Baldwin Wallace University - Grindstone Yearbook (Berea, OH)

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OSCAR BOCKSTAHLER .............. Dale, Indiana Modern Classical. Dale High School, '07. Schiller Society Secretary; Vice-Presi- dent; President; Valedictory Orator; Boarding Club President; Steward; First Sergeant Wallace Guards; Lieutenant; Junior Class President; Basket Ball th ; Indiana Club President. rtFuenf Pfund Kaffee, fuenf Pfund Salz, fuenf Pfund Kaffee, fuenf Pfund Sale. fuenf Pfund, etc., u.s.w. This to he read in a mumbling semi-audible undertone effect, in the key of G Minor with soft pedal attachment so as to get it as tlBocklt says it when he meanders down-town on business bent. It emit his fault, fel- lows, honestly; he does that stunt every day. Itls his business. Hels buyer of the Boarding Club and thatis his memorandum he was repeating. Outside of that hels all right. He plays basket ball, indulges in check ers, dahbles in dominoes and studies. He has a pate that is filled with ideas and some day the contents of hls cranium will be flung unmercifully at the assem- blage of plastic gray matter sitting before him in the little red school house. OTTO FREY .......................... San Jose, Ill. Classical Theological Course. Graduate Switzerland High School. Aca- demic Course Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. En- tered as Freshman, iOS. That Frey hails from the mountains needs no second mentioning. J ust look at that walk of his. Therels no mistake about it, it's from the hills. Have a look at his face. Could you mistake it for anything else than a product of Swiss sunshine? Of course you dontt see his complexion on the half-tone that accompanies this write-up. If you could, you would see that complexion so common to Swiss people, that complexion the poets rave over; just a samplPthose sunkissed cheeks made 1-11de by the free and fresh mountain air, air that has gathered its essence from snow-oapped mountains, air that has picked up the spices from rich meadows in fertile valleys, air that has, etc., etc. In short, it is a cross between burnt orange and nutmeg. Then there is that free and cordial handgrip. And lastly, beneath his manly bosom there beats the heart of a mountain- eer, one that beats sympathetically for everybody, one that reaches out to all in good fellowship and love. OLGA HECKER .............. St. Petersburg, Russia Modern Classical Course. Philomathean Society Secretary; Vale- dictory Orator; Senior Class Vioe-Presi- dent. ttBeing serious is a trade, but being taken seriously is an art. The fellow who coined that saying did not know .Olga. She talks seriously, looks seriously, acts seriously, appears seriously, in short she is serious. With one exception. Ah-ha, now she smiles. Just talk matrimony to her or watch her when a young man talks to her, and she smiles. Yes she smiles, but she isnlt happy. Not that she laughs at the fellow. For be it from such, but at the idea of a fellow going with her. It is a joke, for, mark you, gentle reader, life to her is single blissebeg pardon, I mean single life to her is bliss. But back again to serious matter. Olga is ambi- tions and studious. She is now instructor of German in the Berea High School. 28

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$211M? QEIase 13mm? HE even road is not the highway to success and if a recky road be one conducive to this end, then Seniors, one and all, of Wallace, 1912, are started on to fame. For danger lurked about each memberls path long years before toward Wallace they had turned. Nor did their troubles end when once they came to drink from learned fountains that at Wallace flowed. No matter where or how they came, from near or. far, their minds with One desire were beset,-0ur wagon to a star. Our start, as class was small, our numbers were but few, indeed our numbers ne'er to great proportions grew. Some had a higher education ere they came while others could not of such learning beast and started at the bottom here at school and climbed the ladder round for round. So year by year we gained in knowledge and in strength, our number also waxed ; each year were added one or two, a meager growth,ebut still we grew. The true that even now, when on life's threshhold we take stand, our class is small if counted on the hand, but strength and power do not always in great numbers lie; they 0ft are vested in the few and small. Despite these things we can of valor boast; of ilags that from the college staff we furled, of ice cream that from J uniore we in triumph bore when we were Preps; and gowns that mighty Seniors thought to wear in pomp and style, assembled for a lofty feast where only great ones were to be, but nonce anon. And so we might describe with pen or paint with words the mighty deeds of ours. These will sullice. Our name as gallants now is made. We have no fear. But while we boast once more we'll toot our horn. Four states are represented in our class and of the transatlantic countries, three. From Russia, in the distant North; from Germany that lies just to the South and Switzerland near by. And now that college days are spent and we with retrospection can review our days, our deeds and all, methinke that Time stands near us and approval smiles on all our past while not far off good Fortune nods to us and beckons us to come. S. E. K., HISTORIAN. 27

