Occidental College - La Encina Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

Text from Pages 1 - 382 of the 1927 volume:

1027 r LA ENC1NA Cj FOR TH, my little book ! pursue thy way;  Go forth and please the gentle and the good; « Nor be a whisper stifled, if it say that treasures, yet untouched, may grace some future lay. Copyright by EDW RD HACKETT DWIGHT SPENCER 19 7 LA ENCINA 19 2 7 THE ANNUAL OF OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE published hy the Associated Students of Occidental College oSW Q FOREWORD - FOREJVORD rCoSw g DEDICATED TO ■ CSsw § g ' lV£P ' g . ji - - ' j -; i jr ■i iisl ' j ' -j m For I remember stopping by the way To watch a potter thumping his wet clay: And with its all-obliterated tongue It murmured -- Gently, brother, gently, pray ' . ' Picturesque Occidental o, ■ Alone, by court and massive gates he stood, Drawn almost into frightful neighborhood, — What mightiness for evil and for good. Whether the instrument of icords she use, Or pencil pregnant with etheral hues, She whispers lightly to her silent muse. . rfc u Dreams, books, each a world: and books we know Have wings, and fly as far as they can go; Our happiness from out them ought to grow. A spot more lovely it is hard to find: A corner coy in beauty all enshrined. Where shadows lurk and trees laugh in the ind. from noisy halls to quiet steps they go. And group themselves in neiuest fashioned throe: Like this, like that; — and then again, just so. Another year!— Another deadly Mow ■Tis well ' . From this day forward we shall know That we must stand unpropped. or be laid low. sttfr As evening fell together did they lie And watch the sun his falling arc descry Across the fading efflorescent sky. Earth has not anything to shoic more fair: The beauty of the morning, silent, bare, — All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. When I have borne in memory what has tamed The students ' boiver for gold, fears unnamed Crop up within, — and yet should I be blamed yp Surprised by joy — impatient as the wind. Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind; Have I been so beguiled as to be blind? s Tte A bower clothed in femininity. Hardby a graveled walk o ' er rolling lea: A most pathetic place for man to be. T 1 How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright. Uprisen, as if to check approaching night. Sharp, sheering shadows caught in frenzied flight. icXi g . Set back, apart, removed from strife and din, Austere without, yet comfortable within. This coy retreat my heart at once did win. Frail trees, gay shrubs, elusive shadows dart Across the drama ' s mighty open mart: Stupendously, a massive counterpart. Some for the glories of this world; and some Sigh for the prophet ' s paradise to come; Ah, take the cash, and let the credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant drum. Administration Dr. Remsen Du Bois Bird [ 34 ] . ENC1NA TTTT f ▼▼ MESSAGE FOR LA ENCINA It is a good thing to live in a part of the world where institutions are in process of making. It is a good thing to be a student in such a place, to see unkempt areas grow smooth and beauti- ful, to see buildings devoted to good uses rise and render their service, to see ideals that are worthwhile given strength and expression by the efforts of cooperating friends and honest seekers. Occidental College is such a place as this and each year there is a delight and an inspiration in the knowledge that the college has moved for- ward noticeably, in its equipment, in the defini- tion of its purpose and in the achievement of it in the lives and purposes of those who bear the name. I 35 ] MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Board of Trustees is the official business administrator of the affairs of the college. The officers of the Board are: president, Robert Freeman; first vice-president, Alphonzo Bell; second vice-president. Gorge Emmons; treasurer, Jed Burns; secretary, William S. Young. The committees of the Board are the executive, grounds and buildings, finance, library, legal, degrees, and faculty. Under the leadership of these committees, the funds for the college are secured, and the policies of the college are determined. Term Expiring January 31, 1927 Alphonzo E. Bell Rev. Robert Freeman. Frank P. Flint William Meade Orr D.D. Gk Term expiring January 3 1 Max Hayward Fred H. Schauer Term expiring January 31 E. Huntsbcrger Harold B. Landreth Jed W. Burns George E. Emmons 192? 31 Term expiring January Arthur W. Buell. M.D. Rev. E. P. Clapp, M.D. Rev. Term expiring January Rev. Remsen Du Bois Bird, D.D. James Marwick Term expiring January Hill Hastings Mrs. D. B. Gamble Alumni Trustees TERM EXPIRING JANUARY 31, 1928 — Dan Hammack Term expiring January 31. 1929 — Frank K. Rush TERM EXPIRING JANUARY 31. 1930 — Trustee to be elected Rt. Rev. W. B. Stevens Dan Hammack 1929 James Garfield Warren 1930 Hugh K. Walker. D.D. W. S. Young. D.D. 31, 1931 Aimer M. Newhall Herbert G. Wylic 1932 Roy S. Pinkham J. Hartly Taylor 31 1 36 JLjfc JL-k A A A A A A A V DEAN BURT Dean Thomas G. Burt, dean of the college and professor of logic. Students know Dean Burt as the man who signs the notes they get when their studies are low or when they leave their cars parked on the campus. But Dean Burt ' s work is far more inclusive than that. He has charge of the administration of the school when President Bird is away, and is on numerous faculty committees, including student conduct and scholarship, admission and registration, and courses of study. In addition to this. Dean Burt is kept busy in his active in- terest for the advancement of the school along various lines of im- provement and advertisement. DEAN MYERS Dean Irene T. Myers, dean of women and professor of history. Dean Myers has been with the college for several years, and has done much for the interest of women students. The Orr Hall dormitory for women is one of her dreams, and she is an active worker with the plans for the completion of the dormitory group. The future women ' s college is .1 great interest of Dean Myers ' . She is on fac- ulty committees of advisory, student conduct and scholarship, socia ' life, and women ' s clubs and fraternities. DEAN CLELAND Dean Robert G. Cleland, dean of the men and professor of history. Dean Cleland is the true friend ot the men of O ccidental and has the interest of the college sincerely at heart. During Dean Burt ' s leave of absence, Dean Cleiand was acting dean t the college. Fond of golf as he is, Dean Cleland always h.fi time for those who want to consult with him. Dean Cleland, also, is actively interested 111 the men ' s fraternities and social life. FRED McLAIN Fred F. McLain, comptroller of the college. Mr. McLain is the butt of all comments about the financial condition of the college, and yet if it were not for the work of Mr. McLain. there would probably be a number of students unable to attend Occidental, He is the man who signed our tuition notes when we were unexpectedly confronted wuh the news Pay or you don ' t register. The construction plans for both this campus and the grounds at Santa Monica are under the careful consideration of Mr. McLain. [ 37 ] Why. all the saints and sages who discussed Of the two worlds so wisely — they are thrust Like foolish prophets forth; their words to scorn Are scattered, and their mouths are stopped with dust. MMf Mlf t S iJ ,M M M I I M I w IMPRESSIONS (With Apologies To A Rounder) Dr. STELTER: Now you mustn ' t take this man seriously - —The adept use of the knife — Twice and thrice told jokes — The office is checking up on me, so I ' m going to have to turn in all cuts - -The story about Minnie — His three main ambitions of life. DEAN BURT: If there is anything I can do to help you, please let me know — The open door checking up on all those entering Johnson Hall — Phi Beta Kappa — . .which was the class hymn of the year blankety — blank — Those confounded brothers who will not study. Dr. BoNELLI: Well, you see it ' s this way___ -The big campaign This fellow wasn ' t working only for the love of his country, — Now when I ' m on the city council, ___ . — That faraway look when driving the Chrysler — His brief case — Bill — Nothing in particular. PRESIDENT BIRD: Ultra enthusiasm — How are all the folks? -The flashing roadster — Mrs. Bird can tell you — Come in and talk things over with me sometime. — On the links with Bob Freeman — The Occidental household — His naive chapel introductions. DEAN CLELAND: When I was way down south in May-hee-co — The men ' s chapel — Cordiality plus — Back in 1900. there is related the tale of the organization of two most important, etc. — I ' ll get at the bottom of this — His picture with the class in the hall. FRED McLAIN: Now when we get down to Sawtelle,.. — On to Jerusalem — High finances — New roads — Maybe we can do that next year — Can you take lunch with me today? — The Commons committee — Occi- dental ' s most loyal booster — When I was graduate manager Dr. BALLARD: That will be all for today, but bring your blue books next meeting — Chapel — The assignment is really not as long as it looks. — ■ 1 40 ] Hj Chapel — Now you ' re bordering on philosophy — Chapel — My hobby, as you have doubtless heard me say. is psychology — Chapel. Dr. FRANK J. SMILES ' : When I was up at Stanford - -Those most unique pronunciations — A most delicate subject to handle at best — Evolution — Fossills, flora, and fauna — The entire scope of his subject at his fingertips — • Now handle these specimens carefully. DR. EGBERT: Sophistication par excellence — When we were living in Madrid. — —The world court — Remember the time in Paris,- -The league of nations — Mrs. Egbert — Their little Irish terrier — Taking up the second point — A dandy fellow. Dr. MAClNTYRE: Wanta talk ? - -That hat from Paris — Shifting eyes never still — Close your little epiglotis. — Affected nonchalance— You need a spiritual house cleaning — All the writers, from Moses to Sinclair Lewis — Modern trash. — The Buick — S. A. E. Dr. Hardy : The tortoise-shell glasses — History — Profound interest in athletics — Histo ry — Please pass out quietly, — History — The ever-present brief case — History — We are usually at home, so drop in any time — The little class for majors only. — History. COACH PlPAL: I ' ll be out on the field any time you want to work out — The Olympic games — Ye gods, get those knees up — Those terrible puns — Mrs. Pipal — The smooth-running and silent little Buick sportster — These men deserve your support. — The starting gun. Dr. SINCLAIR: A very charming old custom - - When I was in the in- telligence service in Paris,.- —Toast and tea — Bridge — Extreme conti- nentalism — One learns a great deal in the army — Psychology — This is only my side line, you know — His sleeping porch and study. DR. WARD: His snow white hair — The grand old man — The hillside theatre — The Greek play — The slouch hat and long black overcoat — A winning personality — The uptown stride — I ' ll be glad to — When I came to Occi- dental — The street-car accident — Patience. 41 r C k A - ft t t fif t «F THE FACULTY William B. Allison Professor of Spanish A. B. Washington and Jefferson College. 1890 M A. 189 3 William V. Anderson Instructor in Physical Education A. B. University of Illinois. 1917 J. Hudson Ballard Professor of Religious Education A. B. University of California A. M. Columbia University PcJ. M. New York University Ph.D New York University William Gordon Bell Professor of French Ph.B University of Colorado. 1903 M. A. 1904 William G. Bonelli Assoc Professor of Political Science A. B. University of Southern California. 1916 M. A. Occidental College. 19 24 J. D. Southwestern University, 19 2 5 Elbert e. Chandler Professor of Chemistry A. B. Wilham Jewel College. 1891 LL.B University of Michigan, 1893 Ph.D University of Chicago, 1906 Lowell J. Chawner Registrar and Asst. Professor of Economics A. B. Occidental College, 1921 Alfred N. Cook Associate Professor of Chemistru B. S. Knox College. 1890 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1908 George F. Cook Librarian and Professor of Education A. B. Baker University. 1893 Ph.D. Little Rock University. 189 5 Jean Christie Instructor in French A. B. Wellcsley College. 1915 M. A. Columbia University. 19 16 Mary Carruth Cunningham Assocriare Professor of Art M. A. Occidental College. 1909 George M. Day Professor of Economics and Sociology A. B. Hamilton College. 1905 M. A. 1908 [ 42 ] Mrs. Day Instructor in French Lawrence Egbert Asst. Professor of Political Science A. B. University of Michigan LL.D. Sourbonnc J. Philip Ellsworth Graduate Manager A. B. Occidental College. 1924 Wallace Emerson Asst. Professor of Education A B. Huron College. 1916 M. A. Stanford. 1923 Calvin Pardee Erdman Professor of Religious Education A. B. Princeton University. 1915 M. A. 1921 S. T. B. Princeton Theological Seminary. 1921 Calvin O. Esterly Professor of Zoology A. B. University of California. 1902 M. A. 1904 Ph.D. Harvard University. 1907 Miss E. Falls Assistant Librarian Donald McCoy Fraser Instructor in Geology A. B. University of Oregon. 192p M. A.. 1926 Osgood Hardy Assistant Professor of History A. B. Pomona College. 1910 A B. Yale University. 19 13 M A.. 1911 Ph.D. University of California. 1923 Caroline E. Hodgdon Associate Professor of Hygiene and Physical Edu- cation H. P. E. Wellcsley College. 1910 Lucille Jackson Alumni and Constituency Secretary A. B. Occidental College. 19 17 Edgar Harrison Kienholz Professor of Physical Education A. B. Washington State College M. A. Washington State College [ 43 ] A A if frFhfH Ernestine A. Kinney Instructor in Education A. B. Occidental College. 1917 M A. University of California. 19 IS Charles F. Lindsley Professor of Speech Education A. B. Ohio State University. 1915 M. A. 19 16 Miss McCloy Librarian A. B. Oberlein College. 19 13 Library School. New York, 1119 Robert Grant Martin Professor of English A. B. Brown University. 19CH M. A. Harvard University, 1905 Ph.D.. 19 10 Kenneth Montgomery Assistant in History A. B. Occidental, 1926 Virgil Franklin Morse Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Drawing B. S. in E. E. California Institute of Technology. 19 14 Georges Nivon Associate Professor of Modern Languages A. B. Washington State College. 1 21 M. A.. 1921 John Price Odell .Us ' . Librarian and Assoc. Professor of English A. B. Northwestern University, 18 4 M. A. 1909 Mrs. Julia A. Pipal Advisor of Social Activities Joseph A. Pipal Professor of Physical Education and Track Coach Raymond M. Selle Assistant Professor of Zoologu B. S. Occidental College. 19 20 M. A. University of California. 1921 Carlton A. Sheffield Instructor in English A. B. Stanford University. 1 9 2 ! [ 44 ] Miff f f AAAAAAAAA James Huntly Sinclair Professor of Education B. A. Oxon. 19 11 M. A., 1915 Ph.D. Syracuse University. 19 16 Frank J. Smiley Professor of Botany and Geology A. B. Stanford University, 1913 M. A.. 19 14 M. A. Harvard University. 19 14 Ph.D., 1914 Winifred K. Stearns Instructor in Physical Education Ethel Taylor Instructor in Modern Languages A. B. University of Michigan M. A. Stanford University Guy A. Thompson Assoctate Professor of English A. B. University of Illinois. 1898 A. B. Harvard University. 1900 M. A.. 1901 Ph.D. University of Chicago. 1912 William Dennis Ward Professor of Greek A. B. Wabash College, 1881 M. A.. 1888 Ph.D. Woostcr University. 1898 Ira L. Wiggins Instructor in Botany A. B. Occidental College. 1922 M. A. Stanford University. 1925 Thomas Howard Wright Assistant Professor of Philosophy A. B. Transylvania College. 1921 M. A. Columbia University. 1924 John Parke Young Professor of Economics A. B. Occidental College. 1917 M. A. Columbia University, 1919 M. A. Princeton University. 1920 Ph.D., 1922 I 45 1 A A A A A LAjUOSX AAAAA AAjiAlV Dr. Hardy Dr. Sinclair AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS The Occidental Chapter of the American Association of University Pro- fessors has been in existence a little more than five years and the national organ- ization is about fifteen years old. The object of the A.A.U.P. is to facilitate a more effective co-operation between teachers and investigators in universities and colleges and professional schools of similar grade for the promotion of the in- terests of higher education and research. Any university or college teacher or investigator who holds, and for three years has held, a position of teaching or research in any university or college or professional school in the United States or Canada may be nominated for membership in the Association. Officers of the Occidental chapter are: President, Osgood Hardy; Secretary, J. H. Sinclair. FACULTY WOMEN ' S CLUB The Faculty Women ' s Club of Occidental was organized previous to the year 1916. The underlying principles of the Club are to promote friendship between faculty and students, to work for the best interest of the college, and to enjoy friendly contacts. In February, 1927, the Club had available a fund to be used to aid women students. Meetings are held once a month with a busi- ness session preceding a social hour, at which time an interesting program is given. Entertainments are given by the Club for the members of the various classes to assist the women in their effort to promote friendly relations between faculty and students. The officers of the Club are: President. Mrs. Charles F. Lindsley: Vice- president. Mrs. F. F. McLain; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. William Anderson. AAAAAAAAAAAAA1 jf ' AJUyUAjA, AAAAAAAif Plp.il B.i I lard Keinholz Wright Ellsworth ! lodgdon FACULTY SOCIAL COMMITTEE The Social committee has a very definite purpose for its existence here on the campus: to establish the social policies for the college as a whole — the details of which are carried out thru the Resident Council Office. This com- mittee, among its other duties, sets the maximum number of social affairs which each organization may have, thus regulating Campus Social life so that social events will not entirely dominate the college students ' time, and also so that affairs will not conflict. On the Social Committee were the following members for the year 1926- 27: Mrs. Pipal. chairman: Miss Cutler, Miss Hodgdon. Phil Ellsworth, Coach Keinholz, Professors Wright, Ballard, and Hartley. [ 47 ] cnu nstdltB iooc ii ) o c A ' A oJ osn ' T mi A oS Vm yrvv. o Vj y.-x, ' h ' i ,bsr.ivj :o j sVicW - -Vi ' j-su-rmvxn m Oi o A V n ■Vi WucU tt JyO oo j ttr p ,1pt— - Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn I leaned, the secret of my life to learn: And lip to lip it murmured — While you live. Drink! — for. once dead, you never shall re- turn. v Associated Students ) MM  M f M l] IM f IMMM( ! Harry Cunningham — A. S. O. C. President V ASSOCIATED STUDENTS The Associated Students of Occidental College is an organization which tops all organizations at Occidental. It is the life of Occidental itself. It de- termines the character of the student body and is an outward manifestation of the spirit of the College. Every regular student attending Occidental is a mem- ber and this body and for that reason has certain rights and duties which such a membership entails. Membership means more this year because certain privi- leges have been added which did not exist before the adoption of the new con- stitution last year. All student organizations are under the regulations of the Associated Students. The government of the Associated Students is centered in the Executive Committee and a system of courts. The Executive Committee is the adminis- trative department of the student body of Occidental. The personnel of this group consists of the officers of the student body, the president of the Asso- ciated Women Students of Occidental, the Graduate Manager, a member of the faculty, and an alumni representative. The Executive Committee for the first semester, included the following names: Harry Cunningham, president of the Associated Students of Occiden- tal; Janet Hoit, vice-president; Ruth Billheimer, secretary; Glenn Lembke, forensic epresentative; Arthur Teachout, athletic representative; John Loper, editor of The Occidental; Josephine Stellar, president of the Associated Wo- men Students of Occidental; Edward Hackett. editor of the La Encina: Cyril Gloyn. yell leader; Philip Ellsworth, Graduate Manager, Kenneth Montgom- ery, Alumni representative; and Dr. Ward, faculty representative. The Executive Committee is the one student governing body of the Col- lege. This group handles important questions relating to every phase of school activities. It exercises supervision over athletics, social affairs, sport managers, and finances of all school functions. The adoption of the new constitution in March. 1926, made it necessary for the present administration to serve a short term. For this reason, the Executive Committee was handicapped to a great extent; but nevertheless, it has accomplished a great deal during its tenure of office. The Executive Committee was instrumental in introducing a new policy whereby all school organizations handle their finances under the supervision of the Graduate Manager. This method is more business-like than the old hap- hazard way of collecting and spending money, which was formerly in vogue. An improved method of disciplining the Frosh was organized by the Executive Committee last fall. Under this system the period of instruction became shorter but more concentrated than before, the Freshman men being duely started in the way they should go. [ 51 ] Gloyn Cunningham Hoit Loper Harry Cunningham, as president of the student body, was consequently chairman of this important group. Under his capable leadership, student affairs were handled in a very efficient and business-like manner. Janet Hoit had charge of the social affairs of the season in addition to her duties as vice-president of the student body. The many pleasant dances and entertainments enjoyed by the College were due in no small measure to her efforts. During the absence of Harry Cunningham in the East last fall, Janet Holt further demonstrated her versatility by handling the duties of the student body president in a very efficient way. Ruth Billhcimer was secretary of both the Executive Committee and the student body. In addition to her other official duties, she had charge of the records of the under graduates. She also was responsible for all school elections. The eastern tour of the debating team became possible largely through the efforts of Glenn Lembke, forensic representative. The success of debating this year was due in no small measure to his ability in this field. Arthur Teachout held the position of athletics representative on the Exe- cutive Committee. He was chairman of the Sports Committee and had gen- eral charge of all athletics in the College. In addition he also kept a statement of the insignia earned by the men, and the records that were made during the year. [ 52 Montgomery As editor of The Occidental, John Loper created a fine showing. The school paper under his leadership was more successful than ever before. Its size and popularity increased steadily throughout the year, due largely to the frankness and liberal attitude of the staff. Josephine Stellar, president of the Associated Women Students, had con- trol of all feminine affairs of the College. During the early part of the year, the conference of College Women of Southern California convened at Occi- dental. The success of this meeting was due to her efforts and the work of her assistants. Edward Hacket was editor of the present La Encina. His energies through- out the year were centered on the compilation of a larger and better annual than the College had previously produced. Cyril Gloyn was the hardest working and most successful yell leader seen at Occidental for many years. The snappy way in which he handled the in- formal rallies, together with the progress made in bleacher stunts called forth much favorable comment from the Alumni and friends of the College. Philip Ellsworth, as Graduate Manager, was ex-offkio member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Ellsworth ' s interests during his term of office have been heart and soul for Occidental. His forte is the introduction of new, up- to-date ideas into College affairs. Under his able direction, student finances rest on a sound, business-like standard. Athletics have enjoyed unprecedented prosperity since Mr. Ellsworth ' s appointment as Graduate Manager. Sports at Occidental are conducted on a paying basis, due chiefly to his able direction. 1 53 ] Yorba Lembkc Deaver Brodhead THE COMPETITIVE MANAGERIAL SYSTEM With all branches of sports and student body activities assuming greater proportions than ever before in the history of the college, a change in the stu- dent managerial system was found necessary to cope with the ever increasing needs resultant upon the growth of the institution. The result was the estab- lishing of the Competitive Managerial System, with the beginning of the year. The new plan is so named because of the fact that all managers receive positions as a result of satisfactory service rendered during their freshman years as Competes and sophomores and junior years as sophomore and junior man- agers. The senior manager is then selected from the competitors and his ex- perience gained during his competitive years makes possible a full understand- ing of the duties of a manager. Ted Brodhead, as senior football manager, undertook the establishing of the system in that sport with three freshman competes, ' and a like number of sophomore and junior managers. All details connected with the sport dur- ing the season were well handled and the plan well established. Ralph Deaver, basketball man ager, also was able to continue the plan, having at his service competes, sophomore and junior managers who were anxious to acquaint themselves with the position. Under Wilkie Kleinpcll and Benjamin Yorba, the competitive system was introduced to the track and baseball, major sports. Glenn Lembkc assumed the role of minor sports manager and furthered the plan among such sports as cross-country and tennis. The only new office to be established during the year has been that of ticket manager. Dwight Spencer as head of the new office has satisfactorily handled the tickets for all games and productions. [ 54 ] fMf V NJrTKU fMIM f fM ) i2m ■ W J -- h.ig4 Peck Spencer Betts Lembke STUDENT MANAGERS Under the new constitution all activities are headed by a manager. Candi- dates for these student managers are recommended to the Executive Committee by the Graduate-Manager, and appointments become valid when ratified by this committee. Managers of these activities are usually chosen from the upper classes though others may be selected. The activity executives are under the supervision of the Graduate-Manager and are directly responsible to him and the Executive Committee for the funds used in their respective departments. The manager of LaEncina on assuming his duties must submit a budget for the fiscal year which meets the approval of the Executive Committee. He is the financial director of this yearly publication. The manager of The Occidental has charge of the financial side of the weekly publication, which is done thru the medium of advertising. The Forensic Manager schedules debates and makes annual eastern tours possible. He is usually a member of the Debate squad. The manager of the student Bookstore directs this cooperative enterprise for the purpose of supplying student needs. STUDENT MANAGERS FOR 1926-27 La Enema DwiGHT T. SPENCER The Occidental ... SAM PECK Forensics . --GLENN LEMBKE Bookstore - -Fred Betts Tickets . .. DWIGHT SPENCER Bank _ ..Morgan Ralls 1 55 ] MEN ' S TRIBUNAL The Men ' s Tribunal is an organization whose purpose is the enforcing of student regulations and the keeping alive of Occidental traditions. This is accomplished through the Men ' s Court. The Court is composed of the Presi- dent of the Associated Students, the President of the Senior and Junior classes and one member elected from each of these classes. While the Court has original jurisdiction over all male students of the College, its chief use is regulation of Freshmen in accord with the provisions of the Inquisition as laid down by its agents, the Sophomores. The Officers of the Men ' s Court this year are: Harry Cunningham _. Pres. A. S. O. C. SAM PECK - Pres. of Senior Class Neal Archer . Pres. of Junior Class SOLLY MlSHKIN _ ...Senior Member GUY HAWKINS Junior Member I 56 ] i Cunningham HONOR COURT Out of an honor spirit grows an honor court. Since 1910 Occidental has been trying to build up an honor spirit that will be known and looked up to by those outside of the College as well as those within. Great improvement has been evidenced — even from year to year — but we are still a great distance from the goal. Every person is an important factor in the spirit of an institution and not until everyone realizes that he can make or destroy the morale of his college by his own actio ns will Occidental obtain the honor spirit that it is now striving for. To aid this the honor court has been formed. The Occidental students have created this court, fixed the punishments that should be given to those who offend these ideals, and appointed an executive body who see that these punishments are enforced. This body is composed of Harry Cunningham, Judge. Mary Louise Jordan. Secretary, Roberta Taylor. Josephine Stellar, Ted Brodhead. Ed Hackett, and Neal Archer. It is to be hoped that the time will soon be here when there will be no honor court composed of a few students, instead, each individual will act as a court and see that his actions and those of his neighbors remain above im- peachment. 57 s ■ MO- RALLY COMMITTEE Altho ' the Rally Committee is a comparatively new organization on the Occidental Campus, it has accomplished much in the production of bigger and better rallies. Many features new to our Campus have been introduced thru the work of this committee whose members are the following: Herbert Bar- rett, chairman; Cyril Gloyn, yell king; Bob Donaldson, assistant yell king; Ozro Eddleman. Vic Klein, Florence MacLaughlin, Betty McDougall, Stanley Petit, and Paul Wyman. It was thru the tireless efforts of Cyril Gloyn that bleacher stunts were brought into realization in Oxy ' s rooting section. The Pomona game, the final one of the season, was the occasion for much extra effort on the part of the Rally Committee. Herbert Barrett, with the help of his assistants, closed the season with a huge homecoming rally on the eve of this game. [ 58 ] A 1 A 1 W i A A 1 A I f c DANCE COMMITTEE The problems that faced the Dance Committee were entirely new as a result of the action taken by the Board of Trustees which permitted dancing on the campus. The first dance of the year was held in Alumni Gymnasium, September 17, 1926, under the auspices of the Student Body. As well as sponsoring Student Body dances, the committee approved, through the Executive Board, plans for dances given by other campus organ- izations. Among the dances of the first semester were those given by the A. W. S. Conference. A. W. S. Co-ed Hop. Rally Committee, and D. O. Club. The following were members of the Dance Committee: Janet Hoit, chair- man. Mildred Moninger, Jo Free, Helen Mae Farmer, Harry Cunningham, George Juett, Wendell Holland, Jack Schweizer, Vic Klein, Herbert Barrett, and Pete Eddlemon. [ 59 ] i t-       ty Vpr i i i i i i i i i n i«l - - -- 4 Dr. J. Hudson Ballard Chairman. Chapel Committee CHAPEL COMMITTEE Realizing the need for a change in our chapel programs of the past few years, the administration appointed Dr. Ballard as chairman of a committee to work out a more perfect plan for this year ' s Chapels. One of the main prob- lems with which this committee has had to cope was the fact of the ever in- creasing numbers of students, which makes it impossible for the entire Student Body to get into the Chapel at one time. A definite schedule was worked out by which different classes attended chapel at different times during the week, their being one general assembly on Tuesday, attendance to this being optional to Juniors and Seniors, and a mens and women ' s divided chapel on Wednesday, under the direction of Deans Cleland and Myers respectively. The members who served on this committee were representative of both students and faculty, being the following: Dr. Ballard, chairman: Dean Burt, Dean Cleland, Dean Meyers, Mrs. Pipal, Harry Cunningham. Edwin Soule, Ruth Billheimer, and Josephine Stellar. [ 60 ] J V S OCCIDENTAL TRAFFIC COMMISSION The Occidental Traffic Commission is a new creation on the campus. This commission takes charge of all the campus automobile regulations, and also acts as arbiter in the cases which are protested as the result of traffic summonses which are placed on violators ' cars by members of this body. The Occidental Traffic Commission has done much to rid the campus of objectionable parking areas, and will also regulate the parking of automobiles next fall during the football season when the campus is usually nearly overrun by outside cars. The members of this body are Edward Hackett. chairman, Paul Newell, Edwin Soule, Solly Mishkin, and Neal Archer, ex-officio. [ 61 Think, in this battered caravanserai Whose portals are alternate night and day, How sultan after sultan with his pomp Abode his destined hour, and went his Way. C I a s s e s Leaving the home which for four years has given them sustenance, the seniors are prone to linger long on memories of the days transpired there. Es- pecially dear has their last year been when with Sam Peck, as president, they enjoyed the last days in their adopted home. Their thoughts wander back over Senior Ditch Day. those glorious two days spent at Baldy Camp, and then of the Junior-Senior Prom and the Soph-Senior Skate. Many trifles are remembered about each of these before they recall their original thoughts about class officers. Last year Marjorie Wallace was elected senior vice-president: when she failed to return this year, Betty McDougall was chosen to take her place. Edith Dasher was class secretary and Wendell Holland, class treasurer. McDougall Dasher [ 64 ] SENIOR DITCH DAY— CAMP BALDY r m .. -. ■lt The Big Feed Ha Ha! m and — Ye Caravanserai Hop Scotch Blah blah! Junior Prisoners Whoopee! [ 65 ] Martha L. Alkire ENGLISH Kappa Alpha Theta. Phoenix Agnes Bell Leathy N. Anderson ENGLISH Los Angeles Herbert w. Barrett ECONOMICS Phi Gamma Delta S. F. Lois Armstrong ENGLISH Gamma Kappa Theta, Salinas Charles Lee Black PHILOSOPHY Sigma Pasadena Ruth Billheimer ENGLISH Zeta South Pasadena Howard H. Black PHILOSOPHY Sigma Pasadena Fredrick Betts Sigma Los Angeles Ewing Bone m I 66 ] Ted Brodhead political science Alpha Tau Omega. Monrovia Evelyn L. Carper FRENCH Kappa Epsilan Chi Photnix Charlotte Buell ENGLISH ta Long Beach Louise Campbell Agnes O. Caldwell EDUCATION Gamma Kappa Theta, Gtendale Jean Crawford ENGLISH ' ,jmj. . na Beatrice Chapman HISTORY Alpha Pasadena Viola Craigmile Eugene Chaffee POLITICAL SCIENCE Chi Rho Boise. Idaho Edith Dasher [ 67 ] A A i f AA4AAAAAAA Ralph Deaver MATHEMATICS Sigma Puentc A. OZRO EDDLEMAN Ellen Denn Irving Eckole John Albert Dotseth PHYSICS B ' ack Eagle, Montana Reba Faris Herman E. Fagley MATHEMATICS Delta Beta Tau, Bflfcel. Ohio j TS T5Q«i Helen Mae Farmer ENGLISH Alpha Los Angeles Stanley Evans Marguerite Feather- ingill Beta Phi Delta t 68 ] 4 4 4 4 4 E NC1NA A aiaiaJiaaiaha L J David K. Folts CHEMISTRY Pi Epsilon Glendalc Michael Godett ZOOLOGY Alpha Tau Omega. Los Anuria Mabel A. Frank ENGLISH Pasadena Cyril K. Gloyn PHILOSOPHY Psi Delta Chi Los Angele Josephine A. Free ENGLISH Delta Omicron Tau. St- Louii Lester P. Grapious CHEMISTRY Pi Epsilon, Huntington Park Mary E. Hall HISTORY Eagle Rock Wilbur Graf Pearl L. Hamilton ENGLISH Long Bonn [ 69 ] V Marion Hammersley ECONOMICS Sigma Puente Francis Henshaw ENGLISH Delta Beta Tau, Los Angeles Lester E. Haserot PHYSICAL EDUCATION Alpha Tau Omega, Hollywood Theodore Henderson Eugene v. Haynes HISTORY Kcnowan Klub Pasadena Charles Holland Janet B. Hoit ENGLISH Delta Omicron Tau, Pasadena Hazel House ENGLISH Delta Omicron Tau L. A. Ralph G. Herr ECONOMICS Kenowan Klub Niagara Falls Ernest Iwasaki POLITICAL SCIENCE Kukuihaele. Hawaii. T. H. 70 William J. Keech Nena Lind ZOOLOGY Beatrice Kizer Elsabeth Lesh EDUCATION Delta Omicron Tau Glenn Lembke ENGLISH Beta Theta Pi. South Pasadena Isf « -V ?v% : JT % « y g Sk v M J. DRUMMOND MCCUNN ECONOMICS Chi Rho Rwerstde John D. loper. Jr ECONOMICS Chi Rho Phoenix. Arizona Ruby McDonald HISTORY Zeta Seattle. Washington Annie Lohrli ENGLISH Riverside Betty McDougall ENGLISH Delta Omicron Tau Tustin [ 71 9 MtMM i cy VJ  r r tt.llWl. Flora McIntyre ENGLISH Santa Barbara Robert Orr Hubert Miller ( hi Rho Los Angeles BENNET Nehls Solly Mishkin POLITICAL SCIENCE Hollyu ' OOil Sam Peck POLITICAL SCIENCE Alpha Tau Omega Monrovia Euphrates Pashgian SPEECH EDUCATION Pasadena Edward S. Phillips ECONOMICS Sultana Jessie Mae Palmer ENGLISH Gamma Kappa Theta. Anaheim Lorraine Phillips 72 £HZ NCINAT 1 9 J± Elizabeth Pritchard ENGLISH Kappa Epsilon Chi L. A. Leiland R. Shaw POLITICAL SCIENCE Los Angeles Richard Reigart Fred A. Schuckman POLITICAL SCIENCE Delta Chi Altadena Frances Ryan POLITICAL SCIENCE Zeta South Pasadena : t: J J fflt ' HVwiV ' r Josephine M. Stellar ENGLISH Alpha South Pasadena Edwin A. Soule ECONOMICS Sigma Manhattan Beach Margaret Stirling Ruth Smith ENGLISH Zcta Santa Ana Louise Stone ENGLISH Zeta Pasadena I 73 ] %? H. W. Cunningham, jr. ECONOMICS Phi Gamma Delta, S. Pasadena Arthur Teachout PHYSICAL EDUCATION Alpha Tau Omega L. A. Mary A. Holland Ervin H. Tanner SPANISH Chi Rho Morro Bay Ross Park |$3 Helen C. VanVleck ENGLISH Delta Omicron Tau L. A. Jeanette M. Trew- HELLA ENGLISH Montebello Duane Terry Psi Delta Chi Glendah Elizabeth Willbee PHYSICAL EDUCATION Paul Wyman Chi Rho t 74 ] Kenneth Bierer Horace M. Buley ZOOLOGY Los Angeles Bronson Buxton ECONOMICS Alpha Tau Omega, Santa Ana Ruth Chaffin Victor Conde PHYSICAL EDUCATION Phi Gamma Delia Puente Jos. M. Donley ECONOMICS Phi Gamma Delia Glendalc William W. Larsen POLITICAL SCIENCE Green Bay. Wisconsin Reginald R. Lavelle PHYSICS Phi Gamma Delta, Los Angeles Clarence Moeller Shigero Okado Florence Robertson Winifred Tait Kappa Alpha Thcta, Phoenix Lucile Treff ENGLISH Alpha South Pasadena Dorothy Watson ENGLISH Gamma Kappa Theta. Glendale I 75 ] Qf M MMf II Cy V  t fi f ffi ' T UNIORP CLASS OF 1928 | JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS The Juniors chose Neal Archer to lead their purple and white ranks for the year of 1926-1927. Roberta Taylor was elected vice-president. For secretary, Sarah Mae Smith was chosen to officiate. George Juett served as treasurer of the class for this year. The juniors won the Sophomore Stunts with their play written by Nellie Oinstein and directed by Roberta Taylor. Also the Junior-Senior dance given under the auspices of the class of 1928 was very successful. Smith Archer Taylor [ 76 ] Juett JV V llfffffffff FN J T KTA SENIOR DITCH DAY— CAMP BALDY 3 ' The Big Feed am and — Ye Caravanserai Blah blah! Junior Prisoners Ha Ha! Hop Scotch Whoopee! 