Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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One of the highlights of the freshman’s orientation tc college life is the first edition of the Knox Student, official weekly publication. For in the early editions features and editorials were aimed at the new students. Then after a time freshies entered into the spirit of the thing by contributing to the paper itself. Herbert Pihl, Vernon Dargel, Helen Hooper, Shirley Greenleaf, Fred Bromberger, Virginia Tyler, Harriet Rockwell, Melan Dianis, Mary Binz, Milton Whaley, Betty Lou Aldredge, Ralph Powless, and Gwen Cunther represented the class of 1940 in final appoint- ments to the regular Student staff. Probably the triumph of the journalistic year for these students was the printing of the Freshman Edition of the Student on April Fool's Day. Faculty sit-down strikes, beauty contests, kissathons, tubers, slams at profs and upperclassmen, and super-nonsensical programs for the college showed what type of wits there were in the freshman class! Upperclassmen, of course, provided a leavening force for the spirited frosh. Led by Editor Suchy, they succeeded in putting out a paper that rated first class honors among collegiate newspapers. His staff of old writers included Jim Trevor, Sports Editor, assisted by Bob Gunther, Ed Weber, and Dave Robinson; feature writers Ev Myers, Harvey Young, Barbara Winks, and Virginia Reinecke; proof readers Marjorie Gonigam and Helen Griffith: and reporters Charlotte Lingel, Fred Rabenstein, Dor- othy Johnson, Eleanor Bacon, Warren Green, Shirley Kays, Lillian and Mildred Nelson, William Allen, Martha Seffer, Gladys Chinn, Mary Belle Haglund, Avis Cramer, and Russ Nelson. ..Betty Osborn held the honor of being Women’s Editor, being in charge of all feminine attempts at journalism. Business Manager Pause held up the financial end of the publication with the aid of Cliff Hoyer, Louise Hieronymus, Robert Morris, Paul Nelson, and John Mundy. Regular features in the year’s set-up were the much-discussed “Knocks Student”, “Jinks”, “The Theatre’, “Among the Greeks’, “‘Girl Greeks’, ’“We Amazons”, and the new “‘Post-Box”. A survey of students will give a full and accurate record of a full and important year of activities during the Knox Centenary. ) All these facts were outgrowths of the first edition that greeted the class of 40, the edition which announced to them the freshman program, the Pumphandle, exams, classes, and the all-important first football game for the purple and gold! Dargel, Hoyer, P. Nelson, Pihl, Weber, R. Nelson Morris, Hieronymus, M. Nelson, Green, Hooper, Robinson Powless, Chinn, L. Nelson, Binz, Greenleaf, Bromberger 29

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N CO Editor Suchy, Business Manager Pause Trevor, Whaley, Suchy, R. Gunther, Young Rice, Bacon, Kays, Winks, Reinecke, Gonigam, G. Gunther Lingel, D. Johnson, Tyler, Aldredge, Osborn, Rockwell Virle KNOX STUDENTS

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Coach Bud Saunders turned out a scrapping frosh football team that won its first game from Mon- mouth, 20-13, and lost its second game to the Brad- ley yearlings, 18-7. Those who seem headed for the varsity laurels next year are Harlan, Heck, Christian- sen, Runkle and Frodin. Besides these, numerals | were awarded to the following: Charles Carpenter, . Jack Easterberg, Russell Freese, Thomas Gehr, Wal- ter Guth, Vernon Lee, Dale Lester, Irwin Oberle, John Powers, W. Stuhl, Lionel Tattini, Robert Thompson, Richard Velde, Robert Winders, and managers Tom McMaster and Max Stubbs. | After the successful grid season that Coach C. W. iF P. Reynolds dealt to Knox supporters in 1935, it was | generally conceded that he would have champions in | 1936. But they weren’t champions; they won only i] three games and lost five. But add to that the fact | that Knox beat Monmouth, and who really cares about what else happened? . Principia, Knox’s first opponent, brought a small but fighting team of well-trained boys . to try to avenge the decisive licking that the Siwashers handed them the year before. Finally, a fourth quarter drive with Ritchie and Stevenson carrying the ball most of the time netted a Siwash touchdown. Stevenson kicked the point after touchdown. Final score: | Knox 7, Principia O. . The second game of the season was a home game with the Lake Forest Redmen. Doc Welch had been forced out of football; Matkovcik was out with an injury; “Coach Reynolds showed real checker-playing ability,’ said the local newspaper, in moving play- . ers around to fill in the vacancies. Yet even so the score read Lake Forest 13, Knox 0. The Siwashers left town for Wisconsin the following week-end where the Lawrence Vikings, led by a pair of ends, Jim Straubel and Cliff Osen, dealt Knox the first Midwest Conference loss. Knox outplayed the Vikings in every department of the game except scoring and punting. A late rally with Wiltsie in at quarterback almost gave Knox a tie, but the game ended before the spunky little sparkplug could tote the ball over the line. Lawrence won 7-0. Homecoming, Beloit, Wiltsie, Touchdowns—that’s the story of the 26-7 victory over a husky Beloit team on Willard Field before an enthusiastic Homecoming crowd on a | beautiful October Saturday. Little Wiltsie really had a field day, breaking loose early in | the game for a 20 yard touchdown jaunt, and then repeating in the second half with a beautiful bit of open field running through the entire Beloit team for seventy-five yards to | a touchdown. Later he threw a touchdown pass to Lillie to end his activities for the day. The only Beloit score came when the Siwash second team was unsuccessful in withstand- ing a determined Beloit drive. Freshman Coach Saunders FROSH FOOTBALL Stubbs, Harlan, Velde, Qactarcen Lester, McKee, Powers, R. Thompson 30 Stuhl, Carpenter, Lee, Easterberg, Freese, Heck, Troupe, Wilds Winders, Frodin, Oberle, Gehr, Guth, Tattini, Gaffney, McMaster