Claremont McKenna College - Ayer Yearbook (Claremont, CA)

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m - Louisiana is respoiisihie for lliis rebel. ( lordon Sore . Born in Arkansas, he moved quickly to Louisiana and there remained until the Army showed him how wonderful California was. Not the smallest factor in (onvinring him that California was the place to stay was a native ol said state, female species. Two years were spent in Northeast Junior College, a division of Louisiana State LJniversity. before Gordon entered the service. Interrupting his pursuit of an engineering course in 1943. he set out after a pair of wings, and during this period his mind was opened to the cfualities of California. In 1045. after first acquiring Iiis wings, he settled the issue hy marrying the aforementioned native . Receiving his discharge in 1947 he entered Porterville Junior College for the spring semester. After graduation from P J.C. he entered CMC. Assuming he finishes CMC he plans to enter ( .olden Cate College and prepare for his C.P.A. certificate. Coming to us from Texas, via the Crown City, we lirst see Roger Red Stewart as a happy student in the environs of Pasadena Junior College. Then came the call and Rog cast his lot with the Army, enlisting in the heavy artillery. With Army ' s usual regard for the individual choice. Roger soon found himself in the Infantry. After a tour in the South Pacific and the acquisition of a few mementoes of a sojourn in the Philippines. Roger returned to become once more a happy (?) student at Pascidena J.C. Llaving exhausted all the committee-fortjiing possibilities there. Roger came to our fair campus in 1947 to continue his search for the finer things of life. After graduation in June he plans a return to the Lone Star slate and a career in business and Repiu)lican (?) politics. If any mysterious documents printed in Afrikaans have been spotted on the campus lately, chances are that they belong to Joe Stoitz. Hoping to go to South Africa after graduation Joe will study either at the University of Cape town or Witwatersrand. where he will learn the lay of the land before entering business there. The good Major served as communications officer with a held artillery battalion in France and Germany before resuming his college career, and arrived at CMC in September. 1947. after stopping briefly at LACC. Pasadena CC. and Santa Monica JC. Since abandoning the Claremont Inn for life in the Vet ' s LJnits. Joe has astounded his vounger neighbors b the number of phone calls which urgent young ladies have made in efforts to enjoy his company. Paul Strawn. a native lowan. lirst saw the light ol day in I3r. Phelps Senior Seminar. During the dark years he graduated from Indianola High School, Iowa. He claims that the liberals back home are using Keynes ' (u ' neral J lieory instead of the Sears and Roeinu k catalog, and are finding it a little rough (aren t we all. ' ' ). Touring the I). S. in a study of transport. itioii ioliowiiig higii school. Paid passed through California. It looked so good he hitch-hiked back and sclllecl in I ' ullerton. He married the girl from back home in 1941. In 1942 he enlisted in the Army, where he becatiie a p.iratrooper. jumped I)-Da - in Normandy, got a legitimate Piuple Heart, and was disc harcted as a Staff Sergeant. Post-war adjustment was made at Fullerton J.C. where he was an honor student and active in camous functions and veterans ' organi .alions. Deciding he had had enough of the scholars life. Paul c-nlered CMC in 1947 to await his B.A.

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1 he ( ount s advent to v-i iv came as part or trie mass migratron trom South Pasadena. Originally from Connecticut. Jack s experiences since coming to sunny San Marino liave been diverse. After graduation from South Pasadena High School, he stepped into the waiting arms of Uncle Sam. who bestowed upon his a commission and the position of navigator. Discharged in 19-43 as a Captain (at the age of 21) following 33 missions over Germany. Jack Croul then went to Stanford for two vears. He was circidafion manager for the Stanford Daily during this time. hi the summer of t7 Ja( k looked CMC over, found it to his satisfaction, and has been here ever since. His extra-curricular activities include a term on the Student-Faculty Committee. An avid polo fan and sailor. Jacks horse and PC keep him occupied on weekends, at least while Cell is in session. . s for the future. Jack plans to stay in Southern California and get a job in a liusiness with training program. Holding the undisputed (and generalK unwanted) title of Senior Class Jester, Laugh-a-NIinute Frey didn t get through ollege solely on his humor, however, for Fred has many other qualinrations to back him up. For example, he is the only known human being to score 99.5% on a Civil Service exam. The friendly lad from Fellows. California, also can boast of a sterling record on I ' omona s Varsity pigskin eleven, his out- standing performance being the night he almost singlehandedK defeated Loyola. Fred also has the distinction of being one of the few students who has not fliuiked the andermuelen course all tlirough liis college career. A brief history of Mr. Frey s pre-CMC days shows that this bright star of the oilhelds graduated from Taft High School and paused momentariK at Taft Jaycee before answering the drums of war. The Army claimed Fred s patriotism, and he gave his all for three years. After the war Fre returned to T.J.C. to work out his rehabilitation period before loming south to join his fellow education-mongers at Claremont. Del Hensley, noted campus debater and Model A pilot, is a product of near-by Upland, graduating from high school there in 1944, The Army caught him as he emerged, and he found himself in the Infantry by va of the Air Corps. A member of the 32nd Division, he was hospitalized in the Philippines, then later transferred to the Engineers, rounding out the service experience which terminated in August. 1946. Having now completed his course at C IC (plus a year at Chaffey). Del is looking over the job situation with an eye to the insurance business. Marty Hoag looked like a native Californian gone wrong after leaving the sunshine state for Idaho, where he graduated from high school and attended one year at the University, but after the war he returned to take up his present residence in Pomona. Joining the Anny in December. 1942, Martin served with a Tank Destroyer outht overseas (Europe) for a couple of years, before re- ceiving his discharge in December of 1943, Coming to CMC by way of Pomona J. C. and Mt. San Antonio. Martin has no commitments for the future as yet. but has been looking into the possibilities of merchandising. 21