65 Gaston Glancy Glynn Hackett Haigh Hawkins Haworth Hinshaw Hoag Jackson [ 78 ] Gray Greenley % Hanks Hawkins Hayncs Hilkcvitch Jordan Juctt r Keedy Kelley Kelly King Kodweiss Kurze B. Ludlow M. Ludlow Lawrence Lingfelter Masten McLain McLaughlin Mahoncv Marsh Mixsell C. Morse J. Morse 79 Nash Nelson G. Newell P. Newell Noble Onstine Paine O. Palmer J. Palmer Parker Perkins Perry Petit Pohlman Pomeroy Pyle R.iab Ray I NO | Roach Thomas Wixsom [ 81 ] Royal blue, denoting a search for knowledge, even as great as that of Greece; white, like the blanched foam against the sea, implying purity — it is under these colors that the class of 19 29 strives. Diligently following these emblems its members have not failed to preserve their originality that has ever marked this assemblage of characters as untraditional. In this unprecedented group distinct abilities rendered the activities of oratory, debate, athletics, and dramatics materially richer because of them. The Sophomores for this year have successfully terminated a second bril- liant epoch in their career. Ward Schweizer, a member of the varsity football team, very capably filled the position of president. Mary Barbara Taylor, vice- president, was social chairman of the class. As secretary. Carolina Marshall proved herself able to record the events of the various meetings. The treasury with Kenneth Holland as custodian increased materially. Anticipating that instruction for their incoming green brothers would be necessary, the class began the year by issuing proclamations to the Frosh offer- ing advice and fitting duties for their welfare. During the first semester the Sophomore class edited a number of the Occidental. James Bone was editor of the issue and with the assistance of an able staff put out an edition which defended well the honor of the class. Bone served, also, as chairman of Sophomore publicity. One of the most important events of the second semester was the choos- ing of class sweaters. Blue and white ones were selected, and every member pledged himself to wear one. The Sophomores at the close of this second year, do not pause long in contemplation of the past, but rather raise their eyes in speculation of the future, striving to place the blue and white high into the skies. f 82 ] fill A A A 1 mm ' SOPHOMORE OFFICERS WARD SCHWEIZER President Mary B. Taylor . Vice-President Carolina Marshall . Secretary Kenneth Holland .. Treasurer The Class of 1929 [ 83 ] Scene at the Soph Stunts SOPHOMORE ACTIVITIES The most important social event of the Sophomore year was the Sopho- more Stunts. This production appeared in the college chapel on October 28, wholly managed by the Class of 1929. Each class presented a stunt, entirely original, and conducted a booth, prizes being offered for each. The Junior Class won first place in the stunts, the Sophomores taking second: and the Senior Class claimed the banner for best booth. The stunts were more suc- cessful, financially, this year than they have ever been before. Because football prevented the president. Ward Schweizer from being business manager, the class treasurer, Kenneth Holland, was obliged to take his place. Mary Barbara Taylor, vice-president, was in charge of the stunt and booth committees for the various classes. Victor Kline and Lillian Morrison wrote and directed the Sophomore stunt which was styled after the Prologue from Chaucer ' s Canterbury Tales. Charicatures of Occidental professors were constructed in this style and were portrayed in pantomime by members of the class. All the scenery required [ 84 1 The Frosh Stunt for the act was constructed by Kenneth Lee and Kenneth Holland: Vic Kline painted the background upon it. Music for the entire program was played by the Occidental Jazz Orchestra. A large block O of orange presented a loyal aspect for the booth. Mary McPhie was chairman of this committee, the other members of which were Baily Cook and Bob Donaldson. Baily had charge of construction: Mary and Bob controlled the sales. The class booths occupied the four corners of the upper quad. Between the second and third acts, during an intermission of thirty minutes, the audience patronized the booths out-doors. Several contests helped keep interest aroused. The most attractive of these was the apple eating contest in which Coach Joe Pipal defeated all other contestants. In addition to the Sophomore Stunts a tea was given by the Sophomores last September in the Y. W. C. A. room. The Sophomores tried to make the new students feel welcome on the campus, and endeavored to introduce them to as many people as they could. Another interesting event in the Sophomore year was the Sophomore- Senior skate, given at the Alhambra Skating Rink. [ 85 ] Fw M ( t) PRESHMEA T I CLASS 1 or 1930 And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given you the land to possess it. Thus the freshmen came to Occi- dental to displace the students already there and to be exchanged for those to come. Two hundred strong they came clamoring at the gates for entrance. Be- fore being thoroughly accepted the upper classmen examined them and rescinded many remaining fallacies of their prepdom. Soon they organized and elected Alonzo Wolter to be class chairman until permanent officers should be chosen. They decided upon Lyle McAllister for president. Lois Ellenberger as vice- president, served ably, also being social chairman of the class. Vera Hotch- kiss. secretary, made permanent the class events by recording them. David Wright guarded the class finances. A new thing this year is the Organized Freshman Women over which Mary Davies presided as president. In this the girls made the required pom- poms and completed the other duties given by the tribunal. Freshman ac- tivities in both the A. W. S. convention and the May Day Festivities were carried on through this organizat : on. FRESHMEN OFFICERS LYLE MACALLISTER . . President LOIS ELLENBERGER _. ____ Vice-President VERA HOTCHKISS _. . Secretary DAVID WRIGHT ___. Treasurer The Class of 1930 [ 87 ] THE FRESHMEN YEAR As almost the biggest event in every freshman ' s life or at least in every man ' s of the frosh group looms the rope rush. This year the sophomores de- feated the frosh but, nevertheless, it was a grand battle. Mud splashes thick- ened the air and bits of clothing torn from the participants clung to the watch- ers. The object, amid all this sloppy grime, was to tie with ropes and throw out of the field as many of the opposite side as possible. Again the men of the class were put to test by the upper classes. Before the Pomona-Occidental football game an all school rally is hjld, at this the frosh are required to build the bonfire. This year it was very good; at the apex of the stack resided a real estate office. Light from the fire was seen all over the neighboring sections and many people came to see Pomona die. a heap of cinders. However, the feminine section of the class, also, was subjected to toils for the good of Occidental. The frosh women worked hard and long on orange and black paper pom poms for the Pomona game. Their labors, moreover, were not finished with the completion of these but they were, also, made to sell them in chapel and rallies. They money gained through pom pom sales was given to the A. W. S. treasury. The Famous Bonfire Constructed by the Class of ' 30 for the Pomona Rally ■ i . In the Sophomore Stunts given in October 28, the Freshman Stunt proved very clever. Margaret Morgan wrote and managed the stunt, assisted by Lois Ellenberger. It was a pantomime with a college campus for the setting, very realistic except for the door through which the actors entered the stage was the mouth of a huge, carved halloween pumpkin made of cardboard and painted very artistically. The characters represented freshmen who were either doing things prohibited or paying the penalty for having done such. Marion Carr read the story accompanyment all of which was written to the verse form of Peter. Peter Pumpkin Eater. In spite of the originality and finish of their production the judges deemed the freshmen too young for so great an honor and gave the prize to the juniors instead. Regardless of all these other activities the frosh still had time for parties. One of these was the Junior-Freshmen banquet, held at the beginning of the year so that the new students might meet the ones already familiar with the school. [ 89 ] Ah. but my computations, people say, Reduced the year to better reckoning. 3 — Nay, ' Twas only striking from the calendar Unborn tomorrow, and dead yesterday. The ITe a r THE PAST YEAR When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought. And with old woes new wail my dear time ' s waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death ' s dateless night, And weep afresh love ' s long since canceled woe, And moan the expense of many a vanished sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o ' er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I now pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and troubles end. Willie Shakespeare 1 92 ] FRESHMEN WEEK Probably at no other time in their four years at Occidental will the mem- members of the class of 1930 feel as important, as self-sufficient, or as careful as they did during the seven days before the start of the first semester when the college inaugurated Freshmen Week in their honor. It was at this time that they were broken in, as the saying goes, to the customs and traditions of the campus, and after such an amazing round of activities from which nothing more was asked than that they get acquainted with Occidental and with each other, it is a wonder that they ever came down to the hard reality of lessons, lectures and other forms of work and worry. Beginning with the President ' s reception, and ending with the famous Joint, the freshmen were given opportunities to create memories that should carry them through the rest of their lives. Introduced to nearly every faculty member, student body official and students in school, helped with the arrange- ment of courses and infused with the spirit that is Occidental ' s, these new comers in one week got what it has taken the rest of us months to acquire. And when classes began in earnest they walked around with a poise, a sophisti- cation and self-confidence which even a sophomore might have envied. Among a host of social affairs there were perhaps five which will be the longest remembered. First, there was the President ' s reception, at which time President and Mrs. Bird welcomed the newcomers to the great household in that characteristic way of theirs which made everyone feel himself immediately one of the Occidental family. Then there was a rally for new men and women, at which the upper class law was laid down, when the two tribunal procla- mations were read, Occidental songs and yells were taught, and a wonderful chance to work off all excess spirit was given. Of all the rallies to be held in the next three years, perhaps none will ever surpass that first held in the old Greek theatre by a blazing bonfire with Cyril Gloyn as spokesman for our tiger. Third was the dove reception, a long established tradition among the members of the Y. W. C. A., for they are the ones who act as sponsors for the famous big sister movement. The dove this year consisted of an after- noon spent in drinking tea. playing games and talking informally, and was, as usual, one of those affairs which introduced everyone to the few people in school she had not met before. Another old custom was the procession of lanterns which this time was more enjoyable than ever due to the atmospheric effects achieved in Orr Hall Gardens, the scene of the fete. As the symbol of the light which she carries throughout her life at Occidental, each freshman girl carried a colored lantern and stood beside a path down which walked the members of the other classes. Fifth and last, but surely not least, was the joint reception, an affair which the freshmen still talk about and probably will continue to talk about in years to come. The slate, that sacred heirloom of such Occidental functions, was once more worked to the amusement, dis- may and chagrin of both the men and women, and people met and dated with one another who might otherwise never have had more than a speaking ac- quantance with one another. And beside these more concrete things, there were the thousand and one intangible little somethings that made this first week on the strange, new campus all hat the freshmen had always hoped Occidental to be. [ 93 ] 4 kkAkkkkkkA T Yl .vA AAAAAAAAAA W OUR RALLIES Under the direction of Herbert Barrett the rally committee achieved their aim of making this year the best in history as far as rallies were concerned. Before nearly every athletic contest this year a pep meeting was held at which time songs, yells, and speeches were given and the spirit that is Occidental ' s was infused into everyone. There were rallies morning, noon and night, rallies that lasted five minutes, and rallies that lasted for hours. In the Chapel, on Patterson Field, and in the Greek Theatre. Every official from President Bird to the head of the Freshman class spoke, to say nothing of the many athletes and members of the coaching staff. Betty McDougall. Florence MacLaughlin, Pete Eddleman, Bob Donald- son, Cyril Gloyn, and Victor Klein were Herb ' s assistants in the work and they certainly deserve no small amount of credit for the success of the affairs. Capt. Vic Conde Speaking At One Of The Outdoor Football Rallies [ 94 ] THE PARADES Occidental students are always fond of parades, and their fondness this year was displayed in the A. W. S. and the Bonelli parades in particular. The former occurred in November before the Whittier game, when Glassell Boulevard, the new commercial artery, leading to the campus, was opened by the business men of Eagle Rock, and the latter in May. when Wild Bill Bonelli was elected councilman for the 14th district. The November event, coming as it did, before the A. W. S. Conference, provided an opportunity for the co-eds to advertize their wares and they entered many gaily decorated floats and automobiles filled with character- istic bevies of beautiful girls. This was a particularly gala event and will long be remembered, not only by those who took part, but also by those who watched it. MOTION PICTURE COMPANY Occidental attained national prominence this year when the Universal Motion Picture Com- pany chose its campus as the ideal place to film college scenes. All during December and Jan- uary movie stars and extras posed on every- thing from Patterson field to the Senior bench while the Collegians, a series of comedies was made, and it is still a question as to which learned the most in college modes and manners, Occidental or the movie company. Real college spirit was infused in the picture when campus students hired themselves out for atmosphere, and it is said that Christmas pres- ents were more bountiful than usual due to the fabulous salaries paid the temporary extras. [ 95 ] $ ALUMNI MEETING OF PRESS CLUB Press Club is glad at any time to have its alumni members return from the world of cold empericism to its fancy-peopled realm: but one particular meeting is every year distinctly labeled and categorized Alumni Meeting. ' ' This is as much a precedent as Sea-Story Night, or Love-Story Night in May. Not even treacherous storm clouds could keep such congenial spirits from gathering. The rain without but made the fire more cheerful as it blazed on the hearth of Clyde Browne ' s Castle, and cast grotesquely dancing shadows on the helmets and skulls and rosaries. The Manuscripts were read by the light of a fat wax candle in a wrought iron stand. Those of undergraduate members furnished adequate material for allegorical and literal Crab and Praise, while those of alumni members were subjected to less severe treatment. Even respect due to seniority, however, could not utterly disarm the keenly discrim- inatory and critical faculty of undergraduate Press. In the twenty-one years of its existence. Press Club has been the foster- ing genius of many now laurel crowned names, which it proudly designates as alumni. JUNIOR-SENIOR PROM An ideal long cherished by Occidental students was realized Monday night, February the twenty-first, when the first Junior-Senior Prom in history was held in the Alumni Gymnasium. Under the direction of Drummond Mc- Cunn the dance succeeded in establishing a precedent which future prom chair- men are going to have a hard time to live up to. McCunn was assisted in his work by Josephine Stellar, Betty Davison, Paul Newell and George Juett. Only members of the two upper classes were invited to the affair. Instead of being the conventional formal affair, usually expected of such functions, tuxedos were barred for the men. while semi-sport clothes were the vogue for the women. As Washington ' s Birthday was the following day, the decorations were carried out in red. white and blue. [ 96 ] %! ,,,,,,,, ' AALALkLA While The Cat ' s Away DITCH DAY When the Seniors went to Mt. Baldy for their Ditch Day, they left a potential bedlam which soon reached a high degree of actuality. In accordance with the unwritten law, which is purely an underclass tradition, every avail- able bit of Senior property from furniture to wearing apparel was appropriated. Mainly those seniors whose misfortune it was to live on or near the campus suffered the greatest loss or damage, rooms in dorms and fraternity houses having been ransacked and robbed of everything which took the student body ' s fancy. To make up for the perfect get-away and the fact that not one member of the absconding class was kidnaped, the Juniors held forth with a chapel ceremony of unusually realistic senior take-offs which provided such enormous amusement for the raucous Sophomores that a pitched battle between the Juniors on the platform and the Sophomores in the audience was the never to be forgotten result. JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET Fulfilling the annual tradition of a Junior-Senior banquet, the Junior class this year entertained the members of the Senior class very effectively. The affair was held on May 27, in Alumni Gymnasium, and was one of the biggest events in the Junior-Senior calendar. A college orchestra furnished music during the meal, and for dancing after- wards. To vary the dance program, stunts and skits were provided for entertainment, and proved a delightful addition to the features of the evening. The gym was decorated and tables were arranged to leave as much of the floor as possible free for dancing. The committee in charge of the arrangements was selected with usual Junior care, and with the assistance of the rest of the Class of 28, the banquet was a decided success. Members of the committee, headed by James Morse, were Betty Davison. Nellie Onstine, Al Thomas, and Dwight Spencer. [ 97 ] FOUNDERS ' DAY The fortieth birthday of Occidental College was celebrated at the Eagle Rock campus April 21. Founders, friends of the college, faculty, students, trustees, alumni and representatives of the presidents were gathered to share the service of candles and the conferring of honorary degrees after which Mrs. Susan M. Dorsey. superintendent of schools in Los Angeles, gave the address of the evening. At the evening candle lighting program, Dr. Young. Mrs. O. T. John- son, representing the friends of the college: a member of the board of trustees: Dean Thomas H. Burt, three times acting president: Professor Ernest E. Allen of the faculty. Miss Amy Gordon, alumna and a national secretary of the Y. W. C. A., and Miss Ruby MacDonald. Phi Beta Kappa student, each con- tributed briefly to the procedure. The academic procession was a feature of the program. This formed in the upper quadrangle and marched toward Alumni Hall where the program was held. Friends met at the college there for the evening. Classes were held all day as usual allowing parents of the students and other friends of the college to visit the usual department meetings. The campus was also open for inspection as usual on Founders Day. During the day a baseball game between Occidental and St. Mary ' s was held. MEN ' S HIGH SCHOOL DAY Initiating a new and worthwhile precedent, the D. O. Club and the men of Occidental College acted as hosts to some hundred leading high school fel- lows, hailing from the various Southland high schools, who will undoubtedly enter Oxy next fall as Freshmen. The day ' s program, as expressed by practically every visitor, was exception- ally entertaining and helpful in giving an insight into the college ' s various activities. Registration under the supervision of Charles Black, program chairman, began at nine o ' clock in the lower floor of Johnson Hall. After the visiting students were registered they were taken to the classes, laboratories, and around the campus. The physics laboratory staged a special demonstration of appa- ratus, while Coach Kienholz displayed plans for the athletic equipment and fields on the new campus. A peppy assembly hour was begun by Neal Archer, who welcomed the high school men on behalf of the Associated students, while Ted Brodhead. in charge of the assembly, introduced in turn the Occidental Glee Club Orches- tra. Cyril Gloyn and a couple of the Occidental players, who gave a very clever dramatization between a news feature writer and a famous New York crook. The crook ' s part was well depicted by George Juett. [ 98 ] PARENTS ' VISITING DAY An event begun last year which bids fair to become a popular tradition on the campus is Parent ' s Day. At this time all the mothers and fathers who have students in residence are asked to spend the day in visiting classes, brows- ing around the campus, and on certain occasions even talking to the professors. Just how well the parents like this sort of thing is proved by the fact that this year over three hundred and fifty attended. The class schedule for the day was shortened and school was ended by noon with assembly in which President Bird spoke and the D. O. Club se- lected its new members. Luncheon was served in Orr Hall Gardens at one o ' clock with the Glee Clubs entertaining. Following the luncheon short talks were given by Mrs. Cleland, Mrs. Roblee of Riverside; and Dr. Roberts was introduced as the newly elected member of the trustees. A number of scenes from As You Like It were given by the Freshmen women after which a reception was held by the Woman ' s Facultv Club, with Mrs. Lindsley as president in charge. MEN ' S GLEE CLUB HOME CONCERT Sid Grauman ' s Harmony Four, famous negro quartet, was the feature attraction of the Occidental ' s Men ' s Glee Club annual home concert in the Occidental Greek Bowl, May 12. In conjunction with this feature attraction was also a specialty number through the courtesy of Fanchon and Marco. The concert this year even outdid the great performance of last year in variety and musical charm. The Men ' s Glee Club sang several specially selected numbers and there were also solos and a novel surprise in classical opera. The program for the concert was as follows: The Sea Gulls Protheroe Archers Marching Song Thayer Glee Club Selections Glee Club Orchestra De Lord ' s Gwinter Move Dis Wicked Race - Johnson Glee Club Specialty Number Fanchon and Marco The Builder Cadman Volga Boatman Page Glee Club Selected Glee Club Trio, assisted by Orchestra Brown Birds Singing Wood Swords Out for Charlie Bullard Glee Club Negro and Plantation Songs Sid Grauman ' s Emperors of Harmony [ 99 ] The Start of Erdman Hal ERDMAN HALL With the traditional shovel used in the ground-breaking ceremonies for all of Occidental ' s constitutional units on the campus. Professor C. Pardee Erd- inan turned the first sod during the usual chapel hour Monday, May 2, before a small assembly of students in the erection of Grace Carter Erdman Hall do- nated by him as a memorial to his wife whose name it bears. President Bird of Occidental, who presided, opened the ceremonies with a brief word of introduction, forecasting future plans for the development of a group of women ' s dormitories which will make Occidental ' s housing facilities adequate as a residential college. [ 100] Phi Beta Kappa Initiation PHI BETA KAPPA Thursday, May 12, marked the first anniversary of the installation of the Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Occidental College. Formal initiation of new members in course took place at the office of President Bird, after which a banquet was served at the college. At this the faculty members, the honorary members, and newly initiated members were present. Dean Cleland, president of the Chapter, spoke and introduced the speakers of the evening. Cyril Gloyn spoke briefly, depicting to the assembled multi- tude the significance of Phi Beta Kappa from the viewpoint of the member in course. Mrs. Charlotte Donaldson Carpenter spoke as a representative of alumni membership. Principal William F. Ewing, and Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, honor- ary members of the chapter, gave short addresses. Dean Thomas G. Burt, official secretary, presented a statement of membership of the Delta Chapter. Announcement was made at this time of officers elected to serve during the coming year: Dean T. H. Burt, President: Dr. J. H. Sinclair, Secretary. [ 101 ] ,nil I IIMM W A LITTLE BIT The Grand Old Man In A Moment Of Leisure At One Of The Nearby Beaches [ 102] Caroline Way Up In the Air About Nothing In Particular Prof. Egbert High High High Up In The Big Sticks i OF NONSENSE Whoopee! The Long And Short Of The Matter Zowie! Oo, Lala Naughty Boy Get All Tangled Up With Girls 1 103 ] — ta u.;v. '  H i r ' n : C jj iril bill With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow. And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap d — came like Water, and like Wind I go. MfflBHMi Campus Activities • IF FOREWORD Honor societies mark a campus with evi- dence of recognition given for achievement in intellectual and social activties. They are se- lective, and stand out as worthy incentives for competitive endeavor. Occidental ' s varied in- terests are represented in societies which foster scholarship, forcnsics, dramatics, journalism, and extra-curricular activities, which play such an important part in campus life. t 106 ] PHI BETA KAPPA Organized 1926 DELTA CHAPTER OFFICERS Dr. Robert G. Cleland ...President Dr. John C. SHEDD ...Vice-President Dr. Frank J. Smiley Secretary Dr. Thomas G. Burt Treasurer Dr. Remscn D. Bird Dr. Thomas G. Burt Dr. Robert G. Cleland Prof. George M. Day Faculty Prof. C. Pardee Erdman Dr. Dr. Osgood Hardy Dr. Dr. Hugh S. Lowther Dr. Robert H. Martin John C. Shedd James H. Sinclair Dr. Frank J. Smiley Dr. Benj. J. Stelter Esther Lillian Black David Folts Lorraine Fuller Hazel Garrison Cyril Gloyn Francis Henshaw Mary Hunter Robert Kleinpell Elizabeth Kinney Kenneth Montgomery Members in Course Doris Potter Harold Straight Genevieve Sutherland Shizona Tanaka T. Page Wright Francis Henshaw Cyril Gloyn David Folts Herman Fagley Annie Lohrli Theodore Henderson Ruth Billheimer Pearl Hamilton Harvey Hall Lorraine Phillips Glen Lembke Ruby McDonald Solly Mishkin ALUMNI Dr. Clyde L. W. Wolfe. 1906 Mrs. Charlotte Donaldson — 1912 Mrs. Rosalind Chase Sullivan— 1 91 2 Professor W. J. Schoonover — 1912 Miss George M. Brack — 1912 Professor J. L. Horn — Mills College [ 107 ] aaaaAaaaaaa r,- fr i tit X -i. SF A , A A A ? PI KAPPA DELTA Women ' s Honorary Forensic BETA CHAPTER OFFICERS Frances Ryan . President NELLIE Onstine __. Vice-President LEORA FULLER - Secretary -Treasurer Members Nellie Onstine Ruby McDonald Euphrates Pashgian Frances Ryan Leora Fuller TAU KAPPA ALPHA Honorary Forensic BETA CHAPTER OFFICERS GLENN Lembke President DONALD TYLER Secretary -Treasurer Members Francis Henshaw Glenn Lembke Roscoe Ryan Donald Tyler [ 108 THETA ALPHA PHI Established 1920 National Honorary Dramatic Fraternity Mary Adelaide Holland Harry Cunningham Drummond McCunn Florence MacLaughlin Euphrates Pashgian James Bone Josephine Free Hubert Miller Alfred Thomas Elizabeth McDougall George Juett Joyce Turner Glenn Lembke [ 109 ] PI EPSILON Organized 1020 ENGINEERING FRATERNITY OFFICERS David Folts President KENNETH BlERER Vice-President Roland Taylor Secretary MERLE JONES .... .Treasurer Daniel B. White— Advisor Members Prof. D. White Dr. F. J. Smiley John Bean Prof. V. F. Morse David Folts Norman Martin Dr. E. Chandler Kenneth Bierer Lester Grafious Dr. A. N. Cook Roland Taylor Hubert Miller Dr. O. Hardy Merle Jones Llovd Wixon Dr. J. C. Shedd Elmer Worrell 1 no ] THETA PI MU Organized 1921 PRE-MEDIC FRATERNITY OFFICERS Daniel Linginfelter . ...President Harold T. Jones .. ...Vice President ROSS HENDRIX Secretary Robert Harper .. ..Treasurer Members Daniel Linginfelter Horace Buley Ray Peterson Harold T. Jones Richard Clark Lyle McAllister Ross Hendrix Robert Rives Rollin Enfield Robert Hedrick Harold Cummings Maurice Brown William Clothier Associated Members Mike Godett Clarence Borenson Honorary Members Dr. Esterly Dr. Cook ( HI 1 D. O. CLUB Senior Men ' s Honorary Fraternity Ralph Deaver .—.President THEODORE BRODHEAD Secretary -Treasurer Ed Soulc Sam Peck Solly Mishkin Francis Henshaw Members Victor Conde Irving Tanner Howard Black John Loper Cyril Gloyn Mike Godett Bud Teachout Fred Betts Neal Archer — Junior Member I 112 ] F HKi: ' j w v-— DRANZEN Senio r Women ' s Honorary Society Officers RUTH BlLLHEIMER - - President Betty McDougall Secretary -Treasurer Miss Ethel Taylor _. Faculty Advisor Members Janet Hoit Ruby McDonald Josephine Stellar Louise Stone Betty Willbee 1 113 ] Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of this and that endeavor and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, fruit. Organizations 4 4 4 44 44 4 a irifirfl Th ft Ai utMM FOREWORD The social life of a college is centered in part in its clubs — clubs founded on a diversity of interests. Various departments are repre- sented by clubs for the promotion and en- couragement of their particular interests, such as literary endeavor .social science, foreign- speaking, and the like. Each group thus fosters the development among students of some type of specialized activity. |1I6 4444444,4 4 , r : jj 4 4444 4 444444 m 9 9 H. Black Brodhead OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE CHEST To make possible the solicitation of all appeals for financial support needed by organizations rendering the college invaluable service, the College Chest plan was started last year. The organizations benefiting by the support of the student body and faculty during the past year were the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., and the Hang Chow fund which enables the institution to send a representative to the Ori- ental college, the Student Friendship fund, and the Cosmopolitan Club. To say that the College Chest campaign this year has been an overwhelm- ing success would be the easiest thing for a journalist to say, however, if the truth were told the campaign lacked the united support that was no doubt due it. Enough money was subscribed, however, to place the organizations on their feet and give them a send off for the college year. 1 117 ] 4 A A A A A „,fgxfi fr TKftl jjA AAAAAA aN_ C. Black Brodhead Hackett Newell Miller I 118 ] AAAAAAAAA CjNA A AAAAA AAAAAAAAid Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. holds, as probably no other organization on the campus, a unique position, in that the men from all other organizations gather and take part as one. The aims of the Y are four-fold: 1. Faith in God through Jesus Christ. 2. Membership and service in the Christian Church. 3. Growth in Christian faith and character through study. 4. The will of Jesus made manifest in human society. Believing that they can be instrumental in aiding one another to find the greatest values of life the college men have joined in this fellowship. A fair representation went to Asilomar during the Christmas Holidays. Nearly forty Occidental men and women participated in the Bruce Curry Con- ference which was sponsored by the Calteck. P. J. C, and Oxy Y. A large representation of the faculty spoke to the students. Deputations to suburban Y ' s were made; many college men found employment: the publication of the handbook: a successful joint reception for the freshmen under auspices of the Y. M. and Y. W., these are the outstanding achievements which the men have made in seeking to carry out their ideals. Officers Charles Black . ...President PAUL NEWELL . ... Vice-President WILLIAM KEECH __ .Secretary ED. HACKETT Treasurer Cabinet ERNEST GALARZA .. ..Meeting Chairman CHARLES BLACK . . Bible Study Chairman HUBERT MILLER . ...Membership Chairman ERNEST Iwasaki . ...Asilomar Chairman TED BRODHEAD . . Social Chairman BOB Orr .. Deputation Chairman DON TYLER Music Chairman JIM GROENEWEGEN . .Publicity Chairman PAUL NEWELL . ...Boy ' s Work Chairman LENARD KREDER . ...Employment Chairman I 119 ] V LE CERCLE FRANCAIS OFFICERS Dorothy Davis President MARJORIE King . Vice-President DOROTHY McCLAIN . Secretary BRODIE BURNHAM - Treasurer Members Mary Breeze Elsabeth Lesh Barbara Bosworth Brodie Burnham Mildred Ludlow Josephine Hodges Ruth Billheimer Bernice Ludlow Evelyn Maxson Jean Crawford Alice Jones Ellen McCall Lorraine Crawford Gracia Marsh Frances Moore Dorothy Davis Lillian Morrison Marian Reynolds Christine Drummond Josephine Peairs Catherine Shedd Josephine Free Louise Stone Mildred Shuckman Marguerite Featheringill Mildred Farris Lenore Welch Marjorie King Donald Tyler Marie Zellhoefer Honorary Members Miss Christie Miss Hodgdon Professor Wiley Professor Bell Professor Nivon [ 120 PRESS CLUB OFFICERS ANNIE LOHRLI President LUCILLE ANKENY . ...Secretary-Treasurer Members Ruth Billheimer Lucille Ankeny Christine Drummond Boyd Taylor Edward Hackett Annie Lohrli Nellie Onstine Carl Link Grjduate Member Miss Cunningham — Faculty Adviser I 121 ] a tfYt l y s n - A kkkkhkkk STUDENT VOLUNTEERS FOREIGN MISSIONARY ORGANIZATION OFFICERS Stanley Evans President Jean Crawford .. .-.Vice-President Elizabeth Kelly _. Secretary FRANK MlXSELL . Treasurer Members Stanley Evans Ellice Thompson Pearl Hamilton Bill Keech Donnela Nelson Frances Raab Marian Reynolds Marion Shaky Ruth Hall Ena Hoag Le Ida Roberts Florence Mitchell Frank Mixsell Bert Leech Eva Morrow Elizabeth Kelly Roland Taylor James Mory? Jean Crawford Edwin Martin Richard Riegart Robert Orr Christine Drummond Morris Roach Duane Terry Helen Dorman Ada Fisher George Adams Rollin Enfield Margaret Roberts t 122] j2 A A A A A £HHl ncinaT 19 2 7 AAAAAAWAA M tf Newell Crawford Terry COSMOPOLITAN CLUB OFFICERS Paul Newell . .. President Jean Crawford . ...Vice-President DuANE TERRY Secretary ROBERT Orr Treasurer Ellicc Thompson Frances Raab Charles Black Maurice Nathan Bryant McVay Mary Miller Vera Perkins Adella Townsend Edna Boly Maurice Brown Rex Hoover Members Helen Diller Ena Hoag Charles Abbey Mildred Forman Day Hanks Kenneth Greenlaw Christine Drummond Marian Reynolds Marie Hilkavitch Alexander Jimenez George Wilkinson Y. Matsumato Earnest Iwaski Donella Nelson Agnes Norhnbcrg Edward Carrey Ellen McCall Elizabeth Fisher David Wright Morris Roach Nellie Onstine Viola Craigmile Lois Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. Pipal Miss Hodgdon Faculty Members Professor Day Mrs. Day Professor Nivon Miss Taylor Miss Kinney [ 123 ] mm m s a— f tf t f tff LOS PICARAS Organized 1927 SPANISH-SPEAKING CLUB Members Edith Dasher William Kecch Elisabeth Lesh Professor Allison Lorraine Phillips Professor Wiley Dorothy Watson Professor Nivon Ervin Tanner Professor Bell 124 ] DE MOLAY CLUB Organized 1921 OFFICERS Harold Jones _ ..