Franklin and Marshall College - Oriflamme Yearbook (Lancaster, PA)

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History of ,97. T seems hardly possible that we have almost completed the fourth and last year of our college course. The years have passed rapidly, and we have now reached that, in some ways mythical, state of Senior dignity. We have not been per- fect. But we shall profit by our mistakes in the future. We think we have been worthy of our Alma Mater, and have done what we could to give her name prestige, both by Work and by hnancial aid. Altogether fifty individuals have tried life with us, and of these but thirty-one remain, and only twenty-two have been with us from the start. We now take up the thread where it was left off by our pre- decessors. The ,97 ORIFLAMME speaks for itself. It was a decided success both as a literary and as a business undertaking. Hower, who had been absent during the greater part of the Junior year, came back and finished the year with us, although the Fates wished him to fall back a year. We held a banquet at the end of the year. Our guest was Prof. Schiedt. We spent a very pleasant evening, everthing being informal. The professor gave two very fine toasts, one in English and one in German. CWe speak for the English onej. The toasts of Doc. Bertolet and Jimmy Sheetz were espe- cially noteworthy. Doc's subject was Pequea. He gave a complete ac- count of that famous trip of our class, not forgetting to tell how 22

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Name. Hamr A lflil'l'XS. Cullqmr Arirlrcu. HARRY HARBAUGH RUPP, . . .Lancaster, Pa. . . .602 W. james St. Gmtheang Class Secretary 1I5g Glec Club 1x53 Mandolin Club 125, 135, 1455 Col- lege Student 1355 Winner Sophomore Oratorical Contest: Director A. F. A. 145. JACOB EDGAR SCHEPITZ, . . . . . Killinger, Pa. . . .415 N. Charlotte St Goetheaug Class Vice-President 1253 Class Treasurer 1355 Mandolin Club 145. CHARLES PATTERSON STAHR, . . Lancaster, Pa. . . . 437 W. james St. Gvxtheang Librarian 125, 135, Class President 1153 Battalion-Corporal 125, Ser- geant 135, Captain 145. EDGAR NELSON TRANSIQAU, fl' K X, Williamsport, Pa., Phi Kappa Sig. House Gfntlieanq Hullabaloo 1153 Class Historian 1255 Weekly 135, 145, Editor-iw Chief '97 ORIIPLAMMIL. SCOTT RAYMOND WAGNER, . . . New Bloomfield, Pa., . 556 W. James St Gvctheang President 1453 Class Historian 1x55 Winner Putting Shot, ,94Q '97 ORIFLAMMEQ Winner Running High jump, '97. WII,I,IAM WINFRED WAI,TliR, . . Lebanon, Pa. . . Gcntheang Battalion-Corporal125, First Lieutenant Co.. B. HowARD DARE WHITE, . . . .Mi1lersvil1e, Pa. Diagnothiang '97 ORIFLAMMR. I HARRY BAKER YOHN, fl- K NP, . . Mountville, Pa. . Gcetheau. CLARENCE EDGAR ZIMMERMAN, Mt. Pleasant, Pa. . Goetheang College Student 135. 2I 503 W. Chestnut St. 14 5- Millersville, Pa. Mountville, Pa. 503 W. Chestnut St.

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prone the assistant professor was to go the way of the erring one when his superior was away. Jimmy spoke of the Juniors, and especially of their keeping the faculty roll at prayer. Someone suggested that Mr. Sheetz was two sheets in the wind. But this was only a rank pun on Mr- Sheetz's name, for no member of ,97 could get into such a condition on only two glasses of wine. T0 show that we had some class spirit remaining, we resolved to cut Monday of commencement week and requested our guest to inform the faculty of our action. This was tl1e only official cut our class ever made. We all returned at tl1e beginning of the Senior year except Gillan, who had come to us by decree of the Fates, tl1e pace of '-96 being too hot for himg but our pace was so 11111011 hotter that he left us after a trial of but one year. Each and every one chose l1is own program as far as he could, and set himself down to specialize. Four of us took Calculus, and were so successful in our struggles that we were passed wiik- out an examzbzalzkm ! Greece fared a little better, and Rome was comparatively well off. Geology was the only elective taken by all. Some took Chemistry, but the professor proved too great a reducing agent for some, who have now abandoned it. Much in- terest was manifested in Political Economy, as the Presidential election fell in our Senior year, and those who could vote wished to vote in the light of science, Q' scicufe agreed wilh Meir pre- eslablisked opimbns. Many are taking General Astronomy, and many are somewhat disappointed since it is not as general as they expected it to be. Isenberger kicks most. He says we have an observatory merely to look at, his idea of utility being killing time looking through the equatorial. The elective system has made us all feel the need of a reading room, open at all hours, so that we might spend our vacant hours profitably. Some of our number have resorted to match- penny as a means of whiling away vacant hours in the chapel. 23