Eureka College - Prism Yearbook (Eureka, IL)

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THE FREIGHT Eureka College April 22, 1941 Dear Folks: As your Freshman son in college, l've made the usual expected mistakes. The main one being not writing you as regu- larly as I promised last September. However, I decided tonight l'd reverse form and write you a resume of past, present, and future happenings of yours truly and my green classmates. There were numerous all-school functions during football season, and the season was over before it had hardly seemed to begin. We may be green but my class had five letter- inen when the football awards were made- Big Stoop Arnold, Art Burton, Bob Waldren, lack Norris, and the team's high scorer, Ir. 'Iones. By then I was getting adjusted to what was expected of me. I had my work plan and study hours planned so that I had quite a bit of time to do as I pleased. I was taking piano lessons as I planned and there' sure are some swell musicians in my class, as I soon found out. Mariruth Humphrey, Mar- cella Meyers, Lorraine Armstrong, Georgine Traylor, and Virginia Tink- ham were the Ienny Linds of the Freshmen. Loyd Lovell and Carl Bowles have dandy voices and both are very active in school quartets. Violet Buick, Eleanore Griffith, Amelia Mancuso, and Alice Long are in my piano class, but they sure outclass me. ln speech, fforensics is the college wordl we had five outstanding debat- ers-Tom Tear, Don Littleiohn, Herb Kohler, Helent Hoffmann, and lim Wil- liams. They were all very good, and just the other day the announcement was made that Don, Tom, and Helen and Herb had been elected to Pi Kappa Delta. That's a National Forensic Hon- orary fraternity, so we're all proud of them. Basketball was soon going strong, and in this sport, too, we had some good players. The team was excep- tionally good and was soon dubbed the Fighting Five -in our class, Frank Kovack, lack Mooney, Ed Thommen, and lack Norris won letters, and Bob Cheesman and Bob Davis received praise for their efforts. My roommate was active in one-act plays, and he, along with Virginia Cain, Helen Smith, lohn Corcoran, Martha Willett, Paul Pearson, and Donald Pile, had leading parts. Several of these people were initiated into Alpha Epsilon Sigma, the local dramatic honorary fraternity here at Eureka College. Grades for two terms came out to- day, and mine weren't in the highest rank as you might know, but Floyd Arnold, Hex Lewis, Martha Willett, Bob Gard, Bob Iacobson, Don Littlejohn, Bob Rhoades, Art Burton, Harriet Hig- don, and Harold Towles received praise for their scholastic ability. Looking at the Peg fcollege paperl I see several Freshmenare on the staff: sports writer, Floyd Arnold: photog- rapher, Virgil Hanks, and columnists, Hoffmann, Armstrong, Huffman, and Fogle. It's been raining as I write this to you, but l guess that's a sign spring is really here. The fellows are out for baseball, but my girl keeps me busy going on Kegs tl'll explain this to you when I'm home? so, I guess I won't try out for the team. However, Ed. Thom- men, George Waggoner, Bob Davis, andi lack Norris are. My girl, PefJQY Worf and I are going uptown for a coke so I'll close now and mail this to you. It won't be long now until school is out and I'll be seeing you. Your loving son, lohn P.S. Our class hasn't elected class officers yet, but I'll let you know the results when we do. 123-

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