St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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I9l7 GUY DOUGLAS THOMPSON, Doug , Barrel ANNA1'oi.is, Mn. l.tlfIilI'Sl'il'IIflifff. Phi Sligllltl lfufifiti l:I'tIft'l'Ilffj'. junior Rifle Club CI, 2, 3,3 3 Hop Com- mittee tg, 43 3 Rat-'liat Board L33 g Marksman tl, 2, 33 5 Second Team Foot- ball 1355 Sergeant Co. A C333 Lieu- tenant Co. A C43. Q E 3 Motto: 'Z-HI ll11'ngs num' lu him who , lll1nI.v. AME, Guy D. 'l'hompson. lleight, 5 feet Qle inches. Wfeight, 287 pounds. llair. black. This is the description of the largest animal yet discovered on St. john's soil. Sometime, back in the eighties, the college campus was weighted down by the then developing physique of the only human elephant in existence. lly a careful pro- cess of cultivation, this mass gf liufilan tlesh has assumed an appearance almost man-like, though somewhat akin to the arre. Doug is the living proof of the fact that fat men can danee. To put it in syllogistic form : Doug Thompson can dance Doug Thompson is fat. Tlierefore fat men can dance. liut Doug has :mother hobby. lt is to hunt. Again, he seems to forget his weight and to become as active as any normal man. Nothing pleases him more than to shoulder his gun, assemble his dogs, and with one or two amateurs to praise his efforts, to hunt and hunt and hunt-until Kingdom Come if necessary. ln his Freshman and Sophomore years, Doug was. to speak a la slang on the blink insofar as the military life did not interfere with the other necessary phases of college activities. But when the mil- itary life interfered with other things, then Doug dropped the mil- itary life. But today he is a full-fledged lieutenant. I-le has been successful at St. john's. and it is our earnest wish that this same success will follow him to his dying day. 65

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l9l7 IRA BRYANT TALTON, ull'8,n uRedB,, Pocomoiclz Crrv, Mn. SL'I.t'lIfiflC. Kappa fllfvlnz Fl'lIft'I'Illfy. Secretary Y. M. C. A. Q21 Treasurer V. M. C. A. C3, 45 5 Rat-'Vat Board C35 1 Philokalian Literary Society Cl, 2, 3, 45 3 june Hall Committee fjbg First Cor- poral Company B C4D. F Motto: Eat, drink and be marry, for 1 , tomorrow we may have wrirf' E1-IOLD in Ira a combination of qualities such as were never before nor since aggre- gated in any one individual. ln life Ira's ambition until recently has been hidden in ,wvp a haze of indetermination and uncertainty, but lately he has blossomed out as a full- fflfffld blown candidate for a commission in the Marine Corps. To this we have only one objection, feeling as we do a certain amount of sympathy for the fair sex. We dread to think of the broken hearts he would leave behind him in the many ports of his cruise. Indeed, in recent years, he has been quite a bird in his feminine conquests, and like a bird Hitting from place to place. just as one thinks he and some nice girl are settled down, away he Hies to another and so it goes. As a student, while never leading his class and in spite of being handicapped by being a member of the Veteran Corps in Math. II, im will graduate with his class which proves his powers to ns who now. Athletics as a whole have never been a bee in his bonnet, but being an advocate of new thought he is a thorough health propa- gandist, and many are the times that his long suffering wife wakes to the sight of old Reds in the dim chill of the morning going through his exercises. Friend, the writer has looked him over well and of Ira we can say nothing but the best, a more generous rival, amiable companion and a truer friend no man ever had. 64 it

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i l9l7 ERNEST O. VON SCHWERDTNER, Pretzels , Vonnie IGLEIIART, Mn. Lutiiz-St'it'11tiHt'. Philomathean Literary Society CI, 2, 3, 413 lnter-Society Debate C315 Junior Rifle Club CI, 213 lvlarksman C21g First Grade Certificate CI, 213 Star Second Grade Ccrtilicate C315 Literary Editor Rat-Tat C315 Sergeant Company A C31 3 Lieutenant Company A C41g Ex- pert Riilcman C31, , N-HYPHENATED-not a bit of it. Some may think so, but just listen to him when he explains how, in case of war, he would not fight against Germany, proving him- self, through the principles of International Law, to be a Loyal German Citizen. Well, the authorities at the Navy Yard have sent out the destroyers and Bailey and Biddle to search the Severn in the vicinity of St. Helena Island to ascertain whether or not he had established a wireless station thereabouts to signal his Fatherland's sub-sea-ships. Vonnie never has much to say about the war, mainly because of the fact that it is useless on Senior tloor or because he, like the other Deutchmen, hates to ad- mit that he is wrong in such a vital question. CIt appears that he is looking ahead, does it not?1 From all appearances, our Friend Pretzels has little to do with the ladies, but we dare not certify anything in this line, for as you know he lives next door to Sherwood Forest, where so many fair maidens dwell. And too, it is a fact that the moon gets a clean sweep across Round Bay and the Narrows during the Hammock Time - Nut Sed. Vonnie is one of the popular men of the ,I7 class, and is sure to make good in life, although it be for the German cause. Here's hoping that the English do not catch him first. Good luck to you, boy. Maybe you can use this Rat-Tat to get through the English lines. ,