Elmhurst College - Elms Yearbook (Elmhurst, IL)

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Pants is a victim of co- .education. The poor guy is in love. However, be- tween dances, auto rides, and sundry other things (almost anything you can think of will do), he still managed to swat a mean drum in the band, manage the baseball team of ' 32, and help direct the destin- ies of this year ' s Elms. Scholastically, Pants is another of Doc Strong ' s demon economists. Besides being a first class statis- tician, he was also the final authority on any question concerning the economics of coal mining. Ring is so quiet and self- affacing that it ' s a wonder he gets along in a world where everybody else is shouting his lungs out about something or other. He makes noise enough in the band, and ever since his freshman year has been a mainstay in the first tenor section of the Glee Club. He is an un- ostentatious, but deadly man on the basketball floor, and distinguished himself in intramurals. Harry be- lieves in taking things as they come; nothing dis- turbs his good nature and calm. Sometime during his Junior year, he picked up a decidedly opprobious nickname, which we hope won ' t stick to him when he gets out of school. He has one claim to lasting fame; he can stay awake indefinitely during Biology lectures. If asked what he learned at college, Elver would probably say that it was how to fill his note-books with silly pictures, and how to high-jump not less than four feet or more than five. He is an ex- ample of what modesty and a God-fearing pan can do for a man. He has twice been on the Student Union, and he edited the notorious 1933 Elms. His latest effort at self-expres- sion is a sinister-looking black hat, worn on state occasions, which makes him look like a cross be- t w e e n Mahatma Gandhi and Gen. Hugh Johnson. He writes scintillating and shocking prose, sings like Tibbett, likes roast-beef, poetry, and nutty women, shuns publicity, has no- tions about reincarnation, snores, and is generally a great guy. Ellsworth Kneeland A.B. Economics Warsaw, Indiana Harry Ring A.B. Philosophy Holland, Indiana Elver Schroeder A.B. English Breese, Illinois

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I William Haude A.B. English Elmhurst, Illinois Karl Juergens A.B. English Cleveland, Ohio Martha Klein A.B. English Eitzen, Minnesota Haude ' s name will live long at Elmhurst. He was one of the biggest, finest, best, all-round promoters we have ever had. He can promote (and does) any- thing from extra helpings to vast financial schemes. Bill is really a Biology major, and a good one, and loaded himself with a lot of English courses this year. Between advancing fence- busting arguments on re- ligion and education, and cutting classes left and right, he has earned a great reputation as a rad- ical. Bill is a great fellow to have around, and the school will be decidedly less lively when he has left. His present enthusi- asm is the fitting out of a super-expedition to Alaska — or is it Mexico? All who want to get on board come running — line forms to the left. J i g g s became famous with his Slippery Elm, which enjoyed a huge suc- ces de scandale as a very thinly veiled expose of go- ings-on in the college fam- ily. He was born in Cin- cinnati, lives in Cleveland at the present moment; seems proud of it. During the last eight of his twen- ty-six years he has vari- ously been hobo, shipping clerk, bank runner, section hand, and college student. He is a connoisseur of ex- cellent vintages, goes to chapel once a week, is a rotten biologist, a good actor and is the idol of at least ten sophomores. He started at Elmhurst four years ago, has had a head- ache ever since. Now he ' s going to write a life of Hazlitt, to try and get rid of it. Martha is an English major. She admires Tenny- son, doesn ' t particularly care about Browning, likes German restaurants, and is said to blush violently whenever a certain Eden senior ' s name is mentioned, Marty is a good student; every time the honor roll came out, her name, like Abou-ben-Adhem ' s, led all the rest. A mainstay in Hille ' s Glee Club, a darn good Kathie in Alt Hei- delberg, and one of the Student Union. Marty has very capably filled a very large niche in campus life. Tiventy-sixth Page 4

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Senny enjoys the dis- tinction of being the last Academy student to linger in our midst. He came back to Elmhurst in 1932 after an absence of several years, and can tell great tales of the days when Boji Klein was a fresh- man — well, maybe not a freshman — and coeds on the campus were only a heavenly or harassing dream — take your pick of adjectives. Senny is a gen- ial, obliging fellow, with a tremendous faculty for ab- sorbing the razz — up to a certain point, when it sud- denly becomes painful to the razzer. Any time you desire entertainment, get Sennewald to talk about his adventures in the sea- ports of the world, or be- gin a discussion of the drama. Butch came up from Carlyle to study for the ministry, but changed his mind in midstream and de- cided on undertaking as a profession. He will be one of the few men in that field who doesn ' t look like what they are. With his pleasant pan beaming away at the obsequies, it will be a wonder everybody won ' t want to go off and die, for the sheer delight of it. Steinmann gave promise of being a track star, but found that he was too busy to indulge in his favorite sport. He has made a host of friends here in Elmhurst and will surely continue to do so. Trying to write one of these blurbs about Marian is no mean task. She is at once so much of the de- lightful and the demure young lass, that it ' s a posi- tive treat to know her. Her avowed squirreliness has made her one of the most popular young people on the campus, which is as it should be. Her chief in- terests are enjoying life, amusing people, and mess- ing about with amateur dramatics; in the latter field she has proved to be an excellent, if somewhat temperamental, actress, and a fiery director who always manages to bring out the mosta of the besta in her players. The campus will be a sadder and no wiser place after Marian has left it. Ask her sometime why she chose philosophy as a ma- jor if you have the nerve; we never did. Gerhard Sennewald A.B. History Cheektowago, New York Emil Steinmann A.B. Philosophy Carlyle, Illinois Marion Stringer A.B. Philosophy Elmhurst, Illinois