Manchester College - Aurora Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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Oncjllsk Fred R. Conkling is Deer Teechur to most freshmen. He is their class adviser and has to be initiated each year. His pet lady friend, next to Mrs. Conkling, is Miss Min- nie Mum Essentials. He knows a lot about grammar, Fred. R. Conkling, A.M. too. Rabbits and Refuge are his specialties. One of the playwrights on our faculty is Professor Lloyd Hoff who dashes plays off in his free moments. Music is another love of his Lloyd M. Hoff, Ph.D. Theme Returned R . C. Wenger, B.D., A.M. The M. E. M. Board which he follows by playing a viola in the string ensemble. Green ties are Professor R. C. Wen- ger ' s favorites. Maybe that ' s due to the fact that he teaches freshman comp. He is an authority on children ' s poems and spends a lot of time collecting them. He used to teach the Bible courses here so that accounts for his interest in that field. He is adviser to the Volunteers. 27

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being Dean. Mrs. Leasure is a returned missionary from Africa and is living here with her three boys. Miss Kessler used to teach the third and fourth grades when the grade school was in the Library Building. Some of us can remember her making us learn the multiplication tables. Now- a-days she has us make scrapbooks like that one being made in the picture. Any one who comes late to A. R. Eikenberry ' s class has to pay a fine. That is, he must buy a Hershey bar for the class. A. R. goes to such places as Logansport, but he always escapes. He takes students along because there is safety in numbers. He is a loyal pal, a sympathetic adviser, and an up-to- date teacher. Alice A. Doner, A.M. Tax on Late Comers A. R. is more than a col- lege prof, for he takes an interest in the town, an in- terest that makes him an excellent mayor. Nettie Norris Leasure, B.S., A.M. Agnes C. Kessler, A.M. Scrap Book

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The Oak Leaves Staff All the news that ' s fit to print, so saith Oak Leaves. And some they make up is what people might add who have read that they have done something they weren ' t aware of hav- ing done. Mrs. Sadie I. Wampler has been directing successful senior plays for so long that no one else would dare try. Christmas would not be Christmas in North Man- chester without her pageant. 28