Hobart College - Echo of the Seneca Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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These were pleasant recollections of the happiest days of my life, but here my thoughts were interrupted by my grandson as he again poked me in the eve and squirmed with impatience. 'That only explains part of it, you old fossil, said he, now what are alumni? Well, child, I said, ‘Tve been one for fifty odd years and I'm not yet sure just what they are. Let's look it up. We found that both Webster’s and Funk and Wagnall’s dictionaries completely ignored the word. Perhaps these gentlemen never went to college, we thought, and tried another reference. This went on for some time, however, with no results. Finally, in the New English Dictionary, we found that an alumnus was the nursling or pupil of any school, university, or other seat of learning . At seventy-five I did not care to be called a nursling and I no longer fancied myself or my classmaces of fifty years ago pupils of Hobart. Yet that was what the dictionary said. Bv this time ray grandson and the New English Dictionary had quite exhausted my patience; so when the child began Old soak, what..........? that was enough. If you do not know what an association is, I said, for goodness sake find out but stop bothering me. He went away muttering something about having a nursling for a grandfather and left me to dream of the good old days at Hobart. Mallison, Dccringcr, Spies, Clark, Broadhurst, Carson, Wilkes, Dittmar, Booth, Mayberry, Moffat, Cooke, Morrill, Mike, Hcbblethwaite, Abbot Ircdalc, Curtin, Nichols, Kemp, Whedon, Spurway, Pettit, Sprcntall, Dewey, Starrett, Albertson, Reid McCaffrey, Hubbard, Shiplcr, McBride, Berger, McDowell, Duffy, Redmond, Mulligan, Stein, Smith 27

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Lciand V. Blazcy Treasurer Norman T. Redmond Historian Arthur D. Stein, Jr. Vice-President James H. Curtin President Guv E. Shiplcr, Jr. Secretary SENIOR CLASS HISTORY I took my grandson on my lap and made only minimum objections when he playfully poked his finger in my eye and said he had a present for me. 1 expected a frog or a dead fish, but the gift proved to be only a letter the postman had left. Hobart Alumni Association” was printed on the back of the envelope. What is Hobart, you old coot?” asked my grandson ( old coot was a term of affection that all my descendants used). “Hobart, said I, is an institution of higher learning situated at Geneva, New York. Now it is one of the large and wealthy; when I was there, however, it was very small but select. A gleam came to my eye as I told of the class of '36, a class of god- like men, and their unsurpassed records. Then I recollected football games on bright fall after- noons, the moonlit campus on brittle winter nights, spring week-ends with a softer moon rising over the lake. 26

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CLASS OF 1936 JOHN GEORGF. ABBOTT EDWARD HENRY BOURNE Manchester, New York Lyons, New York Scientific; Science Club. HARRY RAUB ALBERTSON Scranton, Pennsylvania Scientific; Sigma Chi. CHARLES EDWARD BERGER Baltimore, Maryland Arts; Theta Delta Chi; Herald, 2. 3, Features Edi- tor, 4; Christian Association; Freshman, Sophomore, Junior Honors; K.K.K.; 1936 Echo; Kappa Beta Phi; Lacrosse, 2, 3, 4 LELAND WAY BLAZEY Macedon, New York Scientific; Delra Psi Omega, Orange Key, Science Club, Band, 3, President, 4, Class Historian, 2, Treasurer, 3, 4; Medbcry Mummer Tryout Play, 2; Candidate Basketball Manager, 1, 2, 3, Varsity Manager, 4; Board of Control. WALTER COWLES BOOTH Danbury, Connecticut Arcs; Sigma Chi, Glee Club, 1; Litcle Theatre; Inrer-fraternity Ball Committee, 1935; Junior Blazer Committee; Candidate Lacrosse Mana- ger, 1,2, 3, Equipment Manager, 4, Candidate Cheerleader, 1. ELMORE HENRY BROADHURST Titusville, Pennsylvania Scientific; Phi Phi Delta; Glee Club, 1, 2, 3, 4, Science Club; Epsilon Pi Sigma; Junior Blazer Committee; Band, 3, 4; Lacrosse, 1; Candidate Lacrosse Manager, 2, 3, Varsity Manager, 4. LYNN STANLEY BUG BEE Stanley, New York Arcs. THOMAS CARLTON CARSON, JR Geneva, New York Scientific; Sigma Phi; Glee Club, 3, 4; Christian Association. HENRY PINE CLARK Brooklyn, New York Arcs; Phi Phi Delta; Chimera; K.K.K.; H” Club; Scroll and Flagon, Football, 1; Basket- ball, I, 2, Lacrosse, 1, 2, 3, 4; White Essay Prize; Freshman, Sophomore, Junior Honors. PHILIP TANGIER SMITH COOKE Srringfield, Ohio Arts; Sigma Phi; Glee Club, 1, 2; Candidate Cheerleader, 1; Lacrosse, 1; Chairman Junior Blazer Committee, Interfrarernity Ball Com- mittee, 1935; Yomis; Skull and Dagger, Kappa Beta Phi; K.K.K 2-