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

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EMIL LECHNER Chicago, Ill. Truck Driver. liLefty, our deadliest enemy to lu- gubriousness'. Just let a few clouds of blue begin to gatherand flLefty is boundito shoo them off with his cheery optimism. He takes a keen delight in all the monkeyshines of his classmates, especially when they get a. moony streak. This generally happens in the clubroom where Mr. Lechner loves to hang out. Each prank or piece of wit elicits a loud guffaw from his oracular orifice. He is deeply embittered against anyone who calls his home town a city of shot and shell, for he declares up and down that he has lived there for almost two decades without a scratch. In the classroom he can take the most scathing cloudburst of criticism with- out batting an eye, even when a multi- lated German composition fairly bleeds with red ink. But Lefty'l thinks his compositions have a rosy outlook, de- spite all criticism. That's true to his nature, all right. I401 PAUL LINDENMEYER Aurora, Ill. Braves, Courier tMailing StafD. The class has received whole truck- loads of letters this year congratulat- ing it on account of its most distin- guished member, 'iLindy. It was al- most a nerve-wrecking task to answer all those eulogistic missives telling the senders of their mistake. In fact, the steady stream of letters has not ceased, so We, the Class of 28, hereby wish to make the announcement. that the said ilLindy is not the eminent birdman, but just a struggling young student. Furthermore, we hope that this formal notice will stop the tiood of pink and perfumed paper which threatens to smother the poor fellow. In our stren- uous eiTorts to avert all future mis- takes of this nature and the possible shortage of stationery, we have also changed his name to 'lCrusty. He claims that at times he is almost swamped by his class work and by his massive stacks of daily mail. We are all beginning to admire his endurance.

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MARVIN KREN Z W-ausau, Wis. Germania. , . Plinku-p1ink--plunkety-p1unk. The Wunder Dormitory is rocking and reel- ing, windows are rattling, and walls are cracking. Don't be afraid, folks, for all that commotion is. merely the effect of Krenz's punishing his typewriter. Our d e at friend Muvlnl' is still. a staunch unholder of the world-famed hunt-and-peck system and uses it with quite some skill at that. Besides be- ing expert at hammering typewriter keys this representative of Wausau is also a marvel atasleeping, No matter under what conditions, he is suscept- ible to Rip Van Winkle's contagious malady. As all great men, so Krenz too has had his epochal day. It came last fall when, awakening from a sweet sleep, he found himself in the class- room and the professor asking him to proceed. Then 10! when he began reading he had the correct place tfor oncey His knowledge of history is so immense that inside five minutes he can work out one's ancestry to Laugal- zaggisi. WILLIAM LAESCH Milwaukee, Wis. Baseball, Glee Club. . Permit us to introduce everybody to our 'fBill. Once upon a time there was a little boy, and his name was William. Now, this little boy went to school, but when this little boy became a big boy,ihe wanted to go to college.-That is the story of our bouyant classmate. There was a time in the history of our class when P-hillipl' was a regular Buster Brown. He must be using some kind of reducer, for his girth has shrunken beautifully. Maybe he has lost so much of his former self by working too hard over week-ends at Sears, Sawbuck 85 Co. He takes a mean delight in arousing-the ire of cer- tain disgruntled 'classmates in those moments when they are highly peevish. At times he has: been so unmercifully rewarded for his efforts in this direc- tion that we were almost afraid he would be battered out of all recogni- tion. That was one reason why we had this picture taken early in the year.

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ERNST MENNICKE Tay10r Ridge, 111. Sanhedrin, Germania. i Rub your eyes! A war? No, just a smokescreen cleverly laid by uTail- lefer to prevent being disturbed in his reading. He hears us, lays aside his Illinois corn-cob, and the air soon clears. Now we first see the second outpost of Deutsch of our class. Na- turally he is an incurable addict to sau- erkraut and to everything that smacks of German. Besides showing us how a Primaner should gesticulate with vim and vigor, he occasionally makes an at- tempt at joking. HTaillefer never laughs, not because he isn't often in that mood, but because his laughing consists in a loud'chuckling. In a more serious vein, we note Ernst to be a quite, persevering young man, not mathematically inclined.-Success to you, 01' topper! Don't go slipping on too many banana peels that may be in your.way, ,cause you know yourself it's a bad thing to have your feet where your head ought to be. WILLIAM RIEGELMANN Racine, Wi's. Braves, Glee Club, Ocetette. Biif! Bam! Zipp! Ouch! Flocks of students scurrying down the corridor to room 38. Everybody is stretching his neck, standing on tiptoes, gawking with bulging blinkers. Biff! Barn! Zam! What is the matter? Don't worry; it is only Billi, our coming Gene Tunney, who inhis pugilistic mood is hammere ing the walls and pomrneling the chairs with his sledge-hamrner lists, or per- haps he is only boxing with his sha- dow. After an hour of such belliger- ent effervescence HBiyll 'sprawls down into his chair, a champion triumphant. In this slouchy, outlandish position, he leers at one from under a shaggy mop of disheveled hair in such a thuggish manner that one feels like quietly leav- ing him alone to ponder over his war- riorhood. Just the same, come and shake hands with a real, big-hearted, boyish chap. And say! When he comes yodeling down the hall ' you would think he was a rare Edelweiss from the snowy Alpine heights. Any- how, he is a precious part of the class.