Regis College - Ranger Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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)o zxtfSfi (ft o r ANGERER. Walter, scion of the house of Angerer, roundeth out in this current year a college career of much- to-be-admired scholastic triumphs. At all times in the upper fifth of his class, he has consistently maintained a high aver- age despite outside activities. The May Crowning has for three years been in his charge. He has been the pianist in the Regis Orchestra. In his junior and senior years he was Assistant Prefect of the Sodality. As a member of the Student Council he has been in charge of collections this past year, which onerous position he filled both wisely and well. Somehow I think he 11 be a teacher later on, and a good one. too, teaching mathematics with that same zeal with which he studied while hammering out his own math BAKER. His name is really John, though I dare say you all thought it was Benjamin, since he has been Benny Baker ever since he first stepped in from St. Pat ' s High School in Pueblo. No man has ever attended Regis College who more nearly epitomized the Regis boarder than this same Benny. As long as we can remember, as Benny went, so went Car- roll Hall. He has played basketball for four years at Regis and intramural football the only year that this strange hybrid was allowed on the campus. In athletics Benny was always good for at least one good drive per game. There were only about ten games of basketball in the last two years that didn ' t begin with Benny ' s two-point bucket. He is a member of the Student Council, where he severely watches everything with his accountant ' s eye. Accounting is his major, and severely watching his minor. 4 2$ h

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Final exams are thru. Graduation night, valedictory, baccalaureate, diploma, graduate. Part- ing with long-time friends, dont know what to say. promise to meet again. All ' s over. (Senior C lass. Pansies are for thoughts, and shouldn ' t seniors have thoughts? So pansies to the seniors whose four-year residence within these hallowed walls, within these whittled desks, upon this tree-fringed campus, upon the boarders ' beds, is fast drawing to a close. Drawing is hardly the word though. Crashing might do, or stumbling, or even better yet, lurching. So take a deep breath, lads, and let ' s see what we ' ve done in the time since (memory goes no farther back) we stumbled in from the country, they put a green cap on our heads, and we elected for the first time Beck, our perennial president. Ah! those were the days! What a nostalgic thrill to look ' way back there and remember the happy lads who dropped out on the way. Who dry-eyed can recall Boots, the college canine who ma- triculated with us and persevered through three years only to become discouraged in his senior year by the unfair competition of the other college men for the three lunches which some sillies bring out to the campus. There seems to be no authentic report concerning Boot ' s whereabouts, though a rumor persists that he has gone to the dogs. What man is there with soul so dead that he recalls not sadly that freshman year: Sanguinetti ' s whiskers, touchball with Father Kenoy, the time Musso was snoring and some- body threw some chalk into him; the first time downtown, the Denver, Jean Harlow and ' Hell ' s Angels, the first blind date, the realization Elsie Pretzelhaam who sat next to you in high school is the only girl in the world; six letters from home the same day, telling you Elsie has married a soup-taster and has gone to Tasmania to live; the joint — which- ever one of the thirty-seven it was that gave you credit — the freshman dance if anyone can remember that night, Pete, Pete happy, Pete sad, Pete playing poker, Pete making a noise like a punctured tire, Pete sneaking people up to hear his dad snore, Pete offended and going home, you offended and Pete refusing to go home for love nor money — Pete. Ah, those were the days! And then sophomore: Morrissey falls off the porch, breaks both arms and sprains his ankle, Virgil Ryan and Judson Adams around looking for un- official entrances, chapel windows found to be screenless, Red, tall can of corn, basketball. Temple of Youth at 11 o ' clock p.m. Thursday ' s, Singletary asleep, Evolution in the Re- ligion classes, last of football, the sophomore dance, Hague teaching the multiplication tables to Gilbert, Coach Morasky of the B team and his coaching cap, first for mal prom. Juniors: Gay devils, resolve to kiss a girl on steps of the administration building graduation night. Student ' s Model Disarmament Conference, bribing, teasing, forming coali- tions, being diplomats, being racketeers, being lobbyists, getting votes, making speeches, applauding, booing. Methylamine Club, Flip Martin ' s car, Kant, Donnely, new softball field, beginning of the 4th floor gym, everybody plays basketball, the prom — won ' t be formal this year, I won ' t wear a tux, a tux — Oh, Boy! borrowing a tux, getting patrons, getting put out of places, getting tired, selling tickets, not selling tickets, worrying, arguing, pleading, the Cosmopolitan, break even, soft lights, soft heads. Rare days of youth. Seniors: Dignity, wear a coat instead of a sweater, plays at Loretto, nine minutes from Regis to the Green Room, Hypostatic Union, touchball in the snow, shoes wet, go to class barefooted, Jardin de Bier, thesis to pick, cut down class hours, Journey ' s End, the war play. Father Reichle, let down, who cares, senior dance, Duck Inn, that distinguished violinist Benjamin Baker, senior picnic, tear up a mile of barbed wire fence, falling into the creek, being rescued, pulling in your rescuer, the prom, going in a lumber wagon, collecting red lanterns, Lefty takes his first street car ride. Star Delicatessen, blonde head waitress, everybody wants to be a crooner, graduation, congratulations, never saw them be- fore, sneak out. Elitchs, ride, party, sing, holler, read diploma, can ' t read it. value of a college education, scream, shout, holler, kind of holler, sing, talk, whisper — 4 27h

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3 o BECK. Niels has one of the finest records at Regis Col- lege that anyone has gathered in my time. He played varsity football in his freshman year and intra-mural foot- ball while a sophomore. He has been four times class president. Sodality prefect in his senior year and vice- president of the Student Council, he nevertheless managed to incubate the germ of a year book until we have the present mature product. Mace and Mitre chose him in his sophomore year, and he concluded his eighth semester in the Student Council upon graduation. It is estimated that if all his blue slips were laid end to end they ' d stretch from the dean ' s office to Blarney Castle and back again by way of his girl ' s house. His major is chemistry, his vocation, surgery, for which he has trained by cutting classes, and his recreation, sleep. O O CASSIDY. Jack wandered away from the fold for two years after a four-year high school residence at Regis. But habits are hard to change, and after his frosh-soph fling at St. Mary ' s, he returned to Regis. He is a member of the Mace and Mitre and of the Student Council. Notoriety is his because of an ill-behaved dog, and fame because of his Canadian North Woods solution to the problem of war. According to many he is said to be the most unromantic man seen here or hereabouts for many a moon. His favor- ite recreation is confounding his Jewish friends with his knowledge of Deuteronomy ; and his aversion is double deck sandwiches. His thesis is one of those scholarly ifs of history, and his theme song Well, why do they advertise them as double deck sandwiches? 4 29 )gH.