Grand Island College - Islander Yearbook (Grand Island, NE)

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It is a solemn thought, gentle reader, that you may be reading some of these jokes twenty years hence in a dentist's waiting room. John Ciemny: So you haven't pro- posed to her yet. I know what's the matter. You're too self-conscious. Harold Eisele: Self-conscious noth- ing. I'n1 too conscious of her. You ought to hear my line when I'm alone.

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Svninr Gilman After four years of glorious effort, the class of 1927 now approaches the grand finale of its career. Diminished in numbers as compared with the Freshman year, as is the fate of every college class, it is anything but diminished in spirit and quality - and quality counts more than quantity. Nevertheless, here we are, twenty strong-the largest class to graduate from G. I. C. And all this after a most auspicious beginning in the fall of 1923, when members of our class took their places in the activities of the school, with four men in football, three in basketball and five in track. Not con- tent with this, before the year was over members of the class had been elected to the presidency of the three college religious organizations - Esther Rice of the Y. W. C. A., Charles Gurney of the Y. M. C. A., and Gust Carlson of the Life Service League. Many other members of the class held other offices in various organizations. Paul Newell and Robert Mc- Williams made names for themselves in debate and William Clarke in the Peace Oratorical Contest. Throughout the four years, Dean Firth has been our sponsor, and has been responsible for a great deal of our success, and to him the class owes a great deal. In addition to his friendship and advice he has been responsi- ble each year for a social feature of some sort, such as a steak fry or a party with the luscious. eats that only Mrs. Firth knows how to provide. The editorship of the Volante has been in our class for three years now, and we are wondering how they are going to do without us after this year. Eldon Smith was editor in the sophomore year, Cleora Vaughn in the junior, and Frances Shattuck this year. William McGrath was also its business manager in our freshman year. Last' year a very successful Islander was published with Frances Shattuck as editor and Oren Cun- ningham, business manager. Our prospects for success may be predicted by the fact that last year, when mental tests were for the first time given to the students as a whole, our class had the highest general average, and that ten of our members are in 'Sigma Tau Delta, six in Pi Kappa Delta and three in Alpha Sigma Pi. Great things may be expected of this class, and great things will be attained. . ' - 41' 4 - ' A ,.. .af aff' 23

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