__ President ELMER WORREL Vice-President Elmer MlSMER Sec ' y -Treasurer Harold Jones Elmer Worrcl Elmer Mismer Lee Osborne Dale Robinson Ross Hendrix Gay Sumner Members Al Cline Lcnard Kreder Bill Robinson Roland Enfield Gene Morey Francis Henry Honorary Member 125 OCCIDENTAL PLAYERS Organized 1927 OFFICERS GEORGE JUETT .... President Mary MacPhie .... . Vice-President Joanna Paine __ Secretary KENNETH HOLLAND .. Business Manager Mary MacPhie Josephine Paine Marie Parento Josephine Hodges Alfred Thomas Marjorie King Anna Mahoney Florence MacL.aughlin Nellie Members Kenneth Holland Al Clayes Adelaide Holland Harry Cunningham Charlotte Buell James Bone Ted Hayes Jane Barrett Onstine Lucile Ankeny Betty Davidson Hubert Miller Mary Louise Jordan Howard Black George Juett Betty MacDougall Euphrates Pashgian Josephine Free 26 G£ AAAAJAAA 1A1AAA1AAAAA  f% ± A i M Sr m ■•- ' ' ' i i  r —i FRESHMEN WOMEN ' S ORGANIZATION The Freshmen Women ' s Organization was organized in the fall of 1926 to fill a long-felt want and need among the women of the freshmen class on the Occidental campus. Its purpose was to unite the freshmen women so that they might help and support to a greater extent any enterprise which the As- sociated Women Students might attempt, and to further friendship among the women of the freshmen class. The new group was sponsored at first by Mrs. Pipal. with the assistance of the A. W. S. executives, and will remain in the future under the guidance of that body. Officers were elected for the organization, and the support which these leaders have given, along with that of their fellow class-mates, has been a large element in the great success of many of the A. W. S. affairs, especially the inter- collegiate conference in the fall, and the May Day ceremonies in the spring. The officers elected were: MARY DAVIES . . President ELEANOR WlLLSON Vice-President FRANCES ROBLEE Secretary r 127 ] KNOWNOTHINGS Social Science Organization THE DIRECTORATE Phillip Angcll Ralph Cutlip Marian Smith PATRON Professor Osgood Hardy Members Phillip Angell Elmer Mismer Eugene Chaffee Frank Mixell Harold Coulter Vera Perkins Ralph Cutlip Richard Reigart Pearl Hamilton Wave Reed Catherine Hyatt Marian Smith Osgood Hardy Leland Shaw I 128 | s? Launching the Hangchow Drive HANGCHOW Occidental College in her program of education, has each year sent a rep- resentative to Hangchow Christian College in China to assist there as a professor of English and as Athletic Director. Don Walker who has served one term as our representative, became so in- terested in the Student Movement, which seemed to be rebuilding China, that he consented to return to Hangchow for anoher term. There he was engaged in teaching when the present Chinese Civil War broke out. Because of these conditions it became of immediate importance to raise the necessary money to bring Don home. The conditions were discussed in a meeting of the Executive Committee and an Emergency Hangchow Drive To Bring Walker Home was set for March 1. 2, 3. and 4 with Kenneth Holland as manager. Advertising was begun immediately and the D. O. Club ' s services were obtained to help put over the drive. With a possibility of the College opening again, Don stayed in Shanghai longer than it was at first expected: but with a Civil War on every hand and a serious anti-foreign spirit on the part of the Chinese, the opening of the College is almost impossible for some time to come. [ 129 ] V Will Rogers WILL ROGERS BANQUET Will Rogers is to speak at a dinner to be given at the Biltmore Hotel by friend sand alumni of Occidental Colleg on Thursday evening, June 16. The dinner is being sponsored by public spirited citizens and alumni of Occidental who realize the importance of encouraging progress and development in col- leges of the type and standards of the Eagle Rock institution. Mr. Rogers has kindly consented to be the guest and principal entertainer at this dinner with- out any charge because of his interest in Occidental. A large commitee met for dinner at the University club on the evening of May 1 7 to formulate plans for the sale of tickets for the banuet, and to formally launch the campaign. Mr. Max Hayward. chairman of the alumni gymnasium committee, presided at the meeting, which was attended by about fifty friends, alumni, and students of Occidental. Mr. Lowell Chawner ex- plained the details of the whole campaign, and also stated the purpose or the drive. The entire proceeds of the dinner, which it is hoped will net approximate- ly $40,000. will go toward the completion of the new gymnasium and forth- coming swimming pool which are very much needed and necessary. The price of the dinner will be fifty dollars a plate, and the plan of seating will accom- modate ten at a table, which will give ample opportunity for a person to en- tertain guests, or to arrange for places at a table with his friends and former classmates. [ 130] ==TH 19 2 7 I i A A A k k k £ 1 The Interior of the New Alumni Gymnasium [ 131 ] The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. Publications r V A Ar ff ffftfifl «F Edward A. K. Hackett Editor 1927 La Encina OCCIDENTAL ' S TRUEST LA ENCINA La Encina. the official annual publication of Occidental, depicting the events of the college year, now becomes for the first time the responsibility of the Associated Student Body. Since its inception in the year 1906 the Junior Class has edited it. The first copy came out under the editorship of the class of 1907, and was a most minute edition in comparison to the present volume, with its por- trayal of the varied activities of this college year. La Encina, or the Live Oak, was the name with which the book was chris- tened in the very early days, when Occidental was merely a building nestled amongst Eagle Rock ' s Live Oak covered hills. The name of La Encina, now symbolizes to us in a true sense the hardy development and substantial growth of the Live Oak itself. The history of Occidental has been the history of La Encina. Through the years on its pages may be seen the faces of those who have carried on after their college days are o ' er, and have placed their names high in the rank of modern day achievers in scholarship, in the professional world, in states- manship, and in the world of business. On its pages are also the faces of those [ 134] Dwight T. Spencer Manager 1927 La Encina whose outstanding talents have been dedicated in faithful and loving service through many years to the welfare of their Alma Mater. As time has gone on La Encina has grown into a book which holds its own in comparison to any other year book the country over. Only last year La Encina ranked high in a contest held by the art crafts guild of America, in which contest most of the larger colleges placed their respective yearly publica- tions. This year ' s edition brings another improvement: in size it is one-third larger than any previous one. and three following departments have been added: alumni, music, and literature. La Encina portrays all sides of college life and is itself the essence of Occi- dental ' s life. Administration, the student body with all its various parts, its social and academic organizations are all mirrored here-in. The staff of this year ' s La Encina publishes this book with the hope that it has successfully given to the students and friends, present, past, and future of Occidental a true evolution and history of this institution for the year of nineteen hundred twenty-six and seven. 135 | MacLaughlin Crawford Marsh Appclton Mishkin [ 136 £ 1927 LA ENCINA STAFF Edward A. K. Hackett Editor Josephine Stellar, Dwight T. Spencer Manager Associate Editor DEPARTMENTAL EDITORS Florence MacLaughlin .... Women ' s Editor Paul Newell Sports Editor Lorraine Crawford Organizations LuciLE TREFF The Year Mary B. Taylor Classes GRACIA MARSH Administration Betty Davison Society Eugene Chaffee Forensics James Morse Music GRACIA MARSH Dramatics Lucille Jackson Alumni CARL LINK Literary Oran Palmer Humor EDITORIAL STAFF Solly Mishkin Fred Appelton Harold Jones John Love Agnes Nohrnberg Al Thomas Lyle McAllister Ben Gorchakoff James Anderson Ted Brodhead Lorraine Phillips PHOTOGRAPHIC STAFF Martha Miller Cecile Stern Don Burleson Evelyn Lehman Photographic Editor Ass istant Florence Bristol HUMOR STAFF Oran Palmer Editor JACK SCHURCH Assistant LUIS KURZE Assistant MANAGERIAL STAFF BYRNE NELSON Advertising Manager I 137 ] John Loper Editor Sam Peck Manager THE OCCIDENTAL Probably no phase of student activity has shown such continual yearly improvement or reflected the growth and development of the college as has The Occidental, the undergraduate weekly publication. The paper of the col- lege year of 1926 and 1927 has been no exception to the above statement, and has also shown a marked improvement over the paper of the past. Under the editorship of John Loper. many physical changes were made: namely, the changing of the paper from five to six columns, the making of it longer in proportion, and the changing of the style of the head. Other differ- ences were initiated which did not add or detract from the publication, but which gave the readers a change, a thing desired by the student world on the whole. In accordance with the new student body constitution, Mr. Loper ' s term lasted only for the first semester; and James Bone was elected to the office of Editor-in-Chief for the second semester and for the first semester of the year [ 138 | V Glen i i mbke EDWARD HACKETT Sports Editor Managing Editor James Bone Richard Booth Mary Roberts News Editor Adv. Manager Exchange Editor 1927-28. Mr. Bone has carried out rffuch the same policy as his predecessor and has continued to develop the publication. A group of eleven students under the two editors carried out the major details connected with the editorial and business departments of the paper, making possible the securing of many advertisements of more than local character. News items of national collegiate interest were secured by the staff which added to the value of The Occidental. The policy of the paper was at all times to serve the college in the best manner possible, sometimes finding it desirable to give constructive criticism toward campus affairs, and at other times furnishing moral backing for time- worn traditions and conditions in which alumni would see little change since the days they attended Occidental and read their weekly copy of the paper. What the next year will find in the way of improvements remains to be seen. However, in all probability, instead of the paper continuing as only a weekly, it will probably make its appearance more than once a week, a change that will lead eventually to a daily, ranking with the best publications of educa- tional institutions. 139 A w V ▼ ▼ AAA A A A A A A Ar fTfi jF y A A A A A A A A AAA CLYDE BROWNE Clyde Browne, Master Printer of the Abbey San Encino.is a true friend and booster of Occidental College. Nothing is too large nor too small for him to undertake, just as long as it is for some Occidental organization. Although not connected officially in any capacity with the college. Clyde is just as much a part of it as any student or member of the faculty. It would be hard to find a more artistic printer than Clyde any place in the west. His typographical creations are often short of marvelous, and the way that he can use his stick is a wonder to many of the other printers who sit back aghast at his work. Not only is the Master Printer a wizard with type. He is an artist of renown in the Southland, as well as a recognized authority on the early California missions. His work entitled Cloisters of California contains a brief treatise on each mission of the old Spanish padres, and is il- lustrated with sketches of each one by the author. Clyde is also a writer of no small fame, and has had many of his stories, feature articles, and poems published in the best periodicals of the United States. The thing that makes Clyde so popular with the students of Occidental is that he is always ready to sit down and talk over any problem which might arise concerning his work. There are dance programs which must be printed just so, and fraternity invitations which must have just the right Greek letters on them. The stationery must have some special crest on it. and the envelopes must be of a certain color. Whatever may be the need, Clyde is always ready to give a person the benefit of all his experience in working out the minor details of the job. The Occidental is the Master Printer ' s child. He has nursed it through its infancy until now it takes its place with the best college papers of the coun- try. Many an editor has Clyde trained to fill a position about which he knew absolutely nothing before acquiring his editorship. Many a night has he spent with the staff until the wee small hours helping them get out some belated edition. Many a person has he helped out of a tight jam when perhaps some- thing appeared in the paper which should not have done so. r wo ] j i s I 9 2 7 r Ml A A A 4 A A 1-4 oLq The Abbey San Encino WHERE ' THE OCCIDENTAL IS PRINTED Probably no other college periodical is printed under such delightful conditions and in such an un- usual atmosphere as is The Occidental. the week- ly newspaper published by the Associated Students of Occidental College. In a shady nook on the side of a hill just off a roaring boulevard is found the Olden Abbey of San Encino. Here on each Monday night the staff of the weekly works, often until late, with the Master Printer getting out the paper. Goldfish swim dreamily about in the romantic pool in the patio, and pigeons fly about the cloisters with little concern for the presses grinding off the printed matter in the next room. Romance is truly in the air about the Olden Abbey of San Encino, and to those who have spent hours there working on the paper or conversing with the Master Printer, it will always be a spot to be long remembered and revered. 141 ' - A A w A 1 A w HANDBOOK At the beginning of each new school year, the Handbook makes its ap- pearance for the benefit of the freshmen and other students new at Occidental. This publication is sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A., and contains necessary infomation concerning the organization of Occidental as well as a resume of the various campus regulations. Besides serving as a guide to incoming students, the Handbook contains a diary and daily calendar which is always highly beneficial to all. Jim Groenewegen . —Editor Larry Powell . .-.Assistant Florence Jackson Associate [ H2 ] f M f ENCINA ' 7 7 ess U k k k k THE TAWNY CAT Betty McDougall Occidental ' s first humorous magazine made its appearance this year un- der the guidance of John Loper. already well-known through his editorship of the Occidental during the first semester. The first number of The Tawny Cat went on sale April 1 at nearly all newstands as well as on the campus. In keeping with the day, the general motif of the book held to April Fool ' s Day idea. The second number appear- ing May 25 features sororities, the work being done by the various campus sorority members. Exclusive reprint rights were granted to College Humor and the copyright was secured under the title The Tawny Kat Publishing Company. Editor -in-Chief __. - JOHN D. LOPER Advertising Manager .. HAROLD Jones Assistant Editor _JDWIGHT SPENCER Art Director Jack SCHURCH [ 143 Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the dust descend ; Dust into dust, and under dust to lie, Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and — sans end! y v§) y M u s i c OF i w-r FOREWORD The inherent desire for self expression in music is man ' s attempt to reproduce the har- mony of nature. In the throbbing, pulsing, surges of music his soul is answering the primal urge to re-create that first great blending of realities — when out of the womb of nature emerged life and light forming a divine sym- phony. It was then the very stars sang to- gether in their spheres. ' ' Primitive man responded to the grandeur of the universe with reverent worship which took the form of barbaric chants and quiver- ing tom-toms. Such was the beginning of music. Since then the art of music has advanced until today geniuses have written soul-stirring epics immortal in spirit. Music has always rep- resented the highest in man; it is an essential part of any higher education which attempts to present the nobler things of life. [ 146 ] 3a JLA. f  ¥  • ' Walter E. Hartley Head of the Occidental Department of Mu« ' DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC A great addition has been made this year to Occidental ' s development in education. Less than a year ago. the Music Department came into existence. A few, brave, foresighted men launched the venture which promises to be one of the biggest assets to Occidental. For a long time there was felt the need of some definite organized movement for the advancement of music in the college. The Glee Clubs have filled a part of this need but with such a promising field in which to work there was a great opportunity for definite service. The college was particularly fortunate in securing Walter Earle Hartley to head the department. Professor Hartley received his A. B. from Yale University in 1908 and M. B. in 1910. He has also studied under Widor, Paris. At the present time he is president of the Fellow American Guild of Organists. Be- sides being one of the finest organists in the Southland. Professor Hartley is a teacher of great ability. This is evident by his recent success at Pomona Col- lege where he developed their Music Department very greatly during his short time there. The responsibility of this embryonic department rested mainly on his shoulders and the spectacular advancement which it has made in its brief ex- istence is due to his perseverance, patience and foresight. Professor Hartley is assisted by one of the finest groups of teachers to be found. The faculty consists of well known artists representing a high degree of perfection in their field. These teachers are capable of doing much credit to Occidental both in the class room and in recitals. Edith Hartley, well known soloist and teacher, has drawn many students for vocal lessons. She is a pupil of Grace Dudley Fenton. Chicago, and Herbert Linscott, New York. The college is fortunate in having a teacher of such rare ability as Mrs. Hartley. [ 147] y t A 1 ... A A Z«X K vA A A 4 4 4 4 44 4 W w The piano studio was ably handled by Winifred Hooke. of the Lecentiate Royal Academy. London, and a pupil of Richard Buhling. of Munich and Ber- lin. Her co-worker was Susan Howry of the Peabody conservatory and a pupil of Vorbereiter. Amandus Zoellner. known internationally for his work in the Zoellner quartette, has been teacher of violin on the faculty. Many interesting programs have been given throughout the year in the student chapel periods. Students themselves have participated frequently, bene- fiting by the opportunity for wider experience. The varied numbers and ex- cellent performances have been highly appreciated by the audiences. The Music Department has also presented a number of faculty and outside recitals during the past year. The first appearance af Amandus Zoellner. inter- nationally known as a concert artist, was a great pleasure. Miss Winifred Hooke. widely known as an advocate of genuine artistry, also presented several numbers. These recitals offered to the college and friends have added much to the musical wealth of the college life. After the program, many interesting, informal re- ceptions were held, thus affording the opportunity to meet the artist personally. The new department has also served the students and community by secur- ing a series of most inspiring presentations. The winter series, for which mem- bership tickets were sold at a very reasonable price included concerts by the Zoellner String Quartette. Calmon Luboviski and Claire Mellonino. Elinor Mario, contralto. Axel Simonson. cellist. Charles Wakefield Cadman and Mar- garet Messer Morris in concert, and various other programs. With the opportunities which the beautiful Greek bowl lends to the musi- cal atmosphere, and the rich field of Southern California from which to draw artists, the Music Department has great hopes for the future. Although it is in the first stages of growth, it promises to become one of the most important departments in the college. [ H8 ] AAAAAA44444 OCCIDENTAL MUSIC AND LECTURE ASSOCIATION Jan. 25th Zoellner String Quartet Feb. 8th Winifred Hooke. Pianist Elinor Mario. Soprano Axel Simondsen. Cellist Mar. 10th Claire Mellonino. Pianist Mischa Gegna, Cellist Mar. 31st Charles W. Cadman, Composer-Pianist Margaret Messer Morris. Soprano Ivan Edwards. Tenor May 10th Massenet ' s The Juggler of Notre Dame. given in lecture recital by Dr. Frank Nagel and assisting artists. [ 149] r y k A A A ' 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 V f M MH _ y_ B M L U __ _ THE OCCIDENTAL ORCHESTRA Occidental has long felt the need of a college orchestra to play for faculty- student affairs, formal teas, and various functions such as plays and programs. Due to the financial situation of various organizations presenting programs, such as an orchestra would fill a much-welcomed place. Only this year has the opportunity for the expression of the musical ability of the college been extended by the organization of the Occidental Orchestra. Under the direction of Professor Hartley, head of the Music De- partment, the orchestra was started which made its initial appearance at He and She. a three act play presented by the Occidental Players. The orchestra added materially to the success of the play, and it is hoped that in the future this organization will grow and become one of the strongest musical groups on the campus. The officers and members are: Kenneth Holland President RUTH REAVIS Secretary and Librarian Violin Ruth Bumell Jean Crawford Esther Day Gertrude Greenlee Florence Hanes Lloyd Wixson Bill Keech James Morse Piano Lucilc Ankeny Cello Roberta Taylor Flute Ruth Reavis 1 150 ] Clarinet Ross Hendrix Alfred Cline Saxaphone Ewing Bone Kenneth Holland Cornet Edward Martin Z A 4 4 GLEE CLUB ORCHESTRA This year the Glee Club was fortunate in the organization of a ten piece jazz orchestra, that was an unusual contribution to the Glee Club activities. This is a new organization, and was prominent in many school programs, in- cluding rallies, Soph stunts, A. W. S. Stunts, and other student body functions, where popular orchestrations were rendered. The Men ' s Glee Club orchestra made an annual hit playing in the ex- change program sponsored by Occidental College, according to various compli- ments received by the members. The orchestra also played before various down- town business clubs, being exceptionally well received. Judging from the rapid strides made by the organization this year, the prospects for the coming season appear very favorable. The personnel of the orchestra is: Piano Kenneth Bush Trumpets Jack Schweizer Phil Cuthbert Saxaphone And Clarinets Wendell Holland Kenneth Holland Violin Benny Nehls Banjo Harland Hoat Drums Vic Klein I 151 ] f t   w WOMEN ' S GLEE CLUB The Occidental Women ' s Glee Club is one of the main factors in the musical education of the College. The best possible training is afforded the members in order that they may maintain always, the standard set by this organization during the history of its course in Occidental. The aim of the Club is ever to have as the goal, better and better work. The Club is open to all Occidental women, tryouts being held at the beginning of each fall term. Voices are chosen with the goal in view of rendering the concert season the very most delightful and satisfactory possible. The season of 1926-1927 has been full of work, inspiration, and en- joyment. Mr. Walter Hartley has been the director, and has led the Club through a rehearsal season of co-operation, good-will, and loyalty, and through a concert season of real harmony and satisfaction. OFFICERS Louise Stone President ANNA MAHONEY . ._ Manager JOSEPHINE Peairs . ...Assistant Manager Mildred Ludlow Secretary Ruth Shumaker . . ..Librarian Louise Stone . i. .. Accompanist PERSONNEL FIRST SOPRANO Mildred Ludlow Bernice Ludlow Princess Booth Anna Mahoney Aneta Simonson Dorothy Callecod Ruth Shumaker SECOND ALTO Ruby McDonald Helen Van Vleck Jean Barr Mary McPhie Charlotte Buell Virginia Moorman FIRST ALTO Katherine Clove SECOND SOPRANO Lola Davis Josephine Peairs Ada Fisher Mary Hosford Esther Soule [ 152 1 MEN ' S GLEE CLUB The Men ' s Glee Club plays a great part in the social and musical life of college. All men of the college are eligible for membership in this organization. Try-outs are held on a competitive basis at the beginning of each school year. Besides the concerts given during the year in the vicinity of Los Angeles, a trip is taken into Northern California. This year has been a most successful one for the Club. An Orchestra has been an added attraction and has helped the Club a great deal. The soloists should receive mention for their exceptionally fine work. It is hoped that the Glee Club will soon be a part of the new department of music. With the club under this department there is little doubt that this organization would soon be one of the leading clubs in the west. Officers Of Men ' s Glee Club OZRO EDDLEMAN _____ President Wendell Holland . Vice-President PAUL Wi ' MAN _ __ Manager Carlisle Bailey _ __ Librarian Professor Hartley . Director Kenneth Bush . Assistant FIRST TENOR Paul Wyman Kenneth Holland Kenneth Howe James Campbell Harold Moser Harold Jones Ross Parks Don Tyler John Minter James Morse BASE Eugene Chaffee BARITONE Wendell Holland Ozro Eddleman George Adams Dwight Spencer SECOND TENOR Ted Brodhead Alfred Thomas Ted Hayes Robert Donaldson Dale Robinson [ 153 ] We are no other than a moving row Of magic shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the sun-illumined lantern held In midnight by the master of the show. Dramatics A %? A A fVl) N- rvA 1 UU t FOREWORD Dramatics play a very important role in the interest of a certain group of people. In Occidental, most of these in- terested ones are organized as Occiden- tal Players. However, thru class or- ganizations, popular dramatics are pre- sented in a more or less amateurish way. But whether by the Players or by less conspicuously dramatic groups, the lure of the state is ably satisfied. [ 156 I H Black Miller MacLaughlin MacDougall Free Holland Cunningham Wyman DRAMATIC COUNCIL That the Student Body in general took a more active interest in dramatics is manifested this year by the action of the Executive Committee in creating a Dramatic Council. Organized with the idea of advancing the standard of stage productions representing Occidental, the committee is made up of stu- dents and faculty who are actively interested in promoting better dramatics All plays and similar productions arc reviewed by the council before they are produced. A representative group of Juniors and Seniors, most of whom are well-known in Oxy dramatic circles, and all of whom are capable leaders, con- stitute the memberhsip of the Council. Miss Joyce Turner, of the Speech Education department, is the faculty representative. Student members are Howard Black, Josephine Free. Florence MacLaughlin. Adelaide Holland. Paul Wyman. Ozro Eddleman, Hubert Miller, Betty McDougall. and Harry Cunningham. 157] ywfAi A AAAAi T A £ _ V THE PRIZE WINNING STUNT OF THE JUNIOR CLASS Written and Directed by Nellie Onstine SOPH STUNTS In the form of a Hallowe ' en festival, fun and noise held sway in Alumni Hall the night of Soph Stunts, when for the second consecutive time, the Class of ' 28 walked off with the honors of the evening with Better not, better not, better not tell! On the Upper Quad, horns, donuts and cider, pop-corn, and candy, with a good mixture of confetti and serpentine added to the general din and gaiety. The Occidental Eight orchestra played for the first time at a campus affair, and was an appreciated feature. Judges of the stunts were Miss Turner, and Professors Stelter and Erdman. Miss Kinney, Miss Cunningham, and Coach Pipal judged the stands on the quad. 158 A A i i ft , . |927 J ■ ■ m m A .. A, JUL lit •M L kkk. ■Hi George Juett Torvald Florence MacLaughlin Nora A DOLLS HOUSE by Henrik Ibsen The Junior Class presented A Doll ' s House, by Henrik Ibsen, on De- cember 7. The play is one of the revolt of modern women against the tradi- tional position accorded to her in the home. When Nora ' s husband fails to see her point of view, she tells him that she refuses to be a pretty doll, playing with doll children, and taking care of a doll ' s house. The characters were most admirably portrayed by members of the class, all of whom are experienced in such productions. The cast was: Torvald Helmer.- ._. ..—GEORGE JUETT Nora Helmer ...FLORENCE MACLAUGHLIN Dr. Rank Ted Hayes Mrs. Christine Under... ...Mary Lou Jordan Nils Krogstad... .—Alfred Thomas Anna ANNA MAHONEY Ellen Jane Barrett Porfer - WlLKIE KLIENPELL The technical staff also contributed in making the play a success. Man- ager, D. Spencer; Publicity. J. Bone; Advertising. B. Nelson; Stage Electrician, H. Hadlock: Properties. N. Onstine. I 159 ] QrW-9 If MMIM tJ Sp Mf MMMI( | r kkk iAAAAAA irfi A A A A 1 HE AND SHE by Rachel Crothers As their first contribution to the dramatics of the College under the new- organization, the Occidental Players presented He and She. by Rachel Crothers. Ann Herford. played by Jo Free, has been taught sculputring by her hus- band, Tom. There immediately enters the problem of the woman who neg- lects her home and family for her career. Tom and Ann each enter a frieze in a contest and Ann wins over her husband. Their daughter. Millicent. is away at boarding school and falls in love with the school bus driver. The unraveling of the complicated situation. as presented by the capable members of the cast, is one which holds attention to the very end. The cast, as chosen from the competent members of the ' ' Occidental Players. was: To ?? Herford JAMES BONE Ann Herford . Jo FREE Daisy Herford EUPHRATES PASHGIAN Millicent BETTY McDoUGALL Dr. Remington . Alfred Thomas Keith McKenzie .. Al CLAYES Ruth Creel LUCILE ANKENY Ellen . .Nellie Onstine [ 160 ] I 9 2 7 tli4l k k k k k The Prize-Winning Beta Phi Stunt A. W. S. STUNT SHOW Even finer than reported were the final products of the women ' s organi- zations as presented in the second annual Stunt Show, given in Alumni Hall. Under the capable direction of the committee, the Stunt Show has developed into a fine feature of women ' s organizations. The Beta Phi Sorority, winners of the trophy cup, presented a collegiate number called Parallel Lines. The main idea was the similarity in lines handed to co-eds in various colleges. There was the studious girl, the big-sister type, and the girl. The stunt was concluded by a dance and song, I Don ' t Know, that further carried out the idea. The Delta and Alpha Sororities ran close competition for second place. The Deltas represented a music revue, called The Music Shop. The Doll Dance was the central theme, and the various dancing dolls were very enter- taining. The Alpha skit. The Call of Eve Thru The Ages. depicted the evolution of Eve down to the modern jazz-girl. The pantomime was highly colorful, and resplendent of fine costuming. The Kappas showed College Goose Rhymes ; the Zetas were buccaneers in ' Pirate Gold; the Gammas provided a Bow-wow, and revealed the private peculiarities of the fraternities: the Orr Hall dormitory girls displayed their football conception in a ballet: and the unorganized women divulged their Pipe Dreams. The Occidental Orchestra provided music during the inter- mission, and before the presentation of the cup. Comments on the ability of the women in presenting their Stunt Show have been more than convincing to the management, and the occasion is one that is expected to grow in interest and talent. I 161 1 THE PHOENICIAN MAIDENS The Senior Class of 1926 presented the Phoenician Maidens of Eurip- ides, for their annual Greek play. The drama was translated by Dr. Ward, and the musical scores were written by his daughter, Mrs. Ethel Johnson. Gil- mor Brown, of the Pasadena Community Players, directed the cast, and Miss Dorothy Gilbert arranged and coached the dances of the chorus. The cast was exceptionally good in the portrayal of their characters, and the play was con- sidered one of the best yet produced. The leading parts were: Jocasta . Florence Mitchell Antigone ...ETHEL MAE PALMER Polynices . RICHARD MUSSEN Eteocles ---Gordon Cornett Creon . --FRANK CHAMLEE Menoeceus . - David Todd Oedipus ... T. PAGE WRIGHT Guardian .. Fred BuTZINE Tiresias - GEORGE STOLLER First Messenger - .RALPH LEWIS Second Messenger .. ...WILLIAM MAClNNIS The Greek Bowl was in splendid condition for the production, and this natural setting aided in making The Phoenician Maidens one of the most colorful and dramatic presentations of the year. [ 162] THE GREEK PLAY— AN EDITORIAL by Dr. W. D. Ward Asked by the Class of 1923 if they could not put on a Greek play, the writer answered, Certainly, if you wish to. When the performance was over, President Bird was the first to offer congratulations. Our students will never be satisfied with junk again, said he, and they never have. It was the beginning of a new era. The annual Greek Play has since been heralded to the Atlantic shore. Its omission now for the first time in five years brings dis- appointment not only to the college community but to a large circle of out- side patrons. La Encina requests my opinion. I am at a loss what to say. Out there on the hillside our beautifu l Greek Theatre waits for the dancers ' feet and the actor ' s moving eloquence: waits for the lights and the throng, with its tense attitude never witnessed at any other campus gathering. Ancient tragedy, as interpreted by four successive classes, stands unmatched in Occidental ' s history, whether for beauty or the thrill it affords the spectator. On the cultural side or from the viewpoint of favorable publicity for the College, the dramatic achievement of these four years must go on record as an unqualified success. For the future I have no right to prophesy. It is the purpose of the De- partment of Speech Education to revive, in one way or another, what Profes- sor Lindsley has called the most beautiful of Occidental ' s traditions. The Senior Class will doubtless be given the option of presenting the Medea in 1928. Should they regard the burden as too great, it may be taken over by a larger group, possibly under the auspices of the College as a whole. 1 163 ] And if the wine you drink, the lip you press. End in what all begins and ends in — Yes: Think then you are today what yesterday You were — tomorrow you shall not be less. Fore s c s FORENSICS Perhaps no other activity gives a student such a wonderful opportunity of expressing himself in his own way than does forensics. In its various departments such as extempore, de- bating and the like, individuals are trained to stand off by themselves and hold others spell- bound by their flowing oratory, or to make some difficult point by the use of good, sound logic. [ 166 ] THE FORENSIC YEAR By Prof. Chas. F. Lindsley The current year has marked an unusual accomplishment in the field of forensics. The schedule of debates included contests with twenty colleges and universities. Nine different propositions were discussed. Many of these debates were held before the civic and religious organizations. The advantages in the practice of argumentation are analysis of public questions, systematic organization of subject matter, knowledge of the rules of evidence and the laws of reasoning, and the development of platform flexibility by the actual give and take of platform debate. Certain experimental changes have been effected at Occidental in order to add to the value of debating. The formal decision has been abolished, and the formal speeches are usually followed by audience discussion. The no-deci- sion debate puts the contest on a much sounder basis. It will tend to free the debater from inhibitions and repressions, encourage originality and the more varied use of subject matter, stimulate a wider thought synthesis, and put de- bating on the basis of public instruction and education. 