St Johns College - Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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,. ......, .... .... 5 . 7 ..,7hZ.,, .,... Z .7 .7 ..... Q ., A with that graceful inditiierence that marked his career at St. johns. Ralph Crum studied law, and practiced, too, until he discovered that running a matrimonial agency was more profitable. He still spends his leisure hours playing gleefully on the clarinet. One of his most recent clients was Pee Wee Jewell, who still meekly runs his father's store. ' .He discovered in business that It pays to adver- tise, and decided to advertise for a wife. Ralph Crum saw his advertisement and came to his rescue with a successful termination. Snooks Harrison studied medicine and got married at the earliest opportunity. He is now engaged in separating fellow-humans from their various useless organs and their various useless simoleons. Qlohn Fell has had a rather adventurous existence. Ile played tennis until he was twenty-two, at which age he was' runner-up in the National tournament. He then took up war correspondents work, at which he was able to do a rushing business, but as the war correspondent business has now gone on the decline, his literary work is confined to writing magazine articles. Associated together in later life, just as in College, we find Doug Thomp- son and Davy Davidson sitting side by side in Exhibit 1, Barnum 81 l3ailey's Most Sensational Show on Earth. Doug is the circus fat man and Davy is the human skeleton. They are both very successful theatrical people, as it may be seen that they have reached the highest ambition of a theatrical troupe- to be with Barnum 81 Hailey. 82

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-, .... ..., .... .... . . .5 10'-I.,, ,.... Z .7 ..- ..... 7 ,,, bright. The back page held still another bit of news: Spicknall Nets fElO0,000 in lfinal Collec- tion. Evangelist Converts Old Schoolmatef' The first paragraph of the article read: pathetic scene was enacted today in the now famous sawdust trail, when the evangelist, Spick- nall, in the greatest sermon yet delivered by him, before Hfty thousand people, converted an old schoolmate, 'Heinie' llowers, a member of his class at St. John's College. It appears that the latter had for years been selling patent medicines in much the sensational method now employed by the evangelist, but he declared that henceforth he would devote his life to just such work as the famous 'Reds' is doing today. lt was my pleasure a year ago Christmas to enjoy my Christmas dinner with Fats Andrew and Fats Wfeaver and their respective wives. They, too, took a short fling at the Marine Corps, but left and entered the business of road cont- struction with llarry's father. Now Harry is president and George vice-presi- dent, and the business has gained a national reputation. Two members of the class hold prominent positions in more or less well- known cities. Shorty Curfman and Dick Burgess both settled in the towns they liked best, and today the door to the ollice of XfValter R. Curfman bears his name, followed by the inscription : Mayor of Lib- ertytown, justice of the Peace, Town ltlailiff, Life Insurance and Plumbing. Dick was recently promoted to the offrce of Superintendent of Street Cleaning of the City of Wasliiiigtoii. lt is one of those kinds of sinecure offices which Dick adores- No work, much pay. john Storm soon after graduation shook the dust of the Western Shore from his heels and crossed the Chesapeake to the Land of Plenty, where he married one of the pretty girls for which the peninsula is famous. The last time l saw him was at the Easter Hop, when John, gray-headed. yet carefree, led the Grand March, happily and haf, ' ij. .- ,,.y 05:12 , V T L 'w',. ' W -s1t'1.,g ',4 .., fy A T 'mmf-:Y 81

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VVe have seen the future history of each member of the class except the Prophet, and modesty forbids further comment in this respect. Some of the class were very successful, some were more or less successful, and some were less successful. But let the truth be told-it was a grand old class. 83