Illinois College - Rig Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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RIG VEDA Senior Roll Class Officers President ........................................................................ FRED HOSKINS I'ice-President ............................................................ ARDEEN LINDER Secretary ...................................................................... HELEN TURNER Treasurer ................................................................ CLARENCE WILSON Class R011 Aaron Ignatius Ahell Merrill M. Barlow Ross Matthews Bergman Harold S. Bowman Earl S. Brown Arthur C. Cox Howard S. Davis Frank S. Douglass Minnie Aurelia Dill Elisabeth Charlotte Engelhzwh Betty Mae Fultz Lee Henry Goebel Anna Goldsberry Helen R. Green Mabel Louise Griswold Fred Hoskins Fred N. Johnston Henry Kronenberg Alma C. Leonard Ardeen Linder Carroll McBride Charles Edward Magee Bernhardt Jolm Meyer Thomas XV. O Brien Edith Putnam Mabel Elizabeth Rogers Vernon C. Scholfield Paul Schroeder Mildred K. Schubert Mary Elizabeth Scott Dale Vernor Stingley William Maurice Thurmon Kathryn Tomlin Helen Dial Turner Neil Walker Catherine Wilson Clarence Wilson Homer Wilson Dorothy Mae White Cecil L. Wood Joseph G. VVylder liolla J. VVylder

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RIG VEDA Class of '26 Arriving at the parting between a happy past and an unknown future, after four years of work and play, the class of 1926 graduates and leaves nOld Illinois, realizing that it is a better class for having spent its years here and hoping that the college is better for its having been here. It is not necessary here to recount in a general way what the class of 1926 has achieved, for the pages of this book carry the specific record of the class as indi- viduals. An examination of these records reveals the; fact that in this class are scholars, athletes, politicians, and social leaders whose records speak better than mere generalities about them. The class of 1926 has the distinction, if it be a distinction, of being the first to graduate in the new era of peaceful relations, engendered by the abolition of haz- ing and diversions of a similarly questionable nature. Whatever individuals think of such conditions, those who face the facts candidly and dispassionately cannot do other than admit that the ideals of any college can best be attained under the new order of things prevalent not only at Illinois, but at all progressive colleges. The class of 1926 has been foremost in the movement to abolish the unnecessary and per- nicious antagonism between classes, proving its sincerity in the matter by originating the freshman-sophomore party which has since been one of the customary events tending to promote college spirit and group loyalty much better than any medieval disciplinary institution possibly could. i The fact that the class of 1926 counts among its members many serious minded students should be a source of pleasure to those who feel that, after all, a college is a place at which one primarily wishes to get an education and secondarily wishes to give vent to this all-inclusive, but elusive thing called initiative. If four years at Illinois have done no more than enable the class of 1926 to realize that besides this so-called initiative, there must be developed a sane self discipline upon which ' all lasting achievement is built, then they have not been spent in vain. If a course at Illinois or any other college fails to teach a student to know himself, his weakness and strength, then in spite of high scholarship, athletic letters, or social prestige he is doomed to fail sooner or later. If this be true then few of the members of the class of 1926 are destined to fail in their chosen work, because nearly every mem- ber has a grim determination to do some one thing well, and with the inspiring ex- ample of illustrious generations gone before, can do no other than succeed. Thus the class of 1926 leaves Illinois bearing the stamp of an institution the honor and dignity of which it will ever strive to maintain, by living as an ex- ample for future generations in the way those of the past have lived for it. i :6 xW i x mes TWENTYrSEVEN

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V RIG VEDA AARON IGNATIUS ABELL Eldorado, Ill. Eldm'ado Township High School, 22; Phi Alpha, Vice-Pres., ,24325, Pres.y ,25; Freshman Debate, 23; Inter-Society De- bate, 723, ,25; Intercollegiate Debate, 24; Tau Kappa Alpha, Pres., ?'25; Gibbons Club, Pres, 23-'24; Classical Club; VViI- liams Honor Scholarship, '23; y24; Prelim- inary Honors; Phi Delta Sigma; Student A551 History, y24, 25. A. B. History MERRILL M. BARLOXV Reno. 111. Litchfield Community High School, '20; Phi Alpl'm, Ch. Prud. Committee, ,23324, Recording $66., ' 5-'2G, Critic, '20 ; Fresh- man Debate, '22- 2 Intercollegiate De- bate, alternative, 23-'24; Dramatic Club, Pres. '25-,26; waelfth Night, 23; WLIyauzmth Halvey, ,24; C11arle's Aunt,h 34; Much Ado About Nothing, ' Rambler Staff, Circulation Mgla, 24, 25, '253 ; Osage; Masonic Club, Sec: Treas., '25-'26; College Bookstore. Ass t Mng ,24, Mgr. 25, l25326; Preliminary Honors; Candidate for Departmental Hon; ors; Rig Veda Business Mgr.; Phi Delta Sigma. A. B. Social Science TWENTY-NINE