Concordia College - Spire / Concordian Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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THEY'RE FIRST-CLASS MEN IDOUCJAS L FRITZ I Fort XY'avric', lncliana Sock .mtl liuskin A ffippella fihoir Mariiiin and Yfliite liaxltetlwall, Varsity Terinis, Varsity Battalion ilainr is vw' HAROLD li, l lLlNLlilN Saginaw, Michigan Michigan Lutheran Seminary Student Council Orchestra Basketball. Varsity Gymnastic Team Sgt Chief Musician, Band Kuch As honest as his home town is smoky, the very essence of sincerity and candor . , . since he has his own rules of argumentation, he is invincible and inconvinciblc A... interesting and introspective, bathtub Beethoven, shower Schubert . . , most often called upon in Greek class . . . Behind the frown of argument there hides .1 smiling face, Mase Maassel of many devices . . . silent and steady, steadfast and strong . . . the only one in the class to keep his goal firm in his sight, unswayed by change or chance . . . his basso profundo dominates the choir, his orthodox organinfg leads the broadcast and devotions . . . Shylock for this volume . . . his credit or his fault that it appears . . . he'll be a shining success if systematic and methodical planning is any criterion ,,.' 'l press towards the mark. ffl-Nf'flRDlANl, Associate ina Diplnrnatic Corps N Doug The li'l major . . . clapper Dan of Prima . . . his fair golden tresses are never out of place, even when playing his usual stellar gaine- on the basketball court . . . first to lctter in the class, he makes a tennis ball sing as wc-ll as he does himself A... an agreeable chap, he assents with a laugh, disagrees with a smilc A... a great party man, he enjoys his-r their 'fun . . . ls everybody Happy? Heine The noise from Saginaw Valley '... with us only two years, but yOu'd never tell it . . . scholastic, scientific, screwy '... a glass of Bock, a pack of Friends, and thee beside me anywhere' '... but where? but whom? . . . Arnie's cous, he always was . . . whats buz- zin', cousin?fNuzzin . . , pring-reed artist in band and orchestra . . . Siamese twin to jary . . . He nothing common did or mean on that memorable scene. JAN KUCERA St Louis, Missouri CONFURDIAN, Adiertisirig Manager Mission Sticiety Slovak Society lsr Lieutenant, Co, B PAUL F. NIAAQSEL Napoleon, Ohio CUNFORIDIAN, Business Manager A Cappella Choir Mission Society Student Organist Lit-utenant, Co. A This Page Sponsored by LITTLE ELF FOOD PRODUCTS

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TO THE STARS THROUGH OBSTACLES Wes Prima's handsome Adonis . . . popular, big-hearted, and courteous . . . Wes has been a jew in Habel's Haberdashery for three years . . . also seen a plying at Patt's on Sats . . . no riifler with a rige, he's won many a decoration, cloth and metal, on Concordia's ride team . . . constant conversation his weakness, unbulliev- able bull sessions his strength. Schrub The Red Knight from Kendallville . . . '42's representative in Concordia's athletic Hall of Fame . . . auburn-haired center on the Maf roon quintet . . . a man of latent talent . . . I had a conflict with a free hour . . . tall, broad- shoulderecl and smiling . . . hail fellow, well met . . . out for the fun in life, and he's getting enough of it . . . a serious sidewbelieves that reading maketh a full man . . . a gentleman and a farmer, in fact, a gentleman farmer at heart . . . easy to approach, a friend indeed . . . Smile, and the world smiles with you. THOMAS DANIEL Detroit, Michigan WESLEY A. BARTELS St. Louis, Missouri Sock and Buskin Mission Society Rifle Team. Captain Captain. Co, C ELSWORTH D. BUSCH Kendallville. Indiana Kendallville High School Mission Society Basketball, Varsity Lieutenant, Co. C Tom Tall, dark, and handsome . . . long in his Sock and Buskin Forum A Cappella Choir Maroon and White Slovak Society Basketball, Varsity