167 -r- EASTERN DEBATE TRIP By Eugene Chaffee Every year Occidental ' s debate team makes an Eastern invasion of colleges and Universities in the Mid West and East. This year their tour took them as far East as Ohio. The Tiger debaters who made the trip with Coach Lindsley were Glenn Lembke and Don Tyler. Their Itinerary included contests with twelve colleges, with whom were debated six different questions, and which took them over a course of eight thousand miles in length. The Oxy debaters used an informal style of debate. Of the twelve debates, eight were of the open forum, no decision type while the remaining four were decided by the audience exchange of opinion votes. The Occidental delegation left Los Angeles on January 19 for the first step of the journey. January 20 the University of Utah was met in Salt Lake, the Utes on the affirmative of the Prohibition question, winning a 1 2 point audience decision. The Tigers were greeted with a fine snow storm during their brief stay in Salt Lake. lumping to Provo. Utah, Lembke and Tyler upheld the affirmative of the personal liberty question against Brigham Young University. The debate was held during the afternoon and was attended by over 400 students who were initiated to the informal, open-forum style of the Occidental men, which was heartily received. On January 25 the Occidental team was at Parkville, Missouri, meeting the Park College men on Resolved, That democracy has failed. Parkville up- held the affirmative against the Tigers. Another audience decision was tried here and Occidental emerged victorious by a two vote margin. Two days later Wittenberg College was met at Springfield, Ohio, on the personal liberty question. Wittenberg used a three-man team, against Lembke and Tyler. Here, again the audience was given its first treat to the no-decision informal style of debate employed by Occidental. Ohio Wesleyan was met at Delaware. Ohio, the following evening on the cancellation of the war debt question. Occidental upheld cancellation. This was one of the best teams Occidental met upon the trip. Western Reserve University. Cleveland. Ohio, furnished the opposition two nights later on the war debts question. The Cleveland institution won by an audience decision, with an 1 1 vote margin. The Occidental team then began to move west once more to meet Mar- quette Univesity of Milkaukee on the prohibition question. Occidental took a chance of being murdered by going into a wet ' ' section to uphold prohibition — and only lost 6 votes with the audience doing the voting. The next night found the Tigers speaking against farm relief right in the heart of the farming district of Wisconsin. Carroll college put up the argument for relief. [ 168 | Lawrence College and Occidental met the following night at a banquet of the Kiwanis club of Neenah and Menasha. Lawrence spoke for farm relief and presented the strongest cast the Tigers met on this question. The audience was all for farm relief, but at the same time handed the Tigers plenty of applause for the informal style of debate which made the contest so unusual and inter- esting. For the fourth consecutive night of debating the Occidental team met Mac- alester College in St. Paul. Here again the subject was farm relief, and with a thoroughly sympathetic audience, Macalester had a decided edge on the Occi- dental men. Two days later the invaders met the University of Denver in a debate on the failure of Democracy. Their opponents presented the case against democracy. The last debate on the trip was at Berkeley on February 10. when Tyler and Lembke opposed the University of California on alumni control of uni- versities. Mayall and Monscharch represented the Golden Bears to laud the work of alumni bodies. February 1 1 the Occidental team was back in Los Angeles, safe after up- holding prohibition in wet cities, condemning farm relief in farm belts, knock- ing Coolidge in Republican strongholds, praising democracy in a socialist com- munity, and condemning almuni control where that control is the strongest. DEBATE CONCLUSION The debate tour this year was by far the most elaborate and pretentious which has ever been undertaken by the forensic department of Occidental. Not only did the trip serve to boost the name of the black and orange institution throughout the middlewestern states, but it likewise gave the debaters a chance to make relations with the colleges which they met which will undoubtedly result in return debates whenever these particular colleges happen to have teams in this vicinity. Coach Lindsley and his men are all to be congratulated on the splendid showing made throughout the year, not only on the eastern trip, but likewise in the many local debates which were held with the immediate neighbors of Occidental. With such a successful forensic year just completed, the outlook for a great year during 1928 is anticipated by Professor Lindsley and Kenneth Holland, recently chosen forensic manager. Glen Lembke is the only graduating member of the squad, so a good turn- out should be on hand when the season opens next year. With such men as Holland. James Bone, Harold Jones, and their cohorts, the coming debating and forensic year should make itself famous in the annals of Occidental ora- torical history. [ 169 ] AA A ■■■ M M ' 2V r« Lembke Palmer Holland Glenn Lembke This is Duke Lembke ' s last year as a de- bater for Occidental. During his career, here, he has achieved an enviable record. He was one of the debaters who made the Eastern trip a real success. In another way. as forensic repre- sentative, he aided Occidental, by securing a very desirable schedule for the season of 1926- 1927. Leiland Shaw Shaw is also lost to Occidental, this year. He has debated for his Alma Mater the past two seasons and all his work has had that ele- ment of faithfulness which is essential to good debating. Boyd Taylor Though this is Taylor ' s first year of de- bating for Oxy, his handling of the negative with Shaw when they debated Southwestern an the Chinese question, shows that he has real forensic ability. Sheffield and Palmer Foster Sheffield and Oran Palmer are also new as debaters at Occidental. These men will be back again next year. These men will bol- ster up Oxy ' s chances for a successful season. [ 170 ] £ : Bone Jones Yokes Don Tyler Don Tyler the other Tiger debater to make the Eastern trip, will be a great help to Coach Lindsley in maintaining Occidental ' s high standard in forensics. Don came here, with a brilliant record as an orator and during his three years of collegiate debate, he has main- tained this reputation. Bone and Holland Kenneth Holland and James Bone, Sopho- mores, debated for Occidental for the first time this season. They upheld the affirmative of the Chinese question against U. C. L. A. and be- :ause of their showing in this encounter, much is expected of them in the future. Jones and Vokes Harold Jones and Harold Vokes, both Fresh- men, also debated U. S. C. and though they are novices in the the realm of Inter-collegiate debate their work thus far has been very com- mendable. These men came to Oxy from So. Pasadena where they debated together. I 171 And we, that now make merry in the room They left, and summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the couch of earth Descend — ourselves to make a couch — for Alumni A NEW SIGNIFICANCE Alumni here find a place side by side with the students of the college — the first expression of an Occidental brotherhood that is no longer an ephemeral ideal, but a vital structure of living tissue. That integral part which alumni play in the life of the college has brought the attainment of this union; and it has been given a new life through the fellowship of effort on the part of Occidental men and women, and in the realiza- tion of diverse benefactions through a medium of their creation. The representatives of Occidental ' s hundreds of graduates found in the following pages are but a few of the many who have been found worthy of that supreme trust placed in them by their Alma Mater; and it is hoped that through them, and the hundreds of others equally worthy but unnamed, Occidental men and women the world over will gain fresh inspiration. | 174 ] OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE ALUMNI COUNCIL President CHARLES E. MCDOWELL ' 09 Vice-President MARY E. MUSSEN ' 24 Secretary-Treasurer LUCILLE M. JACKSON ' 17 Alumni Representative KENNETH MONTGOMERY ' 26 Chairman Board of Athletic Control. FRANK N. RUSH ' 09 Editor : Benajah Potter ' 17 Pres. A. S. O. C NEAL ARCHER ' 28 Chairman Employment Committee Harold McClellan ' 22 Chairman Contact Commit tee. ...ERNESTINE KlNNEY ' 17 Chairman Alumni Day Committeee Harold Landreth ' 12 Chairman Directory Committee.. ..LOWELL CHAWNER ' 21 927 Group 1928 Group 1929 Group Edmund W. Pugb ' 1 1 Edwin B. Lawyer ' 14 Bruce Kirkpatrick ' 20 Ella Anderson ' 25 Leslie Lynn ' 95 Millard M. Mier ' 16 Ernestine Kinney ' 1 7 Fred Johnson ' 1 2 John Cherry Johnson ' 09LowclI Chawner ' 21 Helen Veghte ' 23 Charles Pearson ' 21 Theodore Stearns ' 15 Lois Tracy ' 24 Robert Blee ' 07 Charles E. McDowell Mary Mussen ' 24 Fred F. McLain ' 16 Robert Creswell ' 19 Thomas Holden ' 21 Byrd Rice ' 10 ' 10 1 175 [ ¥ Ml OCCIDENTAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION College annuals portray the life of the college and yearly record the hap- penings of its student organizations. The Alumni Association aims to be of vital help both to the students and to the administration. As a recognition of its success in this, it has been accorded a place in this chronicle of events of the college year. Occidental ' s Alumni Association was organized in 1 894 with the gradua- tion of the second class, and for the first year numbered only five in its mem- bership. The early classes of Occidental being small, the membership of the Association grew slowly. After the year 1918, however, each succeeding class added increasing numbers to the list of graduates until, with the graduation of the class of 1926, some eleven hundred men and women have received de- grees from Occidental. And a greater number of approximately seventeen hundred non-graduates have completed at least one semester of work. All these people are potentially concerned in the college and its welfare, but their divergent personal interests keep them from being alert and at all times informed concerning things Occidental. The Alumni Association ' s first job, therefore, is to keep the college before the great body of sons and daughters, in some cases reawakening the interest, in others diverting it into channels of expression. Some of these alumni have other Alma Maters, but the greater number have only Occidental. As the first step in the cultivation of non-graduates, the Alumni Associa- tion voted, in June, 1926. to include all former students having completed one semester of work in the Association membership. This ties all non-graduates who have no other college home to Occidental. The second step in this cultivation program was the sending of the Oc- cidental Alumnus (the publication of the Association) to all potential mem- bers of the Association. This magazine issued quarterly by the Association, in- cludes all news and announcements of the alumni and the administration and serves to keep the alumni thoroughly informed concerning college developments. The Board of Trustees of the College in 1925, provided for the repre- sentation of the alumni on its body. They amended their constitution so that the alumni might nominate from its dues-paying membership three alumni each year to serve for three year periods, the Board, itself, electing one of these three to membership. The two official representatives serving on the Board now are: Dan S. Hammack, ' 05 and Frank N. Rush, ' 09. Other alumni who are members of the Board are: Alphonzo E. Bell, ' 95: Max E. Hayward. 16: Fred H. Schauer. ' 03: Glenn E. Huntsberger, ' 04: Harold B. Landreth, ' 12: and Arthur W. Buell. ' 04. During the past year the alumni have undertaken a campaign for the first unit of a gymnasium group on the campus. A building, including a basket- ball floor and department offices has been completed and occupied. This has filled one of the great needs of the college. A swimming pool and other units will be added as funds permit. A beginning has been made this year in the organization of Tiger Clubs in communities where there are a sufficient number of Occidental people to form a group. The Tiger Club of Los Angeles, an outgrowth of the old Occidental O Club, was organized more than a year ago. It is a luncheon I 176 ] fgjghr - u - A tiAt ' MillA club of Occidental men who gather together once a month to discuss the in- terests of the college. These community clubs, however, include for the most part men and women and their gatherings are usually evening affairs. Their purpose is two-fold: first, to foster their own interest in Occidental, and sec- ond, to place Occidental before the communities in which they are existant. The first of these clubs was organized in Orange County in January, 1927. Others in process of organization are: San Francisco Bay. Santa Barbara, San Diego. New York City, Princeton, Honolulu. Fresno, Boston and Arizona The Association will strive to increase constantly the strength and number of these Tiger Clubs. A second beginning of the year has been the organization of an Employ- ment Bureau. This bureau will commence on a small and well-established scale, striving to increase by the force of its own momentum. For the first year it serves only the members of the present graduating class, hoping in the near future to be able to serve not only new graduates but any alumni who may desire to make use of its services. The governing body of the Alumni Association is its Council. During the last year this Council has been composed of twenty-one regular members, seven elected each year to serve a period of three years and six ex-officio mem- bers: the Graduate Manager of the Associated Students, the Chairman of the Board of Athletic Control, the Alumni Representative on the Associated Stu- dents, the Secretary-treasurer of the Alumnus. At a recent meeting of the Council, the members unanimously voted to recognize itself upon more repre- sentative lines, each class or group of smaller classes having one representative, each suburban Tiger Club having one representative, five delegates at large being elected annually and certain ex-officio officers being appointed. Because of the large size of such a group, meetings will be held quarterly and an Exe- cutive Committee composed of officers of the Association, three members elect- ed at large and certain ex-officio members, under the direction of the Council will meet monthly. This proposed organization will bring into contact with the college and the alumni affairs a larger number of people who do not have such contact under the existing organization. The very being of the Alumni Association is centered in one thing — the College. The Association exists solely for the service it can render to Occi- dental. Its members are ever loyal sons and daughters of a glorious Alma Mater, striving always to uphold her ideals and to further her interests. f I MMM 3 Jacks Potter THE ALUMNUS The Occidental Alumnus is the official organ of the Occidental Alumni Association. It is a quarterly publication, numbers being issued in November, January, March, and May of each year. This magazine includes feature ar- ticles by prominent alumni, news of the campus, news and announcements of the administration, digests and feature articles on college sports, announce- ments of the alumni council and news of the individual alumni. The Alumnus is published under the direction of a permanent Alumnus Committee and an Editorial Staff. Copies of each issue have, this year, been sent to some two thousand alumni and non-graduates, faculty members, members of the Board of Trustees and seniors of the college. The Association considers this an espe- cially helpful way of interesting the alumni and non-graduates of the college in Occidental and her activities. The magazine is a member of the national Alumni Magazines Associated, an organization of the leading college and uni versity magazines of the United States. As a member it carries national ad- vertising as well as local, and copies of the Alumnus may be found in tb official alumni hotels of the United States. EDITORIAL STAFF R. Benajah Potter Lucille M. Jackson Rebecca Hayslip ' 12 Carl Bigsby ' 22 John Young ' 1 7 7, Editor I 7. As st. Editor Harold Reavis ' 24 Warde Fowler ' 1 7 Thurston Harshman ' 24 Bruce Lawson ' 23 Phillip Ellsworth ' 24 PERMANENT ALUMNUS COMMITTEE Fred F McLain 16. Chairman Fred M. Johnson ' 12 Bruce Kirkpatrick ' 20 Lucille M. Jackson ' 17 [ 178 ] A A A A A LA ENCINA STAFF. 1907 The staff of the first La Encina. deservedly proud of their efforts in publishing Occi- dental ' s first year-book, preserved to posterity their signatures. Under the caption Editorial Staff, fancifully printed and surrounded by oak leaves and large acorns, appear the names and signatures of those who conceived and brought forth the first La Encina. To Ernest Branson, the Editor, goes credit for the idea and for the name. Mr. Bran- son, in his sophomore year, came to Occidental from Wooster College, a much more establish- ed institution than Occidental then w s. It was at Wooster that he got his ideas and ideals for the book. He spent two years at Occidental, returning to Wooster for his degree. Later he married Evelyn Wakefield of the class of Occidntal ' 06. He is now director of research for the Long Beach Public Schools. The assistant editor. Frances V. Gordon married after leaving Occidental and is now Mrs. Andrew S. Bry- don of Highland Park Mamie Katharine Daniel. Literary editor is married to Mr. Charles N. Randolph and lives on North Rexford Drive in Beverly Hills. Harry Sloan Dukes. Art editor, after graduating from Occidental, completed a year ' s work at the University of California in Berkeley. He is now an instructor in the Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. Robert H. Blee. Athletic editor, finished his work at Occidental and took graduate work at Stanford Uni- versity. For the last several years he has been principal of the Puente High School and Superintendent of the Puente schools. He has continued a very active and fruitful interest in all that is Occidental. Clyde Wolfe. Josh editor, took his B. A. at Occidental, his M. A. at Harvard and his Ph. D. at the Uni- versity of California in 19 19. He spent several years as in instructor at Occidental but is now assistant professor in mathematics at California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. Gale Lane. Calender editor, is a teacher in the high school at Dinuba. California. Other than her degree from Occidental she holds a degree from the National Young Women ' s Christian Association training school in New York City. Vera Howard Brooke. Organization editor, received her B. A. from Occidental and an M. A. from the University of California in 19 12. She is now Mrs. Claude E. Nihart and lives on Elyria Drive in Los Angeles. Frank Peer Beal. Business manager, received his B. A. from Occidental in 1907. his T. B. from Harvard and Andover in 19 15. At present he is serving as executive secretary of the Community Council of New York City, an organization which does much for the children of that city, organizing playgrounds and health centers. His hobby is tennis and he is president of the U. S. Paddle Tennis Association. Clarence Spaulding. Assistant Business Manager, after his graduation from Occidental in 1907. was a Rhodes Scholar from Arizona from 1908 to 19 11. receiving a B. A. and an M. A. from Oxford. He received a B. D. from Princeton in 19 12 and a D. D. from Occidental in 19 19. Foi a number of years he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Barbara and was very active in civic affairs during the period of reconstruction following the earthquake in J 9 25. Occidental is proud of all these who have so lastingly contributed to the College, and in this, the anniversary edition, she honors these, the members of the first staff of the La Encina. f 179 ] IN RETROSPECT By Ben Potter Strange and motley is the throng as the past generations of Occidental are conjured up be- fore our eyes, each apparently content to wear the particular style raiment peculiar to its day. Scarsely do such shades of antiquity belong in the year book, which is meant to chronicle the adventures and achievements of the present year rather than to weary the reader with the gar- rulity of tales twice told. However, concern regarding ancestry seems to have a universal urge, as evidenced by the King Tut excavations and by the anti-evolution controversy, so we have delved into the ancient archives and have drawn upon hoary memories to learn what manner of man or beast has inhabited the Tiger ' s lair in years gone by. Forty years ago this spring the Presbyterian church brought forth this child — fragile in body but with a flaming spirit that no adversity could kill. The most imposing thing about the institution was its name — The Occidental University of Los Angeles — which was reason- ably inclusive for a school that took some six years to muster its first graduate. Mrs. Maude Bell Bear, achieved that distinction in 1893. The first campus was in Boyle Heights, out East First Street toward Belvedere, and a vivid idea of the roistering life of that paleolithic age is gained from the following extract from an early catalog: It is the aim of the faculty to secure proper deportment and diligence in study through the student ' s sense of right rather than by the direct exercise of authority. Students who persist in neglecting their studies or in disorderly conduct, after due admonition, will not be permitted to remain. (It is possible the 1927 faculty re-read these ancient rules at the close of the past semester) . Students are not to leave the premises during the periods of study and recitation without permission from the President or teacher in charge. To assure the best results it has been determined to forbid card playing, the use of tobacco, the playing of billiards or pool and the frequenting of any questionable resort. (Dancing and drinking evidently were too heinous to be attributed to any student even by reputation.) If a student finds upon trial that he cannot give up these indulgences, he is expected to make a frank and manly statement of this fact to the Faculty, who will then give him an honor- able dismissal. Those who indulge in these practices clandestinely will be dismissed. Appropriately enough, the progenitor of THE OCCIDENTAL in that era of dawn was called THE AURORA and, in place of Camel cigarettes and Marinello beauty shops, its adver- tising columns set forth the virtues of tandem bikes and of the Nadcau tonsorial parlors, where college boys cm get artistic haircuts. (Apparently, this shop neglected to state that it made a specialty of bobbing). Who shall say whether the journalistic evolution has been up or down? Think not that the youth of this early campus lacked virility. Listen to THE AURORA of October 1897. regarding football — earnest words, if not polished: To every true Occidentalite this subject is interesting. It sets his mind to thinking of the victorious team we had in ' 95; how, at every game in that season, victory followed our men. Since the burning of the old college building, the college has been rather hampered in all its lines, especially in athletics. At the present locality, the boys have no track nor grounds, and have to make the best of it. I 180 ] This year a football team has been organized, a captain and a manager elected, and the V. M. C. A. have given us the use of their grounds on which to practice. The team is too light to play the heaviest, but is ready to play any team of its weight. The average weight is 140 lbs. As soon as we move out to Highland Park we will have room and likely more and better material, and athletics will certainly boom and we shall repeat our glorious football record of ' 95. L. Chapin. Capt. When one considers that this was written while the college was holding forth on Hill Street between Sixth and Seventh, after the burning of the main building on the Boyle Heights Campus, he will realize that Captain Chapin — scion of a family whose name is cherished in Occidental lore — probably did not exaggerate particularly in his mild statement that athletics were rather hampered. Scrimmaging on Hill Street might be rather inconvenient. However, the glamor of that victorious season of ' 95 remains undimmed by the years as it witnessed the first coronation of an Occidental team as champions. Billy Edwards, captain of that team, is still busy winning championships by proxy. Upon the Highland Park Campus, occupied in 1898. the struggling institution really took root and began to grow. Here originated most of the traditions that have enriched the college life. In 1900 the group of boys rooming in the Cleland household — for a span of twenty years or more one of the blessings of the campus was the benign presence of dear old white-haired Dr. Cleland — decided to call themselves a fraternity and took their name from an owl ' s nest in a hollow tree near the house — or was it a prophetic vision of the love for night life in their suc- cessors? The same year another group was formed and styled thtcmselves apes, probably in prideful emphasis of their casual semblance to regular human beings. The birds and the beasts having segregated themselves, they no doubt regarded the remaining men as poor fish. Who completed the cycle as insects and reptiles is not known, although the balance of the college body consisted of girls and faculty. In any event, the Apes and the Owls, together with the Alpha and Delta Sororities, constituted the fraternal life of the school for almost a score of years, al- though one of the virtues of Occidental was ever that its social life was broad as the student body and no one felt ostracized for lack of fraternal connections. The turn of the century also saw a revival of athletic prestige, particularly in track. If memory serves, Horace Cleland. brother of the present dean of men, never lost a collegiate foot- race, defeating the best sprinters that even Stanford could offer. Kin Cleland. as he was called, died a yeir or two after leaving Occidental, as he was preparing for foreign missionary work, and the alumni founded their first scholarship in his honor. In 1906 J. Percy Hager- man. now in Y.M.C.A. work in Fresno, set a Southern California record of 23 feet. 4 inches in the broad jump, phenomenal for that day. This is still the college record, being by far the oldest one upon the books, and it was not equalled by any Southern California athlete until this spring when Cliff Reynolds of U. S. C. leaped almost 24 feet. Dean Cromwell. U. S. C. ' s famous track coach, is another Occidental athlete of ancient vintage. During the middle naughts the bulky form of Henry Wieman. — as redoubtable as a philosopher now. as he was a lineman then. — was the rock which wrecked Pomona ' s champion- ship aspirations. He was the first of a mighty race, potent in football and track, including Henry, Ink. Drury and Tubby (listed in the family Bible as Wallace) with Lois to represent the feminine branch, who. together, constituted perhaps the greatest contribution to Occidental of any single family. Wynn Mace, coach of this year ' s championship tennis squad was king of Southern Califor- nia courts in his day, but unquestionably the greatest athlete of them all was Fred Thomson, the present movie star, with his smoothly flexing muscles, supple as willow wands yet strong as steel. He generally is regarded as the world ' s greatest all-around athelete of all time, although his championship point score was later surpassed by his young brother, Harrison, another former Occidental student who won the national all-around championship in 1921. Fred Thomson ' s most spectacular achievewent off the athletic field occurred when as a pre-theological student, he purloined a yellow street car. gently but firmly assisting the conductor and motorman to alight and piloting the juggernaut up and down Monte Vista Street himself for his own amuse- ment and the amazement of onlookers, but to the intense embarrassment of the college author- ities who were threatened by the Los Angeles Railway with a damage suit amounting to sev- eral times the total endowment of the institution. This can be recommended as a novelty in track events. I 181 1 Two decades ago. when every two and three-sevenths persons did not own an automobile of their own. with an extra jump-seat for the family cat, one of the high points of college spirit was reache d on the annual pilgrimage to Pomona by special train. An entire student body corralled on one train can generate an intensity of enthusiasm which is hard to duplicate today. Such an excursion, however, resulted in the greatest tragedy in the history of the school when one of these specials was wrecked and a couple of students were killed. While on the train, so to speak, due honor must be paid the Santa Fe. which for many years was an important factor in Occidental life. Their main line ran squarely through the center of the campus and their time tables determined at what hour evening entertainments might begin, punctuated class periods as reliably as the warning bells, and saved many a resource- ful delinquent who could stall plausibly on the answer to an apparently hopeless question until the approaching uproar of the next train provided a respite during which he might recall — or otherwise acquire — the necessary information. Whoever was responsible for the delicate ad- justment of scientific instruments was assured of permanent work. Possibly one of the secrets of the popularity of the services in the old chapel with the fresco of orange evergreens on the walls, was the never-failing comedy of the struggle between the speaker and the railroad — the gradual raising of the voice as the train drew near, the desperate bellowings drowned out by rattling windows, reverberating boilers and clanking steel, the startled surrender as the howling monster roared by like the crack of doom, the more or less witty attempt at recovery and the look of blank dismay when the second train, which the students knew was coming much to their secret glee — started puffing up the grade a few moments later. The genesis of the modern rope rush is found in the old battles on the high bluff at t he southwest end of Highland Park, then known as College Hill. The freshmen placed their numerals on the crest and undertook to defend them from the onslaught of the irate sophomore hordes, numbering some eight or ten warriors altogether. Originally the battle raged intermit- tently for an indeterminate period of a week or more, but later ones were limited to a single night. If the numerals were still in place at 9:00 a.m. the freshmen were victorious. An im- mortal victory was won by the women of 08 who carried their numerals to victory over the sleeping bodies of the enemy, who previously had trussed up all their masculine opponents and were dreaming of the glory that proved to be greased. Obviously the female of the species was deadly even in the days when locks were long and legs were limbs. At the insistance of the parents the faculty put an end to this particular form of festive hospitality when one of the hosts and one of the guests almost put an end to themselves by rolling the gory length of College Hill together. Thereafter a football game and the rope rush as we know it • now was substituted, the class winning both for the two consecutive years being entitled to place their numerals on the hill permanently. 1911 and 1913 won this honor and their numerals adorn- [ 182 1 cd the hill back of the upper quad until they succumbed to the urge for campus beautification a few years ago. The Ku Klux Klan was another institution powerful in its day. Assuming the function of underclass discipline — it is believed that its creation, christening and accession to authority occurred spontaneously when Ray Petty and Jim Smart possessed themselves of barrel staves with which to belabor some obstreperous freshman — they distributed instruction and admoni- tion in summary and convincing fashion until the Tribunal took over the discharge of these duties in a more formal and systematic manner. Their most elaborate ceremony was the Night Shirt Pee-radc of hallowed memory, where- in the men of the three older classes, attired in night clothes, entertained the new little new-ar- rived freshmen boys by applying tangle-foot to the chest; molasses, eggs, and sand to the hair (for economy ' s sake using eggs no longer edible): generous portions of lard and oysters to their tonsils; wide-swinging brooms to their trousers; and generally acquainting them with many similar appurtenances of higher education. Chester Bradbeer or Jim Smart in charge of a worndown broom would make the executioner of the French Revolution look beatific by contrast. The death list was never published by the faculty, so the full extent of casulties is unknown. In a valiant rebellion the class of 1916 refused to appear at the designated hour, spending the fateful night shivering unmolested amid the dews of College Hill until the wee small hours — and were picked off one by one as they came to school the following morning when the postponed pleasure was experienced to the full. The Night Shirt Pee-rade came to an untimely end when one year the hair of each freshman was clipped clean around the crown. It happened that the father of one was a prominent clergyman, and. being a good Protestant, he objected so strenuously to this priestly tonsure upon his son that discretion prompted the abandonment of these mystic rites henceforth. Another honored order of the past was the Anti-Buys. The financial genius who con- ceived the scheme started the organization by buying himself a treat. He then took in his first associate by inviting the neophite to treat the two of them. These two charter members then initiated a third by having him buy ice cream for all three, and so it continued with each new adherent treating the constantly-increasing membership as an initiation fee and participating in free ice cream thereafter. It was a trifle rough on those honored with an invitation about the time the organization became so bulky that it would explode, but it was great for the early promotors whose free eats were limited only by their physical capacity, while it delighted the heart of Dad Bryson. the ice cream and hot-dog dispencer whose little cart and horse were the despair of the struggling student cafeteria. Of worthier import was Press Club, sponsored in 1906 by Miss Cunningham to furnish opportunity and sympathetic encouragement to original expression by budding literary genius. A once inviolable precedent, which may still be observed, was to hold the first and last meeting of each year on the austere summit of old Eagle Rock itself, so in the minds of some this ma- jestic landmark will always carry sentimental associations. Another notable achievement of the same year, to be credited to the class of 1907, was the publication of the first La Encina, from which little acorn this sturdy tree has grown. Since no oaks adorned the campus, it is possible this name was adopted as a convenient way to supply that lack, as the pioneers of those hardy days were nothing if not resourceful. For many years Occidental conducted a full-fledged academy which was housed in a sepa- rate building upon the campus and in this preparatory school were nurtured some of the finest athletes of the college. Chester Bradbeer. an academy graduate, carved out for himself an eternal niche in the hall of fame during the U. S. C. meet in 1912 by his superhuman effort when in running anchorman, he overcame a lead of around thirty yards to w in the relay and win the meet. Sid Foster, now head coach at Manual Arts, played on the Occidental varsity some six or seven years, as the rules at that time permitted preps and freshmen to compete on the college teams. Sid Foster and Sam McClung. who were in the academy together, later be- came unquestionably the greatest pair of halfbacks who ever wore the Orange and Black. Still another prep product. Bill Annin. set a record which perhaps will never be equalled in competi- tion of equal caliber when in 1913 he ran three men ragged and won the mile, half mile, and two mile all in the same meet with Pomona, who were famous for their distance runners. Fred Thomson, previously mentioned was another who began his career in prep. Gradually, however, the academy was abondened and in 1913 it was closed altogether. John Young, now head of the department of economics, probably has the distinction, largely by virtue of I 183 ] owning a name that comes at the end of the alphabet, of being the last student ever to graduate from the Occidental Academy. For the next year or two. until the college moved to Eagle Rock, the old academy build- ing served as a dormitory. How would you like a nice cozy class room for a bed chamber with heat on Tuesdays and Fridays from eight to nine — or so it seemed ' However, the mere knowledge that one of the inmates was Demon Henry, of journalistic fame, is sufficient evidence that life was seldom dull, especially when doors could be removed from their hinges and a fire hose in good working order was parked in the spacious hall. A redeeming feature, though, was the presence of the gymnasium in a portion of the building. The dormitory lawn also was a pleasant spot for little day-time spreads, when the air was not polluted by the nearby chemistry sheds. After abandoning the academy, Occidental, like a pollywog that has shed its tail, became for a number of years the big frog in the Southern California conference puddle, winning almost continually for several seasons in the majority of lines. One of the outstanding features of this glorious Renaissance was the Million Dollar Campaign of 1916. Under the direction of a professional ballyhoo, the college made a whirlwind appeal to the general citizenry of Los Angeles to donate a million dollars to Occidental in ten days ' time. Columns of publicity and an elaborate organization presaged the event, then came the zero hour and the town was blanketed with placards, banners and parades. Daily meetings of the scores of solicitation committees were held at the Alexandria, classes being shortened to permit the students to take part. Many prominent leaders of the city took part, at least to the extent of attending the free luncheons and listening to the speeches, while some fifty student solicitors ate more meals at the Alexandria in ten days than they have in all the years before or since. The net result was some five hundred thousand dollars in pledges and about five million dollars in advertising at current newspaper rates. The next year came the war. As the grim spectre stalked through the land all interest was diverted from the usual festivities of the spring. Most of the older men applied for ad- mission to the first officers ' training camp — and prepared to die. The formal functions of the year were set ahead that they might have a part in these last rites. However, acceptance of their applications was slow in arriving. Squad right resounded on Patterson Field and Coach Stanton led furious charges over the surrounding hills. Every day of preparation was precious as each might be their last, although no definite word had been received. Farewell parties were held for the departing heroes. But still they tarried. Eulogies were pronounced over them. Then the blow fell! Every application from Occidental was rejected because the school had no military training in its curriculum! A group of chagrined men sadly disappointed [ 18- 1 finished out the college year. However, Occidental eventually had a larger percentage of he men in military service than any other college of the state. Followin commo in about the same ratio jnuiving came the farmerette movement and the S.A.T.C. which contributed the ns to the physical equipment of the campus and which contributed to the college life The post-bellum years, with their low ebb of morale, followed by the gradual upward climb to the present splendid level, are history too recent for a review to be in order here. Nor. have we adequately sketched the life of even the earlier days for one might continue forever to recount the myriad experiences of a student body over forty years, using imagination as a ready aide when facts become obscure. Lack of space precludes description of the big associa- tion conferences at Capitola and Pacific Cove: of escapades upon Glee Club trips; of literary socials with Hugh McNary smashing chairs in the highly intellectual pastime of How Do You Like Your Neighbor? of Hair-out and Herrin Moll and their