Kalamazoo College - Boiling Pot Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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Q The Pi Kappa Delta is a national forensic fraternity, open only to those who have taken part in an intercollegiate forensic contest. Kalamazoo College has the Alpha Chapter of this state. and through the direction and encouragement of Professor Foth it has done a great deal to create and maintain interest in forensics. Its scope of work, however. is not limited to Kalamazoo College. Last year the local chapter enjoyed the distinction of bringing more outside colleges into the national organization than were brought in by any other chapter. The degrees of membership are based on the individual record of each memher. Dr. Herbert l.ee Stetson. .. ............ .... H onorary Member Prof. Foth ....... Prof. Brees .. XY111. Schrier . . . Ray Siebert .. Ben Manley .. Yern Bunnell .. Mace Crandall .. Marion Graybiel . Elmer Littell ..... Kenneth Sausaman Beatrice lVaber .. Marston Balch . . . Helen Cary Lester Grayhiel .. Leta Hamilton . .. Mary Huizinga .. Reuben Mehring . Clarence Ramsclell Special Distinction Special Distinction Special Distinction Special Distinction Special Distinction . . . . . .Proficiency . . . Proficiency . . .Proficiency . . .Proficiency . . .Proficiency . . .Proficiency . . .Fraternity . . .Fraternity . . . .Fraternity . . . .Fraternity . . . .Fraternity . . . .Fraternity . . . .Fraternity Pagf One Hzrrrdrcd Yi2L'E'll!j'-0110

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WOMAN 'S VARSITY DEBATE TEAM .ff 'kj HILL, V. SMITH, SIMPSON, BARBER, HAMILTON SCHERIIERHORN, BLACK, VVABER, HALL ERESHMAN DEBATE TEAM SHIQA, L12 CIIONIER, L. GRANT, BEADLE SIuxNI.EI', GIILIJIIIIN, KNIGHT, FORD Page Ouc Hundred Twunty

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SUNSIIINE tfiontiliizrd from ffdfft' 605 brought the hoverine' tears to the little handy-legs' eyes and the small dancer b D , tg , who at -heart idolized Crystal though she professed indifference in the presence of Andy whom she regarded as weakly worshipful, now with beautiful in- consistency shoved Andy a bit to one side to get a better look at Crystal herself. llut Andy had something to say- O Miss Sunshine, it's just like Madison Park and the trees and the birds and the flowers--just like that fairyland where the coachman let me in once. lIow can you do itA-you that ain't never seen all them things F Aw shucksf' interrupted the follower of l'avlowa. she wasn't playin' about all them things. That was just something like what the orchestras play to make you stand on your toes and twirl like that, suiting the action to the words, weren't you F -for corroboration. Yes and no, answered the musician. Birds and trees and Howers for you Andy. I can play them because I feel them, you know. But for you, my little dancer-it was just a dance piece I was playing. Though a bit puzzled at this explanation the small girl, too proud to show ignorance where .Xndy seemed to understand, now joined her companion in begging the sunshine lady to play some more. As she turned, the sensitive fingers of the blind girl brushed against the orderly array of threaded needles on the sill. Dear old daddy, she thought, IIow he hates to thread them but he gave me good measure today since he knows how eager I am to finish my curtains before the bandage comes off this afternoon. Ile is so happy because the great doctor says I shall see- and I too know I shall, for already things are not all black as before. Even through the bandage I almost see the light. She was thinking hard to herself as she sat down again at the piano. She could hear the children calling for her to play-and at the memory of their childish pity of her she began to wonder if it had been so hard after all. She had always been sensitive to her surroundings-and she had not needed little .-Xndy's remark that there had never before been a piano in the neighborhood excepting Ike Costello's street piano, to sense the unlitness of a Chickering here. Sometimes the place had so depressed her she could scarcely keep back the tears. llut then the realization of her father's need of her had cheered her. and the warm sunshine-the one bright thing which found its way into their rooms- had comforted her. It was her father who had saved her mother's Chickering for her-it was 'he who was now spending every cent he could collect for the treatments which were to restore her sight. And after all, it had been hardest for him. Somehow Crystal felt just a little to blame for the condition of things. Not that it was her fault-but was it not because of her that her father had gone to pieces? Shortly after her mother's death the depressed father had suffered almost a mortal blow when a careless nurse who tended baby Crystal-she shuddered at the thoughtwfor it was then that the light in the dark eyes had gone out presumably forever. Then it was the spirit seemed to go out of the father. Down and down sank his position with his firm and after Crystal had gone to the blind school he had Finally lost his work entirely. But he had clung the Chickering for had he not one day come home to his baby girl and found her on her knees on the stool before it-playing something really pretty and lisping as she turned to him- Mama ? All this Crystal knew so well it Hashed through her mind on the instant. But she was helping him. She knew that. Ile was back with his old firm making tflmiliunvd on ftltlt' 1243 Page One I1nna'rvt1' Tzumlty-Iwo