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

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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.

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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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EDMUND SCHEDLER Fall Creek, Wis. Staff tPhot. Edm Glee Club, Truck Driver. Puff! A flash. . . .fumes. . . .coughing . . . .choking. An explosion? No. Mr. Schedler, the classlphotographer, has just executed some of his poor, help- less victims. He puts in some more films and leisurely strolls along to shoot some more poor birds, who just happen to be hanging around. We don't want to give anyone the impression that he is a marble-hearted, merciless fiend, but he certainly doesn't care who suffers from the gaseous vapors he diffuses into the atmosphere after he attacks someone with that deadly, one- eyed black box of his. After all, he can make excellent pictures, but this photographic display rather gives one the idea that he is in love, than that he is such an enthusiast of snapping pictures of college yokefellows. By the way, his own map doesnt look so bad, does it now? l421 WILLIAM SCHWEDER Laporte, Ind. Glee Club Octette. Here is another sheik of the class. When it comes to facial beauty, sweet smiles, and winning ways, our llSwede takes the prize. In fact, he takes a pic- ture with such smooth and attractive lines that his above map was placed on display in the window of Swansonls Studio for several weeks. He vehe- mently declares he is immune to all the arrows of Cupid. This blond boy is also a heavy smoker. Day by day in every way he trys to think up a hard- luck story that will enable him to sponge a cigarette. But to get down to brass tacks, HSwedeH is noted for his musical ability. ,If you hear some sweet melody floating on the night air, investigation will reveal our petite t'Swede pommeling a poor, long-sutf- ering piano in the attempt to repro- duce Home Sweet Home. Really, when he inflicts punishment on his punching-bag he is liable to show more consideration for the bouncing leather than he does for the stubborn ivory.