Clarkson University - Clarksonian Yearbook (Potsdam, NY)

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ii iimiKii mu iiiiii:imiiimtia iMiiiiiiiiiii ninMiiumii HISTORY OR THE CLASS OF 1926. The Class of '26 met in a body, for the first time, in the Chapel during early September, 1922. Officers were chosen on that occasion. “Cy” Everett became President; Michael Sullivan, Vice President, and Charles Morgan and Aubrey Merrill, Secretary and Treasurer. • 7 During the next few days our activities were many and varied. First came the tank rush, in which the Sophs, w ere victorious. Then followed the cane rush and the tug of war; 26 won the former and lost the latter, inter- spersed between class rushes were the fraternity entertainments, keeping us away from books and studies, much against our wills, for the whole of the first week of school. Following these events, things quieted down to the regular; the only dis- turbing elements being Frosli work on the field and in the Gymn, and occa- sional rumors of Sophomores “out after the Frosli.M The Class football game was won by the Sophomores by a score of 6 to o and the referee. However, it was at basketball that we showed our real class The Frosli team of '22-2$ was the best class team in the school’s history, winning from the champion high school team of that year and other high school teams of this region by comfortable margins, as well as winning the class championship. Spring came at last, and with it the lessening of tension and the general feeling of freedom of Frosli worries. Ye were not bothered very much by our guardian class that year because “Rusty” Sanford and George Long were only permitted to sta in school on guarantee of peaceful behavior by the school in general. (Good old “Rusty” and George.) Sophomores! What time in the life of a college man can hope to rival his Sophomore year? Too early to worry about graduation, too early to worry about responsibility ! Xu Freshman work to do: no paddles or clippers hovering in the background. Everything to make college life worth living! With the confidence of our year’s experience, we turned back the en- tering class in the tank and cane rushes, but lost the tug of war, after a des- perate struggle. A two-hour battle lost ’26 the interclass football 9 to o, due chiefly to a touchdown presented to the Frosli as a courteous gesture by Mr. West Powers. The class redeemed itself in basketball under the management of Claude Duffy, whose moral support turned the tide in several close victories, by again winning the class championship. Later in the year came the class tight, as related in the Junior C'lass history, and with it the change in the student government. The excitement raised by this event carried us over moving-up day. The Class officers were: President, Skinner; Vice President, Chegwid- den; Secretary and Treasurer, Kent. Our Junior year was the least eventful of any of four spent here in school. The only occasion of note was the Junior Prom., characteristic of all such events, “a good time was enjoyed by all.” Music was furnished by Prince of Wales of Ottawa. Officers that year were: Claude Duffy. Presi- h cnt -ji7'c

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dent; Eugene Kent, Vice President; DeYere Washburn, Treasurer; Harry Goodnow, Secretary. In the fall of ’25 we gathered and elected Harry Goodnow, President, Julius Hand, Vice President; John Rodee, Treasurer; Charles Morgan, Secretary. Now we are Seniors; the prospect of going out into the world faces us, and it is with feelings of regret that we are leaving the old Alma Mater, to become our small part in school history. facnt y-SLi