Deutsche Verein pretzel parties ;of our first professor emeritus, dear Dr. Stevenson, who was forever shooting his cuffs; of groaning multitudes toiling to memorize large chunks of Ladd ' s Psychology of which they do well to remember one solitary phrase, as such : of telegraphing world series sco res from the Y.M.C.A. room to the history class above by rapping on the steam pipes, much to the distraction of the students and the discomforturc of the teacher; of a thousand similar incidents that will awaken memories in the minds of many. In the first prospectus the aim of the institution was set forth; that is broad and thorough and realize a culture that is practical and Christian. Looking ' To secure an education mat is Droaa ana tnorougn ana realize a culture mat is practical ana _nnstian. Looking back at the end of forty years one can honestly say that it has kept faith with those who threw the torch. Occidental has not yet produced a nationally famous figure, for those early classes that have reached the summit of their carreers contained but a handful and those men have remained loyal to the ideal of service rather than of gain. But if greatness could be rated in terms of unselfish devotion to the good of fellowmen and if high minded Christian living, the names of Occidental ' s sons and daughters would stand high upon the list. However, we have been concerned here only with the lighter sides of campus life which never finds its way into the college catalogue rather than with the real work of education which is wrought in the class-room, in the study, and in the hearts of men. This is a dough-boy ' s history of the war. so to speak, and we would be glad that if through it the concept Occi- dental may come to have a little richer content for those who bear the name if they may real- ize that the life in which they find themselves is not a detached incident pertaining to them- selves, alone, but is a constantly changing compound of the lives of all those who have dreamed and achieved here through the years — yes, and of those who have failed, too. Occidental is a thrilling, vital spirit knit from the lives of men. 185 A book of verses underneath the bough. A jug of wine, a loaf of bread — and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness — Oh, wilderness were paradise enow I Fraternities Gloyn Clayes Peck Graf Wyman Spencer Petit Cunningham Newell Black INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL Fraternal activities and relations are governed by an Inter-Fraternity Council, composed of delegates from each fraternity and a faculty adviser. The year 1926-27 has been a period of reorganization and advancement and has witnessed the coming of two new fraternities to the campus. In keep- ing with the general change and growth of the College as a whole, the fratern- al organizations have associated themselves under a new constitution which will make for a greater influence for good in the College, and a greater efficiency in the administration of the fraternity affairs. This body controls the member organizations in matters pertaining to the selection of new members, inter-fraternity social affairs, and other matters of general fraternal interest. Members Harry W. Cunningham Stanley Petit Mike Godett Sam Peck Charles Black Edward Soule Paul Wyman Dwight Spencer Paul Newell Cyril Gloyn Al Clayes Wilbur Graf Prof. F. L. Bird. Adviser 188 Chapman Hitch Denn Haigh Jordan Caldwell Free Hoit Pritchard Billheime PAN-HELLENIC Pan-Hellenic has at the close of this year more definitely established itself as a potent organization in the regulation of social affairs concerning sorority women. Two new member sororities were added at the beginning of the year, as a result of which, complete co-operation has been attained in carrying out the rushing and bidding regulations as they apply to all new women. Further activities of the organization include the sponsoring of an inter- sorority scholarship cup which is awarded each semester, and the annual for- mal Pan-Hellenic dance. Pan-Hellenic Members Beatrice Chapman Margaret Hitch Ellen Denn Marion Haigh Agnes Caldwell Mary Louise Jordan Janet Hoit Betty Davison Elizabeth Pritchard Evelyn Carper Ruth Billheimcr Evelyn Lehman 189 $$§© ALPHA TAU OMEGA FounJi ' d 18 65 DELTA PHI CHAPTER Established 1926 FRATRES IN FACULTATE Thomas G. Bun Osgood Hardy J. Philip Ellsworth FRATRES IN COLLEGIO SENIORS Theodore Brodhead Bronson Buxton Michael Godett Lester Haserot Samuel Peck Guthrie Price Arthur Teachout JUNIORS Harris Hitch Neal Archer Phil Cuthbert Al Klein Louis Kurze Roscoe Ryan Norman Smith George Williamson Arthur Brady Francis Smith George Fusco Bernard Yorba SOPHOMORES Warner Hunt Stafford Park Morgan Ralls Jack Schweizer Ward Schweizer Carlton Walker Laddie Mullard John Fberhardt FRESHMEN Lawrence Smith Jefferson Davis Archie Gandy Arthur Kussman PLEDGES Russell Davis Gerald Chappie Allan DeHoag Harry Munz Vay Peterson Roland Adams Tom Fitzgerald 5075 Almaden Drive CHI RHO Established 1922 FRATRES IN FACULTATE E. E. Chandler D. M. Fraser C. A. Sheffield A. S. Wile) fratres in collegio Graduate Elsie Daniels SENIORS Paul Wyman Kenneth Bierer Eugene Chaffee John D. Loper, Jr. Drummond McCunn Ervin Tanner Hubert Miller JUNIORS George Juett Norman Martin Byrne Nelson Arthur Pomeroy Dwight Spencer Carryl White Sophomores Duane Blanchard James F. Bone Brodie Burnham Richard Clark William Condit Walter Coultas Harold Cummings Harold Jones John Minter Charles Taylor Kenneth Williamson I I; l Ml Ml N Albert Allen Roy Gill Clifford Johnson Frank Wmficld PLEDGES Frank Bergeron Richard Fairbanks York Kroman Donald Williams 14 3 4 Longdate DELTA BETA TAU Established 1927 FRATRES IN FACULTATE B. F. Stelter W. G. Bonclli C. F. Maclntyrc J. H. Sinclair FRATRES IN COLLEGIO SENIORS Francis Hcnshaw Wilbur Graf Herman Fagley Stanley Howland JUNIORS Alfred Oaves Cecil Foster Charles Abbe Atwood Scovel Donald Burleson Ted Hayes Atwood Scovel SOPHOMORES Keith Belman Theodore Ellsworth Robert Eastman Donald Cant Nerval Gehan Kenneth Lee William Popelka Harold Webb FRESHMEN William Cornell Warren Doty Lee Osborne John Parker Dale Robinson Lucien Shaw John Thomason Reeve Vessey ' .140 Ridqevieua €) ' PHI GAMMA DELTA Founded 1S4S OMEGA KAPPA CHAPTER Established 1926 FRATRES IN FACULTATE Robert G. Cleland John Parke Young Calvin Pardee Erdman David J. Teviotdale FRATRES IN COLLEGIO SENIORS Harry Cunningham Ross Park Victor Conde JUNIORS Stanley Petit Roger Pohlman Guy Hawkins Milton Nash Lawrence Powell Charles Osgood SOPHOMORES Robert Donaldson Donald Imler Roy Tait James Campbell Bailey Cook Norval Craig Launcelot Millar Edwin Rozelle PLEDGES Jack Schurch Kenneth Burnett Judson Blanchard Kenneth Howe Alfred Cline Clark Michcner Clifford Ham Cecil Howard 1599 Campus Road 4 PSI DELTA CHI Established 19 26 FRATRES IN FACULTATE Ira L. Wiggins Raymond M. Selle Chas. F. Lindslcv FRATRES IN COLLEGIO SENIORS Cyril Gloyn Duanc Terry JUNIORS Eric Bradner Edward Hackctt James Morse Paul Newell Hu Noble Morris Roach SOPHOMORES Charles Hibbits Elmer Jones Ernest Ketchersid Edward Martin FRESHMEN Chester Buley Harold Jones Bert Leech Lyle McAllister Addison White PLEDGES Fred Appleton George Hall Bryanr McYav O-an Pain Marshall Kracmers Gordon Mills Charles Plummcr 2308 Los Culinas $€ ©£ ■ ■ SIGMA OMICRON Established 19 10 — FRATRES IN FACULTATE Lowell Chawner Roy Wheeler FRATRES IN COLLEGIO GRADUATE Kenneth Montgomery SENIORS Charles Black Howard Black Fred Belts Ralph Deayer Wendell Holland Marion Hammersley Edwin Soule JUNIORS Ray Haworth Boyd Taylor Don Tyler Cliff Morse Sophomores Kenneth Holland Eugene Morey E. Thompson L. Smith Harold Kirk E. Drum Kirk Martin PLEDGES Kenneth Walker Ed Beebe Dick Booth K. Bush Henry Dixon Dudley Dorman Martin Farrell Harland Hoak L. Manuel Harold Mosher John Waters Dave Wright K. Work 1601 Campus Road KENOWAN KLUB Established 1919 FRATRES IN COLLEGIO GRADUATE Woodbndge Johnson SENIORS Stanley Evans Eugene Haynes Ralph Herr JUNIORS Ralph Cutlip Frank Mixscll Day Hanks SOPHOMORES Maurice Brown George Adams Wesley Vanderlinder FRESHMEN Walt Sutherland 1567 Hazelivood Avenue RESIDENCE COUNCIL Having proven its worth by what has been accomplished in the first year of its existence, the council has successfully established itself as one of the organi- zations of the campus. The composition of the council is determined by the geographic division of the campus, comprising the 22 residences in which college women live. These divisions number 8 with a direct representative from each division. The faculty advisor on the council has no vote, making the council the most representative student governing association on the campus. The business of the council con- cerns the problems of rules and regulations applying to resident women. RESIDENCE COUNCIL MEMBERS Frances Arbaugh Janet Hoit Ruby McDonald Cecile Stern Agnes Norhnberg Jean McLachlin Mrs. Pipal. Chairman Miss Cutler, Head Resident of Orr Hall Joanna Paine Ellen Denn Reba Faris Bernice Ludlow I v ..?£. ALPHA SORORITY Established 1900 FRATRES IN FACULTATE Olive Hutchinson FRATRES IN COLLEGIO SENIORS Beatrice Chapman Helen Mac Farmer Florida Craig Margaret Hitch Josephine Stellar Lucile Trell JUNIORS Catherine Guthrie Donna Hinshaw Florence Jackson Florence MacLaughlin Joanna Paine SOPHOMORES Jean Barr Lorena Hardest? Marion Hoick Evelyn Maxson Francis Moore Lillian Morrison Vivian Nay Mary Barbara Taylor PLEDGES Charlotte Nea ' e Princess Booth Catherine Clove Lenore Welch Cecile Stern Louise Pozzo Ella Florence Stanton Louise Stadlingcr Alice Ryden Josephine Hodges Eleanor Farquar Olive Gibbs 1626 West Acenue 46 B A BETA PHI DELTA Established 1011 ■- ' -:■«..• ' . ' ; FRATRES IN COLLEGIO Seniors Ellen Denn Beatrice Kizer Marguerite Featheringill Mildred Foreman Marion Haigh Marion Kodwciss Gracia Marsh Sara Mae Smith Mary Mae Wamsley Sophomores Mary Breeze Olive Cocke Irene Darley Mary Lou Hendricks Anna Mae Monroe Helen Moore Catherine Shedd Myrtle Shercr K3therine Wallace Dorothy Warren Celestia White PLEDGES Alice Larsen Helen Baynham Jane Cole Felice Greenwich Angelene Denn Ruth Foreman Frances Rowins Dorothy Lum Barbara Bosworth Marion Lyle 4576 Alumni Avenue • • DELTA OMICRON TAU Established 19 00 FRATRES IN FACULTATE Ernestine A. Kinnev Winifred K. Stearns FRATRES IN COLLEGIO GRADUATE Ethel B. Coleman SENIORS Janet Hoit Josephine Free Hazel House Betty MacDougall Helen Van Vleck JUNIORS Jane Barrett Ann Bnody Dorthy Davis Betty Davison Marjorie King Francis McCoy Marian Russell Judith Tilt Sophomores Mary MacPhie Ruth Shumakcr PLEDGES Gertrude Greenlee Frances Arbaugh Dorothy Burch Neva Brinnmstool Betty Davis Lois Ellenberger Carolina Marshall Dorothy Pfister Frances Riley Anita Simonson 1458 Armadale Avenue GAMMA KAPPA THETA Established 19 10 FRATRES IN COLLEGIO SENIORS Agnes Caldwell Lois Armstrong Jessie Mae Palmer Viola Craigmile DorothyWatson Zoo Thompson JUNIORS Mary Louise Jordan Helen Keedy Mary Lorraine Crawford Sophomores Veloma Baer Marjone Fowler Doris Fowler Mildred Moninger Mary Roberts Marie Zcllhocfer PLEDGES Vena Wadliegh Frances Hodgson Roma Holly Doris Joaes Marie Lovell Mary Alice Packard Florence Bristol 161 1 West Avenue 4 6 vJfiKEiS . KAPPA EPSILON CHI Established 1917 FRATRES IN COLLEGIO GRADUATE Rulh Hall Florence Stevens SENIORS Evelyn Carper Reba Faris Elizabeth Pri chard Juniors Margaret Eckerman Lillian Thompson Leora Fuller SOPHOMORES Josephine Peairs Ellice Thompson Gladys Pylc Frances Raab PLEDGES Susie Jane Williams Dorothy Foree Elizabeth Bloom field Dorothy Toombes Pauline Boulger Cbarloile Hall Esther Soule Rulh Kelley 2131 Ridpevteiv Avenue .. ZETA TAU ZETA Established 0 5 FRATRES IN FACULTATE Lucille Jackson FRATRES IN COLLEGIO SENIORS Ruth Billhcimer Ruby MacDonald Louise Stone Ruth Smith Chatlotte Bucll Frances Ryan JUNIORS Roberta Taylor Lucile Ankeny Helen Dorman Alice Jones SOPHOMORES Martha Miller Evelyn Lehman Ruth Reavis Eva Morrow Genevieve Crane PLEDGES Mary Davies Eleanor Willson Esther Earl Dorothy Dorman Pauline Martin Frances Roblee Helen Maharg Matrid Herniman Margaret Morgan Gladys Hopner Ellen Gibbs Ethel Hamilton Dana Easterbrooks 1480 Armadale Avenue • SWAN HALL James Swan Hall was primarily a Freshman dormitory this year. A few upperclass men remained, however, as a stabilizing influence and a faculty rep- resentative. Kenneth Montgomery, was in residence. The dorm, with its ex- cellent equipment and its proximity to the center of things, was even preferred as living quarters by a number of fraternity men. The Dorm Reception, always one of the premier social events of the col- lege calendar, was this year more successful than ever. Patrons of the affair in- cluded officers of the administration and prominent faculty members, with their wives. The lobby and corridors were tastefully decorated and the individual rooms were open for inspection. Frequent promenades were held to allow the young lady visitors to probe the mysteries of the hall. A splendid musical pro- gram was rendered and refreshments served. The group adjourned at an early hour to the Alumni gymnasium, where dancing was enjoyed. Swan Hall entered a team in the inter-club and fraternity basketball tournament. Individual members performed creditably in athletics and in all branches of student activities. Much of the success of the organization is due to the following officers for the year 1926-27: HAROLD MOSHER President John Waters Vice-President JOHN BELL Secretary-Treasurer Kenneth Montgomery Faculty Advisor 1 204 ] SWAN HALL RESIDENTS Robert Rcnshaw Kendall Van Deventer Benjamin Ward John Love Totton Anderson William Clothier Ross Hendrix Albert Harris Yasu Maeno Harold Mosher Richard Fairbanks Edward Carey William Leary Frank Osgood Gil Druman Ewing Bone David Foltz John Edgar John Water Jud Blanchard Ken Burnette Bob Donaldson Baily Cook Pete Eddlemon Oscar Tripp Maurice Nathan Hugh Dobbins f 205 ORR HALL Orr Hall has completed its second year, which, under the capable and in- terested leadership of Miss Cutler as head resident and Miss Lourie as assistant, was very successful. Agnes Nohrnbcrg, who was elected house manager at the end of last year held a respons ' ble but well-filled position. Every Monday evening a house meeting was held, at which the girls came together as an entire group and any necessary business was conducted. Life in the hall was made very enjoyable by frequent informal parties among the girls. One dormitory dinner was given each month at the commons, and a good pro- gram was always provided by the talent of the house. Five social events were scheduled for the school year. Open House offered the only opportunity for the student body to inspect Orr Hall ' s rooms. A tra- dition party was given for the members of Swan Hall. A formal dance opened the second semester. One of the first affairs of spring was a tea dance. The suc- cessful season was closed by a sport dance. Orr Hall has become the gathering place for many groups during the year. As well as adding to the beauty of the campus, it has contributed to the con- venience and pleasure of the resident social life of Occidental. [ 206 ] OFFICERS Cecil Stern _. President Lois ELLENBERGER . Vice-President Pauline Martin Secretary Betty Davis .. ..Treasurer ORR HALL RESIDENTS SENIORS Adelaide Holland JUNIORS Helen Diller Katherine Liggett Nona Shoemaker Ruth Kelly Anna Mahoney Eleanor Farquar SOPHOMORES Helen Baynam Carolina Marshall Agnes Nohrnberg Esther Day Florine Meyers Florence Shelly Dorothy Foree Virginia Moorman FRESHMEN Cornelia Adams Helen Montgomery Edna Hughes Elizabeth Blumfield Gertrude Morgan Blanche Hughes Mabel Bond Frances Riley Margaret Jewell Princess Booth Frances Roblee Doris Jones Florence Bristol Winifred Seeley Marie Lovell lone Cochran Louise Stadlinger l Mary Miller Marian Carr Katherine Freeman Pauline Martin Jane Cole Ellen Gibbs Ella Florence Stanton Emma Culver Ruth Hale Cecil Stern Betty Davis Roma Holly Vena Wadleigh Lois Ellenberger Mildred Hanna Elizabeth Watt Alice Evans Margaret Harlan Ruth Jane White Ruth Foreman Florence Hanes Charlotte Wilfert Louise Minor Mary Hosford [ 207 1 Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse— if dimly, yet indeed reveal ' d, To which the fainting Traveler might spring, As springs the trampled herbage of the field! FOREWORD With characteristic vision. Occiden- tal has presented an opportunity to her women to develop through various activities those qualities of character and leadership which are essential to their service in life. Because women ' s activities are a dis- tinct field within the college, the efforts of the different organizations often go unnoticed in the sphere of that greater activity where men and women join in a common task. , Yet the field of women ' s work is a broad one. and their manifold activ- ities find a reward in the qualities attri- buted to the ideal of Occidental women — an ideal which finds expression in these pages. Josephine Stellar, a. v. s. President ASSOCIATED WOMEN STUDENTS The A. W. S. is an organization, as its name implies, including all the women attending Occidental. It is an organization which strives to further the ideals and activities of these women on the Campus, hoping ever to aid each individual woman to get the utmost from her life here at College — through unified activity with others. On February of this year. 1927, the Executives of A. W. S. retired from their active duties as the officers of this organization, which they had so suc- cessfully guided through another historical period of its existence. Their terms of office were of necessity shorter this year than ever before, or than the future Executive ' s terms will be. This brevity of office being occasioned by the fact that A. W. S. comes under the Student Body Constitution, which moved up its time of election of officers from April to February. The term of office in the future will be from February to February, thus bridging the sum- mer and enabling the Executives to begin the new school year with a Semester ' s experience behind them. The officers of A. W. S. for this year were: Josephine Stellar. President; Ruby McDonald. Vice-President : Roberta Taylor. Secretary: Marjorie King. Treasurer: and Betty Willbee. President of the Women ' s Athletic Association. This group is quite representative of Occidental ' s women and proved them- selves most capable of anything undertaken, and loyal at all times to that of which we are all a part: Occidental. The activities of the Women Students during the fall semester were many and varied. The first opportunity which they had to serve this year was during Freshman Week. It was during this entire week that the A. W. S. Executive aided the Administration in serving as official Campus hostesses to the newly arriving Freshmen. At the end of this week the six Sponsor Lead- ers of A. W. S. aided by the Executives gave the Freshmen women a Sponsor Tea in the gardens of Orr Hall. This being the first time the Freshmen Wo- men, as a class, were gathered together as future members of that bigger group: the Associated Women Students. The next duty which confronted the upperclass women was the success- ful acclimation of the Freshmen women to certain sacred Traditions and Pre- cedents, which for years past have been dear to the heart of every loyal Occi- dental woman. This was achieved by the Women ' s Tribunal with its sub- committees for the suggesting of and carrying out of all punishments for in- fringments upon the rules as stated in the Proclamation. The majority of these rules went into effect the first week of school. The Sponsor Groups, under the direction and leadership of six outstand- ing Senior Women, had their first regular meeting Wednesday afternoon, Sep- tember 22nd. The first two meetings were taken up with the making of Pom Poms, which were later turned into pecuniary profits for A. W. S. at a Rally the following week. These Sponsor Group meetings were held at least every two weeks during the first Semester — their purpose being to adjust the Fresh- men women more easily to their new. and therefore difficult, surroundings — working jointly with Tribunal in this respect. [ 211 ] The Procession of Lanterns On October 6th. under the guidance of Mrs. Pipal and the A. W. S. Executive, the Freshmen women were formed into the Freshmen Women ' s Organization. The purpose of this organization being to further co-operate with the College in its activities and especially to be more ably united to help with any women ' s activities on the Campus. Especially did this body help in making both the Fall Conference and May Day most successful. On November 11. 12. and 13. the A. W. S. of Occidental were the hos- tesses to the Inter-Collegiate Conference of Associated Women Students of Southern California. This Conference was without doubt the most important event in Occidental ' s femin ; ne history for the past several years. Josephine Stellar as President of the Hostess A. W. S. was President of the Conference, while Ruby McDonald, as chairman at large, with the help of her able Com- mittee Chairmen was able to make the Conference a truly worth while one. The topics of discussion were the follow- ing: Women in Relation to A. W. S.: Women in Relation to Campus Activities; and Wo- men in Relation to Life. Be- sides being most practical the discussion proved to be very inspirational to all who attend- ed the Conference. The So- 1 212 1 The Procession of Lanterns very successfully closed by a Formal Dinner at the Oakmont Country Club and a Dance at Alumni Gymnasium, to which the entire Campus was invited. As the first Semester neared a close it was necessary to elect the new officers for the term beginning February. 1927. On Friday, January 7th, the follow- ing were elected to take office the following month: Mary Louise Jordan, President: Mary Lorraine Crawford. Vice-President: Mary Barbara Taylor, Secretary: Mildred Moniger. Treasurer: and Frances McCov. President of W. A. C. The Co-ed Hop. a new Women ' s Tradition, was started this year, and was given by the women on the evening of January 15th. in Alumni Gym. The whole Gymnasium was transformed into a very picturesque Barn, which together with the Hick Orchestra. the tacky costumes, the corn-cob pipe favors, bales and stacks of Hay. the oarty was a howling success. A change in the time and type of Installation of the new officers was nec- essitated this year, since they now have to be installed three months before May Day. which previously has been the time of the official Installation. Tak- ing this into consideration the old Executives decided they would combine the first college women ' s dinner of the second semester honoring the new girls, with the Installation Services. In accordance with this the Supper-Installation was held i, i .a  ii ' ' imiiini ' l iiHiillkLllti 1 213 ] A. W. S. Convention Delegates Thursday evening. February 10th in the Y. W. C. A. room. A very simple, yet effective ceremony of Installation was conducted by the Dean of Women, in which was reviewed the work of the outgoing Executives, with a charge of office to the new Executives. Throughout the entire Fall Semester regular A. W. S. meetings were held at least twice a month, at which time the business of the organization was transacted. The outgoing Executives are to be congratulated upon the competent manner they accomplished their many duties. The new executive of A. W.S., that began its term of office February of this year, was faced with the problem of building up the student spirit that had fallen to a rather low ebb. As a consequence the women students voted for a compulsory A. W. S. meeting the first Friday in each month at which time problems directly concerning the students were brought up for discussion. These meetings proved a great help in overcoming this difficulty. The A. W. S. Stunts this year were both profitable and entertaining, netting the organization double the profits it hoped to obtain. Since this was only the second Stunt Show ever given by the women of Occidental, as the idea originated under the regime of the 1925-26 President, this activity of the women students is expected to climb in importance and success as time goes on. May-Day — obviously the most important event of the second semester — ■ depended a great deal for its success on the Freshmen Women ' s Organization who were responsible for the scenes from As You Like It and the May Day dancing. Next year is looked forward to with the hope of achieving the goals the organization has set for itself this semester. 214 MAY DAY May Day at Occidental is the most important day in the year for the women of the college. It is the custom to invite the senior girls in neighboring high schools to be guests of the college for the day. This year invitations were issued to 150 high schools. During the morning the girls were given the opportunity to visit classes in order that they might see the student body at work. Two of the most popular classes were held in chapel in order that they might accommodate the visitors. At twelve o ' clock a program was given in chapel at which time a basket of flowers was presented to the senior girl who had been the most active during her years at Occidental. Luncheon was served in the gardens at Orr Hall in dainty May baskets. From two until three o ' clock the various sororities held open house. The girls were divided into five groups, each headed by a barker, who took them on a tour around the College neighborhood. At three o ' clock a May festival was presented in Orr Hall Gardens. It has been the tradition at Occidental to elect as May Queen that Senior girl who has done the most for her college and who is graced with those qualities becoming a queen. Joe Stellar, with her six attendants presided at this year ' s festival. The Freshmen girls entertained with scenes taken from As You Like It, varied with May Day dances. Following this program Mrs. Bird offered her home and lovely gardens for a reception honoring the guests of the day. 1215 | £r McDonald Tavlor Willbcc A. W. S. OFFICERS As Vice-president of the A. W. S.. Ruby McDonald held one of the most responsible positions of the year. Having acted as general chairman for the big Intercollegiate Women ' s Conference given at Occidental in November, she was in no small way responsible for the tremendous success of that affair. To her, also, goes the honor of managing the many social functions given by the Asso- ciated Women, the Co-Ed Hop for which she was particularly responsible, hav- ing established a standard which will be hard to equal in years to come. As secretary of the Associated Women Students, Roberta Taylor carried on the duties entrusted to that office in a very adequate manner. She also was general Secretary of the Fall Conference, which entailed no small amount of labor. Marjorie King held the official positions of A. W. S. Treasurer and Chair- man of the Finance Committee for the Intercollegiate Women ' s Conference. Both of these she handled most successfully having a surplus of funds in the Treasury at the close of her term of office. As President of the Women ' s Athletic Association. Betty Willbee, by vir- tue of her office, was a member of the A. W. S. Executive. It was through her efforts that Women ' s Athletics had a splendid year. She. too. was of great as- sistance in putting across the Southern California Intercollegiate Conference of Associated Women Students, being chairman of the conference transportation. [ 216 WOMEN ' S TRIBUNAL The Women ' s Tribunal consists of a court of upperclass women who en- force the proclamation issued to the Freshmen women when they first enter college. The proclamation itself was distinctive this year as it was a take-off. and thru its irony the Freshmen were instructed in what was expected of them. The members of the court this year were: Euphrates Pashgian, judge: Josephine Stellar. Betty MacDougall. Mary Louise Jordan and Roberta Tavlor. SPONSORS The sponsor system is a comparatively new one in Occidental. It was initiated last year with considerable success. Six women chosen from the senior class hold the honorary positions as sponsors of the freshmen women, and meet with them in groups at intervals during the first semester of the college year. At these meetings discussions are held with a view to acquainting the freshmen women with campus traditions and situations. The sponsors chosen this year were: Ruth Billheimer Betty Willbee Janet Hoit I 217 ] Elizabeth Pritchard Elsabeth Lesh Frances Ryan Stone Crawford Darlcy MacLaugblin Reavis Buell [ 218 ] Y. W. C. A. The Y. W. C. A. occupies a peculiar place in college life as it is the only interdenominational organization primarily interested in the spiritual welfare of college women. It is an organization which excludes no one from member- ship and places all on an equal plane of love and friendship. The Y. W. C. A. reaches the women of the college thru numerous and varied channels. During the first days of registration several Y. W. girls were in th e ' Y ' room to serve a cool drink, pass out the handbooks, give informa- tion and in general to extend a welcome to new as well as old students. The first meeting of the Y. W. C. A. was an informal campfire at which over 100 girls were present. Since then the campfires have been monthly affairs featuring such interesting speakers as: Mrs. Pipal, Mr. Paul Waterhouse. and Dr. Kennedy; and such attractions as an Old Fashioned Quilting Party un- der the auspices of the Social Service Department; and an Asilomar Banquet. At these campfires the girls are brought into a more intimate contact with each other and into a closer fellowship. The regular meetings of the associations held once a month were well attended and enjoyed. The meetings have been in charge of such groups as: the Social Service Committee with Mrs. Mahoney, home teacher of the Albion Street School as speaker; the girls of the Freshman Class; and the Senior girls who presented their farewell program. Numerous other activities of the Y. W. C. A., include: sending of Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets to needy families; the presentation of programs at various hospitals: a good delegation in attendance at the Bruce Curry Institute; and four representatives sent to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to the National Student Conference. All of these activities have brought both help and inspiration to the wo- men of Occidental and have become a very real part of their college life. During the past we feel that though the Y. W. C. A. has accomplished a great deal on our own campus, it has limited itself too much to college affairs. We are hoping in the future to broaden our viewpoint. This we plan to ac- complish by the discussion group method conducted by students with frequent lectures from competent authorities. In these groups we wish to discuss prob- lems of national and international and also more personal topics as prayer and the assurance of God. Students arc waking up the world over and realizing the immense prob- lems we are facing and the need for young manhood and womenhood to help in the solution. The Student Y. W. C. A. represents the only organized stu- dent movement for women in the United States and we are hoping to interest our students in this phase of the work. However, our chief aim is to produce young women who in their everyday college life are trying to illustrate the principles of Jesus ' Law of Love. [ 219 ] Fulle Clove WOMEN ' S FORENSICS DEBATE Women ' s debating has had another good year, with a large squad of en- thusiastic and able debaters. The debates were conducted on the Oregon plan, introduced at Occidental very recently. The antique idea of judging the total merits of a debate by a decision of three judges, for or against, is here done away with by the substitution of one expert judge, who renders a decision at the close of the argument and gives a detailed criticism of the technique, skill and logic of the teams, and also explains the season for his decision. The plan of speakers is rather interesting. The first affirmative and negative speakers have twenty minutes each, in which to present constructive arguments. The second negative speaker then takes the floor and quizzes the first affirmative for ten minutes, after which the second affirmative follows suit with the first negative. The second negative closes the negative case with a ten minute concluding argument, and is succeeded by the affirmative, who terminates the debate. The interest of the audience is stimulated in this unique plan, by the judge ' s discussion of the merits of the whole. The question selected by the Forensic Conference of Southern California for this year was. Resolved: that there be etablished a Department of Educa- cation with a secretary in the President ' s Cabinet. Occidental took a negative attitude at La Verne College, and asserted herself positively at Pomona College, traveling to both; and was hostess to the University of California at Los Angeles. The freshmen women. Eleanor Willson and Catherine Clove, two sopho- mores. Susie Jane Williams and Leora Fuller; and a junior. Frances Roal. con- tituted the squad, and will all return even stronger next year. Consequently Occidental ' s prospects for the future are bright, and Professor Lindsley, Coach, and Leora Fuller, Women ' s Forensic Manager, have abundant justification for their prophecy of an unbeatable squad for 1927-1928. 