lst Lieutenant Drum Major VUILLIAM I. FACKLER Detroit, Michigan Sleuth Committee Executive Committee iock and Buskin tr or m A Clappella Choir Business Manager Mission Society Student Otganist Prima Diplomatic Corps Lieutenant, Co. A Maroon and White, Ass't. shots while playing on the hardwood, loud in his laughter while watching a movie, loud in his clothes while still remaining a fashion-plate . . . Greek and Bob Hope are his Nemeses . . . quick to sulk, but quick to smile, Torn has endeared himself to his classmates . . . skeptical and ethical. Bill Sweet Wfilliam . . . simply bugs about Buicks . . . just the right combination of com- mon sense and nonsense . . . as handsome as a new boot, as friendly as an old slipper . . . the sort of person you want around to temper you in exuberance, to console you in melancholy . . . Crull Hall house-dick . . . A friend who loveth at all times, a brother born to adversity. This Page Sponsored by COLLEGE SOPHOMORES

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THESE, MINORS DISTRIBUTED THEIR MAIOR, BUT EDWARD H. MEYER Detroit, Michigan A CONCORDIAN, Circulation Glous Da beeg boy . . . sit back and watch the world go by with Ed . . . his pudgy fingers Manager on his pudgy trunk, a contented smile on his Executive Committee Sleuth Committee Student Council Sock and Buskin Maroon and White, Circula- tion Manager lst Lieutenant, Co. A pudgy face, marred only by a pipe, and sleep . . . the biggest part of his big self is his heart . . . limburger cheese and onions . . . Moon River . . . Let me live in a house with a bed and an ice-box, and be a friend to man. Pedo The gentleman from the South . . . Bruno, RICHARD MEYER Cullman. Alabama Vice- resident, Student Body Presidlent, Student Council Sock and Buskin Forum, President A Cappella Choir Orchestra. Vice-president Maroon and White, Sports Editor Mission Society Intramural Manager Basketball, Varsity Prima Diplomatic Corps Captain, Band Jury Who's that little chatterbox with the always unkempt locks? . . . the little boy with the big voice . . . impulsive, impetuous, im- perious, usually just an imp . . . genially genteel . . . talks like a wit, acts like half a one . . . a note of melancholy somewhere, seldom sounded . . . his tongue bites and stings, with sour- caustic insinuendo . . . our vociferous lumen, particularly in thought class . . . If his be madness, yet is there method in it. lack Primus omnium . . . big-shot in Coetus, chief mender of socks and buskins of the bunk's budding Bernhardts . . . head lion tamer, inter- locutor, and mediator in Prima-Secunda meet- ings . . . keeper of archives, he would be a history prof . . . dynamic doctor of dogmatic deduction, a destructive debater, especially on refutation . . . there'll be a meeting of the two lower classes . . . we'll be proud for . . . we knew him well, a fellow of innnite jest, of most excellent fancy. Bino, Southboy are also his aliases . . , my band . . . blond trombonist in the best band in Hoosierland . . . popular speaker . . . a tongue of silver, a heart of gold, a character of platinum . . . ex-prex of the Forum . . . a good sport and a clean player . . . a battler in basket- ball, a toughie in tennis . . . Who wants to play ping-pong? . . . counselor of the Student Council . . . everybody's friend, but nobody's fool . . . we'l1 all be able to say . . . He was my friend, faithful and just to me. JAROSLAV J. PELIKAN F Chicago, Illinois m OYU Mission Society Maroon and White, Associate Editor High School Debate Team, Student Coach Slovak Society, Vice-president Battalion Adjutant JACK H. RUFF Detroit, Michigan President. Student Body Sleuth Committee, Chairman Executive Committee Sock and Buskin, President and Archiver Forum Marolon and White, Feature Editor Prima Diplomatic Corps Captain, Co. D This Page Sponsored by CRON STUDIO. 132 E. Washington