Baldwin Wallace University - Grindstone Yearbook (Berea, OH)

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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

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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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AARON RAPKING ..................... Sardis, Ohio Classical Theological Course. Goethe Society Vice- President; Presi- dent; Valedictory Orator; Track Team; Volunteer Band President. Here is Where we make an unequivocal statement of irrefragable faaname-ly: Rapking likes girls. Look- ing at him you never would have thunk it. But so it were. Rap. himself never admitted it until he had selected one, just one; that was enough for him. And as far as we know he still has her at the present Writ- ing. Aaron has ideas all his ownepatents pending. His is the style of oratory,T known as ila la Ranking. Just a sample: ill tell you, dear friends, you must see this in the light that I do. IFiFthe longer I stand here the more Pm convinced that water is more powerful than wind. Why if a cyclone comes along, crawl in a hole and let it blow over; but let a flood come along and crawl in a hole, that'll fix you all right. Add to this a vivid picture of a well set young man with high forehead, large eyes, prominent nose, a quiv- ering lip-dont forget that, and a hand that in a rythmic, rhimic, rhyme like motion chops up and down at elbowis lengthethat's oratory a la. Rapking. cIllemiitm all this Rap will make a good missionary some ay. CLARENCE THALHEIM ............ Kewaunee, Wis. Commercial Course. Entered as Freshman. Goethe Society Vice-President. In looking over past annals and personal statistics stacked in the archives of the state of Wisconsin, our patience came to an end. In vain we searched every- thing from the shelves of the state legislative library to the family Bible for any allusion to such as Clarence Thalheim. Then we accosted him, Clarence himself, boldlyr for information concerning his personal reroga- tivesHof no avail. We approached him m1 dly, on bended knee and in suppliant moodsof no use. We stealthily drew nigh, used cunning and craftrbut we slunk away baffled and under cover. Now the thus-Eor and the why of all this? Why find we so little of his history? Clarence is a modest man, written in capitals. Hence 110 illusions, or brass tablets or monuments to bear Witness of his past. His own stamp of disapproval rests cm all such superHueus signs. If anyone dares to hand bouquets to him he will give you such a. look that would cause the mercury to drop out of the thermome- ters. We would say much about him but fear his frigid glance. Let this suflice, Still waters flow deep.