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

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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]

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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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rS|. S ■■■■.■ AMP ®l|? OIkaa of ' ZB The fortune he had made on the Spanish Main might have satisfied even an exceptionally greedy pirate, hut Blackheard ' s lust for gold was unappeasable. He had usually dealt quite fairly with his buccaneers, for they might have hanged him had they suspected treachery. Now he would hazard all to gain the entire wealth of plundered Charleston ! Accordingly, he cudgeled his brains until he hit upon a scheme, which he confided to Hands. Brief was the command whispered to the accomplice, but its very brevity gave it import, — old gold and maroon. Shortly afterwards the fleet set sail, with Blackheard ' s schooner in the lead. But the cruise was interrupted, for the flagship ran aground at Topsail Inlet, and the consort in command of Hands followed. The treasure was taken aboard the only re- maining vessel, and all but forty men were left to perish on the bar. Blackbeard next marooned twenty more of the freebooters. He then divided the gold among the surviving score, undoubtedly nocketing the lion ' s share himself. That old gold and maroon were his words is pure assumption. There never- theless remains tht truth that the thirty-eight students of Concordia who are striving to carry out the p lan old gold and maroon, that is, who are laboring to graduate with the class of ' 28, are driven by practically as mad determination as was the pirate captain whose will more than a hundred men with dirk in teeth and two brace of pistols at side could not resist. But the methods they employed in attaining their end differ as much from those used by Blackbeard as their resoluteness corresponds to his. Howard Pyle, an authority on pirates, attributes to those bold seamen a strength that is astounding. Nevertheless, the class of ' 28 will cross elongated wooden marlin- spikes with any corsair nine which happens along. Nor will they show less courage if it comes to a contest in shooting, for they deliver the ball as skillfully as did the best gunman who served under the black and white. [48]