1 220 ] WOMEN ' S EXTEMPORE This year ' s extempore question for the Southern California Conference was: Marriage and Divorce in the United States. Occidental was proud of her delegate to the final contest held at Pomona College. Susie Jane Williams succeeded in taking third place for Occidental, and was highly commended for the excellent manner in which she handled her decision of the subject. WOMEN ' S ORATORICAL CONTEST Unfortunately La Encina goes to press before the Women ' s Oratorical Con- test is held. Consequently the results cannot be forcast. The try-outs have not yet opened, but they offer a splendid opportunity to the women of the college to show their forensic ability. A large number of experienced and inexperienced speakers will probably try out. Because of the increasing interest displayed in Forensics, it is expected that the competition will be so keen that the women may even outdo their last year ' s record. Oratory offers a separate and distinct field for women to excell in. with a chance to display both literary and forensic genius. I - ' 2 1 I a i % - LAUREAN LITERARY SOCIETY UPPERCLASS WOMEN Organized 1004 OFFICERS Josephine Free President Elizabeth Pritchard . ...Vice-President Marguerite Featheringill . ...Secretary CHARLOTTE BUELL Treasurer Betty McDougall Critic Members Ruth Billhcimer Josephine Free Charlotte Buell Janet Hoit Helen Mae Farmer Elsabeth Lesh Marguerite Featheringill Annie Lohrli Ruby MacDonald Betty McDougall Elizabeth Pritchard Louise Stone Josephine Stellar Janette Trewhella Lucille Whitney Helen Van Vleck Betty Davison Charlotte Neale Florence McLaughlin Florence Jackson Gracia Marsh Jessie Mae Palmer Mary Lorraine Crawford Mary Louise Jordan Nellie Onstine Roberta Taylor Lucille Ankeny Mildred Ludlow Bernice Ludlow [ 222 DIAL LITERARY SOCIETY UNDERCLASS WOMEN OFFICERS VELOMA BEAR ...President Josephine Peairs ...Vice-President Eva MORROW Secretary Frances Moore . Treasurer Mary Roberts _ ...Chatterbox Editor Members Jean Barr Cecil Stern Catherine Shedd Eleanor Jayne Willson Evelyn Lehman Margaret Morgan Mary Elizabeth Johnson Angeline Denn Irene Darley Princess Booth Elizabeth Fisher Rennie Jean Gregory Marie Zellhoefer Dorris Fowler Celestia White Marjorie Fowler 1 223 ] The ball no question makes of ayes and noes. But here or there as strikes the player goes; And he that tossed you down into the field. He knows about it all — he knows — he knows. IVomen ' s Athletics BASKETBALL The basketball season under the auspices of the Women ' s Athletic As- sociation was characterized by two series of games — the interdass games, which were run off first, and the interhouse games which finished the season. The interclass series culminated in the fast Junior-Frosh game in which the Frosh squeezed out their second victory of the season to the tunc of 19 to 18, after defeating the Soph ' s by a score of 42 to 12. The championship Frosh team was composed of Betty Davis and Ruth Montague, forwards, Frances Leech, side center, Fleda Brigham, center Lois Ellenberger and Ruth Foreman as guards. In the interhouse games the Frosh showed their ability, also. The Orr Hall team, which was practically identical with the Frosh team, romped through their games with Zetas (25 to 2 ) , Beta Phi ' s (28 to 3), Deltas (11 to 1), and finally the Faculty ( 1 8to 5 ) undefeated. The Deltas ran the Dorm girls a close second coming thru the preliminary games victoriously and holding Orr Hall to the lowest score of the series. [ 226 ' , A f y 1 1 1 1 f f n IkkLAkkLkkkk HOCKEY Head of Sports ...JEAN CRAWFORD Class Managers Senior JEAN CRAWFORD Junior. -.Marian Reynolds Sophomore.. IRENE DARLEY Freshman. - Lois ELLENBERGER The women have been very fortunate this year in having a well-cared for turf hockey field in which there were no gulleys or chuck holes as was the case last year. However, though much rain made the grass grow green on the field, it so seriously interfered with hockey playing that as the end of the season ap- proached, it was found advisable, due to lack of sufficient practice and of suffi- cient team members from some of the classes to omit the usual inter-class games. Coach Stearns was very anxious to introduce this year the new sport called speedball, so hockey season ended with the resolution to concentrate all efforts on this new sport. Speedball is proving a very popular sport for women in the colleges of the south. The line-up is played the same as that of soccer and hockey, and the game is played on a soccer field. While the ball is on the ground it may be kicked, but when a long kick sends it into the air, the ball may be seized in one ' s hands and be passed as in basketball. Goals may be made by kicking the ball be- tween the goal posts or by a forward pass over the goal line. It can be easily seen that the possibilities for action and excitement are immense in such a game, and it is hoped by the Athletic Board that this may become a regular women ' s sport. f 227 1 A AAJAAAAA fl A 4 A A A A WOMEN ' S TENNIS The women ' s tennis team of Occidental encounters difficulties that other women ' s athletic teams have no difficuly with. They are not allowed to have inter-collegate matches by the national athletic association for women and there are not enough players in the college to have successful inter-class matches. However, the team for the school was chosen and consisted of, Mary Barbara Taylor, first player; Carolina Marshall, second player; Dorothy Davis, third player, Marion Carr, fourth player. Although the girls were unable to compete under the name of the College in the competitions of the southland, they entered for personal prizes where they did very well. The whole group were in the Southern California Cham- pionship tournament; they also competed in the Los Angeles City tourna- ment. In the latter part of April the first player entered the Ojai champion- ships of Ojai Valley. Here, too, they showed their spirit of Occidental by de- fending the honor of that institution in a contest where it has always been so Successful. Perhaps by next year the team may be better established with the help of Pomona College and the University of California. Los Angeles, both of which schools have shown a ready spirit for co-operation this year. A practice league will be scheduled which will make for better tennis and more interest in that sport. [ 228 ] G icina; 19 2 7 — - k L A A A AAAAAAAA, SPEEDBALL The Occidental women introduced a new sport in their athletic program this year. The new game is specdball. Speedball is a combination of basketball and soccer and is a good sport for women. It is a fast game and is a good one to play on our new turf field. The season was badly broken up by the weather conditions. The time was so short that class teams were not chosen, nor were inter-class games scheduled. The girls, however, got a playing knowledge of the game, and in the coming year we expect speedball to cause much interest and rivalry between the various classes. [ 229 ] w SWIMMING Lorraine Phillips, as manager of Women ' s Swimming, put forth great ef- fort to make this year a successful one for this sport. As usual, the women had to swim at some neighboring pool and during the first of the year both Pasa- dena Y. W. C. A. and the Pasadena Athletic Club pools were used, but due to complications in schedule, these were soon no longer available. There were no interdass meets, as have been held during previous years, due to unfavorable conditions. The women of Occidental are eagerly looking forward to the time when they will be able to swim in their own pool here on the campus, which will stimulate, by virtue of it ' s presence, a greater interest in and opportunity for this sport throughout the year. [ 230 WOMEN ' S BASEBALL Many have been the difficulties which this sport has gone through in the past season. Due to unfavorable weather conditions the Hockey Field, which serves as the Baseball diamond during Baseball season, was practically un-usable most of the time. To counteract the insuing difficulties Speedball was intro- duced as a substitute for Baseball, and enjoyed very good support by women of all the different classes. Throughout the year there was no regular season for practice until near the close of the second semester. It was then that Intersorority baseball was sponsored by W. A. A. This was a most successful feature, and the standard of each Sorority ' s team being much higher than that of previous year. I 21! | ,u ■V ' -i aaa ■?V I ' -. ' WV But Helpless Pieces of the game He plays Upon this Checker -board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Intercollegiate Athletics A TRIBUTE Calvin Esterly has served as chairman of the faculty Athletic Committee for fourteen years. It is a position which lays a heavy burden upon the one who holds it. which not infrequently exposes him to a cross-fire of thoughtless and unfounded criticism, and unfortunately carries with it altogether too little of compensating honor or recognition. To be a successful chairman of the Athletic Committee, one must possess a variety of talents: He must be governed always by a keen sense of honor, especially in his dealings with other colleges: he must have a genuine apprecia- tion of academic standards and ideals, and with this unit a corresponding ap- preciation of the legitimate value of intercollegiate athletics: he must have a close and painstaking regard for trivial detail, and combine tact and courtesy with the ability and willingness to guard the rightful interests of the institution in its intercollegiate relations. In his long tenure as chairman of the Athletic Committee, Dr. Esterly has manifested the qualities outlined above to a most unusual degree. The duties of his position have exacted much from him in their incessant demands upon his time and energy. He has given of himself generously and without stint, not because it was expected of him. but because of his deep devotion to the college and his unfeigned interest in student activities and in students as individuals. He has carried on the work of this office, as he does everything else, quietly, unobtrusively, conscientiously, and efficiently. Sometimes he has had to render unpleasant decisions, and has been criticized by the thoughtless or mis-informed: but no man who knows him has ever questioned his sincerity of purpose or his forthright honesty. The college and many successive generations of students owe him a debt of gratitude which it is difficult indeed for the writer to express and which will be more difficult for any of us to repay. 1 233 1 ATHLETICS AT OCCIDENTAL By Coach Joseph A. Pipal In this critical period when the whole college world and especially its cur- riculum is being subjected to the laboratory method of weight and microscope it will not be out of place to apply somewhat similar scrutiny to our athletics. Athletics seem to be a question of many angles, at least, it so regarded. It. however, is primarily a question of athletics or college. This being true, when discussing athletics from the angle of its worthwhileness, being enthusiastics on that subject, we must temper our enthusiasm with more sober perspective of weighing values in the light of things that count, in the light of realities and actualities, in the larger purposes of the college. Recently one Eastern professor made the statement that our sense of values in all extra curricula activities need a violent shaking up: and in these activities he included athletics. I do not object to the professor ' s tirade against over emphasis of student activities in modern college life. In fact, I quite agree with him — not that I love Caesar less, but that I love Rome more. I do. how- ever, object to the classification of athletics as an extra curricula activity. Re- garding competative athletics as a part from and not a part of the general curri- culum is just where the mischief has been done. If our athletics had always been treated as any other subject in our program we would never have had the tramp athlete, tramp coaches, or commercialized athletics. Regarding competitive athletics as an extra curricula activity has been pro- ductive of carelessly selected coaches, school administrations paid little or no attention to the conduct of athletics, sudents themselves or loosely gathered boards of control directed this activity, salaries of athletic instructors were not paid from the general faculty budget and the managers were forced to make money, and the coach to produce winning teams (at any cost) for only such would bring in the filthy lucre and make it possible for the managers to pay salaries. This condition of affairs introduced over-emphasis on winning and on star performance of individual players, producing abnormal egoism borne of campus adulation. Though today a great majority of schools and colleges are no longer con- ducting competitive sports under the old system, unfortunately, certain of the sins of the fathers have been visited upon the sons, but let us hope it will not be unto the third and fourth generations. Fortunately for us. at Occidental during the past fifteen or twenty years athletic sports and all physical training activities have been and are today ac- epted as an integral part of our curriculum. Occidental takes the scientific at- titude that the body of a student is an important instrument and an agent of his purpose, that his body is the physical basis for his intellectual power and his character in a far more intimate sense than used to be realized. We know through modern scientific discovery, not yet complete, but in many cases blaz- ing out the paths so clearly that their general course can be discerned, that such obscure factors as the functioning of the glands have an influence on conduct. f 234 1 19 2 7 delinquency and insanity can be produced by purely physical causes, that bad teeth, bad digestion, bad assimilation, effect ones intellectual an dspiritual life; that the body is the agent of the mind and spirit in a very real sense and an agent whose strength and weakness determine the functioning of his principal. Thus it becomes our duty to safeguard the student ' s body for it is the agency that will permit him to make his intellectual power, his aspirations of character ef- fective, wherever his work may be: and college students should be led to habit- ually learn to have glory not only in the keeness and swiftness of the mind but also in the strength and speed, and suppleness and grace of the body. But this is only the beginning of what we at Occidental are striving to ac- complish through our athletic program. It goes on from there to directly touch character itself. Ruskin said, a poet is great, first, in proportion to the strength of his passion, and then, in proportion to his government of it. What is education in abundant living. ' It is ability to mobilize the best powers within us and to control them completely in the game of life. And it is the glory of the properly directed playing field that it becomes a laboratory of that very thing. Physical training thus becomes a course in health and education through physical exercise, education in its broadest sense. Education in obedience to rules, in self-control, in alertness, in Spartan disci- pline, in initiative, in punch, pep. and poise; education in courtesy, which means consideration for the other fellow even of rivals; education in clean living and high thinking, in hard work, in ability to stick when it would be much easier to be a quitter; education in team spirit: yes, education in that fine, big. generous something called loyalty. In other words, education in the funda- mentals of ideal citizenship. Professor Royce, in his fine and spirited lectures on the Philosophy of Loyalty calls our attention to our duty in this regard when he says. We must always build upon what we have had and. therefore, any unnecessary hostility to athletic life is profoundly objectionable, if not stupid. Fair play in spirit is purely a good instance of loyalty, and the elders who organize and lead our youthful sports can do a great work for the nation. The coach, or the other leader in college sports, to whom fair play is not a first concern is simply a traitor to our youth and to our nation. If the doctrine of these lectures be right we can see with what stupendous human interest he is trifling. In this highly practical and overly commercialistic and materialistic age it is refreshing to have our attention directed as to what our first concern should be. John Galsworthy, in one of his recent essays, pays the following tribute to sports: Sports which st 11 keeps the flag of idealism flying, is perhaps the most saving grace in the world today, with its spirit of rules kept and regard for the adversary whether the fight is going for or against. We. who have been intrusted with the carrying out of the grand old tra- ditions at Occidental in this regard, have a tremendous responsibility to keep that flag of idealism flying in our athletics, in curricula as well as extra curricula activities. I 2 5 lAAAAAAAAAA „ fl fr-B AAAAAAAAAAA ' Chief Exendine Figuring Out Plans For The Tigers 236 ] COACH EXENDINE When Coach Albert Exendine arrived on the Tiger Campus last spring he made but one promise. Exy is going to give his best for Oxy. The Indian chief made a remarkable showing for his first year at Occidental. With the handicap of introducing a new system of football. Coach Exendine came through with an almost perfect record, marred by only one upset — the Cal Tech game. Exendine came to Occidental after having coached for three years at Washington State. He is a lawyer by profession, a coach by vocation and a graduate of Carlisle Indian School, where he played tackle and was captain of the varsity in 1906. Incidentally he was on Walter Camp ' s first Ail-American team. The chief ' s teams are known for their offensive power. This was demon- strated this year by the far greater yardage made by Occidental than by the other conference schools. Perhaps the greatest tribute that could be paid to Exendine is to say that during his first year at Occidental he has won the love and respect of his men. and as a result his team works as a unit. After football season Coach Exendine leaves for Oklahoma, where he practices law among the people of his tribe. This spring he will return to Occi- dental to prepare for 1927 Oxy championship. 237 ] COACH KIENHOLZ When Eddie Kienholz became head of the physical education department, Occidental has filled the gap that was needed to give it the best group of physical educators in the south. Kienholz, who has an M.A. in physical edu- cation, is a man of experience, and an intensive student. Fight, sportsmanship, and popular- ity are three words that characterize our pep- pery coach. As coach of frosh football and varsity basketball Kienholz made an enviable record. His fighting spirit was instilled into the frosh footballers, and Kienholz also pro- duced a basketball team of which any school would be proud. COACH RENIUS Familiarity with frosh football aspirants and the ability to give out his knowledge to line-men desir- ing to absorb the fundamentals, made Swede a truly helpful assistant to Coach Eddie Kienholz Renius was varsity football captain in 1925. when Oxy had its championship football team. When under Coach Kienholz at Long Beach high, Swede played on another championship team. His knowl- edge of the system Kienholz used made the frosh football staff a smooth running, brainy group, and produced what many people call the best frosh foot- ball team ever to represent Occidental. 1 218 1 yiff iTTm TRAINER ANDERSON Besides being the most popular man on the campus, our Willie Anderson is undoubted- ly the handiest. Bill is trainer of all major and minor sports, chief varsity football advisor, and freshman basketball and baseball coach. While at Illinois, where he received his degree, Bill was all Big Ten half-back under Coach Bob Zupke. and he also played baseball and basket- ball. Injured athletes know that they are un- der the care of a specialist when Bill works on them, for he is a keen student of the body, and keeps in touch with all new methods in treatments. Occidental is justly proud of her prize trainer. COACH BEAM Football Line Coach Stew Beam is a product of former Coach Andy Smith ' s California wonder team of 1922. Stew was all coast tackle and an outstanding star. He is a Southern California boy, and used to attend Whittier High. The best way to judge a man is by results. One therefore pictures the line play of the Occidental eleven. Anyone who saw the Bengal eleven in its last two games can vouch for Stew ' s line system of play. The Po- mona and Arizona games showed a well coached. hard-hitting, quick-thinking line, and as these last two games were vital affairs, we take them as a cri- terion of what Coach Beam produced. 239 f   ■¥-r %F  ■■ COACH PIPAL The foundations of our college are laid not on time-worn traditions, but on the solid stones of loyalty and courage and love of the game. From Coach Joseph A. Pipal the men of Occidental have gained inspiration to go forth and live in the spirit of the game. This year the Timber-wolf again proved his great ability as mentor of the cinderpath by developing a strong track squad in spite of great obstacles. During Coach Pipal ' s regime at Occidental he has developed many outstanding athletes, and more than one track squad of national reputation. But of far greater importance than these passing glories is the spirit of this man, who has held before his cohorts all that is great and true in the name of Occidental. Coach Pipal has had an enviable record wher ever he has coached. He has won a great reputation in Southern California as being a coach who can take a handful of raw material and make a championship team out of it in a very short time. Jo is a person who believes in helping any person who will try and, and he is always glad to help anybody — as poor an athlete as he may at the time — who conscientiously believes he has the makings of a track man in him. Coach Pipal works early and late all the year around doing his bit to bring glory to Occidental all over the southland, as well as in the eastern states where he has more than once taken a championship team. [ 240 GSSk MCINAT i a 7 JUL, JL JLA. COACH WILKIE CLARK • Maybe better college baseball coaches exist, but it would be hard to convince an Oxyitc of that fact. Not content with producing championship baseball teams. Wilkie Clark desires to do and does build men. Since Wilkie is a scholar and sportsman himself. he is in a position to help his students. Oxy ' s wonder baseball team is directly due to the coaching of Clark. He is a graduate of the University of Maine, and former league baseball player of note. An Occidental base- ball team is a credit to the institution be- cause it does its business of playing the game only as a specialist can decree — and our spe- cialist is Wilkie Clark. Coach Clark came to Occidental in the spring of 1924. We were fortunate in se- curing his services, as he had come to Sou- thern California to take things easy. He had formerly coached at Oregon, Maine. Tennessee, Minnesota, and Colby Univer- sities, and his records everywhere were superb. He immediately took a bunch of men who had never played prep school base- ball and won more than half his games. In the meantime he built a frosh team that was later to bring fame to Occidental. In 1925 and 1926 Occidental easily won the championship and defeated teams of Stanford. U. S. C„ and Arizona. This year is almost a cinch for another championship, and as long as Wilkie Clark is baseball coach Occidental will always have a real baseball team. J ' 241 ] REVIEW OF THE YEAR The athletic year of 1926-27 at Occidental will go down in the annals as one in which, despite many defeats, great victories were won. Judging by the count of championships, this was not a Tiger year. However, every Oxy man can look back with pride upon the accomplishments of the year, feeling once again that thrill which comes when wins are made in spite of obstacles. Coach Exendine and his cohorts began the season with two handicaps, a new coach and a new system. The coach and the men worked courageously. and although they lost the Football Championship by two conference defeats, they beat the champion. Yes. Oxy beat Pomona in football for the first time on Paterson Field. Basketball followed as the next major sport. Coach Keinholtz and his men faced the same situation, a new coach and a new system. Despite the ob- stacles, Occidental ' s basketball varsity made the best showing in a number of seasons, and. taking third place in the conference this year, bids fair to become championship calibre next season. Track prospects looked very discouraging. With a handful of stars, a bare skeleton of last year ' s championship squad, Coach Pipal started in to build what proved to be a strong aggregation. Despite press predictions, and because of the fighting spirit of a few men, Occidental made a commendable record in dual meets and took second place in the conference. Baseball again cast its name in bold letters on the pages of Occidental ' s book. Although final scores are not in at the time La Encina goes to press, a 1 242] conference championship is almost assured. The little man from Maine who comes every year to coach the Tiger squad has developed a team which can hold its own with professionals. In the role of minor sports Tiger athletes brought great honor to their alma mater this year. The men on the tennis team are proud possessors of gold tennis balls, hav- ing won the conference championship. The cross country men made a fairly good showing in the conference meet at Redlands. Swimming and water polo entered the lists for the first time this year and established themselves as minor sports. Ice hockey was for the first time organized as a minor sport. The ice men met very strong competition and succeeded in winning a good share of their games. Occidental can justly feel proud of the accomplishments of the Freshman squads in all four of the major sports, winning the football Conference Championship, scoring high in basketball and track, and with possibilities of a baseball championship looming high, we can well afford, at the end of this year, to doff our hats to the peagreen athletes who have so well represented their new alma mater. Every loyal Oxy man should take pride in reviewing the athletic accom- plishments of the past year and look with confident hope to the year that is to come. [243 ] M n H - A,A 1.4 k k A JL A A A-X A GLANCE BACKWARD i u r S ;N l ' J - ' . Buckman Capt. Ellsworth Powers Sp nglei !i iai !i Pipal In 1924 this team established a new 4-man mile relay record at the Penn- sylvania Relay Carnival, which has never been equaled. [ 244 ] Behold here as nifty a bunch of horsehide smashers as ever cracked a bat on any ball field. These babies upheld the honor of the black and orange back in the days when Ty Cobb was in the bush leagues, and Babe Ruth was still a mere infant in arms. But don ' t think they weren ' t ball players — these bimboes often snorted the pelota at such a great rate that the games had to be called off because the balls were all lost. 3 2 ? ? s % iff f _e And here, kiddies, is an Oxy track team brought to life from the gay nineties, a little before or after — it doesn ' t matter much either way. In these days the boys often had to run on the streets when the torrential rains descended and the floods came, but nothing could daunt them. Not even the thought that some day somebody would be digging up their pictures to fill a page in the college year- book. 245 r t k L A A A k .AlAl AAAAA W SOUTHERN CONFERENCE STANDINGS ALL CONFERENCE TRACK MEET Pomona 51 4 San Diego 19 Occidental 36 Redlands 10 Caltech 26K Whittier 5 U. C. L. A. 25 Le Verne 3 FOOTBALL Won Lost Tied Pet. Pomona 5 2 .714 Southern Branch 4 2 .667 Occidental 3 2 .600 Cal Tech 3 2 .FFJ Whittier 4 2 1 .667 La Verne- 1 1 2 .500 San Diego State 1 3 1 .250 Redlands 7 .000 TRACK MEETS Dual Meets Caltech vs U. C. L. A., won by Caltech 74 —66 Caltech vs Occidental, won by Caltech 73 2 — 66 Pomona vs U. C. L. A., won by Pomona 96 2 — 43 J Pomona vs Caltech, won by Pomona 84 — 56 Occidental vs U. C. L. A., won by Occidental 74 — 66 San Diego vs Redlands. won by San Diego 81 — 5 9 Whittier vs La Verne, won by Whittier 99 — 41 Pomona vs Redlands. won by Pomona 78 1 3 — 67 2 3 U. C. L. A. vs Redlands vs Whittier. won by U. C. L. A. 79 1 3—43 1 3— 17 1 3 1 246 ] kk kjkkkk Cy Gloyn Bob Donaldson OXY ' S YELL LEADERS To support a winning team is natural, to get behind a losing team takes fight, but to cheer a losing team on to victory is the crowning achievement of a student body. Occidental ' s football varsity met Pomona with the odds in favor of the Sagehens. Occidental emerged from the fight victorious. A fighting team backed by a fighting student body won the day. To Cyril Gloyn. more than to any other man. Occidental must give the credit for a fighting student body. Spurred on by the enthusiasm of their yell leader, the Tigers defeated Pomona for the first time on Patterson Field, and raised the Orange and Black to its rightful place. Gloyn was ably assisted by Bob Donaldson. The contribution of Occi- dental ' s yell leader to her school spirit is very great. 1 247 ] THE O CLUB Not so many years ago there was a thriving organization on the Occi- dental campus known as the O Club. Not only was this organization es- pecially valuable to its undergraduate members, but the almuni often had many a pleasant evening talking over their various conquests in the fields of athletic glory and prowess. To the O Club belonged all Occidental athletes who had made a varsity letter in any sport. Regular meetings were held throughout the year for the undergraduate members, and periodic banquets, smokers, and so forth, were held for the entire organization. Not only did this club serve as a necessary medium for the exchange of social proprieties, but it likewise functioned as the background for countless gab-fests and bull sessions where the old boys could tell the mere youths just how they used to do it way back when. The O Club, for no clearly discernible reason, has had a gradual de- mise, until today we find it an institut on almost unknown except to the old grads who remember the nights spent about the fire place in some of its mem- ber ' s homes, where the victories and defeats of the past were hashed over again and again. Perhaps from this recollection of the glories of the past a new organiza- tion may grow up to take the place of the O Club. 248 LETTERMEN FOR SEASON 1926-1927 FOOTBALL Vic Conde, Capt. Ted Brodhead. Mgr. Theodore Brobst George Fusco Howard Black Fred Betts Mike Godett Bud Teachout Milton Nash ■• Ted Ellsworth Jack Schweizer Ervin Tanner John Eberhardt Duane Terry Walter Coultas Solly Mishkin Ray Hayworth Phil Cuthbert Mike Hunt Milo Weddington Bronson Buxton William Popelka BASKETBALL Solly Mishkin Ernest Ketchersid Neal Archer Chuck Osgood Howard Blacf. Mike Godett Kenny Walker Les Haserot Ted Ellsworth Jeff Deaver. Mgr. TRACK Ervin Tanner Ted Brodhead Kenneth Bierer Wilbur Graf - Milton Nash Atwood Scovell George Ruth Edwin Rozelle Don Imler Harold Webb Elmer Jones Laddie Mullard Leo Smith Ward Schweizer James Campbell BASEBALL Les Haserot, Capt. Benny Yorba, Mgr. Bud Teachout Vic Conde Solly Mishkin Cliff Morse Mike Godett Bill Argue Marion Hammersley Jeff Deaver Ed Soule Wendell Holland TENNIS Ewing Bone, Capt. Glen Lembke, Mgr. Ben Gorchakoff Norval Craig Yasu Maeno Kenneth Lee ICE HOCKEY Hugh Noble, Capt. Alfred King, Mgr. Chas. Abbe George Juett Lyle McAllister York Kroman Arthur Pomeroy 249 4 A Relic of The Past [ 250 ] Football Season 1926 Capt. Vie Condc JB at The 1927 Occidental Varsity Football Squad t 251 ] A keA Brobst ft II LOYOLA 7— OCCIDENTAL 7 Saturday, September 25. the Tigers fought their first grid bat- tle of the season with Loyola College on Patterson Field. The veteran Loyola Lions, under Coach Bill Hess, were in better condition for the game than Occidental, and proved a light and shifty crew. This was A. A. Exendines first game as coach of the Oxy squad, consequently many substitutions were made dur- ing the fray. The Bengal warriors were working far from smooth, but nevertheless showed plenty of fight. Few players were outstanding although Godett. Solly Mishkin and Al Oaves did much towards a 7-to-7 tie with the Lions. The Loyola game gave Coach Exendine and Stew Beam a chance to judge the fight and real ability of the players, as well as the potential strength of the squad. This encounter gave the team valuable practice for the coming annual Stanford tilt, and showed that the Bengals would have no easy fight in defending a conference championship. Fusco t 252 ] m 7 STANFORD 19— OCCIDENTAL On the Saturday following the Loyola game. October 2. Palo Alto was the scene of a 19-ta-0 fracas with Oxy holding the short end. Quite a caravan of Tiger rooters migrated north to witness the annual Bengal-Red-Shirt battle. Pop Warner ' s men were rather hard subjects for Oxy to try its newly learned plays on. but the decided improvement in the Tiger ' s defense made the encounter hard fought. This game, like that with U. S. C was featured by Oxy ' s superb defensive when in the shadow of its own goal. Twice the Cardinals were held score- less on their eight yard line. In every quarter except the third period Occidental was in a position to score, but the fellows lacked the final punch to carry the ball across. The Ward to Jack Schweizer combination of classy, effective passing made Occidental ' s aerial attack look formidable, while Godett and Teachout bore out Pop Warner ' s selection of these men as all - coast ends, by smearing end runs and causing Stanford their share of trouble in running down punts n Terry ' W. Schweizer | 253 Black n £ K Bens REDLANDS 0— OCCIDENTAL 17 Trimming Redlands 27-to-0 on October 29. the Bengals played and won their initial conference tilt of the season. Occidental ' s grid artists, accompanied by a large turnout of rooters, funded Redlands one of the worst beatings of the year. Oxy was hit- ting on all six this game, and the whole team played football like a precise piece of machinery, making yards consistently. During the first half the entire 27 digits was rolled up. In the second period practically every player on the bench got into the game. Due to heavy penalties and a faultier brand of football played in this half. Oxy failed to add to the already heavy score. The Tiger defensive was at its best: resting mainly on a stonewall line, it proved so crushing that the Bulldogs made only a coup ' .e of first downs. Ward Schweizer converted all but one of the extra points. Betts. Nash and other linemen showed up strong, while Coultas and Tanner did some nice passing from center. .. 254 ] U. S. C. 28— OCCIDENTAL 6 The Thundering Herd from U. S. C. was the next meet for the Bengals, who held the Trojan eleven to a 28-to-6 score. This was one of Occidental ' s greatest football encounters ever staged in the Coliseum. The score might have been different had not Solly stepped outside in his spectacular 70-yard run for an un- counted touchdown. Oxy showed a brand of fight and determ- ined scrap as never before. Four times the Bengals held the Trojans scoreless when attempting to put the ball over from their ten-yard line. In the final period, when Williams fumbled for the herd on their 35-yard line. Occidental opened a crushing attack that terminated in its lone score. It was Johnny Eber- hardt that plunged across with the ball after Mishkin had made yardage on two hard drives through the Trojan line. This was Solly ' s best game of the year; he was the outstanding player of both teams. George Fusco. Hunt and Al Clayes played stel- lar ball above par. Captain Conde and Betts on the line gave U. S. C. plungers more than they anticipated Godett Teachout N.ish « B Ellsworth WHITTIER 7— OCCIDENTAL 17 The Saturday following the Trojan game Coach A. A. Exen- dine ' s fighting pigskinners got together and administered a thor- ough trouncing to the Poet eleven. The Bengals played one of their best games of the season when they beat the team that had two weeks before humbled the powerful Bruins. The fra- cas ended in a 27-7 score with Oxy on the large end. Whit- tier was unable to stem the rolling onslaught of Occidental ' s backs as they crashed their way through the Poet line, and seemed dazed by the superb passing attack in which Bud Teachout was the principal factor. Whittier ' s lone score was made in the final period when Coach Exendine sent in almost every player on the bench. Tom Denny, Whittiers much flaunted back, did not break loose for a single long run. Jack Schweizer was Oxy ' s slellar yard gainer in the Poet encounter; Jack made several long runs cutting from one side of the field to the other a la Red ' ' Grange. Bud Nash formed the mainstay for Oxy ' s stonewall line. [ 256 CAL TECH 26— OCCIDENTAL 14 The Orange and Black suffered its first conference defeat, when Cal Tech outplayed Occidental on the Engineer ' s field, 26-to-14. Partly due to overconfidence but more to a heavy schedule of one game after another without a bye. Occidental was unable to get into its former stride. Although at times the Tiger squad played fast ball they were outclassed by Fox Stanton ' s pro- teges. The Engineers proved a shifty and speedy crew and open- ed an aerial atack that was almost flawless. The swiftness of their attack at the very first of the game had the effect of com- pletely bowling over Coach Exendinc ' s men ; Tech displayed some brilliant plays. The outstanding backfield man for Oxy was Johnny Eberhardt. who did a nice job of backing the Ben- gal line as well as packing the pigskin. On the line Howard Black was directly responsible for Occidental ' s two touchdowns due to his brililant work in intercepting some neat passes. Both Fusco and Black scored for Occidental. 1 4. Mishkin I K Eberhardt [ 257] Buxton U. C. L. A. 24— OCCIDENTAL 7 Hunt On Saturday. November 6. the Bengal eleven lost in its race for the championship when it was defeated by the Bruins at the Coliseum. Occidental was all out of form this game and seemed to be hoodooed by a losing jinx that turned the tables on the fellows in the Cal Tech game. Fleming of the Branch, and his cohorts, plowed through the Bengal line that didn ' t hold as it had proven itself capable of doing in previous encounters. A fluke punt for Occidental on which she lost a yard or more placed the Bruins in a position for their first tochdown. This gave impetuous to an open attack that left the Tigers with the short end of the score at the end of the fracas. Mike Godett was the direct cause of Occidental ' s touchdown. Godett working with Hunt. Fusco. and Ward Schweizer carried on a brilliant aerial attack that threatened the Bruin ' s supremacy in the third period. [ 258 J ARIZONA 7— OCCIDENTAL 9 Occidental retaliated by winning from the undefeated Arizona Wildcats to a tune of 7-to-9, November 13, after two upsetting defeats at the hands of the Engineers and the Bruins respectively. This was the first victory for Oxy in the Coliseum since the initial game there with Stanford three years ago. Arizona ' s only touchdown was made early in the game against the Bengal second team, which was soon replaced by Exendine with an en- tire first string eleven that kept the Wildcats on the defensive. The encounter held few thrills, except when Captain Conde and Tcachout downed Arizona ' s kicker behind his line for two digits. The superb generalship of Rats Brobst at quarter- back, and the fight displayed by Captain Conde and Cuthbert at guards were rcsponisble four unsuccessful attempts to score until Warner Hunt went over for a touchdown in the final per- iod. Solly Mishkin was the most consistent yardage gainer for Oxy. while his and Hunt ' s plunges on reverse plays made many first downs for the Black and Orange. Tanner Coultas ■« , [ 259 ] C! POMONA 0— OCCIDENTAL 23 Downing the Sagehens for the first time on Patterson field, the Bengals scored three touchdowns and a field goal in a faultless game with Pomona to win by a score of 23-0. Coach A. A. Exendine ' s men played a superb game of football to end the conference, tied for first place with Whittier. at the same time trimming th Sagehen champions. Every man worked as one in bringing about such a triumph over Occidental ' s traditional rivals, and the honor of scoring the three touchdowns did not go to any of the backs, but to Teachout. Conde and Godett who crossed over the meridian in the order mentioned. Solly Mish- kin. Hunt. Brobst. George Fusco. the Schweizer brothers. Bux- ton, and John Eberhardt make things hot enough for the line as they smashed through for consistent gains. Occidental ' s stone- wall line was every inch a line from end to end. Captain Conde. Fred Betts, Duane Terry. Popelka. Milt Nash. Tanner. Cuihbcrt. and H. Black each filled their respective gaps with every ounce of fight that could give. ¥ ¥ ¥ [ 260 ] ™ 2 k k k A Things did not look so easy in the first quarter for either team failed to score. In the second quarter Hunt rang up a well- booted field goal. Later in this period Brobst put Pomona in a hole by kicking out of bounds on their ten-yard line; being able to return the punt only to mid field Oxy was placed in a comfortable position for a 30-yard pass from Hunt to Teach- out, who ran fifteen more for a touchdown. Occidental ' s other scores came in the last quarter when Captain Vic Conde sprint- ed for five yards with a blocked punt, and later when Mike Godctt scored his last touchdown for Oxy by intercepting a pass from Mishkin. This victory ended one of the most successful football seasons in the annals of the .college. Starting nine weeks before with a new but sterling coach in Albert Exendine. and playing the toughest schedule of any team in the conference, nine games in all. including Stanford, all coast champions, and U. S. O, Occidental can be proud of her football record as well as the defeat of her ardent rival. Pomona. • Cuthberl Popelka [ 261 m Occidentals Championship Freshmen FROSH FOOTBALL The Occidental Freshman football squad of 1926, made a record which will go down in the annals of the college as another great Tiger victory. The Frosh ' pigskinners not only won the Freshman conference championship, but played an undefeated season, being only scored on at two times during the year. FROSH NUMERAL WINNERS Beebc — Captain De Hoag Schurch Chappell Holley Failor Rozelle Blanchard Work Elliot Howe ,Davis Hitch Haworth Manuel Thompson Waters Capt. Ed Beebc [ 262 CINAT JL The Frosh First String Squad The success of the Frosh squad may be credited to the abundance of good material in the class of 1930, and the great ability of Coach Keinholz and his assistant. Swede Renius. The turnout for the Freshman squad at the beginning of the year was the largest in the history of the college, and never has such an aggregation of post high school stars come together on Patterson field. With this material Coach Eddie Keinholz proceeded to build up a football machine which in of- fensive drive and fast, shifty playing was far and away ahead of all of its competition. The Freshman line, drilled by Swede Renius proved itself of great value in offensive football, and was invincible in defense. The squad began the season by defeating the strong Pasadena Junior College squad by one digit, the score being 7-6. Next came Redlands Frosh and a walk away to a 25-0 victory. The following week our Frosh met the strong Bakersfield High School team at Bakersfield. and for the first time in many years, an Oxy Frosh team made the drillers bite the dust. The next game with Southwestern University prove d easy meat for the Tiger Babes, and resulted in a 22-0 win for Oxy. The Branch Frosh gave our boys some real competition, but Tiger fight got the better of Bruin pugnacity, and the Oxy boys brought home a 25-0 win. San Diego was the next hostile camp in which the Tiger Babes d ; d battle. They returned from the Aztec camp with another whitewash victory for Oxy, 32-0. The Pomona game capped the climax of an already successful season. Against the Pomona Frosh our Freshmen showed their real strength. With Pomona leading 15-14 at the end of the half, the Tigers came on the field for the second period a different team. The Tiger babes demolisned the Sagehens by a 27-15 score. I 263 ] = The Pomona Bonfire [ 264 ] V Basketball Season 1926-1927 Captain Solly Mishkin The 1927 Varsity Basketball Squad Hascrot VARSITY BASKETBALL The Occidental Varsity Basketball squad completed a very successful sea- son in spite of the result in games won. Coach Eddie Kienholz was faced with all of the difficulties which meet a new coach in his first year. In spite of handi- caps, the combination of a fighting squad and a coach with a wealth of experi- ence and enthusiasm, developed by the end of the season one of the strongest teams in the conference. Nearly half the season had passed before Coach Kien- holz fully discovered the system best adapted to his men. The barnstorming northern tour served to acquaint the coach with his team and allowed the latter to place a spirited combination against our con- ference competitors. The first conference game with U. C. L. A. served to dedicate Occidental ' s new Alumni Gymnasium and incidentally furnished many thrills to the host of spectators who packed doors and windows and stood on the roof looking in. The Oxy men played a fine brand of ball, but were not the equal of the strong Bruin squad either on offense or defense. Captain Solly Mishkin brought the casaba to the hoop time and again but was unable to connect. Chuck ' ' Os- good and Ellsworth starred for the Bengals, Osgood being high point man, with 7 points to his credit. The final score was 32-17, in favor of U. C. L. A. In the game with U. S. C. the Tigers demonstrated genuine fight, holding the Trojans to a 14-10 lead during the first half. The powerful Southern California varsity commenced an onslaught in the second half which resulted in a decisive victory for the Trojans. I 266 1 Osgood The Oxy-Caltech game proved to be a nip and tuck affair, with the Tigers and Engineers constantly changing lead. The Bengals won out in the end. The Aztecs from San Diego invaded the Tiger campus the following week, playing two consecutive games in the Alumni Gymnasium. In the first game Walker was substituted in the second half and proved the star of the game. In the second game Mishkin and Ketchersid starred. Ketchersid dem- onstrated what a small man can accomplish with speed and accuracy. In the Redlands game the following week, the Tiger squad displayed for the first time real team work in offense and defense. The second U. C. L. A.