Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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lllllIllIllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllll' ur mumn llllll Il llllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllll ........................ .. F5b.'lEH7E. ....-................... . ......... ............ D135 Iv .ffl y, H l' AIUMNI if l A ll X .hyfwy my X MV fifth y lm Ogg, ff My lk The glory of a college is its alumni. Buildings are desirable but not essential. Plato. Socrates, Jesus Christ, and all the great inspirers of history are remembered because of the effects they produced on their students and followers. So a college is tested by its products, its alumni and former students. Given a competent faculty and an eager receptive under- graduate body-men and women of note are the inevitable result. Knox College is far behind its sister colleges in equipment, but it has had for over three- quarters of a century teachers of the right sort and students who meant business. As a result, no middle-western college has an alumni body more famous, none has more of its graduates listed in Wl1o's Wl1o , none could provide more material for an alumni section in the college annual. There are tens of thousands of people in our country who have no idea where or what Knox College isg who know famous Knox alumni. In journalism, in law, and business and nearly every other activity of life, Knox men and women are listed among the leaders. It is quite fitting that the Gale, which lists the undergraduate achievements of the year, should devote a section to honoring some of our most noted alumni. The difficulty has been to pick and choose, and no attempt is made here to list only the most noted, selections have been made of those who have achieved prominence in various fields, with full realization that scores of other alumni, perhaps hundreds, as fully merit inclusion in this section. One of the most hopeful signs for the future of Knox is the renewed interest in her wel- fare shown by the alumni, through the Knox Alumnus, the Alumni Association, The Alumni Council, and the large share which the alumni are taking in the Endowment Campaign. This section of the students' annual shows that the undergraduates are just as proud of our alumni. as they are of the college. JAMES L. BICCONAUGHY Knox College 97 -4

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, .......... .... . .............................. . ............................. . Y 1 , yr - , JUSTIN MCCARTHY BARRY Director of Athletics for Men Student, Lawrence College, 1911-133 University of VViscon- ' sin, 1914-153 Director of Athletics, Madison fWis.J High School, , 1916-175 Assistant Coach, University of VVisconsin, 1917-183 Director of Athletics, Knox College, 1918-. 4, V ff, fem , ff, 4 f, M 1, 1, f 1 ff? ,YN ' 457 7 fff W Z egg, f W , M' f 4 n W f K off IMWQX 1 K X f I !l4 I K as 4 X MARTHA ROSE TERBORGH, A. B. Dfirectofr of Physical Education for Women A. B., Oberlin Collegeg Dfrector of Physical Education, Knox College, 1920-. ADA M. NELSON Librarian A. B., Knox, 19133 student, University of VVisconsin Library School, summer, 19133 Cataloger, Grinnell College. 1913-1917: brarian, Knox College, 1919-. WILLIAM BLODGETT DEAN, A. B. Assistant to the President A. B., Knox College, 1919g graduate student at Harvard University, 1920. E. M. DUNN Busirzess Jlanager VERA VIRGINIA CORBIN .-Issisfant Reg-Lefrar 26 Cataloger, Minnesota State Historical Library, 1917-1918g Li-

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. ' I - Charles C. George Among the many Knox Alumni who have achieved distinction in the community in which they have settled is Charles C. George, of the class of 1885. Mr. George was born and raised on a farm ad- joining Galesburg and during his attendance at Knox usually walked daily to and from the country home. In October. 1885. he bought a round trip ticket to Lincoln, Nebraska. good for three months. with the idea of seeing the country and later returning to Galesburg and take a clerical position in a bank. After reaching Omaha, and spending a week or two looking about the city. he decided to secure a position and remain there. The trip to Lincoln was not made and the ticket covering the balance of the trip was sold and proceeds from that sale started his first savings account. In November. 1885, his first position as clerk in a real estate and insurance office was secured. In 1890 he was taken in as junior partner in the firm of Potter it George Company. doing a general real estate and investment business. In 1900. George K Company succeeded to the business of Potter 8: George Company. the interest of Hr. Potter and others being purchased by Charles C. and J. E. George. and since that time the business has been conducted by George is Company. a corporation. with Charles C. George as President. In 1909. Mr. George was instrumental in organizing the City National Bank Building Company and erecting the first strictly modern ofHce building in Omaha: a sixteen-story structure located on o11e of the best corners and of which Company he has been President since its organization. He has also been Director and inactive Vice President for over twenty years of the Conservative Savings 8: Loan Association of Omaha. one of Omaha's principal savings institutions. During the past twelve years. George 81 Company have developed a residence district in Omaha. known as Dundee. Happy Hollow and Fairac-res. which district has attracted the at- tention of landscape architects and developers throughout the country. Mr. George is a charter member of the Omaha Commercial Club Cnow Omaha Chamber of Commercejg was President of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce in 1918. a member of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States for several years and was elected a Director of the National Chamber at the annual meeting of the Chamber in St. Louis in May. 1919. to serve for a term of two years. He devoted much time to war work during the lVorld VVar and for years has tal-:en active part in civic and public welfare work, being for several years Director of the Associated Char- ities of Omahag a member of the Board of Directors of Brownell Hall of Omaha. one of the oldest church schools for young women in the Middle lVest. He was elected a member of the Board of Directors of' Knox College in June. 1920. Mr. George married Della Louise Hamlin. of Boston. in 1905. a graduate of Radcliffe College. and they have one child. a daughter, nine years old. 28