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

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Q: 1: CHS - 1912 - Foiaesreie zpfffgiegsg The other item of general, rather than personal interest among the Alumni clur- ing the year, is the return to this country on furlough of an unusual number of foreign missionaries whom we count as Lake Foresters. Among these are Mr. and Mrs. Bergen, '80 and '83, Davies, '88, and A. S. Wilson, '92, both of whom are obliged for reasons of health to remain here, Lee, '89, Wright, '92, Mrs. Mabel Gilson Cort, and Mrs. Julia McKee Fuller, '95, ancl C. E.. Rath, '00. We hope there is no connection between the above fact and the appointment of Warren, '93, as chief of police in Lake Forest. M

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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

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See :B C1-ie: - 1912- Foieesrete The Alumni Association OFFICERS FOR 1910-II ELLIS U. GRAFF, '97 . . President EDWIN S. WELLS, '88 . First Vice-President MARX' JACKSON, '04 . Second Vice-President ALLEN C. BELL, '03 . . . Secretary-Treasurer UNIVERSITY TRUSTEES Sidney A. Benedict, ,SS B. M. l..innell, '89 john l-l. S. l..ee, '95 The Alumni Association links the College men of yesterday with those of the present. With three of their number on the Board of Trustees as direct representatives, with one on the Faculty, and one the Headmaster of the Academy, the Alumni become an active force in the campus life of today. Through prizes donated from the Alumni treasury support is given to debate, oratory, and scholarship. The annual Alumni meeting and banquet with over one hundred present, was held in June in the Calvin Durand Commons. The menu card bore the legend The McNeill Reunion, and a portrait of Professor lVlcNeill, to whom a loving cup was presented. Probably as the years go on these personal tributes to the good men and true of College days will more and more predominate to strengthen the ties of comradeship. Already plans are being made for the next meeting, which occurs June 20, I9l l. The Odd-Even ball game, a dollar banquet, a decenriial gathering of the Class of '0l. and extra features await the gathering of the class. 19