Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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Some good people have wondered just what kind of a croaker this newest one—this ’06 Croaker—was going to he. For obvious reasons they have not learned much. Hut now we are free to say that he is as jolly as that young croaker that was only a short time ago a wiggling pollywog; and he is as wise as the big bullfrog that talks like the K string of a bass viol. If you don’t like him in the one mood try the other. Do not judge his croaks by the voice of a Patti nor his literary efforts by those of a Milton. If he were so disposed, he could no more duplicate their feats, than they could duplicate his. We trust that you will be in a mood as uncritical as when you last stood on the bridge down by the pond and let the moon and the croakers persuade you that the world was yours—or soon would be. No apologies are to be made for this Croaker. It goes as the herald of '06. We could do better another time, which we would really like to do, partly because we have enjoyed it and partly because we could do it better. We have worked hard— just how hard we had better not tell for we might be Juniors next year if the faculty knew. We have encountered all sorts and conditions of encouragement. Seniors wagged their hoary heads and asked us if we knew what we were up against. Sophomores opened their eyes wide with wonder; Freshmen did not comprehend it at all. We wrote the late committee on Alumni record” for a “Reminiscence” and he sent us one of those alumnus’ examination papers to show how bus) he was and said he was sorry we were “too late for the '05 edition of the record.” We were at a loss to know just what he meant by that: whether a class with so much nerve was entitled to a place in the record, or whether, if we were alumni we would not be Juniors asking for “Reminiscences” and thereby stirring a guilty conscience for pranks done in Junior days, perhaps. Who knows? Hut we are keeping ( ?) you from things which may concern you more personally, so we bid you look further and sec how popular you are with ’06. Pntjf ISJ

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THE WILES OF WESLEYAN Dorothy Lovitt, from the Pi Phi School of Beauty, is contemplating on her next move. Dorothy is ambitious, and usually successful. It. Theodore Johnson, of the Sig Ep branch of the Salvation Armv, has been borrowed especiallv foj this • talkie . ' Mii.dred Warren, belle of the Alpha Zip islands, who has a ring of sincerity in her voice that tempts you to believe her. One has! Wayne Kmry, the perfect college comedian. Innocent and innocuous. Megan Rhys, who is just now beginning to enjoy life after the martyrdom of being accused as a Campus Lab conspirator. Poor kid. John McGavic, who has almost deserted Wesleyan screen-land, for a new leading lady. Anabel Clark, who, last year believed in Easter Eggs, Valentines, storks, et omnia. The management has not yet secured anyone to play opposite. Frank William (Bill) Carr, an enigma to certain of the John Wesley co-eds. Has been known to fill a date. Irene Boucher, who refuses to divulge information on her courtship. She should be an example to the inmates of Hershcy Hall. Howard Hills, of the Theta Nu Savings Bank, who has a loan on his pin. Margaret Reckmeyek, who doesn’t know whether she was made for the world or the world for her. Anyway, her attempts to arrive at a decision arc painful. Irma Bentzinger, of the Zeta sewing circle, who last summer chumped off with a heart, but for unkonwn reasons returned it and yet continues to hypnotize its owner.