Gettysburg Academy - Osoga Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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Gettysburg Pa owned and managed by no other than our friend Allen M Kershner who had generously UD offered his hotel as an assembling place for the reunion The purpose of this meet ing was not to kindle anew the fires of friendship but to see what we could possibly do to build up again the badly crippled Academy How satisfying it lb to belong to a class whose mem bers as a whole have kept through 'ill these long years the old spirit and have faithfully upheld the motto of the class of 22 After bidding farewell to our wives and ch ldren we took pas sage on one of the swift Buenos Aires New York dirlglbles leav ing Mexico City at 7 A M the next stop being New Orleans at 11 we decided to v1ew the scenery in the llght of the dazzling tropical sun Altho we were accustomed to viewing from the air all sorts of beautiful scenes such as the sunllt glaclers of the Alps O1 the water falls of Belgaln Congo this particular one ex cited our admlration far beyond expectation Coming around to the rear platform our attention was attracted by a very short individual who tho heavily clad in an electrlcally heated aviation was our surprise and pleasure to find that the short fellow was Mr William Leavitt himself who having also received the sum mons had not stopped at anything in order to attend the meet mg and had therefore taken the first d1r1g1ble of the New York Buenos Aires Aerial Lines Co for which company he worked as general manager of its interests in South America For all the ensuing hours of the day we three were together at first talking about our experiences travels and adventures and then as the obiect of our trip was recalled to our minds bv the growing certainty that every second was shortenmg the distance betvs een us and our destination we began to meditate ln silent contemplation The hour was propltlous and so we decided to retire to our sleeplng compartments 1n pursuit of meditation s friend silence Farther into the night we were awakened by a sinking sen sation which we thought must be the stop at New Orleans This thought was confirmed when we heard voices of people getting on and off Above the rest of them a very harsh voice was heard Wlth llttle or no difficulty we were able to recognize the voice as that of another of the old gang Henry P Smith The temptation was too great not to get up to shake hands with him Pg 51 7 '7 ' . . , . . vo n .A . ' I 1 4 C an ' . . 4: 1 K I L , ' ' ' at 77 A C x 1 . . . i - - v . 4 4 . . . ., ' L. C I 1 ' ki, S I . nw V 1 - 1 1 , ' - 7 suit, seemed familiar to our sight. As we approached him, great 0 y - , - y -- 'Y ' l 7 L 7 7 1 ' Q. 7 . . . . . 7 ' v . . . . . . , , - , . ' 9 . , . . fl 6

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Class Prophesy There beyond that sometlmes unsurmountable mountam of obstacles across that often perllous current of 1uven1le passlons 1n that lmpregnable fortress bullt up by success the frult of ambltlon study and work we CHon Rlchard Kloss now a tactful and most worthy representatlve of the U S government 1n MEXICO Clty and Sr A E de los Monteros a promlnent ex porter and lmporterj have often fancled ln our remlnlscences of the past of the rest of the class of 22 One balmy evenlng on the 20th of May 1942 haung finlshed a late afternoon game of golf we were s1tt1ng 1n the dravylng room of the Internatlonal Country Club on the outsklrts of the C1tX Creat vsas our consternatlon and dlsmay upon readlng Ill our forwarded copy of the Gettysburglan that recently the Maln Bulldlng at the old Academy has been accidently set on fire by the yely young son of Kenneth Barclay the C0l'l9t1'UCt1011 englneel 1n the Hanley Paxge Aeroplane Plant at Smnamahon 1ng of hlS bed by means of the shocklng machlne of h1S own 1n ventlon when the WIFQQ becommg crossed 1n the closet ln some wav or other set fire to h1s clothes and thus started the whole bulldmg up IH the smoke Evervthlng was lost but the llves of the students vyhlch were fortunatelv saved by the lngenultv and actlx eness of Rey Raymond Agnew the