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Another of those who have paved the way for the actual class of 49. Tom Hight made the big move last February. At present he is doing his bit in solving the problems of the world as advertising manager, parts specialist, salesman and trouble shooter for his father, who is distributor for Ford tractors in the Southwest. Tom ' s scholastic baikgrouiid is broiKl and varied, . ft-r gradu.- ting from Culver Military . cademy in Indiana, he went to Miami College (Ohio) as a ' -l2 student, then journeyed to Alma College in Michigan. September of 47 found Tom esconced in the dust bowl fh; ' t wps destined to become a college. where, in addition to his sihnlarly chores, he made his mark as a member of the ANALYST staff. Sinte his graduation in February he has stopped in frequently— on his way to the campus of our northern neighbors. Acknowledged bv eyervone (well, ahiiost everyone) to be an authoriU on the C.A.A.. Cliff Howard comes by his information honestly, having spent the past seven years of his life actively concerned in aviation. Cliff left his birlhnlace. . kron. Ohio, at the tender age of three in 1026 and has lived in California ever since. After graduating from .Mluimbra High School in IQ41. he attended Pasadena Junior College until the start of the war and his subsequent enlistnient in the Navy as nn Aviation Cadet. Word reached the German Hith Command that Cliil was due to join the Atlantic Fleet some time after receiving his wings, so that by the time he appeared on the scene submarine v ' f rf.ire had been abandoned. Discharged as a Lieutenant j.g. in 1046. Cliff started soon after, at CMC. and has been flying the Naval Reserve at Los . lamitos throughout his sta . A statement for the i)ubli( : The rumors that I have occasionalK buzzed Claremont are hereby denied. While planning to arry on in the aviation line. Cliff hones lo keen his feet on the ground most of the time since he is getting old. and sellling down come June — Yep. he s going to tie the knot. Norman Dreamboat Jacobsen can justly be called one of the joy-boys of Seattle High. Known for his tuneful tonsilling of uniciue songs and phrases. Norm has sparked many a df nce and party with his Bottle On the Wall a d Shanty In Old Shanty Town. Not one to hog the footlight. he blushingly gives due credit to wife. Kav. ' Dreamboat. as he was called in his tourtship davs, stepned onto the L ' niversilv of Washington ' s campus when he graduated from Seattle High School, but left the former for a hitch with the Navy Air Corr)s. being com- missioned an Ensign before discharge in 1945. Currently planning on a tour of duty at Graduate School, after graduation, he quietly confesses to having an insane desire to be a mfr ' Ie champ. A sf|uare-shooter he. orm loo ks hk e a goo d bet in either field. . s Roger Stewart puts it. Pete Maier is the baby of the Senior Class. Though he s only 20. he ' s managed to do quite a few things during his three years in college: he attended Carleton College (in the cold land of Minnesota) before coming to Claremont from Chicago last June: he maintained a 5.3 average (and actually received an A in Stat) : and he manages to write enough letters to keep the answers coming in at the rate of four a day. Any time you hear Hindemith ' s Mathis der Maler or some other enigmatic classical composition resounding through Green Hall, chances are that it ' s coming from Room 75. which Pete has been calling home for this last year. Pete ' s diversions consist mostly of doing things which others would consider as work rather than amusement: music, literature, and philosophy. His athletic exploits are confined to riding his bike around the campus, or marching around the Pomona Armory on Tuesday nights ( anything to keep from getting drafted! ' ), His plans for the future include moving to San Francisco with his parents, where he later intends to practice as a corporation attorney. But for the next three years he ' ll be studying law at Berkeley or Harvard universit . f