Iona College - ICANN Yearbook (New Rochelle, NY)

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 THOMAS HOLDEN Football 4 (( OM is another happy representative of the breeder of fron- tiersmen—White Plains. The climate of this native land has made him rugged and tan and as he tells the boys with much flourish plenty tough. Of course his long march down from the wind-swept and storm-beaten Plains has made a man of him, but he says he owes most of it to his diet of salmon which grows on every tree in his land. Despite these distractions. Tom still finds time for study and does well in his work. Tom. in his Senior Ye r. played football and made out very well due to his strength ano absolute fearlessness. In everything he seems to apply the same force although it is covered by an evi- dent happy abandon. He is constantly smiling and always in a jovial mood. His inseparable companion. Henny” Vier. gives him so many laughs that it is a common sight to see him fairly doubled up with mirth in some corner of the campus at some joke. Tom is equally quick at giving a joke as taking it. He makes an excellent companion and a very desirable fellow in a crowd. Just what college he will enter he has not disclosed, but we suspect that he sneaks mail down to Georgetown and gets important looking answers in returr We are confident, however, that wherever he goes he will win .iis way into everyone's heart just as he has into ours. Iona wll miss Tom Holden. [Page Twenty-five]

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GEORGE HODGSON Football 2. 3. 4—Baseball 3—Track 2—Monogram Club r25LL the world loves a plugger Red's indomitable spirit and '-J ' tenacious grit have won for him scholastic success and grid- iron laurels. As a guard on the football team he proved a bul- wark of power: hard as a rock and just as hard to move. When Red dug his cleats in and braced his squat body you knew he meant business. He well merited the title ''Stonewall” Hodgson. As a member of the Track team, he went in for the distance races. He was gifted with exceptional endurance powers and these, to- gether with that do-or-die attitude A his. helped him to consis- tently break the tape much before his opponents. In the class room you can’t miss him. Fiery head, freckled face and a wide grin distinguished this good-natured and very modest Senior. Somewhere in the past he was dubbed Skipper.” but that nickname has lately been discarded for the more appro priate Red”. After graduation. Red” expects to take up engineering. (Page Twenty-four]

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JOHN HOLMES Ionian 2. 3—Iona News 3 HERE is in every man’s make-up one salient feature—the ' ' spokesman of his personality—which distinguishes him from his neighbor. John’s spokesman is his non-committal silence. It speaks volumes and gives added importance to his words on such rare occasions when he chooses to make a statement. His manner in the class room is quiet and reserved, but not so on the campus. The fresh air seems to change him completely, and then he becomes the most loquacious of anybody and he is not averse to occasional jokes—wholesome ones. John will always be remembered in the nooks and crannies of Iona for his hair-raising cornet solo on Armistice Day. Never before was such fervid patriotism shown (or blown) by beast, woman or child. It was just too sad. (Page Twenty-six 1