petted, sleek and brilliant-minded Seniors! At last we had arrived, and, oh, boy! we took advan- tage of it. There was a marked attend- ance loss at details-for a short period. We were rudely jolted by the Faculty, demerits flew in all directions. Suddenly cooled off we reformed and became shin- ing examples of duty. You bet, we en- forced it. To start the year right the Fresh kids were introduced to the S. S. A. Some of them emerged marked thirty -third degree dumbells. Blood ran freely and the chicken-hearted cried for mercy. Ah, Mutts! They got it, from all sides. There was fun galore and the Babes went to bed that night meek and with a slight amount of sense banged into their iron-bound hat-racks. There was a shake-up in the Council and Senate with Rosenau at the helm and now they reached their peak in effi- ciency. The rule of the Senate and Council was felt by everyone. They were popular and attendance at meet- ings far outshone those of the past year. Dependable Sam carried the one-detail- a-day project over for a knockout, and we all enjoyed it. Led by the Seniors in the Council, the dances and outings were put across in good style. The movies were the best ever seen in Segal Hall-enough said. In Football, Captain Alexander had able support and capable team workers in Goldstein, Schneider, Blumberg and Mart Cohien. In Baseball, Captain Mike Cohien had as able team mates, his brother Mart, Alexander and Schneider. We worked with a tireless zest for our teams and had fair success. For honest work, you shall be re- warded, Senior Week arrived with a

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Gleaner Item XV. To the Class of 1927 now about to emerge from servitude we leave the incoming Class of 1928 under your paternal wing and tender mercies. Let your conscience be your guide! Witnesses: Goniocotes Burnetti Prune D. Shutts Itzy Gem Kid Demeritz In witness thereof we set our hand and seal this twenty-second day of Feb- ruary, nineteen hundred and twenty- five anno domino. Class of 1925 1Seals3 R-r-rit N. DeBoket Spitzky Rynktum Kum Liddle Ding P. Yanisimo R. U. Heppy ,-lli Class History HROUGHOUT its stay in Farm School The Class of Twenty-five has made a record of which it is proud. Our accomplishments will long be remembered after we graduate. Our Infancy In March, 1922, we entered and for one whole week had a great time ex- plaining in detail our history and am- bitions to the attentive upper classmeng then came the S. S. A. and we were prop- erly HJ initiated and pronounced full- iiedged Frosh. It was the last real S. S. A. and we will never forget it. Classes began in earnest and our Farm work started. It was a real test and many of our classmates fell by the way- side. Our associations with the upper classmen instilled that N. F. S. spirit in us and practice began for the Freshman- Junior Baseball Game. With grim joy we squelched the Juniors in our first fight, by the score of 6 runs to 4. We contributed Stringer, Regal, Borushik, Mart Cohien, Rosenblum and Sobel, to the varsity baseball team. Of course the Juniors declared our baseball win luck. That we had a horseshoe around our necks, but we proceeded to prove that it was skill, not brute strength, such as they depended on and in the Fall once more showed our superiority in athletics and outplayed them in football. The score at the last whistle was 3 to 0 in our favor. We had strengthened the varsity football team with Goldstein and Alexander. To crown our success we sponsored a Freshman-Junior Banquet. Can you imagine all the hearts tand-Q ?J-J broken at the affair. All of the time wasn't confined to eating, however, much to the regret of some of those present. The speeches were some of the livest, new- est, straight-from-the-shoulder talks that have been delivered in Farm School. It was the greatest Freshman Banquet in the history of the school. We Grow This first year of hard work and self- denial had proven too much for some of our boys and we entered our Junior year with thirty-two men. Our recent knocks and slams, still tingling, so plen- tifully and unstintingly rendered by the graduated Senior class, especially Lan- dau, Malkin, Platt and Abromowitz, and added to this our still fresh battle wounds served to make us hard-hearted Juniors. We had the Freshmen com- pletely overwhelmed and cowed--for a detailed account of our iron-handed atroci- ties I referryou to the future Seniors. PAGE NINETEEN'

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Eleaner goodly store of joys for us. We had an incomparable program, and added some fun at the expense of the underclassmen. Banquets, shows and movies were in abundant supply. Trips to farms and farm implement factories were many. At night around the bright log fire we sang of Good Old N. F. S. and told tales, swapped jokes and talked of our futures. What could be sweeter. This was the happiest, yet most eventful week in all the three years' stay. The Annual Senior Farewell Hop was held at the Armory in Doylestown, and if ever there was a dance, in which more pep, jazz and all-around frolicking pre- vailed then Iim a lizard-eye fur-eating nightingale. The girls and superb music combined to knock us silly. You just couldn't stand, and boy! those eyes! Woe is me, the memory of it makes me drunk. Oh! many the heart fand pinj went out to Her that night HJ on the doorstep. Sure, and we threw out our chests and promised a million in 60 days. We come to the last page in the his- tory of our class. XVe graduated one- third of the original enrolled students, from a class of 60 green city boys we emerge after a hard iight, victorious, a handful of 19 young men trained in agri- culture, sent off with encouraging whis- pers, to try our hand at the plow in this stern wide world. We hold up an envi- able record. Try to beat it-to all suc- ceeding classes. Class Prophesy N the year 1945, just twenty years after our graduation from the National Farm S c h o ol , I began arranging for a class reunion to be held in Alumni Hall, which building had been recently constructed, on the first Sunday of June, the annual Found- ers' Day. Taking my aeroplane out of my hangar near Vineland, where I had a poultry farm, I headed in the direction of Philadelphia. I landed on the roof of one of the large buildings, which was equipped as a landing place, checked my plane, and descended to the street. Knowing that Milton Schwartz had a haberdashery store on Chestnut street, I Wended my way to his store, and, after greetings had been exchanged, informed him of my mission. He promised to at- tend. As there were no more of my classmates in Philadelphia, I decided to go to New York, where I knew I would find several of the Twenty-fiversf' Landing in New York, on the roof of the Hyphen Hotel, which is situated be- tween the Ritz and the Carleton Hotels, I decided to stay there for a day or so. After engaging a room, I sallied forth in quest of my classmates. I bought a newspaper, the Evening Snooze, which was edited by Harry Rabinowitz. I im- mediately started for the office of the Evening Snooze to see Harry. I had just stepped into the subway car, when I felt a tap on my arm, turning, I saw Warren Rinenberg. He asked me where I was going, and,'upon my telling him, said he also was headed there, as he was a reporter on the Evening Snooze. He showed me an article which he had writ- ten in the paper, under big headlines, as follows: ELECTRICIAN ELFREY SOLVES PUZZLE OF THE AGE Baffling Mystery Cleared Up Martin Westin, formerly a conductor of the New York Traction Company, had been convicted of first degree murder in connection with the death of John PAGE TXVENTY-ONE