Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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THIRTY 1927 GALE Senior Class OFFICERS President Dean S. Trevor Vice-President .. Heten Russety Secretary Treasurer The class of 1926 has come to a parting of the ways. Of course we cannot realize it is all over. It seems but yesterday when we started our college careers as green freshmen, but we have spent four years within the portals of Knox. Very well do we know what these four years mean to us. If we came to college to get knowledge in the form of book-learning, we have succeeded, some, better than others. Even with our heads popping, one fact impresses us: we haven’t learned it all; there’s an infinite amount of learning still to be known. If we came for honors, we earned them in every activity that Old Siwash offers and some that we ourselves invented. If we came for associations, we are well satisfied that we now are wealthy in friends, friendships, and contacts with a group of worth-while professors, the best classmates ever known, and those Siwashers who have entered Knox after or grad- uated before us. The memories that we will carry away serve as a bridge between us and the College wherever we may be. Now that we have reached the top of the ladder it behooves us to recall a few of those events that we as a class will carry away as memories. et hb

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1927 GALE Cushing McGaan — Irwin Schertz Simpson Mortar Board Honorary Society For Senior Women Members 1925-1926 Delight Cushing Frances McGaan Constance Irwin Ruth Schertz Harriet Simpson TWENTY-NINE

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Hauger Alexander Those of us who started out in the fall of ‘22, remember our able president, Don Cummings and the good times of the first year. The crowning event of those early days was probably our overwhelming defeat of the Sophs in the annual class scrap. We remember certain of our members who started their careers by winning prominence, even though they were only “‘freshies.” Among the athletes were Senn, Young, Dicus, Imig, and Verner. These athletes repeated their success in the second year. To the list was added Huggins and Trevor in football, Alexander, Rapp, and Gabrielson in base- ball, and Tarpy, Senn, Huggins, Byers, and Lewis in track. Bob Kyle started to say things in debate and Joe Gray was a leader in Y. M. C. A. Rex Hopkins was in command that year. Last year, our junior year, was a banner year. Our teammates appeared in every activity. Juniors monopolized positions on the varsity football team. “Jug” Gabrielson, Simpson, Foley, and Gray showed their talents in dramatics. Lucien Field did a little bit of many things, among them editing the Gatr and teaching Latin. Phil Granville earned his key in debate. Ruth Schertz, Fran McGaan, and Connie Irwin were big Y. W. women. We could go on indefinitely recalling all the satellites of that year, for they were numerous. The good part of it all is they re- turned to Knox in the fall to make the class of ’26 write many accomplishments in Siwash history. Who of us does not give a great sigh when we go back over the stretch? Four pleasant years, crowded to the very brim with happy days, have passed on. Now we will be called alumni of Knox College. Who can foretell what we will do after our graduation? The future holds many surprises and, we hope, success for every member of the class of ’26. THIRTY-ONE