actual head master of the Academy and also of Ry le Martz professor of maths 1n the same Academy both occupylng these honorable posltlons slnce Doctor Huber and Prof Leathers were appolnted presldent and professor of hlgher Maths respectlvely 1n old Penna College As we flmshed readlng these sad tldlngs and as many fond remembrances of the old bulldlng and the pleasures assoclated Wlth It came to our mlnds vse were filled wlth deepest of regret and Wlth a great deslre to 1n someway make good the loss For some txme we had been contemplatlng a trlp to the States as a vacatlon when one mornlng IH the early a1r post we were more pleased to recelve requests from the loyal Secretary of the class of 22 Mr Raymond In Doyle now the competent presl dent of the Iohnstown Flood Insurance Co to attend on the first of June a class reunlon at the neva ten story Hotel Motter l 1 0 7 . . , . l S, as . lt s K ' , ' Q y v 'Q' 1 ' D 1 . . . Y . ,- , . . . , Y ll 99 I 7 7 7 7. . r M v ' . Y. I 7 K K . .K . . . KK ' 77 . . . C J L . Y y v Q v ' v . , . ing, Pa. The youngster was attempting to forestall the dump- '7 ! K v V . V K . .V . ' 7 -L 'I v, - cv! ' V 1 ' D . , . , . ., I , . . 1 . 7 . . . 7 . Y 7 K . . . , K v 'v y ll 77 1 ' as , . . , ' . . ., ' , u n ' r 'age' 5

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as we heard h1m approachmg our compartment Consequently we went out ln the a1sle to shake hands Wlth hlm But lo and be hold' we ran 1nto a double greetmg for Wlth Smlthy was an othel alumnus of 22 Mr Charles Leach Belng late as It was we all declded to ret11e and swap yarns the followmg day R1s1ng early the next mornmg we were anxlous to learn more partlculars about our old fuends We dlrected our steps to thelr compartment and were not ln the least surprlsed to find them stlll 1n bed a custom to Wh1Ch they stlll clung ever smce the good old days of G A l1fe It d1d not take us a long tlme to learn what thelr respectlye posltlons 1n l1fe were Henry P Smlth was a sugar plantatlon owner IH MlSSlSS1ppl flt had to be some thmg sweet or else he would not have bxttenj Shortle '1 re presentatlve of the MISS Levee Constructlon Co had been h1red by Smlthy to wall h1S slde of the rlyer fo1 Hemy d1d not deem the plotectlon affoxded by the Johnstown Flood Insulance Co suflicxent to cover flood damages They were both happy whlch fact was due to thelr full purses and thelr extensne famllles for whlch we were IOWOUS to extend our congratulatlons Hasenfuss the leadlng manufacturer Qproducerj of sportmg goods ln the Mlddle West Wesley Parry a wealthy chemlcal manufacturer 'md 1+ red Fllbert 1udge of the Supreme Court of that State happened to board the same d1r1g1ble on the same mlsslon Soon we were above the now beautlful and smokeless CltV of Plttsburg Cus Informed us that Ralph Sloop a most eloquent preacher who had converted many a wayward youth by his mfluentlal and fluent speech Thomas Armstrong head of the Chamber of Commerce and Charles Klmglel also an emlnent expounder of the truths of the Blble had taken up thelr reslden ces 1n that clty or 1tS v1c1n1ty We all heartlly W1Shed to see the aforesald frlends but as the dlrlglble had one delav already IH foresight ln a speclal stop at lla rlsburg we had to content our selves by looklng forward to the cherlshed ldea of the reunlon On the afternoon of the thlrty first of May we allghted and dlsembarked from the d1r1g1ble ln llarrlsburg On that same af ternoon we took the bullet for Gettysburg arrlvlng there as usual at 7 10 P M On the traln We bought a June copy of the Cr1t1c edlted by Norman B Creenwood that celebrated pro P652 . . , . , , - I . . t . ,, . ,, - , as rv ' ' , 7 ' ' Y Y - - , ca , n ' Y V . . . . . 7 . . , . A . .7 .. . . I u v Q . K . C . . . . . . . - ' ' , u - as 9 7 v C ' v L. ., H . Y,, v . . . v I Q Y . K 1 1 ' C 4 y w 7 w 4 U I 7 Y v ' l. , ' L ' : s ' Q ' ' ' :, y ' v v ' v K 7 ' U Our journey progressed rapidly to St. Louis. There Gustav K K, . . . . Y V 7 Y . ' Y ' 9 , . . 1 1 v . . v k 'nn' s V Y Y ' ' ' 56 1? ' V ' I v , . , .L . . y , in 9 17 , - . . , y . . . V . , - L . 1' , f - 7 66 77 ' ' ! , . . . li ' ' Y! ' . I , - 09