University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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«iior Class (l)fficiTs BILL YOUNG President Business Mgr. Kentuckian MARGARET CUNDIPF Vice-president MILDRED LITTLE Secretary CHARLES REIDINGER Treasurer PRANCES HOLLIDAY OHtorlan PAT GRIGSBY Orator MAE BRYANT Poet MORTON WALKER Prophet REX ALLISON Editor Kentuckian PAT RANKIN Historian «No picture!

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History of Class of ’31 (By Pat Rankin) iE CLASS OF 1931 is by far the most notable and brilliant class that has ever been graduated by the University of Kentucky. It is a characteristic, true of all classes, and it is to be feared that the iniqui- tious schemers of 1932 will supplant our high place and oblit- erate our glory. If it failed in this it would not be a normal aggregation of intellectual neophytes. It would go down in history as a dismal failure and mar the beauty of an other- wise harmonious ascension. In 1927 a heterogeneous group of innocent children of un- broken faith found their devious ways to this University in a hope of quenching their thirst for knowledge and satisfying their diverse desires for intellectual achievement at a cataract of erudition. After a residence of two or three short years they discovered to their dismay that they were living in an intellectual Sahara containing an occasional oasis wherein dwelt a teacher giving abundantly to all who came seeking his aid. They learned that they were the victims of an hierarchy of Ph. D.’s and their ignominious assistants. Despite these seemingly insuperable difficulties we have brushed a rough exterior until it shines and sparkles, not too brilliantly, but with a persistent permanence which will stand us well in a world which is neither good nor evil, but hard and appallingly indifferent. When a score of years has passed the surviving members of the Class of ’31 may occasionally reminisce. Some may even come back and find themselves woefully out of place, for Ken- tucky is an ever changing matrix of various dimensions, suit- able to the necessities of the moment.

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ARTS AIID SCIERCES COLLEQE ALFRED J. ANDREWS. JR. A. B. Lexington W. E. ANNA AX A A. B. Ashland WOODFORD ATHERTON A. B. BII Livermore FRANCES BARKER A. B. W. A. A. Lexington M.L. BARNES -l KT A. B. Beaver Dam ROBERT T. BAUGHMAN KA A. B. Football 29 Stanford F. LOUISA BICKEL KA A. B. 02 1' Mortar Board. Pan-Hcllcnlc Council Huntington. W. Va. EDWARD F. BEESE A. B. Toledo. Ohio ELIZABETH BOND Xi A. B. Elizabethtown JOHN D. BREEDING ATA A. B. Lexington MAE BRAYANT ZTA Louisville A. B. Mortar Board. Fleur-de-lis Club. W. S. G. A.. W. A. C.. W. A. A.. Guignol. Rillc Team. English Club [Page 22