Concordia College - White and Blue Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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■ AM V ■;B...t.ue;: • (Hhp (Elasa of ' 27 To the dear casual reader, who favors us with a sincere inquir - as to the trials and traits of a Senior in the High School division of our Milwaukee Concordia, we gladlv offer the following — all we know about these quaint people, called ourselves. To dazzle by keen flashes of wit, to stun by potent strokes of oratory or to captivate the minds of men by intellectual grandeur, this ability we disclaim. We wish only to render our best services to the world as plain men, and we believe that such plain endeavors will be more useful than the sickly sentiments of misanthropic genuis or the unread masterpieces of too lofty minds. As plain but congenial students then we are glad to be known, and as such we act. At this stage of our college course we feel that this, our Senior year of the High School division is a very important period in the life of a student. From a posi- tion of obedience he changes to one commanding authority. Almost always this change affects in him a deeper sense of responsibility, a warmer sympathy with hi } fellow students. It is refreshing to see what close friendships he forms with the freshies and how affectionately he plays with them — and the freshies don ' t mind it at all ! Thus, you see, we are in the words of Macaulay ordinarily MEN — we thought we heard some one laugh there — in our ordinary business — even though we would shed no tears perhaps, at the burial of the dead language — and in our ordinary pleasures. But since sometimes even ordinary people like to boast, and we just denied being better than such, we shall have to support our claim to plainness by boasting with a few striking features of ourselves: Many members of our class had the fortune to organize and conduct a literary society of remarkable merit and aspirations. Further- more, if we show no brilliancy in language-study, we have nevertheless, obtained a good working knowledge of science. et our most interesting trait of character is, that we are too modest to discuss it, and our true greatness lies in the fact, that we are not mentioning it. Of course, the indulgent reader will understand that by this we are only trying to prove our likeness to a plain person — even in boasting. But since we promised above not to mention our true greatness, we shall, to justify this remark, now have to relapse into a dignified silence. |46|

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-(-11! . A M V (Hl r (ElaBfi of ' ZB OFFICERS T. Brust President E. Pflug J ice-President C. Schuknecht Treasurer A. Allmann W. Bachert H. Behrens E. Beversdorf N. Borchardt A. Born A. Bubeck T. Erck E. Freiburger G. Gehrs CLASS ROLL A. Gesswein B. Hahn W. Hilleman F. Hischke T. Kunz J. Kuriiif R. Langbecker A. Liefer C. Mennicke M. Nickel M. Peters C. Pickelmann H. Rosenberg l. Steege W. Teyler C. Thalacker W. Thayer A. Wagner J. Wendland G. Windisch E. Zapf [45]

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i :f-s;.B ' rs- ■ B:L.ye,. laa 1 cm OFFICERS H. Berlin President F. Ilten J ice-President R. Krumm Treasurer T. Bartell J. Baumgaertner W. Beer E. Behm C. Benning A. Berg H. Berger E. Bickel W. Chellew M. Elz E. Frese W. Gehrs CLASS ROLL L Grimm E. Grotelueschen C. Gutekunst M. Haerther M. Hasz O. Janke C Kemnitz D. Kramer L. Loschky R. Miller E. Nye C. Oesch H. Pautz G. Perlich E. Pittelkow W. Riegelmann G. Schaefer W. Schlie W. Schroth J. Schultz E. Semmann L Sengele E. Smith H. Wians [47]