Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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WILLIAM ESSER ( Bill ) Happy am I : from care I ' m free. Why aren ' t they all contented like me? ' ' — L aB a ad e re . Eootball ' 16, ' 17 tette ' 17. Baseball ' 17: Oc- EWALD STOMMEL Fezv men are so clever as to knozv all the mischief they do. — Rochefoucauld. Halcyon Tennis ' 17; President of Cyclobatai.

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TBhe PETER CAXTEEX ( Pete ) Il ' itli loads of learned luiiiber m his head. — Pope. Vice-President of Class ; Treasurer of Schiller Literary ' 16; President Schiller Literary 17; Student Repr. Y. M. C. A. 17; Urganization Editor Elms; Or- pheus Glee Club ' 16; President Halcyon Tennis 17; Basketball 13, ' 14, 15. T6. Capt. 17 ; Elmhurst Editor of Keryx 17 : Physical Instructor 16, ' 17. ALBERT KOELLING ( Al ) There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. — Ciecro. Class Secretary ; Y. M. C. A. Treas- urer 17; Orpheus Glee Club ' 17; Band 15, ' 16; Olympian Tennis 16, Alpha ' 17; President of Sunday School Class. WILLIAM MOENKHAUS ( MOENKV ) Each one sees -Tchaf he carries in his h cart. — Goethe. Football ' 15, ' 16, ' 17; Basketball ' 16. ' 17; Track ' 16. ' 17; Baseball 16, 17. RALPH SCHMIDT ( Abner ) Then he will talk — good gods, how he will talk. — Lee. Class Historian ; Master of Athletic Property ' 16; Schiller Librarian ' 14; Football ' 15, ' 16; Basketball ' 16, ' 17; Baseball ' 16, Manaoer ' 17. Page T-zirnty-four

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g fmnr (ClaaH SftHtorg ' ENIORS! The word sounds good, but it is really very hard for us to realize that we are just that. However, we have successfully passed through the Freshman, the Sophomore, Middler and the Junior years, and now, as Seniors, will soon pass through Elmhurst ' s portals for the last time. The fourth of September, 1912, is an important date in the history of Elm- hurst College, — we, the Class of 1917, entered there on that day. And we were a hardy bunch, too; so it didn ' t take us a long time to adjust ourselves to the privations, the i)leasures, the queer things, and all the other things, that go to make up that compound of paradoxes which we call college life. After this short period of adjusting, things went smoothly enough throughout the first year, barring, of course, the thousand and one minor indignities which Freshmen invariably suffer. ( )ur Sophomore year passed equally pleasant. Several of the last 3 ' ear s fellows had not returned, but the entrance of seventeen new students into our class kept its enrollment at thirty-five. During 1914-15 we were Middlers. At the l eginning of the year we num- bered thirt ' -eight ( two of the old members had not returned and five new stu- dents joined us). At the first opportunity we organized and selected out of our number the following as officers : President, Prell ; ' ice-President, Canteen ; Secretary Koelling : Treasurer, Kaney, and Historian, Schmidt. Also, we had the good judgment to choose maroon and green as class colors. Some time later we purchased sweaters and pennants. With the leaving of some and the entrance of others into our class, during this and the next, the Junior year, our number had, by June, 1916, melted to thirty-three. In September, 1917, however, another joined us, so that we again liad thirt -four in the class, and we have kept that number up to the present time. We have, throughout all the five years of our stay here, shown a most lively interest in athletics. As Freshmen and Sophomores we scrambled and tumbled about the field with the rest of the scrubs, getting the tricks of soccer, and l:)umped our heads against the iron posts in the old gymnasium learning to play basketball. We had a good baseball team at the start. As Juniors we captured the basket])all pennant and stood second in each of the other two. This year, as Seniors, we have already won the cliampionships in soccer and basketball, and have prospects of getting baseball also. Eight out of the eleven men of the soccer Pagr Tii-enly-six