George Washington University - Cherry Tree Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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G. W. U. The 1911 Cherry Tree G. W. U. College Seniors 4 Irvinc Paul Taylor District of Columbia Otherwise known as Kink,” the idol of Cen- tral High. He has been a silent partner of our college life since 1907 Hut if you think he is silent any where else just go up to Central and listen to one of his soul-stirring harangues. He goes to Union Theological Seminary next year and our good wishes go with him. Clarendon Haysmer Thompson Michigan After graduating from High School he won fame as a star twirler and debater. He entered Washington Seminar) ' where he was President of the Young Men ' s Debating Society. Here he shines as a member of the Apollo String Quartet. E. Marguerite Weller. .. . District of Columbia II B I . President of the Y. Y. C. A.. 1910 and 1911 Miss Weller is graduating in three years, thereby breaking her rule of never being on time, and thoroughly disproving the law that large bodies move slowly.” She takes with her the love and admiration of her fellow stu- dents because of her unfailing sympathy and friendship for all who come in contact with her. 23 -

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G. W. U. The 1911 Cherry Tree G. W. U. College Seniors Kenneth Fuller Maxcy. . District of Columbia (.) A X. Class President, 1907-8. 1008-9. iqio.-ii We honor Mr. Maxcy from force of habit. For three years he had administered our class organization. Observe the class as a result of this executive ability and you must confess his claim to greatness is established. Helen Sellman Nicholson . District of Columbia II B l . Kendall Scholarship; ( ' lass Editor, 1910-11 “She was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.” We could not pass by the baby of our class without paying her a tribute in the words of Shakespeare, for if she excelled in any one class it was Shakespeare. James Pierson Smith North Carolina Here is another of our adopted sons from the University of North Carolina and the Dialectic Literary Society, li e doesn’t talk much, and hence has a reputation for prodigious learning. Laura Winfield Steevek Maryland Miss Steever has managed to lind time to earn a heavy college course and support the Forest Service at the same time and still retain her good humor Her favorite pastime is chem- istry. and she is a member of the (•. W. U. Chemical Society. HELEN Summy District of Columbia X i . Class Vice-President 1907-8. 1908-9, 1910-11 Class Secretary. 1909-10 Secretary Y. W. C. . 1907-9 Sorority Editor The 1911 Cherry I rek It i needless to say after such a list of honors that Miss Summy in one of the most popular and active students of the class in all college interests. 22

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HE Class of 1911 is unique in that it is the first one to graduate from the New , George Washington University. Bare Many of the graduates of this class can harken back to the days when they plodded to the old Van Ness Park for the engineering laboratory work, and it must be con- fessed that some of the candidates can remember further. It was with retrospective thought that we watched the demolition of the old university building on Fifteenth street, where so many companions in learning have become imbued with knowledge. Knowledge has been “rubbed into some of us, while others have “absorbed. ’’ for the class of 1911 contains some few who have spent the best portion of their lives trying to graduate, others have made records in speed. I he “Oldest Inhabitants of this class have seen professors grow gray in the service, but it must be said that the love of the university was the only in- centive to so many years of study for a few of us, we just found that there was no “royal road to knowledge. I he Engineer C lass of 1911 was formed hurriedly, for the Freshman dance was to be held in a few nights, and our class dancer had to attend to uphold the social standing of the Seniors. Not that there was only one “fusser among us. far from it, but the class contained on ly one devotee of the terpsichorean art. 1 here were offices for everybody except one, and at the earnest solicitation of Jenks, he was allowed to remain the “high private in the rear ranks of this South American Army. “Are you really going to graduate this year; you don’t mean to say that they are go- ing to let you through this year, I thought you had five more years, were some of the salu- tations with which the night studes greeted each other. There was never a happier bunch collected than the 1911 Engineers, not that they were to leave the university, but because of the fact that they were about to reach the goal of a race started many years belore. Having avoided or overcome the snares and pitfalls which have been placed in our paths by the faculty, we leave the University feeling that we have completed a h ard task, and are fitted to accomplish greater things. We will always hold dear our Alma Mater, “George Washington University. 24 —