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

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OFFICERS President, Harry Preston; Vice-President, Robert Scheimann; Secretary. Elaine Nicol; ‘Treasurer, Roland Barkow. Remembrance of Yoars Past We played Canasta, roared at football and basketball games, herded to weekend parties. We square-danced and wolfed doughnuts at the class shindig in the Canteen, and in October threw a Halloween Masquerade at Louis Lepper’s farm. The fellows sweated through practices with Coaches Gersmehl and Hanak; the girls cackled happily at all-night hen parties. Together we planned the Senior Banquet, and decided at the end of the evening it was the best affair of our four years at Concordia. We lived as teenagers should: exuberantly and without a thought or care for the morrow. Our pattern was repeated a thousand times across America. We trod also unfamiliar ground. We loved for the first time and recovered for the first time. We discovered the miracle in low meadowlands at evening; we reached out beyond ourselves and touched truth and immortality; we trumpeted at the moon and the stars — and all this for the first time. In our great folly, we believed that we would never die — and we thought ourselves the first to trust this bitter untruth. And because our innocence knew no bounds, we imagined always that no one had blazed the way or understood what we felt. Our high school years hold captive our youth, our awakening, and our ter- rible growth. The disillusionment and the now-gone naivete are written there. We cannot disentangle ourselves from these years nor forget them, anymore than we can change the shape of our heart and the accent of our speech. 9 4 Takin it easy ... The three dummies ... Let ’em sleep, Lu! . . . Tertia’s military mad-men ... Lhe black shirts! . . . Don’t let him get away, Tom!

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DONNA ADAM Gurgling, chattering, giggling, always exuding life and enthusi- asm, ever widening her circle of friends. G.A.A., Girls’ Cabinet, Girls’ Glee Club (Treas.), CONCOR- DIAN, Girls’ Rifle Team. RUTH AMT Down to earth, a practical ideal- ist, charm personified, enamoured of life. Latin Club, Sock and Buskin, Girls’ Glee Club, Pnyx, A Cap- pella, S.A.C. !KREDERICK BRAND A keen observer of human fol- lies, but never a critic, a soul un- blemished by contempt and malice, a lover of people. BETTY ADAMS Dignified and chic, Betty has that certain something known as class. G.A.A., Latin Club, Pnyx, So- cial Studies Club, Girls’ Glee Club. DOUGLAS ASHER Boxer par excellence, sincere and loyal friend, lover of life and living. Football, Wrestling, Boxing, In- tramural Basketball. EUGENE M. BRUECK Not exactly a fatalist and not exactly an optimist, he walks wise- ly the middle way and calmly ac- cepts every vicissitude of life. Bi-Phy-Chem, Rifle Team, First Sgt., Headquarters. DONALD AHLERSMEYER Don admirably combines Chris- tianity, urbanity, and bonhomie. Latin Club, Pnyx, Tumbling, Golf. CHARLES BAKER Supreme comedian, minor league Bob Hope, student and mimic of the human comedy. Rifle Team. VIRGINIA BUUCK Altogether lovely and gracious, sSower of laughter and kindness, dreamer who moves about without pomp and circumstance. G.A.A., Girls’ Glee Club, Leath- ercraft, Social Studies Club. a KENNETH ALLAN Self-sufficient, possessed of great calmness and inner strength, rich in friends. Inter-Dormitory Council, Intra- mural Basketball, Male Chorus, Ist Lieut. Co. A. ROLAND BARKOW Suave, smooth, completely at home in any gathering. Inter-Dorm Council, 2nd Lieut. Co. A., Senior Class Treas. RALPH CAREY A hep cat, an expert on sar- torial matters, a popular fellow. This page sponsored by: Georgie Porgie’s, 739 West Washington 9