Eureka College - Prism Yearbook (Eureka, IL)

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Ya... !4....., Clffa. . . . . . one of the things I can remember the best about my college days is the old guy who was the engineer and general handyman around Eureka. He was sort of like that old Sarge of ours when it came to overseeing a job that had to be done. I worked for him at the heating plant. Easy to get along with, that's Heinie. We always just called him Heinie. His right name was Henry Brubaker. He was the only one on campus who would walk right into the presi- dent's office smoking a cigar. Sometimes he did leave the cigar just outside the door on the radiator, though. I was still there at the time the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor, and I can remember the time that Heinie was going to put up a flag on the campus flagpole. Just a few days after Pearl Harbor, Heinie had orders to dig up a flag from the storeroom in Burgess. Out he came and was going to fly the flag. About that time somebody noticed that the flag contained only 46 stars in the blue field. It was one of a vintage before 1912. And did that old college truck take a bcatin' with old Heinie at the wheel! He always carried baggage and stuff from the bus sta- tion to the college for new students. Tuesday and Saturday nights you could always see the truck parked in front of a little store about a block from the pinochle with some Heinie has been is the oldest person campus. Heinie would be at the store playing of the boys. with the college for about twenty-five years and around there in the service of the college. if ir ir

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The concentrated accelerated plan kept us busy this year, from the early start on August 31 until the commencement on Easter Sunday, with only one real vacation at Christmas time and a short breather after Thanksgiving. Some of us kept at the classes for a fifth term, too, which was made notable by the rainiest month of May in years and years. For most of the men most of the time this year classes were mathematics, physics, navigation, or some other war subject. It was not an easy year for them. ...H- ' BURRUS DICKINSON President of the college since 193 a member of a family which has e 1 associated with the college since t wis founded. Our plans for courses were changed sev- eral times when faculty members left the campus. It started in November when the Army came in and took Mr. Wfilmington and Mr. Kipp. Then Miss Telleen and Miss Spence left us for matrimony, and Miss Mil- lington resigned to take a position with the Detroit headquarters of the Camp Fire Girls. In January John Berry and Lawrence Nor- ton left the campus on sabbatical leaves of absence to do graduate study and research, one at the University of Chicago and one at the University of Wisconsiii.