-Oxy game showed great improvement in the Oxy squad over the first game. During the first part of the game the Tiger man for man defense held the Bruins at bay, but in the latter part Bruin skill proved too much for Tiger fight. The LaVerne-Oxy game was a battle royal from every angle. The Tigers showed great form and every man on the squad got to play. True to tradition, the Oxy-Pomona game proved the greatest contest of the season. It was a brilliant game, and was all Oxy ' s from start to finish. The Bengals had the casaba most of the time, but showed a poor eye. Prospects for next year are excellent, with seven of the varsity squad re- turning, and the addition of several very promising Frosh stars. Coach Kien- holz predicts a great year. I 207 ] Ml M f M  %? A rfi fr VVVfVVV A A A A A A A A A Captain-elect Neal Archer Who will Lead the Oxy Basketballers During the Season of 1927-28 SCORES Occidental 1 7 Occidental 3 1 Occidental 24 Occidental 25 Occidental 46 Occidental 14 Occidental 28 Occidental 30 Occidental 12 U. C. L. A. 32 Caltech 28 San Diego 22 San Diego 24 Redlands 30 U. C. L. A 28 La Verne 14 Pomona 1 7 Whittier 29 [ 268 ] FROSH BASKETBALL, 1927 With a gala array of stars to augment the conference competition, the Frosh basketball quintet started the ' 27 season under the able coaching of Trainer Bill Anderson. Repeated victories over non-conference teams prim- ed the Babes for U. C. L. A. After a valliant effort, during which they led till just before the last whistle, the Frosh lost the Big Game by the close margin of three points. Some strenuous coaching ensued, and the team hit its stride during mid-season, winning successively over their opponents with machine-like precision, and exhibiting a fine demonstration of teamwork. The Frosh learned the technical side of basketball under Coach Anderson, and are expected to play on the varsity next year, after having learned finesse from Coach Kienholz. Those of the squad making their numerals were: Capt. Leo Manuel, L. McAllister. A. Kussman. M. Farrell, M. Nathan, A. Gandy, K. Howe. E. Beebe, and L. Singer. SCORES Occidental 17 U. C. L. A. 20 Occidental 3 2 Caltech 17 Occidental 27 Whittier 18 Occidental 15 U. C. L. A. 30 Occidental 16 Pomona 18 Capt. Leo Manuel [ 269 ] ' Good Luck Next Year ' ' [ 270 ] Track Season 1921 f } Capt. Lrvin Tanner i tk , - -  The 1927 Varsitv Track Squai f f ¥ V Capt-Elect Nash OCCIDENTAL vs. HOLLYWOOD A. C. FEB. 12 With Captain Tanner absent, the al- ready crippled Tiger Varsity took a sound heating from the Hollywood Athletic Club team in an early season practice meet. Harold Webb. Pipal ' s iron man. entered six events and came out with ten points. His heave of fortv-onc feet eleven inches in the shot put looked mighty good so early in the season. Ruth, a Hcrmon J. C transfer, surprised everyone by winning the centurv. He was timed at 10.6 but the race looked much faster. The mile was run in 4:16. Scovel easily defeating Meyers of Hollywood in this event. In the 880. Mullard pushed the A. C. runner to the good early season time of 2:4 4-5. Cant won the broad jump with a leap of 21 feet 4 1-2 inches. The score: H. A. C. 94, Oxy 4-6. Imlcr Schweizer finishes well up in the 440 [ 272 ] OCCIDENTAL vs. REDLANDS FEB. 20 Although the Tigers won this meet by an overwhelming score, the perform- ances of most of the men could have been much better. On the whole, the meet was rather slow and uninterest- ing. Tanner easily won both hurdle races although in the highs Captain Bruce of Redlands almost caught him naping. Scovcl had no difficulty in the mile and 880. winning both easily. Bierer and Jones did some nice work in the pole vault. Webb. Ruth and Schweizcr also turned in good per- formances. The score: Redlands 48. Oxv 92. Smith Campbell WMf m -w- — Captain Tanner Going Over [ 273 ] OCCIDENTAL vs. CALTECH MAR. 5 The Caltech meet found rhe Oxy team weakened by injuries to Nash, Brod- bead and Bicrer but the meet was close in spite of this. Caltech had to win a mighty close relay to cop the meet. Probably the prettiest race of the day was the 440 in which Schwei- zer and Graf of Oxy and Lynn of Caltech finished in that order with less than a yard separating the three. Ervin Tanner was high point man by virtue of his wins in both hurdles and the high jump and a place in the broad jump. Captain Murray Schultz of the Engineers was the big noise in the sprints. Engineer milers an d880 men just couldn ' t stand the pace set by Atwood Scovel who won both these events. Webb came in for his share of the glory, taking places in five events. The Tigers shut out discus. Leo Smith two yards over Schweizer in the first lap but Brodhead ran a beautiful second lap, starting Graf with a ten yard lead over Darling. Darling turned in a neat performance for Caltech and the last lap started with Mcserve about two yards ahead of Scovel. a lead which the Tiger runner never quite recovered. The score: Caltech 73, Oxy 66. Mullard Caltech in tb winning with a toss of 116 ft. and Webb and Nash taking second and third. These, with points turned in by Imler. Miller. Ruth, Mullard, Rozells. Jones and Bierer left the score 66 to 68 in favor o fthe Engi- neers with the relay yet to run. The relay was a battle from start to finish. Schultz of the Engineers gained about Webb A Close Finish in the 100 Yard Dash [ 274 1 Bierer Rozelle BRUINS vs. OX Y— MAR. 12 The meet with the Bruins was featured by the exceptional performance of Captain Tanner of Oxy who won both hurdle races in snappy time, took the high jump at 6 ft. 1 in., and then outdid the best Bruin efforts in the bread jump with a leap of nearly 22 ft. Iron Man Webb showed them what kind of an automaton he was when he won the hammer and shot, took second in both hurdles and a third in the discus for a total of seventeen points. Scovel went out to set a new record in the 880 but couldn ' t get enough competition to crack the record of 1:58.1. He almost loafed home in 1:58.2. Schweizer was just nosed out of the 440 by a Bruin runner. Kjeldt Schmidt. Nash. Campbell. Scovel and Schweizer won the relay. Schweizer revenging hsi defeat in the 440 by beat- ing Schmidt in the last lap. The score: Bruins 66, Oxy 73. Schweizer Wins the 440 From Tech [ 275 B rod head Jones POMONA vs. OCCIDENTAL— MAR. 25 The Tigers lost t othe Conference Champions because of their weakness in the field events. When the broad jump, hammer. 2 -mile and discus were over the score was 33 to 3 in favor of the S agehens. The Oxy boys partially made up for this in the track events but the final outcome was never doubtful. Tanner. Schweizcr. Webb. Scovel and Ruth starred for the Tngcrs making 46 of the 62 points. Ruth upset the dope when he defeated Pinney of Pomona in the 220. Schweizer came from behind to win the 440 by a yard. Oxy won the relay. The score: Pomona 78. Oxy 62. Schweizer f 276] Cant m CONFERENCE MEET Coach Pipal ' s cinder artists closed the 1927 track season on April 2 when they placed second to the championship Pomona squad in the conference meet held at the Coliseum. Caltech, who had previously defeated the Tigers in a close meet, placed third while the Southern Branch took fourth. The meet was held on an ideal day, nevertheless few conference marks were broken. Captain Ervin Tanner won the high hurdles by inches from Turner of Pomona to surpass the school record which he held from the year before. He won the low sticks by a good six yards in establishing a new mark of 24 seconds flat. Atwood Scovel also turned in a double win by annexing firsts in the 880 and mile. His time of 1 minute 58.3 seconds in the half was exceptionally good. San Diego pulled several surprises in the meet, one which was to run off with the 440. Ward Schwiezer finished a close second in this race which was one of the most exciting of the day. Harold Webb tossed the 1 6 pound ball out into space to take first place in that event. He also placed in the discus. Charles Ruth, Oxy ' s new sprinter coasted in for a fourth in the century. Elmer Jones and Kenneth Bierer tied for third at 11 ft. 6 in. in the pole vault. The meet closed with San Diego pulling another surprise and walking off with the relay. Occidental pulled in a close second and Caltech who had pre- viously beaten the Tiger quartette, managed to take third. 1 277 ] ' - r f Captain Tanner Clearing the High Hurdles 278 | OCCIDENTAL TRACK RECORDS Events 100 yard 9.8 sec. Cliff Argue 220 yard 21.8 sec. Geo. Purser 440 yard 50.2 sec. John Powers 880 yard 1 min 58.1 sec. Atwood Scovel Mile run 4 min. 19.4 sec. Nick Carter Hammer throw 137 ft. 8 in. W. W. Wieman Shot put 45 ft. 2 ' j in. Fred Thompson Javelin throw 175 ft. 2 in. Herman Fagley Discus throw 1 35 ft. James Coyne Pole vault 12 ft. 9in. Leroy Goodenough 120 High Hurdles 15.2 sec. Ervin Tanner 220 low hurdles 24 sec. Ervin Tanner High jump 6 ft. 1 • ' ' ' |, in. J. H. Crcighton 2 mile 9 min 48.7 sec. Atwood Scovel ' 4 mile relay 43.5 sec. V. Nash Buckman Argue Powers Y mile relay 1 min. 28.1 sec. Purser V. Nash M. Nash Brodhead 1 mile relay 3 min. 20.6 sec. Purser Carter Buckman Montgomery 1 % mile medley relay 7 min. 48 sec. Powers Morey Carter Montgomery 2 mile relay 8 min. 4.2 sec. Morey Bailey Carter Montgomery Broad Jump 23 ft. 4 ' j in. J. P. Haggerman 1924 1926 1924 1927 1925 1917 1910 1926 1926 1924 1926 1927 1915 1926 1924 1926 1925 1925 1925 1906 [ 279 ] I v y FRESHMEN TRACK Led by Captain Dick Fairbanks, the frosh track team was able to win its dual meet with San Diego, but in the conference had to be satisfied with fourth place. The team was fairly strong in all the events except the 100 and 220 yd. dashes. Frosh Captain Dick Fairbanks Who Lead His Teammates Through a Very Successful Season [ 280 ] Captain Fairbanks was one of the best 440 men in the conference as he proved when he won the event at San Diego and took a mighty close second in the Conference. George Hall, the most consistent point maker on the team, was a stellar high jumper, a good high hurdler and broad jumper, and an excellent relay man. He placed in all these events in both meets taking 1st in the high jump both times. The weights and javelin were taken care of by Smith. Blan- chard, Thomason and Sneddon, and this quartette did a mighty good job of it. Dixon and Winfield represented the Oxy babes in the pole vault; both were able to make eleven six. Hall. Hershey. Kremers and Love high jumped. Hall doing around six feet with Hershey close behind. In the broad jump, Hall, Kremers and Dorman were the best bets. Ward, Crawford, Parker and Carrey ran the distance events. Ward was a sure place in the two mile as was Crawford in the mile. Parker and Carrey ran the 880. The 100 and 220 were usually run by Fairbanks. Smith and Michelin. Hall and Bergrron ran high hurdles, both placing in the big meet. Dorman and Love ran lows. Dorman was a good hurdler and always garnered several points. The jinx that followed the varsity track crew this year seemed to have spare time enough to deal the frosh a couple of nasty blows. Fred Appleton, an excellent distance man broke his leg just as the season was beginning. Art Elliot, sprinter and low hurdler was out all season with an injured ankle. Cecil Howard, sprinter, was inelligable. The loss of these three men practically meant the loss of the championship as they would have supplied the strength necessary to win the conference. However, in spite of bad luck and bad weather, Coach Pipal turned out a strong team, some of the members of which will strengthen next year ' s varsity. [ 281 ] Near the Finish [ 282 ] Baseball Season 1921 V] ff Capt. Les Hascrot r A; a «, - ; . .- ■ 1 4 , v • . ' - - ,--. . • :-■■? The 1927 Varsity Baseball Squad — Southern Conference Champions [ 283 ] £ BASEBALL Occidental ' s thrice consecutive conference baseball champions began train- ing early this season under Coach Wilkie Clark with a large squad composed mainly of experienced men. The infield men who reported were all veterans of two years. Solly Mish- kin at first base showed up as one of the classiest first basemen in college ranks in this section. Cliff Morse held out at the keystone sack, Captain Les Haserot at short, and Mike Godett at third. The outfield prospects did not appear to be so bright at first but the men soon developed an airtight combination with Argue and Tait alternating at left, Hammersley at center, and Deaver at right. Bud Teachout. the big Tiger southpaw. Bill Argue, from last year ' s frosh squad, and Hunt appeared to be the mainstays of the pitching staff. Conde and Coultas were the catchers. With such an array of stars .as this, suplemented by many other ex- perienced men and a class from the preceeding frosh team, Coach Clark started out to build up another little winner. After a late start, due to unfavorable weather conditions, the team took the fast U S. C. squad into camp in the initial fracas of the year. Ability to hit in the pinches, coupled with steady hurling by Teachout gave the varsity this game. The Tigers scored first in the second frame on singles by Argue and [ 284 ] Godctt. A sacrifice fly by Teachout scored Argue and put Mike on third were he scored easily on Conde ' s sizzling single to right. U. S. C. was unable to hit Teachout ' s offerings effectively and when they did Captain Haserot and his men pulled in the pelota and tossed the bewildered Trojans out at first. Their lone tally came in the eighth when Welsh tripled and came home on pitcher Schultz ' s single. Oxy scored again in the final frame when Deaver walked, stole second, and scored on Mishkin ' s single to center. In the next practice game the Oxy boys gained great fame by holding the highly touted Hollywood Stars to a scoreless tie. Much credit for this fine showing goes to Bud Teachout who set the Stars down with three scattered hits, two of these flukes, and fanning seven men. Good hitting by Mishkin. Conde. Argue. Haserot. and Deaver also characterized the contest. Later this same week the team defeated the highly press-agented L. A. A. C. outfit in a particularly ragged struggle. Argue started on the mound but [ 285 a s „ « st ' «■■ i ■ jf !! Condi: had to be relieved by Teachout. Reliable Solly Mishkin hit two triples, bring- ing seven funs. A lack to bunt cost the Tigers many runs. The final score was 13-7. In the first conference scrap of the year the Oxy boys had no trouble in letting the Redlands crew down 15-2. Bill Argue pitched shutout balls for six innings and was relieved by Hunt and Teachout. It is interesting to note that the following week Redlands defeated the Southern Branch in a pleasing up- set 3-2. This forecasts another victory over the rivals from Los Angeles. The next week Occidental and Arizona split even in their annual two game series. Oxy copped the first affair by knocking Ben Folson out of the box in the first inning. Successive hits by Haserot, Deaver, Godett, Argue, and Hammersley drove in five runs and Folson from the game. The final score was 15-1. Bud Teachout allowed but five hits and was given excellent support by his mates. Four double plays by Haserot and Morse helped Bud over the hard spots. The second game went ten innings, Arizona winning 4-3. Bill Argue pitched a good game but the fates were against him. A wild pitch was the winning margin for Arizona. Aruge ' s home run in the first inning with two on base scored all of Oxy ' s runs. In the second conference scrap the team thumped Caltech to the tune of 9-4. Teachout was master of the situation at all times and held the Engineers [ 286 . M 1 well in check. Lucky breaks allowed Caltech to score their runs. Deaver featured the game with his heavy hitting, garnering three safe blows. Fighting on even terms with the strong St. Mary ' s nine, winners of the Pacific Coast Conference, by virtue of their win over U. S. C. the Occidental boys blew up in the fifth inning of this shindy and were beaten 12-6. Bill Argue pitched good ball in the early stages of the game but frequent errors and misplays put him in the hole and discouraged him to the extent that he walked ten men during the course of the game. The St. Mary ' s team did not show anything extra in the way of baseball and hardly deserved a win. It seems that every good team has to have an off day sometime and this certainly seemed to be Oxy ' s. The following week the team came back strong and swept Whittier ag- gregation off their feet 12-2. The game was featured by the heavy slugging of Solly Mashkin who poled out three home huns. each time with Mike Godett on base. The Tigers had no trouble in hitting Keating or Pickering, the Poet tossers. but Kranz worked the final three innings and succeeded in blanking the enemy. Les Haserot starred at short handling six chances without a single error. He also figured prominently in two double-plays. Coach Clark ' s men pounded fifteen safe blows off the three Whittier twirlers during the contest. Bill Argue also hit a homer in addition to three garnered by Mishkin. As La Encina goes to press Occidental is leading the conference with three wins and no losses. There are three games yet to be played. The way the Tigers are playing under Coach Wilkie Clark, nothing can keep them from copping their fourth straight conference pennant. 1 287 ] Vp-T f Hammcrslcy Argue ANOTHER BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP As La Encina goes to press, Coach Wilkie Clark ' s ball players have brought another Southern Conference Baseball Championship to Occidental, making the third consecutive horsehide bunting to flutter over the black and orange institution. With the defeat of the University of California at Los Angeles at the hands of the Tigers, the championship was won, there being only one game left to be played. The one remaining game with the Pomona Sagchens can only result in defeat for the Claremonters. for Coach Clark and his Oxy ball players are now in a winning stride which cannot be stopped. 1 21 i M .?y , FROSH BASEBALL Freshman baseball at Occidental seemed destined for a successful year when a large group of aspirants turned out for practice under Coach Bill Anderson. With Captain Al DeHoag and Harry Munz pitching, Marcus Gartner catching, Moser at first. Singer at second, Kussman at short. Gill at third, and Nathan, Elliot, and Beebe in the field, the Tiger babes took their first two games in easy fashion from Manual Arts and Franklin High Schools. After dropping a game to Franklin the team defeated Hollywood, and the following week journeyed to Santa Barbara where Munz and Captain DeHoag each turned in a victory over the strong Saint nine. When La Encina went to press the remaining games scheduled were with the conference teams, L. A. High, Monrovia, Glendale, San Diego and Alhambra. [ 289 | mxsam 290 ] Minor Sports TENNIS Occidental enjoyed a brilliant and successful year on the tennis courts this season, winning for the first time in the history of the institution the Southern California Conference championship. In addition to the varsity laurels, the Freshmen also turned in a victorious string of wins, coming in a close second for the freshmen title, losing to only the crack San Diego Teachers College. However, the freshmen defeated the University of California Bruins at Los Angeles, who have reigned for five years over the conference teams. The varsity this season was composed of four freshman stars of the past year, Ben Gorchakoff, frosh leader: Norval Craig. Kenneth Lee, and Yasu Maeno. Ewing Bone, captain, was the sole veteran of the varsity of the past season. Gorchakoff and Craig alternated at first singles throughout the year, while Lee and Maeno were similarly changed about in various matches. Bone was a member of the second doubles team throughout the year. The opening of the Conference play found the Tigers unanimously de- clared victors over the Whittier Poets by a 7-0 count, while the second dual meet was another easy win by a similar count over the California Tech Engi- neers. The third round college match found the Bruins and Bengals crossing rackets at Oxy. and the winner, the Oxy crew, virtually copped the conference with this victory. The scores were 4-3. A trip to San Diego State Teachers college followed in the fourth week of play, but the best Aztecs could garner was a whitewash. 7-0. The annual Pomona-Occidental finishing clash at Claremont found the Sagehens a close loser by a 4-3 count. Besides these conference title matches, the Manager of the tennis teams ar- ranged dual meets with California at Berkley and Stanford at Palo Alto. This marked the first dual meets on the courts between the institutions in Oxy net history. California proved a victor at 4-2 over the Bengals, but the Tigers proved the result was a fluke when the strongest State college team of Stanford could only tie the Tigers at 3-3. Towards the latter part of the season. Ben Gorchakoff. the Oxy Inter- collegiate State singles champion, and Norval Craig, the joint doubles titleholder left for Ojai valley on the 28th of April to defend these titular laurels. The pair are rated one of the best college machines in the country, while each is rated among the best California racketers in the State. This pair, along with Maeno, Lee. and three promising freshman in Art Kussman. Lee Osborne and Dale Robinson, will return to make up the Oxy varsity next year, and it looks as if the reign of the Tigers is due to cover a period of years now. [ 291 ] Q TT w f ft f f ff tf TsyS p tiff miiMt j -ffr, A f| | A | | A A A A A A fflffifl fr A 4A1AAAAAAA W FRESHMAN TENNIS With Art Kussman, former California State doubles champion for high schools, and Dale Robinson and Lee Osborne, two crack Glendale High racketers, listed in the freshman tennis roster, the Bengal Babes started the 1927 tennis season with what loomed on the horizon as a crack and prospective champion- ship team. And the freshman came close to accomplishing the impossible. The Poets of ye friendly city Whittier, defaulted the match play 7-0 to Oxy. California Tech fell the following week by a similar score. A surprise win of 6-1 over the five-time Conference champions of the U.C. at L.A. proved the strength of the yearlings in the third week of play, but the crack San Diego State Aztecs turned the tables on the Oxy crew in a match held at San Diego by a 5-2 count. Only four points were needed in this match for a championship to come to Oxy in the freshman division, but the final punch failed to come. Po- mona Sagehens lost a 7-0 decision in the last match of the year to Oxy. Arthur Kussman, the tall, lanky tennis ace of the frosh, was elected cap- tain of the Bengal team prior to the start of the Pomona-Occidental tilt as is the custom of the Tiger institution. f 292 ] 19 2 7 I ■ ifcn Am i  « Jtiiii   f 4 k A CROSS COUNTRY The varsity cross country squad, captained by Reggie Lavelle, made a fairly good showing. The long distance men journeyed to Redlands for the conference meet, were Imler and Lavelle both were placed in the 3 y mile grind. The frosh squad made a better showing than the varsity, in their meet. Fred Appleton and Benjamin Ward were among the first six to place. t 293 ] tur Ne ICE HOCKEY Ice Hockey at Occidental this year was very successful. Several vetetans from last year ned out the first night. Among them were Noble. Pomeroy, King, Juett and Schuckman. w men who turned out were Abbey, Croman and McAllister. In the first game played against U. S. C. the work of Noble and Pomeroy featured. The final score was Oxy 2. U. S. C. 4. The second game was a fast and hard fought contest with U. C. L. A. The team co-ordinated well and much credit is due to the defense men, King and Juett and the goal keeper. Croman. After much fast playing the final score stood Oxy 2, U. C. L. A. 3. The next game played with Southwestern showed the real power of the Tiger team. Southwestern was doped to win but Occidental surprised them by winning 7-2. The second U. S. C. game was much better than the first. Noble and Abbey shone for Oxy. Pomeroy and the defense men did some wonderful back checking. Final score. Oxy 2, U. S. C. 3. The next game with the Branch was the best game played to date in spite of the score. Croman the goal, was on the hos- pital list due to an injury. McAllister replaced him as goal f tender and did very well considering his inexperience. Noble K scored the goal for Occidental, the final score being Oxy 1, U. C. ■ Si L. A. 6. U. S. C. was decisively defeated the following week by a score of 4-2. Every man on the team worked well and Noble was the star. He scored all of the goals for the Tigers. The final game of the season was played with Branch. The game was a battle from start to finish. In the third period Ham- lin of the Branch scored the winning goal. The score was Oxy 1. U. C. L. A. 2. This year Hockey for the first time was recognized as a minor sport. Almost the entire team will be back next year and prospects are fine for a championship. [ 294 ] WATER POLO For the first time in the history of Occidental College, a water-polo team was organized under the direction of Jack Schurch, who acted as captain, coach and manager of the team. A fast schedule was lined up and a good showing was made throughout the entire season. The best games were played with U. S. C. and the Hollywood Athletic Club, both champions of their respective leagues. While both contests were lost by small scores, the team gave evidence of becoming a strong contender for the title next year. Pomona won the championship by downing Occidental by a 9 to 1 score, our tally coming on a penalty throw by Schurch. Those that played on the team were almost all new to the game .yet each one played a fine game. The team was made up almost entirely of first year men. Those who won their letters were: J. Waters. K. Works, B. Yorba, Al Klein, Bub Williamson, K. Howe, D. Murray and Schurch. The Schedule Reads As Follows Glendale Athletic Club 2 Pasadena Athletic Club 8 University of Southern Calif. 7 Pomona College 9 California Tech. Loyola College Whittier College University of Southern Calif. 5 Hollywood Athletic Club 5 1 295 ] Occidental College 2 Occidental College 1 Occidental College 1 Occidental College 1 Occidental College Occidental College 7 Occidental College 7 Occidental College 2 Occidental College 3 Yet Ah, that spring should vanish with the rose! That youth ' s sweet-scented manuscript should close! The nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah. whence, and whither flown again, who knows! ;s?. r V Up from the Earth ' s Centre through the Seventh Gate I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate. And many a Knot unravel ' d by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. h the ed manasci i uld clo The nightingale thai in the branches sai Ah. ■■. and whither flown again, who wsl Occidental Literature FOREWORD Herein may be found a few samples of the type of literature which is growing up daily throughout collegiate circles — the first signs of a new era in writing. AN EPITOME OF PAST AND FUTURE by Carl Link The future of Occidental is reflected in the mirror of the past. Just within the grasp of all mortals lies the hidden image of that which is to be. Then, like an illusive fiend it vanishes from the realm of familiar interpretation. Thus, wishing to know that which is not I journeyed to the sacred abode of the crystal gazer. Upon his couch the veiled Mokanna lay, white lamps around lent their rays glimmering and cold to him who nightly prayed in his Mecca ' s dim acrade. The lights were brilliant, soft; such lights as lovely maids look loveliest in. They shed their luxuriant glow upon his mystic veil. Beside him. instead of beads and prayer books, which the world f ondly thought he mused upon, stood vases filled with Kishmee ' s golden wine and red weep- ings of the Shiraz vine. He drank long and pondered, at length he broke into a fiendish laugh and gazed into the crystal. A sudden transformation passed over him, his eyes became sparks of per- petual fire, his face was flushed, but radiant with a super-intelligence. Then the reality dawned upon me, I saw an institution, education, learning, and teaching, each having its proper significance and combined into one a perfect harmony. From an inner room came perfumed breezes which saturated the heavy draperies. The heavy fragrance crept upon me. and a delightful drowsi- ness took possession of me. The veiled Mokanna continued to gaze. His silence became more profound, the fragrant aroma would have stifled the sounds of words had they been spoken. Stealthily fear crept over me. The perfume had clouded my brain and a numbness penetrated my soul. Then. I too knew what it was to cry out. Ah. I will die voluptuously in- toxicated. Finally a quer staccato chant broke this state of immeasurable happiness and a conscious awareness of my whereabouts returned to my mind. The fascinating monotone seemed to gain volume, finally, coming to itself, reaching power and dignity. Thus he spoke. My immortality, my future, my all. rests in my past. A Board of Trustees conceived me. I was a sickly [299 ] A A A A A A A A 1 frs ,v A AAAAfAAAAA light marooned upon a distant shore. Yet within me there lay nothing but wholesome goodness, a willingness to serve the universe. These men in frail crafts set out to find me. Before they had gone far a frightful storm arose. The darkness of their path was complete and was illuminated here and there only by the white waves that leaped and tumbled. After many untold hard- ships their boat glided to the opposite shore, where I, the sickly Light of the World, was waiting. I was clothed in a torn piece of linen: my face was like a chalk mask, and my eyes were redder than glowing coals. After a short conference, these men determined for themselves how I should be reclaimed. Then, as they gazed upon me they noticed that I was covered with hideous sores, abuses inflicted upon me by doctrines, creeds, sciences, and philosophies. They then placed me gently in their frail skiff and started to row back with me from whence they came: — the re-establishing of light in the world. The storm continued and raged with furious indignation. The water which was blacker than ink relentlessly beat at the sides of the small boat. Now, their tasks became many and their problems became numerous and difficult. Many times as they rowed, they would lean forward, and bracing themselves with their feet, bend backward so as to bring their whole bodily strength into play. Public Opinion cut their hands, rain ran down their backs, and the velocity of their task suffocated them. Once they stopped rowing and let the barge drift with the Tides of the Time. But realizing that an important matter was at stake, a command which could not be disregarded, they picked up their oars again. A new determination to reclaim me filled their souls. The Light of the World shall live forever. The trip lasted a long, long time. When, finally they reached the other side: the species of shroud that was wrapped around me had fallen below my loins, and my shoulders and my lean arms were hidden under blotches of scaly pustules. Enormous wrink- les crossed my forehead. Like a skeleton I had a hole instead of a nose, and from my bluish lips, which clattered with the cold, came breath which was fetid and as thick as mist. I then became hungry and asked them for nourishment. They set be- fore me what they had, a few buildings and some students who hungered for the Light of the World which was interred within me. After I had devoured them, the buildings and all, they bore the same scale which covered my body. Then I became thirsty. The Board of Trustees then brought books, laboratory equipment, a campus, and entirely new site. I stretched out my long arm and with a desire to be clean and great, exhausted that which they gave me at one draught. Then a coldness swept over me. They brought bundles of Orthodox Ideals, bundles of Points of Dissension, bundles upon bundles of Personal Ideals Contrary to a Perfect Harmony. They then set fire to all this that I might be warm. I approached the fire and resting upon my heels, began to warm myself. My whole frame shook and I was failing visibly: my eyes grew full, my sores began to break, and in a faint voice I whispered: ' Thy bed! I need rest. They helped me gently to their bed and even laid the sail of their boat over me to keep me warm. [ 300 1 A A A A A A NCINA. AAAAAAAAAAAA I, the Light of the World tossed and moaned. The corners of my mouth were drawn up over my teeth, and accelerated death rattle shook my chest and with each one of my respirations my stomach touched my spine. At last I closed my eyes. I felt as if ice were in my bones! ' Lay thy selves beside me! ' , I com- manded. They took off their garments and then, as naked as on the day they were born, they got into bed with me. Against their thighs they could feel my skin which was colder than a serpent and as rough as a file. They tried to encourage me, but I only whispered. ' Oh! I am about to die! Come close to me and warm me! Not with thy hands! No! with thy whole body. ' Then they laid close to me. lips to lips, chest to chest and heart to heart. Then I, the Light of the World, clasped them close, and presently my eyes shone like stars, my hair lengthened into sunbeams, the breath of my nostrils had the scent of roses. Troubles, Problems. Dissension, Futility, Des- truction, began to vanish. A new institution commenced to murmer har- moniously, an abundance of bliss, a super-human joy, now filled the souls of the swooning Board of Trustees. They, who had given all that I might flourish. Now, I seemed to grow until my light brilliantly shone upon the remotest walls of the earth. This is the legend, an epitome of the past and future, the creation, the hardships, the life of a great pulsating life-giving, institution. Its future as you can see is the solidarity of its past. THE