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

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l Ralph Tilley f- 4- p- 9-. fp ,gre ,ir ,P - ,W .I as 5 ,vin ' , 1,51 ,age -Iwi L 52 E-LF? iid, h H-gf? - lfsff Q- Lehi Wliight Mildred Pearson i YL, 1 Ervin Williams Profcssor Hirsch Robert McWilliams 2.53 riffs .7-Xmphirtgnn First Semester Second Semester ,ga Ralph Tilley ........... President ........... Ralph Tilley 1 5 . -K, Cleora Vaughan ...... Vice-President ....... Ervin Williams Robert McWilliams ..... Treasurer ..... Robert McWilliams are 7 -' Lela Wright ..-........ Secretary ....,... Mildred Pearson 4. Margaret Roenfeldt --Ass't. Secretary-.. ..... Harold Smith Q, Donald Starr ....... Sargeant-at-Arms .... Howard Tingley X Wilma Thaler .......... Chaplain ....... Hannah L. Davis ya Florence Reese .,........ Pianist ........... Norma Baker iw-lv Critic ......... .............. M iss Hirsch 051 Poet Laureate ............ Genevieve Wright Q-,f ' Historian .................. Cassius Conger There is a characteristic friendly and brotherly feeling that comes to an individual as soon as he enters Grand Island College, which is largely traceable to the influence of the seventy members of the Amphictyon Literary Society. Early in the history of our college, 1892 in fact, the Amphictyonic Council of the Greeks with its purpose of social union and brotherhood be- came the guiding force in the organization of the first literary society of 543 453' 5? 53' W3 479 5:7 51? fig? ' , TQ J 56