Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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1: eric-3-1911 FORGSTEZR Forest Commencement, the best attended and sustained in our history. This was in great measure due to the presence of a large number of Alumni, and especially to the institu- tion of several class reunions. About twenty-five members of both 1907 and l9l0 came back: 1895 and 1900 and l905 also made special efforts to get together again. We hope this marks the foundation of a regular custom of reunions one, three, five years after graduation, and every five years thereafter. The success of these reu-nions will de- pend in large measure upon the activity of the class secretaries. not only in working up interest in the reunions themselves, but in keeping class spirit alive in the intervals. A second special feature of the year has been the presence at two other and, in a sense, higher institutions of Lake Forest graduates and former students in numbers suf- ficient to form clubs or associations whose members have been linked together by their memories of Lake Forest and loyalty to its interests. The club at Harvard has seven members and that at Illinois University twelve. At both places the men have organized and made arrangements for occasional regular meetings, to some of the men, longer ab- sent from Lake Forest, a delightful renewal of youth, and to all a pleasant relaxation from the grind of hard labor in which they are engaged. Circumstances have made it possible for the President to meet with the men at Boston and for Professor Betten to attend one of the monthly dinners at Champaign. The Harvard contingent have al- ready supplied the copy for an issue of the Stentor and the Chambana Club are con- templating-but that is another story. Of course, a far more important phase of this gathering of our men elsewhere is the fact that they are seeking the best opportunities for advanced and professional study, and their good work abroad will redound to the credit of Lake Forest. 16

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-+17 gi 02' f: CHQ - 1912 - Foieesreie The Alumni in 1910-11 vgfs- H-' 2 i ' Q-.AJ The number of the living Alumni has been swelled tT W . 'T ' fi'- Qi ff. to four hundred and sixty-three during the past year by V the addition of the twenty-six members of the class of I9I0, and happily not reduced by even one, as at this writing no alumnus has died since the last Forester was issued. It is in this connection, perhaps worthy of men- tion, that this year for the first time more new students came to the College through the recommendation of Alumni than through any other agency, including even the undergraduates. A little reflection suggests three of four new and noticeable phases in the life of the Alumni corporate. The first of these is the return to Lake Forest of an unusual number of graduates and former students, both as individuals and in connection with class reunions. A special feature of the winner has been the presence on the campus and on the chapel platform of the two sur- viving members of '79, the first class graduated, Messrs. Chapman and Mills, as well as that of other visitors like Paul Bergen, '80: Graham Lee, '89g and George W. Wright, '92, Again, the Commencement of I9I0 was declared by those experienced in Lake 15

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E-.Clie - 1912 - Foraesreie ln the third place, the last year or two have been marked by a decided tendency among Lake Foresters to emigrate to the Pacific Coast, to Texas, or elsewhere, where the development of new territory opens new opportunity. In the Alumni catalog of l9l0, it was noticed that sixteen of the graduates had taken up farming when only five had been so classified two years earlier. There seems to be an inclination among some of these uagriculturistsh to farm title deeds rather than the land itself, to make two or more handsome I certificates grow where only one l blade of grass grew before, thereby proving, we suppose, the benefit of a superior education. To mention a few, not all, of the recent emigrations, the Talcotts, '07 and '08, Beach, '05, and Preston, '01, have set- tled in Texas, and Miss Mack, '10, is teaching English in Tus- ' Y- - con, Arizona. In the summer of l9I0, Miss Myrants, '06, hied away to Los Angeles, and just recently W. N. McKee, '93, has gone with his bride to Long Beach, California. Kinsley, '04, is manager for the Associated Press in San Francisco, and Miss Vinton, Ex.-'l2, is do- ing what she can with the young idea at Reno. In Oregon, Cromley, '05, is preach- ing at Astoria, Lininger, '94. at North Bend, and Marcotte, '93, is building a Sl 00,000 church at Portland. In Portland also Crozier, '93, is making havoc with the dictionary in describing the beauties and luxuries of the North Bank R. R., while the lVlcCreas, '06 and '08, are fighting sage-bmsh at Hood River, and the Torneys, '96, are basking under a fortun-ate sun at Medford. In Omak, Washington, are the Misses Dalton, '08 and '10, and E.. S. Chaffee, '9l: in Watewille of the same state Longbrake. '07, is shepherding a Presbyterian flock, whilst in and about Seattle the perennial boom is being restrained by the Lewises, '07 and 'l0, Shroyer, '07, and A. D. Coulter, '95, the cir- cumambient. Nor must we forget the fact that Knouff, '99, is now principal of the great High School at Tacoma. At present our records show thirty-eight of our graduates and forty-one non-graduates settled in the three coast states, of whom we have here men- tionecl, for the most part, only those who have lately settled here. 17