BEAST When flat and shimmering the desert lies Beneath the copper disk that is the sun And radiating waves of heat that run From amber sands up to the turquoise skies; When to the ear the only sound that comes Is deadly rattler ' s warning grim and shrill. Or else, like untuned violins, the trill Of the cicadas in mesquite-hid homes: Then to the eyes of men, it is a beast; A monstrous beast who lies in wait for prey; Whose fangs are ever bared in greedy lust To kill, and with the waiting buzzards feast. The monster knows that there will be a day When man shall sink to mingle with his dust! Mary Elizabeth Johnson [301 ] ■ PIPPO AND AMARYLLIS When I fall in love, of the crescent moon. decided Amaryllis, it shall be on the nether tip Now Amaryllis had no intention of falling in love for the present — in- deed, with whom could she fall in love? She was merely deciding things as dreamy-eyed dryads do in their early teens. They are very much like humans — - in fact they are cut out by the same pattern, but the material is quite different. Of course, Amaryllis was much too young to be thinking of love at all; but even dryads are subject to modernism and its corruptions, I suppose. O. no you ' re not! declared a very elfin voice. Pippo was also very young, but he was very masculine — and ever so sure of himself. Incidentally, he happened, quite by accident of course, to be a wee bit older than Amaryllis, so that gave him reason, perhaps, for speaking with such authority. He had known her for a good while, in fact, for most of his elfin-teen years. If one could only translate years into the language that Amaryllis and Pippo spoke! What! squeeled Amaryllis in total surprise, for she hardly realized that she had spoken aloud. I said, ' You ' re not! ' , replied Pippo more firmly than ever as he popped out from under a huge Elephant Ear. Amaryllis didn ' t know what to make of this sudden assurance. Neither was she quite sure that she liked it. She looked so long and curiously at Pippo trying to comprehend him — a thoroughly new and different Pippo, he was — that the young elf said rather more impatiently than he intended, ' ' Why in the name of Night Shade don ' t you say something? He softened at once, how- ever, and became his usual playful self. He gave a hop and a spring and landed himself one limb below Amaryllis on the Wild Lilac tree. No, you ' re not going to fall in love on the tip of the moon! He grinned impishly as he rocked his slender young body back and forth. He had dropped [ 302 1 his foolish little cap with the blue-jay ' s quill in it at the foot of the tree when he first popped out from under the Elephant Ear, and now a sunbeam was weav- ing a yellow cap on his head. He was a very gallant young elf — and not at all the round, rolly-polly brownie that you may have pictured. Had he lived in the days of chivalry he would probably have been a knight. He knew a good deal about knights anyway. His mother had often told him legends of his ancestors who had lived in the forests of England and were quite familiar with the qualities of knighthood. Why can ' t I fall in love on the tip of the moon — if I like? queried Am- aryllis very seriously. You see she really didn ' t know a thing about love. But Pippo did — and that was why she found him so different. Because I do not wish to climb so far, he answered. I don ' t see what you have to do with it. I am going to fall in love with a handsome tall elf — as straight as a daffodil and as supple as a reed — with eyes like evening haze and hair as shining as the pondwind-rippled in the late after- noon sunlight. He shall sing to me and woo me in the Larkspu r bed. and I shall be cruel and cold. He will try to touch me — kiss me — but I will run — fly — . He shall follow close — close. But I will run to the nearest moon-ladder and climb and climb — and when I sit on the nether tip. I shall pull up my lad- der after me. And he . O. you ' ve been reading silly modern stories, haven ' t you? he said with the scorn of a young elf who sees no thrill in the foolish sentimentality of a dryad — especially since it had nothing to do with himself. Amaryllis was hurt. How could he know anyway? And what business was it of his? She sulked a bit — that he had spoiled her fancy. But she could still think things, and she needn ' t tell him. He couldn ' t be expected to appre- ciate. But before she had formulated a satisfactory retort, Pippo had hopped off his branch and was chinning himself on another, laughing his rougish laugh. Anyway. he taunted, did you ever see a cold, cruel queen throw back her golden tresses and lead a chase to escape the persistent one? Amaryllis said nothing. She hated the way Pippo always tore her remarks to pieces. He always made her appear illogical and silly. (How little she knew of elfin-nature!) I hate you! I hate you — more than the horrid, ugly horned-toad! She fairly spat the words at him. at the same time shaking her fluffy head vigorously. The sun played in her hair and Pippo thought he had never seen her so glorious. Her eyes shone like chips of blue china and flashed complete contempt. She slid swiftly from her swaying perch and would have vanished with the kick of her daintily-shod feet, but Pippo, as you will remember was very much grown up, and knew all about love — so of course, he was under the swaying branch in a flash — with the defiant dryad in his arms. At this very opportune moment, he deftly tilted her chin with his left fore-finger and kissed her mouth with maddening possessiveness — then laughed indulgently at the little fury in his arms. He held her cruellv until he was quite sure he had spoiled any drama of defiance which she might wish to show for his benefit, then loosed her. He sat down upon a rock, drew one knee up under his chin, [ 303 ] fr A AJAAAAAA o hwtwi A AAAlAWA watched her sulk out of sight, then he jumped up, turned a hand-spring, and, whistling his gayest tune, chased off after a rabbit. Amaryllis stayed in her tree-house all the next day, and the next and the next. But her anger had cooled as anger will and she began to wonder strange, strange things. She had been kissed. The horriblcncss of the experience was giving way to a queer, uncertain feeling. After all, she reasoned, it had not been unpleasant, for Pippo ' s lips were smooth and warm; and. oh — how strong he was! She had never thought of Pippo ' s being so strong. Her father was: but Pippo was very young — not so much older than herself. Why had he been so sure that she would not fall in love on the tip of the moon? That was what bothered her most of all. and she was still worrying about it an hour after sundown on the fourth day as she ventured down to the Larkspur bed to see how many buds had burst. The sight of the amber thread of the new moon, as it swung down almost to the row of hollyhocks that were silhouetted against the pale green sky, perplexed her more and more. She watched it thoughtfully as she went along. Consequently she did not see Pippo who was standing on the edge of the pool watching it too. and she was roused with a start as she felt the impact of her body against something unstable. There was a splash. Poor Pippo arose dripping as a little poplar in the rain. Oh — ! she gasped at sight of him , but not so much because of his bedraggled condition as that the subject of her thoughts had so unexpectedly appeared. I haven ' t seen you for a long time. he suggested meekly after waiting for some sort of further recognition on her part. She did not reply, for she bad suddenly thought of something quite strange — wholly breath-taking. But Pippo knew. He knew by the way her eyes caught the light of the evening star and by the way her lips quivered as though a butterfly had brushed them in its flight. He knew — he knew! She was asleep to all about her and Pippo was to waken her when a rivulet on his hand from his wet sleeve reminded him that he was not quite socially presentable. And swifter than the dart of a humming bird he was gone and back again wearing his finest suit and mantle of spidery silken weft. He stood before her once more, head bent a little — waiting. At his nearness she returned to realities and suddenly whispered, Pippo — . Yes? he lopped up. The starlight was still in her eyes and her lips w,ere almost trembling now. Pippo — I — . Have you missed me? Pippo was, you remember, cut out by the same pattern as human beings and that may have accounted for the way he felt about Amaryllis. He held out his arms as if to catch her in them, and then of a sudden stopped, threw back his head with a merry laugh and with a deep bow and a flourish of his feathered cap he murmured. Your servant! May I bear you to the tip of the moon? Ruth Billheimer 304 y 19 2 7 =?¥ ,i i A A ■ - CUI BONO As one may gaze at clouds above, I gazed at you with thoughts of love; As one may yearn for paradise, I yearned for your resplendant eyes: As one may long for heaven ' s charms, I longed to take you in my arms. But you reciprocated not, With me you trifled but a jot: You loved me not, and told me so, — I kissed your hand and let you go. Patrick D ' Napoli SPRING A placid calmness spreads o ' er the land. With nothing to mar its grandeur. Spring is here, clothed by Nature ' s hand — Basking silently in all its splendor. Blossom time — and birds a-singing Love notes of gladdening cheer: And the tender vines on the cottage clinging; Spring the joyous time of the year. At twilight a feeling of domestic peace Calmly grasps the land. And the lazy clouds as white as fleece, Slowly gather in lonely bands. Then like droves of hurrying sheep, Whose steps are homeward bound. They wander to a land of quiet sleep; Where peace and plenty abound. Carl Link TREASURES IN THE PINES Silence, and dappled shade, the wind a sea Of swelling, singing dreams; and swinging far O ' er sleeping hills the constellations shine Upon the glade where first we met. Still stands unfathomed, treasured yet The mystery, the love you gave to me, When spirits mingling soared to touch a star As lips unguarded pledged you to be mine. Charles Abbe [ 305 ] PRESENTATION You trifling wench in motley guise, With crooked teeth and gawky eyes, With haircut crude as I have seen, With throat in need of Listerine, With giggle like a little child. With actions like a rabbit wild. With personality a blank, With logic of the lowest rank, With figure like a little tub. Who sought to make of me a dub.— To you I dedicate this verse: Pray take it, I can do no worse. GlBBLETTS HYMN OF HATE Your visions once my sleep did haunt. Your actions once my soul did taunt. Your sight did cause my heart to race. Your countenance I loved to face; My heart behaved in style morose Whene ' er you happened to come close; I loved you. e ' en your silly name, — You were the first my heart to flame. L ' Envoi But altogether now doth bate My love for you. I hate! I hate! E. Alexander STOLEN LIFE With the laugh of heaven still on her face And the ecstacy of youth in her eyes; She now lies in shrouds of flowers and lace, A victim of the great silent ego. Death has shut her from the waste beyond his peace, In whose ghastly lair all men dwell, And to whose placid peal mortals bow in defeat. Lured where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood. Into a land far from the hordes and bewildering light, Where misery fails and life is a perpetual bud: There eternal joy is knowledge and time an endless flight. Carl Link 1 306 ] r ■Pk.T TVTA Miff r TTfyr WITCHERY O, dream, why mock me once again? ' Naught do my wakened senses find But night, who like a queen in pain Drenches in the moonlight rain Her weariness of heart and mind. Only the sleepy mirth of brooks, subdued, Like children in the hay, Or creatures stirring in their nooks. Or bark of bushy fox that looks O ' er shadow-fingered fields away: Only the sleepy haze which shows The shoulders of the hills afar. Pierced by a lonely flame that blows A-glow, and fades — a soul that flows Into the whiteness of a star. O. dream, why mock me? Though I ' d race O ' er field and hill and stream, I ' d find Not loveliness enough to trace An image of that shining face Which haunts the chambers of my mind. Charles Abbe THE DREAM CASTLE I dreamt last night that you were mine, In a castle beside the sea, — I prayed that the dream might linger on. But this was not to be. I loved you true And you loved me too In our castle beside the sea: In each other ' s arms We saw the charms Of a life that could never be. Now the night is gone and the stars have paled, The magic of dreams has flown: When the day dawns cold it will find me still Here, by myself, alone. Wallace McWallace [ 307 ] THOUGHTS IN FEVER As I lie upon my sick-bed I grow weary of the fever, I am weakening from the fire that flames my body through and through: But I lie here humbly staring at the shadows on the ceiling, While my mind — a seething cauldron — runs amuck with thoughts of you. I am tiring of the darkness and I long to see the daylight, Once again to be communicant with nature ' s subtle charms: I am yearning once again, my dear, to stroke your silken tresses, And my muscles quiver with desires to take you in my arms. I know that it will not be long till I ' ll be convalescent, But the hours wasted here in fever do I sadly rue: For each moment that is wasted, darling, lying on the sick-bed, Means one moment longer that I ' m kept away, my dear, from you. Patrick D ' Napoli FRUSTRATION OF AMOUR When first I loved my soul I gave Most unreservedly, a slave: But love deceived, withheld the truth And robbed my short life of its youth. I long lived lonely, tried in vain With other joys to ease my pain. Ere many years, there is. I learned. No substitute for what I spurned: So I to love once more returned. Now love I not in passions dense, I love in — solely — self defence. W. M. McW. 308 ] J llil 19 37 JUL ▲JLA fT f ni WHEN WE PARTED Since wc have broken, let us part With one kiss of farewell: Nay. speak not of a cracked heart. — ' Twill grow another shell. Your letters have I all destroyed, I hope you ' ve done the same; ' Twill save dim memories unalloyed, And consequential shame. Our vows are terminated now, We each must go our way: We ' ll often wonder now just how And w hy we thus did play. ' Tis now too late to mend our lives And be a happy pair: But come what may, there are always wives And husbands for the fair. THE LOUD LAUGHER Like golden ringlets shone her hair. Her forehead pure was past compare. Her lips were curved like Cupid ' s bow, Her eyebrows grew as lilies grow. Her eyes were shining orbs of light. Her cheeks with blushes were bedight. Her ears like dainty cups were formed. Her brow had oft my passions warmed. Her throat was white, as was her face, Her form like that of sylvan grace. L ' Envoi. But ah! she filled me with remorse. Because she chuckled like a horse. 1 309 ] The grape that can with logic absolute The two-and-seventy jarring sects confute: The sovereign alchemist that in a trice Life ' s le aden metal into gold transmute. H u o r ¥ FOREWORD Laugh and the world Laughs with you — Cry, and have your Face lifted. [ 313 ] [ 314 [ 315 ] m wr?i $£ .i . tzssa sacs A £W oKA 7 ATHi-trivn,, J SwS T [ 316 [ 317 ] [ 318 J ¥ f irw r rh 1 V v ' f «i i ' t AAAAAAAAAAAAA1 NliNA A iiAAAAAAAAAAA esj i [ 319 ] i = m m m m — ' [ 320 i 9 a r f w Ft t i ▼ v A i A A A A [321 I r % A A A A A A 4 4 4 A A A A A A ST £ [323 A ?i Appreciation The La Enema management wishes to express its sincere appreciation to the advertisers listed herewith for their generous assistance — in no small sense are ice indebted to them for their help in making this hook possible. La Encina has a small circulation — it is up to us to see that what we lack in numbers is more than made up in our patronage of theis firms. American Florist Aroyo Scco State Bank Brenner and Wood College Public Market Crescent Creamery Co. Cresse Undertaking Parlors H. S. Crocker and Co. Desmond ' s De Yorkin Photographers B. H. Dyas Co. Eagle Rock Drug Co. Eagle Rock Hardware H. C. Hotaling Co. Mullen 8 Bluett E. B. Myers Co. Myers Jewelry Co. Olympia Knitting Co. Pearl Motor Co. Phillips Printing Co. Pitzer and Warwick Robert ' s Clothes Shop Rosabell Plumbing Co. San Francisco Theological Seminary Silver Moon Confectionery Sparklett ' s Weber-McCrea Co. Wunder Inn D24 ] k k kk imm v-r r kkk kk kk Durinq the 1926-1927 Season Sueru. Pacif ic Coast Conference School in addition to hundreds of other schools in all parts of the country, awarded to their Letter IDinning Athletes . . . A1DARD SWEATERS — the finest award sweaters made ■ — produced exclusively by the OUJMP1A KN1TTINQ MILLS, Inc. Olqmpia ( End o ihe Old Oregon (Trail ) IDashinqton Authorized Aqents SILUER1POODS Sixih and Broadway Los Angeles [ 325 i AAJAAAAA A frlft A AAAAAAAAA W AAAA.AAAAA Giving ihe appearance o} prosperity is the firsl step toward commanding it. Brains may close ihe deal— but appearance gets ihe interview. LIEN BLUETT HOLLYWOOD ClothterS X) LOS ANGELES PASADENA Mr. Wyss: My dear. I wish you would arrange your hair the way you had it last evening. Mrs. Wyss: Oh Justin, I simply can ' t do that, it completely changes my appearance. Mr. Wyss: I am fully aware of that, my Love. She: I wonder where the clouds are going? He: They are going to thunder. A: So you want a job. hey? Well what did you do at the last place 3 B: I did not do anything: I was the office boy. SPAR K I. E T T S (California ' s Finest Drinking Water) A NATURAL PRODUCT— PURITY UNQUESTIONABLE 1 327 ] A ¥ f fffff f ff t. V w San Francisco Theological Seminary Sax Anselmo, California The Growing Field of Usefulness in California Pacific Coast Population to Double in a Decade Young Men and Women Find Satisfactory Preparation Where the Orient Touches America Excellent Faculty Idea! Surroundings Opportunities for Practical Work WRITE FOR CATALOGUE Address WARREN H. LANGDON, D.D., L.L.D., President San Anselmo, California A.: Does Miss Maxwell believe in co-education? B.: I should say not! Why. she believes that a girl ought to be raised so carefully, that when she sees a man she will say. What is that. Mama. ' ' He: I don ' t see why there should be no marriage or giving in marriage in Heaven ! She: Probably because there won ' t be any men there. Rastus: De way sum people shut up their chickens, wif not a single winder open for ventilation am simply outrageous cruelty to animals. Compliments of H. S. CROCKER CO. 723 South Hill St. Stationers Engravers 328 k k k On the Highway of Life CORRECT CLOTHES AND GOOD IMPRESSIONS ARt? BOON COMPANIONS % 616 Broadway LOS ANGELES Apparel fol School and College Although it is true that the white people have stolen the Charleston from the colored folks, the black bottom will remain their forever. First: Isn ' t it ghastly the way necessities have gone up. ? Second: Yes. I have to wear my last year ' s husband again this year. Is Brown happy in marriage? Well, I think if Brown were to see Mrs. Brown today for the first time, he wouldn ' t even ask for an introduction. Still they don ' t complain. She: See poor Fido gasp: what can be the matter ' . He: Maybe his pants don ' t fit him. Adonis (to the man with telescope) : I ' m on a mask tonight. Show me Venus. That they are great places for over-eating. [ 329 ] 5Hr- t f t t ft  T7 YJ i f f f f f t f f r r X A A A 1 A A A A A A A A W College Public- Market Where All Oxy Trades Quality Goods Courteous Service Right Price Phone ( iAkfield 85 i6 4755 - a 757 York Boui.evakd ROSABELL PLUMBING COMPANY CI! AS. PEDROTTT Established 1903 OFFICE VXD DISPLAY ROOM R s. AL-2333 £026 York Blvd. Garf. 267: Mistress (kindly): Jane. I hear you have been in the park with my husband. Jane (defiantly): Yes. Mam. I have. Mistress (still more kindly): Well Jane, you are a good girl, and I dis- like to lose you: but I can ' t have anyone about the house who keeps bad company. A pianist who had spent the evening at the house of a lady, arose to take his leave rather late. Pray don ' t go, Mr. Jones. I want you to play something for me. Oh, you must excuse me tonight. It is very late and I should disturb the neighbors. Never mind the neighbors. said the young lady quickly, they poisoned our dog yesterday. Downylip: Aw — can I smoke, Miss Prim? Miss Pr ' m: I don ' t know. Have you ever tried? [ 330 ] HIGHLAND PARK c R E S He: Just one more! Oh. come on honey, just one more like the last one. She: I can ' t, dear; I have to leave in ten minutes. s E EAGLE ROCK Stelter: Why do you call your car Old Ironsides? Mac: Well, you see it ' s not much good, but it keeps on running. Johnnie McSnip says he likes his girl to wear evening clothes. Oh, well; it never did take much to please John- nie. Billie: I can ' t understand, dear, why I didn ' t accept the very first time you proposed. Buddie: That ' s not hard to under- stand. You weren ' t there. 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John: I will if I can. my dear, but I ' ve been looking for her every since I ' ve been her, and today I discovered that her name is not on the register. 333 ] I- y A A 1 A A A A A „ S A 1 4 A A A A A i 7 razw or j Annual was created by the Weber-McCrea Company 421 East S ' xtl St., Los Angeles :: c  Mr. Fussey: Why do you charge me 25 cents for a hair cut when your sign says First class hair cut — 15 cents ? Barber: Ah, but Monsieur has not the first class hair. He: Kiss me darling. She: One moment. Have you La grippe? He: Yes. She: Then wait till I get some quinine. The Maiden: Claud dear, hold the umbrella more over me or else the people will think we ' re married. Young Lady: I know I shall never die a sudden death. Doc: Indeed my dear lady, what induces you to think so? Young Lady: You have been sitting on poor dear little Fido for the last five minutes, and I still live. Headquarters for Standard Quality Sporting Goods PIONEERS OF THE COMMUNITY EAGLE ROCK HARDWARE FURNITURE CO. The Winchester Store 2136-8 Colorado Blvd. Phone Albany 3417 I 4 1 £ZB± FSr r Frrw Jk ▼ T ▼ ▼ T ▼ XTKlnlKlk ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ iNAA AAAAAtAAWAAAi. 335 ] r y k A A ' A w As soon as it gets dark I ' m going to kiss you. But. sir. I ' m a lady. That ' s why I ' m going to kiss you. I ' ve never made a practice of kissing gentlemen. Question: I am troubled with red spots caused by biting insects. What shall I do? Answer: Stop biting the insects. She: What an odd car. Does it pick up well ? He: Does it. ' You should see my telephone list. Novice: Do you get mad when an artist asks you to show him your figure. Professional model: Oh. no: I just grin and bare it. Boss: You do very nicely: the job is yours. Now tell me your name and come back early in the morning. Girl: My name is Miss Free. Boss: And do you expect me to call you Miss Free? Girl: Oh. no sir. that won ' t be quite necessary. I have an alarm clock. Little Martha says that falling in love is like eating mushrooms. You never know whether you have the real thing or not until it ' s too late. Little Willie, who has a bad lisp. went out with a new girl the other night, and told her, I love to thee a girlth thigh. Poor Willie never did find out why she slapped him. Gee. but there are a lot of girls who don ' t want to get married. How do you know? I ' ve asked them. The Store for All Sports— Dyas ' s specialize in equipment and needs for every college athlete and teams for Football Basketball Baseball Track Tennis Golf SPORTS SHOPS LOWER STREET FLOOR Sir, May I count on your supporting me? That depends young man. Arc you going to run for office or do you want to marry my daughter ' Sec here Lyons, you ' ve ruined me. In this account of the ball I said. Mrs. Bounherton, the famous lecturer on dress, wore nothing that was remarkable. You ' ve put it, ' Mrs. B. wore nothing that was remarkable. ' You can go to the cashier and get your money. We can ' t stand a man like you around here. Interwoven Sox Knopf Clothes 2149 Colorado Blved. GkytfzA L unssxsm Albany 4414 Stetson Hats Manhattan Shirts Eagle Rock [ 337 ] A A 1 A A A A A A fr AAAAaAAA a %f £sa DIXON ' S Silver Moo? Confectioner 4951 York Boulevard (Next to York Theatre) Well, Mrs. McGinty. An ' phat did the ould man bj afther givin ' yez for Xmas? I-uk at that black eye an ' don ' t be askin questions! Bishop: I believe it is a Wisconsin clergyman who has finally succeeded in converting water into fuel. Miss: That ' s very well for this world, but for the next it might add more to our comfort if the clergy could devise some means of converting fuel into water. M.: A beautiful ring my dear. What did you give for it? E. : Myself. Early to bed and early to rise Gives man a boggy look under the eyes. Mr. W. : The idea of a man coming to the theatre in such an intoxicated condition. I ' ll have the usher remove him. Mrs. W. : Let him alone. John: I think he is very considerate. He got all he wanted before he came in and he ' ll not be likely to annoy people by going out between acts. Brexxer Wood Responsible for All Brenwoodwear CORRECT CLOTHES DESIGNED FOR YOUNG MEN BY 155 E. Colorado St. MEN WITH YOUNG IDEAS Pasadena Calif. [ 339 ] %£ SELECT YOUR GRADUATION GIFTS From our line of OCCIDENTAL AND FRATERNITY STATIONERY JEWELRY - - PILLOWS — PENNANTS FOUNTAIN PENS Sljc (Drnfontal (Holing Hook §torr Owned and operated by The Associated Students Fifth Ave.: What shall I have for dinner today? First Ave. Shall I have any dinner today? A: I thought you two never met without kissing: anything the matter? The green eyed monster: No. you silly! Hats! He: What a lively frock — worth I suppose ? She: Monsier Worth is dead. He: Ah. it looks as if it came from heaven! A.: Are you sure these lobsters are quite fresh? B.: What a question to ask? Can ' t you see they are alive? A.: Yes. but you are alive you know. 341 7 r: A A A A A A A A A A y J  v A AAAAAAAAAA O T L I G - S Va cation Clothes Tell us where you ' re going — we ' ll tell you what to wear. Golf Clothes Motor Clothes Business Clothes Beach Clothes Mountain Clothes Evening Clothes H. C. Hotaling Co. 52 and 54 East Colorado St. Pasadena WE DRESS THE MAN How did you find out that your girl had a glass eye? Oh. I was talking to her the other day, and it just came out in the course of events. Little Cecile, who sees all. knows all. et all. says that it often takes boys longer who drive Pierce-Arrows to reach a certain point than it does for those who drive Fords. Our staff photographer says that many a negative girl becomes over- developed by not using a dark enough room. Help, help! O big dog just scared e Was it a rabid dog? ' ' No, just a common old bird dog. Butter and eggs: Don ' t you know that you shouldn ' t carry your money in your stockings? It ' s much safer in a bank. Chorus girl: Yes, but it doesn ' t draw as much interest. Bill: Are you the one who cut my hair the last time? Barber: Oh. no sir: I have only been in this shop six months. Are you sure that preparation you sold me will remove all my whiskers? Will it? Why the other day I spilled some on the rug, and the next mo.-ning all we found was linoleum. Jo went to a bargain sale to buy some glass butter knives. But she didn ' t want to be seen by anyone. You know how those things spread. 342 A-A AJk. JLA. A A A A ; 3K££ H : ;- $.££ V ' Jii-NpSK ™ ' 3?:S };: :; S§jS ] - TOUNG MAN, you ' re twenty- Q two to-day, and older now in J many a way than your old dad x at sixty-nine; but say, young . ♦ 4 man, I ' m feel in ' fine! When - | I was twenty-two, let ' s v „ „ „, see — we rode on bikes fy to the quilting bee; At twenty- but you fellers ride t w o, I re- in big machines _ member now, I to picture shows sech as I nev- « t V B ♦ g X changed, my son, I guess, and jl— I ' m growing old, yep, I confess: but still when you are sixty-nine, I wonder if you ' ll be feetin ' fine? er seen tjS (w tg f. «  . 1 w spent most of my time behind a plow, an ' look here, young man, you ' re my son, and all you think of, is fun, fun, fun! Times have This Annual Printed and Bound by Phillips Printing Company 238-250 East Fourth Street Mutual 7270 — Mutual 7279 S?CK ; : , W i : J Sfet ;« =$;£S ; ; SJ.£S M HS PSI U [ 343 ] A A A A 1 A A A A A A„ Hs A 4 4 4 JLJ Academic Caps, Gowns, Hoods; Winner Athletic Clothes; Fraternity Gowns and Robes Made and Sold by O E. B. MEYERS COMPANY Formerly Nurses and Students Outfitting Co. 1031 W. 7th St., Los Angeles Dunkirk 8147 Is your son improving in his violin playing, Mr. Jones? Well .either improving, or we ' re getting used to it. Then mind you ' re at the station tomorrow at nine. Eliza, I do hope it won ' t rain. Rine, Miss. I ' owp not, to be sure! The country ' s bad enough when it ' s foine, Yn ' t it Miss? Prof. : And the fauna of these inhospitable regions is as poor as the flora. You coudn ' t name a dozen animals who manage to live there. She: Oh, I dare say I could. Prof.: Really, what are they? She: Well now — five polar bears, let us say, and — and seven seals. He: This is a great hunting country you know. Eng.: You don ' t say so! Host: Oh, yes, indeed! You can smell anise here most of the year. A very small dog from Paree Once chuckled and laughed with great glee Although I ' m a pup — one thought cheers me up Pa ' s pants can ' t be made to fit me! Phone Glendale 3811 Say It With Flowers 1340 E. Colorado Blvd. AMERICAN FLORIST Wedding Bouquets, Funeral Designs, and Decorations for All Occasions Glendale, Calif. [ 344 ] $= ? fa: CttiOTttlBRS Also Smart Furnishings and Headwear PITZER 8 WARWICK 321 E. Colorado Pasadena Bishop: (kindly) And all these lovely young ladies whom I have just met in the guild room have some common bond? Curate: (Modestly) Yes, they all hope to marry me. Where is the center of gravity Pa? An Englishman, if there ' s one in the crowd. King Humbert arid the Pope are at outs again: the former having requested his holiness to send a papal bull to the cattle show at Ischia. I want to tell you, sir. that this panic does not affect the farmers. Don ' t er? Well you ought to see the proudest sons that ' s thrown back on Is your husband a man of letters? Yes, he must have at least a dozen of mine he has never mailed. 345 ] AAAJAIAAA A A AAlAAAAA 7 f Eagle Rock Drug Company A. J. LONG, Proprietor THE REXALL S T R E Occidental Students will get the best of attention and service — tliat is our motto Eagle Rock Boulevard and Colorado Street Eaele Rock Mistress jolliby: (On post Jan. 1, 3 A.M. to jolliboy who has essayed an explanation ) : Yes. I understand all about seeing the old year out, but that goes at twelve. Jolliboy (railroad man): Yes, my dear, Perf ' ly K ' rect. daes gen ' lly — some different this year, didn ' go out ' till nearly two. He: Do you love me or not? Oxy Girl: The former. Stranger: Is your father home? Small Boy: No sir, he went to the cemetary this morning. Stranger: When will he return S. B.: He ' s gone to stay. 1 . : A clever man has invented a system of reading music for the blind. 2.: How delightful! Now they can feel the eloquence of Wagner ' s music without having to hear it. Clerk: (at auction) Wake up! You can ' t sleep here. Drunk: Wuzzar mazzar? Clerk: When you nod you get the auctioneer all mixed up. [346 ] 5 MAY YOURS FOR A HAPPY VACATION. T ii e W u n i e r Inn 4611 York Boulevard The Occidental Rendezvous Open until one o ' clock EDDIE Polite Beat: Can you accommodate me with three dollars? Banker: Man alive, you make me nervous. Why do you always ask me for $3.00 ? P. B.: Mr. Money-Bags — if you think you understand the begging he was first created. Reporter: (To man standing at foot of telephone pole watching line- man at work) I beg your pardon. Are you an electric-light director? Man: No sir. I ' m not. I ' m an undertaker. Contributor: How much ought I to get for this poem? Editor: You ought to get about IS years. Jockey: Sorry, boss, but I can ' t ride today. Owner: Sick? Jockey: No sir. but I was swipin ' apples over in the orchard back of the stables and that measly farmer filled me so full of bird shot that I ' m half a pound overweight. (Slightly intoxicated — driving home) I say. how much pleasanter it is to ride in a cab and think how much pleasanter it is to ride in a cab than it is to walk, than it is to walk and think how much pleasanter it is to ride in a cab than it is to walk. Boss: The cold weather seems to agree with your relat ; ons. Clerk: Er — how is that? Boss: You don ' t have any deaths in your family since the ball season is over. [ 347 1 %? Lincoln tyrc Ford son Pearl Motor Company EAGLE ROCK. LOS ANGELES 2254 Colorado Boulevard Phone, Garheld 270 Charitable Visitor: I belong to the Motto Mission, and I hear that you are a hard working, patient, deserving widow, and that your children sometimes go without meals. I have brought you one of our prettiest devices to hang on your wall to comfort you in your gloomy moments. Landlord: (to departing guest) I trust I may rely on your recommending my establishment. Guest: I don ' t happen at this moment to have a mortal enemy in the world. H. D. H. There must be a fire some place. Why ' I didn ' t hear the bells. Nor I. but I just saw a messenger boy running Salesman (showing a vase) : This is exceptionally fine, all hand painted. Small sister (scornfully) : That ' s nothing, so is our home. Cholly: Aw. my man why is this bell ringing ' Irish: Can ' t you see. you phool, it ' s because O ' m pullin ' the wrope. Pale youth (to dark lad) : Wouldn ' t I be a fool to fight with you any how. If I gave you a black eye it wouldn ' t show. [ 348 1 KNOWN through Southern Califor- nia as the Trade Mark of a Distinguished Group of Dairy Products. There is a story told of the economical qualities of two wealthy gentle- men. One called on the other one night to transact some business. The host lighted a candle, and as soon as the business was completed blew it out. His visitor asked him why. He said they could talk as well in the dark. A few minutes later the host heard a mysterious noise in the direction of his friend ' s chair. He asked what was the matter and received this answer. Well as it is dark in here I thought I would take off my pants to save the wear and tear on them. A. Widow: Poor dear man! He lived only three months after our mar- B.: Ahem! As long as that imim ' A.: How do you know Mrs. Rogers isn ' t going to have new furs this winter? B.: I played bridge with her last night. [ 349 ] 4 Gf  ? w ' '  J  f ff f f t t  f Sign a t u res I 350 ] ATHLETIC STATUES THLETIC AWARDS FRATERNITY PINS w MAPTER GUARDS PLEDGE PINS I CRESTED RINGS DANCE PROGRAMS VOB NOVELTIES r= f:h FLATWARE PS Diamond rings MEOOING RINGS Complete Service To Schools — Colleges Student Bodies Societies and Clubs J. A. MEYERS CO. — Since 1912 — DESIGNERS AND MAKERS OF HERALDIC JEWELRY AND STATIONERY SILVERWARE AND NOVELTIES 724 South Hope Street, Los Angeles Our Diamond — Jewelry — Watch Departments Make Convenient Payment Concessions to Members of Orangizations and Faculty TROPHY PLACOUES CLASS PINS J LEATHER WALLCT COMPACTS PENS -PENCILS lORRESPONDENCE CARDS ART OBJECTS MuNOGRAM STATIONERY GAVELS ACKNOWLEDGMENT We place La Encina for 1927 in your hands. The publication of this greatest of all La Encinas has not been an easy task. The grade has been uphill nearly all the way. with many pitfalls and obstacles to mar the passage. Without the aid of our many coworkers we could not have accomplished that which at first seemed al- most impossible. But the book is now finished. The pitfalls and obstacles have all been passed, and the yearbook is submitted for approval to the friends of Occidental by its builders. La Encina for 1927 is a large book. Great quantities of paper. 19 reams of it. were necessary for its production. Ink in excess of 40 pounds was used. Over 400 individual cuts were used in illustrating the book. Something more than 40,000 ems of type were set. The cost of the annual was in excess of $4,500.00. Sixty-one people in Occidental College con- tributed to its pages in one way or another. To Josephine Stellar, the associate editor of La Encina. do we especially extend our thanks. Without her literary ability and personal integrity the publication would have proven too much for us. We also wish to thank each departmental editor for the great assistance which he or she delineated toward the construction of the book, and every individual who was connected with the annual in anyway whatever. Each person was an integral part of the great machinery. Mr. C. A. Young, of the Commercial Art and Engraving Company of Los Angeles, has been our constant advisor. His advice and words of encouragement in times of despair have been a great help to us. and we wish to thank him especially for many of the novel ideas which are introduced in tbe book. We are indebted to Mr. Cleon Larson, of the Commercial Art and Engraving Company, for the art embellishments, borders, drawings, and all art executions which appear in the book. We also wish to thank Mr. Hale and Mr. Lewis of the engraving company for the great cooperation which they showed in rushing our cuts through during the last minute rush, when an hour ' s delay then might mean a day ' s delay in delivery. To Mr. L. V. Brunner and the Phillips Printing Com- pany we are indebted for the printing and binding of the annual. We wish to thank Mr. Brunner for the countless trips he has made to the college, and for the excellent co- operation which he and his foreman. Mr. Glover, have shown at all times. The finished annual is mute acknowledge- ment of their typographic skill. We wish to thank Mr. Babcock of the Weber-McCrea Company for his assistance in selecting the cover, which was designed by his firm for Mr. Peck last year. The very fact that this design is now used as a standard cover is evidence of its popularity. To Mr. Watson, of the DeVorkin Studio, are we in- debted for the excellent views of the campus which appear in La Encina. and also for individual portraits. We trust that we have fulfilled our purpose. — to por- tray the personalities and progress of the year. If this be true, then our labors have not been in vain. Edward A. K. Hackett Dwight T. Spencer [ 352 ] Ssl