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

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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]

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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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' fi;-3:E..T. (ill;r (ElaaB of 2a OFFICERS C. Zimmerman n President F. Boelter ice-President H. Schaefer Treasurer R. Baldwin A. Dorr M. Drews T. Fruendt R. Goetsch H. Gruhn F. Hamann G. Herrmann H. Imelmann G. Jastrow E. Jehn [. fohnson CLASS ROLL C). Keiper O. Kienovv M. Krenz K. Kuehnert W. Laesch A. Lauterbach E. Lechner R. Lenz P. Ivindenmeyer E. Alenniclce J. Naumann R. Rinderknecht E. Schmidtke E. Schedler V. Schweder i L Schultz L. Spaeth L. Streufert F. Treichel E. ' olkmann J. Weiss AL Wentzel R. Wolff 149]