Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Senior Class Roll Ross. I t c I)Kl.I.. A ( . «I i: K. B. S.. M. A. ...................................... Nashville, Tenn. Class Secretary,'03 'i«: Winner Owen Brize Modal. '0 0$; Vice President of Class. ’ 4 i 5: Class Historian, ' 5 '00. Rich. Josivi'H V. 11. 1C.............Nashville. Tenn. Ri ST. Littku. Jbnc.Kkman. B. 1C .Nashville, Tenn. RoTIIkock KaTHI-kink. A t . B. S., M. A. ..............................Somerville. Tenn. Class Treasurer. VM-'05: Class Secretary. ‘05- Of . Sharp. Harry M B A Curve. Tenn.

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Senior Class I Nokvku.. W. K. Jk.. 1 X. H. S..................Nashville, Tenn. Contestant for Youuir Medal, '02 05: Vice President of Class, ■ .» 04; Tlianksir'vliur Ib-batcr. '04'n5: President Philo- sophic Literary Society. 'O4-'05: Treasurer. M5-'0 »: Provi- dent Vanderbilt Southern History Association, '04 'Os: President Pan-Hellenic Council. 'Of n5: Assistant Mail- aiferof Kaseball Team, ‘of 05; Manager. '06; FacuHx Knocker on Class l ay. “05 ’oo; Member of Comkt Hoard. '05 'no; ssoci.ite Kdltor of Observer. ' 5 ' ; Commodore Club; Faculty Representative. '0t . Ni-:ai.. Asiii.kv Y., v Tii, B. A.Watertown. Ten». Pattkkson. K. C., 1 X. 15. A............ Nashville. Tenn. Football Team. 'OO-XU, ‘05.'01. 'oj.'o5, 'o5.'0» : C.lee Club.'0l-'05. •o? '06: Track Team. '04 '05. Prick, 1£i waki P.. 1 X. H. A................ Macon, Miss. Potts. W. H.. K K. B. E................ Dallas. Texas Commodore Club: Treasurer College Spirit Club. 05-' t .

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History of the Senior Class time has come when the elass of 1906 must leave the old college halls and enter the arena of actual life. When the Fall of 1902 witnessed the opening of Vanderbilt, a more rich, rare and racy gathering of Fresh- men could never have been found. They were proud of the fact that they were Vanderbilt students and still prouder that they were Van- derbilt Freshmen. They claimed to be the grittiest class that had darkened the doors of Vanderbilt's halls, and they supported their claims by blackening many a Sophomore’s eye when the Sophomores met the Freshmen’s challenge for a free light. The ’06 emblem of the class must be painted high and fair where all might see it. Who would play the artist? One squad un- furled from the north tower of the main building a great banner bearing the sacred numbers. In a secret hour the Sophomores tore it down; ’06 must be placed where it would always endure. Who would make the second attempt ? One rainy night, as the old tower clock struck twelve, three Freshmen could have been seen on the roof of the main hall. Over the edge of the flat roof on the almost perpendicular side roof they lowered a fourth. The rain made the roof slipper)'. The rope was lengthened to the limit and yet the man at the lower end had not reached the gutter. “Turn her loose, fellows!” Down he slid with nothing but a gutter to catch his fall of four stories. The gutter was caught, the ’Ob painted, the rope spliced and the artist drawn to safety. There as an emblem of our nerve stood the golden ’Ob. never to be erased until it perished amid the smoke and flame of last April. As Sophomores we hold the honor of being the first class to be distinguished for its tonsorial feats. The lone scalp lock dangling from the back of many a Freshman’s head bore evidence of our artistic barbering. With brilliant streaks of potassium per- manganate adorning their brows and many a stripe “behind.” well earned in the barrel stave gauntlet, the Freshmen were initiated. As time passed we became more conservative. The Junior year we spent in pre- paring to demonstrate to the world that we had brains as well as brawn. As Seniors we are able to say that the Founders’s Medal of our class was taken by a man who made the highest grade in his four years work ever made in the history of Vanderbilt, with two or three other men following close. Yet with all our records to represent us our parting is relieved of none of its sadness. Some of us are parting never more to meet -some to rise high on the tide of success and some perhaps to sink some to lay by a store of pleasure and some of pain. But we face the future with a firm resolution and a cheerful heart always to carry proudly in our memory the record of the class of ’0 . IIK