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ELIZABETH JUNKER .......... Frankfurt, Germany Modern Classical Course. Secondary schools in Germany, England and France. Entered as Sophomore. A Daniel has come to judgment, 3. Daniel. Thus said Shylock in his ecstasy. Repeat this several times to get the rhythm, then repeat with us the following: A Saul has come among us, a Saul? We refer to Elizabeth. Like Saul of old she is tall and fair, 5. head above all others of her tribe, the feminites to wit. And, like Saul, Who went out to hunt for asses and found a kingdom, she went in quest of learning and found ae well, just look at her left hand and see the sparkling diamond for yourself. But she put one over on Saul. She got the fellow and learning, too. Also she sings. Gee! but she can sing high. One thing astounds us and that is, Elizabeth is studying shorthand. Hereis the point: Elizabeth will eventually get married sooner or later, sooner if anything. Now, honestly, Geraldine, can you imagine her taking dictation from a man. I would like to see the fellow who dictates to her. SAMUEL E. KAETZEL ............... Dale, Indiana Modern Classical Course. Dale High School. Schiller Society Secretary; Vice-Presi- dent;President;Boa1ding Club Presi- dent; Theological Society P1esident;Y.M C. A Vice- President; Indiana Club Vice- President; Societv Valedictory 01231201 Sam, hes the man. The chic-a-hit-tie-short-shank- sawed-off-hammered-down fellow from the i'Pocket. iThe ilPocket designates the southwestern corner of IndianaJ Hels a pure dyed-inrtherwool product of the Hoosier state. Sam is only natural when he is at his best and he is at his best When he smiles. Be it said that Sam is always ready to be natural. People who are plump, buxom 01' fat are natural, that is they smile. They smile because they are fat. They are fat because they,r smile. Take it any way you like, it works 011 Sam. He takes everything good naturedly, even his lessons. That is why he makes a passing gradeh-plus a substantial addition in all his studies. ALFRED H. MUELLER ............. Blue Island, 111. Modern Classical Course. Goethe Society Secretary; Vice-Presi- dent; President; Freshmen Class Presi- dent; Y. M. C. A. Vice-President; Presi- dent; Wallace Guards Sergeant; Lieu- tenant. BishiL-nifty name. thaFdnnit know just where he got it, but it fits. Bish is pre-eminently a preacher. Last summer he preached on Sundays and worked in a laundry during the week. 111 other words, washed shirts on week-days and souls on Sunday. Can you beat that? Biblical chap this Bish is. Keeps the man clean inside and outside. P1 ima1ily he preaches, as we were saying. but besides that he singseyes, g1eat lover of music; and then he eats, too yes, meet lover of fme fodder; and girlees, great love1 of-but that is neither here nor there. Bish has a warm spot fbr everybody. He is altruistic. And jobs, say, but he is popular on jobs. Every organization honors him. Here is one yeal'ls record: President of Goethe So- ciety; Secretary of Y. M. C. A.; President of Class; Treasurer of Wisconsin Club; Vice-President of Ep- worth League: member of Berea German M. E. Oiiicial Board fChurchi; Table Officer in Boarding Club; and President of Sandusky Frauen Verein, at which place he had a charge as pastor. 29