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

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FRED HAMANN Pekin, Ill. Staff tLit. EdJ, Class Secy., Sanhedtin, Movie Operator, Chief Librarian, Dir. Library Extension. Behold our distinguished and gifted literary editor. Does he really possess sueh outstanding talents in this art? Why, to be sure ! For at times he bursts forth in such volcanic eruptions of polysyllabic words that he can blow anyone off his pedestals. In addition, his style is a regular mine of striking expressions and as refreshing as soda- pop, so we donlt mind it much. But, oh!-When he lets himself loose in an oration, then beware ye Ciceros, and Websters. How the walls of our dear Concordia writhe and bulge when Haman's vocal organs become un- controllable! Now, that isnlt all. He is a philosopher as well as a critic. As he sits entrenched behind his library, you would think he was storing up enough dynamic knowledge to blow up the rest of the world. His reward shall be brickbats and boquets. HENRY IMELMANN Melrose Park, Ill. Staff tTreasJ, Class Treas., Prima Club Treas., Basketball Bus. Mgr., Athletic Board, Glee Club. This noble and elongated specimen was donated to our class by the sub- urb of Melrose Park. And what a don- ation! His cleverness is surprising, his mischievousness alarming, his laz- iness astounding. Stand in front of HHanklsH bedroom a few minutes be- fore breakfast. At exactly 6:28, two minutes before the dining-hall doors are closed, out jumps Ash with a towel around his head and a bar of soap in his hand, looking for all the world like a Turk. He leaps to the washroom with lightning rapidity and then makes a final kangaroo hop for the eats. Whenever he, the general tax-collector, enters a room, every in- mate makes a sudden grab for his purse and hangs on for dear life. He dearly loves to remind one of the dues that are forthcoming, licking his chops in covetous anticipation of gobbling down a pocketfull of our precious Shekels.

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RONALD GOETSCH Merrill, Wis. Staff tArt Eda, Germania, Mailman. Frecklesi' is a dyed-in-the-wool Plattdeutscher, coming from a barbar- ian country Where grizzly bears and big lions and other fuzzy things have taught him to be incessantly on his guard. And yet, in reading German literature one day, he failed for a mo- ment to keep a sharp lookout, for in- stead of 1'Hans Sachs war der frucht- barstel Dichter, he read Hans Sachs war der furchtbarste Dichter. . But it is unfair to hint at ignorance when speaking of a Concordian who has re- ceived such excellent grades as has 'tFreckles.H Besides, he knows more than anyone else at college in one re- spect: in delivering the daily mail he finds out how often certain parties get strangely colored envelopes from other certain parties. Since HFrecklesh also possesses ability to draw, he wasethe obvious candidate for the Art Editor- ship on the Staff. Perhaps the reason he can accomplish so much is that his Hroll-your-own cigarettes and corn- cob pipe serve to keep him at cucum- ber coolness. HAROLD GRUHN Milwaukeet Wis. Swift Trio. ,Therejs a bashful guys in .our -class who has an invisible infiuence over the class which it can't shake off. .It is impossible to describe it,' yet it is even. in the atmosphere when he is. around. No, it isn't Limburger cheese. Ah! Now we have it. Sniff. Sniff. GrnhnL why all the perfume? Association of thought leads us to believe he is a Prince Charming to . . . . ?? He is gw- ful shy about it, and, of course, he won't give us an explanation outside of the one that he has the habit so infused in his charafitere that it wonit wash out. He aIWays has his hands in his pockets, and grins at any inquis- itive person. But, say, when it comes to ambition-why, one day when it was forty below he walked all the way to the college just to see his breath blow out clouds of steam. He claims that he has lived in a climate so cold that every time he milked a cow he got ice . cream.

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ERNST 'JEHN' ' Chicago, 111. StudentiBoard of Dir.,jStatf tBus. Mng, Basketball, Tennis Coach, Glee Club, Octette, Invitation Committee. This class compatriot has the most delicious of nicknames. It will make your tongue float in water. ,Just say to yourself slowly and sweetly: HJiaunf' Yum! Yum! Heis the sweetestschap we ever met. Really, he is as sweet and good as his most popular name. But wow li-when Pfaff is guarding on the basketball iioor, or trying to study He- brew, he is the fiercest of fighters. Then it is the best policy to avoid him, especially if you only want to talk about this or that just to while away the time. We have almost forgotten to mention that he is a rare bird when it comes to singing. His lips can drip such honeyed dithyraans as to make a second golden-mouthed Caruso. Whole crowds listen to his warbling in sheer breathlessness. You bet your boots, the Class of '28 will always prize this valuable donation from the city of gangs and gunshot. Oh boy! and those blue eyes! 371 OSWALD KEIPER Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Student Board of Dir. tRec. Sech, Base- ball, Basketball, Glee Club, Octette tPresJ, Staff iSales Mng Kibby is noted for his many-sided- nessi Somehow he is connected with so many collections of eVery 'sort that in his churchly career he certainly ought to land a. hrst-claSS job as dea- con if he should not beecme ta minisi ter. On Fridays he collects for the an- nual, on Saturdays he collects Olym- pian laurels on the diamond or the Hoot, on Sundays he collects pennies at Sunday School, and on Monday mornings he has a silver collection of his wierdest thoughts so that he can furnish a line to dispel washday blueness. His racetrack round of activities causes him to be so wiry and Wiggly at times that a fellow actually expects to see him go up in smoke from the very vibration. In fact, he' got so hot one day that his classmates had to duck him u'ncere- moniously in Lake Michigan. Since then he seems to shiver a little at the sight of water.